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NB: COMPILERS  PERSONAL  COMMENTS  IN  UPPER  CASE

"There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people

 for a purpose which is unattainable."

U.S. Historian ~Howard Zinn, 1993

“NOTABLES”

“HUMOR / ODDITIES”

See: Jake’s Comedy Corner

Researchers identify mysterious thumping noise

It's the mating call of a fish!   Researchers say male black drum fish produce the sounds at such a low frequency that it travels through seawalls, the ground and into homes.

Man arrested IN women's outhouse tank

man was arrested Sunday on criminal trespass charges after a teenage girl found him staring at her from below an outhouse seat, police said.   "We treated him as if he were hazardous material," Hebert said.

 “UNITED  STATES”

MSNBC Analyst Says 2nd Source Confirms Karl Rove as Plame Leaker

Now that Time Inc. has turned over documents to federal court, revealing as his source in the Valerie Plame/CIA case, Lawrence O'Donnell, senior MSNBC political analyst, now claims that at least two sources have confirmed that the name is--top White House mastermind Karl Rove. 

RECALL:   Implications Of Bush's Hiring Personal Counsel For Plame Investigation  JUNE/04

The War President           NY TIMES

America's founders knew all too well how war appeals to the vanity of rulers and their thirst for glory. That's why they took care to deny presidents the kingly privilege of making war at their own discretion.

Foes in Congress unite in defense of property

House and Senate Republican leaders moved rapidly Thursday on legislation to blunt last week's Supreme Court decision allowing local governments to seize private property for economic development projects.    

"Democrats and Republicans, conservatives and liberals are going to be organizing behind opposing the Supreme Court decision,'' Waters said. "It's like undermining motherhood and apple pie. I mean, people's homes and their land -- it's very important, and it should be protected by government, not taken for somebody else's private use."

            SOME  GOOD  NEWS  FROM  THE  LAND  OF  ODD

Impasse Ends, Clears Way for DeLay Probe

Leaders of the House ethics committee made it possible to investigate Majority Leader Tom DeLay  and conduct other business.    DeLay is seeking to clear his name against allegations that a Jack Abramoff lobbyist/client paid for some of his travel expenses.   House rules bar lobbyists from paying for members' travel.

RECALL:   DeLay's worst: a dirty drama of bondage  He said the Marianas INDENTURED  LABORFORCE  SYSTEM  was a "perfect Petri dish of capitalism."

Energy adviser who solicited Enron to help write national energy named chief of FERC
Bush is the announcement that Joseph Kelliher, a former policy adviser with the Department of Energy who currently serves as a commissioner on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the agency that controls the country's natural gas industry, hydroelectric projects, electric utilities, and oil pipelines and has played a critical role in the deregulation of those industries, was named by the White House Thursday to chair FERC

            GOVERNMENT  FOR  THE  PEOPLE,   BY  THE  PEOPLE ?

Who has what to hide about Luis Posada Carriles?
In an oligarchy where the important decisions are made in secret by a power elite, where the mass media are used to manipulate rather than inform, it's often difficult for the public to distinguish actual from virtual reality.It's apparent that Posada could supply many of the missing pieces of the puzzles of the last 45 years -Tom Crumpacker/Online Journal

Code Dumb: Look Who's Spying on Your Granny

Groups with names such as Raging Grannies, Gold Star Families for Peace and CodePink had a special intelligence unit of the California National Guard quietly tracking them as they prepped for an anti-war protest in front of the Capitol at the Mother's Day rally last month.   UNDER  THE  "Information Synchronization, Knowledge Management and Intelligence Fusion" program to monitor, analyze and distribute information on potential terrorist threats.

            OPERATION:   GRANNY  KNICKERS ?

Court Rules for Paper Over Death-to-Muslims Letter

The Arizona Supreme Court ruled Friday that a newspaper cannot be sued for printing a letter that suggested Americans respond to attacks on U.S. troops in Iraq by going to the nearest mosque and killing the first five Muslims they see. The high court unanimously held that the letter to the editor was political speech protected by the First Amendment.

America Held Hostage        PAUL KRUGMAN

Bush's speech on Tuesday contained a chilling message: America has been taken hostage by his martial dreams ... a withdrawal from Iraq would be a victory for Al Qaeda, and you wage war with the president you have, not the president you want.  But it's time to face up to three realities.

First, the war is helping, not hurting, the terrorists - A CIA report warns that Iraq has become a magnet and training ground for Islamic extremists, who will eventually threaten other countries.

Second, the clear victory the hawks promised is no longer possible - pretty much the whole U.S. Army is either in, returning from, or preparing to go to Iraq, with “the coalition of the willing” shrinking.

Third, a time limit on our commitment will do more good than harm.   The Iraq that emerges once U.S. forces are gone won't bear much resemblance to neocons ideal, but it will pose less of a terrorist threat.   A withdrawal timetable would expedite a political solution to the insurgency.  

Remember, Iraq wasn't a breeding ground for terrorists before we went there.  The point is that the presence of American forces in Iraq is making our country less safe. So it's time to start winding down the war.

Life in post-Bush America: Control freaks, rebels and drones

First - the control freaks righteously telling us what to do. Their lives are devoted to making sure that everyone else is thinking the same way that they do -- or at least sullen obedience.   Then we have the rebels -- the "Rage against the Machine" types are the loners .. the cowboys, the bloggers, the ones who speak out against lies and injustice.     

And lastly we have the drones -- the ones who believe that Bush-controlled elections are honest, that the economy isn't tanking and that they lost their jobs to outsourcing through some fault of their own. They have never heard of Jeff Gannon or the Downing Street memos -- or, if they have, they carefully keep their mouths shut. Many of them work for the White House and the Pentagon.  Famous drones in history: There are none.

If you're not sure which state are you in, it will all sort itself out.   The Bush Republican bubble is bound to collapse -- as always happens when there is reckless over-spending, gross corruption, intentional mismanagement and unjustifiable endless war -- causing the safe and protected world that we now know to vanish.

The Stain of Torture

I speak out against systematic, government-sanctioned torture and excessive abuse of prisoners during our war on terrorism.   This extraordinary shift in policy and values is alien to my concept of modern-day America and of my government and profession.        Reports of torture and ill-treatment defy the claim that this abusive behavior is limited to a few noncommissioned officers because the military has bowed to errant civilian leadership.    Torture by U.S. forces have been accompanied by military medical personnel and by new military guidelines that authorize complicity by health professionals.

AUTHOR:   former physician to the president to George H.W. Bush

Island paradise or torture chamber?          TORONTO  STAR

When U.S. deputy assistant secretary of state DiRita  was asked if detainees were being held there, he didn't deny it outright, saying only, "I don't know."     They're being subjected to treatment that makes the abuses at the military-run Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad and Guantanamo Bay camp in Cuba look small-time, say intelligence analysts.   Last year, Federal Bureau of Investigation director Robert Mueller said CIA interrogation techniques "violate all American anti-torture laws,” and instructed FBI agents to step outside of the room when the CIA steps in.    Because the agency operates outside the law, doing what the government doesn't want to be publicly associated with, "it isn't bound by international treaties," says Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org.

            In a blistering report released in March, Behind the Wire,  Human Rights First outlined the suspected scope of the global network of covert detention facilities. "The U.S. government is holding prisoners in a secret system of offshore prisons beyond the reach of adequate supervision, accountability or law," it stated, referring to the abuses at Abu Ghraib prison as "just the tip of the iceberg."
            DIEGO GARCIA:  SOUTH  OF  EASTERN  INDIA-MALDIVES     Indian Ocean Map

Torture Architect Gonzales Could Be Bush's Supreme Court Pick

Important news on Mohammed Atta and 9/11

War as mind control

 “ISRAEL”

Israeli foreign minister calls for international action against Iran in light of elections

IDF soldier, 6 activists wounded in anti-fence protest in West Bank

Israeli anti-fence activists and local Palestinian residents regularly protest on Fridays against construction of the separation barrier.   The soldier was wounded by stone-throwers and six protestors were wounded by rubber and sponge coated bullets and hurled stun grenades.    It is reported that Israel Prison Service special Masada unit went undercover, mingled with demonstrators and threw stones to create a provocation.

Israeli pilots practise bombing in Alberta

Ten F-16 fighter-bombers of the Israeli Air Force participated in Exercise Maple Flag then stayed for some extra training. "Israel arrived two weeks early and is staying a few extra weeks”   The U.S.-supplied Israeli aircraft arrived with an Israeli Boeing 707 aerial tanker for refuelling.   Israeli warplanes are practising for precision bombing missions at a Canadian air force range in Northern Alberta.   Canada is also said to maintain an officially secret air base in Qatar.

PRECISION  BOMBING  AND  AERIAL  REFEULLING  TRAINING  WILL  BE  USEFUL  IN  A  STRIKE  AGAINST  IRAN … IT’S  NICE  TO  HAVE  FRIENDS

Israeli Fighter Aircraft        Total Fighter Aircraft Available:  636

F-15   (89 aircraft)

Speed Low Altitude: 1482 KPH

Range: 4450 KM

F-16   (257 aircraft)

Speed Low Altitude: 1440 KPH

Radius of Action: 2100 km 

F-4   (70 aircraft)

Speed 1,600 mph

Range 1,300 miles

F-21   (110 aircraft)  

Speed Mach 2.3

Range 2,008 miles

A-4   (110 aircraft)

Speed  561 knots (max level) 

Combat Radius (km) 575 KM

Ferry range, unrefueled 1,740nm

Tanker Aircraft:   (3) Boeing 707 &  (5) Hercules 130H

Israeli Human Rights Abuses and the U.S. Attack on the United Nations and the NGO Community

Successive White House administrations, along with the leaders of both major political parties and the vast majority of their members in Congress, have justified U.S. support for the Israeli occupation and colonization of the West Bank and Gaza Strip by defining the core issue of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as Israeli security rather than Palestinian rights under international law or the inherent relationship between human rights and security.      Actually, Washington’s sanction of Israeli human rights abuses is quite consistent with a policy that condones abuses by other client states in the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, South and Southeast Asia, and elsewhere.

ANALYSIS  PAPER  BY:   Stephen Zunes, Middle East editor for Foreign Policy in Focus, is a professor of Politics at the University of San Francisco    

SECTIONS:   U.S. Policy and Intergovernmental Organizations;   U.S. Policy and the NGOs;   NGOs Operating in Israel/Palestine;   Human Rights NGOs Internationally;   Reasons Behind U.S. Support for Israeli Human Rights Abuses

Spielberg project leaves Mossad cold

Steven Spielberg’s latest project, VENGEANCE, is a dramatisation of tit-for-tat killings that followed the 1972 killings of Israeli Olympic athletes by Palestinian fighters.      Israel has never formally claimed responsibility for the shootings, explosive booby-traps and cross-border commando raids that killed 10 Palestinians.    The campaign included the 1973 slaying in Norway of a Moroccan waiter mistaken for Black September's leader.  Six members of the Israeli hit team were prosecuted for murder.   Israel eventually paid compensation to the victim's family.  The screenplay shows less-than-flattering portrayal of Israeli tactics.     

Why Film Director Steven Spielberg Should Avoid Malta this week

DEBKAfile’s counter-terror experts comment that, while these aspects of the film are compelling, the filmmakers’ security also requires proper attention to the defining elements of terrorism, prior intelligence. Our sources say this is not a good week to start shooting in Malta. The director and his crew would be well advised to give the Mediterranean island a wide berth for the moment because of certain events that might even place them in harm’s way.     Jihad Islami may typically decide to mark its commemoration date by hitting American or Israeli targets somewhere in the Middle East.

            SIGNIFICANCE:   DEBKA  MAY  BE  GOV  COVERT  OPERATION

            IF  ATTACKED:       CUI  BONO    (For whose advantage?)

The Seeds of Fascism

As the Jewish writer Albert Memmi experienced and described so well during the French colonization of Tunisia, "Every colonial nation carries the seeds of the Fascist temptation." Those deadly seeds flourish these days in Israel.

Five years ago, when Israeli Arabs blocked a few roads the police used live ammunition to kill Arab-Israelis, but now Israeli drivers come equipped with iron bars to open the roads blocked by the settlers. 

Todays blocked roads were top news and much later down the line-up, came news of the lynching of 17 yr old Palestinian Ziad Majaida.   After a soldier pushed him to the wall, he was easy prey for settlers who threatened to kill the paramedic about to treat him. Soldiers said they were “surprised”.  

We Jews know about “surprises” over the centuries, all over Europe, when everybody knew of an imminent pogrom, except for the local police, which was "surprised" and therefore "regretfully unable" to protect the abused Jews.

The settlers operate with clandestine cooperation among the settlers, the army, the state apparatus, and the political echelon, working in harmony against all law and order, bypassing democratic procedures, cheating the public and the media: "it's all right to lie for the Land of Israel," as Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir once said.

It was Kierkegaard who once said you can learn a lot about a person from the one thing that makes him serious.  The fact that no atrocity ever made Israeli society, protest the way the settlers do now, is disgraceful evidence for the complete moral bankruptcy of the Jewish state.  

 “MIDDLE  EAST”

Neuharth Calls For U.S. Withdrawal from Iraq, Says Bush 'Lied'

USA Today founder Al Neuharth, who caused a stir last year when -- a bit ahead of the curve -- he told E&P that he favored a U.S. withdrawal from Iraq, re-iterated his position Friday, with even more force.

“I'm convinced the best way to support our troops in Iraq is to bring them home. Sooner rather than later,”   He also compared President Bush to President Lyndon B. Johnson, saying that both presidents “lied to us in wartime.”

Iraq UN ambassador says US Marines killed cousin

Ambassador Samir Sumaidaie, a supporter of the United States, said Mohammed al-Sumaidaie, the son of his first cousin, was shot by Marines during a raid at his father's house in the village of Al-Shaikh Hadid, near a U.S. military base at the Haditha Dam.    "All indications point to a killing of an unarmed innocent civilian -- a cold blooded murder," Sumaidaie said.

June one of the deadliest months for U.S. troops in Iraq

At least 68 U.S. soldiers were killed by hostile fire in Iraq, the fifth highest number since the war began, and the total could continue to rise as troops die from wounds sustained during the month.

U.S. deaths up 34% since Iraqis took over own government

About 882 U.S. troops were killed in the past 12 months compared with 657 in the year prior. In June, Iraqi insurgents killed at least 79 U.S. troops.   Insurgents are turning to car bombs to inflict the highest number of casualties with the smallest amount of resources.  - - Bush said there would be "tough moments that test America's resolve" in Iraq. 

Sailors, airmen saying no thanks to Army offer

Only 375 airmen or sailors have so far transferred to the Army under the Blue to Green program, more than 3,000 soldiers short of what Army officials had hoped for.

            SILLY  BOYS

Military desertions double last year's so far.

Secret air campaign against Iraq?

Downing Street memo, other documents may show war really started earlier than March 2003.

Video from Iraqi Resistance - Cowboys in Iraq - Extremely Powerful -wmv

Crazy Like a Fox- What Was Bush Thinking?

On the eve of the first round of voting, Bush urges Iranians to vote for mainstream, secularist candidate, Rafsanjani.  (ALTHOUGH  REPORTED  AS  A  SURPRISE) predictably, people came out enmasse, and elected the most anti-American candidate on the ballot.   What better way to get a war going against Iran than to get the most anti-American candidate possible elected to the country's presidency?

USA to unleash war on Iran?              PRAVDA

As the scandal about the alleged terrorist past of the Iranian president-elect grows up, it's becoming obvious that the world is witnessing a smear campaign not unlike those aimed at Milosevic  and Hussein.    The possible invasion of Iran is most likely connected with Iran's intention to create "petroeuro system" for oil trade, which can critically undermine U.S. dollar as the monopoly currency for the critical international oil market.

Report on Ahmadinejad’s role in hostage siege false

U.S. freezes assets of Syrian ministers

Iraq — Vietnam redux?   A handy list

Original premise of war proven to be bogus after country in quagmire? Check.

Old men wave flag, young men die? Check.

Sons of government absent from serving in military? Check.

Leaders promise war as show of American strength? Check.

Irrational "shock and awe" optimism presented as "news" by press? Check.

Seductive promises of victory dissolve into death and despair without end? Check.

War skeptics branded as traitors, no matter what the evidence? Check.

War cheerleaders praised as patriots, no matter what the evidence? Check.

War leaders amazed by fierce, predictable resistance of little brown people? Check.

Unshakeable faith in superior technology? Check.

Truth-tellers fired or demoted? Check.

Returning vets angry, skeptical about chances of "winning" war? Check.

Alienated voters who distrust leaders, but loathe "opposition" weasels? Check.

AND  YET TO COME ..

Proclamations to "stay the course" because "these colors don't run"? Incoming.

War enablers (RMcNamara) writing books describing agonizing decisions?  Incoming.

Veterans living with injuries because of civilians running the military? Incoming.

            HEAVILY  EDITED  TEXT  -  FULL  TEXT  MUCH  BETTER

“FOREIGN  AFFAIRS”

Italy breaks up vigilante group that hunted down Islamists

The suspected leaders were members of a far-right group called New MSI National Right and invoked religious undertones on their personal website.   "God-fearing men, pure and tough men that are illuminated by God's will, have descended into the valley of death to defend the Christian-Judaic faith and the west," it said.

            RECALL:   Italy eyes extradition of CIA-led kidnappers     JUNE 27/05

Italy probes 'parallel police'

The alleged parallel force is accused of illegally using the Interior Ministry database for its own purposes.   The “Department of Anti-terrorism Strategic Studies” was reportedly created after the 2004 Madrid bombings to combat Islamic extremism.      Many of those under investigation are said to be employed by regular law-enforcement bodies. Prosecutors believe that DSSA "employees" were sometimes using official police badges and other equipment to carry out their own investigations.  Italian state radio Rai later reported that the two arrested men may have had links with Gladio, the Italian branch of a secret paramilitary network set up in post-war Europe with the backing of the CIA.

            OPERATION  GLADIO  WAS  A  FREEMASON – CIA  OPERATION  AGAINST  SOCIALISTS

            SIMILAR  TO  OP-CONDOR  IN  SOUTH  AMERICA:  

Operation Condor - Wikipedia   

Operation Condor – Nat Sec Archiv – GWashington University

Italian defends 'phoney police'  

Arrested man says the group was legal and its activity well-known. But the Genoa chief prosecutor says official police forces were unaware of the work carried out by the agency.

Wayne Madsen Reports:  Italian Spy Scandal

            HIGHLY  RECOMMENDED

More Questions on Missing Imam     NEWSWEEK
If the CIA did abduct Abu Omar in Italy, the timing suggests his rendition was connected to the upcoming war in Iraq.    

Pirates hijack tsunami aid ship

Somalian gunmen hijack a ship carrying United Nations food aid and demand $500.000 ransom for the crew

100,000 Australian Workers Protest Howard's Planned Labor Rules

About 100,000 workers marched through Melbourne yesterday to protest Howard's plan to create a new national wage system and make it easier for businesses with fewer than 100 employees to fire people.     the second rally in as many days.

Insider brands Brussels ‘bureaucratic nightmare’

The European Commission is a “bureaucratic nightmare” that has no idea how to “sell” Europe to the British public, the former head of its UK office says on Friday.   “It is not just that the Commission fails to explain what the EU is for . . . Its modus operandi displays an outrageous lack of common sense.”

Blast hits U.N. in Serbia-Montenegro

At least three blasts rocked the center of Pristina late Saturday, and one targeted the U.N. mission headquarters.      The second blast happened near the building of the Org. for Security and Coop. in Europe, some 100 yards down the road from the U.N. compound.   The third blast went off near the Kosovo government building which also houses the province's parliament, said Jiang.

US reconnaissance team missing in Afghanistan after chopper crash

Uzbekistan: Is The Country Headed For Regime Change?

A major essay in the British journal “Jane’s Intelligence Review” argues that “Uzbekistan is now spiraling irretrievably towards violent regime change.” Such an upheaval, the piece says, could leave in its bloody wake a “failed state” with continued violence driven by “an ugly cocktail of ethnicity, revenge, disparities of wealth, clan interests, organized crime, foreign interference, and religious extremism.”

Indonesian police in terror sweep

The Jakarta Post said 24 people had been arrested recently in connection with the 2002 Bali bombings and a 2003 attack on Jakarta's Marriott hotel.

Japan and China face off over energy

This report is a condensed version of a series featured in the Yomiuri Shimbun, highlighting Japan's resource anxieties in the context of rising China-Japan tensions over issues that include the struggle for scarce oil and other natural resources and the voracious quest for energy by Japan's rapidly growing neighbor. The conflict is set within a global milieu in which oil prices are soaring above US$60 a barrel, the consumption of China, India, the US and a number of other powers continues to rise, and nations seek to secure access to oil and national gas supplies that show strong signs of reaching a tipping point at which demand exceeds supply.

Zapatista Comeback Seeks Leftist Allies

The Zapatista guerrillas in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas have once again taken up their dusty banner in the fight against neoliberalism, announcing that they would tour the country in search of alliances with "the true left."

Chavez's 'citizen militias' on the march

During recent months, Venezuela has been buying 100,000 AK-47 rifles and military helicopters from Russia, as well as ships and planes from Brazil and Spain.       In the empty parking lot outside, civilian "corporals" bark commands at groups of adults and teenagers in white shirts and black caps and pants. They are marching around, training for battle.   Retired General Alberto Muller, a military analyst who is close to Chavez government officials, says Venezuela's new reserve is similar to the US's own Army Reserve and civilian forces in many nations.

China, Russia issue joint statement on new world order

THE  LEADERS  OF  MAJOR  ARMIES  VOICING  VACANT  IDEALISM…

…  DON’T  BOTHER  READING – REFERENCE ONLY

China and Russia here Friday issued a joint statement on a new world order in the 21st century.  The joint statement said the two countries are determined to strengthen their strategic coordination in international affairs and promote peace, stability and prosperity of the world.

            UN REFORMS should strengthen its role in international affairs.   Reforms should be based on consensus and in the interests of the majority of the countries.    The UN’s role as the principal organization in global affairs, including economic and development problems, should increase.    UN security operations must abide by the UN charter with resolutions be strictly adhered to.   

            MULTILATERALISM - countries must have autonomy of internal affairs, with international issues solved through multilateral consultations with the renouncing the confrontation, coercion and strategic alliances.   Every nation on equal footing as befits its national realities.     This process will be a long and complicated, but mankind’s problems can only be solved by international law under an impartial and rational world order.   The primary goal is to safeguard peace, stability and security with development based on equality, and mutual respect.  

NEW SECURITY FRAMEWORK  - a new security framework based on mutual trust, equality and cooperation.   This  based on the equal security rights of all nations by maintaining global strategic stability, and the multilateral process of establishing legal systems on arms control, disarmament and non-proliferation.   This includes the control of weapons through international cooperation under law.

Threats should be dealt with on the basis of the UN Charter and international law.   Open, non-exclusive regional political blocks beneficial to shaping a new world order in both economic cooperation and security cooperation mechanisms.    These regional organizations should set up ties with each other and produce an atmosphere of mutual trust and cooperation, the joint statement says.

ATTENTION TO GAP OF DISPARITY  -      All countries should enjoy the profits of globalization in such fields as economy, society, science, technology, information and culture, with mutually beneficial cooperation and common development.   Countries should eliminate discrimination in economic relations and narrow disparity between the rich and the poor through a comprehensive economic regime acceptable to all (based on the negotiations of equals).  Coercive measures should never be used to gain advantage.   Respect for the traditions of countries with diverse ethnic groups means that secession or ethnic hatred should never be incited, but instead this diversity would serve as a stabilizing resource.    External interference will never result from differing historic backgrounds, cultures, social and political systems, values and modes of development.

BLAH,  BLAH,  BLAH …

 “MILITARY / INTELLIGENCE / SECURITY”

Russia, China to Start Full-Scale Military Maneuver

before the drills, both governments will sign an agreement on the statute of their respective armed forces, which were analyzed during a visit by Russian Defense Minister Serguei Ivanov to Beijing in December.   Russia will be represented by 3,000 members of the Air Force, Airborne Troops and the Navy, while China will send some 5,000 soldiers and officials.

Russian intelligence targets Czechs       JANES – NO FURTHER INFO
Evidence continues to mount of Russia's behind-the-scenes involvement in the domestic politics of states that once fell within the sphere of Soviet influence.

Mysterious 'stealth' boat plying Columbia River

Gregg Herrington, a reporter for The Columbian in Vancouver, Washington, has been following the evolution of the boat for several years. He claims the original test boat, of which he has a photo, was designed for the Isreali Navy.

Biometrics won't deter passport fraudsters, chief admits

Bernard Herdan, chief executive of the UK Passport Service, told the Financial Times that tighter passport standards “will make a huge difference” in combating organized crime and illegal immigration.           But, he said, "when you get into the domain of terrorism and really sophisticated fraud I'm not saying this will stop everything from ever happening... It is less evident that tougher passport standards are going to prevent terrorism.”

GIVEN  THE  SECURITY  LAPSES  SO  FAR,  IDENTITY  THEFT  WOULD  BE  MUCH  EASIER

"TEMPEST and QinetiQ"

“ECONOMICS”

House votes to block China-Unocal Deal

The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday overwhelmingly voted (333-92) to block the Bush administration from approving a Chinese company's attempt to acquire U.S. oil and gas producer Unocal Corp.     

The Nontaxpaying Affluent Grew by 15% in One Year

The number of affluent individuals and married couples who paid no federal income taxes jumped more than 15 percent in 2002, to 5,650, new government data showed yesterday.    About one in every 436 high-income Americans paid no taxes in 2002, up from one in 531 in 2001 and one in 1,010 in 2000.

            FORTUNES  AND  MISFORTUNES  INCREASING  MORE  RAPIDLY

The Dangers of Investing, in London

During the last 25 years, the 'City of London' has undergone a Metamorphosis - From being one of the most Honest and Reliable market-places in the world, in which to conduct financial transactions, it has degenerated into a Mine-Field.       

THE  ISSUES  SURROUNDING  THE  CORPORATION  KNOWN  AS ..

“CITY-OF-LONDON”  IS  MUCH  LARGER  THAN  OUTLINED… 

The "Jewish" Conspiracy is British Imperialism       HENRY  MAKOW

England is in fact a financial oligarchy run by the "Crown" which refers to the "City of London" not the Queen. The City of London is run by the Bank of England, a private corporation. The square-mile-large City is a sovereign state located in the heart of greater London. As the "Vatican of the financial world," the City is not subject to British law.

According to the "American Almanac," the bankers are part of a network called the "Club of the Isles" which is an informal association of predominantly European-based royal households including the Queen. The Club of the Isles commands an estimated $10 trillion in assets. It lords over such corporate giants as Royal Dutch Shell, Imperial Chemical Industries, Lloyds of London, Unilever, Lonrho, Rio Tinto Zinc, and Anglo American DeBeers.            Wikipedia: City of London The City itself has two independent enclaves within it - Inner Temple and Middle Temple.    The City of London has a unique political status, a legacy of its uninterrupted integrity as a corporate city since the Anglo Saxon period and its singular relationship with the crown.        Proposals to annex the City into the City of Westminster, have never been taken seriously.    The City has a unique electoral system, which does not follow the usual rules of democracy, allowing businessmen a vote and arranging voters in wards with very unequal number of voters. This is sometimes a cause of controversy, reforms now mean previously disenfranchised firms will be entitled to nominate voters.

(THEIR  USE  OF  OCCULT  SYMBOLS  IS  IMPRESSIVE)

IF  YOU  ARE  THE  HEAD,  THE  BODY  WILL  FOLLOW   

“CANADA”

Woman leads Muslim prayer service in Toronto

A Muslim congregation in Toronto made history when it became the first mosque in memory to have its Friday prayers led by a woman.

Canada offered intelligence to Syrians, probe told

Although Canadian officials were concerned that Maher Arar had been abused by Syrian authorities in the fall of 2002, they were still prepared to share information with Syrian military intelligence, an RCMP officer said today.   INSPECTOR  CABANA  said he never really considered that the Americans would ship Arar to Syria from New York, even though Arar told Canadian consular officials he feared such a move.

            "We have evidence that there is ill treatment," yet the decision was made to offer intelligence-sharing.     "Why didn't someone say, `we don't want to go there'? Edwardh asked.     "Sometimes we have hard decisions to make," Cabana replied.

Data protection ended on 9/11, Mountie says

the RCMP dropped all normal safeguards on sharing intelligence and went to extraordinary lengths to give information to U.S. authorities, a senior Mountie says.     Information flowed freely, with no privacy or jurisdictional conditions.    Cabana testified that "The way it was described to us is, you're working hand in hand with people now and when you're working in partnership with agencies, caveats don't apply."

Ottawa too hasty on new security deal with US

Anne McLellan's decision to enter into new information-sharing agreements with U.S. intelligence agencies prior to receiving the report from Dennis O'Connor, head of the Arar commission, is deeply disturbing.

Winnipeg Museum For Human Rights Ideological Agenda Exposed In Special Report

(LifeSiteNews.com) Canada’s democratically challenged elites are planning what appears to be a $300 million temple to their deceptively named Charter of Rights and Freedoms and its dangerous underlying ideology.   The devotees of the secular humanist Charter cult want to change the world to their elitist view of ideologically defined and limited ‘human rights’ to that which they have already begun in their laboratory of Canada.

“DEMOCRACY / FREEDOM”

US Congress seen paving way for private toll roads

the U.S. Congress appears set to pass a proposal to encourage private ownership of new toll roads.   

The provision, part of the highway spending bill now being hammered out by a Senate and House conference committee, would allow private companies to raise up to $15 billion for highway projects with bonds that are exempt from federal income taxes.

            EMINENT  DOMAIN  RULING  WILL  BE  VERY  USEFUL  FOR  THIS

Embedded Systems Will Be Everywhere, Expert Predicts

Sakamura described a future in which information access is constant and ubiquitous. The later term describes Japan's future vision of embedded systems, which is dubbed "pervasive computing" in the United States and "ambient intelligence" in Europe.   40,000 RFID tags were used to provide information about "places" rather than things.   Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport intends to expand the project throughout Japan.

THESE  CHIPS  ARE  MICROWAVE  POWERED.     FOR  THESE  TO  WORK,  THE  ENTIRE  LANDSCAPE  WOULD  NEED  TO  BE  BATHED  WITH  MICROWAVES.      THERE  WILL  BE  HEALTH  EFFECTS  AS  DNA  HAVE  BEEN  SHOWN  TO  DISTORT

 “SOCIETY”

Tigris dam damns Assur

The Iraqi government is building a dam which will destroy the ancient city of Assur, the former capital which gave its name to Assyria. Although it has received no publicity outside Iraq, the dam across the Tigris is likely to result in one of the greatest archaeological losses of modern times.

RECALL  THE  WORLD  OUTRAGE  WHEN  THE  TALIBAN  DESTROYED  THE  BUDDHIST  SCULPTURES ?  CBC News: Ancient Buddha statues smashed in Afghanistan

ARUBA and White Slavery and Natalee Holloway

A statement of editorial opinion from the executive director of Rumor Mill News

Fired Officer Is Suing Wal-Mart

In a lawsuit filed two weeks ago in state court in Arkansas, where Wal-Mart Stores is based and Mr. Lynn lives, he asserted that he was terminated in 2002 "for truthfully reporting the abysmal working conditions in Central American factories utilized by Wal-Mart and for refusing to comply with Wal-Mart's demand that he certify factories in order to get Wal-Mart's goods to market."  like locked exits and mandatory 24-hour shifts.

Pin camera ready to roll on Ark of Covenant discovery

“HEALTH / SCIENCE / TECH”

Scientists study ways the mind can heal itself

Plasticity means an injured brain can reroute signals through existing pathways and grow new connections between cells. It means the mind — in some cases, and given the right prompting — can begin to heal itself.     "The most amazing thing from our data is how many people are out there with brain injuries who actually have surviving and repairing brain tissue that is never discovered by traditional diagnosis," says Dr. Bernard Brucker, the University of Miami psychologist

Study prompts ibuprofen warning for kids

use the painkiller ibuprofen as a last resort for their children, after a study found severe side effects.   The five-year study found side effects for ibuprofen included kidney damage, vomiting blood and the worsening of asthma.

Physists observe new interaction in elementary particle physics

they had produced first evidence of a beauty quark converting to the lightest of quarks, the down quark.

Saturn rings have own atmosphere

NASA Plans to Build Two New Shuttle-derived Launch Vehicles

“INFECTIOUS - DISEASES”

Why Are NZ Children Dying Of Influenza B?

Dr Sue Huang, virologist, admitted that the ESR was uncertain why influenza B was affecting children and young people so seriously in N.Z. but not in Australia.   I decided to look at the Ministry of Health’s website to see vaccination dates for the meningococcal B vaccine in the North Island.   Time and time again, I saw dates for the administration of meningococcal B vaccine precede an ‘epidemic’ of illness in the region concerned. This has been the case for numerous regions – Manukau, Auckland, Waikato, Wellington, Northland, and Palmerston North, to name a few.     The South Island meningococcal B vaccinations began earlier this month, and I now hear that Southland has been hit by influenza.   

Red Tide Recedes in Massachusetts    YES !

Researcher suggests mad cow disease is caused by a bacteria.

Lasmezas's study showed that 55% of mice injected with cattle BSE, and who came down with disease, had no detectable ‘infectious particles’.   Many animals that die of spongiform encephalopathies never show evidence of misfolded proteins, and Dr. Frank Bastian, of Tulane, an authority, thinks the disorder is caused by the bacterial DNA he found in this group of diseases."

ALSO:   HIV/AIDS Interview With Researcher Lawrence Broxmeyer MD.   In 1990 Montagnier did an experiment that put HIV advocates on the edge of their chairs. They found that cells cultured with "HIV", which normally died, grew well in the presence of two antibiotics, minocycline and doxycycline. Antibiotics do not affect viruses, so they were not working against HIV- it was a bacteria or a mycoplasma.

IT  IS  QUITE  LIKELY  THAT  “HIV”  IS  NOT  THE  CAUSATIVE  AGENT  OF  “AIDS”

MYCOPLASMAS  ARE  AN  IGNORED  CLASS  OF  PATHOGENS  BECAUSE  OF  DIAGNOSTIC  DIFFICULTY

DHH urging people to take precautions against mosquito bites

            ALERT:    BRUSH  MOSQUITOS  OFF   –    DO  NOT  SWAT  THEM…

SWATTING  CAUSES  PRESSURE   INSIDE  THE  MOSQUITO  BODY  TO  INCREASE,  WHICH  THEN  “INJECTS”  THE  PERSON  WITH  BODILY  CONTENTS  PRIOR  TO  THE  BURSTING  OF  THEIR  BODY    -   A   GREAT  INNOCULATION  TECHNIQUE

1000 kids hospitalised for flu         Cambodia

"About 1,000 infant patients have been hospitalised in four big hospitals in recent days with acute respiratory infections," but said no fatalities have been reported, health ministry secretary of state Heng Tay Kry told AFP.

2005 H5N1 Recombinant Emerged in 2004 in Vietnam

The  strain present in Vietnam in the summer of 2004, has emerged as the dominant form throughout Vietnam in 2005.  It was associated with human-to-human transmission in the summer of 2004.

FINALLY  SOME  DNA  DATA !  - SEE NEXT

New Bird Flu Sequences Needed to Correct Mis-Matched Primers

Efforts to monitor avian influenza in Asia continue to be hampered by a lack of viral DNA sequence data from China, a World Health Organization (WHO) expert told The Scientist.   There are no 2005 H5N1 sequences publicly available at GenBank.    These sequences are necessary to update the tests, and so to eliminate the false negatives generated older tests. 

700 Bird Flu Deaths of Patients in China?
The story has not been verified    The above machine translated test from a Boxun report at Abundant News suggests that there may be as many as 700 H5N1 bird flu victims based on the size of the compensation fund.   

Scandalous H5N1 Testing of Migratory Birds and Humans in China

Today's WHO media conference indicates that almost two months after the initial bar headed goose was found and over a month after the OIE filing, China is reporting test on two patients and 12 dead birds.   China has never reported a human H5N1 infection and India has never reported H5N1 in humans or birds.

WHO: Over 5000 Waterfowl Deaths in China

Avian flu has killed 5,000 wild birds in China's northwest, five times the number previously reported by the Chinese government, the World Health Organization said Tuesday. 

“ENVIRONMENT / EARTH”

Hurricanes cause earthquakes

Poor Ocean Conditions

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is reporting that conditions on the open ocean are such that feeding opportunities for some seabirds is poor, which may cause birds to die at sea and wash up on the beaches.

            RECALL:    A  METEOROLOGIST’S  VIEW:    (FRIEND)

(1) The Atlantic gulf stream conveyor belt has slowed significantly in the last few years.

(2) As a result, sea surface temperatures are rising in the SW as warm water is trapped there.

RAISING  WATER  TEMPERATURES  DECREASE  THE  AMOUNT  OF  GASES  DISSOLVED  IN  THE  WATER   -    EX:     CARBOND DIOXIDE-PHOTOSYNTHESIS  &  OXYGEN-FISH

(THERE  IS  ALSO  THE  INCREASING  ACIDITY  FACTOR)

Shearwater die-off puzzling 299 seabirds found on Volusia's shores

As it turned out, hundreds more shearwaters had been washing up for weeks in Georgia, the Carolinas and as far north as Maryland.

            THIS  IS  ALONG  SOUTH-EASTERN  US  SEABOARD

RECALL:   Mysterious Greater Shearwater Deaths on Carolina Beaches (06/18/05)   Greater Shearwaters come ashore only to breed.   Right now, Shearwaters are migrating from South Africa to New England & Greenland, with their first brush with land being the Carolinas coast.

You see things and say ‘why’?

But I dream of things that never were and I say: ‘why not’?

George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah, Part 1, Act 1

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