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Mark Mazzetti reports for The New York Times: "A new assessment by American intelligence agencies concludes that Iran halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003 and that the program remains on hold, contradicting an assessment two years ago that Tehran was working inexorably toward building a bomb."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/120307Z.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Mark+Mazzetti

Der Leiter des UNO-Umweltprogramms UNEP, Achim Steiner, wirft der deutschen Wirtschaft eine Diskrepanz zwischen Reden und Handeln vor. "Zum Beispiel bekennen sich die Unternehmen der Verkehr- und Energiebranchen zwar öffentlich zum notwendigen Klimaschutz. Zugleich erleben wir aber, dass konsequente Schritte immer wieder in Frage gestellt werden", sagte Steiner der "Neuen Osnabrücker Zeitung" mit Blick auf die am Montag beginnende Weltklimakonferenz auf Bali. Die UNEP bedaure, dass nicht nur Deutschland, sondern viele Industrieländer zu lange gezögert hätten, in eine effizientere Energiezukunft zu investieren.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=17067



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Klimaschutz
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Achim+Steiner

Tom Engelhardt, writing for TomDispatch.com, says: "In trying to imagine any Iraqi leader actually requesting that 'enduring' relationship, something kept nagging at me. After all, those mutual vows of longevity were to be taken in a well publicized civil ceremony in a world in which, when it comes to the American presidential embrace, don't-ask/don't-tell is usually the preferred course of action for foreign leaders. Finally, I remembered where I had seen that word 'enduring' before in a situation that also involved a 'long-term relationship.' It had been four-and-a-half years earlier and not coming out of the mouths of Iraqi officials either."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/120307H.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Tom+Engelhardt

Melanie Scarborough, writing in The San Francisco Examiner, says, "As a technician for AT&T, Mark Klein says he helped connect a device three years ago that copied onto a government supercomputer every phone call, e-mail and Internet search made through the company's network."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/120307E.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=AT%26T
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=FISA

Robert Weitzel, writing for Truthout, says, "HR 1955: the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007 recently passed by the House, a companion bill is in the Senate, is barely one sentence old before its Orwellian moment: It begins, 'AN ACT - To prevent homegrown terrorism, and for other purposes.'"

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/120307C.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=homegrown+terrorism

Bill Quigley, writing for Truthout, reports, "On the 12th day before Christmas, the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is planning to unleash teams of bulldozers to demolish thousands of low-income apartments in New Orleans."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/120307A.shtml



High Noon in New Orleans: The Bulldozers Are Ready

Nicolai Ouroussoff reports for The New York Times: "Ever since it took over the public housing projects of New Orleans more than a decade ago, the Department of Housing and Urban Development has been itching to tear them down....But such thinking reflects a ruthless indifference to local realities. The projects in New Orleans have little to do with the sterile brick towers and alienating plazas that usually come to mind when we think of inner-city housing. Some rank among the best early examples of public housing built in the United States, both in design and in quality of construction. On the contrary, it is the government's tabula rasa approach that evokes the most brutal postwar urban-renewal strategies. Neighborhood history is deemed irrelevant; the vague notion of a 'fresh start'.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121907M.shtml



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Wie die Ausweitung der Videoüberwachung auf Bahnhöfen und Flughäfen den Bundestag ohne Debatte passierte.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/26/26732/1.html



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

Schäuble sucht neue Lösungen für neue Bedrohungen, hat keine Probleme mit Guantanamo und plädiert für einen "transatlantischen Raum der Freiheit, der Sicherheit und des Rechts".

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/26/26740/1.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Schäuble
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Michael Isikoff, of Newsweek, writes: "don't ever say the Bush administration doesn't take care of its own. Nearly three years after Paul Wolfowitz resigned as deputy Defense secretary and six months after his stormy departure as president of the World Bank - amid allegations that he improperly awarded a raise to his girlfriend - he's in line to return to public service."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/120307N.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Wolfowitz
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Michael+Isikoff

Johann Hari writes for the Seattle Post-Seattle Post-Intelegencer: "the Republicans are trying to exploit the discontent with the Electoral College among Americans in a way that would rig the system in their favor. At the moment, every state apart from Maine and Nebraska hands out its Electoral College votes according to a winner-takes-all system. This means that if 51 percent of people in California vote Democrat, the Democrats get 100 percent of California's electoral votes; if 51 percent of people in Texas vote Republican, the Republicans get 100 percent of Texas' electoral votes. The Republicans want to change this - but in only one Democrat-leaning state, California."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/120307K.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=2008+election
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The Associated Press reports: "like a ticking time bomb, the national debt is an explosion waiting to happen. It's expanding by about $1.4 billion a day - or nearly $1 million a minute. What's that mean to you? It means almost $30,000 in debt for each man, woman, child and infant in the United States."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/120307J.shtml

http://www.madison.com/wsj/home/local/index.php?ntid=259890&ntpid=1


Informant: Teresa Binstock

http://www.golem.de/0712/56330.html



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New research suggests it is
http://www.icwhatsnew.com/bulletin/0712/12.htm

Wi-Fi equipment and mobile phone technology should be kept well away from babies and children

http://www.icwhatsnew.com/bulletin/0712/13.htm


From Mast Sanity/Mast Network



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Vortrag von Rechtsanwältin Silke Studzinsky bei der Veranstaltung "Die 'Sicherheitsarchitektur' bei 'polizeilichen Großlagen'" am 27.11.2007 in Berlin. Bericht von euro-police vom 01.12.2007 bei indymedia http://de.indymedia.org/2007/12/201019.shtml

Für mehr Informationen zu Methoden, Strategien und Techniken von Überwachung und Kontrolle gibt es die neue Webseite der Kampagne gegen den "11. Europäischen Polizeikongreß" in Berlin http://euro-police.noblogs.org


Aus: LabourNet, 3. Dezember 2007

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"Wo sind die Herolds, Stümpers und Zacherts?" Polizei, Geheimdienste, Innenpolitiker und die Sicherheitsindustrie treffen sich zum "13. Europäischen Polizeikongress" in Berlin

„Während auf EU-Ebene entscheidende Verabredungen zur Zukunft grenzüberschreitender Sicherheitszusammenarbeit eingefädelt werden, erörtern europäische Polizeien auf dem 13. Europäischen Polizeikongress ihre Implementierung in die alltägliche Polizeiarbeit. Im Focus stehen Informationstechnologien und die bestmögliche Vernetzung von Datenbanken. Datenschutz kommt im Programm immerhin einmal vor, aber Rat holt man sich lieber von Sicherheitsindustrie und der NATO. Hauptsponsor ist die IT-Industrie, die nach dem "Stockholmer Programm" (Stockholm Programm: Überwachung und Kontrolle) auf neue Millionenaufträge lauert. Für Unterhaltung im Berliner Congress Centrum sorgt das Musikkorps der Polizei…“ Artikel von Matthias Monroy in telepolis vom 28.01.2010 http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/31/31962/1.html

Siehe dazu auch das Special im LabourNet Germany: „Widerstand gegen das “Stockholm-Programm”“ http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/eu/stockholm.html


Aus: LabourNet, 28. Januar 2010

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Demonstration gegen den 13. Europäischen Polizeikongress. Auftakt bei Software-Konzern SAP. Kundgebung auch vor Berliner Landeskriminalamt

„Am Dienstag den 2. Februar (17.00 Uhr) findet in Berlin die Demonstration „Full Spectrum Resistance“ gegen den 13. Europäischen Polizeikongress statt. Der Protest richtet sich gegen europäische Polizeizusammenarbeit und ihre „Sicherheitsarchitekturen“ wie den Fünfjahresplan „Stockholmer Programm“ oder die geplante „europäische Strategie der inneren Sicherheit“…“ Pressemitteilung von gipfelsoli vom 30. Januar 2010 http://gipfelsoli.org/Presse/8216.html


Aus: LabourNet, 1. Februar 2010

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Führt Schäuble das Kriegsrecht ein?
http://www.arbeiterfotografie.com/sozialraub



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Ludwig von Mises Institute
by David Gordon

11/30/07

Paul Gottfried’s excellent book lends strong support to a controversial claim of Murray Rothbard’s. In his The Betrayal of the American Right (Mises Institute, 2007), Rothbard argues that the American Old Right could not be considered conservative in the European sense. Quite the contrary, it opposed traditional conservatism as an enemy of liberty...

http://www.mises.org/story/2766


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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The Libertarian Enterprise
by L. Neil Smith

12/02/07

Despite its widely-advertised — and for the most part sincere — aspirations, American civilization presently stands on a foundation of corrosive lies that, slowly but insidiously, have poisoned its every effort to become the first truly decent society in the history of the world...

http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2007/tle446-20071202-02.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=empire
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The American Prospect
by Harold Meyerson

11/29/07

George W. Bush is focusing now on his legacy. Duck. Run. Hide. Some of his legacy-building, I’ll allow, is commendable, if overdue — most particularly, his efforts to resurrect the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, which he ignored for seven long years. But the linchpin of Bush’s legacy, it appears, is to make his Iraq policy a permanent fixture of American statecraft. On Monday, Bush and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki signed a declaration pledging that their governments would put in place a long-term political and security pact sometime next year. … What Bush will almost surely be pushing for is permanent U.S. bases in Iraq, enshrined in a pact he can sign a few months before he leaves office. And here, as they used to say, is the beauty part: As far as Bush is concerned, he doesn’t have to seek congressional ratification for such an enduring commitment of American force, treasure and lives...

http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=bushs_next_preemptive_strike


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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San Francisco Chronicle

Electronic voting systems used throughout California still aren’t good enough to be trusted with the state’s elections, Secretary of State Debra Bowen said Saturday. While Bowen has been putting tough restrictions and new security requirements on the use of the touch screen machines, she admitted having doubts as to whether the electronic voting systems will ever meet the standards she believes are needed in California. ‘It’s a real challenge,’ she said at a San Francisco airport conference on voting and elections. ‘I don’t rule out the ingenuity of some computer science student now in the eighth grade,’ but what’s available now isn’t as transparent or auditable as the paper ballot systems they replaced...

http://tinyurl.com/3dsafg


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Debra+Bowen
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=electronic+voting

ISIS Press Release 03/12/07

Evidence for global warming unequivocal and most likely due to human activities, but there is high confidence for effective adaptation as well as high agreement and much evidence of substantial economic potential for mitigation; the cost of fighting global warming at the most stringent level will cost no more than 0.12 percent of global GDP a year up to 2030. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho

The latest IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) Synthesis Report [1], released 17 November 2007, presents “a stark and dire warning about climate change”[2], and prepares the ground for the December meetings of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Kyoto Protocol in Bali. The developed countries are expected to make further commitments to reduce their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions beyond the Kyoto Protocol’s 2008-2012 first commitment period.

The week in Valencia was described by Third World Network’s director Martin Khor as a “long and difficult meeting” [2]; especially controversial was the section on long term perspectives and the five “reasons for concern” in the Summary for Policy Makers [1].

The Synthesis Report, adopted after extensive comments by governments and several amendments, integrates and condenses a vast body of scientific literature from three working group reports released earlier in the year: The Physical Science Basis; Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability; and Mitigation of Climate Change.

Read the rest of this article here
http://www.i-sis.org.uk/IPPCClimateBali.php

Next-up news n°397

- SWR TV Report Mainz: BioInitiative, Interphone, European Environmental Agency.

- " Brain http://videos.next-up.org/SWR/ReportMainz/Uk/BioInitiativeAeeBrainTumourWithMobilePhoneUse29102007.html
Tumour with mobile phone use? " (video report HD English version)



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Damien Cave reports in Sunday's New York Times that there is a growing sense that Iraq has slipped to new depths of lawlessness as "Some American officials estimate that as much as a third of what they spend on Iraqi contracts and grants ends up unaccounted for or stolen, with a portion going to Shiite or Sunni militias."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/120207Y.shtml

Writing for The New York Times, Bob Herbert says, "I don't know if children should be allowed to watch the Republican presidential debates. There's so much talk of violence and mayhem as the solution to our ills. The candidates seem so eager to flex their muscles and engage the nation in conflict: Let's continue the war in Iraq. Let's show them what we're made of in Iran. Let's round up those immigrants and ship 'em back where they came from."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/120207G.shtml



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Robert Pear of The New York Times reports: "Business lobbyists, nervously anticipating Democratic gains in next year's elections, are racing to secure final approval for a wide range of health, safety, labor and economic rules, in the belief that they can get better deals from the Bush administration than from its successor."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/120207A.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=lobbyist
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http://community.freespeech.org/cell_phones


Informant: Dorothee Krien



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by Steven Yates

On October 23, 2007, the House of Representatives passed what may be the most dangerous bill ever to come down the pike. This bill, like many of its predecessors on our steady march toward totalitarianism, sailed under the radar. There was virtually no publicity or fanfare. Now, the bill has gone to the Senate, and is in committee. The bill is called the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007 (H.R. 1955/S. 1959). The language in this bill is so maddeningly vague it could mean anything........

http://www.newswithviews.com/Yates/steven32.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Homegrown+Terrorism
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/Yates

http://www.newswithviews.com/Tips/scott.htm


Informant: Dorothee Krien



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Pete Yost, reporting for The Associated Press, says that "The Bush administration is laying out a new secrecy defense in an effort to end a court battle about the White House visits of now-imprisoned lobbyist Jack Abramoff. In a court filing Friday night ... the Justice Department, citing a Cold War-era court ruling, declared that the contents of the 'Sensitive Security Records' cannot be publicly revealed even though they could show whether Abramoff made more visits to the White House than those already acknowledged."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/120207Z.shtml



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

Do we still have universal values? The values of peace, freedom, social progress, equal rights and human dignity, enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations and in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, are no less valid today than when, over half a century ago, those documents were drafted by representatives of many different nations and cultures.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741682686ms76

Umweltminister will Liste der Kraftwerksprojekte prüfen. http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741682674ms76



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Klimaschutz
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Der Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland (BUND) wirft Bundeswirtschaftsminister Michael Glos vor, er wolle Autos mit hohem Spritverbrauch als „klimafreundlich“ kennzeichnen.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741682665ms76

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article2982640.ece


Informant: Useful I.

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/6891/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news



http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/

Total new home sales peaked in July 2005 and have declined for 19 of the last 28 months through October, according to Commerce Department data.

http://snipurl.com/1uhk9



Who got rich off the mortgage mess?

"I think we're headed into a deep recession, the worst since the Depression, as dozens of banks will fail," Burry says. "With massive foreclosures, there are homes that won't see the prices of two years ago for decades."

http://snipurl.com/1uhkb


From Information Clearing House



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The accused men want the right to challenge their imprisonment through a writ of habeas corpus. They could end up changing how the United States manages its open-ended war on terror.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/22375.html



Witnesses to remain secret at Guantanamo trial

A US military judge has ordered that the identity of witnesses that will testify against a Canadian national, who may face a military war-on-terror trial next year be kept secret, The New York Times reported Saturday.

http://www.afp.com/english/news/stories/071201061802.bti9kby7.html


From Information Clearing House

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As Supreme Court Hears Guantanamo Cases Concerned Citizens Fast and Vigil Outside, Appealing For Justice and Rights For Prisoners

http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/1204-01.htm



National Lawyers Guild (NLG): Students Demonstrate to Draw Attention to Supreme Court Case That Will Determine Justice for Detainees at Guantánamo

http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/1204-02.htm



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Canada's treaty with the U.S. on the treatment of refugees is illegal because the U.S. doesn't comply with conventions protecting asylum seekers and sometimes sends people to countries where they may be tortured, a Canadian judge said.

http://snipurl.com/1uhjx


From Information Clearing House



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In violation of international and U.S. law, "thousands" of alleged terrorists have been victims of "extraordinary rendition" by the Bush Administration since 9/11, two legal scholars say.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7480


From Information Clearing House



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Over the past seven years, an imposing building on the outskirts of this city has served as a secret holding cell for the CIA.

http://snipurl.com/1uhju


From Information Clearing House

As the people of Zimbabwe are ground down by poverty and brutality, Robert Mugabe is offered a welcome at the international table.

http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article2981007.ece


From Information Clearing House

The Darfur region of Sudan possesses the third largest copper and the fourth largest uranium deposits on the planet, in addition to strategic location and significant oil resources of its own. Is the US-based "Save Darfur" movement snowing the US public on the fundamental nature of the conflict in Sudan.

http://snipurl.com/1uhjp



Ten Reasons Why "Save Darfur" is a PR Scam to Justify the Next US Oil and Resource Wars in Africa

The star-studded hue and cry to "Save Darfur" and "stop the genocide" has gained enormous traction in U.S. media along with bipartisan support in Congress and the White House. But the Congo, with ten to twenty times as many African dead over the same period is not called a "genocide" and passes almost unnoticed.

http://snipurl.com/1uhjr


From Information Clearing House



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

Rice will be in Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital, on December 5 to join leaders from the African Great Lakes region -- Rwanda, Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda -- in talks about confidence-building and joint security, Assistant Secretary of State Jendayi Frazer told reporters.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071130/pl_nm/africa_rice_dc



Congo Prison Hell

Prisoners sleep on the damp ground in dark, crowded rooms off a central courtyard. The smell of urine is pervasive. There are only a handful of blankets and mattresses, provided by family members who also bring in food. No one at Munzenze eats more than once a day.

http://www.iwpr.net/?p=acr&s=f&o=341044&apc_state=henpacr


From Information Clearing House



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McCarthyism Comes to Iraq: Dententions of Those Accused of "Iran Connection" on the Rise

Locals claim the U.S. military had been using members of the Mehdi Army to carry out attacks on Sunnis in Baghdad.

http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/69343/


From Information Clearing House

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The new McCarthyism

The American Prospect
by Adam Serwer

03/03/10

The ‘Gitmo Nine’ aren’t terrorists. They weren’t captured fighting for the Taliban. They’ve made no attempts to kill Americans. They haven’t declared war on the United States, nor have they joined any group that has. The ‘Gitmo Nine’ are lawyers working in the Department of Justice who fought the Bush administration’s treatment of suspected terrorists as unconstitutional. Now, conservatives are portraying them as agents of the enemy…. The attorneys who challenged the Bush administration’s national-security policies saw themselves as fulfilling their legal obligations by fighting an unconstitutional power grab. At heart, this was a disagreement over process: Should people accused of terrorism be afforded the same human rights and due process protections as anyone else in American custody?

http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=the_new_mccarthyism


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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By John Kaminski and Gary Higginbottom

64 percent of Americans believe that President Bush has abused his powers, and 70 percent believe that Cheney has done so.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18818.htm



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By Sami Moubayed

When President George W Bush comes out to praise political prisoners in Damascus, he completely ruins their credibility in the Syrian Street, projecting them as stooges for the United States.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18812.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=al-Maliki

By Robin Hahnel

In the case of Hugo Chavez and the Venezuelan Bolivarian Revolution, the mainstream media and politicians in the United States have elevated their game of demonizing all who oppose US foreign policy and business interests to a higher level of absurdity than usual.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18816.htm



Chavez's Speech: "Go ahead, make my day."

By Joaquin Bustelo

Chavez has ordered the military to protect the oilfields and other installations and warned that if there is any sabotage, any US-inspired disturbances Sunday night, oil shipments to the U.S. will be cut off immediately. - He warned international broadcasters --and CNN by name, and repeatedly-- that this or any other sort of shenanigans will be met with the expulsion of their staff from the country.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18814.htm



Chavez Threatens To Stop Oil Exports To The U.S.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez while addressing a mass rally of supporters on Friday has threatened to cut oil exports to the United States, shut down television channels and expel journalists if the December 2 referendum victory he expects is disclaimed and violence starts in this country.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/01/2107074.htm



No oil for US if it meddles: Chavez

"If 'yes' wins on Sunday and the Venezuelan oligarchy, the violent Venezuelans, the ones who play the (US) empire's game, unleash violence with the tale that there was fraud ... minister, that very Monday you order a halt to the shipments of oil to the United States," Mr Chavez said.

http://snipurl.com/1uhk1


From Information Clearing House



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

By Adrian Levy and Cathy Scott-Clark

Architect of Iraq surge draws up takeover options: US fears army's Islamists might grab weapons.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18813.htm



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