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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 17. januar 2006 / Time Line January 17, 2006
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01/17/2006
Doubling in seven years: Unless the Pentagon drastically changes
missile defense priorities, investment will double by 2013
By: Victoria Samson
Center for Defense Information
http://www.cdi.org/program/document.cfm?DocumentID=3260&StartRow=1&ListRows=10&appendURL=&Orderby=D.DateLastUpdated&ProgramID=6&from_page=index.cfm
A recent report by the Congressional
Budgetary Office (CBO) put the annual cost of missile defense
peaking at $19 billion by 2013. Even this number is probably on the
low end, as it is based on an architecture that CBO formulated
itself, since missile defense programs (unlike other Pentagon
weapons systems) do not need to submit a timeline detailing their
projected cost throughout the systems’ operational lifetimes
to the Secretary of Defense. CBO’s “The Long-Term
Implications of Current Defense Plans and Alternatives: Detailed
Update for Fiscal Year 2006” took a hard look at the
programs’ futures and what, if anything, should be done with
them. Indeed, CBO’s proposed “evolutionary”
alternative would stop missile defense deployment entirely and
instead have missile defense research and development holding
steady at $3 billion annually...
01/17/2006
New Zogby Poll: 52% of Americans Support Impeaching Bush for
Wiretapping
By a margin of 52% to 43%, Americans want Congress to consider
impeaching President Bush if he wiretapped American citizens
without a judge's approval, according to a new poll commissioned by
After Downing Street and conducted by Zogby International.
"The American people are not buying Bush's outrageous claim that he
has the power to wiretap American citizens without a warrant.
Americans believe terrorism can be fought without turning our own
government into Big Brother," said AfterDowningStreet.org
co-founder Bob Fertik.
Read the results and print out a one-page flyer summarizing the
various polls that have been done on impeachment:
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/polling
01/17/2006
Bush on Trial in New York This Weekend
Is the Bush Administration guilty of war crimes and crimes against
humanity? Even raising this question has been ruled out of order
and out of bounds in the U.S. today, but on January 20-22 in NYC an
unprecedented citizens Commission of Inquiry will ask -- and seek
to answer -- exactly these questions and alter the terms of debate
about this government.
Internationally-known expert witnesses and whistleblowers from the
US and UK will testify in five areas: war, torture, global
environment, global health (AIDs and reproductive rights), and the
administration’s response to Katrina. Witnesses and judges
include former commander of Abu Ghraib prison Brig. Gen. Janis
Karpinski, former British ambassador Craig Murray (quoted today by
Al Gore) who exposed US use of torture in Uzbekistan, Scott Ritter,
Dennis Brutus, ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern, Dahr Jamail, Guantanamo
prisoners’ lawyer Michael Ratner, David Swanson, Katrina
survivors, former US diplomat and retired US Army Reserve Colonel
Ann Wright.
Indictments from the Commission’s first session were
delivered to the White House on January 10 by a delegation
including Ray McGovern who told the press: "Back in the '30s the
Germans hunkered down and hoped that Hitler and the Nazis would
just go away. They didn't do the kind of thing [we are doing here].
Unlawful wiretapping and spying, Iraq and the torture and
detentions, and on and on. This can't go down unopposed." Ann
Wright on the Tribunal: "These are indictments that will ultimately
bring down this administration."
The Commission is open to the public. Friday/Saturday sessions are
at Riverside Church, Sunday session at Columbia Law School. More
info:
http://www.bushcommission.org
01/17/2006
CONTRACTS from the United States Department of Defense
Northrop Grumman Mission Systems, Clearfield, Utah, is being
awarded a $225,239,806 cost-plus-incentive-fee, cost-plus-award-fee
contract modification. This action provides for the
intercontinental ballistic missile propulsion replacement program,
Full Rate Production (FRP) options FRP5, FRP6, and FRP7,
restructure modification for two-hundred and twelve (212) stage 1,
2 and 3 motors, production quality assurance, ordnance production
and contractor cost data reports. This work will be complete in
March 2008. At this time, total funds have been obligated.
Negotiations were complete in May 2005. The Headquarters 528th ICBM
Systems Wing, Hill Air Force Base, UT, is the contracting activity.
(F42610-98-C-0001). A modification number for this requirement has
not been assigned.
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