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I just noted this story and signed the petition for this poor girl.. Please do the same ... This is so sad and wrong!

http://www.care2.com/news/member/733929969/265462

On January 3, 2006, 18-year-old Nazanin was sentenced to death for murder by court in Iran after she reportedly admitted fatally stabbing one of three men who attempted to rape her and her 16-year-old niece in a park in Karaj (a suburb of Tehran) in March 2005. She was seventeen at the time. Her sentence is subject to review by the Court of Appeal, and if upheld, to confirmation by the Supreme Court.......

http://www.petitiononline.com/Nazanin/petition.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Nazanin

President Bush's new Iraq strategy calls for a rapid influx of forces that could add as many as 20,000 American combat troops to Baghdad, supplemented with a jobs program costing as much as $1 billion intended to employ Iraqis in projects including painting schools and cleaning streets, according to American officials who are piecing together the last parts of the initiative.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010707Y.shtml

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-iranoil7jan07,0,4572971.story


Informant: binstock

Icy hunting grounds diminishing: Report

Peter Gorrie
Toronto Star

http://www.thestar.com/News/article/167748

Polar bears in Ontario's far north are in much worse shape than 20 years ago, likely because climate change is melting the ice from which they hunt, says a new report by a provincial government scientist.

The decline in their physical condition is almost certainly a first step toward a population reduction, says the report, headed by Martin Obbard of the Ministry of Natural Resources in Peterborough.

These are "pretty clear warning signals," Obbard said.

The connection to climate change isn't certain, but the problem appears to be that Hudson Bay is melting earlier in spring and freezing later in fall.

Polar bears spend the winter on the ice, hunting ring seals and putting on body fat. In summer, they travel up to 40 kilometres inland, eating little. That's when females give birth and nurse their young.

They run into trouble if they haven't been able to eat enough seal to provide energy for those lean months. With less ice, they have less time to hunt.

"At a personal level ... I don't think there's any doubt," that the lengthening ice-free season is the culprit, Obbard said.

Similar results have been reported for bears on the Manitoba shore of the bay: Obbard's report is the first to show an impact on the 1,000 or so along the 600-kilometre stretch of Ontario shoreline from north of the native community of Attawapiskat up to the Manitoba border.

From 2000 to 2005, the researchers measured the size and weight of polar bears they drugged using tranquilizer darts fired from a helicopter. Those results were used to determine the animals' body condition, then compared to findings from the early '80s.

The most dramatic decline was in pregnant females, followed by juvenile bears. Adult males were also in worse shape, but hadn't declined quite as badly.

The number of Manitoba bears has fallen from about 1,200 to 975 in the past 25 years. Obbard's results suggest Ontario bears will "follow the same trajectory," with poor condition followed by reproductive failure, then a drop in population.

"I can't say how imminent it is, but it's happening," he said.


Informant: binstock



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=polar+bears

President Bush is putting the final touches on his new Iraq policy amid growing skepticism inside and outside the administration that the emerging package of extra troops, economic assistance and political benchmarks for the Baghdad government will make any more than a marginal difference in stabilizing the country.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010707F.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=troop+surge

Soziale Gerechtigkeit ist zum Dauerthema der deutschen Politik geworden. Doch die Geister scheiden sich nicht nur an der Umsetzung, sondern schon an der Definition des seltsamen Phänomens.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/24/24359/1.html

In this new era of divided government, the congressional hearing room is where the executive and legislative branches will clash. Over the next few weeks, Senate Democrats plan to hold at least 11 hearings just on Iraq. In the House, one of the Democrats' most dogged investigators is waiting to spring his committee on a different mission - suspected government fraud.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010707D.shtml

While the November elections provided the Democratic Party a public mandate to end the war in Iraq, President Bush has signaled his intent to use his institutional powers as Commander in Chief to maintain and even escalate the US commitment, public or Congressional opinion notwithstanding. The Democratic leadership has removed two obvious ways to stop him - impeachment and a cutoff of war funds - from the table.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010707C.shtml

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said newly empowered Democrats will not give President Bush a blank check to wage war in Iraq, hinting they could deny funding if he seeks additional troops. "If the president chooses to escalate the war, in his budget request, we want to see a distinction between what is there to support the troops who are there now."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010707A.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pelosi

Videos from Thursday's Impeachment Forum at the National Press Club and Rally at the Capitol

John Nichols puts current movement for impeachment into historical context:
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/16941

Cindy Sheehan:
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/16941

Daniel Ellsberg on How Campaigns to Cut off War Funds and Impeach Criminal Presidents Help Each Other and Can Best Succeed in Tandem (Introduced by David Swanson):
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/16941

Daniel Ellsberg on Bush and Hitler Seizing Right to Read Anyone's Mail:
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/16941

Michael Ratner, President of the Center for Constitutional Rights:
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/16941

David Swanson and Sunsara Taylor:
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/16941

ImpeachMobile Video:
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/16941

Cindy Sheehan at Opening of Congress 01-04-07:
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/16941


Informant: David Swanson

From ufpj-news



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=impeach
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=impeach

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/501848858


From Debs



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=whales

by Greg Ciola

That’s right! Pharmaceutical drugs kill, perhaps not as fast as a bullet in many cases – but just as effectively. Stay on them long enough and you’re almost assured of the deadly consequences. Do you really think for one minute that the pharmaceutical industry cares if their gun goes off? They’re making an absurd amount of money selling you sickness. The combined profits of pharmaceutical companies annually are in the hundreds of billions of dollars......

http://www.newswithviews.com/Ciola/greg2.htm

by Deanna Spingola

The Constitution established our federal government. That document is a two way agreement; it is every citizen’s social contract with their government. Accordingly, all of our rights are protected – except the ones we willingly give up......

http://www.newswithviews.com/Spingola/deanna63.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/Spingola

Israel soll Nuklearschlag gegen Iran planen
http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,458170,00.html

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Angriff auf den Iran?

Während die Demokraten über den Irak-Konflikt mit dem Weißen Haus streiten, scheint es im Hinblick auf den Iran Einigkeit zu geben.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/24/24392/1.html

By its ill-judged invasion of Somalia, Ethiopia has become an accomplice in Bush's war on terror.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,1983296,00.html


From Information Clearing House

Contrary to the recommendations of the Baker-Hamilton report, Dick Cheney believes that sending extra troops to Iraq will deliver success.

http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/robert_fox/2007/01/dick_cheneys_last_stand.html


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Iraq+Study+Group
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=sure+troop
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Cheney

By Terry Jones

The US has spent a million dollars for every dead Iraqi - is that what they mean by value for money?

http://tinyurl.com/yh8fhq

By Josh White

Staff Sgt. Frank D. Wuterich, the squad's leader, shot the men one by one after Marines ordered them out of a white taxi in the moments following the explosion, which killed one Marine and injured two others, witnesses told investigators. Another Marine fired rounds into their bodies as they lay on the ground.

http://tinyurl.com/ybgqr3



Iraqi Girl tells of US Attack in Haditha

Video

Ten-year-old Iman Walid witnessed the killing of seven members of her family in an attack by American marines last November. The interview with Iman was filmed exclusively for ITV News by Ali Hamdani,our Iraqi video diarist.

http://tinyurl.com/l4qbg



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Haditha

By Molly Ivins

The president of the United States does not have the sense God gave a duck--so it's up to us. You and me.

http://tinyurl.com/yg4wvx



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Molly+Ivins

Paul Craig Roberts

Western domination of the Muslim world succeeded by not picking a fight with all of the disunited Arabs at the same time.

http://tinyurl.com/yf8ryw



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Paul+Craig+Roberts
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=troop+surge

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-2535310,00.html


Informant: ranger116

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Sunday Times of London reports Israel training for nuclear strike on
Iran
http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/5535/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

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Israel, Lobby Pushing Iran War
http://www.forward.com/articles/book-israel-lobby-pushing-iran-war/



Flood of stories on Israeli plans for tactical nuclear strikes against Iran
http://www.oss.net/extra/news/?module_instance=1&id=2679


Informant: rafeswhiterose

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Explosion of nuclear 'bunker buster' weapons cannot be 'contained'
http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/5539/

'Forward' reviews Scott Ritter's 'Target Iran'
http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/5538/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

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Revealed: Israel Plans Nuclear Strike on Iran

Israel has drawn up secret plans to destroy Iran's uranium enrichment facilities with tactical nuclear weapons. Two Israeli air force squadrons are training to blow up an Iranian facility using low-yield nuclear "bunker-busters," according to several Israeli military sources. The attack would be the first with nuclear weapons since 1945, when the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Israeli weapons would each have a force equivalent to one-fifteenth of the Hiroshima bomb.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010707Z.shtml

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Nuclear War: U.S. or Israeli Attack on Iran could contaminate Middle East
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=ROS20070106&articleId=4354


Informant: Kev Hall

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Israel plans a tactical nuclear strike on Iran

By Uzi Mahnaimi in New York and Sarah Baxter in Washington report

Israel will not tolerate Iran going nuclear and military sources say it will use tactical strikes unless Iran abandons its programme. Is Israel bluffing or might it really push the button? - Two fast assault squadrons based in the Negev desert and in Tel Nof, south of Tel Aviv, are already training for the attack.

http://tinyurl.com/uyb82



2007: Decisive Year for the Israeli-Neocon Attack Iran Plan
http://kurtnimmo.com/?p=708



Israel ON the Brink

By Dr. Meir Stieglitz

As before the Iraq invasion, Israel is pushing for an all-or-nothing endgame by presenting any compromise (involving Iranian nuclear activity) with Teheran as a Munich-like capitulation.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article16131.htm



Iran promises quick response to any attack

"Anyone who attacks will regret their actions very quickly," Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Muhammad Ali Husseini said.

http://www.cjp.org/content_display.html?ArticleID=206230


From Information Clearing House




Anti Spam

Hermann Scheer

"Scheer's book is a political and programmatic statement backed by sound science. It meticulously calculates the feasibility of shifting to renewable energy.... Achieving energy autonomy is, not least of all, a matter of waging peace." Die Zeit http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d874168783ms27

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2132569.ece


Informant: jeff

Erinnern Sie sich an die zermürbenden Diskussionen, ob Rauchen nun Lungenkrebs auslöst oder nicht? Über Jahrzehnte zogen sich die Debatten hin, weil - wie man heute weiß - den Abstreitern dank Finanzspritzen aus der Tabakindustrie nicht die Luft ausging. Der Verband kritischer Wissenschaftler (UCS) aus den USA hat nun eine Studie vorgelegt, wie ExxonMobil (Esso) mit der Szene der Klimawandel-Skeptiker verbandelt ist. Das Fazit: In der Absicht die Öffentlichkeit über den Klimawandel zu täuschen, hat ExxonMobil eine der durchdachtesten und erfolgreichsten Fehlinformationskampagnen gestartet, seit die Tabakindustrie versucht hat, die Menschen über den Zusammenhang von Rauchen und Lungenkrebs sowie Herzerkrankungen hinters Licht zu führen.

Quelle: Greenpeace

--> weiter http://www.greenpeace.de/themen/klima/nachrichten/artikel/klimawandel_wie_konzerne_luegen/

Quelle: http://f3.webmart.de/fa.cfm?id=2888666&r=forum_modmsg&t=2986044#16066404


Nachricht von Helmut Breunig

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/5537/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

http://www.rense.com/general74/honey.htm


Informant: ranger116



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pelosi

http://leahy.senate.gov/press/200701/010407b.html


Informant: ranger116



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Leahy

US Marines gunned down five unarmed Iraqis who stumbled onto the scene of a 2005 roadside bombing in Haditha, Iraq, according to eyewitness accounts that are part of a lengthy investigative report. The accounts provide evidence that as the Marines came under attack, they responded in ways that are difficult to reconcile with their rules of engagement.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010607G.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Haditha

The White House and the Secret Service quietly signed an agreement last spring in the midst of the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal declaring that records identifying visitors to the White House are not open to the public.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010607F.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Abramoff

Joseph L. Galloway writes: "President Bush in a few days will present the results of his painful month-long examination of the options for continuing his mistaken adventure in Iraq, but there's little evidence that he's discovered any new way forward. The word in the halls of the Pentagon and inside the Beltway is that The Decider will choose some sort of temporary bump in the numbers of American troops currently assigned to fight a war without end and without purpose."


http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010607C.shtml

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Continuing the Flight from Reality
http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0110-24.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Joseph+Galloway

"One needs a well-honed sense of irony to truly appreciate 2006," says William Fisher. "Some of these ironies were funny. Some were embarrassing. A lot were downright tragic. Before we finally consign the old year to the historians, let us recount some of them."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010607A.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=William+Fisher

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/c70b7cfc-9ce4-11db-8ec6-0000779e2340.html


Informant: binstock

FRANCIS BOYLE, (217) 333-7954, fboyle @law.uiuc.edu

Professor of international law at the University of Illinois, Boyle said today:

"Concerning the proposed 'surge' by the Bush administration of 20,000-plus U.S. troops into Iraq, this requires further authorization by the U.S. Congress under the terms of the War Powers Resolution. Section 4(a)(3) makes it quite clear that the War Powers Resolution is triggered ... 'In the absence of a declaration of war [which we do not have for Iraq], in any case in which United States Armed Forces are introduced ... (3) in numbers which substantially enlarge United States Armed Forces equipped for combat already located in a foreign nation....'

"We currently have about 140,000 troops in Iraq. Sending in an additional 20,000-plus would 'substantially enlarge' those forces. Therefore, the Bush administration would require further authorization from Congress for this euphemistic 'surge,' which is really a substantial escalation. Failure to obtain additional authorization from Congress for this substantial enlargement of U.S. Armed Forces in Iraq would constitute an impeachable offense under the terms of the United States Constitution for violating the Constitution's War Powers Clause and Congress's own War Powers Resolution."

Francis A. Boyle Law Building
504 E. Pennsylvania Ave. Champaign, IL 61820 USA

Author of Destroying World Order: American Imperialism in the Middle East Before and After September 11
http://www.bookmasters.com/clarity/b0024.htm
217-333-7954 (Voice)
217-244-1478 (Fax)


Informant: Amy Sasser

From ufpj-news



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=troop+surge
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Boyle
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=impeach
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=impeach

http://electroniciraq.net/news/2799.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jim+Lobe
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=surge+troop

"It is no surprise to hear that the US health care system is in shambles. Health care costs are increasing faster than wages and nearly 47 million Americans - 8 million of whom are children - are uninsured. Millions more are underinsured," writes Meredith L. King.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/010507HA.shtml

As the White House polished a new Iraq strategy that includes replacing key US military leaders and possibly sending more soldiers to Iraq, Congress' new Democratic chiefs said they would oppose any troop buildup.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010507R.shtml

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Pelosi, Reid Urge Bush to Begin Iraq Pullout

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid declared yesterday that "it is time to bring the war to a close" and warned President Bush that sending more US troops to Iraq would be unacceptable to the Democratic majorities that have just taken over Congress.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010607B.shtml



Democrats Vow to Resist Buildup

Democratic Congressional leaders vowed yesterday to use their powers of spending and policy oversight to challenge President Bush's expected proposal this week, as part of a broad revision of Iraq strategy, to boost US military forces in the country by as many as 20,000 troops.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010807B.shtml



The History of Surges
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010807C.shtml



Quagmire of the Vanities

Paul Krugman writes, "The only real question about the planned 'surge' in Iraq - which is better described as a Vietnam-style escalation - is whether its proponents are cynical or delusional."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010807E.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=troop+surge

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6226687.stm


Informant: Julien Ball

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The execution of Saddam Hussein
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/3112587/



http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Death+Penalty+-+Todesstrafe/

The Advanced Hypersonic Weapon, supporters hope it might win hearts and minds in the Pentagon and on Capitol Hill as a future "prompt global strike" weapon that could attack so-called "high value" targets anywhere around the globe within one hour of an order to attack.

http://www.military.com/features/0,15240,121633,00.html


From Information Clearing House

Here's a piece of muck history unearthed yesterday from deceased Supreme Court justice William Rehnquist's FBI files.

http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/002280.php


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bolton

"Counterterrorism is one of the US' goals in Somalia. We feel we have a right to pursue al-Qaeda terrorists wherever they are," said Robert Kerr, a counsellor for public affairs at the US embassy in the Kenyan capital Nairobi.

http://tinyurl.com/y54p4d


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Somalia

"The United States has once again behaved hastily and unwisely," Konstantin Kosachov, head of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the Russian Duma, told Moscow radio station Eco.

http://english.eluniversal.com/2007/01/05/en_pol_art_05A821481.shtml


From Information Clearing House

The lawyer for an Army officer from Honolulu who refused to deploy to Iraq said military prosecutors do not want the lieutenant to have the chance to defend himself by arguing that the war in Iraq is illegal.

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/01/03/america/NA_GEN_US_War_Objector.php


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Watada

Month by month restive Anbar province seems to drift farther away from Baghdad. Fallujah, the war-torn city at its heart, has become a magnet for the country’s displaced Sunnis, with potentially devastating consequences for Iraq.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,174-2532427,00.html



The Death Squads

Video
http://www.ichblog.eu/content/view/245/59/


From Information Clearing House

Video

"Lacking direct evidence, Bush administration officials argue that Iran's nuclear program must be a cover for bomb-making. Vice President Cheney recently said, "They're already sitting on an awful lot of oil and gas. Nobody can figure why they need nuclear as well to generate energy."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article16077.htm

By Ray McGovern and W. Patrick Lang

Lies have consequences. All those who helped President George W. Bush launch a war of aggression - termed by Nuremberg “the supreme international crime” - have blood on their hands and must be held accountable. This includes corrupt intelligence officials. Otherwise, look for them to perform the same service in facilitating war on Iran.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article16069.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ray+McGovern

by Joel Turtel

Miss Johnson, I will write that apology letter. But my letter will be to Mary, not you. I have been almost criminally negligent with my child's education. I will humbly apologize to her for not having investigated your school a long time ago......

http://www.newswithviews.com/Turtel/joel32.htm

http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0105-30.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Molly+Ivins

http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0105-24.htm

The execution of Saddam Hussein
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/3112587/

In Business for Life
http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0105-21.htm

http://www.ivawdeployed.org/


Informant: ranger116



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Watada
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=redress

http://www.tagesschau.de/aktuell/meldungen/0,,OID6266294_REF1,00.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=BenQ

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/5533/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news