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With the release of some Anthrax investigation documents by the FBI, it’s clear all the evidence against Bruce Ivins is circumstantial.
Federal investigators described the following key points against Ivins:
(1) At the time of the attacks, he was the custodian of a large flask of highly purified anthrax spores that possess certain genetic mutations identical to the anthrax used in the attacks;
(2) Ivins has been unable to give investigators an adequate explanation for his late night laboratory work hours around the time of both anthrax mailings;
(3) Ivins has claimed that he was suffering serious mental health issues in the months preceding the attacks, and told a coworker that he had “incredible paranoid, delusional thoughts at times” and feared that he might not be able to control his behavior;
(4) Ivins is believed to have submitted false samples of anthrax from his lab to the FBI for forensic analysis in order to mislead […]

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Baltia (BLTA.OB) has been climbing the last couple of days with some large volume buying - at least large for this stock. There hasn’t been any news so it leads me to believe someone knows something.
Could they be close to flight??
According to the Baltia Yahoo! forum they have met the last of DOT’s requirements, which was a financial fitness evaluation. I verified this information at the goverment’s documents site (click here).
More interestingly, the document reveals that Baltia plans to operate at least one round-trip flight per week to St. Petersburg and they have financing for a year’s worth of up to 5 flights per week. Assuming they can fill those flights and make a profit, this is HUGE insight.
Most of the operating expenses are backed and guaranteed by personal lines of credit of Baltia’s board. I like that a lot better than a company who’s board is disinterested and/or not […]

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That’s right!  CERN will be starting up the LHC on Sept 10th.
Now if you’re confused and wondering what the heck LHC and CERN are.. keep reading.
CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, has been working on a project called the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).   The LHC is the world’s most powerful particle accelerator, producing beams seven times more energetic than any previous machine, and around 30 times more intense when it reaches design performance, probably by 2010. Housed in a 27-kilometre tunnel, it relies on technologies that would not have been possible 30 years ago. The LHC is, in a sense, its own prototype.
On 9 August, protons will be piped through LHC magnets for the first time.
The most powerful physics experiment ever built, the LHC will re-create the conditions present in the Universe just after the Big Bang.
But on September 10th.. LHC will go live.  BBC has an article […]

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The Wall Street Journal wrote an interesting post today on
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McCain is killing Obama on YouTube (the ending of this ad is particularly strong!)…
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Dark Skies wrote an interesting post today on
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World leaders quash qualms, go to Olympic opening [AP] - As I said, there will be no wars, terrorist attacks, revolutions, or anything of the sort. Yes, there’s that Chinese Muslim group, but there are no such things as cowboy terror groups doing anything beyond the mediocre which aren’t owned by the Illuminati. Everyone knows how paranoid the global controllers are concerning their safety. Bush, Sarkozy, Putin, Australia’s PM, Gordon Brown, and even the chairman of Taiwan’s Nationalist Party are going. If these heads of state of the major world powers are attending, then you can bet the Olympics will be generally uneventful.
Protestors detained at Beijing Olympics [AP] - Denying visas to foreigners known to protest China’s human rights record as well. Blocking AP cameras with umbrellas and sheets. Sad that the Chinese cops think they have so much power too. They don’t even know that the plan is […]

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Dark Skies wrote an interesting post today on
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World leaders quash qualms, go to Olympic opening [AP] - As I said, there will be no wars, terrorist attacks, revolutions, or anything of the sort. Yes, there’s that Chinese Muslim group, but there are no such things as cowboy terror groups doing anything beyond the mediocre which aren’t owned by the Illuminati. Everyone knows how paranoid the global controllers are concerning their safety. Bush, Sarkozy, Putin, Australia’s PM, Gordon Brown, and even the chairman of Taiwan’s Nationalist Party are going. If these heads of state of the major world powers are attending, then you can bet the Olympics will be generally uneventful.
Protestors detained at Beijing Olympics [AP] - Denying visas to foreigners known to protest China’s human rights record as well. Blocking AP cameras with umbrellas and sheets. Sad that the Chinese cops think they have so much power too. They don’t even know that the plan is […]

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Stefan Fobes wrote an interesting post today on
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Submitted by Dr. Don Marshall

Next the challenge thrown out to me by BU to shed some light on the CARIFORUM/EU (EPA) Deal. I was said to play a key role in the negotiations. This is a mistaken view. I played no role at all in the CARIFORUM/EU negotiations. In fact, on April 21 2008, through a region-wide news link-up with OXFAM, I raised concerns over what I thought to be a problematic deal. That instantly meant that I joined the company of a much-maligned group of commentators for daring to say “I disagree with the signing of the CARIFORUM/EU deal.”

At the OXFAM forum, I emphasised, among other things, that the Doha Development Round proposals were being undermined by the provisions under a full EPA.
For example, in the trade in agricultural goods:
Least developed countries and some developing countries benefited from exemptions, flexibilities in the formula for cutting tariffs, […]

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Helena wrote an interesting post today on
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GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) — Salim Hamdan pleaded with a military jury to spare him from a life in prison, apologizing Thursday for the “innocent people” who died in the Sept. 11 attacks and saying he worked as Osama bin Laden’s driver only because he needed a job.
Prosecutors asked for a sentence of no less than 30 years, asking the six Pentagon-appointed jurors to make an example of him.
The jury convicted Hamdan, a Yemeni man with a fourth-grade education, of aiding terrorism by chauffeuring bin Laden around Afghanistan at the time of the 2001 attacks. But Hamdan said he merely had a “relationship of respect” with bin Laden, as would any other employee.
“It’s true there are work opportunities in Yemen, but not at the level I needed after I got married and not to the level of ambitions that I had in my future,” he said, reading in […]

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pbtt wrote an interesting post today on
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HICKAM AIR FORCE BASE, Hawaii (AP) — The U.S. Air Force has been breaking in its new fleet of F-22s — the world’s most advanced fighter jet — this summer by sending five of the planes from cool and dry Alaska to hot and humid Guam for the first time.
The F-22 Raptors, which have unrivaled ability to fly at supersonic speeds for long periods and travel undetected by radar, have been operational for less than three years.
Elmendorf Air Force Base in Alaska has been home to two F-22 squadrons since last year. It’s only the second base to house the stealth fighters, after Langley Air Force Base in Virginia.
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Aug. 7 (Bloomberg) — The Nigerian navy shot dead an unspecified number of militants and destroyed two boats in an encounter with gunmen along the Cawthorne Channel, about 19 kilometers (12 miles) off the oil center of Port Harcourt.
A naval patrol vessel was fired on by the occupants of three speed boats in the area yesterday, navy spokesman Lieutenant Way Oblabisi said in an interview in the city today.
“The militants, who were moving in three speed boats, opened fire on sighting the naval men, who were on a routine patrol,” Oblabisi said. “The naval gunboats in self defense engaged the militants in a gun battle which left some militants dead.”
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