SOLAR SYSTEM NEWS
A BILLION TON CORONAL MASS EJECTION (CME) ON SATURDAY
PARTING SHOT: On its way over the sun's western limb on Oct. 31st, sunspot 1029 unleashed a C-class solar flare and a coronal mass ejection (CME). The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory photographed the billion-ton CME billowing past Mercury:
http://spaceweather.com/images2009/31oct09/cme_c3_big.gif?PHPSESSID=st564agnrc6f8epldb23lf45p3
The blast reinforces sunspot's 1029's position as the most active sunspot of 2009. Last week alone, the sunspot produced ten C-class solar flares, more than tripling the number of flares in the previous 10 months. Sunspot 1029 is a member of long-overdue Solar Cycle 24. Is it also a herald of more active times to come?
NORTH AND SOUTH POLARITY APPEARED PRETTY IFFY ALL DAY WHEN I CHECKED
http://www2.nict.go.jp/y/y223/simulation/realtime/index.html
IT'S ALREADY MONDAY MORNING IN AUSTRALIA
DELAWARE WILL BE IN DEEP DO-DO WHEN THIS HITS THE PRESSES IN THE US TOMORROW!
The Australian | Tiny US state of Delaware beats Switzerland in a contest for most secretive financial jurisdiction, a tax justice rights group said
November 02, 2009 - The United States, led by the eastern seaboard state, took in $2.6 trillion in deposits from non-resident corporations and individuals in 2007, according to a survey of financial jurisdictions analysed by the Tax Justice Network.The survey of laws, practices and size of inflows in 60 jurisdictions found Delaware coming in first, followed by Luxembourg and then Switzerland.
The Cayman Islands and the United Kingdom round out the top five.
"While the US has been jumping up and down and saying 'Aha, bad, wicked Swiss banks,' the US is doing exactly the same things as far as non-resident bank account holders," Tax Justice Network executive director Sarah Lewis said.
Switzerland has been the poster child for financial secrecy over the past year.
The United State sued Swiss global banking giant UBS AG , which paid a US$780 million ($874 million) fine to settle a lawsuit against it by the Government.
As part of the deal, UBS admitted it actively helped Americans evade US taxes.
The ranking is based on a composite of total offshore activity and measures such as whether a jurisdiction obtains beneficial ownership information about companies and the degree of cooperation in turning over requested financial information.
Delaware is attractive because it does not tax profits realised outside the state and does not require companies to be physically present, according to the Tax Justice Network.
UBS and Credit Suisse have about 200 entities in the state, according to the group.
There are nearly 700,000 active entities registered in Delaware - and about half of those publicly traded in the United States, according to the group.
Total US deposits of non-residents rose from about $1 trillion in 2001 to $2.6 trillion in 2007, according to the study.
In Luxembourg, non-resident deposits rose to $500 billion from $101 billion over the same period
In Switzerland, such deposits rose to $1.45 trillion from $103 billion during the period.
WEATHER MODIFICATION UPDATES
TWO WEEKS AGO RUSSIA WAS MOVING SNOW CLOUDS AWAY FROM MOSCOW - THIS WEEK CHINA MAKES SNOW
TRY TO TELL ME OUR COUNTRY DOESN'T MESS AROUND WITH THE WEATHER TOO - OUR GOV'T JUST LIKE THEIR PUBLIC DUMB
RUSSIA'S NOW OLD WEATHER MODIFICATION NEWS:
FOXNews - Oct 19, 2009... silver or cement particles into the sky, forcing snow-filled clouds to lose precipitation before settling over Moscow, according to Time magazine. ...NPR - io9A very flaky idea: Moscow mayor wants to play God with the Russian snows New York Daily News
CHINA'S NEW WEATHER MODIFICATION NEWS:
Beijing's first snow of season 'artificially induced' BEIJING (AFP) - – Chinese meteorologists covered Beijing in snow Sunday after seeding clouds to bring winter weather to the capital in an effort to combat a lingering drought, state media reported.
The unusually early snow blanketed the capital from Sunday morning and kept falling for half the day, helped by temperatures as low as minus 2 Celsius (29 Fahrenheit) and strong winds from the north, Xinhua news agency reported.
Besides falling in the northeastern provinces of Liaoning and Jilin and the northern province of Hebei, the eastern port city of Tianjin also got its first snow of the autumn, the report said. FULL STORY
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/china/Beijing-gets-first-snow-after-meteorologists-seed-clouds/articleshow/5186405.cms
CYBER WAR NEWS UPDATES
Is the United States & Europe currently under a cyber attack?
Use at the following link and click on "ATTACKS"
(You can pull the slider on the map - move from Europe to the US to see number of attacks)
http://www.akamai.com/html/technology/dataviz1.html
POLICE STATE USA NEWS
1600 Names Suggested Daily for Terror List
The Washington Post
November 1, 2009 - Newly released FBI data offer evidence of the broad scope and complexity of the nation’s terrorist watch list, documenting a daily flood of names nominated for inclusion to the controversial list.....
Technology Review | Airport Body Scanners use Terahertz Wave that not only show you naked, they also have the potential to wreck your DNA
Technology Review
November 1, 2009Editor’s note: Airport body scanners not only show you naked, they also have the potential to wreck your DNA. The body scanners use terahertz waves to show your privates and terahertz waves rip apart DNA, as the following article explains.A new model of the way the THz waves interact with DNA explains how the damage is done and why evidence has been so hard to gather.
Great things are expected of terahertz waves, the radiation that fills the slot in the electromagnetic spectrum between microwaves and the infrared. Terahertz waves pass through non-conducting materials such as clothes , paper, wood and brick and so cameras sensitive to them can peer inside envelopes, into living rooms and “frisk” people at distance.
The way terahertz waves are absorbed and emitted can also be used to determine the chemical composition of a material. And even though they don’t travel far inside the body, there is great hope that the waves can be used to spot tumours near the surface of the skin.
With all that potential, it’s no wonder that research on terahertz waves has exploded in the last ten years or so.
But what of the health effects of terahertz waves? At first glance, it’s easy to dismiss any notion that they can be damaging. Terahertz photons are not energetic enough to break chemical bonds or ionise atoms or molecules, the chief reasons why higher energy photons such as x-rays and UV rays are so bad for us. But could there be another mechanism at work?
NewsWithViews.com - Derry Brownfield | Obama’s Youth Corps - No previous experience is needed in order to apply
November 1, 2009Back in 1980 one of my sons sold books for SOUTHWESTERN PUBLISHING COMPANY. At that time the book company recruited college students, who went door to door and sold educational type books. It was a great learning experience for the students and my son earned enough during the summer to pay for his senior year in college. The Obama administration is now recruiting college students that will not only get paid for knocking on doors but will “earn college credits” while advocating for change. It’s called ORGANIZING FOR AMERICA (OFA) and could be a part of Obama’s young and educated civilian army.
The OFA website states: “Students and young people were critical in building the movement that helped elect President Obama last year. By becoming a National Organizing Intern, you’ll be part of the grassroots effort to make the change we fought for a reality in 2009 and beyond. As an Organizing Intern, you’ll work side by side with OFA staff and community leaders to help build support for President Obama’s agenda. You’ll learn core organizing principles that are crucial for any campaign and play an important role in building our organization in your state. If you’re passionate about making sure every American has quality health care, reviving our economy and building a clean energy future, don’t miss this great opportunity. No previous experience is needed in order to apply.”
I wonder if Mr. Obama read PROVERBS 22:6 “Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old, he will not depart from it.” How much training and indoctrination will these young people receive before they become full fledged soldiers in Obama’s Civilian Army? If they haven’t been thoroughly brainwashed while attending the government run public schools, they will most certainly be “educated” by the anti-capitalists, anti-Christian, anti-Constitution left-wing of the Democratic Party. Although they won’t have been taught to consider themselves Communist, they will understand “Social Justice” and they will be the “caring persons” who will lead their generation into “The New World Order.”
Also – is just any college going to accept credit hours for knocking on doors? Will a college accept credit hours for a student’s Marxist ideas? Will only a liberal college accept Obama hours? Will “knock-on-door-Obama-hours” be transferable from one college to another? And there’s the part about “No previous experience is needed in order to apply.” I believe that statement was used by Bill Clinton when he was interviewing interns.
ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT WASN'T JUST A CONSPIRACY THEORY
WALL STREET JOURNAL IS WAKING UP
Wall Street Jornal | Copenhagen Agreement is a Plan for World Government
November 1, 2009 - We can only hope that world leaders will do nothing more than enjoy a pleasant bicycle ride around the charming streets of Copenhagen come December. For if they actually manage to wring out an agreement based on the current draft text of the Copenhagen climate-change treaty, the world is in for some nasty surprises. Draft text, you say? If you haven’t heard about it, that’s because none of our otherwise talkative political leaders have bothered to tell us what the drafters have already cobbled together for leaders to consider. And neither have the media.
Enter Lord Christopher Monckton. The former adviser to Margaret Thatcher gave an address at Bethel University in St. Paul, Minnesota, earlier this month that made quite a splash. For the first time, the public heard about the 181 pages, dated Sept. 15, that comprise the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change—a rough draft of what could be signed come December.
So far there have been more than a million hits on the YouTube post of his address. It deserves millions more because Lord Monckton warns that the aim of the Copenhagen draft treaty is to set up a transnational “government” on a scale the world has never before seen.
The “scheme for the new institutional arrangement under the Convention” that starts on page 18 contains the provision for a “government.” The aim is to give a new as yet unnamed U.N. body the power to directly intervene in the financial, economic, tax and environmental affairs of all the nations that sign the Copenhagen treaty. Read entire article
VERY VERY IMPORTANT AND SHORT VIDEO THAT GIVES AN UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT OBAMA IS GOING TO DO IN DECEMBER AND TURN THE US OVER TO UN CONTROL
YouTube Link :Obama Poised to Cede US Sovereignty -
United Nations Climate Change Treaty, scheduled to be signed in Copenhagen in December 2009
BIO WEAPON UPDATE
SEVERE NOW MUTATED FORM OF THE FLU NOW IN UKRAINE
THIS IS WHY THEY WANT PEOPLE TO TAKE FLU VACCINES SO THE VIRUS IN THE VACCINES WOULD MUTATE TO DEADLY FORM
- hemorrhagic pneumonal flu, breaking out in Ukraine
- the main difference between this flu and others is the apparent - increasing the bleeding from lungs and tears the lungs part.
We Need to Pay Attention to the Ukraine!!This story is rapidly developing by the hour this week and it looks pretty scary! I'll start you with the OP in the Flu Tracker forum..please, follow along so you have an idea of what has me alarmed! This severe outbreak MAY, or may NOT be just the H1N! occurring over there!!....Quote:Does anybody know what's happening on Ukraine? I'm from Poland (the neighbour country) and I hear in the radio that there is an "viral pneumonia epidemy" in western Ukraine. I hear that "people are escaping", "there is no more places in hospitals", "34 people have died", "hundreds of people need to be hospitalised", "the goverment advices people to stay in home", "there is a strange virus epidemy", "there are some confirmed swine flu cases", "people are dying" and "the exact reason of the epidemy is not yet known". I think that the situation is serious.
I attach source information in polish and ukrainian:
http://www.rmf.fm/fakty,164141,Epidemia ... osoby.html
http://rus.newsru.ua/ukraine/29oct2009/karantin.htmlI'm not sure, but it looks like they all died fairly quickly...Poland is offering help......the country is on lock-down......If I find more I'll report it here!
Kyiv Post - 38 minutes agoThe Ukrainian government will review all pharmacies in the country to ensure they meet requirements imposed over the current flu epidemic, Prime Minister ...Ukraine urged to stay
Swine Flu: TAMIFLU, the Danger Drug – dont take under any ...
Apr 29, 2009 ... Isn't it funny how Donald Rumsfeld has huge shares in Tamiflu and this .... Latest Headlines 25/10/09 – Obama Declares Swine Flu 'National ...
pakalert.wordpress.com/.../swine-flu-tamiflu-the-danger-drug-dont-take-under-
Barack Obama owns stock in Tamiflu
Apr 27, 2009 ... Barack Obama owns stock in Tamiflu. . Old Article from 2007. (Recasts with Tamiflu, adds company and analyst comment, share ...
obambi.wordpress.com/.../barack-obama-owns-stock-in-tamiflu/ -
Flashback: Former Finnish Provincial Medical Officer Says Vaccines Are Eugenics Weapon (YouTube video)
BANANA REPUBLIC HERE WE COME - ECONOMIC NEWS
9 bank failures on Friday with 153-bank branches
Bank Closing Information
October 30, 2009
- North Houston Bank, Houston, TX
- Madisonville State Bank, Madisonville, TX
- Citizens National Bank, Teague, TX
- Park National Bank, Chicago, IL
- Pacific National Bank, San Francisco, CA
- California National Bank, Los Angeles, CA
- San Diego National Bank, San Diego, CA
- Community Bank of Lemont, Lemont, IL
- Bank USA, NA, Phoenix, AZ
"Obama Cites Good Signs on Economy."
MSNBC | Nov 1, 2009- CIT FILES CHAPTER 11 - ONE OF THE BIGGEST BANKRUPTCIES IN US CORPORATE HISTORY - GOVERNMENT WILL LOSE BAILOUT MONEY OF 2.3 BILLION
PR Newsire | U.S. Inflation to Appear Next in Food and Agriculture
The National Inflation Association today released the following statement to its http://inflation.us members:"While most mainstream economists such as Nouriel Roubini are warning of deflationary threats to the U.S. economy, it is our belief that massive price inflation has already begun. The Federal Reserve's policy of massive monetary inflation in 2009 has caused the Dow Jones to bounce over 50% from its low, oil to rise 100% from its low, and gold to surge to a new all time nominal high. One NIA co-founder just saw his health insurance premium rise 16% over a year ago; and the average tuition for a four-year public college increased this year by 6.5%.
Prices are rising all around us, yet agricultural commodities have for the most part been left behind and remain at historically depressed levels. Fundamentals for agriculture are improving on a daily basis. A worldwide shortage of farmers combined with food inventories falling to record lows is setting up the perfect storm for an explosion in agriculture prices. There is a huge opportunity today to invest at the ground-floor into what will likely be one of the biggest boom industries of the next several decades.
Wheat is currently down 60% from its all time nominal high set in 2008 and 80% from its inflation adjusted high set in the 1970s. Corn is currently down 50% from its all time nominal high set in 2008 and 75% from its inflation adjusted high set in the 1970s. Wheat and corn have only bounced 13% and 26% from their 52-week lows this year respectively. While sugar has faired much better and is now at a 28-year nominal high, sugar is still down 70% from its inflation adjusted high set in the 1970s.
With crude oil back above $80 per barrel, we will soon see a renewed interest in alternative energy. This will create increased demand for wheat, corn and sugar which are used to make ethanol and other biofuels. A massive rise in agriculture prices is just around the corner.
We receive countless emails on a weekly basis asking about if Real Estate is now a good investment and if rents will likely climb during hyperinflation. While rents will increase nominally during hyperinflation, they will plummet compared to agriculture. No longer will Americans eat more than most other countries, yet spend less of their income on food. When Americans are forced to pay more for food, it will take away from what they can spend on rent.
The average American consumer today spends approximately 30% of their income on housing and only 10% of their income on food. We expect these numbers to reverse in the years ahead as the U.S. dollar loses its purchasing power. In Germany during hyperinflation, rents fell from 30% to less than 1% of the average households' expenditures while food rose from 30% to a high of over 91%.
The U.S. is currently the world's largest exporter of wheat and corn and the fifth largest exporter of sugar. When American consumers purchase food at their local supermarket, they are competing against consumers from all around the globe. As the Federal Reserve prints trillions of dollars out of thin air and causes our currency to lose its purchasing power, Americans won't be able to afford to eat as much and farmers will be forced to increase their exports to countries with stronger currencies.
When it comes to an apartment in the U.S. that a landlord is trying to rent to a tenant, there is no global market to drive rent prices up. The rents landlords receive depend on the strength of the local U.S. economy. With unemployment continuing to surge and a huge glut of homes on the market, it is only a matter of time before real rent prices decline and become a smaller monthly expense than food.
While Americans will eat less in the years ahead, Chinese citizens will be able to afford to eat more. Despite China's rapidly growing economy, there are major food shortages in China. Chinese agriculture companies have a chance of becoming the market's biggest gainers of the next decade. Our last China agriculture stock suggestion gained over 83% after our profile in a little more than six months. We will be announcing our new China agriculture stock suggestion on Tuesday."
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VOLCANO NEWS UPDATES - LATEST VOLCANO COMING TO LIFE
AFP | Colombia's Galeras volcano rumbles back to life
OBAMA GIVES (HILLARY CLINTON'S) DEPARTMENT OF STATE THE AUTHORITY TO SALE MISSILES AND SPACE TECHNOLOGY TO CHINA
DIDN'T GORE GET IN TROUBLE FOR DOING THIS IN SECRET WHEN CLINTON WAS IN OFFICE?
This is the article I found back on October 15th in the Washington Times - at the SAME TIME the balloon hoax was going on in Colorado:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/oct/15/inside-the-ring-2059116/
Thursday, October 15, 2009
EXCLUSIVE: Obama loosens missile technology controls to ChinaPresident Obama recently shifted authority for approving sales to China of missile and space technology from the White House to the Commerce Department -- a move critics say will loosen export controls and potentially benefit Chinese missile development.
The president issued a little-noticed "presidential determination" Sept. 29 that delegated authority for determining whether missile and space exports should be approved for China to Commerce Secretary Gary Locke.
AFP | China's second-highest ranking officer kicked off a week-long visit to the United States on Saturday October 24th
KITV.com | Senior Chinese General Visits Hawaii - Official To Meet Pacific Command Commander
Rian.ru | Russia, India, China set to forge energy ties
FORMER US PRESIDENT GEORGE W BUSH NEWS UPDATE
CURRENTLY IN INDIA AT MEETINGS FOR GLOBAL CORPORATION LEADERS - AS A CEO
Monday , November 2 , 2009The former US President was at a dinner meeting of the Indo-US CEOs Forum set up by him and Singh in 2005 to develop a road map for increased partnership and co-operation between the two countries at a business level.
Bush, however, repeated a joke he had made a few hours ago at the Hindustan Times Leadership Initiative in New Delhi.
“He said he recently visited a hardware store in Texas that had once offered him a job as a ‘greeter’ — (the employee) who stands outside to welcome customers,” the corporate honcho said.
Inside the store, a man came up and asked the ex-President whether anyone had ever told him he looked just like George W. Bush. When Bush told him that it happened a lot, the man said: “Gosh, that must make you mad.”
By all accounts Bush, once berated for blaming the rising prosperity of the Indian middle class for the spiralling global food prices, thoroughly enjoyed the Indian cuisine.
“He had two helpings of ras malai and generally ate well,” the CEOs Forum source said.
Not surprising for a man who had told an interviewer he would miss two things about the Presidency: flying in the presidential plane and the food at the White House.
World's Largest Pyramid Discovered, Lost Mayan City Of Mirador Guatemala
Click to watch video on YouTube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voY8jNcuGe8
MICROCHIP NEWS
MoreRFID (press release) - Oct 30, 2009This system uses the first human-implantable passive RFID microchip and corresponding personal health record, cleared for medical use in October 2004 by the ...
The Flu Case | Are Populations Being Primed For Nano-Microchips Inside Vaccines?
It's almost surreal, like something out of a sci-fi flick, but nano-microchips invisible to the naked eye are a reality that are already being hosted in wide-range of applications. The question is, how long will it take governments and big pharma to immerse nano-microchips inside of vaccines to tag and surveil global populations?
Nanotechnology deals with structures smaller than one micrometer (less than 1/30th the width of a human hair), and involves developing materials or devices within that size. To put the size of a nanometer in perspective, it is 100,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair.
More than ten years ago, simple low-cost techniques improved the design and manufacture of nano-microchips. That unlocked a multitude of methodologies for their manufacture in a wide-range of applications including optical, biological, and electronic devices.
The joint use of nanoelectronics, photolithography, and new biomaterials, have enabled the required manufacturing technology towards nanorobots for common medical applications, such as surgical instrumentation, diagnosis and drug delivery.
Japan's Hitachi says it has developed the world's smallest and thinnest microchip, that can be embedded in paper to track down parcels or prove the authenticity of a document. The integrated circuit (IC) chip is as minute as a speck of dust.
Nanoelectrodes implanted in the brain are increasingly being used to manage neurological disorders. Mohammad Reza Abidian, a post-doctoral researcher at the U-M Department of Biomedical Engineering said that polymers in nanotubes "are biocompatible and have both electronic and ionic conductivity." He further stated "therefore, these materials are good candidates for biomedical applications such as neural interfaces, biosensors and drug delivery systems."
Depending on the objectives of such studies, research could theoretically pave the way for smart recording electrodes that can deliver drugs to positively or negatively affect the immune response.
Through nanotechnology, researchers have also been able to create artificial pores able to transmit nanoscale materials through membranes.
A UC biomedical engineering study appearing in the journal Nature Nanotechnology, Sept. 27, 2009, successfully inserted the modified core of a nanomotor, a microscopic biological machine, into a lipid membrane. The resulting channel enabled them to move both single- and double-stranded DNA through the membrane.
Professor Peixuan Guo who led the study said past work with biological channels has been focused on channels large enough to move only single-stranded genetic material.
"Since the genomic DNA of human, animals, plants, fungus and bacteria are double stranded, the development of single pore system that can sequence double-stranded DNA is very important," he says.
Such engineered channels could have applications in nano-sensing, DNA sequencing, drug loading, including innovative techniques to implement DNA packaging mechanisms of viral nanomotors and vaccine delivery.
"The idea that a DNA molecule travels through the nanopore, advancing nucleotide by nucleotide, could lead to the development of a single pore DNA sequencing apparatus, an area of strong national interest," Guo said.
Scientists working at Queen Mary, University of London, have developed micrometer-sized capsules to safely deliver drugs inside living cells. These "micro shuttles" could hypothetically be loaded with a specific microchip controlling the dose of medication to be opened remotely, releasing their contents. Besides monitoring the dosage, the same microchip could be used to surveil the patient in conjunction with various tracking systems.
Scientists in the United Kingdom have recently reported advances towards overcoming key challenges in nanotechnology. They demonstrated how nanoparticles could move quickly in a desired direction without help from outside forces. Their achievement has broad implications, the scientists say, raising the possibility of coaxing cells to move and grow in specific directions.
Doug Dorst, a microbiologist and vaccine critic in South Wales, says these advances have an immense appeal to vaccine makers. "Biotech companies and their researchers have quickly moved most funding initiatives towards nanotechnology to increase the potency of their vaccines," he said. If microorganisms inside of vaccines can be coaxed into targeting or invading specific cells, they could achieve their goal at an accelerated rate over conventional vaccines. "Depending on which side of the vaccine debate you're on, whether pro or con, nanobots inside vaccine preparations could advance their effectiveness exponentially by either dramatically improving or destroying immunity depending on their design," he added.
Dorst claims that present day nanobot technology could just as easily be used to advance biological weapons as they can to advance human health. "For every fear that biotech propaganda proliferates about deadly diseases and how vaccines prevent them, it is one more lie to incrementally convince the masses that vaccines are effective."
The worry for Dorst is that one day vaccines "will do what they've always been intended for...control of the global populace." FULL STORY
HALLOWEEN NEWS FROM THE WHITE HOUSE
FIRST FELINE...
This is enough running amuck news for the night .... am totally ignoring the WAR DRUMS in the Mideast such as:
US prepares for war: opens petroleum reserve
http://www2.debka.com/index.phpDEBKAfile's US intelligence sources report indications of impending war preparations against Iran after Tehran's rejections of the UN-brokered proposal to ship its enriched uranium overseas for further enrichment. These sources reveal that the administration is seeking congressional authorization to open America's Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR). Furthermore, the US-Israeli joint US-Israel Juniper Cobra ballistic exercise is in full swing. Finally, US and Israel officials have been instructed to warn Moscow that the military option is still on the table if Iran's nuclear program is not halted by diplomatic means.
The US SPR which contains 727 million barrels of petroleum is only opened in time of war. Under an agreement signed with Israel in 1975, Washington undertakes to supply Israel with its fuel needs for five years in an emergency.
Word of these apparent war preparations appeared Saturday Oct. 31, the day after Iran's senior nuclear negotiator delivered a counter-proposal to the UN-brokered plan to the IAEA in Vienna which excised its main object, which was to reduce the enriched uranium stocks in hand for Iran to make a nuclear bomb.
The joint US-Israeli military exercise which ends Tuesday, Nov. 3, moved to the Tel Aviv arena last Tuesday with US forces drilling defensive action against a prospective Iranian missile attack or a seaborne strike from the Mediterranean on Israel's central conurbation.
For the last three days, Moscow has had nothing to say about the Iranian rejection of a plan which would have sent Iranian uranium to Russia for reprocessing, although Tehran previously indicated to the Kremlin that the international plan would sail through. DEBKAfile's Moscow sources regard the rebuff as Tehran's response to the suspension of Russian S-300 missile defense batteries after they had already been packed for delivery to Iran.
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