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The good news about nuclear destruction Posted: August 24, 20061:00 a.m. Eastern By Shane Connor What possible good news could there ever be about nuclear destruction coming to America, whether it is dirty bombs, terrorist nukes or ICBMs from afar? In a word, they are all survivable for the vast majority of American families, if they know what to do beforehand and have made even the most modest preparations. Tragically, though, most Americans today won't give much credence to this good news, much less seek out such vital life-saving instruction, as they have been jaded by our culture's pervasive myths...

<p>Though the war on terror continues, the U.S. government has left the public completely exposed to the aftermath of a radiological attack. There is no better evidence of this than the actions of the Department of Homeland Security. The DHS is very focused on interdiction, government continuity and infrastructure protection, but it has not yet prepared for civil defense, which is the protection of civilians in time of war or disaster.</p>

<p>May 11 (Bloomberg) -- Venezuela has evidence of a plot to assassinate leaders from both the government and opposition groups, Defense Minister Jorge Garcia said.</p> <p>Garcia didn't say what person or group the government believes is planning the assassinations or what actions the government may take against them.</p>

JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia, Jan 18 (Reuters) - Former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said on Sunday that Saudi Arabia should sell oil for gold, not dollars, to avoid being "short-changed" by a decline in the U.S. currency. "The price of oil is $33, but the U.S. dollar has declined by 40 percent against the euro so you're effectively getting $20," Mahathir told an economic conference in Saudi Arabia's Red Sea city of Jeddah. "So you're being short-changed." Saudi Arabia, the world's biggest oil exporter, has justified higher world oil prices by saying they are necessary to compensate for the slide...

<p>When Steve Jones carried a curious duct-taped tin can with wires protruding from its clear plastic top into Sen. Rick Santorum's office last month, a wide-eyed Senate staffer remarked, "I'm surprised you got this stuff up here."</p> <p>So was Jones. But for reasons other than heightened security on Capitol Hill. For more than a decade, the house painter from Salt Lake City has run up against public indifference as he promoted the jury-rigged can he insists would save lives in a dirty-bomb attack by terrorists.</p>

 For Immediate Release Jan 28, 2003 Contact: Press Office202-646-5172 9/11 VICTIM SUES CHAVEZ & VENEZUELA FOR TERRORIST ACTS Evidence That Chavez Aided Bin Laden & Al Qaeda PRESS CONFERENCE DATE: Wednesday, January 29, 2003TIME: 9:30 a.m.PLACE: Sheraton Biscayne Bay Hotel, Room C 495 Brickell Ave., Miami, FL 33131 (Washington, DC / Miami, FL) Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption and abuse, said today that it has filed suit on behalf of a victim and survivor of the September 11th terrorist attacks against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, its President, Hugo Chavez, and the...

Venezuelan Troops Seize Police Weapons By STEPHEN IXER, Associated Press Writer CARACAS, Venezuela - Soldiers seized most of the heavy weapons and anti-riot equipment from Caracas' police force Tuesday, police said after President Hugo Chavez threatened to increase the military's control over the force and accused it of siding with his opponents. Troops searched most of the capital's police stations at dawn and confiscated all weapons except .38 revolvers, said police chief Henry Vivas. The seizure could raise tensions in a 44-day-old general strike aimed at ousting Chavez, which has been marked by almost daily street protests, including clashes between...

Chavez $1M Support for Al Qaeda Confirmed Chavez: Likes to talk, but suddenlysilent on $1M Al Qaeda payment Following the money trail In the world of terrorist financing, bank records naturally do not tell the true origin nor destination of funds. That's why no one will ever be able to find a check signed by Hugo Chavez with the payee's name as Osama Bin Laden. But there are other ways to get to the truth. The best is to talk to those who were involved. Therefore, investigators rely heavily on the testimony of the insiders who carried out the operations...

Chavez Spokesman Re-Affirms North Korea Support: "Model To Follow" Kim Jong Il, a Chavez role model By Johan Freitas, in Caracas Venezuela, already an ally of Cuba and Iraq, is now making overtures to also align itself with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il. Monday, in Caracas, a spokesman for the Hugo Chavez government sent a signal of support to North Korea's capital Pyongyang, and re-affirmed the ideological similarities of the two regimes. Education minister Hector Navarro, while attempting to open the country's leading university, Universidad Central de Venezuela, declared that he and the Bolivarian government stood firm in their...

More Facts Uncovered in Chavez - Al Qaeda Collaboration Major Juan Diaz Castillo:Planned $1M support forAl Qaeda, then defected By Luis Garcia, in Miami Whistle-blower Major Juan Diaz Castillo, pilot of the Venezuelan Airforce One, revealed more details of how president Hugo Chavez supported Al Qaeda in the aftermath of 9/11. In statements to the press in Miami Saturday, the defector shed new light on the terrorist support network recently uncovered in the highest level of the Venezuelan government. Major Juan Diaz Castillo, Chavez's personal pilot, was assigned the job of planning the delivery of the $1 million collaboration to...

9/11: Chavez financed Al Qaeda, details of $1M donation emerge Osama Bin Laden: 9/11 made Chavez happy. Hugo Chavez: Terrorism sponsor, $1M to Al Qaeda. His Ambassador, Walter Marquez: Bin Laden's link. His pilot, May. Juan Diaz Castillo: Planned the operation, then defected. By Johan Freitas, in Caracas, with Luis Garcia, in Miami High-level military defectors reveal new terrorist links between Al Qaeda and Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez. The man who control's the largest oil reserves in the Western hemisphere gave $1 million to the world's most wanted terrorist right after the 9/11 attacks. Hugo Chavez would not admit it...

Gold Reserves Looted from Venezuela's Central Bank Uncertainty over the whereabouts of Venezuela's national gold reserves and who controls them. Want to know if Venezuela still has any gold reserves left? Then don't look for it in the country's Central Bank anymore. Central Bank (BCV) gold reserves have been trucked to the Caracas Fuerte Tiuna army garrison under armed escort by loyalist military officers who support strongman Hugo Chavez in his refusal to allow free and democratic elections. Garrison commander Jorge Luis Garcia Carneiro, a military officer still loyal to Chavez, has refused to give precise figures of how much...

Venezuelan Conflict Worsens, American Embassy Evacuates Staff U.S. Embassy, Caracas:Empty hallways "- Extremely concerned." Those are the words of Charles Shapiro, the United States Ambassador in Caracas, Venezuela. Friday, Shapiro met with Venezuela's strongman Hugo Chavez in the Miraflores presidential palace to once again urge for a political solution involving free and democratic elections. But Chavez is not a democrat, and although he was democratically elected, he no longer believes in allowing his people the right to vote. After having publicly announced his plans to stay in office until at least the year 2021, he has repeatedly stalled and obstructed...

Terror Threat from Venezuela: Al Queda Involved Terrorism-sponsor Chavez At 9:29 p.m. on March 8, 2002, Hakim Mamad Ali Diab Fattah landed at Venezuela's Simón Bolívar International Airport on board Delta Flight 397. The Venezuelan-born Arab had been the subject of international surveillance because he had taken lessons at two New Jersey flight schools attended by Hani Hanjour, who crashed American Airlines Flight 77 into the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001. The FBI had arrested Fattah in the United States after discovering that he also had talked about blowing up an airliner and had used forged identity documents. Information about...

10-year Prison Terms For Protest Marchers in Venezuela New law makes it a crime to march in protest against Chavez, or even write about it. Prison terms range from 5 to 10 years per protester.Desperate and with only one in ten Venezuelans supporting it, the Chavez regime has unleashed a new "Ley de Seguridad de la Nacion" on the democratic opposition in Venezuela. This "National Security Law" basically makes it a crime to be against Chavez: With dissidents being sent to prison camps for a minimum of 5 years and a maximum of 10 years. Among the "crimes" punishable by...

Bio-weapons lab in Venezuela for Saddam and Castro Remember a brief mention in the media recently about accusations that Castro had a bio-weapon lab in Cuba? Well, don't bother looking for it there anymore. It was airlifted out by a Chavez C-130 in a rush/hush mission shortly after the news story broke. It's in Venezuela now, in San Antonio Los Altos near Caracas. It is still largely crated and being watched, awaiting final destination along with Cuban technicians that came with it. The Chavez-Castro axis is preparing a Caribbean Terror: biological weapons. In May 2002 Fidel Castro personally went to...

Freeper Report from Ground Zero Venezuela... Arrived last Sunday for my third trip down here to Caracas this year and was immediately encouraged to see the new optimism evident everywhere and so universally embraced that, finally, Hugo Chavez was soon to be history. And, hope everywhere that this embarrasing embracer of dictators and terrorists the world over, along with his economically devastating regime at home, could be sent packing... and soon. This attitude has been confirmed all this week by the popular marches and protests expanding well beyond the capitol to include the whole of the country this time and...

Russian intelligence warns CIA that more attacks imminent BBC Monitoring Service - United Kingdom Sep 12, 2001 Text of report by Russian Ren TV on 12 September Presenter - Yelena Meshcheryakova Russian intelligence agents know the organizers and executors of the terrorist attacks in the USA. They are Usamah Bin-Laden's organization, the Islamic movement of Uzbekistan and the Taleban [Afghan] government. According to the internet publication news.ru, Russia's foreign intelligence special envoy told the CIA that there were at least two Uzbeks among the suicide terrorists. Our security services are warning the USA that what happened on Tuesday is just ...

WASHINGTON, Sept 11 (Reuters) - The Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Tuesday recommended that all U.S. nuclear power plants and nuclear fuel facilities go to the highest level of security as a precautionary measure in response to devastating attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. ``While there has been no credible general or specific threats to any of these (power plant) facilities, the recommendation was considered prudent, given the acts of terrorism in New York City and in Washington, D.C.,'' the NRC said. Hijacked planes crashed into the major U.S. landmarks, destroying New York's twin towers and plunging the ...

MUNICH, Germany (AFP) - The stone casing entombing Chernobyl nuclear power reactor is in danger of imminent collapse, a former director of security services has warned. Quoted in the upcoming issue of the German weekly Focus, Valentine Kupny said "the covering around the reactor could collapse at any moment". "The sarcophagus is so porous that radioactivity escapes each day," he said. "We don't even have the ability to measure the amount. If we could see the radioactivity there would be a cloud of smoke above the sarcophagus." "What would happen (if the cover collapsed) would depend on the wind," Kupny ...