Newsweek magazine has mooted the possibility that US Vice President Dick Cheney is pushing for Israel to strike at the nuclear sites at Natanz, Iran, ostensibly to stop the Iranians developing nuclear weapons, but in reality to provoke Iran to lash out at Israel militarily, thereby providing the casus belli for a major US attack [...]
Posts from ‘September, 2007’
Taleban to be included in Afghanistan Government
UK Defence secretary Des Browne says that the Taleban will have to be involved in any future Afghan government as, like Hamas in Palestine, they ‘will not go away’. Anyone who has seen pictures of Taleban atrocities such as the filmed public execution of women for daring to assert their human rights will be dismayed [...]
$500m deal to make Chernobyl safer
Nuclear proponents beware, the cost of cleaning up reactors at the end of their lifetime can be more expensive than the entire running costs when in service. The nuclear reactor at Chernobyl is finally to be totally encased in steel to prevent further radioactive pollution seeping from the current concrete tomb. French firm Novarka has been [...]
Clearwater is Scientology capital of the world.
Hollywood stars Tom Cruise and John Travolta travel to Clearwater, Florida together with thousands of devotees each year for scientology training. Clearwater is now accepted as the mecca for the best in L Ron Hubbard philosophy, (the awareness of one’s spiritual existence and it’s relationship to all other living things). Scientology may be classed as [...]
China flexes industrial muscle
Mattel, the giant US toy vendor, has been forced by the Chinese government to take back its criticisms of production standards in China so that reciprocal action is not taken against them in the form of higher taxes or regulations. Recently there have been large recalls of Mattel toy products made in China due to [...]
Middle East roadmap back on track?
The Mid-East quartet, (The UN, US, Russia and EU), have agreed to a international conference in November to try and put the delayed roadmap to peace into action. Ten countries of the Middle East including Syria, provided, as US secretary Condaleeza Rice demands, they renounce violence, will be invited.
Egypt and Jordan are the only countries to have [...]
