Iraqi uranium transferred to Canada

WASHINGTON (AFP) — At Iraq's request, the US military recently transferred hundreds of metric tons of yellowcake uranium from Iraq to Canada in a secret, weeks-long operation, a Pentagon spokesman said Monday.

The 550 metric tons of uranium, which was sold to a Canadian company, was moved by truck convoy to Baghdad's "Green Zone," then flown by military aircraft to a third country where it was put on a ship for Canada, said Bryan Whitman, the spokesman.

"The operation was completed over the weekend, on Saturday," Whitman said.

The yellow cake was discovered by US troops after the 2003 US invasion of Iraq at the Tuwaitha Nuclear Research Facility south of Baghdad, and was placed under the control of the International Atomic Energy Agency.

Yellowcake is a form of processed uranium ore that can be used to make fuel for nuclear reactors, or if further enriched as fuel for nuclear weapons.

Whitman said the Iraqi government asked the United States for help in selling and transferring the uranium to another country.

This sums it up well.

2008 DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM

1-Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes.

2-A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.

3-Abolition of all rights of inheritance.

4-Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.

5-Centralisation of credit in the hands of the State, by means of a national bank with State capital an exclusive monopoly.

6-Centralisation of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the State.

7-Extension of factories and means of production owned by the State; the bringing into cultivation of waste-lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan.

8-Equal liberty of all to labour. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture.

9-Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of the distinction between town and country, by a more equable distribution of the population over the country.

10-Free education for all the children in public schools. Abolition of the children’s factory labour in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production, &c., &c.

11- Raise gasoline prices by obstructing new oil drilling.

12- Raise energy costs by blocking nuclear energy.

12- Raise energy costs via new taxes, such as Al Gore's 50 cent per gallon tax.

This is a BIG PROBLEM

Obama has no record to stand on. He's done nothing.

Dick (the Nazi) Durbin

I was just watching Dick (the Nazi) Durbin, lying his way through an interview. If this idiot believes what he is saying, and the Democrats are going to pursue global issues predicated on this false view of reality, it’s time to leave America.

This Must Be Racism

One must assume this from listening to all the liberals and leftists that call Americans racists, because they want their border laws enforced.

Raids hit EU 'people-smugglers'

A pan-Europe police operation has led to the arrest of 75 people suspected of trafficking Iraqi Kurds into the EU.

The suspects, believed to belong to a network of Iraqi nationals, were detained in nine European countries.

European police agency Europol said it was one of the largest co-ordinated operations against people smuggling.

The migrants may have paid up to $18,500 (12,000 euros; £9,400) each to be taken from Iraq to countries within the European Union.

The operation - codenamed "Operation Baghdad" as it targeted a network of mainly Iraqi nationals - involved some 1,300 police officers and was supported by Europol and Eurojust, the EU bodies overseeing police and judicial co-operation.

Cramped conditions

Police arrested 75 people in joint investigations in Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Norway, the Netherlands, Sweden and the UK.

In a joint statement, Europol and Eurojust said: "All suspects are said to be involved in the clandestine smuggling of a large number of illegal immigrants into and within the European Union."

The network is accused of transporting illegal immigrants from Afghanistan, China, Turkey and Bangladesh to EU member states.

The migrants usually travelled in cramped conditions in camping cars, coaches, boats or even planes from Iraq via Turkey to Europe.

One of the main organisers in France is believed to have smuggled around 280 people between July 2007 and January 2008.

The migrants usually paid their money via wire transfer.

Eurojust co-ordinated the investigations at the request of French magistrates and set up an international liaison centre in Paris.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/europe/7469462.stm

Published: 2008/06/23 14:35:19 GMT

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Spot On

I received this,and found it interesting, and most likely accurate. It alludes to the reductionist errors our courts and lawmakers make, while they profess to work for the American people. I cannot fathom why our Supreme Court is allowed to continue to make the absurd decisions they make, many of which ignore the goals of our Constitution.

The Democrat Party has become the Lawyers' Party. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are lawyers. Bill Clinton and Michelle Obama are lawyers. John Edwards, the other former Democrat candidate for president, is a lawyer, and so is his wife, Elizabeth. Every Democrat nominee since 1984 went to law school (although Gore did not graduate). Every Democrat vice presidential nominee since 1976, except for Lloyd Bentsen, went to law school. Look at the Democrat Party in Congress: the Majority Leader in each house is a lawyer.

The Republican Party is different. President Bush and Vice President Cheney were not lawyers, but businesspersons. The leaders of the Republican Revolution were not lawyers. Newt Gingrich was a history professor; Tom Delay was an exterminator; and, Dick Armey was an economist. House Minority Leader Boehner was a plastic manufacturer, not a lawyer. The former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is a heart surgeon.

Who was the last Republican president who was a lawyer? Gerald Ford, who left office 31 years ago and who barely won the Republican nomination as a sitting president, running against Ronald Reagan in 1976. The Republican Party is made up of real people doing real work. The Democrat Party is made up of lawyers. Democrats mock and scorn men who create wealth, like Bush and Cheney, or who heal the sick, like Frist, or who immerse themselves in history, like Gingrich.

The Lawyers' Party sees these sorts of people, who provide goods and services that people want, as the enemies of America. In addition, so we have seen the procession of official enemies, in the eyes of the Lawyers' Party, grow.

Against whom do Hillary and Obama rail? Pharmaceutical companies, oil companies, hospitals, manufacturers, fast food restaurant chains, large retail businesses, bankers, and anyone producing anything of value in our nation.

This is the natural consequence of viewing everything through the eyes of lawyers. Lawyers solve problems by successfully representing their clients, in this case the American people. Lawyers seek to have new laws passed, they seek to win lawsuits, they press appellate courts to overturn precedent, and lawyers always parse language to favor their side.

Confined to the narrow practice of law, that is fine. However, it is an awful way to govern a great nation. When politicians as lawyers begin to view some Americans as clients and other Americans as opposing parties, then the role of the leg al system in our life becomes all-consuming. Some Americans become 'adverse parties' of our very government. We are not all litigants in some vast social class-action suit. We are citizens of a republic that promises us a great deal of freedom from laws, from courts, and from lawyers.

Today, we are drowning in laws; we are contorted by judicial decisions; omnipresent lawyers drive us to distraction in all parts of our once private lives. America has a place for laws and lawyers, but that place is modest and reasonable, not vast and unchecked. When the most important decision for our next president is whom he will appoint to the Supreme Court, the role of lawyers, and the law in America is too big. When lawyers use criminal prosecution as a continuation of politics by other means, as happened in the lynching of Scooter Libby and Tom Delay, then the power of lawyers in America is too great. When House Democrats sue America in order to hamstring our efforts to learn what our enemies are planning to do to us, then the role of litigation in America has become crushing.

We cannot expect the Lawyers' Party to provide real change, real reform, or real hope in America. Most Americans know that a republic in which every major government action must be blessed by nine unelected judges is not what Washington intended in 1789. Most Americans grasp that we cannot fight a war when ACLU lawsuits snap at the heels of our defenders. Most Americans intuit that more lawyers and judges will not restore declining moral values or spark the spirit of enterprise in our economy.

Perhaps Americans will understand that those lawyers who already largely dictate American society and business cannot bring change to our nation. Perhaps Americans will see that hope does not come from the mouths of lawyers but from personal dreams nourished by hard work. Perhaps Americans will embrace the truth that more lawyers with more power will only make our problems worse.