Cheney voices concern that Israel may attack Iran

Jerusalem Post | January 21 2005

Vice President Dick Cheney voiced concern Thursday that Israel may decide to act first against Iran to eliminate the possibility of a nuclear threat.

"If, in fact, the Israelis became convinced the Iranians had significant nuclear capability, given the fact that Iran has a stated policy that their objective is the destruction of Israel, the Israelis might well decide to act first, and let the rest of the world worry about cleaning up the diplomatic mess afterwards," Cheney said in an interview aired on MSNBC on the day that George W. Bush was sworn into office for his second term as president.

"You look around the world at potential trouble spots, Iran is right at the top of the list," Cheney said.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1106191077589

Why The Outrage Now? Nobody Cares About Fascist Symbols In The House Of Representatives

The sudden outrage and in other cases apologetic soft-peddling of Prince Harry's Nazi outfit are another example of a 'Johnny come lately' public and media attitude that shifts the debate away from the true undertones of Nazi influence in our culture and government today.



Where is the outrage about Fasces symbols which appear on everything from US coins to the House of Congress rostrum?

The bronze fasces, used since Roman times to symbolize civic authority, are located on both sides of the U.S. flag as seen below. The original Roman fasces consisted of an axe within a bundle of rods, bound by a red strap. Fasces in the root of where the term 'fascism' comes from.



Roman "Fasces" on the wall behind the Speaker's Podium US House of Representatives chamber, United States Capitol.



Another shop of the speakers' rostrume. This is from where President Bush has delivered four State of the Union speeches.



At the Lincoln Memorial, Washington DC, Lincoln's seat of state bears the fasces on the fronts of its arms.



Well, well, well, what do we have here? The same symbol on a Nazi stamp.



2Two large crossed FASCES compose the insignia of the National Guard, creating a huge "X" (AX) superimposed upon an openwinged eagle.



Giant Fasces appear here in 1930's Fascist Italian propaganda.



A Fascist Italian postage stamp featuring the Fasces.



The Fasces on a US dime



The Mace, which is the symbol of the Office of the Sergeant at Arms, is placed by the Sergeant at Arms on a pedestal at the Speaker's right each time the House convenes. The MAce is also used in the British and Australian parliaments and is also a Nazi symbol of power.



I have focused on just two symbols, the Mace and the Fasces. I could list hundreds of examples.

Where are all the Jewish groups? Where's the outrage? A fancy dress outfit causes what will be a national debate for three months and yet these things have been in front of our faces for our entire lifetimes and there is no mention of them. Even to highlight this one risks being sidelined as a crackpot.

Serious questions need to be asked about why the very platform of supposed representative government in the United States is adorned with tributes to Nazi symbols of absolute dictatorial power.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/january2005/130105fascistsymbols.htm

lookash: a tady jedna cerstva inauguracni ;)



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ARVEN: Uf uf.... :-)

Asked if she had ever used Ecstasy, Jenna Bush replied 'I tried it once but I didn't inhale."

Dictating Reality

http://www.hermes-press.com/dictating_reality.htm

Photographs taken by five British servicemen and shown to the courts martial in Osnabruck, Germany, of three British soldiers from the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers accused of "shocking and appalling" acts of abuse and assault against Iraqi civilians in a humanitarian aid camp known as the Bread Basket, near Basra, in May 2003. The charges include forcing detainees to strip and simulate sex. Lance Corporal Mark Cooley, 25, and Corporal Daniel Kenyon, 33, have entered not guilty pleas to the charges. Lance Corporal Darren Larkin, 30, admitted one charge of assaulting an unknown male at the camp but pleaded not guilty to other charges.
All photographs: MoD/British court martial handout/PA

http://www.guardian.co.uk/gall/0,8542,1393803,00.html

Boston terror threat probed

By Tom Farmer and Michele McPhee
Wednesday, January 19, 2005

Authorities are scouring Boston for four Chinese nationals and two Iraqi men who may pose a nuclear threat to the city based on a report from an unidentified man calling from Mexico who claims to have smuggled them over the U.S. border.
``They got a call from across the border in Mexico to the California Highway Patrol several days ago, and he said he brought two Iraqis and four Chinese (individuals) across the border and according to him, they stated soon to follow behind them would be some sort of (nuclear) material,'' said a law enforcement source.


``He refers to some sort of nuclear material that will follow them through New York up into Boston.''
The threat was serious enough that Mayor Thomas M. Menino hunkered down with Police Commissioner Kathleen O'Toole and Fire Commissioner Paul Christian and the city's Homeland Security chief in his office at City Hall. The Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency also activated its bunker in Framingham with a downscaled staff.
According to the source, the caller has not identified himself and did not show up for a meeting with federal investigators in California, but he did leave pictures and the names of two Chinese men and two Chinese women - reportedly chemists - at a ``drop'' site at the Mexico-California border. The information also makes reference to something happening ``within four days,'' said another law enforcement source.

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http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=64303

JAXXE: sorry, ja jenom filtroval

topicz: to uz je delsi dobu na home...

MIROSLAV DOLEJŠÍ (20.11.1931 – 26.6.2001)

ANALÝZA 17. LISTOPADU A ZMĚN VE VÝCHODNÍ EVROPĚ V ROCE 1989

http://www.analyza.wz.cz

Kontroverzné americké skupiny sú za voľbami v Iraku

"Iracký proces volieb by mal byť spravovaný Iračanmi pre Iračanov," vyhlásil predstaviteľ OSN Ashraf Jehangir Qazi. "Nijak inak to byť nemôže."
V skutočnosti však vplyvné americké agentúry, ktoré sa opisujú ako pro-demokratické majú stopy po celom Iraku - od formovania politických strán až po monitorovanie prieskumov verejnej mienky.
Dve z nich - Institute for International Affairs (NDI) a International Republican Institute (IRI) -... tvrdia, že sú nestranné, každá z nich má blízke vzťahy k rovnomennej americkej strane... NDI vedie Madeleine Albrightová a John McCain vedie IRI.
Tieto americké skupiny sa aktívne zapájajú do vytvárania politických strán a spolupracujú so stranami, ktoré sú politicky preferované Washingtonom. Kritici vyjadrili nielen prekvapenie, ale pohoršenie nad tým, že rovnaká politika, aká sa používala za posledných 20 rokov sa opakuje dnes v Iraku. "Spojené štáty sa naučili, že legitímnych vodcov nie je potrebné nájsť, je ich potrebné vyrobiť," napísal Herbert Docena, vedec, ktorý sa pracuje v think-tanku sp sídlom v Bankoku.

Profesor William I. Robinson z Global and International Studies pri univerzite v Kalifornii v Santa Barbare nazýva skupiny ako NDI a IRI "predĺžením" americkej vlády. Organizácie a ich pobočky sa pravidelne stretajú s tvrdeniami, že podporujú opozičných kandidátov a hnutia v krajinách, kde vlády - niektoré demokraticky zvolené - sú považované za ohrozenie amerických záujmov.
Na začiatku roku 2004 americká vláda previedla organizácii NED 25 miliónov dolárov, ktorá ich rozdelila medzi svoje pobočky, USAID dala NED a IRI viac ako 80 miliónov.

Minulý rok poslanec Ron Paul (republikán - Texas) o NED a IRI povedal, že ciele, na ktoré sú obe organizácie používané vo svete by boli v USA ilegálne.

Podľa správ Guardian boli obe organizácie extrémne aktívne v kampaniach na Ukrajine na podporu Viktora Juščenka, opozičného kandidáta, ktorého prehra bola okamžite považovaná Spojenými štátmi a západnými masmédiami za volebný podvod. Associated Press 10. decembra oznámil, že Bushova vláda minula 65 miliónov dolárov za posledné dva roky na podporu opozičných kandidátov na Ukrajine.

Ďalším nedávnym príkladom skupín napojených na NED je miešanie sa do suverénnych národov včítane politického povstania vo Venezuele a Haiti.
Jedným z mechanizmov, ktoré tieto skupiny používajú na zmenu volebných výsledkov sú prieskumy verejnej mienky a iné sledovacie metódy, ktoré takmer vždy ukážu ako Washingtonom preferovaný kandidát vytlačí svojich oponentov.

Podľa dokumentov, ktoré získal Reuters od amerického Ministerstva zahraničia Washington poskytne "miernym, demokraticky orientovaným politickým stranám strategické rady, technickú pomoc a iné formy podpory."

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http://newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items/1311

http://www.prop.sk/kontroverzne.htm

US official confirms Allawi shot six dead

January 19, 2005

A former Jordanian government minister has told The New Yorker that an American official confirmed to him that the Iraqi interim Prime Minister, Iyad Allawi, executed six suspected insurgents at a Baghdad police station last year.

The claim is in an extensive profile of Dr Allawi written for this week's issue of the magazine by an American journalist, Jon Lee Anderson, the author of The Fall of Baghdad and a regular Baghdad correspondent for The New Yorker.

Writing about his research in Jordan in December, Anderson says: "A well-known former government minister told me that an American official had confirmed that the killings took place, saying to him, 'What a mess we're in - we got rid of one son of a bitch only to get another one'."

The New Yorker also revealed that Anderson was present during an interview conducted by the Herald's chief correspondent, Paul McGeough, in late June, with a man who said he witnessed the executions by Dr Allawi.

Dr Allawi denied the allegations when they were published in the Herald last July.

Anderson writes: "The man ... described how Allawi had been taken to seven suspects, who were made to stand against a wall in a courtyard of the police station, their faces covered. After being told of their alleged crimes by a police official, Allawi had asked for a pistol, and then shot each prisoner in the head. [One of the men survived.] Afterward, the witness said, Allawi had declared to those present, 'This is how we must deal with the terrorists.' The witness said he approved of Allawi's act, adding that, in any case, the terrorists were better off dead, for they had been tortured for days."

Copyright © 2005. The Sydney Morning Herald.

http://fairuse.1accesshost.com/news2/smh41.html

http://www.realnews247.com/who_rules_america_updated_2004.htm

Hardliners in Pentagon ready to neutralise 'nuclear threat' posed by Tehran

http://www.guardian.co.uk/iran/story/0,12858,1392750,00.html

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WHAT nuclear threat? Nobody has proven that Iran is doing anything other than setting up a power plant. And even if Iran DID have nukes, they are not a threat to the US.

The United States has produced some 70,000 warheads since 1945, of which, 60,000 have been dismantled (if you believe the official story). As of the end of 2004, the US admits to having 7000 nuclear warheads in "Active" status, but this number does not include the new generation of tactical nuclear weapons authorized by President Bush.

So, why would Iran attack the United States? What possible threat is Iran to the United States when the United States can turn all of Iran into a gigantic solid glass radioactive parking lot?

Get real. Iran is no more a threat than Iraq was.

THE COMING WARS

by SEYMOUR M. HERSH
Issue of 2005-01-24 and 31 Posted 2005-01-17

What the Pentagon can now do in secret.

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George W. Bush’s reëlection was not his only victory last fall. The President and his national-security advisers have consolidated control over the military and intelligence communities’ strategic analyses and covert operations to a degree unmatched since the rise of the post-Second World War national-security state. Bush has an aggressive and ambitious agenda for using that control—against the mullahs in Iran and against targets in the ongoing war on terrorism—during his second term. The C.I.A. will continue to be downgraded, and the agency will increasingly serve, as one government consultant with close ties to the Pentagon put it, as “facilitators” of policy emanating from President Bush and Vice-President Dick Cheney. This process is well under way.

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“This is a war against terrorism, and Iraq is just one campaign. The Bush Administration is looking at this as a huge war zone,” the former high-level intelligence official told me. “Next, we’re going to have the Iranian campaign. We’ve declared war and the bad guys, wherever they are, are the enemy. This is the last hurrah—we’ve got four years, and want to come out of this saying we won the war on terrorism.”

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Rumsfeld will become even more important during the second term. In interviews with past and present intelligence and military officials, I was told that the agenda had been determined before the Presidential election, and much of it would be Rumsfeld’s responsibility. The war on terrorism would be expanded, and effectively placed under the Pentagon’s control. The President has signed a series of findings and executive orders authorizing secret commando groups and other Special Forces units to conduct covert operations against suspected terrorist targets in as many as ten nations in the Middle East and South Asia.

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In my interviews, I was repeatedly told that the next strategic target was Iran. “Everyone is saying, ‘You can’t be serious about targeting Iran. Look at Iraq,’” the former intelligence official told me. “But they say, ‘We’ve got some lessons learned—not militarily, but how we did it politically. We’re not going to rely on agency pissants.’ No loose ends, and that’s why the C.I.A. is out of there.”

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http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?050124fa_fact

Bude mít každý člověk v těle čip?

http://www.21stoleti.cz/view.php?cisloclanku=2004082127

Microchip to allow wallet-free drinking

London Telegraph | January 17 2005

A Scottish nightclub is about to become the first in Britain to offer its customers the chance to have a microchip implanted in their arm to save them carrying cash.

The "digital wallet", the size of a grain of rice, guarantees entry to the club and allows customers to buy drinks on account. Brad Stevens, owner of Bar Soba in Glasgow, said his customers had responded enthusiastically to the idea.

The VeriChip is inserted by a medical professional and then scanned for its unique ID number as a customer enters the bar.

"There are a number of advantages, from instant access, to not having to carry money or credit cards, to letting bar staff know a customer's name and favourite drink," said Mr Stevens. "By the time you walk through the door to the bar, your favourite drink is waiting for you and the bar staff can greet you by name."

However, he said the bar would also have to make sure that customers with the chip had a limit on how much they could spend to prevent them drinking beyond their ability to pay.

The scheme was criticised by a spokesman for the Scottish Executive, who said the microchip could encourage excessive drinking, and by Notags, a consumer group set up to resist the spread of radio frequency identification devices.

A spokesman said: "The chip contains your name and ID number and, as this could be read remotely without your knowledge, that is already too much information."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/01/17/nchip17.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/01/17/ixhome.html


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BBC report on the "convenience" and "fun" an implantable Microchip will provide

BBC Radio Five Live | Jan 17 2005

This short segment focuses on the story of the Verichip being brought into use in bars in the UK. As Alex has been saying now for years, the microchip will initially be sold with a "cool" alternative image. This report also highlights how it will be used as a control method.

http://www.infowars.net/Pages/Jan05/170105_BBC_verichip.html

Americký prezident vzkázal, že Írán lže o zbraních
Válka s Íránem může být, připustil Bush

Prezident USA George Bush.

Autor: Reuters - Garth Stead
18.01.2005 10:03 - Americký prezident George Bush nevyloučil, že zvažuje útok na Írán. V televizním rozhovoru sice prohlásil, že stále věří v diplomacii, ale nechce se prý vzdávat žádného řešení. S informací, že vláda chystá s Íránem válku, přišel v pondělí americký týdeník New Yorker.

eportér: USA chtějí válku s Íránem

Prezident USA poskytl rozhovory stanicím CBS, ABC a NBC. O válce s Íránem hovořil v poslední jmenované.

Nezbude-li žádná jiná možnost, vyslal bych znovu vojenskou sílu na ochranu svých krajanů, řekl Bush v NBC. Dodal ale, že doufá, že to nebude nutné.

"Doufám, že to vyřešíme diplomatickou cestou, ale nechci se vzdávat žádného řešení," prohlásil Bush. Írán už dříve zařadil spolu s Irákem a Severní Koreou na tzv. osu zla.

Bush: Přestaňte lhát!
Důvodem případného útoku by mohl být postoj Íránu k jaderné energii. "Pokud budou nadále mlžit před mezinárodním společenstvím o existenci programu jaderných zbraní," řekl Bush, za jakých podmínek by mohlo dojít k další invazi.

Bílý dům předtím ostře vystoupil proti článku novináře Seymoura Hershe v týdeníku New Yorker, v němž se hovoří o již probíhajících přípravách války v Íránu. - více zde

Americký prezident a jeho administrativa se k Hershovým zjištěním sice nepostavili vyloženě odmítavě, vyjádřili ale odpor nad relativizováním nebezpečí, které od Íránu hrozí.

"Íránský režim zaslouží mnohem víc pozornosti, než kolik Seymour Hersh naznačuje ve svém článku. Je to protkáno tolika faktickými chybami, že věrohodnost toho textu je veškerá žádná," rozčílil se mluvčí Pentagonu Lawrence DiRita.

Íránští představitelé nadále tvrdí, že všechna atomová energie, kterou se snaží vyvinout, má sloužit pouze na výrobu elektřiny, a nikoli pro válečné účely.

Americký deník The New York Times mezitím přinesl zprávu, že americké úřady potrestaly vysokou pokutu osm velkých čínských společností, které údajně Íránu pomáhaly v jeho úsilí zdokonalit střely středního doletu.

Skepse roste i v USA
Americký prezident se domnívá, že úspěch v listopadových volbách znamenal zároveň posvěcení jeho zahraniční politiky. Jenže Američané začínají být vůči irácké misi, která Bushovu mezinárodní politiku do značné míry určuje, skeptičtí.

Procento Američanů, kteří považují válku v Iráku za chybu, neustále roste. Lednové šetření Gallupova ústavu ukázalo, že s invazí nesouhlasí už 52 procent Američanů. Sedmačtyřicet procent respondentů uvedlo, že vyslání vojsk do Iráku bylo správné. V listopadu byl poměr obrácený.