Walkout over Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Zionist rant

FRANCE today led a walkout of delegations, including Australia, to protest a fiery speech by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to the UN General Assembly. Read the full story

U.S. to push for new economic world order at G20

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States will urge world leaders this week to launch a new push in November to rebalance the world economy, but there are doubts national governments will bow to external advice. Read the full story

(CNN) — Scientists have discovered the first confirmed Earth-like planet outside our solar system, they announced Wednesday.

“This is the first confirmed rocky planet in another system,” astronomer Artie Hatzes told CNN, contrasting the solid planet with gaseous ones like Jupiter and Saturn. Read the full story

By Dr. James Howenstine, MD.
December 7, 2003
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Dr. James R. Shannon, former director of the National institute of health declared, “the only safe vaccine is one that is never used.”

Cowpox vaccine was believed able to immunize people against smallpox. At the time this vaccine was introduced, there was already a decline in the number of cases of smallpox. Japan introduced compulsory vaccination in 1872. In 1892 there were 165,774 cases of smallpox with 29,979 deaths despite the vaccination program. A stringent compulsory smallpox vaccine program, which prosecuted those refusing the vaccine, was instituted in England in 1867. Within 4 years 97.5 % of persons between 2 and 50 had been vaccinated. The following year England experienced the worst smallpox epidemic[1] in its history with 44,840 deaths. Between 1871 and 1880 the incidence of smallpox escalated from 28 to 46 per 100,000. The smallpox vaccine does not work. Read the full story

The State Department said it would meet one-to-one with Pyongyang negotiators in an effort to persuade the reclusive Stalinist state to return to multilateral talks on dismantling its nuclear weapons programme.

Washington has also accepted a vague Iranian offer of talks on broad national security issues, even though Tehran refused to discuss its illicit atomic operations.

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In recent weeks intelligence officials in Germany have been inundated with a rush of terror-threat warnings, NEWSWEEK has learned. But investigators are not sure how much of the information is genuine, and suspect some sources are making up stories in an effort to scam money out of German spy and law enforcement agencies nervous about a possible attack in the run up to the country’s Sept. 27 elections.

Intelligence that has been flowing into German counterterrorism units includes jihadist video messages, electronic “chatter,” and information from informants who claim to have specific details about impending strikes. The video messages are among the most alarming indicators, said a European counterterrorism official, who like others quoted in this article, asked for anonymity when discussing sensitive information. Especially disturbing is the number of videos that make specific threats against Germany, the official said, noting that it is much higher than in the past.

European and American counterterrorism officials say that they are concerned about the possibility that jihadists may see Germany’s national elections, in which the future of Christian Democrat Chancellor Angela Merkel’s coalition government with Social Democrats is at stake, as an opportunity to make a political statement. The officials believe jihadists may see potential parallels between the preelection period in Germany and the period before the jihadist bombings of commuter trains in Madrid on March 11, 2004.

The Madrid attacks, which killed more than 190 people and injured nearly 10 times that many, were launched only a few days before national elections were to take place in Spain. Before the bombings, polls indicated that the conservative prime minister, José María Aznar, was slightly favored to win reelection. After the attacks, however, voters swept Aznar from office and installed as prime minister his socialist challenger, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. Some German investigators worry that, even though would-be terrorists may harbor no specific grievance against Merkel or her coalition partners, they might want to attack before the election simply to demonstrate that they have the power to influence the outcome. It is unclear, however, whether the Germans have received any intelligence indicating that any such plot is in the works.

A U.S. counterterrorism official said that, based on the volume of intelligence, there is as much concern about a possible attack in the weeks after the election. A European counterterrorism official said that some of the intelligence the Germans have collected details the timing and location of possible preelection attacks. Law enforcement agencies are giving these threat alerts special attention. However, most, if not all, of the information the intel agencies received fell apart when authorities launched intense inquiries. Investigators now suspect that the information about specific attacks may well have been fabricated by informants to defraud intelligence officers, who are often willing to hand out generous payments to tipsters for hot tips about impending attacks.

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