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A senior Iranian official threatened that Tehran may forcibly prevent oil export via the Straits of Hormuz if the UN imposed economic sanctions due to Iran’s nuclear program, an Iranian news Web site said on Monday.
This is the first time an Iranian official makes military threats in a public statement on Tehran’s recent disagreements with the West.
The news site, affiliated with the radical student movement in which President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was once a member, quoted Mohammed-Nabi (…)

Houston PD Running Nuclear Disaster Drills As Build-Up Of Numerous Law Enforcement Agencies Seen In Nearby Texas City
Army Intel Capt. Eric May warns Bush cabal days away from a nuclear strike. Texas City resident "opens up a hornet’s nest" as he warns local law enforcement about the possibility of nuclear strike.
By Greg Szymanski
Sources inside the Houston Police Department (HPD) have confirmed officers in recent weeks have been taking part in nuclear disaster drills, adding more (…)

George Bush yesterday committed the US to the defence of Israel against threats from Iran, saying he would not allow the world to be "blackmailed" by an Iranian nuclear weapon.
The US president’s warning, issued in an exchange with students in Kansas, came at a tense time in relations with Iran, after Tehran vowed to restart nuclear research. The US is leading a diplomatic attempt to persuade other countries to refer Iran to the UN security council for failure to cooperate with United (…)

Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi
Washington, D.C. Office
2371 Rayburn HOB
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: (202) 225-4965
Fax: (202) 225-8259
Email: sf.nancy@mail.house.gov
To Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, January 18, 2006
I was more than surprised to hear your comment concerning any impeachment of President Bush as I read this column in the (January 15th, 2006) edition of the San (…)

WHAT IS KILLING HUNGARIANS? For millions of former subjects of the Soviet Union in Eastern Europe the Cold War is still killing but is killing them softly. Thanks to lying mainstream media essentially nobody knows about this (except for specialist epidemiologists) - the silence is deafening. We are OBLIGED to INFORM EVERYONE about mass mortality and gross inhumanity.
On 26 January 2006 a letter (reproduced below) was (with some slight changes) variously sent to governments and mainstream (…)

And necessary! This is the theme for the World Social Forum that I (along with tens of thousands of people from all over the world) am attending in Caracas this week. I know the idea of a world where everyone lives in peace and with justice is very "subversive," but the theme is very close to my heart and soul.
We need a new world. This one is broken.
Before my son Casey was killed in Iraq on April 4, 2004, I had never traveled much to speak of. I had gone to Israel and Mexico (…)

By NANCY ZUCKERBROD
WASHINGTON (AP) - A new political action committee to put veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in Congress is getting under way.
There is not one policymaker debating this war who has actually fought this war,’’ Jon Soltz, the executive director of the PAC and an Iraq war veteran, said in an interview Wednesday.
Retired Army Gen. Wesley Clark, a former Democratic presidential candidate, is heading the advisory board of the group, Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans (…)

By Harold Meyerson
Incompetence is not one of the seven deadly sins, and it’s hardly the worst attribute that can be ascribed to George W. Bush. But it is this president’s defining attribute. Historians, looking back at the hash that his administration has made of his war in Iraq, his response to Hurricane Katrina and his Medicare drug plan, will have to grapple with how one president could so cosmically botch so many big things — particularly when most of them were the president’s own (…)

Labor becomes election issue
By Ryan Alessi
FRANKFORT — Regardless of whether it was intended, Gov. Ernie Fletcher’s forceful push for legislation targeted at organized labor is morphing into more of an election issue than a legislative one.
Fletcher’s aggressive support for the repeal of the prevailing wage law and enactment of so-called "right to work" legislation has pleased many business leaders, who often show appreciation through campaign donations.
Some Democrats have said (…)

by James Straub
It was a fittingly ironic end to an election full of grotesque twists: When George W. Bush was narrowly reelected president of the United States, it was the electoral votes of the state he had harmed most that gave him the final nudge across the finish line. Ohio went for the second election in a row to the Republican clown prince. But if the first Bush victory was tragedy, the one in 2004 was surely farce: has world history ever turned before on the artful elevation of gay (…)