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Friday 12/29/2006

Chavez to shut down opposition TV  12/29/2006 BBC

Designing a Pro-Israel Middle East Policy  12/29/2006 General T&T, Trinicenter: "During the recent Heads of Mission meeting held in POS Prime Minister Manning indicated that in the face of increasing purchases of security equipment from the State of Israel T&T will have to review its foreign policy in the Middle East."

Review of the Year: Global Warming  12/29/2006 Independent: "During the past year, scientific findings emerged that made even the most doom-laden predictions about climate change seem a little on the optimistic side. And at the heart of the issue is the idea of climate feedbacks - when the effects of global warming begin to feed into the causes of global warming. Feedbacks can either make things better, or they can make things worse. The trouble is, everywhere scientists looked in 2006, they encountered feedbacks that will make things worse - a lot worse."

Wednesday 12/27/2006

Hugo Chavez's Political Imperative - Saving Caracas  12/27/2006 Counterpunch

U.S. Says Captured Iranians Can Be Linked to Attacks  12/27/2006 NYT

Monday 12/25/2006

Legendary singer James Brown dies at 73  12/25/2006 AP

Maps  12/25/2006 End to Global Warming: "East coast - the east coast of North America, with 1, 3, 10, 30, and 100 meter rises in sea-level; 100-meter-rise - maps of the entire world and of Europe, with a 100 meter sea-level rise "

Flood Maps  12/25/2006 Firetree: Set flood level from 1m to 14m in upper left.

Sunday 12/24/2006

Yes, Oil From Venezuela by Joseph P. Kennedy II  12/24/2006 Boston Globe: "Charities like the Baseball Hall of Fame and the Muscular Dystrophy Association receive generous donations from Citgo, but no one is telling them to decline the gifts. Meanwhile, oil companies other than Citgo have declined to share their record profits with those who most struggle to keep pace with rising energy costs. In spite of the fact that heating oil prices have doubled over the past few years, the federal fuel assistance program faces a one-third cut this year, from $3.1 billion to $2.1 billion. Washington earns windfall tax revenues from the rising prices of petroleum products, but not a cent goes to offset rising energy costs for the poor. Nor do the poor benefit from increased royalties on gas and oil taken from federal lands and waters -- if, in fact, the energy companies pay the government at all."

Are Bush and Cheney Planning an Early Attack on Iran? Crime of the Century  12/24/2006 Counterpunch

New Congress mirrors shift in California - A delegation largely white, male and Republican yields to a diverse array of Democrats.  12/24/2006 LA Times

Saturday 12/23/2006

US tests call-up system but denies return to conscription 12/23/2006 Guardian

Friday 12/22/2006

Navajo Police Attempt To Dismantle Desert Rock Barricades 12/22/2006 IndyMedia: "However, Desert Rock company trucks have began moving onto the backyard of Alice Gilmore, an elderly Navajo woman, and her family on Wednesday to begin drilling efforts. Desert Rock officials and police have not shown any documents or permits to the local residents stating their purpose or permission to be there. Dine supporters and community members have joined Alice and her family to blockade the road. They are elderly women and youth, and they have been camped out on the road over night since Tuesday! Desert Rock trucks have repeatedly rushed them and have almost run-over people a number of times as they attempt to get by. Desert Rock power company is violating the lease rights of the local Navajo residences and is harassing elderly Navajo women and youth! This is an urgent time and support is needed!!!"

Potential buyers can cast lot with Sequoia Voting Systems - Oakland-based firm to be sold due to a hostile environment 12/22/2006 Inside Bay Area: "Citing a hostile environment for foreign ownership of U.S. infrastructure, the parent company of Sequoia Voting Systems Inc. is selling the Oakland-based firm, one of the nations three largest suppliers of voting equipment. The Venezuelan owners of Smartmatic Corp. were expected to announce today that they are putting Sequoia up for sale. Almost a third of California counties use the firms voting machines, including Alameda and Santa Clara counties, and Sequoia is the largest seller of ATM-like touch-screen voting machines in the state. Smartmatic executives say the reason for the sale is a persistent controversy over foreign ownership of a U.S. voting company, which has included allegations of Smartmatic ties to the government of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, a critic of U.S. policies."

Wednesday 12/20/2006

The $2 Trillion Dollar War 12/20/2006 Rolling Stone: "Joseph Stiglitz, winner of the Nobel Prize for economics, estimates the true cost of the war at$2.267 trillion. That includes the government's past and future spending for the war itself ($725 billion), health care and disability benefits for veterans ($127 billion), and hidden increases in defense spending ($160 billion). It also includes losses the economy will suffer from injured vets ($355 billion) and higher oil prices ($450 billion)."

Tuesday 12/19/2006

Paramilitary Ties Implicate Colombia's Political Elite 12/19/2006 Washington Post: "In what has been heralded as a decisive moment in Colombia's shadowy, decades-long conflict, a powerful paramilitary commander is to appear in a special court Tuesday to account for crimes that include massacres and assassinations. Salvatore Mancuso's testimony will be the first by a top death-squad leader in a Colombian courtroom, and it is being touted by the administration of President Álvaro Uribe as evidence that the wheels of justice are turning. Rather than rejoicing, however, the Uribe government has found itself in the awkward position of being implicated in the wrongdoing. Over the past several weeks, Colombians have been gripped by revelations of ties between paramilitary fighters and several congressmen close to the president, as well as some officials in his administration. The scandal now threatens to unravel his authority. Uribe won reelection in May after cultivating his reputation as a workaholic technocrat -- someone who would be relentless against corruption and illegal armed groups. But lately, he has joined a cast of lawmakers, intelligence service operatives and mid-level government bureaucrats in publicly denying ties to the paramilitary groups, which for a generation the military used as a proxy force to battle guerrillas… Since three congressmen were jailed last month for collaborating with paramilitary groups, investigators have opened official probes into six more members of Congress and three former lawmakers. The most prominent is Sen. Álvaro Araújo, whose sister, Maria Consuelo Araújo, is the country's foreign minister. The senator has even admitted meeting with Rodrigo Tovar, a paramilitary commander who prosecutors say has been running a drug-trafficking group while negotiating with the government. Another senator, Miguel de la Espriella, publicly detailed how he and dozens of other lawmakers met with paramilitary commanders in 2001. At the meeting, they signed a pact cementing an alliance designed to lead to disarmament negotiations, which death squad commanders hoped would help them avoid extradition to the United States on drug charges and hold on to land and other possessions. The talks began after Uribe won office in 2002. "The interests of these men is personal, that they don't lose property and that they don't get extradited," said José Mejia, a former political officer in Tovar's paramilitary group who gave up his weapons this year. "What they're looking for is that they don't get tried for massacres and narco-trafficking." [A possible cousin of the CIA station chief Tovar who organized the massacre of 500,000 Indonesians in the early 60's.]

Monday 12/18/2006

War and Terror: Tehran's Holocaust Conference 12/18/2006 Tinicenter: "Did Ahmadinejad really threaten to wipe out Israel? No more than scientists predicting the melting of the polar ice caps are threatening to melt them themselves. What Ahmadinejad did say was that, "The Zionist regime will be wiped out soon the same way the Soviet Uni0n was" (5) a prediction, not a threat. And since the Soviet Uni0n wasn't wiped out in a hail of nuclear missiles, a storm of terrorist attacks, or an epidemic sparked by biological weapons, it might be safe to conclude that Ahmadinejad expects Israel to collapse through self-inflicted wounds the way the Soviet Uni0n did and not under a barrage of nuclear missiles launched from Tehran. In the Iranian president's view, the days of Israel, as Zionist state, are numbered because it was founded on injustice, and therefore stands on rotten foundations. When the UN carved a Jewish homeland out of someone else's homeland, and without consulting a single Palestinian, it created a Chimera whose existence would always depend on sponsorship by imperialist powers, and unremitting, massive infusions of aid. In other words, Israel has been artificially kept alive from the start."

Sunday 12/17/2006

Tucson military recruiters ran cocaine 12/17/2006 Arizona Daily Star

Who was behind the polonium poisoning of former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko? 12/17/2006 Global Research

Wednesday 12/13/2006

Saudis may back Iraq Sunnis if U.S. exits 12/13/2006 AP

A Way Forward, a Look Back 12/13/2006 Consortium News: "Prince Turki al-Faisal, the Saudi ambassador to Washington and the former chief of Saudi intelligence, informed the State Department on Dec. 11 that he had resigned after only 15 months on the job and flew home. The unceremonious departure was seen as another signal of Saudi anger over Bush’s regional policies. In that view, Turki’s resignation was akin to the recall of an ambassador between two hostile states, albeit softened by Turki’s insistence that he was leaving to spend more time with his family."

Monday 12/11/2006

Orthodox Jewish Attitude to the ’Holocaust’ 12/11/2006 Neturei Karta: "Talk prepared by Rabbi Yisroel Feldman of Neturei Karta International to be delivered at the International Conference to review the Holocaust, December 11-12, in Tehran, Iran."

Sunday 12/10/2006

CIA is undermining British war effort, say military chiefs 12/10/2006 Independent

Friday 12/8/2006

U.S. denies threat on Haitian aid, visas  12/8/2006 AP: "The U.S. Embassy on Friday denied that Haiti's government was threatened with the suspension of aid and travel visas if it tried to block the United States from deporting convicted Haitian criminals back to their homeland. U.S. Embassy spokeswoman Shaila B. Manyam told The Associated Press that Haitian officials were only informed that U.S. law allows the blocking of visas for officials from any country that refuses to accept its citizens after they have been convicted of crimes… In an appearance Thursday before the Haitian legislature, Alexis criticized the long-standing U.S. policy of deporting newly released Haitian convicts, blaming them for killings and kidnappings in the impoverished Caribbean nation. He also said the U.S. planned to increase the number of criminals deported back to Haiti each month from 25 to 100. Alexis told legislators he was warned that Haitians officials who don't cooperate risked a suspension in U.S. aid and loss of travel privileges to the United States."

25 Years Later, Mumia Abu-Jamal's Best and Last Chance, as French Supporters Face Charges  12/8/2006 IndyMedia: "In April, longtime French support (2005 photos) continued when the Paris suburb of St. Denis named a major street after Mumia (see video) and was quickly condemned with government resolutions in the US (pdf booklet), while local media continued a long history of bias. In November, Philadelphia Republicans (radio interview) filed criminal charges against St. Denis and Paris for allegedly "glorifying" a "cop-killer"."

Iraq insurgents’ bombmaking gets more lethal - Advanced explosives outpace military’s efforts to boost troop, vehicle armor  12/8/2006 NBC: “There are very few things we fear,” says Col. Douglass Heckman. “When a simple roadside bomb goes off, it’s not going to kill us most of the time. A sniper can’t penetrate — we keep the gunners down — small arms can’t penetrate. ... In fact, a vehicle-borne suicide bomber typically isn’t going to hurt us. The thing that scares us is the advanced roadside bombs.”

Thursday 12/7/2006

The U.S Congress Democratic Caucus president would be Israeli military intelligence officer 12/7/2006 Voltaire Net: "The new democratic group (Democratic Caucus) in the U.S Congress House of Representatives has elected Rahm Emanuel as a new chairman. Former professional dancer, Mr Emanuel was Bill Clinton’s presidential campaign treasurer, then his political director in the White House. He was one of the main protagonists of the Free Trade Area of the Americas Agreement and would have played a role in Wye River negotiations on the Middle East… Of Israeli origin, he obtained the United-Stator nationality at the age of 18. As a volunteer engaged during Desert Storm operation ( 1991 ), Rahm Emanuel (then 32-years old) has served for Israel defence against a possible Iraqi attack. Accused afterwards of being a Tsahal officer and of being subjected to a double allegiance, Mr Emanuel pointed out that he had not served in the uniform. In fact, according to our information, he would be a member of Amal, Tsahal’s military intelligence service. Rahm Emanuel is Benyamin Auerbach’s son. On September 17, 1948, Mr. Auerbach took part, under Yitzhak Shamir’s authority, in the attack that caused the death of both the Swedish count Folke Bernadotte (UNO mediator in Palestine) and the French colonel André Sérot (a United Nations military observer). It is this double assassination which put an end to the binational State project in Palestine and which transformed the Israel State nature itself in comparison with what had been decided by the UN Organisation. Rahm Emanuel’s younger brother, Ari Emanuel, is Michael Moore’s agent in Hollywood. He encouraged this latter to point out the supposed responsibility of Saudi Arabia in September 11 attacks in his famous film Fahrenheit 911, the showing of which was ensured by the Democratic Party."

Wednesday 12/6/2006

Baker panel's mention of Palestinian "right of return" raises eyebrows  12/6/2006 AFP: "The final point in the list was: "Sustainable negotiations leading to a final peace settlement along the lines of President Bush's two-state solution, which would address the key final status issues of borders, settlements, Jerusalem, the right of return and the end of conflict." "'Right of return' is not in Oslo I or Oslo II, it's not in the Bush Rose Garden speech, it's not even in UN 181, the original partition resolution -- it's part of the Palestinian discourse," said the US analyst."

Carter Book Criticized  12/6/2006 AP

About your study on Noam Chomsky’s thought - by James Abourezk  12/6/2006 Voltaire Network: "I can tell you from personal experience that, at least in the Congress, the support Israel has in that body is based completely on political fear—fear of defeat by anyone who does not do what Israel wants done. I can also tell you that very few members of Congress—at least when I served there—have any affection for Israel or for its Lobby. What they have is contempt, but it is silenced by fear of being found out exactly how they feel. I’ve heard too many cloakroom conversations in which members of the Senate will voice their bitter feelings about how they’re pushed around by the Lobby to think otherwise. In private one hears the dislike of Israel and the tactics of the Lobby, but not one of them is willing to risk the Lobby’s animosity by making their feelings public."

Tuesday 12/5/2006

Colombia to expose militia's reach  12/5/2006 CSM: "In Colombia's corridors of power, the tension is almost palpable. People worry and wonder who might be the next target in a widening probe into connections between politicians and the country's powerful right-wing militias that used terror and intimidation to impose their will on the population. Six pro-government lawmakers face questioning by the Supreme Court this week over their alleged links to paramilitary forces in their home provinces in a scandal that is rocking the country's political establishment to its core."

Taliban repel British assault in south Afghanistan  12/5/2006 Reuters: "Afghan police and soldiers have so far held just the bridgehead and the short road at the north end of the valley, criss-crossed by networks of ancient canals that make Helmand fertile enough to produce a third of the world's opium crop."

Chavez takes victory swipe at Bush  12/5/2006 The Australian: ""This is another defeat for the empire of Mr Danger," he said in a reference to a blue-eyed American in a 1929 novel who robs land from unwary Venezuelan peasants. "This is another defeat for the devil who wants to dominate the world." Mr Chavez, who has called his electoral rival Manuel Rosales a"lackey of the US empire", also shouted: "Down with imperialism." "

Monday 12/4/2006

Re-elected Chavez promises more radical turn for Venezuela  12/4/2006 AP: "Long live the revolution!" Chavez shouted from the balcony of the presidential palace. "Venezuela is demonstrating that a new and better world is possible, and we are building it." With 78 percent of voting stations reporting, Chavez had 61 percent of the vote, to 38 percent for Rosales. Chavez has won a loyal following among the poor through multibillion-dollar social programs including subsidized food, free university education and cash benefits for single mothers."

U.S.: We Can Work With Venezuela  12/4/2006 AP

Chavez promises more radical turn toward socialism  12/4/2006 Ireland Online

Lessons of Suez and Iraq  12/4/2006 Payvand: "Nevertheless, the Iraqi debacle will prove to be a more costly venture for Britain than Suez and a greater disaster for the United States than Vietnam. We may not have seen the end of the tragedy yet."

Is There a "Black Vote" in Venezuela?  12/4/2006 Venezuela Analysis: "Luis Perdomo, a black Barlovento resident, was denied entry to a Nelson Mandela birthday commemoration last year. Seeing his complexion, a "revolutionary" government official assumed he was a bike messenger and turned him away. Perdomo had been an invited speaker. He eventually gave his speech, during which he also recounted this humiliating incident. But afterward, Venezuela's state TV network refused to interview him, though they spoke to the other presenters, upset that he dared to criticize the government at an event it had organized."

Sunday 12/3/2006

Locking Up Surplus Labor - U.S. Prison Nation  12/3/2006 Counterpunch

The Shooting of Sean Bell and the Resurgence of American Racism  12/3/2006 Counterpunch

The House of Death  12/3/2006 Guardian: "In August 2004 someone tried to shoot him at an El Paso restaurant - instead killing an innocent bystander. After that, he was taken into protective custody. And then, on 9 May 2005, Ice, the agency that had cherished him, decided that his US visa was irregular and began legal proceedings to deport him to Mexico - without doubt a death sentence. He is now in a maximum-security jail in the Midwest, fighting his former employers through the courts. In October The Observer won clearance to visit him with his lawyer, Jodi Goodwin. On the eve of the interview he was abruptly moved to a different facility where officials said a visit was impossible. Goodwin passed on a message: 'I'm not mad, I'm sad and disillusioned. Every time I did a job and brought them information, I was congratulated. Now they want to deliver me to my death.'"

Massive Ice Shelf 'May Collapse without Warning'  12/3/2006 New Zealand Herald: "A New Zealand-led ice drilling team has recovered three million years of climate history from samples which gives clues as to what may happen in the future. Initial analysis of sea-floor cores near Scott Base suggest the Ross Ice Shelf had collapsed in the past and had probably done so suddenly. The team's co-chief scientist, Tim Naish, told The Press newspaper the sediment record was important because it provided crucial evidence about how the Ross Ice Shelf would react to climate change, with potential to dramatically increase sea levels."

Saturday 12/2/2006

Plan for South American Pipeline Has Ambitions Beyond Gas  12/2/2006 NYT: "President Hugo Chávez is not modest about his energy plans. He wants to build a 5,000-mile natural gas pipeline that stretches from this remote northern tip of South America to the bottom end of the continent. Erecting possibly the longest pipeline in the world is the centerpiece of a broader effort by Mr. Chávez to strengthen ties among Latin America’s economies and shrink their dependence on the United States."

Chavez favored as Venezuelans prepare for vote  12/2/2006 Reuters

Saudi denies may interfere in Iraq to back Sunnis  12/2/2006 Reuters

Friday 12/1/2006

New St Denis Statement Defending Rue Mumia  12/1/2006 IndyMedia: The city hall of Saint Denis re-affirms yet again its support to the women and men who are demanding Mumia Abu-Jamal be treated with fairness and justice. The picket this 30th day of November 2006 has been organized to protest against the pressure brought to bear on the city of Saint Denis by members of the american extreme right in order to bring about the cancellation of our decision to name one of our streets after an African American militant who has been unfairly incarcerated and sentenced to the death penalty. This ultra conservative pressure group, based in Philadelphia, has not hesitated to make use of the grossest manipulations. Thus, the widely disseminated information according to which the city of Philadelphia is suing the cities of Saint Denis and Paris, because of their commitment in favor of Mumia Abu-Jamal - is nothing but a lie. The Mayor of Philadelphia, as well as the president of its city council, informed the city of Saint Denis that they never intended to file any kind of suit, and have absolutely nothing to do with this campaign."

Prior knowledge of 9/11 attacks overheard in Hebrew  12/1/2006 Muckracker Report: "In addition to overhearing in Hebrew, the statements, “The Americans will learn what it is to live with terrorists after the planes hit the twins in September”, and “Don’t worry, we have people in high places and no matter who gets elected, they will take care of everything”, the source also reports that he overheard one of the three men in the Gomel Chesed Cemetery say, “The Arabs are so stupid. They don’t even imagine that we are using them.” This comment should not be overlooked."

Book finally clears first black Presidential Secret Service agent  12/1/2006 Ultimate Sacrifice

While the Department of Homeland Security has placed the name of every air passenger traveling  12/1/2006 Wayne Madsen Report: 5th entry for December 1-3, 2006 -- "On November 27, WMR reported on the case of Israeli Hazki Hen who was arrested for attempting to smuggle as much as $100 million in counterfeit $100 bills from the semi-independent enclave of South Ossetia via middlemen in Georgia and Israel. We can now report that a similar ring connected to the Russian-Israeli Mafia, involving some key participants in the Iran-Contra scandal and illegal U.S. wars in Central America in the 1980s, is traveling into and out of the United States on cleverly forged U.S. passports. While Homeland Security Department under Michael Chertoff hypes secret terrorist rating list and phony cyber-attacks on Wall Street, it permits Russian-Israeli gangsters tied to the same elements who poisoned Alexander Litvinenko to freely travel on forged US passports in and out of the United States. Although the U.S. passport numbers are clearly out of sequence and should be flagged by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials, higher-ups at the Homeland Security Department are looking the other way as unsavory characters transit in and out of the United States on the fake passports. Major destinations for the U.S.-transiting Russian-Israeli Mafia travelers are Mexico, including the troubled states of Oaxaca and Chiapas; Nicaragua; Panama; Venezuela; Guatemala; Honduras; Costa Rica; Colombia; Ecuador; Venezuela; Paraguay; Argentina; Brazil' Chile; and Bolivia."

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