Thursday, March 08, 2012
Amazing Solar Storm Video
Wednesday, March 07, 2012
Syrian WMD Threaten Israel and Turkey
N. Korea Developing Road-Mobile ICBM
AP: UN Suspects Iran Nuclear 'Cleansing'
UN: Over 2 Billion People Gained Access to Safe Drinking Water
Tuesday, March 06, 2012
US-N. Korea Deal Has Holes
Netanyahu: 'Never Again!'
Monday, March 05, 2012
Western Intelligence Agencies Reportedly Confirm Iran-N. Korea Covert Nuclear Tests, Following Foreign Confidential™ Reports
Read the updated report here. It validates years of Foreign Confidential™ reporting on nuclear-armed North Korea and its partnership in proliferation with nuclear-arming Iran.
Thursday, 8 March 2012
X-Class Flares Could Affect World Weather;
Power Grids Alerted, Polar Flights Diverted
Read all about it here. Click here and here for related, recently published Foreign Confidential™ articles.
The solar flare bombardment should stimulate serious discussion of preparedness for natural and manmade EMP attacks. Go to EMPact America to learn more about the threat.
The United States and Israel are increasingly concerned that Syria could attack Israel and Turkey with chemical and biological weapons. The embattled Assad regime has stockpiles of chemical and biological warheads and an arsenal of missiles capable of carrying the warheads--and striking Israeli and Turkish cities. Read the report here.
Congressional testimony confirms investigative reporting by Bill Gertz. Click here for the story.
A North Korean road-mobile ICBM is a direct threat to the United States.
Moreover, North Korea could sell the system to Iran.
An AP exclusive.
The UN nuclear watchdog agency suspects Iran may be "cleansing" a site that was used to test a nuclear-weapon trigger. Click here for the story.
UN officials reported Tuesday that more than 2 billion people have gained access to better drinking water sources, such as piped supplies and protected wells, between 1990 and 2010. The figure means the world has met the internationally agreed Millennium Development Goal to halve the proportion of people with no safe drinking water well ahead of a 2015 deadline.
Turns out, the U.S.-North Korea agreement has holes big enough to accommodate a Mack truck--or a barrage of nuclear-tipped, ballistic missiles.
So says a real expert, Naoko Aoki, a Japanese journalist based in Washington, DC, who has visited the North 18 times. Click here to read her report.
UPDATE: Satellite Images
Show NK Reactor Progress
Satellite images released by a private, Washington-based group show that North Korea has made progress in the construction of a light-water reactor at its key nuclear Yongbyon complex north of the capital, Pyongyang.
The February 3 images of the nuclear site, released by the Institute of Science and International Security, show that the reactor's turbine building appeared externally complete — in contrast with September 20 images of the site that showed construction was still going on.
One ISIS analyst says the images indicate the reactor's dome is not yet in place, meaning that the reactor is not operational.
The images were taken less than a month before North Korea agreed to suspend certain nuclear and missile activities in return for food aid.
Israeli PM Indicates 2012 Year of Decision,
Iran Must be Stopped Before it's Too Late
How much is “much longer” is the subject of debate, but one thing is clear: Israel won’t wait beyond 2012 or until after the US presidential election in November.
“Israel has waited six years for sanctions to stop Iran,” he told the AIPAC audience, but they have failed.
He produced two documents dated 1944 in reply to the widely-reported view that Israel is short of the capacity to destroy Iran’s nuclear facilities and an attack would cause disastrous consequences for the region and the world.
One document was a World Jewish Congress plea to the US State Department for the Americans to bomb the Auschwitz death camp. The second was a rejection of the WJC’s appeal, explaining that diverting large-scale air power from America’s primary front would bring forth “even more vindictive action from the Germans.”
Netanyahu drew loud cheers when he declared, “As Israeli Prime Minister I will never let my people live in the shadow of annihilation! Never again!”
Can Israel on its own end the Iranian nuclear threat without losing Tel Aviv? Nearly 45 years ago, Israel faced a similar threat. Click here to read about the Six-Day War--and the destruction of the Egyptian Air Force on the ground in order to prevent it from bombing Israeli civilians. The lessons of that conflict and of the Yom Kippur War in 1973, when Israel failed to act preemptively, are certainly in the minds of today's Israeli leaders.
Tragically, successive American administrations have ignored the lessons of another time--the lead-up to World War II. Just as appeasement of Nazi Germany not only failed to prevent a war but made it inevitable, appeasement of Iran … followed by failed attempts to actually align with it in a Grand Bargain aimed at pacifying parts of the Greater Middle East … have made war with Iran inevitable.
World War II was initially fought on Germany's terms. Benjamin Netanyahu is letting Israel's friends--and enemies--know that Israel has no intention of fighting a war with Iran on its terms. The Jewish State has the political will--and the weapons--to prevail.
UPDATE: The Prime Minister's domestic political foes have accused him of trivializing the Holocaust, as reported here. They are dead wrong. Netanyahu was clearly not comparing Israel to a Jewish ghetto or to imprisoned and starved Jews about to be annihilated in a death camp. To the contrary; he made clear that Israel is more than capable and has every intention of defending itself. But he was comparing the Iranian and Nazi threats--absolutely. In contrast with his critics, Netanyahu is a student of world history. He appreciates all too well the parallels between prewar Nazi Germany and (prewar) clerical fascist Iran; and, in this regard, he understands that a totalitarian regime committed to a policy of imperialism--meaning, a policy of trying to overthrow the status quo, or power relations among nations--cannot be appeased, as shown by World War II, is difficult to contain, as shown by the period of the Cold War when Stalin was in charge of the Soviet Union, and, in the case of an irrationally apocalyptic actor, such as Iran, is impossible to contain.
On August 26, 2010, for example, Foreign Confidential™ reported:
Analysts believe Iran may already have several radiological--so-called dirty--bombs. Inspired, perhaps, by a plot by Nazi Germany to attack New York with a radioactive sand bomb, Iran has sought to acquire dirty bombs ahead of full-blown nuclear bombs and warheads (to place atop Iranian missiles and ICBMs).
More recently, Foreign Confidential™ noted on January 9 that "Iran has nuclear materials, money, missiles and warheads, scientific and technical expertise, conventional explosives, and political will and determination, etc. So why shouldn't we assume that Iran, while working on nuclear weapons, has already produced an arsenal of advanced radiological dirty bombs--and various means of delivering them?"
Foreign Confidential™ Predictions
Foreign Confidential™ (formerly China Confidential) is the only media outlet that accurately predicted both North Korean nuclear tests, including predicting the exact dates on which the explosions would occur.
In July of 2009, two months after the North's last known nuclear test, Foreign Confidential™ wrote that Pyongyang was planning additional tests.
On April 23, 2010, Foreign Confidential™ wrote that the North would probably stage its third nuclear test before the end of May of that year.
"New North Korean nuclear tests are increasingly likely," Foreign Confidential repeated on May 23, 2010.
About three months later, North Korea's ambassador to Cuba warned the United States that his country would use its nuclear arsenal to launch a "holy war" against the U.S. and South Korea if either country attacked the North.
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