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New agency looks to bring new spy tools to government

Saturday, June 2nd, 2007

Using a laptop and a satellite link, FBI agents can find out within two minutes whether the fingerprint from a newly captured suspect overseas matches a terrorist database in Virginia.The fingerprint-recognition system is an example of new spy gear that National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell bought last year. It’s for a research center developing futuristic technology for use by the federal government’s 16 spy agencies.

Another project of the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity is a computer program known as English Now. It converts documents written in languages such as Arabic into English.

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EU split by Bush’s ‘green conversion’

Saturday, June 2nd, 2007

MATTI HUUHTANEN AND JEFF MASON

EUROPE was yesterday struggling to decide whether George Bush, the US president, had experienced a road-to-Damascus conversion over the fight against climate change or was still dragging his heels.

For some leaders, the announcement on Thursday that Mr Bush was seeking a meeting of the 15 leading greenhouse gas emitting countries was “groundbreaking”, heralding a new approach by the United States to the whole issue.

But others complained it was simply a restatement of the “classic US line” with no firm targets to cut emissions and prevent global warming.

Mr Bush became a hate-figure for environmentalists when he decided against implementing the Kyoto treaty on climate change in 2001, saying it would cost US jobs and wrongly excluded developing nations.

In his speech on Thursday, the US president said he wanted the group of leading polluters, including the US, China, India and major European countries, to come up with a global target for carbon emissions but decide themselves how to reach that target.

On a visit to Finland, the EU Energy Commissioner, Andris Piebalgs, said the new statement was a major step in the right direction, representing “a completely new approach” for Mr Bush.

“For me, it’s very welcome and groundbreaking news,” he said.

He added that it was particularly important for the Group of Eight countries meeting next week.

However the Environment Commissioner, Stavros Dimas, had a very different take to his energy counterpart on the significance of Mr Bush’s comments.

“The declaration by President Bush basically restates the US classic line on climate change - no mandatory reductions, no carbon trading and vaguely expressed objectives,” he said.

“The US approach has proven to be ineffective in reducing emissions.”

The German environment minister, Sigmar Gabriel, whose country holds the rotating EU presidency, said Mr Bush’s announcement could be seen as progress only if it prepared the way for a United Nations pact to extend the Kyoto Protocol past 2012.

“If it is an attempt to hamper such an international climate change agreement, then it is dangerous,” he said.

“The European Union and also the G8 should not be content with initiating a process that just means we’ll have some vague agreements between ten or 15 countries in the world.”

Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, wants the G8 to agree now on a need for world cuts of about 50 per cent in emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050.

Her spokesman, Ulrich Wilhelm, said it was too early to predict the outcome of the G8. “I think we can say at this stage that it’s going to be tough,” he said.

UN reports this year have projected ever more heatwaves, floods, desertification and rising seas because of rising temperatures linked to greenhouse gases, mainly from fossil fuels. The EU aims to cut its emissions by 20 per cent by 2020.

CHINA SEEKS CLIMATE CHANGE SUPPORT

THE impact of global warming on China is clearer each day, a top-level meeting chaired by Wen Jiabao, the premier, has agreed.

China’s State Council said climate change must be tackled in a way that allows sustainable development. But it stressed: “Every region and government department should fully recognise the importance and urgency of combating climate change.” Officials called at their meeting for countries to bear “shared but different” responsibilities to combat rising temperatures.

It says China’s low per-capita emission levels, and rich countries’ responsibility for most of the global warming gasses in the atmosphere, mean the West should take stronger action to cut pollution.

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Bush kills off hopes for G8 climate change plan

Saturday, June 2nd, 2007

US President George W. Bush on Thursday threw international efforts to control climate change into confusion with a proposal to create a “new global framework” to curb greenhouse gas emissions as an alternative to a planned UN process.

The proposal came less than a week before a G8 summit in Germany and appeared to hit European hopes that the world’s industrialized nations would commit to halving their emissions by 2050.

A UN-brokered meeting in Bali in December, at which it had been hoped to agree to keep climate change to a 2?C increase in temperature, is supposed to provide a successor to the Kyoto Protocol. All that was thrown in doubt by the initiative announced on Thursday by Bush.

“By the end of next year, America and other nations will set a long-term global goal for reducing greenhouse gases. To help develop this goal, the United States would convene a series of meetings of nations that produced most greenhouse gas emissions, including nations with rapidly growing economies like India and China,” Bush said.

He said that the 15 countries responsible for the overwhelming bulk of greenhouse gas emissions would meet in the autumn and a deal could be struck before the end of next year. He did not specify whether the global goal he referred to would be voluntary, but he has consistently opposed mandatory caps.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair hailed the Bush initiative as an important step forward.

“For the first time America’s saying it wants to be part of a global deal,” the prime minister told Sky News while on a tour of South Africa.

“For the first time it’s setting its own domestic targets. For the first time it’s saying it wants a global target for the reduction of emissions, and therefore for the first time I think [there is] the opportunity for a proper global deal,” he said.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who is hosting next week’s G8 summit, also welcomed the initiative.

“I think it is positive, and the US president’s speech makes it clear that no one can avoid the question of global warming any more,” Merkel said of the proposal. “This is common ground on which to act.”

However, Bernd Pfaffenbach, the chief German negotiator on climate change was blunter. He told the Suddeutschen Zeitung newspaper that excluding the UN or weakening its role was a “red line” that Merkel “will never cross.”

“The leading role of the UN on climate change is non-negotiable,” he added.

Another German official described the proposal as a “poison pill” aimed at undermining G8 and UN efforts to tackle global warming.

Environmentalists were also furious.

Daniel Mittler, an analyst at Greenpeace International, said: “It’s not even too little too late, but a dangerous diversionary tactic. He doesn’t need to start a new process. There already is one. This is meant to slow down the UN process.”

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Bilderbergers War Over World Bank

Saturday, June 2nd, 2007

Steve Watson & Paul Watson
Infowars.net
Friday, June 1, 2007

Alex Jones was joined on air today by several reporters, including veteran Jim Tucker, reporting exclusively from the Bilderberg conference in Istanbul, Turkey where the shadowy and private meeting of elites from throughout the Western world is now underway.

Yesterday Tucker exclusively revealed that the meeting is to be held at the Ritz Carlton in Istanbul after the group tried to throw the local media off the scent and lie in claiming the elite confab was to take place 40 miles away in the city of Silivri.

It seems that Bilderberg has also been using the Turkish media, in particular the Turkish Daily News as a propaganda mouthpiece, having it pen an article today entitled ‘Why are we scared of Bilderberg?‘

Tucker became convinced the Carlton was the real site when security surrounding the area became intense yesterday.

Tucker described a heavy police presence surrounding the Ritz Carlton and confirmed that he had been followed by secret police and was under close surveillance. The police have put up large metal barriers around the hotel making sure no one gets close, as can be seen in the picture above.

According to Romanian journalist Paul Dorneanu, who is covering the meeting and also briefly joined Alex Jones on air today there are upwards of 100 protesters in the vicinity of the Ritz Carlton.

Early reports suggest that activities are already underway with long time Bilderberger Henry Kissinger having already called for a new international cooperation in order to end the civil war in Iraq.

Kissinger revealed why Istanbul has been chosen this year stating “Turkey is in a position to make an important contribution for shaping what I mentioned above,” saying that Turkey’s being part of the European system has an extremely strategic importance.

Jim Tucker suggested that Bilderberg is keen to portray Turkey as desperate to be allowed entry the to EU despite the fact that many Turks are strongly opposed to it because they see it as a surrendering of sovereignty.

Also joining Jones on air was Daniel Estulin who has been covering the Bilderberg group for 15 years.

Estulin pointed to the fact that a Bilderberg attendee, Robert Zoellick is the US candidate to take over at the World Bank. Estulin revealed that his sources have told him that yesterday Zoellick pledged to Bilderberg that he will restore confidence in the World Bank and that differences need to be put aside in order that the global body can be strengthened.

According to Estulin’s sources however, European Bilderbergers are not at all happy with continuing the status Quo of having the US nominated candidate become the world bank President. Estulin says that one Belgian Bilderberger proposed a merit based selection process without regard to nationality, fearing that if the world bank goes with Zoellick it could be accused of double standards because he is best remembered for arm twisting poor nations to adhere to US imposed intellectual property laws that make medicines and drugs unaffordable to the developing world.

This reveals exactly why Zoellick has been nominated to head up the world bank, he has a great track record during his time as a trade representative and NAFTA architect of securing globalist dominance over the third world. Zoellick is, as we revealed here yesterday, a globalist all rounder with strong corporate ties to boot. As it preaches accountability and transparency to developing nations, some elites at the Bilderberg meeting clearly fear Zoellick’s appointment would be compromising.

Estulin went on to describe in depth the damage that the world bank and its sister globalist outfit the IMF have done to humanity through their “Structural adjustment programs” which are nothing more than huge loans handed out to third world nations in order to reap the profits from the resulting debt trap.

Returning to the media coverage of Bilderberg, the Dallas Morning News yesterday reported Texas Governor Rick Perry’s attendance at this year’s Bilderberg meeting which has since been confirmed by the Governor’s Press Office as he left Austin for Istanbul and also picked up by the AP.

Perry has been intimately involved in aiding international firms represented by Bilderberg personnel to take control over land, roads and newly privatized utilities in Texas.

Jim Tucker believes that Bilderberg are considering him as a potential future President because he is not a regular attendee. If he is invited back next year this may be an indication that he is in the running for future leadership, according to Tucker.

Appearing on the Alex jones show yesterday, presidential candidate Ron Paul confirmed that Perry’s trip could be in violation of the Logan Act which prevents U.S. citizens from unauthorized negotiations with foreign entities. Paul also added that the trip indicates Perry is in league with the movement to establish a global government.

Listen to today’s Bilderberg exclusive here.

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