Tony Blair has been hired as an adviser on climate change by Californian billionaire Vinod Khosla, the latest in a string of jobs the former prime minister has taken.
The agreement will see Tony Blair Associates give strategic advice to Khosla Ventures, a venture capital firm that invests in companies pursuing green technologies. Mr Khosla, who made his fortune as co-founder of computing giant Sun Microsystems, is hoping that Mr Blair’s decade on the global stage helps unlock doors for the companies that California-based Khosla Ventures invests in.
The former prime minister, briefly enlisted last month by Gordon Brown to help Labour’s flagging election campaign, will lend his name to projects, make introductions and deliver advice. Khosla Ventures has already raised more than $1bn from investors to bet on a range of technologies from solar power to biofuels.
Mr Khosla said that “with Tony’s advice and influence’ we will create opportunities for entrepreneurs and innovators to devise practical solutions that can solve today’s most pressing problems.”
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List of female race car drivers name from A-Z is all here. These female drivers are best in driving race car and they are hot and sexy in race track! They have done whatever guys can do and some of the female racers even done better than guys. This article is to contribute to all the greatest female car racers who are talented, hot, and sexy.
Female race car drivers
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Amanda Stretton
Anne-Charlotte Verney
Ashely Force Hood – a funny car drag racer for John Force Racing. Ashely is the daughter of 14-time NHRA Funny car national champion John Force.
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Betty Skelton Erde
Bia Figueiredo
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Carmen Jordá
Catharina Felser
Christina Surer
Corentine Quiniou
Cyndie Allemann
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Danica Patrick – Indy car racer.
Dorothy Levitt
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Eliška Junková
Ellen Lohr
Erica Enders – A beautiful young junior dragster driver who is the most successful female Pro Stock Driver in NHRA history. She became first woman to qualify No. 1 in Pro Stock Recorded runner-up finish at Gatornationals in Gainesville in 2006.
Erin Crocker – In 2006, Erin Crocker has rock the world as she was the only woman to compete full time in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series. Other than that, she also ran in the ARCA and NASCAR Busch Series.
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Fiona Leggate
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Giselle Klein
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Hellé Nice
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Janet Guthrie
Jannine Jennky
Junko Mihara
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Katherine Legge – A lovely British auto racing driver. Katherine Legge became the first woman to win a developmental open-wheel race in North America.
Kathy Rude
Karlīne Štāla
Kay Petre
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Laleh Seddigh – Iran’s foremost female driver. Laleh is the only female driver who has been given permission by the authorities to race in the male races and has won on most occasions.
Leanne Tander
Leilani Münter – A race car driver and environmentalist bringing two worlds together.
Liz Halliday – Liz has won three times while finishing runner-up in the P2 driver’s championship in the American Le Mans Series.
Lyn St. James
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María de Villota
Maria Teresa de Filippis
Melanie Troxel – appear in racing track when she was just 16 using a car with a self-build engine from her high school. In year 2005, she clocked a 4.458 second pass and 330.31 mph speed in Dallas and this has make her became one of the fastest female race car drivers in NHRA.
Michele Bumgarner
Mildred Bruce
Milka Duno – Beautiful and strong competitive spirits female car racer. Milka Duno is the first Venezuelan woman to start a career in professional motorsports at an international level.
Mishael Abbott
Sabine Schmitz
Sarah Fisher – She is the first female racer to win the pole position and youngest (when she was 19 years old) to compete in the Indy 500.
Shawna Robinson
Sheila van Damm
Shirley Muldowney – the “First Lady of Drag Racing”, first woman to receive a license from NHRA (National Hot Rod Association) to drive a top fuel dragster. Shirley has won the NHRA Top Fuel championship in 1977, 1980, and 1982, becoming the first person to win two and three Top Fuel titles.
Shirley van der Lof
Simona de Silvestro
Susie Stoddart
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Tracy Shayhorn
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Vanina Ickx
Vicki Butler-Henderson
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Yuri Mitsui
They are all time cool, hot, and sexy female race car drivers.
Adapted from “Entitlement in Negotiation,” first published in the Negotiation newsletter.
Simon Gachter of the University ofSt. Gallen in Switzerland and Arno Riedl of the University of Amsterdam studied the tendency of negotiators to maintain allegiance to past norms concerning entitlement, even when those norms are unrelated to the parties’ real bargaining power. The researchers use the term moral property rights to refer to this adherence to past norms.
In a fascinating experiment, the researchers had pairs of participants compete in a general knowledge test. The higher scorer was named the “winner” and the lower scorer was named the “loser.” The pairs were told that past winners had received 1,660 points (which they were told earned them $14), and that losers had received 830 points (worth $7). A roll of dice then determined whether that payout would go into effect or the parties would be given only 2,050 points to negotiate between themselves. In the latter case, if they could not agree on the distribution, both sides would receive nothing.
The key results concern pairs in the second condition. Notice that 2,050 points do not allow each party his or her historic entitlement and that parties have equal bargaining power, since they both would get nothing if they failed to reach an agreement. A rational analysis would suggest that, on average, the winner and loser would each get 50% of the 2,050 points. Instead, the most common distribution among pairs was two-thirds to one-third, consistent with the historic entitlement! Negotiators adhered to past norms that were not warranted by current economic conditions.
The researchers cite real-world examples of this phenomenon, from the wealthy seeking rent control over their apartments to the historic claims of Israelis and Palestinians. Negotiators would be well advised to consider whether they are over weighing past entitlements when making decisions.
Ferrari president Luca Cordero di Montezemolo has revealed that the next Ferrari to be designed will be in honour of Pininfarina and dedicated to Sergio and Andrea, the latter who died in a scooter accident two years ago. In 2010, Pininfarina celebrates its 80th anniversary and Montezemolo was at the inauguration of the new Pininfarina Collection.
He remembered his friend as “a clear person, indefatigable and with pure ethical principles”, paying tribute to the long standing relationship between Ferrari and Pininfarina, which will be expressed in a new model. It will be called the Ferrari S.A and will be presented by the end of 2011 or early 2012. It should be the heir to the 612 Scaglietti, which is itself a homage to another historic Italian coach-building enterprise.
T2 Biosystems has been quiet for a while, but it’s making some noise today. The Cambridge, MA-based developer of a portable diagnostic machine has raised $15 million to carry on its quest for a diagnostic tool that that can beat workhorse laboratory machines on versatility, speed, and price.
Physic Ventures led the round, which included new investors Arcus Ventures, RA Capital, Camros Capital, WS Investments. The round also included T2’s existing backers, Flagship Ventures, Polaris Venture Partners, Flybridge Capital Partners, and Partners Healthcare. The company has now raised about $31 million total since it was founded in 2006. As we’ve pointed out before, there is plenty of intellectual capital lined up behind T2. The company’s advisors include Tyler Jacks, the director of MIT’s Center for Cancer Research; Ralph Weissleder, head of Mass General Hospital’s Center for Molecular Imaging Research; and MIT’s indefatigable bioengineering professor, Robert Langer.
T2 is what Harvard Business School professor Clay Christensen would call a “disruptive” technology, not the kind of more incremental, sustaining kind of innovations that big companies often pursue. This startup is attempting to commercialize technology will identify a huge range of biological substances—proteins, small molecules, viruses, DNA—in a handheld instrument. It aims to do all of this in a machine that costs less than $50,000, a tool that eliminates time-consuming and sometimes costly sample preparation steps, and that can give an answer in the lab, or the back of an ambulance or a jeep, in less than an hour. This technology, if proven in further trials, seeks to be better, faster, and cheaper than the classic optical-based diagnostic machines sold by giants like Becton Dickinson and Abbott Laboratories.
“No one else can do DNA and protein in a single instrument, and no one can get results faster than us,” says T2 Biosystems CEO John McDonough.
The difference with this mini-lab tool is so big, McDonough says, that it can change the way scientists, first-responders, and physicians find out exactly what they are dealing with. “The user can now see the problem and act on it. If you have to send in a sample to a central lab and it takes three days to get a test back, a lot of times you won’t even go through with the test.”
What T2 is up against is an existing paradigm of optical detection machines that are big, powerful, and cost about $250,000, McDonough says. They typically require …Next Page »
Memorial Day will soon be here and that means that beach season is just around the corner! I just took the time to schedule some time off for summer fun in the sun, and my kids are already nagging us to take them to the beach.
Did you know you can check the water temperature at the beach online? How nice that we can keep an eye on the water temperature so we can plan our vacations for optimal surf splashing.
This summer don’t forget the sunscreen whether you’re at the beach or not. In the past, I didn’t think too much about the effects of sun exposure. I used to think that if I didn’t have a really bad burn, everything was fine. Then a few years ago my father died of skin cancer and the reality of sun exposure and skin damage began to sink in. It’s summertime and we’re all spending more time outdoors – at the pool, the beach, the garden or just playing in the yard, so now’s a good time to be thinking about our skin.
We haven’t booked our vacation rental, so if you know a fun, family-friendly beach town on the northern east coast, let me know. Whether you’re on the land or in the water – stay safe and have a great summer!
The top American commander in the Middle East has ordered a broad expansion of clandestine military activity in an effort to disrupt militant groups or counter threats in Iran, Saudi Arabia, Somalia and other countries in the region, according to defense officials and military documents.
The secret directive, signed in September by Gen. David H. Petraeus, authorizes the sending of American Special Operations troops to both friendly and hostile nations in the Middle East, Central Asia and the Horn of Africa to gather intelligence and build ties with local forces. Officials said the order also permits reconnaissance that could pave the way for possible military strikes in Iran if tensions over its nuclear ambitions escalate.
While the Bush administration had approved some clandestine military activities far from designated war zones, the new order is intended to make such efforts more systematic and long term, officials said. Its goals are to build networks that could “penetrate, disrupt, defeat or destroy” Al Qaeda and other militant groups, as well as to “prepare the environment” for future attacks by American or local military forces, the document said. The order, however, does not appear to authorize offensive strikes in any specific countries.
In broadening its secret activities, the United States military has also sought in recent years to break its dependence on the Central Intelligence Agency and other spy agencies for information in countries without a significant American troop presence.
The Hubble space telescope has discovered a planet in our galaxy in the process of being devoured by the star that it orbits.
The doomed planet, dubbed WASP-12b, has the highest known surface temperature of any planet in the Milky Way – around 2,800F (1,500C).
But it could be enveloped by its own parent star over the next ten million years, the paper’s authors have concluded.
Using a new instrument called the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph that was installed on Hubble in 2009, the researchers observed how the planet was whipped into an elongated shape by gravitational forces.
Nada más leer la noticia me saltó el chispazo: yo llevo gafas también, como al parece el 72% de los conductores que las usan bien porque tengan falta de visión como yo o porque eventualmente las necesiten para protegerse del sol. Pues bien, ¿qué pasaría si sufrimos un accidente y el airbag se activa?
Éstas cuestiones se han intentado resolver en el “Estudio sobre las lesiones oculares en usuarios de gafas por estallido del airbag a baja velocidad“, que concluye de manera global que un 26% de los conductores que en el momento de la colisión lleven unas gafas puestas pueden sufrir lesiones oculares, un dato preocupante.
Analizando más profundamente el estudio se descubre que en un 15% de las ocasiones las gafas actúan como protectoras, haciendo de pared entre los agentes externos y el ojo: sin embargo esto sólo ocurre con las gafas de montura completa, nunca con las de montura al aire (como las que uso yo, por ejemplo).
Las posibilidades de lesión ocular vienen marcadas también por una incorrecta distancia de separación del volante: se recomienda que sea más o menos 45 centímetros y hay muchos conductores que conducen más cerca de lo recomendado. Si eres conductor y llevas gafas, también te valdría saber que los cristales minerales tienen tendencia a astillarse, así que sería mejor no utilizarlos.
A company called NeoStem will be announcing a joint project with the Vatican on Tuesday to promote research in adult stem cell therapy.
It’s not often that the Vatican gets directly involved with a company listed on the New York Stock Exchange, and while the Catholic Church is not making a financial commitment in the deal, it is a kind of “Vatican Seal of Approval.”
The charitable arm of the biopharmeceutical company, the Stem for Life Foundation, will be working together with the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Culture to try to show the promise of adult stem cell research in treating disease.
The Catholic Church has long opposed research on embryonic stem cells, arguing that such work means destroying life.
“There are terrible ethical and moral problems with the use of embryonic stem cells,” said Fr. John Zuhlsdorf of the Catholic Online Forum. “To use them you have to kill an embryo. This is not a problem with adult stem cells.”
Fr. Robert Gahl, professor of ethics at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, said the Vatican should be congratulated for working with NeoStem.
“This is an ethical approach to discovering new cures for thousands of diseases, even including degenerative conditions,” Gahl told FoxNews.com. “Tens of thousands of patients have already been successfully treated and the further promise of this research is truly exciting.”
Fr. Thomas Berg of the Westchester Institute, a Catholic think tank, said the initiative is an example of a Vatican department thinking out of the box – at least by Vatican standards – and trying to engage the world of biotechnology.
“I think we should all welcome this announcement as a sign that the Church is indeed trying to engage that culture in a positive way,” Berg told Fox.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Il told the country’s military to be combat-ready in a message broadcast last week that coincided with South Korea’s announcement that it blamed his regime for the sinking of a warship, a dissident group said.
The order was broadcast on May 20 by O Kuk Ryol, vice chairman of the National Defense Commission, according to the website of North Korea Intellectuals Solidarity, a Seoul-based group run by defectors from the communist country. Yonhap News agency reported on the posting earlier today, sending the won lower by the most in more than a year and causing stocks to drop.
The report added to perceptions of increased tension in the Korean peninsula following the March 26 sinking of the 1,200 ton Cheonan. South Korea yesterday announced plans for joint military exercises with the U.S. off the west coast where the ship sank, while North Korea today warned of military action in the area after accusing the South of violating its territory in the disputed zone.
“For Kim Jong Il to be giving such an order is pretty serious,” said Kim Yong Hyun, professor of North Korean studies at Seoul-based Dongguk University, adding that he doubted that such a direct order was given.
A U.S. soldier is under investigation for posting a ‘disgraceful’ video on his Facebook page, taunting Iraqi children by asking if they are gay, engage in sex acts and if they would grow up to be terrorists.
The two young boys did not appear to understand the questions, which were in English, but smiled at the camera and at times flashed the ‘thumbs up’ gesture during the 30-second clip.
Spc Robert Rodriguez, based at Fort Wainwright in Fairbanks, Alaska, was ordered to remove the video from his site, U.S. army spokesman Major Bill Coppernoll said.
‘The incident is currently under investigation and the army will take appropriate action based on the findings of the investigation,’ he said.
It was not immediately clear if Mr Rodriguez shot the video or just posted it, Maj Coppernoll added.
HARTFORD – While many campaigns were taking a breather Monday from the long hours of the political party conventions, Democrat Ned Lamont came to the capital city to talk about job creation with a group of young professionals.
About a dozen attendees gathered around long tables to kick around ideas about how to improve Connecticut’s image among some that it is merely a stopping point between New York and Boston. The group gathered at the University of Hartford, which is about halfway between Albany and Providence.
“All my friends are headed to D.C., New York or San Francisco,” said Meg Evans, a 22-year-old senior at Yale University who has lived in Connecticut virtually her whole life. “That’s a big pull.”
Many of her friends, she said, actually live in Manhattan and make the reverse commute to work in Stamford.
“If you go to those train stations in Fairfield County, there are as many people coming in as going out,” Lamont responded.
One woman caught Lamont’s attention when she said she left the famed Research Triangle Park in North Carolina and is now teaching political science at the University of Connecticut. She said that Connecticut would be a better state if there was a light rail system to get from UConn to New Haven.
Others in the roundtable discussed the long-stalled New Britain-to-Hartford busway, although some said that will not make much difference in the quality of life in either of those cities.
“The heck with the Research Triangle,” Lamont told the group. “You want to be in New Britain. … Hartford, New Haven and Bridgeport were three of the richest cities in the world a few generations ago, and they can be again.”
Lamont will be facing former Stamford Mayor Dannel Malloy in the Democratic primary on August 10. On the same day, Republicans Tom Foley of Greenwich, Mike Fedele of Stamford, and Oz Griebel of Simsbury will be battling in the GOP primary.
Anti-war protester Brian Haw was arrested today as police carried out security sweeps ahead of the Queen’s Speech.
Mr Haw was seen being handcuffed by police as they cleared the area outside the Houses of Parliament before the monarch’s visit this afternoon.
He and other peace campaigners have been camping there and maintaining a 24-hour peace vigil.
Police with sniffer dogs moved in this morning to search the ragtag collection of tents in what Scotland Yard said was a ’standard’ security operation.
Mr Haw, who was wearing a grubby T-shirt declaring ‘IRAQ 2,000,000 DEAD, 4,000,000 FLED, was allegedly trying to stop them when he was arrested.
Transonic Combustion, Inc., a fuel-injection systems startup, announced today that Bob Lutz has joined the company’s board of directors.
“Lutz brings to Transonic’s leadership team a legendary career in the global automotive industry, including senior leadership positions at four of the world’s leading automakers,” Transonic said in a statement.
“For the foreseeable future, the internal combustion engine will remain the dominant propulsion system for automobiles,” Lutz said, “and there is still a lot of room to improve its efficiency. Customers and manufacturers want better fuel economy, lower emissions and a great vehicle experience all at an attractive price. Transonic’s new supercritical fuel injection technology can greatly improve engine efficiency and potentially become the new industry standard.”
Lutz recently retired from his nine year position as vice chairman of General Motors. His resume also holds respectable titles including CEO of Exide Corp; a 12 year position with Chrysler where he was vice chairman, president, chief operation officer and executive vice president; 12 years with FoMoCo; and three years with BMW.
Guess Lutz has no interest in retiring and resting… ever.
Hillary Clinton was trotted out by the global elite today with task in-hand — war with the authoritarian state of North Korea.
“U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday that North Korea’s sinking of a South Korean warship has created a ‘highly precarious’ security situation in the region and that the Obama administration is working to prevent an escalation of tension that could lead to conflict,” reports the Associated Press. “We are working hard to avoid an escalation of belligerence and provocation,” Clinton said. “This is a highly precarious situation that the North Koreans have caused in the region.”
Back in March, when the 1,200 ton corvette Cheonan sank in the Yellow Sea, there was scant evidence North Korea had anything to do with the disaster.
“Initial reports of the sinking had provoked fears that North Korea had attacked the ship, possibly with a torpedo, however South Korean military authorities have now said there is no evidence so far that North Korean forces were to blame,” the Daily Telegraph reported on March 27. “Speculation is now turning to the possibility that the Cheonan, which would have been carrying torpedos, suffered an accident or had perhaps struck a sea mine that had broken free from its mooring.”
In order to blame North Korea and set the stage for the possibility of a war that will conveniently displace the daily horror show of the engineered global economic implosion, a “joint civilian-military investigation group” of military and civilian experts was cobbled together.
“Investigators on Thursday presented fragments of a torpedo, which they said sank the vessel on the night of March 26 near the disputed West Sea maritime border between the two Koreas,” CNSNews reported on May 20. “The evidence points overwhelmingly to the conclusion that the torpedo was fired by a North Korean submarine,” said Yoon Duk-yong, co-chairman of the joint investigation team. “There is no other plausible explanation,” he added.
On cue the script-reading corporate media chanted the mantra that the evil North Koreans had sunk the military ship and wantonly killed South Korean sailors, thus attempting to rationalize the mass murder that may or may not soon unfold.
Lew Rockwell hit the nail square on the head. “In the most recent Korean incident, did the North’s navy sink a ship of the South’s navy? Only one thing is for sure: it is none of the US’s business, which should immediately end its long occupation of the South,” he writes. “But since the empire seeks to rule the world and beyond, everything is its business, and it looks as if the chickenhawk Obama may be about to launch a second Korean war.”
Naturally almost the entire nation is under a government and corporate media induced voodoo trance on the stage-managed issue. According to the official version of history, North Korea crossed the border at the 38th Parallel and mercilessly attacked South Korea as reunification negotiations were underway. The Chinese and Soviets supported North Korea and the United States and the United Nations supported South Korea.
Establishment historians mark the Korean War as the first significant armed conflict of the Cold War. Nearly a million and a half people lost their lives, including more than 55,000 U.S. soldiers.
Establishment history books omit a few inconvenient facts about the Korean War. As early as 1949, South Korean troops were launching incursions into North Korea, actions that ultimately led to the support from communist China and the Soviet Union. President Harry Truman’s secretary of state, Dean Acheson, announced in 1950 that the United States had little interest in Korea because the country had no geopolitical significance and yet John Foster Dulles is said to have worked behind the scenes with the leaders of Taiwan, South Korea and the U.S. military-industrial complex to set the stage for war.
As the Col. L Fletcher Prouty documents, the Cold War was a wholly manufactured phenomenon. Prouty was an insider who spent nine of his 23 year military career in the Pentagon — including a stint as a liaison officer between the CIA and the Air Force for Clandestine Operations — and wrote two books detailing how the elite systematically plan and execute wars and conflicts around the world. “The Grand Strategy decision to create a new bipolar world had already been made in 1944-45,” writes Prouty in JFK: The CIA, Vietnam, and the Plot to Assassinate John F. Kennedy (p. 12).
British researcher and author Atony Sutton has documented how the global elite financed and supported the Soviet Union from its inception and provided the communists with military assistance (see Sutton’s The Best Enemy Money Can Buy). “The United States financed the economic and military development of the Soviet Union. Without this aid, financed by U.S. taxpayers, there would be no significant Soviet military threat, for there would be no Soviet economy to support the Soviet military machine, let alone sophisticated military equipment,” Sutton wrote in 1986 before the planned implosion of the Soviet Union.
“It is not much of an exaggeration to say that the U.S.S.R. was made in the U.S.A.,” notes Gary Allen. “Remember that for over 150 years it has been standard operating procedure of the Rothschilds and their allies to control both sides of every conflict. You must have an ‘enemy’ if you are going to collect from the King.”
It helps, as well, to have “enemy” that you admire, as David Rockefeller admires communism, specifically the murderous version created by Mao. “Whatever the price of the Chinese Revolution, it has obviously succeeded not only in producing more efficient and dedicated administration, but also in fostering high morale and community of purpose. The social experiment in China under Chairman Mao’s leadership is one of the most important and successful in human history,” Rockefeller told the New York Times on August 10, 1973.
“In Korea we have direct killing of Americans with Soviet weapons,” Sutton writes in the concluding chapter of his book. “The 130,000-man North Korean Army, which crossed the South Korean border in June 1950, was trained, supported, and equipped by the Soviet Union.” Soviet tanks with U.S. parts, artillery tractors that were direct metric copies of Caterpillar tractors, trucks from a Henry Ford-Gorki plant in Russia, and airplanes built in plants with U.S. Lend-Lease equipment were used to kill U.S. soldiers in Korea.
Nearly two decades later, the U.S. would still be selling military technology to the Soviets. “Who were the government officials responsible for this transfer of known military technology? The concept originally came from National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger,” writes Sutton. Kissinger was (and is) “a paid family employee of the Rockefellers since 1958 and has served as International Advisory Committee Chairman of the Chase Manhattan Bank, a Rockefeller concern.”
In regard to North Korea’s nuclear threat, this too was made in the U.S.A. Donald Rumsfeld, the former U.S. Secretary of Defense and high-level globalist operative, made it possible for North Korea to possess nuclear technology.
In early 2000, Rumsfeld was involved with Swiss-based ABB when the company secured a $200 million contract with Pyongyang. The ABB contract was to deliver equipment and services for two nuclear power stations at Kumho on the North Korean east coast. The ABB contract followed a 1994 deal between the U.S. and North Korea allowing construction of two reactors in exchange for a freeze on Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons program, a deal North Korea subsequently violated (or so we are told) as it continued to develop a nuclear weapons program.
North Korea initiated a missile program in the early 1960s with the assistance of China and the Soviet Union, that is to say with technology introduced by the United States, as Sutton has documented. Thousands of missiles are currently aimed at Seoul, the capital of South Korea.
North Korea, under the authoritarian cult of personality leadership of the psychotic Kim Jong-il, has vowed to unleash these missiles and his military machine against South Korea if it retaliates for the sinking of the Cheonan. “If (South Korea) tries to deal any retaliation or punishment, or if they try sanctions or a strike on us … we will answer to this with all-out war,” North Korean naval spokesman Col. Pak In Ho warned on Thursday.
“The U.S. and South Korean militaries will undergo two new training exercises in light of last week’s finding that North Korea sank a South Korean navy ship, killing 46 sailors, a Pentagon spokesman announced today,” the American Forces Press Service has announced. “Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, on a pre-arranged diplomatic trip to Asia, today said U.S. and South Korean military leaders are working closely to ensure readiness in the region,” in other words possibly preparing for armed conflict.
“President Obama has directed his military commanders to coordinate closely with their Korean counterparts to ensure readiness and to deter future aggression,” Clinton said. “As part of our ongoing dialogue, we will explore further enhancements to our joint posture on the peninsula.”
In remains to be seen if these “further enhancements,” coupled with North Korea’s avowed declaration of “all-out war” in response, will result in hostilities.
If war ensues, not only will Lindsay Lohan be swept off the front page, but so will the economic crisis that is bearing down menacingly on the world with each passing day.
There’ll be no cramming for Biology 101 finals or sitting through riveting Intro to Sociology for Miley Cyrus: America’s Most Famous Teen Girl doesn’t want to go to college. The “Can’t be Tamed” singer, 17, has no plans to follow in her sister’s footsteps of higher education despite being eligible to begin her freshman year in the fall.
After all, they’ll be plenty of time for that when she’s a senior citizen.
Cyrus told Q100’s Bert Show Monday morning: “My sister went to MTSU in Nashville, so I’d probably want to be there with all my friends, but I’m not gonna go to college right now. I am a firm believer that you can go back at any age you want, because my grandma went back to college at 62 years old.”
