World events push up prices of oil, gas up
by David R. Baker San Francisco Chronicle Benazir Bhutto’s assassination and fighting in northern Iraq might soon have a direct effect on your wallet. Both have helped push oil prices back up to near-record highs this week, reaching more than $96 per barrel. And gasoline prices are following suit, rising in the last few days after [...]
Defense Minister Ishiba Considers Japan’s Options in UFO Attack
by Stuart Biggs Bloomberg Japan’s Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba is considering how his Self-Defense Forces could respond to an attack by space aliens while adhering to limits on military action under the country’s war-renouncing Constitution. Ishiba is the second Cabinet member to profess his belief in unidentified flying objects after Chief Cabinet Secretary Nobutaka Machimura [...]
Lakota Indians Withdraw Treaties Signed With U.S. 150 Years Ago
FOX WASHINGTON — The Lakota Indians, who gave the world legendary warriors Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, have withdrawn from treaties with the United States. “We are no longer citizens of the United States of America and all those who live in the five-state area that encompasses our country are free to join us,” long-time [...]
Iran ‘hoodwinked’ CIA over nuclear plans
by Tim Shipman, Philip Sherwell and Carolynne Wheeler THE TELEGRAPH British spy chiefs have grave doubts that Iran has mothballed its nuclear weapons programme, as a US intelligence report claimed last week, and believe the CIA has been hoodwinked by Teheran. Iran ‘hoodwinked’ CIA over nuclear plansAnalysts believe that Iranian staff, knowing their phones were [...]
Russia, Ukraine Trade Harsh Words Over Historical Memory
by Taras KuzioEurasia Daily Monitor On December 14 Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) issued a strongly worded statement complaining of “open nationalist, anti-Russian, and Russphobic feelings and developments in Ukraine.” Attempts are being made, it claimed, to “use difficult periods in our joint history to receive brief political rewards based on doubtful ideological pretensions.” [...]
Memo to Obama: win Iowa or lose the race
by Karl RoveFINANCIAL TIMES TO: Senator Barack Obama FROM: Karl Rove SUBJECT: How to Beat Hillary Not that you have asked for advice, but here it is anyway: Iowa is your chance to best her. If you do not do it there, odds are you never will anywhere. You are way behind her in most national [...]
German arms dealer extends scope of favor charges
OTTAWA (REUTERS) — An arms dealer wanted on fraud charges in Germany Thursday sought to draw the government into a political storm over cash payments to a former prime minister, saying a request to Prime Minister Stephen Harper to help him avoid extradition was “well received.” German-Canadian businessman Karlheinz Schreiber told a parliamentary committee that [...]
Vast Nazi Archive Opens to Public, Ending 60 Years of Holocaust Secrecy
by Arthur MaxAP AMSTERDAM, Netherlands After more than 60 years, Nazi documents stored in a vast warehouse in Germany were unsealed Wednesday, opening a rich resource for Holocaust historians and for survivors to delve into their own tormented past. The treasure of documents could open new avenues of study into the inner workings of Nazi [...]
FTR #619 Interview with Paris Flammonde about the Assassination of President Kennedy
Recorded November 18, 2007 MP3: Side 1 | Side 2 REALAUDIO As the 44th anniversary of President Kennedy’s assassination approached, Mr. Emory interviewed Paris Flammonde, author, radio producer and investigative reporter. The author of The Kennedy Conspiracy—one of the first books Mr. Emory read about the Kennedy assassination—Flammonde has worked as the producer for the [...]
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