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RBC, 04.03.2005, Moscow 17:20:02.On March 18, 2005, Russian President Vladimir Putin will pay a working visit to France on invitation of his French counterpart Jacques Chirac, the press service of the Russian head of state has reported. In the course of the visit, Putin will take part in a meeting between Chirac, German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero.

Iran sent North Korea a message of support that praised the Pyongyang administration for "protecting the peace." North Korea's official Central News Agency (KCNA) reported that the Islamic Republic of Iran's President, Mohammed Khatemi, send the Pyongyang administration a message saying that the Iranian government ad its people fully support the North Korean government and its people in their efforts to protect North Korea's security and peace. Khatemi also announced his support for North Korea's efforts to reunite the Korean peninsula. North Korea had announced it was withdrawing from nuclear disarmament multinational talks on February 10th. The Washington administration labeled...

IRAN will carry out an "astonishing" retaliation to any attack against the Islamic republic by Israel or the US, a top Revolutionary Guards commander was quoted as saying today. "We will counter any stupid action by Israel and its master with firmness and in an astonishing way," Brigadier-General Mohammad-Ali Jafari was quoted as saying by the Shargh newspaper. The commander of the Revolutionary Guards' ground forces said Iran had the capacity to defeat any invader within months. "We pushed the Baathist enemy from our country within one and a half years," he said, referring to the opening campaigns of the...

Christians are the largest special interest group in America. Usama Bin Laden is not the world's last Muslim Terrorist. We're forcing our way of life on them? What makes you think she didn't want to be free like you? Supporting the troops MEANS supporting the war. Axis of evil: One down, two to go.

ASIAN TSUNAMI WAS PRECEDED BY PROPHECY AND FOLLOWED BY REPORTS OF MIRACLESIn the gloom -- and it is gloom -- come the accounts of miracles. A missionary escaping the tsunami with thirty students calls out the Name of Jesus as a wave sweeps into a lagoon and the wave seems to halt. This in Navalady, Sri Lanka. There is also the young American couple at a beach in southern Thailand. Clinging to a jungle gym under a thatched roof in a play area, the man shouted prayers amid the flooding. The thatched roof lodged against the jungle gym, and they...

BEIJING, China (CNN) -- Iran and the U.S. appear on a collision course over Tehran's nuclear program with Iran saying Wednesday it would never fully dismantle its capabilities. "Definitely, Iran will never be prepared for dismantling," Iran's chief delegate to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) told a media conference in Beijing. "This is out of the question and out of negotiation," Hossein Mousavian said according to news wire reports. Speaking on a visit to Colombia on Tuesday, U.S. President George W. Bush said Iran must "earn the trust" of countries concerned over its nuclear plans. Bush said he hoped...

North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il is shown (obviously alive) on North Korean last night, (Korean time), on 17 November 2004, recently inspecting (date unclear) the North Korean Peoples Army "Unit 754".However, as South Korean TV reporters from YTN-TV in the voice-over in this clip note, the traditional Korean-language title of "Great Leader" is absent from the usual script. This is the first time that such an honorific title is missing, when describing Kim Jong-il, in their national press.The video clip starts with the South Korean TV female announcer for 30 seconds who introduces a very short file clip showing...

We all know we are fighting an enemy which Pres. Bush dubbed the “Axis of Evil.” But there is another enemy. It is the blending of reality with fantasy, truth with falsehood. Of course this is nothing new but it seems to be climbing to new heights in the ongoing media blitz of the political campaign to again place a democrat in the highest office in the land. For instance, the phrase the media immediately grabbed onto from the whole 9/11 Commission’s report: “Lack of Imagination.” This is the reason 9/11 happened? If this were true, we should have artists...

Foreign policy was expected to be at the center of this year's duel between President Bush and Sen. John Kerry. Kerry, in accepting the Democratic nomination on Thursday, raised expectations by admitting that America was "a nation at war." Nevertheless, Kerry's speech of more that 5,200 words devoted only around 500 words to foreign-policy in general and the war against terrorism in particular. Even then, Kerry used those words for sloganeering. Kerry's speech revealed a man who, though vaguely conscious that the world has changed, prefers to assume that it has not. "The world tonight is very different from the...

Al Felsen, left, who served most of World War II as a prisoner of war, talks on Friday about his experiences with George Timmons and Brig. Gen. Warner Sumpter. Sumpter presented Felsen with a Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart Medal and the Philippines Defense Medal. (Mark Levy-Herald/Review)FORT HUACHUCA - For more than three years in the 1940s, Al Felsen suffered under the brutality of Japanese guards in a number of camps after he was captured in the Philippines. Felsen has been trying for years to receive a Purple Heart Medal for the wounds he received while a prisoner of war....

Listen to Michael Bowman's report (RealAudio) Bowman report - Download 278k (RealAudio)   Condoleezza Rice The United States is blasting Iran's decision to resume constructing machinery designed to enrich uranium, a process that can be used to generate weapons-grade nuclear material. White House spokesman Scott McClellan says Iran's decision to resume building centrifuges can only heighten international concerns about its nuclear program. Speaking with reporters en route to a NATO summit in Turkey, Mr. McClellan said Iran's failure to comply with the International Atomic Energy Agency and to stop all enrichment-related reprocessing activities reinforces U.S. concern.For the Bush administration, those...

Dear Maariv Newspaper Editor, Please Publish... The following is a translation of a letter written in the Online Forum of one of Israel's major newspapers, Maariv, by a female reader named  Rachel. The letter was in response to the major online headline about The Bodies of the Six Soldiers that had died in a Gaza security offensive and how their remains had been defiled by the Palestinian terror groups. See: Palestinians Parade Israeli Soldiers’ Remains (DEBKAfile) (05/11/04) http://www.debka.com/article_print.php?aid=843 This letter  may be one of the most popular letters ever written in this widely read forum receiving unanimous and unequivocal...

Dozens of internal United Nations audits of the troubled oil-for-food program in Iraq were routinely shown only to the U.N. official now at the center of an international scandal over kickbacks from the regime of Saddam Hussein, a congressional investigator said yesterday. Joseph A. Christoff, director of international affairs and trade at the General Accounting Office, told a House hearing that U.N. auditors had refused to release the internal audits to GAO investigators probing the scandal that poured an estimated $10.1 billion from secret oil sales and inflated contracts into Saddam's coffers under the U.N. program. "We sure asked for...

<p>In the last few weeks, CNN has suffered a series of embarrassing incidents calling into question its news judgment and ability to meet the most basic standards of fairness in reporting on Israel. CNN boss Ted Turner made the following statement about the ongoing war between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. "I would make the case that both sides are engaged in terrorism," he told the Guardian newspaper. Although Mr. Turner subsequently apologized for suggesting that Israel was behaving this way, the damage had been done.</p>

The main mantra of the Democrats heading into the 2004 Presidential Election is that the United States is “going it alone” in Iraq. The claim is that we would be better off if our effort were “multinational,” which means giving a veto power to national “friends” like the French. But a brief look at the history of World War II demonstrates that this claim is false. This is one more instance when I want to jump through the TV screen, grab the reporters by the throat and demand of them, “Don’t you know where to find a library? Can’t you...

<p>A blogger on the official John Kerry campaign Web site has offered a telling insight into the Kerry campaign in her account (since removed) of a December campaign party.</p> <p>"We had 200 guests eating, drinking, and watching the MoveOn documentary 'Uncovered,' featuring Joseph Wilson and Rand Beers from the Kerry campaign," wrote blogger Pamela Leavey, describing a Kerry event that did not include Mr. Kerry himself. "When Theresa Heinz-Kerry arrived, she handed me a pin that read in the center: 'Asses of Evil' with 'Bush,' 'Cheney,' 'Rumsfeld,' and 'Ashcroft' surrounding it."</p>

NEUSCHWABENLAND: The Lost Colony Seal of the German Antarctica Expedition     There have always been tales floating around that the Germans were involved in some kind of plot to claim Antarctica as a territory, or at least use it for some kind of research or base for military operations. Little is known of these strange expeditions, but they did in fact take place. Available information is scanty, so if you know anything about this or other subjects on this site, please see the Contributors Wanted page.     The very first German Antarctic expedition was carried out in 1873, under Sir...

Many of the Axis of Weasel nations (e.g., France, Germany, China, Russia) have agreed to forgive Iraq's enormous $120 billion mountain of foreign debt. But wait, according to talking heads like Madeleine K. Albright, we've alienated all these dear "friends:" The White House has acted as if it doesn't care what others think, and the country is paying the price for its mistake. Read Madeleine's essay, if you have the stomach for it. She points out that some opinion polls show dropping support for the U.S. in nations like Indonesia, Jordan, Nigeria, Russia, Brazil, France, Germany, and Turkey. All's I...

WorldThreats.com Monthly Analysis: December 2003 Compiled By: Ryan Mauro tdcanalyst@optonline.net Over the course of December, there were many developments that shook the world. From the capture of Saddam Hussein to the apparent change of heart by Muammar Qadhafi of Libya, it is now becoming apparent that the War on Terrorism is taking new shape. This new periodic analysis will discuss the developments of each period of time in the title, and try to tie things in together. War on Terrorism Despite the obvious success in the War on Terror, we remain on high alert. Understandably, the Bush Administration is not...

'Dear Leader' [KIM JONG IL] Blusters in Saddam's wake By RICHARD HALLORAN FOR THE STRAITS TIMES INTELLIGENCE agencies from Seoul to Singapore would pay dearly for the answer to perhaps the most intriguing question in Asia arising from the capture of Saddam Hussein in Iraq: What does the 'Dear Leader' of North Korea, Mr Kim Jong Il, like Saddam a charter member of United States President George W. Bush's 'axis of evil', think of this turn of events?The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), through which the hermit kingdom communicates with the rest of the world, was defiant several days...

Poor Baby Axis of WeaselBarred from Iraq Contracts By Andrew L. Jaffee, December 10, 2003 Home   Search   Forum   Terms The U.S. today barred Axis of Weasel countries (like Russia, Canada, France, and Germany) from bidding on $18.6 billion in contracts for rebuilding Iraq. These countries all opposed the U.S.-led coalition's liberation of Iraq. It seems only reasonable for U.S. taxpayer money to be spent on countries that support the U.S. in bringing democracy to the Middle East. French, Canadian, Russian, and German soldiers aren't being killed in Iraq now. Remember how vociferously these countries defended Saddam? Why should they be rewarded for...

Silicone breast implants (SBIs) are back. A Food and Drug Administration committee recommended last week that the implants be available to women who want them. The real story, though, may be the stealthy efforts of some personal injury lawyers to prevent FDA approval. Based on new evidence of connections between activists and lawyers, it appears that the lawyers might be surreptitiously using anti-SBI activists to scare the FDA and public about SBIs. The SBI controversy is the poster child of 1990s junk-science fueled tort litigation. That decade saw personal injury lawyers generate about 170,000 plaintiffs, now in the final stages...

BLOODY COST OF PEACE: Jewish activist witnesses horror of terrorism SCOTT FROST , Staff Writer 08/20/2003 Abe Greenhouse will never forget the bloodshed. The Rutgers University student will never get used to the sights he encountered during his one-month peace mission to Israel. He will never get used to the looks on children’s faces at the scene of violent acts generated by social and civil unrest in a tiny land shared by nearly 5 million Jews and 4 million Arabs. Yesterday, however, it was the look on faces of Orthodox Jews praying at the scene of another terrorist attack in...

I have it from Japanese news sources this morning [7/15] (In Japanese from Yomiuri News at the designated URL link here, tomorrow, Asia Time) that the Hankyoreh News' (S. Korea) reporters reached the UN Mission of North Korea in New York City and interviewed one of the leading DPRK representative there, Mr. Han.[The article is in Japanese.] The headline is "Nuclear Weapons Are A Necessity For Us To Prevent An American Attack Upon Our Country".The nuclear blackmail threat was revealed by the North Korean UN representative today in the following context (my "Freepranslation" from the original Japanese language article...

6/12/2003 - BRUSSELS, Belgium (AFPN) -- Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said June 12 that American officials may stop attending NATO meetings in Belgium because of a law that allows "spurious" suits accusing American leaders of war crimes. Rumsfeld said the United States will withhold any further funding for a new NATO headquarters building here until the matter is resolved. He spoke during a press conference following the NATO defense ministerial. The problem stems from Belgium's Universal Competence Law. Under this law, Army Gen. Tommy Franks, U.S. Central Command chief, has been charged with war crimes for his actions in...

WE ALL KNOW what the Axis of Weasels has done. They have bent over backwards to arm, finance and provide diplomatic cover for America’s enemies in the War on Terror. The question is why have they done it? Many theories abound. Some say it’s about money – lucrative corporate contracts and euros-for-oil deals with Middle Eastern despots. Money surely plays a role. Yet the hatred many Europeans harbor toward America appears to transcend greed. Its roots lie deep in the fascist ideology which, in large measure, seems to drive the European Union. With no America to hate, Europeans would have...

Title: "North Korea`s Fear of US Military Capability Conducive to Peaceful Resolution" Dong-A Ilbo Daily Newspaper(Seoul) MAY 16, 2003 21:38 Korean Time (S. Korean) President Roh Moo-hyun May 16 said that, in the wake of the Iraq war, the North Korean leadership is increasingly concerned over the military capacity of the US, and which he think might be conducive to achieving a peaceful resolution of the US-North Korean nuclear standoff. The President made the remark in an interview with the US PBS broadcasting network when host of the TV program Jim Lehrer asked him the question of whether the increased...

WASHINGTON: India's National Security Adviser Brajesh Mishra has proposed an alliance between the United States, India and Israel, among other democratic countries, to meet the threat of terrorism.In an address at the American Jewish Community Annual Dinner here on Thursday, Mishra said such an alliance would have the political will and moral authority to take "bold decisions in extreme cases of terrorist provocation" without being distracted by diversionary arguments like "root causes."Preventive measures like blocking financial supplies, disrupting networks, sharing intelligence, simplifying extradition procedures can only be effective through international cooperation based on trust and shared values, he added.The idea...

CAPTION "THE DEAR LEADER" COMRADE KIM JONG-IL

An Open Letter to President Jacques Chiraq Dear Jack, I'm an American. And as an American, there are some things I want to get off my chest. Colin Powell would probably make this sound all nice and fancy, but I'm not a diplomat, as the next few paragraphs will make painfully clear to you. I don't like you very much, Jack. I don't like you, your government or your country. I think as allies go you make a passable enemy. You sure as shootin' could never be mistaken as a friend. Not to put a fine point on it, you...

"U.N. Credibility: The Ultimate Oxymoron" Posted by Doc Farmer Wednesday, April 30, 2003 I keep hearing pundits and talking heads and "experts" on the news, saying how the U.S. must involve the United Nations in post-conflict Iraq. Their reason? We need the U.N.'s credibility. Excuse me? WHAT credibility? The credibility that dragged the people of Iraq through 12 years of torture, rape, and murder, while U.N. members flapped their collective yap and did nothing? The credibility that had the chance to take down Saddam in 1991, but didn't because the Frogs said not to, thereby placing tens of thousands of...

Germany's intelligence services attempted to build closer links to Saddam's secret service during the build-up to war last year, documents from the bombed Iraqi intelligence HQ in Baghdad obtained by The Telegraph reveal. Documents recovered from Iraqi intelligence HQ in Baghdad They show that an agent named as Johannes William Hoffner, described as a "new German representative in Iraq" who had entered the country under diplomatic cover, attended a meeting with Lt Gen Taher Jalil Haboosh, the director of Iraq's intelligence service. During the meeting, on January 29, 2002, Lt Gen Haboosh says that the Iraqis are keen to have...

French President Jacques Chirac and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder declared joint victory in Iraq this morning, saying that it was "all part of their plan" to egg President Bush and Prime Minister Blair on "by disagreeing with them." "Ooh, la la," said Chirac's foreign minister, Dominique 'Pass me the Hair Spray' de Villepin. "It eez an old psycholojeecal treek, to, ow you say, do the opposeet of what you mean in ordayre to make zee ozer personne become even more determeened. You see?" Germany's foreign minister, Joschka Fischer, echoed de Villepin's remarks when he said that "ve Germans knew...

Berlin Srives to Ease Tensions Reserved Chancellor at Saint Petersburg meetings - Federal Armed Forces in Post-War Iraq?by Manfred Quiring Moscow/Berlin - The Federal Government continued to try to ease tensions in the quarrel with the United States over the weekend. At the St. Petersburg meeting with Russian leader Putin and France's president, Chancellor Schröder was visibly interested in avoiding the impression of an "axis". At the same time, Minister of Defense Struck indicated German participation in Iraqi reconstruction. "I really think that the Americans would be pleased if Germany also had a military presence", said Struck on ARD. A...

THE leaders of Russia, France and Germany angrily denounced American policy in Iraq yesterday and called for the restoration of United Nations authority. At the start of a summit in St Petersburg, President Putin criticised the United States and Britain and gave warning of the danger of the world sliding “into an endless series of conflicts”. President Putin, President Chirac and Gerhard Schröder, the German Chancellor, were the most vocal critics of the use of force against Iraq. Yesterday all three emphasised the centrality of the UN to the future of global conflict-resolution. “We have a joint view of the...

 Tehran, April 12, IRNA -- Iran' former president Akbar Hashemi        Rafsanjani here on Saturday said Iran's resumption of ties with the US could be put to a referendum.                                              Rafsanjani, talking to `Rahbord' (Strategy) periodical, said the problem of Iran's relations with the US could be resolved through a   referendum once the Parliament (Majlis) and the Supreme Leader        Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei approve it.                                 "The other solution is that the problem is referred to Expediency Council (EC) and we discuss it and announce what is expedient. Of     course, the leader should approve this too," Rafsanjani, who is the   EC...

France faces isolation as strains show in anti-war axis Summit Chirac under pressure at home and abroad Paul Webster in Paris, Nick Paton Walsh in Moscow and John Hooper in Berlin Friday April 11, 2003 The Guardian Jacques Chirac faced a backlash from his peace campaigning yesterday after warnings from his own party that France had gone too far in opposing Britain and the US, and now faced international isolation. The French president, described by the newspaper Libération as the "king of peace without a crown", was criticised by leaders of his UMP party for three weeks of silence since...

Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2003 April 5 The Seasons of Saturn Credit: R. G. French (Wellesley College) et al., Hubble Heritage Team (AURA / STScI / NASA) Explanation: Since Saturn's axis is tilted as it orbits the Sun, Saturn has seasons, like those of planet Earth ... but Saturn's seasons last for over seven years. So what season is it on Saturn now? Orbiting the equator, the tilt of the rings of...

Kim Jong-il Scarce, Conjectures Plentiful by Chosun Ilbo Daily Reporter Kim In-gu (ginko@chosun.com) The North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has not appeared in public for 43 days, observers said, triggering speculation that he putting his country in a war posture. Mr. Kim was absent from the Supreme People's Assembly meeting on Wednesday; his last public appearance was Feb. 12 at the Russian Embassy in Pyongyang. Experts on North Korea say Kim's withdrawal is deliberate and that North Korea has gone into a semibelligerent state since the outbreak of the Iraqi war. Sixty-one other top-level North Korean officials were absent from...

Sun hits the chicken ship By MARTIN WALLACE and ROSS HINDLEY COWARDLY French sailors are enjoying a holiday on the Thames — while our brave boys and girls risk their lives to topple Saddam. Crew of the coastal patrol vessel FS Flamant are unashamedly flying a Tricolour while moored in central London. So The Sun steamed into action yesterday by blitzing them with white feathers — the coward’s symbol. We hired a 38ft yacht for our daring assault on the 150ft ship, which is moored next to Tower Bridge. First, we hoisted up the Red Ensign flag as we...

An Observation Just as predicted, now that essentially the 'fix is in' for an American and Allied LIBERATION OF IRAQ, (the second such liberation of a Near East country by President Bush that is under tryanny), notice how nearly all the assorted liberals, demoncrats, nay-sayers and anti-American appeasement types have dropped their new-found pablumic religion of showing how terrible North Korea is, in favor of a new-found silence.For months on end, all they talked, whined and snorted about was 'how repressive, dangerous and evil North Korea was/is under Kim Jong il' and that we should do something quickly.Even an idiot...

AXIS OF EVIL WANNABEES by John Cleese Bitter after being snubbed for membership in the "Axis of Evil", Libya, China and Syria today announced that they had formed the "Axis of Just as Evil", which they said would be more evil than that stupid Iran-Iraq-North Korea axis President Bush warned of in his State of the Union address. Axis of Evil members, however, immediately dismissed the new Axis as having, for starters, a really dumb name. "Right. They are just as evil...in their dreams!" declared North Korean leader Kim Jong-il. "Everybody knows we're the best evils...best at being evil...we're the...

FRENCH, GERMAN, IRAQI, PALESTINIAN TERROR ALLIANCE DECLARED ========= Beit Hanoun 3/16/03 ========= In Beit Hanoun, north Gaza, Palestinian terrorists wave French and German flags and Saddam Hussein's portrait as the Axis of Evil fully declares itself the enemies of America. This was after President Bush offered them help only yesterday.

Philippines Expels Iraqi Diplomat OLIVER TEVES Associated Press MANILA, Philippines - The Philippine government on Wednesday told an Iraqi diplomat allegedly linked to the Muslim extremist Abu Sayyaf group to leave the country within 48 hours.The decision to expel Iraqi Consul Husham Husain came after the government announced Monday it had an intelligence report indicating he received a call from an Abu Sayyaf member shortly after a bombing that killed three people. Victims of the bombing last year in the southern city of Zamboanga included an American Green Beret.The Iraqi Embassy denied Husain or any other embassy officer was involved...

The North Korean, identified as Jim Kim Su, was said to have planned attacks on unspecified British and U.S. interests throughout Lebanon in an attempt to stop a U.S.-led war against Iraq. Jim, who was found with $3,000, had visited Ein Hilwe several times recently. The Syrian detainee was identified as Assad Qaraan. So far, the sources said, it is not clear whether the attack was sponsored by Al Qaida or Iraq. The North Korea and Syrian were handed over the Lebanese military for interrogation.

[Images from S. Korean TV last night] News agencies throughout Asia are reporting this morning (afternoon/pm Monday US Time) of the incremental building of US Pacific Command military forces in and around the Korean Peninsula.SBS-TV from Seoul, South Korea confirms the Pentagon move to fortress up more US forces around the area including one US aircraft carrier, increased mobilization of F-15s and B-1/B-52 bombers (with support from US Forces Japan and increasing force in Guam of long range bombers), cancellation of transfer orders from Korea, increasing by nearly 3000 US Airforce personnel. (Moderator note: Open Source Info). Top story...

It seems like an attack on North Korea could come in the next year or so. Place your bet as to when the attack will begin. Whoever gets closest to the date and time wins. Attack time must be specified in Month, Day, and Year For specifying any hour, don't forget to specify what time zone you are referring to. There is no decision on a prize to be awarded yet except for bragging rights.(with thanks to Freeper Momaw Nadon).

Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2002 December 22 Summer at the South Pole Credit & Copyright: Galileo Project, NASA Explanation: The December solstice brings the beginning of Winter to Earth's Northern Hemisphere and Summer time to the South! This view of Earth's Southern Hemisphere near the beginning of Summer was created using images from the Galileo spacecraft taken during its December 1990 flyby of our fair planet. Dramatically centered on the South Pole,...

PRESIDENT ASSAD of Syria has delivered an impassioned and highly controversial defence of Palestinian militancy and suicide bombings, days before he is due in London for the first official visit to Britain by a Syrian leader. In a wide-ranging interview with The Times — the first he has given to a British newspaper — Mr Assad also gave warning that an American-led war against Iraq would have catastrophic consequences, creating “fertile soil for terrorism” right across the Middle East. He said Syria was supporting Washington’s War on Terror, not because it wanted to co-operate with America but because it, too,...

Can You Help America? Are you willing to give five minutes or more of your time to think about a solution to a very costly problem that exists in every State in the Union? If you listen to Rush Limbaugh on TV or on his radio show, you will hear him discuss how dumb and ineffective Democrats can be. He has been saying that the Democrats are only good at whining about problems, not at fixing problems. Rush says the Republicans are the only party that actually fixes problems. Do you believe this? FreeRepublic.com is overflowing with Republicans isn't it?...