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“NOTABLES”

New Pentagon Vision Transforms War Agenda
The U.S. military is increasingly being converted into a global oil protection service. Rumsfeld has a "strategy guy" Thomas Barnett is a professor at the Navy War College in Rhode Island, … so the U.S. can "manage" the global distribution of resources, people, energy, and money.

DOES GLOBALIZATION = (de facto) ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT

Making The World Safe...For Bankers

The bankers' first precaution is to buy all the politicians. The second is to buy the major media outlets in order to promote the illusion politicians make decisions and represent our interests. The third precaution is to take control of the education system, ensuring that people stop thinking at an early age. The bankers need to eliminate nation states, freedom and democracy in order to streamline their business and consolidate their power. The UN, the IMF and World Bank, -- glorified loan sharks and collectors -- will make the laws. People without family, religious or national identity, are easy to control.

Dollar Surges Against Euro in Reversal
traders continued to unwind bets against the U.S. currency. By late morning, the euro slipped to a six-week low at $1.3044 , down 0.9 percent compared with prices late Thursday in New York and well off the record high hit last week of $1.3667. Against the yen, the euro fell over 1 percent to a session low of 136.58 yen .

“UNITED STATES”

Temporary Troop Increase for Army May Become Permanent
The Army is likely to make a temporary 30,000 increase in troop numbers permanent as it struggles to ease the burden on forces strained by the operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, a senior Army general said Thursday.

“MAY” ?

Leave No Sales Pitch Behind
Hard-pressed recruiters have stepped up the sales pitch to meet wartime manpower shortages. One sergeant filmed by the NewsHour on PBS recently sounded like a salesman from David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross as he exhorted a campus group: "I mean, where else can you get paid to jump out of airplanes, shoot cool guns, blow stuff up and travel, seeing all kinds of different countries?"

Hillary Clinton's Campaign Finance Director Indicted

White House paid commentator to promote law
Seeking to build support among black families for its education reform law, the Bush administration paid a prominent black pundit $240,000 to promote the law on his nationally syndicated television show and to urge other black journalists to do the same.

WRH COMMENT: This is why the mainstream media are called "presstitutes".

Police Begin Fingerprinting on Traffic Stops

Students Strip Searched In Hunt For Missing $10 Bill

Principal Wilma Green said seven girls and three boys -- ages 11 and 12 -- had been in study hall when they were told to strip to their underwear.

Judge Lets Airline Toss Contract
The head of the flight attendants' union says it's enough to "send a chill up the spine of every working American." A bankruptcy court judge in Alexandria has canceled the collective bargaining agreements between Arlington-based US Airways and its machinists union -WJLA

CORPORATE BIASED JUDICIARY - AN UNHOLY ALLIANCE

Business Lobby to Get Behind Judicial Bids

An industry group's plan to spend millions promoting conservative nominees brings a new dimension to the divisive confirmation battles. A powerful business lobby is preparing a multimillion-dollar campaign to aid the White House in its quest to win approval for conservative judges, a move that could transform the ideological battles over the federal judiciary and the Supreme Court.

Bush Takes Aim at Asbestos Lawsuits --Claiming that asbestos lawsuits clog the courts and hinder economic growth, Dictator Bush is urging Congress to change the way people are compensated for diseases caused by the deadly material. Bush claims 74 companies have been forced into bankruptcy because of asbestos-related litigation that has cost more than $70 billion, the majority of which is not seen by victims but swallowed up by legal and processing fees. The American Trial Lawyers Association, however, says many of the companies that filed for bankruptcy were reorganized, not liquidated, and that few cases filed in court actually go to trial. Fifty to 60 cases have gone to trial annually in the past few years, Carl Carlton, a spokesman for the group, said Thursday. "That's hardly clogging the courts," Carlton said. "Why isn't the president [sic] of the United States standing up for the hundreds of thousands of Americans who were poisoned by these companies that knew precisely what they were doing? They continued to expose their workers and their customers to this dangerous substance. Now the president wants to reward them."

White House memo: Pitch Social Security doom

Rove aide strategy: Convince public system's 'heading for iceberg' --The success of Dictator Bush’s push to remake Social Security depends on convincing the public that the system is "heading for an iceberg," [too bad the Bush regime is not] according to a White House strategy note that makes the case for cutting benefits promised for the future.

Bush Eyes Plan Using Bulk of Payroll Taxes

Dictator Bush is expected to unveil his plan for a Social Security dismantling ['overhaul'] in late February, with Bush regime officials eyeing investment accounts that would hold two-thirds of workers' annual payroll taxes.

WHICH … “INVESTMENT ACCOUNTS”

“ISRAEL”

Video of secret Israel nuclear site shown
In 1986 former technician Mordechai Vanunu gave information and pictures of the Dimona facility to London's Sunday Times. On the basis of his revelations, experts concluded that Israel has the world's sixth-largest stockpile of nuclear weapons, consisting of hundreds of warheads.

WASN’T BUSH LOOKING FOR WMD’S

Israeli Creation of the Sudanese Situation

MARGINAL SOURCE, BUT CONSISTENT WITH MOSSAD ACTIVITIES

“MIDDLE EAST”

U.S. Says Undeterred by Deadly Day for Troops in Iraq

IT’S NOT THEIR RELATIVES DYING

Army Sergeant Acquitted of Manslaughter
An Army sergeant was acquitted of involuntary manslaughter in the alleged drowning of Iraqi civilian, but convicted of assault for forcing the man and his cousin into the Tigris River for violating curfew.

Pentagon orders Iraq review as Shiite leaders reach out to Sunnis

Insurgents sabotage gas pipeline near Tikrit

Resistance fighters severed a gas pipeline near Tikrit on Friday, causing a massive fire after setting a charge on the fuel artery running from Kirkuk in northern Iraq to Baghdad, a police source said.

Iran will respond strongly to any hostile action in Persian Gulf: Navy commander -Iranian Navy commander Rear Admiral Abbas Mohtaj on Thursday dismissed a report that Israeli submarines had entered the Persian Gulf to attack the Bushehr nuclear power plant, asserting that Iran would deliver a strong response to any hostile action in the Persian Gulf.

“FOREIGN AFFAIRS”

Power play in tsunami's wake
behind it all a power game is also being played over who calls the shots and retains influence in the Indian Ocean region, and by default the rest of Asia. Writing in the Times of India, Washington-based foreign editor Chidanand Rajghatta says, "As major powers of the world summon their financial and military might to help the victims, New Delhi has put its own imprint on the region in the wake of the tragedy. While some may find talk of geostrategy repugnant in the face of the disaster, Western analysts are following every move by the US and Asian powers in the region. Several commentaries have spoken of which country is outmaneuvering the other."

SOME VIEW HUMAN SUFFERING AS A TOOL FOR CHANGE

Journalists told to keep quiet on Aceh skirmish

AUSTRALIAN journalists who witnessed a confrontation between Indonesian soldiers and alleged separatists in tsunami-ravaged Sumatra yesterday were ordered to leave the area and warned not to report on the incident. Indonesian military leaders have been anxious to avoid giving the impression that their commitment to contain the rebels was hampering their emergency relief role.

Tensions Flare in Quake Countries
Fresh tensions between government and rebels in the two countries worst hit by the tsunami disaster threaten to undermine aid efforts. In Sri Lanka, the Tamil Tigers have warned of serious consequences if government soldiers are not withdrawn from welfare camps. They also continue to complain that little aid has been sent to rebel areas, despite government denials. In Indonesia, the government and rebels have accused each other of attacks.

Venezuela to seize aristocrat's cattle ranch
Venezuelan authorities backed by troops are on Saturday expected to seize a 32,000-acre ranch owned by Lord Vestey, an English aristocrat and meat tycoon.The move, the first in what is likely to be a number of Zimbabwe-style expropriations of big estates, appears to signal a renewed radicalisation in the leftwing government of President Hugo Chavez -Financial Times

Geneva Convention Rewriting Attempt Was Considered

That revelation came during testimony by Alberto R. Gonzales, President Bush's choice as attorney general, whose conclusion as White House counsel that the Geneva Conventions did not apply to suspected terrorists.

U.S. wants to replace IAEA chief ElBaradei

He's running unopposed, but Mohamed ElBaradei may still fail in his bid for a third term leading the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency, tripped by his main opponent, the United States.

Germany Looks Into a U.S. Link in Kidnapping and Torture Claim

On the afternoon of Dec. 31, 2003, Khaled el-Masri was traveling on a tourist bus headed for the Macedonian capital, Skopje, where he was hoping to escape the "holiday pressures" of home life during a weeklong vacation... In an interview, Mr. Masri said that after being kidnapped by the Macedonian authorities at the border, he was turned over to officials he believed were from the United States. He said they flew him to a prison in Afghanistan, where he said he was shackled, beaten repeatedly, photographed nude, injected with drugs and questioned by interrogators about what they insisted were his ties to Al Qaeda.

Mysterious jet tied to torture flights

Bayard Foreign Marketing is the newest owner of a U.S.-registered Gulfstream V executive jet reportedly used since Sept. 11, 2001, to transport suspected Al Qaeda operatives to countries such as Egypt and Syria, where some of them claim to have later been tortured.

“INTELLIGENCE / SECURITY”

US nuclear submarine runs aground

A US nuclear submarine has run aground south of the Pacific island of Guam, injuring several sailors on board.

Did the Americans sink the "Kursk"?
But the official cover-up went awry when the sub was finally raised, for there, for all to see, was a perfectly round hole on the sub's hull, just at the point where the nose had been sawn off. (Apparently they sawed in the wrong place.) This hole was bent in at the edges, and could only have been caused by impact of an external object traveling at an extremely high speed.

INTERESTING PHOTO !

OKC Bombshell Implicates Feds In Murrah Blast

In reality, the ammonium nitrate fuel oil story was born only 10 minutes after the blast when a high-ranking BATF official by the name of Harry Everhart witnessed the blast from nearby and called the BATF office in Dallas to excitedly announce, “Someone has just blown up the federal building in Oklahoma City with a truckload of ANFO!” He also served on a secret government project in 1994 that conducted tests using ANFO and C-4 to blow up cars and vans in a classified U.S. government experiment known as “Project Dipole Might.”

New Pentagon Vision Transforms War Agenda
The U.S. military is increasingly being converted into a global oil protection service. Rumsfeld has a "strategy guy" Thomas Barnett is a professor at the Navy War College in Rhode Island, so the U.S. can "manage" the global distribution of resources, people, energy, and money.

Is This What War Will Come To?
Even as the Pentagon struggles with the low-tech reality of war in Iraq, it looks to increasingly bizarre-sounding technology for next-gen fighting systems. Click "story" for five chapters from the Pentagon's sci-fi future.

A BETTER LIFE BY BETTER KILLING

A Partial History Of Weather AND Environmental Tampering

TESLA TECHNOLOGY

The CIA and Riggs Bank

The relationship with the CIA could prove problematic because it could cast a different light on the bank's dealings with two U.S. foreign-policy allies, former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet and Prince Bandar bin Sultan, Saudi ambassador to Washington.

Given the intelligence connections to Riggs, prosecutors could be faced with proving that the bank's failure to disclose financial activity by the foreign officials wasn't implicitly authorized by parts of the U.S. government.

BABY BUSH’S UNCLE IS AN EXECUTIVE WITH RIGGS

“ECONOMICS”

India and Iran Sign $40b LNG Deal
India has signed a $40 billion deal with Iran to import liquefied natural gas and join in developing three Iranian oilfields.

China Considers Largest Bid Ever For US Oil Firm
Considering a bid of more than $13bn for its US rival Unocal in a deal that would mark the largest and most significant overseas acquisition by a Chinese company. People close to the situation said the state-controlled group was interested in Unocal’s Asian assets and had asked bankers to study a takeover of the whole company followed by a subsequent sale of the US assets. It is understood the Chinese group is also looking at other overseas targets.

“CANADA”

Mad cow food fears: Meat from infected farm may have been eaten
Cattle from the Alberta farm with the most recent case of mad cow disease could have ended up on people's plates, according to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency.The agency is tracing 141 cattle born on the same farm, around the same time, as the infected cow -National Post CA

Bush Accused of Influencing Canada on Drug Exports

Mail-Order Industry Says U.S. Is Behind Health Ministry's Plans to Curb Inexpensive Shipments to Americans --The Canadian health minister plans to restrict the supply of inexpensive prescription drugs shipped to about 2 million patients in the United States each year, and industry officials here are saying Dictator Bush is behind the move.

“ELECTIONS”

Bush 'carries' Electoral College after delay

Democrats challenge Ohio vote, push back official certification --Bush officially 'won' a second term in the White House after electoral votes from all 50 states were counted Thursday during a joint session of Congress.

THIS IS THE REAL ELECTION OF THE PRESIDENT

Report: More votes tallied than voters registered KXLY

State Republican Party leaders say they've found 8,400 more ballots cast than the number of voters registered in the state's five largest counties.

Should Congress look into the validity of the presidential election results in Ohio? CNN Quick Vote:

65% YES

“SOCIETY”

Gozales also tried to give President power to imprison Americans incommunicado
Focusing on torture as the main objection to Alberto Gonzales' taking over as Attorney General distracts us from his greater sin: his attempt to give the president the power to imprison Americans incommunicado and indefinitely, without recourse to courts or lawyers. Such contempt for our civil rights shows that Gonzales cannot be trusted to protect them.

Making The World Safe...For Bankers

Margolis - 2005 In My Crystal Ball
Here are Eric Margolis' predictions for 2005. He says the biggest problem the world faces this new year is the continuing fall of the US dollar.

“SCIENCE / HEALTH”

Scientists detect massive space explosion.
US scientists have detected the largest explosion ever observed, which saw a mass equivalent to about 300 suns sucked into a black hole.

BUSH: AL QAEDA LINK FOUND

Monsanto fined $1.5m for bribery

for bribing an Indonesian official.

Volcano on Alaska Peninsula stirs
One of the largest and most active volcanoes on the Alaska Peninsula near the settlements of Perryville and Chignik has grown increasingly restless since the turning of the new year, sending up small ash plumes and experiencing increased seismic tremors.

CHEMTRAILS LISTED AS SPACE WEAPONS DROPPED FROM ORIGINAL BILL
There's no question that America's skies are being decorated every day in a very deliberate, coordinated effort and concerned Americans want to know if this is just more conspiracy babble or a threat to their health? This reporter has contacted members of the Sacramento State Legislature in an what are they spraying -NewsWithViews

THESE ARE BARIUM THAT IS SPRAYED FROM MILITARY JETS - THE TRAILS LEFT ARE LONG-LASTING (up to 3 hrs)

ARE WE REAL?

‘The simulation hypothesis, that we are currently living in a computer simulation, should be understood literally, it’s not just in a metaphorical sense whereby one could view the universe as a simulation, but literally we would be living in a simulation created by some advanced civilization in a computer they built in their universe. And everything we see and our brains themselves would just be parts of this simulation.’ Oxford University philosopher Dr Nick Bostrom echoes the thoughts of sci-fi writers and scientists alike. The simulation hypothesis is not sci-fi, it’s serious academic thought.

Long-term meditators self-induce high-amplitude gamma synchrony during mental practice

So, what does this tell us about consciousness? Well first, there is an increase in gamma synchrony amplitude and coherence during what I think is fair to call an enhanced state of consciousness—pure intense experience unfettered by cognitive contents. Second, the trained Tibetan meditators had baseline increases in gamma synchrony and amplitude, suggesting long-term changes in their brains from years of meditation. One might say they are more highly conscious in a baseline state, achieving even greater intensity of consciousness during meditation. Moreover this form of consciousness, according to Mathieu Ricard, can exist independently of the brain, and in fact pervades the universe. Presumably, the meditative state marked by enhanced gamma synchrony represents an immersion of the subjects in this fundamental luminosity.

Mozilla and Firefox flaws exposed

“ENVIRONMENT”

Seven killed, ferry runs aground as storm pounds northern Europe

Saturday as violent storms swept through northern Europe, bringing hurricane force winds and heavy rain. In Sweden, hurricane force winds of up to 151 kilometers. 100 people forced to spend the night on a ferry after it ran aground in southwest Scotland, while a Dutch freighter issued a mayday call off the Danish coast. In northwestern England cars floated past in the street below.

IMPRESSIVE FOR A WINTER STORM

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I Am Hope (Flash presentation)

NICE PRESENTATION FOR THE NEW YEAR …

“TSUNAMI”

US had advance warning of tsunami: Canadian professor ORIGINAL IS THE NEXT ARTICLE

Prof. Michel Chossudovsky of the University of Ottawa asks in an analysis produced for the Venus Project why fishermen in India, Sri Lanka and Thailand were not provided with the same warnings as the US Navy and the US State Department. He wants to know why the US State Department remained mum on the existence of an impending catastrophe.

The Director of the Hawaii Warning Centre stated that “Not until the deadly wave hit Sri Lanka and the scientists in Honolulu saw news reports of the damage there did they recognise what was happening.” BUT “This statement is at odds with the Timeline of the tidal wave disaster. Thailand was hit almost an hour before Sri Lanka and the news reports were already out.” argues the Canadian professor.

The tidal wave, Chossudovsky argues, reached the East African coastline several hours after it reached The Maldives islands. According to news reports, Male, the capital of the Maldives was hit three hours after the earthquake, at approximately 4.00 GMT. By that time everybody around the world knew. America’s strategic Naval base on the island of Diego Garcia had also been notified BY THE US. Although directly in the path of the tidal wave, the Diego Garcia military base reported ‘no damage’

There are 26 member countries of the International Coordination Group for the Tsunami Warning System, including Thailand, Singapore and Indonesia. Australia and Indonesia were notified.

Prof. Chossudovsky has framed the following three questions: First: Why were the Indian Ocean countries’ governments not informed? According to the statement of the Hawaii based PTWC, advanced warning was released but on a selective basis. Two: Did US authorities monitoring seismographic data have knowledge of the earthquake prior to its actual occurrence at 00.57 GMT on the 26th of December? The US Geological Survey confirmed that the earthquake which triggered the tidal wave measured 9.0 on the Richter scale and was the fourth largest quake since 1900. In such cases, one would expect evidence of abnormal seismic activity before the actual occurrence of a major earthquake. Three: Why is the US military Calling the Shots on Humanitarian Relief? Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Rusty Blackman, commander of the 3rd Marine Expeditionary Force based in Okinawa, has been designated to lead the emergency relief programme. Lieutenant General Blackman was previously Chief of Staff for Coalition Forces Land Component Command, responsible for leading the Marines into Baghdad during “Operation Iraqi Freedom.”

Foreknowledge of a Natural Disaster: Washington was aware that a deadly Tidal Wave was building up in the Indian Ocean, Michel Chossudovsky

THIS IS THE FULL ARTICLE FROM ABOVE

Many Governments knew but did nothing to evacuate coastal areas – global conspiracy, UFO threats or concerted failure? INDIA DAILY

When Indian Military tried to inform the Government, the Government did nothing as if they did not hear. Same story is being repeated in Thailand, Sri Lanka and Maldives. How can all the countries decide to let Tsunami come and not evacuate a single human being? If this was an utter failure, how do you justify that all six Governments failed separately in their own domain one by one. In Thailand some in the Government said, they decided not to act because that will just scare people.

“DAILY GROANS”

Social Security formula would cut payouts to retirees
The Bush administration has signaled that it will propose changing the formula that sets initial Social Security benefit levels, cutting promised benefits by nearly a third in the coming decades, according to several Republicans close to the White House.

WRH COMMENT: For 8 years I have been telling you that this was coming.

US plans detention for life

Citing intelligence, defence and diplomatic officials, the Washington Post reported that the Pentagon and the CIA had asked the White House to decide on a more permanent approach for those it would not set free or turn over to courts at home or abroad.

TOO LITTLE EVIDENCE FOR A TRIAL, SO IMPRISONED FOR LIFE ?

The Power of Nightmares: The Shadows In The Cave BBC PRESENTATION

The Power of Nightmares assesses whether the threat from a hidden and organised terrorist network is an illusion. In the concluding part of the series, the programme explains how the illusion was created and who benefits from it.

“UNITED STATES”

When a wave of torture and murder staggered a small U.S. ally, truth was a casualty.
Along with Amelia Mackay, the nation of Honduras has begun to confront a truth it has long suspected - that hundreds of its citizens were kidnapped, tortured and killed in the 1980s by a secret army unit trained and supported by the Central Intelligence Agency.

Iraqi scientist's health causes concern
Scientist Huda Ammash studied the long-term effects of depleted uranium used by the US forces in the first Gulf War. The US claimed Huda was "Mrs. Anthrax", arrested her, and threw her in jail. SEE NEXT --

FLASHBACK: Jailed for Exposing Costs of Sanctions & War? Dr. Huda Ammash's Detention
In her paper, "Toxic Pollution, the Gulf War, and Sanctions," Dr Ammash examines the effects of United States' use of depleted uranium during the first Persian Gulf War, the spread of electro-magnetic fields in the environment, chemical pollution, and massive destruction of Iraq's infrastructure on public health. Her assessment of the overall effect is that US actions are largely responsible for the deterioration of public health in Iraq. She writes: "Iraqi death rates have increased significantly, with cancer representing a significant cause of morality, especially in the south and among children." This view is shared by other scientists and experts.

WRH COMMENT: For 8 years I have been telling you that this was coming.

The Real Lock Box The good news:Social Security is still solvent The bad news: It's all in T-Bonds!
When a bank is robbed by a common criminal, the police at all levels are on high alert and the thieves are pursued until they are caught. However, when the theft is by a bank insider with access to the books, the theft can be covered up for a long time while the guilty parties make their getaway to live a long, luxurious life in a foreign country

US plans detention for life

TOO LITTLE EVIDENCE FOR A TRIAL, BUT IMPRISONED FOR LIFE ?

'I reported the rape within 30 minutes - then watched my career implode'

ANOTHER OF THE US MILITARY’S DIRTY SECRETS

Bush's Latest Brainchild Could Be Left Behind
At first glance, President Bush seems well-positioned to expand his No Child Left Behind program of academic standards, testing and accountability into the nation's high schools.Yet education analysts and some lawmakers warn that Bush could encounter stiff resistance — from the left and the right — when he tries to expand No Child Left Behind

THE “BACKDOOR DRAFT”

Illegals estimated to number 18-20 million

Robert Justich, a senior managing director at Bear Stearns Asset Management in New York is quoted in a Barron's report today "President Bush proposes temporary amnesty for illegal aliens already in the country, allowing them to obtain permits to work legally for three years and stay longer if their jobs otherwise can't be filled by native-born workers,"

Mexico publishes guide to assist border crossers
The 32-page book, The Guide for the Mexican Migrant, was published in December by Mexico's Foreign Ministry. Using simple language, the book offers safety information for border crossers, a primer on their legal rights and advice on living unobtrusively in the United States.

Stopping the Bum's Rush --by Paul Krugman "The people who hustled America into a tax cut to eliminate an imaginary budget surplus and a war to eliminate imaginary weapons are now trying another bum's rush. If they succeed, we will do nothing about the real fiscal threat and will instead dismantle Social Security, a program that is in much better financial shape than the rest of the federal government."

Abraham: Alaska Drilling, Energy Policy to Clear Senate --A bigger Republican majority in the Senate is likely to pass a national energy plan and back drilling in an Alaskan wildlife refuge to open up energy sources at home, the outgoing U.S. Energy Secretary said Tuesday. "With the new composition of the Senate I believe it is feasible and likely that both ANWR and an energy policy will be passed," Spencer Abraham told reporters on the sidelines of a meeting with Russia's top nuclear official.

U.S. Citizen Locked Up For Two Years In Solitary Confinement Without Charges: Lawyer challenging terror policy : "I guess my own fundamental beliefs are that if you think someone has done wrong, you have to charge them with that wrong and give them a fair chance to prove that it’s not true," Freiman said.

Does America Get What It Deserves?: "Time" magazine named President George W. Bush "Man of the Year" for 2004, an honor previously bestowed on Adolf Hitler (1938), Josef Stalin (1942) and the Ayatollah Khomeini (1979).

“ISRAEL”

Holocaust fund investigated for 'unusual' money transfers
The World Jewish Congress, which has wrung billions of dollars in Holocaust restitution from European governments and companies, is being investigated by the authorities in New York following a series of unusual money transfers of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Britons rank Israel 'worst country'
British people rate Israel as the country least deserving of international respect, as well as one of the world's "least democratic countries," according to a recent survey.

HARDLY SURPRISING WHEN THEIR MP’S ARE SHOT AT BY THE IDF DURING A TOUR OF ISRAEL

Mossad Killers Use Forged British Passports

The murders of a Moroccan in Norway and Arab activists in Lebanon had infuriated diplomats when it was discovered that both had been carried out by Mossad agents, several of whom were using falsified British documents.

Israeli spy's passport sparks row
The use of forged British passports by Mossad assassination squads triggered a Foreign Office protest.

BUT WHEN CANADIAN PASSPORTS WERE USED, NOT A WORD WAS SAID

Israel arrests Palestinian candidates

In an apparent effort to forestall gains by Hamas in Palestinian elections, the Israeli army has arrested a large number of potential candidates in the southern part of the West Bank.

ISRAEL AS A “DEMOCRATIC STATE”

Palestinian aid groups' accounts closed UK STORY

Two British organisations set up to help the Palestinian people have had their bank accounts abruptly closed without explanation, the Guardian has learned. Neither is proscribed by the government, and both claim that their targeting is political.

Mossad wants nearly twice as much money in 2005

HMMMMM

Israeli soldiers shoot Israeli Channel 10 civilian cameraman

The two approached a structure occupied by the troops when shots were fired. Eldar said the gunshots came from the roof of the building, and added that no warning shots were fired and that the shooting was unprovoked. Al-Arabeid and Eldar did not carry patches identifying them as 'Press,' but wore '10 News' signs.

IDF HAS A HISTORY OF TARGETTING MEDIA CREWS

Abbas Assails 'Zionist Enemy' After Tank Kills 7

Palestinian witnesses and medics in the northern Gaza village of Beit Lahiya said a tank shell landed and killed the young Palestinians aged 11-17 from two farming families. Fifteen other people were wounded, several critically. The field, where the youths had been harvesting strawberries, was spattered with blood and body parts. The army commander in north Gaza expressed regret "if civilians were indeed hurt."

CHILDREN BERRY-PICKERS SHELLED

Official says Sharon weighed war during probe

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon considered launching a war in the Middle East to divert attention from a police investigation into allegations that he accepted bribes, an Israeli newspaper reported.

“MIDDLE EAST”

U.S. Troops Wounded in Iraq Tops 10,000

U.S. May Add Advisers to Aid Iraq's Military

JUST LIKE IN VIETNAM ? (AKA: MERCENARY)

Iraqi insurgents now outnumber coalition forces
Iraq's rapidly swelling insurgency numbers 200,000 fighters and active supporters and outnumbers the United States-led coalition forces, the head of the country’s intelligence service said yesterday.

BUSH JR SAID “IF SOMEONE INVADED MY COUNTRY I WOULD FIGHT THEM”

US fighters violate Iranian air space

PERHAPS TO TEST IRANIAN AIR DEFENCE RESPONSE FOR AN IMPENDING ATTACK BY “SOMEONE”

Special Ops Task Force Threatened Government Agents Who Saw Detainee Abuse in Iraq, Documents Obtained by ACLU Reveal

Kuwaitis 'Planned to Hit U.S. Troops in Training'

Kuwaiti military personnel detained last week for plotting attacks against U.S. troops had planned to strike during joint exercises, a security source said Tuesday.

Defence Minister Hints at Iraqi 'Election' Delay --Iraq’s defence minister raised the possibility today that 'elections' due at the end of the month will be postponed. Hazem Shaalan said in Cairo that he had asked Egypt to try to persuade Sunni Muslims to participate in the January 30 'vote,' which was expected to usher Iraq’s long-suppressed Shiite Muslim majority into power.

Iraqi insurgents waging 'all-out war' on oil industry: minister --Iraqi insurgents are waging an all-out war on the country's vital oil industry which has lost nearly eight billion dollars in revenue since last year's US-led invasion, Oil Minister Thamer Ghadban said.

Horror In Fallujah, Doctors Say: The hospital emergency team has recovered more than 700 bodies from rubble where houses and shops once stood, adding that more than 550 were women and children. He said a very small number of men were found in these places and most were elderly.

US Applying ‘Israeli Tactics’ in Felluce : It has recently been discovered that US and Iraqi forces have been using a method of demolishing houses in Felluce (Fallujah) that Israelis have also used on Palestinian homes.

“FOREIGN AFFAIRS”

US military hints at staying in Afghanistan for decades
The US-led coalition troops are likely to remain in the post-war Afghanistan for decades, a senior US commander hinted here Monday. "I think I can tell with confidence that the United States, the coalition would stay here until the mission is complete. We do not have a timeline on when we would leave Afghanistan," commander of the Regional Command East Gary Cheek told reporters Monday.

THEY HAVE ANNOUNCED THE SAME FOR IRAQ

IAEA finds Egypt secret nuclear program

Castro Announces Crude Oil Discovery

N Korea Says Danger Of Nuclear War With US Growing

China Finds 20.5 Billion Tons Of New Oil Reserves

China May Be Offered Stake in Yukos Subsidiary

A senior Russian official said on Thursday that China's state oil company could be offered 20 percent of a giant subsidiary of the oil company Yukos that was confiscated and sold 11 days ago.

BOLSTERING THE FIGHT AGAINST “AMERICAN EMIPRE” - “THE ENEMY OF MY ENEMY IS MY FRIEND”

“INTELLIGENCE / SECURITY”

Rude awakening to missile-defense dream
On Christmas Eve 2004, the Russian Strategic Missile Force test fired an advanced SS-27 Topol-M road-mobile intercontinental ballistic Missile (ICBM). This test probably invalidated the entire premise and technology used in the National Missile Defense (NMD) system currently being developed and deployed by the Bush administration, and at the same time called into question the validity of the administration's entire approach to arms control and disarmament

Top Ten War Profiteers of 2004

At the beginning of the Iraq war, Andrew Natsios, head of the U.S. Agency for International Development (AID), proclaimed that the reconstruction of Iraq would look like a modern-day Marshall Plan. But a year and a half later, a combination of bureaucratic ineptitude, corporate corruption and the growing Iraqi resistance threaten to undermine the Bush administration's grand designs.

US spying raises India's hackles

An Asia Times Online investigation has revealed that the disquiet is almost a decade old, though it has grown exponentially since US ambassador to India Robert Mulford wrote to the chief ministers of Assam and Nagaland directly offering help in counter-insurgency operations in the wake of terrorist violence in October, 2004.

“ECONOMICS”

Needing Cash, Veterans Sign Over Pensions

Europe 'will have to act on dollar'

The Bank will either drastically increase the number of euro banknotes in circulation or cut interest rates to prevent the currency pushing much further above the $1.40 mark, warned Rob Carnell of ING Financial Markets.

THE US FED HAS STATED THAT IT WILL NOT INTERVENE

The Macroeconomic Newsletter

1.1 The Bottom Line : The global economic system has to be rebalanced. Beyond the symptomatic details, the world needs to figure out how much labor will be worth, where goods will flow, and to whom purchasing power will be allocated. It's more than likely that this major adjustment will be more noticeable starting in 2005 or 2006.

The next flourish of greed, trying to take formation now, will confirm that a major adjustment will shortly follow.

Using Silver as a Monetary Medium

“The Mexican ‘Bill’!” promptly answered this writer, referring to the communiqué sent by the governors of all 31 states of the Mexican Republic to the Ways and Means Committee of the Mexican House of Representatives, in which they expressed their unanimous support for the monetization of silver and urged the Committee to approve a bill which aims to achieve precisely this objective. (See original article by Hugo Salinas Price)

Wobbly dollar spells big trouble for central bankers: THE People's Bank of China and the Bank of Japan, as well as other central banks in Asia, are in trouble. They have accumulated vast foreign exchange reserves, estimated at more than $US2 trillion ($2.6 trillion), but almost all of these reserves are in US dollars -- which are rapidly losing their value.

IF YOU OWE THE BANK A THOUSAND DOLLARS, YOU HAVE A PROBLEM --- IF YOU OWE THE BANK A MILLION DOLLARS, THE BANK HAS A PROBLEM

“CANADA”

Washington ranchers concerned about decision to import Canadian cattle
In this state, where the only U.S. case of mad cow disease was discovered a year ago, ranchers said Monday they're concerned about the federal government's decision to open the border to Canadian cattle despite a second confirmed case in that country -Seattle Post-Intelligencer

US fingerprinting at Canada, Mexico borders

“ELECTIONS”

Hoodwinked - Why is Florida's voting system so corrupt?
In the wake of the most scandalous election in U.S. history, which led to an unprecedented 36-day recount, most Americans believed that state and federal authorities would take steps to ensure that the country would never again go through such an ordeal. But in truth very few changes have been made, and those that have been implemented have raised new concerns. Yet nearly all of Flordia's current troubles share a common denominator—they were decisions made or endorsed by Florida's secretary of state and chief elections officer, Glenda Hood, who was handpicked by Gov. Jeb Bush in November 2002.

Senators should object to Ohio vote Chicago Sun-Times

SMOKING GUN? THE CNN NATIONAL EXIT POLL SITE PROVES THAT KERRY WON!

Team Bush fights filing on Ohio poll
President Bush's reelection campaign asked the chief justice of the Ohio Supreme Court yesterday to throw out a challenge of the election in this swing state, saying the case resembles "a poorly drafted script for a late-night conspiracy-theory movie."

Yanukovich Election Organizer Dead - 'Suicide'

“SOCIETY”

The 25 Dumbest Quotes of 2004

Files show extent of Murdoch lobbying
Freedom of information files released to the Guardian reveal how the media tycoon Rupert Murdoch wields extensive lobbying clout over the Blair government -Guardian UK

Found Pics Emphasize Bohemian Grove Sacrifice Obsession

Holy smoke and mirrors: the Vatican conspiracy

FROM NEXUS MAGAZINE – GOOD FOR INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING

“SCIENCE / HEALTH”

How safe is the water?
While rated highly, US water shows traces of detergents and even drugs

Geologist gave repeated alerts

Kerry Sieh, professor of geology at California Institute of Technology, has been studying the region for nearly a decade. Last July he became so concerned at the likely massive loss of life that he printed and distributed 5,000 posters and brochures around some of the islands later hit by the earthquake.

Intimidation, Politics and Drug Industry Cripple U.S. Medicine

While the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is supposed to safeguard the nation's medical products, drawing upon the substantive expertise of its drug scientists in vigilant dedication to the public's health, that is not the case today. Investigation reveals that dangers of drugs are being deliberately downplayed, and the public misled. Notably, a March 2003 report by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Inspector General (DHHS-IG), Janet Rehnquist, found that just 12 percent of FDA scientists were completely confident that "labeling decisions adequately address key safety concerns."

Many Governments knew but did nothing to evacuate coastal areas – global conspiracy, UFO threats or concerted failure? INDIA DAILY

Former Secy Defense Spoke Of US Quake, Volcano Weapons

Reading winds, waves may have saved ancient tribes on remote Indian islands

It appears that many tribesman fled the shores well before the waves hit the coast, where they would typically be fishing at this time of year. Government officials and anthropologists believe that ancient knowledge of the movement of wind, sea and birds may have saved the five indigenous tribes on the Indian archipelago of Andaman and Nicobar islands from the tsunami that hit the Asian coastline Dec. 26. Two days after a tsunami thrashed the island where his ancestors have lived for tens of thousands of years, a lone tribesman stood naked on the beach and looked up at a hovering coast guard helicopter. He then took out his bow and shot an arrow toward the rescue chopper. It was a signal the Sentinelese have sent out to the world for millennia: They want to be left alone. The tribes live the most ancient, nomadic lifestyle known to man, frozen in their Paleolithic past. Many produce fire by rubbing stones, fish and hunt with bow and arrow and live in leaf and straw community huts. And they don't take kindly to intrusions.

Large Gambian Rats Worry Fla. Officials --The Florida Keys, already dealing with invasive exotics from melaleuca to iguanas, have added another to the list of unwanted newcomers: the African Gambian pouch rat.

Paving the way for the bioweapons of the future? A growing number of microbiologists, nonproliferation experts, and former government officials say there may be a dark side to the biodefense push: With poor oversight, government-funded scientists could actually be paving the way for the next generation of killer germs—and given the explosion of research, there is no way to keep track of what is being done.

CONSIDER: THE MOST LIKELY CANDIDATE IN THE ANTHRAX MAILINGS OF 2001 IS NOT EVEN BEING INVESTIGATED …

Anthrax Missing From Army Lab Lab specimens of anthrax spores, Ebola virus and other pathogens disappeared from the Army's biological warfare research facility in the early 1990s Documents from the inquiry show that one unauthorized person who was observed entering the lab building at night was Langford's predecessor, Lt. Col. Philip Zack, who at the time no longer worked at Fort Detrick. A surveillance camera recorded Zack being let in at 8:40 p.m. on Jan. 23, 1992, apparently by Dr. Marian Rippy, a lab pathologist and close friend of Zack's, according to a report filed by a security guard. FOR MORE, SEE: THE HIDDEN ANTHRAX LETTERS SUSPECT AND The Anthrax Murders: The Israeli Connection, part 1 AND part 2

Magnetic fields discovered in planetary nebulae

LIKELY BECAUSE THERE ARE MASSIVE ELECTRICAL FIELDS PRESENT

The Piri Reis map

The Piri Re'is Map is only one of several anomalous maps drawn in the 15th Century and earlier which appear to represent better information about the shape of the continents than should have been known at the time. Furthermore, this information appears to have been obtained at some distant time in the past.

“ENVIRONMENT”

Portugal facing worst drought in over a decade: meteorology office

UN concerned by maverick fishing vessels in Liberian waters

Jacques Klein said UN planes had spotted about a dozen vessels, all of which had hidden their name-plates. None was flying a flag and they were dragging 10 to 15 kilometre nets.

India, Pakistan hold talks on water-sharing row
India and Pakistan began another round of talks Tuesday on resolving a water-sharing row triggered by New Delhi's decision to build a hydroelectric dam in divided Kashmir, a ministry spokesman said.

Pollution alert in Tehran, schools close
Schools in the Iranian capital were closed and the elderly, the sick and children advised to stay indoors Sunday after air pollution reached alarming levels.

Animals, entire forests could migrate

UAE sees snow for first time ever