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Sunday 9/26/2004
Agony piled on agony in Haiti 9/26/2004 BBC
Saturday 9/25/2004
¡Ay San Pachito, Mi Amor! Colombia: la Fiesta de San Pacho 9/25/2004 CaribeNet: Colombia - "El Chocó manifiesta a través del San Pacho su sincretismo entre lo católico, los vástagos de las religiones africanas y la brujería."
How Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's rise to power 9/25/2004 Guardian: "Loftus said Prescott Bush must have been aware of what was happening in Germany at the time. "My take on him was that he was a not terribly successful in-law who did what Herbert Walker told him to. Walker and Harriman were the two evil geniuses, they didn't care about the Nazis any more than they cared about their investments with the Bolsheviks."
What is also at issue is how much money Bush made from his involvement. His supporters suggest that he had one token share. Loftus disputes this, citing sources in "the banking and intelligence communities" and suggesting that the Bush family, through George Herbert Walker and Prescott, got $1.5m out of the involvement. There is, however, no paper trail to this sum."
San Pacho: cuarenta días de jolgorio y un día de reflexión 9/25/2004 Latino America Online: Colombia - "En medio de la selva chocoana y atravesada por el río Atrato está Quibdó; la capital del departamento del Chocó que en el mes de septiembre y en algunos días de octubre, se engalana para rendirle un homenaje a su patrono, San Francisco de Asis."
Friday 9/24/2004
 "I Think a Lot of Guys will Break Down in Iraq" - Destroying the National Guard 9/24/2004 Counterpunch: "For many Guardsmen, deployment to Iraq means economic ruin. They have mortgage payments, car payments, credit card debt, all calculated on their civilian salaries. Suddenly, for a year or more, their pay drops to that of a private. The families they leave behind face the loss of everything they have. What militia wouldn't desert in that situation?
The real scope of the damage of Mr. Rumsfeld's decision to send the Guard to Iraq--40% of the American troops in Iraq are now reservists or Guardsmen--will probably not be revealed until units return. One of the few already back saw 70% of its members leave the Guard immediately.
What the Washington elite that wages cabinet wars does not understand, or care about, is the vital role the National Guard plays on the state and local levels. Once the Guard has been destroyed, who will provide the emergency services communities need when disaster strikes? One would think that in a so-called "war against terror," where the danger to the American homeland is readily acknowledged, someone in the nation's capital would care about the local first line of defense."
Anglican group calls for Israel sanctions 9/24/2004 Guardian
Hepatitis spreads in 2 Iraqi districts 9/24/2004 IHT: "A virulent form of hepatitis that is especially lethal for pregnant women has broken out in two of Iraq's most troubled districts, Iraqi Health Ministry officials said in interviews here this week, and they warned that a collapse of water and sewage systems in the country is probably at the root of the illnesses.
The disease, called Hepatitis E, is caused by a virus that is often spread by sewage-contaminated drinking water."
DEA Agent’s Whistleblower Case Exposes the “War on Drugs” as a “War of Pretense” 9/24/2004 NarcoNews: "Lau explains that if the U.S. Government was really serious about eradicating the drug trade, “they would have done it. But they do not really want to.”
“Let’s say the DEA was successful in eradicating all drug trafficking,” Lau adds. “What would be left to prop up pro-U.S. regimes that rely on the drug trade? … The CIA can use the proceeds of the drug trade to pay for armies to support a friendly government.”
Lau also says a lot of careers in the intelligence community have been built around human assets who have been planted within the ranks of the narco-trafficking organizations. If you take down the drug trade, you take down the very assets that are helping to make careers – and at times, corrupt fortunes – within the intelligence community, Lau points out."
www.panapress.com/darfour.asp?lg=eng 9/24/2004 PANA Press: PANA's Sudan page, in English.
Thursday 9/23/2004
Accused Officers of 'Operation Condor' Elude Extradition 9/23/2004 Antiwar
Gullahs Struggle to Keep Heritage and Land 9/23/2004 Black America Web: "Maneuvers that are being used to force Gullahs out include, among other things, a comprehensive land use plan that disrupts many of their ways of life. For example, Mack said, the plan forbids people who live on the marsh from building boardwalks from their homes. It also has resulted in a lot of the fishing areas that older people once used being closed off.
Then in August, she said, a new policy was put in place that allows members of the public to speak for no more than three minutes at school board meetings.
While such a policy is commonplace in most areas, and while Campbell said it was established to aid in keeping order at the meetings, Mack said it has a disproportionate impact on Gullahs. Only one of the 11 board members represents St. Helena, she said, and their issues are too varied and complicated to be tethered to such rules.
“The people from Hilton Head aren’t ignored and underserved. They have money, so they don’t have to worry about this,” Mack said. “We have to show up in numbers and with loud voices because we’re ignored and underserved.” "
The Lynching of Dan Rather on British TV 9/23/2004 Black Commentator: by Greg Palast - "This is not a story about Dan Rather. The white millionaire celebrity can defend himself without my help. This is really a story about fear, the fear that stops other reporters in the US from following the evidence about this Administration to where it leads. American news guys and news gals, practicing their smiles, adjusting their hairspray levels, bleaching their teeth and performing all the other activities that are at the heart of US TV journalism, will look to the treatment of Dan Rather and say, "Not me, babe." No questions will be asked, as Dan predicted, lest they risk necklacing and their careers as news actors burnt to death."
Three Years and Counting? How Time Flies 9/23/2004 Counterpunch: "That September 11th changed the world has become a cliché. It does not occur to these people that, if Bin Laden and the Mullah Omar could get away with *that*, the world must have changed already. A lot. Yet this is staring us in the face. Iraq: could the world have conceived, in 1947, that US troops could not hold Hamburg, Frankfurt and Munich? That American leaders could only sneak into Germany on furtive, unscheduled peek-a-boo missions? That the American occupation officials, hardly daring to emerge from their fortified ghetto, could not control most of Berlin? Afghanistan: could anyone have imagined an America as feckless in its response to Pearl Harbor as to the even greater humiliation is suffered on September 11th? The very country that was supposed to feel the full weight of American wrath now houses a puppet semi-government which cannot even control its own capital, and a scattering of American troops bring no results other than their own occasional deaths. The United States has fallen far. The inability to see the significance of the change is almost as spectacular as the change itself."
Bacardi charged in Texas election scandal 9/23/2004 Miami Herald: "A Texas grand jury has indicted Bacardi USA on charges of making a $20,000 illegal campaign contribution to Texas Republican state legislative candidates in 2002, in a case linked to House Majority Leader Tom DeLay's political fund-raising activities.
Miami-based Bacardi was named in the indictment along with seven other companies, including Sears, Roebuck & Co. and Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, and three top political aides to DeLay.
The House majority leader was not indicted. But a money laundering allegation in a congressional ethics complaint filed against DeLay involves the same $190,000 in political contributions that led to indictments of the aides."
Venezuela to Buy Russian Helicopters to Fight Guerillas 9/23/2004 Moscow News
Old dog, same tricks? The CIA then and now 9/23/2004 Progreso Weekly: "We cheered the mid-level intelligence officers who spoke out against the faulty and misrepresented information that was used to justify the invasion of Iraq, much of which came out of special offices in the Department of Defense. We denounced the criminal outing of CIA-officer Valerie Plame by two “senior administration officials,” a cold act of political revenge for her husband's criticism of the President's lies and a stern message to other dissenters. (“Naming names” can severely cripple Agency functions. CIA dissident Philip Agee, doing just that in the early 1970s, forced the entire reorganization of Latin American operations.) And we reacted with appreciative surprise when the CIA's Richard Kay, in an admirable fit of candor, told Congress that the hunt for WMD was fruitless. (Who among reasoned skeptics-given the CIA's history of forging documents and planting weapons hadn't feared that the U.S. would fabricate the existence of banned weapons in Iraq?) Finally, even leftists might wish that the CIA was better at its tasks, including covert operations, when wondering if a successful, clandestine “hit” on Osama Bin Laden wouldn't have spared the sorrows of 9/11 and have been ultimately preferable to the troublesome U.S. invasion of Afghanistan.
Based on our reaction to the Plame outing alone, concerned friends and political opponents have been asking, “Since when have you been such big fans of the CIA?” It is a good question. However, qualified support for select agency staff and the recognition of post-9/11 dangers should not obscure other, damning ways in which old patterns of CIA behavior remain unbroken."
Wednesday 9/22/2004
Cuba has 600 doctors and health experts in Haiti 9/22/2004 AFP
Dispatches from the Motherland: Fair Deal? Africans to Monitor U.S. Elections 9/22/2004 Black America Web: "Officials from four African nations joined observers from 24 other countries in Washington, D.C. late last week to begin the unprecedented monitoring of an American presidential election.
South Africa’s Independent Electoral Commission chairman, Brigalia Bam, and the IEC’s Chief Electoral Officer, Advocate Pansy Tlakula, are part of the African contingent of an observer team drawn from countries in Asia, Europe, South America and Africa."
War-Gaming the Mullahs - The U.S. weighs the price of a pre-emptive strike 9/22/2004 Newsweek: "NEWSWEEK has learned that the CIA and DIA have war-gamed the likely consequences of a U.S. pre-emptive strike on Iran's nuclear facilities. No one liked the outcome. As an Air Force source tells it, "The war games were unsuccessful at preventing the conflict from escalating." "
kerry_lied_while_good_men_died_rally_update 9/22/2004 www.vnsfvetakerry.com: "Felix Rodriguez, Bay of Pigs veteran and CIA officer, dramatically recounted his personal encounters with Kerry in Senate Intelligence Committee hearings." Felix Rodriguez managed the Contra Resuply operation out of Ilopango, El Salvador, a hub of Contra arms for Cocaine trafficking.
Tuesday 9/21/2004
Zarqawi Is Using Hostages to Ransom Old Friends, Drs Germ and Anthrax 9/21/2004 Debka
An Early Exit from Iraq? Talks with Syria suggests the U.S. may want out in the not-too-distant future 9/21/2004 Time
Monday 9/20/2004
Quick exit from Iraq is likely 9/20/2004 Chicago Sun Times: by Robert Novak
Pentagon blocks site for voters outside U.S. 9/20/2004 IHT: " In a decision that could affect Americans abroad who are not yet registered to vote in the Nov. 2 presidential election, the Pentagon has begun restricting international access to the official Web site intended to help overseas absentee voters cast ballots.
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According to overseas-voter advocates who have been monitoring the situation, Internet service providers in at least 25 countries - including Yahoo Broadband in Japan, Wanadoo in France, BT Yahoo Broadband in Britain and Telefónica in Spain - have been denied access to the site of the Federal Voting Assistance Program, apparently to protect it from hackers."
Official heading AIPAC probe
linked to anti-Semitism case 9/20/2004 JTA
Why We Cannot Win 9/20/2004 Lew Rockwell: "Before I begin, let me state that I am a soldier currently deployed in Iraq, I am not an armchair quarterback. Nor am I some politically idealistic and naïve young soldier, I am an old and seasoned Non-Commissioned Officer with nearly 20 years under my belt. Additionally, I am not just a soldier with a muds-eye view of the war, I am in Civil Affairs and as such, it is my job to be aware of all the events occurring in this country and specifically in my region."
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is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and
security to all, but especially to Democracies as against despots:
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