More ominously, Glick reports (likely from sources high up in the Israeli government) that the Obama administration has all but accepted as irreversible and unavoidable fact that Iran will soon develop nuclear weapons. She writes, "…we have learned that the [Obama] administration has made its peace with Iran's nuclear aspirations. Senior administration officials acknowledge as much in off-record briefings. It is true, they say, that Iran may exploit its future talks with the US to run down the clock before they test a nuclear weapon. But, they add, if that happens, the US will simply have to live with a nuclear-armed mullocracy [government by islamic mullah]."

In classic Stockholm Syndrome fashion, the Obama administration is empathizing more with the Iranian leaders who are holding Israel hostage than with the nation that may be wiped off the map if Iran acquires the bomb. ALL THIS MEANS IS THAT ISRAEL'S LIFE IS IN DANGER. If Iran gets the bomb, it will use it to kill six million Jews. No threat of retaliation will make the slightest difference.

One cannot deter a suicide bomber with the threat of death. Nor can one deter a theocracy bent on meriting admission to heaven and its virgins by one glorious act of violence. IRAN WOULD PROBABLY NOT LAUNCH THE BOMB ITSELF, anyway, but would give it to its puppet terrorists to send to Israel so it could deny responsibility. Obama, bent on appeasement, would likely not retaliate with nuclear weapons. AND ISRAEL WILL BE DEAD AND GONE.

Those sunshine Jewish patriots who voted for Obama must realize that WE, AS JEWS, ARE WITNESSING THE POSSIBLE END OF ISRAEL. We are in the same moral position as our ancestors were as they watched Hitler rise but did nothing to pressure their favourite liberal Democratic president, FDR, to take any real action to save them or even to let Jewish refugees into the country. If we remain complacent, we will have the same anguish at watching the destruction of Israel that our forebears had in witnessing the Holocaust.

The Jordanian monarch told the Times of London following his visit last month with President Obama that Israel would win the recognition of the 57-member Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) if it accepts the Saudi 2002 peace plan. Mussa said after a meeting of OIC foreign ministers in Damascus Saturday, "THIS IS NOT ON THE TABLE. ALL TALK OF THIS IS INACCURATE."

He said that Muslim countries might recognize Israel if Israel were to accept the Saudi plan but added, "We do not see any progress in the current circumstances." The Saudi plan calls for Israel to turn over to the Palestinian Authority all of the land that was restored to the Jewish State in the 1967 Six-Day War, including the Old City and neighbourhoods in Jerusalem where more than 250,000 Jews live today.

Mr Morner is the former chairman of the INQUA International Commission on Sea Level Change and formerly a Stockholm professor. According to The Australian, Mr Morner said THAT CLAIMS ABOUT SEA LEVEL RISINGS WERE FALSE AS THEY WERE ALL BASED ON COMPUTER MODEL PREDICTIONS. He added that his research was more accurate as it has involved ACTUALLY VISITING SITES TO MEASURE SEA LEVELS.

When he was running the International Commssion on Sea Level Change, Mr Morner launched a special project in which he and his team of scientists visited the Maldives to confirm that the SEA LEVELS HAD NOT RISEN IN HALF A CENTURY. WHEN MR MORNER OFFERED TO SCREEN A VIDEO EXPLAINING THE MYTH, THE GOVERNMENT REFUSED TO LET IT BE SHOWN.

"My worry is that there can be many false dawns and we shouldn't just assume that everything is over," he told The Times newspaper. "We have to have a rethink. You're going to have to throw away lots of economics and start again. How can anybody not say that when we've had the greatest financial crisis in 100 years?"

BUT THESE ACTIONS, LED BY THE UNITED STATES, HAVE ALARMED SOME WHO FEAR THEY WILL STOKE INFLATION. Traditional inflation harbingers like a steeper government debt yield curve and rising gold prices have flashed warning signals, while a weaker US dollar and near doubling in oil prices since January have also got people worried.

"The timing of when you need to start contracting (monetary policy) is critical and most likely, because of the lags in policy... they are going to be too late because of the politics of tightening," said Robert Eisenbeis, a former head of research at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.

"They are going to have to do it in the face of some fairly significant unemployment," said Eisenbeis, who is now chief monetary economist at Cumberland Advisors. The US jobless rate rose to 8.9 percent in April and some fear it will pierce 10 percent as the recession squeezes employers.

Is Sonia Sotomayor judically superior to 'a white male'?

This isn't a jurisprudence that the Founders would recognize, but it is the creative view that has dominated the law schools since the 1970s and from which both the President and Judge Sotomayor emerged. In the President's now-famous word, JUDGING SHOULD BE SHAPED BY "EMPATHY" AS MUCH OR MORE THAN BY REASON. In this sense, Judge Sotomayor would be a thoroughly modern Justice, one for whom the law is a voyage of personal identity.

"Experience being tested by obstacles and barriers, by hardship and misfortune; experience insisting, persisting, and ultimately overcoming those barriers," Mr Obama said yesterday in introducing Ms Sotomayor. "It is experience that can give a person a common touch of compassion; an understanding of how the world works and how ordinary people live. And that is why it is a necessary ingredient in the kind of Justice we need on the Supreme Court."

In a speech published in the Berkeley La Raza Law Journal in 2002, Judge Sotomayor offered her own interpretation of this jurisprudence. "Justice [Sandra Day] O'Connor has often been cited as saying that a wise old man and wise old woman will reach the same conclusion in deciding cases," she declared. "I am... Not so sure that I agree with the statement. First, THERE CAN NEVER BE A UNIVERSAL DEFINITION OF WISE. Second, I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life."

JUDGE SOTOMAYOR'S BELIEF IS THAT A "LATINA WOMAN" IS BY DEFINITION A SUPERIOR JUDGE TO A "WHITE MALE" BECAUSE SHE HAS HAD MORE "RICHNESS" IN HER STRUGGLE. The danger inherent in this judicial view is that THE LAW ISN'T WHAT THE CONSTITUTION SAYS BUT WHATEVER THE JUDGE IN THE "RICHNESS" OF HER EXPERIENCE COMES TO BELIEVE IT SHOULD BE.

Israel, the possessor of the sole nuclear arsenal in the Middle East, has long strived to portray Iran as a regime hell-bent on starting a nuclear war through the pursuit of its nuclear program. "It is my job as army chief to prepare all the options, and that is what we're doing," Lieutenant General Gabi Ashkenazi, Israel's military Chief of Staff, said.

The Israeli general added that the army would take "every possible measure" when it has to deal with Iran. The remarks come amid doubts raised by Western experts that the Israeli Air Force does not possess the necessary power to bomb the Iranian program out of existence. In return, ISRAELI DEFENSE EXPERTS CLAIM THAT A NUCLEAR STRIKE MIGHT GET THE JOB DONE.

According to a report by the Sunday Times, Israeli air force squadrons have trained TO BLOW UP IRANIAN NUCLEAR FACILITIES USING LOW-YIELD NUCLEAR "BUNKER-BUSTERS."

When the economy slumps, so does tax revenue, and this recession has been no different, says Kerry Lynch, senior fellow at the AIER and author of the study. "It illustrates how severe the recession has been." For example, 6 MILLION PEOPLE LOST JOBS IN THE 12 MONTHS ENDED IN APRIL — and that means far fewer dollars from income taxes. INCOME TAX REVENUE DROPPED 44% FROM A YEAR AGO.

"THESE ARE STAGGERING NUMBERS," LYNCH SAYS. Big revenue losses mean that the US budget deficit may be larger than predicted this year and in future years. "It's one of the drivers of the ongoing expansion of the federal budget deficit," says John Lonski, chief economist for Moody's Investors Service. The Congressional Budget Office projects a $1.7 trillion budget deficit for fiscal year 2009.

Pakistani leaders stressing to US lawmakers that they are doing all they can to fight terrorism, and taking umbrage at any suggestions to the contrary. Pakistan also highlighted the need for international assistance, and noted that much of the promised aid had not been received, according to the Pakistani newspaper Dawn.

The Americans' visits were preceded by Islamabad forging closer ties with the Islamic Republic. THE DAY BEFORE THE FIRST SENATE DELEGATION ARRIVED, ZARDARI SAT DOWN WITH IRANIAN PRESIDENT MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD AND AFGHAN PRESIDENT HAMID KARZAI IN TEHRAN, a summit that came after Pakistan and Iran inked an agreement on the exportation of Iranian gas to Pakistan.

The three leaders, who also met with Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, adopted the Tehran Declaration at the summit, which pledged further economic and development cooperation as well as joint efforts against terrorism. The Iran-Pakistan Gas Pipeline Project will see Iran selling 21.5 million cubic meters of gas to Pakistan on a daily basis.

Interfax quoted an unnamed security source as saying a stand-off triggered by Pyongyang's nuclear test on Monday could affect the security of Russia's far eastern regions, which border North Korea. "The need has emerged for an appropriate package of precautionary measures," the source said.

"We are not talking about stepping up military efforts but rather about measures in case a military conflict, PERHAPS WITH THE USE OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS, flares up on the Korean Peninsula," he added. The official did not elaborate further. Itar-Tass news agency quoted a Russian Foreign Ministry official as saying the "war of nerves" over North Korea should not be allowed to grow into a military conflict, a reference to Pyongyang's decision to drop out of the armistice deal.

With tension in the region high, South Korea said it would join a US-led initiative to intercept ships suspected of carrying weapons of mass destruction, something PYONGYANG HAS WARNED IT WOULD CONSIDER A DECLARATION OF WAR. The nuclear test raised concern about North Korea spreading its weapons to other countries and groups.

THE UNITED STATES HAS ACCUSED IT OF TRYING TRY TO SELL NUCLEAR KNOW-HOW TO SYRIA AND OTHERS. "Another risk is that THE NORTH KOREANS MIGHT PEDDLE SOME PLUTONIUM, OR PEDDLE SOME TECHNOLOGY TO TERRORIST GROUPS, That would also be very, very serious," Hans Blix, former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, told the BBC.

Obama assured South Korean President Lee Myung-bak of Washington's unequivocal commitment to defense on the divided peninsula, where some two million troops face off. Pyongyang said the United States was the aggressor, its usual justification for making nuclear arms. "Our army and people are fully ready for battle... against any reckless US attempt for a pre-emptive attack," said its KCNA news agency.

For China, an immediate concern is a possible breakdown of order inside the ostracized state, which could send a flood of North Korean refugees across its border. China is believed to want to bring North Korea back to the six-party talks, also involving South Korea, Japan, the United States and Russia, to make it give up a nuclear weapons program in return for aid and an end to its years as a pariah state.

Without changes, the federal government has said, THE DETROIT-BASED AUTOMAKER WILL HAVE TO FILE FOR BANKRUPTCY PROTECTION by next Monday. The company has been trying to overhaul its business so it can keep receiving federal money to stay afloat as it deals with soaring costs and slumping sales. On Friday, GM borrowed $4 billion more from the federal government on top of the $15.4 billion it has already received.

In exchange, the Obama administration has demanded moves that include reducing debt, cutting labor costs and shedding dealerships, brands and excess factories. This week, GM's efforts to cut labor costs continued with the Canadian Auto Workers union announcing its members approved wage reductions and other concessions on Monday.

Among other unresolved matters for the automaker:- The question of its European unit Opel: On Monday German Chancellor Angela Merkel said the country hopes to loosen Opel's ties with General Motors before a possible bankruptcy filing. Merkel's government is looking at three bids and expects a decision on Opel's future midweek. It's still not clear what will happen with the Saturn, Hummer and Saab brands. GM has said it plans to phase those brands out or sell them.

In an attempt to restore the public's faith in MPs in the wake of the Daily Telegraph's investigation, the leader of the Conservatives has pledged to boost the role of parliament. In other reforms he called for serious considerations for fixed term parliaments and an end to the right of Downing Street - and Prime Ministers - to announce general election timings.

Other reforms include limiting the use of the Royal prerogative, giving MPs powers to choose the chairs and members of the Commons select committees that scrutinise the work of the various Government departments, as detailed in The Daily Telegraph on Monday.

In a speech at the Open University on Tuesday, Mr Cameron said: "I believe the central objective of the new politics we need should be a massive, sweeping, radical redistribution of power. From the state to citizens; from the Government to Parliament; from Whitehall to communities. FROM THE EU TO BRITAIN; from judges to the people; from bureaucracy to democracy."

"Through decentralisation, transparency and accountability we must take power away from the political elite and hand it to the man and woman in the street."

The Financial Post reported last Wednesday that "...the US dollar slid against most major currencies... hitting a five-month low of US $1.3775 against the euro..." The day after, Florida's BankUnited FSB was seized by Federal regulators in the largest US bank failure so far this year. THE SUDDEN DOLLAR DECLINE AND SEIZURE OF BANK UNITED IS A FLASHBACK TO THE US ECONOMIC TURMOIL OF LATE 2008, AND A BRUTAL REALITY CHECK FOR MANY WHO THOUGHT THE WORST WAS OVER.

Last week's dollar drop was apparently in response to a comment by the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Eric Rosengren, who warned America's economic recovery could be "slow." There is also a great deal of concern surrounding the US triple-A credit rating, which many speculate will be downgraded along with Britain's triple-A rating. Such a move would signal a decline in America's position as a reliable borrower on the international market.

Lee Hardman, a foreign-exchange strategist at Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ Ltd, certainly believes a downgrade will happen. In early May, THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION INCREASED ITS FEDERAL DEFICIT FORECAST FOR 2009 TO $1.84 TRILLION. When the government has a large deficit it needs to borrow more money, which in turn increases both the risk of a credit score downgrade and the likelihood of runaway inflation.

Ashraf Laidi, chief market strategist at CMC Markets, recently cautioned that we are at the start of a "SERIOUS CASE OF DOLLAR DAMAGE," adding that his organization "LONG WARNED ABOUT THE DAY OF RECKONING FOR THE DOLLAR EMERGING AT THE NEXT ECONOMIC RECOVERY." Laidi's prediction may not be too far off. Russia has ditched the dollar in favor of the euro, Pravda reported last week. The Vedomosti newspaper confirmed this, reporting that, "THE DOLLAR HAS... LOST THE STATUS OF THE BASIC RESERVE CURRENCY FOR THE RUSSIAN CENTRAL BANK."

Last week, Israel's Air Force held a three-day drill to exercise possible missile and air strikes by regional countries - A CLEAR WARNING TO REGIONAL FOES SUCH AS SYRIA AND IRAN. Israel's hawkish Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Sunday's cabinet meeting tried to placate Israel's regional countries, saying "this is a routine drill, which was planned several months ago and is held every year in order to coordinate between civil and military systems."

Tel Aviv accuses Tehran of nuclear weapons development - a charge rejected by both Iran and the UN nuclear watchdog, which has so far made over 14 snap inspections of the country's nuclear facilities. This is while Tel Aviv is widely regarded as the sixth-largest nuclear power in the world and the sole possessor of an atomic arsenal in the Middle East.

In the early 1970s, Israel had already developed missiles capable of delivering nuclear warheads to most countries in the region, including Iran and Russia. MOREOVER, ISRAEL REPORTEDLY HOUSES AT LEAST 100 BUNKER-BUSTING BOMBS, WHICH COME IN THE FORM OF LASER-GUIDED MINI-NUKES WITH THE ABILITY OF PENETRATING UNDERGROUND TARGETS. The right-leaning government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has repeatedly threatened to bomb Iran's enrichment facilities out of existence.