Bad Vibrations

Pope: War threatens fate of humanity - "When war, as in these days in Iraq, threatens the fate of humanity, it is ever more urgent to proclaim, with a strong and decisive voice, that only peace is the road to follow to construct a more just and united society," John Paul said. "Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men."

Battlefield Earth - A legitimate fear indeed from the fearmonger-in-chief. But what about the far more likely scenario: that these short-cuts to mass destruction will be supplied not by outlaw regimes, but by "lawful" states?

One In Three Teens Now Has Sex Under 16 - "Sex is used to sell everything from yogurt to furniture. It is all around us," he said. "It is vital that teenagers are provided with impartial advice to protect themselves from unwanted pregnancy and disease." - Sightings

Germon Foreign Minister calls for 'New World Order' - ...a new world order is required to cope with the phenomenon of political globalization. There must be no more "black holes of lawlessness, underdevelopment and desperation," said (Joseph (Joschka) Fischer) the foreign minister, looking firmly toward Afghanistan. - FAZ

Speak No Evil - Far more surprising than government attempts to stifle criticism is the seeming willingness of the media, politicians, and activist groups -- particularly those on the left -- to censor themselves. Some may be backing off to avoid the kind of public crucifixion endured by "Politically Incorrect's" Bill Maher. Others, however, apparently truly believe that frank and vibrant public discourse is damaging to the country's moral fiber. - Mother Jones

I Crucified People - "YOU must become so notorious for bad things that when you come into an area people will tremble in their sandals. Anyone can do beatings and starve people. I want your unit to find new ways of torture so terrible that the screams will frighten even crows from their nests and if the person survives he will never again have a night's sleep."... These were the instructions of the commandant of the Afghan secret police to his new recruits.... Telegraph (UK)

'Third Temple' event on again - Two 4.5-ton blocks of marble will be anointed as cornerstones for the new temple... In biblical times, the people of Israel worshipped at the temple in Jerusalem – the hub of Jewish activity. After Israel's enemies destroyed the temple, it was rebuilt only to be destroyed again in A.D. 70 by the Roman Empire... Previous efforts by the group to lay the cornerstone of the Third Temple were also stopped by officials due to the potential for further violence in the war-torn region. - WND

Srieber interviews Philip Hoag on What is Behind the Threat and how to Survive (REAL Audio) - He discusses everything from Anthrax-preparedness to the larger geopolitical issues involved in the Attack on America in this surprising and extremely powerful interview. His book also covers details of how to prepare for and survive all sorts of disasters, and is considered the world's most authoritative source for such information. - Strieber

Deepak Chopra : The Deeper Wound - All this hatred and anguish seems to have religion at its basis. Isn't something terribly wrong when jihads and wars develop in the name of God? Isn't God invoked with hatred in Ireland, Sri Lanka, India, Pakistan, Israel, Palestine, and even among the intolerant sects of America? Can any military response make the slightest difference in the underlying cause? Is there not a deep wound at the heart of humanity? If there is a deep wound, doesn't it affect everyone? When generations of suffering respond with bombs, suicidal attacks, and biological warfare, who first developed these weapons? Who sells them? Who gave birth to the satanic technologies now being turned against us? If all of us are wounded, will revenge work? Will punishment in any form toward anyone solve the wound or aggravate it? Will an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, and limb for a limb, leave us all blind, toothless and crippled? - Laura Lee

Christianity Is Almost Beaten - Christianity has almost been vanquished in Britain, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O,Connor told a gathering of priests yesterday... - Sightings

Fading Light of Freedom - With the imposition of the National Security Act of 1947, that began to change. The federal government became a bastion of secrecy, as department after department raced to use the act’s tools. Within a matter of a very few years, the most open government the world had ever known became what it is today: a bastion of secrecy, so corrupt and so twisted by concealed ideologies that those who ought to arbitrate its excess, the congress and executive branches, are afraid to go near the can for fear of what we the people will do when we see the worms. - Strieber

Man vs Man

E-Bombs are Coming - The next Pearl Harbor will not announce itself with a searing flash of nuclear light or with the plaintive wails of those dying of Ebola or its genetically engineered twin. You will hear a sharp crack in the distance. By the time you mistakenly identify this sound as an innocent clap of thunder, the civilized world will have become unhinged. Fluorescent lights and television sets will glow eerily bright, despite being turned off. The aroma of ozone mixed with smoldering plastic will seep from outlet covers as electric wires arc and telephone lines melt. Your Palm Pilot and MP3 player will feel warm to the touch, their batteries overloaded. Your computer, and every bit of data on it, will be toast. And then you will notice that the world sounds different too. The background music of civilization, the whirl of internal-combustion engines, will have stopped. Save a few diesels, engines will never start again. You, however, will remain unharmed, as you find yourself thrust backward 200 years, to a time when electricity meant a lightning bolt fracturing the night sky. This is not a hypothetical, son-of-Y2K scenario. It is a realistic assessment of the damage the Pentagon believes could be inflicted by a new generation of weapons--E-bombs. - Sightings

Big Brother

Big Brother is Back - Total Information Awareness project aims to enable federal investigators to engage in a kind of super “data mining”—inventing software to trawl through commercial and government computer databases in search of suspicious patterns that might indicate terror plans.

Pentagon Defends Big Brother Project - The Pentagon, which is obsessed with keeping secrets, is developing new technology which could ultimately open every one of yours. But Wednesday, while saying the new technology being researched by the Pentagon would theoretically make it easier to track down unidentified terrorists before they strike, United States Under Secretary of Defense Pete Aldridge denied claims the project smacks of “Big Brother.”

It's Here! Global Fingerprinting -  Every person in the world would be fingerprinted and registered under a universal identification scheme to fight illegal immigration and people smuggling outlined at a United Nations meeting today.- Sightings

Fingerprints Replacing Passwords - Biometrics is the practice of using something on the body--a fingerprint, a facial pattern or the unique pattern of the eye--in place of a password to gain access to a computer network or individual PC. Biometrics, its backers say, will save us from the laziness of passwords that are never really secure, pin numbers that are never really secret, and other security measures that often fail because they are rarely implemented correctly in the first place.
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New Powers - Bush administration officials said yesterday that they are considering lifting a 25-year-old ban on U.S. involvement in foreign assassinations and loosening restrictions on FBI surveillance, part of an escalating war on terrorism in the wake of Tuesday’s attacks on Washington and New York. - MSNBC

National ID Cards - In a wide-ranging interview, Bono gave dire warnings of an immediate future she predicted could include intense scrutiny of airline passengers, a national system of fingerprinting and identification cards and the specter of chemical and biological attacks on the United States. - thedeasertsun

Terror for Privacy - Fueled by images of terrorists disseminating nefarious plots and schemes via encoded Internet communiqués, pundits and politicians here and abroad are calling for the restriction of encryption technologies and ballooning government's existing electronic-surveillance powers. - WND

The Biometic Security - Shoppers are being asked to fingerprint their credit card receipts in the latest attempt to stop card fraud. The thumbprint scheme has reduced this type of crime by up to 70% in some parts of the country. The thumb marked receipts will only be passed on to the police if a fraudulent transaction is made. Biometic security, using the body's unique characteristics to make transactions secure, is thought to be the future of crime prevention.- BBC

PC Spying - What would you do if you discovered your spouse, parent or employer spied on your computer activity, secretly watching the Web sites you visit, the e-mails you read and even the passwords you use? - CNN

Spain gets Echelon -  The United States has agreed to share highly classified material from the Anglo-American Echelon intelligence network with the Spanish Government to help Madrid's battle against the Basque separatist group ETA. - SMH

What you need to know about Echelon - Echelon is the name given to an international electronic eavesdropping network run by the intelligence organisations of the US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. - BBC

The Hacker Elite

The Piracy Threat - (Stolen)... software can be used in a variety of tasks, including designing rockets or nuclear reactors or predicting the path of a cloud of anthrax spores.

Magic Lantern Exists - Magic Lantern reportedly would allow the agency to plant a Trojan horse keystroke logger on a target's PC by sending a computer virus over the Internet, rather than require physical access to the computer, as is now the case.- CNET

US names cyber-terrorism czar - "America built cyberspace, and now it must defend cyberspace," Mr Clarke said in accepting his new position... For years, he has been warning of what some refer to as Electronic Pearl Harbor - a computer-based attack that would cause massive amounts of destruction and loss of life... In a worst-case scenario, such an attack would target power distribution, financial services, emergency call services and air-traffic control systems.- BBC

FBI: Beware ‘patriot’ hackers - The FBI says it expects to see an increase in hacking by “patriot” hackers targeting those believed responsible for last week’s terrorist attacks. The agency’s National Infrastructure Protection Center is also warning e-mail users to watch out for viruses that appear to be files about the World Trade Center. - MSNBC

Terror

Nuke Terror Risk - Terrorists targeting the high-density storage systems used at nuclear power plants throughout the nation could cause contamination problems "significantly worse than those from Chernobyl," the study found.

Duck and Cover - "An emergency is not the time to plan, it's the time to react. So be informed. Different types of attacks require different responses. The actions you would take in a conventional attack may be counterproductive if you took them in response to a different kind of attack," ...

Forget The Plastic Sheets - Since the media has decided to scare everyone with predictions of chemical, biological, or nuclear warfare on our turf I decided to write a paper and keep things in their proper perspective. I am a retired military weapons, munitions, and training expert.

Nuke Terror Investigation in VA - A Smithfield newspaper reported Wednesday that four people traveling Sunday on the ferry that crosses the James River from Jamestown to Scotland appeared to be measuring the boat and asked crew members about procedures that would be followed in a hijacking... The newspaper, citing police reports, said two members of the group also asked crew members about the depth of the water at the power plant - which is a few miles downriver from the ferry landing at Scotland - and the size of the security force there.

AU Elite Terror Squad - A HIGHLY-trained combat unit of 310 commandos will be based in Sydney in a post-Bali bid to strengthen the east coast's response to terrorist threats.

US Warned of Suitcase Nukes - President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair have been warned Osama bin Laden has 20 suitcase nuclear weapons obtained for cash from former KGB agents...

DC Plans Smallpox Shots for Entire City - The D.C. Health Department is scheduled to deliver a plan to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday that proposes offering smallpox vaccinations to the District's entire population within a year.

Israel Warns of Unprecedented Response to "Mega-Terror" - The head of Israel's National Security Council said Monday that a "mega-terror attack" threatening Israel's existence would open options for retaliation that hitherto "were unacceptable to public opinion."

Sleeper Warriors - “War has been declared on the state of Israel by the global Islamic terror syndicate,” Sharon told Israel’s top anti-terrorist expert. “Change your priorities and get them one by one.”

World News 11/23/02 - ``Where has Osama bin Laden taken refuge?'' the Russian said in a joint news conference with Bush at an 18th century czarist castle.

Tehran Times 11/23/02 - A group of more than 200 prominent Muslims have accused the United States of leading a crusade against Islam and warned that an assault on Iraq could provoke revenge attacks against Western targets.

Bangkok Post 11/23/02 - Israeli intelligence has revealed an Islamic terrorist organization is planning to expand its network into parts of Asia, including Thailand.

San Francisco Chronicle 11/20/02 - While political leaders bask in voter approval for destroying designated enemies, they are increasingly determined to mask the reality of warfare that causes voters to recoil.

NYPost 11/15/02 - "Sources suggest al Qaeda may favor spectacular attacks that meet several criteria: High symbolic value, mass casualties, severe damage to the U.S. economy, and maximum psychological trauma," the FBI alert says.

US Population Control

Mass Quarantines Likely if America Faced Bioterrorism Attack - Current and former federal officials said Friday that if there is a terrorist attack with biological weapons, private rights would quickly be swamped by the need to protect the public. State borders could close, vaccines could be rationed or commandeered, the Army could even take over cities within weeks of a deadly attack, an American Bar Association panel predicted.- Sightings

Viruses used as Population Control - In recent years, allegations have surfaced in the press suggesting that the U.S. government has had a hand in suppressing information about such matters as disease-tainted blood, pathogenic contamination of vaccines and Gulf War Syndrome. One example: A growing number of medical researchers reportedly are worried that a monkey virus which contaminated polio vaccines given to tens of millions of Americans in the 1950s and '60s may now be causing rare human cancers. - WND

Mount Weather: Primed for Martial Law - Mount Weather contains a working duplicate of the Executive Branch of the Federal government, ready to swing into action at a moment's notice. Mount Weather personnel also maintain a database of information on U.S. citizens. But relatively little is publicly known about this facility. - Parascope

Mission Creep - As Republicans gathered here last August to nominate George W. Bush for president, a drama played out in secret locations across the city as thousands of American soldiers stood poised for a catastrophic event. Along with a host of civilian emergency specialists, these specialized troops braced for a biological, chemical or nuclear terror attack on the GOP and its nominees — the kind of attack that might force a declaration of martial law. -- MSNBC

US Black Ops

US Combat Offensive in Philippines - The United States is sending about 3,000 soldiers to engage in a major combat offensive in the southern Philippines aimed at wiping out the militant Muslim group Abu Sayyaf, Pentagon officials said yesterday

US Builds Forces in Columbia - The official declined to provide a details of how many U.S. military forces were in the South American nation but said they were part of "contingency planning."

Special Soldiers, Special Brains - Special Forces soldiers have neurological differences that make them less likely to experience post-traumatic stress disorder than the average soldier. A study of soldiers based at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, found that Green Berets were much less likely to suffer symptoms of PTSD after a week of exercises that simulated being captured and interrogated by the enemy. The Green Berets produced more of a molecule called neuropeptide Y in their blood, which is produced by the body to help calm the brain in times of extreme stress.

America's Ultra-Secret Weapon - HPMs are man-made lightning bolts crammed into cruise missiles. They could be key weapons for targeting Saddam Hussein's stockpiles of biological and chemical weapons. HPMs fry the sophisticated computers and electronic gear necessary to produce, protect, store and deliver such agents. The powerful electromagnetic pulses can travel into deeply buried bunkers through ventilation shafts, plumbing and antennas.

Smallpox Experiments - In an experiment unfolding under tight security, six rust and silver monkeys this past week grew listless, refused to eat, and broke out in blisters. Four have become sick, and two have died. The cause: smallpox.

ABC 11/12/02 - The secret side of the U.S. military's war on terrorism is quietly growing.

US Psychic Spys - According to the London Sunday Times' Nov. 11 report on remote viewers' being recruited by the U.S. government, the FBI and CIA, though admitting to advising their investigators to "think outside of the box," would not confirm publicly that they are actively seeking help from psychics or remote viewers.- WND

Electronic Warfare Attack in Tennessee - Newly released documentary and eyewitness evidence now links an apparent July 6, 2001 electronic warfare attack on a radio station and weekly newspaper in Hartsville, Tennessee to a nearby unacknowledged secret access project (USAP).  This secret project, eyewitnesses say, includes the U.S. Air Force as paymaster, U.S. government aircraft as transportation and security craft; military troops in black uniforms; and black unmarked triangular aircraft.  The project may also include a secret electronic warfare unit capable of disabling nearby media outlets with destructive electromagnetic energy.- EcoNews Service

'US Used Hallucinogenic Weapons Against Iraq' - Wouter Basson, the spy and mastermind behind the apartheid government's chemical warfare program, claimed on Friday the United States had used hallucinogenic weapons against Iraq during the Gulf War. - Sightings

Death by MK-Ultra - One of the CIA's most condemned Cold War programs, MK-ULTRA – which included experimentation with LSD on unsuspecting subjects – is coming under the microscope once more as authors H.P. Albarelli Jr. and John Kelly uncover new evidence in the mysterious death of Dr. Frank Olson. - WND

Master Spy James Jesus Angleton -As the CIA's Counterintelligence Chief, James Jesus Angleton had access to the Agency's most closely guarded secrets, including MJ-12 files on UFOs. - Nexus

US Future Forces

Invisible Coat -  ... U.S. military has studied similar technology as futuristic camouflage for years.

US Mini-Nukes - A leaked Pentagon document reveals the U.S. may produce a new kind of smaller nuclear weapon, designed for use in conventional warfare. This would mean abandoning global arms treaties. These weapons have a destructive power of less than five kilotons, and could penetrate an underground bunker before detonating. The Hiroshima bomb dropped in 1945 had a yield of about 15 kilotons, and standard nuclear weapons now have yields of hundreds of kilotons.

Nuclear Drones - The US Air Force is examining the feasibility of a nuclear-powered version of an unmanned aircraft. The USAF hopes that such a vehicle will be able to "loiter" in the air for months without refueling, striking at will when a target comes into its sights.

Uncle Sam's Animal Warriors - The U.S. military has used intelligent sea creatures for three decades, including dolphins that patrolled Persian Gulf waters during the late 1980s.

Aircraft Morphing - Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co.'s legendary Skunk Works once again will work to stretch the bounds of aviation and imagination with a $9.3 million contract to development technologies for future aircraft that can change their shape to meet changing flight needs. This morphing aircraft structures program calls for "seamless, aerodynamically efficient, aerial vehicles capable of radical shape change," according to the contract award from the U.S. Air Force.

The New Military Industrial Complex - The next time American armed forces go to war -- if they're not already fighting in Iraq as you read this -- the nature of the battle will be unlike anything the world has ever known. Afghanistan provided a glimpse of the latest generation of high-tech weaponry, but it was only a glimpse. A major assault by combined American forces will provide a full demonstration of the military's new doctrine of faster, lighter, smarter warfare -- combat in which cutting-edge technology becomes U.S. troops' deadliest weapon. The Pentagon calls this new doctrine RMA, for "revolution in military affairs," and it's made possible not just by fresh thinking in the Pentagon but also by a subtle shift in the ranks of U.S. defense contractors. In building its new high-tech arsenal, the United States has also created a new military-industrial complex.

Future Battle Dress - not just light as silk and bulletproof, but able to rapidly change at the molecular level to adapt to biological and chemical threats. Is that anthrax just ahead? The material converts into an impermeable shield. Body gets injured? The pant leg morphs into a splint or even forms an artificial muscle. Nanosensors would also transmit a soldier’s vital signs back to a medical team, as well as monitor his breath for increased nitric oxide, which is a sign of stress.

Digital Destruction - E-bombs can fire millions of watts of energy in microwaves that are able to knock out electronic equipment and the weapons that rely on them. They can target and destroy computers, radios, telephones, and almost anything that uses transistors, circuits, and wiring.

Hi-tech arms 'would finish war in a week' - "The first Gulf War was fought like the Second World War, with air dominance – pounding their defenses, softening up the forces and then going in," said Daniel Gouré, a military analyst with the Washington-based Lexington Institute think tank. "This will be speedier, more precise – an effects-based operation. It will be much more surgical, both in the use of explosive force and in the overall operation."

Remaking US Policy in Asia - U.S. bases have cropped up in Central Asia for the first time in history. Five Japanese vessels participated in the multinational naval contingent that was part of Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan, marking the first wartime dispatch of naval vessels for operations abroad since the end of World War II.

Dawn 11/15/02 - The United States has agreed to export the latest radar technology to India in a landmark step towards expanding their military partnership since the lifting of nuclear sanctions last year, US officials said on Friday.

CNN 11/6/02 - The U.S. Army used a high-energy laser to shoot down an artillery shell in mid-flight on Tuesday in a defense industry breakthrough, the Army and the manufacturer said.

Waging war by remote control - The United States is for the first time flying armed, unmanned aircraft into combat and controlling them with operators in the United States thousands of miles from the battlefield in Afghanistan, Defense Department officials said yesterday. - MSNBC

Nanotech Combat Uniforms - To help soldiers survive, the U.S. Army is developing a new generation of combat uniforms using tiny, doctored fibers that let air through while blocking toxins from chemical and biological weapons. - MSNBC

Cyber Soldiers - Over the next decade, soldiers will be able to fight in combat with satellite imagery of the battlefield, ballistic accuracy calculations and instant communications a click away on the computers embedded in their uniforms. - MSNBC

Phaser Weapons - Police in the future may be armed with energy beams that inflict a burning sensation on skin without causing permanent damage, or even painlessly and temporarily immobilize a rioting demonstrator. Waves of sound and light could disorient mobs, and sticky foam could trap them like flies on a strip. - Sightings

General says U.S. will need Space Weapons - Gen. Michael Ryan, the Air Force chief of staff, told a group of reporters that as the United States becomes more dependent on space for reconnaissance, communications and navigation, the nation's need for space weaponry will increase... "Eventually we're going to have to have the capability to take things out in orbit," he said. He said he favored developing anti-satellite weapons, which the Pentagon has worked on for years but never deployed.- CNN

Space Bombers - The US Pentagon is reportedly exploring the possibility of developing a "space bomber" which could streak to the other side of the world in 90 minutes and drop bombs from 60 miles (97 km) away. - BBC

Future Force - Trudging through a thick, muggy jungle, the soldier remains cool, her body temperature precisely controlled by her uniform. Incapable of seeing more than 10 feet ahead, she is guided through an earpiece in her helmet by someone at base camp who can trace her because a biomarker was in a nutrition bar she ate earlier. - MSNBC

Stench Warfare - The Pentagon is developing a stink bomb powerful enough to drive away hostile crowds in a move towards what will almost certainly be classified as "stench warfare". - The Guardian

Biotech Battle - Even though biological weapons are banned, military planners are actively searching out new ways to bring biotechnology to the battlefield... A new scientific report, commissioned by the Army, was issued yesterday by a panel of experts. It highlights an extraordinary range of military "opportunities" in biotech, ideas that many experts said would be developed whether the Pentagon wants them or not. - Sightings

War Talk

Winter of Arab Discontent - Distinguished Islamic institutions and renowned, moderate Muslim clerics have urged Muslims to join in jihad (holy war) to resist the U.S.-led onslaught... Osama bin Laden and his militant ilk no longer have a monopoly calling on Muslims to wage jihad to defend the faith... On Iraq, lines have become blurred between mainstream and radical politics in the world of Islam, thanks to the U.S. approach, which is widely seen as unjust and hegemonic.

US War with North Korea Possible - A top United Nations envoy returned from North Korea and said it was possible the United States and the Stalinist nation could go to war although Pyongyang was keen to avoid conflict.

Nuke War Any Minute - North Korea's official news agency claimed Friday that the situation is so tense on the Korean peninsular "that a nuclear war may break out there any moment."

Malaysia: US wants to rule the World - Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said Sunday the world was in a state of terror, allowing a fear of Muslims to affect international policy, and a war on Iraq would be seen as a war on Muslims.

Saudi's Secret Plan - The Saudis are proposing that after Saddam Hussein's fall, Saudi Arabia should lead a coalition of Islamic nations to occupy Iraq while a transitional Iraqi government is established, with Turkey playing the leading role in the Islamic force.

Saddam's Secret Weapon: Water - Saddam Hussein may be planning to use the earth's life-giving resource – water – as a tool of death in defending Iraq against a potential U.S. attack, blowing up key dams near Baghdad to send a rush of water southward, reports the Miami Herald.

Millions Protest 'Bush's War' Worldwide - More than six million demonstrators turned out across the world on Saturday in a wave of protest supporting international leaders in urging the United States not to rush into a war against Iraq.

Big Stick off Korea - The United States yesterday deployed an aircraft carrier from Japan to the Korean peninsula, as a Washington envoy warned that "all options" were available to deal with the nuclear stand-off with Pyongyang.

Hunting Saddam - As the Bush administration moves into what officials call the last phase of the showdown with Iraq, the United States is undertaking a vigorous military and intelligence effort to track, and possibly kill, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.

US and EU at Odds - Secretary of State Colin Powell, rejecting another urgent appeal from European leaders, said that a negotiated "road map" to create a Palestinian state could not be adopted this week as they wanted, but would have to wait until after Israeli elections early next year.

Ivory Coast - "The French force in Ivory Coast is deviating from its mission and becoming a true force of occupation. In light of this, the MPCI will fight and its forces are ready to take up the challenge of war," Guillaume Soro said late on Friday.

N Korea Vows "bitter defeat and death" to US - "The DPRK remains unfazed as it has made full preparations to cope with the confrontation and clash with the Yankees," a commentary in the ruling party newspaper Rodong Sinmun said.

US Soldiers Executed by Teliban? - While the Pentagon and White House have maintained a tight lid on any strategic information coming out of Afghanistan, Russian military intelligence has been closely monitoring U.S. activities in the country, claiming that 18 U.S. soldiers were captured and then executed by the Taliban, reports Geostrategy, the global intelligence news agency.

The North Korea's Nuclear Threat - The prospect of nuclear confrontation in East Asia came a step closer yesterday when the North Korean Government said that it would restart a nuclear power plant suspected of supplying weapons-grade plutonium.

The Iranian Nuclear Threat - The United States believes Iran's nuclear weapons program has taken a disquieting move forward with the building of two large nuclear facilities, U.S. officials said on Thursday.

Venezuelan Crisis - As the general strike entered its ninth day, it has disrupted 80.48 percent of economic activities...

Saudis Crack Down - Saudi government is preparing a counter-offensive following accusations that it has failed to stop money flowing to terrorists.

US wants Turkey in the EU - The United States is mounting a major diplomatic campaign to advance Turkey's prospects for entering the European Union and is encouraging a breakthrough on the Cyprus dispute within the next 10 days.

US backs AU for Preemptive Strikes - United States President George W Bush has backed Prime Minister John Howard's threat to attack terrorists offshore, if it becomes necessary to stop a terrorist attack on Australian soil

Russia, China Deepen Relations - ...strategic partnership of cooperation between China and Russia is in the long-term interest of the two countries and the two peoples...

MSNBC 11/21/02 War of the Worlds

Rense 11/21/02 - North Korea said on Thursday the United States had nullified a landmark nuclear pact with the decision last week to cut oil supplies to Pyongyang over its atomic weapons program.

WND 11/20/02 - The United States and Israel are planning joint exercises of the Jewish state's two-tiered missile-defense system by the first part of the year, ahead of potential military action against Iraq, according to various reports.

WND 11/20/02 - Syria is supplying Iranian-backed Hezbollah with hundreds of new short-range rockets for attacks on northern Israel, reports Geostrategy, the global intelligence news agency.

Rense 11/20/02 - China recently test-fired a new cruise missile with twice the range U.S. intelligence agencies initially estimated, intelligence officials say.

Rense 11/11/02 - Brazil's newly elected president, Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, has promised to expand the military in Latin America's largest country and turn Brazil into a nuclear power.

Response to SSCI Questions of World Threat 2002: CIA Response: DOD Response: DIA Response:  Declassified Public Documents - FAS Hot Documents