proliferation security initiative

SINGAPORE (NNS) -- The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald (DDG 62) arrived in Singapore Oct. 26 for multinational exercise Deep Sabre II, a proliferation security initiative exercise. ...He added that Singapore actively contributes to counter-proliferation efforts through hosting Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) activities like the Deep Sabre exercises. Opening Address by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for ...North Korea says South Korea's participation in the U.S.-led Proliferation Security Initiative is a prelude to a naval blockade and raises the prospect of a naval skirmish in its western waters. On Wednesday, it renounced the 1953 truce ...“Rather than extra-legal instruments to check proliferation like the Proliferation Security Initiative, Russia and China are emphasizing the need for multilateral legal systems. And anticipating that the U.S. programme of missile ...[31] On Washington's 1000-ship Navy, see Proliferation Security Initiative And U.S. 1000-Ship Navy: Control Of World's Oceans, Prelude To War. [32]. Also in 2007 it was reported that the “USS Fort McHenry will begin a roughly six-month ...... A Tighter Net: Strengthening the Proliferation Security Initiative – Emma Belcher, F10 · Red, White & Bold: The New American Century – Carl Delfeld, F89 · From Ghana to The Fletcher School – Theo Yakah, F10, and Professor Hannum ...As a further demonstration of Saudi Arabia's commitment to the safe pursuit of civil nuclear power, it also became the latest country to join the Proliferation Security Initiative, an 85-nation partnership established by the United ...Secretary Gates noted with appreciation the Korean government's May 26, 2009 endorsement of and participation in the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) as a significant demonstration of cooperation in the global effort to prevent ...The PSI builds on efforts by the international community to prevent proliferation of such items, including existing treaties and regimes. It is consistent with and a step in the implementation of the United Nations Security Council ...this brief considers the prospects for the proliferation security initiative (psi), a us-initiated arrangement to promote interception of transfers of cargoes related to weapons of mass destruction. although it has enjoyed some success ...
US with South Korea naval forces stop any vessel deemed to be carrying WMDs- within the Proliferation Security Initiative (Psi)- a move which is fair to say North Korea sees as aimed itself- if not them, then who?
In response North Korea has called off its armistice with the South.
US and South Korean forces have upped their defence strategy to level 2 which includes moving troops to the border, a symbolic gesture as of-course the US has long range missiles which it can launch from the Sea, to destroy the half-starved nation.
US, South Korea, and others including the UK are involved in military naval training exercises off the coast of Hawaii, every year, known as RIMPAC.
American and British journalists have been portraying the Northern leaders as behaving irrationally with imbalanced leaders in a power struggle, provoking the situation there.
But is the North irrational? What else should they do if they are to maintain independence?


U.S led Proliferation Security Initiative launched under the George W Bush administrations war on terror.
North Korea will more than likely launch a missil attack at any ships that stop and inspeck their fleet on the high seas.
sfter that its going to be just a question of who STARTS THE FIRST MUSHROM CLOUD......dino


. Which was an early event in the Cold War?
(Points: 3)
The United States refused to include Russia in the Marshall Plan.

East Germany formed an alliance with the Soviet Union.

Stalin kept troops in Eastern Europe instead of holding promised elections.

China continued to threaten an invasion of Japan.



2. What was the Iron Curtain?
(Points: 3)
the security arrangements that Stalin made to protect himself

a line of guns and canons that the Soviets spread across Eastern Europe

the imaginary wall separating communist countries from democracies

a powerful agreement forged at Yalta at the end of World War II



3. What was the policy of containment forged by American diplomat George F. Kennan?
(Points: 3)
keeping Japan from forming alliances with Korea and China

a system of troop deployment that surrounded the Soviet Union

firmly opposing Soviet expansion and keeping communism in check

a plan to prevent Eastern European nations from becoming economically independent



4. What name was given to the U.S. policy of giving economic and military aid to countries to restrict the spread of communism?
(Points: 3)
Marshall Plan

Yalta Agreement

Truman Doctrine

Eisenhower Initiative



5. What was the Berlin Airlift?
(Points: 3)
the American and British attempt to evacuate Germans wanting to leave Berlin

the German plan to restore the strength of the air force following World War II

the American and British response to the Soviet blockade of Berlin

the final attempt by Germans to force the Soviets out of East Germany



6. What was NATO?
(Points: 3)
the Network for Allied Topography Operations, formed to create accurate maps for the Allies in case of future wars

the National Alliance for Training Organization, a school formed to coordinate military training for the Allies

the New Atlantic Testing Operation, formed to monitor the detonation of atomic bombs

the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, a pact among Western nations to defend against Soviet aggression



7. What policy did the United States implement in postwar Japan?
(Points: 3)
a strong and permanent military presence

reduction in civil liberties

collection of war reparations

rebuilding the nation



8. What act signaled the beginning of the Korean War?
(Points: 3)
North and South Korea joined forces to invade Japan.

China invaded North Korea.

South Korea invaded North Korea.

North Korea invaded South Korea.



9. Why did U.S. general Douglas MacArthur leave his command of troops near the end of the Korean War?
(Points: 3)
He died in combat.

President Truman appointed him secretary of defense.

He became a five-star general.

President Truman fired him for insubordination.



10. What was the outcome of the Korean War?
(Points: 3)
The two Koreas united and became a democracy.

North and South Korea remained separate with a demilitarized zone along the 38th parallel.

An initial truce led to a peace treaty that established North Korea as communist and South Korea as a democracy.

China took over North Korea and the UN took over South Korea.



11. What did Alger Hiss, Whittaker Chambers, and Ethel Rosenberg have in common?
(Points: 3)
All were senators that participated in the investigations of the McCarthy era.

All were subjects of espionage investigations that occurred as part of a Red Scare.

All were newscasters that helped make television the medium people turned to for information.

All played a part in developing the agreements that formed the basis for the United Nations.



12. What was McCarthyism?
(Points: 3)
a policy of providing economic relief to South Korea and other war-torn nations

a tactic of spreading fear with baseless accusations of communist activities in the United States.

the belief that the United States must save European economies following World War II

the hope that communists would be treated equitably and incorporated into American society



13. Which was not an element of President Dwight Eisenhower's foreign policy?
(Points: 3)
emphasize peace

build up the nuclear arsenal

increase the size of the military

threaten massive retaliation



14. What fear did President Eisenhower express in his farewell address?
(Points: 3)
Nuclear proliferation would lead to communist takeovers around the world.

The power of the military-industrial complex could threaten democracy.

The United States would not adequately support its farmers.

Without special vigilance, com


That's for all of those who claim he hasn't done anything

Amendments, that have all passed:

S.Amdt.159 to S.Con.Res.18 - To prevent and, if necessary, respond to an international outbreak of the avian flu.

S.Amdt.390 to H.R.1268 - To provide meal and telephone benefits for members of the Armed Forces who are recuperating from injuries incurred on active duty in Operation Iraqi Freedom or Operation Enduring Freedom.

S.Amdt.670 to H.R.3 - To provide for Flexible Fuel Vehicle (FFV) refueling capability at new and existing refueling station facilities to promote energy security and reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.

S.Amdt.808 to H.R.6 - To establish a program to develop Fischer-Tropsch transportation fuels from Illinois basin coal.

S.Amdt.851 to H.R.6 - To require the Secretary to establish a Joint Flexible Fuel/Hybrid Vehicle Commercialization Initiative, and for other purposes.

S.Amdt.1362 to S.1042 - To require a report on the Department of Defense Composite Health Care System II.

S.Amdt.1453 to S.1402 - To ensure the protection of military and civilian personnel in the Department of Defense from an influenza pandemic, including an avian influenza pandemic.

S.Amdt.2301 to H.R.3010 - To increase funds to the Thurgood Marshall Legal Educational Opportunity Program and to the Office of Special Education Programs of the Department of Education for the purposes of expanding positive behavioral interventions and supports.

S.Amdt.2605 to S.2020 - Expressing the sense of the Senate that the Federal Emergency Management Agency should immediately address issues relating to no-bid contracting.

S.Amdt.2930 to S.2349 - To clarify that availability of legislation does not include nonbusiness days.
S.Amdt.3144 to S.Con.Res.83 - To provide a $40 million increase in FY 2007 for the Homeless Veterans Reintegration Program and to improve job services for hard-to-place veterans

S. Amdt 41 to S. 1 To require lobbyists to disclose the candidates, leadership PACs, or political parties for whom they collect or arrange contributions, and the aggregate amount of the contributions collected or arranged.

First legislation, the HOPE Act, which increased Pell Grants to $5100, and later joined Senator Kennedy on the Higher Education legislation that passed July 20, by a vote of 78-18. That legislation also included funding for Predominantly Black Colleges to assist with counseling, tutoring and other needs of low income students. It also creates the Teaching Residency Act which will create a school-based teacher preparation program in high needs schools to provide each teacher with a mentor, content instruction, classroom management skills, a master’s degree and state certification, and a 2 year follow-up program.

The Coburn-Obama Government Transparency Act of 2006
is an act that requires the full disclosure of all entities or organizations receiving federal funds beginning in fiscal year (FY) 2007 on a website maintained by the Office of Management and Budget.

The Lugar-Obama Nuclear Non-proliferation and Conventional Weapons Threat Reduction Act
Authored by U.S. Sens. Dick Lugar (R-IN) and Barack Obama (D-IL), the Lugar-Obama initiative expands U.S. cooperation to destroy conventional weapons. It also expands the State Department's ability to detect and interdict weapons and materials of mass destruction.
Signed into Law on January 11, 2007.

The 2007 Government Ethics Bill

The “Democratic Republic of the Congo Relief, Security, and Democracy Promotion Act.

Summer Learning demonstration project to provide summer learning grants and encourage new teaching methods

Obama's Global Poverty Act of 2007, passed out of committee just a few days ago
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Barack Obama (D-IL), Chuck Hagel (R-NE), and Maria Cantwell (D-WA) and Congressman Adam Smith (D-WA) today hailed the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's passage of the Global Poverty Act (S.2433), which requires the President to develop and implement a comprehensive policy to cut extreme global poverty in half by 2015 through aid, trade, debt relief, and coordination with the international community, businesses and NGOs. This legislation was introduced in December. Smith and Congressman Spencer Bachus (R-AL) sponsored the House version of the bill (H.R. 1302), which passed the House last September.
I only wrote a few of the ones that have actually passed
Now what has Sarah palin done?
No, thothose are in the US senate, not the IL state Senate
by the way i posted the bill numbers so you can go check them
No Darling, not exagerated, just took a while to research, which not too many people are willing to do
sorry but the research was not from the DNC it was from the Senate
no, the ones I wrote have all passed, there is more, but I got tired of writing


Sorry everyone, but Iraq did go uranium shopping in Niger.

In the late 1980s, the Iraqi representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency—Iraq's senior public envoy for nuclear matters, in effect—was a man named Wissam al-Zahawie. After the Kuwait war in 1991, when Rolf Ekeus arrived in Baghdad to begin the inspection and disarmament work of UNSCOM, he was greeted by Zahawie, who told him in a bitter manner that "now that you have come to take away our assets," the two men could no longer be friends. (They had known each other in earlier incarnations at the United Nations in New York.)
At a later 1995 U.N. special session on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Zahawie was the Iraqi delegate and spoke heatedly about the urgent need to counterbalance Israel's nuclear capacity. At the time, most democratic countries did not have full diplomatic relations with Saddam's regime, and there were few fully accredited Iraqi ambassadors overseas, Iraq's interests often being represented by the genocidal Islamist government of Sudan (incidentally, yet another example of collusion between "secular" Baathists and the fundamentalists who were sheltering Osama Bin Laden). There was one exception—an Iraqi "window" into the world of open diplomacy—namely the mutual recognition between the Baathist regime and the Vatican. To this very important and sensitive post in Rome, Zahawie was appointed in 1997, holding the job of Saddam's ambassador to the Holy See until 2000. Those who knew him at that time remember a man much given to anti-Jewish tirades, with a standing ticket for Wagner performances at Bayreuth. (Actually, as a fan of Das Rheingold and Götterdämmerung in particular, I find I can live with this. Hitler secretly preferred sickly kitsch like Franz Lehar.)
In February 1999, Zahawie left his Vatican office for a few days and paid an official visit to Niger, a country known for absolutely nothing except its vast deposits of uranium ore. It was from Niger that Iraq had originally acquired uranium in 1981, as confirmed in the Duelfer Report. In order to take the Joseph Wilson view of this Baathist ambassadorial initiative, you have to be able to believe that Saddam Hussein's long-term main man on nuclear issues was in Niger to talk about something other than the obvious. Italian intelligence (which first noticed the Zahawie trip from Rome) found it difficult to take this view and alerted French intelligence (which has better contacts in West Africa and a stronger interest in nuclear questions). In due time, the French tipped off the British, who in their cousinly way conveyed the suggestive information to Washington. As everyone now knows, the disclosure appeared in watered-down and secondhand form in the president's State of the Union address in January 2003.
If the above was all that was known, it would surely be universally agreed that no responsible American administration could have overlooked such an amazingly sinister pattern. Given the past Iraqi record of surreptitious dealing, cheating of inspectors, concealment of sites and caches, and declared ambition to equip the technicians referred to openly in the Baathist press as "nuclear mujahideen," one could scarcely operate on the presumption of innocence.
However, the waters have since become muddied, to say the least. For a start, someone produced a fake document, dated July 6, 2000, which purports to show Zahawie's signature and diplomatic seal on an actual agreement for an Iraqi uranium transaction with Niger. Almost everything was wrong with this crude forgery—it had important dates scrambled, and it misstated the offices of Niger politicians. In consequence, IAEA Chairman Mohammed ElBaradei later reported to the U.N. Security Council that the papers alleging an Iraq-Niger uranium connection had been demonstrated to be fraudulent.
But this doesn't alter the plain set of established facts in my first three paragraphs above. The European intelligence services, and the Bush administration, only ever asserted that the Iraqi regime had apparently tried to open (or rather, reopen) a yellowcake trade "in Africa." It has never been claimed that an agreement was actually reached. What motive could there be for a forgery that could be instantly detected upon cursory examination?
There seem to be only three possibilities here. Either a) American intelligence concocted the note; b) someone in Italy did so in the hope of gain; or c) it was the product of disinformation, intended to protect Niger and discredit any attention paid to the actual, real-time Zahawie visit. The CIA is certainly incompetent enough to have fouled up this badly. (I like Edward Luttwak's formulation in the March 22 Times Literary Supplement, where he writes that "there have been only two kinds of CIA secret operations: the ones that are widely known to have failed—usually because of almost unbelievably crude errors—and the ones that are not yet widely known to have failed.") Still, it almost passes belief that any American agency would fake a document that purportedly proved far more than the administration had asked and then get every important name and date wrapped round the axle. Forgery for gain is easy to understand, especially when it is borne in mind that nobody wastes time counterfeiting a bankrupt currency. Forgery for disinformation, if that is what it was, appears at least to have worked. Almost everybody in the world now affects to believe that Saddam Hussein was framed on the Niger rap.
According to the London Sunday Times of April 9, the truth appears to be some combination of b) and c). A NATO investigation has identified two named employees of the Niger Embassy in Rome who, having sold a genuine document about Zahawie to Italian and French intelligence agents, then added a forged paper in the hope of turning a further profit. The real stuff went by one route to Washington, and the fakery, via an Italian journalist and the U.S. Embassy in Rome, by another. The upshot was—follow me closely here—that a phony paper alleging a deal was used to shoot down a genuine document suggesting a connection.
Zahawie's name and IAEA connection were never mentioned by ElBaradei in his report to the United Nations, and his past career has never surfaced in print. Looking up the press of the time causes one's jaw to slump in sheer astonishment. Here, typically, is a Time magazine "exclusive" about Zahawie, written by Hassan Fattah on Oct. 1, 2003:
The veteran diplomat has spent the eight months since President Bush's speech trying to set the record straight and clear his name. In a rare interview with Time, al-Zahawie outlined how forgery and circumstantial evidence was used to talk up Iraq's nuclear weapons threat, and leave him holding the smoking gun.
A few paragraphs later appear, the wonderful and unchallenged words from Zahawie: "Frankly, I didn't know that Niger produced uranium at all." Well, sorry for the inconvenience of the questions, then, my old IAEA and NPT "veteran" (whose nuclear qualifications go unmentioned in the Time article). Instead, we are told that Zahawie visited Niger and other West African countries to encourage them to break the embargo on flights to Baghdad, as they had broken the sanctions on Qaddafi's Libya. A bit of a lowly mission, one might think, for one of the Iraqi regime's most senior and specialized envoys.
The Duelfer Report also cites "a second contact between Iraq and Niger," which occurred in 2001, when a Niger minister visited Baghdad "to request assistance in obtaining petroleum products to alleviate Niger's economic problems." According to the deposition of Ja'far Diya' Ja'far (the head of Iraq's pre-1991 nuclear weapons program), these negotiations involved no offer of uranium ore but only "cash in exchange for petroleum." West Africa is awash in petroleum, and Niger is poor in cash. Iraq in 2001 was cash-rich through the oil-for-food racket, but you may if you wish choose to believe that a near-bankrupt African delegation from a uranium-based country traveled across a continent and a half with nothing on its mind but shopping for oil.
Interagency feuding has ruined the Bush administration's capacity to make its case in public, and a high-level preference for deniable leaking has further compounded the problem. But please read my first three paragraphs again and tell me if the original story still seems innocuous to you.





John Kerry may have been defeated in the 2004 presidential contest, but his 'Global Test' doctrine, which states that America's national security must be administered by the United Nations, lives on. Last week, in their first piece of legislation since taking the majority, House Democrats outsourced the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI), a key national security program, to the supervision of the United Nations.

Didn't take them long to work on dismantling America


Pelosi on National Security: I Surrender All


The late President Ronald Reagan once said, "Those who would sacrifice freedom for security have embarked on [a] downward path." Under the new Liberal leadership, this is the likely fate of America's defense policy. In an alarming provision of H.R. 1, a bill that claims to make the country "safer" since 9/11, liberals have rushed language to the House floor that would surrender a key aspect of our homeland security to the United Nations. At risk is the country's Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) which allows America and its allies to intercept the transport of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in international waters and on foreign soil. For four years, 14 countries have committed to work together in successfully disrupting the delivery of chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons. Rather than expand a program that has prevented the global distribution of WMDs, Democrats are asking Congress to relinquish all control of PSI to the United Nations. Allowing the Security Council of the U.N. to govern the program would jeopardize the intelligence, routes, and methods used to keep terrorists at bay--as well as complicate issues of American sovereignty. What's more troubling is that the Democrats are willing to defer our interest in national security to a body that counts Syria and Pakistan among its members. Despite the leadership's claims, this is one measure in a long line of legislation aimed at globalizing America's national security. For the safety of our liberties and our land, contact your representatives and urge them to vote "yes" on the Republican Motion to Commit on H.R. 1, which would remove this detrimental language from the policy.

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