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Sir Jeremiah Orion Kennedy
A. Abbas sets conditions to return to direct talks.
RAMALLAH, West Bank – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said he'll resume direct peace talks if Israel accepts its 1967 frontier as a baseline for the borders of a Palestinian state and agrees to the deployment of an international force to guard them.
B. EU to let states rule on GM crops
GM crops are restricted in Europe but planted widely elsewhere
EU officials plan to give the 27 member states the freedom to grow, restrict or ban genetically modified (GM) crops.The European Commission says different local conditions mean EU countries need more flexibility to decide where, if at all, GM crops are grown.
But the EU will continue to study the health impact of GM crops under its current authorisation system. Currently a type of maize called MON 810 is the only GM food cultivated commercially in the EU. A GM type of potato, called Amflora, has also been authorised, but it is harvested for industrial starch.
Applications to cultivate new GM crops - also known as genetically modified organisms (GMOs) - have stalled in the EU because member states take different positions on their safety. The Commission aims to let the states establish GMO-free areas if they want to avoid any unintended presence of GMOs in conventional and organic crops.
Supporters of GMOs argue that they deliver higher yields and resistance to pests, requiring less fertiliser and pesticides.
Opponents say more scientific data is needed, arguing that their long-term genetic impact on humans and wildlife could be harmful.
C. U.S. Says Scientist Aided C.I.A. While Still in Iran
The Iranian scientist Shahram Amiri, with his 7-year-old son, was met by family members in Tehran on Thursday.
The Iranian scientist who American officials say defected to the United States, only to return to Tehran on Thursday, had been an informant for the Central Intelligence Agency inside Iran for several years, providing information about the country’s nuclear program, according to United States officials.
And if you believe any of that your an idot. When I was being totured in 2005 so that I was sent to a mental hospital. I know that sometimes the truth does not get out. Like when NorthKorea was saying they wanted something done or not coming back to table. When in reality I was being tortured for other reasons and it had nothing to do with bank accounts.
D. Rare Officers Meeting Held in the Korean DMZ
Steve Herman | Seoul15 July 2010
A North Korean Army soldier looks south at the border village of Panmunjom,(DMZ) that separates the two Koreas since the Korean War (File)
Colonels of the U.S. military and their counterparts from North Korea's Army have held a rare meeting at the truce village, Panmunjom.
Officials with the United Nations Command in Seoul say the Thursday morning meeting in the demilitarized zone lasted about 90 minutes. It was intended to be a preliminary discussion to clear the way for talks between generals of the two sides.
The American officers were representing the United Nations command, which, since 1953, has monitored the armistice agreement that ended fighting in the Korean War.
The rare talks are the first to be held since the South Korean warship, the Cheonan, exploded and sank in the Yellow Sea on March 26.
The U.N. Command last month proposed military talks with North Korea to review the findings of the international investigation into the sinking and to start dialog. The North Koreans initially refused, then announced last Friday they would agree to talks, Tuesday. But Tuesday morning, just two hours before the discussion was to begin, the North Koreans asked for a postponement for administrative reasons.
Details about the substance of the talks have not been released.
E. Afghans to Form Local Forces to Fight Taliban
KABUL, Afghanistan — After intensive negotiations with NATOmilitary commanders, the Afghan government on Wednesday approved a program to establish local defense forces that American military officials hope will help remote areas of the country thwart attacks by Taliban insurgents.Details of the plan are sketchy, but Americans had been promoting the force as a crucial stopgap to combat rising violence here and frustration with the slow pace of training permanent professional security forces — the bottom-line condition for the American military to begin pulling back from an increasingly unpopular war. Many parts ofAfghanistan have no soldiers or police officers on the ground.
Over 12 days of talks, Gen. David H. Petraeus, the new NATO commander, overcame the objections of President Hamid Karzai, who had worried that the forces could harden into militias that his weak government could not control. In the end, the two sides agreed that the forces would be under the supervision of the Afghan Interior Ministry, which will also be their paymaster.
“They would not be militias,” said Geoff Morrell, the Pentagon spokesman, at a briefing in Washington on Wednesday. “These would be government-formed, government-paid, government-uniformed local police units who would keep any eye out for bad guys — in their neighborhoods, in their communities — and who would, in turn, work with the Afghan police forces and the Afghan Army, to keep them out of their towns.”
It is, he added, “a temporary solution to a very real, near-term problem.”
The program borrows from the largely successful Awakening groups that General Petraeus created in Iraq, though the two programs would not be identical. Unlike the Iraqi units, the Afghan forces would not be composed of insurgents who had switched sides. They would be similar as a lightly armed, trained and, significantly, paid force in a nation starving for jobs.
In fact, the program runs the risk of becoming too popular — it will create a demand in poor communities around the nation that could turn it into an unwieldy and ineffective job creation program.
F. BP fucks American fisherman Royaly
Gulf coast fishermen angry over oil claims ruling BILOXI, Mississippi (Reuters) – Fishermen in Mississippi say they are angry that under the terms of BP's $20 billion oil spill fund, money they earn doing clean-up will be subtracted from their claim against the company.
The fishermen reacted after Kenneth Feinberg, the federal official in charge of administering the compensation fund, announced the decision at a town hall meeting in Biloxi on Friday.Some walked out of the meeting in protest, arguing it was pointless to work under the Vessels of Opportunity program, set up by BP to help clean up the damage from the deepwater leak that started in April.
Oil stopped flowing from the leak on Thursday.
"I am furious about this," said Tuget Nguyen, who works with family members as a fisherman in Pass Christian, Mississippi.
"If he takes away the money we are making from BP when we get our claims, then nobody is going to work for BP to clean up this oil and we will not rent our boats to BP either. It is not fair," Nguyen said.
Thousands of fishermen in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida, out of work because federal authorities have closed much of the Gulf to fishing, are working for the Vessels of Opportunity program, skimming oil from the water and protecting coastlines.
Vessels of Opportunity "workers can file a claim, but we will subtract the amount they are paid from BP from their claim. That is how it has to work .... Of course you can file a claim. You must file a claim, but you cannot get paid twice," Feinberg told the meeting.
AND THIS COMES DAYS AFTER BP GET CAUGHT DOING A BUSINESS DEAL WITH LYBIA
TO GET THE BOMBER OF LOCKERBIE FREE WHO KILLED MANY COLLEGE AMERICANS.
G. Washington Post about to publish an article and quide that shows how private companies within the US are helping the US Government in Secret studies. Like Brainwashing for example or the high tech weapons that torture people now I and other people will be able to see Universities like Harvard and Princeton for there studies on Mind control, dream manipulation. Or companies like Soft ware or hardware companies that are behind secret weapons.
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