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• WMR "The United States has made an agreement with the pro-US, Israeli, and Saudi government of Prime Minister Fuad Siniora to gradually transform the Kleiaat airbase from a civilian airport to a military airbase. The base will function under a NATO umbrella but will be controlled by the United States. 
• Valerie Plame trying to revive Bush / Cheney lawsuit.
• EPOnline  "The Hon. Claudia Wilkin ruled for the plaintiffs -- Center for Biological Diversity, the Natural Resources Defense Council, Greenpeace -- on all issues in finding that the Bush administration violated the law by missing the deadline for a final polar bear decision by nearly four months. The court order, issued April 28, requires the administration to publish a final decision in the Federal Register by May 15, and for the decision to take effect immediately. This decision is the result of a petition by the groups, initially submitted in 2005, to list the polar bear under the Endangered Species Act."
• Prison Planet Japanese member of Parliament Yukihisa Fujita told the Alex Jones Show yesterday that a potential new investigation of the 9/11 cover-up could be led by global parliamentarians he has been in contact with, or even by the United Nations itself. Fujita, an MP for the Japanese Democratic Party, and a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet (national legislature), presented evidence which contradicted the official 9/11 story during a widely publicized Japanese Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee meeting in January of this year.  Following Fujita's presentation in the Japanese Diet, he also took part in a 9/11 truth conference at the EU Parliament in Brussels on February 26th which was hosted by Italian MEP Giullietto Chiesa (both presentations can be viewed at the end of this article).  
• Shirley Golub, Pelosi, San Francisco, 
• MSNBC GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba - The Defense Department's former chief prosecutor for terrorism cases appeared Monday at the controversial U.S. detention facility here to argue on behalf of a terrorism suspect that the military justice system has been corrupted by politics and inappropriate influence from senior Pentagon officials. Sitting just feet from the courtroom table where he had once planned to make cases against military detainees, Air Force Col. Morris Davis instead took the witness stand to declare under oath that he felt undue pressure to hurry cases along so that the Bush administration could claim before political elections that the system was working.  His testimony in a small, windowless room -- as a witness for Salim Ahmed Hamdan, an alleged driver for Osama bin Laden -- offered a harsh insider's critique of how senior political officials have allegedly influenced the system created to try suspected terrorists outside existing military and civilian courts." NFU page research
• Fox News Atheist, Military,  lawsuit, The issue came to a head when, according to Hall, a superior officer, Maj. Freddy J. Welborn, threatened to bring charges against him for trying to hold a meeting of atheists in Iraq. Welborn has denied Hall's allegations. ... Hall said he had had enough but feared he wouldn't get support from Welborn's superiors. He turned to Mikey Weinstein and the Military Religious Freedom Foundation. ... Weinstein is the foundation's president and a U.S. Air Force Academy graduate. He had previously sued the Air Force for acts he said illegally imposed Christianity on students at the academy, though that case was dismissed. He calls Hall a hero. ... " 
• WMR comment:  "More bombshells were lobbed in the Antoin "Tony" Rezko trial even before the jury was seated this morning and they involved a purported attempt to pull strings with the White House to fire U.S. Atty. Patrick Fitzgerald. In a hearing before court began, prosecutors said they hoped to call Ali Ata, the former Blagojevich administration official who pleaded guilty to corruption yesterday, to the stand. ... Assistant U.S. Atty. Carrie Hamilton said she believed Ata would testify to conversations Ata had with his political patron, Rezko, about working to pull strings to kill the criminal investigation into Rezko and others when it was in its early stages in 2004. ... "[Ata] had conversations with Mr. Rezko about the fact that Mr. Kjellander was working with Karl Rove to have Mr. Fitzgerald removed," Hamilton told U.S. District Judge Amy St. Eve."
• Jerusalem Post  "...the arrest of Ben-Ami Kadish, the 84-year-old former US army engineer arrested in New York City on Tuesday (April 2008) on charges of passing classified information to Israel. Even assuming the charges have substance, the circumstances, and especially the timing of his arrest - 23 years after he allegedly last committed an act of espionage on behalf of Israel - raises puzzling and troubling questions" search terms: Israel denies spying after 1985, Kadish, former US Army engineer, passing nuclear weapons information, air defense, fighter jets, Patriot missile, 50-100 documents,  (Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center, Picatinny Arsenal) between 1979 and 1985, contact with Israeli official, reported to same official (CC-1 Co-conspirator) as Jonathan Pollard, Olmert office silent, Danny Yatom, head of Mossad, DOE, Israeli Aircraft Industries.  CC-1an Israeli attache to the NY consolate, possibly Yossi Yagur, science attache, they talked in March of 2008, Israeli Aerospace Industry, ... and see Jewish Federation of Greater Middlesex County, all shows that Israel did not come clean about spies in 80s, dual loyalty, 
• New York  The FBI arrested a New Jersey man for allegedly spying for Israel by stealing military secrets including technology for the "Patriot Defense" system as well as fighter jet technology, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.  Ben-Ami Kadish is set to be arraigned on the espionage charges in U.S. District Court in Manhattan.  Investigators said Kadish stole secrets from the Picatinny Arsenal in Dover from 1979 through 1985.  Kadish allegedly smuggled documents from the base to his home. Court documents said an Israeli agent would then travel to the residence and "take photographs of the classified documents in the basement of the residence. The next morning, Kadish would take the classified documents back to the Arsenal and return them to the library,” the complaint said.  A woman who answered the phone at Kadish's home declined to comment on the charges.  Court papers suggest some of the confidential documents also contained information about nuclear technology and F-15's. The criminal complaint suggests Kadish made statements about having taken the documents because they had "a direct correlation to Israel's security."
• CNN Kinky News Network, personality, Richard Quest, busted, Central Park, a rope around his neck that was tied to his genitals, sex toy in his boot, spotted with another man, early morning, 64th Street, Richard Quest, homophobe, hypocrisy notes: Richard Quest, Kinky News Network, personality, Richard Quest, busted, Central Park, a rope around his neck that was tied to his genitals, sex toy in his boot, spotted with another man, early morning, 64th Street,  search terms: methamphetamine, meth, drug arrests, cop, "I've got some meth in my pocket", loitering, criminal possession, but no lewdness charge, attorney Alan Abramson, Manhattan Criminal Court, drug counseling in return for adjournment in contemplation of dismissal, misdemeanor charges dropped, case sealed if he stays out of trouble.  Quest known for antics, stunts, on cable news networks, turned down Al Jazeerah (Al Jazeera)  job, 
• Religious Tolerance FLDS  Utah state Senator Ron Allen said: 'We have thousands of women pulled out of school at an early age, forced into marriages with older men, kept isolated from society, constantly impregnated, and often placed on public assistance with no financial means of their own. They are forgotten citizens facing abuse and fear. On top of it all, the victims are constantly taught that God is just pleased as punch about the whole deal. It has to stop'." 1 "Salt Lake City writer John Llewellyn, a former member of a fundamentalist LDS Restoration denomination, says: 'The key factor in controlling a polygamist cult is in brainwashing the young women to inculcate upon their impressionable minds that everything not condoned by the prophet is evil, that they cannot go to the celestial kingdom unless they live in a plural marriage, and that the gates of heaven will be closed to the disobedient'." 1
• Washington Times  Mrs. Clinton said the liberal group — which was formed to help her husband fight off impeachment but now backs the presidential candidacy of her rival, Sen. Barack Obama — had "flooded" party caucuses and tried to "intimidate" her supporters.  Activists wrote on the Internet that Mrs. Clinton has alienated a key part of the Democratic base in advance of Tuesday's make-or-break Pennsylvania primary, though new national polls suggest she is experiencing a rebound among primary voters after trailing Mr. Obama for weeks.  In her remarks to donors in February, Mrs. Clinton falsely said MoveOn had opposed the war in Afghanistan and said she disagrees with the group's foreign-policy stance even though she courted its endorsement."
• BPA, plastics, harmful
• Supreme Court decisions, who's watching, reporting on them?
• Raw Story, National Security Simulation  A Republican congressman used some of the most racially charged language of the election season to attack Barack Obama's fitness to be president, causing the Illinois Senator's campaign to issue a sharp rebuke Monday.  Rep. Geoff Davis was speaking to about 400 donors at a fundraiser in Kentucky, when he said of Obama, "That boy's finger does not need to be on the button."  Obama's campaign hit back against the "offensive" comment.
• Silent Vector was a two-day national security simulation that focused on the pre-attack phase of a major terrorist incident on the American homeland. Led by the Center for Strategic and International Studies and with support from the Anser Institute for Homeland Security and the Oklahoma City Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism, this simulation involved former senior policymakers, working-level experts, and representatives from the private sector. The exercise dealt with decision-making given a very credible, but non-specific, threat against the energy sector in the northeastern U.S.CSL 3  and file  paper
• Iraqi art and music struggling to survive
• Cheney, sun glasses, naked woman, palfrey
• Hubble Internet Reachability Blackhole  Washington.edu
• Bruce Barclay, Karl Rove secretly filming sexual encounters, 
• David Brock,  McCain  Wealthy Democrats are preparing a four-month, $40 million media campaign centered on attacks on Sen. John McCain. And it will be led by David Brock, the former investigative reporter who first gained fame in the 1990s as a right-wing, anti-Clinton journalist. ... The planned campaign is the product of a shakeup in the top ranks of the struggling independent Democratic groups. Brock, now best known as the ex-conservative founder of the liberal group Media Matters, last month quietly assumed the chairmanship of what's expected to be the main vehicle for independent Democratic attacks on McCain, now called Progressive Media USA. ... The move comes after the groups that had been expected to spearhead attacks on McCain — the Fund for America and Progressive Media USA's previous incarnation, the Campaign to Defend America — failed to raise the money needed to dent McCain's armor.  also: Soros
• Theresa Duncan, see NFU Franklin Scandal Omaha  and  Alex Constantine, Blacklist  Robert Wadman,
• Gates, Secretary of Defense, inventory of nuclear weapons ordered in light of Minot-Barksdale nuclear weapons transfer incident, Cheney.
• Yahoo  Iran Opec  (AP) -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is urging OPEC members to form a joint bank and stop pricing oil trades in U.S. dollars. According to the Iranian government's Web site, Ahmadinejad told OPEC Secretary General Abdalla Salem el-Badri the cartel "should establish a joint bank as well as having joint currency."  Oil is priced in U.S. dollars on the world market, and the currency's depreciation has concerned producers because it has contributed to rising crude prices and eroded the value of their dollar reserves.  Iran has repeatedly urged OPEC members to shift sales away from dollar. But Iran's proposal to trade oil in a basket of currencies is not supported by enough OPEC members, which include staunch U.S. allies such as leading producer Saudi Arabia.
• Gillespie, Shawn, Staff Sgt. died (suicide?) March 4, 2008 at Fort Meyer in Arlington, Virginia ... (see also Dahlgren Naval Surface Warfare Center) served in the US Special Operations Command unit, and Presidential Support Duty for the White House Communications Agency, also deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan, covert missions, ...  Montana governor Brian Schweitzer pressing for full investigation of his death. see also 82nd Airborne, and Armed Forces Inaugural Community, Ft. McNair, re-enlisted.  see NFU Bush / Clinton death list
• Apr 3, 2008 Wayne Madsen, Subscriber story excerpt: COINTELPRO back in operation under different names  From 1956 to 1971, the FBI maintained a program to infiltrate and disrupt groups that they suspected of being subversive to the oligarchical interests that control the United States. In fact, the FBI spent most of its time targeting civil rights and anti-Vietnam War organizations. FBI agents not only spied on targeted organizations but also infiltrated them for purposes of disruption and discrediting.  The Pentagon has announced it is closing down the Counterintelligence Field Activity (CIFA) that targeted anti-war groups in a COINTELPRO-like campaign.  WMR has learned from knowledgeable sources that the Bush administration's COINTELPRO activities extend far beyond the Pentagon and include domestic operations being conducted by CIA, FBI, and other intelligence and law enforcement agencies.  search terms:  COINTELPRO c.ones, targeting Barrack Obama, Sarah, and Obama Sr.,  DIA, Defense Intelligence Agency,  Theresa Heinz Kerry, Pretoria, South Africa, US Ambassador Jendayi Frazer, Col. Richard Orth, Obama passport files.
• Apr 1, 2008 WMR: "Luskin also serves as an approved "special internal prosecutor" under the aegis of the Department of Justice, a position he has held since the Clinton administration. Attorneys General under Bill Clinton and George Bush have permitted Luskin to serve in his position despite the clear conflicts of interests during the investigation by Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald during the investigation of Rove for outing CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson and the current investigation of Rove's involvement in the prosecution of former Alabama Democratic Governor Don Siegelman."  and search terms: mob-infested Laborers' International Union of North America (LIUNA), LIUNA president Arthur A. Coia, Coia is a close ally of Bill and Hillary Clinton, Attorney General Janet Reno, sweetheart deals ("internal prosecutor, in-house prosecutor") to take over union control in lieu of RICO,  but Luskin just perpetuated the corruption.  Clean up mob influence with 'operating agreement', civil complaint, La Cosa Nostra, Teamsters, mob-infested, Clinton, 1994 deals with unions, prosecutors, Harold Ickes involved (now deputy chief of staff to Hillary's campaign), NLPC called reforms a sham,  Luskin was Coia's personal attorney, conflict of interest, Luskin charged with illegally receiving 45 gold bars (Sheldon Whitehouse), money laundering, Patriarca, Saccoccia, Heritage Loan and Investment, North American Laborers Defense League, collapse of Rhode Island banking system, Switzerland wire transfers, Luskin as Rove's attorney, collusion with Patrick Fitzgerald, full story  file
• Newsday  (this story doesn't make sense considering WMR above) Elliot Spitzer resignation and Roger Stone dirty tricks: .... Spitzer resigned after being caught in prostitution nab, but all tainted by the revelation that Roger Stone, a Republican political operative provided the FBI with salacious details of the former governor's trysts four months before he resigned.  In a Nov. 19 letter, an attorney for Roger Stone, once a consultant to Republican State Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno, said Spitzer had spent "tens of thousands" of dollars on prostitutes using prearranged financial transfers.   Stone also accused of leaving menacing voice mails to Spitzer's father, Bernard, search terms: Ashley Dupre, Emporers Club, Bob Dole, swingers ad, Stone sexual threesome  NFU Dirty Tricks page
• WMR "Luskin is currently trying to protect Rove from a congressional probe into Rove's back room deals in selectively and falsely getting US attorneys in Alabama to indict Siegelman. It was none other than Bill Clinton who recommended Bush family "clean up" man David Laufman to represent and influence the key witness against Rove, Alabama attorney and former GOP opposition research specialist Dana Jill Simpson.  ...  On September 14, 2007, WMR reported: "Simpson, WMR has learned from knowledgeable sources, asked about having a Washington attorney represent her pro bono in a series of meetings with congressional committee, she was offered the services of Laufman by principals close to the Siegelman defense. Parties involved with Siegelman's defense claimed that Laufman was recommended by President Bill Clinton." It now appears that Clinton was acting to protect Luskin's client Rove from any fallout from the Siegelman case and the dual attorney pair of Luskin and Laufman could have buried the investigation of the Siegelman prosecution."  full story  including details on Valerie Plame, Cheney, Scooter Libby etc.
• Oped News  " The Coming False Flag to Justify War on Iran  ...  Former Wall Street Journal Editor and business columnist Paul Craig Roberts, also known as the Father of Reaganomics, lays out some explosive and terrifying possibilities in his latest article, Secret Schemes and Undeclared Agendas.  Roberts' article becomes even more urgent to ponder now. Why? Since his article warning of a coming false flag attack to justify a US attack on Iran came out, several disturbing dominoes have fallen.  1) Admiral Fallon who was the highest ranking military man to refuse to attack Iran . . . suddenly resigns under pressure.  2) A US nuclear submarine just entered the Persian Gulf, and 3) General Patreaus just blamed the last attack on the Green Zone in Iraq . . . on the Iranians. Of course he has no proof, just a hunch. We can see where the dominoes are falling towards, Iran."   more  &  Iran
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• Mar 30, 2008 Lew Rockwell  "Terrible rumors from Russia continue to swirl around the Middle East that the Cheney-Bush junta has decided to bomb Iran on April 4th or 6th, targeting not only nuclear-power research facilities but ships, planes, antiaircraft installations, and the Iranian pentagon. Apparently the nuclear-power reactor being built by Russian companies will be spared, but not much else. Will it happen? Certainly the neocon hate network is working overtime to make it so. Bush fired the anti-neocon Admiral Fallon. One thing we know for sure: it will be the typical Bush administration snafu, with horrific consequences for the region and the world, not to speak of the Iranian people, and reap much trouble for the US empire. Indeed, it could mark the end of the empire if, as Bill Lind worries, the Iranians in retaliation cut off water-food-ammo supply routes to US troops in Iraq, and, with the help of Shiite militiants, capture large numbers of them. Need I mention that Ron Paul, our champion of peace, is the leading opponent of war on Iran?     Iran
• Dissident Voice White House Balks at E-Mail Search The White House told a federal court that searching individual computers for allegedly lost e-mails about the Iraq invasion and the outing of a covert CIA officer would be too costly and too time-consuming. The hard drives of many older computers have already been destroyed, said a senior aide to President Bush. March 24, 2008  search terms: hard drives destroyed,  U. S. Magistrate Judge John Facciola, George Washington University's National Security Archive, White House Office of Administration, 
• Mar 29, 2008 Dahr Jamail / IPS Fever Named After Blackwater, Inter Press Service, By Ali al-Fadhily and Dahr Jamail* FALLUJAH, Mar 26 (IPS) - Iraqi doctors in al-Anbar province warn of a new disease they call "Blackwater" that threatens the lives of thousands. The disease is named after Blackwater Worldwide, the U.S. mercenary company operating in Iraq. "This disease is a severe form of malarial infection caused by the parasite plasmodium falciparum, which is considered the worst type of malarial infection," Dr. Ali Hakki from Fallujah told IPS. "It is one of the complications of that infection, and not the ordinary picture of the disease. Because of its frequent and severe complications, such as Blackwater fever, and its resistance to treatment, P. falciparum can cause death within 24 hours." .... The deadly disease, never before seen in Iraq on at least this scale, seems to be spreading across the country. And Iraq lacks medicines, hospitals, and doctors to lead a campaign to fight the disease.  'War on terrorism_2'
• Mar 29, 2008  WMR A UN panel headed by former Canadian prosecutor Daniel Bellemare has concluded that former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri was assassinated by a "criminal network" and not by either Syrian and Lebanese intelligence or Lebanese Hezbollah as proffered by the neocon propaganda mill operating out of Washington, DC and Jerusalem.  The UN panel said that a "Hariri Network" had the ex-Prime Minister under surveillance before the Beirut massive car bombing that killed Hariri and 22 other people in November 2005.    search terms: rogue, Syrian, Mossad, Elliot Abrams.  
• search Clinton Stronach images Kennedy assassination
• Mar 28, 2008  Workers World  Anti-China Olmpics plots by US  and Tibet
• WMR 'Mistake' ... UH-1 Huey helicopter battery packs and shipped to Taiwan were Minuteman III nuclear nose cone fuse assemblies,  all this linked to 2007 Minot Barksdale nuclear transfer incident, Cheney,  and 'the plan'  ... In July 2007, there were a series of incidents at Minot Air Force Base that point to the breakdown in command and control over the U.S. nuclear arsenal. WMR has obtained previously "sealed" documentation that there was a "plan" afoot by at least four personnel at Minot, two including 91st Security Forces Group military security personnel charged with guarding Minot's Minuteman III silos, that involved the warehousing of military equipment, including flash bang and smoke grenades, battlefield trauma kits, gas masks, and chemical gloves, off base for an unknown operation. The 91st SFG is the largest military police group at Minot. The other major security force at Minot is the 5th Security Forces Squadron, the group that was charged with protecting the nuclear warheads that were placed on the B-52 during the 2007 Labor Day weekend. .... Minot's Office of Special Investigations officially placed a "gag order" on any discussion about the "plan" by Air Force nuclear security personnel with outside personnel, including North Dakota law enforcement officers. The incident involving the Minot military equipment occurred the same day, July 17, that Lt. Weston Kissel, a Minot B-52 pilot with the 23rd Bomb Squadron, was killed in a motorcycle "accident" while on leave in Tennessee.  full story
• CNN KPMG improper accounting practices Michael J. Missal concluded that New Century engaged in at least seven improper accounting practices that led the company to report incorrect financial information to Wall Street for fiscal 2005 and the first nine months of 2006.  Missal also found that senior management at the Irvine, Calif.-based lender failed to take appropriate steps to manage rising risks caused by the company's aggressive approach to originating loans, often to borrowers who couldn't afford them.  "New Century had a brazen obsession with increasing loan originations, without due regard to the risks associated with that business strategy," Missal's report said. "The increasingly risky nature of New Century's loan originations created a ticking time bomb that detonated in 2007."  In addition, the examiner found that New Century's accounting firm, KPMG LLC, enabled some of the improper accounting practices to continue.   and Law.com
• Juan Cole Dozens Dead in Basra Clashes; Mahdi Army Occupies Kut  NFU
• Mar 27, 2008 
• Pakistan Dawn Saudi King Abdullah Calls for Interfaith Dialogue  The United States on Wednesday welcomed Saudi King Abdullah’s initiative for dialogue among Muslims, Christians and Jews and will send its envoy to participate in the proposed talks. NFU
• She and her family are demanding more answers in the death of Sgt. James W. McDonald.  "I don't want it to be an undetermined cause of death," said Joan McDonald. "That is ridiculous."  McDonald, 26, was injured in a roadside bomb blast in Iraq last May. He was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment based at Fort Hood, Texas. After treatment in Germany, McDonald returned to Fort Hood and underwent extensive facial surgery in August.  
• Mar 18, 2008 Venezuela Solidarity Network  WASHINGTON D.C. - U2's Bono, well recognized for his campaigns to reduce poverty and treat AIDS in Africa is backing a videogame which promotes the invasion and destruction of Venezuela in order to check "a power hungry tyrant" who has "seized control of Venezuela and her oil supply." Bono has failed to respond to concerns raised by the Venezuelan Solidarity Network about his funding of this project. ... "Mercenaries 2: World in Flames," created by Los Angeles based Pandemic/Bioware Studios, simulates a mercenary invasion of Venezuela in the year 2007. Pandemic is a subcontractor for the US Army and CIA funded Institute for Creative Technologies, which uses Hollywood techniques to mount war simulations in California's high desert in order to conduct military training. "Mercenaries 2: World in Flames" simulates destruction in downtown Caracas, and promises to leave no part of Venezuela untouched. NFU
• Mar 13, 2008  InternetNews CREW, asks for FBI investigation, Plame, lost emails, Whitehouse
• Harretz CIA Mossad plans against Iran, Risen, Risen has been asked to testify as part of an investigation aimed at revealing who leaked apparently confidential information about the planning of secret Central Intelligence Agency and Mossad missions concerning Iran's nuclear program.   ...  Risen included this information in his book, "State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration," which was published in 2006. In the book, he discusses a number of ideas which he says were thought up jointly by CIA and Mossad operatives to sabotage Iran's nuclear capabilities.  ...  One of these ideas was to build electromagnetic devices, smuggling them inside Iran to sabotage electricity lines leading to the country's central nuclear sites. According to the plan, the operation was supposed to cause a series of chain reactions which would damage extremely powerful short circuits in the electrical supply that would have led to failures of the super computers of Iran's nuclear sites.  ...  Another of the book's important revelations, which made the administration's blood boil about James Risen, appeared in a chapter describing what was known as Operation Merlin, the code name for another CIA operation supposed to penetrate the heart of Iran's nuclear activity, collect information about it and eventually disrupt it.  ...  The scientist was equipped with blueprints for assembling a nuclear bomb in which, without his knowledge, false drawings and information blueprints were planted about a nuclear warhead that was supposedly manufactured in the Soviet Union. The plan's details had been fabricated by CIA experts, and so while they appeared authentic, they had no engineering or technological value.  The intention was to fool the scientist and send him to make contact with the Iranians to whom he would offer his services and blueprints. The American plot was aimed at getting the Iranians to invest a great deal of effort in studying the plans and to attempt to assemble a faulty warhead. But when the time came, they would not have a nuclear bomb but rather a dud.  However, Operation Merlin, which was so creative and original, failed because of CIA bungled planning. The false information inserted into the blueprints were too obvious and too easily detected and the Russian engineer discovered them. As planned, he made contact with the Iranian delegation to the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna and handed over to them, also as planned, the blueprints. go to IRAN page
• Florida, Lehman, Stipanovich, Jeb Bush  subprime credit crisis
• Feb 26, 2008 ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- A tiny Alaska village eroding into the Arctic Ocean sued two dozen oil, power and coal companies Tuesday, claiming that the large amounts of greenhouse gases they emit contribute to global warming that threatens the community's existence.  The city of Kivalina and a federally recognized tribe, the Alaska Native village of Kivalina, sued Exxon Mobil Corporation, eight other oil companies, 14 power companies and one coal company in a lawsuit filed in federal court in San Francisco.  Kivalina is a traditional Inupiat Eskimo village of about 390 people about 625 miles (1005 km) northwest of Anchorage. It's built on an 8-mile (13-km) barrier reef between the Chukchi Sea and Kivalina River.  Sea ice traditionally protected the community, whose economy is based in part on salmon fishing plus subsistence hunting of whale, seal, walrus, and caribou. But sea ice that forms later and melts sooner because of higher temperatures has left the community unprotected from fall and winter storm waves and surges that lash coastal communities.  "We are seeing accelerated erosion because of the loss of sea ice," City Administrator Janet Mitchell said in a statement. "We normally have ice starting in October, but now we have open water even into December so our island is not protected from the storms."  Relocation costs have been estimated at $400 million or more.  
• Feb 21, 2008  WMR has learned from UN sources that the 19th Floor from which UN employee Maria DiBiase plunged to her death in the early morning of February 17, houses the Department of Peace-keeping Operations/Field Administration and Logistics Division (DPKO/FALD). The offices also house the code machines used for the encrypted fax machines used for DPKO activities in addition to a spare set of code machines used for DPKO rapid response teams.  DiBiase, an Austrian national, was a computer specialist for the UN and a former Conference Services staff member of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna, Austria.  WMR has learned that the UN Special Commission (UNSCOM) maintained in a special UN's computer database all the files on Sadaam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction program retrieved from compact disks provided to UNSCOM by Saddam's government prior to the U.S. invasion of Iraq. The database is said to include all the black market nuclear suppliers involved in providing materials to Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, and Libya via Turkey and the A Q Khan smuggling network. The list reportedly includes front companies in Switzerland linked to Marc Rich, the American fugitive pardoned by President Clinton, and Dick Cheney.  DiBiase is said to have arrived at work Sunday morning to finish a project that was due on Monday morning. WMR has been told that there may have been a "black bag" operation taking place on the 19th floor at the same time DiBiase arrived at work.  The UNSCOM files reportedly validate much of former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds' recent claims on nuclear smuggling that appeared in the London Sunday Times.   see Clinton / Bush Death List Body count
• Jan 10, 2008 Jan   BusinessWire  Kucinich asks for New Hampshire vote recount.
• BoNY money laundering trial MoscowTimes  A legal representative for Bank of New York Mellon will appear for the first time in court to defend the bank against allegations as a $22.5 billion money-laundering case resumes Monday.  The Federal Customs Service filed the lawsuit with the Moscow Arbitration Court in May -- against the backdrop of chilling relations with the United States -- but has taken a long time to present the bank with proper notification.  The case concerns transactions in which Russian banks wired money to BoNY accounts of U.S.-registered firms in circumvention of Russian currency controls in the 1990s. BoNY's failure to prevent the deals, the customs service said, amounted to money laundering.  search Clifford Chance
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• Colonel Emig, Colonel Lundell, Cheney, B-52, Minot, Barksdale, nuclear incident
• Exploring reviving this page just to record notes on events that should be 'NewsFollowedUped' realizing the only entries here are ones that the author is aware of. 
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• Washington Post still part of Niger yellowcake document cover-up  -- see 07 article
• Apr 7, 2007
• Iran attack ready? April 6, Common Dreams
• Apr 3, 2007
• MetroActive Feinstein
• Dar-Alhayat Rice Rosen Weissman
• CQ Susan Ralston, Rove aide, subpoena
• Apr 1, 2007
• CommonDreams ... Beaufort ... new Israeli film ... by Joseph Cedar ... filmed before last summer’s war, “Beaufort” is set during Israel’s 18-year occupation of Lebanon, which ended seven years ago. But its story of a shell-shocked Israeli unit charged with defending and dismantling a military outpost established at a 12th-century Crusader castle resonates today as confidence in the Israeli government remains low over what Israelis believe was a disappointing end to last summer’s war.
• Mar 30, 2007
• Sidney Morning Herald on Sharon Eubanks: "THE US ambassador to Australia, Robert McCallum, may be asked to testify before a powerful congressional committee that is looking into allegations by a former Justice Department prosecutor that Mr McCallum had ordered her (Eubanks) to weaken the case she was prosecuting against Big Tobacco."
• Mar 29, 2007
• Muslim News "Prime Minister, Tony Blair, was warned last month by a diverse group of British organizations of the devastating consequence in backing any military attacks by the US or Israel on Iran. The disastrous consequences were highlighted in a report by such organizations as the Foreign Policy Centre (FPC) and Oxfam with the support of such faith groups as Muslim Council of Britain, British Muslim Forum and Christian Solidarity Worldwide and major trade unions, Amicus, GMB, PCS and Unison. Even former British Ambassador to Tehran, Sir Richard Dalton.."
• Voxfux,  Neil Bush and John W. Hinckley, Scott Hinckley and the assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan.  Objective facts in the case are very compelling. 
• Mar 27, 2007
• WorldNetDaily "Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton, both already under siege for other matters, are now being accused of failing to prosecute officers of the Texas Youth Commission after a Texas Ranger investigation documented that guards and administrators were sexually abusing the institution's teenage boy inmates. 
• Vermont Guardian, "Karpinski subsequently resigned from the military, and in October she published a book, One Woman’s Army, the Commanding General of Abu Ghraib Tells Her Story, in which she claims the prisoner abuses were carried out under orders from Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld."
• Federal Reserve, Dov Zakheim 
• Mar 25, 2007
• CQ Congressional Quarterly, March 2007 "Ex-CIA Director George Tenet is readying his version of the Iraq intelligence fiasco for “60 Minutes,” the de rigeur launching pad for spooks who have secrets to spill.  Word was that the White House was blocking Tenet’s memoir, “At the Center of the Storm,” over his version of how President Bush’s infamous “16 words” about Saddam Hussein’s supposed purchase of uranium from Africa made its way into his January 2003 State of the Union address.." 
• Media Matters "At all relevant times from January 1, 2002 through July 2003, Valerie [Plame] Wilson was employed by the CIA, and her employment status was classified. Prior to July 14, 2003, Valerie Wilson's affiliation with the CIA was not common knowledge outside the intelligence community." 
• Former Deputy Interior Secretary Steven Griles will plead guilty Friday to one count of obstruction of justice in the Jack Abramoff corruption investigation, The Associated Press has learned. Griles, an oil and gas lobbyist who became an architect of President Bush's energy policies while at the Interior Department between July 2001 and July 2005, is the highest ranking Bush administration official implicated in the Washington lobbying scandal.file
• Consortium News, Plame, Novak
• Mar 23, 2007
• Guardian  "The firm Turkish belief that the US is playing a double game in northern Iraq. Officials say the CIA is covertly funding and arming the PKK's sister organisation, the Iran-based Kurdistan Free Life party, to destablize the Iranian government.  US acquiescence in plans to hold a referendum in oil-rich Kirkuk in northern Iraq. Turkey suspects Iraqi Kurds are seeking control of Kirkuk as a prelude to the creation of an independent Kurdistan. Plans by the US Congress to vote on a resolution blaming Turkey for genocide against the Armenians in 1915. Faruk Logoglu, a former ambassador to Washington, said that if the resolution passed, relations "could take generations to recover". 
• TheJewishWeek "Soros Won’t Take On AIPAC (Yet) Lightning rod financier and political donor — who favors talks with Hamas — puts off his push for alternative lobby, citing lack of prior standing in Jewish life. ...  In the article, Soros urged Israel and the United States to drop their refusal to deal with a new unity government in the Palestinian Authority dominated by Hamas, a terrorist organization that rejects Israel’s right to exist. He suggests a peace agreement could be reached that Hamas would ultimately accept under pressure from Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries, which have signaled they seek such an agreement to counter a rising threat from Iran.
• Mar 22, 2007
• John Birch Society, yes, JPS "Engineering War ... Denials notwithstanding, the evidence suggests that the Bush administration is fully committed to a “pre-emptive” war against Iran, possibly as early as April.
• Mar 21, 2007
• LA Times "One example showed how a report originally said the U.S. National Research Council had concluded that "greenhouse gases are accumulating in the atmosphere as a result of human activities, causing surface air temperatures to rise and subsurface ocean temperatures to rise." Edits by ex-oil lobbyist Philip Cooney, the oil lobbyist who became chief of staff at the Council on Environmental Quality, changed that to read: "Some activities emit greenhouse gases that directly or indirectly may affect the balance of incoming and outgoing radiation, thereby potentially affecting climate on regional and global scales."
• ABC News  Just this month, Focus on the Family founder James Dobson and 24 other top Christian conservatives pressured the National Association of Evangelicals to silence its Washington director, the Rev. Rich Cizik. The reason: Cizik tried to convince evangelicals that global warming is real.
• Mar 20, 2007 
• BBS News copy of Waxman letter to Joshua Bolten,  "Valerie Plame and her testimony on Friday  ...  made very clear her covert status at the time of the leak ... assist the Committee in its investigation into these issues, I request that you provide the Committee with a complete account of the steps that the White House took following the disclosure of Ms. Wilson's identity (1) to investigate how the leak occurred; (2) to review the security clearances of the White House officials implicated in the leak; (3) to impose administrative or disciplinary sanctions on the officials involved in the leak; and (4) to review and revise existing White House security procedures to prevent future breaches of national security.  full letter
• Mar 19, 2007 
• Truthout Libby trial transcripts: " According to trial transcripts obtained by Truthout, former White House staffer I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby testified before a grand jury in 2004 that Vice President Dick Cheney instructed him to divulge portions of a then-classified report to New York Times reporter Judith Miller. Libby testified that Cheney said authorization to leak a section of the report had come directly from President George W. Bush, the court transcripts state." and see NIE from FAS 
• Mar 18, 2007
• WMR "CIA Director Michael Hayden told House Oversight Committee Chairman Henry Waxman and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Sylvestre Reyes that Valerie Plame Wilson had been a CIA covert agent up until July 14, 2003, the day Robert Novak revealed her name and identity."
• Christians Peace Witness for Iraq, Worship at the National Cathedral, and New York Avenue Presbyterian Church, (1313 New York Avenue NW, Washington, DC).Candlelight procession to the White House, Prayer vigil and witness including nonviolent civil disobedience, Pre-witness workshops and training, Post-witness organizing and strategizing. 
• Mar 17, 2007
• Plame testimony: James Knodell, director of the White House security office, also testified about general security procedures and J. William Leonard, security director of the National Archives, discussed general procedures for handling sensitive information.  Also scheduled to testify Friday were attorney Mark Zaid, who has represented whistleblowers, and attorney Victoria Toensing, who said early on that no law was broken and has criticized the CIA's handling of the case.  
• WorldPublicOpinion, search global warming
• Mar 16, 2007
• Antiwar: "Pelosi's Betrayal "Antiwar" Democrats cave on Iran by Justin Raimondo Read it and weep:  "Top House Democrats retreated Monday from an attempt to limit President Bush's authority for taking military action against Iran as the leadership concentrated on a looming confrontation with the White House over Iraq. Officials said Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other members of the leadership had decided to strip from a major military spending bill a requirement for Bush to gain approval from Congress before moving against Iran"
• Mar 14, 2007
• Middle East North Africa Financial Network  "The question of whether Iran will or will not be attacked is a hard one. ...  For sure there is a detailed plan in place but whether this can be implemented by what some refer to as a lame duck president with approval ratings heading south is moot. In my opinion there is only one way this could be done. Israel would have to strike first claiming Iran is a threat to its very existence when the US would "reluctantly" weigh in.  If this is the case, then Saturday's meeting in Baghdad was a red herring; an attempt to lead Iraq and Syria away from the scent to give Israel and the US a crucial element of surprise."
• Mar 13, 2007
• Centre for Research on Globalization  "AIPAC Pushes to Eliminate Anti-Iran-War Language from Pelosi Iraq Bill  ...
• Palestinian Chronicle, "The judge in the trial of the two former senior AIPAC officials, Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman, who are charged with having transferred secret information to Israel, ruled last week against the defendants' demand to compel Israeli diplomats with whom they had been in contact to testify at the trial. However, the judge also hinted at the delicate question of the organization's relationship with Israel, and more precisely whether AIPAC has served as a back channel for transmitting messages between the administration and Israel. This could be an embarrassing and unpleasant event, both for Israel and the organization."
• Mar 11, 2007
• Media Monitors Rosen, Weissman: CORRUPT ENDEAVOR,WHO LIED US INTO WAR? By: Justin Raimondo ... :take a look at the details of a very similar case coming to court this summer – the long-delayed trial of Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman, two top officials of AIPAC, the powerful pro-Israel lobbying group.  In this case, the umpire didn't get sand thrown in his eyes, because the FBI's counterintelligence unit had the bad guys bugged from the beginning. They watched Larry Franklin, Doug Feith's top Iran expert, as he offered Rosen and Weissman access to classified information. They listened to Rosen – the longtime spark plug behind AIPAC's energetic efforts to influence government circles – as he boasted to Weissman what a good catch Franklin was. They followed the AIPAC duo as they met with Israeli officials, including the then-Israeli ambassador, and passed on classified information of a highly sensitive nature."
• Mar 10, 2007
• Guardian "Where's Rove? Where's, you know, where are these other guys?" wondered a juror, Denis Collins, standing on the courthouse steps after the Libby verdict was delivered. Collins said that he and other jurors came to think of Libby as a "fall guy", someone who had certainly committed the crimes of which he was accused but who also was hardly acting on his own. ... Libby and Rove's falsehoods in front of the grand jury, in which they blamed reporters for telling them about Plame, were a cleverly contrived coverup. They did not believe that the prosecutor would be able to break through the curtain of the First Amendment or untangle the tale as told by journalists. Both Libby and Rove relied on the same alibi, hiding behind the press corps that they had manipulated for years and whose erratic habits they knew well. But prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald was not about to be confounded by this device. He knew the law was on his side, and he received a judicial decision forcing the reporters to testify.
• FalseFlagNews very interesting, Chomsky, Left Gatekeeper, not our friend.
• ThinkProgress, "Wilson Responds: Bush And Cheney Must Explain Why They Outed My Wife Ambassador Joseph Wilson offered his first response to the Scooter Libby verdict during a conference call today.  ... “Now that this trial is over,” Wilson said, “the president and the vice president owe the country a much broader explanation of their own actions.” Wilson called on them both to release the transcripts of their discussions with Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, and called on Bush specifically to apologize for overseeing the outing of his wife ..."
• Mar 8, 2007
• Israel, weapons and South East Asia....WayneMadsenReport excerpt ... search term: Mayaguez
• Mar 7, 2007 Libby convicted on 4 of 5 counts.
• Etherzone: "CORRUPT ENDEAVOR, WHO LIED US INTO WAR? By: Justin Raimondo, "To get a glimpse of what we're in for, if investigations proceed, take a look at the details of a very similar case coming to court this summer – the long-delayed trial of Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman, two top officials of AIPAC, the powerful pro-Israel lobbying group.  In this case, the umpire didn't get sand thrown in his eyes, because the FBI's counterintelligence unit had the bad guys bugged from the beginning. They watched Larry Franklin, Doug Feith's top Iran expert, as he offered Rosen and Weissman access to classified information. They listened to Rosen – the longtime spark plug behind AIPAC's energetic efforts to influence government circles – as he boasted to Weissman what a good catch Franklin was. They followed the AIPAC duo as they met with Israeli officials, including the then-Israeli ambassador, and passed on classified information of a highly sensitive nature."
• Mar 6, 2007
• CNN Coulter, Ann 2007 speech to Conservative Political Action Conference...  "I was going to have a few comments on the other Democratic presidential candidate, John Edwards, but it turns out that you have to go into rehab if you use the word 'faggot,' so I'm - so, kind of at an impasse, can't really talk about Edwards, so I think I'll just conclude here and take your questions," said Coulter, whose comment was followed by applause." 
• Mar 4, 2007
• PressTV, Middle East, Hans Blix, "Israel is now producing and reprocessing more plutonium to establish more nuclear plants and it should be forced to stop the process, he warned.
• Hillary Clinton thesis MSNBC  and see AgainstHillary "She grew up as a Goldwater Republican, like her father, in the middle-class Chicago suburb of Park Ridge. By the time she was a freshman at Wellesley, when she was elected president of the College Republicans, her concern with civil rights and the war in Vietnam put her closer to the moderate-liberal wing of the GOP led by Nelson Rockefeller. By her junior year, she had to be talked by her professor into taking an internship with Rep. Gerald R. Ford and the House Republican Caucus. In her senior year, she was campaigning for the anti-war Democrat Eugene McCarthy."
• Mar 3, 2007
• Did Cheney Order 9/11 Pentagon attack?  Although the official 9/11 Commission Report (CR) said Vice President Richard Cheney did not arrive at the Presidential Emergency Operations Center(PEOC) under the White House until "shortly before 10 a.m." that tragic day, Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta testified when he arrived in the room at 9:20 a.m. Cheney was already there. (CR published no testimony from Mineta.)  The timeline is important because if Cheney arrived at 10 a.m. it would have been about 20 minutes after the Pentagon was allegedly struck by a hijacked airplane at 9:38 a.m., too late for him to authorize the Air Force to shoot it down. Some 125 Pentagon employees perished in the attack.  go to page 22
• Mar 2, 2007
• Manilla Standard Hagee speech, ... at the July 19, 2006 Washington DC inaugural event for CUFI, after recorded greetings from George W. Bush, with four US Senators and the Israeli ambassador to the US in attendance, Pastor John Hagee stated:: "“’The United States must join Israel in a pre-emptive military strike against Iran to fulfill God’s plan for both Israel and the West… a biblically prophesied end-time confrontation with Iran, which will lead to the Rapture, Tribulation and the Second Coming of Christ.”
• Rep. Barbara Lee, Iran attack preemption legislation
• Feb 28, 2007
• FrontPage "Pelosi Hires Soros' Right-Hand Man ...  Joseph Onek, a 1967 graduate of Yale Law School, is currently a Senior Policy Analyst for George Soros’s Open Society Institute (OSI), one of the world’s major financiers of the political far Left. OSI is a member of the benignly named Peace and Security Funders Group, an association of more than 50 foundations that earmark a sizable portion of their $27 billion in combined assets to leftist organizations that undermine the war on terror in several interrelated ways ... " go Joe
• Feb 26, 2007
• NewYorker, CommonDreams: "the Pentagon has already set up a working group to plan airstrikes on Iran. The panel initially focused on destroying Iran’s nuclear facilities and on regime change but has more recently been instructed to identify targets in Iran that may be involved in supplying or aiding militants in Iraq."
• CommonDreams, "Some of America’s most senior military commanders are prepared to resign if the White House orders a military strike against Iran  ...  General Peter Pace, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, said recently there was “zero chance” of a war with Iran. He played down claims by US intelligence that the Iranian government was responsible for supplying insurgents in Iraq, forcing Bush on the defensive.  Pace’s view was backed up by British intelligence officials who said the extent of the Iranian government’s involvement in activities inside Iraq by a small number of Revolutionary Guards was “far from clear”.  Hillary Mann, the National Security Council’s main Iran expert until 2004, said Pace’s repudiation of the administration’s claims was a sign of grave discontent at the top."
• Feb 26, 2007
• Scoop / Truthout It was the defense attorney representing I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby who first told jurors during closing arguments in the perjury and obstruction-of-justice trial Tuesday that the government believes Vice President Dick Cheney told Libby to leak the identity of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson to a New York Times reporter in July 2003 to undermine the credibility of her husband, a critic of the Iraq War.
• Feb 25, 2007
• Sunday Telegraph.UK "In the past year there has been a wave of unrest in ethnic minority border areas of Iran, with bombing and assassination campaigns against soldiers and government officials. ...  In a move that reflects Washington's growing concern with the failure of diplomatic initiatives, CIA officials are understood to be helping opposition militias among the numerous ethnic minority groups clustered in Iran's border regions."
• National Coalition for Homeless Veterans.
• Feb 24, 2007
• CommonDreams  FoxNews, Obama dirty tricks "Fox reported -- and later backed off its report -- that Obama attended a radical Muslim school in Indonesia as a child. It was widely debunked by other media outlets, including CNN." 
• Feb 23, 2007
• 1954 Operation Suzannah, the Lavon Affair, Israel false flag operations, "In 1954, the Israeli government launched a secret operation of terror against the United States called Operation Suzannah. It plotted to murder Americans and blow up American installations in Egypt. Their plan was to leave false evidence that the Egyptians did it, so as to make America go to war against Egypt on the side of Israel. Jewish agents succeeded in blowing up some post offices and American libraries in Cairo and Alexandria. On the way to blow up an American movie house, the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Theater, an Israeli's agent's bomb went off prematurely. Thankfully, for both Egypt and for America, the plot was then exposed and stopped in its early stages." from NewsMine and see Wikipedia 
• Feb 21, 2007
• Antiwar, "Every moment we stay in Iraq increases the likelihood of war with Iran
• Support Kennedy's DemocraticMajority.com
• TPMuckraker
• Spike Lee, A Requiem in Four Acts," along with its producer, Sam Pollard. They won the award for documentary television for illustrating evidence of the government's poor performance in the aftermath of the August 2005 storm.
• Feb 21, 2007
• Common Dreams Federal law-enforcement officials said that they have developed hard evidence of possible criminal misconduct by two employees of Vice President Dick Cheney's office related to the unlawful exposure of a CIA officer's identity last year. The investigation, which is continuing, could lead to indictments, a Justice Department official said. 
• Washington Post "The government's perjury case against Libby will go to the jury this week after a trial that exposed the vice president's large behind-the-scenes involvement in seeking to discredit Joseph C. Wilson IV, a former ambassador who accused Cheney and other administration officials of twisting intelligence in the run-up to the Iraq war. 
• Feb 20, 2007
• AP Former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer leaked the identity of a CIA operative to Washington Post reporter Walter Pincus during a 2003 phone call, Pincus testified Monday as the first defense witness in the CIA leak trial.  Pincus was one of the first reporters to learn the identity of Valerie Plame, the wife of former ambassador and prominent Iraq war critic Joseph Wilson. Pincus said he learned her identity July 12, 2003 but did not immediately write about it. Plame was outed by syndicated columnist Robert Novak two days later." and copy 
• Rightweb: "1992 Draft Defense Planning Guidance" Iraq and Iraq war plans
• Feb 18, 2007
• Antiwar, "Secrets Bush and Cheney Can't 'Declassify' by Gordon Prather  ...  If "reporters" covering the Scooter Libby trial for alleged perjury and obstruction of justice had bothered to read President Bush's Executive Order 12958 of March 28, 2003 – entitled "Classified National Security Information" – they would know that it does not give the vice president the authority to declassify anything.  "But in an interview, Cheney said there is an executive order that gives the vice president the authority to declassify information.  "'I have certainly advocated declassification. I have participated in declassification decisions,' Cheney said. "Asked for details, he said, 'I don't want to get into that. There's an executive order that specifies who has classification authority, and obviously it focuses first and foremost on the president, but also includes the vice president."  and also Antiwar on Feith, cooked intelligence, deceptions
• Global Research, Vladimir Putin speech, "We are seeing a greater and greater disdain for the basic principles of international law. And independent legal norms are, as a matter of fact, coming increasingly closer to one state’s legal system. One state and, of course, first and foremost the United States, has overstepped its national borders in every way. This is visible in the economic, political, cultural and educational policies it imposes on other nations. Well, who likes this? Who is happy about this?
• Feb 12, 2007 
• World Socialist Website "And under heavy US pressure, India has twice voted with the US against Iran in International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) deliberations over Teheran’s nuclear program. But New Delhi is aghast at the thought the Bush administration may try to extricate itself from its strategic debacle in Iraq by engineering a wider war—that is, by attacking Iran and possibly Syria." 
• Feb 11, 2007 
• Guardian, Comment is Free, Richard Silverstein  "Over the past six months, two notable developments have set Israel and diaspora Jewry adrift. ...
• Mail Guardian Online: "But Vincent Cannistraro, a Washington-based intelligence analyst, shared the sources' assessment that Pentagon planning (for Iran attack) is well under way. "Planning is going on, in spite of public disavowals by Gates. Targets have been selected. For a bombing campaign against nuclear sites, it is quite advanced. The military assets to carry this out are being put in place."
• Feb 10, 2007
• Army Times   A “very damning” report by the Defense Department’s inspector general depicts a Pentagon that purposely manipulated intelligence in an effort to link Saddam Hussein to al-Qaida in the runup to the U.S. invasion of Iraq, says the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee.  “That was the argument that was used to make the sale to the American people about the need to go to war,” said Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich. He said the Pentagon’s work, “which was wrong, which was distorted, which was inappropriate ... is something which is highly disturbing.”  Pentagon Inspector General, Douglas Feith, Rumsfeld, Cheney, Wolfowitz...
• Feb 9, 2007
• Washington Post, Journalism on Trial, Russert, Libby, lies.... and copy 
• BBC Libby trial ..."Jurors have heard more than three weeks of testimony from witnesses. The defence will begin its case on Monday.  The final witness was NBC journalist Tim Russert, who denied discussing Ms Plame with Mr Libby.  ...  Mr Libby says that Mr Russert told him then that "all the reporters" knew of Ms Plame's occupation.  But Mr Russert told the court that that part of the conversation did not take place. He testified that he never discussed Ms Plame with Mr Libby. 
• Feb 8, 2007
• Independent Jewish Voices
• People and Planet: "Warming hits 'tipping point' by Ian Sample, Siberia feels the heat. It's a frozen peat bog the size of France and Germany combined, contains billions of tons of greenhouse gas and, for the first time since the ice age, it is melting. A vast expanse of western Siberia is undergoing an unprecedented thaw that could dramatically increase the rate of global warming, climate scientists warn today. 
• Feb 6, 2007
• CNS News "Reports of plans to set up a new, left-wing Jewish group seeking to lobby the U.S. government on Mideast policy have worried some in Israel, who fear it could undermine the existing pro-Israel lobby in Washington and harm Israeli security.  ...  Three main groups, all liberal, were said to be involved in the discussions - the Israel Policy Forum, Americans for Peace Now and Jewish Alliance for Justice and Peace" other search terms: George Soros ..
• LA Times 2007  Libby's credibility, "The closest thing to a smoking gun in the case so far are notes handwritten by Libby during a phone conversation with Cheney on June 12, 2003. Cheney told Libby, according to the notes, that Wilson's wife was a counter-proliferation specialist at the CIA." ...  According to the notes from that conversation, Wilson was saying that Cheney's office had expressed strong interest in the notion that Iraq had sought weapons-grade uranium in Africa. Libby jotted down in the margin the orders he received from Cheney to "get agency to answer that."  Libby subsequently made a number of inquiries to senior State Department and CIA officials about Wilson and an agency-sponsored fact-finding trip he'd made to Africa in 2002.  The top CIA expert on Iraq, Robert Grenier, testified that Libby had him pulled out of a meeting with then-CIA Director George J. Tenet to discuss the issue in a phone call.  Former State Department Undersecretary Marc Grossman said he also felt a sense of urgency when Libby called him, after which he promptly commissioned an internal intelligence analysis.  Grenier and Grossman each testified that he promptly reported back to Libby with information about Wilson and the trip — and the fact that Wilson's wife was a CIA employee.  After Wilson went public with his criticism in a July 6 op-ed in the New York Times, saying he'd found no evidence of Iraq seeking nuclear material in Niger, Libby promptly passed on information about Wilson's wife, prosecutors allege.  Then-White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer has testified that the day after the op-ed appeared, Libby offered the information to him "on the q.t." over lunch at the White House mess. Miller testified that Libby talked about Wilson's wife the next day, a Tuesday.  Libby told the grand jury that he did not learn Plame's identity until the following Thursday, July 10, in a conversation with journalist Tim Russert, the moderator of the NBC's "Meet the Press." Libby has said he was surprised to hear the information from the newsman."  and copy
• Feb 5, 2007
• MSNBC  "Vice President Cheney's press officer, Cathie Martin, approached his chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, on Air Force Two on July 12, 2003, to ask how she should respond to journalists' questions about Joseph C. Wilson IV. Libby looked over one of the reporters' questions and told Martin: "Well, let me go talk to the boss and I'll be back."
• Feb 3, 2007
• AEI, $10k to disputers on global warming
• New York Sun "Judge Ellis recently set a trial date of June 4 for Messrs. Rosen and Weissman, who were indicted in 2005 on charges that they conspired to convey classified information to journalists and foreign officials not authorized to receive it."
• Feb 2, 2007
• Pacifica Radio Karl Rove revealed identity of Plame 
• Alternet, Libby Trial: Smoking Gun for Impeachment?  By Robert Scheer, Truthdig. The Libby case testimony, centered on the chicanery of the vice president, certainly suggests that impeachable offenses occurred at the highest level of the White House. 

• IBD, "Judith Miller's bout with amnesia apparently is over. In the Libby trial, she can recall exactly what he told her when, something she couldn't when she had 85 days in jail to think about it. 

• Feb 1, 2007

• Guardian, "Bush administration accused of doctoring scientists' reports on climate change  ...  · Inconvenient conclusions censored, hearing told · Researchers warned not to talk about global warming"  

• NiagraFallsReporter, Cheney Lies 

• Cheney Libby trial info  proof of Cheney / Libby conspiracy against Wilsons 

• MSNBC  Plamegate: "The vice president personally penned an October 2003 note in which he wrote, “Not going to protect one staffer and sacrifice the other.” The note, read aloud in court by Wells, implied that Libby was the one being sacrificed in an effort to clear Rove of any role in leaking the identity of CIA operative Valerie Plame, wife of Iraq war critic Joe Wilson. “Wow, for all the talk about this being a White House that prides itself on loyalty and discipline, you’re not seeing much of it,” the lawyer said.

• AP Libby's attorneys argue that the media campaign was based on refuting Wilson on the merits of his argument and that his wife was simply an afterthought. In the frenzy of responding to the story, they say, Libby forgot when and where he learned about Plame.  Fleischer's testimony will be key to the prosecution because he says Libby told him about Plame and encouraged him to keep it quiet. As Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald said in his opening statement: "You can't learn something on Thursday that you're giving out on Monday."

• Jan 29, 2007

• RealClimate, stalagmite palaeoclimatology? 

• Zmag "Did Ariel Sharon, the Prime Minister of Israel, run a covert program with operatives in high-level US government positions to influence the Bush Administration's decision to go to war in Iraq? The FBI wants to know. search terms: AIPAC 

• Editor & Publisher, Cathie Martin, Media manipulation  ....  "Cheney, Libby and Martin spent the next week trying get out word that Cheney did not know Wilson, did not ask for the mission to Niger, never got Wilson's report and only learned about the trip from news stories in 2003."

• Al Jazeera  ... Turkey Mulls Iraq Invasion ... Israel and the United States are believed to have been working together to provide the needed aid to Kurdish groups such as the Party for Free Life in Kurdistan, which has been conducting clandestine cross-border raids into Iran, seen as other means of applying pressure on Iran.  Also some sources say that the Pentagon has reached secret agreements with Kurdish, Azeri, and Baluchi tribesmen encouraging their efforts to undermine the regime’s authority in northern and southeastern Iran.  Bush’s fears and stance had been made manifest in recent arrests by American troops in Iraq of Iranian officials. 

• Jan 28, 2007

• LA Times ... In the first such account from Vice President Dick Cheney's inner circle, a former aide testified Thursday that Cheney personally directed the effort to discredit an administration critic by having calls made to reporters in 2003".. more search terms: Catherine J. Martin, Cheney's top press aid, talking points, deputy director of communications for policy and planning, Niger forged documents, Chris Mathews, Hardball,  and "she said, she discussed with Cheney and Libby how she had learned from Harlow that two network reporters were writing stories about the case, and how Cheney ordered Libby to call them personally, including one call that Libby made from his private anteroom outside of Cheney's office.  "I was aggravated that Scooter was calling the reporters and that I wasn't," Martin said"  copy 

• Jan 25, 2007

• Antiwar Hillary Clinton and the Israeli lobby ... As one of the top Democratic recipients of pro-Israel funds for the 2006 election cycle, pocketing over $83,000, Clinton now has Iran in her cross hairs. ... Hillary Clinton will never alter the U.S.' Middle East policy that so blatantly favors Israeli interests. 

• Antiwar  "The defense fired off its big guns on the first day, with Libby's lawyer, Ted Wells, rebutting Patrick J. Fitzgerald's contention that Libby had a motive to lie because the president had declared that anyone who leaked would be fired. (I note here that I'm citing not the "mainstream" media's account of the proceedings, but that of a blogger who has gained entry to the trial as a reporter, the anonymous "Emptywheel," whose reportage on the background of this case is surely one of the investigative wonders of the blogging world): "Mr. Libby was not concerned about losing his job. He was concerned about being set up. He was concerned about being the scapegoat.

• Jan 23, 2007

• PlanetSave "Currently, mankind is emitting about 50% more CO2 than nature can remove. With business as usual, mankind’s CO2 emissions are expected to double by mid-century, while nature’s ability to remove CO2 will halve, more than tripling the amount of CO2 staying in the air. 

• Jan 18, 2007 The People's Voice "Libby’s Trial Crafted to Protect Bush-Cheney Gang ... 

• Harvard, American Geophysical Union, global warming, methane hydrates, oceans, ... from Google Scholar search   

• Jan 16, 2007

• WW4Report, Scott Ritter, on Iran Attack 

• Freeze Congressional scorecard on Iran Attack 

• Anti-war "On the Mideast Escalator ... by Rep. Ron Paul,  While the president's announcement that an additional 20,000 troops would be sent to Iraq dominated the headlines last week, the real story was the president's sharp rhetoric toward Iran and Syria. And recent moves by the administration only serve to confirm the likelihood of a wider conflict in the Middle East.

• Jan 15, 2007

• Carbon Coalition "Farmers can play a central role in sequestering carbon in their soils by fostering deep-rooted perennial plant species that have significant biomass in their root systems." 

• Canadian National Newspaper "Runaway Global Warming promises to literally burn-up agricultural areas into dust worldwide by 2012, causing global famine, anarchy, diseases, and war on a global scale as military powers including the U.S., Russia, and China, fight for control of the Earth's remaining resources." 

• Jerusalem Newswire "Russian admiral: Numerous US nuclear subs signals imminent strike on Iran ... and previous story  Times Online, UK  

• BBC Gulf stream has slowed down by 30% over the last 12 years. 

• Jan 14, 2007

• The Militant "Despite partisan rhetoric of "opposition" to the escalation, statements by top Democratic Party politicians indicated that bipartisan support for the imperialist war aims remains firm. ...  The "new strategy" Bush described had been largely outlined in a study by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a conservative think tank. It was authored by Frederick Kagan, an AEI military analyst, working with Jack Keane, a retired U.S. Army general and de facto operational advisor of the Bush administration. Kagan and Keane coauthored a number of articles and opinion columns arguing for the plan in recent weeks"" 

• Jan 13, 2007

• Salon "Did the U.S. just provoke Iran? Thursday's raid on the Iranian consulate is more evidence that President Bush is ready to escalate the conflict.  By Juan Cole 

• Jan 12, 2007

• Consortium News, "At a not-for-quotation pre-speech briefing on Jan. 10, George W. Bush and his top national security aides unnerved network anchors and other senior news executives with suggestions that a major confrontation with Iran is looming. ..

• All Africa, "Tanzania: UN Gets the First Woman Deputy Head ..

• Jan 11, 2007

• Stern Review  Economics of Climate Change 

• San Francisco Chronicle "The trial of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby is to begin Jan. 16  ...  A federal judge said Tuesday he would not make available daily audio recordings. 

• Jan 9, 2007

• Real Climate "Methane Hydrates and Global Warming ... There is an enormous amount of methane (CH4) on earth frozen into a type of ice called methane hydrate  ... Methane hydrate melts if it gets too warm, and it floats in water. Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas, and it degrades to CO₂, another greenhouse gas which accumulates in the atmosphere just as fossil fuel CO₂ does. And there is a lot of it, possibly more than the traditional fossil fuel deposits. Conceivably, climate changes could affect these deposits.

• Jan 8, 2007 

• Times Online "ISRAEL has drawn up secret plans to destroy Iran’s uranium enrichment facilities with tactical nuclear weapons. Two Israeli air force squadrons are training to blow up an Iranian facility using low-yield nuclear “bunker-busters”, according to several Israeli military sources."

• Jan 7, 2007 

• Reuters "Israel has drawn up secret plans to destroy Iran's uranium enrichment facilities with tactical nuclear weapons, Britain's Sunday Times newspaper said."  more search terms: low-yield bunker busters, Natanz, heavy water plant at Arak, uranium conversion plant at Isfahan, conventional bombs, U.N. Security Council sanctions, pre-emptive strike, too much for Israel to take on alone, reduce radioactive fallout. 

• RawStory, new Israel lobby: "billionaire George Soros, former Clinton adviser Jeremy Ben-Ami, and Daniel Levy, former adviser to Israeli PM Ehud Barak, as key figures in what could be the creation of "a new, well-funded, well-organized, left-leaning Israel lobby, as an alternative to AIPAC"