Six In The Morning

Who Cares If You Destroy The Environment Profit Margins Are At Stake      



Last refuge of rare fish threatened by Yangtze dam plans

The last refuge for many of China’s rarest and most economically important wild fish has mere days to secure public support before it is trimmed, dammed and ruinously diminished, conservationists warned today.

The alarm was raised after the authorities in Chongqing quietly moved to redraw the boundaries of a crucial freshwater reserve on the Yangtze, which was supposed to have been the bottom line for nature conservation in one of the world’s most important centres of biodiversity.

Go On Take The Money And Run  

Anger is growing on the streets as astonishing greed of former ruling dynasty is exposed, reports Kim Sengupta in Tunis  

The Tunisian job: How president’s wife ‘fled with $60m in gold bullion’  

The final act of the kleptocracy by the Ben Ali family was to steal one and a half tonnes of gold, with the president’s wife personally collecting the bullion from an initially reluctant but eventually browbeaten president of the country’s central bank.

Within hours the allegations – denied by the central bank – had been turned into slogans on the streets of Tunis in another demonstration, as protesters vented their fury at the former first family. “Hang them all, but let’s get our gold back first,” shouted a group marching along Avenue Bourguiba.

This Guy Is Your Prime Minister? Replace Him



Police investigate Berlusconi over new sex scandal

TALIAN PRIME minister Silvio Berlusconi last night faced further difficulties following fresh revelations in parliament concerning the latest sex scandal to involve him.

Milan investigating magistrates, who on Friday revealed Mr Berlusconi (74) is under investigation in relation to charges of “exploitation of underage prostitution” and of “abuse of public office”, yesterday presented the lower house of parliament with a 389-page dossier on their investigation.

A Black Op That Wasn’t



The Anatomy of Mossad’s Dubai Operation

He knew that he was a dead man. From the moment he shot the Israeli soldier sitting on the car seat behind him in the face, he knew that they would get him sooner or later.

For Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, it would take 20 years for that day to come. At about noon on Jan. 20, 2010, employees at the Al Bustan Rotana airport hotel in Dubai opened the door of room 230 to find the body of a man on the bed. According to the death certificate, the cause of death was “brain hemorrhage.”

At the time, no one knew who exactly the dead man was. Mabhouh was considered to be the chief weapons negotiator for Hamas, the Palestinian organization’s main contact to Tehran and the logistician behind rocket attacks on Israel coming from the Gaza Strip.

Stuxnet computer virus my have caused some damage. So what’s the problem?

 

Russian scientists fear ‘another Chernobyl’

Russian nuclear officials have warned of a Chernobyl-style disaster at Iran’s Bushehr reactor because of damage caused by the Stuxnet computer virus.

Russian nuclear scientists are providing technical assistance for Iran’s attempts to activate the country’s first nuclear power plant at the Gulf port.

But, according to Western intelligence reports, they have raised serious concerns about the extensive damage caused to the plant’s computer systems by the mysterious Stuxnet virus, which was discovered last year and is widely believed to have been the result of a sophisticated joint US-Israeli cyber attack.

Don’t Forget Republicans Believe   Health Isn’t For All Americans Just The Wealthy  



Government finds up to half of Americans under 65 have preexisting conditions

As many as129 million Americans under age 65 have medical problems that are red flags for health insurers, according to an analysis that marks the government’s first attempt to quantify the number of people at risk of being rejected by insurance companies or paying more for coverage.