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Sunday 1/30/2005
Erase the Darfur Blood Stain From California's Pensions 1/30/2005 LA Times: "By Barbara Lee, Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Oakland) serves on the House International Relations Committee and its Africa subcommittee."
Saturday 1/29/2005
U.S. Encouraged by Vietnam Vote (NYT 9/4/1967) 1/29/2005 Daily Kos: "United States officials were surprised and heartened today at the size of turnout in South Vietnam's presidential election despite a Vietcong terrorist campaign to disrupt the voting.
According to reports from Saigon, 83 per cent of the 5.85 million registered voters cast their ballots yesterday. Many of them risked reprisals threatened by the Vietcong."
Photoshopped Propaganda 1/29/2005 PR Watch: An essayist who has appeared on Rush Limbaugh's site reworks a photo of a navy medic treating a child wounded by US forces who killed her mother into a poster child of caring Americans with the title "She's glad he's there. Are you?"
Friday 1/28/2005
 How Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's rise to power 1/28/2005 Guardian
Conseravitve Star, Ken Blackwell, Is on the Rise in Ohio 1/28/2005 Human Events: "Early polling indicates that Ohio Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell--a pro-life, pro-2nd Amendment, anti-tax conservative stalwart--has emerged as the top candidate. This is significant because Buckeye State Republicans have often opted in the past for middle-of-the-road nominees rather than conservatives such as Blackwell."
[Jeb] Bush urged to restore felons' rights 1/28/2005 Miami Herald: "The Florida Legislature may tackle the state's troubled clemency system, starting with a plea by influential Republicans to the governor to automatically restore the rights of felons."
Officials In the U.S. Government Have Committed War Crimes” 1/28/2005 Narco News
Thursday 1/27/2005
Scion of traitors and warlords: why Bush is coy about his Irish links 1/27/2005 Guardian: "Local historians in Wexford have discovered that George Bush is a descendant of Strongbow, the power-hungry warlord who led the Norman invasion of Ireland thus heralding 800 years of mutual misery. With a long line of Scots Irish presidents including Woodrow Wilson, the Irish are normally quick to claim US leaders as their own. But, despite President Bush's large Ulster Scots vote in the American Bible belt, Ireland had let his family escape the genealogical microscope.
But now Ann Griffin Bernstorff, an artist working on a tapestry to commemorate Ireland's Norman heritage, has discovered what she claims is the Bushs' missing Irish link.
Ms Griffin Bernstorff was researching Strongbow's son-in-law, William Marshal, when she discovered the connection. A descendant of Marshal married Anne Marbury Hutchinson, a famous 16th century religious dissenter who had already been linked to Mr Bush."
Global warming is 'twice as bad as previously thought' 1/27/2005 Independent, UK
Wednesday 1/26/2005
Seymour Hersh: "We've Been Taken Over by a Cult" 1/26/2005 Democracy Now: "one of the things that you could say is, the amazing thing is we are been taken over basically by a cult, eight or nine neo-conservatives have somehow grabbed the government. Just how and why and how they did it so efficiently, will have to wait for much later historians and better documentation than we have now, but they managed to overcome the bureaucracy and the Congress, and the press, with the greatest of ease. It does say something about how fragile our Democracy is.one of the things that you could say is, the amazing thing is we are been taken over basically by a cult, eight or nine neo-conservatives have somehow grabbed the government. Just how and why and how they did it so efficiently, will have to wait for much later historians and better documentation than we have now, but they managed to overcome the bureaucracy and the Congress, and the press, with the greatest of ease. It does say something about how fragile our Democracy is."
Walking for Kenneth Walker 1/26/2005 Final Call: "COLUMBUS, Ga. (FinalCall.com) - On a beautiful sunny Saturday, Jan. 15, an estimated 10,000 people marched from the Civic Center to the Government Center to hear rousing speeches and plans of action to rectify the brutal murder of another young Black man, Kenneth Walker, who was shot twice in the head as he was face down on the pavement under the boot of White cops on Interstate Highway 185 on Dec. 10, 2003. A year later, a Muscogee County grand jury failed to bring charges against the deputy sheriff who killed Mr. Walker."
JIM CROW RETURNS TO THE VOTING BOOTH - DOES AMERICA HAVE APARTHEID VOTE-COUNTING SYSTEM? 1/26/2005 Seattle Post Intelligencer: By Greg Pallast and Jesse Jackson
General strike in Belize 1/26/2005 SF Bay View
Tuesday 1/25/2005
MICHAEL LIND ON AMERICA AS THE 'DISPENSABLE NATION' 1/25/2005 Financial Times/Washington Note
Sunday 1/23/2005
Global Warming Approaching Point of No Return, Warns Leading Climate Expert 1/23/2005 Common Dreams: "He also cited alarming measurements, first reported in The Independent on Sunday, showing that levels of carbon dioxide (the main cause of global warming) have leapt abruptly over the past two years, suggesting that climate change may be accelerating out of control.
He added that, because of inertia built into the Earth's natural systems, the world was now only experiencing the result of pollution emitted in the 1960s, and much greater effects would occur as the increased pollution of later decades worked its way through. He concluded: "We are risking the ability of the human race to survive." "
Friday 1/21/2005
What Could Go Wrong in 2005 1/21/2005 Mother Jones: "China's already vigorous response to this challenge is likely to bring it increasingly up against the United States. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, for instance, returned from a Christmas trip to China where he apparently sold America's historic Venezuelan oil supplies to the Chinese together with future prospecting rights. Even Canada (in the words of President Bush, "our most important neighbors to the north") is negotiating to sell up to one-third of its oil reserves to China. CNOOC, China's third largest oil and gas group, is actually considering a bid of more that $13 billion for its American rival, Unocal. The real significance of the deal (which, given the size, could not have been contemplated in the absence of Chinese state support) is that it illustrates the emerging competition between China and the U.S. for global influence -- and resources.
The drive for resources is occurring in a world where alliances are shifting among major oil-producing and consuming nations. A kind of post-Cold War global lineup against perceived American hegemony seems to be in the earliest stages of formation, possibly including Brazil, China, India, Iran, Russia and Venezuela. Russian President Putin's riposte to an American strategy of building up its military presence in some of the former SSRs of the old Soviet Union has been to ally the Russian and Iranian oil industries, organize large-scale joint war games with the Chinese military, and work towards the goal of opening up the shortest, cheapest, and potentially most lucrative new oil route of all, southwards out of the Caspian Sea area to Iran. In the meantime, the European Union is now negotiating to drop its ban on arms shipments to China (much to the publicly expressed chagrin of the Pentagon). Russia has also offered a stake in its recently nationalized Yukos, (a leading, pro-Western Russian oil company forced into bankruptcy by the Putin government) to China. China's already vigorous response to this challenge is likely to bring it increasingly up against the United States. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, for instance, returned from a Christmas trip to China where he apparently sold America's historic Venezuelan oil supplies to the Chinese together with future prospecting rights. Even Canada (in the words of President Bush, "our most important neighbors to the north") is negotiating to sell up to one-third of its oil reserves to China. CNOOC, China's third largest oil and gas group, is actually considering a bid of more that $13 billion for its American rival, Unocal. The real significance of the deal (which, given the size, could not have been contemplated in the absence of Chinese state support) is that it illustrates the emerging competition between China and the U.S. for global influence -- and resources.
The drive for resources is occurring in a world where alliances are shifting among major oil-producing and consuming nations. A kind of post-Cold War global lineup against perceived American hegemony seems to be in the earliest stages of formation, possibly including Brazil, China, India, Iran, Russia and Venezuela. Russian President Putin's riposte to an American strategy of building up its military presence in some of the former SSRs of the old Soviet Union has been to ally the Russian and Iranian oil industries, organize large-scale joint war games with the Chinese military, and work towards the goal of opening up the shortest, cheapest, and potentially most lucrative new oil route of all, southwards out of the Caspian Sea area to Iran. In the meantime, the European Union is now negotiating to drop its ban on arms shipments to China (much to the publicly expressed chagrin of the Pentagon). Russia has also offered a stake in its recently nationalized Yukos, (a leading, pro-Western Russian oil company forced into bankruptcy by the Putin government) to China."
Venezuela says it will arrest Colombian rebels 1/21/2005 UPI: "Venezuela says it will arrest any Colombian rebels living in its territory as part of an effort to end a spat between the nations, El Nacional reported Friday.
Colombia has accused Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez of aiding and harboring the Marxist rebels, an allegation he's denied.
The nations' relations -- in recent years always somewhat tenuous -- took a further turn for the worse last week after Colombian President Alvaro Uribe admitted he hired Venezuelan police to act as bounty hunters to capture a Colombian rebel in Caracas, the Venezuelan capital, in December."
Thursday 1/20/2005
Rep. Conyers' Letter to Exit Polling Firms: "The stakes for our democracy are simply too high for us to allow this matter to pass without a serious and substantive review of the exit poll data." 1/20/2005 Buzzflash: "The stakes for our democracy are simply too high for us to allow this matter to pass without a serious and substantive review of the exit poll data. While the election is over, there is significant bipartisan sentiment in Congress and around the nation for voting reform. A complete and full release of the exit poll information will therefore not only help to resolve lingering doubts regarding irregularities in the 2004 election, it will also go a long way towards helping Congress understand how to best craft these reforms. I am hopeful that the media companies that contract for your services will also understand and support the importance of providing full, complete, and transparent information in this matter."
Rep. Conyers' Letter to Ohio Attorney General: Sanctioning of Lawyers Involved with Ohio Election Challenge is a "selective and partisan misuse of your legal authority." 1/20/2005 Buzzflash: "I write to express my concern regarding your recent request to sanction those attorneys who brought a legal challenge to last year's presidential election in Ohio. In particular, I am concerned that by seeking official censure and fines, you are engaged in a selective and partisan misuse of your legal authority. As eager as many disgruntled voters are to have a court of law finally assess the merits of the challenge actions, I have serious doubts about the validity of the sanctions case your office is pursuing.
As an initial matter, one would be hard pressed to see how the legal challenges brought under the Ohio election challenge statute were "frivolous." First off, it is widely known that the Ohio presidential election was literally riddled with irregularities and improprieties, many of which are set forth in the 102 page report issued by the House Judiciary Committee Democratic Staff."
The Democrats and Iran - Look Who's Backing Bush's Next War 1/20/2005 Counterpunch
Wednesday 1/19/2005
Iran: The Next Strategic Target 1/19/2005 Alternet
Ohio's GOP Attorney General launches revenge attack on Election Protection legal team 1/19/2005 Columbus Free Press, OH: "In a stunning legal attack, Ohio's Republican Attorney General has moved for sanctions against the four attorneys who sued George W. Bush et. al. in an attempt to investigate the Buckeye State's bitterly contested November 2 election."
African Colombians reach out to the world: ‘Stop the genocide!’ 1/19/2005 SF Bay View: "African Colombians are rebelling against the wretched conditions in Quibdo, Choco, Colombia, South America, and the government’s apparent indifference to their welfare and survival. The coca fumigation, which directly assaults the region’s cultural and biological diversity, escalates what has been described as genocide of African Colombians.
Seventy percent of Quibdo residents don’t have aqueduct services, the method used to distribute water. Eighty-seven percent don’t have sewage services. Quibdo resembles a community left behind in the 19th century, according to a Jan. 11 story in the Colombian daily newspaper, El Tiempo."
From the Sumerians to the Zanj: The African presence in early Iraq 1/19/2005 SF Bay View: by Runoko Rashidi
Haitian death squad leader Toto Constant to be brought to justice for his campaign of rape 1/19/2005 SF Bay View
Odd happenings in Fallujah 1/19/2005 SF Bay View: "He told me he has watched the military use bulldozers to push the soil into piles and load it onto trucks to carry away. This was done in the Julan and Jimouriya quarters of the city, which is of course where the heaviest fighting occurred during the siege, as this was where resistance was the fiercest.
“At least two kilometers of soil were removed,” he explained, “exactly as they did at Baghdad Airport after the heavy battles there during the invasion and the Americans used their special weapons.”
He explained that in certain areas where the military used “special munitions,” 200 square meters of soil were being removed from each blast site."
Tuesday 1/18/2005
Enter the Dragon - Will the US Tolerate a Venezuelan-Chinese Oil Pact? 1/18/2005 Counterpunch
Monday 1/17/2005
MICHAEL S. CLEMENS - A Miami untouchable 1/17/2005 Granma: "If the trial of Sal Magluta and Willy Falcon justified a thorough investigation, that of the Five – orchestrated by Pesquera - has to be like a mouse to a cat for a terrorism and corruption specialist such as Clemens. It’s true that the trial of the Five has a blatant similarity with that of the two famous capos: the suspicious behavior of David Bucker, president of the jury in the rigged trial of the Five in Miami is evident.
After listening to more than 92 witnesses for six months – a record! – the jury took just one day to decide on charges of espionage that ended with the handing down of life sentences. Neither Bucker nor any other member of the jury asked a single question. Nor did they read one paragraph of the gigantic transcript of testimonies. Or even examine any of the evidence!
When he received instructions from the judge on Monday June 4, 2001, Bucker had the nerve to affirm that on Friday June 8, 2001 he would have a verdict. Something never before seen. And that’s exactly what happened!
But the most shameful thing has yet to be mentioned: on the first day of sentencing, the very same Bucker was seen in the courtroom…seated alongside known terrorist José Basulto and other well-known faces linked to the Cuban-American mafia!"
THE COMING WARS
by SEYMOUR M. HERSH 1/17/2005 New Yorker: “This is a war against terrorism, and Iraq is just one campaign. The Bush Administration is looking at this as a huge war zone,” the former high-level intelligence official told me. “Next, we’re going to have the Iranian campaign. We’ve declared war and the bad guys, wherever they are, are the enemy. This is the last hurrah—we’ve got four years, and want to come out of this saying we won the war on terrorism.”
Sunday 1/16/2005
Villagers furious with Christian Missionaries 1/16/2005 AIN: :Rage and fury has gripped this tsunami-hit tiny Hindu village in India's southern Tamil Nadu after a group of Christian missionaries allegedly refused them aid for not agreeing to follow their religion.:
Harry's 'racist and bigoted' set must be curbed, Charles told 1/16/2005 Independent: "The Prince of Wales has been warned by one of his senior advisers that he must act urgently to separate his sons from a "social scene that thinks racism and bigotry quite funny", The Independent on Sunday has learned…. Meanwhile, Britain began to feel the consequences of Prince Harry's disastrous decision to wear a Nazi uniform as evidence of damage to London's bid for the 2012 Olympic Games emerged this weekend. The French daily newspaper Le Monde said that it had come at the "worst possible time" for the bid and said that France's sports minister, Jean-François Lamour, had suggested the Queen should receive a medal for "undermining London's bid"."
U.S. conducting secret missions inside Iran-report 1/16/2005 Reuters
CIA gives grim warning on European prospects 1/16/2005 Scotsman
Touch screens more likely to be flawed, analysis finds 1/16/2005 Sun Sentinel, FL: "Florida's touch-screen voting machines performed better in the Nov. 2 presidential election than they did in the March primary, but were still outmatched by older voting devices that use pencil and paper ballots, according to a South Florida Sun-Sentinel analysis.
Voters using the ATM-style voting machines in November were 50 percent more likely to cast a flawed ballot or have an unregistered vote in the presidential race, compared to voting machines employing simple paper ballots."
Saturday 1/15/2005
Jury Suggests Probation for Ex-Drug Agent 1/15/2005 AP: "Coleman arrested 46 people, most of them black, in the small, mostly white farming community of Tulia. He worked alone and used no audio or video surveillance, and no drugs were ever found, but 38 defendants were convicted or reached plea deals.
Gov. Rick Perry pardoned 35 of the defendants in 2003, after an investigation into the drug cases was launched amid charges they were racially motivated.
Freddie Brookins Jr., one of the people sent to prison on Coleman's word, told jurors that he was bitter about being convicted of something he didn't do.
"I missed seeing my kids grow up," said Brookins, 27, who was pardoned by the governor."
Tom Coleman perjury trial 1/15/2005 Grits for Breakfast: Coleman is the racist crooked cop who had half the town of Tulia - "Tom Coleman's sentence is 7 years, probated."
Pentagon reveals rejected chemical weapons 1/15/2005 New Scientist
US fury over EU weapons for China 1/15/2005 Telegrtaph, UK
Friday 1/14/2005
Sex a weapon 1/14/2005 Herald Sun, Australia: "A "SEX bomb" that would make enemy soldiers irresistible to each other was considered by the US military.
Declassified documents reveal the Pentagon toyed with the idea of an aphrodisiac chemical weapon in 1994.
The gas would have made enemy soldiers sexually irresistible to each other. The weapon's developers said homosexual behaviour among troops would deal a "distasteful but completely non-lethal" blow to morale."
House members want criminal investigation into Ohio’s Blackwell 1/14/2005 Raw Story: "Four Democratic members of the House Judiciary Committee asked the Department of Justice to begin a criminal investigation into Ohio’s Republican Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell today, RAW STORY has learned.
The members–Robert Scott, John Conyers, Jr., Sheila Jackson Lee, and Jerrold Nadler–filed a criminal referral with Attorney General John Ashcroft.
Among other matters, the referral is to request an investigation into voter intimidation, improper voter purging, perjury, possible misuse of Help America Vote Act funds, tampering with voting machines during Ohio’s recount and Blackwell’s misuse of the Great Seal of the United States in a campaign letter.
In the matter of misusing the Great Seal in violation of federal law, which was reported first by the Brad Blog earlier this week, the congressmen and women are seeking a special prosecutor."
Did Bush steal the White House again? 1/14/2005 Socialist Worker: "If there was anything notable about the election and the dirty tricks involved in it, it was how similar Election 2004 was to every other election organized in the U.S. Alone among major industrial democracies, the U.S. leaves election administration in the hands of corrupt and partisan local officials--and vote-counting to the private manufacturers of voting machines. And the Electoral College--a relic of the pre-Civil War era--chooses the most important office in the country, not a nationwide popular vote.
That’s why even if it could be proved that Kerry really won Ohio, his victory would be tainted--for having been won in the Electoral College, while losing the popular vote. While the left was right to denounce Bush as illegitimate when he became president after losing the popular vote in 2000, it would have no moral high horse to ride if Kerry had become president under similar circumstances."
The Washington Post in an Anti-Communist Time-Warp Over Venezuela 1/14/2005 Venezuela Analysis
Thursday 1/13/2005
'It's a strategic plan' - The Cuban-Venezuelan accord;
An interview with Prof. Omar Everleny Pérez 1/13/2005 Progresso Weekly
Statement by Jesse Chacón, Minister of the Interior and Justice of the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, in view of the accusations made regarding the kidnapping of Rodrigo Granda. 1/13/2005 Progresso Weekly: "There are strong indications that citizen Rodrigo Granda was kidnapped near the Fine Arts station of the Caracas subway and the Razzeti Clinic. New information obtained during the ongoing investigation might implicate Venezuelan police officers and/or former officers; therefore, after the proper legal steps have been taken, we shall proceed in accordance with our judicial system.
Likewise, clues exist that might compromise Colombian functionaries in this affair. If this is confirmed -- something that would be extremely serious because it violates Venezuelan sovereignty -- we shall undertake whatever actions the incident calls for. However, because of the rigor and severity that must surround this type of investigation, we cannot provide any further information."
Wednesday 1/12/2005
Ohio Court Dismisses Election Challenges 1/12/2005 AP: "The Ohio Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed a challenge from voters to the presidential election in light of last week's certification of the electoral vote and the upcoming inauguration. A lawyer for the plaintiffs, a group of 37 voters, had moved Tuesday to drop the lawsuit, saying it is now moot. The high court agreed without comment to dismiss it."
"Fighting for the Work of the Lord" - Everybody's Talkin' About Christian Fascism 1/12/2005 Counterpunch
Pair arrested after telling lawyer jokes 1/12/2005 Newsday: ""They put the handcuffs on us, brought us into a room, frisked us, sat us down and checked our driver's licenses to see if there were any warrants out for our arrest," Lanzisera said yesterday. "They were very nasty, extremely nasty."
The men are founders of Americans for Legal Reform, a group of outspoken advocates who use confrontational tactics to push for greater access to courts for the public and to monitor how well courts serve the public. One tactic is driving a truck around the Huntington area emblazoned with the slogan "Stop The Lawyer Disease." They said their rights to free speech were violated Monday."
Tuesday 1/11/2005
US senators seek improved ties with Venezuela 1/11/2005 CSM
Civil Rights Leader James Forman Dies 1/11/2005 Washington Post: "James Forman, 76, who as executive secretary of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the early 1960s dispatched cadres of organizers, demonstrators and Freedom Riders into the most dangerous redoubts of the Deep South, died Jan. 10 of colon cancer at Washington House, a local hospice.
At the height of the civil rights movement, Mr. Forman hammered out a role for SNCC among the so-called Big Five, the established civil rights organizations that included the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, the Congress of Racial Equality and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. SNCC in those years was the edgier, more aggressive organization, pushing the South specifically and the nation generally toward change.
On numerous occasions, Mr. Forman himself was harassed, jailed and beaten during forays to register voters and organize protests in communities willing to use any means necessary, including terror, intimidation and murder, to resist the dismantling of the region's rigid system of apartheid."
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