By Bill Gertz
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Published June 26, 2005
WASHINGTON -- China is building its military forces faster than U.S. intelligence and military analysts expected, prompting fears that Beijing will attack Taiwan in the next two years, according to Pentagon officials.      
    U.S. defense and intelligence officials say all the signs point in one troubling direction: Beijing then will be forced to go to war with the United States, which has vowed to defend Taiwan against a Chinese attack.

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Posted: June 28, 2005
5:18 p.m. Eastern
© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com
Tehran is pursuing a nuclear weapons program that, if not halted immediately by the supporting of key reformists, will leave Israel with no choice but to carry out a pre-emptive strike against Iran, WND columnist and "Atomic Iran" author Jerome Corsi testified today before Israel's Knesset.
"Israel might need to launch a pre-emptive attack against Iran, even if the international military and diplomatic reprisals that follow might bring immense pressure upon Israel itself," Corsi said in a keynote address to the Knesset's prestigious Forum on the Middle East.

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After watching the ID card bill debate last night, it is now clear that the Government is not just ‘reacting to the international demand for biometric passports’, but creating that demand. Its Passport Agency is developing the supporting technology, and is lobbying worldwide for its adoption.
Therefore, the British Government obviously think it is acceptable to invade privacy, and take authoritarian control of individuals’ existence using technology. This is justified by ‘if you have not done anything wrong; you have nothing to worry about’.
The message is that society is going to be micro-managed using this technology to keep everyone on the ‘straight and narrow’. Nobody will be able to do ‘wrong’, even minor misdemeanours, due to the Government’s surveillance.

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JAMES KIRKUP
MICROCHIPS carrying sensitive personal information that can be scanned by sensors from a distance could be included in the proposed national identity cards, it emerged yesterday.
While the government's legislation cleared its first hurdle last night, there could be trouble ahead as the ID card could use Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology.
RFID involves a tiny microchip being embedded in an object. The chip contains data that can be read by scanners from a distance, typically a few dozen feet.
The technology was pioneered by retailers to keep track of stock - many everyday products sold in big supermarkets carry RFID chips that are tracked and scanned by store computers.

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EL-ARISH, Egypt
Twenty military advisers from the United States and the European Union inspected Egypt's border with the Gaza Strip on Tuesday in preparation for Israel's upcoming disengagement.
Egypt is due to deploy 750 guards along the southern border with Gaza after August's pullout
The 20 advisers were guided along the border by members of the Multinational Force and Observers, the peacekeeping force that is stationed in the Sinai peninsula as part of the 1979 Camp David treaty between Egypt and Israel.

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The European Union wants to host a major diplomatic event in Ramallah or Jericho, post disengagement, in an effort to shore up the Palestinian Authority.
EU Parliamentary President Josep Borrell Fontelles, who is in Israel promoting a meeting of the EU-Med Partnership for the Palestinian territories, told The Jerusalem Post that it was premature to hold it in Israel, although some side events could be scheduled here. He said he feared that if it was held in Israel some of the foreign ministers from Arab countries would not come.
The EU-Med Partnership, which this year is celebrating its 10th anniversary, brings together 25 European foreign ministers with their counterparts in Israel, Syria, Lebanon, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Jordan, Egypt, Turkey and the Palestinian Authority. It works on economic initiatives among the countries focused on creating a free trade zone between Europe and the Mediterranean.

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