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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 17. Mars 2005 / Time Line March 17, 2005
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Canada’s Foreign Minister Pierre Pettigrew hints at
supporting a U.N. Space Preservation Treaty Conference
http://peaceinspace.blogs.com/peaceinspaceorg/2005/03/canadas_foreign.html
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GENEVA - In a March 14, 2005 speech to the United Nations
Conference on Disarmament, Pierre Pettigrew, Minister of Foreign
Affairs of Canada alluded to the possibility that Canada and other
nations might be willing to look outside of the United Nations
Conference on Disarmament, deadlocked for eight years, for a
multi-lateral agreement banning weapons and warfare in space.
Excerpts from Pierre Pettigrew’s UNCD Speech
“Last September, in his address to the General Assembly, the
Prime Minister of Canada did more than just lament the "tragedy it
would be if space became one big weapons arsenal and the scene of a
new arms race." He proposed a course of action in calling for the
extension of the 1967 Outer Space Treaty's ban on weapons of mass
destruction to include all weapons based in space.
”The Conference on Disarmament remains our preferred forum
for taking this work forward, but if it is unable to include this
subject in a program of work and start implementing it soon, we and
others will have to look elsewhere. Outer space may be infinite,
our patience is not ...”
03/17/2005
SECRET U.S. PLANS FOR IRAQ'S OIL
BBC Newsnight
Thursday, March 17, 2005
By Greg Palast
http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=417&row=0
Reporting for BBC Newsnight (London)
Why was Paul Wolfowitz pushed out of the Pentagon onto the World
Bank? The answer lies in a 323-page document, secret until now,
indicating that the allies of Big Oil in the Bush Administration
have defeated neo-conservatives and their chief Wolfowitz. BBC
Television Newsnight tells the true story of the fall of the
neo-cons. An investigation conducted by BBC with Harper's magazine
will also reveal that the US State Department made detailed plans
for war in Iraq -- and for Iraq's oil -- within weeks of Bush's
first inauguration in 2001.
The following report is from BBC OnLine
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/default.stm
The Bush administration made plans for war and for Iraq's oil
before the 9/11 attacks sparking a policy battle between neo-cons
and Big Oil, BBC's Newsnight has revealed.
Watch Greg's report on BBC Newsnight Starting @ 7:00pm EST 17
March
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/4354269.stm
Two years ago today - when President George Bush announced US,
British and Allied forces would begin to bomb Baghdad - protestors
claimed the US had a secret plan for Iraq's oil once Saddam had
been conquered.
In fact there were two conflicting plans, setting off a hidden
policy war between neo-conservatives at the Pentagon, on one side,
versus a combination of "Big Oil" executives and US State
Department "pragmatists."
"Big Oil" appears to have won. The latest plan, obtained by
Newsnight from the US State Department was, we learned, drafted
with the help of American oil industry consultants.
View Segments of Iraq oil plans
http://www.gregpalast.com/opeconthemarch.html
Insiders told Newsnight that planning began "within weeks" of
Bush's first taking office in 2001, long before the September 11th
attack on the US ...
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