shut 'em down

CÓRDOBA, Argentina, 19 of julio..En hours of the night of this Thursday, the president Néstor Kirchner will receive with an official dinner to the presidents and ministers of External Relationships of the countries members of MERCOSUR, associate and invited states, with what the final segment of this XXX Summit of the block of regional integration begins.

CÓRDOBA.- He comes or not the president from Cuba, Fidel Castro, to the summit of Mercosur, the Caribbean country will sign the day after tomorrow in this city with the block an agreement that will enlarge the quantity from products free of tariffs to the current import of the 1300 at 2700, what represents a room of the total trade.

Buenos Aires, July 18. The governments of the countries that integrate the Market Common of the South (Mercosur) attribute a great importance to the Presidential next Summit - that will be carried out in the city of Córdoba, capital of the county of the same name, the days 20 and 21 of this month - for the participation of Venezuela like new partner and the agreements that will be signed with Cuba that they are a challenge to the blockade that United States maintain on that country for almost half century.

...Root Cause of Latest Battles in Gaza and Lebanon ~ Interview with Molly Malekar, director of Bat Shalom, or Daughters for Peace, conducted by Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus

A critique of our efforts to foment a mass "self-reduction" movement on San Francisco's Muni public transit system.

News Junkie Scott's Blog (7/19/06)

Israel’s brutal bombing of Lebanon and the Gaza has illustrated yet again peace in the Middle East is an illusion and war on terror generates only more terror. Israel’s hard line policy has a history of being ineffective as a solution and its strong arm tactics only lead to more violence in a region where blood calls for more blood and power cliques on both sides feed off the victims.

The president withheld security clearances from lawyers investigating those who approved and oversaw the NSA surveillance program.

By Richard B. Schmitt, Times Staff Writer
July 19, 2006

WASHINGTON — President Bush personally sidetracked an internal Justice Department probe into the warrantless domestic surveillance program earlier this year, even as other Justice officials were assigned to defend the program in court and investigate who may have leaked information about it to the news media, according to administration officials and documents released Tuesday.

www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-legal19jul19,0,5316810.story

Cuba European connivance denounces with plans anticubans of USA

Havana, 18 Jul (PL) Cuba denounced today the connivance of the integral countries of European Union (EU) with the aggressive politics of United States against the island.
Ricardo's article Alarcón, president of the National Assembly of the Popular (Parliament) Power, published in daily Granma, qualified to "Beautiful Sleeper's" European organization before the North American president's plans anticubanos, George W. Bush.