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... GLOBAL NEWS ... NEWS 9/11 terrorist attacks were run by the CIA and Mossad, and that this was common knowledge among global intelligence agencies. In what translates awkwardly into English, Cossiga told the newspaper Corriere della Sera: "All the [intelligence services] of America and Europe...know well that the disastrous attack has been planned and realised from the Mossad, with the aid of the Zionist world, in order to put under accusation the Arabic countries and in order to induce the western powers to take part...in Iraq [and] Afghanistan." Cossiga was elected President of the Italian Senate in July 1983 before winning a landslide election to become President of the country in 1985, and he remained in power until 1992. Cossiga's tendency to be outspoken upset the Italian political establishment, and he was forced to resign after revealing the existence of, and his part in setting up, Operation Gladio. This was a rogue intelligence network under NATO auspices that carried out bombings across Europe in the 1960s-1980s. Gladio's speciality was to carry out what was termed "false flag" operations—terror attacks that were blamed on their domestic and geopolitical opposition. In March 2001, Gladio agent Vincenzo Vinciguerra stated, in sworn testimony: "You had to attack civilians, the people, women, children, innocent people, unknown people far removed from any political game. The reason was quite simple: to force...the public to turn to the state to ask for greater security." Cossiga's assertion that the 9/11 attacks were an inside job and that this is common knowledge among global intelligence agencies cannot be ignored, especially as it comes from a widely respected former head of state. (Source: American Free Press, no. 52, 24 December 2007, http://www.americanfreep - ress.net/html/9-11_solved118.html) annual investment outlook conference in Toronto in early January. "It's not a matter of if, but when," he warned investors. "It's going to hit this year hard." Mr Coxe said that the sharp rise in raw food prices experienced in the past year will intensify in the next few years, amid increased demand for meat and dairy products from the growing middle classes of countries such as China and India and heavy demand from the biofuels industry. The impact of tighter food supply is already evident in raw food prices, which have risen 22 per cent in the past year. Wheat prices alone have risen 92 per cent in the last 12 months. At the centre of the imminent food catastrophe is corn, the main staple of the ethanol industry. The price of corn has risen about 44 per cent over the past 15 months. This has not only had an impact on the price of food products made using grains but also on the price of meat, with feed prices for livestock also increasing. "You're going to have real problems in countries that are food short, because we're already getting embargoes on food exports from countries who were trying desperately to sell their stuff before, but now they're embargoing exports," he said, citing Russia and India as examples. "Those who have food are going to have a big edge." With 54 per cent of the world's corn supply grown in America's Midwest, the USA is one of those countries with an edge. But Mr Coxe warned that America's corn exports are in danger of seizing up in about three years' time if the country continues to subsidise ethanol production. Biofuels are expected to eat up about a third of America's grain harvest in 2008. (Source: Financial Post, Canada, 7 January 2008, http://www .financialpost.com/story. html ?id=213343) UK AND USA ARE "ENDEMIC SURVEILLANCE SOCIETIES" Ihe US and the UK are "endemic surveillance societies", in the same league as China and Russia, says an annual report examining privacy protection globally. Released last month [December 2007] by the advocacy groups Privacy International of the UK and the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) in Washington, DC, the 2007 report also finds an increase in surveillance and a decline in privacy safeguards globally compared to 2006. According to the report, the USA was in the bottom group for the first time, following the signing into law of amendments to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which permits spying on international phone calls and emails without a warrant. Just as it did last year, the UK earned bottom place thanks to its network of surveillance cameras (the world's largest) plus plans to roll out national identity cards that are rich with personal and biometric information but with little government accountability when personal information is lost. The UK government "has access to its people and technology that China doesn't", says Gus lATio (ac ee me $0. vant oy Ge ye MoelTA r mee Fnig Fit TRY fu rtonagty. 6o L ESTATE. Bb a ay va i He “a © PANS: THINE Tit TRY REAL ESTATE. é FOOD SUPPLY AS THE NEXT GLOBAL CRISIS. Aw crisis is emerging—a global food catastrophe that will reach further and be more crippling than anything the world has ever seen. The credit crunch and the reverberations of soaring oil prices around the world will pale in comparison to what is about to transpire, said Donald Coxe, global portfolio strategist at BMO Financial Group, at the Empire Club's 14th NEXUS +7 FEBRUARY — MARCH 2008 www.nexusmagazine.com