Guest guest Posted August 17, 2006 Report Share Posted August 17, 2006 _http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0810-04.htm_ (http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0810-04.htm) Published on Thursday, August 10, 2006 by the _Associated Press _ (http://www.ap.org/) Retroactive War Crime Protection Proposed by Pete Yost The Bush administration drafted amendments to the War Crimes Act that would retroactively protect policymakers from possible criminal charges for authorizing any humiliating and degrading treatment of detainees, according to lawyers who have seen the proposal. === The neocons' next war _http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2006/08/03/mideast/index_np.html_ (http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2006/08/03/mideast/index_np.html) By secretly providing NSA intelligence to Israel and undermining the hapless Condi Rice, hardliners in the Bush administration are trying to widen the Middle East conflict to Iran and Syria, not stop it. === _http://www.isecureonline.com/Reports/RCH/ERCHG809/?o=394823 & u=11029446 & l=7927 53_ (http://www.isecureonline.com/Reports/RCH/ERCHG809/?o=394823 & u=11029446 & l=792753\ ) " Today, gross national debt is cresting an unbelievable $8 trillion and counting. That's an average debt for a family of four of $107,000! " " The U.S. trade deficit is the biggest in history, at over $600 billion and climbing. " Take unemployment. If it's low, that looks good. And right now, we're supposed to believe it stands at " 5.5%. " Problem is, changes under both Clinton and Bush have reinvented the way we calculate those numbers... to Washington's advantage. For one, they don't include the ex-workers who can't find new jobs. After six months of searching, those unemployed job seekers just fall off the books. They go " invisible. " About 5 million unemployed Americans have now earned " invisible " status. If you use the real statistics to calculate unemployment, the way we used to calculate it back in 1980, the real unemployment rate is a much more devastating 12.5%. That's worse than the unemployment rate in China, France, Germany or Italy. And about four times the unemployment rate in Mexico. === _http://www.legitgov.org/index.html#breaking_news_ (http://www.legitgov.org/index.html#breaking_news) Israel Asks U.S. to Hasten Shipment of Rockets With Wide Blast 11 Aug 2006 Israel has asked the Bush administration to speed delivery of short-range antipersonnel rockets armed with cluster munitions, which it could use to strike 'Hezbollah missile sites' [civilians] in Lebanon, two American officials said Thursday. The request for M-26 artillery rockets, which are fired in barrages and carry hundreds of grenade-like bomblets that scatter and explode over a broad area, is likely to be approved shortly, along with other arms, a senior official said. === 9/11 Commission Chairmen Admit Whitewashing the Cause of the Attacks - _http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1785_ (http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1785) - As both the Bush administration and its client government in Israel, with their invasions of Arab states in Iraq and Lebanon respectively, make the United States ever more hated in the Islamic world, a new book by the Chairmen of the 9/11 commission admits that the commission whitewashed the root cause of the 9/11 attacks—that same interventionist U.S. foreign policy. The Bush administration has worsened the anti-U.S. hatred in Islamic countries, which drives this blowback terrorism, by its invasion of Iraq and its support of Israel’s excessive military response in Lebanon. Unfortunately, innocent Iraqis and Lebanese are unlikely to be the only ones afflicted with the damage from U.S. interventionism. Innocent Israelis and Americans have been, and likely will continue to be, the victims of policies that have been sold by President Bush on the basis of making the citizens of both countries safer and more secure, while the 9/11 Commission obediently has covered the administration’s tracks. === Predictions of civil war coming true, troops say - _http://www.columbiatribune.com/2006/Aug/20060805News020.asp_ (http://www.columbiatribune.com/2006/Aug/20060805News020.asp) While U.S. politicians and generals in Washington debate the possibility of civil war in Iraq, many U.S. officers and enlisted men who patrol Baghdad say it has already begun. === Protesters in Baghdad Denounce U.S. and Israel _http://www.nytimes.com/glogin?URI=http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/04/world/mid dleeast/04cnd-iraq.html & OQ=_rQ3D1Q26hpQ26exQ3D1154750400Q26enQ3D2ed2aa2f410efc 99Q26eiQ3D5094Q26partnerQ3Dhomepage & OP=4d1b2f72Q2FwvdawbZQ5E4VZZQ3BuwuccmwcXwc TwvZVDbwQ220bbDddN4Q3BwcTQ5EQ7Bbi0VNk-Q51Q3BQ22D_ (http://www.nytimes.com/glogin?URI=http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/04/world/middl\ eeast/04cnd-iraq.html & OQ=_ rQ3D1Q26hpQ26exQ3D1154750400Q26enQ3D2ed2aa2f410efc99Q26eiQ3D5094Q26partnerQ3Dh omepage & OP=4d1b2f72Q2FwvdawbZQ5E4VZZQ3BuwuccmwcXwcTwvZVDbwQ220bbDddN4Q3BwcTQ5E Q7Bbi0VNk-Q51Q3BQ22D) - The protest, the largest of several demonstrations in Iraq since the Israeli-Lebanese conflict began three weeks ago, filled 20 blocks of a wide, squalid boulevard and dozens of side streets in the Shiite-dominated Sadr City section of the capital. Firm Pays $4M to Settle Iraq Fraud - _http://apnews.excite.com/article/20060802/D8J8BLE80.html_ (http://apnews.excite.com/article/20060802/D8J8BLE80.html) - A company hired by Halliburton Co. (HAL) to ship military cargo to Iraq has paid the government $4 million to settle allegations it inflated invoices by adding a " war risk surcharge, " the Justice Department said Wednesday. Audit: Corruption in Iraq a 'pandemic' - _http://news./s/ap/20060801/ap_on_go_ot/iraq_reconstruction_2_ (http://news./s/ap/20060801/ap_on_go_ot/iraq_reconstruction_2) A recent survey indicated a third of Iraqis polled had paid a bribe to get products or services in the past 12 months and that they had a " core mistrust " of the army and police. Audit Finds U.S. Hid Actual Cost of Iraq Projects - _http://www.nytimes.com/glogin?URI=http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/30/world/mid dleeast/30reconstruct.html & OQ=_rQ3D3Q26orefQ3DsloginQ26orefQ3Dslogin & OP=3e77ba d0Q2FEwQ26Q22EQ5BvViqvvQ7D(E(JJfEJ2E!JEwvqsQ5BE8gQ5BQ5BsQ26Q26_iQ7DE!JqQ26VvQ3 AiQ7DqCVQ7DFQ3EQ7D8s_ (http://www.nytimes.com/glogin?URI=http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/30/world/middl\ eeast/30reconstruct.html & OQ=_rQ3D3Q26orefQ3DsloginQ26o refQ3Dslogin & OP=3e77bad0Q2FEwQ26Q22EQ5BvViqvvQ7D(E(JJfEJ2E!JEwvqsQ5BE8gQ5BQ5Bs Q26Q26_iQ7DE!JqQ26VvQ3AiQ7DqCVQ7DFQ3EQ7D8s) The State Department agency in charge of $1.4 billion in reconstruction money in Iraq used an accounting shell game to hide ballooning cost overruns on its projects there and knowingly withheld information on schedule delays from Congress, a federal audit released late Friday has found. === Lying to Congress is a felony. How many lies is this administration going to get away with? Violence in Iraq Is Creating Chaos in Bank System - _http://www.nytimes.com/glogin?URI=http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/29/world/mid dleeast/29banks.html & OQ=_rQ3D1Q26hpQ26exQ3D1154145600Q26enQ3D18d7895a019d45bcQ 26eiQ3D5094Q26partnerQ3Dhomepage & OP=45ab203aQ2FOXQ23eOJPR60PPNjOjmmuOmQ2BOjcOX P0,JOdQ20JJ,Q23Q23Q3D6NOjceQ3DQ5D(65SNd_ (http://www.nytimes.com/glogin?URI=http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/29/world/middl\ eeast/29banks.html & OQ=_rQ3D1Q26hpQ2 6exQ3 D1154145600Q26enQ3D18d7895a019d45bcQ26eiQ3D5094Q26partnerQ3Dhomepage & OP=45ab203a\ Q2FOXQ23eOJPR60PPNjOjmmuOmQ2BOjcOXP0,JOdQ20JJ,Q23Q23Q3D6NOjceQ3DQ5D(65S Nd) Praised by the United States as a success story as recently as a few months ago, that system has quickly become a wild landscape of clandestine cash runs, huge hauls by robbers dressed as police officers and soldiers, kidnappings of bank executives with ransoms as high as $6 million, American allegations of tie-ins with insurgent financiers, and legitimate customers turned away when they go to pick up their savings and flee the country. (http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle & code=CHO20060810 & art\ icleId=2942) The Pentagon's " Second 911 " - " Another [9/11] attack could create both a justification and an opportunity to retaliate against some known targets " _http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle & code=CHO20060810 & a rticleId=2942_ (http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle & code=CHO20060810 & art\ icleId=2942) Red Alert For Staged Government Terror Attack - _http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/august2005/210805stagedterror.htm_ (http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/august2005/210805stagedterror.htm) Radio host Alex Jones, who predicted a staged attack on the World Trade Center involving the use of Osama bin Laden as a fall guy in July 2001, has now gone on record with a second prediction that a staged government terror attack will occur before the end of October unless a gargantuan effort to prevent it is launched. " _America Conservative_ (http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/august2005/020805nukeiran.htm) reported that Cheney has already given the green light for an attack on Iran in the immediate aftermath of the next terror strike in the US, even if Iran have nothing to do with it. " Lawyers' Group Attacks Bush Revisions - _http://www.nytimes.com/glogin?URI=http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Lawye rs-Bush.html & OQ=_rQ3D2Q26orefQ3Dslogin & OP=1e966228Q2FQ251reQ25g4fab44Q5BQ2BQ25 J,4EhQ60ErQ25PaQ25ocutJ1ZrbauTPaQ3DqQ3DQ5B8h_ (http://www.nytimes.com/glogin?URI=http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Lawyers\ -Bush.html & OQ=_rQ3D2Q26orefQ3D slogin & OP=1e966228Q2FQ251reQ25g4fab44Q5BQ2BQ25J,4EhQ60ErQ25PaQ25ocutJ1ZrbauTPa Q3DqQ3DQ5B8h) Delegates, representing 410,000 members, at the ABA's annual meeting approved the resolution objecting to any president using bill signing statements as a way of diluting or changing laws rather than using an outright veto. 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