[306]:10.1=(60x4+27)[US87] #0: Mexico defies US on the Int'l Crimnl Court. US Secret Prisons, Guantanamo Secrecy, VT & Cascadia. Glasses food.

US SecretPrisons: http://tinyurl.com/a2yme Mexico joins ICC: http://tinyurl.com/d272p > #0 Guantanamo NotUN: http://tinyurl.com/bu2rb VT for Secession? http://tinyurl.com/9mzxx RepublicCascadia: http://zapatopi.net/cascadia/ Cloudy cool later sun: Up 6:15, full bath, Mei work, computer class then back and off. Lung & Mei in then off just now, 3:37pm. Microovened a bowl of meat-vegetable, then Mei back and had told me she discovered a piece of glass spoon there, very angry that she saves money rather than ourselves as always, however I have just taken that!! until I felt very small sand of glass and tossed it. Ready to go to rental house to meet Si then to post office. Si w her small daughter who attend German-Chinese school in Mountainview, she from Germany, he Austria, all speak German at home. Mail 2 letters: one payment, one notify for the 2nd time my BBC Services is no longer in business (only in services!) certificated w return $4.20. Home: Mei in, 2 sons later in. It's only 11:20pm now, but Mei vacuums a bit. Jun computer. Bed 12:30am still too late. #0: International Criminal Court: "Mexico Defies Washington on the International Criminal Court", by Katherine Stapp; Published on Wednesday, November 2, 2005 by Inter Press Service: http://tinyurl.com/d272p "" NEW YORK - If Washington follows through on threats to slash aid to Mexico as punishment for its accession to the International Criminal Court (ICC), it risks further alienating key U.S. allies and drawing attention to its own increasingly shaky human rights record, say activists. "There will be a price to be paid by the U.S. government in terms of its credibility," Richard Dicker, director of Human Rights Watch's International Justice Program, told IPS. Mexico signed the Rome Statute of the ICC in September 2000, but did not ratify the treaty and formally deposit it with the United Nations until last week, on Oct. 28, making it the 100th nation to join the ICC. Washington had warned Mexico that if it ratified the ICC and refused to sign an accord exempting U.S. nationals from the court's jurisdiction, it would cut 11.5 million dollars in funding from aid programs for fighting drug trafficking, according to human rights groups. The amount is equal to almost 40 percent of the economic aid Mexico receives from the United States. However, Foreign Relations Secretary Luis Ernesto Derbez said last week that Mexico would not sign such an accord, and was willing to lose the aid rather than give the United States special status. Almost every country in the European Union, 27 African countries, and all but four Latin American countries (Chile, El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua) have now joined the new court based in The Hague, which is empowered to prosecute individuals for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity committed after Jul. 1, 2002. "" Copyright © 2005 IPS-Inter Press Service