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Thursday, May 5, 2005 |
BBC: "Police say they have found fragments of an explosive device after a blast outside the UK consulate in New York."
1. Within minutes emergency services rushed to the area.
2. A spokesman for the New York Police Department said a device was detonated in one of the cement flower boxes used as a barrier outside the building.
That was quick and where was the surveillance before the blast? Which seems to suggest that this is a last effort to boost support for Blair; a present from his friend Dubya?
12:12:26 PM 
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Spiegel: Nobel Prize laureate Günter Grass has spoken harsh words in the debate about modern capitalism. He said the influence of the industry lobbyists in the German Parliament is a danger to democracy.
Members of Parliament are no longer free in their decisions. He considers the increasing influence of industry lobbyists on politics to be more dangerous for democracy than right-wing radicalism.
'Parliament is subordinated to the powerful industry conglomerates, the banks and corporations, who operate without democratic control. Parliament is turned into a subsidiary of the Stock Exchange. This again creates a society of classes.'
As we live in a global economy, this holds true for the whole of Europe and the whole world.
11:49:10 AM
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CommonDreams: "American commanders promote a widespread misconception that, once American youth sign an enlistment contract, they are obligated to participate in any kind of war, whether it is based on fraud or truth, whether it is a preemptive invasion or a genuine war of self-defense. In a 'voluntary military', Rumsfeld said at a recent press conference, soldiers have no right to complain.
That's preposterous. No soldier owes absolute allegiance to any military system. The prevailing doctrine of blind obedience is a fascist, not a democratic, doctrine of military service. Of course all military systems require discipline, and all operate through a chain of command. But the legal authority of command depends on adherence to the rule of law. As sailor Pablo Paredes noted recently, the U.S. Military Code of Justice says that, while soldiers are obligated to obey all legal orders, the same soldiers have a right, even a duty, to disobey illegal orders. That is the essence of the legal case for military resistance.
Once unrestrained leaders, in their lust for power and world domination, place our military system beyond domestic and international law, the obligation of soldiers to serve the military in its state of lawlessness is dissolved. Long ago Thomas Jefferson captured the spirit of legal resistance when he wrote: 'Whensoever the general Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force.'
Outside defensive necessity, American troops have no obligation to serve in war.
It is one thing for Marines, or army reservists or sailors to risk life in defense of their country under attack. It is quite another to take innocent lives in other countries in order to placate corporate lust for power and profit."
Katu: "Japan will withdraw its 550 soldiers from their non-combat mission in Iraq in December, according to a media report Wednesday."
All nations should withdraw their support for an illegal war.
11:26:42 AM
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