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Sunday 8/28/2005
Rebels fight U.S. to Iraq standoff 8/28/2005 Knight Ridder: "He expects the insurgency to last for years, hitting American and Iraqi forces with quick ambushes, bombs and mines. Roadside bombs have hit vehicles Davis was riding in three times this year already.
``We understand counterinsurgency. . . . We paid for these lessons in blood in Vietnam,'' Davis said. ``You'll get killed on a nice day when everything is quiet.''
Most of Iraq is far quieter than Al-Anbar. But Al-Anbar is Iraq's largest province and home to the Sunni Arab minority, which dominated the government under Saddam Hussein's dictatorship. It's the strategic center of the country, and failure to secure it could thwart the Bush administration's hopes of helping to create a functioning Iraqi democracy."
Campaign to ring Chavez alarm fails to resonate 8/28/2005 Reuters: "A congressional official, who asked not to be named because he was relating a private conversation, said a bipartisan delegation of U.S. legislators met Condoleezza Rice before she became secretary of state to urge her to reach out to Chavez.
According to the official, Rice cut the lawmakers off and said, "We just don't like him." "
Saturday 8/27/2005
 Fearing U.S. attack, Venezuela boosts its reserve forces
100,000 have enlisted; Washington calls talk of invasion unfounded 8/27/2005 Dallas Morning News
Friday 8/26/2005
20 Massacred in Port-au-Prince Soccer Stadium, Jailed Jean-Juste Mulls Presidential Run 8/26/2005 Democracy Now
Venezuela halts missionary permits 8/26/2005 Reuters
Thursday 8/25/2005
Winter Soldiers' Stories 8/25/2005 Alternet: "The film, shot in Detroit in winter 1971 but not widely released until now, provides first-hand accounts by apparently sane, sensitive soldiers, who witnessed (or committed) the most barbaric acts of brutality as part of their normal, day-to-day tours of duty.
"What should be brought out is the horror of the everyday that went on over there, " said one veteran in the film.
We learn from Cpt. Rusty Hughes about a crew from Philadelphia who got their kicks chucking live prisoners out of helicopters. He tells us that the practice was supported by military orders, which dictated that prisoners be counted once they were unloaded from aircraft not when they were first picked up, as the numbers might not jibe. Winks all around."
Chávez taunts US with oil offer 8/25/2005 Guardian: "President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela hit back vigorously at calls by an ally of President George Bush for his assassination by offering cheap petrol to the poor of the US at a time of soaring fuel prices.
In a typically robust response to remarks by the US televangelist Pat Robertson, Mr Chávez compared his detractors to the "rather mad dogs with rabies" from Cervantes' Don Quixote, and unveiled his plans to use Venezuela's energy reserves as a political tool."
Jesse Jackson to address Venezuela's National Assembly and Afro-Venezuelan groups 8/25/2005 Vheadlines: "During his 3-day trip to Venezuela commencing on Saturday, Jackson expects to meet up with Venezuelan religious leaders and Afro-Venezuelan organization representatives."
Pat Robertson and His Business Buddies 8/25/2005 Washington Post: originally published 11/01 - "Pat Robertson did learn about the gold mining investment opportunity from a visiting Liberian delegation. Robertson did subsequently create the for-profit Freedom Gold Limited in the Cayman Islands in December 1998 in which he was listed as the president and the company's sole director. He did conclude a mining agreement signed personally by him, Charles Taylor and key members of Taylor's cabinet on May 18, 1999. And the deal does give the Taylor regime a cut of the action."
Wednesday 8/24/2005
Diamonds are Robertson's best friend 8/24/2005 Sullivan County: "Although the financial success of CBN is well-known, one of Robertson's lesser known organizations is his African Development Company (ADC). ADC is a private venture that invests in various land-based operations in Africa, such as mining and agriculture, with the stated goal of redirecting profits toward humanitarian projects. In Zaire, the ADC operates a diamond-mining project in the center of Zaire's prime diamond mines and forestry concessions."
Abu Ghraib General Lambastes Bush Administration 8/24/2005 Truth Out: "It was a memorandum signed by Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld, authorizing a short list, maybe 6 or 8 techniques: use of dogs; stress positions; loud music; deprivation of food; keeping the lights on, those kinds of things," Karpinski said. "And then a handwritten message over to the side that appeared to be the same handwriting as the signature, and that signature was Secretary Rumsfeld's. And it said, 'Make sure this happens' with two exclamation points. And that was the only thing they had. Everything else had been confiscated."
Tuesday 8/23/2005
Pat and Hugo: The Real Story - Part 1
Rev. Robertson's Call to Assassinate Hugo Chavez 8/23/2005 Greg Palast: "And what seems to have gotten our Veep's knickers in a twist is not the price of oil, but who keeps the loot from the current band-busting spurt in prices. Chavez had his Congress pass another oil law, the "Law of Hydrocarbons," which changes the split. Right now, the oil majors - like PhillipsConoco - keep 84% of the proceeds of the sale of Venezuela oil; the nation gets only 16%.
Chavez wanted to double his Treasury's take to 30%. And for good reason. Landless, hungry peasants have, over decades, drifted into Caracas and other cities, building million-person ghettos of cardboard shacks and open sewers. Chavez promised to do something about that.
And he did. "Chavez gives them bread and bricks," one Venezuelan TV reporter told me. The blonde TV newscaster, in the middle of a publicity shoot, said the words "pan y ladrillos" with disdain, making it clear that she never touched bricks and certainly never waited in a bread line.
But to feed and house the darker folk in those bread and brick lines, Chavez would need funds, and the 16% slice of the oil pie wouldn't do it. So the President of Venezuela demanded 30%, leaving Big Oil only 70%. Suddenly, Bill Clinton's ally in Caracas became Mr. Cheney's -- and therefore, Mr. Bush's -- enemy."
Pat Robertson: 'I don't have to be nice to the spirit of the Antichrist' 8/23/2005 Greg Palast: "And he wasn't supposed to mention China. His fellow evangelists are none too happy about his contacts with Zhu Rongi, the communist dictator who gleefully jails Christian ministers. Volder defends Robertson's meetings with Zhu - and his association with deposed Congo strongman Sese Seko Mobutu - on the grounds that 'Pat would meet with the Devil if that is the only way to help suffering people'. The fact that the connections assisted in obtaining diamond and Internet concessions is secondary.
Let us return to the point on which we began: the Bank of Scotland's US consumer-bank holding company, which Robertson will head. When the bank gets going, it will launch through Robertson's accustomed routes: phone and mail solicitations.
This deal could make Pat Robertson the biggest financial spider on the World Wide Web. The Wall Street Journal believes the bank will be worth $3bn."
The Whiteness of Wi-Fi 8/23/2005 In These Times: "Like the railroad barons of DuBois' time, the CEOs and lobbyists of telecom and cable giants worked against the interest of Philadelphia's majority. Claiming unfair competition, representatives of big business lobbied Pennsylvania legislators to outlaw free municipal Wi-Fi for the 75 percent of Philadelphia's poor who Neff estimates have no access to the Internet. Media reform advocates and local officials defeated those efforts earlier this year in a victory that has become a benchmark for activists in other cities.
Like many in the media reform movement, DuBois might see the strategic import of securing universal Wi-Fi access in the City of Brotherly Love. Yet, unlike the members of the mostly white media reform movement (and unlike most U.S. "progressives"), he would work and live in Kensington or other poor, unwired neighborhoods and would organize there--just as he did when he helped establish the NAACP. Living and organizing among the poor informed his passion to fight what he called "the evil which a privileged few may exercise over the majority." "
Monday 8/22/2005
Televangelist Calls for Chavez' Death 8/22/2005 AP
Robertson called for the assassination of Venezuela's president 8/22/2005 Media Matters: "He has destroyed the Venezuelan economy, and he's going to make that a launching pad for communist infiltration and Muslim extremism all over the continent.
You know, I don't know about this doctrine of assassination, but if he thinks we're trying to assassinate him, I think that we really ought to go ahead and do it. It's a whole lot cheaper than starting a war. And I don't think any oil shipments will stop. But this man is a terrific danger and the United ... This is in our sphere of influence, so we can't let this happen. We have the Monroe Doctrine, we have other doctrines that we have announced. And without question, this is a dangerous enemy to our south, controlling a huge pool of oil, that could hurt us very badly. We have the ability to take him out, and I think the time has come that we exercise that ability. We don't need another $200 billion war to get rid of one, you know, strong-arm dictator. It's a whole lot easier to have some of the covert operatives do the job and then get it over with."
Don't Prettify Our History 8/22/2005 NYT: "This reaction seems to confuse three questions. One is what would have happened if the U.S. Supreme Court hadn't intervened; the answer is that unless the judge overseeing the recount had revised his order (which is a possibility), George W. Bush would still have been declared the winner.
The second is what would have happened if there had been a full, statewide manual recount - as there should have been. The probable answer is that Al Gore would have won, by a tiny margin.
The third is what would have happened if the intentions of the voters hadn't been frustrated by butterfly ballots, felon purges and more; the answer is that Mr. Gore would have won by a much larger margin."
Blair backs Blair but blame game goes on 8/22/2005 Scotsman: "Mr de Menezes, who was shot eight times on 22 July, had not run from armed officers and was not wearing a heavy winter coat, as early reports, encouraged by the Met, had suggested. Those claims had been used to explain why the innocent Brazilian could have been mistaken for one of the terrorist bombers who attempted an attack on the London transport system the previous day. Sir Ian is under fire for failing to correct that misinformation, and yesterday he courted further controversy by admitting that he was not informed Mr de Menezes was unconnected to any terrorist suspects until 24 hours after the shooting."
Sunday 8/21/2005
AN INNOCENT MAN SHOT DEAD ON THE LONDON TUBE BY POLICE ... since then everything we’ve been told has been wrong. 8/21/2005 Sunday Herald: "This was the SRR’s first public test of their operational skills in combating terrorism. It would be highly damaging for the government if a new unit, designed to increase national protection, were found to be incapable of working successfully alongside special armed units of the Met. A full and open public inquiry would answer such questions, but it would also expose a special forces unit to public scrutiny, something the SAS has been able to resist throughout its history."
Saturday 8/20/2005
Cosponsors of Resolution of Inquiry Now Up to 48 8/20/2005 AfterDowningStreet.org
Senator takes Rumsfeld to task over Chavez criticism 8/20/2005 Financial Times: "A powerful Republican senator yesterday scolded Donald Rumsfeld, complaining that the US defence secretary's comments about Hugo Chávez, the Venezuelan president, could hurt anti-drug efforts in the region. The rebuke by Arlen Specter, chairman of the judiciary committee, comes at a crucial moment for both men. Mr Rumsfeld faces scrutiny for his conduct of the war in Iraq, while Mr Specter, a moderate sometimes distrusted by conservatives within his own party, is to lead next month's confirmation hearings of John Roberts, President George W. Bush's Supreme Court choice."
Friday 8/19/2005
What They Did Last Fall 8/19/2005 NYT: "By running for the U.S. Senate, Katherine Harris, Florida's former secretary of state, has stirred up some ugly memories. And that's a good thing, because those memories remain relevant. There was at least as much electoral malfeasance in 2004 as there was in 2000, even if it didn't change the outcome. And the next election may be worse.
In his recent book "Steal This Vote" - a very judicious work, despite its title - Andrew Gumbel, a U.S. correspondent for the British newspaper The Independent, provides the best overview I've seen of the 2000 Florida vote. And he documents the simple truth: "Al Gore won the 2000 presidential election." ...Our current political leaders would suffer greatly if either house of Congress changed hands in 2006, or if the presidency changed hands in 2008. The lids would come off all the simmering scandals, from the selling of the Iraq war to profiteering by politically connected companies. The Republicans will be strongly tempted to make sure that they win those elections by any means necessary. And everything we've seen suggests that they will give in to that temptation."
Immigrants win Arizona ranch 8/19/2005 Southern Poverty Law Center: "Two Salvadorans illegally detained and assaulted on a Texas ranch as they crossed the United States border two years ago now own 70 acres that belonged to one of their attackers.
Fatima Leiva and Edwin Mancia have taken title to the property in connection with a Center lawsuit in which the pair claimed its owner, Casey Nethercott, illegally detained and assaulted them as they traveled through Jim Hogg County in south Texas."
Thursday 8/18/2005
Specter meets Venezuelan leaders, discusses U.S. anti-drug agency 8/18/2005 AP
Venezuela Says DEA Stole Equipment 8/18/2005 Venezuela Analysis: "The director of Venezuela’s drug control agency, the National Commission Against Illicit Drug Use (Conacuid), Luis Correa, said that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) removed equipment from the building it shared with Conacuid. Correa said the equipment involved 13 devices for tapping cell phone systems, which the DEA had donated to Conacuid several years ago."
Meeting Fidel: Close but No Cigar? 8/18/2005 Washington Post: "Specter's spokesman, William H. Reynolds, confirms that Specter was in Havana on Sunday in hopes of meeting with the aging Cuban dictator -- although it was a bit uncertain whether he succeeded. The excursion to the Cuban capital was a side trip on a visit to the region that also took him to the U.S. military base at Guantanamo Bay, where suspected terrorists are held. He returned to Havana on Monday night and yesterday was in Venezuela, home to another American nemesis, President Hugo Chavez.
Reynolds said Specter met two or three times in the past with Castro; the senator and the international pariah talked previously about drug interdiction."
Wednesday 8/17/2005
Election fraud continues in the U.S. - New data shows widespread vote manipulations in 2004 8/17/2005 SF Bay View
Monday 8/15/2005
Chavez makes US oil export threat 8/15/2005 BBC: "Oil exports to the US could stop amid growing tensions between the two countries, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has said.
He described recent US government actions as "aggressive" in a speech at a youth festival in Caracas.
As a result, Venezuelan oil "instead of going to the United States, could go elsewhere," he said.
Venezuela exports about 1.3 million barrels a day to the US and is the world's fifth largest oil producer."
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