Attack in Damascus

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Note from admin: U.S. provocations against Syria -- the next target in Pentagon's list of adversaries -- have begun. The ground is being laid to gradually pull out U.S. diplomatic personnel, citizens, and nationals of other countries prior to a full-scale attack. Expect tensions to rise even more.

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DAMASCUS (Reuters) - Four armed men attacked the United States embassy in Damascus on Tuesday but the assault was repelled and Syrian officials said all diplomats were safe. The officials said the four men shouted religious slogans, threw a grenade into the yard of the embassy. One official said the four attackers were killed and witnesses said at least one Syrian guard was killed. The officials said all U.S. diplomats were safe.

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UPDATE 2-Global imbalances could spark world recession-IMF

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BERLIN, Sept 11 (Reuters) - If global imbalances in the world economy are not resolved properly a worldwide recession could result, International Monetary Fund chief Rodrigo Rato was quoted as saying on Monday by a German paper. The United States' current account deficit is an imbalance of particular concern and the country needs to work on boosting private saving and fiscal consolidation, Rato wrote in a guest contribution for business newspaper Boersen-Zeitung. "The debate on these imbalances should be taken very seriously because a disorderly resolution of the problem could spark a global recession which we don't want," he wrote in an article to be published in the paper's Tuesday edition. "However, adapting to global demand in an orderly fashion is difficult and can't be achieved in a rush," he added. Rato said that the flipside of the U.S. deficit was the high current account surpluses being run by oil exporting countries, Japan, China and developing economies in Asia. He said economies with current account deficits needed to reduce their dependence on global savings and countries with surpluses needed to lower their reliance on foreign demand. He also urged implementing measures that would boost domestic demand and strengthen the influence of market forces in the allocation of resources in developing Asian countries. Rato was writing ahead of a meeting of finance ministers from the Group of Seven industrialised nations and officials from the IMF and the World Bank in Singapore later this month. Speaking in Calgary in Canada on Friday, Rato said the global economy was growing briskly but that the risks of a downturn had increased since April. In his article Rato again underlined this point and raised others he expanded on in Canada, such as how upcoming multilateral discussions among officials from leading economies would focus on reducing global economic imbalances.

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Video Documentary: Monopoly Men (Federal Reserve Fraud) (1999). Running time 48 mins.

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The Federal Reserve, or the Fed as it is lovingly called, may be one of the most mysterious entities in modern American government. Created during Wilson's presidency to protect the economy in times of financial turmoil, its real business remains to be discovered. During the Wilson presidency, the U.S. government sanctions the creation of the Federal Reserve. Thought by many to be a government organization maintained to provide financial accountability in the event of a domestic depression, the actual business of the Fed is shrouded in secrecy.

Many Americans will be shocked to discover that the principle business of the Fed is to print money from nothing, lend it to the U.S. government and charge interest on these loans. Who keeps the interest? Good question. Find out as the connective tissue between this and other top-secret international organizations is explored and exposed.


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Video Documentary: HIV = AIDS - Fact Or Fraud? Running time: 1hr 56mins

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This production is the most inclusive expose of the HIV/AIDS fraud. It explains how the fraud began, how it is perpetuated, and who profits ... all » by it. The program explains ten reasons why HIV cannot be the cause of AIDS, what the real causes could be, and why dangerous toxic drugs like AZT cause AIDS by prescription.

Interviewed in this program are Dr. Peter Duesberg, Dr. Charles Thomas who initiated the group for Scientific Reappraisal of HIV, along with other experts. This video documentary stands to date as the best complete analysis of these issues in any video form. Much of the current controversy in South Africa and around the world over HIV as the cause of AIDS was initiated by the information presented in this video. This video has saved thousands of lives and is credited as being part of the HIV/AIDS dissident movement worldwide


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Venezuela urges OPEC to closely monitor world oil market

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Venezuela's oil minister Monday urged the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) to closely monitor the world oil market to prevent prices from falling before the group's next meeting in December. "There's a consensus to wait and evaluate price behavior in the coming months. Depending on that evaluation, a decision will have to be made at the end of this year or early in 2007," Minister Rafael Ramirez said in a statement. World oil prices surged to a record 78.40 U.S. dollars a barrel in mid-July after fighting erupted in Lebanon. The prices plunged to below 66 dollars a barrel on Monday, after Iran said it might consider halting its uranium enrichment program and OPEC officials said they would maintain the group's 28 million barrel-a-day production target. Venezuela, the world's fifth-largest oil exporter and a founding member of OPEC, has been one of the nations campaigning for high oil prices within OPEC. Enditem

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Japan launches intelligence-gathering satellite amid concerns over North Korea

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Note from admin: Japan is more concerned about the doings of its Chinese neighbor than it is about N. Korea. Japan and China are embroiled in a row over which nation has exclusive rights to natural gas and oil deposits in the East China Sea.

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TOKYO Japan launched its third intelligence-gathering satellite into space on Monday, amid concerns about neighboring North Korea's nuclear weapons and missile programs. An earlier launch attempt was scrubbed Sunday due to bad weather, but the domestically developed H2-A rocket lifted off Monday afternoon after the weather improved at Tanegashima Space Center in southern Japan, said Kyoko Fukuda, a spokeswoman for Japan's space agency, JAXA. JAXA later confirmed that the satellite had successfully separated from the orange, white and black rocket. It subsequently entered its proper orbit, JAXA spokeswoman Yurika Inoue said. Japan already has two other intelligence-gathering satellites in orbit under a program prompted by North Korea's test launch of a long-range missile over Japan's main island in 1998. JAXA plans to launch a fourth satellite this winter. Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said he was delighted by the news of the successful launch. "I hope that Japan's space exploration will continue to produce results that are appropriate for a leading nation in space exploration," Koizumi said in a statement. Japan hopes to use the satellites to be able to survey any point in the world and keep watch on North Korea. Monday's launch follows a series of North Korean missile tests in July that triggered international condemnation and concerns about regional security. But government officials have said the missile tests did not influence the timing of the launch. Japan says the satellites are not meant to be a provocation and will also be used for monitoring natural disasters and weather patterns. Critics, however, say sending up the satellites violates Japan's long-standing policy of conducting only nonmilitary space missions. The multibillion dollar program suffered a major setback in November 2003, when a rocket carrying two spy satellites malfunctioned and was destroyed in mid-flight. TOKYO Japan launched its third intelligence-gathering satellite into space on Monday, amid concerns about neighboring North Korea's nuclear weapons and missile programs. An earlier launch attempt was scrubbed Sunday due to bad weather, but the domestically developed H2-A rocket lifted off Monday afternoon after the weather improved at Tanegashima Space Center in southern Japan, said Kyoko Fukuda, a spokeswoman for Japan's space agency, JAXA. JAXA later confirmed that the satellite had successfully separated from the orange, white and black rocket. It subsequently entered its proper orbit, JAXA spokeswoman Yurika Inoue said. Japan already has two other intelligence-gathering satellites in orbit under a program prompted by North Korea's test launch of a long-range missile over Japan's main island in 1998. JAXA plans to launch a fourth satellite this winter. Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said he was delighted by the news of the successful launch. "I hope that Japan's space exploration will continue to produce results that are appropriate for a leading nation in space exploration," Koizumi said in a statement. Japan hopes to use the satellites to be able to survey any point in the world and keep watch on North Korea. Monday's launch follows a series of North Korean missile tests in July that triggered international condemnation and concerns about regional security. But government officials have said the missile tests did not influence the timing of the launch. Japan says the satellites are not meant to be a provocation and will also be used for monitoring natural disasters and weather patterns. Critics, however, say sending up the satellites violates Japan's long-standing policy of conducting only nonmilitary space missions. The multibillion dollar program suffered a major setback in November 2003, when a rocket carrying two spy satellites malfunctioned and was destroyed in mid-flight.

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