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Although the contract has not yet been signed, officials with HAL, prime contractor for the $1 billion upgrade program, said Elbit has been selected to supply electronic warfare systems and other avionics. defensenews By VIVEK RAGHUVANSHI, NEW DELHI Posted 07/30/07 19:27
India’s upgrade of 51 Mirage 2000-H combat jets is expected to incorporate avionics from Israel’s Elbit Systems, which has an equity arrangement with state-owned Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. (HAL).
Although the contract (…)

Dubai Aerospace Enterprise (DAE) is part of an integrated aerospace cluster that is being assembled at Dubai World Central – the new 140 square kilometer airport and logistics city being constructed at Jebel Ali, Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates. The firm is made up of 6 divisions – DAE Airports, DAE Capital, DAE Engineering, DAE Manufacturing, DAE Services, and DAE University. Dubai has long since taken over from Lebanon as the business and financial center of the Middle East, however, (…)

August 03, 2007 By Michael Kahn
LONDON (Reuters) - Western Europe has heated up more than previously thought over the past century, according to a new study that adds to evidence pointing to a future of hotter summers and longer-lasting heat waves.
The study, published on Friday in the Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, showed that the actual mean temperature since 1880 had risen 1.6 Celsius degrees, not the 1.3 degrees as previously thought, said Paul Della-Marta, a (…)

LIVE from Lebanon: The Beirut of the Problem by Trish Schuh
BEIRUT- Early one peaceful Sunday morning, a Lebanese colleague from the Christian side of the Green Line offered to skip church and give me an Assassins’ Tour of Beirut. "Would you like to trace steps from the Civil War?," she asked. "That would be great," I said. "Why not?" I love a dose of napalm in the morning, as they say...
We start with drive-by sightings of car bomb locales from the last few weeks and work back (…)

More devastating floods hit China
By Dragan Stankovic 3 August 2007
Parts of China, especially along the eastern Huai River, have had some of the heaviest rainfalls in 50 years. Continuous rain since mid-June has resulted in widespread flooding, affecting over 119 million people. Anhui, Sichuan and Hubei are the worst-hit provinces.
At least 3.6 million people have been evacuated, over one million houses have been damaged and another 452,000 destroyed. It is estimated that at least (…)

Have you ever seen a UFO? Millions of us have, credible reports have been made by hundreds and thousands and even the Apollo 11 astronauts reported sightings of strange phenomenon. But what does the government say? Nonsense! No such thing, never was never will be; yet the sightings continue. Unexplainable events, which cause the government’s explanation of, no such thing to fall to pieces. Travis Walton’s disappearance for five days after his coworkers reported his abduction is case in (…)

It’s 117 in the shade in Baghdad, and even hotter for Maliki’s pseudo government, now minus the largest Suni block, who resigned in disgust. Others are disgusted too. Disgusted with the failure to fund a $27 billion electric grid (which often fails to power water purification plants), digusted with the missing 190,000 arms issued in 2004 to Iraqi Security forces, disgusted with the Turkish attacks on the Kurds (and visa versa), the US support of Suni fighters...and Saudi pledges to do the (…)

It is doubtful if the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and for power - power to oppress others. The oppressed want above all to imitate their oppressors; they want to retaliate.
Eric Hoffer "The True Believer"
One can take only so much of this folly without resorting to, well, the keyboard. Anesthesia no longer works, especially since so many Americans running the world appear to be drowning in it. Or is it pure delusion? It’s not clear.
The most recent example is (…)

Sowood hedge funds collapse on bond troubles. By Jenny Strasburg and Katherine Burton Bloomberg News Wednesday, August 1, 2007
NEW YORK: Sowood Capital Management lost 50 percent in July, or about $1.5 billion, the biggest hedge fund manager to collapse after declines in the corporate bond and loan markets.
Sowood sold most of its assets to Citadel Investment Group and will unwind its two funds, Jeff Larson, founder of the firm, which is based in Boston, told investors in a letter (…)

By European Left
1. The agreement on a mandate for a new IGC to work out a new EU Treaty decided by the Heads of State during the last European Council is a clear sign of the lack of added value of this governmental Europe for the improvement of citizens’ life.
The governments have decided to include in a new Treaty and through amendments of the previous ones the main part of the Constitutional Treaty – rejected by the French and Dutch peoples. The Party of the European Left criticises (…)