Pressure mounts on EU to isolate Russia
"Calls mounted on 31 August for Russia to face greater international isolation because of its invasion and partition of Georgia as European leaders prepared for an emergency summit on the Caucasus crisis and to review the basis of Europe's relations with Russia ... Gordon Brown today took a tough position, indicating that Russia's membership of the G8 grouping of big industrial democracies could be frozen, an option that found some support from Germany ... But France is worried that any tough action agreed by 27 European leaders at tomorrow afternoon's summit in Brussels will provoke Russian retaliation and undermine its chances of playing the peacemaker in the Caucasus
..." 8/31
Mayor Orders the Evacuation of New Orleans
"City officials ordered everyone to leave New Orleans beginning Sunday morning — the first mandatory evacuation since Hurricane Katrina flooded the city three years ago — as Hurricane Gustav grew into what the city’s mayor on Saturday called “the storm of the century” and moved toward the Louisiana coast.
" 8/31
Pyongyang plays a wild card
"The timing of Pyongyang's announcement that North Korea intends to resume its development of nuclear warheads was either uncannily brilliant, or incredibly dumb ... Coming in the midst of the Democratic national convention in Denver, the statement from the North Korean Foreign Ministry had American officials talking, but was barely noted after a brief flurry of reports that the North had "suspended" the dismantlement of its nuclear
program ..." 8/30
Iran warns any attack would start 'world war'
"A senior Iranian military commander has warned that any US or Israeli attack on the Islamic republic would start a world war, the state news agency IRNA reported on Saturday."
Related: Israel planning unilateral Iran attack
[Press TV, Iran] An Israeli government committee is preparing a contingency plan to attack Iran, should diplomatic efforts fail to derail Iran’s nuclear program, Israel’s daily Ma’ariv reports ... Ephraim
Sneh, an Israeli Labor Party lawmaker, has sent an eight-point document to both US presidential candidates, saying “There is no government in Jerusalem that would ever reconcile itself to a nuclear Iran.”
| Abdullah II: Israel can’t defeat Iran
[Press TV,
Iran] "Jordan warns against a possible Israeli attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities, saying Tel Aviv is not capable of defeating Tehran.
“An attack against Iran would provoke reprisals and Israel doesn’t have the capability to destroy Iran’s nuclear sites”, says the King of Jordan. “Iranians assert that their nuclear program has no military nature and an American report, which was published recently, apparently recognizes their claim,” said King Abdullah II in an interview with French magazine
L’Express. National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) said in September 2007 that Iran is not seeking nuclear weapons. Yet the Bush administration, ignoring the country’s NIE’s conclusion, claims that Iran’s nuclear program poses a “threat” to Europe and the United States."
U.S. ship to visit Sevastopol naval base
"A U.S. vessel, involved in delivering aid to Georgia, will visit the Ukrainian port of Sevastopol, used by Russia's Black Sea Fleet on September 1, a source in the city administration said on Saturday. The U.S. Coastguard cutter Dallas, which recently delivered humanitarian aid to Georgia's Black Sea port at
Batumi, will make the visit to Sevastopol, which Russia leases from Ukraine, at the invitation of Kiev. "The ship will pay a working visit to Sevastopol on September 1. The Dallas will arrive in Sevastopol from the Georgian port of
Batumi," the source said. Tensions between Russia and the West have intensified after a build up in the Black Sea of U.S. and NATO naval vessels delivering humanitarian aid to Georgia. In an apparent response, Russia sent a group of warships, including the Moskva missile cruiser to
Sukhumi, the capital of Abkhazia.
Russia's Black Sea Fleet uses the Sevastopol base under agreements signed in 1997. Ukrainian President Victor Yushchenko announced earlier this year that Ukraine would not extend the lease beyond 2017. Yushchenko signed a decree earlier this month requiring prior notice of all movements by Russian naval vessels and aircraft from the Sevastopol base in the Crimea.
The decree is not has not yet come into force, but Russia views it as a provocation and is likely to resist any Ukrainian attempts to restrict the deployment of its navy."
Halliburton sued for human trafficking
"Thirteen Nepali men were recruited and held against their will for thirteen months in a human trafficking scheme engineered and perpetrated by Halliburton and its Jordanian contractor, according to a lawsuit filed yesterday in California federal
court ..."
50,000 expected to protest RNC
"Organizers estimate 50,000 protesters are getting ready to demonstrate outside the
RNC, in the largest anti-war protest planned so far this
year, at the September 2008 Republican National
Convention, set to take place in St. Paul, Minnesota."
Kremlin announces that South Ossetia will join 'one united Russian state'
"The Kremlin moved swiftly to tighten its grip on Georgia’s breakaway regions yesterday as South Ossetia announced that it would soon become part of Russia, which will open military bases in the province under an agreement to be signed on Tuesday."
Related: S.
Ossetian president confirms intention to host Russian base
McCain
and advisor Scheunemann instrumental in encouraging Balkan conflict as
election strategy for GOP
"Real News Video, "Putin accuses US of staging Georgia conflict".
Info: McCain foreign policy advisor Zionist Randy Scheunemann, whose company
Orion Strategies pocketed $290,000 given to him by Georgia president Mikhail Saakashvili during the 15-month period from January 2007 to March 2008. Saakashvili wanted Scheuneman to get Georgia a NATO war guarantee to get America to fight Russia on behalf of Georgia, and would not have attacked the
Russian South Ossetia province without assurances from Scheunemann. As a strategy conceived by McCain and company, it gives him a presidential stance to have a 'new cold war to fight', and is calculated to make Obama seem weak politically in terms of foreign policy posture.
It's a pre-election setup, and McCain, who is unstable at room temperature, is
involved up to his leathery neck. Related: Scheunemann
Lobbies for Soviet Bloc and loves weapons Randy
Scheunemann, John McCain's top foreign policy adviser,
is into guns. After all, in 1997 he was arrested for having a shotgun and several rounds of ammunition in his car on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol. And in addition to his extensive lobbying work on behalf of former Soviet bloc countries, he's also a longtime lobbyist for gun-rights groups. But it now looks like, for
Scheunemann, doing the bidding of the gun lobby takes precedence over efforts to combat terrorism.
Scheunemann lobbied on behalf of the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) against a bill that aims to close a gun-control loophole that inhibits the government from stopping people on terrorist watch-lists from buying guns. According to Newsweek, "the bill was inspired by an official audit covering a five-month period in 2004 which found that, because of the loophole, the Feds had to greenlight 35 out of 44 cases where a gun buyer was on a terrorist watch
list ... Scheunemann's firm was paid $120,000 by NSSF in 2007, and another $60,000 so far this year. Scheunemann himself took a leave of absence from the firm earlier this year to work on McCain's campaign."
Holland's military intelligence service: US attack on Iran imminent
"AVID, Holland's military intelligence service, has pulled back from operations it was carrying out inside Iran as it believes an American led attack will go ahead within weeks according to De Telegraaf's sources ... De Telegraaf reports that the decision has already been made by the U.S. to attack Iran using unmanned aircraft. Potential targets are said to be nuclear facilities and military installations. The latter have been mapped by the CIA with the help of the Dutch secret
service ..." Original
article in Dutch paper | Roughly
Translated version in English
Georgia breaks ties with Russia
"Georgia has decided to cut diplomatic ties with Russia, days after Moscow recognized the independence of her 2 breakaway regions. Deputy Foreign Minister Grigol Vashadze said his ministry had received its instructions and "the final decision has been
made ..."
Russian analyst points to link between Georgian attack and Iran
"A senior Russian military analyst said on Wednesday that the U.S. and NATO by arming Tbilisi used the conflict in Georgia as a dress rehearsal for a future military operation in Iran. Col. Gen Leonid
Ivashov, president of the Academy of Geopolitical Studies, told a news conference at RIA
Novosti, “We are close to a serious conflict - U.S. and NATO preparations on a strategic scale are ongoing. In the operation the West conducted on Georgian soil against Russia - South Ossetians were the victims or hostages of it - we can see a rehearsal for an attack on Iran. There is a great deal of “new features” that today are being fine tuned in the theater of military operations.”
Putin: U.S. Staged Georgian Conflict
"In an interview with CNN, Russia’s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has stated that the Georgian-South Ossetian conflict may have been manufactured by the White House for domestic political reasons. Putin also says that preliminary reports show U.S. citizens may have been present in the combat zone ... "We have serious reason to believe that American citizens were right at the heart of the military action. This would have implications for American domestic policy." Putin told CNN ... "If this is confirmed, then it raises the suspicion that someone in the US specially created this conflict to worsen the situation and create an advantage in the competitive struggle for one of the candidates for the post of president of the United States." he
continued ..." Related: Russia today video
report in English | U.S. citizen was among Georgian commandos - Russian Military
A U.S. passport was found in a building in South Ossetia occupied by Georgian troops, a Russian military spokesperson revealed on Thursday.
Russian admiral: Our Black Sea fleet can destroy NATO’s group in 20 minutes
"Former Russian Black Sea Fleet commander, Adm. Eduard Baltin was quoted by Moscow media as saying Friday, Aug. 29: “Despite the apparent strength of the NATO naval group in the Black Sea… a single salvo from the Moskva missile cruiser and two or three missile boats would be enough to annihilate the entire group
..."
Palin currently being investigated for abuse of office
"The Associated Press reports, "More recently, she has come under the scrutiny of an investigation by the Republican-controlled legislature into the possibility that she ordered the dismissal of Alaska's public safety commissioner because he would not fire her former brother-in-law as a state trooper."
We know that McCain is not stable at room temperature. Good choice!
Japanese invent car that runs on water
"A Japanese company has invented an electric-powered, and environmentally friendly, car that it says runs solely on water. Genepax unveiled the car in the western city of Osaka on Thursday, saying that a litre of any kind of water -- rain, river or sea -- was all you needed to get the engine going for about an hour at a speed of 80 km. "The car will continue to run as long as you have a bottle of water to top up from time to time," Genepax CEO Kiyoshi Hirasawa told local broadcaster TV Tokyo. "It does not require you to build up an infrastructure to recharge your batteries, which is usually the case for most electric cars," he added. Once the water is poured into the tank at the back of the car, the a generator breaks it down and uses it to create electrical power, TV Tokyo
said ... "
Medvedev:
"We’re not afraid of Cold War"
"With the Russian parliament backing the independence of the breakaway republics of Abkhazia and South
Ossetia, President Dmitry Medvedev gives his views on the issue in an exclusive interview with Russia Today."
Related: Poverty and corruption biggest challenges for Russia
British families pay almost £800 per year in 'dishonest' green taxes
"Figures published by the TaxPayers' Alliance (TPA) suggest hard-working Britons pay £19.6billion a year too much in tax aimed at covering its carbon footprint. They said it was 'unjust' on families who were being forced to tighten their belts as they struggled to pay the soaring cost of food, energy and home loans. An analysis of official statistics found that the Government raked in £33billion in 'green' taxes in 2007-08 - up from £30.9billion the year earlier. The levies included fuel duty, vehicle excise duty, landfill tax, climate change levy and the renewables obligation, which is 'the cost to the taxpayer of power companies generating electricity from environmentally-friendly energy sources.'
Subtracting the £8.8billion spent by the Department of Transport on roads last year gives a 'total burden' of 'green taxes and charges' of £24.2billion. But the 'social cost' of the UK's entire 'output of greenhouse gases' which' harm the environment' was £4.6billion, according to estimates from the 'highly-respected' 'Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change'
(IPCC)." An illogical and irrational scam on a planetary scale, for a number of reasons.
Related: Disney Album Features 'Global Warming Anthem'
And who's really the Goofy one here, with all this Mickey Mouse shit?
Possible Obama
'assassination plot' gets little US coverage
"Oddly, an apparent plot to assassinate Barack Obama during his acceptance speech in Denver that led to four arrests on Sunday is getting very little coverage in the US
MSM. It would appear that a blackout is now in force on this story in the US
MSM.* Both
Ha'aretz and the
Jerusalem Post covered the story detailing the FBI arrests of four subjects now in custody. Unsubstantiated
reports from Moscow allege that the plot was foiled after the FSB intercepted documents in Georgia describing a project code-named: "Operation
Drago" -- an assassination plot that was allegedly engineered by a rogue element of high-ranking Israeli military officials. Ironically, Obama's opponent, John McCain, made a blatant appeal to the racist right by appearing at the massive outlaw biker rally at Sturgis, South Dakota, an annual convention of Neo-Nazis, white supremacists and
anti-semites.
Lebanese television is now covering the story of the Denver assassination plot. Some of the international reports describe the confessions of one the suspects to his part in the plot to assassinate Obama that was scheduled to take place during his acceptance speech at Invesco Field this Thursday by using a high-powered rifle from a high vantage point that would have provided a clear and unobstructed shot at the podium.
Yahoo has covered the story, but its reports do not contain the rich detail of the accounts published by foreign news agencies."
Related: FBI probes possible Obama assassination plot
man arrested with rifles, ammunition and drugs near the Democratic Convention in Denver.
See Video
. Sounds like a 'white power' attempt, unrelated, on the surface anyway, to
the Israeli connection.
Joe Biden - Warmonger, Wordmonger And Political Hit Man
"... Biden remains convinced that it is up to the United States to dictate the form of government and economic system of virtually every country in the world. His specialty is blatant interference in the internal affairs of sovereign states, with left-cover of soft power issues like human rights and humanitarian concerns furnishing his favorite pretexts. Biden has learned nothing from the Iraq debacle except that Iraq was not the right victim; more appropriate victims and more effective methods will have to be found, argues
Biden. The real lesson of Iraq (and Lebanon 2006) is that US-British imperialism and world domination are finished historically, but this is lost on Biden ... Biden is the author of the odious plan to balkanize, partition, and subdivide Iraq into three zones: a Kurdish state designed to carve up Iran, Syria and Turkey as well as Iraq; a landlocked and oil- poor Sunni desert entity; and an oil-rich Shiastan in the south that might absorb the Arabistan or Achwaz province of Iran is a later breakup scenario for Iran. Biden's plan is a continuation of the Bernard Lewis plan to break up the existing states of the Middle East in a way destined to create a mosaic of pseudo- independent, squabbling mini-states or micro-states. This approach places Biden squarely behind the Zbigniew Brzezinski "dignity" doctrine of breaking up the existing nation states of the world in favor of a crazy quilt of micro-states based on ethnic and religious parochialism and
particularism; not one of these micro- states could stand up to Exxon-Mobil or JP Morgan Chase ..."
UK: Deepening economic crisis 'may trigger family breakdown'
"... Millions of families will be put under severe strain by the worst economic crisis since the 1970s, one of Britain's most powerful bankers warned yesterday. Charles Bean, deputy governor of the Bank of England, said families are facing 'difficult social issues'. He didn't spell out what these will be but they are likely to include bankruptcies, home repossessions and a widespread struggle to pay rising household bills. Financial problems can have a devastating knock-on impact on families, leading to higher divorce and suicide rates and emotional turmoil
..."
Iran, EU working toward fresh talks
"Iran is working with the EU Foreign Policy Chief Javier Solana in planning a further round of talks on the country's nuclear program. Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki told reporters on Tuesday that the main issue at present is how to initiate a fresh round of talks with the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany.
Mottaki said that the resumption of talks was put forward during the Geneva talks despite attempts to hinder further negotiations. Mottaki was referring to US efforts to create a tense atmosphere for Iran by setting a unilateral deadline and resorting to war
rhetoric ..."
Russia recognizes breakaway regions
"On August 26th, the Russian President said his country recognizes Georgia's breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia as independent states. Dmitry Medvedev signed a formal decree on the decision Tuesday, officially recognizing the independence of the two regions. "Taking into account the freely expressed will of the Abkhaz and the South Ossetian peoples, and according to UN legal code and the declaration of 1970 on the principles of international law concerning relations between states, …and other fundamental international documents, I have signed a decree of recognition by the Russian Federation of the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.” The president said in a televised statement. Medvedev also called on other states to follow Russia's example. He ordered the Russian foreign ministry to establish formal diplomatic ties with Abkhazia and South
Ossetia. On Monday, the Russian parliament unanimously voted for the recognition of these regions as independent states. Both chambers of parliament- the Federation Council, and State
Duma- urged the Russian president to recognize the independence of the two
regions ..." Good move.
Economist suing IMF for US$6M after fall at conference held in his honour
"The International Monetary Fund's oldest and one of its most respected economists, 94-year-old Jacques
Polak, is suing the IMF for $6-million after he fell down a flight of stairs at an IMF conference held last year in his
honour. Mr. Polak is claiming damages from the IMF to cover medical costs and home care he and his wife have needed since the fall in November at the eighth annual Jacques Polak Research Conference. Mr. Polak fell as he made his way to his seat in the front row of a packed IMF auditorium for a keynote address by Stanley Fischer, the IMF's former No. 2 official and now Israel's central bank governor. Mr. Polak played a major role in the development of a global monetary system since the IMF's inception in 1944. While he retired from the IMF in 1979, Mr. Polak is a familiar figure at the fund, where he kept an office and worked four days a
week ..."
Russia:
NATO aid a 'cover' for navy build-up
"A top Russian general accused NATO of using humanitarian aid deliveries to Georgia as "cover" for a build-up of naval forces in the Black Sea ... NATO says it is holding long-planned exercises, involving US, German, Spanish and Polish vessels, in the Black Sea and that this is not linked to the conflict in Georgia ... The exercises, which will include visits in Bulgaria and Romania, began on Thursday and are due to end on September 10."
Massive U.S. Naval Armada heads for Iran
Video. Apparently the US is setting up a provocation with Iran by a
naval blockade.
LaRouche Denounces
`Obama's Godfather' George Soros Behind Attempt To Start World War III in the Caucasus
"Lyndon LaRouche denounced British agent George Soros, for his hand in the ongoing London-led efforts to trigger World War III in the Caucasus. Soros is the financial and political godfather of both Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili and the purported Democratic Party Presidential nominee, Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.). In the late hours of Aug. 7, as President Saakashvili completed a nationwide television address, claiming to seek a diplomatic solution to the crisis in the autonomous region of South
Ossetia, he in fact ordered Georgian troops to fire on Russian peacekeepers, who were in South Ossetia as part of a United Nations mandated force, that has been there since 1994. President Saakashvili's actions now threaten to trigger World War III—precisely what the British intend as their response to the collapse of their
post-Bretton Woods international financial
system ..."
Russia says military pullout from Georgia complete
"Russia's defense minister said on Friday the military had completed the withdrawal of troops from Georgia as stipulated in a peace deal brokered by the French president last week. The six-point plan to end hostilities requires Russia's troops to pull back to their positions before August 8, but allows its peacekeepers to take "additional security measures" in a buffer zone near breakaway South
Ossetia, inside Georgia proper. "The Russian side has fulfilled the agreements set out in the Medvedev-Sarkozy plan drawn up in Moscow," Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov said in a report to President Dmitry
Medvedev ..." Related: U.S. Ambassador Speaks of Future Relations with Russia
"New U.S. Ambassador to Russia, John Beyrle, arrived in Moscow in early July. A war in Georgia started exactly in a month. In his first interview to Russia’s media, Mr Beyrle spoke of the U.S.-Russia’s relations after that
war ..." | The rise of the anti-monopoly service
"Looks like the Russian state has decided to really take care of things like price conspiracies, cartels and lack of competition on the country's market. The Federal Anti-Monopoly Service is in the news every week. First to come under scrutiny were the oil companies, which were accused of price conspiracies on the aviation fuel
market ..." | Russia Warns Lithuania on US Missile Defense
"Russian lawmakers warned Lithuania against agreeing to place U.S. missile defense sites in the Baltic country, saying Wednesday that such a move could trigger a Russian military buildup in the
region ..." |Backstory: Storming the Caspian
"As the five Caspian states - Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Turkmenistan - are trying, with little success, to come to terms on the legal status of Caspian Sea, the region is gradually emerging as one of the most explosive parts of the world. Experts believe that tensions there could come to a head soon.
..."
Greedy
Power Brokers Mistakenly Take Themselves Out During US Collapse Plan
"The Big Sting Two is now being implemented by the Illuminati, but they have run into some major snafus that are ruining their attempt to bring America to its knees in preparation for the creation of a one-world system of government, with its associated police state, financial system and one-world religion. The plan was to bring down the US economic and political juggernaut while leaving their own interests either in tact, or perhaps only marginally damaged due to the takedown of our economy. Instead, they have destroyed both their financial and military power bases, and have managed, by virtue of their overreaching, overarching greed and corruption, to include themselves in the long list of their intended
victims ..."
LaRouche - 'US Closer To WWIII Than To Nov Elections'
"August 21, 2008 (LPAC)--Lyndon LaRouche today warned, in no uncertain terms, that the world is closer to World War III than it is to the November Presidential elections in the United States. "November is a far distance away,'' LaRouche
noted ..." Related: Putin Was Right, He Acted To Prevent World War III
US lawmakers raise concern about FBI powers
"US lawmakers expressed concern about a Justice Department plan to set new guidelines for FBI investigations that would widen powers to investigate people without basis for suspicion.
New Video Pins 9-11 On Mossad
"Missing Links, 9-11" Pretty interesting,
actually.
Oil Jumps $6 On US-Russia Tensions
"Oil prices shot up $6 a barrel Thursday, rising to the highest level in over two weeks as escalating tensions with Russia stoked fears of a disruption of energy shipments to Western countries."
Big orchestrated 'surprise'
Based on pipelines, the "Cold War" IS over -- if only the US-UK would shut up
"Russia and Western oil and natural gas companies are WORKING TOGETHER just fine while even experts get fooled into thinking that Russia is blocking Western efforts and/or that WWIII is only minutes away. Basically, the same goes for Iran."
Russia Sends Aircraft Carrier To Syria
"The Russian aircraft carrier “Admiral Kuznetsov” is ready to head from Murmansk towards the Mediterranean and the Syrian port of
Tartus. The mission comes after Syrian President Bashar Assad said he is open for a Russian base in the area. The “Admiral Kuznetsov”, part of the Northern Fleet and Russia’s only aircraft carrier, will head a Navy mission to the area. The mission will also include the missile cruiser “Moskva” and several submarines, Newsru.com reports. President Assad in meetings in Moscow this week expressed support to Russia’s intervention in South Ossetia and Georgia. He also expressed interest in the establishment of Russian missile air defence facilities on his land."
Related: Syria Signs Defense Pact With Russia
| Syria reaps a Russian reward
| Israel warns Russia over weapons sale to Syria
MI5:
No Assumed Criteria for Spotting Terrorists is Valid
"It concludes that it is not possible to draw up a typical profile of the "British terrorist" as most are "demographically unremarkable" and simply reflect the communities in which they
live"
Russia, NATO Narrowly Avoid Falling Out
"Russia and NATO were on the brink of a complete breakdown in relations on August 19th. The foreign ministers of the alliance member states met in Brussels to discuss relations with Russia in light of the situation in Georgia and concluded that it “won’t continue with business as usual” with Russia. NATO General Secretary Jaap de Hoop Scheffer announced that the Russia-NATO Council was suspended until Russian troops were withdrawn from Georgia. In response, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov accused the organization of supporting a criminal regime and noted that the Russia-NATO Council “wasn’t founded to teach Russia how to behave toward the Georgian leadership.” Russian representative to NATO Dmitry Rogozin told Kommersant that retaliatory sanctions are possible ..."
Insane McCain Criticized for
Hawkish Remarks about Russia 'On August 17th, U.S. senators
criticized Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., for his hawkish rhetoric with respect to
Russia ... Democratic Sen. Evan Bayh from Indiana recounted the hawkish rhetoric of McCain in the interview with CBS. "If we were Georgians and the Russians were invading our country and killing our people, we'd be in a state of war. And clearly, that's not what we want," CBS quoted Bayh as saying when referring to McCain’s comment. "And John, sometimes, he's a good person, but he's a little bit given to this kind of bellicose rhetoric, which has a tendency to inflame conflicts rather than to diffuse them.”
Vaccines Found to Cause Diabetes
"Two new studies showing that vaccines increase the risk of diabetes have been published in the Open Pediatric Medicine Journal. In a prior study, published in the journal Autoimmunity, Dr. J. Bartholomew Classen of Classen Immunotherapies and David Carey Classen of the University of Utah compared more than 100,000 children who had received between one and four doses of the hemophilus vaccine with more than 100,000 unvaccinated children. The Classens found that after seven years, children in the vaccination group had a 26 percent higher risk of developing diabetes than children in the non-vaccine group. This amounted to an extra 54 cases of diabetes per 100,000 children vaccinated. The Classens noted that the vaccine itself is only projected to prevent seven deaths and seven to 26 cases of permanent disability per 100,000 children. "Our results conclusively prove there is a causal relationship between immunization schedules and diabetes," J. Bartholomew Classen said at the time ... "The recent data shows that common childhood vaccines are especially dangerous to children with a strong family history of diabetes," Classen said. "Parents of a child with a strong family history of insulin-dependent diabetes ... should know that the administration of a full series of vaccines may have a greater than 5 percent chance of causing their child to develop diabetes ... Another study, published in the same issue of the Open Pediatric Medicine Journal, demonstrated a connection between the hepatitis B vaccine and Type 2 diabetes."
Cold, Hard Facts about the Georgia-Russia War
"The usual suspects who control the media and politics of the United States are once more lying to the American people and to the world. Here are the facts that can be easily verified within the mainstream media, but are buried beneath the
anti-Russian rhetoric ... and, six reasons why the heavily Zionist-
influenced media and political establishment of America side with Georgia."
The Breaking Point: A New Age of Torture
" ... horrendous physical and psychological torture."
Courtesy of the US Military and contractors in the Middle East, predominantly
Iraq.
NYC Panopticon Plans Take Shape
Surveillance on the scale of London is coming to New York.
Ohio Enacts Usury Law
"Ohio, having dealt a blow to its payday loan industry by enacting a usury law, is teeming with charges of deceit in a petition drive to reverse the law ... HB 545 was signed in June by Governor Ted Strickland, and will go into effect in early September. Under the law, the APR for a payday loan will be capped at 28%, and an Ohioan would be limited to four loans per year. Opponents of the legislation argued that outlawing such small, short-term loans, with an APR of up to 391%, will eliminate 6,000 jobs in Ohio and force as many as 1,500 statewide store locations to close ..."
Curfew In Hartford,
CT in response to escalating violence
"Police have said the curfew ordinance will be enforced for 30 days."
Situation in South Ossetia slowly returns back to normal
"Russia's president promised to start withdrawing forces from positions in Georgia on Monday, but suggested they could stay in the breakaway region at the heart of the fighting that has reignited Cold War tensions."
Israeli security firms say U.S. blocked them from major contracts at the Olympics
"Israeli security firms have been shut out of the Olympic Games in China and in the process lost lucrative contracts, industry sources said. U.S. pressure blocked the Israeli Defense Ministry from granting export licenses for security equipment and training to Beijing to protect the Olympic Village, they said ... On Aug. 13, Israel's Haaretz daily reported that the United States rejected an Israeli request for advanced military systems that would facilitate an attack on Iran. Haaretz did not identify the U.S. systems ... Israeli defense and security companies began negotiations to protect the Olympic Games in China as early as 2004. At the time, officials and industry sources said Beijing was interested in awarding contracts to Israeli companies to serve as consultants or suppliers to Chinese authorities ... In the end, the sources said, Israeli companies were either shut out of the Chinese market or forced to operate through third countries. A key casualty was Israel's Athena Human & Technology Integrated Solutions, a major security subcontractor in the Olympic Games in Athens in 2004 ... The only direct Israeli security contractor in China was identified as International Security and Defense Systems, which helped provide security to the Olympics in 1992, 2000 and 2004. ISDS director Leo Gleser said his company had encountered both Chinese and U.S. resistance in efforts to secure a contract for the current Olympic Games."
Pakistan Army Opens Fire On India at 'Line of Control'
"Pakistani forces on Wednesday opened fresh unprovoked firing at Indian positions along the Line of Control
(LoC) in India-controlled Kashmir, according to India's NDTV. The firing came a day after army commanders of the two sides met to ease tension following a 16-hour exchange of fire on Monday. Indian Army spokesman Colonel S.D. Goswami said in Jammu that Pakistan troops fired at the Indian post in Naria in Nowgam sector on Wednesday morning, violating the cease-fire along the
LoC ... " Related:
India-Pakistan relations in free fall
| Pakistan's Musharraf may resign within days to avoid impeachment
New oil reserve discovered in Libya
"The discovery was reported in northern Area 47 in Libya's Ghadames basin. Executives said the A1-47/04 well flowed at a rate of 6,603 barrels per day, including light and sweet crude oil. The well also yielded 8,600 cubic feet of natural gas per day. The exploration project has been overseen by the state-owned Libyan National Oil Corp. Executives said NOC requested a series of tests to determine energy yield and potential."
Related: U.S.-Libya deal clears way for normalized ties
Sudan begins new 'massive' offensive in Darfour
"Sudan has launched a new military offensive in the war-torn Darfour region despite increasing international pressure.
The Sudanese military began a ground attack on rebel groups in northern Darfour. The attack has focused on Wadi Atron near the Libyan border.."
Western oil demand set for biggest fall in 25 years
"Oil demand in Western countries is set for its biggest fall in 25 years as the global economic slowdown intensifies and consumers respond to high prices."
Related: U.S. crude futures fall
below $112
European Central Bank slammed as Europe crumbles
"Growth has turned negative in Ireland, Denmark, Latvia, and Estonia, while grinding to a halt in Sweden and The Netherlands. Iceland contracted by a staggering 3.7pc. The grim data from Eurostat follows a recession warning in Britain, and shock news that the Japanese economy had shrunk 0.6pc in the second quarter ... Almost the entire bloc of rich Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries - still two thirds of the world economy - are now in the grip of a major downturn. The oil shock over the early summer appears to have had a dramatic effect on the heavy industries of Japan and
Germany ..."
Spain's
Economy Collapses
"Spain's cabinet ministers took the unprecedented step of interrupting their summer holidays to hold an emergency meeting on the nation's deepening economic crisis."
Related: Dollar hits 6-mth high as gold and euro slide
Poland & U.S. Reach Deal On Missile Shield
"Poland and the United States reached an agreement Thursday that will see a battery of American missiles established inside Poland, the prime minister said, announcing a plan that has infuriated Russia and raised the specter of an escalation of tension with the region's communist-era
master ..."
Report:
Military strikes unlikely to destroy Iran's centrifuge program
(U.S. puts brakes on Israeli plan for attack on Iran nuclear facilities)
" ... The American administration has rejected an Israeli request for military equipment and support that would improve Israel's ability to attack Iran's nuclear facilities ... The Americans viewed the request, which was transmitted (and rejected) at the highest level, as a sign that Israel is in the advanced stages of preparations to attack Iran. They therefore warned Israel against attacking, saying such a strike would undermine American interests. They also demanded that Israel give them prior notice if it nevertheless decided to strike Iran ... Israel responded by saying it reserves the right to take whatever action it deems necessary if diplomatic efforts to halt Iran's
nuclear program fail ... Now, Israel is awaiting the outcome of the latest talks between the West and Iran, as well as a formal announcement of the opening of an American interests section in Tehran. Israel views the latter as sure proof that Washington is not planning a military strike."
Beginning Of The Summer Olympics And The Third World War
"Future historians will count the opening of the Olympics as the day that the Third World War began. It was designed this way, by the evil people who worked hard to begin the war under the cover of the Olympics."
Related: War in the Caucasus: Towards a Broader Russia-US Military Confrontation
| Russian
mulling sending nuclear- capable bombers to Cuba to counteract moves by NATO
in Europe
BP shuts down Georgia pipelines
"Energy giant BP says it has shut two of three pipelines that run through Georgia as a precautionary measure."
Bush Addresses 8.2 Million Unemployed: 'Get A Job'
"Responding to the nation's worst unemployment rate since the Hoover Administration, President Bush addressed the nation's 8.2 million unemployed workers in a televised speech Monday."
Bush did not, however, address the fact that there are no jobs, since the US
has been converted largely into a 'non-producing' nation, nor did he address
the fact that he has personally participated in the destruction of not only
the economy of the US, but practically the whole planet.
Are People Really Separated by Six Degrees? Apparently
"Microsoft has studied a total of 30 billion instant messages sent by over 250 million people in June of 2006, and determined that we are in fact, all linked by only 6.6 degrees of separation."
So ... now what? Does this explain why mental instability and stupidity spread so quickly?
A
Secret of Blood Cancer Spread Cracked
"Australian scientists are hoping to cure leukaemia, asthma and rheumatoid arthritis after their breakthrough discovery of how to stop killer blood cells growing. The team has unlocked the secrets behind the protein which controls the way the blood cancer cells spread when it is damaged - and have found a way to stop its deadly process."
Beijing 2008, The Most Polluted Olympics in History
"With a single day to go before the Olympics, both government and independent readings suggest that Beijing's air is getting
worse. And if the winds don't change, this could wind up being one of the most polluted Olympics in modern history, with more particulate matter in the air than Atlanta in 1996 or even notoriously smoggy Los Angeles in 1984."
Who Bought $1.7 Million "Lottery Ticket" On Bear Stearns Collapse?
"Back in March, someone bet $1.7 million worth of options in Bear Stearns that the firm's stock would collapse within days. Traders say the likelihood of the put paying off was so low that the bettor had to know something."
Related: Options Action on Bear Stearns, Pre-Collapse: Trade of the Century, If Legal
Israel Has $1 Billion Invested in Georgia
"The Israeli-Georgia connection is estimated to be worth $1 billion, according to a former Georgian ambassador to Israel. The Jewish state and private investors have provided military assistance and advisors to Georgia, where pipelines pump oil destined for Israel. A new pipeline is being built to bypass Russian territory."
US planes make secret landings in Kenya
"US military planes have been making secretive landings in Kenya in what is feared to be an effort to move terror suspects."
Nutty McCain warns Russians of "severe, long-term negative consequences"
"Describing the Russian assaults that have gone beyond the disputed territory and into sovereign Georgia as "Moscow's path of violent aggression," the GOP nominee suggested that Putin's aim may be to overthrow the
pro-U.S. government in Georgia."
See again how the "US vs. Russia and/or China" Zbigniew Brzezinski
(and Obama) globalist view has taken over.
“Martial Law” Declared in
Crime-Ridden Arkansas Town
"Areas of a town in Arkansas have been placed under a 24-hour, non-stop curfew described by the mayor as “almost akin to martial law”. The lockdown, issued after a spate of robberies, home invasions and shootings, applies to everyone in Helena-West Helena, no matter what age or what time of day it is. Mayor James Valley has indicated that the curfew could be extended indefinitely. Residents have described the lockdown as “like being in jail” and critics have slammed it as unconstitutional given that it effectively suspends the fourth amendment." Actual
Back
story: ."... The area under curfew, in what used to be a West Helena neighborhood, sits among abandoned homes and occupied residences in
disrepair ... Police Chief Fred Fielder said the patrols have netted 32 arrests since they began last week in a 10-block neighborhood in this small town on the banks of the Mississippi River long troubled by poverty. The council said those living in the city want the random shootings and drug-fueled violence to stop, no matter what the
cost ... Now if somebody wants to sue us, they have an option to sue, but I'm fairly certain that a judge will see it the way the way the citizens see it here," Mayor James Valley said. "The citizens deserve peace, that some infringement on constitutional rights is OK and we have not violated anything as far as the Constitution."
Saudi Arabia prisons to replace Guantanamo bay
"Saudi Arabia is to build five modern prisons in the kingdom to replace US Guantanamo detention facility, a new report has revealed. Jordanian daily quoted unnamed sources as saying that US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Saudi officials are cooperating to construct the prisons which are to replace Guantanamo and US secret prisons in Europe. Riyadh is to
spend about two billion Saudi Rials for the project which can accommodate up to
18,000 inmates, they added. A Bin Laden firm and with the help of German engineers will build the prisons in the Saudi cities of Mecca,
Haer, Demmam, and Qasim. The US has been under pressure due to violating individual rights in its detention camps in Europe and Guantanamo Bay. UN human rights investigators have urged the White House to shut down the Guantanamo camp.
Bush classifies $200 million cybersecurity program, redacts questions about contractors
"As Americans focus on the Olympics and the 2008 presidential campaign, the Bush Administration is finalizing plans to establish yet another massive surveillance program -- and has classified almost every single detail.
According to reports, the cybersecurity initiative is aimed at securing the government's
cyber networks across multiple federal agencies."
Mossad
has killed 350 Iraqi nuclear scientists and 300 academics
"Dar Babl published, two days ago, a synopsis of a report, which it claimed was sent to President Bush by the State Department (foreign affairs), stating that the Mossad (Israel's Intelligence Institute) has killed 350 Iraqi nuclear scientist in addition to more than 300 university professors from different scientific specialties. It stated that this was done with the help of the American occupation forces. According to the report, these killings were done after the American forces failed in their attempts to recruit these scientists to work in and for the USA. According to Dar
Babl, this measure, which targets about 1000 scientists, was taken because Israel believes that the scientists pose a threat to its security if they remain alive."
Russian Jets Targeted Oil Pipeline
"Russian fighter jets targeted the the major Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan
(BTC) oil pipeline which carries oil to the West from Asia but missed, Georgia's Economic Development Minister Ekaterina Sharashidze said on Saturday ... "This clearly shows that Russia has not just targeted Georgian economic outlets but international economic outlets in Georgia," she said at a news briefing ... There have been no independent verifications of Russian jets targeting the BTC pipeline."
Note: See Special Articles section for more about the pipeline
and how it fits into what's happening there.
Fighting with Russia spreads to cities across Georgia
"Bombs rocked Tbilisi early Saturday morning as the fight between Georgia and Russia over a breakaway region intensified and moved into the Georgian capital."
Georgia reports new air attack near capital
"The fighting here broke out as much of the world's attention was focused on the start of the Olympic Games and many leaders, including Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and U.S. President George W. Bush, were in Beijing ... The timing suggested Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili may have been counting on surprise to fulfill his longtime pledge to wrestle back control of South Ossetia - a key to his hold on
power ..." Video:
USA behind Georgia-Russia Conflict
On the Brink of War: The Caucasian conflict in the context of world politics
Good background piece on what's going on between Georgia and Russia.
U.S.
Attacks Russia Through Client State Georgia
"Georgian forces,
trained and equipped by the Pentagon and the U.S. government, killed 10
Russian peacekeepers early August 8th in a provocation attack that has
escalated into military conflict, but the subsequent corporate media coverage would have us believe that the U.S. and NATO-backed client state Georgia is a helpless victim, when in actual fact a far more nuanced geopolitical strategy is being played out."
Related: Israel backs Georgia in Caspian Oil Pipeline Battle with Russia
| Evidence of U.S. Military Presence in Georgia
| Putin: Russia will strike Georgia back
| McCain calls on Russia to withdraw from Georgia
| Pentagon closely monitoring Georgia situation
Here you can see that this dynamic is remarkably in accordance with the Obama/Zbigniew Brzezinski
globalist view, while the Afghan (opium control) wars are in progress.
Russian Troops Enter Georgian
Enclave "Russia dispatched an armored column into the breakaway enclave of South Ossetia on Friday after Georgia, a staunch U.S. ally, launched a surprise offensive to crush separatists. Witnesses said hundreds of civilians were killed. The fighting, which devastated the rebel capital of
Tskhinvali, threatened to ignite a wider war between Georgia and Russia, and escalate tensions between Moscow and Washington. Georgia said it was forced to launch the assault because of rebel attacks; the separatists alleged Georgia violated a cease-fire."
Related: Russia battles Georgia over breakaway region of South Ossetia
US Builds Massive Naval Armada In Gulf
"Operation Brimstone ended only one week ago. This was the joint US/UK/French naval war games in the Atlantic Ocean preparing for a naval blockade of Iran and the likely resulting war in the Persian Gulf area. The massive war games included a US Navy supercarrier battle group, an US Navy expeditionary carrier battle group, a Royal Navy carrier battle group, a French nuclear hunter-killer submarine plus a large number of US Navy cruisers, destroyers and frigates playing the "enemy
force" ..."
Pentagon Front Groups Release Laughable Olympics "Terror" Video
"IntelCenter and SITE Intelligence Group, two "terrorism monitoring firms" who routinely obtain so-called Al-Qaeda tapes that usually turn out to be completely fraudulent, yesterday released a video purported to feature members of a Chinese Muslim terror group threatening to attack the Olympics."
US housing slump 'worst since 1930s'
"The US mortgage finance empire Freddie Mac yesterday predicted the worst housing slump since the Great Depression as it set aside $2.5bn (£1.28bn) to cover credit liabilities caused by delinquent loans and
foreclosures ..."
Group Protests Army Recruitment Tool That Violates International Law
"An anti-war group protested the
offices of video game maker Ubisoft in San Francisco yesterday to bring
attention to the company's ongoing work with the U.S. Army on "America's
Army", a video game that has been developed specifically to increase the
number of Army recruits." Related: Congressman Demands Investigation Of Army Recruitment Threats
The 'Six Million' Figure Began Over 100 Yrs Ago
"1900, 1915, 1917, 1920, etc. In 1900, Rabbi Stephen Wise made the following statement for Jewish welfare organizations in the United States: "There are six million living, bleeding, suffering arguments in favor of Zionism."
... The figure was re-introduced in 1944 by Ilya Ehrenburg, Stalin's rabid anti-German hate
propagandist ... "
Russia says Iran Six will continue dialogue with Tehran
"The six countries trying to persuade Iran to halt its uranium enrichment will continue attempts to resolve the dispute over Tehran's nuclear program by diplomatic means, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Wednesday."
Chemical Traces of High Explosives in WTC Debris
"In an article published this week in the journal Environmentalist, chemical engineer Kevin Ryan collects evidence from EPA documents that suggest there was both Thermate and high-explosives in the debris from the WTC collapse. Ryan was formerly employed by Environmental Health Labs, a division of Underwriters Labs, before he was fired for raising these and other questions."
Related:
Shaped Charges and the World Trade Center Collapses
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Brazilian Supreme Court Warns Country On Brink Of Civil War
"Deep in the northernmost reaches of the Amazon jungle, a land conflict between rice farmers and a handful of Indian tribes has turned so violent that the country's Supreme Court warns it could escalate into civil war."
Related: Brazil Sounds Alarm: 'If Dollar Keeps Falling We're Ruined'
You're ruined. You could sell Amazon Indian trinkets, perhaps, maybe even
on Amazon, using Pay-Amigo.
Philip defies prostate scare brought on by Hawaiian syndrome,
'lackanooki'
"Prince Philip is continuing with his royal duties despite a prostate condition, the Standard can reveal
today ... Tests last October revealed his circulatory system had weakened and it was feared his health had worsened in May when he developed a serious cough, potentially symptomatic of heart disease, during a visit to Turkey. He appeared to be gasping for breath but palace officials dismissed concerns."
Why, because pricks live forever, and it helps to be a reptard.
Lessons in Allowance: 'Stop smoking' woman pushed on rail track
"A woman of 58 was pushed on to railway tracks today after challenging two young men for
smoking, two days in a row. Linda Buchanan had been waiting for a London train at 7am when she was heckled and then shoved off the platform by one of the men after telling them to "grow
up" ... Speaking at her home in nearby Horton Kirby, she said: "I just feel I'm lucky to be alive. It could have been a lot worse than it is and I'm shocked by the whole experience." She suffered bruises and a broken wrist. Her left wrist was heavily bandaged and her arm was in a sling."
-- all because she didn't mind her own business.
The two young men also acted without allowance. They could have ignored her
and minded their own business. Now they're being pursued.
'Major Discovery' Primed To Unleash
'Solar Revolution'
"Scientists Mimic Essence Of Plants' Energy Storage System"
Oops, too late, it might have changed something (not the game, but the
dynamic) 40 years ago.
150 Minions Killed in Hindu
Stampede
"Hindu worshippers, many of them women and children, were killed Sunday in a stampede at a religious festival in northern India, police and officials said
." Back to nature you go, and you don't get a 'cookie'.
Ron Paul Fears Staged Iran Pretext Could Bring National Draft
"Congressman Ron Paul fears that a staged incident exploited as a pretext to attack Iran may be the precursor to a national draft, as he responded to Sy Hersh's astounding report that Dick Cheney proposed faking a Gulf of Tonkin style incident by killing Americans in the Straits of Hormuz and blaming it on Iran."
Counter Terrorism Czar:
There Is Going To Be An i-9/11 And An i-Patriot Act
"Amazing revelations have emerged concerning already existing government plans to overhaul the way the internet functions in order to apply much greater restrictions and control over the web."
What the Iraq Forgery Says About 9/11
"Bestselling journalist Ron Suskind has revealed that the White House ordered the CIA to forge and backdate a document falsely linking Iraq with Muslim terrorists and 9/11 . . . and that the CIA complied with those instructions and in fact created the forgery, which was then used to justify war against Iraq.”
CDC nearing the end of it's Morgellons 'study'
"The CDC does not consider Morgellons a reportable disease, and refers to it as “unexplained
dermopathy" ... “A doctor told me that if it is not in the medical books or journals, then it does not exist, and that he could not treat what does not exist.”
Book says White House ordered forgery
"A new book by the author Ron Suskind claims that the White House ordered the CIA to forge a back-dated, handwritten letter from the head of Iraqi intelligence to Saddam Hussein. Suskind writes in “The Way of the World,” to be published Tuesday, that the alleged forgery – adamantly denied by the White House – was designed to portray a false link between Hussein’s regime and al Qaeda as a justification for the Iraq war."
Military Coverup Of Deadly Vaccinations
Video. Confidential experimental vaccines killing
military members.
Roads, Airports Being Sold To Private Investors
"Cash-strapped U.S. state and city governments are likely to sell or lease more highways, bridges, airports and other assets to investors desperate for stable returns after being frazzled by the credit crisis."
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Silvio Berlusconi puts troops on Italian city streets
"The deployment began with military-style precision at 7am sharp as soldiers took up positions outside key strategic points across the country, including as train stations, cathedrals and monuments."
Anti-Assembly Laws Enacted In Italy
"The anti-gathering laws were enacted as thousands of soldiers were due to take to the streets of Italian cities for the first time on Monday under a controversial move by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to 'fight crime'. Massimo Giordano, a member of Italy's anti immigration Northern League party, defended the anti-gathering motion and claimed it would cut down on unruly behaviour. However opposition councillors said it was "reminiscent of Benito Mussolini's edict of the 1920's which banned groups of five or more people". The ban will not affect courting couples who flock to parks and gardens in the northern Italian city of Novara, where Mr Giordano holds power, but if anyone is caught in a group of three or more they face a fine of 500 euro (£350)."
Bush Told FBI To Blame 'Anthrax
Scare' On 'Al-Qaeda'
"In the immediate aftermath of the 2001 anthrax attacks, White House officials repeatedly pressed FBI Director Robert Mueller to prove it was a second-wave assault by Al
Qaeda, but investigators ruled that out, the Daily News has learned.
After the Oct. 5, 2001, death from anthrax exposure of Sun photo editor Robert Stevens, Mueller was "beaten up" during President Bush's morning intelligence briefings for not producing proof the killer spores were the handiwork of terrorist mastermind Osama Bin Laden, according to a former aide. "They really wanted to blame somebody in the Middle East," the retired senior FBI official told The News."
UPDATE
Related: (8/5/08)
White House denies fake
Iraq-al-Qaida link letter
Pelosi’s Latest Justification for Barring Impeachment: Bush Would Never Cooperate
"Speaker Nancy Pelosi has continued her search for book sales and it seems her search for a plausible rationale for personally blocking any impeachment investigation of President Bush. The latest explanation can in an interview with Time Magazine. It seems that she would not allow an investigation because Bush would never have supplied incriminating evidence against himself. It seems that House investigators rely on the accused to build an impeachment case."
Rent-back schemes 'rob thousands of homes'
UK "Tens of thousands of vulnerable people are being forced to sell their homes at rock-bottom prices through controversial 'sale-and-rent-back' schemes to avoid repossession, according to a study by Shelter, the homeless charity."
Watchdog: Bush turning intelligence agencies on Americans
"President Bush seems to be slowly turning the nation's massive surveillance apparatus upon its citizens, and some worry that administration assurances to protect civil liberties are nothing but empty promises. With his update to a decades-old executive order governing the Intelligence Community, Bush is giving the Director of National Intelligence and the 16 agencies of the US Intelligence Community more power to access and share sensitive information on Americans with little to no independent oversight. The update to Executive Order 12333, first issued by former President Ronald Reagan, introduces a more prominent role for the Attorney General in approving intelligence gathering methods, calls for collaboration with local law enforcement agencies, eases limits on how information can be shared and urges cooperation between the IC and private companies."
U.S.
Suddenly Reaffirms Weekend Deadline for Iranian Response "The United States on Friday reaffirmed a weekend deadline for Iran to answer an international offer to freeze its nuclear drive and warned of new sanctions if it rejects the package.
There's a faction fight in both Washington as to whether a military action against Iran is a "go" or not. We will have to see how things unfold if there has been no clear response by the first part of next week."
Mad Scientist" Rises From The Grave... And Is Killed Again
"Reports announcing that a man dubbed "Al Qaeda's Mad Scientist" was killed by a CIA drone strike on the Afghanistan-Pakistan Border have conveniently ignored the fact that the same guy was already announced dead two years ago by Pakistani authorities."
Pakistani Intelligence Aided Attack in Kabul, U.S. Officials Say
"American intelligence agencies have concluded that members of Pakistan’s powerful spy service helped plan the deadly July 7 bombing of India’s embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, according to United States government officials."
Rand Report Utterly Discredits Bush, Leaves McCain Without a Campaign
"A new report by the conservative Rand Corporation calls the so-called 'War on Terrorism' fundamentally flawed, doomed to failure. The study pulls the rug from under John McCain who had promised not just more of the same old horse dung but perhaps another one hundred, another '10,000 years' of war against Iraq."
US backs down from Iran deadline
"The US has backed down from its strong demand that Iran should give a response to the West's package of incentives within two weeks."
Travelers' Laptops May Be Detained At Border; No Suspicion Required Under DHS Policies
"Border security policies recently disclosed by the Department of Homeland Security state that officers may "detain" laptops and other electronic devices "for a reasonable period of time" to "review and analyze information." This may take place "absent individualized suspicion."
Cheney: Kill Americans As Pretext To Attack Iran
Video See July 2008 for story