Numbers or Nonsense
Yesterday Allan Nairn was on the radio talking about his research on Detachment 88, and his reasonably likely claim that uniformed and non-uniformed members of the US armed forces are performing intercept (wiretap) within the telecommunications infrastructure in Indonesia. Allan's work was published by Counterpunch.
It should come as no surprise that yesterday Paula Dobriansky warmly thanked the Indonesian presidency (and host nation of the Bali Climate Conference) for removing all numbers, in particular those of the IIPC, endorsed by the EU, and the G77, from the "consensus" text.
When Chris Dodd returrns to Washington City to filibuster a FISA that exculpates domestic corporate wiretappers, there's more at stake than just the civil liberties of a few political elites in North America, not a single one of whom live in, or make use of telecommunications infrastructure which originates in, terminates in, or otherwise transits, Harry Reid's Nevada.
