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. "
Tuesday, December 10, 2002
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
IRAK
Die Inspektoren sind in Baghdad angekommen. Derweil meldet Reuters das der UN- Chefinspektor Hans Blix nicht aussschliessen könne dass sich möglicherweise Spione in seinem Team befänden. Er sagte weiter dass alle Geheimdienstmitarbeiter die entdeckt würden aus dem Team ausgeschlossen werden.
Zur Erinnerung 1998 wurden die Inspektoren aus dem Irak zurückgezogen und nicht wie oft behaupten vom Irak ausgewiesen, weil die USA in den Inspektions Teams Spione platziert hatten und dies bekannt geworden war.
Washington Post: Annan Suspicious Of UNSCOM Role vom 6. Januar 1999
Washington Post: U.S. Spied on Iraq Via U.N. vom 2. März 1999
Die Inspektoren sind in Baghdad angekommen. Derweil meldet Reuters das der UN- Chefinspektor Hans Blix nicht aussschliessen könne dass sich möglicherweise Spione in seinem Team befänden. Er sagte weiter dass alle Geheimdienstmitarbeiter die entdeckt würden aus dem Team ausgeschlossen werden.
Zur Erinnerung 1998 wurden die Inspektoren aus dem Irak zurückgezogen und nicht wie oft behaupten vom Irak ausgewiesen, weil die USA in den Inspektions Teams Spione platziert hatten und dies bekannt geworden war.
Washington Post: Annan Suspicious Of UNSCOM Role vom 6. Januar 1999
Washington Post: U.S. Spied on Iraq Via U.N. vom 2. März 1999
KOLUMBIEN
Narconews: Marines Ordered into Colombia
IQUITOS, PERÚ—Two battalions of US Marine Jungle Expeditionary Forces have recently received deployment orders for insertion into Colombia this coming February, 2003.
"According to reliable sources, the battalions, which with support will total roughly 1,100 men, will rotate in and out of southern Colombia, with orders to eliminate all high officers of the FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia), scattering those who escape to the remote corners of the Amazon. The FARC hierarchy has been the subject of intensive US intelligence scrutiny for several years. The offensive will mean that the US is fighting wars on three fronts simultaneously: Afghanistan, Iraq and Colombia."
Möglicherweise ist das nächste Ziel im Krieg gegen den Terror Kolumbien. Ob man die FARC als Terroristen bezeichen kann ist fragwürdig da sie mit den gleichen verbotenen Mitteln kämpfen wie die Kolumbianischen Regierungstruppen resp. die von der Regierung unterstützten Paramilitärs...
Narconews: Marines Ordered into Colombia
IQUITOS, PERÚ—Two battalions of US Marine Jungle Expeditionary Forces have recently received deployment orders for insertion into Colombia this coming February, 2003.
"According to reliable sources, the battalions, which with support will total roughly 1,100 men, will rotate in and out of southern Colombia, with orders to eliminate all high officers of the FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia), scattering those who escape to the remote corners of the Amazon. The FARC hierarchy has been the subject of intensive US intelligence scrutiny for several years. The offensive will mean that the US is fighting wars on three fronts simultaneously: Afghanistan, Iraq and Colombia."
Möglicherweise ist das nächste Ziel im Krieg gegen den Terror Kolumbien. Ob man die FARC als Terroristen bezeichen kann ist fragwürdig da sie mit den gleichen verbotenen Mitteln kämpfen wie die Kolumbianischen Regierungstruppen resp. die von der Regierung unterstützten Paramilitärs...
ISRAEL
Sianews: The Cost of Israel to U.S. Taxpayers: True Lies About U.S. Aid to Israel
Artikel über die Jüdische Lobby in den USA. Israel bekommt über 5 Milliarden Auslandhilfe pro Jahr....für 6 Millionen Leute. Wieso?
Sianews: The Cost of Israel to U.S. Taxpayers: True Lies About U.S. Aid to Israel
Artikel über die Jüdische Lobby in den USA. Israel bekommt über 5 Milliarden Auslandhilfe pro Jahr....für 6 Millionen Leute. Wieso?
NATO
Guardian: The US will be legislator, judge and executioner
"The Nato summit in Prague this week will determine the security interests of European countries, including Britain, for decades to come. It will determine what strategic direction they should take. It could determine when European countries go to war and when to keep the peace. These decisions will be made not by sovereign nations but by the United States. "
Guardian: The US will be legislator, judge and executioner
"The Nato summit in Prague this week will determine the security interests of European countries, including Britain, for decades to come. It will determine what strategic direction they should take. It could determine when European countries go to war and when to keep the peace. These decisions will be made not by sovereign nations but by the United States. "
IRAK
Tages Anzeiger: Uno-Inspektoren in Bagdad
Die ersten Waffeninspekteure der UNO sind im Irak angekommen
San Francisco Chronical: Weapons inspection is all a game
"The Bush administration has no intention of disarming Iraq through inspection," says Ritter, who was a U.N. arms inspector in Iraq for seven years. "Their intention is regime removal and using the weapons inspections as a way to trigger military action that will achieve regime removal, which in itself violates international law. The inspections process is a sham."
Artikel über Scott Ritter der 7 Jahre lang Waffeninspektor im Irak war.
Tages Anzeiger: Uno-Inspektoren in Bagdad
Die ersten Waffeninspekteure der UNO sind im Irak angekommen
San Francisco Chronical: Weapons inspection is all a game
"The Bush administration has no intention of disarming Iraq through inspection," says Ritter, who was a U.N. arms inspector in Iraq for seven years. "Their intention is regime removal and using the weapons inspections as a way to trigger military action that will achieve regime removal, which in itself violates international law. The inspections process is a sham."
Artikel über Scott Ritter der 7 Jahre lang Waffeninspektor im Irak war.
Saturday, November 16, 2002
Tschetschenien
Newsweek: Under the Jackboot
Russia's 'forgotten war' in Chechnya turns uglier-and looks increasingly likely to spread beyond its borders. A report from the front
Lest diesen Artikel.
Newsweek: Under the Jackboot
Russia's 'forgotten war' in Chechnya turns uglier-and looks increasingly likely to spread beyond its borders. A report from the front
Lest diesen Artikel.
IRAN
indymedia: Die Studentenproteste gegen das Mullah Regime dauern an.
Kurznachrichten, 14.11.2002
Die Studentenproteste gegen das Mullah-Regime dauern seit sechs Tagen an. Studenten aus anderen iranischen Städten schließen sich den Protesten an.
AFP: „Bei den Studentenprotesten geht es um mehr als nur das Todesurteil gegen Aghadjari“.
Die staatliche Tageszeitung Resalat räumt ein, dass die Studenten das Todesurteil gegen Aghadjari zum Anlass genommen haben, um gegen die gesamte Führung des Mullah-Regimes zu protestieren. „Sie fordern die Freilassung politischer Gefangener sowie den Rücktritt von Khatami“, so die Zeitung weiter.
Der Sprecher des Khatami-Kabinett droht die Studenten mit der Niederschlagung der Protestbewegung.
Der Minister für Wissenschaften im Khatami-Kabinett fordert aus Angst vor Ausweitung der Demonstrationen die Unterdrückungskräfte des Mullah-Regimes auf, die Studentenproteste auf dem Uni-Gelände einzuschränken.
Die Nachrichtenagentur AP berichtet über den Entwurf des NWRI für die Bildung einer Nationalen Solidaritätsfront gegen das Mullah-Regime.
Die amerikanische Zeitschrift National Review: „Khatami ist am Ende und das iranische Regime versinkt in großem Sumpf“.
Die barbarische Hinrichtungswelle unter der Mullah-Herrschaft im Iran dauert unvermindert an:
- Ein Jugendlicher namens Mustafa wurde von einem Mullah-Gericht in Teheran zum Tode verurteilt.
- Der höchste Gerichtshof des Mullah-Regimes bestätigte das Todesurteil gegen einen Mann namens Hushang.
- Ein Mann namens Gholamreza wurde ebenfalls von einem Mullah-Gericht in Teheran zum Tode verurteilt.
- Ein 21-jähriger namens Ali A. wurde in der Stadt Ghom öffentlich gehängt.
- 42 junge Männer und Frauen wurden in Karadj verhaftet, weil sie gefeiert hatten
homepage: http://www.ihambastegi-baraie-iran.org
indymedia: Die Studentenproteste gegen das Mullah Regime dauern an.
Kurznachrichten, 14.11.2002
Die Studentenproteste gegen das Mullah-Regime dauern seit sechs Tagen an. Studenten aus anderen iranischen Städten schließen sich den Protesten an.
AFP: „Bei den Studentenprotesten geht es um mehr als nur das Todesurteil gegen Aghadjari“.
Die staatliche Tageszeitung Resalat räumt ein, dass die Studenten das Todesurteil gegen Aghadjari zum Anlass genommen haben, um gegen die gesamte Führung des Mullah-Regimes zu protestieren. „Sie fordern die Freilassung politischer Gefangener sowie den Rücktritt von Khatami“, so die Zeitung weiter.
Der Sprecher des Khatami-Kabinett droht die Studenten mit der Niederschlagung der Protestbewegung.
Der Minister für Wissenschaften im Khatami-Kabinett fordert aus Angst vor Ausweitung der Demonstrationen die Unterdrückungskräfte des Mullah-Regimes auf, die Studentenproteste auf dem Uni-Gelände einzuschränken.
Die Nachrichtenagentur AP berichtet über den Entwurf des NWRI für die Bildung einer Nationalen Solidaritätsfront gegen das Mullah-Regime.
Die amerikanische Zeitschrift National Review: „Khatami ist am Ende und das iranische Regime versinkt in großem Sumpf“.
Die barbarische Hinrichtungswelle unter der Mullah-Herrschaft im Iran dauert unvermindert an:
- Ein Jugendlicher namens Mustafa wurde von einem Mullah-Gericht in Teheran zum Tode verurteilt.
- Der höchste Gerichtshof des Mullah-Regimes bestätigte das Todesurteil gegen einen Mann namens Hushang.
- Ein Mann namens Gholamreza wurde ebenfalls von einem Mullah-Gericht in Teheran zum Tode verurteilt.
- Ein 21-jähriger namens Ali A. wurde in der Stadt Ghom öffentlich gehängt.
- 42 junge Männer und Frauen wurden in Karadj verhaftet, weil sie gefeiert hatten
homepage: http://www.ihambastegi-baraie-iran.org
Friday, November 15, 2002
WORLD WAR III
Asia Times: THE ROVING EYE (Der Artikel ist nicht mehr online)
Der folgende Artikel stammt von der Asia Times. Er erschien am 15.11.2002 ist aber mittlerweile nicht mehr online da es sich möglicherweise um einen fake handelt. Ich habe mal ein bisschen research gemacht. Über den angeblichen al-qaida top-3-mann Mohammed al-Usuquf habe ich nichts aber auch gar nichts gefunden. Den Verfasser des Artikels Pepe Escobar gibt es, er ist ein brasilianischer Journalist. Der Artikel ist nur in der Asia Times erschienen, nirgendwo sonst, daher halte auch ich die ganze Sache für ein Fake. Wenn die Ganze Story aber Wahr wäre würd ich so schnell wie möglich einene Abgang aus den USA machen.
Nov. 15, 2002
THE ROVING EYE
Apocalypse Now, or Alottanukes Soon
By Pepe Escobar
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/DK15Aa01.html#
At a time when a tape handed over to the Qatar-based Al-Jazeera television station has received widespread expose for its purported comments by Osama bin Laden in praise of recent terror events around the world, another al-Qaeda message released to the same station has received little coverage.
Al-Jazeera was granted an interview with one Mohammed al-Usuquf, allegedly al-Qaeda's number three. Al-Usuquf is said to be a doctor in physics and to hold a masters degree in international economics. A copy of the interview was sent to the prestigious Arab-language daily Al Quds Al Arabi, edited in London, but it was not printed.
Asia Times Online has obtained a copy of the interview, and reproduces excerpts here, with the caveat that the identity of the man has not yet been confirmed, nor has his membership within al-Qaeda.
Al-Usuquf says that al-Qaeda's Kuwaiti spokesman, Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, and bin Laden himself, suggested that he grant the interview. Bin Laden, he says, is "alive and healthy, along with his commanders Mohammed Atef, Khalid Shaik Mohammed and Mullah Omar".
Al-Usuquf starts by criticizing Washington's disrespect of the Kyoto Protocol on climatic change, the International Criminal Court and the Palestinian cause, as well as the "financial greed" engendering speculative gains over Third World countries. He also criticizes the manner in which America wastes wealth, like US$80 billion a year on gambling. "They [have] lost the notion of spirituality and only live in sin."
For this reason, America must be destroyed, and al-Usuquf insists that "aircraft carriers, nuclear submarines and spy satellites will be worthless in the next war".
Al-Qaeda, according to him, has 5,000 first rank operatives and around 20,000 all over the world. Of all the prisoners in the US, only "20 or 30" are al-Qaeda, and all of them "second-rank". Confirming Asia Times Online information, he swears that there are no first-rank prisoners in Guantanamo in Cuba. Al-Usuquf says, "We have more than 500 first-rank and 800 second-rank [operatives] inside the US." "First rank" are considered ones that have lived in the US for more than 10 years, most of them married with children. "They have an idea about the plans, and they are just waiting for a call." "Second-rank" operatives arrived in the past five years and "have no idea about the plans". They are all willing to die.
Al-Usuquf insists that September 11 "was just the beginning. It was a way to call the world's attention to what's going to happen." He then details a plan to destroy the US by "attacking the heart of what they consider the most important thing in the world: money".
"The American economy is an economy of false appearances," says al-Usuquf. "There's no real economic weight. American GNP is something around $10 trillion, but only 1 percent comes from agriculture, and only 24 percent from industry. So 75 percent of its GNP comes from services, and most of it is financial speculation. For someone who understands economics, and apparently America's Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill does not, or cannot, the US as a whole behaves like an immense dot.com, and dollars are its stocks. The value of stocks from a given company is directly proportional to its profitability. When a company only provides services, but does not produce goods, the value of its stocks depends on its credibility. What I'm saying is if US credibility is affected, its stocks - the US dollar - will fall at tremendous speed, and the whole American economy will collapse."
Al-Usuquf is absolutely positive, "because, in a smaller scale, this is exactly what big financial conglomerates do with Third World countries to collect profits in one month that no Swiss bank would guarantee in four to five years". Al-Usuquf says that al-Qaeda could do the same by "provoking a deficit of $50 to 70 trillion, the equivalent to five to seven years of the GNP of the US". How? By "destroying America's seven largest cities and some other measures". The means? "Atomic bombs."
Al-Usuquf's most startling revelation is that the bombs "won't be launched, they are already there". "Seven nuclear heads have already been positioned on American soil, before September 11, and they are ready to be detonated. Before September 11, American security was a fiasco, and even later, if we needed, we could position the bombs there. They arrived through seaports, as normal cargo. A nuclear head is not bigger than a fridge, so it can easily be camouflaged as one. Thousands of containers arrive at a seaport every day, and even with very efficient security, it's impossible to check and examine each one of them."
Al-Usuquf says that the bombs were bought on the black market: five from the former USSR and two from Pakistan. The five Russian heads "are from T-3 missiles, also known as RD-107, and their power is around 100 kilotons each, that is five times the Hiroshima bomb. The Pakistani ones are less powerful, something around 10 kilotons each."
Each of the Russian bombs would have cost around $200 million. Al-Qaeda was able to raise the money "because we have many sponsors. Many countries sponsor us, and also some very rich people." And not all of these are Arab countries. "Some European countries as well are also interested in the fall of the US." As to the "rich people", they are "people who are also tired of seeing the US bleeding the rest of the world."
And Iraq's Saddam Hussein, says Al-Usuquf, is not one of these people, "but just a collaborator, represented by Abdul Tawab Hawaish, his vice prime minister and responsible for Iraq's arms program".
Al-Usuquf says that the bombs cannot be detected by US authorities. "Even if they are old, they were modernized and are very well hidden. Even if they were located, they have autodetonation mechanisms in case something or someone gets close. Even an electromagnetic pulse is not capable of deactivating them." The bombs allegedly cannot be detected because "they are enveloped in thick layers of lead". They could be detonated "by various methods - cellphone call, radio frequency, seismic shock or by their regressive clock".
Al-Usuquf details the whole plan. "First, one head would be detonated, which would cause the deaths of 800,000 to 1 million people and a chaos never seen before. During this chaos, two or three planes, which are now disassembled inside barns near empty roads in the US countryside, would take off in suicide missions to pulverize another two or three big American cities with chemicals. Once the disease was identified, all seaports and airports would be quarantined. Land borders would also be closed. No plane, boat or car would enter or leave the US. This would be total chaos." The first target would be the city "that would offer the best conditions, for example bright sky and winds of eight or more miles an hour blowing towards the center of the country, so radioactive dust can contaminate the largest possible area".
This attack would not knock out the US, recognizes al-Usuquf, "But the process would be initiated. As with the World Trade Center, it would be just a question of time for the whole economic structure to be turned to dust. If the objectives are reached with one bomb and diseases, probably we will save the lives of other people, but it's risky, and probably six more bombs will be detonated, one a week, and more attacks with chemical weapons will be launched."
According to estimates made by al-Usuquf "and Ayman al-Zawahiri", al-Qaeda's number 2, about 15 million people would die, victims of the bombs and the radiation. Among those contaminated by diseases, "25 percent will die, a figure around more than 5 million, plus many others due to the chaos and disorder".
Al-Usuquf does not fear an American military response. "Even if five or 10 cities are chosen at random to be destroyed, it will still be a small price to pay. The problem is that the economic despair will be so great that even if it saves [money] by not using weapons, American liquidity will be near zero, and the US will make more money selling a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier to Turkey or Italy for $5 billion, because they will urgently need to recapitalize. But it will be too late. Moreover, what will remain of an American soldier's morale to fight knowing that his whole family died and his country ceased to exist? To fight for what?"
The world economy would not collapse, says al-Usuquf, although "in the beginning, it will be very difficult. But without the US the world will soon rise in a more just and fraternal manner. Nothing can stop the plan."
And whatever America does, "it's too late". When will the attack begin? "I can't tell."
(©2002 Asia Times Online Co, Ltd. All rights reserved. Please contact content@atimes.com for information on our sales and syndication policies.)
Asia Times: THE ROVING EYE (Der Artikel ist nicht mehr online)
Der folgende Artikel stammt von der Asia Times. Er erschien am 15.11.2002 ist aber mittlerweile nicht mehr online da es sich möglicherweise um einen fake handelt. Ich habe mal ein bisschen research gemacht. Über den angeblichen al-qaida top-3-mann Mohammed al-Usuquf habe ich nichts aber auch gar nichts gefunden. Den Verfasser des Artikels Pepe Escobar gibt es, er ist ein brasilianischer Journalist. Der Artikel ist nur in der Asia Times erschienen, nirgendwo sonst, daher halte auch ich die ganze Sache für ein Fake. Wenn die Ganze Story aber Wahr wäre würd ich so schnell wie möglich einene Abgang aus den USA machen.
Nov. 15, 2002
THE ROVING EYE
Apocalypse Now, or Alottanukes Soon
By Pepe Escobar
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/DK15Aa01.html#
At a time when a tape handed over to the Qatar-based Al-Jazeera television station has received widespread expose for its purported comments by Osama bin Laden in praise of recent terror events around the world, another al-Qaeda message released to the same station has received little coverage.
Al-Jazeera was granted an interview with one Mohammed al-Usuquf, allegedly al-Qaeda's number three. Al-Usuquf is said to be a doctor in physics and to hold a masters degree in international economics. A copy of the interview was sent to the prestigious Arab-language daily Al Quds Al Arabi, edited in London, but it was not printed.
Asia Times Online has obtained a copy of the interview, and reproduces excerpts here, with the caveat that the identity of the man has not yet been confirmed, nor has his membership within al-Qaeda.
Al-Usuquf says that al-Qaeda's Kuwaiti spokesman, Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, and bin Laden himself, suggested that he grant the interview. Bin Laden, he says, is "alive and healthy, along with his commanders Mohammed Atef, Khalid Shaik Mohammed and Mullah Omar".
Al-Usuquf starts by criticizing Washington's disrespect of the Kyoto Protocol on climatic change, the International Criminal Court and the Palestinian cause, as well as the "financial greed" engendering speculative gains over Third World countries. He also criticizes the manner in which America wastes wealth, like US$80 billion a year on gambling. "They [have] lost the notion of spirituality and only live in sin."
For this reason, America must be destroyed, and al-Usuquf insists that "aircraft carriers, nuclear submarines and spy satellites will be worthless in the next war".
Al-Qaeda, according to him, has 5,000 first rank operatives and around 20,000 all over the world. Of all the prisoners in the US, only "20 or 30" are al-Qaeda, and all of them "second-rank". Confirming Asia Times Online information, he swears that there are no first-rank prisoners in Guantanamo in Cuba. Al-Usuquf says, "We have more than 500 first-rank and 800 second-rank [operatives] inside the US." "First rank" are considered ones that have lived in the US for more than 10 years, most of them married with children. "They have an idea about the plans, and they are just waiting for a call." "Second-rank" operatives arrived in the past five years and "have no idea about the plans". They are all willing to die.
Al-Usuquf insists that September 11 "was just the beginning. It was a way to call the world's attention to what's going to happen." He then details a plan to destroy the US by "attacking the heart of what they consider the most important thing in the world: money".
"The American economy is an economy of false appearances," says al-Usuquf. "There's no real economic weight. American GNP is something around $10 trillion, but only 1 percent comes from agriculture, and only 24 percent from industry. So 75 percent of its GNP comes from services, and most of it is financial speculation. For someone who understands economics, and apparently America's Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill does not, or cannot, the US as a whole behaves like an immense dot.com, and dollars are its stocks. The value of stocks from a given company is directly proportional to its profitability. When a company only provides services, but does not produce goods, the value of its stocks depends on its credibility. What I'm saying is if US credibility is affected, its stocks - the US dollar - will fall at tremendous speed, and the whole American economy will collapse."
Al-Usuquf is absolutely positive, "because, in a smaller scale, this is exactly what big financial conglomerates do with Third World countries to collect profits in one month that no Swiss bank would guarantee in four to five years". Al-Usuquf says that al-Qaeda could do the same by "provoking a deficit of $50 to 70 trillion, the equivalent to five to seven years of the GNP of the US". How? By "destroying America's seven largest cities and some other measures". The means? "Atomic bombs."
Al-Usuquf's most startling revelation is that the bombs "won't be launched, they are already there". "Seven nuclear heads have already been positioned on American soil, before September 11, and they are ready to be detonated. Before September 11, American security was a fiasco, and even later, if we needed, we could position the bombs there. They arrived through seaports, as normal cargo. A nuclear head is not bigger than a fridge, so it can easily be camouflaged as one. Thousands of containers arrive at a seaport every day, and even with very efficient security, it's impossible to check and examine each one of them."
Al-Usuquf says that the bombs were bought on the black market: five from the former USSR and two from Pakistan. The five Russian heads "are from T-3 missiles, also known as RD-107, and their power is around 100 kilotons each, that is five times the Hiroshima bomb. The Pakistani ones are less powerful, something around 10 kilotons each."
Each of the Russian bombs would have cost around $200 million. Al-Qaeda was able to raise the money "because we have many sponsors. Many countries sponsor us, and also some very rich people." And not all of these are Arab countries. "Some European countries as well are also interested in the fall of the US." As to the "rich people", they are "people who are also tired of seeing the US bleeding the rest of the world."
And Iraq's Saddam Hussein, says Al-Usuquf, is not one of these people, "but just a collaborator, represented by Abdul Tawab Hawaish, his vice prime minister and responsible for Iraq's arms program".
Al-Usuquf says that the bombs cannot be detected by US authorities. "Even if they are old, they were modernized and are very well hidden. Even if they were located, they have autodetonation mechanisms in case something or someone gets close. Even an electromagnetic pulse is not capable of deactivating them." The bombs allegedly cannot be detected because "they are enveloped in thick layers of lead". They could be detonated "by various methods - cellphone call, radio frequency, seismic shock or by their regressive clock".
Al-Usuquf details the whole plan. "First, one head would be detonated, which would cause the deaths of 800,000 to 1 million people and a chaos never seen before. During this chaos, two or three planes, which are now disassembled inside barns near empty roads in the US countryside, would take off in suicide missions to pulverize another two or three big American cities with chemicals. Once the disease was identified, all seaports and airports would be quarantined. Land borders would also be closed. No plane, boat or car would enter or leave the US. This would be total chaos." The first target would be the city "that would offer the best conditions, for example bright sky and winds of eight or more miles an hour blowing towards the center of the country, so radioactive dust can contaminate the largest possible area".
This attack would not knock out the US, recognizes al-Usuquf, "But the process would be initiated. As with the World Trade Center, it would be just a question of time for the whole economic structure to be turned to dust. If the objectives are reached with one bomb and diseases, probably we will save the lives of other people, but it's risky, and probably six more bombs will be detonated, one a week, and more attacks with chemical weapons will be launched."
According to estimates made by al-Usuquf "and Ayman al-Zawahiri", al-Qaeda's number 2, about 15 million people would die, victims of the bombs and the radiation. Among those contaminated by diseases, "25 percent will die, a figure around more than 5 million, plus many others due to the chaos and disorder".
Al-Usuquf does not fear an American military response. "Even if five or 10 cities are chosen at random to be destroyed, it will still be a small price to pay. The problem is that the economic despair will be so great that even if it saves [money] by not using weapons, American liquidity will be near zero, and the US will make more money selling a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier to Turkey or Italy for $5 billion, because they will urgently need to recapitalize. But it will be too late. Moreover, what will remain of an American soldier's morale to fight knowing that his whole family died and his country ceased to exist? To fight for what?"
The world economy would not collapse, says al-Usuquf, although "in the beginning, it will be very difficult. But without the US the world will soon rise in a more just and fraternal manner. Nothing can stop the plan."
And whatever America does, "it's too late". When will the attack begin? "I can't tell."
(©2002 Asia Times Online Co, Ltd. All rights reserved. Please contact content@atimes.com for information on our sales and syndication policies.)
ITALIEN
Tages Anzeiger: Globalisierungsgegner verhaftet
Rund 20 führende Globalisierungsgegner sind in der Nacht auf Freitag in Süditalien festgenommen worden. Ihnen werden umstürzlerische Aktivitäten und Verwicklung in die Krawalle am Rand des G8-Gipfles in Genua im Juli 2001 vorgeworfen.
Italien verkommt mehr und mehr zu Bananenrepublik. Während Polizisten und Innenminister die während Tagen den Faschismus wieder auferstehen liessen und der Duce Berlusconi Straf- bzw. Narrenfreiheit geniessen, werden "führende Globalisierungsgegner" (was für ein Ausdruck) wegen "umstürzlerischen Aktivitäten" (nochmals so ein Ausdruck) festgenommen.
Tages Anzeiger: Globalisierungsgegner verhaftet
Rund 20 führende Globalisierungsgegner sind in der Nacht auf Freitag in Süditalien festgenommen worden. Ihnen werden umstürzlerische Aktivitäten und Verwicklung in die Krawalle am Rand des G8-Gipfles in Genua im Juli 2001 vorgeworfen.
Italien verkommt mehr und mehr zu Bananenrepublik. Während Polizisten und Innenminister die während Tagen den Faschismus wieder auferstehen liessen und der Duce Berlusconi Straf- bzw. Narrenfreiheit geniessen, werden "führende Globalisierungsgegner" (was für ein Ausdruck) wegen "umstürzlerischen Aktivitäten" (nochmals so ein Ausdruck) festgenommen.
Thursday, November 14, 2002
CHINA
Tages Anzeiger: Jiang Zemin gibt Führung ab
Chinas Staats- und Parteichef Jiang Zemin hat die Führung der Kommunistischen Partei abgegeben. Zum Abschluss des 16. Parteikongresses in Peking vollzogen die Delegierten mit der Wahl eines neuen ZKs den geplanten Generationswechsel.
Tages Anzeiger: Jiang Zemin gibt Führung ab
Chinas Staats- und Parteichef Jiang Zemin hat die Führung der Kommunistischen Partei abgegeben. Zum Abschluss des 16. Parteikongresses in Peking vollzogen die Delegierten mit der Wahl eines neuen ZKs den geplanten Generationswechsel.
IRAK
Tages Anzeiger: Bush hat freie Bahn nach Bagdad
Die Fallstricke sind perfekt ausgelegt. Auch Saddam Husseins Einlenken in Uno-Inspektionen wird einen Krieg nicht verhindern.
"Saddam Hussein hatte sich der Uno-Resolution gebeugt und willigte ein in bedingungslose Rüstungsinspektionen. Ist Saddam auf dem Weg zur Läuterung? Wird er einen Krieg abwenden? Sind Amerikas Schlachtpläne durchkreuzt? Dreimal Nein. Seit der Verabschiedung der Irak-Resolution 1441 letzten Freitag wähnen sich die arabischen Herrscher, und mit ihnen eine ganze Schar westlicher Politiker, in einer trügerischen Sicherheit, die auf fundamentalen Fehleinschätzungen basiert"
Tages Anzeiger: Bush hat freie Bahn nach Bagdad
Die Fallstricke sind perfekt ausgelegt. Auch Saddam Husseins Einlenken in Uno-Inspektionen wird einen Krieg nicht verhindern.
"Saddam Hussein hatte sich der Uno-Resolution gebeugt und willigte ein in bedingungslose Rüstungsinspektionen. Ist Saddam auf dem Weg zur Läuterung? Wird er einen Krieg abwenden? Sind Amerikas Schlachtpläne durchkreuzt? Dreimal Nein. Seit der Verabschiedung der Irak-Resolution 1441 letzten Freitag wähnen sich die arabischen Herrscher, und mit ihnen eine ganze Schar westlicher Politiker, in einer trügerischen Sicherheit, die auf fundamentalen Fehleinschätzungen basiert"
Wednesday, November 13, 2002
MOSKAU
Ny Times: Why Putin Boils Over: Chechnya Is His Personal War
Vladimir Putin gab am Montag in Brüssel eine Pressekonferenz. Auf die Frage eines Journalisten von Le Monde ob die eingesetzten Landminen in Tschtschenien Islamische Rebellen und Zivilisten töten gab Mr. Putin zur Antwort: Islamische Rebellen wollen aufgrund eines Weltweiten Plans Tschtschenien von Russland trennen um Amerikaner und ihre Verbündeten zu töten, respektive die Tschetschenischen Freiheitskämpfer seien alle Terroristen die in Tschetschenien einen Islamischen Gottesstaat errichten wollen und alles töten was nicht islamisch ist.
oder
"If you are a Christian, you are in danger," Mr. Putin said. "If you decide to become a Muslim, this won't save you either, because they think that traditional Islam is also hostile to their goals."
"If you are determined to become a complete Islamic radical and are ready to undergo circumcision, then I invite you to Moscow. We are multi-confessional. We have experts in this sphere as well. I will recommend to conduct the operation so that nothing on you will grow again" meine hobby übersetzung: "wenn du davon überzeugt bist ein radikaler islamist zu werden und dich beschneiden zu lassen bist du nach moskau eingeladen, wir sind multi konfessionel. Wir haben auch Experten für solche Angelegenheiten. Ich werde die Leitung der Operation gerne übernehmen - so das nie wieder etwas wächst"
Stellt sich die Frage ob ein Regierungschef solche Aussagen machen sollte
Ny Times: Why Putin Boils Over: Chechnya Is His Personal War
Vladimir Putin gab am Montag in Brüssel eine Pressekonferenz. Auf die Frage eines Journalisten von Le Monde ob die eingesetzten Landminen in Tschtschenien Islamische Rebellen und Zivilisten töten gab Mr. Putin zur Antwort: Islamische Rebellen wollen aufgrund eines Weltweiten Plans Tschtschenien von Russland trennen um Amerikaner und ihre Verbündeten zu töten, respektive die Tschetschenischen Freiheitskämpfer seien alle Terroristen die in Tschetschenien einen Islamischen Gottesstaat errichten wollen und alles töten was nicht islamisch ist.
oder
"If you are a Christian, you are in danger," Mr. Putin said. "If you decide to become a Muslim, this won't save you either, because they think that traditional Islam is also hostile to their goals."
"If you are determined to become a complete Islamic radical and are ready to undergo circumcision, then I invite you to Moscow. We are multi-confessional. We have experts in this sphere as well. I will recommend to conduct the operation so that nothing on you will grow again" meine hobby übersetzung: "wenn du davon überzeugt bist ein radikaler islamist zu werden und dich beschneiden zu lassen bist du nach moskau eingeladen, wir sind multi konfessionel. Wir haben auch Experten für solche Angelegenheiten. Ich werde die Leitung der Operation gerne übernehmen - so das nie wieder etwas wächst"
Stellt sich die Frage ob ein Regierungschef solche Aussagen machen sollte
PROPAGANDA
Asia Times: This war brought to you by Rendon Group
Bericht über die Rolle von grossen PR-Agenturen wie Rendon Group und H&K bei den Kriegsvorbereitungen und wie die öffentliche Meinung mittels Propaganda und Missinformation gesteuert wird.
ZNET: Markennamen für die noch besseren Kriege der Zukunft
Essay von Norman Solomon über das gleiche Thema und wieso Namen wie "Desertstorm" nötig sind um der Öffentlichkeit einen Krieg als Gerecht zu verkaufen.
Asia Times: This war brought to you by Rendon Group
Bericht über die Rolle von grossen PR-Agenturen wie Rendon Group und H&K bei den Kriegsvorbereitungen und wie die öffentliche Meinung mittels Propaganda und Missinformation gesteuert wird.
ZNET: Markennamen für die noch besseren Kriege der Zukunft
Essay von Norman Solomon über das gleiche Thema und wieso Namen wie "Desertstorm" nötig sind um der Öffentlichkeit einen Krieg als Gerecht zu verkaufen.
TERROR
Spiegel: "Es ist Zeit abzurechnen"
Auszüge aus dem Tape von Osama
"Unsere Angehörigen in Palästina werden seit fast einem Jahrhundert ermordet und schwer gefoltert. Wenn wir unser Volk in Palästina verteidigen, regt sich die Welt auf und verbündet sich auf ungerechte und verlogene Art unter dem Deckmantel des Kampfes gegen den Terrorismus gegen die Muslime. Was bezwecken eure Regierungen damit, sich mit der Verbrecherbande im Weißen Haus gegen die Muslime zu verbünden? Wissen eure Regierungen nicht, dass die Verbrecher im Weißen Haus die größten Schlächter dieser Zeit sind? (...) Ich nenne im Besonderen Großbritannien, Frankreich, Italien, Kanada, Deutschland und Australien."
"Wenn ihr erschüttert seid über den Tod eurer Männer und der eurer Verbündeten in Tunesien, Karatschi, Failaka, Bali und Amman, dann denkt an unsere Kinder, die jeden Tag in Palästina und Irak getötet werden. Wenn ihr erschüttert seid über den Tod eurer Landsleute in Moskau, dann denkt an die unsrigen in Tschetschenien. Warum sollten Angst, Tod, Zerstörung, Vertreibung, Verwaisung und Verwitwung weiterhin unser Schicksal bleiben, während Sicherheit, Stabilität und Glück euer Schicksal sind? Das ist ungerecht. Es ist Zeit abzurechnen. Ihr werdet getötet werden, so wie ihr tötet, und ihr werdet bombardiert werden, so wie ihr bombardiert. Seid auf weitere Erschütterungen gefasst."
Hat Osama PR und Kommunikation studiert?
Spiegel: "Es ist Zeit abzurechnen"
Auszüge aus dem Tape von Osama
"Unsere Angehörigen in Palästina werden seit fast einem Jahrhundert ermordet und schwer gefoltert. Wenn wir unser Volk in Palästina verteidigen, regt sich die Welt auf und verbündet sich auf ungerechte und verlogene Art unter dem Deckmantel des Kampfes gegen den Terrorismus gegen die Muslime. Was bezwecken eure Regierungen damit, sich mit der Verbrecherbande im Weißen Haus gegen die Muslime zu verbünden? Wissen eure Regierungen nicht, dass die Verbrecher im Weißen Haus die größten Schlächter dieser Zeit sind? (...) Ich nenne im Besonderen Großbritannien, Frankreich, Italien, Kanada, Deutschland und Australien."
"Wenn ihr erschüttert seid über den Tod eurer Männer und der eurer Verbündeten in Tunesien, Karatschi, Failaka, Bali und Amman, dann denkt an unsere Kinder, die jeden Tag in Palästina und Irak getötet werden. Wenn ihr erschüttert seid über den Tod eurer Landsleute in Moskau, dann denkt an die unsrigen in Tschetschenien. Warum sollten Angst, Tod, Zerstörung, Vertreibung, Verwaisung und Verwitwung weiterhin unser Schicksal bleiben, während Sicherheit, Stabilität und Glück euer Schicksal sind? Das ist ungerecht. Es ist Zeit abzurechnen. Ihr werdet getötet werden, so wie ihr tötet, und ihr werdet bombardiert werden, so wie ihr bombardiert. Seid auf weitere Erschütterungen gefasst."
Hat Osama PR und Kommunikation studiert?
AL-Jazeera
Washington Post: Al-Jazeera Ordered to Pay Damages
Der Fernsehsender Al-Jazeera wurde in Kuweit zu $ 16,670 Schadenersatz verklagt weil ein Gast in einer Sendung Kuwait beleidigt habe. Ein Hoch auf die Pressefreiheit in Arabischenstaaten
Washington Post: Al-Jazeera Ordered to Pay Damages
Der Fernsehsender Al-Jazeera wurde in Kuweit zu $ 16,670 Schadenersatz verklagt weil ein Gast in einer Sendung Kuwait beleidigt habe. Ein Hoch auf die Pressefreiheit in Arabischenstaaten
ISRAEL
Haaretz: IDF troops, tanks enter Nablus in response to Metzer attack
Tages Anzeiger: Israelischer Grosseinsatz in Nablus
Israel ist heute Nacht mit über 100 Panzern nach Nabulus und Tulkarem eingedrungen. Es handelt sich um eine Vergeltungsaktion für den Anschlag auf ein Kibbutz vom Montag bei dem 5 Israelis starben. Laut dem neuen Israelische Verteidigunsminister Mofaz gibt es keine Zeitlimite für die Militäraktion. Gaza-Stadt wurde heute Nacht von heftigen Explosionenen erschüttert als Israelische/US Apache Kampfhubschrauber und F-16 Jet's dicht besiedeltes Gebiet bombardierten. Das Ziel der Aktion sei gewesen "Waffen-Fabriken" zu zerstören. Das es sich bei der "Waffen-Fabrik" um eine grössere Autogarage gehandelt hat wurde nicht erwähnt. Benjamin Netanjahu lässt derweil Verlauten seine erste Amtshandlung im Falle seiner Wahl zum Premierminister werde die Ausweisung Arafats sein. Ein weiteres Armutszeugniss für die einzige "Demokratie" im Nahen Osten.
Haaretz: IDF troops, tanks enter Nablus in response to Metzer attack
Tages Anzeiger: Israelischer Grosseinsatz in Nablus
Israel ist heute Nacht mit über 100 Panzern nach Nabulus und Tulkarem eingedrungen. Es handelt sich um eine Vergeltungsaktion für den Anschlag auf ein Kibbutz vom Montag bei dem 5 Israelis starben. Laut dem neuen Israelische Verteidigunsminister Mofaz gibt es keine Zeitlimite für die Militäraktion. Gaza-Stadt wurde heute Nacht von heftigen Explosionenen erschüttert als Israelische/US Apache Kampfhubschrauber und F-16 Jet's dicht besiedeltes Gebiet bombardierten. Das Ziel der Aktion sei gewesen "Waffen-Fabriken" zu zerstören. Das es sich bei der "Waffen-Fabrik" um eine grössere Autogarage gehandelt hat wurde nicht erwähnt. Benjamin Netanjahu lässt derweil Verlauten seine erste Amtshandlung im Falle seiner Wahl zum Premierminister werde die Ausweisung Arafats sein. Ein weiteres Armutszeugniss für die einzige "Demokratie" im Nahen Osten.
Tuesday, November 12, 2002
TERROR
Spiegel: Bin Laden warnt angeblich auch Deutschland
Der arabische TV-Sender Al-Dschasira hat erneut eine Tonbandaufnahme veröffentlicht, auf der die Stimme von Osama Bin Laden zu hören sein soll. In der Erklärung kündigt der Terrorchef weitere Anschläge an und warnt auch Deutschland. US-Experten halten die Aufnahme für echt.
NY Times: New Recording May Be Threat From bin Laden
$350 Milliarden Militärbudget....Verdoppelung der Geheimdienstauasgaben..ausweitung der Überwachung....Abbau der Bürgerrechte... $ 25 Millionen Kopfgeld...und trozdem sind die Versager nicht imstande eine einzelne Person aufzuspüren und zu verhaften.......please save us mr. bush....
Spiegel: Bin Laden warnt angeblich auch Deutschland
Der arabische TV-Sender Al-Dschasira hat erneut eine Tonbandaufnahme veröffentlicht, auf der die Stimme von Osama Bin Laden zu hören sein soll. In der Erklärung kündigt der Terrorchef weitere Anschläge an und warnt auch Deutschland. US-Experten halten die Aufnahme für echt.
NY Times: New Recording May Be Threat From bin Laden
$350 Milliarden Militärbudget....Verdoppelung der Geheimdienstauasgaben..ausweitung der Überwachung....Abbau der Bürgerrechte... $ 25 Millionen Kopfgeld...und trozdem sind die Versager nicht imstande eine einzelne Person aufzuspüren und zu verhaften.......please save us mr. bush....
ISRAEL
Z-MAG Deutschland: Alles wegen einer kleinen Olive
Warum ist die Sharon-Ben-Eliezer-Peres-Regierung zusammengebrochen?
Wegen einer kleinen Olive!
Uri Avnerystellt in diesem Artikel einen direkten Zusammenhang zwischen der Olivenernte der Palästinenser und dem Auseinander brechen der israelischen
Regierung dar. Uri Avnery ist der bekannsteste israelische Friedensaktivist.
"Dies hatte auch einen indirekten Einfluss auf Binjamin Ben-Eliezer. Er nahm die sich verändernde Stimmung in der Öffentlich wahr und entschied, dass es nun in seinem Interesse und in dem der Partei sei, die Regierung zu verlassen. Er suchte fieberhaft nach einem Vorwand. Öffentliche Meinungsumfragen ergaben, dass die Siedler jetzt die unbeliebteste Gruppe im Land seien. So entschied er, die Regierung dahin zu bringen, dass sie zusammenbräche. Er verlangte plötzlich, dass die Regierung das für die Siedlungen bestimmte Geld den Rentnern geben solle. Das war nur ein Vorwand, aber es bewies, dass ein großer Teil der Öffentlichkeit es mit den Siedlungen einfach satt hatte. Zu guter Letzt sind die Siedlungen der Hauptpunkt der Auseinandersetzungen geworden. Während Ariel Sharon noch versucht, eine Regierung aufzustellen, die sich auf die Siedler und ihre Verbündeten der äußersten Rechten gründet, wird die Arbeiterpartei – nun in der Opposition – gezwungen sein, ein Anti-Siedlungsprogramm vorzustellen. Somit wird der Slogan einer kleinen "marginalen" Minorität zum Programm eines großen Lagers.
Dies ist wieder einmal ein Beispiel für die Doktrin des "kleinen Rädchens", wie wir es schon vor Jahrzehnten formulierten: ein kleines Zahnrad, von starkem unabhängigen Antrieb bewegt, dreht ein größeres Rad, das ein noch größeres antreibt .....bis die ganze große Maschine sich zu bewegen beginnt. In dieser Weise kann eine kleine politische Gruppe mit einer unabhängigen und klaren Agenda einen entscheidenden politischen Prozess in die Wege leiten, wenn der richtige Zeitpunkt gekommen ist."
Z-MAG Deutschland: Alles wegen einer kleinen Olive
Warum ist die Sharon-Ben-Eliezer-Peres-Regierung zusammengebrochen?
Wegen einer kleinen Olive!
Uri Avnerystellt in diesem Artikel einen direkten Zusammenhang zwischen der Olivenernte der Palästinenser und dem Auseinander brechen der israelischen
Regierung dar. Uri Avnery ist der bekannsteste israelische Friedensaktivist.
"Dies hatte auch einen indirekten Einfluss auf Binjamin Ben-Eliezer. Er nahm die sich verändernde Stimmung in der Öffentlich wahr und entschied, dass es nun in seinem Interesse und in dem der Partei sei, die Regierung zu verlassen. Er suchte fieberhaft nach einem Vorwand. Öffentliche Meinungsumfragen ergaben, dass die Siedler jetzt die unbeliebteste Gruppe im Land seien. So entschied er, die Regierung dahin zu bringen, dass sie zusammenbräche. Er verlangte plötzlich, dass die Regierung das für die Siedlungen bestimmte Geld den Rentnern geben solle. Das war nur ein Vorwand, aber es bewies, dass ein großer Teil der Öffentlichkeit es mit den Siedlungen einfach satt hatte. Zu guter Letzt sind die Siedlungen der Hauptpunkt der Auseinandersetzungen geworden. Während Ariel Sharon noch versucht, eine Regierung aufzustellen, die sich auf die Siedler und ihre Verbündeten der äußersten Rechten gründet, wird die Arbeiterpartei – nun in der Opposition – gezwungen sein, ein Anti-Siedlungsprogramm vorzustellen. Somit wird der Slogan einer kleinen "marginalen" Minorität zum Programm eines großen Lagers.
Dies ist wieder einmal ein Beispiel für die Doktrin des "kleinen Rädchens", wie wir es schon vor Jahrzehnten formulierten: ein kleines Zahnrad, von starkem unabhängigen Antrieb bewegt, dreht ein größeres Rad, das ein noch größeres antreibt .....bis die ganze große Maschine sich zu bewegen beginnt. In dieser Weise kann eine kleine politische Gruppe mit einer unabhängigen und klaren Agenda einen entscheidenden politischen Prozess in die Wege leiten, wenn der richtige Zeitpunkt gekommen ist."
IRAK
Z-MAG Deutschland: Irak – Vier Fragen, vier Antworten
Interview mit von Hans C. von Sponeck. Hans von Sponeck war UN-Koordinator für Humanitäre Hilfe im Irak (1998-2000)
Das ganze Interview handelt von den folgenden vier Fragen:
Frage 1: Besteht eine unmittelbare Bedrohung durch den Irak?
Frage 2: Wie erklärt sich die gegenwärtige Irak-Politik der US-Regierung?
Frage 3: Worum geht es für die irakische Bevölkerung?
Frage 4: Wie lauten die Forderungen, die entsprechend dem internationalen öffentlichen Rechtsbewusstsein gegen einen Irak-Krieg und für die Aufhebung der Sanktionen erhoben werden sollten?
Z-MAG Deutschland: Irak – Vier Fragen, vier Antworten
Interview mit von Hans C. von Sponeck. Hans von Sponeck war UN-Koordinator für Humanitäre Hilfe im Irak (1998-2000)
Das ganze Interview handelt von den folgenden vier Fragen:
Frage 1: Besteht eine unmittelbare Bedrohung durch den Irak?
Frage 2: Wie erklärt sich die gegenwärtige Irak-Politik der US-Regierung?
Frage 3: Worum geht es für die irakische Bevölkerung?
Frage 4: Wie lauten die Forderungen, die entsprechend dem internationalen öffentlichen Rechtsbewusstsein gegen einen Irak-Krieg und für die Aufhebung der Sanktionen erhoben werden sollten?
IRAK
The Independent: Robert Fisk: George Bush crosses Rubicon - but what lies beyond?
Robert Fisk beschäftigt sich mit der Irak-Resolution. Amerika will ein UN-Feigenblatt für den Irakkrieg und ist gewillt die Inspektionen durchzuführen in der Hoffnung das der Irak die Inspektionen stört.
The Independent: Robert Fisk: George Bush crosses Rubicon - but what lies beyond?
Robert Fisk beschäftigt sich mit der Irak-Resolution. Amerika will ein UN-Feigenblatt für den Irakkrieg und ist gewillt die Inspektionen durchzuführen in der Hoffnung das der Irak die Inspektionen stört.
ÖL
Tages Anzeiger: «Billiges Erdöl macht süchtig»
Das Ziel der US-Golfpolitik ist es, alle Konkurrenten von den Ölfeldern im Mittleren Osten fern zu halten.
Das war der Letzte Teil einer Tages Anzeiger Serie über ÖL. Das ganze Dossier kann man hier nachlesen: Dossier-Das schwarze Gold
Tages Anzeiger: «Billiges Erdöl macht süchtig»
Das Ziel der US-Golfpolitik ist es, alle Konkurrenten von den Ölfeldern im Mittleren Osten fern zu halten.
Das war der Letzte Teil einer Tages Anzeiger Serie über ÖL. Das ganze Dossier kann man hier nachlesen: Dossier-Das schwarze Gold
COOL SITE OF THE DAY
check mediawhoresonline.com
The site that set out to bring the media to their knees - but found they were already there.
"Media Whores Online takes an unbiased, in-depth look at the astonishingly vast myriad of whores who call themselves "journalists." MWO casts a garish spotlight on the relentless screaming heads of television, the babbling paranoids of squawk radio, and the crayon scribblings of lazy print media "columnists."
check mediawhoresonline.com
The site that set out to bring the media to their knees - but found they were already there.
"Media Whores Online takes an unbiased, in-depth look at the astonishingly vast myriad of whores who call themselves "journalists." MWO casts a garish spotlight on the relentless screaming heads of television, the babbling paranoids of squawk radio, and the crayon scribblings of lazy print media "columnists."
Monday, November 11, 2002
ISRAEL
Tages Anzeiger: Israel beschuldigt Autonomiebehörde
Die israelische Regierung hat die palästinensische Autonomiebehörde für den tödlichen Angriff auf einen Kibbuz verantwortlich gemacht.
«Die Palästinenserbehörde ist zu einer Massenproduktionsstätte für den Terrorismus geworden», sagte Regierungssprecher Avi Pasner am Montag. Israel verteilt die Schuld wiedermal auf Arafat und seine Autonomiebehörde. Israel scheint vergessen zu haben das Arafat laut Ariel Sharon "inexistent" ist und die Autonomiebehörde faktisch nicht mehr existiert da Israel wieder die gesamte Verwaltung der Zonen A, B und C in den besetzten Gebieten übernommen hat. Das heist Israel ist für seine eigene und die Sicherheit der Bewohner A, B und C zuständig. Wie soll die Autonomiebehörde die besetzten Gebiete kontrollieren und für die Sicherheit der Israeli garantieren wenn praktisch überall Ausgangsperre herrscht?
Tages Anzeiger: Israel beschuldigt Autonomiebehörde
Die israelische Regierung hat die palästinensische Autonomiebehörde für den tödlichen Angriff auf einen Kibbuz verantwortlich gemacht.
«Die Palästinenserbehörde ist zu einer Massenproduktionsstätte für den Terrorismus geworden», sagte Regierungssprecher Avi Pasner am Montag. Israel verteilt die Schuld wiedermal auf Arafat und seine Autonomiebehörde. Israel scheint vergessen zu haben das Arafat laut Ariel Sharon "inexistent" ist und die Autonomiebehörde faktisch nicht mehr existiert da Israel wieder die gesamte Verwaltung der Zonen A, B und C in den besetzten Gebieten übernommen hat. Das heist Israel ist für seine eigene und die Sicherheit der Bewohner A, B und C zuständig. Wie soll die Autonomiebehörde die besetzten Gebiete kontrollieren und für die Sicherheit der Israeli garantieren wenn praktisch überall Ausgangsperre herrscht?
ZEE CITY
Tages Anzeiger: Polizeiwagen vor Expovina gekippt
Jugendliche wollten den Wein auf einem Schiff der Expovina nicht nur schluckweise degustieren, sondern bedienten sich gleich mit ganzen Flaschen.
Sie legten sich am Freitagabend mit Gästen der Wein Messe an, worauf ein Securitasangestellter Verstärkung anforderte.
Eine Patrouille der Stadtpolizei durchsuchte daraufhin das Schiff, fand aber keine randalierenden Jugendlichen mehr - denn sie waren ausserhalb aktiv:
Als die Polizei das Schiff verliess, musste sie feststellen , dass mehrere Unbekannte den Streifenwagen umgekippt hatten, der neben dem Eingang parkiert war. Es entstand ein Sachschaden von 10 000 Franken. Die Polizei leitete eine Strafuntersuchung ein. Ein 18-jähriger Schweizer wurde im Detektivbüro einvernommen und wieder entlassen. Verletzt wurde niemand.
Tages Anzeiger: Polizeiwagen vor Expovina gekippt
Jugendliche wollten den Wein auf einem Schiff der Expovina nicht nur schluckweise degustieren, sondern bedienten sich gleich mit ganzen Flaschen.
Sie legten sich am Freitagabend mit Gästen der Wein Messe an, worauf ein Securitasangestellter Verstärkung anforderte.
Eine Patrouille der Stadtpolizei durchsuchte daraufhin das Schiff, fand aber keine randalierenden Jugendlichen mehr - denn sie waren ausserhalb aktiv:
Als die Polizei das Schiff verliess, musste sie feststellen , dass mehrere Unbekannte den Streifenwagen umgekippt hatten, der neben dem Eingang parkiert war. Es entstand ein Sachschaden von 10 000 Franken. Die Polizei leitete eine Strafuntersuchung ein. Ein 18-jähriger Schweizer wurde im Detektivbüro einvernommen und wieder entlassen. Verletzt wurde niemand.
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