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Friday 10/7/2005
Justice Department Nominee Tied to Lobbyist Withdraws 10/7/2005 NYT: "President Bush's pick for the second-ranking position at the Justice Department abruptly withdrew his nomination today after facing weeks of questions over his ties to the lobbyist Jack Abramoff and his role in formulating torture policies, officials said.
The nominee, Timothy Flanigan, was scheduled to face yet another round of questioning next week from senators who had grown increasingly skeptical about his nomination as deputy attorney general.
Of chief concern to Democrats and some Republicans was Mr. Flanigan's role at Tyco as general counsel in overseeing the lobbying work of Mr. Abramoff in pushing for Tyco and other companies to maintain their tax-exempt status.
Officials say Mr. Flanigan's withdrawal reflects the fact that Mr. Abramoff has become so tarnished that anyone connected to him risks significant political damage in Washington, including Tom Delay."
Thursday 10/6/2005
 It's time to take seriously a US-led global recession 10/6/2005 China Daily
Nigeria: Three die as soldiers and police clash in bribe row 10/6/2005 Times, UK: "NIGERIA yesterday counted the cost of a bloody gunbattle between police and army officers that killed at least three civilians and sparked an orgy of looting in central Lagos.
The clash was apparently triggered by an argument between a soldier and a policeman when the latter harassed a motorist for a bribe — an everyday event in Nigeria’s sprawling commercial capital. However, it quickly escalated into a full-scale military confrontation, highlighting growing political tensions after a presidential crackdown on corruption.
Dozens of soldiers from a nearby barracks rushed to help their comrade. Armed with knives, guns and sticks, they burnt down a police station and beat up any policemen they found in their path."
Wednesday 10/5/2005
How Rotten Are These Guys? 10/5/2005 Consortium News: "In the weeks ahead, a dangerous eruption is again threatening to shake the Bush family’s image of legitimacy, as the pressure from intersecting scandals builds.
So far, the mainstream news media has focused mostly on the white-collar abuses of former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay for allegedly laundering corporate donations to help Republicans gain control of the Texas legislature, or on deputy White House chief of staff Karl Rove for disclosing the identity of a covert CIA officer to undercut her husband’s criticism of George W. Bush’s case for war in Iraq.
Both offenses represent potential felonies, but they pale beside new allegations linking business associates of star GOP lobbyist Jack Abramoff – an ally of both DeLay and Rove – to the gangland-style murder of casino owner Konstantinos “Gus” Boulis in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, in 2001.
These criminal cases also are reminders of George H.W. Bush’s long record of unsavory associations, including with a Nicaraguan contra network permeated by cocaine traffickers, Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s multi-million-dollar money-laundering operations, and anti-communist Cuban extremists tied to acts of international terrorism."
Chávez moves reserves out of US Treasuries 10/5/2005 Financial Times
Colombian communities under siege - Afro-Colombian leaders speak out! 10/5/2005 SF Bay View: by Willie Thompson, el unico. "When Afro-Colombians began filing for collective land titles, they were massacred by Colombia’s U.S.-funded military working in close collaboration with brutal illegal paramilitaries, creating massive displacement. Paramilitaries are now illegally occupying these lands, growing, among other things, coca plants used for cocaine.
This has triggered U.S. funded aerial chemical fumigations, poisoning this most bio-diverse ecosystem in the hemisphere as it creates new waves of Afro-Colombian displacement. The United Nations has called Colombia ”a humanitarian catastrophe,” in which Afro-Colombians are now disproportionately impacted."
Katrina, Three Strikes and dirty elections - Race and class still matter in America 10/5/2005 SF Bay View: "FEMA under Michael D. Brown, secretary of Homeland Security for emergency preparedness and response, stopped truckloads of water from being delivered to the Superdome, stopped the delivery of 1,000 gallons of diesel fuel docked on a Coast Guard vessel, cut all emergency communication lines and promised the 82nd Airborne Division would act, on Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco's order, to "shoot to kill" people trying to survive by taking water and shoes from stores. The Thursday before, Brown's deputy, Butch Kennedy, told National Public Radio that the government had no responsibility to rescue people who didn't leave New Orleans when first warned."
Malik Rahim speaks in Berkeley 10/5/2005 SF Bay View: "Two days ago I went to a speaking event in Berkeley where Malik Rahim, a veteran of the Black Panther Party in New Orleans, was speaking about the governmental atrocities that went on in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, which we call Hurricane Amerikkka, since it was the Amerikkklan government that blew up the levees, abandoned the people, put shoot-to-kill orders on Black people, refused materiel and personnel help from world leaders Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez, and is in the process of stealing Black people’s land and whitening New Orleans."
Tuesday 10/4/2005
Venezuela to Ship More Gasoline to U.S. 10/4/2005 AP
Monday 10/3/2005
The Harriet Miers Story: DeLay, TRMPAC, Texas Lottery Scandal and Cleansing Bush's Guard Records 10/3/2005 Buzzflash
Al Qaeda in Sinai Has Advanced to Striking Range of the Suez Canal, Israel and Jordan 10/3/2005 Debka, Israel: "The spectacular, biblical landscape conceals terrorist bomb traps and roadside devices. Gunmen armed with RPG and anti-tank weapons lurk behind huge rocks in wait for any Egyptian police or security unit daring to step off a main road into one of the dry valleys dissecting the forbidding peaks.
The danger increases with the altitude. Al Qaeda has joined up with rebellious Bedouin and Palestinians to recreate the Tora Bora of Afghanistan, where Osama bin Laden’s fighters fought US and Afghan forces in November 2001… The Egyptian have tried large-scale assaults on the al Qaeda mountain fastnesses and failed. They were forced to retreat with heavy casualties… Egyptian intelligence does not have an exact count of the anti-air missiles in al Qaeda’s hands. The passage of a quantity of these weapons from Sinai to the Gaza Strip leads Egyptian intelligence to deduce a fairly sizeable number – enough to cause havoc with a helicopter commando drop."
Venezuelans tortured by Posada Carriles present their cases 10/3/2005 Granma: "Venezuelans tortured by terrorist of Cuban origin are today preparing the files of their cases and those of disappeared comrades in order to support the demand for the criminal’s extradition.
Jesús Marrero, coordinator of the group of victims affected by Posada during the years in which he had a high position in the Venezuelan political police (DISIP), explained to Prensa Latina that the initiative is an attempt to bring about justice.
Marrero, who was tortured at the orders of Posada, considers the decision of the U.S. judge not to hand the criminal over to Venezuelan authorities under the pretext that he may be tortured, an insult to Posada’s victims."
Sunday 10/2/2005
Senior Administration Officials Could Be Charged With Criminal Conspiracy 10/2/2005 Think Progress: "Under this legal tactic, Fitzgerald would attempt to establish that at least two or more officials agreed to take affirmative steps to discredit and retaliate against Wilson and leak sensitive government information about his wife. To prove a criminal conspiracy, the actions need not have been criminal, but conspirators must have had a criminal purpose."
Saturday 10/1/2005
Grand juror: DeLay evidence is there 10/1/2005 Dallas Morning News
Venezuela Denounces Bush Family Ties with Terrorists 10/1/2005 Prensa Latina: " Vice President of Venezuela José Vicente Rangel has accused the Bush family of ties with terrorists, especially criminal Luis Posada Carriles."
Friday 9/30/2005
Chavez: Venezuela Moves Reserves to Europe 9/30/2005 AP: "Venezuela has moved its central bank foreign reserves out of U.S. banks, liquidated its investments in U.S. Treasury securities and placed the funds in Europe, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Friday.
"We've had to move the international reserves from U.S. banks because of the threats," from the U.S., Chavez said during televised remarks from a South American summit in Brazil."
EU Wants Shared Control of Internet 9/30/2005 AP
US nuclear warplans fly around the internet 9/30/2005 Greenpeace: ""Even in an unclassified world this is not the kind of thing you want flying around the Internet," says Pentagon spokesman Lawrence DiRita. He was talking about a document, yanked from a Pentagon website on September 19th, which outlines US nuclear warfighting plans, including the pre-emptive use of nuclear weapons and the use of nukes in conventional war.
Comments to the document by the various military branches reveal squabbling about who gets to run a nuclear war, a disagreement about the legality of pre-emptive warfighting strategies, and a discussion of the etiquette of alerting allied troops that a nuclear attack is coming their way.
This is exactly the kind of information which we believe ought to be flying around the internet; these guys really shouldn't be left alone to talk about this stuff behind closed doors."
El Salvador Arrests Criminal with Ties to Posada Carriles 9/30/2005 Prensa Latina
Venezuela’s Ambassador: “Posada Carriles is the Osama Bin Laden of Latin America” 9/30/2005 Venezuela Analysis: “The United States presents itself as a leader against terrorism, invades countries, restricts the civil rights of Americans in order to fight terrorism, but when it is about its own terrorists, it denies that they be tried,” said Alvarez.
Wednesday 9/28/2005
"Hasta siempre Comandante..." 9/28/2005 IndyMedia Puerto Rico: "El 27 de septiembre de 2005 cientos de miles de puertorriqueños se lanzaron a las calles del país a saludar la caravana fúnebre que escoltaba al guerrillero boricua Filiberto Ojeda Ríos hasta el pueblo de Naguabo, su última trinchera física." [con photos]
EVACUATION "like a horror movie" 9/28/2005 South East Texas Live: "Several bus drivers from the convoy on Tuesday were staying in Reunion Arena, one of the three main Dallas shelters now housing about 1,700 people from Jefferson County.
As they sat outside on folding chairs, having a smoke, they described seeing people on their front lawns glaring at them with shotguns in hand, and pickup trucks with nooses hanging in back (most of the bus passengers were black).The drivers said whenever they tried to stop to rest or let their passengers use the restroom, town officials had court orders waiting for them to get out of town, an assertion those town officials later denied."
3 Charged in Killing Of Fla. Businessman - Boulis Slain After 2000 Abramoff Deal 9/28/2005 Washington Post: "Fort Lauderdale police said yesterday that they charged three men in the 2001 gangland-style slaying of a Florida businessman who was gunned down in his car months after selling a casino cruise line to a group that included Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff. Konstantinos "Gus" Boulis was killed on a Fort Lauderdale street on Feb. 6, 2001. Two of the three men charged had been hired as consultants by Adam Kidan, one of Abramoff's partners in the SunCruz Casinos venture. Anthony Moscatiello, 67, identified by authorities as a former bookkeeper for the Gambino crime family, was arrested Monday night in Queens, N.Y. Anthony Ferrari, 48, was arrested in Miami Beach. Both were charged with murder, conspiracy and solicitation to commit murder. James Fiorillo, 28, was arrested in Palm Coast, Fla., yesterday and charged with murder and conspiracy.
Boulis, millionaire founder of the Miami Subs sandwich chain, sold SunCruz to Abramoff and Kidan in September 2000, at a time when Abramoff was one of Washington's most powerful lobbyists. Abramoff and Kidan were indicted last month on charges of wire fraud and conspiracy in connection with a $60 million loan they obtained to purchase the casino company."
Tuesday 9/27/2005
Tomgram: Davis, 25 Questions about the Murder of New Orleans 9/27/2005 UrukNet: must read.
Monday 9/26/2005
The impending Cakewalk in Iran 9/26/2005 Centre for Research on Globalization: "Why should Iran be threatened and humiliated in front of the world body when Israel, India and Pakistan stole nuclear technology and developed bombs for themselves?
The NPT is a degrading apartheid-system that maintains the status quo and keeps America's boot firmly placed on the neck of the developing world. It should be replaced with a scheme that puts justice and evenhandedness above the self-serving bigotries of the superpower and its cohorts.
But, why are we kidding ourselves anyway? The current farce at the UN has nothing to do with Iran's imaginary nuclear weapons-program. The whole affair is just a shabby rerun of the lead up to "Shock and Awe"."
Assassination in Puerto Rico - The FBI Murders a Legend 9/26/2005 Counterpunch: "Filiberto, she says, knew that the FBI was there to kill him and did not talk at any time about surrendering himself. After all, that is what happened in Cerro Maravilla, where the local police -acting allegedly in cohort with the FBI- executed two unarmed independentistas, well after they had surrendered to the authorities. The Attorney General for Puerto Rico has already corroborated Elma's story. The FBI fired more than a hundred rounds of bullets. Filiberto was able to respond only ten times. There was no attempt to arrest him; they came to kill him with premeditation… From 1990 to 2005, Filiberto was running loose in Puerto Rico, outsmarting the FBI on an Island that is smaller than the State of Connecticut and where everybody, through means of gossip, can easily find out what the other islanders are doing, even in their bed. So, the FBI knew for sure that Filiberto was being protected by the community at large. The FBI had a motive for their assassination.
Filiberto Ojeda will be buried the afternoon of September 27, 2005, as a hero in his hometown of Naguabo, Puerto Rico. The Puerto Rican Bar Association has announced that it will conduct a full investigation -together with the Government of Puerto Rico- to determine if the FBI murdered Ojeda."
Gulf factor key to PM’s Iran vote decision 9/26/2005 India Telegraph: "In deciding to vote with the West and not abstaining along with Russia, China, Brazil and South Africa, what weighed with the Prime Minister was the absolute imperative for India to secure its interests in the Gulf and not the desire to protect the July 18, 2005, Indo-US nuclear agreement, according to diplomats engaged in the negotiations that led to the IAEA resolution yesterday.
Top-ranking Americans have told equally top-ranking Indians in recent weeks that the US has plans to invade Iran before Bush’s term ends. In 2002, a year before the US invaded Iraq, high-ranking Americans had similarly shared their definitive vision of a post-Saddam Iraq, making it clear that they would change the regime in Baghdad.
On the last day of his stay in New York this month, Singh made public his fears for the safety of nearly four million Indians in the Gulf in the event of diplomacy failing to persuade Iran away from a confrontation with the US and others on the nuclear issue."
U.S. Government Charade Will Result in Denial of Posada Extradition 9/26/2005 NarcoNews: "The real struggle in the case seems to be over Posada’s potential release from prison. Garrett-Jackson wanted as much evidence as possible of Posada’s past deeds in the record in order to apparently establish him as a threat to the national security of the United States and as a terrorist. But since Archambeault waived the issue with respect to withholding, the judge may require that the U.S. Government’s evidence be ignored. In that case, the way may be clear for Posada’s release. Without a finding that Posada is a terrorist or a threat to national security, it will make it much easier for him to win his freedom."
'Terrorist Administration' - Chavez attacks Bush, and warns about oil prices. 9/26/2005 Newsweek: Interview with Chavez - "He's a populist on the Castro model who wants to steer Latin America firmly to the left." [That's why Venezuela has not abolished private property, confiscated corporate holdings, or implemented other Cuban-style measures?]
"There
is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and
security to all, but especially to Democracies as against despots:
suspicion." -- Demosthenes
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