Albuquerque UN Day Candidate Forum - We Will Be There

HOW SHOULD THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WORK WITH THE UNITED NATIONS TO COMBAT TERRORISM, REDUCE POVERTY, REDUCE ABUSES OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND CONTROL EPIDEMIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES? THE ALBUQUERQUE CHAPTER OF THE UNITED NATIONS ASSOCIATION OF THE USA AND THE UNM WORLD AFFAIRS DELEGATION WILL PRESENT A CANDIDATE FORUM TO ADDRESS USA-UNITED NATIONS ISSUES
Candidates in the primary election races for the US Senate and the House of Representatives have been invited to present their views of United States- United Nations issues. Since the United Nations has so many facets, each participant may select his or her own topic to discuss. However, we suggest concentrating on controversial subjects
such as:
Enlargement of the Security Council
To block a Security Council action, more than one permanent member must cast a veto.
Should the USA become a member state of the International Criminal Court?
Should there be a permanent UN rapid reaction force?
What role is there for the UN in Iraq?

The moderator will be Prof. Mark Peceny, Chair of the Dept. of Political Science at UNM.

Each candidate would speak for 7 minutes. After each has spoken, there would be questions from the audience, from the moderator and from one another.

The date is the evening of Wednesday October 24, 2007 at 7:00PM It will be in Albuquerque at the Albuquerque Mennonite Church, 1300 Girard NE.
The church is one block north of Constitution. (About 8 blocks from the UNM Law School or 500 yards north of Lomas)
The event is open to the public at no charge. Reception/refreshments 6:00-6:45

A Neo-Conservative International Targets Iran
by Jim Lobe

Before the week is out, it’s worth noting the “Democracy & Security” conference in Prague last Monday and Tuesday where Bush, on his way to the G-8 Summit in Heiligendamm, confirmed once more — just in case his tightening embrace over the past year of Sunni-led authoritarian regimes around the Middle East had provoked any doubts — his commitment to spreading freedom and defeating tyranny throughout the world, particularly in Iran, Cuba, and Sudan. Held under the auspices of the Czech Foreign Ministry and Prague’s municipal government, the meeting was organized by the Prague Security Studies Institute (PSSI), the Adelson Institute for Strategic Studies at the Likudist Shalem Center in Jerusalem, and Spain’s Foundation for Social Studies and Analysis (FAES) headed by former Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar…

The assumptions underlying the Conference were set out in a background paper by Marc Plattner, the editor of the ‘Journal of Democracy’, which is published by the quasi-governmental National Endowment for Democracy (NED). “Increasingly, the world is divided between liberal democracies (or regimes that are striving or pretending to be liberal democracies) and regimes that are tyrannical or are tending in that direction,” he wrote. And it is states in the latter category that are the source of the growing security threats that confront us. Though these regimes differ greatly in many respects, their leaders seem to be drawn together more and more by their common fear and hatred of liberal democracy – think of the unholy trinity of Ahmadinejad, Chavez, and Lukashenka. It is the tyrannical regimes that support terrorism and threaten not merely to acquire but to use nuclear weapons.”

That analysis not only entirely dismisses the threat posed by Al Qaeda and other violent Islamist groups, but it also, of course, makes Iran Public Enemy Number One. Indeed, Bayefsky, writing in the National Review Online on Friday, wrote (): “(T)here was an elephant in the room that dominated conversations in the coffee breaks and the halls – Iran, its genocidal ambitions, its mad dash towards acquiring nuclear weapons, and its familial relationships with terrorists prepared to use them while screaming the suicide bombers closing argument of choice: Allah Akbar.”

Putin’s Censored Press Conference: The Transcript You Weren’t Supposed to See

By Mike Whitney

06/10/07 “ICH” — - On Tuesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin gave an hour and a half-long press conference which was attended by many members of the world media. The contents of that meeting—in which Putin answered all questions concerning nuclear proliferation, human rights, Kosovo, democracy and the present confrontation with the United States over missile defense in Europe—have been completely censored by the press. Apart from one brief excerpt which appeared in a Washington Post editorial, (and which was used to criticize Putin) the press conference has been scrubbed from the public record. It never happened…

Two actions in particular have changed the Russian-US relationship from tepid to openly hostile. The first was when Putin announced that Russia’s four largest oil fields would not be open to foreign development. (Russia has been consolidating its oil wealth under state-run Gazprom) And, second, when the Russian Treasury began to convert Russia’s dollar reserves into gold and rubles. Both of these are regarded as high-crimes by US corporate chieftains and western elites. Their response was swift.

John Edwards and Jack Kemp were appointed to lead a Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) task force which concocted the basic pretext for an all-out assault on the Putin. This is where the idea that Putin is “rolling back democracy” began; it’s a feeble excuse for political antagonism. In their article “Russia’s Wrong Direction”, Edwards and Kemp state that a “strategic partnership” with Russia is no longer possible. They note that the government has become increasingly “authoritarian” and that the society is growing less “open and pluralistic”. Blah, blah, blah. No one in the Washington really cares about democracy. (Just look at our “good friends” in Saudi Arabia, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, and Kazakhstan) What they’re afraid of is Putin ditching the dollar and controlling his own oil. That’s what counts. Bush also wants Putin to support sanctions against Iran and rubber stamp a Security Council resolution to separate Kosovo form Serbia. (Since when does the UN have the right to redraw national borders? Was the creation of Israel such a stunning success that the Security Council wants to try its luck again?)…

Thanks to Sadaf Cameron of Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety for bringing this to Mother Media’s attention.

Congress Kills Nuclear Bomb Funding
In several recent moves, Congress has dealt blows to two cornerstones of the Bush administration’s nuclear-weapons policy: a new nuclear arsenal and a multibillion dollar factory to build it. In effect, it blocked those projects until President Bush has left office.

A key Senate defense committee Friday killed all funding for the new bomb plant, as well as a third of the money for the first in a planned series of “reliable, replacement warheads” meant to replace thousands of existing bombs dating from the Cold War.

The Senate Armed Services Committee also echoed its House counterpart and said weapons designers working on the new warhead at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory cannot go beyond conceptual design and cost studies to engineering a prototype bomb.

Cheney Attempting to Constrain Bush’s Choices on Iran Conflict
There is a race currently underway between different flanks of the administration to determine the future course of US-Iran policy. On one flank are the diplomats, and on the other is Vice President Cheney’s team and acolytes — who populate quite a wide swath throughout the American national security bureaucracy…

…The person in the Bush administration who most wants a hot conflict with Iran is Vice President Cheney. The person in Iran who most wants a conflict is Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Quds Force would be big winners in a conflict as well — as the political support that both have inside Iran has been flagging.

Multiple sources have reported that a senior aide on Vice President Cheney’s national security team has been meeting with policy hands of the American Enterprise Institute, one other think tank, and more than one national security consulting house and explicitly stating that Vice President Cheney does not support President Bush’s tack towards Condoleezza Rice’s diplomatic efforts and fears that the President is taking diplomacy with Iran too seriously.

This White House official has stated to several Washington insiders that Cheney is planning to deploy an “end run strategy” around the President if he and his team lose the policy argument.

The thinking on Cheney’s team is to collude with Israel, nudging Israel at some key moment in the ongoing standoff between Iran’s nuclear activities and international frustration over this to mount a small-scale conventional strike against Natanz using cruise missiles (i.e., not ballistic missiles).

World Exclusive: First Definitive Conclusions of Bilderberg 2007
by Daniel Estulin 01-06-2007

Well, we have our first conclusions of Bilderberg 2007. Robert Zoellick and the World Bank nomination

The US delegation is standing unanimously behind Robert Zoellick´s candidacy as the next President of the World Bank. Zoellick is a 53 year old Wall Street executive, former administration official and a free-market fundamentalist. During the meeting he pledged “to work to restore confidence in the bank…”

Zoellick’s name also raised eyebrows among development groups for his close ties to the US establishment and corporate interests.

One of the attendees, I have not had the confirmation as to who this individual is, asked Zoellick how he was planning to patch up relationships with third and forth world nations when he is best remembered during his tenure as the USTR, for arm-twisting poor nations’ governments to adhere to US-imposed intellectual-property laws that make medicines, for example, unaffordable to the developing world?

Texas Governor Rick Perry Summoned to elite “Bilderberg” Meeting While Opposition to NAFTA Superhighway Builds Nationwide

Texas Governor Rick Perry’s attendance at this year’s Bilderberg meeting was reported today by the Dallas Morning News and confirmed by the Governor’s Press Office as he left Austin for Istanbul– where the exclusive and private meeting of elites from throughout the Western world will take place. The trip could be in violation of the Logan Act which prevents U.S. citizens from unauthorized negotiations with foreign entities.

While the agenda of the meeting is kept secret, the overlap in interests between Governor Perry and Bilderberg are clear, as Texas becomes increasingly overrun by international firms taking control over land, roads and newly privatized utilities– seizing Texas in a manner similar to IMF takeover of third world nations.

Rick Perry has not only been instrumental in the contentious development of the Trans-Texas Corridor– often argued to be necessary infrastructure for regional government under C.F.R. plans for a North American Community and the Security & Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP.gov) signed by President Bush– Rick Perry has also privatized TxU (Texas Utilities), handing it off to global investment firms and private control who are heavily involved in the Bilderberg group.

BBC Video: Operation Gladio, “One of the most secret programs that ever existed”

“Deception is a state of mind and the mind of the State” - James Jesus Angleton, Head of CIA Counter Intelligence 1954-1974

Originally aired on BBC2 in 1992, ‘Operation Gladio’ reveals ‘Gladio’, the secret state-sponsored terror network operating in Europe.

This BBC series is about a far-right secret army, operated by the CIA and MI6 through NATO, which killed hundreds of innocent Europeans and attempted to blame the deaths on Baader Meinhof, Red Brigades and other left wing groups. Known as ’stay-behinds’ these armies were given access to military equipment which was supposed to be used for sabotage after a Soviet invasion. Instead it was used in massacres across mainland Europe as part of a CIA Strategy of Tension. Gladio killing sprees in Belgium and Italy were carried out for the purpose of frightening the national political classes into adopting U.S. policies.

NeoCon Mouthpiece Newsmax Trumpets Nuclear Terror, Recalling Earlier Nuclear Iran Propaganda.

Although former FBI agent Randy Glass provided compelling evidence in the 911 Press for Truth video of Islamic terrorist groups with an interest in nuking the US, these groups all operate well within the range of Mossad/MI6/CIA control. If there is a nuclear attack on the US, blamed on al Qaeda or Iran, it will be the western intelligence agencies who are to blame, because they will have consciously allowed it to happen for their own reasons. See my article Israel, Iran and a Nuclear False Flag Attack for details

This Man Leads Nuclear 9/11 Plan
- Newsmax wires

Adnan el-Shukrijumah. He is the most wanted man in America yet most Americans have never heard his name.

He has been described as the “Fixer” of the Sept. 11 attacks. Several captured al-Qaida operatives have revealed this is the same man who bin Laden has tapped to lead the terror group’s diabolical scheme to detonate nuclear devices simultaneously in several U.S. cities.

Meet Adnan el-Shukrijumah, now believed to be operating within the U.S. a man the FBI warns is likely armed and dangerous. “But no one on planet earth is more of a threat to the lives and well-being of every man, woman, and child within the United States than ferret-faced Adnan.”

That’s the dire warning from Paul L. Williams, author of his just released book “The Day of Islam: The Annihilation of America and the Western World.” According to Williams, Adnan has not only been charged by al-Qaida with orchestrating a nuclear attack, he may have already smuggled nuclear material into America.

IAEA chief warns of “crazies” seeking Iran war
By Reuters
06/01/07 - — LONDON, June 1 (Reuters) - The United Nations nuclear watchdog chief warned on Friday against the “new crazies” advocating military action to halt Iran’s nuclear programme and said he did not want to see another war like that in Iraq.