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Friday, April 20, 2007 |
Has the World Bank been infiltrated? It surely looks like there is a serious leak. Don't start crying Wolfowitz!
11:05:55 AM 
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JapanTimes: "One of the leading voices against nuclear proliferation was silenced Wednesday when Nagasaki Mayor Itcho Ito died from gunshot wounds. He was 61.
It is part of the job of political leaders in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the only two cities to have had an atomic bomb dropped on them, to oppose nuclear weapons. Ito had a particularly high profile as mayor and was widely respected."
There is at present a militaristic trend in Japanese politics and one wonders who is behind this heinous attack. The yakuza are not just a criminal organisation, but are part and parcel of the economical and political system, they are not a secret organisation.
BBC: "Japan's lower house of parliament has approved guidelines to amend the country's post-war pacifist constitution for the first time."
11:00:04 AM
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Bloomberg: "Two British men were accused by prosecutors of potentially endangering troops in Iraq by leaking a secret memo about a 2004 meeting between U.S. President George Bush and U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair.
David Keogh, 50, a former Cabinet communications officer, and political researcher Leo O'Connor, 44, are on trial in London for allegedly breaching Britain's Official Secrets Act. Prosecutor David Perry QC today claimed that the two men conspired to push the memo into the public domain after Keogh intercepted a confidential fax from Washington to London."
Guardian: "Two men are to be tried behind closed doors in an Old Bailey courtroom in a move that will stop the public finding out whether George Bush proposed what would have been a war crime and how Tony Blair reacted. The evidence the government does not want us to hear is in an official record of a meeting in Washington in April 2004, when the situation in Iraq was deteriorating fast. The memo, it has been reported, refers to Bush's alleged proposal to bomb the Arabic TV channel al-Jazeera, and is said to reveal how far Blair went in criticising US military tactics in Iraq at a time when troops were bombarding Falluja."
The trial continues.
So now it is a crime to uncover war crimes? The only persons to have been endangered by the leaking of the memo are George W. Bush and Tony Blair.
10:35:09 AM
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