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Top US Intelligence Analysts : America Has No Choice But To Learn To Live With A Nuclear Iran

Iran still claims they're only pursuing nuclear reactors for peaceful purposes. The US and Israel have led the chanting that claims Iran wants nuclear bombs, not cheaper energy. For three years, Bush Co has been saying, "The United States will not tolerate a nuclear Iran."

But US intelligence experts now say that if Iran chooses to arm itself with nuclear weapons, there is virtually nothing Bush Co can do to stop them. And they had better get used to that fact, regardless of what Israel thinks, or plans to do about it.

The White House's earlier enthusiasm for military strikes if all else failed has cooled after warnings from the Pentagon and intelligence analysts that the risk-to-reward ratio of taking action is too high.

General John Abizaid, commander of US forces in the Middle East, has warned that striking Iran could cripple oil supplies, unleash a "surrogate" terrorist army and lead to missile attacks on America's regional allies.

The army is particularly concerned about Iran's ability to destabilise an already chaotic Iraq. US director of national intelligence John Negroponte has told President George W. Bush that there is no rush to use force as Iran's nuclear program is beset with technical errors.

"He has been saying 'Slow down, it's not an immediate problem'," said Patrick Clawson, an Iran expert at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has staked her reputation on achieving a negotiated settlement with the help of the "EU3" nations of Britain, France and Germany.

"President Bush is not going to take military action against the advice of the Secretary of State, US generals and the director of national intelligence..."

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American Doctor Claims He Goes Back In Time To Heal The Sick

An Ohio chiropractor who claimed to treat patients using time travel has surrendered his license to practice.

State regulators had been investigating Dr. James Burda of Athens, who said he could take care of anyone, anywhere by reaching back in time to when the injury occurred.

He said he doesn't use force to realign bones, but he uses his mind to manipulate the body. But if that doesn't work, he said he travels back in time to fix the problem. He calls the practice Bala-Keem. State medical officials call it malpractice.

Al Qaeda Leader Tells President Bush : "You're A Liar And A Failure"

''Can't you be honest at least once in your life, and admit that you are a deceitful liar who intentionally deceived your nation when you drove them to war in Iraq,'' al-Zawahri said in part of the video released by the SITE Institute in Washington.

In 2011, Communications Systems, Power Supply And Navigation Technology Will Be Shattered By Massive Run Of Solar Flares


Two Months Before 9/11, Condi Rice Was Warned Al Qaeda Was Planning Major Attack Inside United States

Bob Woodward's new book 'State Of Denial' has revealed some shocking details about President Bush decieved Americans on the truth about the 'War On Iraq'.

But that same book has also revealed the then National Security Director, Condi Rice, was warned in an emergency meeting on July 10 that an attack was coming and that Bin Laden had to be stopped. Rice took no action, more concerned with the guns-in-the-sky missile defence shield.

Rice did not reveal details of the meeting, or that the meeting even took place, in her sworn testimony to the 9/11 Commission.

Said one of the in-the-know men who tried to warn Rice, and failed, "The only thing we didn't do was pull the trigger to the gun we were holding to her head."


Mel Gibson By-Passes Hollywood, Media And Goes Straight To The Audience To Promote His New Movie

Mel Gibson is about to prove, once again, just how little director-producer film-makers need Hollywood now to have a hit movie.

Gibson's name is supposed to be dirt in Hollywood, and he has little interest in facing the media, who will be more interested in his recent drink-driving bust and claims that "Jews are responsible for all wars" than talking about his new movie 'Apocalypto'.

So Gibson is going out on the road, to film festivals, science fiction fan conventions and smalltown cinemas to sell his new film, straight to the audiences.

Gibson used a grassroots campaign in the US to find an audience for his last movie, 'The Passion Of The Christ' after distributors refused to get it into cinemas. Gibson paid for 'Passion' out of his own pocket and it went on to gross more than $900 million in cinema tickets, DVDs and television distribution rights.

By using the internet and grassroots promotional campaigns, Gibson is showing all moviemakers just how little they now need Hollywood or any of the once-powerful hitmaker film distributors to get their movies to their audiences.


In Russia, Armed Abduction, Drugs And Forced Psychiatry Returns As A Shocking Weapon Against Dissent

On March 23, police and emergency medical personnel stormed Marina Trutko's home, breaking down her apartment door and quickly subduing her with an injection of haloperidol, a powerful tranquilizer. One policeman put her 78-year-old mother, Valentina, in a storage closet while Trutko, 42, was carried out to a waiting ambulance. It took her to the nearby Psychiatric Hospital No. 14.

The former nuclear scientist, a vocal activist and public defender for several years in this city 70 miles north of Moscow, spent the next six weeks undergoing a daily regimen of injections and drugs to treat what was diagnosed as a "paranoid personality disorder."

"She is also very rude," psychiatrists noted in her case file.

Novelist Nick Hornby On The Summer Reading Pandemic Brought On By England's Heatwave - The Book Is Dead? Are You Having A Laugh?

The slow, sad death of the book has been talked about so many times that it still seems miraculous, our determination to read whatever we can get our hands on wherever we can. These last few months, readers have seemed less like some rare exotic flower that needs marvelling at and nurturing; rather, they have been everywhere, shooting up in every open space, like a tenacious, uncontrollable, but
actually rather beautiful weed.

Scientists Study How Terrorists Could Attack The Internet

The good news? It's a lot harder to shut down and disrupt than you, and terrorists, might think.

'When it comes to the internet there is strength in numbers,' said Morton O`Kelly, co-author of the study and an Ohio State professor of geography. There are so many interconnections within the network that it would be difficult to find enough targets, and the right targets, to do serious damage to Internet reliability nationwide.'

Jack Nicholson In Interview, Preferred To Talk About Inneffectiveness Of Traffic Lights Than His New Movie

It's a rare decade that Jack Nicholson sits down for an interview to promote one of his movies. But this was a special occasion. For the first time in their respective careers, Jack Nicholson and director Martin Scorsese have finally made a movie together, 'The Departed'.

So why doesn't Nicholson do more interviews? He doesn't to give too much away about what he does, how he does it or why he does it.

“I’m for none of this backstage revealing. I know the value of mystery in the theatrical experience."

Nicholson decided to make the gangster movie with Scorseses only after he was allowed to re-imagine his crime boss character, and improvise to the max. Fantastic.

Nicholson wanted to make (his character) more evil than originally written, and he wanted to explore the sexuality of a powerful evil man. Scenes were shot involving Nicholson’s character, dildos, cocaine and prostitutes....he dildos and cocaine were Nicholson’s idea, apparently.

Bin Laden Had A Bodyguard Who Was To Execute Him With Two Bullets To The Back Of The Head If He Ever Faced Capture - New Info As Video Of 9/11 Hijackers From Early 2000 Appears


Technology Could Advance Or Destroy This Civilisation Within The Next Century

The continual advancement of technology will be critical in determining whether humanity will evolve into a true global civilization or destroy itself in the next century, a panel of experts said this week.

In the next 100 years, humanity could leap forward into a true global civilization—complete with a unified language, culture and planet-wide technological prowess—but the way is fraught with dark turns like war, terrorism and irresponsible science...

White House In Crisis As The Lies Of The Iraq War Hit Hard And Fast

President George Bush was braced for one of the toughest fights of his political life yesterday as a fierce row broke out over whether he has been misleading the American public over the worsening violence in Iraq. The crisis also rippled across the Atlantic with claims that the administration hid crucial Iraq intelligence from its British allies.

There has been no shortage of revelations in the past three years about the stream of lies and deceptions concerning Saddam Hussein's supposed WMDs. We know for a fact now that the WMD threat promoted by President Bush, Australian Prime Minister Howard and British Prime Minister Tony Blair was a conspiracy-fat, fantasy plot that shotgunned the majority of Americans and most US senators into supporting the 'War On Iraq'. Even those opposed to the war learned to live with those WMD threat falsifications.

But it is the mystifying lies Bush has told about the reality of the war itself that are now set to plunge the rest of his presidency, and the control of the United States, into total chaos.

Bush, Vice President Cheney and Defence Secretary Rumsfeld lied to Americans get the war they wanted, but there seems to be no excuse at all for why they continued to mythologise the truth about the facts on the ground, particularly when hundreds of veterans were posting on their experiences to MySpace blogs and mil-blogs, and there were, literally, thousands of websites shredding the deceptions that Bush, Rumsfeld and Cheney were creating as fast as they could utter the words.

Why cover up the truth about the 'War On Iraq' once it had begun? The enemies knew the facts about the attacks they were launching on coalition troops, after all, they were responsible.

Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld continued to spin-spin-spin the facts solely for the domestic market. It was a PR campaign to ensure the Republicans held onto the White House through the 2004 elections, obviously enough, but they continue to deny the truth that seemingly everyone who is interested already knows is bullshit.

The Iraqi insurgency, and the resistance, are stronger than they've ever been, attacks against coalition forces continue to hit new, incredible peaks (an attack every 15 minutes on average) and 2007 is set to be even worse than 2006, or 2005, or 2004.

The people who will be most affected most by the new relevations of how Bush Co lied and covered-up the truth about the 'War On Iraq' will be all the parents and partners of American soldiers who were told by Bush, "We Are Winning The War" when he clearly knew they were not.

They trusted him, yet again, and he betrayed them. As he has betrayed so many of his supporters and so many of his own staff and senators.

Beyond Watergate? It's beyond belief. Even the most vitriolic Bush-haters on the internet seem mortified that the truth Bush has long known was even worse than they themselves imagined, or fact-projected in their online posts and rantings.

Few of the thousands of websites devoted to criticising and keeping a close watch on Bush Co and the most controversial presidency in American history are taking any pleasure in the knowledge that they have been right all along to question the Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld myths about the realities on the ground in Iraq. The shock seeping through Bush critics and Bush supporters is palpable and intense.

But there may be far worse to come. If President Bush was willing to flat-out lie straight to the faces of all Americans about the war in which more than 2700 Americans have died, and more than 20,000 have been seriously wounded, then what else has he lied about?

What comes next?

Whatever it is, it's not going to be good.

Bush At War : "A Passive, Impatient, Sophomoric And Intellectually Incurious Leader, Presiding Over A Grossly Dysfunctional War Cabinet"

In His Last Meeting With Bush, Colin Powell Tried To Warn Bush About Realities Of Iraq, But Bush Didn't Listen

Extract from Woodward's 'State Of Denial' : Secret Reports Betray Bush Co Optimism On Iraq War

Bush Kept British PM In The Dark Over Iraq - Blair Refused Access To Daming Intel Reports By The US