AFGHANISTAN
Spiegel: Tod im Container
Der irische Journalist Jamie Doran will beweisen, dass US- Soldaten in Afghanistan bei einem Massaker an gefangenen Taliban zugesehen haben.
Sunday, December 15, 2002
IRAK
Spiegel: Ende der Schonzeit
Mit derbem Muskelspiel setzt Washington die Uno unter Druck. Womöglich schon im Januar wollen die Amerikaner den Sicherheitsrat zum Krieg gegen den Irak drängen - was immer die Waffeninspektoren aus Bagdad berichten. Weltweit wächst Unmut über das Vorgehen der Supermacht.
"Unter Missachtung fundamentaler Gepflogenheiten der Diplomatie und gegen wichtige Regeln des Völkerrechts setzte Washington gleich dreimal seinen politischen Willen durch:
Erst ließen sich die USA vorletzten Sonntag entgegen einem einstimmigen Beschluss des Sicherheitsrates dessen einziges Exemplar des irakischen Rüstungsberichts aushändigen - unter "massivem Druck", wie der amtierende Ratspräsident aus Kolumbien betonte.
Dann befahlen US-Kommandeure der spanischen Fregatte "Navarra", das nordkoreanische Frachtschiff "So San" zu entern und nach verdächtiger Ladung zu durchsuchen - in internationalen Gewässern ein Akt der Piraterie.
Und schließlich veröffentlichte das Weiße Haus seine "Nationale Strategie zur Bekämpfung von Massenvernichtungswaffen", die feindlichen Regierungen, aber auch Terrorgruppen mit Präventivkrieg droht und mit dem - ebenfalls geächteten - Einsatz von Atomwaffen. "
Spiegel: Ende der Schonzeit
Mit derbem Muskelspiel setzt Washington die Uno unter Druck. Womöglich schon im Januar wollen die Amerikaner den Sicherheitsrat zum Krieg gegen den Irak drängen - was immer die Waffeninspektoren aus Bagdad berichten. Weltweit wächst Unmut über das Vorgehen der Supermacht.
"Unter Missachtung fundamentaler Gepflogenheiten der Diplomatie und gegen wichtige Regeln des Völkerrechts setzte Washington gleich dreimal seinen politischen Willen durch:
Erst ließen sich die USA vorletzten Sonntag entgegen einem einstimmigen Beschluss des Sicherheitsrates dessen einziges Exemplar des irakischen Rüstungsberichts aushändigen - unter "massivem Druck", wie der amtierende Ratspräsident aus Kolumbien betonte.
Dann befahlen US-Kommandeure der spanischen Fregatte "Navarra", das nordkoreanische Frachtschiff "So San" zu entern und nach verdächtiger Ladung zu durchsuchen - in internationalen Gewässern ein Akt der Piraterie.
Und schließlich veröffentlichte das Weiße Haus seine "Nationale Strategie zur Bekämpfung von Massenvernichtungswaffen", die feindlichen Regierungen, aber auch Terrorgruppen mit Präventivkrieg droht und mit dem - ebenfalls geächteten - Einsatz von Atomwaffen. "
Saturday, December 14, 2002
VENEZUELA
Narconews: Bush’s Desperate Venezuela Statement
Read Between the Lines: The Coup is Falling Apart
"When the White House says:
“The United States is convinced that the only peaceful and politically viable path to moving out of the crisis is through the holding of early elections.”
The White House really means:
“Six elections in the past four years in Venezuela, all of them won by President Hugo Chávez and his supporters, all of them deemed fair and free by national and international observers (including by delegates of the U.S. Republican and Democratic parties who were present to observe them), are not enough. We need a Seventh Election in four years because we don’t like the results of the first six. We, in the Bush administration, are deeply offended that Venezuelan law awards the presidency to the candidate who won the most votes. That’s not how we did it in the U.S. We will only be happy when a minority of citizens can impose a president. If we allow Venezuela’s majority decisions to stand, they might start exporting democracy to the United States. In any case, we insist that Catherine Harris be allowed to count the votes, and Jeb Bush should print the ballots, next time in Venezuela.”
Narconews: Bush’s Desperate Venezuela Statement
Read Between the Lines: The Coup is Falling Apart
"When the White House says:
“The United States is convinced that the only peaceful and politically viable path to moving out of the crisis is through the holding of early elections.”
The White House really means:
“Six elections in the past four years in Venezuela, all of them won by President Hugo Chávez and his supporters, all of them deemed fair and free by national and international observers (including by delegates of the U.S. Republican and Democratic parties who were present to observe them), are not enough. We need a Seventh Election in four years because we don’t like the results of the first six. We, in the Bush administration, are deeply offended that Venezuelan law awards the presidency to the candidate who won the most votes. That’s not how we did it in the U.S. We will only be happy when a minority of citizens can impose a president. If we allow Venezuela’s majority decisions to stand, they might start exporting democracy to the United States. In any case, we insist that Catherine Harris be allowed to count the votes, and Jeb Bush should print the ballots, next time in Venezuela.”
VENEZUELA
Forbes: Canada Breaks with Bush Over Venezuela
"Well, that may be the American policy, but it's not our policy at this point," he said.
"I'd like to propose to make sure we get the Venezuelans themselves continuing the negotiations so they can come up with a solution that's appropriate for them."
Forbes: Canada Breaks with Bush Over Venezuela
"Well, that may be the American policy, but it's not our policy at this point," he said.
"I'd like to propose to make sure we get the Venezuelans themselves continuing the negotiations so they can come up with a solution that's appropriate for them."
Friday, December 13, 2002
VENEZUELA
zmag: Gaviria Should Leave Venezuela
"As in Eastern Europe 13 years ago, the final defeat of dictatorial power in Venezuela came last night at the doors of its “control rooms” – the TV stations.
On Monday night, the Venezuelan majority - unwilling to allow an upper-class economic coup d’etat that poses dishonestly as a “strike” to unseat its democratically elected government - took to the streets on a scale only seen once before in the nation’s modern history; as they had last April, when they turned back a military coup d’etat.
By early Tuesday morning the masses had every Commercial TV station in the nation surrounded. Their weapons were nonviolent and theatrical: pots, pans, fireworks and thousands of defiant but smiling faces. "
zmag: Gaviria Should Leave Venezuela
"As in Eastern Europe 13 years ago, the final defeat of dictatorial power in Venezuela came last night at the doors of its “control rooms” – the TV stations.
On Monday night, the Venezuelan majority - unwilling to allow an upper-class economic coup d’etat that poses dishonestly as a “strike” to unseat its democratically elected government - took to the streets on a scale only seen once before in the nation’s modern history; as they had last April, when they turned back a military coup d’etat.
By early Tuesday morning the masses had every Commercial TV station in the nation surrounded. Their weapons were nonviolent and theatrical: pots, pans, fireworks and thousands of defiant but smiling faces. "
VENEZUELA
zmag/Guardian: Racist Rage Of The Caracas Elite
Venezuela's Embattled President Faces A Pinochet-style Opposition
"For the past year or more, Venezuela's upper and middle classes, opposed to Chavez's government, have protested in the wealthy new neighbourhoods of Caracas, while the poor (the vast majority of the city's population) have come from their shantytowns and demonstrated to defend "their" president."
zmag/Guardian: Racist Rage Of The Caracas Elite
Venezuela's Embattled President Faces A Pinochet-style Opposition
"For the past year or more, Venezuela's upper and middle classes, opposed to Chavez's government, have protested in the wealthy new neighbourhoods of Caracas, while the poor (the vast majority of the city's population) have come from their shantytowns and demonstrated to defend "their" president."
IRAK
Independent: Did Saddam's army test poison gas on missing 5,000? by Robert Fisk
Why didn't Tony Blair and George Bush mention Saddam Hussein's most terrible war crime? Why, in all their "dossiers", did they not refer to the 5,000 young men and women who were held at detention centres when their families – of Iranian origin – were hurled over the border to Iran just before President Saddam invaded Iran in 1980?
Independent: Did Saddam's army test poison gas on missing 5,000? by Robert Fisk
Why didn't Tony Blair and George Bush mention Saddam Hussein's most terrible war crime? Why, in all their "dossiers", did they not refer to the 5,000 young men and women who were held at detention centres when their families – of Iranian origin – were hurled over the border to Iran just before President Saddam invaded Iran in 1980?
ISRAEL
Independent: Web of deceit lies behind death of a traitor to many masters by Robert Fisk
To the rest of the world, the bomb that wounded two Israeli soldiers on the Lebanese-Israeli border was just another example of Hizbollah "terrorism", a provocation that showed Hizbollah had – in Israel's words – "crossed a red line". Israel warned of retaliation. But the truth was quite different, and infinitely more sensational
Independent: Robert Fisk wins award for press freedom
12 December 2002
Robert Fisk, The Independent's Middle East correspondent, was one of six journalists to win the Association of Journalists of Rome Silver Microphone award last night in Rome.
The prize – awarded to foreign correspondents for the first time in the association's 125 years – is for "European journalists who defend freedom of the press". Among other reporters honoured was Robert Ménard, president of Reporters sans Frontières, the humanitarian organisation dedicated to the protection of foreign correspondents.
Independent: Web of deceit lies behind death of a traitor to many masters by Robert Fisk
To the rest of the world, the bomb that wounded two Israeli soldiers on the Lebanese-Israeli border was just another example of Hizbollah "terrorism", a provocation that showed Hizbollah had – in Israel's words – "crossed a red line". Israel warned of retaliation. But the truth was quite different, and infinitely more sensational
Independent: Robert Fisk wins award for press freedom
12 December 2002
Robert Fisk, The Independent's Middle East correspondent, was one of six journalists to win the Association of Journalists of Rome Silver Microphone award last night in Rome.
The prize – awarded to foreign correspondents for the first time in the association's 125 years – is for "European journalists who defend freedom of the press". Among other reporters honoured was Robert Ménard, president of Reporters sans Frontières, the humanitarian organisation dedicated to the protection of foreign correspondents.
VENEZUELA
The Observer: Venezuela and Argentina: A Tale of Two Coups by Greg Palast
"Carmona then decreed the dissolution of his nation's congress and supreme court while the business peopled clapped and chanted, 'Democracia! Democracia!' I later learned the Cardinal of Caracas had led Carmona into the Presidential Palace, a final Genet-esque touch to this delusional drama. This fantasy would evaporate ‘by the crowing of the cock,’ as Chávez told me in his poetic way."
Analyse zum Putch vom April und dem Einsturz der Argentinischen Wirtschaft
The Observer: Venezuela and Argentina: A Tale of Two Coups by Greg Palast
"Carmona then decreed the dissolution of his nation's congress and supreme court while the business peopled clapped and chanted, 'Democracia! Democracia!' I later learned the Cardinal of Caracas had led Carmona into the Presidential Palace, a final Genet-esque touch to this delusional drama. This fantasy would evaporate ‘by the crowing of the cock,’ as Chávez told me in his poetic way."
Analyse zum Putch vom April und dem Einsturz der Argentinischen Wirtschaft
VENEZUELA UPDATE: CIA PUTCH INNERHALB 72 STUNDEN?
Vheadline.com: USA intelligence agencies revealed in plot to oust Venezuela's President
Thursday, December 12, 2002 -- Uruguayan EP-FA congressman Jose Bayardi says he has information that far-reaching plans have been put into operation by the CIA and other North American intelligence agencies to overthrow Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Frias within the next 72 hours.
ZNET: Chavez hangs on – News analysis from Znet
Open Letter to Bush on Venezuela from U.S. Congress members - and You
mehrere Amerikanische Kongressabgeordnete fordern Bush auf sich von einem allfälligen Coup in Venezuela zu distanzieren und der Opposition keine Hilfe zu erteilen.
Narconews: The People Rise Up Against Venezuela's Commercial Media
An amazing sight: Thousands of people have surrounded the headquarters of five commercial television stations (RCTV, Globovision, TVS, Meridiano TV, Venevision) and are treating them to one hell of a cazerolazo (pot-banging). They are shouting "medios golpistas!" (putschist media) and "terroristas!". The channels have stopped (probably only briefly) broadcasting anti governmental propaganda and are at last giving some pro governmental demonstrations some coverage.
Der grosse Teil der in Deutschen oder Schweizern resp. Westlichen Zeitungen/Magazinen erschienen Berichte sind voller Propaganda...da steht zum Beispiel Heute im Tagesanzeiger: "...doch unter den Ärmsten kann er nach wie vor auf eine stattliche Gefolgschaft zählen." Der ganze Artikel war tendenziell gegen Chavez geschrieben und am Schluss wird impliziert Chavez hätte nur noch eine Minderheit der Bevölkerung hinter sich. Der Tagesanzeiger Journalist hat vergessen, dass in Venezuela 80% der Leute unter der Armutsgrenze leben. Alle Alternativenquellen oder Augenzeugenberichte weisen darauf hin das der Grossteil der Bevölkerung hinter Chavez steht. Die Ausnahme ist die Opposition. Wobei die Opposition aus Reichen oder dem "Mittelstand" (den es an und für sich so nicht gibt) besteht. Das eigentliche Problem ist das genau diese Eliten angst haben Ihren Reichtum zu verlieren weil Hugo Chavez den Reichtum auch den "Armen-Leuten" zukommen lassen will. Das heisst die Opposition sind die Leute, die früher die Öl-Firmen Venezuelas beherrscht und die Einnahmen in die eigenen Taschen gesteckt haben. Nun kam Chavez und hat die Öl-Firmen verstaatlicht um mit den Gewinnen Sozialprogramme für die Armen durchzuführen, dass gefällt der Opposition (und den USA deren grösster Öllieferant Venezuela ist) natürlich nicht da sie sich weiter breichern wollen. Leider haben die Armen Leute keine Lobby hier und genau darum sind unsere Zeitungen voller Oppositions Propaganda. Don't believe the hype!(t.a)
Vheadline.com: USA intelligence agencies revealed in plot to oust Venezuela's President
Thursday, December 12, 2002 -- Uruguayan EP-FA congressman Jose Bayardi says he has information that far-reaching plans have been put into operation by the CIA and other North American intelligence agencies to overthrow Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Frias within the next 72 hours.
ZNET: Chavez hangs on – News analysis from Znet
Open Letter to Bush on Venezuela from U.S. Congress members - and You
mehrere Amerikanische Kongressabgeordnete fordern Bush auf sich von einem allfälligen Coup in Venezuela zu distanzieren und der Opposition keine Hilfe zu erteilen.
Narconews: The People Rise Up Against Venezuela's Commercial Media
An amazing sight: Thousands of people have surrounded the headquarters of five commercial television stations (RCTV, Globovision, TVS, Meridiano TV, Venevision) and are treating them to one hell of a cazerolazo (pot-banging). They are shouting "medios golpistas!" (putschist media) and "terroristas!". The channels have stopped (probably only briefly) broadcasting anti governmental propaganda and are at last giving some pro governmental demonstrations some coverage.
Der grosse Teil der in Deutschen oder Schweizern resp. Westlichen Zeitungen/Magazinen erschienen Berichte sind voller Propaganda...da steht zum Beispiel Heute im Tagesanzeiger: "...doch unter den Ärmsten kann er nach wie vor auf eine stattliche Gefolgschaft zählen." Der ganze Artikel war tendenziell gegen Chavez geschrieben und am Schluss wird impliziert Chavez hätte nur noch eine Minderheit der Bevölkerung hinter sich. Der Tagesanzeiger Journalist hat vergessen, dass in Venezuela 80% der Leute unter der Armutsgrenze leben. Alle Alternativenquellen oder Augenzeugenberichte weisen darauf hin das der Grossteil der Bevölkerung hinter Chavez steht. Die Ausnahme ist die Opposition. Wobei die Opposition aus Reichen oder dem "Mittelstand" (den es an und für sich so nicht gibt) besteht. Das eigentliche Problem ist das genau diese Eliten angst haben Ihren Reichtum zu verlieren weil Hugo Chavez den Reichtum auch den "Armen-Leuten" zukommen lassen will. Das heisst die Opposition sind die Leute, die früher die Öl-Firmen Venezuelas beherrscht und die Einnahmen in die eigenen Taschen gesteckt haben. Nun kam Chavez und hat die Öl-Firmen verstaatlicht um mit den Gewinnen Sozialprogramme für die Armen durchzuführen, dass gefällt der Opposition (und den USA deren grösster Öllieferant Venezuela ist) natürlich nicht da sie sich weiter breichern wollen. Leider haben die Armen Leute keine Lobby hier und genau darum sind unsere Zeitungen voller Oppositions Propaganda. Don't believe the hype!(t.a)
WEF
Tagesanzeiger: WEF: Verhärtete Fronten
Die Organisatoren der Anti-WEF-Demonstration verurteilen die angekündigten Personenkontrollen aufs Schärfste. Die Bündner Behörden wollen an ihrem Konzept festhalten. Eine Einigung scheint unwahrscheinlich.
Während des Wef's wird es "Grenzposten" vor Davos geben und alle "Demonstranten" dürfen die Personalien angeben. Da hat Herr Von Daeniken vom BAP sicher grosse freude....ein grosses Dossier mit "Linksradikalen Inlandterroristen"...mir kommt da automatisch die Fichenaffäre in den Sinn...zum Glück müssen wir in der Schweiz keine Angst haben...wir sind ja eine Demokratie
Tagesanzeiger: WEF: Verhärtete Fronten
Die Organisatoren der Anti-WEF-Demonstration verurteilen die angekündigten Personenkontrollen aufs Schärfste. Die Bündner Behörden wollen an ihrem Konzept festhalten. Eine Einigung scheint unwahrscheinlich.
Während des Wef's wird es "Grenzposten" vor Davos geben und alle "Demonstranten" dürfen die Personalien angeben. Da hat Herr Von Daeniken vom BAP sicher grosse freude....ein grosses Dossier mit "Linksradikalen Inlandterroristen"...mir kommt da automatisch die Fichenaffäre in den Sinn...zum Glück müssen wir in der Schweiz keine Angst haben...wir sind ja eine Demokratie
USA
Tagesanzeiger: Pockenimpfung gegen Biowaffen-Terror
US-Präsident George W. Bush hat eine freiwillige Pockenschutzimpfung für die US-Bevölkerung angekündigt. Damit soll einem möglichen Angriff mit biologischen Waffen vorgebeugt werden, sagte Bush dem US-Sender ABC.
Tagesanzeiger: Pockenimpfung gegen Biowaffen-Terror
US-Präsident George W. Bush hat eine freiwillige Pockenschutzimpfung für die US-Bevölkerung angekündigt. Damit soll einem möglichen Angriff mit biologischen Waffen vorgebeugt werden, sagte Bush dem US-Sender ABC.
Thursday, December 12, 2002
Deutschland
Spiegel: Spitzel im Hörsaal
"Das Stellenangebot klingt harmlos: Gesucht werden Studenten, nicht älter als 25 Jahre, die "an Forschungsprojekten im gesellschaftspolitischen Bereich" mitarbeiten und "im Rahmen der empirischen Sozialforschung" Daten erheben sollen. Es winken zehn Euro Stundenlohn bei freier Zeiteinteilung.
Eigentlich ein prima Nebenjob - dumm nur, wenn sich herausstellt, dass Arbeitgeber der Verfassungsschutz ist und dass der eigentlich Informanten sucht für Berichte über globalisierungskritische Kommilitonen. "
Spiegel: Spitzel im Hörsaal
"Das Stellenangebot klingt harmlos: Gesucht werden Studenten, nicht älter als 25 Jahre, die "an Forschungsprojekten im gesellschaftspolitischen Bereich" mitarbeiten und "im Rahmen der empirischen Sozialforschung" Daten erheben sollen. Es winken zehn Euro Stundenlohn bei freier Zeiteinteilung.
Eigentlich ein prima Nebenjob - dumm nur, wenn sich herausstellt, dass Arbeitgeber der Verfassungsschutz ist und dass der eigentlich Informanten sucht für Berichte über globalisierungskritische Kommilitonen. "
Wednesday, December 11, 2002
PR
PR Watch: The Fake Parade
Outside the World Summit on Sustainable Development held in August
in Johannesburg, there were poor street vendors and farmers holding
signs and wearing t-shirts reading: "Save the Planet from
Sustainable Development", "Say No To Eco-Imperialism", "Greens:
Stop Hurting the Poor" and "Biotechnology for Africa." The problem,
according to environmental reporter and activist Jonathan Matthews
is that the anti-environmentalist demonstration was organized by
the corporations that environmentalist wanted to be held
accountable. "The counterattack takes place via a contrarian lens,
one that projects the attackers' vices onto their target. Thus the
problem becomes not Monsanto using questionable tactics to push its
products onto a wary South, but malevolent agents of the rich world
obstructing Monsanto's acceptance in a welcoming Third World,"
Matthews writes.
PR Watch: The Fake Parade
Outside the World Summit on Sustainable Development held in August
in Johannesburg, there were poor street vendors and farmers holding
signs and wearing t-shirts reading: "Save the Planet from
Sustainable Development", "Say No To Eco-Imperialism", "Greens:
Stop Hurting the Poor" and "Biotechnology for Africa." The problem,
according to environmental reporter and activist Jonathan Matthews
is that the anti-environmentalist demonstration was organized by
the corporations that environmentalist wanted to be held
accountable. "The counterattack takes place via a contrarian lens,
one that projects the attackers' vices onto their target. Thus the
problem becomes not Monsanto using questionable tactics to push its
products onto a wary South, but malevolent agents of the rich world
obstructing Monsanto's acceptance in a welcoming Third World,"
Matthews writes.
MEDIAWATCH
WashingtonPost: 'Live From Baghdad': The Cameras of War
Washington Post und HBO wiederholen die längst als Propaganda entlarvte Geschichte Irakische Soldaten hätten wärend des ersten Golfkriegs Babies aus ihren Brutkästen gerissen und getötet. Es handelte sich dazumals um eine Multimillonen PR-Aktion von Hill & Knowlton PR. Dabei hatte ein weinendes Mädchen als Augenzeugin vor dem US-Kongress ausgesagt. Später fand man heraus, dass es sich dabei um die Tochter des Kuweitischen Botschafters handelte.
Hier gibt es die ganze Story PR WATCH
WashingtonPost: 'Live From Baghdad': The Cameras of War
Washington Post und HBO wiederholen die längst als Propaganda entlarvte Geschichte Irakische Soldaten hätten wärend des ersten Golfkriegs Babies aus ihren Brutkästen gerissen und getötet. Es handelte sich dazumals um eine Multimillonen PR-Aktion von Hill & Knowlton PR. Dabei hatte ein weinendes Mädchen als Augenzeugin vor dem US-Kongress ausgesagt. Später fand man heraus, dass es sich dabei um die Tochter des Kuweitischen Botschafters handelte.
Hier gibt es die ganze Story PR WATCH
PR
New York Times: How Green Is BP?
Grosser Artrikel über die $200 Millionen Propaganda Bemühungen von BP die uns glauben machen wollen BP sei jetzt sowas wie "Bigcorporate-Greenpeace"
New York Times: How Green Is BP?
Grosser Artrikel über die $200 Millionen Propaganda Bemühungen von BP die uns glauben machen wollen BP sei jetzt sowas wie "Bigcorporate-Greenpeace"
Tuesday, December 10, 2002
USA
The Village Voice: We'll All Be Under Surveillance
Computers Will Say What We Are
How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate, they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. —George Orwell, 1984
"Without any official public notice, and without any congressional hearings, the Bush administration—with an initial appropriation of $200 million—is constructing the Total Information Awareness System. It will extensively mine government and commercial data banks, enabling the FBI, the CIA, and other intelligence agencies to collect information that will allow the government—as noted on ABC-TV's November 14 Nightline—"to essentially reconstruct the movements of citizens." This will be done without warrants from courts, thereby making individual privacy as obsolete as the sauropods of the Mesozoic era. (Intelligence from and to foreign sources will also be involved.)"
The Village Voice: We'll All Be Under Surveillance
Computers Will Say What We Are
How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate, they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. —George Orwell, 1984
"Without any official public notice, and without any congressional hearings, the Bush administration—with an initial appropriation of $200 million—is constructing the Total Information Awareness System. It will extensively mine government and commercial data banks, enabling the FBI, the CIA, and other intelligence agencies to collect information that will allow the government—as noted on ABC-TV's November 14 Nightline—"to essentially reconstruct the movements of citizens." This will be done without warrants from courts, thereby making individual privacy as obsolete as the sauropods of the Mesozoic era. (Intelligence from and to foreign sources will also be involved.)"
GAZA
GAZA VIOLENCE: PRACTICE FOR FULL SCALE INVASION?
Jane's Foreign Report, a publication of the respected British defense and
intelligence industry analyst Jane's Information Group, says Israel is
planning to use the cover of the expected US attack on Iraq to neutralize
Palestinian militant groups in the Gaza Strip. Jane's quotes Israeli
military sources as saying Israel will take advantage of the moment to go
into the Gaza Strip and "clear it on a house-to-house fighting basis" of
the Islamic Jihad, Hamas, and the Palestinian security services (JFR, Nov.
21)
GAZA VIOLENCE: PRACTICE FOR FULL SCALE INVASION?
Jane's Foreign Report, a publication of the respected British defense and
intelligence industry analyst Jane's Information Group, says Israel is
planning to use the cover of the expected US attack on Iraq to neutralize
Palestinian militant groups in the Gaza Strip. Jane's quotes Israeli
military sources as saying Israel will take advantage of the moment to go
into the Gaza Strip and "clear it on a house-to-house fighting basis" of
the Islamic Jihad, Hamas, and the Palestinian security services (JFR, Nov.
21)
USA
Insight: Iraqi Oil Strategy Divides State, White House
"The question of what should happen to Iraq's oil fields if Saddam Hussein is removed from power has become yet another source of fierce division between hawks and Republican "moderates" within the Bush administration. A sharp and very inside-the-Beltway struggle is taking place behind the scenes over planning for a post-Saddam Iraq with the future of Iraqi oil taking center-stage.
A proposal drafted by Elliott Abrams, a special assistant to President George W. Bush on the National Security Council (NSC), arguing for the United States to assert de facto control of Iraqi oil fields has stunned State Department officials. It doesn't help that Abrams (right) was convicted of withholding information from Congress during the Iran-Contra scandal, only to receive a presidential pardon from the current president's father."
Insight: Iraqi Oil Strategy Divides State, White House
"The question of what should happen to Iraq's oil fields if Saddam Hussein is removed from power has become yet another source of fierce division between hawks and Republican "moderates" within the Bush administration. A sharp and very inside-the-Beltway struggle is taking place behind the scenes over planning for a post-Saddam Iraq with the future of Iraqi oil taking center-stage.
A proposal drafted by Elliott Abrams, a special assistant to President George W. Bush on the National Security Council (NSC), arguing for the United States to assert de facto control of Iraqi oil fields has stunned State Department officials. It doesn't help that Abrams (right) was convicted of withholding information from Congress during the Iran-Contra scandal, only to receive a presidential pardon from the current president's father."
USA
The Nation: Quiet in Hollywood
Der Film "Quiet American" mit Michael Caine in der Hauptrolle wird in Los Angeles und New York für zwei Wochen zu sehen sein und sonst nicht aufgeführt werden.
Der Grund ist laut Mirimax co-chairman Harvey Weinstein: "you can't release this film now; it's unpatriotic. America has to be cohesive and
band together. We were worried that nobody had the stomach for a movie about bad Americans anymore."
Die Frage ob es die Leute nach wie vor ertragen, unpatriotische Filme mit bösen Amerikanern zu sehen, soll man die Zuschauer beantworten lassen.
The Nation: Quiet in Hollywood
Der Film "Quiet American" mit Michael Caine in der Hauptrolle wird in Los Angeles und New York für zwei Wochen zu sehen sein und sonst nicht aufgeführt werden.
Der Grund ist laut Mirimax co-chairman Harvey Weinstein: "you can't release this film now; it's unpatriotic. America has to be cohesive and
band together. We were worried that nobody had the stomach for a movie about bad Americans anymore."
Die Frage ob es die Leute nach wie vor ertragen, unpatriotische Filme mit bösen Amerikanern zu sehen, soll man die Zuschauer beantworten lassen.
VENEZUELA
Mag sich noch jemand an den Putsch-Versuch dieses Jahr erinnern? Sieht ganz so aus als gäbe es bald einen Teil 2. Die Massen Medien wiederholen Ihre Angriffe gegen Chavez und schreiben Propaganda. Regime Change nicht nur im Irak? Erinnerungen an Nicaragua, Kolumbien, Argentinen oder El Salvador? Ein Schelm wer denkt die USA hätte da Ihre Hände im Spiel.
Tages Anzeiger: Venezuela: Regierung offenbar verhandlungsbereit
Heise: Wie provoziert man einen Putch?
Die Ereignisse in Venezuela weisen verblüffende Ähnlichkeit mit dem von den USA unterstützten Putschversuch im April auf
ZMAG: Bush Administration Pushes "Regime Change" in Venezuela
It's 10 p.m. -- do you know what your government is up to? It seems that Iraq is not the only "regime change" that the Bush Administration is working on. The US government has apparently decided that President Chavez of Venezuela must go, one way or another.
ZMAG: Why are the coup plotters so impatient?
ZMAG: Chavez Hangs On
Four employer-led "general strikes" and a coup attempt later, The two parties seem further apart than they did when negotiations started
Narconews: Gunmen in Venezuela Tried to Provoke a Crisis After "Strike" Failed
What's Really Happening in Venezuela
"I will not give in to blackmail nor pressures of any kind. I swear to you
that I will be with the people my entire life. You brought me here and you
are the only ones who can get rid of me. Nobody else is going to take me
out of here."
- Venezuela President Hugo Chavez
Saturday, December 7, 2002
==================
Dear Colleagues,
To read the commercial news reports from Venezuela, one might almost think
there is a popular "strike" that has brought an "authoritarian" regime to
its knees, threatened U.S. oil supplies and that the Chavez government is
not allowing the people to vote on its continuance.
None of those above statements are true in the slightest, but the
simulating behavior of most English-language correspondents from Caracas
is, as ever, over the top and knowingly false.
To help clear up the haze of lies and distortion with some facts, Narco
News publishes the analysis by three correspondents on the scene in
Venezuela, including two professors from the Narco News School of
Authentic Journalism: Thierry Deronne, the Belgian journalist who works
with Tele-Tambores Community TV in Venezuela; Max Arvelaiz, the
French-Venezuelan communications consultant to the Chavez government, and,
Paul Emile-Dupret, observer and official of the European Parliament, all
eye-witnesses to events in recent days.
You can read their factual accounts at:
http://www.narconews.com/
Other late-breaking news items:
- The Venezuelan Navy today regained control of the hijacked oil tanker
from its mutinous captain. The last effective maneuver of the upper-class
"opposition" was thus foiled and the "strike" (management imposed lockout
of workers from their jobs) that began last week has now fracased on every
front.
- Friday night's contemptible shooting of civilians in an opposition
demonstration by gunmen, resulting in the capture of Portuguese national
Joao Gouveia, has taken a shocking turn:
"Congressman of the MVR party (Fifth Republic Movement) and journalist
Juan Barreto reported today that Joao Gouveia, the Portuguese citizen
accused of having assassinated various members of the opposition
concentrated in Plaza Francia of Altamira (the wealthy section of Caracas)
entered the country (Friday) at 5:40 p.m. coming from Lisbon. Barreto said
that Gouveia confessed that he had been contracted by pro-coup General
Medina Gomez to cause a massacre in Altamira, for which he was paid 35
million bolivares.
"Congressman Barreto said that as a journalist he has contacts in various
agencies and information that the accused was acting as if he were
paranoid, faking that he was mentally ill, but after examined by different
psychiatrists who determined he was lucid, finally confessed this morning.
"Barreto reported that in a few hours the video of Gouveia's confession
will be made public."
Source: http://www.aporrea.org/
- If this is true, and such a video confession exists, as the congressman
and journalist reports, the "opposition" leaders who have, without a shred
of evidence, blamed Chavez and his supporters for Friday's shootings (3
dead, 28 wounded), will have to face facts that one of their own top
leaders is capable of ordering his own supporters shot in order to create
destability and mayhem in order to justify another coup attempt by rogue
uniformed forces. General Medina Gomez, like clockwork - we remind -
moments after Friday night's shootings called on military officials to
overthrow the elected government by force. The Armed Forces -
significantly cleaned-up after last April's two-day military coup - have
remained solidly on the side of the constitution this round (as evidenced
by today's smooth retaking of the hijacked oil tanker).
- This video would also raise very clear questions about who was behind
the sniper attacks last April that created the first pretext to try and
take power by upper-class coup. As previously reported by Narco News and
others, the snipers captured last April 11th were freed on April 12th by
Dictator-for-a-Day Pedro Carmona (a fact still not reported by the
simulating commercial correspondents).
It is difficult for many to believe that there are interests so cynical as
to order their own supporters shot to gain sympathy for their "cause," but
to close observers of the Venezuelan reality this possibility is not
surprising at all. Stay tuned as we hunt down the facts.
- Finally, after months of turning the other cheek, Venezuelan President
Chavez today announced that middle and upper level managers of the state
oil company who participated in this week's sabotaje and hijacking
maneuvers will be fired: a decision that is reasonable by any standards,
and, in fact, overdue.
- Meanwhile, today, two million Venezuelans took to the streets today to
defy the "strike of the spoiled brats" and defend their electoral choices.
The mood is still tense but all the momentum and factual information
continues to cumulate on the side of constitutional rule and against
destabilizing coup attempts.
- One of the losers of this week's skirmishes is U.S. State Department
fixer Otto Reich. (We note that Secretary of State Colin Powell was,
surprisingly, not accompanied by Reich in his trip last week to Colombia,
an indication that Reich's extremist brinkmanship in South America is
increasingly viewed as counter-productive even among moderates, like
Powell, in the Bush administration.)
The events of the next few days could accomplish the "two-fer" of putting
to rest delusional coup fantasies by anti-democracy forces in Venezuela
and also be the final nail in the coffin of Reich's reign over U.S. Latin
America policy.
It was the Venezuelan electorate in 1998 (and five times since) that
started the ball rolling for a united Latin America against outside
impositions. The Venezuelans withstood and turned back April's coup
attempt, and appear to have the current one well in hand. In early
January, Brazil will inaugurate president Lula de la Silva and Ecuador's
Lucio Gutierrez is walking through the same door in his country.
There will no doubt be cynical commercial media correspondents who
continue to "cry wolf" with their hysterical predictions of the overthrow
of Venezuela's democratically elected government. But their wolf-crying
has diminishing effect after having been so wrong so many times.
What they don't admit, at least not in their simulated reports, is that
the coups fail precisely because democracy in Venezuela is so
extraordinarily healthy, compared to that of any other country in the
hemisphere. It is vibrant. It is strong. It respects human rights and
voter control. And it has been exemplary in its tolerance displayed toward
a bratty and disruptive upper-class "opposition."
As Venezuela has lived some very trying moments in recent hours, the truth
that shines through is that democracy and constitutional rule endures even
the harshest most cynical provocations.
The hour has come for the commercial media - in Venezuela and among U.S.
and English language correspondents who have been feeding a false picture
of events there - to grow up and cease the dishonest reports that get
proved wrong again and again and again, and again today.
>From somewhere in a country called New York City,
Al Giordano
Publisher
The Narco News Bulletin
http://www.narconews.com/
narconews@hotmail.com
Mag sich noch jemand an den Putsch-Versuch dieses Jahr erinnern? Sieht ganz so aus als gäbe es bald einen Teil 2. Die Massen Medien wiederholen Ihre Angriffe gegen Chavez und schreiben Propaganda. Regime Change nicht nur im Irak? Erinnerungen an Nicaragua, Kolumbien, Argentinen oder El Salvador? Ein Schelm wer denkt die USA hätte da Ihre Hände im Spiel.
Tages Anzeiger: Venezuela: Regierung offenbar verhandlungsbereit
Heise: Wie provoziert man einen Putch?
Die Ereignisse in Venezuela weisen verblüffende Ähnlichkeit mit dem von den USA unterstützten Putschversuch im April auf
ZMAG: Bush Administration Pushes "Regime Change" in Venezuela
It's 10 p.m. -- do you know what your government is up to? It seems that Iraq is not the only "regime change" that the Bush Administration is working on. The US government has apparently decided that President Chavez of Venezuela must go, one way or another.
ZMAG: Why are the coup plotters so impatient?
ZMAG: Chavez Hangs On
Four employer-led "general strikes" and a coup attempt later, The two parties seem further apart than they did when negotiations started
Narconews: Gunmen in Venezuela Tried to Provoke a Crisis After "Strike" Failed
What's Really Happening in Venezuela
"I will not give in to blackmail nor pressures of any kind. I swear to you
that I will be with the people my entire life. You brought me here and you
are the only ones who can get rid of me. Nobody else is going to take me
out of here."
- Venezuela President Hugo Chavez
Saturday, December 7, 2002
==================
Dear Colleagues,
To read the commercial news reports from Venezuela, one might almost think
there is a popular "strike" that has brought an "authoritarian" regime to
its knees, threatened U.S. oil supplies and that the Chavez government is
not allowing the people to vote on its continuance.
None of those above statements are true in the slightest, but the
simulating behavior of most English-language correspondents from Caracas
is, as ever, over the top and knowingly false.
To help clear up the haze of lies and distortion with some facts, Narco
News publishes the analysis by three correspondents on the scene in
Venezuela, including two professors from the Narco News School of
Authentic Journalism: Thierry Deronne, the Belgian journalist who works
with Tele-Tambores Community TV in Venezuela; Max Arvelaiz, the
French-Venezuelan communications consultant to the Chavez government, and,
Paul Emile-Dupret, observer and official of the European Parliament, all
eye-witnesses to events in recent days.
You can read their factual accounts at:
http://www.narconews.com/
Other late-breaking news items:
- The Venezuelan Navy today regained control of the hijacked oil tanker
from its mutinous captain. The last effective maneuver of the upper-class
"opposition" was thus foiled and the "strike" (management imposed lockout
of workers from their jobs) that began last week has now fracased on every
front.
- Friday night's contemptible shooting of civilians in an opposition
demonstration by gunmen, resulting in the capture of Portuguese national
Joao Gouveia, has taken a shocking turn:
"Congressman of the MVR party (Fifth Republic Movement) and journalist
Juan Barreto reported today that Joao Gouveia, the Portuguese citizen
accused of having assassinated various members of the opposition
concentrated in Plaza Francia of Altamira (the wealthy section of Caracas)
entered the country (Friday) at 5:40 p.m. coming from Lisbon. Barreto said
that Gouveia confessed that he had been contracted by pro-coup General
Medina Gomez to cause a massacre in Altamira, for which he was paid 35
million bolivares.
"Congressman Barreto said that as a journalist he has contacts in various
agencies and information that the accused was acting as if he were
paranoid, faking that he was mentally ill, but after examined by different
psychiatrists who determined he was lucid, finally confessed this morning.
"Barreto reported that in a few hours the video of Gouveia's confession
will be made public."
Source: http://www.aporrea.org/
- If this is true, and such a video confession exists, as the congressman
and journalist reports, the "opposition" leaders who have, without a shred
of evidence, blamed Chavez and his supporters for Friday's shootings (3
dead, 28 wounded), will have to face facts that one of their own top
leaders is capable of ordering his own supporters shot in order to create
destability and mayhem in order to justify another coup attempt by rogue
uniformed forces. General Medina Gomez, like clockwork - we remind -
moments after Friday night's shootings called on military officials to
overthrow the elected government by force. The Armed Forces -
significantly cleaned-up after last April's two-day military coup - have
remained solidly on the side of the constitution this round (as evidenced
by today's smooth retaking of the hijacked oil tanker).
- This video would also raise very clear questions about who was behind
the sniper attacks last April that created the first pretext to try and
take power by upper-class coup. As previously reported by Narco News and
others, the snipers captured last April 11th were freed on April 12th by
Dictator-for-a-Day Pedro Carmona (a fact still not reported by the
simulating commercial correspondents).
It is difficult for many to believe that there are interests so cynical as
to order their own supporters shot to gain sympathy for their "cause," but
to close observers of the Venezuelan reality this possibility is not
surprising at all. Stay tuned as we hunt down the facts.
- Finally, after months of turning the other cheek, Venezuelan President
Chavez today announced that middle and upper level managers of the state
oil company who participated in this week's sabotaje and hijacking
maneuvers will be fired: a decision that is reasonable by any standards,
and, in fact, overdue.
- Meanwhile, today, two million Venezuelans took to the streets today to
defy the "strike of the spoiled brats" and defend their electoral choices.
The mood is still tense but all the momentum and factual information
continues to cumulate on the side of constitutional rule and against
destabilizing coup attempts.
- One of the losers of this week's skirmishes is U.S. State Department
fixer Otto Reich. (We note that Secretary of State Colin Powell was,
surprisingly, not accompanied by Reich in his trip last week to Colombia,
an indication that Reich's extremist brinkmanship in South America is
increasingly viewed as counter-productive even among moderates, like
Powell, in the Bush administration.)
The events of the next few days could accomplish the "two-fer" of putting
to rest delusional coup fantasies by anti-democracy forces in Venezuela
and also be the final nail in the coffin of Reich's reign over U.S. Latin
America policy.
It was the Venezuelan electorate in 1998 (and five times since) that
started the ball rolling for a united Latin America against outside
impositions. The Venezuelans withstood and turned back April's coup
attempt, and appear to have the current one well in hand. In early
January, Brazil will inaugurate president Lula de la Silva and Ecuador's
Lucio Gutierrez is walking through the same door in his country.
There will no doubt be cynical commercial media correspondents who
continue to "cry wolf" with their hysterical predictions of the overthrow
of Venezuela's democratically elected government. But their wolf-crying
has diminishing effect after having been so wrong so many times.
What they don't admit, at least not in their simulated reports, is that
the coups fail precisely because democracy in Venezuela is so
extraordinarily healthy, compared to that of any other country in the
hemisphere. It is vibrant. It is strong. It respects human rights and
voter control. And it has been exemplary in its tolerance displayed toward
a bratty and disruptive upper-class "opposition."
As Venezuela has lived some very trying moments in recent hours, the truth
that shines through is that democracy and constitutional rule endures even
the harshest most cynical provocations.
The hour has come for the commercial media - in Venezuela and among U.S.
and English language correspondents who have been feeding a false picture
of events there - to grow up and cease the dishonest reports that get
proved wrong again and again and again, and again today.
>From somewhere in a country called New York City,
Al Giordano
Publisher
The Narco News Bulletin
http://www.narconews.com/
narconews@hotmail.com
IRAK
Tages-Anzeiger: Dollar-Segen für Iraks Opposition
Dass die USA irakische Oppositionsgruppen unterstützen will wurde schon 1998 beschlossen. Wegen Unstimmigkeiten über die Modalitäten lag das Projekt aber inzwischen auf Eis. Jetzt hat US-Präsident Bush die 92 Millionen Dollar freigegeben.
Die Irakische Opposition wird nun von den USA finanziert bzw. gesteuert und verlieren noch mehr Glaubwürdigkeit. So wurde zum Beispiel der Irakische Nationalkongress vom Amerikanischen Aussenministerium
gegründet und dient diesem als PR-Vehikel.
Tages-Anzeiger: Dollar-Segen für Iraks Opposition
Dass die USA irakische Oppositionsgruppen unterstützen will wurde schon 1998 beschlossen. Wegen Unstimmigkeiten über die Modalitäten lag das Projekt aber inzwischen auf Eis. Jetzt hat US-Präsident Bush die 92 Millionen Dollar freigegeben.
Die Irakische Opposition wird nun von den USA finanziert bzw. gesteuert und verlieren noch mehr Glaubwürdigkeit. So wurde zum Beispiel der Irakische Nationalkongress vom Amerikanischen Aussenministerium
gegründet und dient diesem als PR-Vehikel.
USA
2600: PHOTOGRAPHER ARRESTED FOR TAKING PICTURES OF VICE PRESIDENT'S HOTEL
An amateur photographer named Mike Maginnis was arrested on Tuesday in his home city of Denver - for simply taking pictures of buildings in an area where Vice President Cheney was residing. Maginnis told his story on Wednesday's edition of Off The Hook.
2600: PHOTOGRAPHER ARRESTED FOR TAKING PICTURES OF VICE PRESIDENT'S HOTEL
An amateur photographer named Mike Maginnis was arrested on Tuesday in his home city of Denver - for simply taking pictures of buildings in an area where Vice President Cheney was residing. Maginnis told his story on Wednesday's edition of Off The Hook.
USA
Truthout: Homeland Security Act: The Rise of the American Police State (Part 3)
Dritter und letzter Teil des Reports
Truthout: Homeland Security Act: The Rise of the American Police State (Part 3)
Dritter und letzter Teil des Reports
TERROR
From the Wilderness: Urgent Alert - Stories Breaking That Saddam Has Rare Weaponized Smallpox From Russia
"Thus far the Homeland Security, mass vaccination, biowarfare and Iraqi war issues have been running on parallel tracks. This story joins them together. While I personally believe it unlikely that Saddam actually has or will use these viruses I also think it extremely likely that the more Draconian measures on the drawing board for repression here at home have now been placed in the starting blocks. By all reckoning - after the unexpected delays in the Iraqi invasion plan that were caused by successful politicking at the UN - FTW now expects that the invasion will begin on the next new moon cycle around January 2nd."
MSNBC: Smallpox shots cause worry
As physical specimens, the Baylor University students were fit and healthy, the “crème de la crème,” in the words of researcher Kathy Edwards. Yet when she inoculated them with smallpox vaccine, arms swelled, temperatures spiked and panic spread
From the Wilderness: Urgent Alert - Stories Breaking That Saddam Has Rare Weaponized Smallpox From Russia
"Thus far the Homeland Security, mass vaccination, biowarfare and Iraqi war issues have been running on parallel tracks. This story joins them together. While I personally believe it unlikely that Saddam actually has or will use these viruses I also think it extremely likely that the more Draconian measures on the drawing board for repression here at home have now been placed in the starting blocks. By all reckoning - after the unexpected delays in the Iraqi invasion plan that were caused by successful politicking at the UN - FTW now expects that the invasion will begin on the next new moon cycle around January 2nd."
MSNBC: Smallpox shots cause worry
As physical specimens, the Baylor University students were fit and healthy, the “crème de la crème,” in the words of researcher Kathy Edwards. Yet when she inoculated them with smallpox vaccine, arms swelled, temperatures spiked and panic spread
USA
Stanford daily: Fisk criticizes U.S. media in interview
Interview mir The Independent Ausland-Koresspondent Robert Fisk
Stanford daily: Fisk criticizes U.S. media in interview
Interview mir The Independent Ausland-Koresspondent Robert Fisk
USA
Guardian: This time I'm scared by european journalist of the year Maggie O'Kane
US propaganda fuelled the first Gulf war. It will fuel this one too - and the risks are even greater
"I have a picture from the last Gulf war. It was taken in the basement of the Al Rashid hotel, the night the war started. The look on my face is one you might expect of a 28-year-old reporter at the centre of one of the biggest stories of my lifetime: earnest, excited and thrilled to be in Baghdad.
Eleven years later, I'm on maternity leave and the news of an impending second Gulf war follows me around the kitchen. This time, I feel only a sense of intense danger as the Middle East lurches towards a possible chemical and biological war. "
Guardian: This time I'm scared by european journalist of the year Maggie O'Kane
US propaganda fuelled the first Gulf war. It will fuel this one too - and the risks are even greater
"I have a picture from the last Gulf war. It was taken in the basement of the Al Rashid hotel, the night the war started. The look on my face is one you might expect of a 28-year-old reporter at the centre of one of the biggest stories of my lifetime: earnest, excited and thrilled to be in Baghdad.
Eleven years later, I'm on maternity leave and the news of an impending second Gulf war follows me around the kitchen. This time, I feel only a sense of intense danger as the Middle East lurches towards a possible chemical and biological war. "
TERROR
Observer: Osama issues new call to arms
Osama hat Amerika einen offenen Brief geschrieben in dem er erklärt wieso er gegen die USA kämpft und was er von ihnen verlangt. Laut Arabischen Quellen ist der Brief echt. Was mich aber an der ganzen Sache stört ist das er den Amerikanern vorwirft das Kyoto-Protokoll nicht unterzeichnet zu haben. Ich kann mir nicht vorstellen das sich Osama gross für Oekologie interessiert. Aus welchen Gründen auch immer hat man bis jetzt in den Massenmedien nicht wirklich viel darüber gehört. Möglicherweise sollen wir nicht erfahren das Osama uns nicht wegen unserer "Freiheit" und "Demokratie" hasst, sondern aus nachvollziehbaren Gründen.
Full text: bin Laden's 'letter to America'
"Some American writers have published articles under the title 'On what basis are we fighting?' These articles have generated a number of responses, some of which adhered to the truth and were based on Islamic Law, and others which have not. Here we wanted to outline the truth - as an explanation and warning - hoping for Allah's reward, seeking success and support from Him.
While seeking Allah's help, we form our reply based on two questions directed at the Americans:
(Q1) Why are we fighting and opposing you?
Q2)What are we calling you to, and what do we want from you?
As for the first question: Why are we fighting and opposing you? The answer is very simple:
(1) Because you attacked us and continue to attack us.
a) You attacked us in Palestine: "
Observer: Osama issues new call to arms
Osama hat Amerika einen offenen Brief geschrieben in dem er erklärt wieso er gegen die USA kämpft und was er von ihnen verlangt. Laut Arabischen Quellen ist der Brief echt. Was mich aber an der ganzen Sache stört ist das er den Amerikanern vorwirft das Kyoto-Protokoll nicht unterzeichnet zu haben. Ich kann mir nicht vorstellen das sich Osama gross für Oekologie interessiert. Aus welchen Gründen auch immer hat man bis jetzt in den Massenmedien nicht wirklich viel darüber gehört. Möglicherweise sollen wir nicht erfahren das Osama uns nicht wegen unserer "Freiheit" und "Demokratie" hasst, sondern aus nachvollziehbaren Gründen.
Full text: bin Laden's 'letter to America'
"Some American writers have published articles under the title 'On what basis are we fighting?' These articles have generated a number of responses, some of which adhered to the truth and were based on Islamic Law, and others which have not. Here we wanted to outline the truth - as an explanation and warning - hoping for Allah's reward, seeking success and support from Him.
While seeking Allah's help, we form our reply based on two questions directed at the Americans:
(Q1) Why are we fighting and opposing you?
Q2)What are we calling you to, and what do we want from you?
As for the first question: Why are we fighting and opposing you? The answer is very simple:
(1) Because you attacked us and continue to attack us.
a) You attacked us in Palestine: "
USA
Counterpunch: A World Wide Intifada? Why? by William A. Cook
"A satellite view of attacks against western interests spotlights the reality that a world-wide intifada against the "developed" nations of the west and their allies is already underway. Russian apartment houses and, recently, a theater, the Twin Towers in New York, two Bali discos, a French super tanker blown up off the coast of Yemen, an Israeli hotel destroyed in Kenya, a failed missle shot at an Israeli passenger plane off the coast of Africa, and others too numerous to mention demonstrate the magnitude of the effort underway to wake up the west to the consequences of its dominance over the lives and interests of peoples throughout the world. Recent events, coupled with the investigations of Jean-Louis Bruguiere, the French Judge who has been tracking terrorist acts for two decades, forces us to grapple with why this is happening. Bruguiere recently warned that France is one of the two or three countries "most at risk of attack due to its historic links to Algeria." "Islamic extremism," he noted, "is breeding like a virus in Europe."(World-Rueters, Sunday, Dec. 1, 2002)"
Counterpunch: A World Wide Intifada? Why? by William A. Cook
"A satellite view of attacks against western interests spotlights the reality that a world-wide intifada against the "developed" nations of the west and their allies is already underway. Russian apartment houses and, recently, a theater, the Twin Towers in New York, two Bali discos, a French super tanker blown up off the coast of Yemen, an Israeli hotel destroyed in Kenya, a failed missle shot at an Israeli passenger plane off the coast of Africa, and others too numerous to mention demonstrate the magnitude of the effort underway to wake up the west to the consequences of its dominance over the lives and interests of peoples throughout the world. Recent events, coupled with the investigations of Jean-Louis Bruguiere, the French Judge who has been tracking terrorist acts for two decades, forces us to grapple with why this is happening. Bruguiere recently warned that France is one of the two or three countries "most at risk of attack due to its historic links to Algeria." "Islamic extremism," he noted, "is breeding like a virus in Europe."(World-Rueters, Sunday, Dec. 1, 2002)"
USA
AP: Court Halts Suit Vs. Cheney Task Force
"The Bush administration succeeded Friday in temporarily stopping a lawsuit
seeking documents about the inner workings of Vice President Dick Cheney's
energy task force and its meetings with industry executives and lobbyists,"
reports AP. "A federal appeals court indefinitely delayed Monday's deadline
for the White House to produce task force documents or provide a detailed
list of the documents it is withholding." Of course the White House wants a
delay now!! We predict that two names high on the "secret list" are Ken Lay
and Henry Kissinger.
AP: Court Halts Suit Vs. Cheney Task Force
"The Bush administration succeeded Friday in temporarily stopping a lawsuit
seeking documents about the inner workings of Vice President Dick Cheney's
energy task force and its meetings with industry executives and lobbyists,"
reports AP. "A federal appeals court indefinitely delayed Monday's deadline
for the White House to produce task force documents or provide a detailed
list of the documents it is withholding." Of course the White House wants a
delay now!! We predict that two names high on the "secret list" are Ken Lay
and Henry Kissinger.
USA
US Gov Targetting Activists For Computer-Searchs
Sat, 07 Dec 2002 04:02:27 -0800
Issue Number 18 - November 28, 2002
They have begun pulling mildly leftist white people off of airplanes.
It's time for the rest of us to get very worried.
The evidence is rolling in, and it is unmistakable: the Bush people are
assembling purely political lists of individuals and groups to be
targeted during some future crisis, real or manufactured. The list makers
probably do not yet know what they plan to do to the people on their
enemies lists, which are still fragmented among various agencies.
However, once such lists are compiled, eventual government action becomes
all but inevitable. It is already clear that the list will be a very long
one, reaching into broad categories of what the current rulers consider
to be dangerous dissenters.
Civil rights lawyers, Green Party activists and even the Catholic
advocacy group Peace Action are on the lists, as are, it appears, Amnesty
International and various environmental activist organizations.
In an article titled "Grounded," the mainstream Salon.com related the
experience of Center for Constitutional Rights assistant legal director
Barbara Olshansky, who was forced to pull down her pants in view of other
travelers at Newark International Airport. When the lawyer protested the
indignity, a security agent replied, "The computer spit you out. I don't
know why, and I don't have time to talk to you about it."
Six other employees of the center had been pulled out of an airport
boarding line a month earlier. Since all had purchased their tickets
separately under their own names, it was plain that the Center for
Constitutional Rights staff were on some kind of list. Readers familiar
with the workings of bureaucracies will immediately recognize the clanks,
squeaks and grinds of cumbersome government machinery getting into gear.
Olshansky and her colleagues are, apparently, not alone. For months,
rumors and anecdotes have circulated among leftwing and other activist
groups about people who have been barred from flying or delayed at
security gates because they are "on a list."
But now, a spokesman for the new Transportation Security Administration
has acknowledged for the first time that the government has a list of
about 1,000 people who are deemed "threats to aviation" and not allowed
on airplanes under any circumstances. And in an interview with Salon, the
official suggested that Olshansky and other political activists may be on
a separate list that subjects them to strict scrutiny but allows them to
fly.
"We have a list of about 1,000 people," said David Steigman, the TSA
spokesman. The agency was created a year ago by Congress to handle
transportation safety during the war on terror. "This list is composed of
names that are provided to us by various government organizations like
the FBI, CIA and INS.... We don't ask how they decide who to list. Each
agency decides on its own who is a 'threat to aviation.'"
The agency has no guidelines to determine who gets on the list, Steigman
says, and no procedures for getting off the list if someone is wrongfully
on it.
The Salon.com article details the harrassment of other political
travelers, including people from conservative organizations that
apparently wound up in the computer by mistake or through haste. Writer
Dave Lindorff notes that the federal Transportation Security Agency's
unpredictable actions "seem to be netting mostly priests, elderly nuns,
Green Party campaign operatives, left-wing journalists, right-wing
activists and people affiliated with Arab or Arab-American groups."
The 1,000-name "no fly" list referred to by the TSA spokesman is
certainly not the larger, political list. If that were the case, none of
the individuals interviewed by Salon.com would have ever left the ground.
The article's subjects are on a different set of lists. It is clear that
the airport agents became confused because of a proliferation of lists -
data in temporary disarray.
Bring me more names!
What is obvious is that names are being generated and dumped into an
embryonic but evolving apparatus of wide-ranging political scope. The
Bush men simply haven't fine-tuned the procedure. They have not yet
differentiated between the "somewhat dangerous," the "immediately
dangerous" or the "might become dangerous" - or whatever color-coded
formulas ultimately emerge.
They want names, lots of them. The scatter-shot, eclectic character of
the listings indicates that a furious demand is emanating from the
highest levels of the bureaucracy for as many names as possible, as soon
as possible. Collation and categorization will come later.
The exhortations from on-high were especially shrill in the corridors and
field offices of the FBI. The New York Times headlined their November 21
article, "F.B.I. Officials Say Some Agents Lack a Focus on Terror," but
any low-GS clerk could understand what the bureau's number two official,
Bruce J. Gebhardt, was actually demanding when he sent out a memo to 56
field office agents-in-charge: names, names and more names.
"You need to instill a sense of urgency" in field agents, Mr. Gebhardt
wrote. "They need to get out on the street and develop sources.
"You need to demand that information is being sent" to the bureau's
headquarters in Washington, he continued, adding: "You are the leaders of
the F.B.I. You cannot fail at this mission. Too many people are depending
on us...."
Among their complaints, senior bureau officials have said they are
unhappy that some field offices are not moving aggressively enough to use
secret terrorism warrants, are not developing enough intelligence sources
to penetrate possible terrorist cells and are not loading all the
terrorism-related information they receive into the F.B.I.'s central
computer system.
Officials said that senior bureau leaders in recent weeks have directed
field supervisors to demand weekly written briefings from their
counter-terrorism squads, ask more questions about investigations and
push for greater use of warrants and surveillance against suspects.
The New York Times is unwilling or incapable of interpreting Gebhardt's
memo, but every agent in the field understands perfectly what is
demanded: names for the computers. Not the names of "sleeper" terrorists,
who by definition cannot be identified. Not the names of criminals and
fugitives, the people the existing system is designed to track. And only
a fool could believe that, with all the flack the FBI has gotten over its
pre-September 11 failures, field agents are slacking in their pursuit of
persons who have even the remotest reason for being on watch lists for
actual bombers, skyjackers and poisoners of water. That's not what the
computers in Washington crave.
The FBI is focused on "preventing attacks," says the NYT article. In the
bureau's lexicon, "preventative measures" is a euphemism for surveillance
of persons and infiltration of groups that have committed no crime for
which they can be arrested. There can be but one result that satisfies
headquarters' demand: more names and thicker dossiers. And there is only
one way for the agents in the field to produce these items in sufficient
quantity; the "anti-terror squads" must revert to their roles as Red
Squads, Black Militant Squads and Agitator Squads - under new
nomenclature, of course.
This should have been expected since the morning the Twin Towers fell, a
reflexive reaction by an agency molded from its beginnings as a political
police force. However, the sheer size of the net being cast - to include
blond, Catholic, Wisconsin schoolgirls attempting to board a flight to
Washington to lobby their congressman against the U.S. war in Columbia -
indicates that the "usual suspects," the historical targets of
repression, will have unaccustomed, white middle class company.
The Bush regime, it is becoming apparent, is as serious about smashing
domestic opposition to its agenda as it is about Saddam Hussein. As Bush
told Bob Woodward, "I will seize the opportunity to achieve big goals."
Islam is the FBI's open portal to the African American community at
large. The Nation of Islam has a long history of relationships with
Middle Eastern and Arab nations, and non-NOI African American Muslims
often worship with foreign co-religionists. FBI mumbo-jumbo can fill in
the rest of the justifications for the most intensive, general
surveillance of Black American Muslims and their associates. Since these
Muslims are indigenous, comprising probably 5 percent of African American
citizens, their relatives and "associates" include virtually the entire
Black population.
The chosen ones
Contragate criminal John Poindexter's Total Information Awareness
project, under construction in the bowels of the Pentagon with the
capability to keep track of an individual's every electronic move, is not
designed to screen the behavior of 285 million Americans. Too much data,
few practical uses. But tens or a few hundreds of thousands of
politically marked targets - that's a potentially doable mission. The
logic of world events and the zeal of the Bush men will create the
domestic emergency long before Poindexter's machine is ready but, by its
very existence, the project telegraphs the regime's intentions.
Here's how Poindexter's Information Awareness Office describes his
project:
The TIA program objective is to create a counter-terrorism information
system that: (1) increases information coverage by an order of magnitude,
and affords easy future scaling; (2) provides focused warnings within an
hour after a triggering event occurs or an evidence threshold is passed;
(3) can automatically queue analysts based on partial pattern matches and
has patterns that cover 90% of all previously known foreign terrorist
attacks; and, (4) supports collaboration, analytical reasoning and
information sharing so that analysts can hypothesize, test and propose
theories and mitigating strategies about possible futures, so
decision-makers can effectively evaluate the impact of current or future
policies and prospective courses of action.
Domestic translation: Round up the people in categories X and Y.
If it appears that we are painting a picture of inevitable, massive
detentions and restrictions of American citizens, it is because the daily
sweep of administration activity points in that direction. There will be
serious if not catastrophic terror attacks on U.S. soil - Bush's foreign
policy guarantees it. When the attacks come, the regime in Washington
will declare some kind of state of emergency; only the particulars are
unknown, probably to the Bush men, themselves. And they are not compiling
lists of public activists and left-leaners, in urgent and sloppy haste,
just for the fun of it.
Measures will be taken against the names on the lists of those designated
as domestic threats. An action plan will inexorably shape itself around
the database. That's how bureaucracies of repression work. Discreet
categories of threat require specific measures of response. It will take
a while for the various agencies to work out the details. There can be no
doubt, however, that the people closest to George Bush are impatient to
move the task along.
There is no precedent for the things in store in the days ahead: not
McCarthyism, not Cointelpro, not a combination of the two. Technology
plus the new, corporate-style methods of a ruthless, social
monopoly-minded, mass media manipulating, coldly corrupt and absolutely
cynical politic class has created and is feeding upon an environment of
permanent crisis. These men have plans to reorganize American society and
the world, they know they will be opposed by larger and deeper sectors of
the population over time, and they are preparing to act decisively
against the opposition. First, they take names.
Nothing but a mass movement, comprised of many "targets," can stop the
machine that is clanking rather noisily into place. However, the
machinery, itself, may become the engine of mass mobilization. The Bush
men, supremely arrogant and flush with power, are making a mistake in
advertising their intentions against the persons of white lawyers and
other left-liberals. Bush and Cheney forget the duality of American
society; some people can be abused with impunity; others, connected to
significant sectors of opinion and resources by profession, family wealth
and background and, most importantly, by race - cannot be so cavalierly
stripped of their citizenship rights.
The duality of American life and death
December 4 marks the 33rd anniversary of the assassination of Black
Panthers Fred Hampton and Mark Clark, set up for execution in Chicago by
an FBI contract agent. Hampton was barely 21 years old, a brilliant,
one-time pre-law student and Youth Leader of the West Suburban (Chicago)
branch of the NAACP, where he organized 500 members. Hampton then founded
the Chicago chapter of the Black Panther Party and rose swiftly to
national prominence. Police riddled Hampton's body with bullets while he
lay helpless, drugged by the FBI's employee.
The people who haul white lawyers and Catholic nuns off of airplanes will
kill a Black activist in his bed the very same night. This is what passes
for equivalence in a racist society.
White folks are being put on some serious lists. Under the perverse
duality of America, that means the canaries are already dying.
US Gov Targetting Activists For Computer-Searchs
Sat, 07 Dec 2002 04:02:27 -0800
Issue Number 18 - November 28, 2002
They have begun pulling mildly leftist white people off of airplanes.
It's time for the rest of us to get very worried.
The evidence is rolling in, and it is unmistakable: the Bush people are
assembling purely political lists of individuals and groups to be
targeted during some future crisis, real or manufactured. The list makers
probably do not yet know what they plan to do to the people on their
enemies lists, which are still fragmented among various agencies.
However, once such lists are compiled, eventual government action becomes
all but inevitable. It is already clear that the list will be a very long
one, reaching into broad categories of what the current rulers consider
to be dangerous dissenters.
Civil rights lawyers, Green Party activists and even the Catholic
advocacy group Peace Action are on the lists, as are, it appears, Amnesty
International and various environmental activist organizations.
In an article titled "Grounded," the mainstream Salon.com related the
experience of Center for Constitutional Rights assistant legal director
Barbara Olshansky, who was forced to pull down her pants in view of other
travelers at Newark International Airport. When the lawyer protested the
indignity, a security agent replied, "The computer spit you out. I don't
know why, and I don't have time to talk to you about it."
Six other employees of the center had been pulled out of an airport
boarding line a month earlier. Since all had purchased their tickets
separately under their own names, it was plain that the Center for
Constitutional Rights staff were on some kind of list. Readers familiar
with the workings of bureaucracies will immediately recognize the clanks,
squeaks and grinds of cumbersome government machinery getting into gear.
Olshansky and her colleagues are, apparently, not alone. For months,
rumors and anecdotes have circulated among leftwing and other activist
groups about people who have been barred from flying or delayed at
security gates because they are "on a list."
But now, a spokesman for the new Transportation Security Administration
has acknowledged for the first time that the government has a list of
about 1,000 people who are deemed "threats to aviation" and not allowed
on airplanes under any circumstances. And in an interview with Salon, the
official suggested that Olshansky and other political activists may be on
a separate list that subjects them to strict scrutiny but allows them to
fly.
"We have a list of about 1,000 people," said David Steigman, the TSA
spokesman. The agency was created a year ago by Congress to handle
transportation safety during the war on terror. "This list is composed of
names that are provided to us by various government organizations like
the FBI, CIA and INS.... We don't ask how they decide who to list. Each
agency decides on its own who is a 'threat to aviation.'"
The agency has no guidelines to determine who gets on the list, Steigman
says, and no procedures for getting off the list if someone is wrongfully
on it.
The Salon.com article details the harrassment of other political
travelers, including people from conservative organizations that
apparently wound up in the computer by mistake or through haste. Writer
Dave Lindorff notes that the federal Transportation Security Agency's
unpredictable actions "seem to be netting mostly priests, elderly nuns,
Green Party campaign operatives, left-wing journalists, right-wing
activists and people affiliated with Arab or Arab-American groups."
The 1,000-name "no fly" list referred to by the TSA spokesman is
certainly not the larger, political list. If that were the case, none of
the individuals interviewed by Salon.com would have ever left the ground.
The article's subjects are on a different set of lists. It is clear that
the airport agents became confused because of a proliferation of lists -
data in temporary disarray.
Bring me more names!
What is obvious is that names are being generated and dumped into an
embryonic but evolving apparatus of wide-ranging political scope. The
Bush men simply haven't fine-tuned the procedure. They have not yet
differentiated between the "somewhat dangerous," the "immediately
dangerous" or the "might become dangerous" - or whatever color-coded
formulas ultimately emerge.
They want names, lots of them. The scatter-shot, eclectic character of
the listings indicates that a furious demand is emanating from the
highest levels of the bureaucracy for as many names as possible, as soon
as possible. Collation and categorization will come later.
The exhortations from on-high were especially shrill in the corridors and
field offices of the FBI. The New York Times headlined their November 21
article, "F.B.I. Officials Say Some Agents Lack a Focus on Terror," but
any low-GS clerk could understand what the bureau's number two official,
Bruce J. Gebhardt, was actually demanding when he sent out a memo to 56
field office agents-in-charge: names, names and more names.
"You need to instill a sense of urgency" in field agents, Mr. Gebhardt
wrote. "They need to get out on the street and develop sources.
"You need to demand that information is being sent" to the bureau's
headquarters in Washington, he continued, adding: "You are the leaders of
the F.B.I. You cannot fail at this mission. Too many people are depending
on us...."
Among their complaints, senior bureau officials have said they are
unhappy that some field offices are not moving aggressively enough to use
secret terrorism warrants, are not developing enough intelligence sources
to penetrate possible terrorist cells and are not loading all the
terrorism-related information they receive into the F.B.I.'s central
computer system.
Officials said that senior bureau leaders in recent weeks have directed
field supervisors to demand weekly written briefings from their
counter-terrorism squads, ask more questions about investigations and
push for greater use of warrants and surveillance against suspects.
The New York Times is unwilling or incapable of interpreting Gebhardt's
memo, but every agent in the field understands perfectly what is
demanded: names for the computers. Not the names of "sleeper" terrorists,
who by definition cannot be identified. Not the names of criminals and
fugitives, the people the existing system is designed to track. And only
a fool could believe that, with all the flack the FBI has gotten over its
pre-September 11 failures, field agents are slacking in their pursuit of
persons who have even the remotest reason for being on watch lists for
actual bombers, skyjackers and poisoners of water. That's not what the
computers in Washington crave.
The FBI is focused on "preventing attacks," says the NYT article. In the
bureau's lexicon, "preventative measures" is a euphemism for surveillance
of persons and infiltration of groups that have committed no crime for
which they can be arrested. There can be but one result that satisfies
headquarters' demand: more names and thicker dossiers. And there is only
one way for the agents in the field to produce these items in sufficient
quantity; the "anti-terror squads" must revert to their roles as Red
Squads, Black Militant Squads and Agitator Squads - under new
nomenclature, of course.
This should have been expected since the morning the Twin Towers fell, a
reflexive reaction by an agency molded from its beginnings as a political
police force. However, the sheer size of the net being cast - to include
blond, Catholic, Wisconsin schoolgirls attempting to board a flight to
Washington to lobby their congressman against the U.S. war in Columbia -
indicates that the "usual suspects," the historical targets of
repression, will have unaccustomed, white middle class company.
The Bush regime, it is becoming apparent, is as serious about smashing
domestic opposition to its agenda as it is about Saddam Hussein. As Bush
told Bob Woodward, "I will seize the opportunity to achieve big goals."
Islam is the FBI's open portal to the African American community at
large. The Nation of Islam has a long history of relationships with
Middle Eastern and Arab nations, and non-NOI African American Muslims
often worship with foreign co-religionists. FBI mumbo-jumbo can fill in
the rest of the justifications for the most intensive, general
surveillance of Black American Muslims and their associates. Since these
Muslims are indigenous, comprising probably 5 percent of African American
citizens, their relatives and "associates" include virtually the entire
Black population.
The chosen ones
Contragate criminal John Poindexter's Total Information Awareness
project, under construction in the bowels of the Pentagon with the
capability to keep track of an individual's every electronic move, is not
designed to screen the behavior of 285 million Americans. Too much data,
few practical uses. But tens or a few hundreds of thousands of
politically marked targets - that's a potentially doable mission. The
logic of world events and the zeal of the Bush men will create the
domestic emergency long before Poindexter's machine is ready but, by its
very existence, the project telegraphs the regime's intentions.
Here's how Poindexter's Information Awareness Office describes his
project:
The TIA program objective is to create a counter-terrorism information
system that: (1) increases information coverage by an order of magnitude,
and affords easy future scaling; (2) provides focused warnings within an
hour after a triggering event occurs or an evidence threshold is passed;
(3) can automatically queue analysts based on partial pattern matches and
has patterns that cover 90% of all previously known foreign terrorist
attacks; and, (4) supports collaboration, analytical reasoning and
information sharing so that analysts can hypothesize, test and propose
theories and mitigating strategies about possible futures, so
decision-makers can effectively evaluate the impact of current or future
policies and prospective courses of action.
Domestic translation: Round up the people in categories X and Y.
If it appears that we are painting a picture of inevitable, massive
detentions and restrictions of American citizens, it is because the daily
sweep of administration activity points in that direction. There will be
serious if not catastrophic terror attacks on U.S. soil - Bush's foreign
policy guarantees it. When the attacks come, the regime in Washington
will declare some kind of state of emergency; only the particulars are
unknown, probably to the Bush men, themselves. And they are not compiling
lists of public activists and left-leaners, in urgent and sloppy haste,
just for the fun of it.
Measures will be taken against the names on the lists of those designated
as domestic threats. An action plan will inexorably shape itself around
the database. That's how bureaucracies of repression work. Discreet
categories of threat require specific measures of response. It will take
a while for the various agencies to work out the details. There can be no
doubt, however, that the people closest to George Bush are impatient to
move the task along.
There is no precedent for the things in store in the days ahead: not
McCarthyism, not Cointelpro, not a combination of the two. Technology
plus the new, corporate-style methods of a ruthless, social
monopoly-minded, mass media manipulating, coldly corrupt and absolutely
cynical politic class has created and is feeding upon an environment of
permanent crisis. These men have plans to reorganize American society and
the world, they know they will be opposed by larger and deeper sectors of
the population over time, and they are preparing to act decisively
against the opposition. First, they take names.
Nothing but a mass movement, comprised of many "targets," can stop the
machine that is clanking rather noisily into place. However, the
machinery, itself, may become the engine of mass mobilization. The Bush
men, supremely arrogant and flush with power, are making a mistake in
advertising their intentions against the persons of white lawyers and
other left-liberals. Bush and Cheney forget the duality of American
society; some people can be abused with impunity; others, connected to
significant sectors of opinion and resources by profession, family wealth
and background and, most importantly, by race - cannot be so cavalierly
stripped of their citizenship rights.
The duality of American life and death
December 4 marks the 33rd anniversary of the assassination of Black
Panthers Fred Hampton and Mark Clark, set up for execution in Chicago by
an FBI contract agent. Hampton was barely 21 years old, a brilliant,
one-time pre-law student and Youth Leader of the West Suburban (Chicago)
branch of the NAACP, where he organized 500 members. Hampton then founded
the Chicago chapter of the Black Panther Party and rose swiftly to
national prominence. Police riddled Hampton's body with bullets while he
lay helpless, drugged by the FBI's employee.
The people who haul white lawyers and Catholic nuns off of airplanes will
kill a Black activist in his bed the very same night. This is what passes
for equivalence in a racist society.
White folks are being put on some serious lists. Under the perverse
duality of America, that means the canaries are already dying.
USA
Washington Post: In Terror War, 2nd Track for Suspects
Those Designated 'Combatants' Lose Legal Protections
"The Bush administration is developing a parallel legal system in which terrorism suspects -- U.S. citizens and noncitizens alike -- may be investigated, jailed, interrogated, tried and punished without legal protections guaranteed by the ordinary system, lawyers inside and outside the government say."
Buzzflash: A Brief (But Creepy) History of America's Creeping Fascism
Washington Post: In Terror War, 2nd Track for Suspects
Those Designated 'Combatants' Lose Legal Protections
"The Bush administration is developing a parallel legal system in which terrorism suspects -- U.S. citizens and noncitizens alike -- may be investigated, jailed, interrogated, tried and punished without legal protections guaranteed by the ordinary system, lawyers inside and outside the government say."
Buzzflash: A Brief (But Creepy) History of America's Creeping Fascism
USA
Wahington Times: Arizona militia set to patrol border for illegal aliens
"A former kindergarten teacher who has organized a 600-strong militia in Arizona will station 50 armed militia members on public land this weekend to "protect their country" against an invasion of illegal aliens, warning federal authorities — including President Bush — not to interfere."
Wahington Times: Arizona militia set to patrol border for illegal aliens
"A former kindergarten teacher who has organized a 600-strong militia in Arizona will station 50 armed militia members on public land this weekend to "protect their country" against an invasion of illegal aliens, warning federal authorities — including President Bush — not to interfere."
JAY-Z
Ort: Winterthur (CH), Eulachahlle
Datum: Freitag, 24.01.2003
Türöffnung: 18h00
Beginn: 19h00
tickets: Ticketcorner
Ort: Winterthur (CH), Eulachahlle
Datum: Freitag, 24.01.2003
Türöffnung: 18h00
Beginn: 19h00
tickets: Ticketcorner
Friday, December 06, 2002
ISRAEL
BBC: Israel accused over Gaza killings
A United Nations official says eight of the 10 Palestinians killed during an Israeli raid on a refugee camp in the Gaza Strip on Friday morning were unarmed civilians.
"Die UNO sagt von den 10 am Freitag getöteten Palästinesern seien 8 unbewaffnete Zivilisten gewesen. Israel hatte die Ermordung der Zivilisten einen Erfolg gennant. Mindestens 5 der 10 seien Hamas-Kämpfer gewesen. Es scheint als sei die Erschiessung von Zivilisten mittlerweile offizielle IDF-Taktik"
BBC: Israel accused over Gaza killings
A United Nations official says eight of the 10 Palestinians killed during an Israeli raid on a refugee camp in the Gaza Strip on Friday morning were unarmed civilians.
"Die UNO sagt von den 10 am Freitag getöteten Palästinesern seien 8 unbewaffnete Zivilisten gewesen. Israel hatte die Ermordung der Zivilisten einen Erfolg gennant. Mindestens 5 der 10 seien Hamas-Kämpfer gewesen. Es scheint als sei die Erschiessung von Zivilisten mittlerweile offizielle IDF-Taktik"
ISRAEL
New York Times: Al Qaeda in Lebanon and Gaza, Sharon Says
With much of Israel on maximum alert for terror attacks, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said today that several members of Al Qaeda had entered the Gaza Strip and Lebanon, and joined forces with Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed group that the United States has labeled a terrorist organization.
"Sharon betet jeden Abend dafür das Al-Qaida irgend einen grossen Anschlag in Israel verübt damit er die Araber endlich vertreiben und Eretz Israel errichten kann"
New York Times: Al Qaeda in Lebanon and Gaza, Sharon Says
With much of Israel on maximum alert for terror attacks, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said today that several members of Al Qaeda had entered the Gaza Strip and Lebanon, and joined forces with Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed group that the United States has labeled a terrorist organization.
"Sharon betet jeden Abend dafür das Al-Qaida irgend einen grossen Anschlag in Israel verübt damit er die Araber endlich vertreiben und Eretz Israel errichten kann"
VENEZUELA
ZMAG: Bush Administration Pushes "Regime Change" in Venezuela by Marc Weisbrot
It's 10 p.m. -- do you know what your government is up to? It seems that Iraq is not the only "regime change" that the Bush Administration is working on. The US government has apparently decided that President Chavez of Venezuela must go, one way or another.
ZMAG: Bush Administration Pushes "Regime Change" in Venezuela by Marc Weisbrot
It's 10 p.m. -- do you know what your government is up to? It seems that Iraq is not the only "regime change" that the Bush Administration is working on. The US government has apparently decided that President Chavez of Venezuela must go, one way or another.
IRAK
ZMAG: Lies, Damned Lies, And Terror Warnings by John Pilger
"Lying as government strategy is known as black propaganda. The British invented its modern form. Josef Goebbels, the Nazis' propaganda chief, was full of admiration for the British model. Since September 11, 2001, every attempt by black propagandists in Whitehall and Washington to justify an unprovoked attack on Iraq by linking the regime in Baghdad with al-Qaeda terrorism has failed"
ZMAG: Lies, Damned Lies, And Terror Warnings by John Pilger
"Lying as government strategy is known as black propaganda. The British invented its modern form. Josef Goebbels, the Nazis' propaganda chief, was full of admiration for the British model. Since September 11, 2001, every attempt by black propagandists in Whitehall and Washington to justify an unprovoked attack on Iraq by linking the regime in Baghdad with al-Qaeda terrorism has failed"
IRAK
ZMAG: Media Spin Can Seperate War From Death by Norman Solomon
A dozen years after the Gulf War, public perceptions of it are now very helpful to the White House. That's part of a timeworn pattern. Illusions about previous wars make the next one seem acceptable. As George Orwell observed: "Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past."
ZMAG: Media Spin Can Seperate War From Death by Norman Solomon
A dozen years after the Gulf War, public perceptions of it are now very helpful to the White House. That's part of a timeworn pattern. Illusions about previous wars make the next one seem acceptable. As George Orwell observed: "Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past."
SPANIEN
Heise: Großdemonstration und Generalstreik
Ölkatastrophe entwickelt sich zur Regierungskrise in Spanien
Drei Wochen nach dem der Öltanker Prestige vor der Küste Galiciens in Seenot geraten ist, beginnt die spanische Regierung zu handeln. Die Umweltkatastrophe bedroht nun auch Portugal und Frankreich und wird zur Existenzkrise der Regierung. Nach der Großdemonstration steht ein Generalstreik an.
Heise: Großdemonstration und Generalstreik
Ölkatastrophe entwickelt sich zur Regierungskrise in Spanien
Drei Wochen nach dem der Öltanker Prestige vor der Küste Galiciens in Seenot geraten ist, beginnt die spanische Regierung zu handeln. Die Umweltkatastrophe bedroht nun auch Portugal und Frankreich und wird zur Existenzkrise der Regierung. Nach der Großdemonstration steht ein Generalstreik an.
VENEZUELA
Heise: Streik in Venezuela
Interview mit Rodrigo Chaves, nationaler Koordinator der Bolivarianischen Zirkel
Der vierte Generalstreik in Folge der venezolanischen Opposition in weniger als zwölf Monaten, um Präsident Hugo Chavez zum Rücktritt zu zwingen, ist weitgehend gescheitert. Laut Angaben der Regierung aber auch zahlreicher unabhängiger Beobachter, wurde der gemeinsame Streikaufruf des Unternehmerverbandes Fedecameras und des rechten Gewerkschaftsverbandes "Confederación de Trabajadores de Venezuela" (CTV) an der ersten drei Tagen - 2., 3. und 4. Dezember - nur zu etwa 15% befolgt und selbst dabei handelte es sich in vielen Fällen tatsächlich um Aussperrungen.
Heise: Streik in Venezuela
Interview mit Rodrigo Chaves, nationaler Koordinator der Bolivarianischen Zirkel
Der vierte Generalstreik in Folge der venezolanischen Opposition in weniger als zwölf Monaten, um Präsident Hugo Chavez zum Rücktritt zu zwingen, ist weitgehend gescheitert. Laut Angaben der Regierung aber auch zahlreicher unabhängiger Beobachter, wurde der gemeinsame Streikaufruf des Unternehmerverbandes Fedecameras und des rechten Gewerkschaftsverbandes "Confederación de Trabajadores de Venezuela" (CTV) an der ersten drei Tagen - 2., 3. und 4. Dezember - nur zu etwa 15% befolgt und selbst dabei handelte es sich in vielen Fällen tatsächlich um Aussperrungen.
USA
Heise: nicht ermutigend
Nadelstiche und Kriegsrhetorik
US-Präsident Bush bezeichnete das Verhalten Iraks im Hinblick auf die Erfüllung der UN-Resolution als "nicht ermutigend". Das ist doppeldeutig und verstärkt den Eindruck, dass man in Washington womöglich sehnsüchtig auf einen offensichtlichen Bruch wartet. Möglicherweise wird wenn man, wenn vom Hussein-Regime die verlangte Übersicht über das Waffenprogramm spätestens am 8. Dezember vorgelegt werden muss, mit Enthüllungen der Geheimdienste aufwarten. Inzwischen läuft die amerikanische Kriegsrhetorikmaschine ungeduldig weiter.
a long time ago in a galaxy far far away..............Dick Cheney:""Wie der Präsident gesagt hat, ist dies ein Kampf zur Rettung der zivilisierten Welt. Das ist ein Kampf gegen das Böse, gegen einen Feind, der seinen Gefallen an der Ermordung von unschuldigen und arglosen Menschen findet." ....und dann zog Dick sein Lichtschwert, packte princess condeleeza an der Hand und enthauptete Darth Sadaam und den Imperator Osama, die Galaxie ward vom Bösen befreit und es herrschte Frieden unter den Völkern bis in alle Ewigkeit
Heise: nicht ermutigend
Nadelstiche und Kriegsrhetorik
US-Präsident Bush bezeichnete das Verhalten Iraks im Hinblick auf die Erfüllung der UN-Resolution als "nicht ermutigend". Das ist doppeldeutig und verstärkt den Eindruck, dass man in Washington womöglich sehnsüchtig auf einen offensichtlichen Bruch wartet. Möglicherweise wird wenn man, wenn vom Hussein-Regime die verlangte Übersicht über das Waffenprogramm spätestens am 8. Dezember vorgelegt werden muss, mit Enthüllungen der Geheimdienste aufwarten. Inzwischen läuft die amerikanische Kriegsrhetorikmaschine ungeduldig weiter.
a long time ago in a galaxy far far away..............Dick Cheney:""Wie der Präsident gesagt hat, ist dies ein Kampf zur Rettung der zivilisierten Welt. Das ist ein Kampf gegen das Böse, gegen einen Feind, der seinen Gefallen an der Ermordung von unschuldigen und arglosen Menschen findet." ....und dann zog Dick sein Lichtschwert, packte princess condeleeza an der Hand und enthauptete Darth Sadaam und den Imperator Osama, die Galaxie ward vom Bösen befreit und es herrschte Frieden unter den Völkern bis in alle Ewigkeit
ISRAEL
Tagesanzeiger: Neun Tote nach israelischem Angriff
Bei einer israelischen Militäraktion in einem Flüchtlingslager im Gazastreifen sind in der Nacht zum Freitag mindestens neun Palästinenser getötet worden. Die Armee war mit 40 Panzern in das Flüchtlingslager al Buredsh eingerückt.
Spiegel: Zehn Palästinenser bei israelischem Angriff getötet
Tagesanzeiger: Neun Tote nach israelischem Angriff
Bei einer israelischen Militäraktion in einem Flüchtlingslager im Gazastreifen sind in der Nacht zum Freitag mindestens neun Palästinenser getötet worden. Die Armee war mit 40 Panzern in das Flüchtlingslager al Buredsh eingerückt.
Spiegel: Zehn Palästinenser bei israelischem Angriff getötet
Thursday, December 05, 2002
IRAK
Los Angeles Times: Bush: Saddam Not Interested in Complying
Iraq: The president disputes U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan's statement that weapons inspections are going well.
WASHINGTON -- President Bush today dismissed reports that Iraqi weapons inspections are going well, saying Saddam Hussein's actions away from the U.N. team's work prove that Saddam "is not somebody who looks like he's interested in complying."
Los Angeles Times: Bush: Saddam Not Interested in Complying
Iraq: The president disputes U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan's statement that weapons inspections are going well.
WASHINGTON -- President Bush today dismissed reports that Iraqi weapons inspections are going well, saying Saddam Hussein's actions away from the U.N. team's work prove that Saddam "is not somebody who looks like he's interested in complying."
IRAK
Baltimore Sun: Bush administration sabotages inspections
"WEST CORNWALL, Conn. - Now that United Nations weapons inspectors have arrived in Iraq, most Americans want the inspection process to work. But the hawks in the Bush administration are petrified that it will, and doing their best to undermine it. "
Baltimore Sun: Bush administration sabotages inspections
"WEST CORNWALL, Conn. - Now that United Nations weapons inspectors have arrived in Iraq, most Americans want the inspection process to work. But the hawks in the Bush administration are petrified that it will, and doing their best to undermine it. "
IRAK
Independent: Robert Fisk: We are being set up for a war against Saddam
The inspections are going unhindered. And what does Bush tell us? 'The signs are not encouraging'
"What does this mean? Simply that America plans to go to war whatever the UN inspectors find. The New York Times – which is now little more than a mouthpiece for scores of anonymous US "officials" – has persuaded itself that Iraq's Arab neighbours "seem prepared to support an American military campaign". Despite all the warnings from Arab leaders, repeated over and over again, month after month, urging America not to go to war, this is the kind of nonsense being peddled in the United States."
Independent: Robert Fisk: We are being set up for a war against Saddam
The inspections are going unhindered. And what does Bush tell us? 'The signs are not encouraging'
"What does this mean? Simply that America plans to go to war whatever the UN inspectors find. The New York Times – which is now little more than a mouthpiece for scores of anonymous US "officials" – has persuaded itself that Iraq's Arab neighbours "seem prepared to support an American military campaign". Despite all the warnings from Arab leaders, repeated over and over again, month after month, urging America not to go to war, this is the kind of nonsense being peddled in the United States."
USA
AP: Bush Gives CIA Authority to Kill Americans
Secret finding signed by Bush gives CIA authority, officials say
AP: Bush Gives CIA Authority to Kill Americans
Secret finding signed by Bush gives CIA authority, officials say
MIDDLE EAST
Commondreams: A New Age of Empire in the Middle East, Courtesy of the US and UK
British Member of Parliament George Galloway says that a plan for the division of the Middle East is circulating in the corridors of power on both sides of the Atlantic. In a recent interview, Galloway asserted that ministers and eminent figures in the British government are deliberating the partition of the Middle East, harking back to the colonial map-making in the first quarter of the 20th century that established the modern nation-states of the region. An Anglo-American war against Iraq, he tells me, could be the opening salvo in the break up of the region. Galloway, who met with Saddam Hussein in Baghdad this August, states that the war aims of the US and Britain go well beyond replacing the Iraqi leader. “They include a recasting of the entire Middle East, the better to ensure the hegemony of the big powers over the natural resources of the Middle East and the safety and security of the vanguard of imperialist interests in the area – the state of Israel. And part of that is actually redrawing boundaries.”
Es geht nicht nur um den Irak, der ganze Nahe Osten wird neugeordnet und aufgeteilt.
Commondreams: A New Age of Empire in the Middle East, Courtesy of the US and UK
British Member of Parliament George Galloway says that a plan for the division of the Middle East is circulating in the corridors of power on both sides of the Atlantic. In a recent interview, Galloway asserted that ministers and eminent figures in the British government are deliberating the partition of the Middle East, harking back to the colonial map-making in the first quarter of the 20th century that established the modern nation-states of the region. An Anglo-American war against Iraq, he tells me, could be the opening salvo in the break up of the region. Galloway, who met with Saddam Hussein in Baghdad this August, states that the war aims of the US and Britain go well beyond replacing the Iraqi leader. “They include a recasting of the entire Middle East, the better to ensure the hegemony of the big powers over the natural resources of the Middle East and the safety and security of the vanguard of imperialist interests in the area – the state of Israel. And part of that is actually redrawing boundaries.”
Es geht nicht nur um den Irak, der ganze Nahe Osten wird neugeordnet und aufgeteilt.
USA-IRAK-NORDKOREA
The American Conservative: North Korean Bombshell
An erratic regime with nuclear-armed missiles poses
a more serious threat than hemmed-in Saddam.
Das Hardcore Republikaner-Magazin von Hardcore-Republikaner Pat Buchanan kritisiert G.W.B weil dieser den "wehrlosen, ungefährlichen" Irak bekriegen während er mit dem viel böseren Atomwaffen-Nordkorea-Regime verhandelt.
The American Conservative: North Korean Bombshell
An erratic regime with nuclear-armed missiles poses
a more serious threat than hemmed-in Saddam.
Das Hardcore Republikaner-Magazin von Hardcore-Republikaner Pat Buchanan kritisiert G.W.B weil dieser den "wehrlosen, ungefährlichen" Irak bekriegen während er mit dem viel böseren Atomwaffen-Nordkorea-Regime verhandelt.
IRAK
Daily Telegraph: Britain accused of providing Saddam torture instruments
The Government's attempt to present Iraq as a uniquely evil regime turned into a public relations flop yesterday when the Iraqi dissident chosen to present it denounced the threat of war with Saddam Hussein and said Baghdad officials used British-made equipment as instruments of torture.
"This selective attention to human rights is nothing but a cold and calculated manipulation of the work of human rights activists," said Irene Khan, Amnesty's secretary general.
Dumm gelaufen für Tony
Daily Telegraph: Britain accused of providing Saddam torture instruments
The Government's attempt to present Iraq as a uniquely evil regime turned into a public relations flop yesterday when the Iraqi dissident chosen to present it denounced the threat of war with Saddam Hussein and said Baghdad officials used British-made equipment as instruments of torture.
"This selective attention to human rights is nothing but a cold and calculated manipulation of the work of human rights activists," said Irene Khan, Amnesty's secretary general.
Dumm gelaufen für Tony
IRAK
Tagesanzeiger: Irak erhebt Vorwürfe gegen Uno-Inspektoren
Die Kontrolleure spionierten für die USA und Israel und bereiteten damit einen Irakangriff vor, sagte Ramadan am Mittwoch. Die Inspektion eines Präsidentenpalastes von Machthaber Saddam Hussein durch die Uno-Experten hatte zuvor zu scharfen Protesten in Bagdad geführt.
Checkt die Seite von Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting Fair.org wo die grossen Medien Mythen über den Irak, wie z.B die angebliche Ausweisung der Inspektoren 1998 geklärt und richtig gestellt werden.
Tagesanzeiger: Irak erhebt Vorwürfe gegen Uno-Inspektoren
Die Kontrolleure spionierten für die USA und Israel und bereiteten damit einen Irakangriff vor, sagte Ramadan am Mittwoch. Die Inspektion eines Präsidentenpalastes von Machthaber Saddam Hussein durch die Uno-Experten hatte zuvor zu scharfen Protesten in Bagdad geführt.
Checkt die Seite von Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting Fair.org wo die grossen Medien Mythen über den Irak, wie z.B die angebliche Ausweisung der Inspektoren 1998 geklärt und richtig gestellt werden.
ISRAEL
Tagesanzeiger: Israelische Raketen gegen Palästinenserführer
Israel hat am Mittwoch erstmals seit vier Monaten wieder einen ranghohen Palästinenser im Gazastreifen durch einen Raketenangriff gezielt getötet. Zwei weitere Palästinenser wurden bei Hebron erschossen.
Um den mutmasslichen Militanten Mustafa Sabbah zu töten, feuerten israelische Kampfhelikopter auf ein Regierungsgebäude im Zentrum der Stadt Gaza. Aus israelischen Militärkreisen wurde bestätigt, dass der 34-jährige Sabbah gezielt «liquidiert» worden sei.
Er sei für Bombenanschläge auf israelische Panzer im Gazastreifen verantwortlich gewesen. Dabei seien im Frühjahr dieses Jahres insgesamt sieben Soldaten ums Leben gekommen. Die benutzten Bomben seien mit jeweils bis zu 100 Kilogramm Sprengstoff gefüllt gewesen.
Tagesanzeiger: Israelische Raketen gegen Palästinenserführer
Israel hat am Mittwoch erstmals seit vier Monaten wieder einen ranghohen Palästinenser im Gazastreifen durch einen Raketenangriff gezielt getötet. Zwei weitere Palästinenser wurden bei Hebron erschossen.
Um den mutmasslichen Militanten Mustafa Sabbah zu töten, feuerten israelische Kampfhelikopter auf ein Regierungsgebäude im Zentrum der Stadt Gaza. Aus israelischen Militärkreisen wurde bestätigt, dass der 34-jährige Sabbah gezielt «liquidiert» worden sei.
Er sei für Bombenanschläge auf israelische Panzer im Gazastreifen verantwortlich gewesen. Dabei seien im Frühjahr dieses Jahres insgesamt sieben Soldaten ums Leben gekommen. Die benutzten Bomben seien mit jeweils bis zu 100 Kilogramm Sprengstoff gefüllt gewesen.
SCHWEIZ
Tagesanzeiger: Aufrüsten für Telefonüberwachung
In Bern wird eine neue Überwachungszentrale eingerichtet. Die Ermittler wollen Telefone besser belauschen und endlich E-Mails mitlesen können.
Unter dem Titel «Projekt Metamorphose» rüstet der Dienst für besondere Aufgaben (DBA) in Bundesrat Leuenbergers Departement derzeit auf. 30 Millionen Franken, verteilt auf fünf Jahre, werden investiert, um richterlich angeordnete Telefon-, SMS- und E-Mail-Überwachung besser durchführen zu können. Geplant wird die neue Anlage bereits seit zwei Jahren. Im April 2003 soll es so weit sein: «Nicht nur die Kriminellen, auch die Strafverfolger profitieren dann von der technischen Entwicklung», erklärt Adrien de Werra, Leiter des DBA, stolz. Mit der Zentrale will der Abhördienst in eine neue Ära aufbrechen - sowohl was die Abhörkapazitäten als auch was das technisch Machbare betrifft.
"Dem BAP ist es schon länger möglich jeglichen email bzw. Daten-Verkehr der über Satelliten läuft zu überwachen und auszuwerten. Das Projekt heisst SATOS/COMSAT und funktioniert wie ECHOLON."
Tagesanzeiger: Aufrüsten für Telefonüberwachung
In Bern wird eine neue Überwachungszentrale eingerichtet. Die Ermittler wollen Telefone besser belauschen und endlich E-Mails mitlesen können.
Unter dem Titel «Projekt Metamorphose» rüstet der Dienst für besondere Aufgaben (DBA) in Bundesrat Leuenbergers Departement derzeit auf. 30 Millionen Franken, verteilt auf fünf Jahre, werden investiert, um richterlich angeordnete Telefon-, SMS- und E-Mail-Überwachung besser durchführen zu können. Geplant wird die neue Anlage bereits seit zwei Jahren. Im April 2003 soll es so weit sein: «Nicht nur die Kriminellen, auch die Strafverfolger profitieren dann von der technischen Entwicklung», erklärt Adrien de Werra, Leiter des DBA, stolz. Mit der Zentrale will der Abhördienst in eine neue Ära aufbrechen - sowohl was die Abhörkapazitäten als auch was das technisch Machbare betrifft.
"Dem BAP ist es schon länger möglich jeglichen email bzw. Daten-Verkehr der über Satelliten läuft zu überwachen und auszuwerten. Das Projekt heisst SATOS/COMSAT und funktioniert wie ECHOLON."
Wednesday, December 04, 2002
USA
Washington Post: Antiwar Effort Gains Momentum
Growing Peace Movement's Ranks Include Some Unlikely Allies
After large rallies in Washington and San Francisco on
Oct. 26, the next big day to test the antiwar movement's might is Dec. 10,
International Human Rights Day. Hundreds of groups plan events, rallies and
civil disobedience to capture the nation's attention, including
demonstrations in Lafayette Park across from the White House and at a
military recruitment center in downtown Washington. Otherwise, antiwar
groups, which tend to rely on the Internet to receive and spread
information, operate largely without the attention of the media or Capitol
Hill. Yet many of those speaking out against an attack on Iraq represent
large numbers of Americans, including John J. Sweeney, president of the
AFL-CIO (with 13 million members); the National Council of Churches (which
represents 36 Protestant and Orthodox denominations, with 50 million
members); and the National Conference of Catholic Bishops (the leadership
arm of 65 million Roman Catholics)."
Washington Post: Antiwar Effort Gains Momentum
Growing Peace Movement's Ranks Include Some Unlikely Allies
After large rallies in Washington and San Francisco on
Oct. 26, the next big day to test the antiwar movement's might is Dec. 10,
International Human Rights Day. Hundreds of groups plan events, rallies and
civil disobedience to capture the nation's attention, including
demonstrations in Lafayette Park across from the White House and at a
military recruitment center in downtown Washington. Otherwise, antiwar
groups, which tend to rely on the Internet to receive and spread
information, operate largely without the attention of the media or Capitol
Hill. Yet many of those speaking out against an attack on Iraq represent
large numbers of Americans, including John J. Sweeney, president of the
AFL-CIO (with 13 million members); the National Council of Churches (which
represents 36 Protestant and Orthodox denominations, with 50 million
members); and the National Conference of Catholic Bishops (the leadership
arm of 65 million Roman Catholics)."
USA
Truthout.org: Homeland Security Act: The Rise of the American Police State Part 1
Truthout.org: Homeland Security Act: The Rise of the American Police State Part 2
(*Editors Note | This is the first part of a three-part series on the Homeland Security Act (HSA). The first part reviews the origins of the Act in the Hart-Rudman Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations. Tomorrow, Part 2 will discuss Cheney's plan for global dominance and how that relates to homeland security. Wednesday, Part 3 will detail some of the HSA provisions themselves and briefly discuss what worries civil libertarians.)
Truthout.org: Homeland Security Act: The Rise of the American Police State Part 1
Truthout.org: Homeland Security Act: The Rise of the American Police State Part 2
(*Editors Note | This is the first part of a three-part series on the Homeland Security Act (HSA). The first part reviews the origins of the Act in the Hart-Rudman Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations. Tomorrow, Part 2 will discuss Cheney's plan for global dominance and how that relates to homeland security. Wednesday, Part 3 will detail some of the HSA provisions themselves and briefly discuss what worries civil libertarians.)
IRAK
Pravda: US Warplanes in Missile Attack on Iraqi Oil Refinery
Residents in Basra, southern Iraq, claim that US warplanes launched two missiles at an oil refinery on Sunday, killing at least eight people and injuring “around 20”. The offices of the oil-for-food programme were destroyed.
Passers-by were showered with splinters of glass as US warplanes inexplicably launched two missiles at a civilian target in Basra, a state-owned oil refinery. The eye-witness reports have not been confirmed by the Pentagon, which denies any knowledge of the incident.
Being true, this attack is a monstrous act of piracy, a criminal and murderous intrusion into the internal affairs of a sovereign nation, a violation of international law and of the rights of Iraq as a State, a heinous provocation at a time when diplomacy is the order of the day in the rest of the international community.
Timothy BANCROFT-HINCHEY
PRAVDA.Ru
Pravda: US Warplanes in Missile Attack on Iraqi Oil Refinery
Residents in Basra, southern Iraq, claim that US warplanes launched two missiles at an oil refinery on Sunday, killing at least eight people and injuring “around 20”. The offices of the oil-for-food programme were destroyed.
Passers-by were showered with splinters of glass as US warplanes inexplicably launched two missiles at a civilian target in Basra, a state-owned oil refinery. The eye-witness reports have not been confirmed by the Pentagon, which denies any knowledge of the incident.
Being true, this attack is a monstrous act of piracy, a criminal and murderous intrusion into the internal affairs of a sovereign nation, a violation of international law and of the rights of Iraq as a State, a heinous provocation at a time when diplomacy is the order of the day in the rest of the international community.
Timothy BANCROFT-HINCHEY
PRAVDA.Ru
IRAK
NY Times/ZMAG: A Modest Proposal by Noam Chomsky
AP: Chomsky's Proposal Causes Head Scratching
must read. Chomsky fängt an Satire zu schreiben und wirft neue Pläne für einen regime-change im Irak ins Feld
NY Times/ZMAG: A Modest Proposal by Noam Chomsky
AP: Chomsky's Proposal Causes Head Scratching
must read. Chomsky fängt an Satire zu schreiben und wirft neue Pläne für einen regime-change im Irak ins Feld
USA
Indymedia: Bush: Shoot Citizens, Ask Questions, Then Get A Lawyer (Maybe)
In what may be a landmark Supreme Court case to overturn the Miranda decision, the court is scheduled to hear arguments from Solicitor General Theodore Olsen on December 4, 2002.
Bush's political appointee intends to claim our government has the right to coerce information from a witness, as long as the evidence obtained isn't used at trial against the witness.
The landmark 1966 Miranda v. Arizona decision ruled that suspects could not be interrogated without first being advised of their rights to remain silent and to obtain an attorney. The wording of Miranda is familiar to all Americans who watch TV, and is assumed as a basic right. The Justice Department wants to change all that.
In other words, Olsen plans to argue the police can detain or arrest anyone for any reason and then beat you up or even shoot you to get information, even if there are no emergent circumstances.
In other countries, this is called torture. In our country, we have the 5th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution designed to prevent such horrendous abuses by the police.
"Sie haben das Recht zu Schweigen, alles was sie sagen kann gegen sie verwendet werden.......nicht mehr lange"
Indymedia: Bush: Shoot Citizens, Ask Questions, Then Get A Lawyer (Maybe)
In what may be a landmark Supreme Court case to overturn the Miranda decision, the court is scheduled to hear arguments from Solicitor General Theodore Olsen on December 4, 2002.
Bush's political appointee intends to claim our government has the right to coerce information from a witness, as long as the evidence obtained isn't used at trial against the witness.
The landmark 1966 Miranda v. Arizona decision ruled that suspects could not be interrogated without first being advised of their rights to remain silent and to obtain an attorney. The wording of Miranda is familiar to all Americans who watch TV, and is assumed as a basic right. The Justice Department wants to change all that.
In other words, Olsen plans to argue the police can detain or arrest anyone for any reason and then beat you up or even shoot you to get information, even if there are no emergent circumstances.
In other countries, this is called torture. In our country, we have the 5th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution designed to prevent such horrendous abuses by the police.
"Sie haben das Recht zu Schweigen, alles was sie sagen kann gegen sie verwendet werden.......nicht mehr lange"
ITALIEN
Tagesanzeiger: Dutzende Globalisierungsgegner verhaftet
In Italien findet zum zweiten Mal innerhalb von zwei Wochen eine Verhaftungswelle gegen Globalisierungsgegner statt. Die Staatsanwaltschaft von Genua erliess am Mittwoch Haftbefehle gegen 23 italienische Globalisierungsgegner.
mehr infos auf: Indymedia
Tagesanzeiger: Dutzende Globalisierungsgegner verhaftet
In Italien findet zum zweiten Mal innerhalb von zwei Wochen eine Verhaftungswelle gegen Globalisierungsgegner statt. Die Staatsanwaltschaft von Genua erliess am Mittwoch Haftbefehle gegen 23 italienische Globalisierungsgegner.
mehr infos auf: Indymedia
ISRAEL
Boycott Israeli Goodsbigcampaign.org
Aims:
Stand Up for Palestinian Human Rights!
Oppose Israeli Oppression!
Boycott Israeli Products!
For too long the world has ignored the relentless military oppression of the Palestinian people. Between the 29th of September 2000 and 14th May 2002, over 1,545* Palestinians have been killed and more than 19,206* injured by the Israeli army and settlers. The Government of Israel has intensified collective punishment on the Palestinian civilian population, laying siege to their land, preventing free movement and devastating the Palestinian economy. "Normal" life is impossible as people are unable to work, move around freely, attend school, get to hospitals, or to obtain water.
We call for mass consumer action, along the lines of the boycott of South African produce during the anti-apartheid campaign. By joining this boycott individuals and organisations can take concrete steps to stand up against the gross human rights violations by the Israeli State.
We, the undersigned, call for an immediate, unconditional lifting of the siege of the occupied territories, an end to the occupation, and the implementation of UN resolutions and international humanitarian law in relation to the Palestinian people.
We therefore support:
A boycott of Israeli products
A boycott of Israeli leisure tourism
An end to UK firms' investment in Israel
Suspension of British government trade agreements with Israel
Boycott Israeli Goodsbigcampaign.org
Aims:
Stand Up for Palestinian Human Rights!
Oppose Israeli Oppression!
Boycott Israeli Products!
For too long the world has ignored the relentless military oppression of the Palestinian people. Between the 29th of September 2000 and 14th May 2002, over 1,545* Palestinians have been killed and more than 19,206* injured by the Israeli army and settlers. The Government of Israel has intensified collective punishment on the Palestinian civilian population, laying siege to their land, preventing free movement and devastating the Palestinian economy. "Normal" life is impossible as people are unable to work, move around freely, attend school, get to hospitals, or to obtain water.
We call for mass consumer action, along the lines of the boycott of South African produce during the anti-apartheid campaign. By joining this boycott individuals and organisations can take concrete steps to stand up against the gross human rights violations by the Israeli State.
We, the undersigned, call for an immediate, unconditional lifting of the siege of the occupied territories, an end to the occupation, and the implementation of UN resolutions and international humanitarian law in relation to the Palestinian people.
We therefore support:
A boycott of Israeli products
A boycott of Israeli leisure tourism
An end to UK firms' investment in Israel
Suspension of British government trade agreements with Israel
ISRAEL
Independent: UN demands end to Israeli 'killing and beating' of staff
"United Nations workers issued a petition yesterday demanding the Israeli army stop the "harassment, beating and killing" of UN staff.
The petition comes less than two weeks after Iain Hook, a British UN worker, was shot dead by an Israeli soldier inside a UN compound as he tried to evacuate his staff.
"For two years, United Nations staff have been subject to escalating harassment and violence by Israel's military, so that the protection supposed to be afforded by the blue letters of the UN is being steadily eroded," said the petition, which was signed by 64 UN staff working in Israel and the occupied territories."
Independent: UN demands end to Israeli 'killing and beating' of staff
"United Nations workers issued a petition yesterday demanding the Israeli army stop the "harassment, beating and killing" of UN staff.
The petition comes less than two weeks after Iain Hook, a British UN worker, was shot dead by an Israeli soldier inside a UN compound as he tried to evacuate his staff.
"For two years, United Nations staff have been subject to escalating harassment and violence by Israel's military, so that the protection supposed to be afforded by the blue letters of the UN is being steadily eroded," said the petition, which was signed by 64 UN staff working in Israel and the occupied territories."
ISRAEL
Tagesanzeiger: Israel plant 14 neue Siedlungen
Israel will bis zur Parlamentswahl Ende Januar 14 neue Viertel in jüdischen Siedlungen im Westjordanland bauen, berichtete die israelische Zeitung «Maariv». Am Dienstag haben Israelische Soldaten eine 95 Jahre alte Palästinenserin erschossen.
Sie ignorieren UN-Resolutionen...sie besitzen mehr Massenvernichtungswaffen als Europa...sie halten sich nicht an Menscherechte oder die Genferkonventionen...nein nicht der Irak, die "Demokratie" Israel ist gemeint.
Tagesanzeiger: Israel plant 14 neue Siedlungen
Israel will bis zur Parlamentswahl Ende Januar 14 neue Viertel in jüdischen Siedlungen im Westjordanland bauen, berichtete die israelische Zeitung «Maariv». Am Dienstag haben Israelische Soldaten eine 95 Jahre alte Palästinenserin erschossen.
Sie ignorieren UN-Resolutionen...sie besitzen mehr Massenvernichtungswaffen als Europa...sie halten sich nicht an Menscherechte oder die Genferkonventionen...nein nicht der Irak, die "Demokratie" Israel ist gemeint.
SCHWEIZ
Tagesanzeiger: Micheline Calmy-Rey gewählt
Die neue Bundesrätin heisst Micheline Calmy-Rey. Im fünften Wahlgang erreichte die Genfer Staatsrätin 131 Stimmen bei einem absoluten Mehr von 100 Stimmen.
Die Schweiz hat eine neue Bundesrätin
Tagesanzeiger: Micheline Calmy-Rey gewählt
Die neue Bundesrätin heisst Micheline Calmy-Rey. Im fünften Wahlgang erreichte die Genfer Staatsrätin 131 Stimmen bei einem absoluten Mehr von 100 Stimmen.
Die Schweiz hat eine neue Bundesrätin
Monday, December 02, 2002
USA
They Spy: How Law Enforcement Is Keeping Tabs on The New Peace Movement
A.C. Thompson (Voices For Change)
21 Nov 02
Perhaps the story of Malaysia Airlines Flight 91 is a harbinger of things
to come for the nascent peace movement.
The Sept. 8 flight was poised to take off from Newark, N.J., for Dubai,
United Arab Emirates, and a final destination of Kabul, Afghanistan, when
agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation strode aboard. The G-men
escorted seven passengers off the plane and into a room where they were
interrogated for six hours. Flight 91 took off without the group.
Their offense? Signing up for a two-week "Reality Tour" of bomb-pocked
Afghanistan, a junket organized by San Francisco-based human rights group
Global Exchange.
"They wanted to know about Global Exchange," says one of the detainees,
Glenda Marsh, a Sacramento peace activist and state-employed biologist.
"They asked me if I'd heard the people I was traveling with make anti-
American statements."
Now Marsh is preparing to file a Freedom of Information Act request to see
if the FBI is compiling a dossier on her.
Hints of a new wave of COINTELPRO-style government surveillance first
surfaced in fall 1999 as protesters gearing up for the World Trade
Organization's meeting in Seattle complained about infiltration by
undercover cops and federal agents. After Sept. 11, 2001, the feds embarked
on an unprecedented and brazen campaign of domestic spying. Leading the
charge, Attorney General John Ashcroft signaled his intent to spy on law-
abiding religious congregations and political groups and pushed through the
USA PATRIOT Act, which vastly expanded the government's phone-tapping and
e-mail-monitoring powers and broke down barriers between the Central
Intelligence Agency and the FBI. Now there's mounting evidence that
government agents - returning to the ways of J. Edgar Hoover - are
monitoring political dissidents.
According to Steve Filandrinos, the Global Exchange staffer who organized
the tour, the FBI agents wanted to know why the group, which included five
Afghan Americans, was headed overseas and who was sending them there. The
tours, Filandrinos explains, "are a way to give Americans a chance to
connect with Afghans involved in the reconstruction process, to make sure
Americans know what's going on there, and to bear witness to the [U.S.-led]
bombing."
While the waylaid tourists eventually made it to Kabul, their fun with the
federal government wasn't over. Flying into Los Angeles International
Airport Sept. 20, one member of the group was grabbed by U.S. Customs
Service agents outside the airport, and another was called at home by the
FBI for more questioning eight days later.
The Global Exchange incident echoes the widely reported hassles of Jan
Adams and Rebecca Gordon, founders of War Times, a San Francisco
publication critical of President George W. Bush's passion for dropping
ordnance on foreign countries. On Aug. 7, Adams and Gordon were attempting
to fly from San Francisco to Boston when they were detained by police and
informed that their names were on a list of people under scrutiny by the
FBI. "We can only assume that the government is laboring under the
misapprehension that we're terrorists," Adams says.
Neither woman has ever been charged with any serious crime, though both
have been arrested for civil disobedience.
After calls to police headquarters and two searches by airport security,
Adams and Gordon were escorted onto the plane.
There are several ways all of this government scrutiny could play out. If
the new peace movement develops the muscle to paralyze major cities - à
la
antiglobalizers - it may find the feds doing more than discreetly keeping
tabs and occasionally pulling suspected troublemakers off airplanes.
There's the real possibility that FBI agents will covertly slip into the
movement with the aim of crippling it from within (a favored tactic in the
1960s against the Black Panthers and the New Left) or enticing more-
militant activists to participate in felonious behavior (as the bureau did
more recently with Earth First! and the militia and white separatist
movements).
"Surveillance and intelligence gathering are back," asserts Dennis
Cunningham, an attorney who has sued the FBI repeatedly, most recently on
behalf of Earth First!ers Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney. "What's to stop
them from engaging in disruptive activity designed to neutralize a
movement?"
Another possibility is that prosecutors could start collecting information
on movement leaders with an eye toward using the federal Racketeer
Influenced and Corrupt Organizations statute. Designed to take down mafiosi
and loaded with stiff penalties, RICO targets key members of groups that
engage in a pattern of criminal activity, and the case could be made that
protesters who repeatedly disrupt business as usual fit that bill. In fact,
that case has already been made: the RICO statute was employed by the
National Organization for Women in a 1998 civil suit against abortion
clinic blockaders in Chicago. The save-the-fetuses side lost and was
ordered to pay $255,000 in damages.
Ashcroft's baby, the PATRIOT Act, includes some language similar to that of
RICO, and could be put to use as well.
Cunningham speculates that "we'll see them use the PATRIOT Act first. They
want to put it to the test, see what they can do with it."
They Spy: How Law Enforcement Is Keeping Tabs on The New Peace Movement
A.C. Thompson (Voices For Change)
21 Nov 02
Perhaps the story of Malaysia Airlines Flight 91 is a harbinger of things
to come for the nascent peace movement.
The Sept. 8 flight was poised to take off from Newark, N.J., for Dubai,
United Arab Emirates, and a final destination of Kabul, Afghanistan, when
agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation strode aboard. The G-men
escorted seven passengers off the plane and into a room where they were
interrogated for six hours. Flight 91 took off without the group.
Their offense? Signing up for a two-week "Reality Tour" of bomb-pocked
Afghanistan, a junket organized by San Francisco-based human rights group
Global Exchange.
"They wanted to know about Global Exchange," says one of the detainees,
Glenda Marsh, a Sacramento peace activist and state-employed biologist.
"They asked me if I'd heard the people I was traveling with make anti-
American statements."
Now Marsh is preparing to file a Freedom of Information Act request to see
if the FBI is compiling a dossier on her.
Hints of a new wave of COINTELPRO-style government surveillance first
surfaced in fall 1999 as protesters gearing up for the World Trade
Organization's meeting in Seattle complained about infiltration by
undercover cops and federal agents. After Sept. 11, 2001, the feds embarked
on an unprecedented and brazen campaign of domestic spying. Leading the
charge, Attorney General John Ashcroft signaled his intent to spy on law-
abiding religious congregations and political groups and pushed through the
USA PATRIOT Act, which vastly expanded the government's phone-tapping and
e-mail-monitoring powers and broke down barriers between the Central
Intelligence Agency and the FBI. Now there's mounting evidence that
government agents - returning to the ways of J. Edgar Hoover - are
monitoring political dissidents.
According to Steve Filandrinos, the Global Exchange staffer who organized
the tour, the FBI agents wanted to know why the group, which included five
Afghan Americans, was headed overseas and who was sending them there. The
tours, Filandrinos explains, "are a way to give Americans a chance to
connect with Afghans involved in the reconstruction process, to make sure
Americans know what's going on there, and to bear witness to the [U.S.-led]
bombing."
While the waylaid tourists eventually made it to Kabul, their fun with the
federal government wasn't over. Flying into Los Angeles International
Airport Sept. 20, one member of the group was grabbed by U.S. Customs
Service agents outside the airport, and another was called at home by the
FBI for more questioning eight days later.
The Global Exchange incident echoes the widely reported hassles of Jan
Adams and Rebecca Gordon, founders of War Times, a San Francisco
publication critical of President George W. Bush's passion for dropping
ordnance on foreign countries. On Aug. 7, Adams and Gordon were attempting
to fly from San Francisco to Boston when they were detained by police and
informed that their names were on a list of people under scrutiny by the
FBI. "We can only assume that the government is laboring under the
misapprehension that we're terrorists," Adams says.
Neither woman has ever been charged with any serious crime, though both
have been arrested for civil disobedience.
After calls to police headquarters and two searches by airport security,
Adams and Gordon were escorted onto the plane.
There are several ways all of this government scrutiny could play out. If
the new peace movement develops the muscle to paralyze major cities - à
la
antiglobalizers - it may find the feds doing more than discreetly keeping
tabs and occasionally pulling suspected troublemakers off airplanes.
There's the real possibility that FBI agents will covertly slip into the
movement with the aim of crippling it from within (a favored tactic in the
1960s against the Black Panthers and the New Left) or enticing more-
militant activists to participate in felonious behavior (as the bureau did
more recently with Earth First! and the militia and white separatist
movements).
"Surveillance and intelligence gathering are back," asserts Dennis
Cunningham, an attorney who has sued the FBI repeatedly, most recently on
behalf of Earth First!ers Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney. "What's to stop
them from engaging in disruptive activity designed to neutralize a
movement?"
Another possibility is that prosecutors could start collecting information
on movement leaders with an eye toward using the federal Racketeer
Influenced and Corrupt Organizations statute. Designed to take down mafiosi
and loaded with stiff penalties, RICO targets key members of groups that
engage in a pattern of criminal activity, and the case could be made that
protesters who repeatedly disrupt business as usual fit that bill. In fact,
that case has already been made: the RICO statute was employed by the
National Organization for Women in a 1998 civil suit against abortion
clinic blockaders in Chicago. The save-the-fetuses side lost and was
ordered to pay $255,000 in damages.
Ashcroft's baby, the PATRIOT Act, includes some language similar to that of
RICO, and could be put to use as well.
Cunningham speculates that "we'll see them use the PATRIOT Act first. They
want to put it to the test, see what they can do with it."
TERROR
Independent: Robert Fisk: Ariel Sharon has walked into a trap. And we are following him
"Time was when Bali would have been the story of the year, the most violent act in 12 months, to be recalled with horror in December as the most terrible of crimes. But Bali was just the story of the month. And soon, perhaps, the Karachi bombings and the Bali bombings and the Mombasa bombings will be just stories of the week. See how easily we have acclimatised to death on a vast scale? What is to be this week's nightmare? How many innocents will be killed by the time you open next week's Independent on Sunday?
But last week's killings in Kenya and the attempt to bring down an Israeli airliner were far more important than most people realise. For by bringing Israel into the loop – by allowing Israel to become a partner in President Bush's asinine "war on terror" – al-Qa'ida has ensured that the Arab Muslim world will henceforth give its real if quiescent sympathy to Osama bin Laden. Outraged as many Arabs were at the international crimes against humanity of 11 September 2001, few will object to an attack against Israelis, however cruel, while Israel's suppression of the Palestinians continues. If al-Qa'ida is now against Israel, Arabs will give their support"
Independent: Robert Fisk: Ariel Sharon has walked into a trap. And we are following him
"Time was when Bali would have been the story of the year, the most violent act in 12 months, to be recalled with horror in December as the most terrible of crimes. But Bali was just the story of the month. And soon, perhaps, the Karachi bombings and the Bali bombings and the Mombasa bombings will be just stories of the week. See how easily we have acclimatised to death on a vast scale? What is to be this week's nightmare? How many innocents will be killed by the time you open next week's Independent on Sunday?
But last week's killings in Kenya and the attempt to bring down an Israeli airliner were far more important than most people realise. For by bringing Israel into the loop – by allowing Israel to become a partner in President Bush's asinine "war on terror" – al-Qa'ida has ensured that the Arab Muslim world will henceforth give its real if quiescent sympathy to Osama bin Laden. Outraged as many Arabs were at the international crimes against humanity of 11 September 2001, few will object to an attack against Israelis, however cruel, while Israel's suppression of the Palestinians continues. If al-Qa'ida is now against Israel, Arabs will give their support"
IRAK
BBC News: Iraq attack 'means third world war'
"A US attack on Iraq would mean "more Mombasas, more Balis," a former assistant secretary general of the United Nations says
The US will win the battle fairly quickly, but it will lose the war. This will be world war three, but it won't be like the first two - it'll be a global terror war," he said. .
BBC News: Iraq attack 'means third world war'
"A US attack on Iraq would mean "more Mombasas, more Balis," a former assistant secretary general of the United Nations says
The US will win the battle fairly quickly, but it will lose the war. This will be world war three, but it won't be like the first two - it'll be a global terror war," he said. .
Saturday, November 30, 2002
KENYA
Tagesanzeiger: Somalische Gruppe unter Verdacht
Die kenianische Polizei verhört im Zusammenhang mit den Anschlägen bei Mombasa zwölf Ausländer. Die USA haben eine islamische Gruppe aus Somalia mit Verbindungen zur al-Qaida im Visier.
Tagesanzeiger: Somalische Gruppe unter Verdacht
Die kenianische Polizei verhört im Zusammenhang mit den Anschlägen bei Mombasa zwölf Ausländer. Die USA haben eine islamische Gruppe aus Somalia mit Verbindungen zur al-Qaida im Visier.
WEF
Tagesanzeiger: WEF-Kompromiss in Gefahr
Die Organisatoren der WEF-Gegendemonstration drohen mit dem Abbruch des Dialogs mit den Behörden, weil in Davos Polizei und Armee das Sagen hätten
Die Behörden wollen zwar eine Demonstration erlauben aber beschränken den Transport zwischen Landquart und Davos auf 600 Personen pro Stunde
Tagesanzeiger: WEF-Kompromiss in Gefahr
Die Organisatoren der WEF-Gegendemonstration drohen mit dem Abbruch des Dialogs mit den Behörden, weil in Davos Polizei und Armee das Sagen hätten
Die Behörden wollen zwar eine Demonstration erlauben aber beschränken den Transport zwischen Landquart und Davos auf 600 Personen pro Stunde
Friday, November 29, 2002
ZÜRICH
Podium Gespräch mit Mutafa Barghouti in Zürich
Podiumsgespräch mit anschliessender Diskussion
anlässlich des internationalen Tages der Solidartität mit dem palästinensichen Volk
Am Samstag 30.11.2002 um 19 Uhr 30 im Volkshaus (weisser Saal)
Folgende Persönlichkeiten aus Palästina sind eingeladen
Mustafa Barghouti (Artz)
Michel Abdel Messin (Jurist)
Jawad Bulos (Anwalt von Maruan Barghouti)
Podium Gespräch mit Mutafa Barghouti in Zürich
Podiumsgespräch mit anschliessender Diskussion
anlässlich des internationalen Tages der Solidartität mit dem palästinensichen Volk
Am Samstag 30.11.2002 um 19 Uhr 30 im Volkshaus (weisser Saal)
Folgende Persönlichkeiten aus Palästina sind eingeladen
Mustafa Barghouti (Artz)
Michel Abdel Messin (Jurist)
Jawad Bulos (Anwalt von Maruan Barghouti)
Thursday, November 28, 2002
GENF
NOAM CHOMSKY IN GENEVA bak | 27.11.2002 17:30
Conference(s) given by NOAM CHOMSKY IN GENEVA
Conference given by Chomsky Noam in Geneva, on medias and democracy.
Place : Uni-Mail, room MR 080
Date : 11th december
Time : from 18pm to 20pm
Maybe another conference with Chomsky on an other subject will take place after the first one. I´ll give you more informations.
NOAM CHOMSKY IN GENEVA bak | 27.11.2002 17:30
Conference(s) given by NOAM CHOMSKY IN GENEVA
Conference given by Chomsky Noam in Geneva, on medias and democracy.
Place : Uni-Mail, room MR 080
Date : 11th december
Time : from 18pm to 20pm
Maybe another conference with Chomsky on an other subject will take place after the first one. I´ll give you more informations.
KENYA
Independent: Robert Fisk: Elusive Bin Laden still has the global reach to strike terror at will
'Do not believe for a moment that al-Qa'ida strategists haven't looked at targets in Britain'
"The "Army of Palestine", which claimed the attacks in Kenya, is assuredly mythical, though this claim of responsibility will be used by the Israelis"
"In future, any Israeli assault in the occupied West Bank and Gaza can be portrayed as part of the hunt for Bin Laden's men.
An Israeli air raid, no matter how many children it kills, can be depicted as no different to the US raids on Afghan villages."
"The pathetic "clash of civilisations" predicted in Samuel Huntington's book of the same name is as important to Bin Laden's followers as it is to the right-wing American Christian fundamentalists who make the revolting claim that the Prophet Mohamed was a paedophile.
Yesterday was another step in that direction."
Independent: Robert Fisk: Elusive Bin Laden still has the global reach to strike terror at will
'Do not believe for a moment that al-Qa'ida strategists haven't looked at targets in Britain'
"The "Army of Palestine", which claimed the attacks in Kenya, is assuredly mythical, though this claim of responsibility will be used by the Israelis"
"In future, any Israeli assault in the occupied West Bank and Gaza can be portrayed as part of the hunt for Bin Laden's men.
An Israeli air raid, no matter how many children it kills, can be depicted as no different to the US raids on Afghan villages."
"The pathetic "clash of civilisations" predicted in Samuel Huntington's book of the same name is as important to Bin Laden's followers as it is to the right-wing American Christian fundamentalists who make the revolting claim that the Prophet Mohamed was a paedophile.
Yesterday was another step in that direction."
IRAK
Independent: UN struggles to explain away presence of weapons inspector with S&M fetish
Nach Berichten im Independent hat der von der US-Regierung nominierte Waffeninspektor und ex secret-service officer Harvey John "Jack" McGeorge hat keinen Abschluss in irgendeinem Wissenschaftlich relevanten Gebiet aber dafür gibt er S&M und Bondage Kurse.
Independent: UN struggles to explain away presence of weapons inspector with S&M fetish
Nach Berichten im Independent hat der von der US-Regierung nominierte Waffeninspektor und ex secret-service officer Harvey John "Jack" McGeorge hat keinen Abschluss in irgendeinem Wissenschaftlich relevanten Gebiet aber dafür gibt er S&M und Bondage Kurse.
IRAK
Spiegel: Saddam lässt Waffenteile verstecken
Saddam Hussein will die Uno-Waffenkontrolleure offenbar überlisten. Der irakische Diktator befahl angeblich vielen Wissenschaftlern und sogar Bauern, Massenvernichtungswaffen zu verstecken.
Independent: Saddam ordered staff to hide arms, spies tell Blair
"Such leaks of intelligence-based material –in this case 10 days before the 8 December deadline by which Iraq is required by the UN to give a full list of WMD programmes – need to be treated with caution since there have been cases of misinformation in the past, sometimes directed at Iraqi opinion. During the Gulf War, Western diplomats disseminated reports, which turned out to be unfounded, that the flight of Iraqi aircraft to Iran had followed an unsuccessful coup in Baghdad."
PROPAGANDA
Spiegel: Saddam lässt Waffenteile verstecken
Saddam Hussein will die Uno-Waffenkontrolleure offenbar überlisten. Der irakische Diktator befahl angeblich vielen Wissenschaftlern und sogar Bauern, Massenvernichtungswaffen zu verstecken.
Independent: Saddam ordered staff to hide arms, spies tell Blair
"Such leaks of intelligence-based material –in this case 10 days before the 8 December deadline by which Iraq is required by the UN to give a full list of WMD programmes – need to be treated with caution since there have been cases of misinformation in the past, sometimes directed at Iraqi opinion. During the Gulf War, Western diplomats disseminated reports, which turned out to be unfounded, that the flight of Iraqi aircraft to Iran had followed an unsuccessful coup in Baghdad."
PROPAGANDA
TERROR
Independent: Robert Fisk: Bin Laden is alive.
There can be no doubt about it. But the questions remain: where on earth is he, and why has he resurfaced now?
Independent: Robert Fisk: Bin Laden is alive.
There can be no doubt about it. But the questions remain: where on earth is he, and why has he resurfaced now?
ISRAEL
Independent: UN rejects Israeli account of British official's killing
Israel hat letzte Woche aus "Versehen" einen UN-Mitarbeiter erschossen. Israel hat gesagt der UN-Mitarbeiter sei während eines Feuergefechts erschossen worden. Die UNO weist diese Darstellung zurück.
Independent: UN rejects Israeli account of British official's killing
Israel hat letzte Woche aus "Versehen" einen UN-Mitarbeiter erschossen. Israel hat gesagt der UN-Mitarbeiter sei während eines Feuergefechts erschossen worden. Die UNO weist diese Darstellung zurück.
TERROR IN KENYA
Spiegel: Palästinensische Gruppe bekennt sich zu Anschlägen
Die bislang unbekannte Palästinensergruppe "Armee Palästinas" hat sich zu den beiden Terroranschlägen in Mombasa bekannt. Bei einem Selbstmordattentat auf ein überwiegend von Israelis besuchtes Hotel in der Hafenstadt starben mindestens 13 Menschen. Zeitgleich wurden Raketen auf ein israelisches Passagierflugzeug abgeschossen.
Tages-Anzeiger: Unbekannte Gruppe bekennt sich zu Anschlägen
In Kenia sind zwei Terroranschläge gegen israelische Einrichtungen verübt worden. Mindestens 15 Menschen wurden getötet. Eine bisher unbekannte Gruppe namens «Armee Palästinas» hat sich zu den Anschlägen bekannt.
Haaretzdaily: 3 Israelis dead in Kenya blast; Arkia plane attacked
Ny Times: Missiles Fired at Passenger Jet; Car Bomb Detonates at Hotel
Spiegel: Palästinensische Gruppe bekennt sich zu Anschlägen
Die bislang unbekannte Palästinensergruppe "Armee Palästinas" hat sich zu den beiden Terroranschlägen in Mombasa bekannt. Bei einem Selbstmordattentat auf ein überwiegend von Israelis besuchtes Hotel in der Hafenstadt starben mindestens 13 Menschen. Zeitgleich wurden Raketen auf ein israelisches Passagierflugzeug abgeschossen.
Tages-Anzeiger: Unbekannte Gruppe bekennt sich zu Anschlägen
In Kenia sind zwei Terroranschläge gegen israelische Einrichtungen verübt worden. Mindestens 15 Menschen wurden getötet. Eine bisher unbekannte Gruppe namens «Armee Palästinas» hat sich zu den Anschlägen bekannt.
Haaretzdaily: 3 Israelis dead in Kenya blast; Arkia plane attacked
Ny Times: Missiles Fired at Passenger Jet; Car Bomb Detonates at Hotel
9/11
Slate MSN: The Latest Kissinger Outrage
Why is a proven liar and wanted man in charge of the 9/11 investigation?
Nachdem das Weisse Haus eine "unabhängige" Untersuchungskommison zu den Anschlägen vom 11. September während mehrerer Monate abgelehnt hat, haben sie nun bekanntgegeben das der Kriegsverbrecher Henry Kissinger der Kommision vorsitzen wird.
Slate MSN: The Latest Kissinger Outrage
Why is a proven liar and wanted man in charge of the 9/11 investigation?
Nachdem das Weisse Haus eine "unabhängige" Untersuchungskommison zu den Anschlägen vom 11. September während mehrerer Monate abgelehnt hat, haben sie nun bekanntgegeben das der Kriegsverbrecher Henry Kissinger der Kommision vorsitzen wird.
ISRAEL
Al-Ahram: Edward Said: Israel, Iraq, and the United States
America marches to war as if in a trance. We must do everything in our power to slow down and finally stop the recourse to war that has now become a theory and not just a practice, writes Edward Said
Al-Ahram: Edward Said: Israel, Iraq, and the United States
America marches to war as if in a trance. We must do everything in our power to slow down and finally stop the recourse to war that has now become a theory and not just a practice, writes Edward Said
PROPAGANDA
Propagandacritic.com: How Newt Gingrich used these techniques
TALK LIKE NEWT
This example occurred more than ten years ago, but it is one of the most striking applications of propaganda techniques in recent memory. A popular Republican politician on his way to the top, Newt Gingrich clearly understood the power of propaganda. His political action committee (GOPAC) mailed a pamphlet entitled Language, A Key Mechanism of Control to Republicans across the country. The booklet offered rhetorical advice to Republican candidates who wanted to "speak like Newt." It was subsequently awarded a Doublespeak Award by the National Conference of Teachers of English in 1990.
The booklet contained two lists of words. GOP candidates were instructed to use one set of "positive, governing words," (glittering generalities) when speaking about themselves. A second set of negative words (name-calling words) were to be used against their opponents.
View the glittering generalities.
View the name-calling words.
A brief glance at the words on Gingrich's lists suggests that they continue to be powerful tools in American political discourse. Words such as "vision, courage, lead, learn, commitment, empower, and freedom" are common to politicians on all sides of the political spectrum. Call-in radio hosts regularly use words like "ideological, liberal, bureaucracy, crisis, endanger, and lie" to discredit certain ideas.
Propagandacritic.com: How Newt Gingrich used these techniques
TALK LIKE NEWT
This example occurred more than ten years ago, but it is one of the most striking applications of propaganda techniques in recent memory. A popular Republican politician on his way to the top, Newt Gingrich clearly understood the power of propaganda. His political action committee (GOPAC) mailed a pamphlet entitled Language, A Key Mechanism of Control to Republicans across the country. The booklet offered rhetorical advice to Republican candidates who wanted to "speak like Newt." It was subsequently awarded a Doublespeak Award by the National Conference of Teachers of English in 1990.
The booklet contained two lists of words. GOP candidates were instructed to use one set of "positive, governing words," (glittering generalities) when speaking about themselves. A second set of negative words (name-calling words) were to be used against their opponents.
View the glittering generalities.
View the name-calling words.
A brief glance at the words on Gingrich's lists suggests that they continue to be powerful tools in American political discourse. Words such as "vision, courage, lead, learn, commitment, empower, and freedom" are common to politicians on all sides of the political spectrum. Call-in radio hosts regularly use words like "ideological, liberal, bureaucracy, crisis, endanger, and lie" to discredit certain ideas.
1984
The Republican:
Bush Government "Out of Control"
By Chuck Baldwin
Disrtbuted by The Republican
November 22, 2002
Back in August, columnist Paul Craig Roberts asked the question, "Is a vote for Republicans a vote for a police state?" The answer seems to be a resounding yes! The Bush administration seems determined to turn our country into the most elaborate and sophisticated police state ever devised.
Things are so bad that outgoing house majority leader Dick Armey said that under Bush the federal government is "out of control." In fact, the conservative congressman is reported to be seriously considering taking a position with the ACLU in order to help fight the federal government's usurpation of constitutionally protected liberties. Does that mean one must leave the Republican Party in order to fight for liberty? Maybe so.
According to News Max, "Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-CO) is being targeted for defeat - not by the Democrats, but by the GOP establishment." Why? Tancredo is the country's most outspoken critic of Bush's accommodations of illegal aliens. In other words, it's not enough to be a conservative Republican; one must be absolutely loyal to the fuehrer, George Bush, and to his brand of big government Republicanism. Tancredo's not, so he's on his way out.
Furthermore, columnist William Safire recently warned against Bush's Homeland Security Act. In a column written for the New York Times Safire said, "Every purchase you make with a credit card, every magazine subscription you buy and medical prescription you fill, every Web site you visit and e-mail you send or receive, every academic grade you receive, every bank deposit you make, every trip you book and every event you attend - all these transactions and communications will go into what the Defense Department describes as 'a virtual, centralized grand database.'"
Safire continued, "To this computerized dossier on your private life from commercial sources, add every piece of information that government has about you - passports, driver's license and bridge toll records, judicial and divorce records, complaints from nosy neighbors to the FBI, your lifetime paper trail plus the latest hidden camera surveillance - and you have the supersnoop's dream: a 'Total Information Awareness' about every U.S. citizen."
In another account, The Seattle Times recently reported, "The USA Patriot Act remains shrouded in complexity and secrecy. Bush administration officials won't say how it has been used."
The Times continued by saying, "The CIA and FBI for the first time ever are allowed to mix foreign intelligence with law enforcement on U.S. soil. Citing the act, Attorney General John Ashcroft also authorized FBI agents to spy on domestic groups without having to show evidence of a crime."
The tyrannical tendencies of old King George III of England cannot hold a candle to the Machiavellian machinations of King George XLIII of the United States. Unfortunately, there are few Paul Reveres around to sound an alarm. Unless contemporary patriots act quickly, Republicans, not Democrats, will be the ones that ultimately dismantle our constitution and trample our liberties.
© Chuck Baldwin -- http://www.chuckbaldwinlive.com
The Republican ist die Hauszeitschrift der Republikanischen Partei...
The Republican:
Bush Government "Out of Control"
By Chuck Baldwin
Disrtbuted by The Republican
November 22, 2002
Back in August, columnist Paul Craig Roberts asked the question, "Is a vote for Republicans a vote for a police state?" The answer seems to be a resounding yes! The Bush administration seems determined to turn our country into the most elaborate and sophisticated police state ever devised.
Things are so bad that outgoing house majority leader Dick Armey said that under Bush the federal government is "out of control." In fact, the conservative congressman is reported to be seriously considering taking a position with the ACLU in order to help fight the federal government's usurpation of constitutionally protected liberties. Does that mean one must leave the Republican Party in order to fight for liberty? Maybe so.
According to News Max, "Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-CO) is being targeted for defeat - not by the Democrats, but by the GOP establishment." Why? Tancredo is the country's most outspoken critic of Bush's accommodations of illegal aliens. In other words, it's not enough to be a conservative Republican; one must be absolutely loyal to the fuehrer, George Bush, and to his brand of big government Republicanism. Tancredo's not, so he's on his way out.
Furthermore, columnist William Safire recently warned against Bush's Homeland Security Act. In a column written for the New York Times Safire said, "Every purchase you make with a credit card, every magazine subscription you buy and medical prescription you fill, every Web site you visit and e-mail you send or receive, every academic grade you receive, every bank deposit you make, every trip you book and every event you attend - all these transactions and communications will go into what the Defense Department describes as 'a virtual, centralized grand database.'"
Safire continued, "To this computerized dossier on your private life from commercial sources, add every piece of information that government has about you - passports, driver's license and bridge toll records, judicial and divorce records, complaints from nosy neighbors to the FBI, your lifetime paper trail plus the latest hidden camera surveillance - and you have the supersnoop's dream: a 'Total Information Awareness' about every U.S. citizen."
In another account, The Seattle Times recently reported, "The USA Patriot Act remains shrouded in complexity and secrecy. Bush administration officials won't say how it has been used."
The Times continued by saying, "The CIA and FBI for the first time ever are allowed to mix foreign intelligence with law enforcement on U.S. soil. Citing the act, Attorney General John Ashcroft also authorized FBI agents to spy on domestic groups without having to show evidence of a crime."
The tyrannical tendencies of old King George III of England cannot hold a candle to the Machiavellian machinations of King George XLIII of the United States. Unfortunately, there are few Paul Reveres around to sound an alarm. Unless contemporary patriots act quickly, Republicans, not Democrats, will be the ones that ultimately dismantle our constitution and trample our liberties.
© Chuck Baldwin -- http://www.chuckbaldwinlive.com
The Republican ist die Hauszeitschrift der Republikanischen Partei...
NATO
What's Left
War, NATO expansion and the other rackets of Bruce P. Jackson
"Interessanter Artikel über die Nato-Osterweiterung der Fragen aufwirft. Wieso wird die Nato erweitert wenn es keine Bedrohungszenarien gibt?Wieso ist nötig den Militärhaushalt zu verdoppeln wenn klar ist das mit dem Militär kein asymetrischer Konflikt zu gewinnen ist?"
What's Left
War, NATO expansion and the other rackets of Bruce P. Jackson
"Interessanter Artikel über die Nato-Osterweiterung der Fragen aufwirft. Wieso wird die Nato erweitert wenn es keine Bedrohungszenarien gibt?Wieso ist nötig den Militärhaushalt zu verdoppeln wenn klar ist das mit dem Militär kein asymetrischer Konflikt zu gewinnen ist?"
USA
NY Post: U.S. SECRETLY LOADS UP ON OIL IN CASE OF WAR
"WASHINGTON - With weapons inspectors due to arrive in Iraq today, America has quietly stockpiled a historic quantity of oil - readying itself in case a war disrupts the supply. "
NY Post: U.S. SECRETLY LOADS UP ON OIL IN CASE OF WAR
"WASHINGTON - With weapons inspectors due to arrive in Iraq today, America has quietly stockpiled a historic quantity of oil - readying itself in case a war disrupts the supply. "
Monday, November 25, 2002
INFORMATION AWARENESS OFFICE
Sonntagszeitung: Amerikanischer Schnüffelguru löst Proteststurm aus
Ein verurteilter Lügner plant im Auftrag der US-Regierung die Totalüberwachung des Internets
Sonntagszeitung: Amerikanischer Schnüffelguru löst Proteststurm aus
Ein verurteilter Lügner plant im Auftrag der US-Regierung die Totalüberwachung des Internets
Wednesday, November 20, 2002
Tuesday, November 19, 2002
INFORAMTION AWARENESS OFFICE
Sienta est potentia
NY Times: You Are a Suspect
"If the Homeland Security Act is not amended before passage, here is what will happen to you:
Every purchase you make with a credit card, every magazine subscription you buy and medical prescription you fill, every Web site you visit and e-mail you send or receive, every academic grade you receive, every bank deposit you make, every trip you book and every event you attend — all these transactions and communications will go into what the Defense Department describes as "a virtual, centralized grand database."
Washington Post: 'A supersnoop's dream'
Offizielle Seite der Darpa (Information Awarness Office)
George W. Bush und seine Ölbusiness-Freunde scheinen den Roman 1984 ziemlich genau gelesen zu haben. Den "ewigen" Krieg führen sie bereits. Jetzt wird die Bevölkerung überwacht. Die US-Regierung möchte ein neues "Information Awarness Office" aufbauen um Terroristen in den USA zu entdecken. In 1984 heisst das ganze noch "Wahrheitsministerium".
Die ganze Aktion geht von einem gewissen Mr. Poindexter (Ex-Sicherheitsberater von Ronald Reagen) aus, der in den 80er Jahren in den Iran-Contra Skandal verwickelt war und vom US-Kongress wegen "Irreführung des Kongresses", "Verschwörung" und "Falschaussagen" verurteilt wurde.
Jetzt soll jeder US-Bürger mit allen zur Verfügung stehenden Mitteln totalüberwacht werden.
Überwacht werden soll folgendes:
Alle Kreditkarten Transaktionen...was man kauft, wann man kauft, wo man kauft
Alle Zeitschriften Abonnomente...
Jede Website die man besucht
Jede E-Mail Nachricht die gesendet oder empfangen wird.
Jede Note die man in der Schule..College usw. kriegt
Jeder Bankomatbezug...Wann..Wieviel..Wo
Jeden Flug den man bucht...wer mit einem fliegt...wer im Flugzeug neben dir sitzt
Jede Fahrt mit dem Auto bei der man Autobahngebühren usw. bezahlen muss
Jedes mal wenn man in einem Parkhaus parkiert...Wann...Wo..
Jede Kontobewegung
Jeder Telefonanruf...Wo man war..mit wem man spricht
Jegliche Gerichtsfälle in denen man Involviert war...Scheidungen..Unfälle
Jedes Buch das man in der Bibliothek ausleiht...
Jedes Buch das man üner Kreditkarten kauft oder im Internet bestellt
Jeden Krankenhaus oder Arztbesuch
Die Liste könnte man beliebig verlängern....Big George is watching You...kann mir jemand erklären wieso die darpa Jungs unbedingt ein Illuminaten Logo mit Pyramide und Auge wählen mussten? Ausserdem hat auch die Abkürzung "I.A.O" eine grosse Bedeutung für Esoterikheinis, es ist eine magische Formel für Irgendwas...ich habe allerdings nicht genau nachgesehen.... Da wird man automatisch Paranoid.
Nico das gibt ein ziemlich grosses Dossier über dich
Sienta est potentia
NY Times: You Are a Suspect
"If the Homeland Security Act is not amended before passage, here is what will happen to you:
Every purchase you make with a credit card, every magazine subscription you buy and medical prescription you fill, every Web site you visit and e-mail you send or receive, every academic grade you receive, every bank deposit you make, every trip you book and every event you attend — all these transactions and communications will go into what the Defense Department describes as "a virtual, centralized grand database."
Washington Post: 'A supersnoop's dream'
Offizielle Seite der Darpa (Information Awarness Office)
George W. Bush und seine Ölbusiness-Freunde scheinen den Roman 1984 ziemlich genau gelesen zu haben. Den "ewigen" Krieg führen sie bereits. Jetzt wird die Bevölkerung überwacht. Die US-Regierung möchte ein neues "Information Awarness Office" aufbauen um Terroristen in den USA zu entdecken. In 1984 heisst das ganze noch "Wahrheitsministerium".
Die ganze Aktion geht von einem gewissen Mr. Poindexter (Ex-Sicherheitsberater von Ronald Reagen) aus, der in den 80er Jahren in den Iran-Contra Skandal verwickelt war und vom US-Kongress wegen "Irreführung des Kongresses", "Verschwörung" und "Falschaussagen" verurteilt wurde.
Jetzt soll jeder US-Bürger mit allen zur Verfügung stehenden Mitteln totalüberwacht werden.
Überwacht werden soll folgendes:
Alle Kreditkarten Transaktionen...was man kauft, wann man kauft, wo man kauft
Alle Zeitschriften Abonnomente...
Jede Website die man besucht
Jede E-Mail Nachricht die gesendet oder empfangen wird.
Jede Note die man in der Schule..College usw. kriegt
Jeder Bankomatbezug...Wann..Wieviel..Wo
Jeden Flug den man bucht...wer mit einem fliegt...wer im Flugzeug neben dir sitzt
Jede Fahrt mit dem Auto bei der man Autobahngebühren usw. bezahlen muss
Jedes mal wenn man in einem Parkhaus parkiert...Wann...Wo..
Jede Kontobewegung
Jeder Telefonanruf...Wo man war..mit wem man spricht
Jegliche Gerichtsfälle in denen man Involviert war...Scheidungen..Unfälle
Jedes Buch das man in der Bibliothek ausleiht...
Jedes Buch das man üner Kreditkarten kauft oder im Internet bestellt
Jeden Krankenhaus oder Arztbesuch
Die Liste könnte man beliebig verlängern....Big George is watching You...kann mir jemand erklären wieso die darpa Jungs unbedingt ein Illuminaten Logo mit Pyramide und Auge wählen mussten? Ausserdem hat auch die Abkürzung "I.A.O" eine grosse Bedeutung für Esoterikheinis, es ist eine magische Formel für Irgendwas...ich habe allerdings nicht genau nachgesehen.... Da wird man automatisch Paranoid.
Nico das gibt ein ziemlich grosses Dossier über dich
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