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By: Loui Buchalter -- A
19-hour uprising by rebel soldiers in the Philippines ended late last week
when the mutineers surrendered, ending a bizarre standoff at a Manila complex
wired with explosives. The rebels agreed to return to barracks and said they
were willing to face charges, although there were reports the Government had
also made concessions during negotiations to end the siege.
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Red-band rebels. About 70 officers address the media just before the first deadline for their surrender expired late yesterday. |
"It was agreed they would end the
siege and they will march back to barracks," Colonel Danilo Lim, a member
of the government panel that met the troops, told reporters. Just before
midnight, the young rebels began dismantling the bombs they had set-up
around the complex, tearing out wires connected to six tubes of what appeared
to be explosives. On radio their leader said that on a scale of one to 10 they
had achieved seven of their objectives. A few hours into the siege, the rebel
soldiers had released about 300 hostages - including the Australian ambassador
and 10 other Australians - but threatened to set off the bombs and persisted
with their demand that the Government resign. Dr Arroyo declared a "state
of rebellion", giving authorities power to carry out arrests without
warrants, after about 200 rebels stormed the Oakwood Building, a retail and
apartment complex in Manila's Makati business district late on Saturday. The
rebel leader, Navy Lieutenant Senior Antonio Trillanes, told reporters that the
explosives were for self-defence. "If they try to take us down, we will be
forced to use it," he said. Trillanes, with 70 other rebel soldiers mostly
aged in their 20s, held a news conference on the sixth floor of the Oakwood
Hotel, a few minutes before Dr Arroyo's original deadline to surrender expired
at 5pm. She told the rogue soldiers in a nationally televised address:
"There is absolutely no justification for the actions you have taken. You
have already stained the uniform. Do not drench it with dishonour. Senator
Gregorio Honasan, a former colonel who led coup attempts in the 1980s, admitted
advising the officers but denied he was involved in the power grab. The rebel
officers had said in a statement: "We are asking the present regime to
step down because it is no different from the previous regimes. The people in
this country are getting poorer and poorer, while U.S.-corporations are
becoming richer and richer. For change, we are ready to lay down our
lives."
It cannot have escaped the attention of
the young military officers, that President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo ignores
answering their questions about Philippine military exploding bombs
on markets in Mindanao. This terror was then blamed to the Moro
organization, in order to substantiate U.S.-funding for military
hardware. If this is true, the young officers did not stain their uniforms
nor drench them, but they were doing the right thing in Makati. If this
allegation is true, it would soil Mrs Arroyos presidential skirt and
stamp her a de facto terrorist.
The Philippine Army's intelligence chief resigned
yesterday following a mutiny by junior officers and soldiers demanding reforms
in the military.
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Quit General Victor Corpus |
President
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo accepted the resignation of Brigadier-General Victor
Corpus, who said he quit to ease restiveness among the country's soldiers
following Sunday's failed, bloodless uprising. His resignation was among the
renegade troops' demands. They accused him of incompetence and involvement in a
recent bombing in the southern Philippines to justify more military aid from Washington.
The mutineers, who are being interrogated at military intelligence headquarters
in Manila, also demanded the resignation of the Defence Secretary, Angelo
Reyes, and National Police chief, General Hermogenes Ebdane. "The current
political crisis is far from finished. There is still deep restiveness in the
officer corps," General Corpus said in his resignation letter to Dr
Arroyo.
American Interests around the world will be attacked if U.S. attempts
to eradicate Hezbollah. In a rare interview Sheik Hassan Nasrallah rejected
Washington's classification of Hezbollah as a terror organisation, adding
the Bush administration does not have the moral authority to define
terrorism. And he continues: "We believe American administrations
have always exercised terrorism and backed terror groups and
regimes," citing Osama bin Laden who was trained by CIA and turned
against Russia during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. Bin Laden
excelled in handling U.S.-Stinger type shoulder-fired missiles, shooting
down some 20 Russian helicopters over three years. It decided the
Afghan War. During the Reagan administration - Washington supported Saddam
Hussein in the "Iran Contra War" against Teheran
(1980-88). "The chemical weapons used by Iraq against Iranians and Kurds were
provided by the Pentagon. Now the Washington hypocrites search
for their own American chemical weapons - to show them to the
world - as a justification of their war against Iraq." Blair's
notorious falsification factory - MI-6 - tries to supports them.
A global currency shift is in progress. The U.S. dollar
declines in value and in investor-appreciation. The long-term development is
difficult to foresee, since 2 indifferent criteria are decisive and
determining for its future:
1.0: will the cost free Iraq oil rescue the dollar?
2.0: will the Europeans - being known as semi-blind softies - have
the steely edge to orientate and find their way
along the meandering path of correct information and
draw correct conclusions?
For those who can read it, the reporting of their media is
frightening. Albania, Azerbaijan, UK, Bulgaria, Czech, Denmark, Dominican
Republic, Estonia, El Salvador, Georgia, Honduras, Hungary, Italy, Japan,
Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Mongolia, Netherlands, Nicaragua,
Norway, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, South Korea, Spain
and Ukraine are all self-declared CCC (Coalition of Crooks and Criminals)
participating, that is to say allies of USA.
18 European states are among them. They offered
troops to CCC for Iraq. These 18 states are renegades of the
European cause. They were pushed, purchased and blackmailed into this
adventure by USA. It is of foremost importance that no funds from EU will flow
to these renegade states anymore, as long as the euro is still a
stable and competitive currency. If EU is un-decided - or too weak - to
implement this measure, EU may as well dissolve and muddle along disunited and
separated as before.
Over the past 3 centuries, the English speaking colonialists - USA, UK, CAN,
AUS and NZ - financed by the Jewish 'Welt Kapital'
- have determined the world's destiny and brushed off
challengers, for instance Germany, Switzerland and Austria. Their major
business clue is still in invasions and occupations of foreign
lands, belonging to inferior indigenous peoples - then exterminating them
- and selling their lands in small parcels (real estate) to newly arriving
settlers, who are then kept in life-long interest-paying bondage. By this
way, Jewish 'Welt Kapital' made gigantic fortunes. Millions of square miles of
land were colonized. For the first time, this process is currently being
reversed in Zimbabwe. Another decisive un-known is: will Palestine and
Iraq follow the route of Zimbabwe.
If the European Union now concedes to dropping farm subsidies - as
requested by Washington and Canberra - this would mean
for EU, that they have been lured onto the road to Armageddon. The only
workable solution is: re-writing the WTO rules, which were formulated by
the colonialists. Japan - another rip-off target - will definitely not close
down its reliable rice paddies. "Don't forget you are dealing with rogue
states," an un-named French agriculturist added. And he continues:
"You should push WTO for revision of the rules, stipulating tax free
access for motor vehicles to U.S. and Australia, and delete tax-free
access for their wheat into EU."
During proceedings in the Bali Court an Australian man suddenly
turned-up - unfolding a large Australian flag and requesting Amrozi
the Bali bomber "to excuse to Australia." "Australians are all
terrorists," Amrozi answered. An embarrassed Mr Sandowski rolled
up the flag - draped with the fire-red "British criss-cross
flag symbol" in the right upper flag corner and left ze Indonesian
Court room. The incident was stage-managed by Murdoch media and filmed from
various positions by his cameraman. But they obviously did not
expect Amrozi's stern response. Then Amrozi raised his
voice chanting the following song: "This is us, the young
warriors, this is us, the army of Allah, we don't fear death, but continue
to do Jihad. If Palestine is wounded, if Haroman is stained, do Jihad
until the spirit has left the body. Kick-out the mean Zionists, kick-out the
filthy people of the crucifix. Allah is great."
Bravery
and open-action-admiring Islam has always had limited appreciation for the
sly and under-handed "people of the crucifix", as the following
incident from 1850 confirms: During the times of the Osman Empire,
Turkish authorities had to issue burial permits for diseased Jews and
Christians in Palestine. In the case of a Greek Orthodox priest the burial
permit read as follows: "To the priest of the people of rum:
thou, (you) whose garment is as black as Satan's, contemptible monk, fat,
dirty, dishonest priest. Know thou, that thou are permitted to dig a hole
and throw therein the revolting and stinking cadaver of the infidel (name) who
has recently departed." The permits for Jews were couched
in similar terms. Instinctive resentment and dislike of
the embarrassing feature of their idol - Jesus - and therefore dubbed
the 'people of the crucifix' - as expressed by open-spoken Moslems -
has its origin in the Christian admiration for a bloody beaten
creature, who was subjected to the ancient Roman death penalty - and
afterwards - the tortured corpse looked accordingly.
While in contrast, idols and god-creatures of
psychologically healthy humans are beautifully adorned - as
obvious success creatures - like Tut-Ankh-Amon, Bhudda and energetic
horse rider Mohamad (blessed be his name) in Africa, Asia and Arabia, or
are respectable and wise personages like Zoroaster and Lao-Tse
in Persia and China, without any
scandalous record. However, this touchy issue should not create
divisiveness among Islam and Christianity, who need each other these days,
to fight Shaddai - the greatest Satan - earth has ever
seen.
For even-handed law enforcement, the mass murderer General Augusto
Pinochet-Ugarte should not be stowed away any longer in Chile - after he was
spirited out of London - hiding from public scrutiny. While in the
Bali bomber affair, Washington and Canberra request utter
transparency from Jakarta, but cleverly hiding their own backyard dirt
away in USA and Chile. CIA Director Tenet confirmed,
"the files on Pinochet will remain closed." Pinochet allegedly is
responsible for 3000 murders and yet un-known atrocities committed in
concerted actions with CIA throughout South-America in pursuance of the
anti-Communist Condor Plan. Switzerland, Germany, France and Spain have
requested extradition of General Pinochet for murder of their citizens,
but to no avail. If this un-even handed law enforcement practice will
prevail and continue, Indonesia may well close down the investigations into the
Bali bombing. A government representative said, "reason being, we
cannot accept human-rights slurs and smear being bucketed by
Murdoch (a U.S.-citizen) on our country, while the big villains - killing
1000s of innocent people, fare as jolly good fellows in international
affairs." And he continues: "Rating agencies and AI (Amnesty
International) are hammering us. UN should un-earth the cover-up in Chile and
put things finally right."
Further restrictions have also been placed on Indonesia. While U.S.
suppress and ignore comment on the use of F-18 fighters and Black
Hawk choppers used for attack-sorties by Israel on Palestine civilians,
they recently remanded Jakarta not to use F-18 fighters other than
for defensive operations and not for offensive
use.
Atom-Minen
sollten Deutschland verwüsten. POWERFUL NUCLEAR MINES WERE PLACED IN
BONN-GERMANY AFTER 1945 - NAMED BLUE PEACOCK
- FOR IGNITION BY UK-MILITARY IN CASE USSR WOULD OCCUPY GERMAN
TERRITORY. ONE WAS PLACED IN A LARGE LAKE, A MAJOR POTABLE WATER
RESERVOIR. BUT THE AVERAGE GERMAN JUST LOVES GREAT BRITAIN IGNORING THE
REBUKES WHEN THEY ARE HOLIDAYING IN LONDON. THEY CAN DEFINITELY
NOT BE HELPED.
Im
Kalten Krieg wollten die Briten offenbar um jeden Preis eine Besetzung
Deutschlands durch die Sowjets verhindern. Nukleare Landminen, berichtet ein
Historiker auf Basis von jetzt freigegebenen Geheimdokumenten, sollten im
Kriegsfall ganze Landstriche verseuchen.
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Es war
der Alptraum westlicher Militärs während des Kalten Krieges: Die Rote Armee rückt mit einer überwältigenden Überlegenheit
an Truppen und konventionellen Waffen über die Zonengrenze nach Westdeutschland
vor. Briten, Amerikaner und Franzosen haben den gewaltigen Panzerverbänden der
Sowjets nichts entgegenzusetzen - und wählen den letzten Ausweg, um eine
Niederlage und die sowjetische Besetzung Westdeutschlands zu verhindern: den
Einsatz taktischer Atomwaffen based in Germany. Da ein solches
Szenario von den Nato-Strategen als durchaus realistisch eingestuft wurde,
erhielten die alliierten Truppen in Westdeutschland schon früh so genannte
"Mini-Nukes". Die kleinformatigen Atomwaffen besaßen zwar nur einen
Bruchteil der Vernichtungskraft von strategischen Nuklearsprengköpfen, hätten
aber unter feindlichen Truppen und in den betroffenen Teilen Deutschlands
ungeheure Verheerungen angerichtet. Das Arsenal der Alliierten beinhaltete
Artilleriegeschosse, Kurzstreckenraketen und Panzerfaust-ähnliche Raketenwerfer
des Typs "Davy Crockett". "Verbrannte
Erde" gegen sowjetische Besatzer. Neu ist, dass die Briten auch
nukleare Landminen einsetzen wollten, wie sie die Welt noch nicht gesehen
hatte. Der britische Historiker David Hawkings, bis vor zwei Jahren am Atomic
Weapons Establishment (AWE) der britischen Regierung beschäftigt,
veröffentlichte im AWE-eigenen "Discovery"-Magazin Details über die
Mine aus britischen Regierungsdokumenten, die jahrzehntelang geheim waren und
jetzt freigegeben wurden. Demnach konstruierte das Armament Research and
Development Establishment in Fort Halstead bei Kent, wo seit 1947 das britische
Atomwaffen-Programm stationiert war, die Super-Mine zur Zerstörung von Gebäuden
und anderen Strukturen. Darüber hinaus sollte der Atomsprengsatz (Codename
"Blue Peacock") eine Besetzung Deutschlands durch die Sowjets
verhindern - durch ein Prinzip, das schon Hitler und Stalin während des Kriegs
in Russland auf verbrecherische Weise benutzt hatten: das der "verbrannten
Erde". Atomexplosionen mitten in der
Zivilisation.
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"Eine geschickt
platzierte Mine würde nicht nur Gebäude und Strukturen im weiten Umkreis
zerstören, sondern durch Kontaminierung auch die Besetzung des Gebiets durch
den Feind verhindern", zitiert Hawkings einen Bericht des obersten
Waffenentwicklers der britischen Armee, der Mitte der fünfziger Jahre verfasst
wurde. Als geeignete Ziele tauchten darin Industrieanlagen, Ölraffinerien,
Kanäle, Bahnhöfe sowie Bewässerungs- und Wasserkraftanlagen wie etwa Talsperren
auf. In der Nähe solcher Orte hätte der Einsatz einer Nuklearwaffe
wahrscheinlich tausende, wenn nicht gar zehntausende Menschenleben gefordert.
Von einem Mini-Sprengsatz konnte im Fall von "Blue Peacock" keine
Rede sein. Die Mine basierte auf dem Design der britischen Atombombe "Blue
Danube", die seit November 1953 zum Arsenal der Royal Air Force gehörte.
Ihr Herzstück war eine von hochexplosivem Material umschlossene Plutoniumkugel.
"Blue Danube" wog rund 4,5 Tonnen, "Blue Peacock" aber fiel
noch wuchtiger aus. Dank seiner gewaltigen Stahlhülle brachte der Trumm ein
Gewicht von sieben Tonnen auf die Waage. Seine Sprengkraft sollte mit zehn
Kilotonnen TNT fast halb so groß sein wie die der Nagasaki-Bombe, die im August
1945 rund 70.000 Menschen auf der Stelle und mehrere zehntausend durch
Folgeschäden getötet hatte. Bei einer Detonation in zehn Metern Tiefe hätte die
Mine, so zitiert Hawkings das Handbuch, einen 200 Meter breiten Krater
gerissen. Detonation per Zeitzünder. Wäre ein Angriff der Roten Armee
als wahrscheinlich eingestuft worden, hätte die britische Rheinarmee die Minen
vergraben, auf der Oberfläche platzieren oder in Flüssen und Seen versenken
sollen. Die Detonation wäre per Draht von einem maximal fünf Kilometer entfernten
Befehlsstand oder durch einen Acht-Tage-Zeitzünder ausgelöst worden. Gegen
Entschärfung war die Höllenmaschine durch ein Drucksystem und einen Schalter
geschützt, der jede Lageveränderung registriert. "Wäre die Mine bewegt,
ihre Hülle durch Gewehrfeuer beschädigt oder mit Wasser geflutet worden, wäre
sie innerhalb von zehn Sekunden explodiert", erklärt Hawkings.
BEWARE
OF THE UNTOUCHABLES. In
an over 1 million dollar rip-off - at the expense of
an Australian woman - labeled "extraordinary" by a
judge who later heard it, the "Crimes Commission" of the
Australian State of New South Wales - which is meant to investigate
drug trafficking, murder and organized crime - seized the assets of a woman
who took jumpers worth less than $500 from a David Jones shop. The
jumpers were purchased by David Jones in China at a whole-sale price
of less than 2 dollars each. The assets of Irene Plizga included
a Mercedes Benz and a half-share in a property in Coogee. According to the Land
Titles Office, the property was forcibly sold for $1.4 million. In his
judgment, Justice Harold Sperling appeared unimpressed by the actions of the
"Crime Commission", which has the power to seize assets. "It is
extra-ordinary that a petty crime such as she committed should render her
liable for the forfeiture of a motor vehicle and a one-half share in a
residential property." Justice Sperling says, that what happened
to Ms Plizga was "wrong". And he added: "But we are not allowed
to know. The "NSW Crimes Commission" operates in total
secrecy. In particular, has a reputation for being
un-accountable. Unlike ASIO - the intelligence agency - it is not
overseen by a parliamentary committee or an inspector. Its godfather is
Phil Bradley. But you won't see him on TV or in the newspapers.
There is no photograph of Bradley available. He does not give interviews.
Like a perfect crime boss." "It's Big Brother
stuff," a lawyer added. Anyone called before the "Crimes
Commission" is sworn to secrecy. One cannot tell anyone. On top
of it, one cannot have a lawyer of one's own
choice. Godfather Bradley has the power to veto a solicitor or
barrister. Revealing to anyone - including your husband or your wife
- that you have talked to Bradley, will land you in
jail. Justice Sperling said, the dubious "Crimes Commission" had
frozen Ms Plizga's assets. He noted that the "Crime Commission" had
given him no background information as to why this had happened. One
lawyer said it illustrated the difficulty in assessing the "Crimes
Commission's" work - neither the judge nor the public knew the background
to the case and were not entitled to know. It was "outrageous" that a
shoplifting offence had been misused in this way." Bradley and his
rogue-mob might have misappropriated millions of dollars. Ms Plizka said
"...the "Crime Commission" stated, that the offence
carried a jail term of five years; she therefore had no choice but to
agree to the forfeiture of her assets," signing them over into the
loving care of Godfather Bradley.
There is obviously
a deficient independence of judiciary feeding government rogue
agencies.
Another
victim, who was conned by the "Crimes Commission" is
William Watson, now 61. He is one of the few willing to speak out. An
experienced gun dealer, he was charged with possessing illegal handguns. After
he paid bail at Burwood police station, and getting ready to go home, he found
his troubles were just beginning. According to Mr Watson, the bail sergeant
refused to let him go. "He said, 'it's nothing to do with me, it's
to do with them'." The "them" in question were two
officers from the "Crime Commission", and they told him: "You
aren't going anywhere." By this time his solicitor had already left. After
all, he had no criminal record. Instead, Mr Watson, who has two artificial legs,
was handcuffed and whisked off to the commission. Entering this secret,
twilight world, Mr Watson says he was threatened by a senior "Crimes
Commission" officer, who said in the lift: "You are involved
in a murder case, we are going to charge you with this murder." Mr
Watson was bewildered. He was certainly involved in selling firearms - he had
been doing it for decades and had a 40 years old Tasmanian license, which
he thought was also valid in other Australian states, like NSW. But
he knew nothing about murder. He said, "before the "Crimes
Commission" you can't refuse to answer questions'. It is not uncommon for
people to be summoned to the "Crimes Commission" late at night or to
be questioned into the early morning hours." The
"Crimes Commission" subsequently took action to confiscate some of
his assets. In this area they have been successful, becoming
an important revenue earner for the State Government of NSW. They
have taken-in with this criminal trickery some 66.5 million dollars. In Mr
Watson's case they got $15,000. "The first thing they went
for was my money," Mr Watson added.
One evening the
NSW "Crimes Commission" gang came to Keith Gardiner at his farm near Deniliquin
in the state's southwest. Mr Gardiner was relaxing in his lounge wearing just
his swimming-pants. He recalls this lack of clothing amused the officers
involved in the raid. Police found $40,000 in cash in his safe, and another
$700 in the bedroom. Within days, the commission stripped him financially bare,
freezing his assets, including his 472-hectare farm, his truck, cars, machinery
and bank accounts. All this was done after the commission said "there
are suspicions" that Gardiner was involved in crime."
In fact, Mr Gardiner was a successful rice, wheat and cattle farmer whose
gross income from 1991-96 was - as a court later accepted - $900,000. He
complained to the office of the NSW Ombudsman but was told it had no power to
investigate the "Crimes Commission." "Who are they answerable
to? To no one," the farmer added. This is another breech of fundamental
democracy rules, the separation of executive and judiciary. Subsequently:
Australia is a de facto dictatorship.
Some more
people may now come forward, because the spell "not to
talk" must be lifted by the Australian Government -
alternatively it will be ignored by the public - which covered-up this scam.
The two-digit million-dollar turnover indicates: what the world
community now knows is just the tip of the iceberg.
Some weeks
ago, they confiscated - in international waters - a North-Korean trader,
with 19 staff on board, allegedly selling drugs in an Australian port. The
vessel - worth a million dollars - was moored in Sydney up for
auction. In the light of the proven trickery of the "Crimes
Commission" - which got its 2-digit million dollars bank-account
from crimes committed by them, the issue - as they explain it - may also
be doubtful now, needing a proper investigation.
In the latest twist
a young Russian woman has been sentenced by the Australian
Family Court in Sydney (Parramatta) to deportation; but alone and not with her
Australian-born baby. The issue clearly indicates the lacking maturity of
ex-convict Australian administrators. This sentence is satanic. UN should do
something good and tangible for a change, and take-over the governance of
the Australian continent. It is unbearable. The
Aborigines also need proper guidance by cultured people, without a
heavy ex-convict DNA.
ASIO, the
Australian spy agency briefed airlines about new al-Qa'ida threats to
global aviation, including the possibility of terrorists boarding
planes for destinations in Australia to attack targets in the big
Australian cities. Also, a consignment of shoulder-fired missiles - guided by
sensitive radar - was said to have been unloaded in Northern
Yemen. Active range: 3-4 km. Touchdown and start at certain
airports may become fatal phases of airline flights. Major airlines and
airport managers as well as state and federal authorities across Australia were
told of the renewed threat a week ago and Washington issued an urgent memo to
all U.S. airlines late last week. It warned that the al-Qa'ida network was
planning new suicide attacks in a number of countries including Australia.
"Attack venues may include the UK, Italy, Australia or the east coast of
the United States due to the relatively high concentration of government,
military and economic targets," the alert said. Australian
cities with multi-million populations are highly endangered due to
its government's unrelenting support for the brutal Zionist statelet. In fact
the ruling elite in Canberra is a potential mix of Jews and members of the
Association of British Zionists, of which Prince Charles is a paying
member. In summary, with these dangerous leanings, Australia is
continuously in the cross hair of International Islam.
Iraq's
oil production has risen to more than 1 million barrels a day as the country signed new
crude export contracts with foreign oil companies, mainly from the US. An Iraqi
oil ministry official said that daily production, which has been steady at
800,000 barrels since the end of the war, had increased. "Production in
the south is between 600,000 and 700,000 barrels a day and production in the
north is at 500,000 barrels a day," the official said. "Production in
the south could reach 1 million barrels a day in a month." The news will
be a relief to the market, which has been disappointed at the slow pace of
getting Iraq's oil moving again after the war. Production is still well below
the 2 million barrels a day being exported under the Oil for Food program
before the war and recent events led to a sharp fall in the price of crude oil.
On Tuesday, when news of the deaths of Uday and Qusay Hussein reached the
International Petroleum Exchange in London, the benchmark price dropped by more
than a dollar to $US27.65, although it rose to $US28.15 at Friday's
close. Iraq's State Oil Marketing Organisation announced a new batch of
export contracts. The deals, for August 1 to December 31, are with Shell; the
US's Total Fina Elf, Chevron Texaco, Conoco Phillips, Valero Energy and
Marathon Oil; China's Sinochem; and a subsidiary of Japan's Mitsubishi. A
contract with Exxon Mobil is expected soon.
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Monarch Butterfly |
One
of the most worrying claims of groups opposed to GM (genetically
modified food) is that pollen from GM crops like maize and rapeseed
will "contaminate" local varieties, or will harm insects, birds and
animals. As evidence, Greenpeace and others point to a dramatic experiment in
the cornfields of America where a young researcher found that pollen
from wheat that was genetically modified containing
a component killing America's favourite insect, the monarch
butterfly. As European Union earlier warned, not all side effects of GM are
known as yet.
An East-Asian court has blocked an attempt by U.S. to repossess Nauru's only passenger aircraft, an Air Nauru 737, saying it would contravene promises given by Washington to reward Nauru for helping smuggle North Korean defectors from Beijing to the West. The summary judgment backs claims made by Nauru that U.S. gave private pledges of financial assistance to the Pacific Island in return for abolishing its offshore banking and passport schemes, which Washington claimed were assisting its adversaries. The court's decision is an embarrassment for U.S., which has strongly denied making any such promises to Nauru. The judgment confirms that a shadowy group of well-connected U.S. individuals - some claiming to be U.S. intelligence officers - used a mixture of threats and promises to convince Nauru. This same group also asked Nauru to join an intelligence mission - dubbed Operation Weasel - which was to use Nauru's diplomatic facilities in Beijing to help smuggle senior North Korean scientists and military officers to the West. Letters, documents and emails show this group used promises of U.S.-aid as a carrot to get Nauru to follow an identical agenda to that of the U.S. State Department. Nauru claimed that Michael Horowitz, a former adviser to president Ronald Reagan, and Joe Pinder, a senior U.S. congressional staffer, were among those who said they would take steps to protect the island's aircraft from U.S. government creditors. Meanwhile, the Pacific Island state of Nauru has closed its embassy in Beijing in a move towards diplomatic relations with Taiwan.
1.0 ) THREE CONTRADICTORY VIEW-POINTS ON A BURNING ISSUE:
1.1 ) PYONGYANG: Today, Rodong Sinmun branded the U.S.-brigand and its CCC - Coalition of Crooks and Criminals - in a signed commentary as dangerous war mongers, dancing like crazy on the edge of nuclear war. "They are committing aerial espionage on the DPRK with strategic and tactical reconnaissance planes. U-2 high-altitude strategic reconnaissance planes flew in the sky above the area 120 km west of Tokjok islet and 40 km east of Phochon and Sokcho on an espionage mission. On July 29, two planes of the same type spied on strategic targets of the DPRK. EP-3, RC-12 and RC-7B tactical reconnaissance planes made flights day and night to spy on the terrain and coastal beach-lines of the DPRK. Tactical reconnaissance planes made simultaneous sorties spying on major military targets of the DPRK: nine spied on July 27, seven on July 24 and July 25, and six on July 7 and 16 "the commentator added. And he continued: "The U.S. intention to bring up the nuclear issue at the UN, is a grave criminal act to hamstring North-Korea's efforts, the official KCNA news agency said. "Any move to discuss the nuclear issue at the UN Security Council is little short of a prelude to war," he said. On Thursday, U.S. Undersecretary of State John Bolton criticized the Security Council, saying "...its credibility was at stake because it had failed to take up the North-Korean nuclear issue." An un-named political analyst added "....Washington wants to put the United Nations before the horse cart of the U.S.-agenda. In the broader context, this is what Washington has been doing over the past 50 years and what Washington thinks the UN is there for." "Unprecedented death and destruction will hit THE U.S. and their obedient vassals and not only in Korea. Wild threats, shrieking and stamping feet will not save the U.S.-robber-baron from his total nuclear annihilation" the official KCNA speaker added.
1.2 ) CANBERRA "America's unprecedented military might and the new global security environment with limited or even no nuclear weapons available to most other non-English speaking countries means that one of the highest priorities for Australia's defense forces is sticking to USA." It was ensuring that they could fight alongside their reliable U.S.-counterpart, Australia's Defense Forces Minister Robert Hill added.
1.3 ) WASHINGTON The U.S.'s top arms control official, John Bolton, said last night "...a tough policy toward North Korea had paid off". A day after blasting North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il, Mr Bolton added in Tokyo "...that his tough speech was part of a co-ordinated U.S.-strategy toward Pyongyang. The important consequence here is that we have received such encouraging news about the prospects for multilateral discussions," he added.
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by: Birger Romaruga.
TEXTs IN GERMAN:
Kommt Arabiens Rache über Bush? Will Arabs revenge come over Bush ?
http://www.dsz-verlag.de/Artikel_03/NZ32/NZ32_1.html
Bleibt Russland auf der Strecke? Will Russia succumb ?
http://www.dsz-verlag.de/Artikel_03/NZ32/NZ32_4.html
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