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On the Eve of WW111 'The proposed agreement would call for Russia to "sub-contract" the production of the highly-enriched uranium (HEU) fuel elements, to a French entity. The problem is that the French have now demanded that all the Iranian HEU be shipped to them from Russia at one time, not in batches, and the Iranians – understandably, on the basis of their past experience with Eurodif and the French – have reportedly declined to agree to that.' Read more...

Flight Taxes Hiked to Bail Out Banks: It's Nothing to do With Environment, Says Darling 'Flight taxes are being raised to help bail out the banks, Alistair Darling admitted yesterday. In an extraordinary intervention, the Chancellor said the higher air passenger duty being introduced tomorrow was needed to plug gaps in the national finances.  He made no attempt to justify the move  -  which will add £340 to the ticket for a family of four flying long haul - on environmental grounds, the official reason for the tax. Airlines warned yesterday that the tax would cost thousands of jobs and do nothing to combat global warming.' Read more...

Obama Quietly Backing Congressional Moves on Iran Sanctions 'Though officials in the Obama Administration have been publicly neutral about the new round of sanctions against Iran moving its may through the House and Senate, the administration is quietly supporting the efforts, despite the deleterious affect they may have on negotiations.' Read more... Federal Reserve Policy Audit Legislation ‘Gutted,’ Paul Says 'Representative Ron Paul, the Texas Republican who has called for an end to the Federal Reserve, said legislation he introduced to audit monetary policy has been “gutted” while moving toward a possible vote in the Democratic-controlled House. The bill, with 308 co-sponsors, has been stripped of provisions that would remove Fed exemptions from audits of transactions with foreign central banks, monetary policy deliberations, transactions made under the direction of the Federal Open Market Committee and communications between the Board, the reserve banks and staff, Paul said today. “There’s nothing left, it’s been gutted,” he said in a telephone interview. “This is not a partisan issue. People all over the country want to know what the Fed is up to, and this legislation was supposed to help them do that".' Read more... Ethically Cleansed: The Case of Nick Griffin and the BBC 'All week the British media have been deliberating over whether or not the BBC should have hosted Nick Griffin.  In actual fact we need Nick Griffin to save us from looking in the mirror. It is us the collective, that is complicit in genocidal crimes and institutional intolerance. We the British electorate, are implicated in the death of millions of brown-skinned foreigners in remote lands. As long as we endorse killing in the name of democracy and universalism, as long we cite ‘women’s rights’ as a reason to drop bombs on Afghani women, then we are the ultimate pathological bigots.' Read more...