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Blueprint for nuclear warhead found on smugglers’ computers

Ex-weapons inspec­tor fears rogue states bought pla­nEn­crypted files linked to Pakistan’s A Q Khan Ian TraynorTHE GUARDIAN Blue­prints for a sophis­ti­cated and com­pact nuclear war­head have been found in the com­put­ers of the world’s most noto­ri­ous nuclear-smuggling racket, accord­ing to a lead­ing US researcher. The dig­i­tal designs, found in heav­ily encrypted com­puter files in Switzer­land, are [...]


FTR #631 Miscellaneous Articles and Updates

Cindy Shee­han char­ac­ter­izes Mus­lim Broth­er­hood as force for democ­racy; MSM drops the “Von” from ricin sus­pect Roger (Von) Bur­gen­dorff; Dalai Lama link to SS; 2001 anthrax attacks; Las Vegas links to anthrax investigation.


Operations Against China

GermanForeignPolicy.com LHASA/WASHINGTON/BERLIN (Own report) — Sev­eral front orga­ni­za­tions of Ger­man for­eign pol­icy have for years been sup­port­ing the Tibetan exile struc­tures in Dharam­sala, India. This includes sup­port for orga­ni­za­tional mea­sures enabling the “gov­ern­ment in exile” in Dharam­sala to orches­trate its activ­i­ties against the People’s Repub­lic of China world­wide. Par­tic­u­larly the Free Demo­c­ra­tic Party (FDP) affiliated [...]


The Olympic Torch Relay Campaign

GermanForeignPolicy.com LHASA/BERLIN (Own report) — Con­fer­ence reports and the research of a Cana­dian jour­nal­ist reveal that a Ger­man For­eign Min­istry front orga­ni­za­tion is play­ing a deci­sive role in the prepa­ra­tions of the anti-Chinese Tibet cam­paign. Accord­ing to this infor­ma­tion, the cam­paign is being orches­trated from a Wash­ing­ton based head­quar­ters. It had been assigned the task [...]


FTR #627 Going Native, Part IV

Recorded March 9, 2008 MP3: 30-Minute Seg­ment REALAUDIO NB: This RealAu­dio stream con­tains both FTR #627 and FTR #628 in sequence. Each is a 30 minute broad­cast. The broad­cast ana­lyzes Ger­man deep for­eign pol­icy in the Balkans—the seces­sion­ist move­ment in Kosovo in par­tic­u­lar. Of par­tic­u­lar sig­nif­i­cance is the pol­icy of pro­mot­ing “volks­grup­pen­rechte,” or the rights [...]


China reveals Iran’s nuclear secrets to UN

by Damien McEl­roy THE TELEGRAPH China has betrayed one its clos­est allies by pro­vid­ing the United Nations with intel­li­gence on Iran’s efforts to acquire nuclear tech­nol­ogy, diplo­mats have revealed. Con­cern over Tehran’s secre­tive research pro­gramme has increased in recent weeks after offi­cials at the Inter­na­tional Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the UN’s nuclear watch­dog, dis­cov­ered that [...]


The Olympic Lever

GermanForeignPolicy.com BERLIN/BEIJING (own report) – Berlin is using the upheaval in the west­ern region of the People’s Repub­lic of China to pur­sue its cam­paign of attri­tion against Bei­jing. Ger­man Chan­cel­lor Angela Merkel is demand­ing that the Chi­nese gov­ern­ment enter a “dia­log” with the Dalai Lama, the most famous leader of the Tibetan seces­sion­ists. Roland Koch, [...]


Insight: Western banks face SWF backlash

by Gillian Tet­t­FI­NAN­CIAL TIMES Pub­lished: Feb­ru­ary 7 2008 19:21 | Last updated: Feb­ru­ary 7 2008 19:21 Ear­lier this week, I chat­ted with a jet-lagged senior US financier. Like many of his ilk, he is flit­ting around the Mid­dle East and Asia try­ing to extract finance from sov­er­eign wealth funds and other invest­ment groups. His lat­est travels [...]


FTR #616 Going Native, Part 3: Homeland Insecurity

Recorded Octo­ber 28, 2007 MP3: Side 1 | Side 2 REALAUDIO Con­tin­u­ing analy­sis from FTR#550, this pro­gram looks at the use of native, “unrep­re­sented” peo­ples by polit­i­cal ele­ments that don’t appear to be gen­uinely con­cerned with the wel­fare of those pop­u­la­tion groups. Specif­i­cally, we look at a strange brew of Tibetan Bud­dhists, Mon­go­lian Bud­dhists, Islamists [...]


Oil Price Rise Causes Global Shift in Wealth

Iran, Rus­sia and Venezuela Feel the Ben­e­fits By Steven Muf­sonWASHINGTON POST High oil prices are fuel­ing one of the biggest trans­fers of wealth in his­tory. Oil con­sumers are pay­ing $4 bil­lion to $5 bil­lion more for crude oil every day than they did just five years ago, pump­ing more than $2 tril­lion into the coffers [...]