1-28-06

Anti-Christ and US Supreme Court Rule World

Chalabi, Chalabi, Chalabi

Ahmed Chalabi is working for Israel/USA and the zioni$t$. Chalabi's job is to deceive Iran to think Iran is not going to be attacked by Israel/USA. Isn't this the time of year the USA usually attacks and invades Mid East countries? Yes. So what are Israel and the USA waiting for before they attack Iran? Senate approval of Samuel Alito as a US Supreme Court Justice. Once Alito is a US Supreme Court Justice the antichrist knows he can rule the world with death, hatred and evil and the US Supreme Court will approve his every injustice.

The zioni$t bad guy plan is for the Little George Administration to rule the world as a communi$t totalitarian Police State with Little George, who is the antichrist as depicted in the Book of Revelations, its Dictator and all powerful Beast with ten horns. A new US Supreme Court is immerging bent on making the world a zioni$t communi$t Police state with the addition of Roberts and Alito, and together with rigged Diabold DRE voting machines this evil bunch will obtain the power it needs to steal, abuse, and rule with greed, hatred and feed on the wealth of nations.

The first act of Big George's zioni$t evil New World Order will be to carpet bomb and destroy Iran's mosques and houses of worship using nuclear bombs. Ben Netanyahu is responsible for Ariel Sharon's stroke. NYC zioni$t$ feel Netanyahu is dirtier and more evil and Netanyahu will bring more death, kill more fine USA soldiers, and cause more destruction to the world than Sharon so the NYC zioni$t$ gave Sharon a stroke.

zioni$t$ are responsible for crashing the jet carrying the Commander of Iran's elite military and killed him and his top officers in an effort to anger Iran to lash out and attack Israel. Expect more dirty deeds from Israel to start their nuclear Holocaust. The zioni$t$ may kill Grand Ayatullah Ali Sistani in Iraq in an effort to start the killing of more USA kids in the military in Iraq.

Karl Rove is out of the closet because he knows that Little George with the US Supreme Court in his back pocket has now made Pat Fitzgerald a harmless toothless tiger. Karl Rove will try to sell the USA nuking Iran and the death of our brave kids in the military as a good thing to re-elect Republicans to the USA Congress in November and Rove knows he has rigged Diabold voting machines on his side.

Logic dictates Big George and the zioni$t bad guys had William Rehnquist murdered and Rehnquist did not die of natural causes. al Zarqawi is a code name for one or both of Saddam Hussein's sons and the zioni$t$ give Zarqawi money to levy war against the states.

Sharp Global Economic Slowdown Behind Israel/USA Attack of Iran

General Motors and Ford Motor Company are closing plants because business is slow. Banks and companies are merging because business is slow and companies hide their financial problems behind mergers. Should the price of gasoline and oil increase in a slowing economy? No. So what is going on? The bad guys are trying to make people think the economy is in good shape when it is not. The bad guys want all the money and the 99.9 percent of the people on the planet destitute. This takes deception. If the bad guys can fool us into thinking the economy is in good shape the people will continue feeding the bad guys' Ponzi economy.

When Israel/USA attack Iran its real reason for the bombing and invasion of Iran will have nothing to do with Iran's militarism. Iran is not killing anyone. Israel has nuclear weapons and has been selling the world's terrorists nuclear weapons, not Iran. Israel/USA will attack Iran to steal Iran's assets, mainly oil. zioni$t$ feed on the wealth of nations and their greed has reached the extreme that Israel will use nuclear force to steal the money of other countries. The USA attacked Iraq to steal Iraq's assets, mainly oil. The United States is broke and the USA is attacking counties to steal the wealth of other countries to keep the United States from going bankrupt. The USA is run by zioni$t$ who believe in the Bible verse Isaiah 61.5. zioni$t$ want to make slaves of Americans. zioni$t$ want to makes slaves of all people on the planet. zioni$t$ feed on the wealth of nations.

Isaiah 61.5
Aliens will shepherd your
flocks;
foreigners will work your fields and vineyards.
And you will be called priests
of the Lord,
you will be named ministers
of our God.
You will feed on the wealth of nations,
and in their riches you will
boast.

zioni$t$ and bad guys infected the planet with AIDS to help them steal money in Africa and in other places on the planet and promote racism. AIDS is an example of the extreme evil the Book of Revelations predicted.

The reason behind September 11, invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, carpet bombing and mosque destruction in Iran is

zioni$t$ manipulate interest rates way, way up

The following comes from a news article during the week of January 23, 2006.

A surge in oil prices last week to almost $70 a barrel on concerns about the restart of Iran's nuclear program only hints at what may lie ahead. Prices could soar past $100 a barrel, experts say, if the U.N. Security Council authorizes trade sanctions against the Middle Eastern nation, which the West accuses of trying to make nuclear bombs, and Iran curbs oil exports in retaliation. A sharp global economic slowdown could follow.

Iran is not going to curb its oil exports when attacked by Israel/USA. zioni$t$ will blame Iran for high oil prices when high oil prices will be the result of zioni$t$ making war on Iran. What is going to curb Iran's oil exports is Israel/USA bombing Iran's oil infrastructure. If oil prices were $8.00 per barrel and gasoline was selling for .90 cents a gallon people would know the world economy is slow and interest rates would stay low. Oil prices of $250.00 per barrel will send interest rates through the roof where zioni$t$ will park their money. The reason the zioni$t$ manipulated September 11, the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, and now the imminent carpet bombing and mosque destruction in Iran, is to get interest rates way, way up.

Gasoline costs push inflation at the wholesale level up

WASHINGTON -- Soaring gasoline costs pushed inflation at the wholesale level up sharply in December, ending a year in which wholesale inflation rose at the fastest pace since 1990.

The Labor Department reported that its Producer Price Index, which measures price pressures before they reach the consumer, rose 0.9 percent in December, the biggest increase since a 1.7 percent jump in September. The culprit in both months was a big surge in gasoline costs, which spiked above $3 per gallon in early September.

For all of 2005, wholesale prices rose by 5.4 percent. That was the biggest increase since a 5.7 percent increase in 1990, and another year in which surging oil costs pushed inflation higher.

The increase was expected to keep the Federal Reserve on a path of gradually moving interest rates higher to make sure that energy price pressures do not spill over into more broadbased inflation problems.

Analysts believe the Fed will boost a key interest rate for a 14th time when officials next meet on Jan. 31, which will be Alan Greenspan's last meeting as chairman. Another quarter-point hike is expected in March at the first meeting where Ben Bernanke will preside as chairman.

Economists believe economic growth slowed sharply in the final three months of 2005, reflecting a big dropoff in the growth of consumer spending, which accounts for two-thirds of total economic activity.

Demand was flat at specialty clothing stores and fell by 0.3 percent at department stores and other general merchandise stores.

Energy costs were up 3.1 percent in December, with the gain led by a 12.3 percent rise in gasoline prices, the biggest one-month jump since a 12.7 percent increase in September.

Food costs rose by 0.9 percent in December, the biggest increase since a 1.4 percent jump in September. Vegetable prices were up 21.7 percent, reflecting higher costs for cauliflower, lettuce, eggplant, broccoli and tomatoes. Beef prices were up 2.4 percent but the price of processed chickens fell by 4 percent.

The 5.4 percent increase for wholesales prices for all of 2005 followed a 4.1 percent 2004 increase. Both gains were the biggest since a 5.7 percent rise in 1990, a year when Iraq's invasion of Kuwait sent global energy prices soaring.

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Jan. 13, 2006, 1:25AM
AUTO INDUSTRY
Ford's fight
Investors worry about lost market share as company tries another restructuring

Four years after becoming chief executive officer of the company his great-grandfather founded, William Clay Ford Jr. is fighting for credibility with investors and analysts as Ford Motor Co. introduces new cars and trucks and prepares to unveil a restructuring plan.

Moody's Investors Service this week downgraded Ford's last investment-grade unit, its car-loan division, to junk and cut its rating on the parent company's debt further below investment grade. Standard & Poor's lowered its junk rating on Ford last week, saying it had "increased skepticism" the company can turn around its North America operations.

The No. 2 U.S. automaker's failure to hold its own against competitors led by General Motors Corp. and Toyota Motor Corp. is forcing Bill Ford to close plants. The restructuring he plans to announce Jan. 23, his second as CEO, follows a decade-long drop in Ford's market share; it lost its status as the best-selling car brand in the U.S. last year to GM's Chevrolet.

Shares of the Dearborn, Mich.-based company have fallen 42 percent since the first restructuring plan was announced four years ago, including a 47 percent decline last year. As of Wednesday, Ford had the lowest average analyst rating of stocks in the Standard & Poor's 500 Index.

The company cut 33,811 jobs worldwide, or 9.4 percent of its work force, from 2002 through 2004, according to its U.S. regulatory filings. Ford Motor projected it would cut 10,000 jobs in 2005.

Ford began firing contract workers last month and will cut 4,000 salaried jobs by the end of this quarter. Ford already plans to close a Windsor, Ontario, casting plant that makes engine parts, part of a three-year contract with the Canadian Auto Workers reached in September. That plant employs about 575 people.

Russian Expert Says Israel Likely to Bomb Iran in Spring

Israel could launch a missile attack on Iran in the upcoming spring, Director of the Russian Political Research Institute Sergei Markov was quoted by Interfax as saying Saturday.

This move, however, would create serious problems for Israel, Markov said. “This would lead to a significant destabilization of the situation in the Middle East, including a dramatic increase in attacks by Islamists on Israel,” he said.

Saddam's judge is accused of being leading Baathist

THE newly appointed chief judge in the trial of Saddam Hussein was accused yesterday of having been a senior member of Saddam’s Baath party.

Judge al-Hammashi was named last week to head the five-judge panel, which is scheduled to hold its next hearing tomorrow, after the president of the court, Judge Rizgar Amin, quit abruptly. Judge al-Hammashi and 18 other members of the Iraqi Special Tribunal have been accused of having held Baath party ranks.“We have documents for 19 of them, including eight judges and other members of the court, linking them to the Baath party,” Mr al-Shami said. Among their number was Raad Juhi, the former head of the tribunal, who now leads the prosecution.

zioni$t$ are on the side of Baathist and Saddam Hussein. Why? Baathist and Saddam Hussein are communi$t$ just as zioni$t$ are communi$t$. Baathist are against Iran and the zioni$t$ are against Iran.

zioni$t Down Iranian Jet, Iranian Commander Killed

zioni$t$ crashed an Iranian jet killing the Commander of Iran's elite military in an effort to anger Iran to attack Israel. zioni$t$ are on the planet to feed on the wealth of nations and bring hate and misery in the world. zioni$t$ hate God, and live to manipulate the deaths of our brave Gentile soldiers. Israel knows if it does enough dirty deeds to Iran Iran will lash out and attack Israel. If Iran attacks Israel then Israel/USA will carpet bomb Iran and blow up all of Iran's mosques and houses of worship. Expect more dirty deeds from the zioni$t$ to provoke war with Iran. I expect the zioni$t's will attempt to kill Grand Ayatullah Ali Sistani, the head of the Shiite religion in Iraq, soon in an effort to start a nuclear Holocaust. Why all the zioni$t manipulated evil? zioni$t are lazy and feed on the wealth of nations for their existence. The zioni$t$ have been selling nuclear bombs to their adversaries in an effort to get their adversaries to attack them, Israel. Make sense? Ben Netanyahu and other zioni$t$ gave Ariel Sharon a stroke for the same reason the zioni$t$ downed the Iranian jet. Start a nuclear Holocaust to hyper inflate and raise interest rates so zioni$t$ can feed on the wealth of nations through high interest rates. Why do the zioni$t$ want Netanyahu to run Israel rather than Sharon. zioni$t$ feel Netanyahu is dirtier and a bigger racist and more hate filled than Sharon and Netanyahu will help lazy zioni$t$ raise world interest rates so zioni$t$ can feed on the wealth of the world more than Sharon can.

The zioni$t$ want interest rates way up and know if zioni$t$ manipulate a nuclear holocaust oil prices will go way up as will interest rates. When zioni$t$ manipulate interest rates to 30 percent or so they will put massive amounts of cash in high interest rate accounts and feed on the wealth of the nations.

Dr. Felix Umansky updating the media on Ariel Sharon's condition at Hadassah Hospital on Monday. (Tomer Appelbaum/bauBau)

Doctor: PM's blood pressure rose when his son spoke to him

"He didn't open his eyes, but when Gilad [the prime minister's son] spoke to him ... his blood pressure rose immediately," Umanski told Channel Two Television.

Doctors at Hadassah University Hospital were lowering Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's sedation to a "minimal" level Wednesday night, in a further effort to awaken him gradually from the coma in which he has lain since his massive stroke and brain hemorrhage seven days ago, Army Radio reported.

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zioni$t$ responsible

Jet crash kills commander of elite Iranian ground forces

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A small military jet crashed in northwestern Iran on Monday, killing the commander of the ground forces of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards and at least 12 other people, state media said.
The plane, which belongs to the Revolutionary Guards, was landing at Oroumieh, located 560 miles northwest of the capital, Tehran.

Gen. Ahmad Kazemi, commander of the ground forces of the Revolutionary Guards, was among the 11 military officers killed in the crash, the Islamic Republic News Agency reported, quoting Guards spokesman Gen. Masoud Jazayeri.

State television said 11 passengers and two crewmembers were killed. However, state radio said the plane had a crew of three. The discrepancy could not be immediately explained.

There was no immediate word on the cause of the crash but logic dictates zioni$t$ were responsible for the crash in the hope it would lead to the deaths of more American kids.

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15 Reasons Why Iran Will Be Nuked

To do the utmost to try to prevent it, we need to be reasonably certain that it will happen if we don't act. Below I summarize 15 reasons, many discussed in more detail in previous columns. The links provide support for the assertions made.

These reasons taken together indicate both that U.S. military action (aerial bombing) against Iran is exceedingly probable and that military action without the use of nuclear bombs is exceedingly improbable.

The diplomatic path being followed by the Bush administration in regard to Iran's nuclear ambitions does not appear to be designed to lead to diplomatic compromise: rather, it appears designed to reach a diplomatic impasse.
The "nuclear posture" and "nuclear doctrine" [.pdf] recently adopted by the U.S. envisage nuclear strikes on non-nuclear countries that fit the Iran pattern.
Iran stands accused by the U.S. of possession of WMD (chemical and biological), of pursuing nuclear weapons, of possessing threatening missiles, of being the prime sponsor of terror [.pdf] among the world's nations, and of being an enemy of the United States.
A doctrine of preemption has been adopted by the administration against potential threats to the U.S., one already put into practice in the case of Iraq.
There are underground targets in Iran (nuclear facilities [1], [2], missile silos and production facilities, suspected chemical and biological facilities) against which the use of nuclear bombs would be more effective than conventional bombs.
Earth-penetrating nuclear bombs (B61-11) were incorporated into the U.S. stockpile in September 2001, according to the Congressional Research Service Report to Congress of October 2005 [.pdf]. Some of these are very low yield and will cause small collateral damage.
If a military confrontation with Iran starts, 150,000 U.S. troops in Iraq will be at risk of Iranian missiles and of potentially overwhelming conventional Iranian forces. Early use of nuclear weapons may deter Iran from responding to an aerial attack.
The "legal" framework to support the nuking of Iran has been put in place: (a) the IAEA's Sept. 24 declaration of Iran's noncompliance with the NPT, which allows the U.S. to nuke Iran "legally," and (b) several UN resolutions adopted under Chapter VII that the U.S. can claim apply to Iran.
The people in the upper levels of the Bush administration (Cheney, Rumsfeld, Hadley, and the other "nuclear hitmen") can be expected, given their record, to be strongly in favor of the use of nuclear weapons against Iran.
There is no indication that anybody in the upper levels of the administration recognizes the potentially catastrophic consequences of using low-yield nuclear weapons against Iran.
Israel and its influential lobbies in the United States are applying pressure on the U.S. to act to stop Iran's nuclear program.
Various reports indicate that U.S. preparations for an air strike on Iran are ongoing (Philip Giraldi, William Arkin, Seymour Hersh, recent news). The U.S. recently issued a warning for U.S. citizens not to travel to Iran.
Iran's growing role as a regional power is incompatible with Cheney's strategic plan for a one-superpower world.
The Bush administration wishes to establish the value of the U.S. nuclear arsenal to "dissuade" and "deter" adversaries from pursuing paths contrary to U.S. interests.
The president as commander in chief has sole authority (without consulting Congress) to initiate hostilities against Iran and to order the use of nuclear weapons against Iran. The responsibility to save American lives is foremost among the duties of the chief executive.
Low-Yield Nukes for High Crimes

The B61-11 nuclear earth-penetrator has yields that reportedly range from 0.3 kilotons to 340 kilotons and can penetrate up to 7 meters into the ground before detonation. The following are some of the conclusions of a 2005 National Academy of Sciences study [.pdf] on nuclear earth-penetrators tasked by Congress:

Many important hard, deeply buried targets (HDBT) are beyond the reach of conventional explosive penetrating weapons and can be destroyed only with nuclear weapons.
Nuclear earth-penetrators need to penetrate only a few meters to achieve maximum effectiveness for destruction of underground facilities.
The yield required of a nuclear weapon to destroy an HDBT is 15 to 25 times smaller if the weapon is detonated a few meters below the surface than if it is detonated at the surface.
For attacks on HDBTs in remote, lightly populated areas, casualties can range from as few as hundreds at low yields to hundreds of thousands at high yields.
For urban targets, civilian casualties from a nuclear earth-penetrator weapon are less by a factor of 2 to 10 than those from a surface burst having 25 times the yield.
So for a quick estimate, the yield of the Hiroshima bomb was 15 kilotons and it killed about 100,000 people. According to the numbers given above, a 0.3 kiloton bomb (factor of 50 smaller) detonated below the surface (up to a factor of 10 smaller effect) would kill only 200 people, "small" collateral damage.

According to the aforementioned Congressional Research Service Report of October 2005, the B61-11 entered the nuclear stockpile in the year 2001. Many of Iran's facilities are underground and probably require nuclear weapons to be completely destroyed, e.g., parts of the Natanz site for uranium enrichment and the underground tunnels at the Isfahan uranium reprocessing facility. Iran's ballistic-missile production facilities and some missile silos are reportedly underground.

The yield of the B61-11 bomb is in doubt: the Nuclear Posture Review describes it as a "single-yield weapon," and recent reports indicate that the yield is 400 kilotons. However, we know that "every current U.S. nuclear weapon has one or more low-yield settings." According to Bob Peurifoy, a former Sandia labs weapons-design manager, "I know how to give you most of those [low] yields today with a pair of wire cutters and a wrench." Information on nuclear weapons' yields is classified

The 1998 Rumsfeld report (by the Commission to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat to the United States, tasked by Congress) asserted the following:

Iran has acquired and is seeking major, advanced missile components that can be combined to produce ballistic missiles with sufficient range to strike the United States.
Iran is developing weapons of mass destruction.
Iran has a nuclear energy and weapons program and aims to design, develop, and produce nuclear weapons.
If Iran were to accumulate enough fissile material from foreign sources, it might be able to develop a nuclear weapon in only one to three years.
Iran also has an active chemical weapons development and production program.
Iran is conducting research into biological weapons.
You don't have to believe all of those claims (I don't). But you had better believe that Donald Rumsfeld believes them, and he has his finger on the trigger!

Premeditation Shows Criminal Intent

The Bush administration will present the nuking of Iran as a "grave decision," the "gravest decision" a president ever had to make, reached after much "agonizing," necessary to save American, Israeli, Iraqi, and Iranian lives. In order to appreciate the magnitude of the crime, we must understand that this is not so; it is a premeditated act, and the elements to make it happen were carefully and methodically assembled over many years. Let us review some key pieces of evidence:

The IAEA vote. The U.S. pursued a declaration of Iran's noncompliance for several years. The U.S. finally succeeded in getting the very weak Sept. 24, 2005, resolution passed, which has no practical consequences other than allowing for the U.S. to use nuclear weapons against Iran "legally." The relentless pursuit of this declaration over several years, and making ElBaradei's reappointment conditional on it [1], [2], [3], was motivated by the exclusion clause in the 1995 negative security assurance, and indicates that the decision to nuke Iran was made several years ago.
Executive Order 13292 was issued March 2003, making the items "weapons of mass destruction" and "defense against transnational terrorism" classified. When the public finally learns that the administration had classified information about these items (shared with selected members of Congress, including Democrats), which justified the forward deployment of nuclear weapons in the Persian Gulf, it will be clear that the executive order was made so that this information could be kept classified and not subject to public scrutiny, thus also indicating that the decision to nuke Iran was made several years ago.
StratCom news release. The Strategic Command news release of Nov. 18, 2005, which stated that its "global strike" plan (already leaked earlier) had reached "operational capability," had one clear purpose: to remind China and Russia that they are in the U.S. crosshairs, and that any intervention by them in response to the U.S. strikes on Iran will be met with a "nuclear preemptive strike."
Hadley's appointment. Stephen Hadley, a nuclear weapons "enthusiast," was appointed deputy national security adviser in 2001. As a consequence, he could be moved smoothly and silently to the key position of national security adviser in the second Bush term with very little media attention (though it did get some). This indicates that the plan was in place as far back as 2001.
John Bolton and other "nuclear warriors." John Bolton's appointment as ambassador to the UN, against extraordinary bipartisan opposition, bypassing Congress, placing him in a position where he clearly does not belong, does not appear to make sense. It is understandable, however, if the reason for the appointment was that he would be the best person to defend the U.S. nuking of Iran at the UN. Several other "nuclear warriors" were placed in key positions at the beginning of the second Bush administration, positions that do not require special expertise in nuclear weapons. The use of nuclear weapons was apparently a given for the second Bush term.
Nuclear Posture Review. The "leaking" of carefully selected "excerpts" of the Nuclear Posture Review of 2002 was a deliberate effort to prepare the nation and the world for the nuking of Iran, several years before it was to take place.
NSPD 35. The classified presidential directive that, as we will learn soon enough, authorizes the deployment of tactical nuclear weapons in the Persian Gulf, was signed in May 2004.
B61-11. The development and deployment of the B61-11 nuclear bunker-buster gathered momentum around 1995, at the same time that the U.S. began voicing serious concerns about Iran's nuclear program and Clinton imposed an economic embargo on Iran.
Accusations against Iran. Accusations with no basis in reality have built up over many years. The "nuclear" aspect was always emphasized so that the public would accept the nuking of Iran. In particular, the baseless assertions in the 1998 Rumsfeld report that (1) "[Iran] has a nuclear energy and weapons program, which aims to design, develop, and as soon as possible produce nuclear weapons," (2) "Iran has acquired and is seeking major, advanced missile components that can be combined to produce ballistic missiles with sufficient range to strike the United States," and (3) "[Iran] might be able to develop a nuclear weapon in only one to three years" are meant to prepare Congress and the public for a nuclear strike on Iran.
Invasion of Iraq. The U.S. invasion of Iraq makes no sense in isolation; in fact, it has left Iran in a much stronger position in the region. Iran is the real regional power that can challenge U.S. interests in the long term, but in order to attack Iran in 2006, the 2003 invasion of Iraq was a necessary prelude. Preparations for the Iraq invasion, and hence for the Iran attack, began at least as far back as 2001.
All of this evidence indicates substantial planning and premeditation. A well-established principle in criminal law dictates that substantial planning and premeditation is a severe aggravating circumstance.

Why Nuking Iran Will Be Catastrophic

None of the accusations leveled at Iran by the U.S. are facts, other than that Iran has a substantial missile arsenal with missiles that can reach Israel (Shahab-3). Iran claims its missiles are for defensive purposes against regional enemies and, in particular, a deterrent against Israel. This is certainly not unbelievable given that Iran was attacked by Iraq in the '80s, and Israel has repeatedly threatened to strike against Iran's nuclear facilities. It should be remembered that Iran has never launched an aggressive war in modern times.

To get a vivid snapshot of the stark contrast in the mindsets of the adversaries involved, visit the following two Web sites [1], [2]: At [1], from the Federation of American Scientists, we "learn" that

Isfahan is said to be the primary location of the Iranian nuclear weapons program.
Isfahan is also reportedly the site of Iran's largest missile assembly and production plant.
Isfahan is said to be one of Iran's major chemical weapons facilities.
Isfahan area is a major center for Iran's advanced defense industry.
The main operational facilities for the army's aviation units are located at Isfahan.
At [2], an Iranian Web site, we learn of Isfahan that

In addition to being a unique cultural, historical, and religious center, the city is famous for its rich, precious heritage, its charming artworks and handicrafts, as well as prominent scholars and scientists.
It is home to archaic mosques, including the 1,400-year-old Grand Mosque and Seyed Mosque, the largest and most famous mosque of the city dating back to two centuries ago.
Handicrafts such as enamels, handwoven carpets, and tilework.
The city will be named as the Second Cultural Capital of World of Islam at an official ceremony concurrent with Eid al-Qorban (Jan. 11).
At the ceremony, which is scheduled to be held at the historical majestic Imam Square, the flags of 57 Islamic states will be hoisted and Iran's national anthem will be played.
This suggests that Iranians and others in the Muslim world may not take it calmly when Isfahan is attacked with American nukes (hopefully not on Jan. 11!). Even if the American nuclear attack initially targets only facilities with high accuracy, a violent reaction from Iran and an escalation of the conflict are likely to occur and lead to devastating consequences.

By now, it has become clear and widely known, even if not yet in the mainstream media, that the stage was set long ago by the United States for this scenario to unfold: [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10], [11], [12], [13], [14], [15], [16], [17], [18], [19], [20] (I apologize for the very many omissions). The fact that the Bush administration has not brought up the issue for wide discussion in the country, given the careful preparations that have been made, reveals the duplicitous nature of the plan and the complete disregard the administration has for the will of the American people. The premeditated nature of the crime will become widely apparent to the whole world after it happens, with catastrophic consequences for the U.S.' role in the world.

The rest of the world rightly regards nuclear weapons as qualitatively different from all other weapons because of their enormous destructive power and their potential to destroy humanity. The rest of the world understands that there is no sharp line dividing small nuclear weapons from large ones, nor between nuclear weapons targeting underground facilities and those targeting armies or cities; that an escalating nuclear war can lead to the death of every man, woman, and child on the planet; and that there is no reason in the world why the U.S. should have a monopoly on nuclear weapons. In the eyes of the rest of the world, a premeditated nuclear attack on Iran, a non-nuclear country, will be seen as a criminal abomination. America's status as the leader of the civilized world will be obliterated. And the new world will be an infinitely more dangerous place.

What Can Americans Do to Prevent It

If the majority of Americans abhor these events, they should not allow them to proceed. Every one of us should do all we can and a bit more to avert them. Some suggestions:

Contact your representatives by fax, telephone, letter, or in person.
Call radio talk shows.
Write letters and opinion pieces for local newspapers.
Bring the topic up with relatives, friends, newsgroups, and blogs, and encourage them to do the above.
Contact antiwar groups to organize events and rallies around this specific issue. A major demonstration should be planned for the moment Bush issues an ultimatum against Iran.
Think about one or two people who are above you in the opinion-shaping food chain whom you can perhaps convince that this is important. Eventually, the issue may reach celebrities who can give it wider publicity, then to government officials who could make a difference.
All of this will help. Unfortunately, no matter how much publicity and public opposition arise, the administration can still go ahead with its plans. To prevent it from doing so, here is a concrete proposal to present to your congressional representatives: the Nuclear Responsibility Act, an emergency bill in Congress dealing with the authority to order the use of nuclear weapons. This can be initiated in the Senate, the House of Representatives, or both. There are ways to do this quickly! The Terri Schiavo bill was introduced on March 19, 2005, passed by the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives on March 20, and signed into law by President Bush in the early hours of March 21. Granted, there is one more step here – the presidential veto that will take one more iteration and a 2/3 congressional majority to override.

Under the U.S. Constitution Article I, Section 8, Clause 14, Congress has the power "To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces." Hence, Congress can regulate, i.e., control and direct, the use of nuclear weapons by the armed forces. The full authority for the use of nuclear weapons rests now with the president. That authority should be curtailed. Because traditionally there has been reluctance to limit the powers of the president in times of war, the practical approach is to shoot for as small a limitation as possible to avert the immediate danger, the nuking of Iran.

What should be prevented at the very least is the ability of the president to use a nuclear weapon preemptively. The discussion about whether it is reasonable to respond with nuclear weapons to major actual attacks with other "WMD" (e.g., chemical weapons) is important and long overdue but should perhaps be left for another day. What is urgent is that the president not be allowed to use nuclear weapons against a non-nuclear country like Iran on the argument that "intelligence" (which can later be proven to be false) shows that an enemy attack with non-nuclear WMD is "imminent."

The decision to use nuclear weapons is an extremely grave one. The extreme urgency necessitating exclusive presidential authority for the use of nuclear weapons against a nuclear country does not exist in a conflict with a non-nuclear country. There is no good reason why, in such a situation, the decision to use nuclear weapons should not be shared by Congress. Congress has the constitutional right to demand, not just ask [1], [2], to be part of this decision.

Given that the administration has chosen to define a radically new nuclear posture [.pdf] that makes the use of nuclear weapons much more likely, it behooves Congress to fulfill its duty to represent the will of the people in this matter of overwhelming public importance and create the law that will allow it to exercise its oversight responsibilities.

Hence a possible bill could say:

Purpose: to affirm the Congress' authority under Article I, Section 8, Clause 14 of the U.S. Constitution to make rules for the government and regulation of the armed forces, and apply such authority to the United States' use of nuclear weapons against non-nuclear-weapons states.
Resolved: The United States armed forces shall not employ nuclear weapons against a non-nuclear-weapons state in the absence of an explicit congressional authorization to that effect.
The president retains sole authority to authorize the use of nuclear weapons against a non-nuclear state in the presence of previously issued congressional authorization.
If a verifiable massive enemy attack with weapons of mass destruction against United States citizens or armed forces takes place that results in thousands of casualties, the president may authorize the emergency use of nuclear weapons against a non-nuclear-weapons state in the absence of prior congressional authorization, in anticipation that Congress will grant authorization a posteriori.
Congress shall grant a posteriori authorization after it certifies that a massive enemy attack with WMD did occur prior to the U.S.' use of nuclear weapons.
If Congress does not certify that such an enemy attack took place, it shall decline to grant a posteriori authorization and the president shall be determined to be in violation of this law.
You may pick your favorite penalties for a president who violates this law.

If America is going to nuke a non-nuclear country, all Americans will be held responsible by much of the world. So either we stop it or we have Congress vote that it is the will of the country to do so. Then, if you don't agree with how your congressperson voted, you can throw him/her out at the next election. That's democracy!

This plan to stop a nuclear attack on Iran is, of course, a very long shot. But perhaps just the introduction of such a bill would be enough to derail the Bush administration's plans. Write to your representative!

The alternative is to sit back, let it happen, and live with the consequences. There is little doubt that the rest of the world will consider the use of nuclear weapons preemptively against a non-nuclear country as a morally repugnant act, and its perpetrators and condoners as worthy of opprobrium and universal condemnation.

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Bin Laden has been dead since October 2001 but a Little George Administration scam is to try to sell the fact Bin Laden is still alive. Why does the Little George Administration still try to tell us bin Laden is alive when all thinking people know bin Laden is dead, dead, dead? The Administration fears if the world knows and believes bin Laden is dead then the reason the United States has invaded Iraq is over and the world will demand the USA pull American troops out of the Mid East.

The bad guys gave us September 11 to get interest rates way up so lazy zioni$t$ and bad guys can feed on the wealth of nations. The bad guys killed bin Laden way back in 2001 to keep bin Laden from blowing the whistle on the zioni$t Sept 11 scam which is for the purpose pf hyper inflating oil prices in a global economic slowdown for the purpose of raising interest rates to combat the inflation zioni$t cause by keeping oil off the market so zioni$t$ can feed on the wealth of nations via high interest rates.

Expert says Bin Laden could be dead

16jan06

A terrorism expert says he has seen evidence showing al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is either seriously ill or dead.

Dr Clive Williams, director of terrorism studies at the Australian National University, says documents provided by an Indian colleague suggested bin Laden died of massive organ failure in April last year.
"It does seem reasonably convincing based on the evidence that I've been provided with that he's certainly either severely incapacitated or dead at this stage," Dr Williams said.