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Sunday 10/30/2005
Increasingly, Football's Playbooks Call for Prayer 10/30/2005 NYT: "As in politics and culture in the United States, college football is increasingly becoming a more visible home for the Gospel. In the past year more than 2,000 college football coaches participated in events sponsored by the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, which said that more than 1.4 million athletes and coaches from youth to professional levels had attended in 2005, up from 500,000 in 1990… Last June, in the wake of a Pentagon task force investigating broader allegations of religious intolerance at the Air Force Academy, Fisher DeBerry, the football coach, stopped leading pregame prayers and removed a banner in the Falcons' locker room. It bore the Fellowship of Christian Athletes' Competitors Creed, which begins "I am a Christian first and last.""
Saturday 10/29/2005
 Aryan Jihad and the Elephant in America's Living Room 10/29/2005 Alternet: "Just weeks after Katrina alerted the country to our massive unresolved race issues, the media again missed the big picture of the Toledo riots."
The Global Drug Meta-Group: Drugs, Managed Violence, and the Russian 9/11 10/29/2005 Peter Dale Scott: 48 pages
Friday 10/28/2005
Gentrifying Diversity 10/28/2005 Alternet: "With poor evacuees being discouraged -- via eviction, lay-offs, and lack of temporary housing -- from returning to New Orleans, hurricane Katrina may prove to be the biggest 'urban-renewal' project black America has seen."
Watergate-style money laundering indictments stoke Ohio's stolen election fires 10/28/2005 Columbus Free Press: "As federal probes rack Team Bush in Washington, three huge indictments for money laundering and other pro-Bush election crimes involving Ohio "Coingate" lynchpin Tom Noe have stoked powerful new Watergate-style financial fires under Ohio's stolen 2004 election scandal.
A close associate of key Republicans from George H.W. Bush to George W. Bush to Ohio Senator George Voinovich to Ohio Governor Robert Taft and many, many more, Noe has long been known as northwest Ohio's "Mr. Republican."
He has also been at the heart of speculation on how huge numbers of votes in the Toledo area may have wrongly found their way into the Bush column, helping the GOP again take the presidency in 2004.
While media attention focuses on Plamegate and on Noe's financial scams, it overlooks many years as Chair of the Board of Elections in Lucas County. He was deeply involved in controversial procurement deals that brought Diebold opti-scan vote counting machines into inner city Toledo precincts. Many of those machines suspiciously malfunctioned at key times on election day. Sworn testimony in hearings conducted by the Free Press after the election confirm that thousands of inner city voters were disenfranchised due to Noe's decisions."
Watergate-style money laundering indictments stoke Ohio's stolen election fires 10/28/2005 Columbus Free Press: "As federal probes rack Team Bush in Washington, three huge indictments for money laundering and other pro-Bush election crimes involving Ohio "Coingate" lynchpin Tom Noe have stoked powerful new Watergate-style financial fires under Ohio's stolen 2004 election scandal.
A close associate of key Republicans from George H.W. Bush to George W. Bush to Ohio Senator George Voinovich to Ohio Governor Robert Taft and many, many more, Noe has long been known as northwest Ohio's "Mr. Republican."
He has also been at the heart of speculation on how huge numbers of votes in the Toledo area may have wrongly found their way into the Bush column, helping the GOP again take the presidency in 2004.
While media attention focuses on Plamegate and on Noe's financial scams, it overlooks many years as Chair of the Board of Elections in Lucas County. He was deeply involved in controversial procurement deals that brought Diebold opti-scan vote counting machines into inner city Toledo precincts. Many of those machines suspiciously malfunctioned at key times on election day. Sworn testimony in hearings conducted by the Free Press after the election confirm that thousands of inner city voters were disenfranchised due to Noe's decisions."
AFRICA-VENEZUELA: Weaving New Alliances with Cultural Threads 10/28/2005 IPS: "Venezuela, the biggest oil producer in Latin America and the fifth biggest in the world, has launched an offensive to forge closer diplomatic ties with Africa, initially focusing on political and cultural questions while leaving the matter of energy cooperation to the future… The next step is a Nov. 13-20 cultural festival that Venezuela will host in Caracas, with the participation of a dozen African artistic and cultural groups like the Benin national ballet company and Gnaoua musicians from Morocco, as well as a number of Venezuelan groups and artists.
"Venezuela, like other Latin American countries, owes a spiritual debt to Africa," Jesús García, president of the non-governmental Afroamérica Foundation, told IPS. "Thousands of slaves from the Wolof ethnic group of Senegal or the Mina from the (West African) equatorial coast came to this country."
The festival "gives us a chance to eradicate the 'Tarzan-like' vision of Africa that we still have in Venezuela, where we often see it merely as a primitive continent with enormous needs. We want African intellectuals to come and show us their reality," said García.
In the activist's view, the government's offensive provides an opportunity to support intergovernmental efforts by promoting agreements between universities, parliaments, regional authorities and city governments in Africa and Venezuela, "and with the rest of the region, in search of a new relationship with Latin America and the Caribbean as well." "
Venezuela forges closer diplomatic, political and cultural ties with Africa 10/28/2005 Vheadlines
Thursday 10/27/2005
Katrina: The Movement 10/27/2005 Alternet: "Groups like the Young People's Project's Find Our Folk initiative are out speaking directly to survivors across the Katrina Diaspora, listening to their issues and giving form and voice to their outrage. Local communities are holding tribunals and truth and reconciliation commission-style hearings to "try" the Bush Administration in ways that are helping communities make sense of the senseless. The U.S. Human Rights Network, a coalition of more than 100 U.S.-based organizations working on human rights issues here "at home" has been documenting abuses and working to involve the United Nations in an investigation and review.
Community Labor United, Mississippi Workers Center for Human Rights, Common Ground Collective, Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, Southern ECHO, ACORN, INCITE! and Project South are among the many regional and local organizations organizing for a just recovery and rebuilding. Many of these groups work together as part of the People's Hurricane Relief Fund and the Southern Relief Fund -- broad coalitions focused on addressing relief and recovery issues in Louisiana and Mississippi, respectively."
The Fitzgerald Investigation Reader 10/27/2005 Alternet
Ex-New Orleans cop sentenced to death 10/27/2005 AP: "A former New Orleans policeman was sentenced to death again for ordering the murder of a woman who filed a brutality complaint against him.
Len Davis was convicted in 1996 of violating the civil rights of Kim Groves by having her killed. He was sentenced to death but that was thrown out on appeal. Earlier this year, a jury sentenced him to death for a second time.
U.S. District Judge Ginger Berrigan on Wednesday handed down Davis' sentence in Baton Rouge, where New Orleans federal courts moved after Hurricane Katrina.
"This case involved the murder of a citizen for filing a complaint against a police officer," prosecutor Jim Letten said in a statement. "Two juries have said loudly and clearly that this behavior will not be tolerated and will be punished in the most severe manner.""
STRATEGIC SWARMS 10/27/2005 Global Guerrillas: "The main thrust of the attack on the Palestine hotel used three suicide vehicle bombs. The third vehicle, a cement mixer, didn't reach its goal. Fortuitously, the axle of the truck became entangled in concertina wire which prevented forward movement. If it had managed to get 20 feet closer to the hotel, there is a good likelihood that it would have killed hundreds and structurally damaged the building.
The truck's entanglement also saved us from the next phase of the attack. There were guerrilla assault teams waiting in the wings to storm the hotel. These teams would have quickly overrun the hotel and taken dozens of hostages (mostly journalists and employees of private military companies). Given our experience with similar overruns in Saudi Arabia, this might have evolved into a 12-24 hour hostage drama in the heart of Iraq's global press operation. We were literally "saved by the wire" from this potential debacle (which would have been broadcast live to the entire globe). It could have become the moral equivalent of the Tet offensive or the bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut."
Louisburg Square tenants face bullying landlord 10/27/2005 New Orleans IndyMedia: "As Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco's emergency freeze on evictions in the New Orleans area lifted on Tuesday, landlords throughout New Orleans have begun to serve eviction notices to thousands of tenants.
Please call the Gretna Mayor Ronnie Harris at 504-363-1505 to express outrage and dismay at the harassment and threats being made by members of the Gretna police department toward tenants in Terrytown. Over the last few days, members of the Gretna police force have harassed, intimidated and threatened residents of the Louisburg Square apartments at the request of the apartment complex's manager. The owner of the apartment complex, LES Realty Trust, filed eviction orders against the tenants Wednesday, October 26th, with a court date of Nov. 2nd. The tenants have a legal right to remain in their homes until the court orders an eviction or until their lease expires. LES Realty Trust has had workers from BMCI Contracting (407-522-4444, fax 407-855-0049) working and staying at the apartments for several weeks, although no permits have been issued by the city for the work that is being done. The apartment owners have also been having cars towed from the complex's parking lots (also illegally) by Quick Recovery Auto Salvage (504-392-3493). Please call these firms as well and inform them that they are party to illegal activities by working with LES Realty Trust on this matter."
Louisburg Square tenants face bullying landlord 10/27/2005 New Orleans IndyMedia: "As Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco's emergency freeze on evictions in the New Orleans area lifted on Tuesday, landlords throughout New Orleans have begun to serve eviction notices to thousands of tenants.
Please call the Gretna Mayor Ronnie Harris at 504-363-1505 to express outrage and dismay at the harassment and threats being made by members of the Gretna police department toward tenants in Terrytown. Over the last few days, members of the Gretna police force have harassed, intimidated and threatened residents of the Louisburg Square apartments at the request of the apartment complex's manager. The owner of the apartment complex, LES Realty Trust, filed eviction orders against the tenants Wednesday, October 26th, with a court date of Nov. 2nd. The tenants have a legal right to remain in their homes until the court orders an eviction or until their lease expires. LES Realty Trust has had workers from BMCI Contracting (407-522-4444, fax 407-855-0049) working and staying at the apartments for several weeks, although no permits have been issued by the city for the work that is being done. The apartment owners have also been having cars towed from the complex's parking lots (also illegally) by Quick Recovery Auto Salvage (504-392-3493). Please call these firms as well and inform them that they are party to illegal activities by working with LES Realty Trust on this matter."
Wednesday 10/26/2005
A visit with Fr. Jean-Juste in prison 10/26/2005 SF Bay View: "Father was brought before the judge three days ago. The judge will be making his report soon. We asked him if he thought he was in prison so that he could not be registered as the presidential candidate for the Lavalas party, and he said yes.
We also asked him if he thought the United States was ultimately behind his imprisonment. He said he did not like to think such things because he has good friends in the U.S. However, he also said that he thought extreme elements in the U.S. government could be involved."
Haiti's child prisoners: Their hope is fading 10/26/2005 SF Bay View: "At Radio Timoun, when Aristide was president, orphaned children in Haiti ran their own radio station. Now many are jailed - indefinitely."
Hip Hop Caucus March on Gretna Nov. 7 10/26/2005 SF Bay View: "On Monday, Nov. 7, the people of New Orleans displaced by Hurricane Katrina, joined by Rev. Lennox Yearwood Jr. of the Hip Hop Caucus and other activists and students, will march on Gretna. We will march over the Crescent City Connection Bridge to Gretna’s Oakridge Mall, where buses were to transport evacuees to safety - a destination people from New Orleans never reached during the height of the crisis.
In the aftermath of Katrina, New Orleans authorities directed people to evacuate the city by crossing the Crescent City Connection Bridge which spans the Mississippi River, linking New Orleans to the west bank city of Gretna." [Long list of march supporters and other news.]
Resist or die: Why we must act on Nov. 2 10/26/2005 SF Bay View: "We saw a taste of this, something in birth, during four days of outrage and protest a couple of weeks ago. From Thursday, Sept. 29, through Sunday, Oct. 2, our party called on people, especially the basic masses, to protest what this system did - and is continuing to do - to the people of New Orleans.
People wore black ribbons. They made banners to send to New Orleans. They put up the "Bush Regime WANTED" poster everywhere. What we saw and learned tells you something about how we can drive out Bush.
More than once, when we took "Wanted posters" of Bush to people, they were moved to tears of rage. Finally, someone was telling the truth and giving people a way to do something about it.
In a Dominican neighborhood in New York City, people marched through the community after church, after a minister asked people to hold up the "Bush Regime WANTED" poster and rally the community to stand with the people of New Orleans against the murderous crimes of the Bush regime.
In Chicago, in places like car washes and McDonald's, thousands of "Bush Regime WANTED" posters and flyers to drive out the Bush regime were taken around and posted up."
Solidarity with Ninth Ward begins by Common Ground Collective 10/26/2005 SF Bay View: "The city and state governments have attempted to purchase land from the area's residents for decades in order to expand the Industrial Canal and allow a cruise ship line to build its hub in the region. The Ninth hasn't received any aid or cleanup efforts from any state, city or non-profit agencies.
Local realtors and big businesses are pushing to have the entire area bulldozed so that the city can get a "new face." Garbage, decaying animals and other debris remain untouched while other areas in the city are receiving services.
Common Ground volunteers are currently placing information sheets on every door of the Ninth Ward urging residents to return home, organize, help each other and resist the city's efforts to destroy their community for profits. Common Ground is addressing the city's lack of garbage and trash pickup by removing the trash from the neglected Ninth and placing it in the neutral area of main boulevards away from homes, thus forcing the city to do trash pickup."
Tens of thousands face eviction in New Orleans and Lake Charles 10/26/2005 SF Bay View: "The scheme to flush the remaining poor out of New Orleans and grab their land from them is quickly moving into a new phase. Recently, HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson said that he is opposed to rebuilding the Ninth Ward in New Orleans, and he is in a position to follow through with his menacing posture.
As a follow-up, HUD officials have imposed a complete lockout of public housing tenants in New Orleans, forcing thousands out of their homes. In addition, New Orleans officials are now quickly moving to evict the thousands of remaining poor people from the city, and the eviction legal battles began yesterday, Oct. 25… Attorney Bill Quigley of the Loyola University law school, the same attorney who represents Father Jean Juste and other political prisoners in Haiti, filed suit in Gonzales, a town about 60 miles from New Orleans, to move the eviction hearings into the city.
Since the hurricane, New Orleans court headquarters had been moved to Gonzalez. The judge agreed with Quigley that many tenants facing eviction would be unable to travel to Gonzalez and thus would be denied their right to due process."
Tuesday 10/25/2005
The Top Nine Plamegate Lies 10/25/2005 Alternet
Berlusconi Behind Fake Yellowcake Dossier - Part 2 10/25/2005 Nur al Cubicle: translated from La Repubblica
Monday 10/24/2005
OPEC AND THE ECONOMIC CONQUEST OF IRAQ
Why Iraq Still sells its oil à la cartel
Twilight of the neocon gods 10/24/2005 Harper's
Berlusconi Behind Fake Yellowcake Dossier - Part 1 10/24/2005 Nur al Cubicle: translated from La Repubblica - "La Repubblica's Carlo Bonini and Giuseppe d'Avanzo have been bird-dogging the phony yellowcake documents and they now have the goods on Silvio Berlusconi, who instructed Italian Military Intelligence to plant the evidence implicating Saddam in a bogus uranium deal with Niger. This is their story, printed in yesterday's on-line edition and translated by your friendly little blog owner."
U.S. Continues to Block Venezuelan Defense Development 10/24/2005 Venezuela Analysis]: "The U.S. government's efforts to stop Venezuela purchasing arms come against a background of massive sales to Venezuela's neighbor Columbia. The U.S. has provided the Colombians with over $700 million worth of weapons in the past several years free of charge. These have included helicopter attack ships, assault rifles, and other advanced weapons."
Sunday 10/23/2005
The Dangerously Incomplete Hariri Report 10/23/2005 Consortium News: "A new United Nations report implicates the Syrian government in the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri, giving a lift to George W. Bush’s demand for “regime change” in Damascus. But the investigation has many holes, including failure to follow up on a mysterious van connected to the Feb. 14 bombing."
When the votes don't add up - Making a case for how the religious right hijacked the '04 election 10/23/2005 Sun Sentinel: "Miller has done his homework, and his sources are numerous and scrupulously footnoted. He comes close to convincing an open-minded reader that the 2004 election was a gigantic fraud. His exhortation to Democrats "not to milk it for partisan advantage but to use it to promote, and realize, electoral reform" is the book's stated purpose, and Miller does make a strong case for reform.
Among other things, he recommends doing away with electronic voting, which he says "can never be entirely secure," and using standard paper ballots instead. He also would federalize the electoral system so as to replace "local bigots or politicos" with trained civil servants at the polls."
Secret MoD poll: Iraqis support attacks on British troops 10/23/2005 Telegraph: "Millions of Iraqis believe that suicide attacks against British troops are justified, a secret military poll commissioned by senior officers has revealed.
The poll, undertaken for the Ministry of Defence and seen by The Sunday Telegraph, shows that up to 65 per cent of Iraqi citizens support attacks and fewer than one per cent think Allied military involvement is helping to improve security in their country."
Walker's World: Bush at bay 10/23/2005 UPI: UPI is owned by the Rev Moon - "The CIA leak inquiry that threatens senior White House aides has now widened to include the forgery of documents on African uranium that started the investigation, according to NAT0 intelligence sources. This suggests the inquiry by special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald into the leaking of the identity of undercover CIA officer Valerie Plame has now widened to embrace part of the broader question about the way the Iraq war was justified by the Bush administration… There is one line of inquiry with an American connection that Fitzgerald would have found it difficult to ignore. This is the claim that a mid-ranking Pentagon official, Larry Franklin, held talks with some Italian intelligence and defense officials in Rome in late 2001. Franklin has since been arrested on charges of passing classified information to staff of the pro-Israel lobby group, the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee. Franklin has reportedly reached a plea bargain with his prosecutor, Paul McNulty, and it would be odd if McNulty and Fitzgerald had not conferred to see if their inquiries connected."
Friday 10/21/2005
France and Venezuela Agree to Promote “Multipolar” World, Says Chavez 10/21/2005 Venezuela Analysis
Thursday 10/20/2005
Climate Change and Geoengineering
‘intentional large scale manipulation of the global environment’ 10/20/2005 Global Research: "In the case of at least one geoengineering measure, by no means the most ‘outlandish’, namely: ‘Enhancing Clouds to Reflect Sunlight’, a mass of eyewitness evidence for all over the world suggests that, despite official denials, a programme serving some such purpose is not merely a proposal but a reality and has been under implementation on an immensely large scale for at least a decade."
How Earth-Scale Engineering Can Save the Planet 10/20/2005 Popular Science: published 6/05
Wednesday 10/19/2005
Black New Orleans residents being arrested for returning home 10/19/2005 SF Bay View: "With every type of police and federal officer in the U.S. - from the DEA to the FBI to the notorious New Orleans Police Department - roaming the streets of New Orleans, many former residents are afraid to come home. Some even wonder if the ongoing military occupation is being used to intimidate them into not returning."
Katrina: Relocation or ethnic cleansing? 10/19/2005 SF Bay View: "FEMA has been entirely reshaped under the Bush administration. It's no longer designed to meet the needs of a natural disaster but rather to advance the political agenda of the current regime. It is clear by the way that FEMA employees did everything in their power to undermine relief operations for the people stranded by Hurricane Katrina. Their orders simply corresponded with Washington's intention to put the city under federal control and to forcefully evacuate the victims to locations around the Southwest."
'We won't be peaceful and let them kill us any longer'
Bel Air interview with Roaean Baptiste 10/19/2005 SF Bay View
Tuesday 10/18/2005
METHANE CLATHRATE OUTGASSING AND ANOXIC EXPANSION IN
SOUTHEAST ASIAN DEEPS DUE TO GLOBAL WARMING 10/18/2005 Environmental Monitoring and Assessment: published 1997 - "Numerous marine areas in SouthEast Asia are cold and deep enough to develop stable gas hydrates of greenhouse gases methane and carbon dioxide and of reducing agents such as hydrogen sulfide. In addition many of these deeps have low oxygen values below sill depths. Warming of such waters could:
(1) destabilize existing gas hydrates (clathrates) flashing them into gas and
(2) reduce the oxygen capacity of waters below the sill depth.
Outgassing could increase the buoyancy, producing upwelling of potentially noxious deep waters into the photic zone and even to the surface where the greeenhouse gases would be added to the atmosphere."
Global warming, in capsule form 10/18/2005 Gristmill: "a handy one-paragraph-long roundup of evidence on global warming"
Climate warning as Siberia melts 10/18/2005 New Scientist: "His colleague Karen Frey says if the bogs dry out as they warm, the methane will oxidise and escape into the air as carbon dioxide. But if the bogs remain wet, as is the case in western Siberia today, then the methane will be released straight into the atmosphere. Methane is 20 times as potent a greenhouse gas as carbon dioxide.
In May this year, Katey Walter of the University of Alaska Fairbanks told a meeting in Washington of the Arctic Research Consortium of the US that she had found methane hotspots in eastern Siberia, where the gas was bubbling from thawing permafrost so fast it was preventing the surface from freezing, even in the midst of winter."
Britain faces big chill as ocean current slows 10/18/2005 Times, London: published 5/05 - "CLIMATE change researchers have detected the first signs of a slowdown in the Gulf Stream — the mighty ocean current that keeps Britain and Europe from freezing.
They have found that one of the “engines” driving the Gulf Stream — the sinking of supercooled water in the Greenland Sea — has weakened to less than a quarter of its former strength."
Monday 10/17/2005
The Inevitable Peaking of World Oil Production 10/17/2005 Defense & the National Interest: "Robert L. Hirsch, The Atlantic Council, October 2005. A distinguished energy scientist considers three questions pertinent to world conflict: When will oil production peak? How will we know that it has? And will we have sufficient warning to mitigate its effects? Although estimates range from next year to 2025 (or later), the fact is that for the last 15 years, the world has used more oil than it has discovered. This trend is accelerating as China, India, and other developing countries ramp up their consumption."
Sunday 10/16/2005
Venezuela solicitará extradición de Pat Roberson 10/16/2005 Aporrea: Pat Robertson on trial in Caracas…
Apocalypse Now - How Mankind Is Sleepwalking to the End of the Earth 10/16/2005 Dissident Voice: published 9/05, excellent summary of global warming issues.
FBI Research Reports on the Ku Klux Klan 10/16/2005 Memory Hole: "Two Previously Unseen Monographs Covering the Klan's History from 1865 to 1958"
Paramilitaries as Proxies - Declassified evidence on the Colombian army's anti-guerrilla "allies" 10/16/2005 National Security Archives
SEPTEMBER WARMER AND DRIER THAN AVERAGE ACROSS U.S.,
WARMEST SEPTEMBER GLOBALLY SINCE BEGINNING OF RELIABLE INSTRUMENTS 10/16/2005 NOAA: "The average global temperature anomaly for combined land and ocean surfaces for September (based on preliminary data) was 1.13 degrees F (0.63 degrees C) above the 1880-2004 long-term mean. This was the warmest September since 1880, the beginning of reliable instrumental records. The second warmest September was in 2003 with an anomaly of 1.02 degrees F (0.57 degrees C) above the mean. Land surface temperatures were highest on record for September with temperatures more than 5 degrees F (2.8 degrees C) above normal across large parts of Asia and North America. Ocean temperatures were third highest on record."
Head Start Can Make Hiring Decisions Based on Religion, Says U.S. House 10/16/2005 OneWorld: "An amendment to the new funding bill for Head Start promotes discrimination on religious grounds and would deal a devastating blow to some one million low-income children and their parents who are dependent on the program, according to a large and varied coalition of U.S. organizations."
Saturday 10/15/2005
US troops 'starve Iraqi citizens' 10/15/2005 BBC: "A senior United Nations official has accused US-led coalition troops of depriving Iraqi civilians of food and water in breach of humanitarian law."
Planned neo-Nazi march sparks violence - Dozens of arrests expected; mayor blames gang members 10/15/2005 CNN: "Most of the violence happened when residents, who had pelted the Nazi marchers with bottles and rocks, took out their anger on police, said Brian Jagodzinski, chief news photographer for CNN affiliate WTVG.
Video showed crowds at around 2:25 p.m. using bats to bring down a wooden fence as looters broke into a small grocery store.
"The crowd was very ... extremely agitated at the police ... for doing this [making arrests in] the community when they should be doing this to the Nazis," Jagodzinski said."
An Interview with Elaine Brown - A Former Panther's Georgia Campaign 10/15/2005 Counterpunch: "More than half of the residents of Brunswick, with a population of 16,000, are Black. Yet if Brown wins, she will be the first Black mayor of Brunswick. She's running against Republican Mayor Bradford Brown, who takes pride in being a lieutenant colonel in the Sons of Confederate Veterans."
Russian “military advisers” land in the Gaza Strip – DEBKAfile reports exclusively. Jerusalem was not informed of this latest violation of the military protocols Egypt signed. 10/15/2005 Debka, Israel
Al Qaeda and the U.S. Establishment 10/15/2005 Peter Dale Scott: "A survey of U.S. history since World War Two suggests that the United States power state has consistently used the resources of drug-trafficking terrorists, and more recently those of al Qaeda, to further its own ends, particularly with respect to oil, at the expense of the public order and well-being of the American public state.[75] For at least two decades, from Brzezinski’s backing of Hekmatyar in 1979 to Bush’s backing of the Afghan Northern Alliance in 2001, the United States has continued to draw on the resources of drug-trafficking Islamic jihadists who are or were associated at some point with Al Qaeda."
Venezuela defends expulsion of US missionary 10/15/2005 The News, Pakistan: "Venezuela’s vice president defended a decision to expel a US-based Christian missionary group from the country on Thursday, saying members of the New Tribes Mission had links to the CIA, a charge the organization strongly denied. Vice President Jose Vicente Rangel spoke a day after President Hugo Chavez announced he was ordering the group to leave, citing US "imperialist infiltration."
"We have intelligence reports that that some of them are CIA," Rangel told reporters. "The president’s decision was based on reports that their actions create situations that compromise the country’s sovereignty.""
A Real Racial Democracy? Hugo Chávez and the Politics of Race 10/15/2005 Venezuela Analysis: "Venezuelan elites," one scholar has remarked, "judged people by their appearances. Accordingly, individuals with 'anxious hair' or 'hair like springs' lived in the shadow of their black slave ancestors. The elites considered respectable the whiter Venezuelans who had 'hair flat as rainwater, of an indefinite light brown color which is neither fair nor dark.'" Though some blacks were able to enter white society through marriage and miscegenation, "in the long run, such individuals provided the exceptions that proved the rule." Blacks who sought social acceptance had to adopt the clothing, education, and language of the white elite. In present day Venezuelan society, notes respected commentator Gregory Wilpert, "The correspondence between skin color and class membership is quite stunning at times. To confirm this observation, all one has to do is compare middle to upper class neighborhoods, where predominantly lighter colored folks live, with the barrios, which are clearly predominantly inhabited by darker skinned Venezuelans." Meanwhile, journalist Greg Palast noted that rich whites had "command of the oil wealth, the best jobs, the English-language lessons, the imported clothes, the vacations in Miami, the plantations."
Friday 10/14/2005
Papua New Guinea: New Tribe Missionaries Raided 10/14/2005 Eco-Action: the same New Tribes Mission being expelled from Venezuela is not loved in the Pacific either: "New Tribe Missionaries Raided (11/10/02) More than fifty people took direct action against the New Tribes Mission (NTM) UK Headquarters in Grimsby, in solidarity with resistant indigenous people of the Philippines and Papua. NTM have stated that they intend to preach to every tribe on the planet by 2025, such as the Agta of Northern Luzon and tribes in Mindanao. NTM build airstrips in jungles, have their own planes to ferry first missionaries and then businessmen, Coca Cola and the military. First comes Christianity and then corporations. Indigenous movements in West Papua have declared missionaries one of the 'Four Enemies of Tribal People' and say that they are as responsible as mining or logging companies for ecological and cultural destruction. The activists visited NTM wearing West Papuan masks, invaded and occupied the offices. They severely outnumbered the missionaries working there. Essential information and equipment was removed which will prove valuable to research for resistance to NTM. Other people sabotaged and damaged essential computer hardware, software and other office equipment; others argued with workers; others demonstrated outside or in the village nearby with banners. A timing device was planted in a toilet that later opened a valve on the cold water supply leading to flood damage during Friday night and Saturday morning. All the protestors left the scene without arrest, although missionaries attempted - and failed - to stop people leaving. Following the action the cult pulled some strings and the cops raided nearly half a dozen properties over a period of four months. Around twenty people were arrested, but police attempts to frame people failed, and at the time of writing all but one of the cases has been dropped."
Missionaries facing expulsion from Venezuela deny C-I-A ties 10/14/2005 KWWL, Iowa
Hunting the hunters - Indians massacred 10/14/2005 New Internationalist: more on New Tribes (scroll down near end): "Survival International, a UK-based group that works to defend the rights of tribal peoples, does not believe that the missionaries are medically equipped to deal with the consequences of this encounter. The missionaries are the New Tribes Mission (NTM), an organization which has attracted repeated criticism. Based in the US state of Florida it has over 2,500 missionaries, a $12 million budget for ‘tribal evangelism’ and a worldwide network of outposts. The NTM describes itself as a ‘fundamental missionary society, composed of born-again believers and dedicated to the evangelization of unreached tribal people’. In Latin America, the NTM has mission bases in Panama, Venezuela, Mexico, Colombia, Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay. It also operates in Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Senegal, Thailand and Japan."
Voting Rights, Human Rights 10/14/2005 NYT: "The United States has the worst record in the democratic world when it comes to stripping convicted felons of the right to vote. Of the nearly five million people who were barred from participating in the last presidential election, for example, most, if not all, would have been free to vote if they had been citizens of any one of dozens of other nations. Many of those nations cherish the franchise so deeply that they let inmates vote from their prison cells."
Thursday 10/13/2005
South America Goes Nationalist With Oil, Gas 10/13/2005 AP
US unfazed by Venezuela's talk of nukes 10/13/2005 CSM
Study Reveals Vast Scope of Priest Abuse 10/13/2005 LA Times: "The clergy sexual abuse scandal reached far more broadly across the Los Angeles Archdiocese — and put far more children at risk — than has previously been known, according to a Times study that examined the records of hundreds of accused priests.
Although the sexual abuse scandal has been the subject of more than 560 court claims and a report by the archdiocese, basic information on the dimensions of the problem have remained sketchy. The Times analysis is the first to quantify the breadth of the scandal in the archdiocese.
Molestations have been alleged at roughly 100 parishes. But because the accused priests moved around the archdiocese on average every 4.5 years, the total number of parishes in which alleged abusers served is far larger — more than three-fourths of the 288 parishes, according to the study, which examined records back to 1950."
U.S. doesn't realize depth of Haiti's problems 10/13/2005 Radio Progreso
President Chavez claims US evangelicals gather sensitive and strategic information 10/13/2005 Vheadlines: ""They will leave Venezuela," President Hugo Chavez Frias said. "They are agents of imperialist penetration ... they gather sensitive and strategic information and are exploiting the Indians. So they will leave, and I don't care two hoots about the international consequences that this decision could bring."
New Tribes, an evangelical organization that has long had close ties with the U.S.-based Summer Institute of Linguistics, is active in a number of countries in Asia and Latin America, and in Venezuela has focused its efforts on the Yanomami, Ye'kuana and Panare indigenous groups and other ethnic communities in the southern part of the country.
The Summer Institute of Linguistics was founded in 1934 with the declared purpose of translating the Bible into indigenous languages."
BushCo's black support at 2% 10/13/2005 Washington Post: "In what may turn out to be one of the biggest free-falls in the history of presidential polling, President Bush's job-approval rating among African Americans has dropped to 2 percent, according to a new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll.
The drop among blacks drove Bush's overall job approval ratings to an all-time low of 39 percent in this poll. By comparison, 45 percent of whites and 36 percent of Hispanics approve of the job Bush is doing."
Wednesday 10/12/2005
The Heat Death of American Dreams 10/12/2005 Alternet: "Overshadowed by last month's hurricanes was the news that global warming is likely to accelerate much faster than feared, and it's already begun."
Spike Lee plans film on Katrina disaster 10/12/2005 Detroit News: "Asked about the possibility that the rumors of government involvement had any truth, Lee said it wouldn't surprise him. "It's not too far-fetched ... I don't put anything past the United States government," Lee said. "I don't find it too far-fetched that they tried to displace all the black people out of New Orleans." "\
Parade Magazine's Chavez Smear Venezuelan president a terrorist funder? 10/12/2005 FAIR: dissection of two lies: ""In the wake of the collapse of the USSR, which bankrolled him to the tune of $4 billion a year, Castro has turned to Hugo Chavez, Marxist president of Venezuela, the world's fifth-largest oil exporter. In addition to shoring up Castro, he's funding revolutionaries and terrorists throughout Latin America.""
Tuesday 10/11/2005
Venezuela labels Robertson 'insane' 10/11/2005 Herald Sun, Australia: "This man is insane at the very least. This is absurd," Venezuelan Vice President Jose Vicente Rangel said.
"Some policies up north force one to look at them not through the usual political analysis, but with a team of psychiatrists, psychologists and even shamans," he said."
Monday 10/10/2005
TV evangelist renews Chavez attacks 10/10/2005 AFP: "PROMINENT US TV evangelist Pat Robertson has accused Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez of giving Osama bin Laden $US1.2 million after the September 11 attacks and of trying to obtain nuclear material from Iran."
Susan Bell: a shameful secret history 10/10/2005 Independent, UK: "In 1996, the award-winning journalist Gary Webb uncovered CIA links to Los Angeles drug dealers. It was an amazing scoop - but one that would ruin his career and drive him to suicide. His widow, Susan Bell, looks back on a shameful secret history… His series of articles - which prompted the distinguished reporter and former Newsweek Washington correspondent Robert Parry to describe Webb as "an American hero" - incited fury among the African-American community, many of whom took his investigation as proof that the White House saw crack as a way of bringing genocide to the ghetto. Webb's reports prompted three official investigations, including one by the CIA itself which - astonishingly for an organisation rarely praised for its transparency - confirmed the substance of his findings (published at length in Webb's 1998 book, also entitled Dark Alliance). "Because of Gary Webb's work," said Senator John Kerry, "the CIA launched an investigation that found dozens of connections to drug runners. That wouldn't have happened if he hadn't been willing to stand up and risk it all." "
Dangers in Damascus - If the United States turns up the heat, it risks getting burned. 10/10/2005 Newsweek
"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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