·Updates for Monday January 1st  2007

      The Parrot N'kisi
 

        By Alex Kirby

       The finding of a parrot with an almost unparalleled power to communicate with people has brought scientists up short. The bird, a captive African grey called N'kisi, has a vocabulary of 950 words, and shows signs of a sense of humour. He invents his own words and phrases if he is confronted with novel ideas with which his existing repertoire cannot cope - just as a human child would do. N'kisi's remarkable abilities feature in the latest BBC Wildlife Magazine. N'kisi is believed to be one of the most advanced users of human language in the animal world. About 100 words are needed for half of all reading in English, so if N'kisi could read he would be able to cope with a wide range of material. He uses words in context, with past, present and future tenses, and is often inventive. One N'kisi-ism was "flied" for "flew," and another "pretty smell medicine" to describe the aromatherapy oils used by his owner, an artist based in New York. When he first met Dr Jane Goodall, the renowned chimpanzee expert, after seeing her in a picture with apes, N'kisi said: "Got a chimp?" He appears to fancy himself as a humourist. When another parrot hung upside down from its perch, he commented: "You got to put  this bird on the camera." Dr Goodall says N'kisi's verbal fireworks are an "outstanding example of interspecies communication." In an experiment, the bird and his owner were put in separate rooms and filmed as the artist opened random envelopes containing picture cards. Analysis showed the parrot had used appropriate keywords three times more often than would be likely by chance. This+m, was despite the researchers discounting responses like "What ya doing on the phone?" when N'kisi saw a card of a man with a telephone, and "Can I give you a hug?" with one of a couple embracing.

Professor Donald Broom, of the University of Cambridge's School of Veterinary Medicine, said: "The more we look at the cognitive abilities of animals, the more advanced they appear, and the biggest leap of all has been with parrots." Alison Hales, of the World Parrot Trust, told BBC News Online: "N'kisi's amazing vocabulary and sense of humour should make everyone who has a pet parrot consider whether they are meeting its needs. "They may not be able to ask directly, but parrots are long-lived, and a bit of research now could mean an improved quality of life for years." All images courtesy and copyright of Grace Roselli.

 

Emergency: Blair's Mental Level Worsens Overnight

Family gather round as condition weakens

Last Rites: Blair to Jam with Bee-Gees

Who or what is a bloody Bee Gee?

 

Huge Ice Shelf Breaks Free in Arctic North

 

CALGARY, Alberta, Dec 29 (Reuters) -

A chunk of ice bigger than the area of Manhattan broke from an ice shelf in Canada's far north and could wreak havoc if it starts to float westward toward oil-drilling regions and shipping lanes next summer, a researcher said on Friday.
Global warming could be one cause of the break of the Ayles Ice Shelf at Ellesmere Island, which occurred in the summer of 2005 but was only detected recently by satellite photos, said Luke Copland, assistant professor at the Univ+m,ersity of Ottawa's geography department.
It was the largest such break in nearly three decades, casting an ice floe with an area of 66 square km (25 square miles) adrift in the Arctic Ocean, said Copland, who specializes in the study of glaciers and ice masses. Manhattan has an area of 61 square km (24 square miles).
The mass is now 50 square km (19 square miles) in size. "The Arctic is all frozen up for the winter and it's stuck in the sea ice about 50 km (30 miles) off the coast," he said.

 

Anti-Semitism of the Christian Prayer Network

 

As the Forest Goes, so does Water

 

Sex Slavery Plagues Romania and Bulgaria

 

French Space Agency to Publish UFO Archive Online

 

PARIS (Reuters) - The French space agency is to publish its archive of UFO sightings and other phenomena online, but will keep the names of those who reported them off the site to protect them from pestering by space fanatics. Jacques Arnould, an official at the National Space Studies Center (CNES), said the French database of around 1,600 incidents would go live in late January or mid-February.
He said the CNES had been collecting statements and documents for almost 30 years to archive and study them.
"Often they are made to the Gendarmerie, which provides an official witness statement ... and some come from airline pilots," he said by telephone. Given the success of films about visitations from outer space like "E.T.", +m,"Close Encounters of The Third Kind" and "Independence Day", the CNES archive is likely to prove a hit. It consists of around 6,000 reports, many relating to the same incident, filed by the public and airline professionals. Their names would not be published to protect their privacy, Anould said.
Advances in technology over the past three decades had prompted the decision to put the archive online, he said, adding it would likely be available via the CNES website www.cnes.fr.

Notes on Mother Ships

Some good links here

Mothman's US Phone Number is 304-675-5352 (001 from UK)

Phone if you dare!

Montana UFO Hotspot for Fifty Years

 

2006 a Watershed Year for UFO Sightings

 

We suddenly became witnesses other than reporters. Photographic proof was evident of dramatic events. Obscure and blurry dots and streaks of unknown origin were replaced with large objects seemingly posing for the camera. Many of these photographs were taken while the objects themselves remained invisible until the photos were examined.
Some of the objects hovered over lakes or near historical buildings. Others were photographed possibly entering or exiting vortexes, appearing very similar in appearance to aircraft breaking the sound barrier. One tourist in Greece while capturing a panoramic night shoot of the mountains captured a truly remarkable photograph that clearly shows 4 - 7 unknown objects moving from left to right. Extreme close-ups of these photos indicate classic UFO sh+m,aped objects. Odd shaped objects, rectangles, cubes, acorns and others have been photographed around the world at air-shows, skydiving and other public events.

2006 a Year of Invention

 

For more than 30 years, patent sleuth Barry Fox has trawled the US patent applications for New Scientist. Here we provide a round-up of his most interesting, surprising and sometimes alarming, discoveries of 2006. Weapons patents can sound dead serious, dead ridiculous or both at once. One of this years most discussed suggestions was for bullets that required a password before the handgun could fire.
Another patent took a different approach to gun safety. The 'I've-been-shot gun' would aid policemen or soldiers by connecting wirelessly and informing HQ when and where it has been fired.

 

Military, Intelligence, Political

Baghdad Burning: End of Another Year
 

New-Technology Weapon or another Scam?

 

The following article contains a link to the DREAD Weapon System Video. This is the first time this video has ever been shown to the public. The DREAD depicted in the video is a functional prototype that operates on a less-than-lethal mode. This prototype was dismantled for security purposes to protect the technology, after the making of this video. As of this posting, Defense Review (DefRev) is the ONLY publication in the WORLD that has any written materi+m,als or video footage, or any information whatsoever, for that matter, on this revolutionary new weapon system.

 

·Updates for Thursday January 4th  2007
 

Paris Hilton is Top Google Search Item

 

Just when you thought the Apocalypse was going to take the form of nuclear war,

the ice-pack splitting, environmental holocaust, or flu pandemic! No, it is going

to be rapidly descending IQ of the mass who search for late Roman tarts

such as this piece of shit-culture tinsel.

The second item is one Orlando Bloom who is apparently a typical toy-boy

British actor whose bra-size was left out of the report as was Paris Hilton's coke habit. Where did all the real men go to? Disappeared own the A1 somewhere in 1968 I suppose. Someone or something changed the diet in 1965, and after that we had what Arnold Schwarzenegger called  "girly-men" all over the place.

The third item dialled up on Google was cancer. I suppose there are a few left on planet Earth will have enough IQ left to see the connection between this last item and the first two. But by then it will almost certainly be too late.

With the three Armed Service utterly destroyed by the Left, we are probably near the End. When it finally comes, we will not see the Devil with a forked tail, just Elton John in a funny hat. Then oblivion until eternal sunlight strikes some old rocks again.

If the aliens have the same problem, may the gods help us all!

PF

PS If you don't know what all this means, then ring Pete Docherty. He'll tell you.

 

Global 3-D WiFi spy satellite Revolution

 

WASHINGTON DC -- The think-tanks at the National Reconnaissance Office, the one governmental agency responsible for three fourths of all the satellites in earth's orbit), are locked in debate over how to make room for a new revolutionary concept which promises to revolutionize the entire aerospace industry. Of all the proposals presented by aerospace giants to the NRO´s multi billion dollar Future Imagery Architecture Program, the only one that satisfies Congressional Mission Requirements is the patented brainchild of a lone aerospace en+m,gineer, William H. Grisham. Bill Grisham´s patented MIRIAH satellite constellation, as it turns out, is 100,000 times more cost effective than that of any of the projects proposed by the "big boys". Apart from the fact Grisham´s system is a thousand times cheaper and a thousand times more powerful it is also the only technologically "risk free" proposal registered in this otherwise elite competition.
MIRIAH, instead of increasing sophistication to systems engineering, revolutionizes systems architecture, creating a physics clad platform from which to easily, cheaply and reliably do much more with much less. In the most recent past, NRO went so far as to prefer funding a multi $Billion Boeing proposal that involved impossible technical risk, which ultimately failed, over Grisham´s $500 million proposal with practically no technical risk at all. MIRIAH is the only known solution anyone in industry has offered so far to completely satisfy mission requirements without technical risk.

Trouble with a Coal-Fired Boom

The Chinese are about to learn a hard lesson the West learned a long time ago.

 

Rapidly Accelerating Environmental Dangers

 

'If we fail to act, we will end up with a different planet'
By Steve Connor, Science Editor
Published: 01 January 2007
One of the world's leading experts on climate change has warned that the Earth is being turned into a "different planet" because of the continuing increase in man-made emissions of greenhouse gases.
In an interview with The Independent, Jim Hansen, who was one of the first scientists to warn of climate change in scientific testimony to the US Congress in 1988, claimed that we have less than 10 years to begin to cu+m,rb carbon dioxide emissions before global warming runs out of control and changes the landscape forever.
Last year, Dr Hansen, director of the Nasa Goddard Institute for Space Studies, part of Columbia University in New York, complained that Nasa public relations officials appointed by the Bush administration had tried to gag him by limiting his access to the media. But in talking to this newspaper he was outspoken, warning that there are already worrying signs that global warming is beginning to trigger dangerous "positive feedbacks" within the climate, which can accelerate the rate of climate change.

Some Schools Dismantle Some Computer Wireless Nets


Radiation levels blamed for illnesses: some teachers became too sick to work
Parents and teachers are forcing some schools to dismantle wireless computer networks amid fears that they could damage children’s health.
More schools are putting transmitters in classrooms to give pupils wireless access from laptops to the school computer network and the internet.
But many parents and some scientists fear that low levels of microwave radiation emitted by the transmitters could be harmful, causing loss of concentration, headaches, fatigue, memory and behavioral problems and possibly cancer in the long term. Scientific evidence is inconclusive, but some researchers think that children are vulnerable because of their thinner skulls and developing nervous systems.

 

Australian UFO Disclosure

 

Interview with Jacques Patenet

 

A Moment of Truth in the Middle East

 

Quantum Theory and Remote Viewing

 

Military, Intelligence, Political

 

Christian Right grows in Power and importance
 

And yet we may be further down this road than we care to admit.  Erik Prince, the secretive, mega-millionaire, right-wing Christian founder of Blackwater, the private security firm that has built a formidable mercenary force in Iraq, champions his company as a patriotic extension of the U.S. military.  His employees, in an act as cynical as it is deceitful, take an oath of loyalty to the Constitution.  These mercenary units in Iraq, including Blackwater, contain some 20,000 fighters.  They unleash indiscriminate and wanton violence against unarmed Iraqis, have no accountability and are beyond the reach of legitimate authority.  The appearance of these paramilitary fighters, heavily armed and wearing their trademark black uniforms, patrolling the streets of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, gave us a grim taste of the future.  It was a stark reminder that the tyranny we impose on others we will one day impose on ourselves.

 

·Updates for Saturday January 6th  2007
 

The Ultimate Consumer.

 

"My name is Jaye Beldo and I suffer from Advertising Affective Disorder, or AAD. My affliction results from life-long exposure to advertising. Ronald McDonald haunts me in my dreams and tries to get me to pledge allegiance to the New World Order. The Pillsbury Doughboy claims that he is the messiah and if I don't worship him he will turn me into dinner rolls. Tony the Tiger waits in the shadows, ready to pounce on me as punishment for trying to think outside the cornflakes box. Palmolive Madge threatens to soak my entire body in dish detergent because I desire world peace. The Charmin Teddy Bear causes me to fight with my girl friend. Every time I try to go to an art exhibition, I see Mr. Clean splashing floor-cleaner onto a painting by Picasso or Van Gogh. Advertising mascots like Joe Camel, the California raisins or the Michelin Tire Man trespass into my brain and demand that I buy their products, or else. It doesn't matter if the ad aired yesterday or 30 years ago because the icons, logos and jingles continue to torment me 24/7. My sense of time has become grossly distorted. Sometimes my attention span comes in 30 or 60 second ad spots.

Sometimes I wonder if I'm being targeted by the CIA. Or perhaps AAD is the result of some Psy-Ops experiment. Perhaps the NSA is behind it all. If so, I'd like to know who or what my handler is. Could only Madison Avenue know for sure? I believe AAD is a silent killer. If you think you are suffering from AAD, please contact me at the following address: stabinthelight@earthlink.net"

 

Colin Bennett's "Cultural Scepticism"

 

The Dangers of Good Food

 

People in the United States have gotten used to the repulsive fact that raw chicken, meat and eggs are often contaminated with dangerous bacteria. Scrub the cutting board, we are warned, don’t nibble the cookie dough, don’t eat burgers rare. In other words, handle meat like a biohazard — and then eat it.  But until recently, getting sick from salad was something that most Americans didn’t even think about unless they were traveling to a poor country. At home, fruits and vegetables have been regarded as clean and safe for as long as most people can remember. Lately, though, produce has caused a disturbing number of disease outbreaks; just since September, bacteria-tainted tomatoes, spinach and lettuce have made hundreds of people sick, and killed three. There have been 20 serious outbreaks in the past decade or so, and many have come from crops grown in California, not from imports. Fruit juices, alfalfa sprouts and almonds have also been involved — all of them supposedly health foods, like salad, the things we feel most virtuous about eating.

 

Systematic Review of Mobile Phone Health Hazards

 

Trickster's Realm

Trickster's Suggested Reading:
The Trickster and the Paranormal: George P. Hansen
Daimonic Reality: Patrick Harpur
Skepticism as Mystique: A Fortean Essay in Rationalist Panics and Skeptical Dementia: Colin Bennett, UFO Magazine vol 21, No.10 December 2006.

 

Orange Orb Review of Looking for Orthon

 

Review of Scepticism as Mystique

 

False Prophet Phenomenon

 

Combat Diaries: The man who could create and command the UFOs. Perhaps he saw one once. Perhaps he thought he summoned it. As  in the Prophet Yahweh looks for UFOs during a summoning in Mooresville on Dec. 14. Photo by Hannah Lodge. Old Testament, this article shows that the UFO as usual is causing endless trouble. No bad for something that is not supposed to exist in the first place. We have here the usual pot on the boil: prosecution, threats, conspiracy, accusations and intrigue. It always appears that such a mass of trouble is anomaly-led, and shows our bafflement and WASP paranoia at any whiff of any kind of  transcendentalism. No-one appears to think that their constant request for repeat performances is a vital weapons function of any sceptical group. The extraordinary claim is seen not in terms of its truth, but in terms of  the frequency of its repetition. Thus the extraordinary rarely reaches the mechanized stage of social realization where its eggs hatch out. One or two appearances are not nearly enough for the mechanized reality, if only because such few appearances do not allow the anomaly cannot be product-managed. It appears that a magician (or alchemist) who cannot repeat his effect is no magician at all. Put your hand through a wall once, and everyone calls you an impostor because you cannot do it again!

See my article Managing Mystery in UFO Magazine Vol. 21 No 6. where I suggest that the idea of the false or untrue should be replaced by the idea of the infrequent as against the frequent. Thus we would have a scale of allowances rather than the present idea of absolute facts versus absolute fictions. This is the Fortean view.

CB

 

Military, Intelligence, Political

 

Change of Command Structure in Iraq

 

Was Litvinenko Part of a Nuclear Attack on London?

 

More Spy Poison Found at Sea Food Restaurant

 

The Health Protection Agency today revealed that the Pescatori restaurant, on Dover Street, in central London, had some evidence of polonium-210 contamination. It is not known if Mr Litvinenko, who claimed on his deathbed that he had been poisoned by Russian president Vladimir Putin, visited the restaurant. The Press Association reported the restaurant had been visited by three Russian men who met Mr Litvinenko at the Millennium Hotel in Mayfair on the day he fell ill. "As a result of a recent request from the Metropolitan Police, the Health Protection Agency has carried out monitoring of Pescatori Restaurant in Dover Street, Mayfair, which has been linked to the Litvinenko police investigation," a HPA statement said. The HPA said it did not anticipate "any significant health risk" to staff or customers of the restaurant.

 

·Updates for Sunday January 7th  2007

 

UFO Picked up by Giza Pyramid Web Cam

 

 

New Thinking on the Mooring Stone Theory

Very good detailed articles on these ancient north American stones

with tool marks on them

 

The Kids are now "Platform Agnostics"

 

Nazi Science Part 2

 

Nazi eugenics reconstructed: Dawkins suggests that we should have kept

Saddam Hussein and as an experimental subject. Perhaps Dawkins himself

should have the same treatment.

 

Nazi Science Part 3

 

Detailed article on the dangers and ethics of cloning.

 

Nazi Science Part 4

 

Here's the commercial break:

"Nano technology has been touted as the next revolution in many industries, including food manufacturing, where there may be applications to improve food quality and produce pathogen resistant packaging.
However, carbon nanotubes (CNT), the basis for nanotechnology, have been found to be toxic in certain applications. There has been no long term study on the impact of CNTs on human health.
Concerns that the use of nanotechnology in food packaging products could harm consumers has spurred scientists from the Advanced Materials Department at IPICyT in Mexico to develop a way to reduce the toxicity of CNTs.
Manufacturers and scientists are concerned that CNTs could affect human health by infiltrating the body through contact with the skin or by injegestion or inhalation of commercial products."

 

The Anti-Semitic Double-Face of Scott Ritter

 

Will 2007 be the Hottest Year Ever?

 

Fight Over O'Hare Airport UFO Sighting

 

Peter Davenport, Director of the National UFO Reporting Center, first called in early December and alerted me about this dramatic daylight sighting directly over the middle of Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. He was subsequently able to convince one of the key eyewitnesses who filed the report with the National UFO Reporting Center to appear on my program, anonymously, to tell his story.
The man did so on December 12 during Peter's regular monthly special report and spent nearly an hour eloquently and thoroughly recounting the event in great detail. That remarkable account can be heard in our program Archives.
The eyewitness described a perfect disc that he and a co-worker watched for many minutes hovering at a very low 1900 feet just below the cloud base right over one of the world's busiest airports in broad daylight. The two were ferrying a large United jetliner from one side of O'Hare to the other as they watched the UFO/craft hovering directly above one of the main terminal gates. It was clearly an amazing sight.

 

RADIO: the O'Hare Airport UFO

 

Peter Davenport and witness talk to Jeff Rense about the O'Hare UFO Incident.

Great Radio. Something we do not have here in the Old Curiosity Shop. Some amusement comes when Davenport complains about the media talking about some drug-sodden Hollywood nubile with big tits being the eternal news item instead of the fantastic UFO events he is describing. It will be bad news for Peter when he finds out that the aliens probably have exactly the same problem. What was seen might well be an example of this. It the same the whole cosmos over, its the tits that get the blame!

It is a common assumption by some very bright people that what will step out  eventually from a flying saucer will be the equivalent to some serious-minded Earth bourgeois with a row of pens in its top pocket. A study of early Pacific explorations  tells a very different story. What was usually met with was a half-starved psychopathic bosun, a mad cook, a sick captain, a few half-starved powder-monkeys, and a couple of young Plymouth boys with very sore bottoms. They would be after water, fruit, vegetables, and women, and be ready to hack their way towards such if needs be. So don't expect Noam Chomsky.

Illustrations from Planet SERPO.

 

ETH Theory Resurrected and Hung up to Dry

 

More on O'Hare Incident

 

Military, Intelligence, Political

 

Police Powers given to Private Security Firms in US

 

Rings of War

 

Katrina Bridge Killings

 

 

·Updates for Tuesday January 9th  2007

 

GM Goes Electric with New-Concept Car

 

January 7, 2007
By Jui Chakravorty

DETROIT (Reuters) - Struggling auto giant General Motors Corp. on Sunday revived its once-failed idea of a mass-market electric car, unveiling a new "concept" car called the Volt designed to use little or no gasoline.
Introduced at the North American International Auto Show here, the Chevrolet Volt will draw power exclusively from a next-generation battery pack recharged by a small onboard engine -- if the technology is ready in two or three years.
"We have a thoroughly studied concept, but further battery development will define the critical path to start of production," said Jon Lauckner, a GM vice president for product development.
The Volt is designed to run for 40 miles on pure electric power, making it marketable for everyday family use.
For the average American driver who drives 40 miles a day, or 15,000 miles a year, the Volt will require no fuel and lead to an annual savings of 500 gallons of gasoline, GM said.
Unlike current gas-electric hybrids, which use a parallel system twinning battery power and a combustion engine, the Volt will be driven entirely by electric power.
GM has been stung by criticism that it conspired to kill the EV1, an experimental electric vehicle program it launched in 1996 and killed by 2003. The documentary film "Who Killed the Electric Car?" released last year criticized GM for first developing but then abandoning electric vehicles.
 

consists of set of commercial break one one kind or another, and all trying to out-do one another a far as prime time cultural products are concerned.

 

 

More on the Flatwoods Monster

 

Expedition to Recover Crashed Saucer

 

More Vile Anti-Semitic Evil Screams from the Jeff Rense Site

 

Jeff Rense is a racist neo-Nazi. The word "fascist" does not begin to describe the material he puts on his site. If he did not run a good site for other things than this, the Combat Diaries would not use any of his material.

 

 

Genetic Engineering of Foods: Is Fish Protein In Your Ice Cream?

Reported by: Kathrine Nero
Web Produced by: Laura Hornsby
Posted: 11/06/06 17:32:37

 

Nazi Science Part 4

 

The British government proposes to ban the creation of hybrid human-animal embryos that scientists hope to use to find treatments for degenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's disease. Creating the hybrids, called chimeras, involves taking human DNA from the skin cells of people suffering from the diseases and placing it in an animal egg. The resulting embryo is 99.5 per cent human, giving scientists a source of stem cells for research. There is a shortage of human eggs for researchers to work with in Britain. The nucleus of the animal embryo is removed from the egg, making it little more than a shell, scientists say. Cells are harvested after six days and the embryo is destroyed after two weeks. The mixed embryos are not permitted to grow to maturity. Human-animal hybrids are already outlawed in Canada under the Assisted Human Reproduction Act, and the British government is proposing similar legislation within a year.
 

STOP PRESS

First Austin, now Australia

 

Birds Drop Dead by The Million

 

A major phenomena has occurred over the West Australian coastal town of Esperance. Several thousands of birds, of many different species, have mysteriously dropped dead out of the sky. Investigations by scientists and vetinarians in the West Australian capital of Perth have failed to discover the cause of the mass deaths.
The Australian newspaper says all the residents of flood-devastated Esperance know, is that their 'dawn chorus' of singing birds is missing.
The main casualties are wattle birds, yellow-throated miners, new holland honeyeaters and singing honeyeaters, although some dead crows, hawks and pigeons have also been found.
Wildlife officers, say The Australian, are baffled by the 'catastrophic' event, which the Department of Environment and Conservation said began well before a freak storm last week. On Monday, Esperance, 725 kilometres southeast of Perth, was declared a natural disaster zone. District nature conservation co-ordinator Mike Fitzgerald said the first reports of birds dropping dead in people's yards came in three weeks ago. More than 500 deaths had since been notified. But the calls stopped suddenly last week, reportedly because no birds were left.
'It's very substantial. We estimate several thousand birds are dead, although we don't have a clear number because of the large areas of bushland,' Mr Fitzgerald said.
Birds Australia, the nation's main bird conservation group, said it had not heard of a similar occurrence. 'Not on that scale, and all at the same time, and also the fact that it's several different species,' chief executive Graeme Hamilton said. 'You'd have to call that a most unusual event and one that we'd all have to be concerned about.'
The state Department of Agriculture and Food, which conducted the autopsies, has almost ruled out an infectious process.

 

Military, Intelligence, Political

 

How the US is Losing the PR War in Iraq

Detailed expert view

 

Britons to be scanned for FBI Data Base

 

 

Times online: Israel Making Certain Plans for Nuke Attack on Iran

 

Uzi Mahnaimi, New York and Sarah Baxter, Washington
ISRAEL has drawn up secret plans to destroy Iran’s uranium enrichment facilities with tactical nuclear weapons.
Two Israeli air force squadrons are training to blow up an Iranian facility using low-yield nuclear “bunker-busters”, according to several Israeli military sources. The attack would be the first with nuclear weapons since 1945, when the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Israeli weapons would each have a force equivalent to one-fifteenth of the Hiroshima bomb. Under the plans, conventional laser-guided bombs would open “tunnels” into the targets. “Mini-nukes” would then immediately be fired into a plant at Natanz, exploding deep underground to reduce the risk of radioactive fallout. “As soon as the green light is given, it will be one mission, one strike and the Iranian nuclear project will be demolished,” said one of the sources. The plans, disclosed to The Sunday Times last week, have been prompted in part by the Israeli intelligence service Mossad’s assessment that Iran is on the verge of producing enough enriched uranium to make nuclear weapons within two years.
Israeli military commanders believe conventional strikes may no longer be enough to annihilate increasingly well-defended enrichment facilities. Several have been built beneath at least 70ft of concrete and rock. However, the nuclear-tipped bunker-busters would be used only if a conventional attack was ruled out and if the United States declined to intervene, senior sources said.
Israeli and American officials have met several times to consider military action. Military analysts said the disclosure of the plans could be intended to put pressure on Tehran to halt enrichment, cajole America into action or soften up world opinion in advance of an Israeli attack.
Some analysts warned that Iranian retaliation for such a strike could range from disruption of oil supplies to the West to terrorist attacks against Jewish targets around the world.
Israel has identified three prime targets south of Tehran which are believed to be involved in Iran’s nuclear programme:
Natanz, where thousands of centrifuges are being installed for uranium enrichment
A uranium conversion facility near Isfahan where, according to a statement by an Iranian vice-president last week, 250 tons of gas for the enrichment process have been stored in tunnels
A heavy water reactor at Arak, which may in future produce enough plutonium for a bomb
Israeli officials believe that destroying all three sites would delay Iran’s nuclear programme indefinitely and prevent them from having to live in fear of a “second Holocaust”.
The Israeli government has warned repeatedly that it will never allow nuclear weapons to be made in Iran, whose president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has declared that “Israel must be wiped off the map”.

 

Bigotry Monitor Volume 7 Number 1

 

Volume 7, Number 1
Friday, January 5, 2007
A Weekly Human Rights Newsletter on Antisemitism, Xenophobia, and
Religious Persecution in the Former Communist World and Western Europe
EDITOR: CHARLES FENYVESI
(News and Editorial Policy within the sole discretion of the editor)
Published by UCSJ: Union of Councils for Jews in the Former Soviet Union

 

RUSSIAN ‘NATIONALISM GONE MAINSTREAM.’ “Nationalism has been on the rise
in Russia, and now it appears it's out on patrol,” correspondent Alex
Rodriguez wrote in the “Chicago Tribune” of December 31, 2006. On a recent
Sunday morning, he reported, “three busloads of Russian teenagers wearing
green armbands emblazoned with the word ‘Locals’ stormed into a bustling
pr