Posted on 06/19/2007 4:43:36 PM PDT by DAVEY CROCKETT
Saudi King Says Middle East Crisis Will Affect The World
DUBAI, June 19 (Bernama) -- The Saudi king has warned of an impending "explosion" in the Middle East, saying that it will not only affect the region but will spread all over the world, the English daily Gulf News reports.
"The Middle East region suffers from the longest conflict in our contemporary history which is the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and Israel's occupation of Arab lands," King Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz, said in an interview with the Spanish El Pas newspaper which was published simultaneously in Al Riyadh newspaper yesterday.
"At this point in time we are exerting efforts to solve this conflict, but we are witnessing an expansion of the crisis to include other countries like Iraq and Lebanon," he said.
"This makes the region replete with troubles that pose grave concerns for us. My fears are the fears of all reasonable men that the explosive situation will not be confined to the region but will extend to the whole world," he added.
The Saudi monarch yesterday began a five-nation trip that will take him to Spain, France, Poland, Egypt and Jordan.
King Abdullah also underlined the importance of solving the problem of Iran's nuclear programme peacefully in a way that guarantees all countries in the region to use nuclear energy for peaceful purposes in accordance with the standards of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v3/news_lite.php?id=268361
(Excerpt) Read more at bernama.com ...
Thanks.
Prayers.
Of course the index went down, it was too high and made a big rise.
It is called “correction”.............
I have no idea why it is 14000, that is all hot air.
You have Freep mail.
Nelson DeMille’s book, “Plum Island” is a good read, if a bit frightening.
Yep, there’s the three warnings again. Sumpin’s up.
BTW, I copied the recipe for the apricot upside-down cake made with cornmeal. Sounds interesting. Think I’ll try it. Thanks.
The stock market has been pretty “hinky” lately. Makes you go hmmmmmmmmmm.............
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1870918/posts
VisionTV to strike standards task force [Twice gave air time to Jihadist fanatic]
National Post ^ | 2007-07-24 | Stewart Bell
Posted on 07/24/2007 12:36:15 PM PDT by Clive
VisionTV to strike standards task force
Will Also Air Apology; CEO Expresses Regrets In Wake Of Jihadist’s Broadcast
TORONTO - VisionTV said yesterday a producer would apologize on the air “at the earliest opportunity” for broadcasting lectures by a Pakistani fundamentalist who preaches global jihad and the “extermination” of Jews.
continued....
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1870946/posts
TSA: Terrorists May Be Conducting Preattack Security Probes
WNBC ^
Posted on 07/24/2007 1:51:40 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
TSA: Terrorists May Be Conducting Preattack Security Probes
POSTED: 4:23 pm EDT July 24, 2007 UPDATED: 4:36 pm EDT July 24, 2007 In a new intelligence bulletin obtained by NBC News, the Transportation Security Administration is warning law-enforcement and airport officials that terrorists “may be” conducting “preattack security probes” at U.S. airports.
The unclassified bulletin, dated July 20 and marked “For Official Use Only,” is titled “Incidents at U.S. Airports May Suggest Possible Pre-Attack Probing.”
“A surge in recent suspicious incidents at U.S. airports may indicate terrorists are conducting pre-attack security probes and ‘dry runs’ similar to dress rehearsals,” the intelligence bulletin states. “Past terrorist attacks and plots show that such testing generally indicates attacks will soon follow, according to a joint FBI and Homeland Security assessment.”
The report says that TSA personnel have intercepted items at U.S. airports “resembling improvised explosive device (IED) components,” including wires, switches, pipes and “dense clay-like substances” from September 2006 to date.
The items were confiscated at airports in San Diego, Milwaukee, Houston and Baltimore. In two of the four incidents, blocks of processed cheese were connected to wires and an electrical switch, or the cheese was taped to a bag holding a cell-phone charger.
A U.S. law enforcement official cautions NBC News that the new bulletin is an analysis of possible suspicious behavior at U.S. airports and not at all a sure sign of terrorists at work. The bulletin is just one of a stream of intelligence reports constantly churned out by TSA, the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI and other U.S. agencies.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbc10.com ...
The cake recipe read well, let me know if it is good.
It should be and the cornmeal to me, has more food value, than the white flour and more ‘B’ vitamins.
I thought of you, when I saw it.
Yep, there’s the three warnings again. Sumpin’s up.<<<
There were several published articles talking about the OBL 3 times, it is almost as if they have invented a new ‘threat’.
At the least, they are taking advantage of a good one.
Guess, I am at the stage that a cake is more important than terror news, as I completely forgot the terror, once I thought about the cake............LOL
Time for this to be run again:
http://www.uhuh.com/nwo/communism/comgoals.htm
Congressional Record—Appendix, pp. A34-A35
January 10, 1963
Current Communist Goals
EXTENSION OF REMARKS OF HON. A. S. HERLONG, JR. OF FLORIDA
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Thursday, January 10, 1963
Mr. HERLONG. Mr. Speaker, Mrs. Patricia Nordman of De Land, Fla., is an ardent and articulate opponent of communism, and until recently published the De Land Courier, which she dedicated to the purpose of alerting the public to the dangers of communism in America.
At Mrs. Nordman’s request, I include in the RECORD, under unanimous consent, the following “Current Communist Goals,” which she identifies as an excerpt from “The Naked Communist,” by Cleon Skousen:
[From “The Naked Communist,” by Cleon Skousen]
CURRENT COMMUNIST GOALS
1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.
2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.
3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.
4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.
5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.
6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.
7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.
8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev’s promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.
9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.
10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.
11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)
12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.
13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.
14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.
15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.
16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers’ associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
18. Gain control of all student newspapers.
19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.
20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.
21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to “eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms.”
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. “Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art.”
24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them “censorship” and a violation of free speech and free press.
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural, healthy.”
27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with “social” religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a “religious crutch.”
28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of “separation of church and state.”
29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the “common man.”
31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the “big picture.” Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.
32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture—education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.
33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.
34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.
36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.
37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.
38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat].
39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.
40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.
42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use [”]united force[”] to solve economic, political or social problems.
43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.
44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.
45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction [over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction] over nations and individuals alike.
Granny, check the site for posts...a number of them, some similar incidents today...gas ruptures, power outages...
Post 1844, is the post on the Israel Army asking for help.
I will check in a few minutes, as I have a bunch of stuff open and am at the computer is going to crash stage.
I heard a few minutes ago, that 50,000 folks are without electric, unknown cause, but did not catch the town, it was on Fox radio news.
Thanks for the alert.
cooking super will be in and out
Mexicans to March with Cuba July 26
Prensa Latina ^ | July 23, 2007
Posted on 07/24/2007 6:56:28 PM EDT by SwinneySwitch
Nearly 300 Mexican political, civic and union organizations have joined the call to march on July 26, Cuba’s National Rebellion Day, with the slogan, “To Defend Cuba Is to Defend Mexico.”
Peter Geller, a leader of the Mexican Movement of Solidarity with Cuba (MMSC), confirmed on Monday to Prensa Latina that a high turnout is expected.
Initiated by MMSC, the march has been scheduled to mark the 54th anniversary of the attacks on the Moncada and Manuel de Cespedes garrisons.
Demonstrators will march to the US Embassy in the Mexican capital, where they will demand cessation of US aggressions against Cuba and the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed on the Island for over 45 years.
“More than ever before, defending Cuba is defending Mexico,” says the call, emphasizing how the Cuban people keep their revolutionary project alive and firmly defend their sovereignty and self-determination.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/07/20070717-3.html
Executive Order: Blocking Property of Certain Persons Who Threaten Stabilization Efforts in Iraq
RSS Feed White House News
Fact sheet Message to the Congress of the United States Regarding International Emergency Economic Powers Act
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, as amended (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.)(IEEPA), the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.)(NEA), and section 301 of title 3, United States Code,
I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of America, find that, due to the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States posed by acts of violence threatening the peace and stability of Iraq and undermining efforts to promote economic reconstruction and political reform in Iraq and to provide humanitarian assistance to the Iraqi people, it is in the interests of the United States to take additional steps with respect to the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13303 of May 22, 2003, and expanded in Executive Order 13315 of August 28, 2003, and relied upon for additional steps taken in Executive Order 13350 of July 29, 2004, and Executive Order 13364 of November 29, 2004. I hereby order:
Section 1. (a) Except to the extent provided in section 203(b)(1), (3), and (4) of IEEPA (50 U.S.C. 1702(b)(1), (3), and (4)), or in regulations, orders, directives, or licenses that may be issued pursuant to this order, and notwithstanding any contract entered into or any license or permit granted prior to the date of this order, all property and interests in property of the following persons, that are in the United States, that hereafter come within the United States, or that are or hereafter come within the possession or control of United States persons, are blocked and may not be transferred, paid, exported, withdrawn, or otherwise dealt in: any person determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Defense,
(i) to have committed, or to pose a significant risk of committing, an act or acts of violence that have the purpose or effect of:
(A) threatening the peace or stability of Iraq or the Government of Iraq; or
(B) undermining efforts to promote economic reconstruction and political reform in Iraq or to provide humanitarian assistance to the Iraqi people;
(ii) to have materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial, material, logistical, or technical support for, or goods or services in support of, such an act or acts of violence or any person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order; or
(iii) to be owned or controlled by, or to have acted or purported to act for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, any person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order.
(b) The prohibitions in subsection (a) of this section include, but are not limited to, (i) the making of any contribution or provision of funds, goods, or services by, to, or for the benefit of any person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order, and (ii) the receipt of any contribution or provision of funds, goods, or services from any such person.
Sec. 2. (a) Any transaction by a United States person or within the United States that evades or avoids, has the purpose of evading or avoiding, or attempts to violate any of the prohibitions set forth in this order is prohibited.
(b) Any conspiracy formed to violate any of the prohibitions set forth in this order is prohibited.
Sec. 3. For purposes of this order:
(a) the term “person” means an individual or entity;
(b) the term “entity” means a partnership, association, trust, joint venture, corporation, group, subgroup, or other organization; and
(c) the term “United States person” means any United States citizen, permanent resident alien, entity organized under the laws of the United States or any jurisdiction within the United States (including foreign branches), or any person in the United States.
Sec. 4. I hereby determine that the making of donations of the type specified in section 203(b)(2) of IEEPA (50 U.S.C. 1702(b)(2)) by, to, or for the benefit of, any person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order would seriously impair my ability to deal with the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13303 and expanded in Executive Order 13315, and I hereby prohibit such donations as provided by section 1 of this order.
Sec. 5. For those persons whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order who might have a constitutional presence in the United States, I find that, because of the ability to transfer funds or other assets instantaneously, prior notice to such persons of measures to be taken pursuant to this order would render these measures ineffectual. I therefore determine that for these measures to be effective in addressing the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13303 and expanded in Executive Order 13315, there need be no prior notice of a listing or determination made pursuant to section 1(a) of this order.
Sec. 6. The Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Defense, is hereby authorized to take such actions, including the promulgation of rules and regulations, and to employ all powers granted to the President by IEEPA as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this order. The Secretary of the Treasury may redelegate any of these functions to other officers and agencies of the United States Government, consistent with applicable law. All agencies of the United States Government are hereby directed to take all appropriate measures within their authority to carry out the provisions of this order and, where appropriate, to advise the Secretary of the Treasury in a timely manner of the measures taken.
Sec. 7. Nothing in this order is intended to affect the continued effectiveness of any rules, regulations, orders, licenses, or other forms of administrative action issued, taken, or continued in effect heretofore or hereafter under 31 C.F.R. chapter V, except as expressly terminated, modified, or suspended by or pursuant to this order.
Sec. 8. This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right, benefit, or privilege, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, instrumentalities, or entities, its officers or employees, or any other person.
GEORGE W. BUSH
THE WHITE HOUSE,
July 17, 2007.
# # #
Return to this article at:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/07/20070717-3.html
I am glad this will happen in Mexico.
As I read it, I was thinking of calling out the National Guard, it could have turned into a riot, if it was here.
300 communist/mexican leaders........how quaint.
Wonder how this will affect Pelosi, Reid, Leahy and company...
Thanks to Milford421, who is right, there is a lot happening:
Md. warns of missing gauge containing radioactive material
http://wjz.com/marylandwire/MD—StolenGauge/resources_news_html
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
WALDORF, Md. (AP) A piece of equipment containing nuclear material
has been stolen from a Charles County construction site, the state
reported Tuesday.
The Department of the Environment warned the public that a moisture
density gauge containing nuclear material has gone missing from a
contractor’s worksite.
The gauge, about 3 feet tall in a locked yellow case, likely poses
no danger to the public.
Ray Manley, chief of radioactive material licensing compliance
division for the department, said that as long as the gauge isn’t
opened, ``it’s absolutely not going to harm anybody.’’ He said the
Cesium-137 inside would pose a risk only to someone handling it for
extended periods.
Moisture density gauges are used by builders to measure the
compactness of the soil before building. The one that went missing
Monday is a Troxler Model 3430, serial number 22355.
Thanks to Milford421, about 3 years ago, there were reports of wires hanging into the river, from a bridge, but I do not recall a box being involved....granny
Box detonated contained depth measurement device -OH
http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070724/NEWS03/707240411/-1/NEWS
Box detonated contained depth measurement device
BLADE STAFF
The box that caused stoppage of trains, boats, and street traffic
and evacuation of homes in the area of Norfolk Southern railroad
bridge over the Maumee River near downtown Toledo last night
contained a depth measurement device, police said.
Authorities yesterday blew up a box found on a Norfolk Southern
railroad bridge over the Maumee River near downtown Toledo. The box
has to do with the dredging of the Maumee River near the downtown,
Sgt. Charles Nearhood, of the Toledo police bomb squad, said.
The box, about 2 feet by 1 foot, was chained to a bridge pier and
had wires that dropped about 20 feet into the water, Toledo Police
Lt. George Kral said.
After detonating the device and determining it to be harmless,
authorities surmised it was a research tool to measure the
temperature and depth of the Maumee River. But they didn’t know to
whom it belonged.
“A blue box chained to a railroad bridge in the middle of the water
just didn’t look like it was supposed to be there,” Lieutenant Kral
said.
Before anyone else places any other devices near a railroad
bridge, “it would probably be a wise idea to notify the railroad,”
agreed Scott Wilson, an FBI spokesman.
About 10 people were evacuated from the Starboard Side condominiums
for about an hour. The railroad was closed for nearly four hours,
delaying at least three trains, while the river was closed to boats
for about three hours. Miami Street was closed for about 30 minutes.
Along with Toledo police and the FBI, the Northwest Ohio Bomb Squad
and the U.S. Coast Guard went to the scene.
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