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| OREO 07 06 08 <html> <head> <title>OREO 07 06 08</title> </head> <body> <b> <pre> ` ` OREO 07 06 08 ` ` Newsstories of interest: ` ** = Important [in this edition: 1 ] ` MH = Misleading Headline [in this edition: 1 ] ` ` ` 1 DISORDER ` ` ==== ` Lithuania: Attacks [on some 300 Web sites] Focused on Host- ing Company [Hostex] ` "sites were defaced after Lithuania passed a law prohibit- ing the public display of symbols dating from the Soviet Union era, as well as the playing of the Soviet national anthem." ` LET'S INVESTIGATE! ` (1) According to the newsstory, "Lithuania" in the head- line = "Lithuania's Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT)" ` CERT Coordination Center: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CERT_Coordination_Center ` (a) "The CERT/CC is not to be confused with United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT)" ` (b) "The CERT/CC is run by the federally funded Pittsburgh based Software Engineering Institute (SEI) at Carnegie Mellon University." ` ` (2) ` Software Engineering Institute | SEI Partner Network: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_Engineering_Institute#SEI_Partner_Network ` "The network currently consists of nearly 250 partner or- ganizations worldwide." ` Software Engineering Institute | Focus of Progressive Protests: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_Engineering_Institute#Focus_of_Progressive_Protests ` "SEI has been a frequent site of anti-war movement and peace movement protests since its construction began, many of which have been organized by Pittsburgh's Thomas Merton Center." ` ` (3) continuing (1)(b) with an alphabet-soup shift from CERT to CSIRT ` National Computer Security Incident Response Teams: ` http://www.cert.org/csirts/national/contact.html ` "The following CSIRTs have responsibility for an economy or a country. ` *** ` Lithuania (LT) ` LITNET CERT ` http://cert.litnet.lt/ ` ***" ` In English-- ` http://cert.litnet.lt/index_en.html ` ` (4) ` CSIRT Description for LITNET CERT: ` http://cert.litnet.lt/CSIRT_descr-en.html ` Under "3.3 Sponsorship and/or Affiliation"-- ` "LITNET CERT is funded by LITNET - Academic and Research Network in Lithuania.
LITNET CERT is affiliated with FIRST, Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams, since 2003. LITNET CERT maintains affiliations with various CSIRTs around the world on an [>] as needed basis." ` (5) ` About LITNET: ` http://www.litnet.lt/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=24&Itemid=26 ` "Academic and Research Network in Lithuania (LITNET) is an association of Academic research and [>] other non-profit organizations. The members of this association use, manage and develop the network. ` "The highest governing body of LITNET is the LITNET Board whose structure and regulations are confirmed by the Mini- stry of Science and Education in Lithuania. The LITNET Board coordinates the development and the management of the network. ` "The LITNET Network Operating Center (NOC) carries out... network activity. LITNET NOC is located in the Kaunas Uni- versity of Technology." ` "LITNET gets financial support from Ministry of Science and Education. ` LITNET takes part in several international support programs and projects which are financed by [>] external funds." ` LITNET Topology: ` http://www.litnet.lt/litnet/schema.gif ` ` (6) ` GÉANT: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%89ANT ` "the main European multi-gigabit computer network for re- search and education purposes." ` "It currently has gigabit links to North America and Japan." ` "National research and education networks connected to GÉANT are: ` *** ` Lithuania's LITNET ` ***" ` ` (7) back to (1)(a) ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CERT_Coordination_Center ` "CERT/CC is not to be confused with United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT)..., however the two organisations do work closely together and cross reference each other." ` ` LET'S CONCLUDE! ` Superpower-funded Software Engineering Institute with help from US-CERT and from select non-profit organizations is capable of inducing LITNET to create fake cyber attacks. ` After all, ` http://www.litnet.lt/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=25&Itemid=28 ` " 2,5 [= 2.5] Gbit/s link connects LITNET to GÉANT." ` "A second high capacity [link] is urgently required." ` That takes $$$$. ` ==== ` and ` Europe drafts law to disconnect suspected filesharers ` http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/06/europe_drafts_law_to_disconnect_filesharers/ ` "through this legislation European ISPs could [duh] also be mandated to block legitimate traffic in an effort to 'prevent' illegitimate traffic slipping by" ` AH, WHAT SLY DOGS THEY ARE! ` ` ` Americans' unhappy birthday: 'Too much wrong right now' ` http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Americas-Bad-Mood.html?pagewanted=all ` "Media reports noting that the world isn't rallying around U.S. policies...build frustration." ` Superpower policies? THE HIDDEN HAND POLICY is one-- ` Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Friday, 4 July 2008 ` http://www.albasrah.net/en_articles_2008/0708/iraqiresistancereport_040708.htm ` Item 6: Pictures surface of Iraqi [puppet] regime massacre of Jaysh al-Mahdi fighters in Karbala’ last year ` "the National Alliance for Tribes of Iraq...demanded an investigation of the slaughter. ` The General Secretary of the Alliance, Shaykh ‘Isam Al Bu Hilalah, said that the executions took place last year af- ter a number of armed men turned themselves in voluntarily in compliance with demands by the Iraqi [puppet] regime and after their ammunition had been exhausted. ` Bu Hilalah went on to say that the [puppet] government agencies immediately ordered their execution on the main street in the al-‘Askari neighborhood of the city in full view of local residents" ` ` ` Secretive Agency Under the Spotlight | Chief Tries to Repair CIA as Scrutiny Grows ` http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/04/AR2008070402579_pf.html ` "Hayden opposes many of the specific measures sought by lawmakers" ` SPECIFIC MEASURES WILL NOT DO ` THIS IS A *SYSTEMIC* MATTER ` See PoliticalEssays | New Investigation | August 26, 2007 ` http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PoliticalEssays/message/965 ` ` NO ILLUSIONS: THE CIA MUST BE ABOLISHED ROOT AND BRANCH! ` ROOT includes The Superpower's National Security Council ` ` ` Post-9/11 Dragnet Turns Up Surprises | Biometrics Link Foreign Detainees To Arrests in U.S. ` http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/05/AR2008070501831_pf.html ` "DETAINEES" = NEW KIND OF SUPERPOWER MERCENARY ` ` ` 2 AFRICA ` ` Gambia leader validates Mugabe's re-election ` http://www.afrol.com/articles/29701 ` "a number of African governments, who believed that the West's push for a regime change in the Southern African country would derail the gains of the liberation struggle, remain supportive to...Mugabe." ` "elections 'cannot be free and fair' in an atmosphere in which external forces back [an] opposition principally to destabilise a country through attacks on the ruling party supporters as well as use NGOs [to] influence polls." ` Yahya Jammeh [President of The Gambia]: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahya_Jammeh ` ` ` 3 ASIA ` ` THE BU$H PLAN (PALESTINE) ` Israel Blocks West Bank Village Over Protests ` http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/world/international-palestinians-israel-barrier.html ` "protests against the construction of a West Bank barrier deemed illegal by the World Court." ` Ni'lin: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ni%27lin ` ` ` THE BU$H PLAN (IRAQ) ` MH Despair Drives Suicide Attacks by Iraqi Women ` Rather, Hatred of The Superpower Drives Suicide Attacks by Iraqi Women ` http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/05/world/middleeast/05diyala.html?pagewanted=all ` "The women who become suicide bombers often have lost close male relatives —-a husband, a brother, a son-— in fighting" ` ` At root of most wildfires, by far: People ` http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Wildfires-Fire-Starters.html ` "People caused more than 73,000 wildfires that burned more than 5,300 square miles in 2007, according to the National Interagency Fire Center" ` ` Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Thursday, 3 July 2008 ` http://www.albasrah.net/en_articles_2008/0708/iraqiresistancereport_030708.htm ` From bottom: Item 3 | Iraqi [puppet] government police find downed American spy plane ` ` ` THE BU$H PLAN (AFGHANISTAN) ` Aghan official says US strikes killed 22 civilians [wound- ing 7] ` http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080705/ap_on_re_as/afghan_violence ` "The U.S. military said" "The province's governor said" ` ` Gunmen shoot dead Afghan member of [puppet] parliament ` http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSISL6122920080705?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews&sp=true ` "Ten [puppet] parliamentarians have been killed since the Afghan [puppet] assembly was set up in 2005." ` ` Editorial | Afghan Escalation | Every year, the number of troops grows --and so do enemy attacks ` Enemy? Emirate of Afghanistan troops defending their land. ` http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/05/AR2008070501360.html ` ` UN to urge revamp of Afghan aid ` http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7491825.stm ` "an aid effort that many think has been missing the mark, when winning people over to the government, and keeping the Taleban at bay, is so vital for the future" ` SUPERPOWER-STYLE AID = SOCIOCIDE ` ` ` THE BU$H PLAN (IRAN) ` Interview With Iranian Presidential Adviser Mojtaba Samareh Hashemi ` http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/05/AR2008070501558_pf.html ` Council for Spreading Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's Thoughts: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_for_Spreading_Mahmoud_Ahmadinejad%27s_Thoughts ` "The members include: ` *** ` Mojtaba Samareh Hashemi (advisor to the president) ` ***" ` and ` Iran's Leaders Divided on U.S. | Recent Contradictory Remarks Illustrate Debate Over Relations ` http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/05/AR2008070501402_pf.html ` Interview & "newsstory" to be read with circumspection. ` ` ` DEMOCRATIC PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF KOREA ` DPRK Foreign Ministry Spokesman on Implementation of Agree- ment Adopted by Six-Party Talks ` July 5, 2008 | Item 1 ` http://www.kcna.co.jp/index-e.htm ` Note that what's being talked about is "denuclearization of the whole Korean Peninsula." ` ` ` INDIA ` N.D.Jayaprakash | ** The NPT as a Roadblock to Disarmament | Forty Years Onward and Downward ` http://www.counterpunch.org/jayaprakash07062008.html ` NPT = Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty ` "Its worse feature was that it succeeded in diverting attention away from the goal of general and complete disarmament. ` Under the cover of the NPT, both USA and [post-1956] USSR unleashed a mindless nuclear arms race and were ...equally guilty of perpetrating a fraud on humanity. ` It is high time that the essence of the McCloy-Zorin Accord of 1961 and the Rajiv Gandhi Action Plan of 1988 are resurrected and the issue of general and com- plete disarmament brought back as the central agenda of the UN." ` ` ` Samajwadi Party undecided [?] on supporting Congress ` http://in.news.yahoo.com/139/20080705/816/tnl-samajwadi-party-undecided-on-support.html ` "the party's General Secretary Amar Singh said that no decision has been taken as yet." ` However-- ` "We'll do anything to combat communalism. L K Advani is a greater threat to us than George Bush. America and imperi- alism is better than the Bharatiya Janata Party's communal- ism." ` Amar Singh (politician): ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amar_Singh_%28politician%29 ` Abdul Kalam: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._P._J._Abdul_Kalam ` Om Prakash Chautala: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Om_Prakash_Chautala ` Lal Krishna Advani: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L_K_Advani ` ` ` 22 perish in incessant rains in [Uttar Pradesh state] ` http://in.news.yahoo.com/20/20080705/1416/tnl-22-perish-in-incessant-rains-in-up.html ` "cattle also perished in widespread rains which submerged low-lying areas in several districts raising fears of water- borne diseases." ` Uttar Pradesh: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uttar_Pradesh ` ` ` JAPAN ` Several thousand anti-G8 protesters rally in Japan ` http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUST36823520080705?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews&sp=true ` "one-and-a-half hour march by Japanese and foreign acti- vists, citizen groups and non-governmental organizations" in Sapporo, Hokkaido ` "A Reuters cameraman was taken away by police" ` PUPPET-JAPAN NEEDS TO KICK OUT THE SUPERPOWER ` Image:The Location Sapporo.png: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:The_Location_Sapporo.png ` ` ` MALAYSIA ` Malaysian opposition raises alarm at plan to use army to keep order ` http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D91NM4880&show_article=1 ` "What has caused...the concern is a joint exercise between the police and the army that began last Wednesday and is to end next Monday." "to prevent the people from holding public rallies" ` ` ` REPUBLIC OF KOREA ` New mass protest against [>] govt, US beef in SKorea ` http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080705115149.ipkpoz4x&show_article=1 ` "Tens of thousands of South Koreans Saturday called for the scrapping of US beef imports and [>] the resignation of President Lee Myung-Bak in the latest of a series of mass protests in Seoul." ` ` ` THAILAND ` Insurgents Kill 3 in Thailand’s South ` http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-Thailand-Southern-Violence.html ` "The cafe was frequented by police and soldiers" "despite the presence in the south of nearly 40,000 police and sol- diers. Drive-by shootings and bombings occur almost daily." ` Amphoe [= district] Raman: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amphoe_Raman ` ` ` YEMEN ` Yemen blast 'kills five people' ` http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7491295.stm ` "happened at a post office" "The government and rebels had agreed [?] a ceasefire six months ago but fighting resumed earlier this year." ` FAKE PEACE DEALS ` ` ` 4 EUROPE ` ` POLAND ` Poland Rejects U.S. Missile Shield Offer ` http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/world/international-shield-poland-usa.html ` "first time...Poland has said 'no' to the U.S." ` GETTING TO "NO" THE SUPERPOWER ` does wonders for one's self-confidence. ` ` ` RUSSIAN FEDERATION ` New Cable Linking Japan, Russia Goes Into Service ` http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20080704/tc_pcworld/147958 ` "The Hokkaido-Sakhalin Cable System (HSCS) runs between the two islands, Japan's Hokkaido and Russia's Sakhalin, and has a capacity of 640G bps ([giga] bits per second)." ` "provides a back-up route between Asia and Europe should a problem develop on existing undersea cables." ` ` Speech at the Celebration of Astana's 10th anniversary ` http://www.kremlin.ru/eng/text/speeches/2008/07/05/2127_type82914type127286_203676.shtml ` "the fact that in the 1990s a boundary line was drawn be- tween our countries [Kazakhstan and Russian Federation] does not mean...that the hearts of our people were divi- ded. It has not changed our open and cordial relations with each other." ` IMPERIAL RUSSIA ` Astana | As Kazakhstan's new capital: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astana#As_Kazakhstan.27s_new_capital ` ` ` UK ` Royal police lose fortune in betting ring ` http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article4276488.ece ` "A key member of the syndicate disclosed that armed offi- cers used police cars to courier tens of thousands of pounds in cash winnings between the palaces [Buckingham Palace and St James’s Palace] while on duty." ` ` Iraqi torture victims slam UK 'contempt' ` http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/jul/06/military.iraq ` "only Corporal Donald Payne...was convicted of inhumane treatment of a prisoner. However,...Payne has now been released from prison and is living with his family in the north of England after setting up his own business." ` EU NEEDS TO KICK OUT UK ` ` ` 5 LATAM ` ` CUBA ` Reflections of Fidel | The true story and the challenge of the Cuban journalists ` http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2008/julio/vier4/28reflex-i.html ` ` ` PANAMA ` Panama says no to U.S. military base ` http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/04/AR2008070401950.html ` GETTING TO "NO" THE SUPERPOWER ` does wonders for one's self-confidence. ` ` ` 6 SUPERPOWER ` ` FBI probe latest setback for beleaguered Detroit ` http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080705/ap_on_re_us/detroit_struggles ` "Auto industry cutbacks, double-digit unemployment and one of the nation's highest home foreclosure rates have left Detroit with a dreary economic future." ` ` __SITUATION SUMMARY__ ` Companies begin quest for oil, gas off Florida ` http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080705/ap_on_bi_ge/drilling_off_florida ` ` ` 7 $$$$ ` ` Gas prices hit another high for holiday weekend ` http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080704/ap_on_bi_ge/gas_prices ` "a year ago you could gas up for $2.95 a gallon." ` ` As Gas Prices Soar, Elderly Face Cuts in Aid ` http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/05/us/05elderly.html?pagewanted=all ` "after two deliveries the [hot] meals stopped because gas prices had made the delivery too expensive." ` ` Long a Reliable Profit Source, Dividends Start to Crumble ` http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/04/AR2008070400085.html ` THE GREAT TRUMPET IS ANNOUNCING THE END ` ` ` 8 MORE on "Lithuania: Attacks [on some 300 Web sites] Focused on Hosting Company [Hostex]" ` (1) ` Eesti Telekom subsidiary purchases IT-provider MicroLink: ` http://www.telekom.ee/index.php?lk=1004&uudis=202 ` "MicroLink operations in Lithuania [will be sold] to Lie- tuvos Telekomas AB." ` Teo LT [Lietuvos Telekomas]: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teo_LT ` "owned by Telia Sonera group" ` TeliaSonera: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telia_Sonera ` TeliaSonera AB Company Profile: ` http://biz.yahoo.com/ic/44/44746.html ` (2) ` About The Company [Hostex]: ` http://www.hostex.net/about/ ` "HOSTEX equipment is located at the Exodus Internet Data Center in New York" ` Cable & Wireless | Recent events timeline: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_and_Wireless#Recent_events_timeline ` "November 2001 — Cable and Wireless USA purchased bankrupt co-location provider Exodus Communications for $800 million dollars, the operations were merged with the previously ac- quired Digital Island and renamed Cable and Wireless Ameri- ca." ` and ` March 2004 — SAVVIS Communications Corporation purchased Cable and Wireless America for $155 million US Dollars via the Chapter 11 creditor protection process" ` ` Colocation centre: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colocation_centre ` (3) ` SAVVIS: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAVVIS%2C_Inc. ` "In 1999 SAVVIS was acquired by Bridge Information Systems" ` "In 2004 the company purchased the assets of Cable & Wire- less America which included 15 data centers and the custom- ers of Exodus Communications, the Tier-1 Internet backbone" ` and ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAVVIS%2C_Inc.#Spam_allegations ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAVVIS%2C_Inc.#CEO_and_AMEX_lap_dance_charges ` ` Tier 1 network | List of Tier 1 IPv4 ISPs: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tier_1_network#List_of_Tier_1_IPv4_ISPs ` "The following networks were Tier 1 Networks and may still be, but there is some question as to whether they are now paying settlements to one or more of their peers: ` SAVVIS [AS Number] 3561" ` "The following networks are Transit-Free Networks, even though they have settlement based or paid peering with one or more other networks: ` TeliaSonera [AS Number] 1299 [Settlement Peer] Verizon Business/as701" ` 4) ` Reuters | Investments: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reuters#Investments ` "Bridge Information Systems - On September 28, 2001, [Reu- ters] completed the largest acquisition in its history [by] acquir[ing] certain businesses and assets of Bridge Infor- mation Systems Inc." ` Bridge Information Systems, Inc.: ` http://www.alvarezandmarsal.com/europe/en/Bridge.htm ` "The US business was sold to Reuters, while the European business was sold to Moneyline / Telerate." ` ` ` ==== ` ` Oreo Archive: ` http://groups.yahoo.com/group/O-r-e-o ` ` </pre> </b> </body> </html> | | |
| OREO 07 04 08 <html> <head> <title>OREO 07 04 08</title> </head> <body> <b> <pre> ` ` OREO 07 04 08 ` ` Newsstories of interest: ` ** = Important [in this edition: 1 ] ` MH = Misleading Headline [in this edition: ] ` ` ` 1 DISORDER ` ` __MISS PETTIGROAN DIES FOR A DAY # 2__ ` ** Firings and Dismay After [Esmin Elizabeth Green]'s Death at Hospital ` http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/02/AR2008070202799.html ` "the hospital's records contrasted with the account cap- tured on video." ` "The agency [the Health and Hospitals Corp] that runs... [New York] city's public hospitals responded by firing six staff members involved --including a director of psychiatry and an on-duty physician" ` Mayor Bloomberg: "Does it say anything about our society?" ` YOU BETCHA! ` Executive director of the NY Civil Liberties Union: "This is evidence of a ` profound [wazzat? PROFOUND] ` lack of respect for the humanity of people." ` ` THE SUPERPOWER'S PERMANENT WAR ON THE WORLD IS THE RESULT OF ITS EVIL PEOPLE'S USUALLY UNSEEN NATURE! ` ` ` Editorial | The Imprecise Meaning of War ` http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/03/opinion/03thu3.html ` "companies ripping off taxpayers in...[The Superpower's] Iraq and Afghanistan wars may never be fully prosecuted. This is because the...conflicts are not declared wars." ` AH, WHAT A SLY DOG BU$H IS ! ` ` ` The Struggles of Detroit Ensnare Its Workers ` http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/03/business/03auto.html?ref=business&pagewanted=all ` "“It’s very scary. We’d been led to believe we’d have a future. Now they pull the rug out from under us." ` and ` Steelworkers Merge With British Union [Unite the Union] ` http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/03/us/03union.html ` Why? "the growing power of global capital." ` Unite the Union: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unite_the_Union ` ` ` Lawsuit Leads to Release of Immigrant | In Jail, She Was Denied Timely Medical Care ` http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/02/AR2008070203505.html ` See OREO 05 11 08 | DISORDER | __MAJOR EXPOSE__ | "System of Neglect | As Tighter Immigration Policies Strain Fede- ral Agencies, The Detainees in Their Care Often Pay a Heavy Cost" ` http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/O-r-e-o/message/408 ` ` ` Secret report: biofuel caused food crisis | Internal World Bank study delivers blow to energy drive ` http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/jul/03/biofuels.renewableenergy ` "Biofuels have forced global food prices up by 75% --far more than previously estimated-- according to a confiden- tial World Bank report obtained by the Guardian." ` "Senior development sources believe the report, completed in April, has not been published to avoid embarrassing... Bush." ` THE BANK, LIKE UNO AND IMF, IS A TOOL OF THE SUPERPOWER ` It knows which side of the bread the butter's on. ` ` ` 2 AFRICA ` ` DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO ` International court orders Congolese warlord freed ` http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080702/D91LV8NG1.html ` "The [UNO] gave prosecutors many documents only on the con- dition they remain confidential." ` "Prosecutors acknowledge that about half of the more than 200 documents they are withholding contain evidence that could help support Lubanga's innocence or mitigate his guilt." ` "a fair trial of the accused [Thomas Lubanga] is impossible, and the entire justification for his detention has been re- moved." ` ` THE UNO, LIKE IMF AND BANK, IS A TOOL OF THE SUPERPOWER ` It knows which side of the bread the butter's on. ` ` ` 3 ASIA ` ` THE BU$H PLAN (IRAQ) ` [House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform] Ques- tions State Dept. Role in Iraq Oil Deal[s] ` http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/03/world/middleeast/03kurdistan.html?pagewanted=all ` "Disclosure of...contracts has provided substantial fuel to critics of the Iraq war, both in the United States and abroad, who contend that the enormous Iraqi oil reserves were a motivation for the American-led invasion —-an asser- tion the administration has repeatedly denied." ` NO BLOOD FOR OIL ` IT IS TO LAUGH ! ` ` A ` Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Monday, 30 June 2008 ` http://www.albasrah.net/en_articles_2008/0708/iraqiresistancereport_300608.htm ` ` B ` Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Tuesday, 1 July 2008 ` http://www.albasrah.net/en_articles_2008/0708/iraqiresistancereport_010708.htm ` Item 3: US troops reportedly execute two west-Baghdad youths in front of their family ` "troops belonging to a unit called the 'Dirty Division' raided the home where the youths ` ‘Uthman ‘Abd al-Wahid al-Qadiri ` and his cousin ` Harith Zuhayr ` lived ` late on the afternoon of Saturday, 28 June." ` ` Dirty Division? ` See Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Saturday, 2 April 2005 | Item 3 | "Battle rages in al-Hadithah late Friday afternoon" ` "Fierce fighting broke out in al-Hadithah at 5pm Friday afternoon between Iraqi Resistance forces and a detach- ment of US Marines known as the 'dirty division'" ` "[An Iraqi Resistance source] said, “just so that they know that we’re not afraid of their names, like the ‘dirty division[,]’ we today presented them with 16 of their soldiers dead or wounded." ` ` C ` Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Wednesday, 2 July 2008 ` http://www.albasrah.net/en_articles_2008/0708/iraqiresistancereport_020708.htm ` Item 5 | US rockets Baghdad neighborhood [al-‘Amil] late Tuesday night ` "the attack...roused local residents to take to the streets to protest the American assault. Local residents marched to the US base [in the neighborhood] chanting angry slogans and denouncing the attack. The US responded with an apolo- gy" ` ` ` THE BU$H PLAN (AFGHANISTAN) ` Pentagon extends tour of Marines in Afghanistan ` http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080703/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_afghanistan_marines ` "after insisting for months the unit would come home on time." ` ` Attacks, bombs kill 14 in Afghanistan ` http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/world/4761773/attacks-bombs-kill-14-afghanistan ` "attackers tossed a grenade into a [puppet] police post in Panjwayi district...Kandahar province and then opened fire into the building, killing eight [puppet] policemen" "two are still missing" ` And "three [puppet] policemen were killed and two were wounded...in the...province of Ghazni when their vehicle was" IEDed. ` Image:Kandahar districts.png: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Kandahar_districts.png ` Ghazni Province: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghazni_Province ` ` ` THE BU$H PLAN (PAKISTAN) ` Offensive in Tribal Area Criticized by Key Pakistani Poli- ticians ` http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/02/AR2008070203037_pf.html ` "In recent weeks, Pakistan had been attempting to broker peace deals in the same region that its forces are now attacking." ` FAKE PEACE DEALS ` ` ` REPUBLIC OF KOREA ` Candlelight Actions Unabated in Seoul ` July 3, 2008 | From bottom: Item 2 ` http://www.kcna.co.jp/index-e.htm ` "More than 50,000 Catholic believers and citizens from all walks of life in south Korea launched a candlelight action against the American beef import in Seoul on June 30." ` "At least 100 priests of the Catholic Priests' Association for Justice went on a hunger strike from that night after pitching tents at the plaza [of the City Office]." ` ` ` 4 EUROPE ` ` BELARUS ` Dozens injured in bomb blast at Belarus concert ` http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/world/4761242/dozens-injured-bomb-blast-belarus-concert ` "there was no immediate indication who was responsible for the attack at the Independence Day concert late Thursday." ` However, the last paragraph of the newsstory indicates who is ultimately responsible: ` "The United States regards Belarus as 'the last dictator- ship in Europe.'" ` ` ` RUSSIAN FEDERATION ` Lawyers Press Russian Case Against a U.S. Bank [Bank of New York Mellon] ` http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/04/business/worldbusiness/04bony.html ` "bank...failed to supervise suspect Russian accounts at a time when the rush to privatize formerly state-owned assets ...resulted in widespread criticism of insider deals and [duh] possible corruption." ` and now: ` Speech at a Meeting of the Council of Legislators [on cor- ruption] ` http://www.kremlin.ru/eng/speeches/2008/07/02/1815_type82912type84779_203503.shtml ` "It is clear that corruption in our country is a genuine, [>] systemic evil which we must fight against." ` ` ` UK ` Intelligence chief Alex Allan unconscious for four days ` http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article4266396.ece ` "does not have an intelligence background." ` THEREFORE ` "chairman of the Cabinet Office Joint Intelligence Commit- tee." ` ` ` 5 LATAM ` ` CUBA ` REFLECTIONS BY FIDEL | The McCain Tour and the Manifest Destiny of the U. S. Fourth Fleet ` http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2008/julio/mier2/reflexion.html ` ` ` 6 SUPERPOWER ` ` Utah is going to a 4-day workweek to save energy ` http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080703/ap_on_re_us/four_day_workweek ` Gov bureaucrats "will put in 10-hour days, Monday through Thursday" ` ` ` 7 $$$$ ` ` Oil surges to new highs above $145 a barrel; US pump prices at record near $4.10 a gallon ` http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080703/oil_prices.html ` ` Asia stocks edge lower as oil above $145 ` http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/world/4761824/asia-stocks-edge-lower-oil-145 ` "Japan's Nikkei share average fell for a 12th day in a row, the longest string of losses in 54 years" ` ` Employers Cut Workers for a Sixth Month [in a Row] ` http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/04/business/04jobs.html ` "62,000 jobs disappeared in June" ` "Businesses cut 52,000 more workers in May and April than the government first thought [= reported]" ` ` Eyes on Inflation, European [Central] Bank Raises Rate ` http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/04/business/worldbusiness/04euro.html ` "Central banks in Sweden and Norway also raised rates this week" ` ` How Lehman Brothers Veered Off Course | Investment Bank Prided Itself on Real Estate Expertise ` http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/02/AR2008070203343_pf.html ` "Because it prided itself on real estate expertise --it helped popularize real estate-backed securities in the early 1970s-- and investment prowess, Lehman risked far bigger proportions of its own capital doing deals than its major competitors did." ` FOOLS AND MONEY ARE SOON PARTED ` ` ` ==== ` ` Oreo Archive: ` http://groups.yahoo.com/group/O-r-e-o ` ` </pre> </b> </body> </html>
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OREO 07 01 08 ` ` Newsstories of interest: ` ** = Important [in this edition: ] ` MH = Misleading Headline [in this edition: ] ` ` ` 1 DISORDER ` ` Former Abu Ghraib detainees sue US contractors | Washington | 06 30 08 ` http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jun/30/usa.usforeignpolicy1?gusrc=rss&feed=worldnews ` CACI | Abu Ghraib Controversy: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CACI#Abu_Ghraib_Controversy ` L-3 Communications: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-3_Communications ` ` ` __THE RUSE OF LAW__ ` Canadian Loses U.S. Appeal In Syrian Torture Case | NY | 06 30 08 ` http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/news/news-usa-arar.html ` "Arar failed to establish that the federal court had juris- diction to hear his complaint." ` ` ` Court Is Skeptical of U.S. Evidence in Guantánamo Case | Washington | 07 01 08 ` http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/01/washington/01gitmo.html ` “I have said it thrice: What I tell you three times is true." --Lewis Carroll ` ` ` Al-Arian Refuses to Enter Plea on Contempt Charges | Alexan- dria | 06 30 08 ` http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/30/AR2008063001411.html ` "The former University of South Florida computer science professor has been jailed since 2003." ` Sami Al-Arian: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sami_Al-Arian ` ` ` Hoarding Nations Drive Food Costs Ever Higher | Bangkok, Thailand | 06 30 08 ` http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/30/business/worldbusiness/30trade.html?ref=business&pagewanted=all ` "Since 1980, even as trade in services and in manufactured goods has tripled, adjusting for inflation, trade in food has barely increased." ` FLUCK FOOD ` ` ` Missouri Town Finds Drug Agent Is Really an Impostor | Gerald MO | 07 01 08 ` http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/01/us/01imposter.html?hp=&pagewanted=all ` "Busts began. Houses were ransacked. People, in handcuffs on their front lawns, named names." ` See my comment under AFRICA | ALGERIA below. ` ` ` 2 AFRICA ` ` WEST AFRICA ` Counternarcotics Effort In West Africa Widens Pentagon's Purview | Washington | 06 30 08 ` http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/29/AR2008062901787.html ` "The Defense Department already has a full menu of support for African governments, including training for top younger military officers, military assistance and foreign military sales support, and more recently, a new range of counter- terrorism, troop-training and construction programs." ` PERMANENT WAR | PERMANENT SUBVERSION ` ` ` ALGERIA ` In Algeria, Insurgency Gains a Lifeline From Al Qaeda | Naciria, Algeria | 07 01 08 ` http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/01/world/africa/01algeria.html?hp=&pagewanted=all# ` and ` Al-Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Qaeda_Organization_in_the_Islamic_Maghreb ` ` Both newsstory and article should be read with circumspec- tion. ` Why? ` The Superpower created a worldwide rumpus with its invented "al-Qaeda." Copycats sprang up! Some played into The Su- perpower's hands (Al-Qaeda in Iraq with its "Islamic State of Iraq"). Others are serious enemies of The Superpower. ` It's all so complicated... ` THERE ARE NO PRETTY PICTURES IN THE NEW WORLD DISORDER ` See above "Missouri Town Finds Drug Agent Is Really an Im- postor" under DISORDER ` ` ` SUDAN ` Plenty and penury, action and inertia in Darfur | Zam Zam Camp | 06 30 08 ` http://au.news.yahoo.com/080630/15/17hsi.html ` "These people [in Zam-Zan Camp] used to get over 2,000 ca- lories a day. Now they survive on 1,400 calories as aid agencies cut rations because of attacks on food convoys." ` SUPERPOWER STARVATION WARFARE ` ` ` 3 ASIA ` ` THE BU$H PLAN (IRAQ) ` Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Sunday, 29 June 2008 ` http://www.albasrah.net/en_articles_2008/0608/iraqiresistancereport_290608.htm ` Item 1 | Chief of Intelligence Operations in al-Basrah shot dead in Baghdad attack Saturday evening ` ` Saddam 'fixation' led to post-invasion Iraq chaos | Wash- ington | 06 30 08 ` http://au.news.yahoo.com/080629/21/17hq9.html ` "The almost 700 page [Army] report concludes that mili- tary and civilian leaders...did not prepare for the next stage. ` It...also raised concerns that long and repeated deploy- ments from the Army National Guard and Reserve may not be sustainable." ` ` Program in Iraq against al-Qaida faces uncertainty | Rad- waniyah, Iraq | 06 29 08 ` http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080629/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_sons__future ` ` U.S. Advised Iraqi Ministry on Oil Deals ` http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/30/world/middleeast/30contract.html?ref=business&pagewanted=all ` See OREO 06 25 08 | ASIA | THE BU$H PLAN (IRAQ) | __DUHS OF THE DAY__ | "Bush administration to leave Iraq oil deals alone" ` THE LIAR SCORES ZERO AGAIN ` ` ` THE BU$H PLAN (AFGHANISTAN) ` UN official: Afghan civilian deaths up 60 percent | Kabul, Afghanistan | 06 29 08 ` http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AFGHANISTAN?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-06-29-16-09-15 ` "U.N. food convoys have suffered 11 armed attacks this year, including one on Sunday in which several trucks were burned" ` FOOD-BRIBERY IS A FORM OF SOCIOCIDE ` ` ` THE BU$H PLAN (PAKISTAN) ` __AN ORGY OF FINGER-POINTING__ ` Amid U.S. Policy Disputes, Qaeda Grows in Pakistan ` http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/30/washington/30tribal.html?pagewanted=all ` ` ` 4 EUROPE ` ` Polish president refuses to sign EU reform treaty ` http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/world/4746100/polish-president-refuses-sign-eu-reform-treaty ` "saying it was pointless after Irish voters rejected it in a referendum last month." ` ` ` 5 LATAM ` ` CUBA ` Reflections of Fidel | Salvador Allende: His Example Lives On ` http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2008/junio/lun30/reflexiones.html ` ` ` ARGENTINA ` Mercosur summit tackles EU immigration law, food crisis | Tucuman, Argentina | 06 30 08 ` http://au.news.yahoo.com/080630/19/17hrv.html ` "The Mercosur Parliament...condemned the EU['s new immigra- tion] measures in a unanimous statement by its 66 members." ` Mercosur: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercosur ` "a Regional Trade Agreement...among Argentina, Brazil, Para- guay and Uruguay" ` ` ` __DIRTY WAR__ ` CHILE ` Double Life Term For Pinochet Secret Police Chief | Santi- ago, Chile | 06 30 08 ` http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/world/international-chile-dictatorship.html ` "Only about 24 security officials have been convicted of crimes, nearly [>] two decades after the dictatorship end- ed, while nearly 500 are under investigation." `` Manuel Contreras: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Contreras ` ` ` __DIRTY WAR__ ` PERU ` Peru's Fujimori Innocent, Says [His] Convicted Spy Chief | Lima, Peru | 06 30 08 ` http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/world/international-peru-fujimori-montesinos.html ` "Fujimori, 69, faces up to 30 years in prison. Though his political career has ended, analysts say he his positioning his daughter, Keiko, a prominent member of Congress, to run for the presidency in 2011." ` THE TRASH HAVE ELECTIONS DOWN PAT ` Vladimiro Montesinos: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimiro_Montesinos ` ` ` 6 SUPERPOWER ` ` Local and national outbreak of grave robbing | St Louis | 06 30 08 ` http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/illinoisnews/story/B50ADC454A8C8B05862574780009D698?OpenDocument ` "it's mostly the bronze markers and flower vases that draw their attention." ` ` Death of Pr. George's Suspect Is Ruled a Homicide | Laurel | 06 30 08 ` http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/30/AR2008063001156_pf.html ` "19-year-old man...was found unresponsive yesterday in a [solitary] jail cell less than 36 hours after he was charg- ed with killing a Prince George's County police officer" ` ` 45 People Are Detained in Md. Immigration Raid | Annapolis | 06 30 08 ` http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/30/AR2008063000604.html ` "[Anne Arundel County Executive Leopold] cut county grants to nonprofit agencies that offered social services to Spanish-speaking county residents, both legal and illegal." ` ` ` 7 $$$$ ` ` Oil rises above $141 on weak dollar | Perth, Australia | 06 30 08 ` http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080630/bs_nm/markets_oil_dc ` and ` Leading figures from the oil world gather in Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 06 30 08 ` http://au.news.yahoo.com/080630/19/17htj.html ` "leading corporate [>] and political figures...are attending the four-day World Petroleum Congress" ` as ` "a surge in oil prices Friday...[reached] record levels be- yond 142 dollars a barrel." ` World Petroleum Congress: ` http://www.19wpc.com/ ` and ` Oil Prices Hit $143 Before Falling Back | NY | 06 30 08 ` http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/business/AP-Oil-Prices.html ` "retail gasoline...reached a new national average of $4.086 a gallon" ` ` ` Lakshmi Mittal joins Goldman Sachs board | NY | 06 29 08 ` http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GOLDMAN_SACHS_BOARD?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-06-29-15-14-40 ` Lakshmi Mittal: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakshmi_Mittal ` Mittal Affair: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mittal_Affair ` and ` New Board Member Reflects Global Influence on Goldman | London | 06 30 08 ` http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/30/business/30goldman.html ` "the growing importance of the developing world for Wall Street’s behemoths." ` ` ` ==== ` ` Oreo Archive: ` http://groups.yahoo.com/group/O-r-e-o ` ` </pre> </b> </body> </html> | | |
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OREO 06 29 08 ` ` Newsstories of interest: ` ** = Important [in this edition: 2 ] ` MH = Misleading Headline [in this edition: 1 ] ` ` ` 1 DISORDER ` ` Scientist Is Paid Millions by U.S. in Anthrax Suit ` http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/28/washington/28hatfill.html ` "$2.825 million in cash and an annuity paying Dr. Hatfill $150,000 a year for 20 years" ` ` ` Seymour M. Hersh | Preparing the Battlefield | The Bush Administration steps up its secret moves against Iran ` http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/07/07/080707fa_fact_hersh?currentPage=all ` "the scope of the operations in Iran, which involve the Central Intelligence Agency and the Joint Special Opera- tions Command..., have now been significantly expanded" ` Joint Special Operations Command: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Special_Operations_Command ` and ` U.S. escalating covert operations against Iran --report ` http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080629/pl_nm/bush_iran_report_dc ` Jundallah [Peoples Resistant Movement of Iran] | Alleged support from the United States Government: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jundallah#Alleged_support_from_the_United_States_Government ` ` NO ILLUSIONS: THE CIA MUST BE ABOLISHED ROOT AND BRANCH! ` BRANCH includes Joint Special Operations Command ` ` See THE BU$H PLAN (IRAN) | Item 1 below. ` ` ` Area police: Black market gas could be in future ` http://www.bdtonline.com/local/local_story_179200629.html ` "When certain people want an illegal or regulated item —- guns or controlled substances, for instance-— they will find a way to obtain it" ` ` ` Guantanamo detainees made to feel like 'nomads' ` http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080627/D91IKN404.html ` "Sami al-Haj [a Sudanese journalist recently released from Gitmo] said moving detainees between [Gitmo sub-]camps and from cell to cell appeared to be part of an official policy to destabilize them. 'They were made into nomads.'" ` vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv ` A brand new code of laws is needed to deal with numerous acts not covered by the old code of laws still in effect. ` ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ` and ` Navy to keep Guantanamo base if prison closes ` http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080628/D91J65281.html ` "45-square-mile base" carved out of the living body of Cuba ` "We're not going anywhere anytime soon." ` IT IS TO LAUGH ` ` ` South African TB patients rampage ` http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080627/D91IIC300.html ` "to protest prison-like conditions." "pelted staff with stones and vandalized equipment." ` DO WE ALL HAVE "RESISTANT TB" NOW ? ` ` ` 2 AFRICA ` ` THE BU$H PLAN (SOMALIA) ` Swede, Dane kidnapped in southwestern Somalia ` http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080628/D91J25CO0.html ` "It was not immediately clear what the Swede and Dane were doing in Somalia." ` ONE GUESS ` ` ` EGYPT ` Al-Qaeda's Growing Online Offensive ` http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/23/AR2008062302135_pf.html ` This is the 2d of Craig Whitlock's two articles on com- peting media in West Asia. ` and ` Transcript | Struggling Against al-Qaeda on the Airwaves ` http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2008/06/23/DI2008062300875.html ` See OREO 06 23 08 | AFRICA | EGYPT for the 1st article. ` ` ` NIGER ` Niger Says Rebel Leader Killed In Army Operation ` http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/world/international-niger-rebels.html ` The newsstory links to MNJ's website written in French. ` To translate the homepage from French to English, enter ` http://www.m-n-j.blogspot.com/ ` in "Translate a Web Page" box at Google Translate ` http://translate.google.com/translate_t ` Niger Movement for Justice: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niger_Movement_for_Justice ` Note "See also." ` ` ` 3 ASIA ` ` THE BU$H PLAN (IRAQ) ` Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Friday, 27 June 2008 ` http://www.albasrah.net/en_articles_2008/0608/iraqiresistancereport_270608.htm ` Item 1: US transport plane makes forced landing north of Baghdad Airport Friday afternoon. ` "a [duh] technical malfunction" ` ` [National] Guard chiefs gather at posh Virgin Islands resort ` http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/27/AR2008062702786_pf.html ` "title of the event? 'Guarding Paradise with Culture and Spice.'" ` "Their spouses were along for the ride at taxpayer expense" ` Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Thomas_%28United_States_Virgin_Islands%29 ` Frenchman's Reef & Morning Star Marriott Beach Resort: ` http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/sttfr-frenchmans-reef-and-morning-star-marriott-beach-resort/ ` ` ` Iraqi Civilians Massacred by American Occupation Soldiers Near Baiji ` http://heyetnet.org/en/content/view/2963/1/ ` "The names of those killed: ` Sabah Rasheed Matrood ` Saab Rasheed Matrood ` Kamel Badr Daher ` Ali Badr Daher ` Udei Badr Daher ` Fateh Haref Nouar ` Abdul Rahman Kamel Badr" ` ` Baiji, Iraq: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baiji%2C_Iraq ` ` ` Crisis grows in Iraq over U.S. raid that killed Maliki relative ` http://www.mcclatchydc.com/251/story/42580.html ` "in the town of Janaja [Karbala province]" ` Al-Ali (tribe) | Al-Ali tribe in Iraq | Al Ali Tribe [Jana- ja] | Influential people of Al-Ali | Contemporaries ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Ali_%28tribe%29 ` "Nouri Al-Maliki, (the grandson of Mohammad Hassan Abu Al- Mahasin Al-Kerbala’ie of Albu-Muhsin family)" ` See #4 under Influential people of Al-Ali | Deceased ` ` ` Truck bomb kills 7 people north in Iraq ` http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080629/D91JM0500.html ` "including six [puppet] policemen and a member of a local group of Sunni [collaborator] volunteers" ` ` ` THE BU$H PLAN (AFGHANISTAN) ` NATO soldier killed in Afghanistan ` http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080629/D91JINP81.html ` "during a security patrol in Lashkar Gah, the capital of Helmand province." ` "June has been the deadliest month for international troops ...since the [>] U.S.-led invasion in 2001." ` ` ` THE BU$H PLAN (IRAN) ` Iran opposition group: US terror listing unjust ` http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080628/D91JB8MG0.html ` See DISORDER | Item 2 above ` ` Report: Iran to hit Israel if attacked ` http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080628/D91J42M00.html ` "Should a confrontation erupt between us and the enemy, the scope will definitely reach the oil issue." "Oil prices will dramatically increase. This is one of the factors deterring the enemy from taking military action." ` It's obvious "the enemy" = THE SUPERPOWER ` By the way-- ` "the Greek government...took part in the [Puppet-israeli] exercise" "from May 28 to June 12" ` ` ` THE BU$H PLAN (PAKISTAN) ` Taliban Imperil Pakistani City [Peshawar], a Major Hub ` http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/28/world/asia/28pstan.html?hp=&pagewanted=all ` "The government issued a statement...announcing that it was turning over security of the province directly to the army." ` ` ` DEMOCRATIC PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF KOREA ` DPRK Foreign Ministry's Spokesman on U.S. Lifting of Major Economic Sanctions against DPRK ` June 28, 2008 | Item 1 ` http://www.kcna.co.jp/index-e.htm ` ` More Evidence Proving GIs' Atrocities Unearthed ` June 28, 2008 | Item 7 ` In particular-- ` "U.S. missionaries...kill[ed] Koreans while conducting experiments on their living bodies under the signboard of 'treatment' at the 'Namsong Hospital' in Kaesong early in the 1920s." ` Horace Newton Allen [1858 - 1932]: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_Newton_Allen ` "He was instrumental to lift...[Korea]'s anti-Christianity policy to allow the influx of missionaries to evangelize, build schools and [>] other western hospitals in [Korea]" ` Other? Allen founded Kwang Hye Won hospital in Seoul in 1885. ` Yonsei University | Beginnings (1885 - 1916): ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yonsei_University#Beginnings_.281885_-_1916.29 ` and ` History [of]...Yonsei University College of Medicine: ` http://www.yuhs.or.kr/en/contents.asp?cat_no=2976 ` AND ` Lest you imagine "experiments on...living bodies" can't be so, see: ` Japan Admits Dissecting WW II POWs [= American airmen]: ` http://www.aiipowmia.com/731/vivisection.html ` This website fails to date The Baltimore Sun newsstory. ` However, the same newsstory ran in The Denver Post June 1, 1995 at page A-2. (The archive article #: DNVR 307363.) ` More generally-- ` Korea under Japanese rule: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korea_under_Japanese_rule ` ` ` INDIA ` Joan P. Mencher | The Human Right to Eat | Agro-Profiteering and Predictable Food Scarcity ` http://www.counterpunch.org/mencher06282008.html ` "Between 1968 and 1998 India's production of cereals had doubled, but between 1998 and 2008 it has gone down due to the cancellation of government support prices, which followed the advice of the World Bank and the United States economists." ` BOOBS BELIEVE ` ` ` KASHMIR / INDIA ` In a Season of Discontent, Many Protests Sweep India ` http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/29/world/asia/29india.html ` "On Saturday, the Muslim-majority [Indian-occupied] state of Jammu and Kashmir...was roiled for a sixth consecutive day by demonstrations, the region’s largest in nearly 20 years." ` "[Indian] police used tear gas and fired live ammunition into the air [?], trying to disperse the crowds" ` ` ` JAPAN ` G-8 protestors clash with police in Tokyo ` http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080629/D91JM3PG1.html ` "More than 1,000 people were involved in two rallies" ` G8: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G-8 ` ` ` THE BU$H PLAN (PHILIPPINES) ` Police defuse crude bomb [inside a shoebox] in southern Philippines ` http://au.news.yahoo.com/080629/15/17hiw.html ` "The MILF does not target civilian or non-military facil- ities" "[govt] commanders frustrated at the slow pace of peace talks were behind the recent attacks." ` Moro Islamic Liberation Front: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moro_Islamic_Liberation_Front ` Bangsamoro: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangsamoro ` Background-- ` Moro Rebellion: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moro_Rebellion ` ` ` 11 killed in Philippine clashes ` http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080629/D91JM9B00.html ` "New People's Army guerrillas attacked a police station in the town hall of Dapa and burned a cellular phone tower in nearby General Luna town" ` Surigao del Norte [province]: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surigao_del_Norte ` New People's Army: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_People%27s_Army ` ` ` REPUBLIC OF KOREA ` 15,000 Protesters Defy Government in Seoul ` http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/29/world/asia/29korea.html ` "In downtown clashes, the police fired water canons" "Pro- testers hooked hoses to fire hydrants to create their own water canons." "protesters surrounded and vandalized three police vehicles on which water cannons were mounted." ` and ` South Korea beef protests injures 200 ` http://au.news.yahoo.com/080629/2/17hjv.html ` "prolonged overnight clashes, in which 114 officers were injured, 15 of them seriously" ` ` ` 4 EUROPE ` ` CHECHNYA ` MH Militants, police slain in Russia's volatile south ` Rather, Militants, [puppet] police slain in occupied Chech- nya ` http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-Russia-Violence.html ` "four [puppet] police dead, and four...wounded." ` and ` Chechen rebels kill six in attacks ` http://au.news.yahoo.com/080629/15/17hjs.html ` "killed three policemen and three civilians" ` Civilians? COLLABORATORS ` ` ` 5 LATAM ` ` CHILE ` ** Allende Returns to [Latin America], Alarcon ` http://www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID={6FA7E6C1-4DE5-426B-B490-EB49AB2A191B}&language=EN ` "Nobody could overcome him in parliamentary debates, or beat him with ideas and arguments, or ignore his convictions and total devotion to his people, the poor, and humble." ` Salvador Allende: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_Allende ` ` Cuba Historian Remembers Allende ` http://www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID={0C368A49-EE86-41EE-8D26-B683B24843DA})&language=EN ` Eusebio Leal: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eusebio_Leal ` ` ` ECUADOR ` ** Evo Morales supports expulsion of interventionist U.S. agency from Bolivia ` http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2008/junio/vier27/Evo.html ` "decision by coca growers in the Chapare region of Cocha- bamba to expel the United States Agency for International Development" ` Chapare Province: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapare_Province ` Image: Bolivia department of cochabamba.png: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Bolivia_department_of_cochabamba.png ` ` ` MEXICO ` Mexico sees surge in killing spree ` http://au.news.yahoo.com/080629/19/17hhw.html ` "bringing to nine the law enforcement death toll in the country in 48 hours" "More than 450 police officers have been killed since December 2006" ` ` Mexicans protest border fence with trees ` http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080628/D91IR62O0.html ` "The mayor of a Texas border town attended Friday's tree planting in Piedras Negras[, Mexico]. Eagle Pass Mayor Chad Foster opposes the ongoing construction of 670 miles of border fence." ` Piedras Negras, Coahuila [state]: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piedras_Negras%2C_Coahuila ` Eagle Pass, Texas: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_Pass_%28TX%29 ` ` ` 7 $$$$ ` ` __SITUATION SUMMARY__ ` Credit scores hit by card limits ` http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080628/ap_on_bi_ge/all_business ` "some $1.2 trillion in equity and housing wealth was wiped out in the [>] first quarter alone because of plunging home values." ` ` Fighting forces get no break on fuel costs ` http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/27/AR2008062702076_pf.html ` "On July 1, the cost for refined fuel used by troops will jump from $127.68 a barrel to $170.94 _ an astounding 34 percent increase in just six months and more than double what the Pentagon was paying three years ago." ` No break? HOW ABOUT SEIZURE ` and ` A look at fuel costs paid by military units ` http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/27/AR2008062702685.html ` ` ` ==== ` ` Oreo Archive: ` http://groups.yahoo.com/group/O-r-e-o ` ` </pre> </b> </body> </html> | | |
| OREO 06 27 08 <html> <head> <title>OREO 06 27 08</title> </head> <body> <b> <pre> ` ` OREO 06 27 08 ` ` Newsstories of interest: ` ** = Important [in this edition: 2 ] ` MH = Misleading Headline [in this edition: ] ` ` ` 1 DISORDER ` ` __THE RUSE OF LAW__ ` Court: NSA can refuse to say if lawyers wiretapped ` http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/washington/AP-Domestic-Spying-Lawsuit.html ` "The NSA says even confirming the existence of such wiretaps would jeopardize national security." ` IT IS TO LAUGH ` and ` Judge Dismisses Suit Over Veteran Health Care ` http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/news/news-usa-veterans-lawsuit.html ` "Congress has...entrusted decisions regarding veterans' medical care to the discretion of the VA Secretary" ` IT IS TO CRY ` and ` Justices Cut Damages Award in Exxon Valdez Spill ` http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/26/washington/25cnd-punitive.html ` "The...spill was the worst in American history, damaging 1,300 miles of shoreline, disrupting the lives and live- lihoods of people in the region and killing hundreds of thousands of birds and marine animals." ` IT IS TO DIE ` ` ` European envoy: Shut Guantanamo soon ` http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-France-OSCE-Guantanamo.html ` "Belgian senator Anne-Marie Lizin, a special envoy on Guan- tanamo for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe" ` Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSCE ` Anne-Marie Lizin: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne-Marie_Lizin ` and ` Canadian judge criticizes Guantanamo tactics ` http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080626/D91HH8HO0.html ` "efforts to prime Toronto-born [teenage] detainee Omar Khadr for interrogation sessions with visiting Canadian agents" ` Prime? BEAT AND BEAT AGAIN ` ` ` Feds raid Blackwater's armory in firearms probe ` http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/26/AR2008062601963.html ` Moyock, North Carolina: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moyock ` "Moyock...contains a number of facilities related to Black- water USA" including "a 7,000 acre training center" ` ` ` U.S. Capitol Police | Norton Asks For Review Of Recruits' Dismissal ` http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/25/AR2008062502615.html ` "one-fourth of the department's most recent group of recruits...were hired despite failing criminal back- ground or other employment checks." ` Eleanor Holmes Norton: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_Holmes_Norton ` "Delegates to Congress are entitled to sit in the House of Representatives and vote in committee (including the Com- mittee of the Whole), but are not allowed to take part in legislative floor votes." ` ` ` Scholars make finds in Nazi archive ` http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080626/D91I1U080.html ` "small labor camps...existed in astonishing numbers." "You see the farmer employing so many people. You see the fac- tory employing hundreds of people. Everything was blurred, but suddenly you have a clear image." ` and ` Horror and Hope: Studying the Holocaust ` http://special.newsroom.msu.edu/holocaust/ ` Follow the links. ` ` ` 2 AFRICA ` ` South Africa's top cop [Selebi] ordered to stand trial ` http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080626/D91HV4A81.html ` See OREO 01 11 08 Evening Edition | DISORDER | "** ... [South African] top cop faces corruption charges" ` http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/O-r-e-o/message/220 ` "WHO IS SELEBI? PRESIDENT OF INTERPOL." ` "'generally corrupt relationship' with...a convicted drug trafficker." ` ` ` 3 ASIA ` ` THE BU$H PLAN (IRAQ) ` __THE PREPOSTEROUS IN OVERDRIVE__ ` Iraq Bombings Kill at Least 30; Three Marines Dead [along with two interpreters] ` http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/27/world/middleeast/27iraq.html ` "just as the American military command was preparing to hand control of [Anbar] province...over to [puppet] Iraqi forces." ` and ` US delays Anbar handover due to weather ` http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080627/D91ID3NO0.html ` ` __SUPERPOWER SOCIOCIDE__ ` Baghdad's walls keep [duh] peace but feel like prison ` http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080627/D91ICBEO1.html ` "Baghdad's walls are everywhere, turning a riverside capi- tal of leafy neighborhoods and palm-lined boulevards where Shiites and Sunnis once mingled into a city of shadows separating the two Muslim sects." ` vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv ` A brand new code of laws is needed to deal with numerous acts not covered by the old code of laws still in effect. ` ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ` ` [puppet] Judge assassinated in eastern Baghdad ` http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080627/D91IACDG1.html ` ` Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Wednesday, 25 June 2008 ` http://www.albasrah.net/en_articles_2008/0608/iraqiresistancereport_250608.htm ` ` Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Thursday, 26 June 2008 ` http://www.albasrah.net/en_articles_2008/0608/iraqiresistancereport_260608.htm ` ` ` THE BU$H PLAN (PAKISTAN) ` U.S. Funding to Pakistan Plagued With Problems, GAO Report Says ` http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/24/AR2008062401255.html ` "Bush administration has paid Pakistan more than $2 billion without adequate proof that the Pakistani government used the funds for their intended purpose" ` The real intended purpose? BRIBERY ` ` ` DEMOCRATIC PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF KOREA ` Text of Bush remarks on North Korea ` http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D91HPRP80&show_article=1 ` ` ` INDIA ` Sikhs block railway tracks during a protest against...leader of Dera Sacha Sauda, in Amritsar ` http://www.hindustantimes.com/PhotoGallery/Photos_Storypage.aspx?category=June25,2008:India ` Dera Sacha Sauda | Clashes with Sikh community: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dera_Sacha_Sauda#Clashes_with_Sikh_community ` ` GJM bandh paralyses life in Darjeeling for second day ` http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?id=488b5a93-960b-40b0-99ac-fae789736c99&&Headline=GJM+bandh+paralyses+life+for+second+day ` Bandh: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandh ` Darjeeling [, West Bengal state]: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darjeeling ` Gorkha Janmukti Morcha: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorkha_Janmukti_Morcha ` ` ` 4 EUROPE ` ` UK ` Schools segregation worsens over ten years ` http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/education/article4220625.ece ` Grammar schools in the United Kingdom | England: islands of selection ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammar_school_%28United_Kingdom%29#England:_islands_of_selection ` ` Petrol prices to rise after head of OPEC warns of sharp fuel hike ` http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2008/06/26/nfuel226.xml ` In UK "The average car's petrol tank holds 55 litres" ` 55 litres = ~ 14.5294629 US gallons ` In UK "Larger executive cars [hold] up to 70 litres" ` 70 litres = ~ 18.4920437 US gallons ` (15 litres = ~ 3.96258079 US gallons) ` ` US Embassy in London's unpaid road tolls ` http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080626/D91HTF4O0.html ` "U.S. diplomats...topped a list of embassies refusing to pay the charge." ` ` Britons set to retire on £215 a week ` http://www.telegraph.co.uk/global/main.jhtml?xml=/global/2008/06/25/britons-retire.xml ` "less than half their annual pay" before retirement "-- significantly lower than many workers worldwide." ` ` POODLES ARISE! ` ` ` 5 LATAM ` ` __DIRTY WAR__ ` CHILE ` ** Allende: a predecessor ` http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2008/junio/juev26/26allende-i.html ` "Who killed him? It wasn’t Pinochet alone. ` Nixon, Kissinger and the Central Intelligence Agency have the martyred president’s blood on their hands, as do ITT and other U.S. multi-national corporations." ` ITT Corporation | Involvement in 1973 Pinochet coup in Chile: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITT_Corporation#Involvement_in_1973_Pinochet_coup_in_Chile ` ` ` COLOMBIA ` Colombia's president wants vote on new elections ` http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080627/D91I9CU00.html ` "the Supreme Court called Thursday for the re-evaluation of the congressional act that changed the constitution to allow Uribe to run for a second term." ` De-MOCK-racy ` ` ` ECUADOR ` ** Ecuador buys planes, radar for border ` http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080625/D91HBMSO1.html ` "[Defense Minister Javier Ponce] said that he is investiga- ting Ecuador's military intelligence apparatus over its failure to inform the Correa government of FARC and Colom- bian armed forces movements --accusing them of sharing such information with the United States instead." ` See OREO 06 11 08 | LATAM | BOLIVIA | "** Bolivian protes- ters march on US Embassy" ` http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/O-r-e-o/message/432 ` "__NOTE__ ` This demonstrates the truth that all real revolutions must smash the old state machine." ` ` ` HAITI ` Haiti halts gasoline subsidy; prices soar ` http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080627/D91I6TK80.html ` "It is affecting our budget," said...[a] spokeswoman for the 9,000-member U.N. peacekeeping mission that has been based in the country since 2004." ` BLUE HELMET GANGRENE ` ` ` MEXICO ` Gunmen kill top Mexican police official, [and] bodyguard ` http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-Mexico-Violence.html ` "second bodyguard...injured." ` ` ` VENEZUELA ` Venezuelan 'System' brings classics to the barrios ` http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080626/D91HO6JG0.html ` "National System of Youth and Children's Orchestras" ` ` ` 6 SUPERPOWER ` ` Impact of Gun Ruling Limited, Experts Say ` http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/27/washington/27guns.html ` "the case before the court arose from the District of Co- lumbia and thus involved only federal law, [so] the court did not resolve the important question of whether the Second Amendment’s protections apply to limit state and local laws." ` ` Matt Reichel | There's No Hope at the Ballot Box | The Politics of George Carlin ` http://www.counterpunch.org/reichel06262008.html ` "The louder and more demonstrative you are of your clueless- ness, the richer and more powerful you get." ` ` ` 7 $$$$ ` ` Nissan and Others Add Factories in Emerging Markets ` http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/26/business/worldbusiness/26nissan.html?ref=business&pagewanted=all ` "we are trying to spread the sources of profits more global- ly, beyond just one market" ` ` Wave of bad news sends Dow down nearly 360 ` http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080626/ap_on_bi_st_ma_re/wall_street ` "Oil futures shot past $140" ` ` Oil climbs to record above $141 in Asia ` http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080627/ap_on_bi_ge/oil_prices ` ` ` ==== ` ` Oreo Archive: ` http://groups.yahoo.com/group/O-r-e-o ` ` </pre> </b> </body> </html>
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