TERROR
Washington Post: State Dept. Concedes Errors in Terror Data
Two months ago, the Bush administration released its annual report card on counterterrorism and gave itself an A. The number of terrorist attacks around the globe, according to the State Department report called "Patterns of Global Terrorism," was at the lowest ebb in the past 34 years.
Not long afterward, however, the report was pilloried by academics, a lawmaker and others. They said its math defied the reality of a steady growth in the number and significance of terrorist attacks in 2003, as well as the worst type of attacks spreading from just a few countries to at least 10.
When you read the report, TTIC did not add [the data] properly. Even a third-grader could have found this," Johnson said. "The body counts in 2002 and 2003 were at the highest levels in history."
Thank Mr. Bush for making the world a safer place
Saturday, June 12, 2004
WAR ON SALE
Corpwatch: Controversial Commando Wins Iraq Contract
Occupation authorities in Iraq have awarded a $293 million contract effectively creating the world's largest private army to a company headed by Lieutenant Colonel Tim Spicer, a former officer with the Scots Guard, an elite regiment of the British military, who has been investigated for illegally smuggling arms and planning military offensives to support mining, oil, and gas operations around the world. On May 25, the Army Transportation command awarded Spicer's company, Aegis Defense Services, the contract to coordinate all the security for Iraqi reconstruction projects.
"I am pleased to confirm that we've been awarded a contract to assist the Project Management Office (PMO) in Iraq by the United States Department of Defense," said Spicer, who started Aegis just over a year ago on Picadilly in London, only a short walk from Buckingham Palace. "The contract involves coordination of security support for reconstruction contractors and for the protection of PMO personnel
Corpwatch: Controversial Commando Wins Iraq Contract
Occupation authorities in Iraq have awarded a $293 million contract effectively creating the world's largest private army to a company headed by Lieutenant Colonel Tim Spicer, a former officer with the Scots Guard, an elite regiment of the British military, who has been investigated for illegally smuggling arms and planning military offensives to support mining, oil, and gas operations around the world. On May 25, the Army Transportation command awarded Spicer's company, Aegis Defense Services, the contract to coordinate all the security for Iraqi reconstruction projects.
"I am pleased to confirm that we've been awarded a contract to assist the Project Management Office (PMO) in Iraq by the United States Department of Defense," said Spicer, who started Aegis just over a year ago on Picadilly in London, only a short walk from Buckingham Palace. "The contract involves coordination of security support for reconstruction contractors and for the protection of PMO personnel
UK: ELECTIONS
Guardian: Local election 'kicking' for Labour
Tony Blair suffered an electoral "kicking" as Labour limped into third place in local elections, losing control of key heartlands including Leeds, Doncaster and Newcastle.
The loss of Leeds and Newcastle to the Liberal Democrats is a major blow for Labour, which ran the metropolitan councils uninterrupted for 24 and 30 years respectively.
Guardian: Local election 'kicking' for Labour
Tony Blair suffered an electoral "kicking" as Labour limped into third place in local elections, losing control of key heartlands including Leeds, Doncaster and Newcastle.
The loss of Leeds and Newcastle to the Liberal Democrats is a major blow for Labour, which ran the metropolitan councils uninterrupted for 24 and 30 years respectively.
INTERVIW: RAPLH NADER
American Conservative: Ralph Nader: Conservatively Speaking
The long-time progressive makes a pitch for the disenfranchised Right.
Ralph Nader recently accepted Pat Buchanan’s invitation to sit down with us and explain why his third-party presidential bid ought to appeal to conservatives disaffected with George W. Bush. We think readers will be interested in the reflections of a man who has been a major figure in American public life for 40 years—and who now finds himself that rarest of birds, a conviction politician.
Pat Buchanan: Let me start off with foreign policy—Iraq and the Middle East. You have seen the polls indicating widespread contempt for the United States abroad. Why do they hate us?
Ralph Nader: First of all, we have been supporting despots, dictators, and oligarchs in all those states for a variety of purposes. We supported Saddam Hussein. He was our anti-Communist dictator until 1990. It’s also cultural; they see corporate culture as abandoning the restraints on personal behavior dictated by their religion and culture. Our corporate pornography and anything-goes values are profoundly offensive to them.
The other thing is that we are supporting the Israeli military regime with billions of dollars and ignoring both the Israeli peace movement, which is very substantial, and the Palestinian peace movement. They see a nuclear-armed Israel that could wipe out the Middle East in a weekend if it wanted to.
VOTE FOR NADER
American Conservative: Ralph Nader: Conservatively Speaking
The long-time progressive makes a pitch for the disenfranchised Right.
Ralph Nader recently accepted Pat Buchanan’s invitation to sit down with us and explain why his third-party presidential bid ought to appeal to conservatives disaffected with George W. Bush. We think readers will be interested in the reflections of a man who has been a major figure in American public life for 40 years—and who now finds himself that rarest of birds, a conviction politician.
Pat Buchanan: Let me start off with foreign policy—Iraq and the Middle East. You have seen the polls indicating widespread contempt for the United States abroad. Why do they hate us?
Ralph Nader: First of all, we have been supporting despots, dictators, and oligarchs in all those states for a variety of purposes. We supported Saddam Hussein. He was our anti-Communist dictator until 1990. It’s also cultural; they see corporate culture as abandoning the restraints on personal behavior dictated by their religion and culture. Our corporate pornography and anything-goes values are profoundly offensive to them.
The other thing is that we are supporting the Israeli military regime with billions of dollars and ignoring both the Israeli peace movement, which is very substantial, and the Palestinian peace movement. They see a nuclear-armed Israel that could wipe out the Middle East in a weekend if it wanted to.
VOTE FOR NADER
Wednesday, June 09, 2004
PEAK OIL
BBC: Is the world's oil running out fast?
If you think oil prices are high at $40 a barrel then wait till they are four times that much.
How will you pay to run your car? How will you get the children to school? How will you heat your house? How much will transported food go up in price?
How will we pay for plastics, metals, rubber, cheap flights, Simpson's DVDs, 3G phones and everlasting economic growth?
The basic answer is, we won't.
BBC: Is the world's oil running out fast?
If you think oil prices are high at $40 a barrel then wait till they are four times that much.
How will you pay to run your car? How will you get the children to school? How will you heat your house? How much will transported food go up in price?
How will we pay for plastics, metals, rubber, cheap flights, Simpson's DVDs, 3G phones and everlasting economic growth?
The basic answer is, we won't.
Monday, June 07, 2004
USA: RONALD REAGAN
Greg Palast: Reagan - More Proof Only The Good Die Young
You're not going to like this. You shouldn't speak ill of the dead. But in this case, someone's got to.
Ronald Reagan was a conman. Reagan was a coward. Reagan was a killer.
In 1987, I found myself stuck in a crappy little town in Nicaragua named Chaguitillo. The people were kind enough, though hungry, except for one surly young man. His wife had just died of tuberculosis.
People don't die of TB if they get some antibiotics. But Ronald Reagan, big hearted guy that he was, had put a lock-down embargo on medicine to Nicaragua because he didn't like the government that the people there had elected.
Ronnie grinned and cracked jokes while the young woman's lungs filled up and she stopped breathing. Reagan flashed that B-movie grin while they buried the mother of three.
And when Hezbollah terrorists struck and murdered hundreds of American marines in their sleep in Lebanon, the TV warrior ran away like a whipped dog ... then turned around and invaded Grenada. That little Club Med war was a murderous PR stunt so Ronnie could hold parades for gunning down Cubans building an airport.
Greg Palast is author of the New York Times bestseller, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy. www.GregPalast.com
Greg Palast: Reagan - More Proof Only The Good Die Young
You're not going to like this. You shouldn't speak ill of the dead. But in this case, someone's got to.
Ronald Reagan was a conman. Reagan was a coward. Reagan was a killer.
In 1987, I found myself stuck in a crappy little town in Nicaragua named Chaguitillo. The people were kind enough, though hungry, except for one surly young man. His wife had just died of tuberculosis.
People don't die of TB if they get some antibiotics. But Ronald Reagan, big hearted guy that he was, had put a lock-down embargo on medicine to Nicaragua because he didn't like the government that the people there had elected.
Ronnie grinned and cracked jokes while the young woman's lungs filled up and she stopped breathing. Reagan flashed that B-movie grin while they buried the mother of three.
And when Hezbollah terrorists struck and murdered hundreds of American marines in their sleep in Lebanon, the TV warrior ran away like a whipped dog ... then turned around and invaded Grenada. That little Club Med war was a murderous PR stunt so Ronnie could hold parades for gunning down Cubans building an airport.
Greg Palast is author of the New York Times bestseller, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy. www.GregPalast.com
IRAQ
Zmag: Doctrines And Visions: Who Is To Run The World, And How?
by Noam Chomsky
We have just passed the first anniversary of the President's declaration of victory in Iraq. I won't speak about what is happening on the ground. There is more than enough information about that, and we can draw our own conclusions. I will just mention one aspect of it: What has happened to Iraqis? About that, we know little, because it is not investigated. Some surprise has recently been voiced in the British press about this gap in our knowledge. That's a misunderstanding. It is quite general practice. Thus we do not know within millions how many people died in the course of the US wars in Indochina. Information and concern are so slight that in the only careful study I have found, the mean estimate of Vietnamese who died is 100,000, about 5% of the official figure and probably 2-3% of the actual figure. Virtually no one knows that victims of the US chemical warfare that began in 1962 are estimated at about 600,000, still dying, or that it was recently discovered that the use of devastating carcinogens was at twice the announced rate, and at levels incomparably beyond anything tolerated within the industrial societies -- all in South Vietnam; the North was spared this particular atrocity
Zmag: Doctrines And Visions: Who Is To Run The World, And How?
by Noam Chomsky
We have just passed the first anniversary of the President's declaration of victory in Iraq. I won't speak about what is happening on the ground. There is more than enough information about that, and we can draw our own conclusions. I will just mention one aspect of it: What has happened to Iraqis? About that, we know little, because it is not investigated. Some surprise has recently been voiced in the British press about this gap in our knowledge. That's a misunderstanding. It is quite general practice. Thus we do not know within millions how many people died in the course of the US wars in Indochina. Information and concern are so slight that in the only careful study I have found, the mean estimate of Vietnamese who died is 100,000, about 5% of the official figure and probably 2-3% of the actual figure. Virtually no one knows that victims of the US chemical warfare that began in 1962 are estimated at about 600,000, still dying, or that it was recently discovered that the use of devastating carcinogens was at twice the announced rate, and at levels incomparably beyond anything tolerated within the industrial societies -- all in South Vietnam; the North was spared this particular atrocity
VENEZUELA: COUP AGAIN LOOMING?
Zmag: VENEZUELA 2004
Nicaragua's Contra War Revisited by Toni Solo
Another article in the continuing media campaign in Britain against Venezuela's President Chavez again posits civil war as a possible sequel to the current recall referendum process in Venezuela. In a self-contradictory account published by the Guardian on May 25th, Miami Herald writer Sybilla Brodzinsky writes that the recall referendum “...may also be the last chance to avoid a civil war, experts say.” She offers no source for the assertion, although she might easily have cited President Chavez himself who has openly referred to the possibility of civil war – as a result of foreign intervention.
The insistence with which the spectre of a spontaneous civil war has been invoked lately in the less reactionary British media by writers like Rupert Cornwell in the Independent and now by Sybilla Brodzinsky in the Guardian is noteworthy. It is as though all mainstream media reporting on Venezuela have been briefed to spread anxiety about a civil war. Thus, such fears become the very prophecy the White House war-crime machine is already primed to make come true.
The way the “free press” works can be seen from a report by Martha Sanchez in the Washington Post on May 20th. She writes “State Department officials say they are talking with U.S. editorial writers, hoping to send a clear message to Chavez through the press: let the recall referendum happen or face the consequences.” Pass-the-parcel threats, accompanying misrepresentation and downright falsehood, are routine in mainstream reporting on Venezuela just as they were on Nicaragua through the 1980s. Other similarities abound.
CHECK IT
Zmag: VENEZUELA 2004
Nicaragua's Contra War Revisited by Toni Solo
Another article in the continuing media campaign in Britain against Venezuela's President Chavez again posits civil war as a possible sequel to the current recall referendum process in Venezuela. In a self-contradictory account published by the Guardian on May 25th, Miami Herald writer Sybilla Brodzinsky writes that the recall referendum “...may also be the last chance to avoid a civil war, experts say.” She offers no source for the assertion, although she might easily have cited President Chavez himself who has openly referred to the possibility of civil war – as a result of foreign intervention.
The insistence with which the spectre of a spontaneous civil war has been invoked lately in the less reactionary British media by writers like Rupert Cornwell in the Independent and now by Sybilla Brodzinsky in the Guardian is noteworthy. It is as though all mainstream media reporting on Venezuela have been briefed to spread anxiety about a civil war. Thus, such fears become the very prophecy the White House war-crime machine is already primed to make come true.
The way the “free press” works can be seen from a report by Martha Sanchez in the Washington Post on May 20th. She writes “State Department officials say they are talking with U.S. editorial writers, hoping to send a clear message to Chavez through the press: let the recall referendum happen or face the consequences.” Pass-the-parcel threats, accompanying misrepresentation and downright falsehood, are routine in mainstream reporting on Venezuela just as they were on Nicaragua through the 1980s. Other similarities abound.
CHECK IT
SITE OF THE DAY
NOAM CHOMSKY WEBLOG
The official weblog of Noam Chomsky, including exclusive, original observations drawn from personal correspondence, ZNet Sustainer Forums posts, and direct blog entries
NOAM CHOMSKY WEBLOG
The official weblog of Noam Chomsky, including exclusive, original observations drawn from personal correspondence, ZNet Sustainer Forums posts, and direct blog entries
Sunday, June 06, 2004
USA
Capitol Hill Blues: Bush's Erratic Behavior Worries White House Aides
President George W. Bush's increasingly erratic behavior and wide mood swings has the halls of the West Wing buzzing lately as aides privately express growing concern over their leader's state of mind.
In meetings with top aides and administration officials, the President goes from quoting the Bible in one breath to obscene tantrums against the media, Democrats and others that he classifies as "enemies of the state."
Worried White House aides paint a portrait of a man on the edge, increasingly wary of those who disagree with him and paranoid of a public that no longer trusts his policies in Iraq or at home
The President's abrupt dismissal of CIA Directory George Tenet Wednesday night is, aides say, an example of how he works.
"Tenet wanted to quit last year but the President got his back up and wouldn't hear of it," says an aide. "That would have been the opportune time to make a change, not in the middle of an election campaign but when the director challenged the President during the meeting Wednesday, the President cut him off by saying 'that's it George. I cannot abide disloyalty. I want your resignation and I want it now.'"
Tenet was allowed to resign "voluntarily" and Bush informed his shocked staff of the decision Thursday morning. One aide says the President actually described the decision as "God's will."
The mood here is that we're under siege, there's no doubt about it," says one troubled aide who admits he is looking for work elsewhere. "In this administration, you don't have to wear a turban or speak Farsi to be an enemy of the United States. All you have to do is disagree with the President."
"CHECK IT"
Capitol Hill Blues: Bush's Erratic Behavior Worries White House Aides
President George W. Bush's increasingly erratic behavior and wide mood swings has the halls of the West Wing buzzing lately as aides privately express growing concern over their leader's state of mind.
In meetings with top aides and administration officials, the President goes from quoting the Bible in one breath to obscene tantrums against the media, Democrats and others that he classifies as "enemies of the state."
Worried White House aides paint a portrait of a man on the edge, increasingly wary of those who disagree with him and paranoid of a public that no longer trusts his policies in Iraq or at home
The President's abrupt dismissal of CIA Directory George Tenet Wednesday night is, aides say, an example of how he works.
"Tenet wanted to quit last year but the President got his back up and wouldn't hear of it," says an aide. "That would have been the opportune time to make a change, not in the middle of an election campaign but when the director challenged the President during the meeting Wednesday, the President cut him off by saying 'that's it George. I cannot abide disloyalty. I want your resignation and I want it now.'"
Tenet was allowed to resign "voluntarily" and Bush informed his shocked staff of the decision Thursday morning. One aide says the President actually described the decision as "God's will."
The mood here is that we're under siege, there's no doubt about it," says one troubled aide who admits he is looking for work elsewhere. "In this administration, you don't have to wear a turban or speak Farsi to be an enemy of the United States. All you have to do is disagree with the President."
"CHECK IT"
Friday, June 04, 2004
SCIENCE
Heise: Der Kampf gegen die kalte Fusion
Teil 4: Was wäre, wenn sich jeder selber mit Energie versorgen könnte?
Die derzeit hohen Benzinpreise lassen uns spüren, wie sehr unsere Lebensweise von der Verbrennung fossiler Brennstoffe abhängt. Der Kinofilm The Day After Tomorrow ( Supersturm mit frostiger Botschaft) führt uns vor Augen, welchen Preis wir oder unsere Kinder im schlimmsten Fall für unseren unnatürlichen Energiedurst zahlen müssen. In Teil 1 ( Kalte Fusion wieder heiß) dieser Telepolis-Reihe wurde berichtet, dass Wissenschaftler 1989 eine Entdeckung bekannt machten, von der sie meinten, dass sie die Lösung unseres Energieproblems sein könnte: kalte Fusion. In Teil 2 ( Die unerzählte Geschichte der kalten Fusion) wurde berichtet, dass zahlreiche Forscher die Entdeckung reproduziert haben und dafür von den Meinungsführern unserer Gesellschaft diskreditiert worden sind. In Teil 3 ( Zur Theorie der kalten Fusion) wurde geschildert, dass Aussagen, kalte Fusion sei theoretisch unmöglich, wissenschaftlich nicht haltbar sind. Dieser Teil ist eine Episode zur Forschungspolitik. Die kalte Fusion ist von Teilen der Politik und der Wissenschaft aktiv bekämpft worden. Die Gründe dafür haben etwas damit zu tun, dass ein Kubikkilometer Meerwasser so viel Brennstoff enthält, wie in den gesamten bekannten Ölreserven schlummert, und dass nach Wunsch der Politik die heiße Fusion die Energiequelle der Zukunft sein soll.
Heise: Der Kampf gegen die kalte Fusion
Teil 4: Was wäre, wenn sich jeder selber mit Energie versorgen könnte?
Die derzeit hohen Benzinpreise lassen uns spüren, wie sehr unsere Lebensweise von der Verbrennung fossiler Brennstoffe abhängt. Der Kinofilm The Day After Tomorrow ( Supersturm mit frostiger Botschaft) führt uns vor Augen, welchen Preis wir oder unsere Kinder im schlimmsten Fall für unseren unnatürlichen Energiedurst zahlen müssen. In Teil 1 ( Kalte Fusion wieder heiß) dieser Telepolis-Reihe wurde berichtet, dass Wissenschaftler 1989 eine Entdeckung bekannt machten, von der sie meinten, dass sie die Lösung unseres Energieproblems sein könnte: kalte Fusion. In Teil 2 ( Die unerzählte Geschichte der kalten Fusion) wurde berichtet, dass zahlreiche Forscher die Entdeckung reproduziert haben und dafür von den Meinungsführern unserer Gesellschaft diskreditiert worden sind. In Teil 3 ( Zur Theorie der kalten Fusion) wurde geschildert, dass Aussagen, kalte Fusion sei theoretisch unmöglich, wissenschaftlich nicht haltbar sind. Dieser Teil ist eine Episode zur Forschungspolitik. Die kalte Fusion ist von Teilen der Politik und der Wissenschaft aktiv bekämpft worden. Die Gründe dafür haben etwas damit zu tun, dass ein Kubikkilometer Meerwasser so viel Brennstoff enthält, wie in den gesamten bekannten Ölreserven schlummert, und dass nach Wunsch der Politik die heiße Fusion die Energiequelle der Zukunft sein soll.
Thursday, June 03, 2004
New 911?
Global Free Press: Rogue Bush Backers prepare Super 9/11 False Flag Terror Attacks
Toronto, May 30 – Intelligence patterns monitored over the US Memorial
Day weekend now point conclusively to an imminent new round of ABC
(atomic-bacteriological-chemical) terror attacks in the United States,
Great Britain, Canada, and possibly other nations. These attacks could
include nuclear detonations, radiological dirty bombs, poison gas and
other chemical weapons, or biological agents, to be unleashed in such
urban settings as New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington DC,
Vancouver BC, or London.
The goal of these operations would be to
produce a worldwide shock several orders of magnitude greater than the
original 9-11, with a view to stopping the collapse of the Bush
administration, the Wall Street-centered financial structures, and the
US-UK strategic position generally. The attacks would be attributed by
US/UK intelligence to controlled patsy terrorist groups who would be
linked by the media to countries like Iran, Syria, Cuba, or North
Korea.
Global Free Press: Rogue Bush Backers prepare Super 9/11 False Flag Terror Attacks
Toronto, May 30 – Intelligence patterns monitored over the US Memorial
Day weekend now point conclusively to an imminent new round of ABC
(atomic-bacteriological-chemical) terror attacks in the United States,
Great Britain, Canada, and possibly other nations. These attacks could
include nuclear detonations, radiological dirty bombs, poison gas and
other chemical weapons, or biological agents, to be unleashed in such
urban settings as New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington DC,
Vancouver BC, or London.
The goal of these operations would be to
produce a worldwide shock several orders of magnitude greater than the
original 9-11, with a view to stopping the collapse of the Bush
administration, the Wall Street-centered financial structures, and the
US-UK strategic position generally. The attacks would be attributed by
US/UK intelligence to controlled patsy terrorist groups who would be
linked by the media to countries like Iran, Syria, Cuba, or North
Korea.
ISRAEL
Haaretz: Turkish PM - Israeli Treatment Of Palestinians Is State Terrorism
Israel is not contributing to the peace process, is killing women and children indiscriminately and destroying Palestinian houses, and there is no way to describe such actions except as "state terrorism," Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in an exclusive interview with Haaretz.
It was his first interview with a member of the Israeli media following growing tensions in bilateral relations between the two countries, sparked by Israel Defense Forces operations in Rafah.
Haaretz: Turkish PM - Israeli Treatment Of Palestinians Is State Terrorism
Israel is not contributing to the peace process, is killing women and children indiscriminately and destroying Palestinian houses, and there is no way to describe such actions except as "state terrorism," Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in an exclusive interview with Haaretz.
It was his first interview with a member of the Israeli media following growing tensions in bilateral relations between the two countries, sparked by Israel Defense Forces operations in Rafah.
MIDDLE EAST
Rense: The Fallacy Of Even-Handedness By Terrell E. Arnold The writer is a retired Senior Foreign Service Officer of the US Department of State
On May 19, the United States representative, James Cunningham, abstained from voting on a UN Security Council resolution that demanded the Israelis halt demolitions of Palestinian homes, mainly in the Rafah refugee camp in Gaza. Although the Israelis have destroyed more than 200 homes and rendered more than two thousand people homeless, in the process infuriating most of the world community, the US vote was typically at odds with world opinion, but it was sort of progress. For the second time in less than two years, the US representative abstained on a resolution critical of Israel and that permitted the resolutions, in both instances, to go into effect. Had the US used its veto, which it has done 38 times since 1972 regarding UN actions critical of Israel, the resolutions would have failed.
If it were to last, this US position in the Security Council would be significant, because the United States appears to have moved, at least for now, from refusing to allow UN criticism of Israel to refusing to block UN criticism of Israel. However, the US delegation to the UN has yet to take a flat out stand against anything the Israelis do, even though the US is often critical of the Palestinians.
Rense: The Fallacy Of Even-Handedness By Terrell E. Arnold The writer is a retired Senior Foreign Service Officer of the US Department of State
On May 19, the United States representative, James Cunningham, abstained from voting on a UN Security Council resolution that demanded the Israelis halt demolitions of Palestinian homes, mainly in the Rafah refugee camp in Gaza. Although the Israelis have destroyed more than 200 homes and rendered more than two thousand people homeless, in the process infuriating most of the world community, the US vote was typically at odds with world opinion, but it was sort of progress. For the second time in less than two years, the US representative abstained on a resolution critical of Israel and that permitted the resolutions, in both instances, to go into effect. Had the US used its veto, which it has done 38 times since 1972 regarding UN actions critical of Israel, the resolutions would have failed.
If it were to last, this US position in the Security Council would be significant, because the United States appears to have moved, at least for now, from refusing to allow UN criticism of Israel to refusing to block UN criticism of Israel. However, the US delegation to the UN has yet to take a flat out stand against anything the Israelis do, even though the US is often critical of the Palestinians.
Wednesday, June 02, 2004
WHAT COMES NEXT?
Rense:Rumors Of Unusual Naval Deployments?
Hello Mr. Rense
There are many rumors flying around the internet concerning the deployment of a large number of U.S. military and navy ships. This is causing all sorts of questions, one being of course why? Where are they going? Is some big "event" or terrorist attack about to occur?
Not only that, but, apparently, large numbers of naval fleets from many other countries are heading out to sea, as well!
Monetary Forecast: Is The Fed Expecting Catastrophe?
From Robt McHugh's Monetary forecast of 5-30-4and Richard Russell today 6-2-4
Let me just say from the outset that the Federal Reserve has confirmed our Stock Market Crash forecast by raising the Money Supply (M-3) by crisis proportions, up another 46.8 billion this past week. What awful calamity do they see? Something is up. This is unprecedented, unheard-of pre-catastrophe M-3 expansion. M-3 is up an amount that we've never seen before without a crisis - $155 billion over the past 4 weeks, a $2.0 trillion annualized pace, a 22.2 percent annualized rate of growth!!! There must be a crisis of historic proportions coming, and the Federal Reserve Bank of the United States is making sure that there is enough liquidity in place to protect our nation's fragile financial system. The amazing thing is, the Fed's actions mean they know what is about to happen. They are aware of a terrible, horrific imminent event. What could it be?"
"One can draw no other conclusion except that the Fed is acting irresponsibly in its managing the money supply, in fulfilling its duty to "maintain a stable currency." I reject the notion that the Fed is acting irresponsibly. No, something is up, bigger than we have ever seen in the history of the United States. Let me ramble. Perhaps they simply see the ominous technical landscape we have been warning about in recent issues, and are attempting to pull out all the stops to avert the predicted crash. The recent rally in just about everything is similar to 2003's market behavior when the Fed pumped massive amounts of liquidity into the system during the first half of the year. This time seems different. The amount of liquidity is too large. The Fed is deflating the value of the monetary base by a fifth! Why are they willing to do this? Wisdom says something bad is up - big time."
Rense:Rumors Of Unusual Naval Deployments?
Hello Mr. Rense
There are many rumors flying around the internet concerning the deployment of a large number of U.S. military and navy ships. This is causing all sorts of questions, one being of course why? Where are they going? Is some big "event" or terrorist attack about to occur?
Not only that, but, apparently, large numbers of naval fleets from many other countries are heading out to sea, as well!
Monetary Forecast: Is The Fed Expecting Catastrophe?
From Robt McHugh's Monetary forecast of 5-30-4and Richard Russell today 6-2-4
Let me just say from the outset that the Federal Reserve has confirmed our Stock Market Crash forecast by raising the Money Supply (M-3) by crisis proportions, up another 46.8 billion this past week. What awful calamity do they see? Something is up. This is unprecedented, unheard-of pre-catastrophe M-3 expansion. M-3 is up an amount that we've never seen before without a crisis - $155 billion over the past 4 weeks, a $2.0 trillion annualized pace, a 22.2 percent annualized rate of growth!!! There must be a crisis of historic proportions coming, and the Federal Reserve Bank of the United States is making sure that there is enough liquidity in place to protect our nation's fragile financial system. The amazing thing is, the Fed's actions mean they know what is about to happen. They are aware of a terrible, horrific imminent event. What could it be?"
"One can draw no other conclusion except that the Fed is acting irresponsibly in its managing the money supply, in fulfilling its duty to "maintain a stable currency." I reject the notion that the Fed is acting irresponsibly. No, something is up, bigger than we have ever seen in the history of the United States. Let me ramble. Perhaps they simply see the ominous technical landscape we have been warning about in recent issues, and are attempting to pull out all the stops to avert the predicted crash. The recent rally in just about everything is similar to 2003's market behavior when the Fed pumped massive amounts of liquidity into the system during the first half of the year. This time seems different. The amount of liquidity is too large. The Fed is deflating the value of the monetary base by a fifth! Why are they willing to do this? Wisdom says something bad is up - big time."
Tuesday, June 01, 2004
USA
Independent: E-mail 'links Cheney to Halliburton deal'
The links between Dick Cheney and the Halliburton oil services company were under new scrutiny yesterday with the revelation of a Pentagon memo suggesting that the award to Halliburton of Iraq contracts was "co-ordinated" with the Vice-President's office.
The memo, reported in the latest issue of Time magazine, dates from March 2003, just before the invasion to topple Saddam Hussein, and deals with Halliburton's involvement in the multibillion-dollar contract RIO, or "Restore Iraqi Oil".
The e-mail says that the arrangements for RIO were approved by Douglas Feith, the under-Secretary of Defence for policy and the third-highest ranking civilian official at the Pentagon, "contingent on informing WH [White House] tomorrow. We anticipate no problems since action has been co-ordinated w [with] VP's [Vice-President's] office".
Independent: E-mail 'links Cheney to Halliburton deal'
The links between Dick Cheney and the Halliburton oil services company were under new scrutiny yesterday with the revelation of a Pentagon memo suggesting that the award to Halliburton of Iraq contracts was "co-ordinated" with the Vice-President's office.
The memo, reported in the latest issue of Time magazine, dates from March 2003, just before the invasion to topple Saddam Hussein, and deals with Halliburton's involvement in the multibillion-dollar contract RIO, or "Restore Iraqi Oil".
The e-mail says that the arrangements for RIO were approved by Douglas Feith, the under-Secretary of Defence for policy and the third-highest ranking civilian official at the Pentagon, "contingent on informing WH [White House] tomorrow. We anticipate no problems since action has been co-ordinated w [with] VP's [Vice-President's] office".
IRAQ
Guardian: 'It is the Iraqi people who want to nominate me'
A profile of Sheikh Ghazi Ajil al-Yawar, who was today appointed as Iraq's interim president
Guardian: 'It is the Iraqi people who want to nominate me'
A profile of Sheikh Ghazi Ajil al-Yawar, who was today appointed as Iraq's interim president
MEDIA WATCH
Guardian: NY Times Says It Was Duped By Pentagon 'Cunning'
The New York Times donned sackcloth and ashes again yesterday when its ombudsman said the newspaper had been duped by "the cunning campaign" of those that wanted the world to believe that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.
Some stories, Daniel Okrent said, "pushed Pentagon assertions so aggressively you could almost sense epaulets on the shoulders of editors". The half-page critique of the newspaper's coverage during the run-up to the invasion of Iraq followed a separate admission signed by "the editors" last week that said the newspaper had not been as "rigorous as it should have been" in questioning Iraqi exiles.
Guardian: NY Times Says It Was Duped By Pentagon 'Cunning'
The New York Times donned sackcloth and ashes again yesterday when its ombudsman said the newspaper had been duped by "the cunning campaign" of those that wanted the world to believe that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.
Some stories, Daniel Okrent said, "pushed Pentagon assertions so aggressively you could almost sense epaulets on the shoulders of editors". The half-page critique of the newspaper's coverage during the run-up to the invasion of Iraq followed a separate admission signed by "the editors" last week that said the newspaper had not been as "rigorous as it should have been" in questioning Iraqi exiles.
MIDDLE EAST
Jerusalem Post: Egypt Tells Arafat: Reform Or Be Removed
Egyptian Intelligence Chief Omar Suleiman has reportedly warned Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat to relax his grip on the reins of Palestinian power or face the possibility that Egypt and the US will cease to block Prime Minister Ariel Sharon from carrying out his threat to "remove" the chairman.
According to a report Monday in the pan-Arab Al-Quds-al-Arabi, Suleiman handed Arafat three demands:
First, to unite all the Palestinian security forces under one command authority, and into three components. These include the police, the Preventative Security Service (equivalent of Israel's General Security Service), and the Palestinian foreign security service (equivalent of Israel's Mossad).
Jerusalem Post: Egypt Tells Arafat: Reform Or Be Removed
Egyptian Intelligence Chief Omar Suleiman has reportedly warned Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat to relax his grip on the reins of Palestinian power or face the possibility that Egypt and the US will cease to block Prime Minister Ariel Sharon from carrying out his threat to "remove" the chairman.
According to a report Monday in the pan-Arab Al-Quds-al-Arabi, Suleiman handed Arafat three demands:
First, to unite all the Palestinian security forces under one command authority, and into three components. These include the police, the Preventative Security Service (equivalent of Israel's General Security Service), and the Palestinian foreign security service (equivalent of Israel's Mossad).
Monday, May 31, 2004
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