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By: Birger Romaruga -- The recovery in
European business confidence may have stalled in February as the
euro's appreciation and a reluctance by consumers to increase spending keep an
export-led rebound from gaining speed, surveys of economists have shown.
Allan Greenspan says "...spending is more important than currency
value increase." "Risks to the recovery have increased in
the past weeks," said Christoph Hausen, an economist at Gothaer Asset
Management, which oversees the equivalent of 20 billion dollar. The Munich-based Ifo institute could report today
that German business confidence stayed close to a three-year high, reaching
97.6 after 97.5 in January, according to the median forecast of 36 economists
in a Bloomberg News survey. European business confidence, which the European
Commission will publish on Friday, probably rose to minus 6 from minus 7, a
separate survey showed. The euro's 17per cent gain against the United States dollar in the
past year is dampening exports before consumer spending has picked up. French
cosmetics maker L'Oreal said last Friday that sales last year were eroded by
the euro. German clothing maker Hugo Boss said consumer spending in its home
market would not increase this year. Europe's economy unexpectedly slowed in
the fourth quarter. Italy stagnated and export growth slowed which, coupled
with a drop in consumer spending, held back the expansion in Germany. French
business confidence probably stagnated at a 32-month high, according to the
median of 21 forecasts in the survey. --3.2 billion dollars were used
last year for export credits to give their exporters an unfair advantage on the
world market; then the billions spent every year on export dumping under
the guise of "food aid"; the state trading monopolies of Canada,
Australia and New Zealand; or the export taxes that Argentina
applies to Soya and soybean flour are all potent examples of a problem. They do
enormous harm to developing countries, and if addressing the overall
problem, they will have to be tackled with every bit as much vigor as the "same
old story" of EU export refunds. Last
year, all efforts were on successfully thrashing out the biggest
agricultural reform in the EU's history. The result is a system that is more
trade-friendly, gives EU taxpayers and consumers better value for money, and
gears EU production to market demands instead of to subsidy incentives.
Subsidies are no longer linked to production but to strict environmental,
food-safety and animal-welfare standards. And the process of radical change is
continuing for those support schemes that have not yet been reformed. EU
reforms have led to a 70 per cent reduction of trade distorting farm support
in Brussels. In 2013, EU will have slashed the amount spent on EU
farm support by half in terms of gross domestic product. The EU is spending
less than 1 per cent of its total public expenditure on farm support. In fact,
its share of the EU's GDP has fallen about three times faster than the share of
all other public spending over the past decade. As set out in the US-EU
framework agreement on farm-trade liberalisation of last summer.
America will hopefully follow the European example, change their 2002
"Farm Bill" to bring about a much needed increase in market
orientation, and reverse the trade distortion in U.S. farm policy that has sent
shockwaves around the world. EU reforms in Europe have
allowed Brussels to put money where our mouth is in the WTO. It is
another big step along the road towards a less trade-distorting policy, another
step towards a more open framework, and another towards transparency and
efficiency. EU were also led to believe that it was another step closer to
success in the Doha Development Agenda. Reform of the EU farm policy, EU
partners said, was a pre-requisite for an agreement at the WTO. The EU has also
significantly moved from its initial position on other issues such as services
or market access for non-farm goods. EU's concrete steps compare very
favorably with what EU's trading partners have in many cases proposed but
not yet delivered. If all our reforms over the past 10 years are blatantly
ignored by EU's trading partners - who do not come up with the proverbial
beef themselves - then why bother to reform at all? As the EU stands on
the verge of its biggest enlargement - with 4 million additional farmers from
10 new member states soon joining the EU - EU has done the job on
agriculture in difficult circumstances. In money terms, it means that
the same amount of butter will have to be spread over a much bigger slice of
bread. It is time U.S. stepped up to the plate and delivered on its end of
the bargain. In U.S. consumers hold the biggest single chunk of U.S. debt. At the end of the
third quarter of 2003, businesses held 7.3 trillion dollars in debt, the
federal government 3.9 trillion, and state and local governments 1.5 trillion
U.S.-dollars. Europe
told to sanction US. The World Trade Organisation has given
Europe authority to retaliate against US anti-dumping laws but the size of the
sanctions remained a mystery that could further divide the two trading giants. The
WTO's dispute-settlement body said the European Union could slap sanctions on
American companies because Washington had failed to do away with the
Anti-Dumping Act of 1916, a law the WTO ruled illegal four years ago. It allows
companies to sue importers they believe sell goods substantially below market
level. But the WTO also said the EU could impose sanctions only up to the
amount of damage US rules had inflicted on its companies. In a strange twist to
a case that has gone on since 1998, the EU has yet to show its companies
actually have been hurt by the US law.
Australia Acts as U.S.'s Nuclear
Deputy Sheriff. Canberra has aligned itself more strongly
with Washington on nuclear proliferation, declaring that the
U.S.-superpower should be free to act without the need for asking any
questions first. In a tough statement Australia's F.M. Alexander Downer -
from Adelaide's gay community - dismissed the
"current status as unacceptable. Yesterday he called for a new a
thinking school on the issue. He pleads for&nbs! p;a new
United Nations Security Council resolution that would require
states to be criminalized for nuclear proliferation - however, excluding
embattled Israel - plus a tougher Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty that
would deny some countries - like Iran and North-Korea - even peaceful
nuclear technology. Westfield Supermarket billionaire David Lowy
provided the venue for Downer's revealing presentation. Lowy - whose name
is probably cosmetically treated to cover-up an
earlier 'background' in Communist Czecho-Slovakia - came 1957 as
a Czechoslovakian Jew from Prague to Sydney. Lowy now runs over
250 Westfield Shopping Centers, worth some 40 billion dollars. The
financing interest group behind him - the World Bank; others say it is
the secretive Jewish World Government - acting for
the interest of the English language countries - is lately concerned
over nuclear weapons proliferation, since it could cause them the
loss of military superiority, heighten the pressure
on Israel and limit their own freedom to crush ad hoc all
non-compliant nations. Citing the recent confession by Pakistan's
nuclear weapons program founder, Abdul Qadeer Khan, that he had given Iran,
North Korea and Libya nuclear secrets, Mr Downer said it did not "take a
great leap" for enemies of U.S., UK, Canada, Australia,
New-Zealand and Israel to acquire these weapons. "The current world
order shaped by U.S. relies on their limited availability and controlled
distribution," Downer added. In a break with orthodoxy, he repeated
that a strengthening of the international rules and diplomatic
arrangements to counter proliferation should include a "stronger" Nuclear
Non-Proliferation Treaty in which some countries should be
denied access even to peaceful nuclear technology. The Government's
new approach would focus on two other key areas. Australia would strengthen its
support of the U.S.-inspired Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI), which
involves the interception of suspect nuclear shipments, and would back Mr
Bush's wish to expand its operation through the use of NATO, EU
and Interpol. Mr Downer also reiterated Australia's decision to
participate in the US's ballistic missile defence system, saying the government
is expected to sign a memorandum of agreement this year detailing the
scope of that co-operation. He defended the system against charges it would
spark an arms race. "People sex-up what
missile defence is about. It is about defence, not building nukes to
fire at other people." However, Australia cannot afford the
ballistic missile defence system, since Canberra cannot even
meet compliance with (paying-out) the due pension system.
The largest pension provider - AMP - is de facto bankrupt through
careless two digit percentage speculations, which failed after 9/11
in London and New York, where they got stuck. The talk of the
treasurer Costello now is, that the pensioners have to submit
to part-time work. The self-declared homosexual Foreign
Minister Downer continues: "The Government "firmly
believes it is unreasonable to deny the U.S. - and its allies - the right to
defend its cities against ballistic missile attack.". In the same style -
that is to say: living beyond their means - successive
Australian Liberal governments have created social
havoc among generations of disadvantaged male Australians. "They
treat them like Israel treats Palestinians," an un-named East-Asian
observer added. And he continues: "Australia is a Jewish
controlled state entity - hating Christianity and Islam -
and needing overwhelming numbers of American-trained police forces,
known for kicking-out the teeth of protesters, beating them senseless in
locked police cells, spraying them with American mace, intend
on breaking their will - instilling fear in them, already at an early age
when they are still young. These are the same wicked atrocities,
which are used in Israel to make the populace succumb to slavery." Dr
Mahathir, P.M. of Malaysia - a highly experienced medical doctor and
politician - once shouted at Canberra: "You
should care for the Australians." The number of Australian males
- suffering from mental disorders, un-masculine behaviorism, feminized and
un-natural poseurs, clinging to a gay life-style and to homosexuals and
other perverts - after they were raped as "rent-boys" at an
early age - often by un-touchable criminals high-up in the political
hierarchy - is soaring in Australia. But details have been
seemingly suppressed on orders of the "Australian Communication
Authority" (ACA). Another mistreated and disadvantaged group is
the one with visible birth defects. They are short built, with stubby
noses, big heads and one semi-paralyzed stunted arm that they
drag. Their number is extremely large and has never been counted.
Their parents sold their health to U.S.-pharmaceutical companies,
which regularly buy for hard currency the rights from the Australian
Government, to test un-certified drugs on the willing Australian
population - degraded to virtual guinea pigs - with pharma, which are not
yet formally approved in USA. (The same can be seen at the gates of Pfizer
Corporation in Manila, where pale human guinea pigs regular pick up their
test pills and have their temperatures measured). Thus a 'trusted'
Australian doctor - may produce a new pharmaceutical made in
USA, trying to make the arteries of a female patient visible, as part of a new
cancer treatment. The 78 years old woman was dead next morning. This
has happened. It may be only the tip of an iceberg. In practicing
such Frankenstein treatments, the Canberra Government looks back at a long
history. Already in 1945 - while information was suppressed
on orders of Buckingham Palace censor Keith Murdoch aka Murdocai -
Australia ran tests for USA, infecting Australian citizens for a few green
backs with malaria. For this purpose, the human guinea pigs had to stick
their hands into baskets brimming with tsetse flies. These days,
anti-war protesters heckled Canberra's Defence Minister Robert Hill. They
have accused Hill of being a warmonger while interrupting a speech in
which he announced a 62 million dollar upgrade of the Jindalee over-the-horizon
radar. The over-the horizon radar consists of 3 very large units,
positioned in triangular formation with a large central unit in mid-Australia
facing north and two complementing units, each one on the east- and west-coasts.
Members of a small band of noisy demonstrators disrupted Senator Hill's address
to a defence congress at Canberra's National Convention Centre - one coming
within metres of the minister. Delegates were showered with anti-war leaflets
and one protester banged cymbals and marched onto the stage singing the Grand
Old Duke of York. The protesters called delegates warmongers. Their subject of
protest was the upgrade of the controversial Jindalee over-the-horizon radar
(JORN) that will improve its ability to detect intruding ships and aircraft as
well as missiles. JORN can detect and track ships and aircraft up to
2,000 kilometres from Australia's north, northeastern and northwestern
coastlines.
Iran-Indonesia-Supreme Leaders meet: Close co-operation,
a pressing need for all Muslim states. Tehran, Feb 19, --
Supreme Leader of Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei said
here on Thursday that co-operation and relations are the pressing need of the
world of Islam. Ayatollah Khamenei told visiting Indonesian President
Megawati Sukarnoputri that Iran, as an important country in the Middle
East, and Indonesia, as a densely-populated Muslim country with 220
million people - the greatest Muslim nation - should expand their
political, economic and cultural cooperation given their high potential.
Ayatollah Khamenei recalled efforts by Ms. Sukarnoputri's father and
former Indonesian president, the late Sukarno, to bring independent Asian
and African states closer to one another in the face of bipolarism. The
Supreme Leader said that such a necessity was the most important reason that
the late Sukarno managed to unite the Asian and African states and found the
Non-Aligned Movement. "Today too, Muslim states are in need of closer
cooperation and relations," said Ayatollah Khamenei. The paramount
leader referred to hues and cries, launched by the U.S., Israel and big
capitalist networks in the post-9/11th incident against Islam and Muslims under
the pretext of campaigning against terrorism, saying, "...of course,
the U.S. and Israel are the world's biggest terrorist states and
Muslim states must expand ties, close their ranks and promote
co-operation to face negative propaganda and hostility directed
against the world of Islam." Ms. Sukarnoputri for her part
stressed the need to expand Tehran-Jakarta ties, saying the relations between
Iran and Indonesia date back to a long ago, and given the two countries'
commonalties both states must promote their relations. She agreed to the
Supreme Leader's views on stronger co-operation among Muslim states,
saying that over recent years Muslims and Islam have been subject to
growing insults. "Muslim states should get further united to counter
hostile propaganda," said the Indonesian president. Sukarnoputri
said that after collapse of a bipolar world, the need is felt more than ever
before for stronger unity and co-operation so that Muslim states would be able
to resist the so-called globalization countries. Sukarnoputri has been in
Iran since Tuesday to attend the 4th D-8 Summit, which was held here on
Wednesday.
Indonesia's
President Megawati Soekarnoputri has accused the U.S. and its allies such as
Australia of acts of "exceptional injustice" against countries with
Muslim majorities in their populations. Mrs Megawati sought to contrast
the way Indonesia had used the law to find and prosecute its terrorists with
the "unilateral" US-led invasion of Iraq. The remarks opened an
international conference of Islamic scholars, which her government partly funded.
"It may be due to either coincidence or intention, but an exceptional
injustice is apparent in the attitude and action of big countries towards
countries [whose] major populations are Muslims," she told 300 delegates
from Islamic universities and governments around the world. Ms Megawati used
the US failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq to step up her
criticism of the attack on Iraq, which she first made in the United Nations
last year. "The act of violence undertaken unilaterally against the Republic
of Iraq by certain countries, which are now finding it difficult to prove the
existence of weapons of mass destruction there, as the sole justification to
launch the biggest military attack at the beginning of this 21st century, is an
evident picture of this injustice," she said.
Rumsfeld warns Iran, Syria about helping militants.
U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld warned Iran and Syria about
militants crossing their borders into Iraq after meeting with the chief U.S.
overseer and his military commanders on plans to shift security
responsibilities to Iraqis in the face of intensified attacks. His daylong
visit coincided with the deaths of seven police in a car bombing at a police
station in Kirkuk, the latest in a surge of such attacks as the United States
moves to restore sovereignty to Iraqis June 30. "Syria and Iran have not
been helpful to the people of Iraq", he told journalists during a visit to
Baghdad. "Indeed they have been unhelpful. We know Iran has harbored
Al-Qaeda, we know they had people moving across the border. They were certainly
aware of that." "We know Syria has been a hospitable place for
escaping Iraqis" following the US-led invasion of Iraq last year, he said,
after a visit to the Iraqi police academy in Baghdad. Rumsfeld has complained
in the past of Syria and Iran failure to control their borders, but his
comments here were his most pointed on the subject in a long time. Recruits at
the academy whistled and applauded Rumsfeld when he praised them for helping to
build a new Iraq by volunteering to serve in the country's security forces
despite the dangers. His daylong visit coincided with a suicide car bombing at
a police station in the northern city of Kirkuk, killing seven policemen and
wounding 35 people.
An Australian
pilot was killed when a lone attacker sprayed a U.S. company's helicopter
with gunfire as it prepared to take off from a southern Afghan village. A foreign affairs
department spokesman said the 45-year-old pilot's family in Adelaide had been
told of his death. Four foreigners and an Afghan interpreter yesterday flew
in the helicopter to inspect the construction of a health clinic in the
village of Thaloqan, about 64km southwest of the provincial capital,
Kandahar. The group was about to leave when a man armed with a Kalashnikov
assault rifle attacked the helicopter and then fled, said Khalid Pashtoon,
spokesman for governor of the Kandahar province. The Australian pilot was
killed and an American woman who was helping set up health clinics in the region
was seriously wounded, a US Embassy spokesman told The Associated Press on
condition of anonymity. Australian officials had yet to determine the
identity of the pilot, a Foreign Affairs Department spokeswoman said today.
"We are making inquiries through the U.S. and British consulates in
Kabul," said the spokeswoman. |
NANCY Wake, known as the "White Mouse" for her crimes in
World War II, will receive the highest
Australian honor available, ending years of controversy over the lack of
recognition she has received from the federal Government. Ms Wake has received
more decorations than any other woman in the Allied forces, but they came from
Britain, the US and France -- including the French Medaille de la Resistance
and Chevalier de Legion d'Honneur. One commentator noted that while French
police salute her and halt traffic to let her cross the road, "Australia
has given her nothing". Now 91 and living in England in declining health,
Ms Wake will be appointed a Companion in the General Division of the Order of
Australia. She was one of Australia's best-known World War II heroines. The
character in the book and film Charlotte Gray was based on her. She played an
important role with the French Resistance during the war in helping to smuggle
to safety many troops and prisoners of war. She was code-named the White Mouse
by the Gestapo because of her ability to evade capture. Ms Wake became the
Gestapo's most wanted person because of her daring missions as a saboteur,
organiser and resistance fighter. But the German records of
Reichs-Sicheits-Hauptamt IV under GESTAPO Mueller lists her as a cruel
spinster - a vicious female war criminal..."who once shot a 17 years old
German Red Cross sister un-necessarily from 30 centimeters distance -
execution style - in the head as forensic evidence later
attested." Wake was brought to Australia from New Zealand by her
parents when she was 2. She fought for the British Allies, both
factors, for which the Australian Government was refusing to decorate
her. But yesterday Canberra's Governor-General Michael Jeffery issued a
statement saying "...arrangements were under way for him to conduct an
investiture ceremony in London early next month." They keep doggedly on abusing the system like in the trade
negotiations these days. Is there a need talking to them at all? They
are congenital liars.
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Clearing the wreckage ... rescue workers inspect the remains of a bus destroyed by the bomb blast. |
NAZARETH: THE BOSOM FRIENDS
OF TOP HUMAN RIGHTS PROMOTER GERMANY UNVEILED. The roadside
signpost bearing the information “Facility 1391” was removed
months ago. Now there is nothing to identify the
concrete fortress guarded by two watchtowers overlooking a kibbutz in central
Israel. The site’s location is one of the most closely guarded secrets in
Israel: it is not marked on maps, it is erased from aerial photographs and
military censors reject publication of any identifying details in the local
media. But this summer the Israeli government, under pressure from the courts,
admitted that Facility 1391 serves as a “secret prison,” what one local
newspaper termed “Israel’s Guantanamo.” But the prisoners of Facility 1391 including hundreds
of Lebanese - that went missing during the Israeli Army’s 18-year occupation of
the country’s south have even fewer safeguards. The location of the
military jail has never been publicly identified. Even the International
Red Cross is barred. “Anyone entering the prison can literally be made to
disappear potentially for ever,” says Leah Tsemel, an Israeli lawyer. The
only information available on Facility 1391 surfaced this summer after Tsemel
managed to take affidavits from a handful of Palestinians who were detained at
the prison. These testimonies reveal shocking facts about the jail,
particularly its routine use of extreme forms of torture. According to
several affidavits, the prison is crowded with inmates. Given that Israel says
it only ever held a handful of Palestinians there, and none is now being
detained, the question is: who is incarcerated in Facility 1391? The answer
appears to be exclusively foreign Arab nationals, including Lebanese,
Jordanians, Syrians, Iranians, Moroccans and Iraqis. The prison is run by a
wing of army intelligence known as Unit 504. Palestinians, on the other hand,
are handled by the Shin Bet. How many prisoners are being held in Facility 1391
is a bigger mystery. The Friends of Prisoners Committee in Nazareth claims 150
Jordanian nationals alone have “gone missing” from Israel’s prison system in
recent years. Other inmates include victims of Israeli kidnappings,
particularly in Lebanon. For example, four Iranian government officials who
disappeared in Beirut in 1982 and have never been accounted for are believed to
have been snatched by Israel. And then there is suspicion that Israel may be
taking advantage of the United States to sell expert interrogation
services to its allies. “Israel has decades of expertise in torturing and
interrogating Arab prisoners exactly the skills the Americans now need since
their invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq.” The iron curtain of secrecy
surrounding Facility 1391 was finally torn this summer after Tsemel launched
legal battles to trace a handful of Palestinian prisoners who disappeared
during Israel’s massive re-invasion of the West Bank in April 2002. Apparently
Israel, faced with a swelling number of detainees, opened the doors of Facility
1391 for the first time to Palestinians. The families, through Tsemel, issued
habeas corpus writs, demanding presentation of the missing
Palestinians in court. Cornered, the authorities were forced to admit
that the secret prison existed. They have been trying to impose an
information blackout ever since. The affidavits, however, reveal degrading
conditions and torture as commonplace in Facility 1391. Inmates describe tiny
cells, measuring less than 2 meters by 2 meters, whose walls are painted black
and dimly lit by a single bulb 24 hours a day. By comparison
Auschwitz was a spacious, airy and leafy jail establishment. Inside 1391 are
damp and foul-smelling mattresses on which to sleep, rarely emptied buckets are
used as toilets, and a single tap in the room is under the control of invisible
guards. Loud noises prevent them from sleeping and air-conditioning can be turned
on to make them shiver with cold. Hannah Friedman, director of the Public
Committee Against Torture, says her group has been recording a steady rise in
such cases in Israeli jails during the intifada. A recent survey showed 58
percent of Palestinian prisoners reported being subjected to overt violence,
including beatings, kicking, shaking, being forced into painful positions and
having handcuffs intentionally tightened. One Palestinian held in Facility
1391, 23-year-old Mohammed Jadallah of Nablus, says, for example, that he was
repeatedly beaten, his shackles were tightened, he was tied in painful
positions to a chair and was not allowed to go to the toilet. He was prevented
from sleeping, with water thrown on him if he nodded off. He adds that the
interrogators showed him pictures of several family members and threatened to
harm them. “They brought me a picture of my father in prison clothes and
played a cassette of him as a detainee. They threatened to imprison and torture
him.” But the most horrific accounts come not from Palestinians but the
long-term inmates, Arab foreign nationals, who are interrogated by Unit 504.
The most high-profile detainee, Mustafa Dirani, who Israel recently admitted
was moved to Facility 1391 after he was kidnapped from Lebanon by agents in
1994. Dirani spent eight years in Facility 1391. In the first months of
his capture he was tortured by a senior army interrogator known only as “Major
George.” George is accused of inserting a wooden baton into his rectum.
Dirani’s accusations have been corroborated by affidavits from other soldiers
who served in the prison. One interrogator, TN, says: “I know that it was
customary to insert a stick in the rectum. The intention was that the stick
would be inserted if the subject did not talk.” A man in
military uniform said: “You confess or you’re done for, and no one
will know what happened to you. Confession or death.” As earlier
indicated, Auschwitz was a comparably leafy and pleasant place with fresh air
through barracks windows compared with 2 by 3 meter sized Jewish cells painted
black inside. But European Union identities from the Greens party like German
Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer and the Jewess Frau Roth ignore Israeli human
rights abuses, regardless how grave they are.
A last indignity was fired at 15 years old Aboriginal
youth Thomas James Hickey when he was buried. He had died under
mysterious circumstances pierced by a fence pole. Details are not available. 300 grieving family
members turned out. He was supposed to have attended a hearing over
charges of resisting police and drug possession. It
seems, some people in the background are trying to clear their actions.
Jakarta
-- Indonesia has proposed the formation of a Southeast Asian Rapid
Deployment Force. The proposal came at a meeting in Jakarta of senior officials of
the 10-member Association of South-East Asian Nations, the Indonesian Foreign
Ministry's acting director-general for ASEAN co-operation, Marty Natalegawa,
said. "What we are saying is ASEAN countries should know one another
better than anyone else and therefore we should have the option for ASEAN
countries to take advantage of an ASEAN force to be deployed if they so
wish." Only preliminary discussions had been held, he said. One unanswered
question was whether the force would be available outside the region, say as
part of a UN operation. The idea was one of several that Indonesia - the
group's current chair - put forward during discussions on a plan of action for
implementing the ASEAN Security Community by 2020. "This is not for now,
this is something that we project for the future," Mr Natalegawa said. The
Australian Foreign Ministry said Canberra "encouraged the involvement of
ASIAN and ASEAN countries in regional issues and regional problems".
A Rapid Deployment Force force was "a matter for ASEAN to discuss and
deal with itself".
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Warnings about Iran’s civilian nuclear program are being issued day after day, yet the Zionist regime’s nuclear weapons program, which is a serious threat to world peace, is never questioned or even mentioned by the U.S. and other Western countries. It is common knowledge that the Zionist regime possesses a stockpile of at least 250 advanced nuclear warheads as well as other weapons of mass destruction (WMD). Unfortunately, Israel influence over the IAEA is due to the support it receives from the U.S., which is itself beholden to the Zionist lobby. The Zionist regime not only refuses to sign international agreements such as the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and the 93+2 Additional Protocol to the NPT, it also violates the most basic standards of environmental protection with its nuclear program. On the other hand, the Islamic Republic has repeated time and again that its nuclear program is meant for peaceful purposes, and its nuclear dossier has not been forwarded to the UN Security Council, despite the efforts of hostile countries. However, it is clear that if the IAEA, under the influence of the Zionist lobby, intends to continue to turn a blind eye to Israel’s nuclear weapons program and refrain from inspecting its nuclear activities, the world and the region will witness a dangerous arms race in the near future. Therefore, international organizations advocating world peace, particularly the United Nations, should take the measures necessary to make the Middle East region a nuclear weapons-free and WMD-free zone. However, prospects for Middle East peace look bleak, since the Zionist regime appears to have no intention of signing important disarmament conventions such as the NPT and the 93+2 Additional Protocol to the NPT. |
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KARBALA, Iraq -- Saboteurs on Sunday attacked an oil pipeline in southern Iraq for the first time since the U.S.-led war toppled the regime of Saddam Hussein, an Iraqi official said. Saboteurs set off an explosion and fire on the Kirkuk-Baghdad-Basra pipeline near Al-Hare, a small town west of the holy Shiite city of Karbala, about 110 kilometres (70 miles) south of Baghdad, local official Hamid Salah al-Shebib said. "An explosion damaged the pipeline and we don't know who the saboteurs are," he said, adding that an investigation had been opened. The blast set off a fire around the site of the attack and thick black smoke could be seen billowing from miles around. The attack was the first against a pipeline in southern Iraq since the U.S.-led war ousted Saddam in April 2002. Pipelines in the oil-rich northern region of Kirkuk frequently have been attacked. Iraq currently produces 2.3 million barrels of crude oil per day, of which 1.7 million are exported. Two million barrels are extracted in the south, where security is considered better than in the north.
NORTH
ATLANTIC TERROR ORGANIZATION. Serbian weakly National
revealed on 19.02.2004 existence of another peace of evidence that the so
called "Racak massacre", used as an excuse for the criminal NATO
bombardment of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1999 by depleted uranium
coated projectiles, was a hoax. So far it was widely known that government
agencies of NATO member states co-planned, financed, militarily equipped,
trained and diplomatically supported activity of a terrorist organization of
Albanians operating in Kosovo and Metohija and wider. The new moment
discovered by National is that government agencies of NATO member
states did not only use local terrorist organization as a proxy for the
realization of their geostrategic and geoeconomic interests in the region,
but that they also used some of their own agents in direct combat. According
to the Paris OESC source of National, five members of British special
units SAS were killed on the side of terrorists during the legal operation of
Serbian forces in Racak that was closely monitored by observers of OESC, but
afterwards misrepresented by the head of the mission, American CIA man, William
Walker, who organized the hoax through tempering with bodies of terrorists
killed in a fight, bringing them to one place and presenting them as
civilians. Entire documentation about Racak is kept in the archive of the
German ministry of foreign affairs in Berlin, while American intelligence
agencies threatened to kill the author of the report, Finnish forensic expert
Helena Ranta, if she spoke of those detail that would discredit the Hague
tribunal, financed also by NATO member states with the aim to blame the
former president of the victimized people for attempting to carry out the
Constitutional duty to resist terrorism and aggression. Recently Helena Ranta
broke her silence and pointed out that Hague tribunal did not investigate the
fight that was going on in Racak, while Bo Pellnas, representative of OESC in
Belgrade, told to Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter of 8 February 2004 that
US members of OESC observation mission supported Albanian
"guerillas" at least since the autumn 1998. After these public revelations
that Racak was a hoax, the only thing that still is not clear is how long the
international community will tolerate the deadly imperial march of the most
dangerous terrorist producers and users of the forbidden weapons of mass
destruction. - USA military-industrial complex and their closest allies
within NATO. Vasili Mitrokhin, KGB archivist, 1922-2004. Vasili Mitrokhin, who has
died aged 81, was the KGB archivist whose defection to Britain in 1992
brought a treasure trove of Soviet secrets to the West. Mitrokhin's archive
consisted of material culled from tens of thousands of top-secret KGB files,
which he had laboriously copied down over 12 years and hidden in tins and
milk crates underneath his dacha. It contained detailed records of every operation
the KGB had mounted from its inception in 1917 to Mitrokhin's retirement in
1984, demonstrating the extent to which the KGB had successfully infiltrated
the West and the way in which it had oppressed the Russian people. Among
other revelations, the papers disclosed that the KGB had tapped
the telephones of American officials, such as Henry Kissinger, and had spies
in almost all the country's big defence contractors. In France, at
least 35 senior politicians were shown to have worked for the KGB during the
Cold War. In Germany, the KGB was shown to have infiltrated all the major
political parties, the judiciary and the police. Also fascinating was the
insight given into the absurd lengths to which the Russians were prepared to
go to discredit those they regarded as ideological enemies. There was a plan
to break the legs of Rudolf Nureyev, the ballet dancer, after he defected in
the West in 1961. On one occasion a team of 18 KGB operatives was
dispatched to the Philippines with instructions to ensure that the Soviet
world chess champion, Anatoly Karpov, was not defeated by the defector Victor
Korchnoi in the World Chess Championship. The methods used included putting a
hypnotist in the front row of the audience, who stared at Korchnoi throughout
the matches. The acquisition of the Mitrokhin archive was a huge coup for
British intelligence, which had recognised the value of the material after it
had been turned down by the Americans. But the revelations proved an
embarrassment to the authorities when it emerged that the identity of the
spies had been known to the security services since 1992 when the Mitrokhin
archive was handed over to the British authorities, but no action had been
taken. Mitrokhin's motives were the subject of much speculation. He did not
defect for the money and was not being blackmailed; nor did he seem to enjoy
his new life in the West. Some suggested he had become embittered after being
transferred from operational duties for the KGB to archives. But it is
possible that his own explanation was the genuine one. He simply decided
Soviet Communism was evil and should be opposed. In handing over his archive,
the only condition he imposed was that his work should be made public as a
record for the Russian people and as a warning to future generations. During
the 1950s he served on various undercover assignments overseas. In 1956, for
example, he accompanied the Soviet team to the Olympic Games in Australia.
But later that year, after he had apparently mishandled an operational
assignment, he was moved from operational duties to the archives of the KGB's
First Chief (Foreign Intelligence) Directorate, and told he would never work
in the field again. Yet when he began looking into the archives, he claimed
to have been shocked by what he discovered about the KGB's repression of the
Russian people. "I could not believe such evil," he recalled.
"It was all planned, prepared, thought out in advance. It was a terrible
shock when I read things." When, in 1972, the archives were moved from
the Lubyanka in Moscow to a new repository on the city outskirts, Mitrokhin
seized his chance. Given the responsibility of checking and sealing about
300,000 files, he began making notes on the documents, which he smuggled out
of the building in his shoes, trousers or coat. Had he been caught, he would
have been executed. |
Haiti,
the only country in the Americas where slaves over-came their
"authority," their white slave masters. In a generous
way Haiti could be compared with Switzerland, the only country in Europe where
the Bauernkriege (peasant wars) were won during the 16th century,
when Louis quatorze style taxation rates inordinately ripped-of Europe’s
peasantry. Haiti's trip to war began last September, when Amiot
Metayer called on the Cannibal Army, which had enforced President
Jean-Bertrand Aristide's will. He threatened to reveal details of the
murder of opposition figures. It was presumably in connection with some
quarrel over the division of the spoils, but Metayer was promptly murdered.
His widow then conducted a voodoo séance in which his soul appeared and
identified his killer: Aristide. Thereupon the Cannibal Army
switched sides, changed its name to the Gonaives Resistance Front, and started
killing Aristide's backers in the city. Meanwhile in the
capital, Port-au-Prince, non-violent demonstrators protesting Aristide's
rigging of the 2000 elections were being murdered by government-backed
vigilantes known as chimeres (monsters): 45 were killed between September and
January. Then on 5 February the former Cannibals seized control of the
whole city of Gonaives, killing and mutilating over a dozen policemen. Since
then they have seized more towns in the north and had been joined by various
unsavory figures from former regimes like former police chief Guy Philippe and
former paramilitary death-squad leader Louis-Jodel Chamblain. Aristide
was supposed to be the man who finally had to change all that. A former
'Catholic' voodoo priest who commands a devoted following among the poorest of
the country's poor, Aristide was elected president in 1990 after the overthrow
of the Duvalier family's 29-year U.S.-backed dictatorship. He was
overthrown himself by the army only seven months later, but was returned to
power by 20,000 US troops in 1994. Eighty percent of Haiti's ten million
people are unemployed and the average income is $3 a day. The trees are
long gone and the rich soil is eroding away into the sea at a frightening
rate. Average life expectancy is 53. Haiti's great crime - for which
it is still being punished - was to be the location of the one great and
successful revolt by African slaves. It was France's richest colony when the
slaves who grew the sugar, were inspired by the egalitarian principles of
the French Revolution (1789) that had just toppled the monarchy in France.
The slaves in Haiti followed suit by raising a rebellion in 1791 and
killed over thousand white planters in a single night. British,
Spanish and French armies failed to suppress the twelve-year revolt, and in
1804 Haiti became the world's first black-ruled republic. Haiti was shunned by
the rest of the world, where slavery was Common and legal. The United
States didn't recognize it until 1865. When slavery was abolished by
law in 1832, or by war in the United States a generation later (1865) there
was help available for the former slaves. What they need is proper
schooling.
Pyongyang,
February 24 -- In a signed commentary Rodong Sinmun lashed-out
at the U.S. criminal: "Washington is pushing ahead with
the reorganization of its global forces. The U.S. reorganization plan
includes the readjustment of its military installations across the world,
access to hotspots, formation of a task forces with an increased capacity of
long-distance sophisticated strike capacity and the establishment of its commanding
systems around the world. Thus, a definite world invasion agenda.
It is aimed to easily seize regions with strategic resources and areas of
political and military importance by launching forestalling
attacks. According to the U.S. Defence Department's annual report for 2003
"Structure of Bases", the United States, which is keeping about 702
military installations in about 130 countries and some 6,000 in its mainland
and colonies, is planning to build new bases for the U.S. forces' access to
targets of strategic importance. The United States thinks that
through the readjustment and expansion of military bases, it will be able to
tighten the encirclement ring around the major powers in the Asia-Pacific
region which was formed after the Afghan and Iraqi wars, heighten the speed of
attack on targets of invasion and blockade and control other countries'
involvement as it wishes. The United States, under the pretext of
the nuclear issue on the Korean peninsula and diversified "security
threat", has intensified arms buildup in the region. It also plans
to reshape the operational commanding system into a wartime one. The
Washington Times February 3 said the U.S. Defence Department was going ahead
with the extensive reorganization of the Pacific Command and it seemed that a
post of a four-star general commanding all the forces including the south
Korea-based U.S. Command and the "Combined Command" would be
established in south Korea and an army headquarters commanded by a three-star
general set up in Japan. That day a spokesman for the U.S. Air Force
announced that about six B-52s and hundreds of crewmen would be sent to Guam
from the mainland, while officials of the Defence Department said other bombers
could also be sent to the Pacific region in the future. The reorganization
of the U.S. forces in the Asia-Pacific region indicates that the danger of a
new war is ever increasing on the Korean peninsula and its vicinity in view of
the bellicose foreign policy of the U.S. administration and the Afghan and
Iraqi wars. Meanwhile, the United States has persistently pushed ahead
with the establishment of a missile defence system, which has already been
condemned, wrecking the strategic stability of the world. The U.S. Defence
Department is planning to deploy the first elements of the missile defence
system in Alaska this summer several months ahead of the schedule. It is
envisaged that six interceptor missiles will be installed in underground
hangars in Alaska in May and June and an early warning radar station will be
set up on Aleutian Islands in around July. The United States plans to
deploy another ten interceptor missiles and some ten Aegis sea-launched
missiles in Alaska next year and, at the same time, build a sea-based radar
station and recondition the radar system in the territory of Britain. The
U.S. plans concerning the reorganization of its forces and the establishment of
a missile defence system, which threaten peace and stability in the international
community, will spark off another arms race and cause confrontation,
contradiction and disputes in international relations for the control of
strategic resources."
U.S.'s human rights report blasts Asia. Asian nations featured high in the United States annual report on worldwide human rights abuses, which condemned Burma's military regime and China and North Korea's communist dictatorships. Afghanistan, however, was heaped with praise for its improving rights situation more than two years after the US-led removal of the repressive Taliban regime. In the US State Department's annual scorecard, China drew fire for reversing earlier improvements in its record, with the report citing "backsliding on key human rights issues". It noted arrests of democracy activists and online dissidents, and the targeting of labor protesters, defence lawyers, journalists, house church members and "others seeking to take advantage of the space created by reforms". It said a "harsh repression" of the Falungong religious group continued, that China's record in Tibet remained "poor" and that the government had used the war on terror to justify its ongoing crackdown against Muslim Uighurs. North Korea was singled out for some of the harshest criticism, labeled "one of the most inhuman regimes in the world". "Rigid controls over information, which limit the extent of our report, reflect the totalitarian repression of North Korean society," it said. "Basic freedoms are unheard of, and the regime committed widespread abuses of human rights." The Stalinist state was guilty of "among other abuses - killings, persecution of forcibly repatriated North Koreans, and harsh conditions in the extensive prison camp system including torture, forced abortions and infanticide". Burma's "highly authoritarian regime" had overseen "numerous, serious human rights abuses", the report said. In particular, it criticised the attack on and detention of pro-democracy campaigners including opposition National League for Democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi by government-paid thugs on May 30. "The government has not investigated or admitted any role in the attack," the report said. It added that security forces were guilty of extrajudicial killings, rape, using forced labor and conscripting child soldiers and that 70 pro-democracy activists were killed and 270 democracy supporters arrested. Other countries whose rights records remained poor, according to the report, included Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Indonesia, Tonga, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal and The Maldives. Serious abuses were listed in countries that had otherwise good records, including India, where extrajudicial killings were common, and Sri Lanka, where custodial rape and assault were a concern. Pakistan, an ally in the war on terror was not spared criticism. Security forces were praised for aiding the hunt for terror chief Osama bin Laden, but "used excessive force, at times resulting in death, and committed or failed to prevent extrajudicial killings of suspected militants and civilians". Praise was reserved for Afghanistan, however, where the report said human rights had improved since the defeat of Taliban forces in 2001. However, it said protections were patchy outside the capital Kabul and local security forces continued to commit abuses. "Members of local security forces committed arbitrary, unlawful, and some extrajudicial killings, and officials used torture in jails and prisons," the report said. Washington’s cheek is un-believable.
Libyan PM denies guilt over Lockerbie.
Libyan Prime Minister Shokri Ghanem has denied his country's guilt in the 1988
Lockerbie bombing which killed 270 people and said on Tuesday Tripoli had only
agreed to pay damages to victims in order to "buy peace". File photo
shows Ghanem speaking during a Reuters interview in his office in Tripoli in
January. The case proves that the U.S.-criminal and his
British puppet go so far as to coerce, starve, bash, boycott and bomb
nations into false admissions for which the holocaust gambit is a
typical example. In the latest twist - an underling - inferior to the
Libyan Prime Minister tried to reverse the story again.
Canberra's
Australian Communications Authority, short ACA,
has triggered new legislation, which monopolizes and protects their
local newspapers, Radio and TV and generally all information channels
that constitute their bread and butter. Subsequently e-mail in the
Internet is drastically reduced. The proposal came from www.google.com, a
Jewish-owned search engine. Reason being, the previous des-information
campaigns - prior to internet - could never unveil the tactic of
Jewish propaganda, which consisted of cheating the global public, making them
believe outright lies. But with the Internet around, the tactic does not work
anymore, therefore www.google.com
pleads to reduce inter-human communications. Already thousands of
e-mails, sent-off by visiting back-packers, clock-up Canberra's
Outlook Express. They did not come over. Some deal
with information - sent to parents and friends - agreeing by e-mail on
pick-up time from European airports. Europe should consider 1939, when at
the height of political turmoil, the visiting Vienna Boys Choir was
hi-jacked in Australia and stopped from returning to Vienna - on request by the
Jewish World Government. With "421 tarpitting" put
into www.google.com reveals
their plans.
SPANISH: -- Ningunos
informes relevantes disponibles en espanol.
FRENCH: -----
Aucuns rapports appropriés disponibles en francais.
ENGLISH: "The eternal allure of Hitler",
commented by Gertrud Stein in Paris.
http://globalfire.tv/nj/04en/politics/ah_e.htm
Dear friends, an English version of my speech in court is available
now under:
http://www.deutsches-kolleg.org/hm/jewishquestion.doc
Greetings from Horst Mahler, Germany.
GERMAN: Kaum ist der Stauffenberg-Film am
Aschermittwoch in der ARD gelaufen, da startet das ZDF eine neue Hitler-Serie. http://www.dsz-verlag.de/Artikel_04/NZ10/NZ10_2.html
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