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Thursday, November 16, 2006 |
CommonDreams: "Environmental advocates sued the Bush administration Tuesday for ignoring a 2004 congressional deadline to report to lawmakers and the public on the latest research on global warming.
A 1990 federal law requires the government to produce a scientific report every four years on climate change and its effects on the environment, including land, water, air, plant and animal life and human health.
'The Bush administration has failed to comply with the law,' said attorney Julie Teel of the Center for Biological Diversity, which is a plaintiff in the lawsuit. 'I think the administration's afraid to release this information because it makes climate change real for people.'"
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Journalismus: "The Central Intelligence Agency has acknowledged for the first time the existence of two classified documents, including one signed by President George W. Bush, that have guided the agency's interrogation and detention of terror suspects.
The contents of the documents were not revealed, but one document, as described by the ACLU, is 'a directive signed by President Bush granting the CIA the authority to set up detention facilities outside the United States and outlining interrogation methods that may be used against detainees'."
TheNation: "The annual protest of the US Army's School of the Americas at Fort Benning, Georgia, has grown dramatically in recent years, drawing 10,000 people in 2003, 16,000 in 2004 and 19,000 in 2005. Building on that momentum, the movement to close the controversial institution is expanding its horizons even further this weekend. As peace activists from throughout the United States converge at the gates of Fort Benning, SOA protesters will simultaneously take to the streets in Santiago, Bogotá, San Salvador and several other Latin American cities. The demonstrations offer a strong testament to the growing international movement to reject US military policy."
AlterNet: "The political astuteness of the decision by President Bush to replace Rumsfeld with Gates has escaped notice by many Democrats, who seem inclined simply to gloat over the demise of their archenemy. However, removing Rumsfeld not only eliminated an all-too convenient lightening rod for democratic angst over Bush's Iraq policies, but also, by putting Gates up in his stead, bought the Bush administration much needed political breathing room, as Gate's cannot be held accountable for policy failures he had nothing to do with either formulating or implementing. Indeed, given the fact that the Democrats have as of yet failed to articulate anything that remotely resembles a sound policy option regarding Iraq, instead falling back on the age-old tradition of criticizing without offering a solution of their own, a Gates controlled Defense Department will be almost untouchable from an oversight perspective, especially if Gates chooses to act on any of the policy options the Baker-led Iraq Study Group may recommend to the President."
ICH: "The important question is: Can the Iran Study Group be expected to come up with constructive suggestions for alternative policy on Iraq. The answer is no.
For an effort to come up with bold policy initiatives, 'bipartisan', is the kiss of death. Such a group needs to be nonpartisan, as was the group of 'Wise Men' put together by presidential adviser Clark Clifford, at Lyndon Johnson's request, after the Vietnam Tet offensive in early 1968, when Johnson could no longer avoid the conclusion that he had gotten bad - often dishonest - advice from his generals and his always-up-beat inner circle."
Demo-Glad can have irritating side-effects.
A new army recruitment drive is something we don't need.
Jeanne 'Linda' Michel, a Navy medic, came home last month from the war in Iraq, to her husband and three kids (ages 11, 5, and 4), delighted to be back in her suburban home of Clifton Park in upstate New York. Michel, 33, would be discharged from the Navy in a few weeks, finishing her five years of duty.
"Two weeks after she got home, she shot and killed herself.
Michel has served under extremely stressful conditions at Camp Bucca in southern Iraq, a U.S-run prison where guards shot four inmates dead in a 2005 riot - and an episode of female mudwrestling drew headlines. Michel was treated for depression and prescribed Paxil, but they took her off that medicine when she returned home. Her husband was not informed."
The situation in Afghanistan is as desperate.
BBC: "Increasing numbers of Afghan women are committing suicide by setting fire to themselves to escape difficult lives, according to NGOs based in the country."
I have said it before and will repeat it whenever appropriate. George W. Bush is personally responsible for the atrocities and he should be tried as a war criminal. Personally I am against the death penalty, but in this case I think the ultimate penalty must be considered. Bush should be tried and sentenced according to the same rules that exist in Texas for murderers.
11:17:54 AM
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