When New York City comptroller William Thompson, who oversees the city’s pension funds, asked Halliburton, General Electric and ConocoPhillips for information about their dealings with Iran and Syria, he found that all three companies were involved. Halliburtion was using a Cayman Islands shell company to do business with Iran.

As Halliburton originally began trading with Iran while Dick Cheney was still on its board, he must have participated in making the decision to trade with Iran.
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An Israeli official says the U.S. military has been ordered to launch the war against Iraq on March 18. Michael Gurdus reported on Israeli TV that the order was relayed by U.S. Central Command to all American forces in the Persian Gulf and says he heard the order being relayed to U.S. fighter-jet pilots and others over U.S. military radio communications that he intercepted.

Gurdus is a leading reporter for Israel radio and television who has broken many hot stories because of his ability to intercept and understand foreign-language civilian and radio broadcasts and communications. He says the U.S. military, in its radio communications, refers to Iraq as “bad cows” and “kabob.”
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Greenland is much cooler now than it was 40 years ago. Edward Hanna, of the Institute of Marine Studies in the U.K. says, “It really depends on what time scale you are looking at?Over the last 40 or 50 years?there has been a statistically significant cooling, particularly in south-western coastal Greenland.” This can be confusing if you assume that global warming will produce warmer temperatures worldwide. This isn’t true?it will produce more extreme weather and some areas, such as the U.K. and Europe, will actually become colder due to changes in ocean currents.
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In the U.S., many of us feel that business interests have taken over government policy. We’re not alone: the French may be vetoing the war against Iraq because they’ve been doing business illegally with Saddam. Now it’s been revealed that Russia, which is also against the war, will sell enriched uranium, which can be used to make nuclear weapons, to Iran. Iran says it will use the uranium in nuclear power plants, despite the fact that it has plenty of oil and doesn’t need nuclear power.
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