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* Milosevic: Death and the Rain - 1 messages, 1 author
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.usa/browse_thread/thread/ff4878ac34c528df
* United Nations Predicts More Food Insecurity by 2010 - 1 messages, 1 author
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.usa/browse_thread/thread/e45c20f2787138d8
* US National Security is Global Insecurity - 1 messages, 1 author
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* RHC Latin Amer News Roundup - Mar 22, 2006 - 1 messages, 1 author
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* Int'l Media Take Aim at US War of Aggression on Iraq - 1 messages, 1 author
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TOPIC: Milosevic: Death and the Rain
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Granma International On line - Mar 24, 2006
http://www.granma.cu
SLOVODAN MILOSEVIC
Death and the rain
BY ELSA CLARO
THERE are inopportune suspicions as to the real cause of the death of
Milosevic (the fourth of Serbs imprisoned in The Hague) which, even if
it was the most natural of all, leaves behind it a trail of
reservations as to the legitimacy of the court that has held him for
more than four years and that subjected him to a trial whose probity
is questionable. Even with motives for having put him on trial for
faults committed, that should have happened within his country, where
legislation prevents the extradition of prisoners, and of having
decided to make an exception: the placing in cells adjoining his of
those who forced events into a one-way street or made themselves the
decisive participants in a matter that was beyond their competence,
thus rarefying results that, at the end of the day, have not turned
out for the best.
There was no cleanness in the way in which the former head of state
was taken to the Dutch capital. First he was pulled out of his
residence and incarcerated in Belgrade. That was an initial step to
facilitate his kidnapping via a nocturnal operation organized by the
CIA (possibly with the help of other European secret services) and
with the complicity of the then Prime Minister Zoran Djinic, who ended
up being a priori assassinated by the mafia that he likewise betrayed,
according to conjectures.
Djinic's motive was to get rid of Milosevic - who continued having
followers - and at the same time to obtain Western financial aid,
supposedly to pull Yugoslavia out of the economic strangulation to
which it was subjected by the United States and the European Union
with lengthy trade sanctions. For those pieces of silver he sold the
former statesman, going over the head of Vojislav Kostunitca,
president of the country at that time (June 2001), in an act so
contemptible and self-seeking that he broke the existing government
coalition and created anarchy out of what was an already highly
delicate situation for Yugoslavia at the end of 10 years of
dismemberment as a country and almost three months of intensive NATO
(read the United States) bombardments.
ARIADNE'S THREAD
In 1991 Slovenia affirmed its decision to become independent of
Yugoslavia. The German government headed by Helmut Kohl hastened to
recognize it in early January 1992, thus forcing the EU to act
likewise. The United States, with Bush Sr. experiencing the hangover
of the first Gulf War, did not appear to have approved that secession
among his plans, perhaps because of certain fears of the conflictive
and immature process of the Socialist bloc's re-conversion or because
one of his advisers had warned him that it was not a healthy idea to
establish new borders in Europe.
Croatia followed the Slovenian impulse and, almost at the end of the
same year, the Croats and Muslims from Bosnia-Herzegovina did
likewise. To that point, a certain coexistence had been attained in
Bosnia with power sharing among the three human groups that inhabited
it, to an extent similar to that established by Marshall Tito when he
legislated that the presidency of Yugoslavia should rotate as a way of
avoiding setbacks, jealousy or envy of any of the leaders of this
human mosaic.
Nevertheless, the first confrontations occurred on February 4, 1992.
Almost immediately, Brussels and Washington accepted the sovereignty
of Bosnia-Herzegovina, while withholding support for the new Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia, recreated that same month (April 1992) and
made up of Serbia and Montenegro, as the legal inheritors of the
former.
In the face of an imminent triumph which could have resulted in the
area asking to be annexed to the semi-proscribed Yugoslavia, the West
entered the scenario, affording itself the right of military
intervention in an alien civil conflict. It did outside of the UN and
in violation of its precepts of international law.
The NATO bombardments were directed at Serb positions in order to
twist the existing reality, without having any mandate or credible
excuses, but by spreading macabre stories that are still repeated to
justify the unacceptable.
In spite of the power of the Western allies there was no alternative
but to accede to negotiations to halt what they were contributing to
make worse and which could easily have reached a civilized outcome.
However, to tell the truth, that was difficult, because Washington
also utilized people of the likes of Osama Bin Laden in this episode
to attract to the conflict extremist Muslims (including Talibans), who
participated in this allegedly ethnic war but what was one of a
political-economic nature before anything else.
The reasons? In the first place they were frightened of the existence
in the very heart of Europe of a state that called itself socialist,
although the unique experience of the Yugoslavs was distinct from that
of Eastern Europe or the Soviet Union, and Slobodan Milosevic had
already been forces to accept conditions imposed in the context of
financial strangulation.
The Dayton Accords fabricated a government that is unable to function
or to have resolved anything to date, given that troops are still in
place in Bosnia and the scenario is one of total anomaly.
Something does seem to have occurred and is still occurring in the
Serb province of Kosovo, where certain chapters of the same story have
been barefacedly repeated.
The culminating point occurred in 1999 when, after giving support to
the separatist Albanian Kosovars, the Clinton government ordered
bombardments that continued for three months under the pretext that
Belgrade was undertaking "ethnic cleansing." Strangely, enough since
then and to date they have neither defended or helped the Serb
Kosovars from whom they stole houses and possessions or whom they have
killed and humiliated, even though the troops stationed in the area
are supposedly neutral.
Those three months of 1999 and their collateral damage inflicted on
individuals and civilian targets, with U.S. and NATO cluster bombs -
what's the difference - will not go down in history through the gate
of decorum.
PROVISONAL EPILOGUE
The special court financed and manipulated by the United States and
various of its multinationals in which Milosevic was tried is usually
confused with the International Court of Justice in The Hague created
by the UN in 1947 and which judges states, not individuals. There are
also people who confuse it with the International Criminal Court
created in Rome in July 1998. The latter is the one that George W.
Bush threatened with an armed assault if it extradited even one of its
soldiers, however much of a torturer or genocidal killer he might be.
The fact that it is one of the many White House falsifications
admitted by its partners is borne out by what Jaime Shea stated as
spokesman for the military alliance commanded by Washington:
"The International Criminal Tribunal (ICT) will only investigate (NATO
crimes) if we permit it." He was alluding to charges in Yugoslavia
against that military pact but above all indicates the feeling of
impunity with which it acts.
Neither the first or only arbitrariness was committed with Milosevic,
other equally terrible legal procedures have been experienced, but if
justice is as impartial as it is enshrined to be, governments on both
sides of the Atlantic that helped to destroy a country and to increase
the volume of victims via illegal interventions, them should all stand
trial and in authentic courts, not one fabricated by "conquerors;" in
other words, the new empire.
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TOPIC: United Nations Predicts More Food Insecurity by 2010
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United Nations Report: More Food Insecurity by 2010
United Nations, March 22 (RHC)-- By 2010, the impact of climatic
changes will translate into more loss of arable land, more food
insecurity and damage to fishery, according to the United Nations
Environment Program (UNEP). The UNEP report warns that a reduction in
river levels, an increased salinity of estuaries, a loss of fish and
aquatic plant species and a reduction in coastal sediments will
contribute to the impending disaster.
The UN report is called "Challenges for International Waters: A
Regional Assessment in a Global Perspective" and it highlights
concerns over fishing and marine organisms. According to UNEP
specialists, climatic change is a fundamental factor in fishing
production in nearly half of the world's marine ecosystems.
Funded by Global Water Assessment and several Nordic countries, the
UNEP report includes main concerns over the future of water, above all
its increased use in agriculture -- which is 70 percent of all water
used.
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TOPIC: US National Security is Global Insecurity
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US National Security is Global Insecurity
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sent by Walter Lippmann (cubanews) - Mar 24, 2006
[The author is from a leading Cuban think tank whose essays also
appear on the website of Cuba Socialista, the theoretical and
political magazine edited by the Central Committee of the PCC.
The newly issued US National Security Strategy may be found in
a one-page format: http://www.walterlippmann.com/docs453.html -WL]
GRANMA - March 24, 2006
US National Security is Global Insecurity
By LUIS M. GARCIA CUNARRO
Vice President of the Center for Defense Information Studies (CEID)
On March 16, 2006, President George W. Bush signed a new version of
the National Security Strategy for the United States. At first glance
the document appears more of the same with the usual US "messianism",
the unsolicited "commitments" with the world and, above all, an
aggressive language which has become the center of these types of
statements.
Nonetheless, it is worth noting the focus the White House puts on
certain problems even if it doesn't represent a radical change in its
foreign and military policy, since it does clear up some
uncertainties while using a crude and clear language in announcing
its immediate and medium range aims.
Strategically, it describes modifications in the main focus of US
attention. While Iraq continues to be a major problem for the
administration -which now takes as a given that US troops will remain
there until after 2009 when a new president take office-, the
strategy document concentrates its attention on Iran. According to
Bush and his advisors, Iran is governed by tyrants, harbors
terrorists and finances their activities abroad. Additionally, it
accuses Iran of violating the nuclear non-proliferation treaty. All
of these arguments were also used to justify the current war against
Iraq. Iran has now become the latest number one enemy of the moment.
According to the strategy changes implemented during Bush's second
term, the "fight against tyrannies" is added to the War on Terrorism
and the administration defines a tyranny as: "The combination of
brutality, poverty, instability, corruption and suffering under the
rule of despots or despotic systems." While the concept, which could
be applied to the US government, merits reflection, what is certain
is that we are seeing a new version of the "axis of evil." Seven
countries are on the empire's list: North Korea, Iran, Syria, Cuba,
Belarus, Burma and Zimbabwe.
What's most important about this problem is not the definition, but
instead the "package" of actions that the US proposes. These include
sanctions against those countries, an international discrediting of
their governments and peoples, and political and economic subversion,
not just by the United States and its close allies, but also from
regional organizations like the Organization for Security and
Co-operation in Europe, the African Union and the Organization of
American States.
Afghanistan and Iraq are referred to in the policy document as being
in the front line of the War on Terrorism and, in relation to the
invasions of these two countries, a positive picture is painted
emphasizing US military advances, which reality refutes on a daily
basis. Both wars "are being won" despite the announcement of a
prolongation of the massive occupation in Iraq; the thousands of
dead, wounded and mutilated suffered by the US-led coalition, and the
growing internal resistance in both countries.
The strategy updates the White House's overview on "regional
conflicts" and outlines how the US will act in relation to them.
While we are accustomed to imperial arrogance, in this case we note
the clear and unequivocal definition of "intervention in conflicts."
According to the term, it confirms the will of the US to continue its
aggressive and interventionist policy, but the document goes further
to state that this will be achieved with the collaboration of the
NATO alliance, a scenario already applied in Afghanistan and Iraq.
It's worth noting the mentioning of NATO cooperation and not the
European Union; this confirms two elements: NATO is being
consolidated as a tool of US aggression beyond its borders and
because of NATO's weight in the so-called transatlantic relations,
the scale once again tips in favor of Washington.
Unlike any previous document, the National Security Strategy of 2006
dedicates ample space to making judgments and threats against the
People's Republic of China. The alleged military expansion of China
and its growing economy are aspects that the US exaggerates and
criticizes. Added to this is the way internal policies of the Asian
giant are submitted to the usual US criteria on human rights, freedom
and democracy, all of which leads to an unacceptable meddling in the
internal affairs of China.
The aggression is part of the long "dossier" Washington has put
together against China, which, without question, is the singular
rival the US must face today within its narrow and crazy concept of
"world leadership." Once again the US is trying to dictate guidelines
of conduct to governments and peoples.
Finally, another part of the document that stands out is the
ratification of a decades-long tendency in the strategic thinking of
the Untied States and its foreign policy: "The diversification and
increase of threats to the United States." This new text, signed by
Bush, formalizes that the scope of current and future threats to US
national security is growing with no end in sight, to the extreme
that almost anything can become a threat and from anywhere in the
world.
It is contradictory, and to some degree apparent, that while the US
tries to present itself as the great champion and leader of the main
international crusades, it sees its insecurity as increasing. There
are two main reasons that make such a contradiction evident. On the
one hand the peoples of the world have clearly identified their enemy
or, in some cases, their adversary, and propose challenges to its
hegemony. On the other hand, the growing threats against the US are
necessary for the Bush administration to avoid a dearth of enemies
that characterized the first years after the collapse of socialism in
Europe and the disappearance of the Soviet Union. Without real or
fictitious threats, above all those of a global and lethal nature,
there is no way to build the empire of force, which the elite group
that governs the US is trying to install.
Lastly, President Bush stated that his presidency is similar to those
of former presidents Harry Truman and Ronald Reagan. Truman was
responsible for the doctrine to prevent the spread of communism and
for the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.
Meanwhile, Reagan was a well-known warmonger who took the use of
military force to achieve world domination to a new level.
The Bush model leads to unimaginable paths of aggression and
intervention. Uncertain paths, full of obstacles, that lead to an
even more unstable world; one that neither Truman nor Reagan could
dominate.
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TOPIC: RHC Latin Amer News Roundup - Mar 22, 2006
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RHC Latin Amer News Roundup - Mar 22, 2006
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Latin American News Roundup from Radio Havana Cuba
March 22, 2005
by Roberto Bastidas
* Venezuelan President: "God forbid they Dare to Attack Iran"
* Emergency Declared in Five of Ecuador's Provinces
* Chilean President Bachelet Winds Up Visit to Argentina
* Colombia Takes Preventive Action Against Bird Flu
Venezuelan President: "God forbid they Dare to Attack Iran"
Caracas, March 22 (RHC)--Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Tuesday
that U.S. troops have been routed by a strong resistance movement in
Iraq, but haven't pulled out because officials in Washington won't
acknowledge defeat.
The United States would also suffer a tremendous military defeat if
the Bush administration decided to invade Iran, Chavez told a group of
foreign diplomats and government supporters at the Miraflores
Presidential Palace.
"The U.S. empire is defeated in Iraq, they just don't want to admit
it," Chavez said to rousing applause.
Chavez added: "Mr. Donkey thought they were going to be received as
heroes." referring to President Bush, "God forbid they dare to attack
Iran," he said. "We want peace, but they would eat twice as much of
the dust of defeat there, I'm absolutely sure of that."
Earlier Tuesday, President Chavez defended Iran's nuclear program,
accusing the Bush administration of falsely accusing Iran of trying to
build an atomic bomb as a pretext for seizing control of the Middle
Eastern nation's vast petroleum reserves.
"You know that one of the most serious problems the world has today is
the energy problem, so much so that the North American empire has
invaded Iraq just to look for oil and now threatens Iran because of
oil," Chavez said in a nationally televised speech, referring to the
United States. "It's an excuse by the empire, looking for energy."
"I'm completely sure that it's absolutely false that the Iranian
government is developing an atomic bomb. It's the United States that
has atomic bombs," he added.
The International Atomic Energy Agency, the U.N. nuclear watchdog, voted
in January to refer Iran to the Security Council over concerns about
its nuclear program. Venezuela, Cuba and Syria voted against it, and
the rest abstained.
Chavez said developed countries such as the United States, France and
Germany want to maintain a monopoly on nuclear technology by denying
it to developing countries like his own.
Venezuela the world's fifth-largest oil exporter is studying the
possibility of using nuclear power to generate electricity.
Chavez's comments came on the heels of a speech Monday night in which
he warned that if U.S. troops were to invade any Latin American
country, "revolutionaries" from across the region would join forces to
battle against the US government The Venezuelan leader said the U.S.
"should know that if it wants or someday decides to invade any of our
countries be it Venezuela, Cuba, Bolivia, El Salvador, Nicaragua,
today, tomorrow or the next day we would be there gathering together
the revolutionaries to do battle against U.S. imperialism."
Emergency Declared in Five of Ecuador's Provinces
Quito, March 22 (RHC)--A state of emergency has been declared in five
of Ecuador's provinces as indigenous groups continue protests against
free trade talks with the US.
Luis Macas, leader of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of
Ecuador (CONAIE), has reiterated his call that President Alfredo
Palacio hold a referendum on the US-sponsored Free Trade Area for the
Americas treaty.
"We do not simply say no to the FTA, we want a referendum on that
treaty" emphasized Macas in his demand for an official commitment from
Palacio.
The indigenous leader condemned the position assumed by the executive
sending the official Manuel Chiritoga, in charge of the negotiations,
to Washington on Tuesday despite the last nine days of increasing
protests.
The Ecuadorian dignitary has ignored the indigenous' demands and now
plans to conclude the harmful negotiations as demanded by business
sectors.
Indigenous and farmer movements from different regions continue
blocking roads and have semi-paralyzed the country and warned they
would maintain their position against the FTA with the US.
Peasants have been blocking roads in highland areas since last week in
an action which has cost millions of dollars in lost trade.
Protesters fear the trade deal to be negotiated in Washington this
week will damage their way of life.
It was declared by President Alfredo Palacio in the highland provinces
of Cotopaxi, Canar, Chimborazo and Imbabura, as well as parts of
Pichincha, where the capital Quito is located.
"The president took this decision after exhausting all other options
for dialogue," said Interior Minister Felipe Vega.
A final round of talks about the free trade deal is scheduled to begin
in Washington on 23 March, with a deal expected to be concluded in
early April.
Ecuador's neighbours Colombia and Peru have already signed deals with
the US.
Chilean President Bachelet Winds Up Visit to Argentina
Buenos Aires, March 22 (RHC)-- Chilean President Michelle Bachelet is
winding up this Wednesday her over 24-hour official visit to Buenos
Aires, in which she has ratified strategic bilateral relations with
her counterpart Nestor Kirchner.
On her first trip abroad after taking power hardly 11 days ago,
Bachelet and Kirchner agreed Tuesday to move towards cooperation, as
well as acknowledged common political ground between their respective
governments.
Chile and Argentina fought together for their independence almost two
centuries ago and later suffered the most terrible dictatorships of
the region, but now both nations are at peace with governments against
hunger and poverty, stated Kirchner.
The Chilean stateswoman spoke in favor of a larger integration among
the Southern Cone countries to achieve their individual and regional
development.
Today´s agenda includes meeting with Judge Enrique Petracci and
governors from 11 provinces bordering Chile.
Colombia Takes Preventive Action Against Bird Flu
Bogotá, March 22 (RHC)-- Health authorities and the National Poultry
Federation will today begin in Colombia a preventive plan to face and
neutralize bird flu in that country.
Epidemiological Vigilance Coordinator of the Social Protection
Ministry, Victor Hugo Alvarez, pointed out that the preventive plan
includes training campaigns all over the country on a possible bird
flu epidemic.
Colombia is preparing anti-pandemic plans, to recognize the virus
presence and carry out swift action if necessary.
The National Council on Social Health Security assigned 12 billion
pesos (5.5 billion dollars) to this program, a third of which to buy
medicine to neutralize the effects of bird flu.
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TOPIC: Int'l Media Take Aim at US War of Aggression on Iraq
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Int'l Media Take Aim at US War of Aggression Against Iraq
Sydney, March 22 (RHC)-- Newspapers and electronic media around the
world are taking aim at Washington's war of aggression against Iraq,
with editorials condemning the invasion and ongoing occupation of the
Arab country.
According to the Australian newspaper The Sydney Morning Herald,
"three years into the Iraq war, and with no end in sight, it looks as
if the United States has created a quagmire for itself in the Middle
East." News reports of demonstrations around the world to mark the
third anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq were prominent in
coverage of events over the past several days.
Hong Kong's South China Morning Post notes that little has been
achieved three years after the invasion, writing that "civil conflict
and rising sectarianism" are spreading throughout the occupied Arab
nation.
The Manila Times warned that U.S. policymakers must take "a long hard
look at Washington's role as Iraq's shepherd" -- saying that "sooner
rather than later, Iraq must be given a free hand to chart its
destiny."
In Japan, which had deployed troops in Iraq, protest demonstrations
demanding a pullout were held over the weekend. Tokyo is expected to
pull its troops from Iraq in the coming months, but government
officials declined to comment on a timeframe for the withdrawal.
The Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan's top-selling daily, called on the United
States to remain engaged in the world despite the turmoil in Iraq.
"Although U.S. President Bush dismissed isolationism and protectionism
in his State of the Union address, there are signs that the U.S.
Congress is being tempted by these doctrines," according to an
editorial in the Yomiuri Shimbun. The conservative daily cited the
stiff opposition in Congress to an Dubai-based company's attempted
takeover of six U.S. ports.
Rodong Sinmun, the newspaper of the People's Democratic Republic of
Korea, said that "the U.S. imperialists provoked wars in Afghanistan
and Iraq in the 1990s and the new century, mercilessly destroying
peaceful towns and villages and civilian establishments and cruelly
killing countless innocent people." Rodong Sinmun concludes that "this
clearly proves that the U.S. is a war maniac, the ringleader of evils
and the worst human rights abuser."
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TOPIC: FAS Secrecy News - 03/24/2006
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Date: Fri, Mar 24 2006 10:41 pm
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FAS Secrecy News - 03/24/2006
Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit
SECRECY NEWS
from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy
Volume 2006, Issue No. 38
March 24, 2006
Secrecy News Blog: http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/
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** JUDGE JOHN D. BATES APPOINTED TO THE FISA COURT
** CORRECTIONS
** THIS AND THAT
JUDGE JOHN D. BATES APPOINTED TO THE FISA COURT
Judge John D. Bates was appointed last month by Chief Justice John
Roberts to serve on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
Judge Bates of the D.C. District is the eleventh member of the secretive
Court, which processes applications for domestic intelligence search and
surveillance under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978.
He replaces Judge James Robertson who resigned in December 2005 in what
was widely viewed as a protest against the President's warrantless
surveillance program.
The appointment of Judge Bates to the FISA Court has not previously been
reported.
When questioned by Secrecy News earlier this week, Justice Department
officials refused to divulge the name of the newest FISA Court judge.
The Justice officials suggested filing a Freedom of Information Act
request.
But Judge Bates himself disclosed the February 2006 appointment in his
online bio at the D.C. District Courthouse (thanks to S):
http://www.dcd.uscourts.gov/bates-bio.html
Judge Bates, a Republican appointee, has a distinctly conservative cast
to his resume. From 1995-1997, he served as Deputy Independent Counsel
to the intensely partisan Whitewater investigation. In 2002, he
dismissed a lawsuit brought by the congressional General Accounting
Office seeking disclosure of records of the Vice President's Energy Task
Force.
But he has also ruled occasionally in favor of Freedom of Information
Act litigants. And in 2004, he rejected the Bush Administration's
argument that a U.S. citizen detained abroad under U.S. control cannot
invoke habeas corpus.
"The Court concludes that a citizen cannot be so easily separated from
his constitutional rights," Judge Bates memorably ruled in Abu Ali v.
John Ashcroft.
An FAS roster of FISA Court judges, now including Judge Bates, can be
found here:
http://www.fas.org/irp/agency/doj/fisa/court2006.html
CORRECTIONS
Judge Frederick J. Scullin, another FISA Court member, served in the
Northern District of New York, not the Southern District, as mistakenly
stated in Secrecy News yesterday.
Rep. Vernon J. Ehlers, the new chairman of the House Committee on House
Administration, is a Republican from Michigan, not from California.
(Speaking of Rep. Ehlers, his online bio notes that he "was instrumental
in the effort to connect the House of Representatives with the Internet
and the creation of the Library of Congress' Thomas website, which
allows anyone to look up legislation being considered by Congress, laws
that have been passed and other information about Congress."
For now, however, that "other information about Congress" which is
available online thanks in part to Rep. Ehlers still does not encompass
Congressional Research Service reports.)
THIS AND THAT
The Department of Energy has released a redacted version of its
twentieth report on inadvertent releases of classified nuclear weapons
information found in declassified records at the National Archives.
Upon examination of nearly 300,000 pages of public records, DoE
reviewers found 47 pages which they said should not have been released.
those pages were embedded in over a thousand pages of documents, all of
which were removed from public access. See:
http://www.fas.org/sgp/othergov/doe/inadvertent20.pdf
The defense contractor Sikorsky Aircraft has sued the Defense Department
in an effort to block disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act of
what it considers to be confidential commercial information, the Project
on Government Oversight reported on its blog. See:
http://pogoblog.typepad.com/pogo/2006/03/sikorskys_rever.html
The record of a September 2005 Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on
"ABLE DANGER and Intelligence Information Sharing" has recently been
published. See:
http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/2005_hr/shrg109-311.html
The U.S. military must be prepared to respond to incidents abroad that
involve chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, or high-yield
explosives (CBRNE). A new Defense Department Instruction on "Foreign
Consequence Management" sets DoD policy on the subject. See DoD
Instruction 2000.21, March 10, 2006:
http://www.fas.org/irp/doddir/dod/i2000_21.pdf
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TOPIC: Harvard's False Report
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.usa/browse_thread/thread/19490236b98b300a
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Fri, Mar 24 2006 2:42 pm
From: inkyblacks@yahoo.com
The Jewish MO is to immediately slander any critic and crush any
opposition to Jewish domination. This is true in other countries as
well, not just Israel-America. The authors knew they would be in for a
slander attack by the Zionist lobby, so I am sure they are not
surprised by what has happened. The reaction proves their point. Jews
are BIG BROTHER and you must love and obey BIG BROTHER no matter what
crimes BIG BROTHER commits!
Freedom of thought? Freedom of speech? Sovereignty for America?
These are things the majority of Jews oppose because they prefer to
manipulate America for their own selfish, illegal, and immoral ends.
IB
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TOPIC: No Israelis parasite please, Libya tells trekkers
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.usa/browse_thread/thread/d2979539fe834fe3
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== 1 of 2 ==
Date: Fri, Mar 24 2006 10:45 pm
From: kmcvay@shell.vex.net (Kenneth McVay OBC)
In article <OtJUf.1474$sU4.1321@bignews4.bellsouth.net>,
serwad <serwad@bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
>"Kenneth McVay OBC" <kmcvay@shell.vex.net> wrote in message
>news:1226ko5knaipa30@corp.supernews.com...
>> In article <_YFUf.10365$TK2.7374@trnddc07>,
>> Salah Jafar <codeman@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>-=-=-=-=-=-
>>>
>>> No Israelis please, Libya tells trekkers
>>>
>>> By News Agencies
>>>
>>> An interfaith convoy crossing the Sahara to promote coexistence in
>>> the Middle East
>>>was halted yesterday when Libya refused it entry because it included
>>>Israelis.
>>>
>>> "Israel does not exist as a country, it is Palestine. We don't allow
>>> occupiers into
>>>our country," the Jerusalem Post quoted a Libyan official as telling nine
>>>members of the
>>>Breaking the Ice group as they tried to enter from Egypt.
>>
>> I'm curious... does Libya also refuse entry to Jordanians? After all, they
>> are
>> "occupiers" of the single largest piece of Palestine.
>
>REALLY? WOW! DO JORDANIANS ALSO COME FROM KHAZARIA?
You don't know much about Palestine, do you? Do some homework and get back to us...
here's a clue: Trans Jordan.
BTW - your capslock key is stuck.
--
"STOP BEING FILTHY JEW KIKE VERMIN LIAR!!"
(Bellville's Scott Bradbury, a leading revisionist scholar)
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== 2 of 2 ==
Date: Fri, Mar 24 2006 10:46 pm
From: kmcvay@shell.vex.net (Kenneth McVay OBC)
http://mediacrity.blogspot.com/2005_11_20_mediacrity_archive.html
Seashells, Plastic Mermaids -- and Internet Hate
A reader brings to my attention this cute little
item in City Link magazine, a publication of the
Tribune Company-owned Sun Sentinel in South Florida
that calls itself "South Florida's premier youth
culture magazine." In an item on the "best" places
in the area, under "Best Place To Buy Tacky
Souvenirs," the magazine picks the Peter Pan
souvenir shop in Delray Beach, Florida:
You would never know from their business that
Alex and Mona Seredin, the current owners of this
54-year-old store, hail from Canada. Stepping
inside Peter Pan brings you back to 1950s South
Florida, when walking catfish flopped across the
roads and your nearest neighbor was likely to
be an alligator. This store offers hundreds of
pieces of coral, seashell jewelry, straw hats
and embroidered T-shirts with Florida themes.
Cute! What the item leaves out, however, is its
proprietor's real claim to fame -- which is peddling
hate, not "tacky souvenirs." Alex Seredin is the
author of literally thousands of crudely anti-Semitic
screeds on Internet Usenet boards, commonly referring
to Jews as "kikes" and "long noses." Seredin recently
opined that Jews "have no right to a country except
six feet under," and recommended that "Palestinians
expel all the bloody kikes."
Suggestion to City Link: Next time you profile a
"tacky" souvenir shop owner, run the name in Google.
You might find that more than just the souvenirs are "tacky."
--
"STOP BEING FILTHY JEW KIKE VERMIN LIAR!!"
(Bellville's Scott Bradbury, a leading revisionist scholar)
The Nizkor Project: http://www.nizkor.org/
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TOPIC: Photographing Nothing: Life in the Shadows of the Empire
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Fri, Mar 24 2006 10:46 pm
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Photographing Nothing: Life in the Shadows of the Empire
Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit
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CounterPunch - Mar 18/19, 2006
http://www.counterpunch.org/martin03182006.html
Mysterious Photographers of Nothing
Life in the Shadows of the Empire
By Eamon Martin
"It takes a lot of degeneration before a country falls into dictatorship,
but we should avoid these ends by avoiding these beginnings."
- -Sandra Day O'Connor, March 9, 2006
I help publish a small, nonprofit, independent newspaper in western North
Carolina called the Asheville Global Report. We print under-reported news
that casts an often-critical eye on the doings of our government at home and
abroad, in the hope that our fellow citizens will find the inspiration and
motivation to hold our government accountable. In doing so, our explicitly
nonpartisan goal has always been to fulfill the traditional role of the
press in a democratic society.
Since we began our project seven years ago, members of our staff have
encountered a few unmistakable incidents of surveillance --by whom, we
cannot say for certain. Although one episode back in 2000, when the retired
local field director of the FBI came by the used bookstore where I worked at
the time, leaves me with some suspicions. It had been two months since I'd
been arrested in Seattle during the WTO demonstrations, and one month since
my step-brother had died from a heroin overdose in New Jersey. I was ringing
up some books for this older man --who I later discovered was named John
Quigley -- when he casually uncorked the shocking comment: "Oh, Eamon...did
I read somewhere that your brother was sick? You're a writer, right?"
I'd never met this man before and was stunned, speechless. He'd blind-sided
me. After a quick and intensely strange interaction in which I explained
that my brother had in fact suddenly died recently, and the sheer
impossibility of his having read anything about my brother anywhere, he
disingenuously apologized and left. He would continue to shop at the store
regularly, almost always parting with a "be careful" farewell. Then of
course, there was the time almost three years ago when I'd confronted two
men videotaping my fellow editor and I outside of the cafe where she had
been working that Sunday afternoon. A few months later, one of these
gentlemen had the audacity to appear at one of our benefits, merely to hang
out by the club entrance, not speak with anyone and enjoy several cups of
water. For some reason, this man who had been our very first patron that
night, suddenly lost interest in the show and quickly disappeared after I
approached him to chat a little.
But last week was special. There are moments in time when historic change
emerges from its sublimated status in the mundane and crystallizes itself
into personal consciousness and awareness. These are what I call "WAKE UP"
moments. It is in these jolting moments when one discovers that what they
are experiencing is endemic of something larger and much greater than
themselves. Last week I experienced one of those "WAKE UP" calls. On a whim,
I'd decided to drive to a favorite cafe to get breakfast. After I'd finished
eating, I went outside to small-talk with a friend of mine. After a few
minutes, my friend pointed out to me that somebody up the street was taking
our picture.
Perhaps realizing he'd "been made," our mysterious photographer immediately
put his elephantine zoom-lens camera down and made haste to walk away. I
followed him.
He seemed surprised when he soon discovered I was silently standing right
behind him at an intersection. Abruptly he attempted to cross the street in
front of oncoming traffic. Giving him about a yard of distance, I continued
to follow him anyway. Halfway across the street, he turned his head back and
noticed me on his heels, and then instantly started walking diagonally back
in the direction we'd came. What followed next can only be described as a
scene that was equal parts Rod Serling, Alfred Hitchcock and Monty Python.
After a few minutes of this sort of preposterous, zigzagging pursuit back
and forth across the street in bizarre paces alternately shifting between a
fast trot and a sluggish lurch, I decided to give the man some space and sat
down on a portico stoop next to a closed restaurant He stopped walking too,
and then, while standing right next to me, proceeded to place his zoom lens
camera up against the window of the pitch-black, lifeless restaurant and
take pictures of ... nothing. At this point, it's more than obvious that
I've been following him, but his behavior never shifts from feigned oblivion
and muted, but comic, confusion.
A few seconds pass and he starts to walk away. I duck behind a car and watch
him through the vehicle's large windows. A minute later he turns around,
looks in my direction and attempts to take my picture through the glass. I
squat and hide, which begins an absurd round of "peek-a-boo" with me popping
up and down, into and out of his view, frustrating his attempts to catch me
again on film. Suddenly it maybe dawned on him that we were now fully
engaged -- still, without having any open, verbal acknowledgment of
such--and he abruptly quits the game and keeps walking.
A moment later he turns around again and looks back, but I've disappeared.
Briskly, he marches back in the direction he came and I continue to
discreetly follow him. Not much later, as we near what will be his final
destination -- a parking garage blocks away from the restaurant where this
escapade began, and right near our office -- a healthy-looking man in
"homeless" garb suddenly crosses my path, saying intently to me, "are you
still following him?" Undistracted, I keep on the first stranger and follow
him to the garage. As he pays his fee to leave, I make no attempt to hide
the fact that I'm copying down his license plate number. He looks at me, and
without a word, takes off.
The creepiest part about all of this is that I'd driven to the restaurant.
He obviously had not and was perhaps informed about my location? Of course,
one must always hold out the possibility that this man was just a
garden-variety Asheville wing-nut. Not only does our city have our fair
share, but it has become a well-established facet of our local culture such
that it has earned us national notoriety. Like I said before, we
cannot say for sure who these strangers are, or what exactly they represent.
But their appearance in our lives would seem to dovetail with current
events, the likes of which, we've made it our duty to report. And our
website seems to be a big hit with employees of the US Department of
Defense. The following day, with little media fanfare, President Bush signed
the USA PATRIOT Act into permanence. The lack of media attention to this
historic event was all the more glaring in that Bush was in effect signing
the death certificate of the Fourth Amendment -- which protects US citizens
from unwarranted spying -- at the precise moment that his administration was
fending off controversy about abusing that very right. Also attracting
little media attention that day were the staggering remarks made by recently
retired Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O'Connor who'd made the astonishing
admission that she feared the US republic was edging towards a dictatorship.
Indeed, days before on the Senate floor, resident constitutional expert Sen.
Robert Byrd issued a stark warning about the PATRIOT Act that demands to be
quoted at length: "This new proposal would erase too many of our freedoms
guaranteed to the American people. In essence, this legislation says that
the Bill of Rights is right no more... There is no doubt that constitutional
freedoms will never be abolished in one fell swoop, for the American people
cherish their freedoms, and would not tolerate such a loss if they could
perceive it. But the erosion of freedom rarely comes as an all-out frontal
assault but rather as a gradual, noxious creeping, cloaked in secrecy, and
glossed over by reassurances of greater security."
Now this week it was revealed that a local college freshman and former Eagle
Scout had his computer confiscated by the Secret Service. Why? He'd made the
grave mistake of quoting some lyrics by the band The Misfits on his
Myspace.com web page, in which he had replaced some of the words describing
the assassination of JFK to portray a Bush version of the theme. Our local
Gannett monopoly franchise newspaper, the Asheville Citizen-Times would
reflectively opine that "it pays to be cautious online."
No doubt. It was also reported this past week that the FBI has listed
Indymedia -- an open source newswire born out of the WTO protests which
disseminates news very similar to our newspaper -- as one of the current,
top ten domestic terrorist threats in the US. Did you catch that? The FBI
now considers disseminating news an act of terrorism.
As I entered our office this morning, I passed two guys who recently moved
into our building. They're media producers of some sort, and they were
intensely discussing a new ad campaign they're working on for the military.
The one fellow looked very much like Verizon's trendoid posterboy
- --horn-rimmed glasses, vintage bowling shirt, elaborate arm tattoos -- and
he reeked of the musk of "X-treme sports" and that "I think capitalism is
killer, dude," ethic that seems more and more common in our gentrifying
city.
"We'll have the soldiers marching down the street together in
formation...the main theme of these ads is unity," this guy was instructing
his friend. "It's all about unity. Maybe use the image of a man who is
lonely and sad (gestures with arms over his head) and then cut to 'No man
should have to be alone.' Then the Navy logo will come in, and it'll build
up, cut with images of power and masculinity... I really like the idea of
using imagery of thunder and lightening...we want to stress unity and
masculinity, power, the warrior spirit -- all that man was meant to be, all
that man was born to be." Famous Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels often
said similar things.
However seemingly unrelated, for me, all of these events knit together into
a social mosaic of "WAKE UP" moments. As each of us individually struggle to
make our way through this competitive world, it can be easy to lose sight,
let alone recognize the fabric deterioration of our ostensibly "democratic"
social compact. Who knows who walks among us, what their intentions are and
what greater purpose they may ultimately serve? You may not care and perhaps
you may only register bafflement about what any of this paranoid portrait of
contemporary life may indicate. But I for one, Senator Byrd, Justice
O'Connor, am hearing you loud and clear.
[Eamon Martin is an editor of Asheville Global Report.]
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TOPIC: It's About Empire, Not Democracy
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It's About Empire, Not Democracy
Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit
sent by Ed Pearl - Mar 24, 2006
ZNet -
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=15&ItemID=9934
Bob Herbert Doesn't Get It: It's About Empire, Not Democracy,
by Paul Street
American liberals, even left-liberals, just don't get United States (U.S.)
imperialism.
For an excellent case in point, see a recent opinion-editorial titled "Stop
Bush's War" by Bob Herbert, who is probably the "liberal" New York Times'
leftmost columnist (Hebert, "Stop Bush's War, New York Times, 16 March 2006,
p. A23).
The column makes some excellent points. Herbert is right to say that "an
ocean of blood has been shed" in the criminal occupation of Iraq whether the
total Iraqi body count is as low as president Bush says (30,000) or (as
numerous responsible investigators say) well into six figures.
Herbert is right to say that "there's no end to this tragic [blood] flow in
sight." He's right to observe that many of the war's supporters hold a
fundamentally "deprav[ed]" thought: "that the best way to fight [the current
Iraq war] is with other people's children." He's right to remind us of "the
formerly healthy men and women who have come back to the United States from
Iraq paralyzed or without their arms or legs or eyes or the full use of
their minds." He's right to quote David Halberstam to the effect that U.S.
foreign policymakers' desire to be seen as "tough" and "strong" is part of
the reason for the continuing bloodshed in Iraq.
But Herbert is wrong to call "Bush's war" "mindless" and to see little more
than the timeless "madness" and "folly" of blind and power-mad elites in the
making of both the U.S. assault on Vietnam and the current U.S. occupation
of Iraq. He's wrong to think it is telling, relevant, and useful to quote
Lyndon Johnson's Vietnam-era special assistant Jack Valenti on "how
difficult it is 'to impress democracy' on other countries." He's wrong to
take the Bush administration seriously when it says it wants a free and
democratic Iraq, as he does when he says that "the democracy that was
supposed to flower in Iraq and then spread throughout the Middle East was as
much a mirage as the weapons of mass destruction."
The notion that the White House wants "democracy in Iraq and the Middle
East" has never been anything more than a childish fairly tale concocted to
cover imperial machinations. Herbert is engaging in wildly wishful thinking
and whistling in the wind of imperial arrogance when he says that "the White
House should be working cooperatively with members of both parties in
Congress to figure out the best way to bring the curtain down on U.S.
involvement." And he's wrong to say that Halberstam's "The Best and the
Brightest" is "the best book about America's involvement in Vietnam."
The "liberal" Kennedy and Johnson administrations attacked Vietnam for a
very good imperial reason: to crush the "virus" of independent Third World
revolutionary nationalism. Far from being sheer "madness" or irrational
"folly," this bloody imperial mission was largely achieved even as maximal
U.S. objectives were not attained. And the Bush II administration invaded
Iraq for its own significantly rational imperial reason: to deepen U.S.
control over strategically hyper-significant Middle Eastern oil. Whether
that mission will succeed is is unclear but one thing that ought to
abundantly evident is that neither the Bush administration nor its successor
will be closing out its presence in Iraq anytime soon.
The notion of the Iraqi people doing whatever they wish with their critical
petroleum resources is unacceptable to American imperialists from both of
the two dominant business parties. The oil and related world-economic and
strategic geopolitical stakes in Iraq and the region are simply too high for
that. As James M. Lindsay, a vocre president at the eminently imperialist
Council on Foreign recently proclaimed: "It was always hard to sustain the
argument that if the United States withdrew from Vietnam there would be
immense geopolitical consequences. As we look at Iraq, it's a very different
issue. It's a country in one of the most volatile parts of the world, which
has a very precious resource that modern economies rely on, namely oil."
Neither the U.S. war on Vietnam nor the the current U.S. war on Iraq was
even remotely about any sincere desire on the part of U.S. policymakers to
"impress" freedom, independence, and democracy "on other countries." In both
cases, independence, democracy, sovereignty, and freedom were the last
things that Unce Sam's top officials wanted to see breaking out in the
territories targeted for massive aggression.
And for what it's worth, the "best book about America's involvement in
Vietnam" is Noam Chomsky's "For Reasons of State" (1970), a judicious
dissection of, and reflection upon, the Pentagon's internal planning record.
Unlike Herbert, this study never falls for the Washington war masters'
deceptive rhetoric about fighting for what the great Vietnam war critic
Martin Luther King Jr. termed "so-called freedom." And I wish Herbert had
remembered to mention something he knows quite well: that "the other
people's children" sent to kill and die in Iraq come disproportionately from
America's poor and working classes.
[Paul Street (pstreet@niu.edu) is a former historian and urban civil rights
researcher in the American Midwest. He is the author of Empire and
Inequality: America and the World Since 9/11 (Boulder, CO: Paradigm
Publishers, 2004) and Segregated Schools: Educational Apartheid in the
Post-Civil Rights Era (New York, NY: Routledge, 2005).]
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TOPIC: "Baseball Players, Yes - Castro No !!!
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.usa/browse_thread/thread/ddf17b29dfecda8
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Fri, Mar 24 2006 2:47 pm
From: Seneca
On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 22:42:12 -0800, Miguel <michaelgayoso1948@msn.com>
wrote:
>
> Seneca wrote:
>> On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 22:07:54 -0800, Miguel <michaelgayoso1948@msn.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>> >
>> > Lo que da pena es ver a un extranjero que se cree endiosado a
>> > determinar quien es y quien no es "cubano de verdad". El pueblo de
>> Cuba
>> > entero los escupe a ustedes por ser esbirros extranjeros del tirano.
>> > Ustedes, por odio a los EEUU y por envidia al exilio cubano, aplauden
>> > todas las atrocidades que ha cometido el SATRAPA ASESINO durante esta
>> > pesadilla de 47 a~nos.
>>
>>
>> Hablas de Batista o de Posada Carriles?
>
> No. Hablo del monstruo de Biran, Fifo el Loco, alias Fidel Castro y de
> sus esbirros en el exterior, y hablo de alguien muy particular como tu,
> Senecon, que en lugar de decir: "Solo se que no se nada," dices "No se
> que no se de nada, nada y creo que me lo se todo aunque no sepa nada"
Entiendo, te refieres al el que los terroristas de Miami odian y en honor
a su "causita" han asesinado inocentes atletas y turistas que no tienen
nada que ver con las pequeñenes de los fascistas reaccionario de la
gusanera Cubana?
>
> Si tanto odias a los EEUU por que no renuncias a tu ciudadania
> norteamericana y te vas a Cuba a ganar $8 al mes?
Porque no soy Cubano, ni tu tampoco, los Cubanos de verdad estan en Cuba o
en sus comunidades levantando el estandar de Siboney, honrando su patria y
no mancillandola como los terroristas que tu representas.
>>
>>
>>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Viste, pendejo que nigun Cubano de verdad deserto . . . . das pena,
>> tu
>> >> huesos se podriran en un pais extraño porque traicionaste a tu
>> patria.
>> >
>> > Je Je.Los dos millones de cubanos que nos hemos escapado del castro
>> > fascismo no hemos desertado? Se no olvidaba, esos no son "cubanos de
>> > verdad" segun el filosofon Senecon. Pero Yuliesky si lo es..
>>
>> "Escapado"? Ustedes, que mientras a los pobres Mejicanos cruzan el
>> desierto y mueren en su empeno ustedes los reciben con dinero y los
>> brazos
>> abiertos. vayase pal carajo gusano asqueroso. Deben sentirse
>> avergonzados
>> por lo pillo, corruptos y terroristas que son.
>
> Que infame y mentiroso eres, esbirro comunista degenerado y asqueroso.
> Decenas de miles de cubanos han muerto ahogado en el empe~no por
> alcanzar la libertad del monstruo que tu apoyas.
"Libertad"_ Wue va, buscando el billete como los miles de emigrantes
economicos de Latino America. Mira papa, ya nadie se va de Cuba por razone
spoliticas, se van por los billetes yanquis, igual que millones de otros
emigrantes.
Tu causita ya se jodio.
>
> Das risa. La envidia se te sale por los poros. Tienes que ser uno de
> esos frustrados incompetentes que no ha llegado a nada en la vida,
> porque el factor envidia le come las entra~nas.
>
> Que envidia nos tienes!. Te molesta que los cubanos tengamos el
> standard de vida mas alto de todo latino en EEUU. Las entradas de la
> segunda generacion de cubanos sobrepasa la de los Anglos. En tu mente
> enferma y corrupta, eso significa que somos... pillos, corruptos y
> terroristas..Lo que somos emprendedores, trabajadores, inteligentes y
> dispuestos al sacrificio, algo que frustrados incompetentes como tu
> nunca comprenderan.
Mira so animal, sino fuera por los programas yanquis que invirtieron
billones de dolares en ustedes, y que vinieron durante la guerra de la
pobreza, les ayudaron a que les certificaran en la profesiones en Florida
(mientras que abogado Peruanos o CPA Mexicanos lavan carro en Miami y
California), les dieron becas federales, les proveyeron trabajos bien
remunerados en la estacion de la CIA en la universidad de Miami, Radio y
Television Marti, les dieron la bienvenida negada a cuanto refugiado viene
de Latino America (incluyendo a los rfugiados politicos de las distaduras
que en un tiempo apoyaron los yanquis en Haiti, Republica Dominicana,
Niacaragua, El Salvador Chile, etc.)
Celo? Que va lastima? Tmapoco! Desprecio y asco es lo que siento por los
gusanos (afortunadamente cada dia ustedes son menos y mas viejo en la
comunidad Cubana de los EUA. Ya la juventud Cubana los rechaza a ustedes y
bailan Reggaeton y votara por los Democratas.
Viva la revolucion Cubana!
>>
>>
>>
>> >
>> > Tu no crees que, entre esos deportistas, por lo menos no hubo UNO que
>> > hubiera querido desertar? No han desertado a traves de los a~nos
>> > cientos de deportistas cubanos por todas partes del mundo? No dudo que
>> > seas lo suficiente idiota para creerte tu propia propaganda.
>>
>>
>>
>> No sea pendejo, dale a los Latino Americanos el mismo acceso que tienen
>> los Cubiches y veras que empezamos a hablar espanol en gringolandia.
>
> La gentuza como tu solo habla el lenguaje del totalitarismo y la
> esclavitud.
>>
>> >>
>> >> Como dicen los gusanos cubiches de la Calle 8 "Sig Heil" "Deutschland
>> >> Uber
>> >> Alles"
>> >
>> > No. Decimos: Viva Cuba Libre! Abajo la tirania!
>>
>>
>> CUBA. PRIMER TERRITORIO LIBRE DE AMERICA.!
>
> Todo lo contrario. Cuba es terrirorio esclavo. Para los cubanos el
> territorio libre de America es Miami
>
> Vete a Cuba a disfrutar el castro fascismo y a morirte de hambre,
> degenerado
>>
>> PATRIA O MUERTE VENCEREMOS!
>
> Lo que dice la yegua Senecona es que El caballo Fidel Patea o Muerde
> ---- Correremos
>
>
>>
>>
>>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 20:12:24 -0800, Miguel
>> <michaelgayoso1948@msn.com>
>> >> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> >
>> >> > Seneca wrote:
>> >> >> On Sun, 19 Mar 2006 19:28:03 -0800, Miguel
>> >> <michaelgayoso1948@msn.com>
>> >> >> wrote:
>> >> >>
>> >> >> > Senecon.
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > Nadie tiene nada en contra de los peloteros cubanos. Ellos son
>> >> >> > victimas del castro-fascismo como el resto del pueblo de Cuba.
>> >> Quizas
>> >> >> > ellos tengan unos cuantos
>> >> >> > "perks" que el 99% de los cubanos no tienen. Sin embargo, aunque
>> >> los
>> >> >> > esbirros extranjeros del tirano, degenerados como tu, no lo
>> sepan:
>> >> No
>> >> >> > solo de pan vive el hombre.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Yullesky Gurriel dijo en una entrevista frente los miles de
>> dolares
>> >> que
>> >> >> le ofrecen los yanquis "Quiero jugar por mi pais." No solo de pan
>> >> vive
>> >> >> el
>> >> >> hombre, ese es el hombre nuevo de Cuba.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> El pelotero Contreras que deserto ahora esta llorando por jugar
>> con
>> >> >> Cuba!
>> >> >> Tiene chavos pero perdio su alma.
>> >> >
>> >> > Imaginate un cubano tan cubano con el nombre de Yuliesky.
>> >> > Los que pierden el alma son las que la venden a un tirano como
>> Castro.
>> >> > Tu hace rato la perdiste, aunque como buen comunista ateo, tu no
>> crees
>> >> > en el alma. Si creyeras, no apoyarias al representante de Lucifer
>> en
>> >> la
>> >> > tierra, al monstruo de Biran, alias Fidel Castro.
>> >> >
>> >> > Si es verdad lo que dices de Contreras, lo unico que tiene que
>> hacer
>> >> es
>> >> > pedirle perdon a Abuelo Castro. No te preocupes, que el tirano
>> hara el
>> >> > papel de ser alguien que comprende y lo perdonara. Eso si, tiene
>> que
>> >> > darle su alma de nuevo.
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
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TOPIC: Israel May Be Next al-Qaida Battleground
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.usa/browse_thread/thread/c8c9da1d258d18b0
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Fri, Mar 24 2006 2:48 pm
From: cornytheclown@hotmail.com
Hopefully they will go there......Israel has a powerfull military...let
them take some of the heat for a while.
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TOPIC: The Republicans shall continue to control things after the 2006 AND
2008 elections!
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.usa/browse_thread/thread/ffd026f1c2373c2
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Fri, Mar 24 2006 2:49 pm
From: ken_and_or_kathy@yahoo.com
Read 'em and weep LIEberals! All of your plans will go for naught!
You guys have been real busy, sitting around counting chickens that
will never hatch. For the DEMONcratic party has sown badly for many,
many years...and that is how it has reaped and how it will continue to
reap!
The LIEberal slime DEMONcrats think they are going to take over control
of the US House of Representatives in 2006 and then the US Senate in
2008. One has to wonder what they have been smoking and if there is
any left ovah!
Kathy AND Ken
if there are any questions, check out the definitions for 'demonize' in
your favorite unabridged dictionary - definitions 1 AND 2. The
DEMONcratic party will be demonized as in 1) cast into the image of a
demon - which it truly has deserved and continues to deserve and 2) to
submit to the influence of demons - which the DEMONcratic party has
been all along, f'christ's sake
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TOPIC: HOW ISRAEL CONTROLS WHAT YOU READ
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.usa/browse_thread/thread/508d9a807a59d05d
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Fri, Mar 24 2006 2:49 pm
From: "docremington"
clifffreeling@yahoo.com wrote:
> docremington wrote:
> > clifffreeling@yahoo.com wrote:
>
> > > "Don't worry about American pressure on Israel. We,
> > > the Jewish people, control America, and the Americans know it."
> > > ----Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, 2001
>
> > Who made that up, I wonder?
>
> Yeah that's right, it was all made up. If only Zionazi Israel could
> be make believe........
> "Don't worry about American pressure on Israel. We,
> the Jewish people, control America, and the Americans know it."
> ----Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, 2001
>
If we add that, the bogus quote originates from Oct. 3, 2001,
press-release of the US-based pro-hamas "Islamic Association for
Palestine", we may conclude it is, indeed, bogus.
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TOPIC: Justice at Last
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.usa/browse_thread/thread/5dc969963a7c8f17
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Fri, Mar 24 2006 5:52 pm
From: "Ed"
<flaviaR@verizon.net> wrote in message news:7FJUf.14048$vy.204@trnddc01...
>
> On 23-Mar-2006, "Ed" <nesorde@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> > http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=21745
>>
>> Now THIS sounds like the DoD we all know.
>
> I have to admit, it took me a few posts to get the joke.
>
> Susan
I didn't know if it was a joke or some kind of failed experiment.
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TOPIC: WSJ: Why Not Liberate the American Worker
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.usa/browse_thread/thread/dff0702be9d23a69
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== 1 of 3 ==
Date: Fri, Mar 24 2006 2:57 pm
From: "tmurf.1"
It is only a dream untill it becomes a reality. In my area about
75-80% of the construction workers are unionized. Nobody ever puta gun
to the head of our contractors to make them sign collective bargaining
agreements. They want to have the best people working for them and the
best want to be paid the best. Everybody makes money. We get a living
wage and the chance to retire at a reasonable age (in my case I can
collect my pension at 57). Believe me when I tell you most stone
masons and bricklayers are very hard workers who need pensions to help
them in their later years. If unions controlled more of the workforce
this country would be in much better shape. We would have higher wages
, lower unemployment, safer working conditions and people would be able
to afford more goods and services, the volume of which would offset any
higher costs. Unions don't send jobs overseas! Companies do. That is
why the AFL-CIO is trying to help unions in Mexico and Central and
South America. Any job in the US looks like a lot of money in
ElSalvadore. Not only union jobs are being lost and the job losses are
climbing up the corporate ladder. Who will be next?
== 2 of 3 ==
Date: Fri, Mar 24 2006 11:03 pm
From: "Michael Legel"
"tmurf.1" <tmurf.1@juno.com> wrote in message
news:1143241034.179955.126090@g10g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> It is only a dream untill it becomes a reality. In my area about
> 75-80% of the construction workers are unionized. Nobody ever puta gun
> to the head of our contractors to make them sign collective bargaining
> agreements. They want to have the best people working for them and the
> best want to be paid the best. Everybody makes money. We get a living
> wage and the chance to retire at a reasonable age (in my case I can
> collect my pension at 57). Believe me when I tell you most stone
> masons and bricklayers are very hard workers who need pensions to help
> them in their later years. If unions controlled more of the workforce
> this country would be in much better shape. We would have higher wages
> , lower unemployment, safer working conditions and people would be able
> to afford more goods and services, the volume of which would offset any
> higher costs. Unions don't send jobs overseas! Companies do. That is
> why the AFL-CIO is trying to help unions in Mexico and Central and
> South America. Any job in the US looks like a lot of money in
> ElSalvadore. Not only union jobs are being lost and the job losses are
> climbing up the corporate ladder. Who will be next?
>
I agree completely. I have no use for helping ILLEGAL immigrants to this
country, but I think helping unions in their home countries makes far more
sense than trying to give the illegals amnesty and our jobs. Until
Americans start thinking more about America and less about corporations ...
we will continue this continual spiral circling the drain.
== 3 of 3 ==
Date: Fri, Mar 24 2006 3:11 pm
From: hawat.thufir@gmail.com
Capt. Bill wrote:
..
> Actually I didn't parse anything.
> I don't believe an apology is needed since as I've stated:
> Because you've gone out of your wqay to attack union workers for
> somehow being responsible for non-union workers being paid less.
..
'You also insinuate that a monkey could do
the job of someone in a job other than yours, maybe you should look
behind you to see if that monkey is eyeing your job.'
From: "Capt. Bill" <Wdivekw@aol.com>
Newsgroups:
lt.freedom,alt.politics.bush,alt.society.conservatism,alt.society.labor-unions,soc.culture.usa
Subject: Re: WSJ: Why Not Liberate the American Worker
Message-ID: <1143216358.432063.36700@i39g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>
NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 16:06:04 +0000 (UTC)
How is that not defamatory? I never made such an insinuation. To the
contrary, you inferred something not there. Why did you infer I was
calling people monkeys? I've speculated, but you've offered no
alternative defense.
-Thufir
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TOPIC: US Troops Shooting Any Iraqi Who Moves
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.usa/browse_thread/thread/e4abe739282d9945
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== 1 of 2 ==
Date: Fri, Mar 24 2006 3:04 pm
From: "Timothy-Allen Albertson"
NY.Transfer.News@blythe.org wrote:
> US Troops Shooting Any Iraqi Who Moves
Fucking Oil Nazis. Anyone who supports these murderous thugs
is an accomplice in crimes against humanity.
(oh but the poor little Oil Nazis are brainwashed and can't think for
themselves,
they can't help it.................NOT!)
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>
>
> Iraq's My Lai?
>
> US Troops Shooting Any Iraqi Who Moves
>
> By PATRICK COCKBURN
>
> Arbil, Iraq.
>
> The US military is investigating two incidents in which American
> soldiers killed at least 26 Iraqi civilians and then claimed that they
> were either guerrillas or had died in cross fire.
>
> The growing evidence of retaliatory killings of unarmed Iraqi
> families, often including children, by US soldiers seemingly bent on
> punishing Iraqis after an attack, will spark comparisons with the
> massacre of Vietnamese villagers at My Lai in 1968.
>
> US troops have been notorious among Iraqis for their willingness to
> shoot any Iraqi they see in the aftermath of an insurgent attack. But
> it is only now that convincing and detailed information is becoming
> available about the killings.
>
> In the most recent incident, in the town of Ishaqi north of Baghdad
> last week, Iraqi police said that US troops had shot 11 people,
> including five children, in their home. The local police chief,
> Colonel Farouq Hussein, said that all the dead had been shot in the
> head, according to autopsies. "It's a clear and perfect crime," he
> said. In an incident in the town of Haditha in western Iraq on 19
> November last year, US soldiers went on a rampage in a village after a
> bomb attack and killed at least 15 civilians, according to witnesses
> and local officials cited by Time magazine in an investigation.
>
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> Miguel Tarrazas, along with 15 Iraqi civilians caught in the blast.
> Later, a military statement said "gunmen attacked the convoy with
> small-arms fire" and in returning fire the Marines killed eight
> insurgents.
>
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> [brokenboy.jpg] happened, an official investigation found that 15 of
> the civilians had been deliberately killed by US soldiers.
>
> The bomb attack on the US Humvee took place at 7.15am. Eman Waleed, a
> nine-year-old child, lived in a house 150 yards from the explosion.
> "We heard a big noise that woke us all up," she recalled later. "Then
> we did what we always do when there's an explosion: my father goes in
> to his room with the Koran and prays the family will be spared harm."
>
> The Marines claim they heard shots coming from the direction of
> Waleed's house. They burst in to the house and Eman heard shots from
> her father's room. They then entered the living room, where the rest
> of the family was gathered. She said: "I couldn't see their faces very
> well - only their guns sticking in to the doorway. I watched them
> shoot my grandfather, first in the chest and then in the head. Then
> they killed my granny."
>
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> Eman and her eight-year-old brother, Abdul Rahman, were cowering. The
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> bodies and were all shot dead. Eman and her brother were both wounded.
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> Iraqi soldiers came. They carried us in their arms. I was crying,
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> being readied to shoot and had then fired their weapons. The Marines
> say they were fired at from a second house, where they broke down a
> door, threw in a grenade and opened fire. The eight who died in the
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> director of the hospital, said: "It was obvious to us there were no
> organs slashed by shrapnel. The bullet wounds were very apparent. Most
> of the victims were shot in the head and chest - from close range."
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== 2 of 2 ==
Date: Fri, Mar 24 2006 6:10 pm
From: abelincoln
bush, rummy, and cheney have made the us the largest terrorist state in
the world....
they're nothing but murdering thugs...
started a war by lying about wmd and phony ties to al qaeda...
nothing but lying murdering thugs...
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TOPIC: Consumers are bracing for the new AT&T
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.usa/browse_thread/thread/289b35b54c526254
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Fri, Mar 24 2006 3:11 pm
From: "Julia M."
For those of us who are affected by the new merger of AT&T and SBC, bleak
future is ahead of us. AT&T bad service will be coming back to torture us.
AT&T's shameful records on customer service will be a huge concern to
customers who have been serviced by SBC. The devil is back. And this time
it's gotten fatter. Expect more chaos, burdensome bureaucratic culture,
rude representatives, intentional mis-billing, and huge rip-offs. For
those current employees, expect massive layoff. It's all about money and
power. The new monopoly will undo all the efforts made to improve customer
services.
In a bigger picture, since the Repbulicans take control of the government,
mega-mergers have pushed this country closer towards dictactorship, under
which, a single corporation will dictate how we live and die. We'll be
enslaved by evil tyrant, who thinks of himself as god. We're not there yet.
But if we continue to take a passive role and allow apathy to control our
lives, we do not deserve the freedom and democracy fought so hard and paid
so dearly by people before us. Are we a bunch of cowards?
Fight against the evil power of mega-corporations like AT&T and
Exxon/Mobil. With the installations of idiots like Bush Jr., mega
corporations think they are above the law. Look at what Halliburton has
done with our tax dollars. They "mis-charged" the government (our money)
and get away with it because the dickhead Cheney is holding all the buttons
in this corrupt Bush administration.
There are courageous and heroic people in America. But the majority of us
are drugged to the point our brains are under total influence of the force
of the dark side. Time has come for good and able people to rise up and
take back the freedom and dignity God has given to all mankind - not
exclusively given to the evil bastards mega-rich ultra-corrupt American
few.
Avoid doing business with AT&T, if all possible. Drive less and don't buy
gas from Exxon/Mobil or Shell. Conserve energy and kick out all politicans
who are in bed with mega-corporate America. These are only a few things you
can do now. Let us not be crushed by corporate America giants like Rachel
Corrie got crushed by the tyrannic and evil Israel Army.
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TOPIC: Payback is a bitch!
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.usa/browse_thread/thread/b7caf52f2439b314
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== 1 of 2 ==
Date: Fri, Mar 24 2006 11:08 pm
From: "The Voice Of Reason"
<flaviaR@verizon.net> wrote in message news:6rJUf.14039$vy.5695@trnddc01...
>
> On 23-Mar-2006, Miriam Cohen <mimiNOgalSPAM@cox.net> wrote:
>
>> Deborah Sharavi wrote:
>>
>> > No, they come to pop out their litters in the US so that they will have
>> > "anchor babies" who will entitle them not to citizenship, but to almost
>> > two decades of welfare, subsidized housing, and free health care -- all
>> > paid for by US taxpayers.
>>
>> Your bigotry knows no bounds.
>
> Nominally, of course.
>
> Susan The Bigot Jew Yenta
== 2 of 2 ==
Date: Fri, Mar 24 2006 11:08 pm
From: "The Voice Of Reason"
<flaviaR@verizon.net> wrote in message news:5qJUf.14038$vy.7826@trnddc01...
> And so is J. Young.
>
> *re-plonk YET AGAIN*
>
> Susan The Bigot Jew Yenta
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