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Bush Takes Milder Tone on Terrorism Wednesday, September 14, 2005 / 10 Elul 5765 (IsraelNN.com) President George W. Bush told the United Nations on Wednesday that world leaders must change conditions which he said cause people to turn to terrorism and that war by itself will not defeat terrorism. "There can be no safety in looking away or seeking the quiet life by ignoring the hardship and oppression of others," Bush said. His speech was milder than his previous calls for a world-wide war against terrorism. "We know that this war will not be won by force of arms alone,"...

PMW Reports: PA gets $50m from US, then calls for terror against US soldiers Palestinian Media Watch Bulletin September 6, 2005 Contact details p:+972 2 625 4140 e: pmw@pmw.org.il f: +972 2 624 2803 w: www.pmw.org.il PA gets $50m from US, then calls for terror against US soldiers By Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook Palestinian Authority hatred of the United States is so deeply ingrained in its ideology that it continues to openly promote vicious anti-American hatred - even right after signing a deal to receive $50 million in direct aid from the US. Radio and television sermons by senior...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Friday for the first time accepted that Iran can develop civilian nuclear programs, backing an EU proposal that would allow Tehran to pursue atomic power in exchange for giving up fuel work. In a compromise that completed a gradual shift in U.S. policy, Washington acquiesced because it believes the EU offer has enough safeguards to prevent Iran diverting its civilian work into making nuclear bombs. "We support the (Europeans') effort and the proposal they have put forward to find a diplomatic solution to this problem and to seek an end to Iran's nuclear...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has apologized to a prominent Britain-based Muslim scholar for denying him entry to the country last week, and has given him a new U.S. visa, the U.S. Embassy in London said on Tuesday. Zaki Badawi, the unofficial leader of Britain's Muslims who attended talks with British Prime Minister Tony Blair on Tuesday, was the latest in a string of people who have been denied entry to the United States since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks without receiving details on the suspicions against them. Speaking off the record, European law enforcement sources have accused the...

GLOBALISM, COLLECTIVISM, AND STUPIDISM By Phyllis Spivey "We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness; only power, pure power. What pure power means you will learn presently." From the novel, 1984, by George Orwell It’s another of those government edicts that make you think the world has gone mad: Executive Order 13166. In the last months of his presidency, Bill Clinton evidently decided it wasn’t enough to merely force taxpayers to subsidize services to non-citizen, non-English speakers. So he by-passed Congress with a mandate...

The Bush administration acknowledges a major increase in the sale of U.S. components and technology that could bolster China's military. Sources said the administration has reduced export restrictions on numerous high-technology items required by China's military. They cited computer hardware, general-purpose microprocessors and equipment to manufacture semiconductors. The boom in sales of dual-use technology comes at a time when the Pentagon is sounding the alarm on the rapid growth of China's military and when the U.S. has pressed Israel to significantly reduce military exports to Beijing. In 2004, U.S.-China trade rose by more than 22 percent and included advanced dual-use...

North Korea has resumed construction of nuclear reactors at Yongbyon and Thaechon that were frozen under the 1994 Agreed Framework with the United States, Japan's Nihon Keizai reported last week. U.S. intelligence agencies said the two graphite-moderated reactors are capable of producing plutonium for nuclear warheads. Aboveground work was underway on a 50,000-kilowatt reactor at Yongbyon and ground-leveling work had begun at Thaechon for a 200,000-kilowatt reactor. Government sources said the North Koreans had informed the United States about the resumed construction. The information has not been made public in the United States. The State Department is attempting to salvage...

The United States said on June 22 it would give North Korea 50,000 tonnes of food aid, saying its decision was based on humanitarian need and was not linked to efforts to end Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions. 'The United States will be donating, in response to the World Food Program appeal, 50,000 metric tonnes of agricultural commodities for North Korea,' State Department spokesman Adam Ereli said, adding it was not designed to lure North Korea to six-party talks on ending its suspected nuclear arms programs.