While this PNAC is a new one on me , the article published in the Scottish Sunday Herald does *not* prove anything and I find the lead sentence of " A SECRET ( their capitals) blueprint for US global domination reveals......" rather suspect to say the least. I ' ll comment on the basic nugget of the article's premise , but first some *independent* observations about the newspaper itself.

To lead in with a sensationalzed keynote *conclusion* before making its case is smells not a little like a garden variety tabloid journalist's ploy.

A little further reading of the headlines in the left-hand column shows another article worth reading : " A statement by the editor on the sale of the Sunday Herald ". http://www.sundayherald.com/27736

Some telling lines include :

(quote) "Our paper (as with the other two) currently operates under strict editorial independence. That means that the paper you read is wholly based on the editorial policy set by the journalists of this paper, rather than the political or commercial agenda of an owner with their hired henchmen. We trade in independent journalism you can trust."....

"Secondly, we are convinced that the best journalism flourishes under a condition of editorial independence where the editor and his team set the paper's agenda and policy."

One must 1st atleast consider what the nature of that editorial *agenda* is. Like the editorial board of the Wall St. Journal whose free-market conservatism is worn on their sleeves so truth in labeling is consistant and one knows how many grains of salt to have ready before reading their clearly marked & separate "Editorial Pages".

It's no secret to me that *a* selling point of the Scottish Sunday herald is promoting *Scottishness* which is healthy , but that kind of cultural *tribalism* doth have a double-edge to it and temptations to pander to their readers' sense of the "plots for world domination" of *outsiders* is one of them. We have it in the states too. A lot quote the the economic philosophies of Scotland's own Malthus as the driving ideology behind a plot for "manipulated shortages" for the plot of world economic domination by the Trilaterals and the Bilderburgers and ..shall I go on ?

So there are definite reasons for lining up some grains of salt here as well.

All that said , it's no secret that G. Dubya has been *managed* by the neo-conservatives and "supply-sider/free-trader" ideologues of which a good portion are *retreads* from the Reagan/Bush decade of the 80's. Yeah , I *do* agree that that fact alone *is* reason enough for vigilant pause.

This new wave of "right wing" re-militarism under a Dubya/Cheney admin was no surprise to me since before the election so it's hardly a secret.

The neo-cons had been howling at the moon over the down-sizing of the our military started expressly becuase of the obscene $billion$ of pure warhogs-at-the-hogtrough largesse and waste.

The neo-cons have made a pariah of the term "nation-building" as if part of Clintonian plot and yet they are in it full swing in regards to Afghanistan and *have* to be or a 2nd Bush admin will be acussed of blowing it in Afgahnistan *again*.

The neo-cons that were perfectly willing to blow the national budget to deficit in astronomical proportions in support of a militarist economy are just at it again only this time there's a *corrected* economy with less revenue tp pay for all this new spending while the military spending is ginned-up.

This is what's truly scary to me. The potential for hog-tying our national economy so thoroughly with national debt as to trigger *emergency powers* ; the kind that good ol' Ollie North, as Artful Dodger to CIA Chief Willaim Casey's Fagan, helped draft before their directinvolvement in the Iran-Contra scandal blew it sky high.

In conclusion , the Neo-cons can draft all of the so-called "secret blueprints" they want , but the equally so-called "New World Order" couldn't happen anyway as a purely unilateral *Amercian* agenda. It would require the direct participation ,and thus arch-complicity , of an equally remilitarized EU. The continuous dream of a central *empire* , Euro-style , is hardly a secret either. So much of Euro's millenia have had their culture built ,and slaughtered each other for supremacys, in its agreesive pursuit.

Why should the 21st Century be any different? If anything the pan-Euro agenda has its best oppurtunity yet with the technologies of central organization. Only the blessing of Euro-sclerosis has kept those harboring that *predilection for empire* in check.

China is even more aggressively engaged in this kind of *supreme centralization* , I call it Beijingitis , made possible with this century's high-tech integration which both the American *and* the European contracters are falling all over themselves to sell them. Some here may not be aware that *all* of China , which covers several times zones , is synchronized to Beijing time and it's enforced.

It should ,by now ,be no secret that the world of Islam has it's well-funded dreamers of a pan-Islamic Empire as well and much harm can come from just the effort however doomed it is to fail.

So thus, to promote this political science fiction of fear-mongering over a purely *Pax Americana* is what makes this *purely* Scottish Sunday Herald editorial position appear more than a wee conviniently provincial at best.