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How Your Gas Money Funds Terrorism. James Woolsey Explains

Former CIA director James Woolsey claims American consumption of oil helps to fund the Saudi-financed Wahhabi madrasas that teach fundamental Islam to the youth in Pakistan and other parts of the world.

ACCESS in Washington, DC held its 9th Annual Young Diplomats Reception, hosting 140 guests, including 78 diplomats representing more than 30 countries. Jason Isaacson, AJC's director of Government and International Affairs, offered a brief overview of AJC's outreach to the diplomatic community.

The featured speaker for the evening was R. James Woolsey, Jr. former CIA Director and leading expert on energy security, who spoke about the need for energy independence, the environment, and the relationship between energy and global terrorism. - American Jewish Committee

Robert James Woolsey is vice president of the consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton and an officer in its global resilience practice.

Previously, Woolsey served as director of the Central Intelligence Agency and delegate-at-large to the US-Soviet Strategic Arms Reduction Talks and Nuclear and Space Arms Talks. He has also been a partner in the law firm of Shea & Gardner in Washington, DC.

Woolsey is currently co-chairman (with former Secretary of State George Shultz) of the Committee on the Present Danger, as well as chairman of the advisory boards of the Clean Fuels Foundation and the New Uses Council and a trustee of the Center for Strategic & International Studies and the Center for Strategic & Budgetary Assessments. He also serves on the National Commission on Energy Policy.

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What would you do with Osama's body?

2 may | By Sean Maguire

After a statement from Barack Obama, it's official that terrorist-in-chief Osama bin Laden has been killed by U.S forces. A joyous day to be sure, but there has to be one question that Obama has to answer quickly and clearly.

What are they going to do with the body of the world's hide-and-seek champion (2001-2011)?

For me the most obvious choice for the superpower that was humiliated for a decade, would be to stuff him, put him in a grovelling stance and position him in front of the site of the World Trade Centres.

There would be a beautiful poetry to that, but we want to hear from you.

So the question today is: what would you do with the personification of the United States' greatest failure?

Tell us and remember...Disqus! . . read more

Stop the Presses! Spooks Hacked al-Qaida Online Mag

2 jun | Just because you’re a paranoid terror wannabe doesn’t mean they aren’t watching you — and hacking your jihadi online fanzine. The Washington Post reports that British intelligence vandalized the debut issue of Inspire magazine after the United States reportedly turned down a similar plan. By Adam Rawnsley . . read more

Killin' Osama the unarmed

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South Park predicted Osama's death

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Terrorism Begets Terrorism - From Rev Jeremiah Wright

30 apr | We took this country by terror away from the Sioux, the Apache, the Arawak, the Comanche, the Arapaho, the Navajo. Terrorism! We took Africans from their country to build our way of ease and kept them enslaved and living in fear. Terrorism! We bombed Grenada and killed innocent civilians, babies, non-military personnel. We bombed the black civilian community of Panama with stealth bombers and killed unarmed teenagers and toddlers, pregnant mothers and hard-working fathers. We bombed Gadafi's home and killed his child. "Blessed are they who bash your children's head against a rock!"

We bombed Iraq. We killed unarmed civilians trying to make a living. We bombed a plant in Sudan to payback for the attack on our embassy. Killed hundreds of hard-working people; mothers and fathers who left home to go that day, not knowing that they would never get back home. We bombed Hiroshima! We bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon, and we never batted an eye! Kids playing in the playground, mothers picking up children after school, civilians - not soldiers - people just trying to make it day by day. We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and Black South Africans, and now we are indignant? Because the stuff we have done overseas has now been brought back into our own front yards!

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The laying of the groundwork must begin today, so that the American people will be prepared for the day when the mirage the Fed has created evaporates completely.

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People's Liberation Army (PLA) Major General Luo Yuan, in a commentary published by state-owned website china.org.cn, said China has not abandoned the idea of "war at all costs" to protect its interests.

"'Peaceful rise and 'period of strategic opportunity' preclude war," said Luo, who has been described by Western media as "hawkish" for his ultranationalist views.

"It is incorrect to assume that China will completely rule out military action in any event during this 'period of strategic opportunity,'" he said, referring to Beijing's dispute with Manila.

Think Again From The Outsider

The great challenge facing everyone who wants to change the world we live in is how do you get traction for your ideas? Gunter Pauli the inventor of the ‘blue economy’ has a novel approach. His missionis to develop globally 100 manufacturing innovations with viable business models that could generate 100 million jobs in 10 years. All with zero emissions and no waste.

The novelty? To drive this revolution in an economic framework that will attract investors and governments in entrepreneurial partnerships that feed self-interest while revolutionising outcomes – particularly in relation to carbon.

The blue economy was initially a report to the Club of Rome recommending innovations inspired by science and biometrics. This is a truly cool equation. Science + Economics = A Better Future.

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End world hunger?

Take over other companies?

Pay its suicidal employees more?

Whatever it chooses, we should really stop focussing on Jobs' genius and start thinking about how the wealth his genius created can be spent for good.

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The images of senior Australian politicians being bundled into cars to escape the threat of indigenous demonstrators confirms how weak the post-apology environment is in Australia. The whole point of the apology was not to say 'sorry' but to build a new platform for the positive evolution of indigenous Australians. The apology created a climate of trust but the ignoble inaction that has followed, apart from proposed tinkering with the Australian constitution, has destroyed the platform and the belief in the trustworthiness of political process. Can't we (non-indigenous Australians) actually do something? Something communal not bureaucratic, spiritual not gestural – something that shows that we care.