The New Saturday Evening Post by Sir Jeremiah Kennedy No. 5

The New Saturday Evening Post

by

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.

SJOK

I-Phone meet Karma by Sir Jeremiah Orion Kennedy China/Slavery/I-Pad

The Apple Corporation and it's shareholders now know the meaning of Karma. After supporting
Slavery in China and now the company has to move further inland to get even further cheaper fairs
after the subsidary in Tawian - Foxx is forced to pay the workers more after they were throwing
themselves off the roof of the building that build said I-Phone, I-Pad and IPod.

For over 7 years I have known of this problem and is the reason why I had to purchase a MP3
rather then the Apple product.

Karma - A telephone that losses communication - Apple - Slavery - China.

Toast

Tne New Saturday Evening Post by Sir Jeremiah Kennedy No. 5

A. Palestinian reject calls for direct talks. 
 RAMALLAH, July 7th,The Palestinian National Authority (PNA) Wednesday rejected Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu 's call for direct peace talks. U.S., Israel patch up spat "We reject the call" Netanyahu made Tuesday in Washington following his meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama, said Saeb Erekat, chief Palestinian negotiator.
"The era in which we held negotiations while Israel continued its unilateral procedures away from the references of peace no longer exists and has gone forever," Erekat told Voice of Palestine radio.
Netanyahu "closes the door for the direct negotiations and he can open it," Erekat said, urging the hawkish prime minister to stop settlement constructions, including the so-called natural growth of the blocs, and to agree that the direct negotiations resume from where they stopped in 2008.
Obama said he was confident that the indirect negotiations, launched by Washington in May, would lead to direct talks, while Netanyahu said it is time to shift to face-to-face discussions rather than the so-called proximities.
Erekat asked the U.S. administration "to let Israel choose between peace and settlements because the two things can not be taken together."

B. Iran sends requirements to Permanent members of Security Council for meeting.
Iran on Tuesday set September 1 as a possible date to resume nuclear talks with six world powers that have been stalled since October, but insisted its conditions must first be met. Iran's top nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili sent a letter to European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton saying Tehran needed three issues clarified by the world powers before it could consider resuming talks.
Ashton, who is negotiating with Iran on behalf of the so-called P5+1 powers -- Britain, China, France, Russia, the United States and Germany -- invited Tehran for talks after the UN Security Council imposed new sanctions on the Islamic republic on June 9.
Jalili said the world powers must answer whether the talks are aimed at "engagement and cooperation or continued confrontation and hostility towards
Iranians." "Will you be committed to the logic of talks which calls for avoiding threats and pressure?" he asked, calling on the six powers to air a "clear view" on the "Zionist regime's nuclear arsenal."
"Your response to the above questions can pave the way for forming talks to allay common global concerns for peace and justice with the presence of other interested countries from September 1," Jalili told Ashton.

C. US parks new sub in South East Asia
A new class of U.S. superweapon had suddenly surfaced nearby. It was an Ohio-class submarine, which for decades carried only nuclear missiles targeted against the Soviet Union, and then Russia. But this one was different: for nearly three years, the U.S. Navy has been dispatching modified "boomers" to who knows where (they do travel underwater, after all). Four of the 18 ballistic-missile subs no longer carry nuclear-tipped Trident missiles. Instead, they hold up to 154 Tomahawk cruise missiles each, capable of hitting anything within 1,000 miles with non-nuclear warheads.

Their capability makes watching these particular submarines especially interesting. The 14 Trident-carrying subs are useful in the unlikely event of a nuclear Armageddon, and Russia remains their prime target. But the Tomahawk-outfitted quartet carries a weapon that the U.S. military has used repeatedly against targets in Afghanistan, Bosnia, Iraq and Sudan. (See pictures of the U.S. military in the Pacific.)

That's why alarm bells would have sounded in Beijing on June 28 when the Tomahawk-laden 560-ft. U.S.S.Ohio popped up in the Philippines' Subic Bay. More alarms were likely sounded when the U.S.S. Michiganarrived in Pusan, South Korea, on the same day. And the Klaxons would have maxed out as the U.S.S.Florida surfaced, also on the same day, at the joint U.S.-British naval base on Diego Garcia, a flyspeck of an island in the Indian Ocean. In all, the Chinese military awoke to find as many as 462 new Tomahawks deployed by the U.S. in its neighborhood. "There's been a decision to bolster our forces in the Pacific," says Bonnie Glaser, a China expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. "There is no doubt that China will stand up and take notice."
U.S. officials deny that any message is being directed at Beijing, saying the Tomahawk triple play was a coincidence. But they did make sure that news of the deployments appeared in the Hong Kong–based South China Morning Post - on July 4, no less. The Chinese took notice quietly. "At present, common aspirations of countries in the Asian and Pacific regions are seeking for peace, stability and regional security," Wang Baodong, spokesman for the Chinese embassy in Washington, said on Wednesday. "We hope the relevant U.S. military activities will serve for the regional peace, stability and security, and not the contrary." (See pictures of the most expensive military planes.)
Last month, the Navy announced that all four of the Tomahawk-carrying subs were operationally deployed away from their home ports for the first time. Each vessel packs "the firepower of multiple surface ships," says Captain Tracy Howard of Submarine Squadron 16 in Kings Bay, Ga., and can "respond to diverse threats on short

The submarines aren't the only new potential issue of concern for the Chinese. Two major military exercises involving the U.S. and its allies in the region are now under way. More than three dozen naval ships and subs began participating in the "Rim of the Pacific" war games off Hawaii on Wednesday. Some 20,000 personnel from 14 nations are involved in the biennial exercise, which includes missile drills and the sinking of three abandoned vessels playing the role of enemy ships. Nations joining the U.S. in what is billed as the world's largest-ever naval war game are Australia, Canada, Chile, Colombia, France, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, the Netherlands, Peru, Singapore and Thailand. Closer to China, CARAT 2010 - for Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training - just got under way off Singapore. The operation involves 17,000 personnel and 73 ships from the U.S., Singapore, Bangladesh, Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand.

D. Cuba begins to free it’s political prisoners.
Cuba took the first steps toward releasing 52 political prisoners as the island's Catholic Church on Thursday notified five they would be freed soon in a deal struck with the Cuban government that drew praise from Washington.
The planned release prompted dissident Guillermo Farinas to end his 4-1/2-month-long hunger strike, sweeping aside a thorny issue that threatened Cuba's international relations.
The Church, asserting its new prominence in communist-led Cuba, said the five prisoners would be set free "in coming days" and allowed to go to Spain.

E. BP - British Pretrolum stops paying fisherman.
I guess you can give millions to the cable and internet for commercials, to clear up your image.

GRAND ISLE, La. --
Hundreds of fishermen from Lake Charles to Moss Point, Miss., were supposed to get checks from BP on Wednesday but didn't.
Wednesday night, their lawyer wanted answers.
Jeffrey Briet represents more than 500 fishermen, and he said the payment system he set up with BP required his clients to be paid every 30 days. Now that process has suddenly changed without warning, Briet said.
More Oil Spill News:
I-Team: Oil Cleanup Crews Rest More Than Work
Appeals Court To Hear Drilling Moratorium Case
"Not only did they spring it on us that the process has changed, but the people I've been dealing with for six weeks who've done a good job said, 'We don't know what the process is going to be. We're not authorized to talk to you about it. Someone from BP will contact you,'" he said.
But Briet said he hasn't heard from BP or its lawyers. He said the claims people have been given so much conflicting information about the process that they can't provide answers.


F. EU bans cloned meat


G. Death toll in Pakistan "Terror" bombing kills over 100.
This week Pakistan goverment decided to set up an non partisan "think tank" to deal with it's internal terrorism problem.

G. North Korea calls for Nuclear talks day after UN statement regarding the ship sinking.

 North Korea said on Saturday it was willing to return to nuclear disarmament talks and signaled satisfaction that a U.N. Security Council statement did not directly blame it for the sinking of aSouth Korean warship.

China, the North's sole key ally, urged regional powers to put the navy ship sinking behind them and return to the negotiating table to end a cycle of confrontation that has raised security tensions to new heights since late March.

On Friday, the Security Council condemned the sinking of the South Korean corvette Cheonan in March that killed 46 sailors but stopped short of directly blaming North Korea, an outcome hailed by Pyongyang's U.N. ambassador as "a great diplomatic victory."

Six-way nuclear talks involving North and South Korea, the United States, Japan, Russia and China have been in limbo since 2007 and a 2005 disarmament deal appeared to lose relevance when Pyongyang tested a long-range missile and a nuclear device.

"The DPRK will make consistent efforts for the conclusion of a peace treaty and the denuclearization through the six-party talks conducted on equal footing," the North's Foreign Ministry spokesman said in comments carried by the KCNA news agency.

DPRK is short for the North's official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

"We take note of the ... statement saying that 'the Security Council encourages the settlement of outstanding issues on the Korean Peninsula by peaceful means to resume direct dialogue and negotiation through appropriate channels'," it added.

A South Korea-led investigation concluded that a North Korean torpedo sank the Cheonan. Pyongyang has denied any involvement in the incident, saying it was a fabrication by the South aimed at politically damaging Pyongyang's leaders.

The Security Council statement, by not identifying an attacker, was able to win consent from Pyongyang's ally China for unanimous approval.

China, which had been the host of the six-way talks that began in 2003, urged regional powers to "flip the page of the Cheonan incident" and quickly resume those negotiations.

"We call for an early resumption of the six-party talks and joint efforts to maintain peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula," Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang was quoted as saying by Xinhua news agency.

The New Saturday Evening Post by Sir Jeremiah Kennedy No. 4

The Saturday Evening Post

         No. 4

A Weekly Cyber Magazine

A.

SEOUL — North Korea vowed Monday to strengthen its nuclear weaponry in the face of what it branded US hostility

As world leaders intensified pressure on Pyongyang over the sinking of a South Korean warship. Recent developments underscore the need for the North "to bolster its nuclear deterrent in a newly developed way" to cope with persistent US hostility and its military threat. Baek Seung-Joo of the (South) Korea Institute for Defence Analyses, said the statement indicates the North would start developing nuclear weapons based on highly enriched uranium. After years of denial, the hardline communist state last September announced it had reached the final stage of enriching uranium -- a second way of making nuclear bombs in addition to its original plutonium-based operation.

B. Iran's to postpone nuclear talks with the west as a "punishment" for the imposition of new UN sanctions. 

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said. Negotiations would be put off until after Ramadan in late August, he said, though no talks have in fact been scheduled. "It's a punishment to teach them a lesson to know how to have a dialogue with nations," he told reporters in Tehran. Ahmadinejad also repeated that Iran would retaliate if attempts were made to inspect its ships, as sanctions permit.

Earlier, the Iranian leader had complained of a hidden agenda. "The western and US sanctions and threats are not only aimed at putting the brakes on Iran's progress in nuclear technology, but come to keep Iran from becoming an economic and industrial power," he told a crowd in Natanz in Isfahan province.

Separately, Iran's foreign ministry dismissed as "psychological warfare" an assessment by the CIA that the Islamic republic already has enough uranium to make two nuclear weapons. Ramin Mehmanparast, the ministry spokesman, called the comments by Leon Panetta, the CIA chief, "propaganda" intended to allow the US to avoid nuclear disarmament. "What Iran is pursuing is only in the framework of the rights that its membership of the International Atomic Energy Agency entitles it to," Mehmanparast said. "The real concern is disarmament and non-proliferation."

Reports from Dubai said that the UAE central bank has ordered financial institutions to freeze 41 Iran-linked accounts, in line with the UN sanctions. UN resolution 1929 calls for measures against new Iranian banks abroad if a connection to the nuclear or missile programmes is suspected, as well as vigilance over transactions with any Iranian bank.

c. Google's stops redirecting China web site and now will provide a link.

Mr. Drummond wrote that in an effort to continue to serve Google’s Chinese users while placating the government, the company is proposing a compromise. In the next few days, it will stop automatically redirecting users to its Hong Kong site. Instead, Chinese users will see a page at google.cn which offers a single link to the Hong Kong site, where they can conduct searches or use other Google services, like translation and music, that require no filtering.

The company said it had resubmitted its content provider license based on this approach and hopes the Chinese government will find it more palatable. If the government continues to object, Google would lose its ability to operate a Web site in China altogether.

“This approach ensures we stay true to our commitment not to censor our results on google.cn and gives users access to all of our services from one page,” Mr. Drummond wrote. “We are therefore hopeful that our license will be renewed on this basis so we can continue to offer our Chinese users services via google.cn.”

D. State Department: Permanent members of Security Council Plus German meet on Iran in Brussels. 

Brussels and the P-5+1?

MR. TONER: Oh, yes. Thank you for reminding me. 

QUESTION: Specifically what’s on the agenda and why they’re still meeting given that you already have the resolution?

MR. TONER: Right. Well, just to – he met with his counterparts from Russia, the UK, France, China, and Germany, and the EU, as well as the EU High Commissioner Catherine Ashton, to review the situation regarding Iran’s nuclear program. They reaffirmed the commitments that they made in the statement issued upon the adoption of UN Security Council Resolution 1929. They also reiterated the group’s goals toward a comprehensive and long-term resolution to resolving international concerns regarding Iran. The group also agreed on the importance of ensuring swift enforcement of Resolution 1929 that’s consistent with the dual – and which is consistent with the dual-track approach. And also has communicated in High Representative Ashton letter’s to Iran, they restated the offer to meet with Iran for discussions on the nuclear issue and stressed the door remains open to Iran. 

And just as your follow-up question there, again, I think this is part of their regular consultations. They are going to continue to meet, obviously, the – the passage of 1929, does not in any way connote an end to the P-5+1’s regular consultations. 

E. Iran moves radar to Syria

Iran has moved radar to Syria that could provide early-warning against a possible surprise Israeli air attack against Tehran's nuclear sites, a US defense official said on Friday.

The radar transfer was first reported in the Wall Street Journal on Thursday and prompted the State Department to voice concerns about cooperation between Syria and Iran.

The sophisticated radar were deployed in Syria last year, the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told AFP.

The move could bolster Iran's position amid long-running speculation that Israel might stage a bombing raid against Tehran's nuclear enrichment facilities.

Information from new radar also could potentially help the Lebanese Shiite militia Hezbollah with its missile arsenal and air defenses.


F. . China 'jails Tibet activist for five years'

Rinchen Samdrup denied posting a pro-Dalai Lama article on his website

A Tibetan environmentalist has been sentenced to five years in prison by a Chinese court, his lawyer has said.

Rinchen Samdrup, the third brother in his family to be jailed, was found guilty of inciting separatism in China, reports say.

Mr Samdrup, who had pleaded not guilty, was accused of posting a pro-Dalai Lama article on his website.

The sentence comes just over a week after one of Mr Samdrup's brothers was sentenced to 15 years in prison.

Authorities in China said an article on the Tibetan spiritual leader was posted on Mr Samdrup's website, the Associated Press news agency reported.

The website is devoted to protecting the environment in the Himalayan region.

F. Palestinians reject for the moment direct talks with Israel after weeks of indirect talks.

Israel and the Palestinians have reached the half-way point of indirect peace talks mediated by the United States. 
After two months of indirect peace talks slated to last four months, Israeli and Palestinian leaders have differing visions about how to proceed. 

U.S. envoy George Mitchell has been shuttling between Jerusalem and the West Bank, but Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says it is time to move on to a new framework. He had this message for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

"The best way to convince Israelis that you're serious about peace is to begin serious, direct peace negotiations and I'm ready to begin them any time," said Benjamin Netanyahu. "I'm ready to meet President Abbas today and tomorrow and the next day, at any place." 

The Palestinians opted for indirect talks in protest over Israeli settlement expansion in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad says moving to direct talks would be premature.

"Those indirect talks have just begun, not a long time ago, and we've yet to see the kind of progress that would begin to justify consideration of that particular outcome," said Salam Fayyad.

The talks are dealing with the core issues of the conflict: the status of Jerusalem, Palestinian refugees, Jewish settlements and the final borders of a Palestinians state. Israel says territorial concessions are unthinkable if the Palestinians are unwilling to sit down and talk, face to face.Mr. Netanyahu says he will push for direct talks when he meets with President Barack Obama at the White House on Tuesday. 

G20 - The New World Order - Corporations run everything by Sir Jeremiah Kennedy

While America is watching a propragda "T-Party" and wondering why Obama is not making really making any changes. How much power do you really think the President of the United States actually has when he gets in office. I'll give you a hint he does not have the final say. National Security Council and the Joint Chief's does have a say in White House policy. But getting back to the Point the Corporations the special interests of certain
groups like the Pharastical companies or now the Telecommunications giants. The American people and the World at whole has more to worry about from the Tobacco industry as to weather Georgia or Ukraine falls back into Russia hands.

      We will tie a slow death from brian tumors from cell phones, pills from Drugs companies approved mind your from the FDA. guess that agency is not up to par. Or we will die a slow death from sitting next to a family member that smokes. Now these giant companies mind you are not American Time Warner, or American AT&T its Corporations and stock holders. Now even the corporation is involved in War as we see with certain private enterprises. So all we have to do is control the media, set up a war, and tada a New World Order. But don't worry tax payer from England, France, America or Tokyo you will bail out those corporations. Why because the leader you elected says so.

All the Best,
SJOK

see NYTimes article on Cell phone radiation and how San Fransico is requiring warning labels.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/27/opinion/27dowd.html?emc=eta1

The New Saturday Evening Post by Sir Jeremiah Kennedy No. 3

The New Saturday Evening Post

 No. 3 

A Cyber weekly Magazine - The news that matters.

A  All your emails and texts are now read. 

 "The First Amendment protects radical opinions, but we need the legal tools to do things like monitor the recruitment of terrorists via the Internet," Napolitano told a gathering of the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy. 

B   USS Truman crosses Suez Canal en route to Iran.

 Egypt allowed at least one Israeli and 11 American warships to pass through the Suez Canal as an Iranian flotilla approaches Gaza. Egypt closed the canal to protect the ships with thousands of soldiers, according to the British-based Arabic language newspaper Al Quds al-Arabi. One day prior to the report on Saturday, Voice of Israel government radio reported that the Egyptian government denied an Israeli request not to allow the Iranian flotilla to use the Suez Canal to reach Gaza, in violation of the Israeli sea embargo on the Hamas-controlled area.International agreements require Egypt to keep the Suez open even for warships, but the armada, led by the USS Truman with 5,000 sailors and marines, was the largest in years.

C. Al-Qaida threatens even more terror attacks.

 24 minute message that dwell-ed on Obama's setbacks, including the loss of Massachusetts Senate seat to the Republicans, Adam Gadahn set out al-Qaida's conditions for peace with the U.S., including cutting support for Israel and withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan. Gadahn said that if you compared the number of dead Muslims "with the relatively small number of Americans we have killed so far, it becomes crystal-clear that we haven't even begun to even the score," he said, dressed in a white robe and turban."That's why next time, we might not show the restraint and self-control we have shown up until now," he said. Even if al-Qaida was defeated, "hundreds of millions of Muslims" would still fight the U.S., he added.

C. Russia reaching out for new economic strategy ......
                         Russian President Dmitry Medvedev toured Silicon Valley to see "the origins of success," and came away expressing optimism that his country will also be able to adopt a high-tech economy that would give everyone a chance to get ahead. His visit Wednesday to the high-tech capital was bolstered by an announcement by Cisco Systems Inc. that it would invest $1 billion over 10 years to help foster high-tech innovation in Russia. He said he came to Silicon Valley to "see with my own eyes the origins of success."

Medvedev has said he wants to bring more high-tech innovation to Russia's oil-dependent economy, and create the country's own Silicon Valley outside Moscow.

"Russia is trying to become an open country," he said in Stanford.  "Open for investment, for trade, for joint projects in any sector of public life, and of course in economics."

The president has faced criticism that no matter how strong his desire to bring new technologies, business and innovation into Russia, the country's political and economic systems remain too corrupt for outsiders' comfort. "In Russia, we have money, and in a number of cases, big money. But we don't have Silicon Valley. That's why this money should be spent correctly. It should be given to the right hands and there should be correct rules". Talking about Russian corruption. 

Medvedev and Chambers also witnessed the signing of a memorandum of understanding between Cisco and the co-chairman of the high-tech innovation center Russia is planning to build in the town of Skolkovo outside of Moscow. Chambers said Cisco will bring $100 million in venture

D. Quartet meets stating that Gaza blockade is unproductive in creating Peace. 

The Middle East Quartet, made up of the United Nations, European Union, Russia and the United States, has welcomed Israel's move to ease the land blockade of Gaza by allowing civilian goods into the territory.  In its written statement, the Quartet reaffirmed that the current situation in Gaza, including the humanitarian and human rights situation of the civilian population, is unsustainable and not in the interest of any of those concerned.

 The solution must ensure the unimpeded flow of humanitarian aid, commercial goods, and persons to and from Gaza consistent with United Nations Resolution 1860.  The Quartet is prepared to work with Israel and the Palestinian Authority to achieve sustainable development in Gaza.

E. Iran cancel Gaza aid fotilla. Still waiting on Iran conditions to be able to meet with them. As long as you bring the Iranian caviar.

F. General McCrystal resigns after having a "foul mouth". Imagine a General who curses. Meanwhile G. Petreus will loosen rules of engagement which for some reason General McCrystal tightened the limit of our solder's. I imagine that last Summer when tens of civilians 

were being killed, that politically someone must have told the General to be more careful hence reducing the powers of the solder's. Well as of now that has changed and I imagine that we will be hearing of more incidents of civilian causalities.

J. Judge blocks "Deep Water" drilling Moratorium in New Orleans.


H. North Korea about to test fire missle into Pacific.
As usual during the July 4th holiday the North Korea will once again test fire its missle into the Pacific heading towards Alaska or Hawaii. Its one commodity War, nuclear weapons and missile technology. O and they also  announced that they are able to have a fussion reactor. 

I. Al Gore accuser goes public. Seems when Al likes a massage he likes to go all the way. Weeks after Gores announce seperation. - Who new?