10:32 21/09/2007
In 1991 Gulf war US attacked the Southern Provinces of Iraq and left the rest of the country as W Bush did not want a regime change and the international objections were great. But during that time 13 museums and libraries in the Southern states were looted and lots of antiques and books were lost. Then in 2003 after US and its cohorts attacked whole of Iraq the looters had a field day in everything valuable in government buildings even the armoury stores. Lebanese archaeologist Joanne Farchakh says:
"They systematically destroyed the remains of this civilisation in their tireless search for sellable artefacts: ancient cities, covering an estimated surface area of 20 square kilometres, which – if properly excavated – could have provided extensive new information concerning the development of the human race.
"Humankind is losing its past for a cuneiform tablet or a sculpture or piece of jewellery that the dealer buys and pays for in cash in a country devastated by war. Humankind is losing its history for the pleasure of private collectors living safely in their luxurious houses and ordering specific objects for their collection."
During the aftermath of the original Shock and Awe D Rumsfeld said, when he was told about the looting of the museums, "Stuff happens". He and the rest of the US military insists that they did not expect that to happen. But they knew that in 1991 it was what happened .... stuff or is it shit?
Some facts from:It is the death of history
18:39 20/09/2007
Remember I was questioning about the fact that US funded the Shia militia one time and now they are funding the Sunni now. Yeah the "Salvador Option" and Negroponte. Bush went last week to Anbar province and had a photo session with a Sunni guy called Abdul-Sattar Abu Risha. Yeah he got assasinated hmmm... not Bush the other guy.
".....The U.S. is funding Sunni militias. They already funded the Shia militias. They're now funding all sides of this sectarian war...."
AND
"RR: It's an easy way to produce immediate statistical successes on the ground, a decrease in attacks on American soldiers. And this is a long-term strategy. Petraeus came in with Negroponte with the so-called "Salvador Option" for Iraq, arming death squads to kill insurgents as the Reagan administration did in the 1980s in El Salvador. In 2004 he incorporated all of the Shia militias into the Iraqi security forces and basically created Shia death squads and secret torture prisons we've all heard stories of. Now they're funding Sunni militias and Sunni death squads"
Hmmmm And:
"KH: How has the media been picking up your story?
RR: It's on Al Jazeera English, which 65 million households see. And internationally, reports have picked up on the story from there. But in the States, it's only been picked up by outlets like Democracy Now! and the Pacifica stations. There's a lot of noise now, everyone's talking. There are so many lies in Petraeus' report that it's hard to focus on just one."
FROM: U.S. Is Paying Off Iraq's Worst War Criminals in Attempt to Ward Off Attacks
15:40 20/09/2007
Did you know that you can buy World Trade Center anniversary commemorative coin from National Collector's Mint, made with the silver found in the basement of the WTC buildings. Wonder what happened to the Gold init?
15:34 20/09/2007
"AMERICA'S enemies have long overrated the Central Intelligence Agency. It never really worked in China and completely failed to predict the Iranian revolution of 1979. When Iranian revolutionaries seized the US embassy in Tehran they were shocked to discover the CIA man they captured there didn't even speak Persian.
And those two failures join a long list. The CIA didn't foresee the explosion of an atom bomb by the Soviet Union in 1949, the invasion of South Korea in 1950, the popular uprisings in Eastern Europe in the 1950s, the installation of Soviet missiles in Cuba in 1962, the Arab-Israeli war of 1973, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989, Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990 or the explosion of an atom bomb by India in 1998. By the time they made the wrong call on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction it's surprising anyone believed them."
Tee... heee. ..... hee
15:25 20/09/2007
"The Geneva Convention is absolutely clear. In a 1979 protocol relating to the "protection of victims of international armed conflicts," Article 54, it states: "It is prohibited to attack, destroy, remove, or render useless objects indispensable to the survival of the civilian population, such as foodstuffs, crops, livestock, drinking water installations and supplies, and irrigation works, for the specific purpose of denying them for their sustenance value to the civilian population or to the adverse Party, whatever the motive, whether in order to starve out civilians, to cause them to move away, or for any other motive.""
This is the normal rule for everyone in the world except for NATO countries. We are talking about the sanctions put in against the Sadam Husseein's government in eary 1990s. REad this article for a few facts:
The Secret Behind the Sanctions
Or do this:
All the DIA documents mentioned in this article were found at the Department of Defense's Gulflink site.
To read or print documents:
1.go to http://www.gulflink.osd.mil/
2.click on "Declassified Documents" on the left side of the front page
3.the next page is entitled "Browse Recently Declassified Documents"
4.click on "search" under "Declassifed Documents" on the left side of that page
5.the next page is entitled "Search Recently Declassified Documents"
6.enter search terms such as "disease information effects of bombing"
7.click on the search button
8.the next page is entitled "Data Sources"
9.click on DIA
15:12 20/09/2007
"America’s space agency was shaken Thursday by two startling and unrelated reports: One involved claims that astronauts were drunk before flying. The other was news from NASA itself that a worker had sabotaged a computer set for delivery to the international space station."
Hee.... Heee.... He huh?
From:Sabotage, Drinking Reports Shake NASA
15:06 20/09/2007
"In the United States, blacks convicted of killing whites are not only more likely than other killers to get a death sentence—they’re also likelier to actually be executed, a new study suggests.
The chances of being condemned and of being put to death are quite different, as “less than 10 percent of those given the death sentence ever get executed,” said David Jacobs, co-author of the study. Most of the others have their sentences overturned on appeal, he explained."
AND
"The study also reinforced previous findings by Jacobs that the likelihood of a legal death penalty was greater in states with higher proportions of black residents, an ideologically more conservative population, and in states where there was greater support for Republican candidates.
In the new research, Jacobs found that execution probabilities increase in states along with the population of African Americans, up to a point. But when the population of blacks reaches about 16 percent of the population, executions start to decrease. Probably at that point, African-Americans have enough votes and political influence within a state to reduce the number of executions, Jacobs said."
From:Blacks who kill whites most likely to be executed, study finds
12:02 20/09/2007
"Indeed, according to Israeli government figures, some 750,000 Israeli Jews (15% of Israel's Jewish population) are now living abroad, further undermining the Zionist premise that the Diaspora is an innately hostile and anti-Semitic place.
Actually, Mr. Shepherd, I'd be more inclined to pin the racist label on anyone who conflates the world's 13 million Jews with a country in which 8.2 million of them -- almost two thirds -- have chosen not to live.
Increasingly anxious that most of us have no intention of going to Israel to boost Jewish numbers, the Israel-based Jewish Agency -- apparently oblivious to the irony of its own actions -- has complained to Germany over official policies that make life there so attractive to Jewish immigrants from former Soviet territories, thus discouraging them from going to Israel."
Some notable facts about Israel taken from:
For American Jews, Dissent Against Israel Has Become Mainstream
12:50 19/09/2007
Israel economy is booming. How?
"Here's another theory. Israel's economy isn't booming despite the political chaos that devours the headlines but because of it. This phase of development dates back to the mid-90s, when the country was in the vanguard of the information revolution - the most tech-dependent economy in the world. After the dotcom bubble burst in 2000, Israel's economy was devastated, facing its worst year since 1953. Then came 9/11, and suddenly new profit vistas opened up for any company that claimed it could spot terrorists in crowds, seal borders from attack, and extract confessions from closed-mouthed prisoners.
Within three years, large parts of Israel's tech economy had been radically repurposed. Put in Friedmanesque terms, Israel went from inventing the networking tools of the "flat world" to selling fences to an apartheid planet. Many of the country's most successful entrepreneurs are using Israel's status as a fortressed state, surrounded by furious enemies, as a kind of 24-hour-a-day showroom, a living example of how to enjoy relative safety amid constant war. And the reason Israel is now enjoying supergrowth is that those companies are busily exporting that model to the world.
Discussions of Israel's military trade usually focus on the flow of weapons into the country - US-made Caterpillar bulldozers used to destroy homes in the West Bank, and British companies supplying parts for F-16s. Overlooked is Israel's huge and expanding export business. Israel now sends $1.2bn in "defence" products to the United States - up dramatically from $270m in 1999. In 2006, Israel exported $3.4bn in defence products - well over a billion more than it received in American military aid. That makes Israel the fourth largest arms dealer in the world, overtaking Britain."
How war was turned into a brand
12:51 18/09/2007
Canada's Dirty Secret
Do you know anything about Tar Sands?
In Canada there is an area called Alberta. This is more than 140,000 square kilometers of relatively pristine boreal forest. Underneath this there is 1.7 trillion barrels of Tar Sands. Out of that only 174 million barrels can be extracted with the present day technology. Tar sands consist of a mixture of 85 percent sand, clay, and silt; 5 percent water; and 10 percent crude bitumen, the tarlike substance that can be converted to oil. Now this bitumen does not flow like crude oil. It is like roofing tar. To get it out you have to inject high pressure super heated water to wash the tar out of the sand and drag it out.
First there is the forest then the top soil then you strip mine. Four tons of material has to be shifted to make a barrel of bitumen. Do the maths: To take 174 million barrels of the shit you have to move 896 million tons of the forest material. There are three mines operating at the moment, some as large as 150 sq KM and 90 meters deep. To put into a perspective you can fill 60,000- seat stadium from two days cleared material.
The bitumen is diluted with naphtha and pipelined to refineries where it is upgraded from low grade to high by adding hydrogen or taking out carbon. This is very energy-intensive process. Then it is refined into transportable fuels. Now this energy is derived from the gas which comes out in these areas. Of course it is comes out of the ground freely. But when you burn it it gives the green house effecting gases. To make three barrels of oil it is required the energy equivalent of one barrel of oil. Do the maths. That is it produces three times that of producing conventional oil.
Canada is a signatory of Kyoto Protocol and is suppsed to reduce the emmissions in 1990 levels by 6% by 2012. But due to Tar Sands mining it has gone up by 25.3%. And even exceeded the US 16.3% increase.
The boreal forest we are talking about is quarter of the world's remaining forests. There are bears, wolves, lynx and some of the largest caribou left in the world. Then there are 30% of songbirds in North America, and 40% of its waterfowl. At the currently planned projects there will be 3,000 sq KM will be cleared, drained and strip mined, with out of the remaining 137,000 sq KM there will be a spider web of seismic lines, roads, pipelines and well pads with the rest of the industrial developement and towns and cities. UN's Environement Program has designated this as a 'hotspot' of degradation.
The Athabasta River is 1,500 KM long. It starts from Athabasta Glacier in Jasper National Park and ends in Lake Athabasta in Wood Buffalo National Park. When it comes into the lake it forms a delta called Peace-Athabasta Delta, a World Heritage Site. which is the largest boreal delta in the world, and a water fowl nesting and staging area. It passes directly through the mining areas and the water from the river is taken out for mining. For tar sand mining operations 2 to 4.5 barrels of water is used to make one barrel of bitumen. That is 349 million cubic meters of water per year. This water after use cannot be put back in the river as it is so contaminated and it is impounded.
Some of the drill holes are situated away from the river and the mines use the ground water. Though the water used can be recycled to desolve the bitumen underground not all the water comes out when extracted. About half a barrel of water is lost per barrel of bitumen.So these freshwater aquefiers have reduce the ground water levels and the mines have switched to deeper salty water sources. As they want fresh water they take the salinity out of this salty water and leave large amounts of waste sludge which has to be desposed of.
The waste water is collected and desposed into landfills or injected underground. Then there is something called mine tailings, which is a slurry of water., sand, fine clay and residual bitumen. These are collected in wastewater resovoirs, called tailing ponds. They are sometimes 50 sq KM and can be seen from the space sattellites.
Naphthenic acid which is a by-product of the process is 100 times more that the natural levels in these areas. It is poisonous to all birds and mammals. Birds are better off as scarecrows floating on barrels and prpane gas cannons going off at regular intervals scare them off the poluted area. But they do seep into the ground water and leeks happen in the dams. These ponds puke out benzene into the atmosphere.
The air pollution is increased by the Criteria Air Contaminants, which when at home is nitrogen oxides, sulphur dioxide and particulate matter.
Royal Dutch/Shell, ExxonMobil, ChevronTexaco, TotalFina, Norway's Statoil and China's Sinopecare lining up to have some action in this blacl gold. In 1995 US$ 9 billion went into the tar sand mining as investment and more than US$ 100 billion is set up for developement between 2006 and 2015.
All the material simplified from: How Canada Went from 21st to 2nd in World's Oil Reserves
11:27 18/09/2007
"According to a new study, 1.2 million Iraqis have met violent deaths since the 2003 invasion, the highest estimate of war-related fatalities yet. The study was done by the British polling firm ORB, which conducted face-to-face interviews with a sample of over 1,700 Iraqi adults in 15 of Iraq's 18 provinces. Two provinces -- al-Anbar and Karbala -- were too dangerous to canvas, and officials in a third, Irbil, didn't give the researchers a permit to do their work. The study's margin of error was plus-minus 2.4 percent."
From:Iraq Death Toll Rivals Rwanda Genocide, Cambodian Killing Fields
11:05 18/09/2007
"In an interview on Fox News on Thursday, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said in response to a question on reports of Syrian nuclear development, that her government is working to prevent "the world's most dangerous people from having the world's most dangerous weapons.""
Yeah right if you see one of my early blogs that Cheney who is the vice president of US was trying to nuke Iran.
From: Ex-U.S. official: N. Korea using Syria, Iran as nuclear 'safe havens'
10:01 18/09/2007
I was too young to get the actual story of this massacre which happened on 18 September 1982, but I was alive and I am responsible for this as anyone else who were alive at that time according to my beliefs.
Read about it graphic details and feel it:
Sabra and Chatila Massacres
09:40 18/09/2007
Last week Israel Air Force (IAF) went on a botched mission into Syrian airspace. They were routed by the Syrian anti-aircraft guns and had to turn back getting rid of extra bombs in Syrian desert and extra fuel tanks in Syrian and Turkish territory. Turkish and Syrian governments complained to the UN and Us about it. Now it comes out that Turkish Intelligence helped the Israel to to it without the knowledge of the government.
Hmmmm. Turkey wants to join the EU init?
From:Turkish intelligence assisted IDF in attack on Syria – report
More info see this: Was Israeli raid a dry run for attack on Iran?
09:29 18/09/2007
"The raid on the Karbala Provincial Joint Coordination Center on Jan. 20 was a serious embarrassment for the Bush administration. Some 30 gunmen traveled in a convoy of at least seven SUVs with tinted windows, just like those driven by top U.S. military officials, wearing uniforms similar to those worn by the U.S. military. By flashing fake identification cards, they gained access to the compound through three different checkpoints without a security screening."
Remember this episode last January and the Bush and co shouted out from the roof tops of media that the Iranian QoD or/and Hezbullah organised this. Well spin is off if you read this article:
The Iran Attack That Wasn't
09:11 18/09/2007
"Gordon Brown faces anger over the deployment of UK troops to Iraq's border with Iran and warnings that the strategy could drag Britain into confrontation with Tehran"
Is it true that Bush is trying his best to get Iran to attack US forces? Then why is the poodle's second in command trying to get us in the same boat. This is a proxy war against Iran in a way just like what happened to the Navy boat. Luckily it was solved deplomatically.
"Mr Brown, who will make a statement to MPs early next month on the situation in Iraq, is facing calls to announce that the whole of Basra province is being handed over to Iraqi security authorities.
The Government has been at pains to stress its independence from American commanders when making decisions about troop deployment. Britain last week withdrew its remaining 550 troops from Basra Palace in the centre of the city to join 5,000 soldiers in what was termed an "overwatch" role at Basra airbase."
Yep take 550 men out of Basra and say we are taking men out of the troubles and put 350 of them into the border with Iran. Good on you Brown and Browne.
From: Brown faces domestic pressure over 'proxy war'
"US-Iranian tensions have mounted significantly in the past few days, with heightened rhetoric on both sides and the US decision to establish a military base in Iraq less than five miles from the Iranian border to block the smuggling of Iranian arms to Shia militias.
The involvement of a few hundred British troops in the anti-smuggling operation also raises the risk of their involvement in a cross-border clash. "
From:Proxy war could soon turn to direct conflict, analysts warn
11:48 17/09/2007
Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Hear Ye! The Russians have made the "Dad of all bombs" which is four times more powerful that the US's "mother of all bombs". Well we can have kids from this couple starting from "Chinkie of all bombs", "Paki of all bombs" etc etc init?
"Russian bomb contains 7.8 tons of high explosives compared to more than 8 tons of explosives in the U.S. bomb, it’s four times more powerful because it uses a new, highly efficient type of explosives that the report didn’t identify.
While the U.S. bomb is equivalent to 11 tons of TNT, the Russian one is equivalent to 44 tons of regular explosives. The Russian weapon’s blast radius is 990 feet, twice as big as that of the U.S. design, the report said."
From: Russia Tests Powerful ‘Dad of All Bombs’
12:17 17/09/2007
The Us economy is tumbling down.
"In August jobs in goods-producing industries declined by 64,000. The US economy lost 4,000 jobs overall. The private sector created a mere 24,000 jobs, all of which could be attributed to the 24,100 new jobs for waitresses and bartenders. The government sector lost 28,000 jobs."
"The unemployment rate held steady, but that is because 340,000 Americans unable to find jobs dropped out of the labor force in August. The US measures unemployment only among the active work force, which includes those seeking jobs. Those who are discouraged and have given up are not counted as unemployed."
I wonder how this happens Say 340,000 Americans have stopped looking for jobs. They do not have jobs. So if they do not get any state benefits how do they exist? If they do get state benefits why are they not counted as unemployed. Something is funny here???? I got to write to the authour of this article and find out why. His email addy is
PaulCraigRoberts@yahoo.com.
"The US now has a trade deficit with every part of the world. In 2006 (the latest annual data), the US had a trade deficit totaling $838,271,000,000.
The US trade deficit with Europe was $142,538,000,000.
With Canada the deficit was $75,085,000,000.
With Latin America it was $112,579,000,000 (of which $67,303,000,000 was with mexico). The deficit with Asia and Pacific was $409,765,000,000 (of which $233,087,000,000 was with China and $90,966,000,000 was with Japan).
With the Middle East the deficit was $36,112,000,000, and with Africa the US trade deficit was $62,192,000,000."
Goddamn that a lot of money init?
Here it is: American Economy: R.I.P.
12:47 17/09/2007
"The United States of America, its President, and the President’s CIA and its military are all above the law – all laws, anywhere, including its own laws.
The 1989 invasion of Panama to arrest and remove its President, who had for seventeen years worked for the CIA, code named “Just Cause” in which by U.S. Army estimate, a least a thousand lives were lost is a good example.
The Organization of American States Charter, to which the US is a signatory and party, prohibits members from invading other members for any reason. The United States ratified the Charter of the OAS in 1948. Under the U.S. Constitution, Article VI, treaties ratified by the U.S. are among the supreme law of the land of the U.S.
The General Assembly of the United Nations voted 75–20 with 40 abstentions to condemn the invasion as a "flagrant violation of international law.” A Security Council resolution condemning the invasion was vetoed by the United States."
LOL!
FRom: Could A Vietnamese Court Fine The U.S. $ Trillions For A Thousand 9/11 Equivalents?
13:28 17/09/2007
"Critically exploring whether or not there was a covert attempt to instigate a catastrophic nuclear war against Iran is illuminated through an introduction using the recent B-52 Incident. On August 30, a B-52 bomber armed with five nuclear-tipped Advanced Cruise missiles travelled from Minot Air Force base, North Dakota, to Barksdale Air Force base, Louisiana, in the United States. Each missile had an adjustable yield between five and 150 kilotons of TNT which is at the lower end of the destructive capacities of U.S. nuclear weapons. For example, the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima had a yield of 13 kilotons, while the Bravo Hydrogen bomb test of 1954 had a yield of 15,000 kilotons. The B-52 story was first covered in the Army Times on 5 September after the nuclear armed aircraft was discovered by Airmen.
LINK:
Check this link out for Cheney's underhand work in trying to nuke Iran: Was a Covert Attempt to Bomb Iran with Nuclear Weapons foiled by a Military Leak?
If you missed this here is the transcript:Chanel 4 News Interviews President Ahmadinejad
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