According to journalist Jason Leopold, sources at former Cheney company Halliburton allege that, as recently as January of 2005, Halliburton sold key components for a nuclear reactor to an Iranian oil development company. Leopold says his Halliburton sources have intimate knowledge of the business dealings of both Halliburton and Oriental Oil Kish, one of Iran’s largest private oil companies. Additionally, throughout 2004 and 2005, Halliburton worked closely with Cyrus Nasseri, the vice chairman of the board of directors of Iran-based Oriental Oil Kish, to develop oil projects in Iran. Nasseri is also a key member of Iran’s nuclear development team. Nasseri was interrogated by Iranian authorities in late July 2005 for allegedly providing Halliburton with Iran’s nuclear secrets. Iranian government officials charged Nasseri with accepting as much as $1 million in bribes from Halliburton for this information. Oriental Oil Kish dealings with Halliburton first became public knowledge in January 2005 when the company announced that it had subcontracted parts of the South Pars gas-drilling project to Halliburton Products and Services, a subsidiary of Dallas-based Halliburton that is registered to the Cayman Islands. Following the announcement, Halliburton claimed that the South Pars gas field project in Tehran would be […]
The earth’s ability to soak up the gases causing global warming is beginning to fail because of rising temperatures, in a long-feared sign of ‘positive feedback,’ new research reveals today. Climate change itself is weakening one of the principal ‘sinks’ absorbing carbon dioxide – the Southern Ocean around Antarctica – a new study has found. As a result, atmospheric CO2 levels may rise faster and bring about rising temperatures more quickly than previously anticipated. Stabilising the CO2 level, which must be done to bring the warming under control, is likely to become much more difficult, even if the world community agrees to do it. The news may give added urgency to the meeting in three weeks’ time between the G8 group of rich nations and the leading developing countries led by China, at Heiligendamm in Germany, when an attempt will be made to put together the framework of a new world climate treaty to succeed the current Kyoto protocol. ‘This is a timely warning in advance of Heiligendamm and the G8 that the climate clock is beginning to tick faster,’ said the leading environmentalist Tom Burke, visiting professor at Imperial College London. ‘The shift that […]
Last June, Seyran Ates, a lawyer, was waiting for a U-Bahn train in Berlin’s Mockernbrucke subway station with a client for whom she had secured a divorce when the client’s husband stormed onto the platform. He began beating up his ex-wife. Then he turned on Ates. Ates recalls seeing a number of men standing around, watching it all happen, as she danced from side to side with her attaché case, trying to fend off his heavy punches and kicks. It was not the first time she had been attacked in the line of duty. A Turk of partly Kurdish descent, Ates arrived with her parents in the West Berlin neighborhood of Wedding in the late 1960s, when she was 6. Her parents were loving, but it was a traditional kind of love that involved much scolding, grounding and disciplinary slapping. School was Ates’s only escape from the house, and she excelled at it. She knew she wanted to be a lawyer. Just before her 18th birthday, as her mother and aunt were beginning to make plans to marry her off, she ran away. This flight was not a simple abandonment of her family, to whom Ates remains close. Nor […]
A new power plant coming to Franklin County will create electricity out of something north Georgia has plenty off - chicken droppings. And Coweta-Fayette EMC customers will even be able to buy some of that power. Plant Carl is a 20-megawatt power plant that will run off a combination of chicken litter and ‘woody biomass’ - such as scrap wood, tree trunks, and the like. All 20 of those megawatts will be bought by Green Power EMC, a conglomeration of various electric membership cooperatives in Georgia that researches, develops, and buys alternative energy. This is the biggest project to date for Green Power EMC, said President and CEO Mike Whiteside, who is also president and CEO of Coweta-Fayette EMC. Green Power EMC currently has two projects which burn landfill gas to create electricity - including one in Fayette County, and the Tallasee Shoals low impact hydroelectric plant near Athens. EMC customers can purchase 150 kilowatt ‘blocks’ of green energy. Those blocks cost an additional $3 to $5, depending on location, Whiteside said. A half cent of each of those green power blocks goes into Green Power’s research and development funds. That money is […]
Internet search engine Google plans to target people’s interests using data collected on its users Lesley-Anne Henry asks: is this the next logical step or the thin end of the orwellian wedge Google’s declaration of intent to assemble the most comprehensive database of personal information has thrown down the gauntlet to civil libertarians. The multi-billion pound search engine claims it wants to ‘better’ the internet experience by organising the world’s information and collating data on its users so it can guess what customers are searching for. The ultimate aim is to make Google so personal that it can target people known to be interested in certain products or services just from their Google activities. It is expected that one day users could ask a computer ‘What should I do today?’ or ‘Which job should I take?’ and it will tell them the answer. In theory there should be no problem. In fact, the new database could make life easier – perhaps even better. For example if you want to buy a particular book from a certain site, Google could locate other sites selling the same book at a cheaper price or it could recommend other […]
Remote Viewing the Year 2060
