Venezuela supports proposal to sell oil in eurosVenezuela has backed a proposal to sell oil in euros instead of U.S. dollars, Energy and Mines Minister Rafael Ramirez said on Thursday.
In an interview with state television, Ramirez said "Iran has an initiative that we support. They are going to start to do oil transactions in euros."
The remarks came ahead of a meeting of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) in Venezuela's capital on the same day.
Ramirez, who is also the presid... (more)
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Former CIA Analyst Says Iran Strike Possibly Set For June Or JulyPaul Joseph Watson
Former CIA analyst and Presidential advisor Ray McGovern, fresh from his heated public confrontation with Donald Rumsfeld, fears that staged terror attacks across Europe and the US are probable in order to justify the Bush administration's plan to launch a military strike against Iran, which he thinks will take place in June or July.
Appearing on The Alex Jones Show,... (more)
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Spiegel Interview With Iran's President Ahmadinejad"We Are Determined"
In an interview with SPIEGEL, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad discusses the Holocaust, the future of the state of Israel, mistakes made by the United States in Iraq and Tehran's nuclear dispute with the West.
SPIEGEL: Mr. President, you are a soccer fan and you like to play soccer. Will you be sitting in the stadium in Nuremberg on June 11, when the Iranian national team plays against Mexico in Germany?
Ahmadinejad: It... (more)
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Law bans travel to `terrorist states'TALLAHASSEE - Colleges and universities in Florida now are banned from using state money to travel to such countries as Cuba under a law Gov. Jeb Bush signed Tuesday.
The Travel to Terrorist States Act also prohibits a state-paid school from spending any money -- public or private -- on any aspect of organizing a trip to any of the five nations listed by the U.S. State Department as a state sponsor of terror.
Miami Republican Rep. David Rivera, who has sponsored a n... (more)
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EU court blocks data deal with USThe European Court of Justice has blocked an EU-US agreement that allows European airline passenger data to be transferred to the US authorities.
The Luxembourg court said there was no legal basis for the EU decision to declare US data protection "adequate".
European airlines have been obliged to give US authorities passengers' names, addresses and credit card details.
The measure - opposed by the European Parliament - was designed to help prevent acts o... (more)
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Palestinians: IDF chopper attacked rescue workersAmbulance driver Khaled Abu Saada tells Ynet that during IDF operation in Beit Lahiya army helicopter launched missile at rescue workers as they were evacuating dead, wounded. ‘I do not know for certain whether the missile was meant to kill us or warn us to keep away – but it was definitely aimed in our direction,’ he says
Palestinian ambulance driver Khaled Abu Saada told Ynet that during the IDF operation in Beit Lahiya the army launched a missile at rescue ... (more)
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Fighting in the Shadows: Battles rage near the scene of 'Black Hawk Down'—and a covert American hand is tied to the warlords.June 5, 2006 issue - Mogadishu is a place most Americans would rather forget. During the 1990s, the "Black Hawk Down" debacle symbolized the dangers of dabbling in far-off lands we don't understand. TV images of a half-stripped GI being dragged through the dust by gleeful Somalis—he was one of 18 U.S. Army Rangers killed in a botched effort to arrest a warlord—became an emblem of American vulnerability. But Mogadishu, it seems, won't be forgotten. Somalia is erupting in violence agai... (more)
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As Bush admits making mistakes over Iraq, Blair offers a 'new world vision'Flashback: Blair calls for a "New World Order"
Tony Blair last night challenged the world to unite around a policy of "progressive pre-emption" as he sought to shore up his legacy by linking the invasion of Iraq to a range of problems, from global warming and poverty to immigration.
In a speech in Washington just hours after he and President George W Bush made strikingly frank admissio... (more)
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Mass Amnesty And The End Of AmericaListen as Alex Jones outlines the literal end of America following the Senate passage of Bush's mass amnesty program.
Download the MP3 here.
THE KEY POINTS
- The plan is the biggest amnesty ever and legalizes 25 to 30 million illegal immigrants (not the 14 million as reported).
- Rampant illegal immigration and its promotion by the US government is part of a stated agenda... (more)
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U-turn by White House as it blocks direct talks with IranThe White House yesterday ruled out previously authorised direct talks between Tehran and the US ambassador in Baghdad, which were to have focused on the situation in Iraq. The move marks a hardening of the Bush administration's position, despite pressure from the international community to enter into direct dialogue with Iran.
A White House official said that although the US envoy had originally been granted a mandate for talks with Iran, "we have decided not to pursue it."
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Iranian nuclear weapons 'inevitable'It is all but impossible to stop Iran developing nuclear weapons, a leading British think-tank said yesterday, as the world's powers struggled to find a common strategy to face the threat.
Senior officials from the US, Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China closeted themselves at a secret location in London to negotiate a package of "incentives" for Iran to halt its nuclear programme.
But the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) suggested that ne... (more)
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Bush not sure Iran wants solution to N-disputeLONDON, May 24 (IranMania) - US President George W Bush expressed doubts that Iran wants a negotiated solution to the dispute over its nuclear programme, AFP said.
Iran's alleged efforts to acquire a nuclear weapon was one of the key topics at a White House summit between Bush and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.
The US leader renewed a vow to defend Israel against any attack by Iran, while Olmert said US efforts to take action against Iran at the United Nations ... (more)
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Iran Requests Direct Talks on Nuclear ProgramIran has followed President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's recent letter to President Bush with explicit requests for direct talks on its nuclear program, according to U.S. officials, Iranian analysts and foreign diplomats.
The eagerness for talks demonstrates a profound change in Iran's political orthodoxy, emphatically erasing a taboo against contact with Washington that has both defined and confined Tehran's public foreign policy for more than a quarter-century, they said.
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Iran nuclear offer bid 'progress'Talks on a package of incentives for Iran to give up its controversial nuclear programme are reported to have made "good progress" in London.
The package was "coming into form both on the incentive side and the disincentive side," said State Department spokesman Sean McCormack.
More discussions between permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany were likely, he said.
Meanwhile the US has rejected Iran's call for direct talks on the iss... (more)
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Sources: 'Iran believes Israel to strike within year'JERUSALEM – Iran estimates Israel will strike Tehran's nuclear facilities within a year, and has been planning retaliatory attacks against Israeli, American and British interests, according to senior Lebanese political sources.
The sources, speaking to WorldNetDaily on condition of anonymity, said Iran believes Israel has been practicing raids in Iraq. They said Tehran has held a series of meetings with leaders of the Hezbollah terror group – based along Lebanon's bor... (more)
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Cold War Not OverThe Cold War is over. The Soviet empire has collapsed. The West has won. The countries of the former Eastern Bloc have nearly all turned to democracy and many have even joined NATO and the European Union. Nuclear weapons (at least some of them) have been dismantled. The world is a far safer place now. Or is it?
True, the demise of the Soviet Union and the destruction of hundreds of nuclear weapons, those left behind in the former Soviet republics, such as Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, T... (more)
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Report: China claims its tech can detect U.S. stealth jetsChina’s military claims it has developed technology to detect U.S. F-22 jet fighters.
The F-22 is the newest Air Force jetfighter equipped with radar-evading stealth characteristics. The first jets entered service last year.
According to a report from a weapons research institute in China, the Chinese military has developed “a number” of technologies that can be used to detect and attack stealth jets.
The U.S. military pioneered the... (more)
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Banks join US curbs on IranThe Bush administration has persuaded four of Europe's largest banks to start breaking off contacts with Iran as Washington pushes for anti-Iranian sanctions by "the back door", it emerged yesterday.
Citing anti-terrorist laws the United States Treasury and the State Department are strengthening their efforts for banks in the Middle East, America and Europe to cut their links with Iran.
Banks with branches and headquarters on US soil have in the past faced huge... (more)
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Russia Troubled by U.S. Plans to Establish ’Star Wars’ Bases in EuropeRussian senior officials voice concern about U.S. plans to build an anti-missile defense system in central Europe. Washington claims that anti-missile site in Europe is needed to stop a ballistic missile threat from Iran, while Moscow charges U.S. with intension to expand it’s presence in the ex-Warsaw Pact nation.
“Go ahead and build that shield. You have to think, though, what will fall on your heads afterwards. I do not foresee a nuclear conflict between Russia and... (more)
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The Plan to Replace the Dollar With the 'Amero'The idea to form the North American Union as a super-NAFTA knitting together Canada, the United States and Mexico into a super-regional political and economic entity was a key agreement resulting from the March 2005 meeting held at Baylor University in Waco, Tex., between President Bush, President Fox and Prime Minister Martin.
A joint statement published by the three preside... (more)
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South Korea's Conservative Party Chairwoman Slashed in Knife AttackMain opposition leader Park Geun-hye was in stable condition Sunday after an assailant slashed her face with a box cutter on the campaign trail in Seoul a day earlier. Park sustained an 11-cm long cut to her face from ear to jaw that required 60 stitches and two hours of surgery, officials at Yonsei University's Severance Hospital in Seoul said. They predict it will be several months before the Grand National party chairwoman can speak normally again.
Park was attacked by a man id... (more)
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