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Weekly News and Commentary - Week of September 30, 2007
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WORLD NEWS BULLETIN
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 Newsweek - Sept. 24, 2007 issue - MONTGOMERY, ALA.—Two and a half minutes. That is how quickly ground troops in Iraq can receive requested close air support from "the iron over head." The request might pass from a ground unit to a forward air controller, to an intelligence analyst, to someone who does risk assessment (should air power be used against a sniper? A building? A city block?), to a combat lawyer who advises the commander if the risk is consistent with the rules of engagement and the laws of war. Based on that advice, the particular munition or angle of attack axis might be changed.
At the Air University here at Maxwell Air Force Base, officers are studying their service's new roles. Time was, air power's primary purpose was to attack massed enemy forces, or the enemy nation's "vital center." Insurgencies have neither. Yet in "the long war" against terrorists, air power is, Air Force people insist, "our asymmetric advantage." The enemy has no comparable capacity for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance.
By George F. Will
Newsweek
 Mottaki said Iran would defend itself against a strike Washington's military commitments to Iraq and Afghanistan would hamstring an attempt to wage war on Iran, the Iranian foreign minister has said.
"Our analysis is clear: [the] US is not in a position to impose another war in our region, against their taxpayers," Manouchehr Mottaki told reporters.
He warned Washington against making such a "mad decision".
At an April 12, 1883 talk at the Twilight Club in New Y ork City, former NEW YORK TIMES editorial page editor John Swinton revealed: "We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumpingjacks; they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities, and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes."
Almost 40 years later, New York City Mayor John Hylan delivered a speech in Chicago on March 26, 1922. He was quoted by THE NEW YORK TIMES (March 27) as revealing: "The real menace of our republic is this invisible government which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy length over city, State and nation. . . . At the head of this octopus are the Rockefeller-Standard Oil interests and a small group of powerful banking houses. . . . One of my first acts as mayor was to pitch out, bag and baggage, from the educational system of our city the Rockefeller agents and the Gary plan of education to fit the children for the mill and factory."
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Picture of the Week
Saguaro Moon
A Full Moon rising can be a dramatic celestial sight, and Full Moons can have many names. For example, tonight's Full Moon, the one nearest the autumnal equinox in the northern hemisphere, is popularly called the Harvest Moon. According to lore the name is a fitting one because farmers could work late into the night at the end of the growing season harvesting crops by moonlight. In the same traditions, the Full Moon following the Harvest Moon is the Hunter's Moon. But, recorded on a trip to the American southwest, this contribution to compelling images of moonrise is appropriately titled Saguaro Moon.
Some see 'Currency Cold War' meant to bring U.S. to its knees
WASHINGTON – The hottest selling book in China right now is called "Currency Wars," which makes the case that the U.S. Federal Reserve is a puppet of the Rothschilds banking dynasty and it has persuaded some top officials Beijing should resist America's demands to appreciate its own undervalued currency, the yuan.
This might not be news of concern to most Americans if the U.S. dollar were not in precipitous free-fall, having reached record lows against the euro yesterday.
 September 12, 2007 — The June-August 2007 summer season ended with a long-lasting heatwave that set more than 2,000 new daily high temperature records across the southern and central U.S., according to scientists at NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C. The record heat helped make this the second warmest August and the sixth warmest summer on record for the contiguous U.S., based on preliminary data. At the end of August, drought affected almost half of the continental U.S. The global surface temperature was seventh warmest on record for the June-August period. (Click NOAA image for larger view of the August 2007 statewide temperature rankings. Please credit “NOAA.”)
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/
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Up to 5.7 million pounds of beef in 11 states may be contaminated
LOS ANGELES - Southern California meatpacker United Food Group LLC expanded a recall to include 5.7 million pounds of fresh and frozen beef that may be contaminated with the potentially deadly E. coli bacteria, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Saturday.
Fourteen people in six Western states have fallen ill after eating the beef but all have recovered, the department said.
 Did you know that China could become the world’s leading naval power by 2020? That’s the verdict of military analyst Tony Corn. This may help explain why the U.S. Navy thinks a piece of paper called the U.N. Law of the Sea Treaty provides some sort of protection for American forces on the high seas. It offers no such protection, of course, but it creates the impression that Navy leaders are doing something about our increasing weakness and vulnerability. However, like so many other U.N. treaties, including the 19 anti-terrorism treaties in effect on 9/11, this one offers a false sense of security. It will mask a dramatic decline in our military power.
The U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) will be the subject of a September 27 hearing before Senator Joe Biden’s Foreign Relations Committee. All of the witnesses are pro-treaty. Another hearing is scheduled to follow and a quick Senate vote on the pact is then predicted. This process is better known as a railroad. Like the illegal alien amnesty bill, our Senate leaders, in cahoots with Bush Administration officials, are trying to rush it through. It remains to be seen whether the American people will wake up in time. Can we count on the media to blow the whistle? The betting here is that talk radio and the Internet will have to carry the load.
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Why? Because certain vital keys are not understood. They have become lost.
It is now God's time to reveal these most important keys to Biblical understanding. Read of them in this timely booklet and really begin to understand Bible prophecy.
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Editorial
The Crack Up Boom - An age of Blood and Iron follows
If you believe Al Gore and his shills in Hollywood and the media, science has definitively proven that within decades polar bears and penguins will become extinct, heat waves will slaughter millions, malaria will devastate North America, rising sea levels caused by melting ice caps will swallow up coastal communities, droughts will create killer famines, monster hurricanes will ravage the Gulf Coast, and the Gulf Stream will disappear and spawn a new Ice Age––all because George Bush wouldn’t sign the Kyoto treaty and do something, something about the CO2 emissions that have caused global warming.
As Bjorn Lomborg argues in Cool It, these apocalyptic scenarios don’t have that much reliable science to back them up, and the alleged solution––radically reducing CO2 emissions––wouldn’t help that much anyway. Lomborg is the Danish economist whose earlier book, The Skeptical Environmentalist, used Occam’s razor to slice and dice the neo-romantic nature-love that these days masquerades as environmental science. Cool It uses the same sort of calm, rational pragmatism and respect for empirical evidence to analyze global warming, its possible effects on people today and in the future, and the proper way to address this issue.
Lomborg starts with the hyped hysteria over polar bears to illustrate the way “vastly exaggerated and emotional claims that are simply not supported by data” obscure the facts. In reality, there are 20 subpopulations of polar bears, only one or two of which are declining. In addition, the polar bear population has increased from 5000 in the 1960s to 25,000 today. Nor is it clear that global warming accounts for the two declining subpopulations, since the two increasing subpopulations inhabit an environment that is growing warmer. Global warming may indeed impact future polar bear populations, but they will not become extinct. And if we’re worried about those bears that will be lost to global warming, we can easily offset those numbers––an estimated 15 a year around Hudson Bay––by banning the hunting of polar bears, which kills 49 a year.
by J. R. Nyquist
http://www.financialsense.com/
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