[05#14] 1.14=5=12.5=#35: Home to Old Home; 1.SWISH Rept. 2.Russia=China=India-US

Clear cool. Late 5:55 bath, late late 8:25 up, 10:05 out, Lung computer printing so quick food in kitchen when the nearby contractor tel for 2nd rent appl. form, 10:30 starting emails answering [G]'s Janet privately, after walking to h.for.rent smoothing backyard soil to house without contractor 11:15-11:45. 12:50 Mei home rec. tel. again driving and I walking pass washing car wheels in front, to rent.h. talking a while with form given. Mei gone after egg rice, 4:45 starting this blog until 6:00. Then, Jun left for Portland, Oregon. Finishing this blog around 7, to o.h. to bed 11pm. 1) al-Qaida - US: SWISH 2nd report: "The SWISH Report (2)", Paul Rogers, 13 - 1 - 2005: http://www.opendemocracy.net/themes/article-2-2306.jsp "" An independent consultancy assesses al-Qaida’s progress and prospects for 2005 and beyond. A second report from the South Waziristan Institute of Strategic Hermeneutics to the al-Qaida Strategic Planning Cell (SPC) on the progress of the campaign "" 2) Russia=China=India-US (1) China, India in 2020 "U.S. intelligence report forecasts India, China will be major powers in 2020", By Jonathan S. LandayKnight Ridder Newspapers, Posted on Thu, Jan. 13, 2005: http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/10639015.htm "" LANGLEY, Va. - The world of 2020 is likely to be one in which Asia is the main engine of the global economy, India and China are major powers and al-Qaida-inspired Islamist movements have spread to Muslim communities outside the Middle East, a new U.S. intelligence report said Thursday. The United States will remain "the single most important country across all dimensions of power," but wield less authority than it does now because of the greater influence of India, China and possibly other nations such as Brazil and Indonesia. "Although the challenges ahead will be daunting, the United States will retain enormous advantages, playing a pivotal role across the broad range of issues - economic, technological, political and military - that no other state will match by 2020," said the report, "Mapping the Global Future." It was the third in a series of unclassified forecasts of global trends published by the National Intelligence Council, a group of senior intelligence analysts who report to CIA Director Porter Goss but aren't technically part of the spy agency. The earlier reports were for 2010 and 2015. Their forecasts for 2020 were based on consultations with more than 1,000 nongovernment experts at 30 conferences on five continents over the past year. "" "" - Russia's international role could grow with its oil and gas exports, but it faces a severe demographic crisis due to low birth rates, poor medical care and "a potentially explosive AIDS situation." "" (2) Missile to Syria "Israel asks Putin to scrap missile sale to Damascus", AFP: 1/13/2005 15:25 GMT - AFP, © 2004 Agence France Presse: http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?ID=36008 (3) Venezuela Oil to China? "US investigates risk of losing oil supplies from Venezuela", By Andy Webb-Vidal in Caracas and Doug Cameron in Houston, Published: January 13 2005 21:11 Last updated: 23:15: http://news.ft.com/cms/s/c9d0dfa8-65a6-11d9-8ff0-00000e2511c8.html