Israel only Mideast country with nuclear weapons
Proliferation experts widely agree that Israel is the only country in the Middle East with nuclear weapons.
Israel refuses to confirm or deny whether it has a nuclear arsenal and continues to campaign against Iran’s nuclear program.
Analysts estimate that Israel has up to 200 long-range nuclear warheads.
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By F. William Engdahl
July 17, 2009
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“For these defendants, corruption was a way of life,” Ralph J. Marra Jr., the acting United States attorney in New Jersey, said at a news conference. “They existed in an ethics-free zone.”
Mr. Marra said that average citizens “don’t have a chance” against the culture of influence peddling the investigation had unearthed. (Excerpt from NY TImes account)
NEWARK, N.J. – Officials are decrying political corruption in New Jersey after more than 40 people, among them rabbis and elected officeholders, were arrested in an investigation in which some were accused of laundering tens of millions of dollars and of black-market trafficking of kidneys and fake Gucci handbags.
The 44 arrests Thursday were a remarkable number even for New Jersey, where more than 130 public officials have pleaded guilty or have been convicted of corruption since 2001.
“New Jersey’s corruption problem is one of the worst, if not the worst, in the nation,” said Ed Kahrer, who heads the FBI’s white-collar and public corruption division. “Corruption is a cancer that is destroying the core values of this state.”
Gov. Jon Corzine said: “The scale of corruption we’re seeing as this unfolds is simply outrageous and cannot be tolerated.”
Simon Wiesenthal, famed for his pursuit of justice, caught fewer war criminals than he claimed and fabricated much of his own Holocaust story
The Associated Press Thursday, 9 July 2009
BERLIN — Germany’s Justice Minister on Thursday called for foreign
Internet service providers to remove neo-Nazi images, texts and
other content that can be viewed inside the country in violation
of laws forbidding any Nazi symbols.
Reporter feels mob’s hate in Holy City
By ANNE BARKER
ABC News Monday, 6 July 2009
JERUSALEM — ABC’s Middle East correspondent Anne Barker became
caught in violent street protests involving ultra-Orthodox Jews in
Jerusalem at the weekend. This is her graphic account of her ordeal.
Russian president Dmitry Medvedev presented world leaders and journalists attending the G8 summit in in L’Aquila, Italy a sample of what may become a “united future world currency.”
“In all likelihood something similar could appear and it could be held in your hand and used as a means of payment,” Medvedev told reporters. “This is the international currency.”
Pope Benedict XVI has called for a world political authority to manage the global economy and for more government regulation of national economies.
