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1. Media Ignores Future of Internet Debate
Throughout 2005 and 2006, a large underground debate raged regarding the
future of the Internet. More recently referred to as "network
neutrality," the issue has become a tug of war with cable companies on the
one hand and consumers and Internet service providers on the other. Yet,
despite important legislative proposals and Supreme Court decisions throughout
2005, the issue was almost completely ignored in the headlines until 2006. And,
except for occasional coverage on CNBC's Kudlow & Kramer, mainstream
television remains hands-off to this day (June 2006). Most coverage of the
issue framed it as an argument over regulation - but the term
"regulation" in this case is somewhat misleading. Groups advocating
for "net neutrality" are not promoting regulation of internet
content. What they want is a legal mandate forcing cable companies to allow
internet service providers (ISPs) free access to their cable lines (called a
"common carriage" agreement). This was the model used for dial-up
Internet, and it is the way content providers want to keep it. They also want
to make sure that cable companies cannot screen or interrupt Internet content
without a court order.
Those in favor of net neutrality say that lack of government regulation simply
means that cable lines will be regulated by the cable companies themselves.
ISPs will have to pay a hefty service fee for the right to use cable lines
(making Internet services more expensive). Those who could pay more would get
better access; those who could not pay would be left behind. Cable companies
could also decide to filter Internet content at will.
On the other side, cable company supporters say that a great deal of time and
money was spent laying cable lines and expanding their speed and quality. They
claim that allowing ISPs free access would deny cable companies the ability to
recoup their investments, and maintain that cable providers should be allowed
to charge. Not doing so, they predict, would discourage competition and
innovation within the cable industry.
2. Halliburton Charged with Selling Nuclear Technologies to Iran
According to journalist Jason Leopold, sources at former Cheney company
Halliburton allege that, as recently as January of 2005, Halliburton sold key
components for a nuclear reactor to an Iranian oil development company. Leopold
says his Halliburton sources have intimate knowledge of the business dealings
of both Halliburton and Oriental Oil Kish, one of Iran's largest private oil
companies.
Additionally, throughout 2004 and 2005, Halliburton worked closely with Cyrus
Nasseri, the vice chairman of the board of directors of Iran-based Oriental Oil
Kish, to develop oil projects in Iran. Nasseri is also a key member of Iran's
nuclear development team. Nasseri was interrogated by Iranian authorities in
late July 2005 for allegedly providing Halliburton with Iran's nuclear secrets.
Iranian government officials charged Nasseri with accepting as much as $1
million in bribes from Halliburton for this information. Oriental Oil Kish
dealings with Halliburton first became public knowledge in January 2005 when
the company announced that it had subcontracted parts of the South Pars
gas-drilling project to Halliburton Products and Services, a subsidiary of
Dallas-based Halliburton that is registered to the Cayman Islands. Following
the announcement, Halliburton claimed that the South Pars gas field project in
Tehran would be its last project in Iran. According to a BBC report,
Halliburton, which took thirty to forty million dollars from its Iranian
operations in 2003, "was winding down its work due to a poor business
environment."
However, Halliburton has a long history of doing business in Iran, starting as
early as 1995, while Vice President Cheney was chief executive of the company.
Leopold quotes a February 2001 report published in the Wall Street Journal,
"Halliburton Products and Services Ltd., works behind an unmarked door on
the ninth floor of a new north Tehran tower block. A brochure declares that the
company was registered in 1975 in the Cayman Islands, is based in the Persian
Gulf sheikdom of Dubai and is "non-American." But like the sign over
the receptionist's head, the brochure bears the company's name and red emblem,
and offers services from Halliburton units around the world. Moreover mail sent
to the company's offices in Tehran and the Cayman Islands is forwarded directly
to its Dallas headquarters.
3. Oceans of the World in Extreme Danger
Oceanic problems once found on a local scale are now pandemic. Data from
oceanography, marine biology, meteorology, fishery science, and glaciology
reveal that the seas are changing in ominous ways. A vortex of cause and effect
wrought by global environmental dilemmas is changing the ocean from a watery
horizon with assorted regional troubles to a global system in alarming
distress.
According to oceanographers the oceans are one, with currents linking the seas
and regulating climate. Sea temperature and chemistry changes, along with
contamination and reckless fishing practices, intertwine to imperil the world's
largest communal life source.
In 2005, researchers from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory found clear evidence the ocean is
quickly warming. They discovered that the top half-mile of the ocean has warmed
dramatically in the past forty years as a result of human-induced greenhouse
gases.
One manifestation of this warming is the melting of the Arctic. A shrinking
ratio of ice to water has set off a feedback loop, accelerating the increase in
water surfaces that promote further warming and melting. With polar waters
growing fresher and tropical seas saltier, the cycle of evaporation and
precipitation has quickened, further invigorating the greenhouse effect. The
ocean's currents are reacting to this freshening, causing a critical conveyor
that carries warm upper waters into Europe's northern latitudes to slow by one
third since 1957, bolstering fears of a shut down and cataclysmic climate
change. This accelerating cycle of cause and effect will be difficult, if not
impossible, to reverse. Atmospheric litter is also altering sea chemistry, as
thousands of toxic compounds poison marine creatures and devastate propagation.
The ocean has absorbed an estimated 118 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide
since the onset of the Industrial Revolution, with 20 to 25 tons being added to
the atmosphere daily. Increasing acidity from rising levels of CO2 is changing
the ocean's PH balance. Studies indicate that the shells and skeletons
possessed by everything from reef-building corals to mollusks and plankton
begin to dissolve within forty-eight hours of exposure to the acidity expected
in the ocean by 2050. Coral reefs will almost certainly disappear and, even
more worrisome, so will plankton. Phytoplankton absorb greenhouse gases,
manufacture oxygen, and are the primary producers of the marine food web.
Mercury pollution enters the food web via coal and chemical industry waste,
oxidizes in the atmosphere, and settles to the sea bottom. There it is
consumed, delivering mercury to each subsequent link in the food chain, until
predators such as tuna or whales carry levels of mercury as much as one million
times that of the waters around them. The Gulf of Mexico has the highest
mercury levels ever recorded, with an average of ten tons of mercury coming
down the Mississippi River every year, and another ton added by offshore
drilling.
4. Hunger and Homelessness Increasing
The number of hungry and homeless people in U.S. cities continued to grow in
2005, despite claims of an improved economy. Increased demand for vital
services rose as needs of the most destitute went unmet, according to the
annual U.S. Conference of Mayors Report, which has documented increasing need
since its 1982 inception.
The study measures instances of emergency food and housing assistance in
twenty-four U.S. cities and utilizes supplemental information from the U.S.
Census and Department of Labor. More than three-quarters of cities surveyed
reported increases in demand for food and housing, especially among families.
Food aid requests expanded by 12 percent in 2005, while aid center and food
bank resources grew by only 7 percent. Service providers estimated 18 percent
of requests went unattended. Housing followed a similar trend, as a majority of
cities reported an increase in demand for emergency shelter, often going unmet
due to lack of resources.
5. High-Tech Genocide in Congo
The world's most neglected emergency, according to the UN Emergency Relief
Coordinator, is the ongoing tragedy of the Congo, where six to seven million
have died since 1996 as a consequence of invasions and wars sponsored by
western powers trying to gain control of the region's mineral wealth. At stake
is control of natural resources that are sought by U.S. corporations -
diamonds, tin, copper, gold, and more significantly, coltan and niobium, two
minerals necessary for production of cell phones and other high-tech
electronics; and cobalt, an element essential to nuclear, chemical, aerospace,
and defense industries. Columbo-tantalite, i.e. coltan, is found in
three-billion-year-old soils like those in the Rift Valley region of Africa.
The tantalum extracted from the coltan ore is used to make tantalum capacitors,
tiny components that are essential in managing the flow of current in
electronic devices. Eighty percent of the world's coltan reserves are found in
the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Niobium is another high-tech mineral
with a similar story.
Sprocket reports that the high-tech boom of the 1990s caused the price of
coltan to skyrocket to nearly $300 per pound. In 1996 U.S.-sponsored Rwandan
and Ugandan forces entered eastern DRC. By 1998 they seized control and moved
into strategic mining areas. The Rwandan Army was soon making $20 million or
more a month from coltan mining. Though the price of coltan has fallen, Rwanda
maintains its monopoly on coltan and the coltan trade in DRC. Reports of
rampant human rights abuses pour out of this mining region.
6. Federal Whistleblower Protection in Jeopardy
The U.S. Office of Special Counsel (OSC), the agency that is supposed to protect federal employees who blow the whistle on waste, fraud, and abuse is dismissing hundreds of cases while advancing almost none. According to the Annual Report for 2004 (which was not released until the end of first quarter fiscal year 2006) less than 1.5 percent of whistleblower claims were referred for investigation while more than 1000 reports were closed before they were even opened. Only eight claims were found to be substantiated, and one of those included the theft of a desk, while another included attendance violations. Favorable outcomes have declined 24 percent overall, and this is all in the first year that the new special counsel, Scott Bloch, has been in office.
7. US Operatives Torture Detainees to Death in Afghanistan and Iraq
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) released documents of forty-four
autopsies held in Afghanistan and Iraq October 25, 2005. Twenty-one of those
deaths were listed as homicides. The documents show that detainees died during
and after interrogations by Navy SEALs, Military Intelligence, and Other
Government Agency (OGA).
"These documents present irrefutable evidence that U.S. operatives
tortured detainees to death during interrogation," said Amrit Singh, an
attorney with the ACLU. "The public has a right to know who authorized the
use of torture techniques and why these deaths have been covered up."
The Department of Defense released the autopsy reports in response to a Freedom
of Information Act request filed by the ACLU, the Center for Constitutional
Rights, Physicians for Human Rights, Veterans for Common Sense, and Veterans
for Peace.
8. Pentagon Exempt from Freedom of Information Act
The Department of Defense has been granted exemption from the Freedom of
Information Act (FOIA). In December 2005, Congress passed the 2006 Defense
Authorization Act which renders Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)
"operational files" fully immune to FOIA requests, the main mechanism
by which watchdog groups, journalists and individuals can access federal
documents. Of particular concern to critics of the Defense Authorization Act is
the DIA's new right to thwart access to files that may reveal human rights
violations tied to ongoing "counterterrorism" efforts.
The rule could, for instance, frustrate the work of the American Civil
Liberties Union (ACLU) and other organizations that have relied on FOIA to
uncover more than 30,000 documents on the U.S. military's involvement in the
torture and mistreatment of foreign detainees in Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay,
and Iraq-including the Abu Ghraib scandal.
9. The World Bank Funds Israel-Palestine Wall
Despite the 2004 International Court of Justice (ICJ) decision that called for tearing down the Wall and compensating affected communities, construction of the Wall has accelerated. The route of the barrier runs deep into Palestinian territory, aiding the annexation of Israeli settlements and the breaking of Palestinian territorial continuity. The World Bank's vision of "economic development," however, evades any discussion of the Wall's illegality. The World Bank has meanwhile outlined the framework for a Palestinian Middle East Free Trade Area (MEFTA) policy in their most recent report on Palestine published in December of 2004, "Stagnation or Revival: Israeli Disengagement and Palestinian Economic Prospects." Central to World Bank proposals are the construction of massive industrial zones to be financed by the World Bank and other donors and controlled by the Israeli Occupation.
10. Expanded Air War in Iraq Kills More Civilians
There is widespread speculation that President Bush, confronted by
diminishing approval ratings and dissent within his own party as well as within
the military itself, will begin pulling American troops out of Iraq in 2006.
A key element of the drawdown plans not mentioned in the President's public
statements, or in mainstream media for that matter, is that the departing
American troops will be replaced by American airpower.
"We're not planning to diminish the war," Seymour Hersh quotes
Patrick Clawson, the deputy director of the Washington Institute, whose views
often mirror those of Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld.
"We just want to change the mix of the forces doing the fighting-Iraqi
infantry with American support and greater use of airpower."
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