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.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson has launched a review of disaster planning for the financial markets, the Financial Times reported on Saturday. The move was prompted by concerns about Wall Street's ability to withstand a terrorist attack, natural disaster or flu pandemic, the newspaper said. In one of his first acts in the post, the FT said Paulson had asked the president's working group on financial markets to assess the improvements made since the September 11 attacks on the United States five years ago. The FT said there was continued Wall Street concern about the resilience of power and telecommunications...

Author Jerome Corsi and Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., will be guests tomorrow on G. Gordon Liddy's radio show to discuss the White House's effort to implement a trilateral agreement with Mexico and Canada that could lead to a North American union, despite having no authorization from Congress. Corsi and Tancredo will join Liddy for the entire 11 a.m. hour, Eastern time, and take calls from listeners. Corsi reported this week that Bush administration working groups have not disclosed the results of their work despite two years of massive effort within the executive branches of the U.S., Mexico and Canada. The...