World-News

Laurie Kellman, for The Associated Press, reports: "A House panel threatened to cite Attorney General Michael Mukasey with contempt of Congress unless he produces documents from an FBI interview with Vice President Dick Cheney regarding the leak of a CIA agent's identity."

http://www.truthout.org/article/waxman-threatens-mukasey-with-contempt

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Mukasey: Bush’s new “Mr. Cover-up”

Consortium News
by Robert Parry

07/10/08

Attorney General Michael Mukasey snubbed Senate Judiciary Committee concerns that he examine past abuses by the Bush administration as he emerges as the new ‘Mr. Cover-up’...

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/070908.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Waxman
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Mukasey
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by Dr. Sherri Tenpenny, DO

The inconsistency of rules involving the care of children is striking. Mothers are in complete control of their child’s health while in the womb. They make choices against eating tuna, taking medications, smoking cigarettes and avoiding alcohol. Mothers may choose to even terminate the pregnancy. But the moment the baby arrives, control over their child’s body is forcibly surrendered to healthcare providers and the government. The leg is jabbed with shots, eyes are gooped with antibiotic ointment and the heel is poked to get a drop of DNA-containing blood. With the passage of the Newborn Screening Saves Lives Act of 2007, signed into law April 24, 2008, the blood will be collected and warehoused for scientific research........

http://www.newswithviews.com/Tenpenny/sherri19.htm



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

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/07/09/10219/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=2008+election

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/07/09/10233/

Bleeding Land, Heating Earth for a Fill-Up
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/07/09/10242/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Big+Oil
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=drilling
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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/07/09/10229/

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A last throw of the dice … ?

Asia Times
by Bob Rigg

07/09/08

A United States war against Iran is conceivable as a final apocalyptic manifestation of Pax Americana, but this would only hasten the decline of the US in terms of power, influence and moral authority...

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/JG10Ak01.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=apocalyptic
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pax+Americana

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/07/09/10244/

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Congress votes to immunize lawbreaking telecoms, legalize warrantless eavesdropping

Barack Obama joined every Senate Republican (and every House Republican other than one) by voting in favor of it, while his now-vanquished primary rival, Sen. Hillary Clinton, voted against it. John McCain wasn't present for any of the votes, but shared Obama's support for the bill.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/07/09/fisa_vote/index.html



US officials can now tap phones officially

Intelligence agents will be able to tap phones and Internet services without permission from a judge and telecoms companies will also be protected from claims for damages from their bugged clients.

http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/index.php?sid=380492


From Information Clearing House

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Bush signs unconstitutional eavesdropping “law”

Washington Times

07/10/08

President Bush signed a bill Thursday that overhauls rules about government eavesdropping and grants immunity to telecommunications companies that helped the U.S. spy on Americans in suspected terrorism cases. He called it ‘landmark legislation that is vital to the security of our people’...

http://tinyurl.com/5aj7ub



Bush, Congress v. Article I, Section 8 and 5 US 137

KN@PPSTER
07/09/08

U.S. President George W. Bush won on Wednesday a bill to provide legal immunity to telecommunication companies that help in the government surveillance program. … the Senate passed the bill, by voting 69 to 28, that would shield telecommunications companies [which] help with the program from potentially billions of dollars in damages from privacy lawsuits...

http://tinyurl.com/66qesz



The worst of all worlds

Independent Country
by James Leroy Wilson

07/10/08

Why did nearly half the Democrats in the House vote for the ‘FISA Amendments Act’ that’s now pending in the Senate, when most of them had opposed warrantless spying and telecom immunity before? The answer is that they were bribed, using your tax dollars. The Washington Post claims a deal was cut: the Democratic Leadership would support the FISA bill if the President would agree to add $95 billion in DOMESTIC spending to the latest Iraq appropriation. In other words, House Democrats voted to continue the war and sold the Fourth Amendment for $95 billion...

http://tinyurl.com/665njn



After the FISA fight: An Interview with Sen. Russ Feingold

Mother Jones
by Brian Beutler

07/10/08

Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) has emerged as one of the Senate’s most outspoken defenders of civil liberties, casting the lone vote against the Patriot Act in 2001 and leading the charge against domestic spying and immunity for the telecom companies that provided customer data to the government under the Bush administration’s warrantless surveillance program. His efforts were set back on Tuesday, when the Senate passed the Protect America Act, by a 69 to 28 vote (with 21 Democrats voting ‘aye’). The bill gives the government expanded authority to monitor domestic communications and grants retroactive immunity. In a recent interview, Feingold talked to Brian Beutler about the erosion of civil liberties, the Democrats ‘constantly pulsating fear’ of being seen as soft on terror, and how an Obama or McCain administration might approach the unprecedented expansion of executive power...

http://tinyurl.com/6z2xqu


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Bush Signs Spy Bill and Draws Lawsuit

Randall Mikkelsen, of Reuters: "President George W. Bush signed a law on Thursday overhauling the rules for eavesdropping on terrorism suspects but immediately met a civil liberties challenge calling it a threat to Americans' privacy. The American Civil Liberties Union filed suit in Manhattan federal court as Bush signed the measure and called for the law to be voided as a violation of constitutional speech and privacy protections."

http://www.truthout.org/article/bush-signs-spy-bill-and-draws-lawsuit



Spying Law Challenged

Spencer Ackerman, of The Washington Independent: "With the Congressional battle over revising the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act ending in a victory for President George W. Bush last week, a coalition of civil libertarians and journalists has decided to take the fight to the courts. Late last week, the American Civil Liberties Union, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, the Service Employees International Union and The Nation magazine filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York challenging the constitutionality of the FISA Amendments Act of 2008, which Bush signed into law on Thursday."

http://www.truthout.org/article/spying-law-challenged

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FISA "Compromise"completes transformation of U.S. into full police state
http://carolynbaker.net/site/index2.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=581&pop=1&page=0&Itemid=1#


Informant: Dorothee Krien



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=telecoms
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Agence France Presse: "US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice signed Tuesday what she called a 'landmark' missile defense deal with the Czech Republic, drawing immediate condemnation and threats from Russia. The accord permits the siting of a tracking radar station on Czech soil as part of an extended US missile shield that Washington says is necessary to ward off potential attacks by so-called 'rogue' states such as Iran. Moscow immediately threatened to respond with 'military resources' to what it sees as a threat on its doorstep from the proposed system."

http://www.truthout.org/article/us-draws-russian-fire-signing-missile-defence-deal



Double Blow

In Le Devoir, Serge Truffaut deplores European passivity over US plans to install new military outposts in Eastern and Central Europe.

http://www.truthout.org/article/double-blow

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Czech Citizens Protest in Prague Against US Radar Base
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/07/09/10226/

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Russia “extremely upset” over US-Czech deal

MSNBC

07/09/08

Russia will consider how to retaliate over a planned U.S. missile shield but wants to continue talks on the issue with Washington, President Dmitry Medvedev said on Wednesday. Washington and Prague signed a deal on Tuesday to place a tracking radar in the Czech Republic as part of a system the United States says is needed as protection against any missile attack from countries such as Iran...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25600626/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Russian oil supplies to Czech Republic cut after missile defence deal with US:

Russian cut oil supplies to the Czech Republic have been cut by half, just days after the United States signed an agreement to build a missile shield radar station on Czech territory.

http://tinyurl.com/57gknb


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Condoleezza+Rice
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http://www.meta-info.de/?lid=31831

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Armageddon im Nahen Osten

Die Vereinigten Staaten, Israel und die Militaristen im Iran auf dem Kriegspfad.
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/28/28266/1.html



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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Armageddon
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http://www.prisonplanet.com/mccain-jokes-about-killing-iranians-again.html



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Ausufernde Amtshilfe: ob Fußball, Regatta oder Waldbrand, die Bundeswehr ist stets dabei

„Der Bundeswehreinsatz im Inneren ist zur Routine geworden. Dies geht aus der Antwort der Bundesregierung auf eine kleine Anfrage der Linksfraktion zur Amtshilfe der Bundeswehr (BT-Drucksache 16/9402) hervor. Die Zusammenarbeit insbesondere zwischen der Bundespolizei und der Armee wurde auch im Zuge der Fußball-Europameisterschaft 2008 in Österreich und der Schweiz weiter intensiviert…“ Artikel von Christoph Marischka als IMI-Standpunkt 2008/041 vom 4.7.2008 http://www.imi-online.de/2008.php3?id=1787


Das Scheitern des Militarismus zu Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts

„Es mag gewagt erscheinen, vom „Scheitern des Militarismus“ in einer Zeit zu sprechen, die geradezu gekennzeichnet ist durch die Renaissance regionaler Kriege und Bürgerkriege in aller Welt und durch die Relegitimierung des Militärischen in der herrschenden Politik vieler Regierungen. Die gegenwärtigen Tendenzen zur Globalisierung des Krieges – etwa im Rahmen des globalen US-Feldzugs „gegen den Terrorismus“ – dürfen aber nicht darüber hinwegtäuschen, dass der allem Kriegerischen zu Grunde liegende Militarismus sich historisch überlebt hat, weil er weder real effektiv im Sinne der Herrschenden ist, noch als ideologisches Bindemittel für die Gesellschaft taugt. Ich will das im Folgenden thesenhaft entwickeln…“ Ein Beitrag von Peter Strutynski aus dem Buch "Militarismus und Antimilitarismus" http://www.uni-kassel.de/fb5/frieden/themen/Weltordnung/strutynski2.html


Aus: LabourNet, 9. Juli 2008

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Im Visier der Häscher. Die Bundeswehr im Reklameeinsatz. Ein Überblick über die Werbe- und Rekrutierungsmaßnahmen der deutschen Armee

„Die Bundeswehr ist mittlerweile weltweit im Kriegseinsatz. Immer mehr Soldaten werden für gefährliche Auslandseinsätze benötigt. Auch im Inland will die Armee mehr Aufgaben übernehmen. Dafür braucht sie zum einen neue Rekruten für weltweite Interventionen, zum anderen muß die Armee noch fester in der Gesellschaft verankert werden. In Schulen und Universitäten gehen Jugendoffiziere auf die Jagd nach neuen Soldaten. Arbeitslose werden vom Amt gedrängt, auf Jobmessen den Stand der Armee zu besuchen. Perspektivlosigkeit treibt vor allem junge Menschen zur monatlich stattfindenden Wehrdienstberatung ins Arbeitsamt. Der Versuch einer Militarisierung der Gesellschaft schreitet voran: mit »KarriereTreff« und »Bundeswehr-Olympix«…“ Artikel von Michael Schulze von Glaßer in der jungen Welt vom 24.07.2008 http://www.jungewelt.de/2008/07-24/022.php


Aus: LabourNet, 25. Juli 2008



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Rob Warren from Bicton, speaks out at a public meeting.Up to 200 furious residents crowded a Shropshire village hall to fight against plans for a controversial phone mast.

Campaigners in Bicton, near Shrewsbury, claimed the proposed 12-metre high mast earmarked for Calcott Lane, could put people’s health at risk.

Read More...
http://www.shropshirestar.com/2008/07/09/angry-villagers-in-fear-of-health-risk/

AlterNet
by Javier Sierra

07/08/08

On June 17, the same day his campaign premiered a TV ad on which he boasted to have stood up to the White House’s global warming policy, Sen. McCain changed course by announcing his plan, which was supported by President Bush, to open up the rest of the country’s coasts to oil drilling. This, he said, ‘would be very helpful in the short term in resolving our energy crisis.’ But two weeks earlier, on May 29, the same Sen. McCain reiterated his opposition to opening up the country’s coasts to oil exploration by saying that the necessary infrastructure would take ‘years to develop’ and that ‘it would only postpone or temporarily relieve our dependency on fossil fuels.’ Which McCain is right, the June 17 one or the May 29 one? Are you and the rest of consumers going to benefit from drilling our shores and our dearest and most pristine places? Let’s put all this crude rhetoric through the truth refinery...

http://www.alternet.org/environment/90828/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Heartland Institute
by Ralph Conner and John Nothdurft

07/08/08

The more government spends, the more it taxes. The more government taxes, the more it spends. That is why tax and expenditure limitations increasingly are being viewed favorably by tax and government watchdogs. Measures to limit how much government officials may tax and spend hold the growth in government spending and taxes to reasonable levels...

http://tinyurl.com/6k9k83


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

CounterPunch
by Phillip Doe

07/08/08

Jonathan Swift, the great Irish political writer and satirist, is not alone in observing that great nations rarely fall from outside threats or attack. More often they decline and fall from internal corruption. The Congress is deaf to this warning it appears, for last week they passed legislation that is advertised as reforming FISA...

http://counterpunch.org/doe07082008.html



The new FISA compromise: It’s worse than you think

Cato Institute
by Timothy B. Lee

07/07/08

The 114-page bill was pushed through the House so quickly that there was no real time to debate its many complex provisions. This may explain why the telecom immunity provision has received so much attention in the media: it is much easier to explain to readers not familiar with the intricacies of surveillance law than the other provisions. But as important as the immunity issue is, the legislation also makes many prospective changes to surveillance law that will profoundly impact our privacy rights for years to come. Specifically, the new legislation dramatically expands the government’s ability to wiretap without meaningful judicial oversight, by redefining ‘oversight’ so that the feds can drag their feet on getting authorization almost indefinitely. It also gives the feds unprecedented new latitude in selecting eavesdropping targets, latitude that could be used to collect information on non-terrorist-related activities like P2P copyright infringement and online gambling. In short, the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 opens up loopholes so large that the feds could drive a truck loaded down with purloined civil liberties through it. So the telecom immunity stuff is just the smoke; let’s take a look at the fire...

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9530


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Finance, favors and FISA

ANP follows the money trail to find out how telecom dollars influence Congressmen.
http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=1858

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ACLU Will Challenge FISA Bill in Court

Nick Juliano, of Raw Story: "As the Senate voted to endorse a Bush-administration backed plan to expand its surveillance authority and grant retroactive legal immunity to telecommunications companies that facilitated warrantless wiretapping, the American Civil Liberties Union unveiled plans to challenge the new law in court. 'This fight is not over. We intend to challenge this bill as soon as President Bush signs it into law,' said Jameel Jaffer, Director of the ACLU National Security Project."

http://www.truthout.org/article/aclu-will-challenge-fisa-bill-court

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Stop the New FISA
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/07/11/10276/

FISA: Bush Signed. The ACLU sued
http://groups.google.de/group/archive_news/t/25827fdd4b954102?hl=en



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Consortium News
by Robert Parry

07/08/08

A popular Washington saying holds that ‘politics is about the future, not the past.’ Regrettably, that often translates into sweeping serious wrongdoing under the rug in the name of ‘looking to the future’ — a mistake the Democrats appear poised to make again in approving a new wiretapping law...

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/070808.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=wiretapping
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Robert+Parry

The New Republic
by Suzy Khimm

The Guardian says they have a leaked report from the World Bank that biofuels are responsible for 75% of the recent rise in food prices …. The study’s figures contrast sharply with the USDA’s assertion that biofuels only account for some 3% of the price hikes. But according to the Guardian’s description of the study, biofuels have distorted food markets by: 1) Diverting grain away from fuel; 2) Incentivizing farmers to devote land for biofuel production; and 3) Sparking financial speculation in grain markets. But though the report was finalized in April, the World Bank has yet to release the findings...

http://tinyurl.com/5rh4b2


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=biofuels
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=food+price
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Reason

by Ronald Bailey

07/08/08

The price of staples like corn, wheat, and rice are escalating, indicating that demand is outstripping supplies. Why? Because of political and economic institutional failures, not overpopulation. First, let’s deal with the claim that human population, like the populations of all other animals, expands as food supplies increase. On a global level that certainly looks plausible. As the amount of food increased over the last century, world population rose from 1.5 billion in 1900 to 6.6 billion today. Case closed? Not so fast. Consider that countries with the highest food security are also the same countries with below replacement total fertility rates. If the availability of food was the chief determinant of birth rates, then one would expect Iowa farmers would spawn more kids than any group on the planet. Instead, it is countries in which food insecurity is greatest that have the highest total fertility rates...

http://www.reason.com/news/show/127428.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Women Hardest Hit by Food Crisis

Kevin Sullivan, of The Washington Post: "Rubbing her red-rimmed eyes, chewing lightly on a twig she picked off the ground, Lingani gave the last of her food to the children. 'I'm not hungry,' she said. In poor nations, such as Burkina Faso in the heart of West Africa, mealtime conspires against women. They grow the food, fetch the water, shop at the market and cook the meals. But when it comes time to eat, men and children eat first, and women eat last and least."

http://www.truthout.org/article/women-hardest-hit-food-crisis



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Baltimore Sun

07/07/08

With Congress on the verge of outlining new parameters for National Security Agency eavesdropping between suspicious foreigners and Americans, lawmakers are leaving largely untouched a host of government programs that critics say involves far more domestic surveillance than the wiretaps they sought to remedy. These programs — most of them highly classified — are run by an alphabet soup of federal intelligence and law enforcement agencies. They sift, store and analyze the communications, spending habits and travel patterns of U.S. citizens, searching for suspicious activity...

http://tinyurl.com/68lnv9


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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MSNBC

07/08/08

A federal judge overseeing Guantanamo Bay lawsuits ordered the Justice Department to put other cases aside and make it clear throughout the Bush administration that, after nearly seven years of detention, the detainees must have their day in court. ‘The time has come to move these forward,’ Judge Thomas F. Hogan said Tuesday during the first hearing over whether the detainees are being held lawfully...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25592197/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Gruselkabinett der Ideen

Der neue Entwurf zur Telekommunikationsregulierung liest sich wie eine lange Liste des Schreckens. Nutznießer wäre einmal öfter die "Contentindustrie", bzw. die Verwerterindustrie. Kein Wunder, wenn man sich manche Formulierung ansieht.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/28/28268/1.html

Richard Heinberg reports for Truthout: "Ask the major oil companies or the US Department of Energy why oil prices are beyond ludicrous and they'll tell you there's plenty of oil out there, there's just a lack of investment in exploration and production - particularly on the part of the national oil companies in OPEC."

http://www.truthout.org/article/want-cheap-oil-reduce-demand



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John M. Broder writes for The New York Times: "Two former secretaries of state have declared the War Powers Resolution of 1973 obsolete and proposed a new system of closer consultation between the White House and Congress before American forces go into battle."

http://www.truthout.org/article/war-powers-resolution-1973-undermines-rule-law



Put War Powers Back Where They Belong

James A. Baker III and Warren Christopher, for The New York Times: "The most agonizing decision we make as a nation is whether to go to war. Our Constitution ambiguously divides war powers between the president (who is the commander in chief) and Congress (which has the power of the purse and the power to declare war). The founders hoped that the executive and legislative branches would work together, but in practice the two branches don't always consult. And even when they do, they often dispute their respective powers."

http://www.truthout.org/article/put-war-powers-back-where-they-belong

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Panel calls for new war powers legislation

Miami Herald

07/08/08

The next time the president goes to war, Congress should be consulted and vote on whether it agrees, according to a bipartisan study group chaired by former secretaries of state James Baker III and Warren Christopher. In a report released Tuesday, the panel says the current law governing the nation’s war powers has failed to promote cooperation between the executive and legislative branches...

http://www.miamiherald.com/889/story/597078.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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It will 'be fought in the electromagnetic spectrum'
http://worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=69079

Scientist to Congress: U.S. risks 'catastrophe' in nuke EMP attack
http://worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=69280

Experts say EMP blast could cripple country
http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=56112

The Doomsday Device Is Ignored
http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htecm/articles/20080714.aspx

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"Non-Lethal" Weapons: Where Science and Technology Service Repression
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=9554


Informant: Dorothee Krien



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=electromagnetic
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=EMP+attack

http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north638.html



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

http://ga3.org/campaign/drilling




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

"We Have Seven Years Left to Reverse the CO2 Emissions Curve"

Rajendra Pachauri, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change president and Nobel Laureate, says in an interview with Le Monde's Laurence Caramel and Stephane Foucart that humanity has only seven years to reverse the present greenhouse gas emissions trend before we cross a threshold of "serious danger."

http://www.truthout.org/article/we-have-seven-years-left-reverse-co2-emissions-curve



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=CO2+emissions
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=greenhouse+gas

The Sacramento, California, region saw the biggest drop, with prices falling 31.7 percent from April 2007. Sacramento was followed by the Las Vegas area (29.9 percent), San Diego (28.1 percent), Phoenix (25.5 percent) and Los Angeles (23.4 percent), Radar Logic said.

http://tinyurl.com/6n5w7p



Long-term unemployment in the US climbs 37 percent in one year

The number of people out of work for more than six months has shot up by 37 percent since June of 2007, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/jul2008/econ-j08.shtml



U.S. businesses file for bankruptcy at a faster rate

Bankruptcy filings in the U.S. during the month rose 33 percent from a year earlier and may surpass 1 million in a year for the first time since bankruptcy laws were tightened in October 2005.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/07/02/business/02bankrupt.php



Pension plans suffer huge losses

Report says weak markets, credit crunch have drained $280 billion from plans of largest U.S. companies.

http://tinyurl.com/5e977o


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=home+prices
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Iran will hit Tel Aviv, U.S. shipping in the Gulf and American interests around the world if it is attacked over its disputed nuclear activities, an aide to Iran's Supreme Leader was quoted as saying on Tuesday.

http://africa.reuters.com/world/news/usnL08523230.html


From Information Clearing House



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

The eight Iraqis arrived in London yesterday for this week's long-awaited mediation into how much compensation the government is willing to pay to civilians who were tortured while held in British custody.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/jul/06/military.iraq


From Information Clearing House



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

By Laura Carlsen

Fourteen years after implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement, a majority of the population in all three countries believes the agreement has had a net negative effect on their nation and it turns out that the North American Free Trade Agreement is a misnomer in every one of its terms-it wasn't an agreement, it isn't free trade, and North America doesn't exist. So now what?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20252.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=North+American+Free+Trade

http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0708-05.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=ACLU
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=surveillance

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/07/08/10192/



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

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/07/08/10204/



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

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/07/08/10209/

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Cheney Aides Altered Congressional Testimony

Juliet Eilperin reports for The Washington Post: "Members of Vice President Dick Cheney's staff censored Congressional testimony by a top federal official on the health threats posed by global warming, a former Environmental Protection Agency official said today."

http://www.truthout.org/article/cheney-aides-altered-congressional-testimony

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Cheney’s staff censored EPA testimony

Boston Globe

07/09/08

Members of Vice President Dick Cheney’s staff censored congressional testimony by a top federal official on the health threats posed by global warming, a former official of the Environmental Protection Agency said yesterday. In a letter to Senator Barbara Boxer, Democrat of California, Jason Burnett, former EPA deputy associate administrator, said an official from Cheney’s office ordered that six pages be edited out of the testimony last October of Julie Gerberding, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...

http://tinyurl.com/5kq9fn


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Cheney
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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Barbara+Boxer
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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Juliet+Eilperin

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/07/08/10205/

A Women's Declaration to the G8: Support Real Solutions to the Global Food Crisis
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/07/08/10112/

G8 Accused of 'Failing the World' on Carbon Cuts
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/07/09/10218/

Ignoring the Climate Change Alarm
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/07/09/10238/

Extraordinary Force Used to Silence Protesters Critical of G8 and United States Policies
http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0709-04.htm

'Planet Burns While G8 Fiddles'
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/07/10/10262/

G8 to Poor Women: Let Them Eat Dirt
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/07/22/10527/

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A Summit That's Hard to Swallow

James Chapman, of The Daily Mail: "Just two days ago, Gordon Brown was urging us all to stop wasting food and combat rising prices and a global shortage of provisions. But yesterday the Prime Minister and other world leaders sat down to an 18-course gastronomic extravaganza at a G8 summit in Japan, which is focusing on the food crisis. The dinner, and a six-course lunch, at the summit of leading industrialised nations on the island of Hokkaido, included delicacies such as caviar, milkfed lamb, sea urchin and tuna, with champagne and wines flown in from Europe and the US."

http://www.truthout.org/article/a-summit-thats-hard-swallow



A Worthless Gust of Hot Air

The Independent UK: "The leaders of the world's eight largest economies committed themselves to 'avoiding the most serious consequences of climate change'. They also set themselves a goal of halving global emissions by the middle of the century. It is hard to fault the target. But how is it going to be achieved? There is no detail in the communique; no medium-term targets; no commitment to agreeing a legally binding successor to the Kyoto protocol at Copenhagen next year. There is not even agreement on the date from which CO2 cuts will be measured. By far the biggest problem, though, is the lack of detail on the method. These leaders can set all the long-term goals they like, but without realistic means of achieving them, any document they produce will simply be a gust of hot air."

http://www.truthout.org/article/a-worthless-gust-hot-air



The Anti-Climate Summit

Foreign Policy in Focus columnist Walden Bello writes: "The G8 position is a giant step backward. It may have effectively undermined the prospects for an effective global climate strategy for the second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol that is expected to be finalized at the crucial UN meeting in Copenhagen in December 2009."

http://www.truthout.org/article/the-anti-climate-summit

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The G8 Misdirection Corporate media seeking to hide Bilderberg plans behind G8 screen

http://www.corbettreport.com/articles/20080619_g8_misdirection.htm



Not Fooled by the Media



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4Knd6y79KU&feature=related


Informant: Dorothee Krien



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=food+crisis
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=carbon+cut
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Alexander Bolton reports for The Hill: "Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), who has primary jurisdiction over the executive branch, is considering legislation to eliminate Karl Rove-type advisers in future administrations. The chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hints broadly that such a bill could ban the use of federal funds to finance such a politically partisan office."

http://www.truthout.org/article/taking-aim-next-karl-rove



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Sen. Joseph Lieberman says Arab nations, not just Israel, want US to stop Iran's nuke program.

http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=1836

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Brave New Films: 43,000-name Petition to Expel Lieberman From the Senate Democratic Caucus to be Delivered by BNF and Netroots Activists

http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0708-12.htm



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

Aijaz Ahmad: What would a rational American foreign policy look like?
http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=33&Itemid=74&jumival=168



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=military+bases
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Banners put up in protest over plans for a mast. Controversial plans for a mast to be built in a Shropshire village do not need prior permission and are able to go ahead - despite a wave of objections from residents.

Read More...
http://www.shropshirestar.com/2008/07/08/plans-for-mast-do-not-need-approval/

8. Juli 2008

Zur anhaltenden Debatte um längere Laufzeiten für Atomkraftwerke erklärt der Bundesgeschäftsführer Dietmar Bartsch:

Längere Laufzeiten für Atomkraftwerke bringen weder Sicherheit in der Energieversorgung noch günstigere Preise für die Verbraucher. Längere Laufzeiten bedeuten Extraprofite für die Energiekonzerne und eine weitere Belastung der künftigen Generation mit radioaktiven Abfällen. Die Endlagerung ist nicht geklärt, weder in Gorleben noch anderswo. Darüber hinaus tragen sie nicht relevant zur notwendigen Verringerung des Kohlendioxid-Ausstoßes bei. Die Brennelemente durchlaufen unzählige Produktionsschritte, bei denen erhebliche Mengen an Klimagasen anfallen. Bei der Forderung um längere Laufzeiten oder gar den Bau neuer Atomkraftwerke handelt es sich um den durchsichtigen Versuch, die aktuelle Preisdebatte für eine langfristige Verankerung des Irrweges immer neuer fossiler Großkraftwerke zu nutzen. Von Uranimporten ist Deutschland ebenso abhängig wie von Öl- und Gasimporten. Im Überfluss sind die Uranvorkommen auch nicht vorhanden. Nach dem "Ölschock" könnte der "Uranschock" kommen, vor allem aber bergen AKWs ein tausendfach größeres Gefahrenpotential. DIE LINKE lehnt die permanent von Unionspolitikern geforderte Verlängerung der Laufzeiten von Atomkraftwerken ab. Nach dem vereinbarten Atomkonsens wird das letzte deutsche Atomkraftwerk erst 2021 abgeschaltet. Eine Verlängerung der Laufzeiten wäre ein Weg zurück in die Vergangenheit. Bleibt abzuwarten, ob die SPD dem Druck des Koalitionspartners stand hält oder wie gewöhnlich einknickt. DIE LINKE will neben der gebotenen Verbrauchsreduzierung an dem Erfolg versprechenden Kurswechsel hin zu erneuerbaren Energien festhalten. Werden diese genauso gefördert wie über 40 Jahre lang die AKWs, besteht für die Energieversorgung kaum Gefahr. Schon heute zeigt sich, dass "Ökostrom" mit dem zunehmenden Ausbau billiger wird. Dieser Prozess wird sich mit dem weiteren Ausbau und der Effizienzsteigerung fortsetzen. Darüber hinaus handelt es sich bei erneuerbaren Energien um eine dezentrale Technologie, die in jeder Kommune in Eigenverantwortung genutzt werden kann - ein Dorn im Auge der Macht der großen Energiekonzerne. Niedrigere Energiepreise sind durch längere Laufzeiten der Atomkraftwerke nicht zu erwarten, weil sich der Strompreis an der Leipziger Börse am Preis der teuersten Stromproduktion orientiert. Die Großkonzernen haben bislang nichts von ihren Extragewinnen aus den längst abgeschriebenen Kernkraftwerken an die Verbraucher weitergeben, warum sollten sie das künftig tun?

http://www.die-linke.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/detail/artikel/laengere-laufzeiten-bringen-extraprofit/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Laufzeit
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http://www.3sat.de/3sat.php?http://www.3sat.de/kulturzeit/specials/118536/index.html

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Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Déjà Vu



http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=bOx7KGZsFYE



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Neil+Young

The Free Liberal
by US Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX)

07/04/08

The most basic principle to being a free American is the notion that we as individuals are responsible for our own lives and decisions. We do not have the right to rob our neighbors to make up for our mistakes, neither does our neighbor have any right to tell us how to live, so long as we aren’t infringing on their rights. Freedom to make bad decisions is inherent in the freedom to make good ones. If we are only free to make good decisions, we are not really free...

http://www.freeliberal.com/archives/003412.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Congress Studies How People Track Your Online Use

Joelle Tessler, of The Associated Press: "Executives from major Internet players - Microsoft Corp., Google Inc. and Facebook Inc. - are due for a grilling about online privacy in a Senate committee Wednesday, but the company likely to get the most scrutiny is a small Silicon Valley startup called NebuAd Inc. NebuAd has drawn fierce criticism from privacy advocates in recent weeks for working with Internet service providers to track the online behavior of their customers and then serve up targeted banner ads based on that behavior. According to Ari Schwartz, vice president of the Center for Democracy & Technology, a civil liberties group, NebuAd's business model raises many of the same concerns as an earlier generation of 'adware' companies."

http://www.truthout.org/article/congress-grills-online-execs-privacy



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ron+Paul

http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/364.html

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Will Foreclosures Affect Voting Rolls?

According to The Associated Press, "Election officials worry that Ohio's home foreclosure problem will pose a problem this November for voters still registered at their former address, a newspaper reported Sunday."

http://www.truthout.org/article/will-foreclosures-affect-voting-rolls



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Nick Turse, TomDispatch.com, writes: "According to recent reports, the proposed Iraqi service contracts, which may be paid off in cash or crude oil, will be worth $500 million each. That is roughly what the Pentagon paid out on June 18 alone - the day before the Times broke its story about Big Oil's return to Iraq - for natural gas and aviation fuel. Over half the total amount, in excess of $268 million, was handed over to one of the oil giants set to benefit from the Iraq deal: BP (formerly British Petroleum). Only days earlier, two of the other majors from the coterie of potential no-bid contractors, ExxonMobil and Chevron, nabbed contracts from the DoD - in ExxonMobil's...

http://www.truthout.org/article/the-iraqi-oil-ministrys-new-fave-five



Iraq's Complicated Oil Fields

Spencer Ackerman, of The Washington Independent: "In mid-June, Iraq's oil minister, Husain Shahristani, announced that he would grant no-bid development contracts for Iraq's oil fields to Western oil giants. Exxon, Shell, BP and Total stood to earn billions off the deals, since Iraq possesses nearly as much potential oil reserve -- and perhaps even more -- as Saudi Arabia, the nation with the world's most oil. Within days, The New York Times reported that a team of US State Department advisers urged Shahristani and other ministry officials to grant the contracts to the oil barons."

http://www.truthout.org/article/iraqs-complicated-oil-fields



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Iraq+oil
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Big+Oil
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Exxon
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Chevron
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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Spencer+Ackerman

Bridgewater, one of the world's biggest hedge funds, based its calculations on the state of risky debt-based US assets, such as mortgages, credit and credit card demands.

http://tinyurl.com/6m2xr9



Retail Property, Vacancies Q2 Worst in 30 Years

U.S. store closings and cutbacks turned the second quarter into the worst for strip mall owners in 30 years, as budget-conscious consumers flocked to low-cost warehouse-style grocery centers, according to a report by real estate research firm Reis.

http://tinyurl.com/62v9lt


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=financial+market+loss
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They described false assurances given by the US about its use of Diego Garcia for the controversial flights as "deplorable".

http://tinyurl.com/6hqds8


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=rendition+flights
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Medvedev's aide, said that the Russian president had warned Bush that a possible deployment of the system in Lithuania instead of Poland "would be absolutely unacceptable for the Russian federation".

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2008/07/200877105811126208.html


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Medvedev
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=missile+shield

Israeli defense officials have told local media they are concerned that Israel is being used as a pawn by rival factions in the White House.

http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/379352/cs/1/



Britain must act to prevent an attack on Iran

All the evidence suggests that an Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear sites would be a disaster for the greater Middle East, for the world economy and for western security. It would not even benefit Israel, which is adequately protected by its own nuclear deterrent.

http://tinyurl.com/5ee2o7



Living forever by bombardment

Every time some Middle Eastern country tries to obtain nuclear weapons, Israel will bomb it. Bomb - and bombard. Beyond the problematic assumption that we are allowed to do what others are not allowed, and what is secure in our hands is dangerous in the hands of others, this kind of conduct will lead to disaster.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/999126.html



Learning From Past Blunders

By Paul Barratt

The US in particular - has been highly selective in its outrage about nuclear proliferation. The force of the proposition that any proliferation whatsoever is unacceptable has been undermined by an attitude that who was proliferating mattered more than the proliferation itself.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20255.htm



If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It!

By Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich

Mr. Bush is following in Reagan's footsteps. With Israeli military maneuvers threatening war and provoking Iran without any protest from the international community, Mr. Bush has ordered a naval buildup in the Persian Gulf for 'protecting' the safe flow of oil. No doubt, the U.S. navy will be hard at work provoking Iran and the tension caused will enable the U.S. to demand more 'protection money' from the Arab states.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20261.htm


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Persian+Gulf
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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gideon+Levy
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Author Ahmed Rashid talks to SPIEGEL about the double crisis in Pakistan and Afghanistan. The Taliban is gaining strength in northwestern Pakistan and is exploiting weaknesses in Islamabad and Kabul.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,564325,00.html


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pakistan
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By Mike Whitney

While George Bush was busy railing at Zimbabwe's President, Robert Mugabe at the G-8 summit in Toyako, Japan, his Ethiopian proxy-army in Somalia was grinding out more carnage on the streets of Mogadishu.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20246.htm



Eritrea: President Accuses U.S. of 'Genocide' in Somalia

The Eritrean president, Isayas Afewerki, has said the current economic, political and security crises being witnessed in the world are the consequences of the "vulgar adventurism" of the US Administration.

http://allafrica.com/stories/200808290503.html



"Nobody Is Watching "

America's Hidden War in Somalia

By Paul Salopek

It is a standoff war in which the Pentagon lobs million-dollar cruise missiles into a famine-haunted African wasteland the size of Texas, hoping to kill lone terror suspects who might be dozing in candlelit huts.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21310.htm


From Information Clearing House



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

The long-running showdown over the proposed US-Iraq treaty, aimed at legitimizing the American occupation of Iraq, is coming to a head, and it doesn't look good for the United States.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20241.htm



Breaking Iraq and Blaming Iran

British Black Ops and the Terror Campaign in Basra

By Andrew G. Marshall

Understanding the anatomy of the conflict that has raged in Basra since 2003 is a pivotal study in understanding the wider "War on Terror." The British, for nearly a century maintaining a destabilizing presence in the region, notably in Basra, have not given up their Empire's long-standing tradition of "Divide and Conquer."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20243.htm



Iraq demands troop withdrawal timetable in U.S. defence pact talks

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Monday he is negotiating a deal with Washington that will for the first time set a timetable for a withdrawal of foreign forces as part of a framework for a U.S. troop presence into next year.

http://www.forbes.com/afxnewslimited/feeds/afx/2008/07/07/afx5188344.html



Iraqis Consider Alternative Deal For U.S. Presence

An adviser to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, says the move was made because of public and political opposition in Iraq to a status of forces agreement.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92267256



Cold Shoulders

by Kathy Kelly

Umm Hamdi doesn't want her son to pick up a gun or lay an explosive device, for Iraq or for anyone. She would rather see him pick up a book. She cries herself to sleep at night wishing she could just see him. But she can't bring her daughters back to the maelstrom of violence her native country has become with the U.S. invasion.

http://peacejournal.org/cold-shoulders-by-kathy-kelly/



Nouri al-Maliki ready to oust US from Iraq green zone

"By the end of the year, there will be no green zone," he added. "The separation by huge walls makes people feel angry." Dabbagh acknowledged that getting rid of the green zone would be a huge undertaking, given the thousands of American soldiers, private contractors and foreign workers who live inside.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article4322520.ece


From Information Clearing House

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Iraq Insists On Withdrawal Timetable For US Troops
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/07/08/10207/

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Iraq official: US could be out by 2011

CNN

07/08/08

A deadline should be set for the withdrawal of U.S. and allied forces from Iraq, and the pullout could be done by 2011, an Iraqi government spokesman said Tuesday. Ali al-Dabbagh said any timetable would depend on ‘conditions and the circumstances that the country would be undergoing.’ But he said a pullout within ‘three, four or five’ years was possible...

http://tinyurl.com/696wkp



The shift
Is the tide turning against the War Party?

AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

07/09/08

The tectonic plates of the geopolitical landscape are shifting, visibly, as the consequences of our crazed foreign policy are being felt at home and abroad. That alarming crunching sound you hear is the impact of the sudden realization that, in Iraq, the government our troops are fighting and dying for is openly demanding that we leave. As I’ve written on previous occasions, this has been a long time coming, but now, alas, the moment has finally arrived: the ‘liberated’ peoples of Iraq, under the tutelage of their elected leadership, are now telling us that it’s time to say good-bye...

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=13110


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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