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"However they put it, the
Democratic approach in
Iraq comes down to this...
...the terrorists win and
America loses."
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Justice Department attorneys have filed
a petition in federal district court
asserting that the detainees that the
president has designated as enemy
combatants should be disallowed from
telling their legal counsel what types of
interrogation techniques CIA agents
used on them to compel them to admit
to acts of terrorism.

The Bush Administration said in the
court filing that if the detainees
described to their attorneys what the
government referred to obliquely as
“alternative interrogation methods” that
were used on them in secret “black site”
prison camps around the world, they
would be revealing some of America’s
most sensitive national security secrets.  

The Justice Department argues in the
court filing that if the detainees are
allowed to advise their attorneys of the
so-called “alternative” techniques that
this would “reasonably be expected to
cause extremely grave damage” to the
United States.

The attorneys who represent the
detainees, some appointed by the US
military and some who have volunteered
to assist the captives, say that they
cannot effectively represent their clients
without knowing what physical and
mental abuse and coercion led them to
sign confessions.

Detainees who have been released from
captivity by the US military have
described that they were subjected to
brutal and inhuman treatment at the
hands of CIA agents during interrogation
sessions.  Captives have reported being
forced into ‘stress positions’ for hours
on end, being threatened by snarling
guard dogs, being forced to eat and
drink spoiled or tainted food and
water, having their holy books
desecrated by agents in front of
them, being deprived of sleep and
being threatened with drowning until
they signed forced confessions.

In the normal course of American
jurisprudence, confessions achieved
through cruel and inhuman treatment
would be challenged by defense
attorneys as being inadmissible as
evidence.  The Justice Department’s
court petition is based upon the
administration’s interpretation of a
new law, the Military Tribunal Act,
under which the president and his
advisors contend that ‘terror
suspects’ have virtually no rights
under US law.                 
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Police outfitted in riot gear and with
weapons drawn and ready burst into an
eighth grade classroom and high school
classroom announcing that there had
been a threat to the Lee Middle and
High School in a suburb of Grand Rapids,
MI.  Officers wearing protective tactical
gear, including bullet-proof vests and riot
helmets, forced the children out of their
classrooms into the hall where they
were lined up facing the walls and
subjected to body searches and quizzed
by the police about what they had in
their pockets.

The police, who were conducting a
pre-planned drill, advised the teachers of
the mock raid minutes prior to the
exercise, but the students were not
notified and were under the impression
that the threat was real.
Principal David Britton said that, though
the school and police officials did not
intend to frighten any of the students,
they felt that if they had warned the
children prior to the drill it would not be
“realistic”.  Britton, who planned the
mock attack with the cooperation of
school Superintendent Jack Wallington,
felt that the raid would have more of a
dramatic effect on the students if they
thought that the threat was real and that
officer’s rifles were loaded with live
ammunition.  He told the
Grand
Rapids Press
, “We wanted a sense of
urgency.”

Local police were called to the school to
perform the drill but said that they were
not advised by school administrators that
the students had not been warned of the
raid being staged.                    
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The Director of National Intelligence,
John Negroponte, has ordered the
closure of a government website after it
was revealed that it provided access to
sensitive documents detailing processes
for developing nuclear weapons. The
site, called the “Operation Iraqi
Freedom Document Portal,” was an
Internet repository for thousands of
papers seized by US occupation forces in
Iraq. Recently, officials of the
International Atomic Energy Agency had
asked that the US remove what they
considered to be potentially dangerous
information from the website, but the
administration did not act until last
week, on the eve of the publication
by the
New York Times of an   
investigation into the matter.

The documents in question pertain to
Iraqi efforts to build a nuclear device
before the 1991 Gulf War. Physicists and
experts on nuclear weapons technology
have confirmed the validity and potential
utility of the material, which according
to the
Times includes “detailed
information on how to build nuclear
firing circuits and triggering explosives, as
well as the radioactive cores of atom
bombs.”  In a separate incident,
documents describing the manufacture
of chemical nerve agents were removed
from the site after protests by
international monitoring authorities
earlier this year.
Negroponte had initially resisted the
creation of the website, which was
proposed last spring by a group of
pro-war Republican Congressmen led
by Intelligence Committee Chairmen
Rep. Peter Hoekstra of Michigan and
Sen. Pat Roberts of Kansas. At the
time, Hoekstra said of the site, “It
will allow us to leverage the Internet
to enable a mass examination as
opposed to limiting it to a few
exclusive elites.” The DNI felt that
the purpose of the project was an
implicit rebuke to the intelligence
services, and issued a warning that
the millions of pages of documents
had not been properly assessed by
experts.                       
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The top one percent of US
households significantly increased
their share of the nation’s total
income between 1994 and 2004,
with those in the top 0.1 percent
faring even better, according to a
report by the National Bureau of
Economic Research.

The report, “The Evolution of Top
Incomes,” reveals that in 2004, the
highest-earning one percent of
households accounted for 19.8
percent of national pretax income,
which represents an increase of 5.6
percent over the decade. The report
also found that in the same year the
top one-tenth of one percent
received 9.5 percent of total pretax
income. With US median family
income rising only 1.6 percent
between 2001 and 2004, the figures
document one aspect of the
increasing concentration of the
nation’s wealth.

The report also surveys income
inequality internationally, noting that
in 2005 France’s richest 0.1 percent
held 1.19 percent of national income,
and in 2002 Japan’s top 0.1 percent
received 2.16 percent.        
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Justice Department Seeks to Silence Suspects, Shield Soldiers
Students Learn Lesson in Police State Tactics
National Wealthcare
System Shows
Improved Performance
Nuclear Weapons Data Leaked Under Partisan Pressure
Global seafood stocks are becoming
disastrously depleted, with all
commercially viable fisheries facing a
state of collapse by 2048 if current
trends in fishing practices, climate
change, and other areas of human impact
continue unabated, according to
projections by the authors of an
international study. Economists warn
that widespread depletion would have
catastrophic consequences for human
food supplies, as seafood is the primary
source of protein for a majority of the
world’s population. The results of the
investigation are reported in the current
edition of the journal
Science.

The four-year study analyzed archival
data pertaining to 7800 marine species
over a period of 1000 years. The
scientists, from five countries, concluded
that under current conditions catches of
all presently fished species would
collapse by mid-century. Fisheries are
designated “collapsed” when catches fall
to 10 percent of historic highs.
According to this definition, some 29
percent of the world’s fisheries have
collapsed since 1950. Species already in a
state of collapse include Atlantic cod,
bluefin tuna, Pacific salmon, and Alaskan
king crab.

The leader of the research group,  
Dr. Boris Worm of Dalhousie University
in Halifax, Nova Scotia, described the
cumulative nature of the decline, saying,
“Every year a higher percentage of the
currently fished stocks has collapsed. We
are losing it piece by piece.” Effects of
the loss of species will reverberate
throughout the ecosystem, said report
co-author Stephen Palumbi, a marine
biologist at Stanford University, who
warned, “Animals like seals, dolphins,
and killer whales eat fish. If we strip the
ocean of these kinds of species, other
animals are going to suffer.”

The researchers found that in 12 of the
regions they studied, 38 percent of all
exploited marine species had collapsed in
the past 1000 years. Seven percent of
these species became extinct. The
report concludes that over-fishing and
other forms of human impact on marine
environments reduce the oceans’
resistance to disease and pollution,
making them more susceptible to
adverse effects of climate change.

The report notes that active harvest
management programs can preserve and
even improve endangered fisheries, citing
the example of the North Pacific areas
off Alaska as a positive example. Those
highly productive fisheries have been
federally managed since 1976.  
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A group of 17 nations including
Germany and France have joined
together to advance a UN
resolution that would mandate
transparency in the weaponization
of space and calls for the
prevention of an “arms race in
outer space.”

The group’s proposal before the
UN General Assembly recalls a
resolution adopted by 160 nations
that calls for the “peaceful use of
outer space” and stresses the
need for verifiable treaties to
control space weaponization.

The group’s action comes shortly
after the Bush administration
made the first changes to the
National Space Policy in ten
years.   

The new policy mandates the
aggressive militarization of space
by the US and opposes any
“development of new legal
regimes or other restrictions that
seek to prohibit or limit US
access to or use of space.”

Contrary to the provisions of the
UN resolution, the new NSP
asserts America’s right to
“freedom of action in space” and
denies “adversaries use of space.”  
The Policy also calls for the
“robust” use of science to
support space based “intelligence
collection” for the purposes of
homeland security.

The US was the only nation
in the UN to vote against
the UN resolution with Israel
abstaining.           
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UN Resolution
Can't Control
Planet Pentagon
Research Reveals Overfishing Has a Catch
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