June 27, 2005 In the News - Comments by Doug Bracewell

Iranian Hard-Liner Wins
Tehran's hard-line conservative mayor has defeated his moderate challenger in the Iranian presidential election. By acting merely as a puppet for Iran's religious leaders, he's expected to reverse democratic reforms, reduce women's rights, and serve as a new role model for Bill Frist.

Reformers Reel
Iran's more moderate politicians have been soundly defeated by the election of an ultra-conservative to the presidency. Now they'll have to abandon their idealistic dreams of giving westerners blindfolds before they're beheaded.

Israel urges harder int'l line towards Iran

"Faced with the Iranian nuclear threat, the international community must, more than before, formulate a unified and stern policy towards Iran," Shalom told reporters. Israel said last month that it expected Iran to have the technological know-how within six to nine months to build nuclear bombs.

Israel: Ahmedinajad's Election is a Danger for the Entire World

Fox News Peddles a War With Iran

"Remember how much we fussed over this guy? Now what if I told you we might be facing a bigger threat from this guy? [Iran's President-elect, Mahmoud] Why Iran's newly elected President had oil prices jumping and no less than our President talking.”

Fox then went to a full fledged FOX NEWS ALERT and Cavuto told the audience that oil prices closed above $60.00 per barrel for the first time ever today, "all on fears this guy [Ahmadinejad] could soon have us all over a barrel."

Iran President-Elect Vows to Pursue Nukes
Iran President-elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad vowed Sunday to pursue a peaceful nuclear program - an effort the United States maintains is really a cover for trying to build atomic bombs.

Nuke Crisis Looms with Hardline Iran

The landslide election victory of the hard-line mayor of Tehran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, sets the stage for a tense new confrontation between Iran and the West.-World Peace Herald

Iran's nuke program peaceful CNN

EU vows to deepen relations with Iran despite leadership change

The European Union (EU) will continue to deepen its relations with Iran despite a leadership change in Tehran, said European Commission (EC) spokeswoman on external relations Emma Udwin on Monday. "(The EU's) ambition remains to build a deeper relationship with Iran," Udwin told a daily press conference held by the EU's executive. She said the EC took note of the "willingness" that Iranian president-elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had expressed to continue nuclear talks.

Bush and Schröder are on message about Iran

President George W. Bush said Monday that he and Chancellor Gerhard Schröder of Germany had agreed on a firm line on Iran, saying that European negotiators should continue to send Tehran a "focused, concerted, unified message that says the development of a nuclear weapon is unacceptable."

Bush Says Iran Nuclear Weapons Pursuit `Unacceptable'

Russia, Indonesia hail democratic poll of Iran

Russia ready to continue nuclear cooperation with new Iranian leadership

Russia is ready to continue cooperating with Iran in the atomic energy sector following the victory of hardliner Mahmood Ahmadinejad in presidential elections, but will meet obligations to prevent nuclear weapons proliferation, President Vladimir Putin said Saturday.-Space War

U.S. Mulls New Sanctions Against Russian Companies Working With Iran

THERE ARE STRANGENESSES SURROUNDING THESE EVENTS

… SAME PEOPLE, SIMILAR CIRCUMSTANCES, STRIKING PARALLELS…

BOMBS AWAY TUESDAY ?

Bombing the crap out of Iran: It adds up

How is Tuesday and the bombing of Iran linked?

Will Israel launch against Iran on Tuesday?

READER SUBMISSION TO WRH

WRH COMMENTS: RAMIFICATIONS: Israel attacking the Iranian reactors by itself would not justify US war with Iran. One of two things would have to follow. The whole point of Israel attacking the reactors would be to goad Iran into a declaration of war against Israel. This means Iran's ground forces would have to march through the US forces in place in Iraq to get to Israel. But, just as Saddam refused to be goaded by the bombing campaign in the months before the formal declaration of war, so too might Iran's leadership decide not to respond to the obvious provocation and instead refer the matter to the UN. IN that case, expect an "attack" against a US ship in the Mediterranean, to be blamed on Iran, using untraceable missiles purchased on the black market (such as the ones Israel was recently caught smuggling out of Columbia). The wild card is Russia. They might react rather forcefully to the bombing of the reactor they have built, especially if Russian nationals are killed our wounded in the bombing raid. Russia might decide that the bombing of Russian state property (which the reactor is until it is turned over to Iran) constitutes an attack on Russia.

Albert Pike and Three World Wars

"The Third World War must be fomented by taking advantage of the differences caused by the "agentur" of the "Illuminati" between the political Zionists and the leaders of Islamic World. The war must be conducted in such a way that Islam (the Moslem Arabic World) and political Zionism (the State of Israel) mutually destroy each other. Meanwhile the other nations, once more divided on this issue will be constrained to fight to the point of complete physical, moral, spiritual and economical exhaustion.” Albert Pike's Background

“UNITED STATES”

Shark Attack II
The second shark-biting incident occurred 80 miles from the deadly attack on Saturday, which means police are also searching for an accomplice who's driving the shark's getaway car.

Rehnquist Stays On
As expected, Chief Justice William Rehnquist did not announce his retirement yesterday. Rehnquist says he won't step down until someone brings that killer shark in Florida to justice.

Battered Bush watches as support ebbs away, to speak to Nation on June 28th

With memories of his poll victory still fresh, the President already seems a lame duck. Backing for the Iraq war has collapsed and his domestic agenda is in disarray. Even his party is rebelling

WILL BE SPEAKING FROM FORT BRAGG TUESDAY

Euan Blair takes intern role with US Republicans

the Prime Minister's eldest son, has landed a post working on Capitol Hill for a leading conservative Republican in the House of Representatives

Database to cost schools millions

Millions of dollars intended for Florida classrooms will go instead for fingerprinting tens of thousands of school employees and contractors, … and make children safer.

Concerns arise over Bush's pick for EPA job

Bush has nominated Granta Nakayama, a partner in a law firm whose clients include W.R. Grace, BP, Dow Chemical and DuPont, to lead the Environmental 'Protection' Agency's far-flung enforcement division.

Former MI5 Agent Says 9/11 An Inside Job

Former MI5 agent David Shayler, who previously blew the whistle on the British government paying Al Qaeda $200,000 to carry out political assassinations, has gone on the record with his conviction that 9/11 was an inside job meant to bring about a permanent state of emergency in America and pave the way for the invasions of Afghanistan, Iraq and ultimately Iran and Syria.

Blueprint to terror-proof nation's skyscrapers
After an exhaustive three-year analysis of the causes of the collapse of the World Trade Center's Twin Towers, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is recommending sweeping changes to building codes around the nation to ensure that in the case of tragedy - fires and other natural disasters as well as terrorist attacks - the maximum number of people will be able to survive -Christian Science Monitor

America's Parallel Legal Systems

The dividing line between criminal and civil standards has withstood more than two centuries of use, but that line is now being undermined by the intrusion of legal standards from parallel legal systems, most particularly the immigration court system which BEING PART OF THE executive (not the judicial) branch of the government, immigration courts do not apply the same legal standards as are applied in federal criminal cases The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) system passed by Congress in 1978, set standards for foreign intelligence warrants. Under FISA, the FBI does not have to show that there is probable cause of criminal activity in order to obtain a warrant to search or surveil a target. It only has to show probable cause that the target is a foreign power or an agent <CITIZEN?> of a foreign power.

UNDER THE PROPOSED PATRIOT ACT, FBI WILL WRITE THEIR OWN WARRANTS TO ACCESS ANY DATA HELD BY ANY US SUBSIDIARY COMPANY (IBM) FOR DATA ON ANY FOREIGN CITIZEN (Cdn-Aus-UK)

- PUT THIS INTO CONTEXT WITH “DEEP INTEGRATION” IN CANADA SECTION

Scores of Muslim Men Jailed Without Charge

Operating behind a wall of secrecy, the U.S. Department of Justice thrust scores of Muslim men living in the United States into a Kafkaesque world of indefinite detention without charge and baseless accusations of terrorist links, Human Rights Watch and the American Civil Liberties Union said in a report released today.

“ISRAEL”

Snipers with children in their sights UK GUARDIAN

The army said the two were blown up by a Palestinian bomb planted to kill soldiers. The corpses offered a different account. In Rafah's morgue, Asma lay with a single bullet hole through her temple; her 13-year-old brother had a lone shot to his forehead. There were no other injuries, certainly none consistent with a blast.

When reporters pressed the issue, the army promised a full investigation, but a few weeks later it was quietly dropped. This has become the norm in a military that appears to value protecting itself from accountability more than living up to its claim to be the "most moral army in the world".

IN ANOTHER CASE The teenagers were in a "forbidden zone" kicking a ball. Their corpses showed no evidence of wounds to disable them, only single high-calibre shots to the head or back. The army quietly admitted as much - but there would be no investigation.

IMMUNITY FROM ACCOUNTABILITY

Israeli troops tell of tactics to abuse Palestinians

In public testimonies, the troops alleged the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) routinely carried out "deterrent gunfire" into Palestinian areas without a specific target and also used Palestinian civilians to investigate suspected bombs and as human shields during arrest operations. The claims, which are beginning to filter into the Israeli media, contrast sharply with government assertions that the Israeli army is a "role model for the world" because of its particularly moral behaviour.

Israeli Soldier Convicted of Killing BRITISH Student

HE WAS NOT ARAB

DEBKA tries to spin their way out of the AIPAC scandal

DEBKAfile’s political sources add: A public, nationally televised display of the arrest of a key figure in the relationship Israel and the American Jewish community maintained with the administration for a quarter of a century will be extremely damaging to US-Israel ties and cause US Jewish leaders serious distress.

Israeli government apologises to New Zealand

"In this context, we wish to express our regret for the activities which resulted in the arrest and conviction of two Israeli citizens in New Zealand on criminal charges and apologise for the involvement of Israeli citizens in such activities. Israel commits itself to taking steps to prevent a recurrence of similar incidents in the future."

RECALL: 1997 CDN Passport Abuse & PROMISES .. NEVER AGAIN …

RECALL: 2004 CDN Passport Used by Israeli Spy Ring

Israel Agrees to Cancel Arms Deal With China
Under pressure from the Bush administration, Israel has agreed to cancel an arms deal with China and allow U.S. officials to review future weapons transactions in an effort to resolve a point of tension between two governments usually in lockstep over security matters.

RECALL: China, Israel discuss expanding defense ties

Israel receives long-range spy plane

Israel took delivery Sunday of the first of four US-made ultra-long-range Gulfstream V jets that will be used as high-tech surveillance aircraft. It will be equipped with sensors and radars to detect radio transmissions and enemy positions to produce a modern picture of a battlefield. squadron commander Lt.-Col. Y. "I can't say where the aircraft will fly, but it will fly far and reach any place we are required and remain there for some time."

FOR USE AGAINST PALESTINIAN SUICIDE BOMBERS AND STONE-THROWERS ?

Germany to decrease benefits for Jews

Partially complies with several Jewish Agency requests to prevent competition with Israel for Jewish immigrants from former Soviet republics; German authorities agree to refrain from using the term ‘refugees’ to define Jewish immigrants

Jewish 'Settlers' In Jordan Valley To Be Doubled

The Israeli ministry of agriculture has drawn up plans to double the number of illegal Jewish settlers living in the sparsely-populated Jordan Valley area of the West Bank, a spokesman for the ministry said.

US warns Israel over West Bank settlements

Israeli officials said Rice said the US wouldn’t be coerced to accept new facts on the ground that Israel is creating in its effort to influence a final peace deal. Israel has to stop the settlement expansion before it becomes a problem, the officials cited her as saying.

Russian Prosecutors Probe Jewish Law Book for Racism

Lawyers working for the state prosecutor had ordered Rabbi Zinovy Kogan, chairman of the Congress of Jewish Organizations, to explain the contents of the 16th century codification of Jewish law, of paramount importance, the Sulchan Aruch, in order to determine what the code says about non-Jews.

The letter, decried by many Jewish and international groups, called the Jewish religion anti-Christian and inhumane, whose practices extend even to ritual murders. Many facts of such religious extremism were proven in courts, the letter read. It said that many anti-Semitic acts in Russia had been caused by the anti-Christian behavior of Jews or even committed by Jews themselves as grounds to take punitive measures against patriots.

Shulkhan Arukh - Wikipedia

Jewish groups seek to clarify Russian probe of religious text

RECALL: Sanhedrin (59a) R. Johanan said: A heathen who studies the Torah deserves death, for it is written, Moses commanded us a law for an inheritance; it is our inheritance, not theirs

Sorcha Faal: Crackdown on Massive Israeli Spy Network

According to Russian Intelligence Analysts the FBI has begun a crackdown against US Jews, as part of what is being described by Russian Security Forces as “the largest spying operation ever discovered in America”. This is alluded to in Something is bothering the FBI which says ”The FBI has made an effort to talk with wealthy Jews as well, apparently in order to deter them from supporting Rosen financially.”

These increasing hostilities are being reported to the Israeli peoples as we can see as evidenced by the Israeli National News Service in their article titled Is the USA Really Israel's Ally? it says, "The United States of America is not a friend of Israel. The United States demands full control over any arms Israel develops with parts bought from the states. We would do much better without American help."

The FBI are searching for a former Mossad Officer named David E. Lipman to uncover the whereabouts of a Nuclear Weapon smuggled into the United States. It is said that Lipman is being sought for sexual crimes, but his real crime was related to a number of cross border meetings with the International Arms Dealer Arif Durrani.

Durrani was arrested as was reported Intrigue behind arrest of Pakistani arms dealer in Mexico

“Durrani faces an arrest warrant in the U.S. for trafficking in anti-aircraft missiles. Yet there are other possible scenarios that could clarify the arrest: Durrani was still trafficking in illicit arms; he was organizing a Mexico-based terrorist plot against the U.S.; or he was about to go public with allegations regarding the Iran-Contra affair. During his residency in Rosarito Beach, Durrani could have been shipping contraband across the border, or even organizing a terrorist plot.”

The uncovering of this latest Mossad plot against the United States was due to the CIA’s granting immunity to one of the worlds most wanted terrorists named Amer Haykel, and who has long been suspected by American Intelligence Agencies of being linked to both the Israeli Mossad and numerous Muslim terrorists organizations Mexico releases UK man arrested on suspicion of Sept 11 connection - "'Once it was corroborated that the Briton Amer Haykel does not represent any threat for national security, and is not wanted by authorities in any country, his detention was ended,' the institute said in a statement."

In response to having their agents arrested and exposed, Israel retaliated by pressuring Italy into issuing International Arrest Warrants issued against CIA rendition staff as cited in Italy charges CIA agents which says "In rare act by ally, officials seek arrests of U.S. agents in kidnapping of imam who allegedly was tortured in Egypt. Current and retired CIA officers, none of whom agreed to be quoted by name, said they could not remember one of their own having been charged abroad with a crime other than espionage, and certainly not in a country friendly to the U.S.”

RECALL: Italian PM accused of editing report on agent's death Reports have surfaced that Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi intervened to ensure that a report on the killing of an Italian intelligence agent in Baghdad by US troops would not damage relations with Washington.

RECALL: Italy ridicules PM's 'withdrawal of withdrawal' Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was accused on Thursday of bowing to pressure from the United States after he apparently backtracked on an announcement that Italian troops would start withdrawing from Iraq this September.

JUST OUT: Italians Detail Lavish CIA Operation

ISSUING WARRANTS FOR CIA OFFICERS IS NOT LIKELY A VOLUNTARY MOVE FOR BERLUSCONI

American Military Leaders seem frustrated with the Israeli factions operating within their own government, and who have been assisting Mossad Agents operating within their country to escape justice, for example Israeli Moving Van Mystery Deepens; 'Mover' is son of top Likud Official it says

"The leader of the two Israelis arrested is the son of the spokesman for the Likud Party of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. This might have proven useful in the criminal investigation however, the investigation was halted Wednesday, after the men were released from jail into the custody of federal officials from the INS, where they face only a deportation hearing.” NOTE THAT: “The sheriff said he saw the men throw a vial containing a "fuel source," but he added that it hasn't been identified and authorities were treating it with caution. Officers also found a " Learn to Fly" brochure in the truck, leading Harris and others to express concern about security at the Nuclear Fuel Services plant in Erwin.:

“MIDDLE EAST”

Rumsfeld Refusal
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld says he won't set a date for a withdrawal from Iraq because the "terrorists would see it as a lifeline"... kind of like the way American citizens see the day President Bush leaves office as a lifeline.

Report: U.S. Secretly Met With Insurgents

U.S. officials recently held secret talks in Iraq with the commanders of several Iraqi insurgent groups in an effort to open a dialogue with them, a British newspaper reported Sunday.

Iraq: The carve-up begins

As the costs of the Iraq occupation spiral, British and American oil companies meet in secret next week to carve up the country's oil reserves for themselves. "The Iraq war has so far cost America and Britain £105billion. But the financial clawback is gathering pace as British and American oil giants work out how to get their hands on the estimated £3trillion worth of oil. Executives from BP, Shell, Exxon Mobil and Halliburton, Dick Cheney's old [and current] firm, are expected to congregate at the Paddington Hilton for a two-day chinwag with top-level officials from Iraq's oil ministry."

Bush warns Blair he must boost UK forces

Britain is coming under sustained pressure from American military chiefs to keep thousands of troops in Iraq - while going ahead with plans to boost the front line against a return to "civil war" in Afghanistan.

US Demands Japan Extend Tour of Its Troops In Iraq

According to the Asahi Simbun newspaper, the US State Department, at the beginning of June, has demanded the Japanese Foreign Ministry extend the working period of the Japanese soldiers in Iraq whose period will be completed by the end of the month.

General admits to secret air war

The American general who commanded allied air forces during the Iraq war appears to have admitted in a briefing to American and British officers that coalition aircraft waged a secret air war against Iraq from the middle of 2002, nine months before the invasion began.

Terrorists in Iraq Coming from Africa
U.S. Military officials say close to a quarter of foreign fighters captured in Iraq come from northern Africa, validating fears that ungoverned swaths of the continent are serving as both a pipeline and safe haven for Islamist radicals.-World Peace Herald

“FOREIGN AFFAIRS”

Revealed: Secret Talks to Oust Mugabe
British government diplomats have held secret talks in Zimbabwe aimed at persuading Robert Mugabe to hand over power and return his devastated nation to the Commonwealth, it was claimed last night.-Scotsman.com

HURRAY !!!! MAY PREVENT ANOTHER AFRICAN GENOCIDE

UK government under fire over aid to Uzbekistan

Ministers have come under fire for increasing financial aid payments to Uzbekistan despite the massacre of pro-democracy protesters by government forces in the Central Asian republic last month.

Australian 'failed' by US military justice

The family of Heath Twomey, who had his throat cut, is questioning his fate at the hands of the United States military justice system. The American military court which heard the case dropped charges against one Marine and acquitted the other earlier this month.

American Students quit over anti-US slurs AUSTRALIA

Colombia troops killed in ambush
Up to 24 Colombian soldiers have been killed and 19 are missing after two devastating attacks by Marxist rebels. The guerrillas are seeking to undermine the US-backed president Alvaro Uribe and ensure he is not re-elected -BBC

Colombian troops target rebels
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe has decided to take personal control of a military counter-offensive against the country's Marxist rebels.The president has now moved his government down to the military base of Tresesquinas and vowed to stay -BBC

Vatican, China Will Establish Ties

but the process will take a long time, a Hong Kong newspaper reported Sunday.

US 'ineffective' states Putin

AFGHANISTAN is still home to terrorist-training camps and US-led forces are ineffective in battling insurgents, Russian President Vladimir Putin was quoted as saying overnight.

Putin Voices Worries About Afghanistan's growing terrorism and drug trade

Venezuela dismisses jitters over nuclear program

Venezuela will pursue plans to develop nuclear technology for its medical, industrial and oil sectors despite regional jitters over possible cooperation with Iran, the science minister said.

Venezuela President Chavez decrees Salary Rise for Military

Brazil Threatens to Break AIDS Drug Patent

Sorcha Faal: Chinese Special Forces Troops Arrive In Venezuela

Russian Intelligence Analysts are reporting today the transporting of Chinese Special Forces Troops to Venezuela. The contingent of Chinese Special Forces, reported to number around 350, contain both Special Reconnaissance (SR) and Counter-Terrorism (CT) troops arrived in Venezuela during the early morning hours of June 24^th in an apparent response to Venezuela’s President request to prevent his assassination by American backed agents.

Venezuela Security Forces state the latest assassination plot is being organized by the US from Columbia: Assassination Clues in Venezuela Point to Colombia (June 22) NOTE THAT FOUR DAYS LATER 43 Colombia troops were killed in ambush.

But Chavez is continuing his defiance of these latest American threats to his life, and as he has been quoted as saying, "Venezuela will never again be anyone's colony," said Chavez, a harsh critic of the U.S. government, which he says has exacerbated poverty through "imperialist" policies." NOTE ALSO THAT Venezuela Closes General Motors, Mazda and Renault Plants Over Unpaid Taxes

The difference though between the actions of the Americans against Chile in the 1970’s, and now against Venezuela lies with China. As the second greatest power in the world today, and actively challenging the United States at the very doorstep, South America, as noted in the testimony before the United States Congress by Peter T.R. Brookes, Senior Fellow for National Security Affairs and Director, Asian Studies Center. He states "China has invested over $1 billion in petroleum projects in Venezuela and is positioning itself to invest nearly $350 million to extract oil from eastern Venezuelan oil fields. China is also on a military diplomacy offensive across the globe. China’s presence at Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) facilities in Cuba directed at the United States is long-standing and well known, but China is establishing military ties in Latin America as well. For example, in 2004, Defense Minister Cao Gangchuan paid a visit to Brazil. Since the late 1990s, at least one high-level visit has taken place every year to Venezuela.”

The determination of China to protect its vital interests in Venezuela, and elsewhere including the use of military force, was described in "China on global hunt to quench its thirst for oil" and which says;"From Central Asia to Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and even Canada, Chinese firms are pumping oil and natural gas in many areas that the United States was counting on to meet its own record-high demand. U.S. officials have been increasingly uneasy as China has signed major deals with Iran, Sudan, Burma and Venezuela, all countries that have strained relations with the United States. China has been wrangling with Japan over natural gas reserves in the East China Sea, and with Vietnam over suspected oil deposits near the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea, setting off worries that such conflicts could turn violent.”

The scramble for energy resources is leading to conflicts which may turn violent as we can see in the growing crisis between Taiwan and Japan, Taiwan sends warship to islands claimed by Japan which says "Tokyo's worsening relations with its Asian neighbours suffered a further blow yesterday when Taiwan sent a warship to claim jurisdiction over a group of islands claimed by Japan as well as China. A warship with fifteen senior politicians and sailed for the resource-rich Tiaoyutai Islands in a symbolic show of support for the Japanese Coast Guard."

“MILITARY / INTELLIGENCE / SECURITY”

Gray Angry
Former FBI chief L. Patrick Gray is finally speaking out about the revelation that his former deputy, Mark Felt, was Deep Throat. Gray says he feels angered and betrayed, not because Felt leaked the key information in the Watergate scandal, but because he’s hogging all the really good book and movie deals to himself.

More Russian Advanced Anti-Air Hardware for Syria
When Russian president Vladimir Putin visited Israel in April, he commented half-sarcastically that Russian arms sales to Syria would prevent the Israeli air force from making free of the airspace over the Syrian president’s palace in Damascus. This week, he proved he was in earnest. DEBKAfile’s Exclusive military sources report that Moscow took advantage of the Paris Air Show at Le Bourget for another sale to Syria in addition to the improved the SA8 missiles already transacted.

Air force ready to hit terror bases abroad says Russian commander

US keen to cooperate with India in advanced weaponry

US using India to counter Chinese power in Asia

Beijing building deep-sea naval might

U.S. plans radioactive project

The Bush administration is planning the government's first production of plutonium 238 - Federal officials say the program would produce a total of 330 pounds over 30 years - Project managers say that most if not all of the new plutonium is intended for secret missions and declined to divulge any details. "The real reason we're starting production is for national security,"

BACKGROUND: Plutonium has assumed the position of dominant importance among the trasuranium elements because of its successful use as an explosive ingredient in nuclear weapons and the place which it holds as a key material in the development of industrial use of nuclear power. Plutonium Production - Nuclear Weapons

Plutonium-238: Use, Origin and Properties

It would appear that the new plutonium 238 the US will start manufacturing is intended for space-based weaponry.

Reactor-Grade and Weapons-Grade Plutonium in Nuclear Explosives

“ECONOMICS”

Germany's corporate bankruptcies forecast to hit record

Japan's government debt at record high

China says no to currency revaluation

Marsh-Mac swindle ~ unloaded $Multi-Billion Asbestosis Liabilities onto Lloyd's London Market

I DOUBT THIS WAS ALLOCATED TO “ESTABLISHMENT ACCOUNTS”, BUT RATHER THE ACCOUNTS OF AVERAGE PEOPLE. UK COURTS FIND THIS ACCEPTABLE

The Immaculate Scandal: Big Cypress Oil Scammers Go Scot-free
Under the deal, the Interior Department offered the Collier family, prominent supporters of both Bush brothers, more than twelve times the assessed value of its oil and gas

RECALL: Barrick, Adnan Khashoggi, and The Greatest Gold Heist $10B FOR $10,000.

Gold Rush May Mean Inflation Bust
Gold rising along with the dollar -- and with oil jumping to record highs near $60 a barrel -- may signal serious inflation woes ahead.-CNN

Unrest 'could double' oil price

A warning of a possible near doubling in the cost of oil was issued yesterday as UK prices rose to more than £4 a gallon and the AA Motoring Trust said the price of diesel was approaching £5 a gallon.

“CANADA”

Canada, Mexico, U.S. release blueprint for tight economic and security ties

"There's been a lot of work done and we are just getting started," Carlos Guiterrez, the U.S. secretary of commerce, said Monday. Most of the proposed changes are regulatory, not legislative, meaning Parliament won't necessarily get a chance to debate them. The sheer scope of the plan, released Monday by senior ministers from the three trading partners, defies easy description. Standardized food-safety regulations, pesticide-residue rules and veterinary drugs are in the mix, as is a flu pandemic plan. There's to be more sharing of information among law enforcement agencies. Business leaders who attended the event enthusiastically endorsed the initiative, with the only quibble being that governments may be moving too slowly.

THE END OF “CANADA” ? … BUSH WILL BE RIGHT WHEN HE SAYS:

“.. I'm the president of everybody."

Cdn Minister of Industry: SELLING THIS AS ECONOMIC

“We have to think in terms of a North American economic space – a common space in which our industries are closely linked… NAFTA provided an important first step, now we must take our game to the next level. We need to eliminate the small regulatory and other barriers… Some of this work has already begun. Now, we intend to accelerate that process. That is the goal of the work plans that we are releasing today… As we go forward, new issues, new priorities will need to be added to our agenda.”

US HOMELAND SECURITY SELLING THIS AS SECURITY

The United States, Canada and Mexico have agreed to strengthen information sharing related to criminals. The SPP countries will also be working toward comparable standards for hold baggage and passenger screening, implementing no-fly programs throughout North America, and developing new protocols for air cargo inspection. Likewise, we will also be working to develop compatible maritime regulatory regimes and to strengthen information sharing and coordinated operations in the maritime domain.

United States and Canadian governments have agreed to exchange officers between their respective facilities, the National Targeting Center in the U.S. and the Nationals Risk Assessment Centre in Canada, to help improve coordination and enhance information sharing

CFR Publications: Building a North American Community

Experts call for common North America border
Homeland Security Wins Power to Waive All Law

Why Are U.S. Drug Cops in Vancouver?

Is the Annexation of Canada part of Bush's Military Agenda? NorthCom's stated mandate is for "Binational integration" of military command structures is also contemplated alongside a major revamping in the areas of immigration, law enforcement and intelligence.

BELOW IS AN EXAMPLE OF THE BENEFITS OF “strengthening information sharing related to criminals”

Inquiry Exposes Canada's Role in 'Renditions'

Hearings Suggest Cooperation With U.S. in Sending Arab Canadian Citizen to Syria for Interrogation

Canadian intelligence agents met with Arar's Syrian jailers and exchanged information with Syrian officials about Arar. They also suggested that Canadian diplomats were more anxious to see their own countryman interrogated than released.

Canada's former ambassador to Damascus, Franco Pillarella, who said he did not know Syria used torture in its jails, despite widespread documentation of such practices by international human rights groups. Most testimony has been taken in 65 sessions that were closed to the public, including Arar. "With eight months of [private] hearings, and less than two months of public hearings, it's hard for me to tell what's been discussed," complained Arar.

The anti-terrorism unit of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police opened a file on him after observing him with two other men who were already being watched. On Sep. 26, 2002, Arar said, he was pulled aside by police at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport as he was changing planes on his way back to Canada after visiting his wife's family in Tunisia. The State Department, has said he was picked up by U.S. officials "based on information received from Canada." After 12 days of questioning, he said, he was shackled, flown to Washington and on to Jordan, and then driven to an intelligence prison in Syria.

There, Arar has said, he was confined in a dark cell the size of a coffin for 10 months, beaten with electrical cords and reduced to wretched, weepy state in which he signed false confessions about training in Afghanistan, a place he later said he has never been.

All three TORTURE VICTIMS were the focus of investigations by Canadian intelligence agents, and each has claimed that Syrian interrogators asked questions that could have come only from Canadian investigators, according to Alex Neve, the head of Amnesty International's office in Canada.

Wesley Wark, a security specialist at the University of Toronto, said the country's intelligence agencies are "fearful they will be hung out to dry for doing what they were told to do" by the government after Sept. 11, 2001. He said they were also worried that the inquiry would lead to restrictions on Canada's intelligence operations and that the government might even "try to build some human rights context into intelligence sharing. They can't see any benefit in this inquiry," he said.

“DEMOCRACY / FREEDOM”

Ministers plan to sell your ID card details to raise cash UK

Personal details of all 44 million adults living in Britain could be sold to private companies as part of government attempts to arrest spiralling costs for the new national identity card scheme, set to get the go-ahead this week. The Independent on Sunday can today reveal that ministers have opened talks with private firms to pass on personal details of UK citizens for an initial cost of £750 each.

SELLING “CITIZENS” - NOT THE FIRST TIME

Sleeping giant of the Arab world awakes to democracy EGYPT

Half a dozen independent newspapers feel free to criticise Mubarak, his government and even his family, when once that could have meant prison. Where the ruling National Democratic Party had a monopoly on power for three decades, now dozens of parties and political movements are springing to life. Where it was assumed that Mubarak, 77, would rule for ever, now the main debate in Egypt is who will succeed him.

Technology Advances Often Must Be Nurtured

While critics often deride RFID as a threat to privacy, there are a few consumer-focused RFID products on the market now that not only enhance a users’ privacy and but also serve the greater good. One such product is the VeriChip, an FDA approved RFID medical device that can quickly and efficiently provide caregivers access to a patient’s important medical information

Updated: Shocking New Developments In Supreme Court vs. Homeowners Case

ACCOUNT OF PARTICIPANT OF ABOVE CASE

“SOCIETY”

Supreme Court-Journalists
The Supreme Court's decision not to allow two reporters to shield their sources in story involving a White House leak is sending a strong message to journalists everywhere: write more stories about runaway brides and shark attacks!

Number of children taught at home soars UK

THE number of children taught at home has almost doubled in the past five years, a trend that experts say reflects a crisis of confidence in the state school system. The increasing number of parents opting out of the school system reflects a similar trend in the United States, where one in 20 children is now taught at home.

Priest warns California scandal hardly over

Father Thomas Doyle, a priest who was part of the Vatican diplomatic corps 20 years ago when he warned the Catholic hierarchy that they needed to deal promptly with what was to become the sex abuse scandal, said Sunday that the fallout from the scandal is far from over.

Did Chinese beat out Columbus?

1421: The Year China Sailed the World,"

IT IS REPORTED THAT THE EMPEROR BUILT A “FLEET OF DISCOVERY” TO EXPLORE THE WORLD. THE SUBSEQUENT EMPEROR PURGED THE RECORDS

Revealed: our friends the Romans did not invade Britain after all

The AD43 Roman invasion never happened - and was simply a piece of sophisticated political spin by a weak Emperor Claudius. Astonishing new archaeological finds reveal they were already our countrymen 50 years before Claudius

Site of 6000-year-old ancient city discovered in Hubei

The discovery of the site is of paramount importance to study of formation and development of ancient cities in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River.

Written language of the Maya shocks scientists with its brutality

It has been scientifically proved that America's ancient inhabitants, the Maya, used to wrap the deceased in caoutchouc and evaporate the mummies in humid tropical jungle, like in a sauna. The use of caoutchouc as a substance to embalm mummies indicates the Egyptian tradition; Hieroglyphic texts were made during the so-called classic period of the Maya epoch, between 250 and 900 years A.D. The Maya deserted their large cities after that period, and their civilization mysteriously perished.

“HEALTH / SCIENCE / TECH”

EU votes to continue ban on GM crops

Mystery QRM Signals in Australia:

In Australia two very strong pulse signals are appearing on HF amateur bands and the hunt is on to determine the source of these intruders. It's an unwelcome reminder of the havoc caused by the over-the-horizon radar dubbed the Russian Woodpecker that fired up in 1976 and lasted a decade. Hopefully this latest pulse signal is not another OTHR.

Dark chocolate seen healthy for arteries

Scientists study the power of prayer

Tsunami may have spawned new paralyzing lung disease

The condition has been dubbed "tsunami lung": dirty water taken into the lungs was likely polluted with bacteria that moved through the nervous system to the brain, causing paralysis to parts of the body

“INFECTIOUS - DISEASES”

Japan begins culling chickens in new bird flu case

“ENVIRONMENT / EARTH”

Volcano wakes up on Northern Kurils

a volcano on the island of Paramushir, which belongs to the Northern Kuril chain in Russia's Far East, has started emitting vapor and gas for the first time since spring.

KAMCHATKE REGION – NORTH OF JAPAN

Geologist Berkland Hits Again - 4.8 Quake Near Tahoe

Geologist Jim Berkland successfully predicted yet another quake...this one near Lake Tahoe and registering 5.2. Berkland had forecast there was an 80% probability there would be a 3.5-6.5M quake in Northern California between June 20-27, 2005.

“WEATHER”

No relief for China as floods continue to batter

It has forced 1.5m to evacuate. Record-high floodwaters rushed through southern China's industrial heart yesterday, putting factories and railway lines in the path of torrents that have killed hundreds and caused $2.5 billion in economic damage over the past two weeks.

Monsoon advances slowly; heatwave toll 329

Monsoon covers 75 % of India

THIS MAY LEAD TO TRAGIC CROP SHORTFALLS

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY SEEMS TO BE IN GRAVE TROUBLE THIS YEAR