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Thursday, December 14, 2006 |
NYTimes: "A fourfold increase in the price of uranium in the past three years has led to a rush of new claims by uranium companies, according to a new survey by an environmental group that wants to inform the public of potentially harmful consequences.
The uranium claims are clustered in places like eastern Utah's Lisbon and Crystal Valleys, near Moab; areas of Arizona north of the Grand Canyon; and the Colorado Plateau in Colorado.
But new mining claims of all kinds are scattered around the West, from the border areas where California meets Oregon to the entire state of Nevada - historically, the state more associated with hard-rock mining than any other in the West.
In Nevada, for instance, the environmental group's research found more than 166,000 new claims, covering more than 3.5 million acres of public land."
Nuclear material is big business. No wonder Russian émigrés with 'contacts' (read 'ex-KGB officers') have made it their line of business.
TimesOnline: "A French police report obtained by The Associated Press said that Yevgeny Limarev, who reportedly blew the whistle on Russian agents' plans to target Litvinenko shortly before he was poisoned, has gone missing from his home in the French Alps with his wife and teenage daughter.
Mr Limarev, who is close to the exiled billionaire Boris Berezovsky, who lives in London and was close to Litvinenko, has not been seen in his home in Cluses, France, since Friday."
All those involved are somehow linked to Berezovsky. And Berezovsky has ties to Western authorities.
Journalismus: Chime Communications and Bell Pottinger Group (Timothy Bell is their chief strategist) have links with Boris Berezovsky.
Tim Bell and Boris are closely involved in Berezovsky's 'Civil Rights Foundation' (the names of Sasha Litvinenko, Alex Goldfarb, Andrei Nekrasov and David Satter are familiar in this context).
Litvinenko contacted the BBC with the story about his 'poisoning'. Which suggests this was a well thought out propaganda campaign. Litvinenko contaminated himself during one of his illegal nuclear trafficking deals and saw this as a brilliant publicity stunt that served his cause. He knew he was dying, so he gave his story the only twist that was possible for him and accused Putin. His wife denied Putin was responsible (does she know that her husband was a trafficker?), but declared that Putin indirectly made this happen. Well, Putin did not arrest the traffickers, but the Western powers clearly have been shielding the traffickers. So she should blame them, not Putin.
When the spectacular illness of Litvinenko became public, Berezovsky asked Bell Pottinger to give advice to the relatives and to Goldfarb. A media mogul coached the story. This is a deliberate campaign to discredit the Russian government and it has, indeed, poisoned the relations between Europe and Russia.
See also here.
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ConsortiumNews: "Gen. Augusto Pinochet's death on Dec. 10 means the Bush Family can breathe a little bit easier, knowing that criminal proceedings against Chile's notorious dictator can no longer implicate his longtime friend and protector, former President George H.W. Bush."
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