| The Campaign to Impeach George W. Bush Click here for more information Falsified Satellite Data over Eden?In recent days it has been suggested that either Iraq or Iran must be responsible for Anthrax (given that it was pure military grade anthrax, according to tests) although another story from the Tehran times quotes Bush as suggesting that domestic right wing groups might be responsible ... however anthrax isn't neccesarily required to justify an attack on Iraq based on Perle's statements... Top Pentagon official urges overthrow of Saddam regimeIRNABerlin, Oct 22, IRNA -- A senior Pentagon official said the fight against global terrorism will only succeed once the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein is overthrown, the German weekly Der Spiegel reported here Monday. "The war against terrorism will be a failure, if Saddam is not defeated," said Richard Perle, a top aide to US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. "I can't imagine we can leave his regime in power," added Perle, accusing the Iraqi leader of supplying biological weapons to Saudi terrorist Osama Bin Laden. Perle, a former defense under-secretary in the Reagan administration, acknowledged that not toppling Saddam, was a strategic mistake during the 1991 Persian Gulf War. Questioning the propaganda drive to war is not something you hear a lot of in American media but overseas the press can be more critical (it seems that American media are involved in 'preparing the public' the accept various policies, functioning almost like a branch of the government - as an example of differences in public sentiment you can consider that Berlin just elected a leftist (and gay) mayor who ran on a platform of opposing the war, while one lone member of congress who voted nay needed round the clock security porotection in the US) U.S. preparing the ground for a police state: dailyIRNATehran, Oct 22, IRNA -- An English-language daily on Monday focussed on the precautionary measures being taken by the U.S. in the face of possible backlashes at home as a result of its attacks on Afghanistan. `Tehran Times,' in its opinion column, said that the U.S. is anticipating demonstrations as large as the anti-Vietnam war demonstrations it witnessed in the late 1960s and early 1970s in the current war against Afghanistan. Anti-globalization demonstrations as unruly as those held in U.S. cities like Seattle have also sent a clear message to U.S. officials to be prepared for public reactions to its decisions, added the daily. The Bush administration and the Taliban are now exchanging arguments on the extent of damage caused by the U.S. strikes. The Taliban has claimed over 900 civilians have died as a result of the U.S. air raids, a claim Pentagon vehemently denies. Conflicting claims by both sides are difficult to verify for security and policy reasons. However, the U.S. has confirmed one of its helicopters has crashed, killing two American servicemen. On Friday the war entered a second phase. Some 200 U.S. special forces were reported to have entered Afghan soil. "This may involve a great number of casualties," predicted the daily, noting that U.S. officials are taking even more precautionary measures to control anticipated "unfavorable reactions at home." It referred to a recent article in the U.S. daily `Christian Science Monitor' warning of a backlash from certain domestic extremist groups against the U.S. military strikes against Afghanistan. "The chance there are disaffected Americans who harbor intense hatred for their own government and are willing and capable of committing violence against national targets must not be ignored," it quoted the daily as saying. Christian Science Monitor further noted that there are almost 200 known groups that actively seek independence from the union or a forcible change in the way the U.S. is being governed. In addition, reports of a bio-terror scare gripping the U.S. and other developed countries is driving the U.S. to adopt new security measures intended to "impose utter control over the American public," `Tehran Times' further pointed out. "U.S. President George W. Bush on Saturday hinted to a probable involvement of the American extremist groups in spreading the anthrax virus, which has so far claimed its 10th victim in Northern America," the daily pointed out. "The U.S. president's remark could be aimed at justifying the intensified security measures currently put in place in the United States. "But if there is some truth in the U.S. president's remark, then the involvement of the American extremeist groups in September 11 attacks on New York and Washington cannot be ruled out either," the daily argued. If domestic groups in the United States are later found to have been behind the attacks, "Washington is going to suffer a more severe loss of dignity and prestige than what it faced after (the) attacks on New York and Washington." It criticized the U.S. decision of launching devastating attacks on Afghanistan (which it accuses of harboring its prime suspect in the attacks, Bin Laden) without the required proof of the suspect's guilt. After 'preparing the public' last month for the anullment of the ban on the US assassination policy of the CIA (and not receiving any noticeable backlash I would suppose) the ban has been lifted and now the CIA is out to assasinate Bin Laden (reminds one of Israel in the last months and their official non judicial assasination policy). Flush with an extra billion dollars to finance their extra legal assasination squads the CIA is off to begin doing what could not, one must suppose be done in a court of law and where it all ends, no one knows, there probably being a lot of others in other countries, including Saddam no doubt, who also require assasination... Eliminate Bin Laden, CIA toldBBCPresident Bush has authorised the CIA to use lethal force to eliminate Osama Bin Laden and key members of his al-Qaeda organisation, the Washington Post has revealed. The president has given the agency the green light to do "whatever is necessary" in operations against al-Qaeda, a US official told the paper. The CIA has been handed an extra $1bn to fund covert operations and received an unprecedented order to work more closely with elite commando units. The order, signed by President Bush last month but disclosed now for the first time, was described as the most sweeping since the founding of the agency in 1947. "US forces were able to deploy, manoeuvre and operate inside Afghanistan without significant interference from Taleban forces," US Joint Chiefs Chairman Richard Myers told a Pentagon briefing. He said the special forces were "repositioning for potential future operations against terrorist targets in other areas known to harbour terrorists". America is modern times Don Quixote: Iran's ministerIRNAOrumiyeh, West Azarbaijan Prov. Oct 20, IRNA -- Iran's Cooperatives Minister Ali Soufi said here Saturday that America's assumption that it is the world's master today is an erroneous belief. Speaking at a gathering to mark Iran's National Exports Day at the capital city of the West Azarbaijan Province, Soufi added, the U.S. politicians also mistakenly believe all the decisions they make must be abided by globally, while keep attributing all their system's shortcomings to sources outside the U.S. territory. The cooperatives minister said, "we are commemorating our country's National Exports Day under such conditions this year that the whole region's exports status is facing its worst ever decline due to the U.S. adventurism." Soufi said the role America has assumed for itself can also be likened to that of Don Quixtoe's, who thought he was the strongest man in the world, commissioned to wipe out all the vices from the face of earth. "Yet, he moved based on his erroneous assumption and that was what made a laughter sack out of him!" Now the U.S. is trying to wipe the world off all the vices, beginning with the war-torn Afghanistan, imposing more miseries over the thoroughly oppressed Afghan nation. He said that the Americans are projecting their internal problems to regions beyond their own territory, trying to conceal the real nature of the issue. "America is not oppressed today. It is not sad due to the death of group of innocent individuals either. It is only angry and irritated like a wounded huge snake, since all have noticed its weakness. It is therefore resorting to such Don Quixotic methods to cover up those hortcomings,' concluded Soufi. IRNA is the 'official' news agency of Iran, while the Tehran Times is an independent daily that can be counted on, it seems, to take the 'radical' point of view, as opposed to the more conservative outlook that seems to typify IRNA. The oil producing states are now suffering economically as their commodity based economies are forced to endure lower and lower oil prices to prop up the economy of 'the wounded snake' or so it would seem... The elephant's tail Tehran Times TEHRAN Oil prices have slumped 22 percent since last month's attacks on the United States, taking the OPEC basket down to $19, as a sickly world economy takes its toll on fuel consumption. A number of reasons are responsible for this unfortunate state of affairs, but the reason for the decline in oil prices is predominantly political not economic. Besides internal problems of these countries, it seems that the most serious problem they face currently is the U.S. presence in the region. In other words, due to certain reasons, they have lost their self-confidence and do not dare take action to return the oil prices to its accepted band, that is $22 to $28 per barrel. The United States has also decided to increase its strategic oil reserves. This decision has a message, that is, in the future Washington will be able to play a crucial role in determining the oil prices if OPEC member states remain as indecisive as they are today. There is only one remedy: OPEC member states must exert their authority right now and prove that they are the ones who decide about their oil and other resources. If this does not happen at this stage, definitely in the future, they will be in more trouble. The current problem is only the elephant's tail and if they do not move, the worse is still to come. In the meantime, commenting on the fall in oil prices, economic expert Baqer Qadirian told the TEHRAN TIMES that the United States has been making efforts to take oil prices under its full control. "By attacking Afghanistan, the United States found its way to the region and therefore has more dominance over the oil producing countries and the oil productions," he said. "Despite the fact that war leads to a hike in prices, this war due to the inequality of forces, has caused even fall in prices," added the expert. Also, he said, European countries want a fall in prices and try to help this negative downward of prices.At the end, the university professor said, Iran should take necessary actions to avoid inflation and economic shortcomings.But observers see little prospect of that happening, especially with non-OPEC Russia set for record high export levels this winter. The Tehran times is also skeptical about the 'bin Laden' link. September 11 Attacks Impossible Without Help of U.S. GroupsTEHRAN TIMES POLITICAL DESKTEHRAN -- According to some U.S. newspapers, some internal extremist groups may have been responsible for recent bioterrorist acts inside the United States. This raises the question whether U.S. extremist groups were also involved in the September 11 attacks. The TEHRAN TIMES has interviewed two experts on this subject. One thing I like about the WSWS is the way that they don't even attempt to spin doctor economic news. OECD slashes growth forecast WSWS The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, comprising the world’s 30 largest economies, has added its voice to the predictions of a far-reaching global economic slowdown ... Just a year ago, the OECD was saying that “world economic prospects remain relatively bright.” Then it said the US economy would be growing at a rate of 3.3 percent. Today, it is on the edge of recession. As the Financial Times noted in an editorial last Saturday: “The message, broadly, is that we can say goodbye to the hopes of an early recovery in 2002. This had remained the orthodoxy until early summer, although the date of the turn was being increasingly postponed.” The editorial went on to point out that, even before the events of September 11, it is now clear the United States “was moving fairly quickly towards recession.” “In the early part of the year many thought—and fervently hoped—that the US slowdown was mainly caused by a reduction of stocks and slowing investment that would soon be corrected. That hope now looks forlorn. For despite the steep reduction in official interest rates, businesses are reluctant to borrow even for their scaled-back investment plans ... The severity of the decline is underscored by the fact that it has taken place amidst one of the most intense periods of interest rate cuts in post-war financial history—with nine reductions by the Fed since the start of the year ... According to Galbraith, there is “no chance that events will right themselves in a few weeks, or that we will be saved by such underlying factors as technology and productivity growth—as chairman Greenspan professes to believe—or by lower interest rates or the provisions of the recent tax act. Rather, we are in for an economic crisis; the sooner this is recognised and acted upon, the better.” Galbraith proposed an initial stimulus program up to three times as large as the spending measures so far announced. There was no danger, he wrote, of overdoing fiscal policy. On the contrary “the danger, at the moment, is collapse." Japan has already tried that reduce the interest rates thing with no luck, and presently has what is probably the worst economy of the major economies. On August 27th it was reported that there were mass layoffs taking place in Japan (before September 11th). http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/aug2001/jap-a27.shtml ... The Japanese economy is also the first one to be referred to using the word 'depression' rather than 'recession' (and coincidentally, the Japanese parliament just recently cancelled the bit in the constitution about no military involvement for Japan, so that Japan could join in on the 'war on terrorism' and no doubt, spend a fortune on defense and building back up their army). Japan moving from recession to depressionWSWSIn another survey of 200 corporate executives conducted by the Asahi Shimbun newspaper, more than 90 percent said the nation’s economy was deteriorating. Sixty one percent of respondents said the economy was crumbling ... job destruction is continuing as the process of corporate restructuring intensifies ... The Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare announced that people claiming unemployment benefits reached a record 1.167 million in August ... Warning that the slowdown could become a meltdown, the article cited remarks by James Malcolm, senior economist at JP Morgan Securities (Asia). “We’re in a very bad way at the moment and things are getting worse,” he said. “Japan is no longer in recession—it’s a depression." October page one October page two October page three October page five October page six October page seven |
A Unified Field Theory
The Unified Field Theory
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Introduction :The Pioneer Effect and the New Physics. A brief description of the new physics required to explain the 'Pioneer Effect', which is the constant deceleration of space craft as they fly through space.