The Boston Globe
Katrina evacuees arriving at N.C. shelter
A Navy HS-60 Seakhawk helicopter hovers over a flooded neighborhood in New Orleans Sunday, Sept. 4, 2005. Helicopter crews were having difficulty finding people still in need of rescuing six days after the city was slammed by Hurricane Katrina. Rescuers also were searching by land and boat and urging people to hang out bright colored or white sheets, towels or anything else that might attract attention. (AP Photo/bill Kaczor)
By Paul Nowell, Associated Press Writer September 5, 2005
CHARLOTTE, N.C. --People evacuated from flooded houses in New Orleans arrived Monday at a shelter in the Charlotte Coliseum, where cots, food and dry clothing awaited them.
Officials said they expected about 470 evacuees aboard four flights to take shelter in Charlotte before day's end. State authorities said two flights were expected late Monday and early Tuesday at Raleigh-Durham International Airport.
Glenn Jackson and his 70-year-old mother, who refused to leave their house before Sunday, were among the first arrivals at the coliseum.
"It's beautiful," he said of the relief effort that gave him new clothing, a hot meal for the first time in days, a dry cot and a shower. "I admire these people for what they have done for me so far. I'm not accustomed to this."
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/09/05/katrina_evacuees_arriving_at_nc_shelter/
2,500 Katrina evacuees headed to Cape base
Romney says state is happy to provide help
By Michael Levenson and Lisa Wangsness, Globe Correspondent And Globe Staff September 5, 2005
About 2,500 evacuees displaced by Hurricane Katrina will be flown from the Gulf Coast to Otis Air Force Base on Cape Cod by Wednesday and given food, clothing, medical care, cash, and housing at Camp Edwards for the next 30-60 days in a massive undertaking announced yesterday by Governor Mitt Romney and the Massachusetts National Guard.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/09/05/2500_katrina_evacuees_headed_to_cape_base/
A grim search for bodies
Victims are retrieved, control slowly taken
By Kevin Cullen and Stephen Smith, Globe Staff September 5, 2005
NEW ORLEANS -- After a week of rescuing the living from the ravages of Hurricane Katrina, officials yesterday began the grim task of collecting and identifying the dead.
At the same time, police launched a concerted effort to take back control of New Orleans neighborhoods from gun-toting men who residents say had exploited the lawlessness that followed the storm. Officers killed at least five people and wounded several others who shot at contractors for the US Army Corps of Engineers who were crossing a bridge to help repair a canal.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/09/05/a_grim_search_for_bodies/
SJC to hear arguments on banning fingerprint evidence
By Jonathan Saltzman, Globe Staff September 5, 2005
For more than a century, a fingerprint match has been considered nearly unimpeachable evidence in a criminal case. Trace a latent print at a crime scene to the fingertip of a suspect, goes the conventional wisdom, and you've got the bad guy.
But the bedrock forensic science has been under intense scrutiny recently as a result of a series of high-profile errors by fingerprint examiners around the country, one of which led to the imprisonment of an innocent Boston man after a false match tied him to the shooting of a police sergeant. Some critics say fingerprint analysis isn't even a science.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2005/09/05/sjc_to_hear_arguments_on_banning_fingerprint_evidence/
Katrina's truths
By James Carroll September 5, 2005
LABOR DAY is the true American New Year's, the day of fresh beginnings -- and this year it's just in time. The broader culture takes its cue from school children, who leave the house this week believing in possibility itself. We, their parents and grandparents, need the reminder that change for the better is the business of human life. Change for the worse, alas, has been the rule of the season past, which is why the time is ripe for something new.
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2005/09/05/katrinas_truths/
CATHY YOUNG
Saving Israel's soul
By Cathy Young September 5, 2005
THE RHETORIC over Israel's withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and parts of the West Bank reached its nadir when some ultraconservative rabbis announced a plan for a memorial to the dismantled Jewish settlements, called ''Yad Vashem to Gush Katif and northern Samaria." The Yad Vashem is Israel's Holocaust remembrance museum. One of the organizers, Rabbi David Druckman, defended the Holocaust parallel, pointing out that in Nazi Germany, Jews were also expelled from their homes and ''the soldiers also said they were just following orders."
Until recently, this obscene comparison of the Israelis to the Nazis was the province of the pro-Palestinian left. Now, it's being bandied about by the settlers and their far-right defenders.
It is impossible at this point to judge the eventual impact of the Israeli pullout. Given the support the terrorist group Hamas currently enjoys among Palestinians, it's hard to be optimistic about prospects for peace or Palestinian democracy. Yet I strongly believe Sharon's decision to withdraw was right for Israel.
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2005/09/05/saving_israels_soul/
Ste Cell Debate
http://www.boston.com/news/science/stemcell/
The Cheney Observer
Corruption claims hit oil sector; millions of dollars believed squandered
By Abed Battat
Azzaman, September 1, 2005
Corruption plagues the Southern Oil Company and millions of dollars and barrels are wasted as a result, according high-placed sources.
The sources, in the company itself and Basra’s Municipal Council, said corruption and smuggling have become “the norm rather than exception” and are taking place under “day light.”
The sources did not want to reveal their names, saying the information might lead them into trouble.
“There is no guarantee at all that the output and export figures available now are not being fiddled with,” said one source.
“The losses resulting from corruption are most probably equal to those incurred as a result of sabotage and terror attacks,” the source added.
Most of Iraq’s output and exports currently originate in the south and are administered by the Southern Oil Company.
http://www.azzaman.com/english/index.asp?fname=news%5C2005-09-01%5C10507.htm
Cheney cancels Canada oil trip after hurricane
Sun Sep 4, 2005 9:09 PM EDT
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TORONTO (Reuters) - Vice President Dick Cheney has canceled a planned trip to Canada's main energy producing region because of Hurricane Katrina, the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers said on Sunday.
The association was one of the organizers of the trip, which was designed to give Cheney an insight into Alberta's vast oil sands region, where steam is used to extract oil from oil-bearing rocks.
The oil sands sector is booming, and as operations expand, the region looks set to provide a safe and reliable source of oil for the United States, the world's biggest consumer.
Cheney had been due to visit Calgary, Alberta, on Thursday for a meeting with provincial and federal officials and then travel on Friday to Fort McMurray, center of the oil sands operations.
Cheney's office was not immediately available to comment.
http://ca.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=domesticNews&storyID=2005-09-05T010949Z_01_ROB504130_RTRIDST_0_CANADA-CANADA-CHENEY-COL.XML
Bush misled us
Sunday, September 4, 2005
In regards to a letter on Aug. 21: Bush didn’t lie.
Bush and Cheney misled and manipulated the American people and some of the world into believing there were WMD — although Mr. Wilson informed them both that Iraq did not purchase them. A very spiteful Bush then had his henchman Rove leak information to the press to pay Mr. Wilson back for his disloyalty. So much for honesty.
http://ydr.com/story/letters/83828/
Halliburton Subsidiary Gets Katrina Deal
09.04.2005, 04:58 PM
A Halliburton Co. subsidiary that has come under fire for its reconstruction work in Iraq has begun tapping a $500 million Navy contract to do emergency repairs at Gulf Coast naval and Marine facilities that were battered by Hurricane Katrina.
The subsidiary, Kellogg, Brown & Root Services Inc. of Arlington, Va., was awarded the competitive bid contract last July to provide debris removal and other emergency work associated with natural disasters.
Jan Davis, a spokeswoman for the Naval Facilities Engineering Command, said Sunday that KBR will receive $12 million for work at Naval Air Station Pascagoula, Naval Station Gulfport and Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. It will receive $4.6 million for work at two smaller Navy facilities in New Orleans and others in the South.
http://www.forbes.com/home/feeds/ap/2005/09/04/ap2205620.html
Halliburton firm set to repair naval sites
Posted September 4, 2005
WASHINGTON -- Facing extensive damage by Hurricane Katrina to naval installations in Mississippi, the Navy turned to the Halliburton Co.'s KBR subsidiary for such tasks as restoring electricity, repairing roofs and clearing the debris at bases urgently needed as the military struggled to cope with the disaster.
The Navy faces problems repairing installations such as the Naval Construction Battalion Center at Gulfport, which was heavily damaged and now is a staging point for recovery operations in the coastal area hit hardest by the hurricane.
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/custom/growth/orl-23canerail0405sep04,0,362434.story?coll=orl-news-growth-headlines
Political Science
By DANIEL SMITH
Published: September 4, 2005
When Donald Kennedy, a biologist and editor of the eminent journal Science, was asked what had led so many American scientists to feel that George W. Bush's administration is anti-science, he isolated a familiar pair of culprits: climate change and stem cells. These represent, he said, ''two solid issues in which there is a real difference between a strong consensus in the science community and the response of the administration to that consensus.'' Both issues have in fact riled scientists since the early days of the administration, and both continue to have broad repercussions. In March 2001, the White House abruptly withdrew its support for the Kyoto Protocol on climate change, and the U.S. withdrawal was still a locus of debate at this summer's G8 summit in Scotland. And the administration's decision to limit federal funds for embryonic-stem-cell research four years ago -- a move that many scientists worry has severely hampered one of the most fruitful avenues of biomedical inquiry to come along in decades -- resulted in a shift in the dynamics of financing, from the federal government to the states and private institutions. In November 2004, Californians voted to allocate $3 billion for stem-cell research in what was widely characterized as a ''scientific secession.''
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/04/magazine/04SCIENCE.html?8hpib
The Rehnquist Death and Hurricane Katrina
David Corn Sun Sep 4,11:50 AM ET
The Nation -- I posted the below on my blog: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/thenation/cm_thenation/storytext/319805/16309286/SIG=10qtv6t2r/*http:/www.davidcorn.com.
I confess: I have a hard time saying William Rehnquist, rest in peace. Supreme Court Chief Justice Rehnquist, who died on Saturday night, spent much of his adult life trying to restrict the rights of American citizens and to empower further the already-powerful. He rose to prominence as a right-wing attorney who decried the Earl Warren court for being a hotbed of judicial activism (left-wing judicial activism, as he saw it). He then became, as a Supreme Court justice, a judicial activist of the right-wing sort, overturning laws made by Congress (that protected women against domestic violence, banned guns near school property, and prohibited discrimination against disabled workers) and steering the justices into Florida's vote-counting mess in 2000 (an act that only coincidentally--right?--led to George W. Bush's presidency). In that case--Bush v. Gore--Rehnquist, for some reason or another, placed aside his much heralded belief in state sovereignty, which led him on other occasions to grouse about limits on the abilities of states to execute criminals. When it came to states frying prisoners, he advocated a hands-off approach. In vote-counting, he was all for intervention.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/20050904/cm_thenation/319805
CHT arms haul again
Huge arms and ammunition haul in Bandarban district of Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) on Thursday night has again hit the headlines of national dailies. This is said to be the biggest ever seizure of the most sophisticated AK-47 guns (as many as 20) with nearly 8,000 rounds of bullet and 50 magazines from the deep forest of Naikongchhari. The recovery of arms and ammunition was made following a joint raid by the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) of Chittagong and Rajshahi Zones and members of the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR). The arms were reportedly kept stored there by terrorists for carrying out their nefarious activities. Acting on a tip-off the joint forces raided the specific spot, dug the earth and found arms and ammunition hidden there.
http://independent-bangladesh.com/news/sep/04/04092005ed.htm
Don't use Katrina to justify your hate
Does it really matter?
The city is flooded, people are homeless and hungry and scared and dead. Shouldn't this be a time for giving money and saying prayers? Should we really care about the color of the people looting in the hurricane zone? Or that Louisiana is a red state? Or that some of the dead are gay?
Apparently, that kind of thing matters to some of us.
It matters, for instance, to a black man who posted a note in an online forum saying he is embarrassed by news footage showing that most of the looters are black.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2002468144_pitts04.html
Cavuto & Guests Absolve Bush of All Blame, Claim His Advisors Tell Him What to Do
During yesterday's "Cost of Freedom" block, host Neil Cavuto made a concerted effort - as did several of his other guests - to whitewash George Bush's apathy and lack of action in the face of the devastation of Katrina. Cavuto even went so far as to suggest that we should all just forget trying to place blame and get on with rebuilding. (Don't you just love these righties? When it's their guy in the meat-grinder, they holler for tolerance. But when it's one of our guys caught napping, they beat the drums of blame 24/7!)
http://www.newshounds.us/2005/09/04/cavuto_guests_absolve_bush_of_all_blame_claim_his_advisors_tell_him_what_to_do.php
Decision Time for Wyden on the Dynasty Dividend
Jon Perr
In the wake of Katrina's devastation along the Gulf Coast, Americans should be united in providing relief, resources and support to all in need.
But sadly, that massive relief effort will take place during a time divisive - and fundamental - debate about the very meaning of national unity in the United States. As New Orleans struggles for survival, the President and his amen corner are waging a full scale assault on the estate tax, what they derisively (and effectively) term the "Death Tax." They will continue to pursue this massive transfer of the U.S. treasury to America's wealthiest, even as a mountain of evidence shows that successive Bush budget cuts devastated New Orleans' disaster preparedness and levee maintenance.
Oregon Senator Ron Wyden will be at the center of it.
Wyden is one of a handful of swing votes being targeted by conservative, anti-government groups in the lead up to Senate debate this week. The Club for Growth, described by its founder Stephen Moore as "the tax-cut enforcer in the Republican party", is running ads here urging Oregonians to pressure Wyden to end the "death tax." The ads are apparently effective: perhaps in response to CFG ads against him in New Hampshire, 2008 GOP presidential hopeful John McCain has indicated he will vote to stop an anticipated Democratic filibuster of the Kyl estate tax repeal.
http://www.blueoregon.com/2005/09/decision_time_f.html
9/11: New Doubts on the "Official Story"
Revolution #013, August 28, 2005, posted at revcom.us
This week an Army intelligence officer risked his career to disclose that by mid-2000, a secret Pentagon surveillance program code-named "Able Danger" had identified and was tracking Mohammed Atta, supposedly the ringleader of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, and three other alleged hijackers. This is just the latest in an ongoing stream of revelations that show that the whole Bush "war on terror" is a fraud based on lies--and that the full truth about what took place on (and before and after) Sept. 11 is being suppressed.
Many different writers and researchers have dug into what happened that day. While a definitive account has yet to emerge, their work casts serious doubt on the "official story," shows how much more needs to be unearthed, and points to the real possibility that U.S. officials--at the very least--may have allowed the attacks to happen.
http://rwor.org/a/013/911-new-doubts.htm
The President’s Greatest Fear
By Doug Soderstrom
22 August, 2005
It has been said that “Love hath no fear” which I believe means that if one is committed to finding the truth, that one wants to understand, wants to know the truth more than anything else in the world, then through such conviction one will find the courage, the fearlessness, to pursue what must be done.
Next to the president’s Crawford, Texas vacation compound Cindy Sheehan has indicated that she will not leave until President Bush takes the time to meet with her concerning a belief that he is leading our country astray. Two standing eye to eye, neither willing to budge an inch. Titans each. One, in the name of democracy and freedom, defending his right as the president to move a nation toward empire, even to dominate the world, and, if necessary, by military means. The other a mere citizen, defending her right (even here responsibility) to question a president whom she believes is destroying a once great nation. No doubt two very different worldviews, a microcosm… a tiny mirror, reflecting a nation once again in a desperate struggle to find itself.
http://www.countercurrents.org/us-soderstrom220805.htm
The Silent Oil Crisis
By James Howard
The oil crisis gets louder – listen to it, talk about it, prepare for it – it is out there, the tide is rising and rushing towards us
Peak oil, Business As Usual,And Katrina
By Bill Henderson
Most oil producing countries have peaked: America, Norway, Venezuela, UK, Indonesia, Iran, etc.Most of the major oil companies have peaked: Chevron's production in the second quarter of 05 is down 6% from last year, for example; Exxon 5%; Shell 3%; Conoco 3%; and total 1%
http://www.countercurrents.org/peakoil.htm
Cheney's View Of The War
Vice president's speech to Purple Heart winners follows familiar pattern.
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Published on 8/22/2005
Vice President Dick Cheney is nothing if not predictable. His speech to the Military Order of the Purple Heart Aug. 22 in Springfield, Mo., once again cast the Iraq war and the attendant occupation in absolute terms. “We must stay and defeat the enemy” was the vice president's message.
The vice president has long been the administration's man in raising the question, “Are you for us or against us?'' In the speech last week, he sought to draw no distinctions or subtleties, but to state absolutes. This from an administration that had at first misled Americans about why the United States was going to war and then made a series of bad decisions that have made the occupation of Iraq more difficult for the troops.
Americans do not need to be reminded that terrorists are bad people. Nor do they need to be told again and again that Saddam Hussein was an evil man, as Vice President Cheney repeatedly said last week. Americans understand both points clearly.
http://www.theday.com/eng/web/news/re.aspx?re=7c129827-79f1-401e-b79d-f93b6933bc56
On business: Fuel prices rising, but we have untapped reserves of innovation
Neal St. Anthony, Star Tribune
August 23, 2005
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From little Global Electric Motorcars of Fargo to huge General Electric, business is responding to consumers and markets that want "greener" alternatives to $2.60-per-gallon gasoline.
One big reason for the Bush administration's decision to attack Iraq -- even though you heard primarily about "weapons of mass destruction" -- was to establish a U.S. beachhead in Oil Country. Iraq has the world's second-largest pool of proven reserves.
Vice President Dick Cheney predicted in 2003 that Iraqi oil production would rise to 3 million barrels daily by the year's end to 6 million barrels by 2008.
Suffice to say, Cheney and the administration have been wrong so far. Iraqi oil producers, plagued by sabotage, are barely pumping at 2002 levels. Meanwhile, the world price of a barrel of oil has more than doubled from $25.24 in April 2003 to $65.65 Monday. The steep rise has been driven, in part, by surging demand from industrial titans India and China.
Regardless of how you feel about Iraq, we're in an energy pickle.
http://www.startribune.com/stories/535/5573772.html
Find, Fight, Destroy Enemy in Iraq, Cheney Tells Veterans
By Sgt. 1st Class Doug Sample, USA
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Aug. 19, 2005 – The U.S. military will not relent in its effort to track down terrorists in Iraq and elsewhere, Vice President Richard Cheney said Aug. 18.
Vice President Richard Cheney shakes hands with Marine Sgt. Justin Genovese at the 73rd National Convention of the Military Order of the Purple Heart in Springfield, Mo., Aug. 18. Genovese was wounded in battle in Iraq, Aug. 4, 2004. Photo by David Bohrer
"This is not a war we can win strictly on the defensive. Our only option against these enemies is to find them, to fight them and to destroy them," he told the 73rd National Convention of the Military Order of the Purple Heart in Springfield, Mo.
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Aug2005/20050819_2483.html
LULAC members dispute DeLay's immigration stance
They say the House majority leader's words are 'extreme' and run counter to laws
By ERIC HANSON
Copyright 2005 Houston Chronicle
ROSENBERG - At a town-hall meeting hosted by the Houston-area LULAC, several speakers disagreed sharply with comments made recently by House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, who proposed a tougher stance on U.S. immigration practices.
"Mexicans, Central Americans and South Americans are not bombing anything strategic in America. They are here to work," said League of United Latin American Citizens member Joel Salazar.
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/3317111
DeLay hit for anti-immigrant remarks
HOUSTON — House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) told a group of his constituents this month that he thinks laws allowing “illegal immigrants” to be treated in area hospitals and laws permitting their children to attend public schools should be repealed.
He also said children of “illegal immigrants” born in this country should not “automatically” become U.S. citizens, and said National Guard and police departments should “pick up” immigrants and put them in tents if there is no space available in detention facilities.
Some observers said DeLay’s comments evoked images of the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
DeLay’s remarks, which were aired on several local television news programs, were characterized as “outrageous” by civil liberties and immigrant rights leaders. The media also reported that DeLay declined to comment when they contacted his office for clarification.
http://www.pww.org/article/articleview/7575/1/282
Bill O'Reilly, "No Spin" Propagandists
By Hal von Luebbert
Aug. 18, 2005
My assistance to the high school teacher seeking examples of media propaganda and opinion control is getting interesting (I have to watch tenebrous and benighted "info-tainment" bloviating and blarney like the "No-Spin Zone," but it's for a good cause). Last night, "Correspondent" O'Reilly took Jane Turner (I think, we came in on the middle of the segment, and I don't know the lady), a former FBI agent, to task for her intended "support" of certain supposedly (How the hell do you know if a guy like this says so? As the old Spanish proverb says, "En boca del mentiroso lo cierto se hace dudoso"—In the mouth of a liar even what is certain is doubtful.) "left wing" factions. The Left, of course, is EVIL. Anything that agrees with them is, therefore, EVIL.
http://www.useless-knowledge.com/1234/aug/article266.html
Profits at Tube Lines race ahead by 37%
James Rossiter, Evening Standard
18 August 2005
TWO private companies behind a multi-billion-pound upgrade of key parts of the London Underground have reaped £57m profits in the past year. The Tube Lines consortium, a venture between Amey and Bechtel, made the pre-tax profits from its £18bn long-term contracts to improve the Jubilee, Northern and Piccadilly lines.
http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=403064&in_page_id=2
U.S. 'Will Not Relent' in Iraq, Cheney Tells Veterans Group
By Peter Baker
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, August 19, 2005; Page A02
Vice President Cheney declared yesterday that the United States "will not relent" in the war in Iraq and will hunt down insurgents there "one at a time if necessary," implicitly rebutting escalating pressure on the Bush administration to bring U.S. troops home.
Addressing a friendly audience of combat veterans a day after antiwar candlelight vigils were held around the nation, Cheney cast victory in Iraq as "critical to the future security of the U.S." and said the country should not lose its resolve to defeat the militants.
"They believe that America will lose our nerve and let down our guard," he said at the 73rd national convention of the Military Order of the Purple Heart held in Springfield, Mo., according to a transcript provided by the White House. "They are sorely mistaken."
Cheney's speech represented the first high-profile White House response in the past week to gathering antiwar demonstrations galvanized by Cindy Sheehan, the mother of a soldier killed in Iraq. Sheehan has set up camp near President Bush's Texas ranch, demanding to speak with the vacationing Bush to express her opposition to the war. She said yesterday that she is temporarily leaving Texas to care for her mother, who had a stroke.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/18/AR2005081801644.html
Cheney's odds up for presidency
18/08/2005 17:25 - (SA)
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New York - United States vice-president Dick Cheney has seen a sharp improvement in his odds for the presidency in 2008, but he trails three other possible candidates, the online betting service Sportsbook.com said on Wednesday.
Odds on Cheney have improved from 100-1, when betting on presidential candidates opened in May, to 20-1, said the British-based betting firm, which cited comments from Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward that Cheney would likely run for president.
http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_1755874,00.html
Habitual lies to promote a war against the guiltless are pretty telling...
VHeadline.com guest commentarist Mary MacElveen writes: In June, US president Bush's spinmeister and advisor Karl Rove had this to say of liberals concerning September 11: “Liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers.”
http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=45551
Improper Advances
Talking dream jobs with the judge out of court.
By Stephen Gillers, David J. Luban, and Steven Lubet
Posted Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2005, at 11:50 AM PT
The appearance of partiality?
Four days before President Bush nominated John G. Roberts to the Supreme Court on July 19, an appeals court panel of three judges, including Judge Roberts, handed the Bush administration a big victory in a hotly contested challenge to the president's military commissions. The challenge was brought by Salim Ahmed Hamdan, a Guantanamo detainee. President Bush was a defendant in the case because he had personally, in writing, found "reason to believe" that Hamdan was a terrorist subject to military tribunals. The appeals court upheld the rules the president had authorized for these military commissions, and it rejected Hamdan's human rights claims—including claims for protection under the Geneva Conventions.
http://slate.msn.com/id/2124603/
Completely Israeli
Jihad el-Khazen Al-Hayat - 17/08/05//
"Yellow cake” is raw uranium that is converted and enriched, then put in tubes with centrifuges; other steps take place before it becomes nuclear fuel or is enhanced so that is can produce nuclear weapons.
The yellow cake documents, which alleged that Iraq tried to buy yellow cake from Niger, were not just a mistake but an intentional forgery. The forgers have now been caught in a trap of their arrogance and hatred. When the documents reached the US, the State Department and CIA doubted their authenticity, but the war party opted to send Joseph Wilson, a former ambassador to Africa and the husband of Valerie Plame, to Niger to investigate the matter. Wilson returned and announced decisively that the documents were a forgery. He wrote an article about this in the New York Times – the war party was enraged and leaked the name of his wife, a CIA agent. This gave rise to an investigation, which has now expanded in scope. The forgers know that if the charges are verified they are guilty of mass murder, punishable by death. The information that is now available says that Niger’s Embassy in Rome had a break-in in January 2001, while the home of the counselor in charge suffered a similar break-in. Blank embassy stationery was stolen.
http://english.daralhayat.com/opinion/OPED/08-2005/Article-20050817-c4f648f5-c0a8-10ed-00c7-49e45363051f/story.html
It's Becoming Clear That Perjury Charges Are Being Prepared
August 17, 2005
A daily service of the DNC, "Mr. Bush, Tear Down That Stone Wall!" will highlight a specific fact that has been revealed and what Americans deserve to know about the White House's involvement in the improper and possibly illegal disclosure of an undercover CIA agent's identity for political gain
WHAT'S BEEN UNCOVERED
Fitzgerald Had History of Pursuing Perjury In Previous Investigations. According to individuals familiar with his case history, special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has pursued perjury charges in a significant portion of the cases he has investigated. The Los Angeles Times reported, "Fitzgerald's tendency to invoke the laws against lying comes from two things, colleagues say: the particular way he uses grand jury testimony when he conducts an investigation, and his deep-seated aversion to being lied to." [Los Angeles Times, 8/15/05, http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-fitzgerald15aug15,0,5966515,full.story?coll=la-home-nation]
http://www.allamericanpatriots.com/m-news+article+storyid-12150.html
Bush Cheney Coverup Man David Margolis Appointed
by AL MARTIN
(8-15-05) Another Bushonian Cabalist is being recycled by the Bush-Cheney Regime. On Aug. 12, David Margolis, a Department of Justice lawyer for 40 years, was named to oversee special prosecutor Fitzgerald’s “independentinvestigation of the Bush Regime, namely who revealed the identity of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame. Margolis, Associate Deputy Attorney General, is taking the place of Deputy Attorney General James Comey, who’s going to work for Lockheed-Martin.
http://www.conspiracyplanet.com/channel.cfm?channelid=49&contentid=2592
Mom's Quiet War Protest Gets Attention
Bush Not Facing Massive Demonstrations, Chants
Helen Thomas, Hearst White House columnist
POSTED: 4:50 pm EDT August 17, 2005
President George W. Bush has not experienced the kind of massive anti-war demonstrations that contributed to the political demise of Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard Nixon.
But the protest staged by Cindy Sheehan near Bush's Crawford, Texas, ranch has drawn world attention to the grieving mother's loss of her 24-year-old son, Army specialist Casey Sheehan of Vacaville, Calif., who was killed in Iraq.
Sheehan has vowed to continue her protest until the president personally speaks to her. Bush has refused to grant her request and instead tried to get this embarrassing episode behind him by sending Joe Hagin, White House deputy chief of staff, and Stephen Hadley, national security adviser, to meet Sheehan, who has been camped a few miles from the ranch.
http://www.thebostonchannel.com/helenthomas/4864547/detail.html
Fox is Like a Zamboni for the Bush Administration
Fox's Brenda Buttner substituted for Neil Cavuto today (August 16, 2005) on Your World. One of Buttner's guests was Ingrid Sanden, the mother of a now-2-year old daughter who is listed on the Transportation Security Administration's "No-Fly List." Sanden and her family were stopped last Thanksgiving and delayed approximately 30 minutes while airline officials contacted the TSA to arrange to have the little girl's no-fly ban lifted.
http://www.newshounds.us/2005/08/16/fox_is_like_a_zamboni_for_the_bush_administration.php
Cindy Sheehan: Antiwar Catalyst
by Patrick J. Buchanan
Posted Aug 16, 2005
When he flew off to San Clemente, Calif., in the summer of 1969 for his August vacation, Richard Nixon was riding a wave of popularity.
He had announced the first troop withdrawal from Vietnam. He had met the Apollo 11 crew of Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins on touchdown in the Pacific. He had become the first president to visit a captive nation with a triumphal tour of Bucharest. And he had just proposed a sweeping reform of welfare praised by both parties.
But when Nixon returned in September, a storm had broken. Wrote David Broder: "It is becoming more obvious with each passing day that the men and the movement that broke Lyndon Johnson's authority in 1968 are out to break Richard Nixon in 1969.
"The likelihood is great that they will succeed again."
They did not succeed in breaking Nixon's presidency. He broke them. The crucial moment was his "Great Silent Majority" speech of Nov. 3, 1969, which rallied Middle America behind his war policy.
George W. Bush is approaching a similar moment of truth. And Cindy Sheehan may be the catalyst of crisis for the Bush presidency.
http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=8560
TomGram: De la Vega on how to prosecute the Plame case
Is the Intelligence Identities Protection Act really impossible to prove?
Rumors and leaks continue to swirl around the case of outed CIA agent Valerie Plame and the various journalists and Bush "senior administration officials" believed to be involved in some fashion in her outing. Whole forests have undoubtedly been pulped for the endless flood of summer stories about the Plame case and yet something has been missing. The Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982, the law against outing a CIA operative under which Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald was, in essence, called into existence, is rarely discussed in any serious way -- and then at best only in a passing paragraph or two deep in any story. And yet a media/punditry consensus has formed that it is a law so specifically, even quirkily, written as to be almost impossible to use in a prosecution (hopeless, in fact, against a figure like Karl Rove or Vice President Cheney's right-hand man I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby); and that Special Counsel Fitzgerald has already turned away from the law, moving on to more conceivable avenues of prosecution -- like obstruction of justice.
http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?ItemID=19486
Never mind abortion, court watchers say
On July 15, the day President Bush interviewed John Roberts about an appointment to the Supreme Court, the judge was part of an appeals court panel that approved broad presidential powers in the war on terror.
The ruling gave the administration a green light to use military tribunals to try those labeled “enemy combatants” at the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. And it said that those combatants had no right in U.S. courts to enforce provisions of the Geneva Conventions on the treatment of prisoners of war.
http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/journalgazette/news/nation/12387343.htm
The Jakarta Post
Bodies of dead victims sent to Adam Malik hospital
MEDAN (Antara): The bodies of victims of the Mandala Airline crash on Monday have been sent to Adam Malik General Hospital for identification.
The plane, carrying 117 people including North Sumatra Governor Tengku Rizal Nurdin and former governor Raja Inal Siregar, crashed on Monday shortly after taking off from Polonia Airport in Medan, North Sumatra.
No official death toll has been issued, but Mandala said at least six survivors were being treated at the hospital.
http://www.thejakartapost.com/detaillatestnews.asp?fileid=20050905183315&irec=1
List of passengers in Mandala airlines crash on Monday
JAKARTA (Antara): Below are the names of passengers of the Mandala Airlines plane that crashed on Monday in a crowded residential neighborhood in Medan minutes after takeoff from Polonia Airport in Medan, North Sumatra:
http://www.thejakartapost.com/detaillatestnews.asp?fileid=20050905140238&irec=7
Congo hosts conference to save world's endangered great apes
KINSHASA (AP): A conference on saving apes around the world from extinction opened in Congo's capital on Monday and a new global agreement on protecting them was expected to emerge after a week of talks.
Great apes - gorillas, chimpanzees and orangutans -are threatened by logging, poaching and conflict worldwide. There are believed to be about 400,000 left Africa and Asia, compared to millions in the 19th century, according to the United Nations.
"I am optimistic, despite the declining numbers of apes," Ian Redmond, chief consultant for the UN's Great Apes Survival Project said before the meeting. "There are signs of political commitment and a shared determination to address the problems weare here to discuss."
http://www.thejakartapost.com/detaillatestnews.asp?fileid=20050905185135&irec=0
Courting Muslim world, Israel plans high-level Tunisia trip, sends messages to Indonesia
JERUSALEM (AP): Israel is planning on sending a high-level delegation to Tunisia in November and has sent messages to Indonesia expressing interest in forming ties with the largest Muslim country in the world, an Israeli Foreign Ministry official said on Monday.
Trying to ride the wave created by its historic withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and four West Bank settlements, Israel is courting the Muslim world, openly calling on these countries to form ties - even low-level ones - with Israel.
Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom's attendance in November at a UN conference in Tunisia is a step toward renewing ties with the North African country, which cut off its low-level relations with Israel when fighting with the Palestinians eruptedin September 2000, said Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Regev.
Israel has also recently sent messages to Indonesia expressing a desire to form ties, Regev said
http://www.thejakartapost.com/detaillatestnews.asp?fileid=20050905163903&irec=2
Vietnam to vaccinate 2.3 million children, citing Indonesia polio outbreak
HANOI (AFP): Vietnam will vaccinate nearly 2.3 million children aged under five against polio, a top health official said on Monday, citing the threat of the disease spreading from Indonesia and elsewhere.
The vaccination drive will be conducted in two rounds, in November and December, said doctor Do Sy Hien, chairman of the national program.
"We have to do that because of the risk that polio may enter Vietnam, not just from Indonesia, but from any country where the disease still exists," Hien told AFP.
http://www.thejakartapost.com/detaillatestnews.asp?fileid=20050905162334&irec=3
Shifting from monetary to fiscal policy
Hendi Kariawan, Jakarta
Indonesia began to become more reliant on monetary rather than fiscal approaches in nation economic policy in the early 1980s. In 1983, the government deregulated interest rate policies and later in 1988 abandoned its planned restrictions on bank permits to encourage growth in the banking sector. Soon after, new banks mushroomed beyond people's wildest expectations.
These developments were the embryo of the monetary collapse in 1997/1998. From 1988 to 1997/1998 connected (intra-group) lending financing escalated, often in blatant violations of prudent banking practices.
http://www.thejakartapost.com/detaileditorial.asp?fileid=20050905.E03&irec=2
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