Chinese premier Wen Jiabao 12th March 2009
""We have a financial system that is run by private shareholders, managed by private institutions, and we'd like to do our best to preserve that system."
Timothy Geithner US Secretary of the Treasury, previously President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.1/3/2009
Vital Trivia has excellent article on Nuclear Britian(sic)although he does miss the Scottish dimension - i.e those skirted , short sighted tartan lovers North of the Border whom we cheated and continue to cheat (they say) out of THEIR oil, gas, virgins.
Required reading to provide a good detailed sensible background to current and planned (as at present) UK nuclear capacity.
The Independent today fleshes out the life of Sidique Khan from his personnel file at the Leeds Education Authority obtained unde the Freedon of Information Act.
They provide a brief outline ...The life of Mohammad Sidique Khan
* October 1974 Born, Leeds
* 1994 Works first for Benefits Agency, then DTI (1995), then learning mentor at Hillside Primary (2001)
* 2001 Upsets father and stepmother by marrying a girl of Indian-Muslim descent, Hasina Patel, whom he met at Leeds Metropolitan University
* 2003 Establishes gyms in Beeston, radicalising young British Muslims. Periods of absence from Hillside
* July 2004 Introduced to government minister Hilary Benn during school tour of Commons. Is also subject of routine MI5 threat assessment after his name crops up in an investigation; check not pursued
* September 2004 Begins long sick leave
* November 2004 Travels to Pakistan with Tanweer to prepare for London attacks
* July 2005 Bombs Edgware Road Tube station
On Monday, Raed al-Batsh, 16, and his brother Mahmoud, eight, were killed along with 14-year-old Ahmed Sweisi by a missile that also killed two Palestinian militants on a crowded Gaza City street on Monday afternoon.The two brothers were helping out in their dad's welding shop when an Israeli missile slammed into an ice cream truck carrying Islamic Jihad gunmen.
The Israeli military confirmed the attack, saying the target was one of the dead men, Islamic Jihad operatives Munir Sukar and Ashraf Shaluf who had carried out rocket attacks against Israel.
The Israeli military continued to shell areas of the Gaza Strip, and conducted twenty-nine incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank this week. Houses were raided and thirty-eight Palestinian civilians were arrested. At least one house was occupied by Israeli soldiers and turned into a military post.
If you arrived here in May 2007 by googling for an image of Livni and Sharon, try reading what Lord Patel has written over a long time about Livni and how she will succeed Olmert. Today she made her bid - and she will succeed, and a great deal more blood will be spilt in the Middle East. Read on here
Bush acknowledged that he had authorized the NSA to eavesdrop on conversations involving suspected terrorists in the months after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. He contended that his constitutional powers and the prewar resolution gave him that legal authority.
George Bush said a Congressional investigation into this scandal, would be "good for democracy." Republican Senator Arlen Specter has also said that he believes the Bush Administration’s eavesdropping program ought to be investigated, and is busy investigating away.
Mr Specter (then Junior Counsel) has a history of investigations into thorny issues … he was responsible for the single magic bullet theory that struck and killed President J.F. Kennedy and wounded Governor Connelly which the Warren Commission claimed as the fatal single shot. See pic.
Sounds like a slam dunk for the Prez from here...
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This sounds ideal for the No 10 Based Dodgy Dossier preparation department (Prop A Campbell - see pic in editing mode). However Big Al had better take care of Sec. 58 of the Terrism Act.... about possessing things that terrists might want to use ... Plod has got his size 11l's down to the floor on this at the moment.
No doubt that nice guy in Psy Ops has a list of tricky points to deal with ... FAQ's on why we are bombing (Country of choice select from drop down menu).
I reproduce this in it's entirety from Pootergeek .. you have to visit his blog for the photographs. Visit his site www.pootergeek etc., no I won't provide a link if yuo want to see pics of a flaming old age pensioner in a wheel chair, make an effort.
"Brighton and Hove’s local newspaper is called The Argus (writes PG) . Its staff don’t have much to write about: the football team and its struggle for a stadium, resident micro-celebrity Zoe Ball and her slightly more famous husband Fat Boy Slim. I think I’ve only bought a copy twice. Yesterday was the second time. Why? Because of the following wonderful, wonderful story. Under the page three headline “RON SETS HIS HEAD ON FIRE” Siobhan Ryan writes:
Veteran stuntman Ron Cunningham got a little more than he bargained for when he staged his latest show.
Crowds gathered at the Bedford Tavern pub in Brighton to watch the 90-year-old escape from chains while his hat and jacket were set on fire.
Before the stunt Ron, also known as The Great Omani, said he was 99 percent sure that the stunt would be successful.
He said: “I haven’t done this one for a while and I don’t know what is going to happen but we’ll soon find out.
“I enjoy performing. I have done it all my life. “I need a wheelchair as I am on dialysis and have to go to hospital three times a week. I’m also having treatment for cancer but I don’t let it stop me.”
Pubgoers watched as Ron was wheeled into the centre of the pub by his son David. Chains were put around his wrist and locked with a steel bar and padlocks. Petrol was then poured on his jacket and hat…
…Omani’s hat came off and the flames on his arms flicked around his face, scorching it a little. As he successfully removed the chains and padlocks, the flames became bigger and his wheelchair caught alight.
David stepped forward quickly to put out the flames, but Omani—who ended up with a couple of burns on his arms—had managed to escape….
…After a reviving drink, Ron, who lives in Norfolk Street, Brighton, said: “I came a little unstuck there for a moment but I’ve still got my right hand and can still hold my glass.
“I’ve got a couple of burns but I still think it went well. ”
“I’m pleased to have done it. I love to perform.”
Pubgoer Rick Hawdon was stunned by the performance.
He said: “That is the most amazing thing I have ever seen in a pub on a Saturday afternoon.”
Benefits over manned vehicles include :
1 Reduction or elimination of the risk of (highly trained) pilot loss
2 Lighter and more fuel-efficient platforms, leading to lower costs and less environmental damage and Significantly longer mission time and range than manned aircraft
3 Greater cost-efficiency than equivalent manned aircraft
4 Potential for higher flight performance than manned aircraft
The French Armed forces have been pursuing the Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle (UCAV) for some time and made initial announcements at the 2003 Paris Airshow.
Dassault have now been awarded (by France's DGA procurement agency) a USD$486 Mn contract which will co-0rdinate a European 6 nation programme to design, build and fly an unmanned combat air vehicle (UCAV) technology demonstrator.
The aircraft will have unmanned autonomous air-to-ground attack capabilities with precision-guided munitions, relying on an advanced stealth airframe design that reduces radar and infared cross-sections to penetrate undetected at a speed of about Mach 0.8.The project will also examine the ability to control UCAV swarm flight in automatic mode from an advanced fighter like the Dassault Rafale or JAS-39 Gripen,
Based on the French 6,000 Kg nEUROn project vehicle it will co-ordinate efforts with European partners Greece, Italy, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland shared by Alenia Aeronautica, Dassault, EADS Casa, Hellenic Aerospace Industry, Ruag Aerospace, Saab and Thales. Chief project manager Thierry Prunier is from Dassault Aviation, deputy project managers are Mats Ohlson of Saab and Ermanno Bertolina of Alenia.(Saab brochure here)
Saab's Filur vehicle had a 10min maiden flight, which took place from the Vidsel test range on 10 October 2005. Further tests are to follow to test the low radar cross-section design to conduct a mission without being detected by air-defence radars. (see pic)
The French have contributed USD$185 Mn and Sweden is next biggest contributor with USD$100 Mn.
Flight tests are rumoured for 2010 (2012 ?) with 2 x 250 Kg bombs but please do not hold your breath.
nEUROn is envisoned as a competitive system with the American J-UCAS program's Boeing X-45C or Northrop-Grumman X-47B. The project is of course a method of keeping design teams together in Europe now that the Typhoon, Rafaele and Gripen fighters are approaching production. BAE / RAF with the hopeless Corax project do not of course figure on the nEUROn program.
More information from Flight here and here
Dassault Aerospace - nEUROn
Dassault Aerospace - The official Neuron trailer
AFCEA Signal Magazine (September 2005) - Neuron Gains Altitude. Excellent article.
Aitzaz Zafar, 18 and Usman Malik, 19, both from Bradford, have been charged under Section 58 of the Terrorism Act, and appear in Bow Street Magistrates Court today.
They are accused of possessing a record of information likely to be useful to a terrorist under Sec. 58 of the Terrorism Act.
More here
useful to a terrorist under Section 58 of the Terrorism Act. (Under which Abu Hamza was charged for possessing the Encyclopaedia Of The Afghani Jihad)
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58. - (1) A person commits an offence if-
(a) he collects or makes a record of information of a kind likely to be useful to a
person committing or preparing an act of terrorism, or
(b) he possesses a document or record containing information of that kind.
(2) In this section "record" includes a photographic or electronic record.
(3) It is a defence for a person charged with an offence under this section to prove that he had a reasonable excuse for his action or possession.
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Mr Raja was arrested on February 27 after attending a police station in London. Mr Iqbal was held at his home in Bradford last Thursday.
The full charge against Iqbal, who turns 19 today, alleges that between February 23 this year and March 3 this year he "possessed a record of information of a kind likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism".
The full charge against Raja alleges that between December 31 last year and February 24 this year he "made a record of information of a kind likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism" .
Both men were due to appear before Bow Street Magistrates in London today.
Two other men (unnamed) arrested (described by the Mirror as students) in Bradford last week are still in custody.
POSTSCRIPT 10th March 2006
Irfan Raja, 18, from Ilford, Essex, and 19-year-old Awaab Iqbal appeared at Bow Street Magistrates Court on Thursday 9th March 2006 accused of making a record of information likely to be useful to a terrorist under Sec. 58 of the Terrorism Act.
Lawyers for the pair indicated both would be pleading not guilty - counsel for Mr Iqbal saying the charges had "absolutely no foundation".
Mr Iqbal a first-year forensic science student, at Bradford University,was arrested at his home in Bradford last week had an application for bail refused.
Earlier, Mr Raja had made no application for bail after the Prosecutor Deborah Walsh said the charge against Mr Raja related to information he had allegedly collated and downloaded using a computer.
Senior District Judge Timothy Workman remanded the pair in custody until 16 March and told them they would face a committal hearing on 6 April.
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The U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, through the Department of Commerce, announced today that total January exports of $114.4 billion and imports of $182.9 billion resulted in a goods and services deficit of $68.5 billion, $3.4 billion more than the $65.1 billion in December, revised. That’s trending to an annual USD$800 Billion.
January exports exceeded December exports of $111.6 Billion by USD$2.8 Billion.
January Imports exceeded December imports of $176.6 Billion by USD$6.2 Billion.
The FED Flow of Funds report was released today. It shows that household mortgage debt increased at a record pace in 2005.
On a dollar basis, household mortgage debt increased by a near record $290.6 Billion in the 4th quarter. The last 8 quarters (billions increase in household mortgages, Includes loans made under home equity lines of credit):
q1 2004: $190.4
q2 2004: $211.1
q3 2004: $277.1
q4 2004: $232.9
q1 2005: $184.5
q2 2005: $277.9
q3 2005: $314.1
q4 2005: $290.6
…Congress have yet to address raising the lending limit.
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The shifty Scot has reluctantly disclosed that two aircraft known to have been chartered by the CIA landed 14 times at RAF Northholt, west London, and RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire between October 2003 and May 2004.
Mr Ingram did not say the aircraft were used by the CIA, he insists his disclosure was not "at odds with the foreign secretary's statements on the subject". Jack Straw has said that the government is "unaware" of any CIA flights landing in Britain or using UK airspace since 1998 and transporting terrorist suspects. ( an unawareness, or convenient amnesia, that extends to other colleagues on matters of public interest such as the saintly Tessa).
Ministers have repeatedly said that they either have no record of CIA flights since 1998, when they received four requests from the Clinton administration, or that records it might once have had had since been destroyed - plainly they were lying in their fucking teeth - as per usual.
One aircraft, a Boeing 737, was registered N313P, the other, a Gulfstream executive jet , was initially registered N379P and later as N8068V.
Flights of CIA planes through RAF Northolt confirmed by the MoD
N313P Arrived from Brize Norton at 10.15, Oct 19, 2003. Departed to Tripoli at 13.00. Arrived from Tripoli, 15.35, Oct 22. Departed to Tripoli, noon, Oct 28. Arrived from Tripoli, 17.10, Oct 29. Departed to Shannon, 17.45. Arrived from Washington, 08:50, Dec 1. Departed to Tripoli, 11:00. Arrived from Tripoli, 13:00, Dec 3. Departed to Luqa, Malta 12:00, Dec 6.
N379P Arrived from Islamabad, 15:50, Oct 18, 2002. Departed to Washington, 09:00, Oct 20. Arrived from Amman, 12:50, Jan 16, 2003. Departed to Shannon, 10:00, Jan 18 03. Arrived from Washington, 20.05, Feb 24. Departed to Glasgow, 09:00, Feb 26. Arrived from Dohaa, 12:49, Feb 28. Departed to Glasgow, 09:00, Mar 1.
N8068V Arrived from Marrakesh, 12:10, May 15 04. Departed to Luton 13:00. Arrived from Luton, 11:05, May 17. Departed to Shannon, 08:00, May 18.
Pic N8068V (owned by CIA front Premiere Executive Transport ) at Geneva April 16th 2004 (i.e one month before jetting in from Marrakesh)
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FOOTNOTE
A government memo leaked to the New Statesman written Dec. 7 by Irfan Siddiq, an official in the foreign secretary`s private office, advised ministers to 'try to move the debate on' and 'avoid getting drawn down on detail," on rendition flights. (see Liberty report)
The memo warned 'The papers we have unearthed so far suggest there could be more such cases... We cannot say that we have received no such request for the use of U.K. territory.'
However, the memo also raised the point that the government was aware that rendition was rarely legal. Foreign Office lawyers had advised that the practice 'is almost certainly illegal' and any British co-operation 'would also be illegal,' it said, before going on to question whether the U.S. definition of torture was consistent with that under international law.
“It’s been a hectic year of dramatic progress in renewable fuels development in our state. If Indiana can do this, think what America can do to work toward energy self-sufficiency. In just one year, we’re growing from one alternative fuels plant to nine, with more to come. We said our ag sector would be a big part of our economic comeback, and here’s the proof,” said Daniels, who made the announcement during his remarks at the 2nd National Agriculture/Forestry Renewable Energy Summit in Washington, D.C. a meeting point for 70 organizations which support a vision of providing 25 percent of the country’s energy needs from renewable sources by 2025.
Indiana, fifth largest corn state, fourth largest soybean state will produce an additional 400 million gallons of ethanol annually and 95 million gallons of biodiesel (including Louis Dreyfus). Indiana’s goal is to produce a combined 1 billion gallons of ethanol and biodiesel annually.
Through the Indiana Economic Development Corporation (IEDC) and the Indiana State Department of Agriculture, the state has reached an agreement with Louis Dreyfus to build the project in two phases at Claypool in Kosciusko County in northeastern Indiana. The first will be a 50-million bushel per year soybean processing plant, and the second phase will be the biodiesel production facility. The plant will utilize Indiana grown soybeans.
When complete, the Louis Dreyfus facility will be one of the world’s first biodiesel production plants to be fully integrated with a soybean processing plant. About 260,000 metric tons of soybean oil from the plant will be used each year for biodiesel production.
1 million tons of protein rich soybean meal will also be produced annually for the livestock and poultry industry. 85 permanent jobs will be created at the plant,as well as 300 construction jobs.
“Today’s announcement says to the nation that Indiana is a state serious about being a leader in biofuels,” remarked Lt. Governor Becky Skillman, who serves as Secretary of Agriculture and Rural Development and oversees the Indiana Office of Energy and Defense Development.
The IEDC offered economic development incentives, including up to $95,000 in training grants, $137,500 in infrastructure assistance to the local community, and (here is the kicker folks) up to $5.295 million in tax credits based on anticipated employment and capital investment levels.
Pic is JULIA Louis-Dreyfus who plays Elaine Benes in "Seinfeld" and has no connection with this story whatever.... but, hey ....
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The BBC news programmes and BBC 2 Newnight have today been alive to the complaints of a Dr Chai Patel (no relation) whose name is said to figure on a list of Labour Party donors who are shortly to be ennobled.
Regrettably there has been some confusion for which I must apologise. An ennoblment is due for Patel. It is I. Me. Not he.
Thankfully this is not the result of a squalid donation of immoderate size to the Labour Party coffers. I cannot however, nor will I reveal how I came by CCTV recordings from Stockwell Tube Station when Mr De Menezes was murdered, nor the recordings of conversation between the Prime Minister and Mr Bush about bombing Al Jazeera (although fragments have been published here), nor the interesting result of certain paternity tests and the contents of a safe deposit box in the Isle of Man, nor the diaries of "Miss" Rita Ferrari.My friend "Bernie" Ecclestone and I have also agreed to remain silent upon certain topics relating to motor racing, smoking certain substances and contributions , payment of school fees, use of holiday homes etc., Geoff Hoon can also be sure that my lips are sealed about his "interesting" time in Louisville and the real reson why he is now ex Minister of War.
The main problem, resulting in this tiresome delay is my wish to be known as Lord Patel of the Internet. There are, Patel being a common name, already 2 Lords Patel, one an eminent gynaecologist and the other a very, very close friend of Jack Straw's, so confusion should not arise.
However the pedants of the Honours Office claim there is no such place as "The Internet". Apparently there is also a problem with the copyright of the particular DNA sequencing, displayed on the scroll on my coat of arms, which neither parent, the chambermaid nor the Cabinet Minister will allow to be used.
I much regret the way Dr Chai Patel has been misled, but I would refer him to the unseemly squabble over the unlikely (and deeply unlikeable) Lord Bossom of Brighton, a warning to any one anxious to hire their scarlet and ermine trimmed robes from Ede & Ravenscroft.
Until the official announcement is made, I will, naturally, still be known as... Postman.
9.00 pm GMT BBC Panorama ... the Murder of De Menezes explained ... well that's what the BBC website says.
The Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program
Federal assistance for home energy costs, dates backto the oil crisis of the 1970s, and affects some 5 million families nationwide. Proponents of expanding the program say the $2 billion budget doesn't go very far when there are some 33 million households, spending about $55 billion a year in energy costs, eligible for the program.
$1 billion had been set aside for fiscal 2007. New legislation, which still must be considered by the House, passed by a voice vote Tuesday, but only after a lengthy debate between northern state senators, who said rising heating costs were creating a crisis in their states, and lawmakers from warmer states who claimed they were being shortchanged.
Sen. Olympia Snowe's, (R-Maine) original bill would have distributed $250 million under an existing formula that would mainly benefit warm-weather states. The remaining $750 million would have been labeled contingency funding and disbursed at the discretion of the President.
"We don‘t deny there is a need," said Rep. John Ensign, R-Nev. But "is it fair across the country or does it benefit some states and not other states?"
Last week Snowe successfully overcame opposition from conservative Republicans, led by Rep. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., who tried to kill the bill on the grounds that the spending was not offset by cuts in other programs.
Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt said in a statement that he supported Snowe's bill. "This is a positive step to provide additional aid for those in need of energy assistance this year."
Meanwhile Congress have not even considered the Governments ability to raise borrowing limits..... shucks let's spend next years money now.
Why ?
Because there is too much of the stuff to fit in the warehouses.
Yet as poor nations press the World Trade Organization (WTO) to stop unfair US farm subsidies, U.S. cotton producers intend to plant 14.44 million acres of cotton this spring, up 1.7 % from 2005, according to the National Cotton Council’s 23rd Annual Early Season Planting Intentions Survey.
The US government spends US$4.5 billion annually in subsidies on a cotton crop with a market price of $5.9 billion, which otherwise would have to be priced more than double in the world market. This subsidy enables US growers to export profitably three-quarters of their output and control 40% of world trade in cotton.
What the US lost in textile yarn, fabric and clothing manufacturing, it gains back in subsidized cotton export, high returns on investment in overseas textile mills and low consumer prices in cotton goods = a low Consumer price Index, US / CPI is down 69% for clothing in last 10 years.
So the current "tariff war" against Chinese textiles is merely the US wanting its cake and eating it too. USD$4.5 billion is a mere pittance in the USD $2.4 trillion 2005 US fiscal budget, the subsidy effectively simply ruins the economies of the world's poorest nations and maintains US dominance.
The National Cotton Council, a powerful trade group in US domestic politics, while basking in the happy situation of seeing US cotton exports increase by 350% between 1999 and 2004, from 4 million 480-pound (218-kilogram) bales to 14 million bales, explains that the goal of helping African growers is "not to make Africa a big cotton producer", only to make the lives of the poor fucking Africans "a little better".
It is simply a strategy of protecting managed trade with welfare trade. Simply doubling the market price of cotton will not help African growers, whose competitive disadvantages go beyond market price, and cannot be eliminated without fundamental changes in the terms of global agricultural trade.
Those cotton states are mighty important in the upcoming mid-term elections too.
He was born Yerucham Bzozowitch in Gerodna, Poland, in 1919 and arrived later in Palestine and at some time adopted the name Eitan Livini.. He became a member of the Irgun group, headed by Menachem Begin, later Israel’s Prime Minister. Irgun began a campaign of violent terrorism against the British administration in Palestine at the beginning of 1944.
Eitan Livni, had been on the British wanted list for several months. He was a member of the Irgun high command and Begin's righthand man.
He was captured and with 31 others, was tried in Jerusalem by a military court on June 27, 1944, and sentenced to 15 years. (pic is of the whore on Terror and Livni's daughter - she is on the left (of the picture) in Washington this week - just in time to meet those friendlt folks (and a few spies) in AIPAC)
His imprisonment was one of the reasons for the Irgun's decision to launch its most militarily spectacular anti-British operation: the attack on May 4, 1946, on the crusader fortress at Acre. The fortress, which was being used as a prison by the British, had successfully withstood a siege by Napoleon's forces in 1799 when it was in Ottoman hands and had been captured by Allenby in 1918.
The Irgun assault on the fortress was well planned both inside and outside the prison, explosives having been smuggled in beforehand. Livni masterminded the operation inside and the escapees included 30 Irgun men, 11 members of the Stern group an extremist breakaway group from the Irgun and many more Arab prisoners. Away from the fortress however they encountered a group of passing British soldiers and in the battle that ensued nine Irgun men were killed.
Livni then resumed his leadership role in Irgun, in spite of being hunted by the British, and in August 1947 was dispatched by Begin to organise Irgun's military activities against British targets in Europe. He returned nine months later on May 15, 1948, the day the British withdrew from Palestine and modern Israel was declared.
Only last week the official records office at Kew, London released details of Israeli terrorists sent to London to assassinate Foreign Minister Bevin and others. The MI5 files contain a report that Irgun carried out the attack after drawing lots with two other militant groups, Stern and Hagana. Stern drew the lot to attack British ships in the Mediterranean while Hagana were chosen to attack army camps.
In August 1946, the month after the King David attack, Major James Robertson, head of MI5’s Middle East section, warned London that both Begin’s group and Stern were sending five terrorist cells to the capital to mirror IRA tactics of bombing and assassination.
“In recent months it has been reported that they have been training selected members for the purpose of assassinating a prominent British personality. Special reference has been several times made to Mr Bevin.”
Bevin, the Labour foreign secretary, was an opponent of the creation of a Jewish state and had recommended that Jewish refugees in Europe should be forcibly prevented from emigrating to Palestine. It is difficult to believe that the release of these papers was a "coincidence". Miss Livni's dad was probably one of the terrorists sent to kill the Foreign Minister - maybe Jack Straw should take note.
In the war that then began (after the founding of Israel), with the Arab forces Levni led the first Irgun battalion into the newly-formed Israel Defence Forces and was a commander in one of the fiercest battles against the Arabs in the Sharon district east of Tel Aviv.
Following independence Livni became chairman of the Irgun veterans organisation but in the 1970s, as a result of pressure from Begin who was by this time the leader of the parliamentary opposition, he was elected a member of the Israeli Knesset. He remained there for three terms and helped to bring about the rightwing Likud coalition which gained power in 1977.
Eitan Livni died in February 1992.
His daughter Tzipi (short for the biblical name Tziporah) was taken to visit Begin every Saturday.
She grew up part of Likud's royalty as a child of what is known as a ''fighting family.' The heroes of the "palach".
Tzipi grew up to become a lawyer She served in the army, becoming a lieutenant, and at the age of 22 began working for the Mossad, the intelligence service, where she stayed for four years. She does not discuss those duties. ''It was wonderful,'' she said, laughing. ''But it taught me skills I cannot use.'' Oh yeah ?
She married Naftali Shpitzer, worked as a real estate lawyer and first ran for Parliament in 1999, eight years after her father died, when she was over 40. Despite the late start, she has risen fast, serving in five ministries and earning the deep trust of Mr. Sharon, who made her Justice Minister and allowed her into his inner circle, the security cabinet, which planned and carried out the painful pullout from Gaza last summer.
Tzipi Livni, 47, is the first woman to serve as Israel's foreign minister since (appointed Jan 16th 2006 and still serves as Justice Minister) Golda Meir did so half a century ago. Some think she may be the first since Ms. Meir to be Prime Minister.
This is what she said after joining her mentor Ariel Sharon into Kadima from Likud … Israel was established as a homeland for the Jewish people. This should be also the true meaning of the future Palestinian state...In other words, the establishment of a Palestinian state takes [care of] what the Palestinians call the 'right of return'." Now that’s what the rest of the world call apartheid.
Again she spells it out in the Washington Post …” My need as an Israeli and a Jew is to keep a Jewish homeland for the Jewish people, a sovereign, Jewish and democratic state with a Jewish majority. So how do we [do that]? The idea is to divide the land, to give up some of our rights on the land of Israel and to establish a two-state solution.”
Now 47 she regularly visits her father’s grave…. On his gravestone is written, "Here lies the Head of Operations of the Irgun -- the underground that fought for the establishment of the State of Israel." And on his tombstone he left a map of Greater Israel -- with both sides of the Jordan Valley being part of Israel.
When in London last week, this scion of terrorists (her mother was an Irgun heroine) was pressuring the British Government to find an immediate solution that would allow Brigadier-General Aviv Kochavi to arrive in the UK as planned for a year of studies at the Kimberly military academy. Kochavi is currently facing an arrest threat in Britain, due to his service as commander of the Israeli army in Gaza.
Tzipi Livni on Sunday reported to the cabinet ministers that in her visit to London last week, her counterparts in the country have also voiced their concern regarding the issue of Israeli’s visiting the UK facing charges brought by private citizens, and said they intend to resolve it as quickly as possible.
The British Foreign Ministry is currently formulating a solution to the problem that will not necessitate legal amendments to the constitution. According to this new procedure, which has already been approved by British legal officials, courts in the kingdom will be prohibited from issuing arrest warrants against foreign citizens without the authorization of the chief prosecutor.
This new regulation will enable the government to supervise over lawsuits and prevent the mass issuing of arrest warrants against IDF officers and other Israeli officials.
The British hope this new procedure will prevent damage to the relations between the two countries.
Israel's leading newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported Monday that Britain has informed Israel it is close to finding a solution that will enable IDF officers to visit the UK without fear of getting arrested due to war crime lawsuits filed against them.
This is what she said to Newsweek last week ....
"Israel made clear in the last few months that the participation of Hamas in the Palestinian Authority elections is totally against any kind of democratic values," Livni says. "Abu Mazan says he is weak. When a leader is weak and cannot confront the terrorist organizations, this is the real importance of the international community -- to say it will not accept terrorist organizations as part of any parliament, any government."
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The Second Death of Rachel Corrie
Censorship of the Worst Kind
By VANESSA REDGRAVE Counter Punch March 6th 2006
"I am urging the Royal Court Theatre to sue the New York Theatre Workshop for the cancellation of the production of "My Name Is Rachel Corrie". Not because I donated money for this production, which the Royal Court have been fundraising for--a target of 50,000 pounds, underwritten by Alan Rickman.
This is censorship of the worst kind. More awful even than that.It is black-listing a dead girl and her diaries.A very brave and exceptional girl who all citizens, whatever their faith or nationality, should be proud and grateful for her existence. They couldn't silence her voice while she lived, so she was killed. Her voice began to speak again as Alan Rickman read her diaries, and Megan Dodds became Rachel Corrie.Now the New York Theatre Workshop have silenced that dear voice."
March 16th is the third anniversary of the murder of Rachel Corrie. For more information about events go here and petition to NYTW , comment, etc., also here and more in the NYTimes today here
Also rather tedious piece but plenty of information about dramatic spat by Walter Davis in Counterpunch Theater, Ideology and the Censorship of "My Name is Rachel Corrie"
The Play's the Thing
By WALTER A. DAVIS
Pic (c) Reuters with permission Royal Court Theatre.
See also William Bowles exposing the way the Zionists have crushed the MSM reporting of this censorship... here
Even the BBC has noticed that the US has reached it's legal debt limit. Maybe they have been too busy polishing the tarnished image of Miss tess Jowell the 35 year old, fresh faced, saintly lady who looks after Tony's best interests.
Now single again , she is available for sales conventions, promotional work and bar mitzvahs and discussing the BBC TV License fee.... maybe even foreign media take over of ailing ITV....?
"I think this is a turning moment for what's left of the insurgency and also for the criminal element, the narcotics traffickers and all the others, who are working on their own in their own way to destabilize the growth of the (Afghan President Hamid) Karzai government," to "CNN Late Edition" host Wolf Blitzer.
Which is almost as funny as correspondentBuzz Hefti, vice president, Van Scoyoc Associates writes a letter to the Hill Julty 2005 .. " count me in as one of the first to register at jljones2008.com."
Useful Knight Ridder report here, detailing growth of Taliban rsistance and growth of opium trade.
Antagonist raised some time ago the curious nature of thes photographs immediately after the Tavistock Square bomb on 7/7. The absence of Police / Emergency / Paramedical services. Do these people look as though they have just been in a bus explosion that smeared and shot blood all over the BMA building ? Do they look traumatised ? Injured ? Upset ?
What is happening here ?
67 year old Historian David Irving has pleaded gulity to Holocaust Denial and is set to spend time in a prison cell in Austria. Those who wish to financially assist his cause might wish to donate ... as an urgent appeal for funds to assist Mr Irving and his family: Click this link to donate or mail to Bente Hogh, 8 Queen Anne's Gate, London, SW1H 9AA. Cheques should be addressed to Parforce UK Ltd or David Irving, US cheques should be made payable to Focal Point Publications. More at his website.
Interestingly his young cousin John (Johnny) is wanted rather urgently in the United States on charges related to the Food for Oil for Saddam and the Texas based Bayoil Co. and funds that found their way into the "Babylon" account in Abu Dhabi.
The US Warrant for his extradition is here at the US Dept of Justice site.
DAVID N. KELLEY, the United States Attorney for the
Southern District of New York, and JOHN KLOCHAN, the Acting
Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Office of the
Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), announced the unsealing
today of an Indictment against DAVID B. CHALMERS, JR., a Texas
businessman; two entities in which CHALMERS was the sole
shareholder, BAYOIL (USA), INC., an oil company based in Texas,
and BAYOIL SUPPLY & TRADING LIMITED, a Bahamian company
(collectively, the “BAYOIL COMPANIES”); and two individuals who
worked with CHALMERS to purchase Iraqi oil for the BAYOIL
COMPANIES, JOHN IRVING, a British citizen, and LUDMIL DIONISSIEV,
a Bulgarian citizen and legal permanent resident of the United
States, currently residing in Houston, Texas. The charges are
contained in a Superseding Indictment filed under seal on April
13, 2005, and unsealed today in Manhattan federal court.
On Wednesday 1st March, a planned operation carried out jointly by HM Customs and Excise and the PSNI’s Fraud and Organised Crime Squads resulted in a substantial amount of counterfeit and illegal films being seized.
The DVDs, a substantial sum of cash and other items concerned in the making of counterfeit DVDs was seized during searches at shops in Belfast City centre and at a house and commercial premises in Ballymoney. The total value of items seized is estimated at £600,000.
A man and a woman were arrested in the Ballymoney area.
SUSAN COOKE KITTREDGE daughter of broadcaster Alastair Cooke tells how her father's body parts were sold on via the gruesome business of selling parts of the deceased.
March 5, 2006 NYT
Douglas Farah has a good blog and valuable insight into the activities of Mr Osama Bin Laden, his influence on the border region of Waziristan etc., and doom laden reports on the wisdom of military action in the home of the opium poppy. It demonstrates how unwise it is to read too much into reports in 2002 such as this ... "On 18 March 2002, the Secretary of State for Defence announced that a Commando battlegroup was being dispatched to work with US, Canadian and other Coalition forces in operations against remaining pockets of Al Qaida and Taliban resistance in Afghanistan. It was confirmed on 16 April that 45 Commando Group had commenced operations."
PS. David Mills the talented international lawyer and separated husband of the tragic but beautiful Tessa Jowell, is NOT involved in heroin smuggling , financing or drug distribution. (Note that a recent report (BBC 5/8/2005) stated that the River Po showed such a concentration of the products (benzoylecgonine (BE)) of cocaine that Italy must claim to be the highest users oc cocaine in the world).
"Close" friends of Tessa Jowell attached little credence to rumours of her husband's association with Red September and their bombings of off licences and pubs. The daughter of an ex-Labour Prime MInister said she thought that even if he was implicated in supplying funds to the jihadist muslim brigades he would not have told her about it.
David M, well known in New Labour circles said that even if rumours that Tony Blair (prime Minister) was pressing for beatification of Tessa through contacts Silvio Berlusconi has with the Holy Father, he thought that David Mill's claimed "involvement" with Satanic child abuse was something he kept secret from his lovely and talented wife even if there was no evidence beyond a large file held by the Crown Prosecution Service.
An ex associate of the Prime Minister with Press contacts, (and a close interest in football) thought that now David Mills was "separated" from his "hard working" wife life could return to normal and if David Mills was, as hinted, witholding money from his wife he got all he deserved. Asked if it was true that David Mills had murdered his first wife, he gnomically answered , "Maybe he did, maybe he didn't". "What is important is the saintly Tess gets on with her job, saving the country for 24 hour binge drinking, gambling and watching the Olympics on TV... which will by then be wholly owned by Berlusconi Mega EuroTV " he said winking broadly and grinning.
A family "friend" denied that constant beatings by her husband had sapped her morale and that she was facing the future free of her husband's "attentions" to save the country from boredom by feree access to alcohol , circuses and 24/7 gambling.
"Free of her husband, who is probably planning World War III with the Iranians now" said a well known member of the cabinet, "Tessa will shine like the star she is".
Tessa Jowell is 35.
Antony Barnett, investigations editor, Sunday August 7, 2005, The Observer
"Dramatic new evidence about the close relationship between ministers and some of the most senior figures in US gambling, who were planning to build Las Vegas-style super casinos across Britain, can be revealed today.
Documents obtained by The Observer reveal how the Department for Culture, Media and Sport pressed the Treasury to change rules on money laundering to help US gambling corporations. They also show that ministers and department officials held meetings with senior casino officials behind closed doors in Las Vegas, South Africa and France as well as the UK.
The disclosures raise serious questions about statements denying any move on money laundering given to the Commons by the Culture Secretary, Tessa Jowell. The Conservatives have accused Jowell of misleading parliament and have written to her demanding an explanation.
In the Commons last November, Jowell dismissed Tory claims that her department had been in any discussions with casino groups about money laundering laws.
Two days later, during Prime Minister's Questions, Michael Howard pressed Tony Blair over the issue. The Prime Minister said claims that casinos had been offered special concessions were 'ridiculous'.
The Observer has obtained a briefing note sent in May 2004 from culture department official Richard Beston to culture minister Lord McIntosh, who was in charge of the bill. This reveals that discussions about easing the rules on money laundering did take place between ministers and casino bosses and that Jowell's department tried to get the Treasury to give casino groups special exemptions.
The note, released under the Freedom of Information Act, was sent ahead of a meeting with MGM's European boss, Lloyd Nathan, at the House of Lords.
etc., etc.,
Curiously the Sunday Times reported in October 2005 that Mr Nathan met Lord Levy, major Labour fund raiser. Which is not surprrsing as Mr Nathan;s son is a friend of Lord Levy's son. It just shows what a small world it is when you start mixing csino owners, Labour MP's and peers.
There is also some tosh about Jowell also having a drink problem , paying off the drinks industry with 24 hour drinking to compensate for the smoking ban in public places.... what nonsense !
.... and swinging parties at the Warwickshire party palace ... phooooey no truth whatsoever.
Miss Jowell is of course a Privy Counsellor.
THE OVAL OFFICE, FEBRUARY 7, 2004 BROADCAST ON NBC’S “MEET THE PRESS”
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2004 TIM RUSSERT MEETS PRESIDENT BUSH
"I'm a war president. I make decisions here in the Oval Office in foreign-policy matters with war on my mind."
"Intelligence is a vital part of fighting and winning the war against the terrorists. It is — because the war against terrorists is a war against individuals who hide in caves in remote parts of the world ....."
Emigrate to warmer climes or buy a forest and install a wood burning stove.
Recent blogs on same topic here
The US government has charged Muhammed Salah a used car dealer from suburban Bridgeview, with supporting terrorism, largely based on confessions he made in Israel in 1993. In a federal court hearing Friday, Salah contended he was tortured into confessing.
Salah is free on bond and left court Friday afternoon following a several hour hearing to determine whether the signed confession from 1993 will be allowed as evidence during his trial this October.
"We are not going to allow this kind of evidence. We have a Constitution, we have a Bill of Rights, we have a sense of fairness. That is what we're going to focus on," said Robert Bloom, Salah's lawyer.
The BBC reports that a man called David Kirk, describing himself as David Mills's solicitor says that Mr Mills and Miss(sic) Jowell are to separate.
"They hope that over time their relationship can be restored, but, given the current circumstances, they have agreed a period of separation."
Let's hope he remembers to tell her.
Meanwhile the police are keeping a VERY close eye on Blackfriars Bridge.
George left India where he had enjoyed conferring Non signing status of the Nuclear NOn Proliferation Treaty on his new found ally - to put them on a par with Israel.
George went on to see his old chum General Musharraf, President of the Muslim Republic of Pakistan, for a few tips. Remember how on August 21st 2002 the General (whose name Dubya had famously been ignorant of) unilaterally redrew Pakistan's Constitution all by himself. He adopted 29 amendments (Legal Framework Order, 2002 [Chief Executive's Order No. 24 of 2002]) that greatly expanded the powers he acquired when he enjoyed the fruits of a 1999 military coup and became the leader of Pakistan. (On October 12, 1999, the government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was simply removed from power by the Armed Forces led by General Pervez Musharraf.)
One of those 29 amendments allowed him to make further amendments any time he wants. In addition, he gave himself the power to dissolve the elected Parliament and to appoint the country's military chiefs and Supreme Court Justices. He also allotted some seats on a newly created National Security Council to the military. He explicitly stated that the Parliament that will be elected will not have the power to repeal the constitutional amendments he adopted. Describing the changes, he said: "This is part of the Constitution. I am hereby making it part of the Constitution."
On December 31, 2003: The Seventeenth Amendment Bill incorporated these changes into the Constutution by parliamentary approval.
To be precise it reads ...
(1) The Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, 1973, referred to in this Order as the Constitution, is hereby amended to the extent and in the manner specified in column (3) of the Schedule.
2) If there is any necessity for any further amendment of the Constitution or any difficulty arises in giving effect to any of the provisions of this Order, the Chief Executive may make such provisions and pass or promulgate such orders for amending the Constitution or for removing any difficulty as he may deem fit.
(3) The validity of any provision made, or orders passed, under clauses (1) and (2) shall not be called in question in any court on any ground whatsoever.
George is getting there .... not too far to go now. Sneh Sneh ... these sand niggers got a few tricks up their sleeves ... must have a word with Alberto.
Automotive supplier Dana Corp., whose shares have lost more than half their value during the past two sessions, threw its U.S. operations into voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Friday, conceding that they were no longer able to meet financial commitments.
Delphi the other major supplier to both GM and Ford are already in Ch 11. Dana supplied some 40% of their sales to GM / Ford.
How long before GM seek Ch 11 ?
Get ready for an interesting article here on the Berry amendment and it's effect on DOD suppliers .... you should already be up to speed on PAN carbon fibre production.
If Dubya says Katrina was unprecedented he should have seen this posted on September 5th 2005
Guns, Germs & Steeled
Commentary from Dr. Stephen C. Nodvin
Unprecedented and Unexpected
September 5th, 2005
"Federal officials, one after another, falsely proclaimed this week that the destruction by Hurricane Katrina was “unprecedented” and “unexpected”. These assertions have been called into question by many. What is known for sure is that the incompetence of the federal government’s planning and response is what is unprecedented. As I stated earlier on this blog, I have known about the potential dangers of the New Orleans levee system for over 25 years. If I knew about these dangers, why didn’t the President, the head of Homeland Security, or certainly the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency know?"
read on ....
Steven Smith is a scientist working in Italy. He has contributed an essay to the University of Indiana which is published here about Signor Berlusconi, the man who lends his villas out to Tony Blair - who is represented by a cunt like David Mills, who in an application to practise in the United Arab Emirates, sent four months ago, he tried to reassure financial authorities they had no reason to worry about the ongoing investigation in Italy.
The letter ( to the Dubair Finanacial Services Authority ) reads: "You will know that I'm married to a minister in the government of this country and that in itself has caused a great deal of unwelcome publicity about this case.
"But I also want you to know, I have a lot of support and sympathy from very many people in public life, from the prime minister down."
To those interested in the lives of apologists for Signor Berlusconi, such as David Mills might read Mr Smith's article with interest and profit.
Newsweek have an interview with Signor Berlusconi who visited the US this week. Apparently when he compared himself to Christ it was due to a misunderstanding.
Channel 4 has a site for "The IT Crowd" their late night weirdness about the dysfunctional young in our society condemned to sysadmin.
If you relate, here are some jokes for you ...
-- Remember, only two industries refer to their customers as users.
-- There are only 10 kinds of people, those who understand binary, and those who don't.
"The familiar dot (.) symbol from Internet addresses shall be used on this website to denote the end of a sentence."
"The future is already here, it just isn't evenly distributed."
"When the customer demands the impossible, they will end up buying from the guy who offers them the impossible. And the results, though tragic, are sadly predictable." (Robert A. Heinlien)
"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." (Rich Cook)
All models are wrong; Some are useful.
For every complex problem, there exists a simple solution, which is wrong.
"The last 10% of any software project will take 90% of the budgeted time. The first 90% will take the other 90%"
On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. - Charles Babbage
"The most successful method of programming is to begin a program as simply as possible, test it, and then add to the program until it performs the required job."
-- The PDP-8/e Small Computer Handbook (DEC, 1972) - Chapter 9, Page 9-64
"A specification that cannot be fit on one 8.5 x 11 inch piece of paper cannot be understood." -- Mark Andis
Computers are high-speed idiots, programmed by low-speed idiots
The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents. -- Nathaniel Borenstein
The primary purpose of the DATA statement is to give names to constants; instead of referring to pi as 3.141592653589793 at every appearance, the variable PI can be given that value with a DATA statement and used instead of the longer form of the constant. This also simplifies modifying the program, should the value of pi change. -- FORTRAN manual for Xerox Computers
"There are two ways of constructing a software design; one way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." -- C. A. R. Hoare
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. (John Gall)
Working software is the primary measure of progress. (The Agile Manifesto)
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice, but in practice there is.
"An unplanned project takes twice as long to complete, a well planned project takes three times as long."
Computers let you make more mistakes than any other invention in history....with the possible exception of handguns and tequila.
"Two things have come out of Berkley, Unix and Acid, we do not belive this to be a coincidence
"Programming is the process of converting caffeine into error messages"
Always code as if the person who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.
If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution.
Linux sucks twice as fast and 10 times more reliably, and since you have the source, it's your fault. -Ca1v1n
Go to the IT Crowd website (if you have reached this far ...) and you can watch how true all the above lines are.
In Heller's Catch 22 , Milo Minderbender is the entrepreneur of the company who swaps the airmen's parachutes for share certificates and then sells them on to whoever will have them, "for the good of the country". Milo goes about setting up M&M enterprises who's defining moment comes when they bomb there own Airfield in order to save planes and time and to get rid of some much hated cotton which he has accumulated.
Mulling over the assonance of Catch 22 for the fate of tortured prisoners at Guantanamo Bay (see below) I was struck by the role of David Mill's the unwiped, bemerded arsehole who is married to the lying fuckwit privy Counsellor, Tessa "Amnesia Freelove" Jowell who is responsible for the money pit on the Thames which will (allegedly) house the 2013 Olympics.
Leaving his home in his glossy but well frosted Beamer yesterday he removed his wing mirror on a reporters open car door.
"Who will pay for that ?" shouted the irate and deeply unpleasant lawyer - evidently used to others picking up the tab for his stupidity.
"Berlusconi?" said a quick witted reporter.
That's him. Mills Milo Minderbender. What a cunt.
The Washington Post today reports that Bush administration lawyers, say detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, cannot use legislation drafted by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) to challenge treatment that the detainee's lawyers described as "systematic torture.They have successfully argued that the new law that bans cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment of detainees in U.S. custody does not apply to people held at the military prison.
In court filings, the Justice Department lawyers argued that language in the law written by Sens. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) and Carl M. Levin (D-Mich.) gives Guantanamo Bay detainees access to the courts only to appeal their enemy combatant status determinations and convictions by military commissions.
"Unfortunately, I think the government's right; it's a correct reading of the law," said Tom Malinowski, Washington advocacy director for Human Rights Watch. "The law says you can't torture detainees at Guantanamo, but it also says you can't enforce that law in the courts."
Thomas Wilner, a lawyer representing several detainees at Guantanamo, agreed that the law cannot be enforced. "This is what Guantanamo was about to begin with, a place to keep detainees out of the U.S. precisely so they can say they can't go to court," Wilner said.
Yossarian would be laughing.
...officially Minister for Circuses , as distinct from Minister for Bread ... hubby looks after the Bread ... apparently.
Tessa Jowell Uk Minister for Circuses , is reported by Reuters to have said on USD$600,000 loan AKA Gift her husband didn't tell her about for 4 years and used to pay off a mortgage for £408,000 on the family home....
"However, I fully accept my husband should have informed me and if he had, I would of course have reported it,"
"At a time of unprecedented challenge and opportunity for America's ally in the Middle East, the deep and abiding support for Israel in all quarters of American society is truly exemplified by this year's conference," said AIPAC President Bernice Manocherian. "Support for Israel is not a Democratic value or a Republican value, it is an American value," she said.
They kick off proceedings on Sunday (after the Israeli national anthem (which they didn't sing last year because of the impending charges against AIPAC spies being caught - who are now in trial) "Global Challenge: How the International Community Can Stop Iran"
-- Ambassador John R. Bolton, United States Permanent Representative to the United Nations
-- Dr. David Kay, former IAEA/UNSCOM Chief Nuclear Weapons Inspector
More details here
For those interested Judge T.S. Ellis ruled Monday in the case against former American Israel Public Affairs Committee employees Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman, against the request of the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy. That group wanted to file a brief arguing that AIPAC operates as a quasi-intelligence organization that infiltrates Congress and the White House. .... don't expect any public discussion of the case at the Conference.
You can read about the murder of Rachel Corrie by the Israeli state here .The Play “My Name Is Rachel Corrie”, Directed In London By Actor Alan Rickman and Due To Open In New York City In March, Has Been Cancelled For Fear Of Controversy The Theatre Workshop Cited The Election Of Hamas In Palestine, Ariel Sharon’s Medical Condition And The Furor Over The Danish Cartoons As Reasons For Refusing To Stage The Play. More here
"My Name is Rachel Corrie" was written by Rickman and an editor of The Guardian newspaper of London, Katharine Viner.
The play is based on diary entries and e-mails by Corrie, a political activist from Olympia (Nr Seattle) who died in 2003 in a refugee camp near the Egyptian border while protesting Israel's demolition of Palestinian homes there.
Alan Rickman told The Guradian that the New York Theatre Workshop's decision was an act of "censorship born out of fear." New York Theatre Workshop director Jim Nicola said the play, which his company had not formerly announced it would present, is being postponed due to the current "very edgy" political situation in Israel.
"Daughter Courage," a different play about Corrie by the Vermont troupe Bread and Puppet Theater, will play at Seattle's Consolidated Works arts center March 8-11.
You can e-mail the The Theater Director with a message of support at: LynnM@nytw.org
Sign a petition here
Or visit the Rachel Corrie website
If you want to see what the thinking voice of the Republ.ican party think about it you can visit the Free Republic site here and also here
Sample Posts ...
Worthless traitor bitch.
The(y) couldn't find an actress flat-chested enough for the part.
Murdered? I call that a Darwin award nominee.
I, on the other, think that Rachel Corrie got what she deserved. She was protecting a smuggling tunnel for terrorist's arms. I WISH the bulldozer had run over her deliberately, but these days the good guys are too squeamis to do what must be done.
And how far did that bulldozer have to chase her before finally running her down?
She wasn't murdered, she committed suicide and the world is a btter place for it. She was the epitome of evil as she taught children to hate.
Can I go and cheer for the bulldozer?
She was so freaking dumb that her mind which had been rotted by drugs and Evergreen University campus ideology could not comprehend that she would be in danger standing hidden infront of a 30 ton machine.
Evidently the still, quiet voice of reason at work there then. You can of course turn to the AIPAC site and read of the passage of the Foreign Aid Bill 4th Jan 2005
Both the House of Representatives and Senate have overwhelmingly approved the fiscal year 2006 foreign aid bill, which includes $2.52 billion in economic and military assistance to Israel. By votes of 358-39 and 91-0, respectively, both chambers demonstrated the United States' unshak(e)able commitment to Israel's security by approving this critical assistance.
Global demand for poly acryloniytrile (PAN) carbon fiber is estimated at 25,000 tons. Demand will grow to 40,000 tons by 2010. It's characteristics of lightness and strength will determine the succes of the new generation of passenger airliners the Boeing 787 and the Airbus 380.
Three Japanese companies, Toray Industries Inc., Toho Tenax Co. and Mitsubishi Rayon Co. together control about 70 percent of the global market for carbon fibre.Current uptake is in the region of 26,000 tons and will grow to 40,000 tons by 2010.The fibre is increasingly in use in the blades of wind driven electricity turbines.
Industry leader Toray, with 30% of world production, is the principal supplier of Torayca* fibre for Boeing Co.'s B787 Dreamliner passenger aircraft which will require about 30 tons of carbon fibre per aircraft (the Boeing 777 uses Toray fibre).The company opened the worlds biggest facility in Decatur, Alabama in 1999 which recently introduced a new line to double capacity to 1,800 tons per year.
By volume, carbon fiber composite materials account for about 50 percent of the B787,
including the fuselage and main wings. Toray is adding new production lines on its 860,000-square-meter factory in Masaki, Ehime Prefecture to meet this demand.
In total the company is investing about 25 billion yen on three production lines, two for carbon fiber and the other for sheet products to increase capacity to 13,000 tons per annum from current 9,000 tons.
Toho Tenax, (part of the Teijin Group) the next biggest supplier is running its factory in Nagaizumi, Shizuoka Prefecture, at full capacity to produce carbon fiber mainly for Airbus SAS's A380 super-jumbo jet, which is scheduled to start commercial flights this year.
The company is expanding its factories in the United States(Rockwood TN) and Germany to raise its annual group production capacity to 7,800 tons in September, up from the current 5,600 tons.
Mitsubishi Rayon the third major world supplier is also spending 8 Billion Yen to add
capacity at its factory in Toyohashi, Aichi Prefecture, and its plants in the United States (Grafil Inc. Sacramento CA) and France and wants to boost production to 8,000 tons up from 5,000 tons.
On Sept 27, 2000, the couple took out a mortgage on the property with S G Hambros Bank and Trust Ltd.
They paid off this mortgage of £408,000 on December 1, 2000.(9 weeks later). It would be entirely improper to suggest that, though this is a method used to launder funds, that this was the reason for this short term loan secured on the couple's house.
The Home Office in a statement it said: "In late 2004, the Serious Fraud Office received a request from the Milan Prosecutor for legal advice about the circumstances in which David Mills could be extradited under UK law, based upon possible charges against him."
"The request was passed to the Crown Prosecution Service, who took legal advice which was passed by the Home Office to the Italian Embassy in May 2005, since extradition requests are normally handled on diplomatic channels.
Charles Clarke, the Home Secretary, is quoted in the Times Online saying: "The allegations of the Italian prosecution are completely untrue.
"The fact is that there is a well established extradition procedure which operates with Italy as with other countries and we would follow all normal procedures.
"No request for extradition has come from Italy at this stage and hasn’t done at any previous stage - but the fact is that the allegations that we’ve been in any sense un-co-operative are completely false."
Dame Barbara Mills, DBE, QC is The Adjudicator for the Inland Revenue and Customs and Excise, having been from 1992 to 1998, the Director of Public Prosecutions. As Director of the Serious Fraud Office Dame Barbara dealt with the BCCI case. In 1986 she was a DTI inspector under the Financial Services Act and has been a member of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board, a Legal Assessor to the General Medical Council and a member of the Parole Board amongst others. She is David Mills's sister in law.
Arundhati Roy, Resident of Delhi ... novelist (Booker Prize winner) writing in The Nation today ...
It is not in our power to stop Bush's visit. It is in our power to protest it, and we will. The government, the police and the corporate press will do everything they can to minimize the extent of our outrage. Nothing the happy newspapers say can change the fact that all over India, from the biggest cities to the smallest villages, in public places and private homes, George W. Bush, the President of the United States of America, world nightmare incarnate, is just not welcome.
When the United States invaded Iraq, a New York Times/CBS News survey estimated that 42 percent of the American public believed that Saddam Hussein was directly responsible for the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. And an ABC news poll said that 55 percent of Americans believed that Saddam Hussein directly supported al-Qaeda. None of this opinion is based on evidence (because there isn't any). All of it is based on insinuation, auto-suggestion and outright lies circulated by the U.S. corporate media. Public support in the U.S. for the war against Iraq was founded on a multi-tiered edifice of falsehood and deceit, coordinated by the U.S. government and faithfully amplified by the press. etc etc .,
U.S. Troops in Iraq: 72% Say End War in 2006
Le Moyne College/Zogby Poll shows just one in five troops want to heed Bush call to stay “as long as they are needed”
* While 58% say mission is clear, 42% say U.S. role is hazy
* Plurality believes Iraqi insurgents are mostly homegrown
* Almost 90% think war is retaliation for Saddam’s role in 9/11, most don’t blame Iraqi public for insurgent attacks
* Majority of troops oppose use of harsh prisoner interrogation
* Plurality of troops pleased with their armor and equipment
An overwhelming majority of 72% of American troops serving in Iraq think the U.S. should exit the country within the next year, and nearly one in four say the troops should leave immediately, a new Le Moyne College/Zogby International survey shows.
Click on link for detailed analysis ...... any rational person would put these results on a level with those polls in women's magazines .."What do you look for in a fella ?"
How can these honest, proud, decent guys (and gals), fighting the Long War on Terrarism, bringing Democracy to the Stupid IslamoFascists .... be so dumb ?
Condi with Mubarak
"What part of the phrase, Fuck Off don't you understand lady ?"
Friday 24th Feb 11.00 o clock ... posted
On Friday afternoon in Eastern Saudi Arabia, two car bombs were detonated in an attempt to cripple the world’s largest oil processing center, the ARAMCO complex in Abqaiq (also known as Buqayq). The attempt largely failed in its primary mission, but also largely succeeded in its secondary mission, which is more and more becoming recognized as a form of information warfare via the world’s media outlets.......
New Documents Provide Further Evidence That Senior Officials Approved Abuse of Prisoners at Guantánamo (2/23/2006)
The American Civil Liberties Union have done a terrific job in obtaining a batch of documents under the Freedom of Information Act which have received scant attention in the mainstream press. You can view copies here ... although many have "redactions" - that's fucking lawyer talk for covering up / concealing.
....Still other documents released today by the ACLU provide FBI agents’ descriptions of interrogations they witnessed at Guantánamo. One such document states: “Last evening I went to observe an interview of REDACTED with REDACTED. The adjoining room, observable from the monitoring booth, was occupied by 2 DHS investigators showing a detainee homosexual porn movies and using a strobe light in the room. We moved our interview to a different room. We’ve heard that DHS interrogators routinely identify themselves as FBI agents and then interrogate a detainee for 16-18 hours using tactics as described above and others (wrapping in Israeli flag, constant loud music, cranking the A/C down, etc.) The next time a real Agent tries to talk to that guy, you can imagine the result.”
Wrapping them in an Israeli flag ? Why, that's done by many of these evil fucking bastards in the US Administration every day of the week
Feb. 27, 2006, 2:46PM Substance found at UT is not ricin
Rummy's "long war" on terror took on a radically new meaning this weekend.
A powdery substance found in a roll of quarters by a University of Texas student on Thursday while doing laundry in her dormitory is not the deadly toxin ricin, FBI officials said Sunday.
FBI agents took custody of the sample Saturday and sent it to the Interagency Biomedical Research Confederation Fort Detrick, Md., Within a day, scientists at the Army base determined it was not ricin or any other dangerous material.
So if ricin was a problem (which it isn't as it is only lethal if enjected in a very pure form) the field testing procedures are crap and it would take three days to find out if it was ricin ... curiously Fort Detrick have declined to say what the powder was .... Colombian marching powder anybody ?
Google News has 773 hits for this story .... Ricin ... deadly ... lethal ... we are all going to die !!!!
It is generally accepted that American Airlines Flight 77 did not fly into the Pentagon on 11th September 2001. Details of the passengers who have been identified by DNA can be found here.
Leslie a. Whittington, 45, of University Park, Md., was a professor at Georgetown University in Washington.
Whittington, her husband, Charles S. Falkenberg, and two daughters were leaving for a trip to Australia when American Flight 77 is supposed to have crashed into the Pentagon. They mailed postcards to family members from Dulles International Airport. Those postcards arrived, but no details are available on the web.
George and Ruth Koch are the parents of Ruth their 45-year-old daughter....During an interview with their local paper in 2004, Koch delicately handled eerie mementos of the crash found during cleanup: Whittington's battered driver's license. One granddaughters' luggage tag.
...... a burnt luggage tag and a wedding ring lie on a book dedicated to those lost in the events of Sept. 11, 2001. The wedding ring belonged to Ruth's daughter and the luggage tag belonged to one her granddaughters.... says the caption to the photo in the paper.
The Kochs plan to send the items to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington for inclusion in a 9/11 display.
No traces of massive titanium jet engines, and a huge jetliner survived, but a lightly toasted luggage tag and a child's ring survived.
Now if this family did not die in the Pentagon ... where did they die?
The Austin Statesman reports a mysterious whitish-brown powder found in a roll of quarters in a dormitory room on the University of Texas campus might not be the poison ricin after all.
A preliminary test by the Texas Department of State Health Services laboratory in Austin returned a positive result for the potentially fatal substance, prompting an evacuation of the Moore-Hill residence hall, an investigation by the FBI and worries of a link to terrorism.
Students were allowed to return to the Moore-Hill residence hall after two cleanings of affected areas, but the UT dorm was abuzz with activity Saturday as the investigation continued. UT police officer Adrian Slaymaker stands watch.
But three subsequent tests at the same lab came up negative.
In addition, none of the people who might have been exposed — including the student with the quarters, her mother, her roommate and their residence hall assistant — has symptoms of ricin poisoning. The symptoms, which typically include breathing difficulty, cough, fever, nausea and tightess in the chest, usually develop within hours of exposure, health officials said.
"I'm pretty confident it's not ricin," Mike Elliott, senior district commander for Austin-Travis County Emergency Medical Services, said Saturday. "The state lab tends to be more presumptive in telling you what it might be."
Difficult to believe stories from Texas, VP shoots a 6"2" lawyer mistaking him for 6 ounce quail ...
The FBI called in specialists in weapons of mass destruction from Quantico, Va.,
also called in were ... the Joint Terrorism Task Force .... on Saturday, local hazardous materials crews took apart washing machines at the dorm to see if they could find any additional powder....
You can begin to understand how difficult it was investigating 9/11.... good job they shipped all the evidence to a chinese scrapyard ... save all that stupid forensic nonsense.
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Sheryl Crow one of the finest singer / songwriters performing today, underwent surgery for breast cancer earlier this week and the good news is the prognosis for a full recovery is excellent.
In a statement on her Web site, Crow said she would have to postpone a North American concert tour that was scheduled to begin in March. She said she hoped to reschedule the dates as soon as possible.
Crow called the surgery "minimally invasive" and said she will be undergoing radiation treatment as a precaution. She said she benefited from early detection, and urged other women to have themselves checked.
Crow, 43, and Armstrong, 34, announced earlier this month they were splitting up. It would have been the Grammy-winning rock star's first marriage and the second for Armstrong, a seven-time Tour de France cycling champion. Crow said her most recent album, the Grammy-nominated "Wildflower," was inspired by their relationship.
She grew up in Kennett, Mo., and sang in the local choir.She worked as a music teacher and backup singer, including some time with Michael Jackson, she broke as a solo act with the 1993 multi-platinum recording "Tuesday Night Music Club." She also appeared with the Stones on their "40 Licks tour" and album.
A Revolutionary Act re-visits the London bombings on 7/7. Charles Clarke, an overweight Cambridge mathematician who doubles as Home Secretary, and has all the personality of a "I speak your weight machine" says we are to be treated to a Civil Servant written "Timeline" of events on that fateful day last year.
My interest started immediately, on 14th July I proposed the theory that the "suicide bombers" were in fact duped bomb couriers.
Nothing has changed that view ... everyone should review everything that has been written ready to rubbish the concoction of lies, untruths, fictions and general bullshit any such "official" explanation will contain. It is essential that a well informed public take the publication of this "Timeline" immediately.
Get ready NOW. By the way if you know where Nadeem Fiez is, let me know. It would be interesting to ask him about the time he spent with PC Plod for 48 hours in Paddington Green Police Station. Pic ... the "Trial run" note the date.
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A film by Phil Jayhan and Korey Rowe which exposes the lies in the Official Conspiracy theory about how the WTC towers fell down, the Pentagon blew up etc.,
The question remains ... whatever happened to the passengers ?
View the 1 hr 20 minute video here and pass it on.
OK there never was an "official" story, the media made it up as they went along, prompted by the lies ....
Strange how nobody wants to remember the passengers - if we have to accept they didn't die in Shanksville, the Pentagon and the planes that hit the WTC were empty ... how did they die ?
Iraqi dentist Healing Iraq ..... more of what is happening on the street in Bhagdad.
(C) Very Seriously Disorganised Criminals 2002/3/4/5/6/7/8/9 - copy anything you wish
