Body of evidence..............

Iran's terrorist President

Sen. Lugar-Loan corruption control

"When the tiny, impoverished African country of Lesotho obtained World Bank loans for more than $160 million as part of a giant dam and tunnel project, its leaders hoped they could earn money from selling irrigation water and also gain badly needed hydropower.
Unfortunately, some European, Canadian and South African engineering firms had other ideas -- they saw the project as a fountain of illegal cash.
In a lengthy criminal case that already has produced several convictions, these companies are accused of bribing a Lesotho official to win lucrative contracts. The payoffs helped raise the project's cost and foster dishonesty that hobbles so many developing countries. Lesotho showed unusual luck -- and pluck -- in uncovering the sophisticated scheme and spent a large portion of its scarce resources bringing the culprits to justice.
Unfortunately, such opportunities for graft and corruption on loans from the World Bank and similar international lenders are all too tempting. That's a serious concern for Americans because our tax dollars help support these banks, whose work enhances our worldwide humanitarian and security interests"...

Low levels of ionizing radiation.......

"A preponderance of scientific evidence shows that even low doses of ionizing radiation, such as gamma rays and X-rays, are likely to pose some risk of adverse health effects, says a new report from the National Academies' National Research Council.

The report's focus is low-dose, low-LET -- "linear energy transfer" -- ionizing radiation that is energetic enough to break biomolecular bonds. In living organisms, such radiation can cause DNA damage that eventually leads to cancers. However, more research is needed to determine whether low doses of radiation may also cause other health problems, such as heart disease and stroke, which are now seen with high doses of low-LET radiation. "

As with most studies, they usually need further follow up

HAPPY CANADA DAY! -Vacation Time.............

Kyoto would have wrecked the economy

"President Bush told interviewers that adhering to the Kyoto treaty on climate change would have "wrecked" the U.S. economy, and called U.S. dependence on Middle East oil a national security problem.

In London, the Guardian newspaper reports the rift between the U.S. and the other G-8 nations is so wide on the issue of global warming that there has been talk of the summit's final communiqué being issued representing all of the nations except the U.S. "

Victor Hanson- American Zen

"Rather than worry about the supposed new unpopularity of the United States from Canada to France, or constantly badger supposed allies to at least be neutrals, we should very gently strengthen our alliances with nations that are self-confident and without neuroses of various sorts. That would mean to accept that an ankle-biting Belgium, Canada, Egypt, France, Germany, Mexico, or Turkey has a perfect right as a neutral to distrust the United States and craft its own independent path.

If they all see statism, socialism, and big government as the better solutions to their own problems, or Islamic fascism as largely an American bogeyman, again more power to them all. In the meantime, we should begin to draw closer to true allies — a Japan, India, Australia, Britain, a very few Eastern and Western European countries, Taiwan, and Israel — who agree that the world is a scary, often crazy place, with the United States far better and more reliable than the alternatives."

The Great Game of China