10:54 29/10/2007
Somethings do not get into the news at all. Did you hear about former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld going to France and the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights and the Paris-based International Federation of Human Rights, charging him for torture? Sorry if it was in the news as I was not in this world on Friday night and saturday due to partying.
Then another one I missed was; on the 10th of October BBC2 screened a film called "Taxi to the Dark Side".
It is a horrifying story documentary which will leave you thinking,'This cannot be happening!'. You be the judge. Please don't be the jury and the executioner.
From: No Place To Hide
Updated: 30.10.07:
"Anti-torture protesters in France believe that the defense secretary fled over the open border to Germany, where a war crimes case against Rumsfeld was dismissed by a federal court. "
From: Rumsfeld Flees France, Fearing Arrest
This is from the past and more or less the same as then secretary of state was Kissinger; you can see what a monster he was at that time. It does not change init. I now has no respect for any of these rich countries and thier governments. When you really think about the whole world there are no governments who are really good and righteous.
Check: Torture, Then And Now
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Monday, October 29, 2007
Friday, October 26, 2007
Iran, Israel and the Warplanes
This is needs a bit of explaning I think.
First "Russia confirms all commitments under Bushehr contract". This article says that Russia has agreed to finish construction of Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant.
Russian presidential aide Sergei Prikhodko told Itar-Tass,"Russia confirmed its commitment to all contractual obligations regarding Bushehr and it is determined to honor them. Naturally, there has to be the understanding that all those obligations are known to the IAEA and fully comply with the rules of that organization, and the Bushehr project itself has been implemented under the control of that international organization from the very outset"
Then in "PM tells London Jews: Russia won't supply nuclear fuel to Iran", it brings out a bit of doubt into the situation. It says:
"Speaking to Jewish group in London on Tuesday, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert revealed that at his meeting last week in Moscow with the Russian president, he learned that "Russia has decided not to supply nuclear fuel to Iran.""
It gets better.
In "Iran acquiring fighter jets based on Israeli technology", it says this:
"Iran has signed a deal with China to purchase 24 J-10 fighter jets between 2008 and 2010, Russian news agency Novosti reported. The jets were developed based on the technology of Israel's Lavi fighter jet, whose technology was sold to China against the wishes of the US.
Novosti stated that the J-10 has a range of 2,940 kilometers, bringing it within range of Israel. Iran's current MiG-29 jets have a range of 2,100 kilometers."
Who is the Daddy?
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First "Russia confirms all commitments under Bushehr contract". This article says that Russia has agreed to finish construction of Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant.
Russian presidential aide Sergei Prikhodko told Itar-Tass,"Russia confirmed its commitment to all contractual obligations regarding Bushehr and it is determined to honor them. Naturally, there has to be the understanding that all those obligations are known to the IAEA and fully comply with the rules of that organization, and the Bushehr project itself has been implemented under the control of that international organization from the very outset"
Then in "PM tells London Jews: Russia won't supply nuclear fuel to Iran", it brings out a bit of doubt into the situation. It says:
"Speaking to Jewish group in London on Tuesday, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert revealed that at his meeting last week in Moscow with the Russian president, he learned that "Russia has decided not to supply nuclear fuel to Iran.""
It gets better.
In "Iran acquiring fighter jets based on Israeli technology", it says this:
"Iran has signed a deal with China to purchase 24 J-10 fighter jets between 2008 and 2010, Russian news agency Novosti reported. The jets were developed based on the technology of Israel's Lavi fighter jet, whose technology was sold to China against the wishes of the US.
Novosti stated that the J-10 has a range of 2,940 kilometers, bringing it within range of Israel. Iran's current MiG-29 jets have a range of 2,100 kilometers."
Who is the Daddy?
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Thursday, October 25, 2007
Open Office, Cricket and unwanted opinions
13:24 25/10/2007
I am putting a copy of Open Office in me puter. Will try to write about it in ere as we go along.
21:00 24/10/2007
When we go to a place like the sea side, with a few people, I find some of us already want to be back home by the time we reach The sea side. See how many people ask the question what time we getting back, and there is a theory I like to put forword to myself.
If there are three people, if one person is not 'avin it but just tagging alone, due to something did not please the person, and one of the other two is not decided but enjoyement and boredom is 50%, the other one is 'aving it but will not argue going back bit, then the chances of you lot going early is very high.
This is about me joining my firend Steve with his parents to go and watch a Somerset play Middlesex in Taunton Cricket grounds. The day started Steve and me having breakfast together getting excited about the day. Got picked up about 9.30 by Steve's dad. I heard that his mum was visiting a relative in distress. Steve was not happy about that.
Anyway got to Taunton and by the time we parked the car I fouhd that Steve's dad Mat is not happy either, without his missus. We all had a good day. I loved it with the sun soaring across the sky without any clouds and cricket in front of me. It was a one day match. Somerset got all out for 100 something and the locals were not happy. Steve was worse and was nagging Mat to go home. I kept out of it as I was the visitor to there game. Any way we got out of the grounds with 5 overs to spare and by the time we got to the car another wicket was down and they needed 30 or so to win. Steve asked me whether I enjoyed the day. I said ofcourse I did but I didn't like being dragged out when the things were hotting up. He says you should have told us. But what he does not know is I already knew it would happen. Is it nice to be proven right even though you have to suffer?
15:54 23/10/2007
Kai is saying:
"A slight word of advice i would like people to know which i discovered through self analysis would be, " the majority of times you find yourself asking others for advice on whether you should do something or not. You all ready know the answer. What you are actually doing is arguing what you would like to do against what you feel you should do. It's a lot easier to just decide if the risk is to great for yourself there and then." Asking someone elses opinion is just a way to share the blame! Then you can say " Well so and so said they thought i should. ""
That is my mate Kai. Well his first blog he says.
19:28 22/10/2007
When I think about the Global Heating I feel that part of me want to believe in Nature which I am part of. It changes and the better or worse is not my problem. I will have to adjust. The other part says be very passionate about it and take some action. So I thought no stress, just think energy costs more. Be reasonable but try to make it cheaper by reducing it.
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I am putting a copy of Open Office in me puter. Will try to write about it in ere as we go along.
21:00 24/10/2007
When we go to a place like the sea side, with a few people, I find some of us already want to be back home by the time we reach The sea side. See how many people ask the question what time we getting back, and there is a theory I like to put forword to myself.
If there are three people, if one person is not 'avin it but just tagging alone, due to something did not please the person, and one of the other two is not decided but enjoyement and boredom is 50%, the other one is 'aving it but will not argue going back bit, then the chances of you lot going early is very high.
This is about me joining my firend Steve with his parents to go and watch a Somerset play Middlesex in Taunton Cricket grounds. The day started Steve and me having breakfast together getting excited about the day. Got picked up about 9.30 by Steve's dad. I heard that his mum was visiting a relative in distress. Steve was not happy about that.
Anyway got to Taunton and by the time we parked the car I fouhd that Steve's dad Mat is not happy either, without his missus. We all had a good day. I loved it with the sun soaring across the sky without any clouds and cricket in front of me. It was a one day match. Somerset got all out for 100 something and the locals were not happy. Steve was worse and was nagging Mat to go home. I kept out of it as I was the visitor to there game. Any way we got out of the grounds with 5 overs to spare and by the time we got to the car another wicket was down and they needed 30 or so to win. Steve asked me whether I enjoyed the day. I said ofcourse I did but I didn't like being dragged out when the things were hotting up. He says you should have told us. But what he does not know is I already knew it would happen. Is it nice to be proven right even though you have to suffer?
15:54 23/10/2007
Kai is saying:
"A slight word of advice i would like people to know which i discovered through self analysis would be, " the majority of times you find yourself asking others for advice on whether you should do something or not. You all ready know the answer. What you are actually doing is arguing what you would like to do against what you feel you should do. It's a lot easier to just decide if the risk is to great for yourself there and then." Asking someone elses opinion is just a way to share the blame! Then you can say " Well so and so said they thought i should. ""
That is my mate Kai. Well his first blog he says.
19:28 22/10/2007
When I think about the Global Heating I feel that part of me want to believe in Nature which I am part of. It changes and the better or worse is not my problem. I will have to adjust. The other part says be very passionate about it and take some action. So I thought no stress, just think energy costs more. Be reasonable but try to make it cheaper by reducing it.
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Monday, October 22, 2007
Clinton, Pot And Tai chi
15:49 20/10/2007
"The US arms industry is backing Hillary Clinton for President and has all but abandoned its traditional allies in the Republican party. Mrs Clinton has also emerged as Wall Street's favourite. Investment bankers have opened their wallets in unprecedented numbers for the New York senator over the past three months and, in the process, dumped their earlier favourite, Barack Obama.
Mrs Clinton's wooing of the defence industry is all the more remarkable given the frosty relations between Bill Clinton and the military during his presidency. An analysis of campaign contributions shows senior defence industry employees are pouring money into her war chest in the belief that their generosity will be repaid many times over with future defence contracts."
That is something I been trying to get some info about. I been to other blogsites like, Rose Covered Glasses by Ken (Ta for the comments). How much the Industrial Military Complex have muscle in the democratic elections of US. May be we in UK got a similar system.
"After her election to the Senate, she became the first New York senator on the armed services committee, where she revealed her hawkish tendencies by supporting the invasion of Iraq. Although she now favours a withdrawal of US troops, her position on Iran is among the most warlike of all the candidates – Democrat or Republican.
This week, she said that, if elected president, she would not rule out military strikes to destroy Tehran's nuclear weapons facilities. While on the armed services committee, Mrs Clinton has befriended key generals and has won the endorsement of General Wesley Clarke, who ran Nato's war in Kosovo. A former presidential candidate himself, he is spoken of as a potential vice-presidential running mate."
Proof is there but need more info?
From:
Clinton bucks the trend and rakes in cash from the US weapons industry
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18590.htm
And at the same time in NY Blair is talking war. The question is how much he is getting now or in the future from the IMC (Industrial Military Complex)? During the time he spent in Irish problems which side he made friends with? As this speech I read was delivered at a Charity dinner in front of New York's political and Catholic elite, which was held in honour of Al Smith, the former governor of New York who was the first Catholic to be nominated by a major political party to run for US president.
The annual event has gained a reputation as a major social gathering in election years, when organisers traditionally invite the presidential candidates to speak (from source).
15:35 20/10/2007
"According to the latest data from federal Drug and Alcohol Services Information System (DASIS), more individuals are, in fact, enrolled in drug treatment for pot than ever before. However, this increase is a direct result of the fact that more Americans are being arrested for pot than ever before. (For example, a new study published in the online journal BMC Public Health reports among the 27,000+ adults entered into Texas drug treatment clinics between 2000 and 2005, a whopping 70 percent of them were diverted to treatment as a condition of sentencing, parole, or probation.) Faced with the choice of jail or attending drug treatment, most offenders -- not surprisingly -- choose treatment, whether they need it (most don't) or not."
From:
'Pot 2.0': Where Can I Get Some?
http://www.alternet.org/story/65594/
22:11 19/10/2007
In QI the tv series they were talking about Syphillis which I was talking about a few days back. So the QI boffins say that the Dutch call it Portugese desease and the Portugese call it the Dutch desease. So if the Spanish and the rest of the Europeans say that they got it from natives of the land called America, it must have come from Europe init?
21:53 19/10/2007
What is Tai chi ?
At the moment I am trying out ths exercise. Say I srand with my feet about shoulder width and keep the knees slack with the arms out stretched but not rigid. Feel all the muscles of the body and tense them while pushing against any painful areas.
11:36 18/10/2007
"Statistics UK
Worrying rise of self-inflicted deaths in prison
INQUEST is concerned about the worrying number of self-inflicted deaths in prison to the end of September this year. Already the number of self-inflicted deaths has overtaken the total for 2006. INQUEST believes these deaths must be seen in the context of the overuse of prison and overcrowding which reduces the Prison Service's ability to carry out its duty of care.
Deaths in prison 2007
Classification Number
Self-Inflicted 70
Non-Self-Inflicted 68
Homicide 2
Awaiting Classification 2
Deaths in police custody 2007
Type Number
Custody 19
Pursuit 8
Road Traffic Accidents 5
Shooting 4
Source: INQUEST casework and monitoring"
12:37 14/10/2007
Now as I am living in a flat I got a chance to finger my words into this blog everyday! So there will be a proper organisation of various points I am crazy about. Most of the current news stuff I put here will be taken out after a while; leaving my own musings and life style I am leading. Then I have the issue with the LABELS in this blog I have to master; which will be done as we go along.
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"The US arms industry is backing Hillary Clinton for President and has all but abandoned its traditional allies in the Republican party. Mrs Clinton has also emerged as Wall Street's favourite. Investment bankers have opened their wallets in unprecedented numbers for the New York senator over the past three months and, in the process, dumped their earlier favourite, Barack Obama.
Mrs Clinton's wooing of the defence industry is all the more remarkable given the frosty relations between Bill Clinton and the military during his presidency. An analysis of campaign contributions shows senior defence industry employees are pouring money into her war chest in the belief that their generosity will be repaid many times over with future defence contracts."
That is something I been trying to get some info about. I been to other blogsites like, Rose Covered Glasses by Ken (Ta for the comments). How much the Industrial Military Complex have muscle in the democratic elections of US. May be we in UK got a similar system.
"After her election to the Senate, she became the first New York senator on the armed services committee, where she revealed her hawkish tendencies by supporting the invasion of Iraq. Although she now favours a withdrawal of US troops, her position on Iran is among the most warlike of all the candidates – Democrat or Republican.
This week, she said that, if elected president, she would not rule out military strikes to destroy Tehran's nuclear weapons facilities. While on the armed services committee, Mrs Clinton has befriended key generals and has won the endorsement of General Wesley Clarke, who ran Nato's war in Kosovo. A former presidential candidate himself, he is spoken of as a potential vice-presidential running mate."
Proof is there but need more info?
From:
Clinton bucks the trend and rakes in cash from the US weapons industry
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18590.htm
And at the same time in NY Blair is talking war. The question is how much he is getting now or in the future from the IMC (Industrial Military Complex)? During the time he spent in Irish problems which side he made friends with? As this speech I read was delivered at a Charity dinner in front of New York's political and Catholic elite, which was held in honour of Al Smith, the former governor of New York who was the first Catholic to be nominated by a major political party to run for US president.
The annual event has gained a reputation as a major social gathering in election years, when organisers traditionally invite the presidential candidates to speak (from source).
15:35 20/10/2007
"According to the latest data from federal Drug and Alcohol Services Information System (DASIS), more individuals are, in fact, enrolled in drug treatment for pot than ever before. However, this increase is a direct result of the fact that more Americans are being arrested for pot than ever before. (For example, a new study published in the online journal BMC Public Health reports among the 27,000+ adults entered into Texas drug treatment clinics between 2000 and 2005, a whopping 70 percent of them were diverted to treatment as a condition of sentencing, parole, or probation.) Faced with the choice of jail or attending drug treatment, most offenders -- not surprisingly -- choose treatment, whether they need it (most don't) or not."
From:
'Pot 2.0': Where Can I Get Some?
http://www.alternet.org/story/65594/
22:11 19/10/2007
In QI the tv series they were talking about Syphillis which I was talking about a few days back. So the QI boffins say that the Dutch call it Portugese desease and the Portugese call it the Dutch desease. So if the Spanish and the rest of the Europeans say that they got it from natives of the land called America, it must have come from Europe init?
21:53 19/10/2007
What is Tai chi ?
At the moment I am trying out ths exercise. Say I srand with my feet about shoulder width and keep the knees slack with the arms out stretched but not rigid. Feel all the muscles of the body and tense them while pushing against any painful areas.
11:36 18/10/2007
"Statistics UK
Worrying rise of self-inflicted deaths in prison
INQUEST is concerned about the worrying number of self-inflicted deaths in prison to the end of September this year. Already the number of self-inflicted deaths has overtaken the total for 2006. INQUEST believes these deaths must be seen in the context of the overuse of prison and overcrowding which reduces the Prison Service's ability to carry out its duty of care.
Deaths in prison 2007
Classification Number
Self-Inflicted 70
Non-Self-Inflicted 68
Homicide 2
Awaiting Classification 2
Deaths in police custody 2007
Type Number
Custody 19
Pursuit 8
Road Traffic Accidents 5
Shooting 4
Source: INQUEST casework and monitoring"
12:37 14/10/2007
Now as I am living in a flat I got a chance to finger my words into this blog everyday! So there will be a proper organisation of various points I am crazy about. Most of the current news stuff I put here will be taken out after a while; leaving my own musings and life style I am leading. Then I have the issue with the LABELS in this blog I have to master; which will be done as we go along.
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Uk Sporting Scene
08:53 22/10/2007
Black weekend for the sporting fans of UK. First our beloved Rugby team lost the World Championship to the bloody South Africans. Good lord they were good so nothing to despair that much but to grin and say "Oh! they played fine and lost huh?".
Then came the Grand Prix and my man Lewis lost the World Championship by a point. Man that was pure bad management on the side of the engineering team going upto the big boss. They fucked it up in China keeping him too long on the track with those tires. And in St Paulo they did a bloody three pit stops. Good idea to put the intermediate tires in the mid session for him to pass the slackers, why the hell did they not put enough fuel in to last the race after the second stop. Very unproffesional; hope they have a reason. I tried googling but it is too early I suppose for the analysis to be thorough. One thing I came across was Lewis Hamilton was West Indian descent to start with and then became British then English then British and now I think he will have to be sent back to where he comes from Init?
Last straw was when my man Ronne lost to the Chinese Marco at Snooker. After losing 3/1 to Marco he came back with 4/3 to Ronne at the first session. Then he got to 5/3 and then lost the next 2 and only manage to win one. Ended up with 9/6 to Marco and the Trophy went to China. Hope next week brings out something nice.
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Black weekend for the sporting fans of UK. First our beloved Rugby team lost the World Championship to the bloody South Africans. Good lord they were good so nothing to despair that much but to grin and say "Oh! they played fine and lost huh?".
Then came the Grand Prix and my man Lewis lost the World Championship by a point. Man that was pure bad management on the side of the engineering team going upto the big boss. They fucked it up in China keeping him too long on the track with those tires. And in St Paulo they did a bloody three pit stops. Good idea to put the intermediate tires in the mid session for him to pass the slackers, why the hell did they not put enough fuel in to last the race after the second stop. Very unproffesional; hope they have a reason. I tried googling but it is too early I suppose for the analysis to be thorough. One thing I came across was Lewis Hamilton was West Indian descent to start with and then became British then English then British and now I think he will have to be sent back to where he comes from Init?
Last straw was when my man Ronne lost to the Chinese Marco at Snooker. After losing 3/1 to Marco he came back with 4/3 to Ronne at the first session. Then he got to 5/3 and then lost the next 2 and only manage to win one. Ended up with 9/6 to Marco and the Trophy went to China. Hope next week brings out something nice.
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Saturday, October 13, 2007
Lots Of Different Bits of News and all
22:42 12/10/2007
Where did Syphilis started?
According to wikipedia which is not 100% authority in any subject - nor are the others:
"“ . . . syphilis probably cannot be "blamed"—as it often is—on any geographical area or specific race. The evidence suggests that the disease existed in both hemispheres from prehistoric times. It is only coincidental with the Columbus expeditions that the syphilis previously thought of as "lepra" flared into virulence at the end of the fifteenth century.[7] ”
Owsley noted that a Chinese medical case recorded in 2637 B.C.E. seems to be describing a case of syphilis, and that a European writer who recorded an outbreak of "lepra" in 1303 C.E. is clearly describing syphilis.[7]"
From:
11:33 11/10/2007
"Overall the volume of traffic on the area’s roads has grown by 21% over the last 10 years compared to 16% nationally. As a result of a successful economy and new development the average speed in Bristol’s urban area is 15 miles per hour during peak periods, the lowest in England outside London."
This is from the Bristol City Council's website. It is called"Our Future Transport
West of England Sub Region".
18:47 09/10/2007
"The authorities in Germany have decided not to seek the extradition of 13 US citizens suspected of being involved in the abduction and rendition of German citizen Khaled el-Masri. The 13 includes at least 10 operatives of the CIA."
Looks bad for the UN!
From:Rendition - CIA impunity again goes unchallenged
And then:
"Seven months after a major investigation spelt out Europe's involvement in a murky U.S. torture and kidnapping programme, the EU's governments have claimed they are powerless to prevent such human rights abuses in the future."
From:RIGHTS-EUROPE: Torture Flights Could Land Again
18:40 09/10/2007
"He said Russia and China have drafted an international declaration on the non-deployment of weapons in space and sent it to the UN.
"It is necessary to establish the rules of the game in space," he said, adding that the deployment of weapons in space could have unpredictable consequences, since such weapons are "very complex systems."
"A sizable war could break out," the commander said.
He said space must not be the sphere of interests of any one country.
"We do not want to fight in space, and we do not want to call the shots there either, but we will not permit any other country to do so," he said.
Popovkin also said that Russia has an integrated missile attack warning system, covering the country's entire territory."
Hello US who is the bad boy then? And at the same time Russia puts its bloody flag in the Arctic? Who is the .....
From:Russia promises retaliation if weapons deployed in space
18:20 09/10/2007
"Speaking in February 2003, a month before the invasion, Mr Bush told his Spanish counterpart that US forces would be in Baghdad by the end of March regardless of whether the United Nations authorised the use of force.
He also talked about punishing countries that failed to support a UN resolution backing the war and outlined an offer by Saddam Hussein, the former Iraqi leader, to go into exile in return for $1bn, which he said the US would reject."
It is coming out little by little. I will give them five more years and then we can see what the world is going to do. You and me hopefully will be here to see it.
From:New light cast on Bush's plans for Iraq war
17:46 09/10/2007
"According to press reports, about 34 per cent of the budget the US government initially allocated for the reconstruction of Iraq has been diverted to private security firms."
That is a lot of reconstruction, like killing off the local population by degrees as we saw in Baghdad with the Blackwater lot.
From:'We'll revoke Al-Maliki's licence first'
17:12 09/10/2007
"Anti-Semitism
This all-purpose epithet of opprobrium is designed to conflate Israel with World Jewry, thereby implying that to attack one means to attack the other. In truth, the term is meaningless, as I wrote in an earlier essay: “Strictly speaking, ‘semitic’ is a linguistic term denoting a family of Afro-Asiatic languages, of which we have today Arabic, Hebrew, Maltese, and the South Arabic languages of northern Ethiopia. Ancient semitic languages included Akkadian, Canaanite, Amorite, Ugaritic, Phoenician, Punic, Aramaic, as well as ancient Hebrew and Syriac.”"
Bloody good definition init?
War As Freedom, And Fraud As Fact
17:04 09/10/2007
"Afrah Sattar, 27, was on a bus approaching the square when she saw the guards fire on the white car. She and her mother, Ghania Hussein, were headed to the Certificate of Identification Office in Baghdad to pick up proof of Sattar’s Iraqi citizenship for an upcoming trip to a religious shrine in Iran.
When she saw the gunmen turn toward the bus, Sattar looked at her mother in fear. “They’re going to shoot at us, Mama,” she said. Her mother hugged her close. Moments later, a bullet pierced her mother’s skull and another struck her shoulder, Sattar recalled.
As her mother’s body went limp, blood dripped onto Sattar’s head, still cradled in her mother’s arms.
“Mother, mother,” she called out. No answer. She hugged her mother’s body and kissed her lips and began to pray, “We belong to God and we return to God.” The bus emptied, and Sattar sat alone at the back, with her mother’s bleeding body.
“I’m lost now, I’m lost,” she said days later in her simple two-bedroom home. Ten people lived there; now there are nine.
“They are killers,” she said of the Blackwater guards. “I swear to God, not one bullet was shot at them. Why did they shoot us? My mother didn’t carry a weapon.”
Downstairs, her father, Sattar Ghafil Slom al Kaabi, 67, sat beneath a smiling picture of his wife and recalled their 40-year love story and how they raised eight children together. On the way to the holy city of Najaf to bury her, he’d stopped his car, with her coffin strapped to the top. He got out and stood beside the coffin. He wanted to be with her a little longer.
“I loved her more than anything,” he said, his voice wavering. “Now that she is dead, I love her more.”"
Make up your own mind, mine is already wired.
From:Blackwater Guards Killed 16 as US Touted Progress
10:57 09/10/2007
"According to Petras, a sociologist at Binghamton University, New York, the pro-Zionist "power configuration" is not just the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee(AIPAC). The Zionist lobby is so powerful, Petras argues, it "calls the shots" and "supports the escalation of the Iraq war and the savaging of Palestine, Somalia and Afghanistan.""
I can understand why Israel is fucked up about Palestine, but what the hell they have to do with Afghanistan and Somalia? Bind Moggles man!
19:39 08/10/2007
When I watched the news clip, about the judge who died in a fireball, my thoughts about nature got simplified .
17:00 07/10/2007
Sorry for regurgitatimg old news but this article is interesting, if you be interested in the middle East.
"In an article entitled “The Next Act” published last November, Hersh wrote: “In the past six months, Israel and the United States have also been working together in support of a Kurdish resistance group known as the Party for Free Life [PJAK] in Kurdistan. The group has been conducting clandestine cross-border forays into Iran, I was told by a government consultant with close ties to the Pentagon civilian leadership, as ‘part of an effort to explore alternative means of applying pressure on Iran.’ (The Pentagon has established covert relationships with Kurdish, Azeri and Baluchi tribesmen, and has encouraged their efforts to undermine the regime’s authority in northern and southeastern Iran.) The government consultant said that Israel is giving the Kurdish group ‘equipment and training.’ The group has also been given ‘a list of targets inside Iran of interest to the US’.”"
From:Washington’s proxy war inside Kurdish Iran
15:24 07/10/2007
"US military snipers operating in Iraq are "baiting" Iraqis by scattering items like detonation cord, plastic explosives and ammunition, and then ambushing and killing those who pick them up, The Washington Post reported today.
The newspaper said the classified program was described in investigative documents related to recently filed murder charges against three snipers accused of planting evidence on Iraqis they killed."
Well this happens downtown in Bristol too. They put an unlocked car with the keys in the ignition, and keep an eye on it. And you guess the rest orrct. US system coppied by UK. Now admired by Iraqis!
From:US snipers baiting Iraqis - report
14:08 07/10/2007
Blackwater fans listen:
"The great irony is that while our nation is engrossed in a campaign to disband militias funded by Syria and Iran, it is doing so with our own private militias – some 180 or more of them operating in the Iraq theatre. Their strength in Iraq is estimated at from 20,000 to 50,000 contract soldiers, although the numbers and their mission are kept from the scrutiny of Congress. How many and what they are doing is a matter of guesswork for those whom we have elected to represent us."
I think that comes as the fourth step towords Fascism init?
From:Is Blackwater A Black Hole?
17:08 05/10/2007
"Amnesty notes that Texas, which operates America’s busiest execution chamber, has banned one of the chemicals involved for use in euthanising pets, because it does not effectively mask pain."
Americans are crazy!
From:Amnesty Lists Horrors of US Executions
13:05 05/10/2007
Bit of US history during Nixon, Reagan, Bush Sr, and Clinton. Good article if you are brave!
As Hillary Runs for the White House, Consider Bill's Refusal to Explore Bush I Scandals
11:47 05/10/2007
Here we go again with the Sunni population of Iraq. What they say is Al Quaeda never existed in Iraq before the US invation. Majority of the Sunnis do not like the Al Quaeda Iraq (AQI). They say moment US leaves Iraq they will get rid of AQI. No place for Bush & co is it?
"Several sources we reached in the Sunni community agreed that AQI, a predominantly Sunni insurgent group that did not exist prior to the U.S. invasion -- it started in 2005 -- will not exist for long after coalition forces depart. AQI is universally detested by large majorities of Iraqis of all ethnic and sectarian backgrounds because of its fundamentalist interpretation of religious law and efforts to set up a separate Sunni state, and its only support -- and it obviously does enjoy some support -- is based solely on its opposition to the deeply unpopular U.S.-led occupation of Iraq."
Remember Nicaragua? AQI according to the local Sunnis are put there by the occupying US. US wants to drag this war for some other reason than democracy in the region. I wonder?
"In July, three of the most prominent Sunni insurgent groups agreed to join forces in a concerted effort to end the occupation. Abd al Rahman al Zubeidy, a spokesman for one of the groups, told the Guardian: "Resistance isn't just about killing Americans without aims or goals. Our people have come to hate Al Qaeda, which gives the impression to the outside world that the resistance in Iraq are terrorists. We are against indiscriminate killing, fighting should be concentrated only on the enemy." He added that "a great gap has opened up between Sunni and Shia under the occupation and Al Qaeda has contributed to that … Most of Al Qaeda's members are Iraqis but its leaders are mostly foreigners. The Americans magnify their role, even though they are responsible for a minority of resistance operations.""
From:
Only a U.S. Withdrawal Will Stop Al Qaeda in Iraq
Iraq Poll September 2007
The Iraqi Public on the US Presence and the Future of Iraq
Most Iraqis Want U.S. Troops Out Within a Year
11:26 05/10/2007
In the world there are 7,000 languages spoken today. More than half of them does not have a written form. 96% of the world's languages are spoken by just 4% of the population. Half of the world's languages are spoken in Asia and the Pacific Islands. Only 4% of the world's languages come from Europe. A language dies every 14 days.
Listen to this man!
"The hot spots listed at Tuesday’s briefing:
· Northern Australia, 153 languages. The researchers said aboriginal Australia holds some of the world’s most endangered languages, in part because aboriginal groups splintered during conflicts with white settlers. Researchers have documented such small language communities as the three known speakers of Magati Ke, the three Yawuru speakers and the lone speaker of Amurdag.
· Central South America including Ecuador, Colombia, Peru, Brazil and Bolivia — 113 languages. The area has extremely high diversity, very little documentation and several immediate threats. Small and socially less-valued indigenous languages are being knocked out by Spanish or more dominant indigenous languages in most of the region, and by Portuguese in Brazil.
· Northwest Pacific Plateau, including British Columbia in Canada and the states of Washington and Oregon in the U.S., 54 languages. Every language in the American part of this hotspot is endangered or moribund, meaning the youngest speaker is over age 60. An extremely endangered language, with just one speaker, is Siletz Dee-ni, the last of 27 languages once spoken on the Siletz reservation in Oregon.
· Eastern Siberian Russia, China, Japan — 23 languages. Government policies in the region have forced speakers of minority languages to use the national and regional languages and, as a result, some have only a few elderly speakers.
· Oklahoma, Texas and New Mexico — 40 languages. Oklahoma has one of the highest densities of indigenous languages in the United States. A moribund language of the area is Yuchi, which may be unrelated to any other language in the world. As of 2005, only five elderly members of the Yuchi tribe were fluent."
FRom: A language dies every two weeks, researchers say:
and
Global Language Hotspots
10:20 05/10/2007
I am not afraid of death as I am sitting here and writing this. But I am concerned about the things they going to dicover after I am gone. But at the same time when I read articles like the link below, I am not that sorry to die before!
From:
Arctic ice disappearing:
08:38 02/10/2007
MEK What are they?
08:28 02/10/2007
Ha ha ha tee hee:
At an art exhibition there was a painting 3 very naked, and very black men, sitting on a bench. What was unusual was that the men on both ends of the bench had black penises, but the man in the middle had a very pink penis. The picture was titled "Home for Lunch."
Two women were standing there, staring at the picture, scratching their heads and trying to figure this out.
The artist walked by and noticed the women's confusion. "Can I help you with this painting?" he asked.
"Well, yes!!" said the one woman. "We were curious about the picture of black men on the bench! Why does the guy in the middle of the three have a pink penis?"
"Oh," said the artist. "I'm afraid you've mis-understood the painting. The three men are not africans, they're coal miners, and the fellow in the middle went home for lunch."
10:50 01/10/2007
Today I am moving out of Saly Army Hostel. It was a good time, different. I cannot say I enjoyed the stay here; but it was god send compared to the state I was in. Thank you Saly Army.
That been two years since I did not have my own place. It is going to be trying times to come. What with utilities bills and cooking and looking after a flat?
I cannot say I am happy as the bloody social has taken my Incapacity off again. That is the fourth time in ten years they questioned my madical state. I have a feeling there is some bugger in the DHSS office who does not like me. I have half a mind to sue them; wonder whether there is any grounds. Do you know a good Lawyer?
18:07 29/09/2007
"An outbreak of cholera in Iraq has spread with new cases confirmed in Baghdad, Basra and for the first time the northern districts of Tikrit, Mosul and Dahuk, the World Health Organization said Tuesday.
This takes to 2,116 the number of confirmed cases of cholera in Iraq, and 11 deaths from the disease, WHO said."
Hope US soldiers get a dose of this shit and take it back ome init? Not very nice thought but what the hell worse thoughts are thought.
18:05 29/09/2007
"The plan, drawn up with former Carter administration foreign policy expert Leslie Gelb, would provide for a federal system as permitted by Iraq's constitution, stop Iraq from becoming a failed state and:
- Separate Iraq into Kurdish, Shiite and Sunni entities, with a federal government in Baghdad in charge of border security and oil revenues.
- Aim to defuse sectarian violence by offering Sunnis a share of oil revenues.
- Boost reconstruction aid and debt relief.
- Launch an international diplomatic effort to rally the world's great powers and Iraq's neighbors to the new federation's cause."
New plans to divide Iraq and control by the US senate:
17:57 29/09/2007
"President Bush’s transportation secretary, Mary Peters, with White House approval, personally directed a lobbying campaign to urge governors and two dozen House members to block California’s first-in-the-nation limits on greenhouse gases from cars and trucks, according to e-mails obtained by Congress."
From:How the White House Worked to Scuttle California’s Climate Law
12:38 29/09/2007
This is specialy for my own reference:
There is no evidence to suggest at this moment there are any Iranian or Lebonese instructers in Iraq; according to this:
Bush's 'proxy war' claim over Iran exposed
12:29 29/09/2007
For any one interested in what Gen. Petraeus wrote when he came back from the first stint in Iraq, Goto:
U.S. Military Counterinsurgency Manual, December 2006
11:55 29/09/2007
"But IBM's Hollerith punch card technology did exist. Aided by the company's custom-designed and constantly updated Hollerith systems, Hitler was able to automate his persecution of the Jews. Historians have always been amazed at the speed and accuracy with which the Nazis were able to identify and locate European Jewry. Until now, the pieces of this puzzle have never been fully assembled. The fact is, IBM technology was used to organize nearly everything in Germany and then Nazi Europe, from the identification of the Jews in censuses, registrations, and ancestral tracing programs to the running of railroads and organizing of concentration camp slave labor.
IBM and its German subsidiary custom-designed complex solutions, one by one, anticipating the Reich's needs. They did not merely sell the machines and walk away. Instead, IBM leased these machines for high fees and became the sole source of the billions of punch cards Hitler needed."
Another part of the puzzle falls into place. See this in a book: "IBM and the Holocaust"
Review: IBM and the Holocaust
Talking about fascism have a look at this:
Fascist America, in 10 easy steps
"1. Invoke a terrifying internal and external enemy
2. Create a gulag
3. Develop a thug caste
4. Set up an internal surveillance system
5. Harass citizens' groups
6. Engage in arbitrary detention and release
7. Target key individuals
8. Control the press
9. Dissent equals treason
10. Suspend the rule of law"
And check this:
Spy Satellites Turned on the U.S.
Me I am not surprised. In 1933 the elite in US tried to overthrow Roosvelt in a coup which failed. And in the article I found this:
" 'You know the American people will swallow that. We have got the newspapers. We will start a campaign that the President's health is failing. Everyone can tell that by looking at him, and the dumb American people will fall for it in a second…' The businessmen also promised that money was no object: Clark told Butler that he would spend half his $60 million fortune to save the other half.
And what type of government would replace Roosevelt's New Deal? MacGuire was perfectly candid to Paul French, a reporter friend of General Butler's: 'We need a fascist government in this country… to save the nation from the communists who want to tear it down and wreck all that we have built in America. The only men who have the patriotism to do it are the soldiers, and Smedley Butler is the ideal leader. He could organize a million men overnight.'"
Not much different nowadays init? US people I mean.
And then:
"Americans today would be appalled to learn of the many famous millionaires back then who initially admired Hitler and Mussolini: Henry Ford (who is shown being idolized by Hitler), John D. Rockefeller, John and Allen Dulles (who, besides being millionaires, would later become Eisenhower's Secretary of State and CIA Director, respectively), and, of course, everyone on the above list. They disavowed Hitler and Mussolini only after their atrocities grew to indefensible levels.
The plot fell apart when Butler went public. The general revealed the details of the coup before the McCormack-Dickstein Committee, which would later become the notorious House Un-American Activities Committee. The Committee heard the testimony of Butler and French, but failed to call in any of the coup plotters for questioning, other than MacGuire. In fact, the Committee whitewashed the public version of its final report, deleting the names of powerful businessmen whose reputations they sought to protect. The most likely reason for this response is that Wall Street had undue influence in Congress also. Even more alarming, the elite-controlled media failed to pick up on the story, and even today the incident remains little known. The elite managed to spin the story as nothing more than the rumors and hearsay of Butler and French, even though Butler was a Quaker of unimpeachable honesty and integrity. Butler, appalled by the cover-up, went on national radio to denounce it, but with little success.
Butler was not vindicated until 1967, when journalist John Spivak uncovered the Committee's internal, secret report. It clearly confirmed Butler's story:. "
From:The Failed Conspiracy to Overthrow President Franklin D. Roosevelt
11:45 29/09/2007
"Jena became a nationwide symbol for racism in the criminal justice system when six black students faced life sentences on attempted murder charges after a schoolyard fight that injured a white student. Outcry around the case grew when it was revealed that the fight occurred in the context of rising racial tensions at the school, where nooses were found hanging from a tree in the schoolyard after black students attempted to sit in the traditionally all-white area. When the first defendant was found guilty of second-degree battery and conspiracy by an all-white jury, Thursday’s protest was planned to coincide with his sentencing hearing. The case has become a symbol of racial bias in criminal justice system around the country."
Black students attempted to sit in the traditionally all-white area. What? In the 21st century? I don't be;ieve it! But check this website for it and you and I will have to believe it.
FRom:In Historic March, Tens of Thousands Gather from Across Nation to Demand Justice for Jena Six
11:34 29/09/2007
"On the border between Iraq and Iran, privately owned Apache helicopters deliver US special forces to a covert operation."
What the hell the US Army using mercenaries to transports themselves. The Mericans are crazy!
"None of the estimated 48,000 private military operatives in Iraq has been convicted of a crime and no one knows how many Iraqis have been killed by private military forces, because the US does not keep records.
According to some estimates, more than 800 private military employees have been killed in the war so far, and as many as 3,300 wounded.
These numbers are greater than the losses suffered by any single US army division and larger than the casualties suffered by the rest of the coalition put together.
A high-ranking US military commander in Iraq said: "These guys run loose in this country and do stupid stuff. There's no authority over them, so you can't come down on them hard when they escalate force. They shoot people.""
From:Making a killing: how private armies became a $120bn global industry
11:30 29/09/2007
"LONDON (Reuters) - Britain has amassed a stockpile of more than 100 metric tons of plutonium -- enough for 17,000 bombs of the size that flattened Japan's Nagasaki in 1945, a report from the country's top science institution said on Friday.
The toxic stockpile, which has doubled in the last decade, comes mainly from reprocessing of spent uranium fuel from the country's nuclear power plants, so to stop it growing the practice must end, the Royal Society said."
From:Britain has plutonium for 17,000 Nagasaki bombs
10:18 29/09/2007
In Iraq the Shia population seems to have three different camps; Al-Sistani, Mahdi Army militia loyal to radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and the Badr Brigade militia linked to the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council. They are all fighting for supremacy in Iraq. Let the best pcamp win!
From:Killings of 2 al-Sistani aides suggest worsening Shiite-Shiite feuding
18:27 27/09/2007
Chinese person emits 6,5 Cubic tonnes of Carbon Dioxide per year. US citizen does 20 CT per year. Wonder how muh we do?
11:13 27/09/2007
Love this one!
"What Would I Do If I Was A Terrorist?
By Dominic Jermano
22 September, 2007
Countercurrents.org
Hi my name is Mohammad Abullaabullabulla. I live in Afghanistan and my brother Mohassammanmama lives in Iraq. We are terrorists. We are going to win the war on terror. And we want to get the bomb to protect ourselves.
This is what my brother is doing. It is said that America has pounded our countries with tons of DU known as Depleted Uranium. We have it everywhere, and people are saying we are dying from it. But I think I can use it for our own bombs.
I ordered a nice metal detector from the internet. It is being shipped soon to us£¬although I don¡¯t need it, because shrapnel and metal is everywhere to include blown up tanks and shells and casings. And what we really like are the DU tips found from your expended munitions.
The cruise missiles are especially cool. Although a little beat up, my brother said I can use them to grind up into powder and make our own DU bombs. I found some bags lying in the streets, you know the ones they put over the heads of our brothers; and I use them to collect my metal parts.
I put a scarf over my mouth and I found an old pair of glasses blown off some guys face in a car bombing. I had to wipe away the dried blood, but they are pretty useful to protect my eyes when I do the grinding. It¡¯s a little blurry but they work ok. I know that I am becoming contaminated with DU; but I don¡¯t mind. I can stay alive long enough to make more good missiles.
In fact we are planning to sell DU dust to Osama. They can put the dust in the rocket held shoulder missiles called stingers. Or maybe we can do some smelting and make a real good DU tip and fasten it to our stingers. You know these stingers are pretty good. They stopped the Russians. Now we are going to see about stopping you.
We¡¯re especially happy that you will continue to use DU Depleted Uranium munitions against us, to keep us well supplied. We use all the metal parts to grind into dust and using other scientific methods can keep our production costs much lower I suspect than yours. We are very happy about these developments. Again thank you, and see you on the battle field! Yippee hi ho!
Can you imagine that; look what Bush has done! He has given the stuff to terrorists? They don't care if they become contaminated because they would die anyway from their conventional TNT bombs.
They can scavenge tanks, and dig up shrapnel that is loaded with radioactive material to put in stingers. They will use it against the USA.
And the funny thing about it is the USA will fire more at them, so they can go out to dig up more expended rounds. Here Shrub spends all this money on the war for munitions, and it costs the terrorists nothing to make them. Just go out their front door, and get it.
Pretty pathetic what Bush has done. In fact he is fired. He needs to pack his gear and get out of the White House. He is done OUT OF TOWN. He needs to face criminal charges. The War is over. American people are not going to allow this war to go on any longer. It is done. We need to help clean up Iraq and Afghanistan before they get more of the DU material. We need to ban DU munitions, and foremost end the idea of War. War is Terror.
This will expose MIC once and for all. I am trying to stop this war. It is clear the terrorist are winning with Bush. This can be used in a court of Law against the Military Industrial Complex, to make them ban the use of DU Depleted Uranium for munitions."
What Would I Do If I Was A Terrorist
11:01 27/09/2007
This is funny. This is supposed to have happened in 2005 and now after the bloody murder done by Blackwater thugs in Iraq, they are investigating it. Hmmmm can you smell the .....
"Federal prosecutors are investigating whether staff from controversial US security company Blackwater smuggled weapons to Iraq, according to reports."
From:Blackwater ‘Arms Smuggling Probe’
10:53 27/09/2007
Best news I heard for a long time mate:
"The generals acted independently, coming in their own ways to the agonizing decision to defy military tradition and publicly criticize the Bush administration over its conduct of the war in Iraq.
What might be called The Revolt of the Generals has rarely happened in the nation’s history.
In op-ed pieces, interviews and TV ads, more than 20 retired U.S. generals have broken ranks with the culture of salute and keep it in the family. Instead, they are criticizing the commander in chief and other top civilian leaders who led the nation into what the generals believe is a misbegotten and tragic war."
From:Generals Opposing Iraq War Break with Military Tradition
10:50 27/09/2007
Continueing the saga of IAF bombing Syrian desert sites>
"Israel's decision to attack Syria on Sept. 6, bombing a suspected nuclear site set up in apparent collaboration with North Korea, came after Israel shared intelligence with President Bush this summer indicating that North Korean nuclear personnel were in Syria, U.S. government sources said."
FRom:Israel, U.S. Shared Data On Suspected Nuclear Site
10:41 27/09/2007
First Italy now Germany; lets see who comes next. Any bets?
"FRANKFURT, Germany --U.S. authorities have told Germany that they will not extradite 13 purported CIA agents sought in the alleged kidnapping of a German citizen, an official said Saturday"
From:Germany: U.S. won't send kidnap suspects
10:22 27/09/2007
Tony Bens Diaries Funny bits:
"At about 20 to three Tony Blair walked on to the platform with Cherie. I could see exactly where the teleprompters, the glass panels he reads from, are.
I've just got such a yearning one year to put a cushion on each of them, so that it would destroy the speech.
He launched into a totally unreconstructed case for the war against Iraq. "Support me, and even if you don't, I'll go to war." Very over-confident. It was a managing director's speech. There was no participative sense in it at all."
"Monday, November 11
Tonight Blair made his Mansion House speech. Seeing him in a white tie, guarded by policemen with sub-machine guns and snipers, was ridiculous.
He gave a grave warning about terrorist attacks when he himself is just about to bomb Iraq and kill a lot of innocent people. I thought it was utterly disgusting."
"Friday, January 31
IRAQ. I was met in Amman by one of the officials from the Iraqi Embassy, and we were in time for the connection to Baghdad.
In the morning, as the dawn broke, it was beautiful, the light slowly coming up, red; we crossed the River Tigris and arrived in Baghdad at 7am.
At six o'clock I was met and taken to the home of Tariq Aziz [Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister]. We sat in his sitting room, and his wife later came and brought some tea. He has eight grandchildren. He's a nice guy.
He told me that he had been a poet and a writer and a painter, and he'd come into politics in 1958. It was a three-hour meeting, very friendly, lots of laughter and jokes, and philosophical and serious.
Phoned Lissie and told her I was okay. Funnily enough, after I'd spoken to her, I picked up the phone again and I heard a recording of my entire conversation so there's no doubt it was all being recorded.
That happened when I was a minister, so it doesn't surprise me."
"The whole interview, including interpretation, took about an hour and ten minutes, and then we had a final talk. He was uncomfortably friendly! He said: "Oh, I wish you'd come more often." Thank God the cameras were off by then.
He said "Come back" and so on.
A lot of people will be absolutely disgusted to hear that he was so friendly, and disgusted that I was friendly to him, but for God's sake, it was to stop a war!
Channel 4 News had a bit about my return home. Nothing in the BBC bulletin. Josh thought Alastair Campbell has probably warned the media to keep off it."
"Tuesday, March 18
Clare Short withdrew her resignation. I never thought she'd stick to it. The argument is that she's the best person to supervise the reconstruction of Iraq, but of course that requires Iraq to be destroyed first, so she's going along with the destruction so that she can help with the reconstruction."
"Monday, April 7
The Tory candidate for Eastleigh at the last election came up to me tonight.
He said he'd been to a party, last November I think, at which Lady Thatcher was present with Norman Tebbit, and he'd gone up to her and asked her what she regarded as her greatest achievement, and she replied: 'New Labour.' That says it all really."
"Tuesday, May 6
George Galloway was suspended from the Labour Party by the General Secretary today - quite incredible really. That's the nature of the Labour Party - no free speech in Blair's Labour Party.
The fact that Galloway, who spoke against the war, would be bringing the Party into disrepute when Blair, who took us into the war, wasn't bringing it into disrepute is quite extraordinary."
"Then he talked about David Blunkett [Home Secretary] and Blunkett's famous speech as our education spokesman that under Labour there will be no selection - "Watch my lips, no selection." And of course there was selection!
Hattersley heard later that Blunkett had said: "Oh, what a fool Roy is! Doesn't he realise I am a politician?" That was devastating"
"Monday, June 23
A comedian dressed as Osama Bin Laden broke into Windsor Castle for Prince William's 21st birthday party; it has been treated so seriously, you'd hardly believe it.
Also, the Government is about to sign an extradition agreement with America, whereby America expects the UK to hand over anybody without a court hearing in Britain. Blunkett is an impossible man.
Wednesday, July 16
Had a lovely anonymous letter from someone in Tring. "Dear A***hole, Saw you on the Politics Show. It's time you buggered off and lived with Saddam Hussein, or die like your ghastly wife."
So at least I haven't sold out."
Not a bad Man init?
20:49 26/09/2007
"In Haiti, for instance, workers are paid 11 cents an hour by corporate giants such as Disney, Wal-Mart, and J.C. Penny. The United States is one of the few countries that has refused to sign an international convention for the abolition of child labor and forced labor. This position stems from the child labor practices of U.S. corporations throughout the Third World and within the United States itself, where children as young as 12 suffer high rates of injuries and fatalities, and are often paid less than the minimum wage."
And
"In 1990, shoes made by Indonesian children working twelve-hour days for 13 cents an hour, cost only $2.60 but still sold for $100 or more in the United States."
Sick init?
"Q: What are the greatest threats to local water supplies?
Maude Barlow: First of all, we are creating an ecological crisis by not taking care of our water supplies. Surface waters are being polluted, and we are mining our groundwater at unsustainable rates. At the very time when corporations are privatizing everything, our governments are allowing corporations to move in and take over the ownership of essential resources like water.
So we have a double whammy: Our governments are allowing corporations to pollute our water, and then they are signing contracts with corporations to bring in clean-up technology and make billions of dollars cleaning it up. The very sector of society that is polluting our water is turning around and selling our water back to us. And this is going to be more and more of an issue in the future. We'll be increasingly drinking water that has been polluted by corporations, then cleaned up by corporations, then bottled and sold to us by corporations."
From:World's Water Supply at Risk
So how does it work:
First the World Bank (WB) lends money to say Haiti. Then Haiti has to pay back the money plus a hefty interest on it. For some reason if Haiti cannot pay the interest then H has to borrow the money from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The thing is IMF will not just lend money, they ask the government of H to do something called Structural Adjustment Program (SAP).
This SAP is to do with changing laws of the country. It has to grant tax breaks to transnational corporations, reduce wages, reduce the protection of local enterprises from foreign imports and foreign takeovers and privertize the countries economies eg. selling at a scandalously low prices their state owned mines, railroads and utilities like water, gas, and electrics to private corporations. On top of that H will have to open out the forests to clear for strip mining, transportation networks for the mines without due regard to the ecological damage. The health, education, transportation and food in the country suffers from cutbacks to save money for the IMF and WB loans and interests.
When the foreign imports glut the market the local produce has no competition. As the iMF rules that the government of H cannot give subsudies to the local farmers and countries like US gives it's farmers 70% subcidies the products which are imported cost far less money than the local products, eg. Ghana and its rice vs American rice. So the local farmers have to look for work elsewhere and migrate to the towns and cities. On top of the legal reduction of wages there is a work force hungry for work and the multinational corporations make use of this without mercy.
For the US companies like Disney, Wal-Mart, and J.C. Penny get a tax concessions and relocation expenses at the cost to the tax payers in US. And US has refused to sign the international convention for the abolition of child labor and forced labor helping these money grabbers, to use children as young as 12 years who work long hours and without insuarence against injuries, with impunity. Well that is how I understand it. It is so simple I cannot understand people like Blair and Brown does not do anything about it. Ofcourse the rich countries get richer from this process and I should not complain as my benefits come from that shit!
From:Mystery: How Wealth Creates Poverty in the World
20:36 26/09/2007
News just in ... ha ha....relly I found this about the Blackwater shooting in Iraq - which the main media did not mention about. So far 28 people have died.
First point the explosion of a road side bomb went off not in the vicinity as Blackwater determined but far away.
"The reports we got from members of the public, Iraqi security personnel and government officials, as well as our own research, leads to a markedly different scenario than the American version. There was a bomb blast. But it was too far away to pose any danger to the Blackwater guards, and their State Department charges. We have found no Iraqi present at the scene who saw or heard sniper fire.
Witnesses say the first victims of the shootings were a couple with their child, the mother and infant meeting horrific deaths, their bodies fused together by heat after their car caught fire. The contractors, according to this account, also shot Iraqi soldiers and police and Blackwater then called in an attack helicopter from its private air force which inflicted further casualties."
Then Blackwater says there were insurgents shooting at them. This is not correct according to the people who got shot at.
"Those on the receiving end tell another story. Mr Salman said he had turned into Nisoor Square behind the Blackwater convoy when the shooting began. He recalled: "There were eight foreigners in four utility vehicles, I heard an explosion in the distance and then the foreigners started shouting and signalling for us to go back. I turned the car around and must have driven about a hundred feet when they started shooting. My car was hit with 12 bullets it turned over. Four bullets hit me in the back and another in the arm. Why they opened fire? I do not know. No one, I repeat no one, had fired at them. The foreigners had asked us to go back and I was going back in my car, so there was no reason for them to shoot."
Muhammed Hussein, whose brother was killed in the shooting, said: "My brother was driving and we saw a black convoy ahead of us. Then I saw my brother suddenly slump in the car. I dragged him out of the car and saw he had been shot in the chest. I tried to hide us both from the firing, but then I realised he was already dead."
Jawad Karim Ali was on his way to pick up his aunt from Yarmukh Hospital when shooting started and the windscreen exploded cutting his face. " Then I was hit on my left shoulder by bullets, two of them another one went past my face. Now my aunt is out of hospital and I am sitting here. There was a big bang further away but no shots before the security people fired, and they just kept firing.""
AND
"Sunday's shooting happened at Mansour, once one of the most fashionable districts of Baghdad, with roads flanked by shops selling expensive goods, restaurants and art galleries. In the height of the sectarian bloodletting between Shias and Sunnis earlier this year dead bodies would be regularly strewn in the streets. A semblance of safety has returned since, and Mansour was held up as an example of how the US military "surge" was cutting the violence.
We were in Mansour on Sunday when we heard the sound of a deafening explosion just after midday. Black plumes of smoke rose from a half-blasted National Guard (army) post near a mosque. Five or six minutes afterwards there was the sound of prolonged shooting towards the south.
Police Captain Ali Ibrahim, who was on duty near Nisoor Square, said: " We heard the bomb go off, it was very loud, but it wasn't at the square. The police were, in fact, trying to clear the way for the contractors when they became agitated, they opened fire. No one was shooting at them."
Asked about the witness accounts, Ali al-Dabbagh, an Iraqi government spokesman, confirmed: "The traffic policemen were trying to open the road for them. It was a crowded square and one small car did not stop, it was moving very slowly. They started shooting randomly, there was a couple and their child inside the car and they were hit.""
Here is the original link make up your own mind, mine is already fucked!
The real story of Baghdad's Bloody Sunday
20:20 26/09/2007
"By one estimate, Baghdad was once 65 per cent Sunni; today it is 75 per cent Shia."
I like that. Bush does not like Iran who is Shia and makes Iraq full of Shia.
A common fact now but you don't get this the main media like BBC, ITV, C4, C5. Sorry I don't read newspapers. One time I heard that all the paper annually used by Bangladesh as a country, is equal to, all the paper used in the production of Wall Street Journal in a week - mind not printing.
20:05 26/09/2007
Terrible Police state news from the US:
"The Bush Administration has been collecting detailed records on the travel habits of Americans headed overseas, whether you fly, drive or take cruises abroad -- not simply your method of transit but the personal items you carry with you and the people you stay with, according to documents and statements obtained by the Washington Post."
FROM:Massive Surveillance Net Keeps Track of Americans' Travel -- Even the Size of Hotel Beds
13:51 26/09/2007
"While the U.S. State Department has placed the PKK -- a Kurdish rebel movement in Turkey -- on its list of terrorist organizations, Pejak, the PKK's Iranian branch, is not on the list and its leaders even visit the U.S"
ET
"In 2003, as Trita Parsi's Treacherous Alliance shows, there was enough common ground for a deal. In May 2003, the Iranian authorities sent a proposal through the Swiss ambassador in Tehran, Tim Guldimann, for negotiations on a package deal in which Iran would freeze its nuclear program in exchange for an end to U.S. hostility. The Iranian paper offered "full transparency for security that there are no Iranian endeavors to develop or possess WMD [and] full cooperation with the IAEA based on Iranian adoption of all relevant instruments." The Iranians also offered support for "the establishment of democratic institutions and a non-religious government" in Iraq; full cooperation against terrorists (including "above all, al-Qaeda"); and an end to material support to Palestinian groups like Hamas. In return, the Iranians asked that their country not be on the terrorism list or designated part of the "axis of evil"; that all sanctions end; that the US support Iran's claims for reparations for the Iran-Iraq War as part of the overall settlement of the Iraqi debt; that they have access to peaceful nuclear technology; and that the US pursue anti-Iranian terrorists, including "above all" the MEK. MEK members should, the Iranians said, be repatriated to Iran.
Basking in the glory of "Mission Accomplished" in Iraq, the Bush administration dismissed the Iranian offer and criticized Guldimann for even presenting it. Several years later, the Bush administration's abrupt rejection of the Iranian offer began to look blatantly foolish and the administration moved to suppress the story."
Further on it says:
"U.S. pre-war intelligence on Iraq was horrifically wrong on the key question of Iraq's possession of WMDs, and President Bush ignored the intelligence to assert falsely a connection between Saddam Hussein and September 11. This alone is sufficient reason to be skeptical of the Bush administration's statements on Iran.
Some of the administration's charges against Iran defy common sense. In his Reno speech, President Bush accused Iran of arming the Taliban in Afghanistan while his administration has, at various times, accused Iran of giving weapons to both Sunni and Shiite insurgents in Iraq. The Taliban are Salafi jihadis, Sunni fundamentalists who consider Shiites apostates deserving of death. In power, the Taliban brutally repressed Afghanistan's Shiites and nearly provoked a war with Iran when they murdered Iranian diplomats inside the Iranian consulate in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif. Iraq's Sunni insurgents are either Salafi jihadis or Baathists, the political party that started the Iran-Iraq War."
FROM:Iraq Sets the Stage for Possible U.S. War with Iran
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Where did Syphilis started?
According to wikipedia which is not 100% authority in any subject - nor are the others:
"“ . . . syphilis probably cannot be "blamed"—as it often is—on any geographical area or specific race. The evidence suggests that the disease existed in both hemispheres from prehistoric times. It is only coincidental with the Columbus expeditions that the syphilis previously thought of as "lepra" flared into virulence at the end of the fifteenth century.[7] ”
Owsley noted that a Chinese medical case recorded in 2637 B.C.E. seems to be describing a case of syphilis, and that a European writer who recorded an outbreak of "lepra" in 1303 C.E. is clearly describing syphilis.[7]"
From:
11:33 11/10/2007
"Overall the volume of traffic on the area’s roads has grown by 21% over the last 10 years compared to 16% nationally. As a result of a successful economy and new development the average speed in Bristol’s urban area is 15 miles per hour during peak periods, the lowest in England outside London."
This is from the Bristol City Council's website. It is called"Our Future Transport
West of England Sub Region".
18:47 09/10/2007
"The authorities in Germany have decided not to seek the extradition of 13 US citizens suspected of being involved in the abduction and rendition of German citizen Khaled el-Masri. The 13 includes at least 10 operatives of the CIA."
Looks bad for the UN!
From:Rendition - CIA impunity again goes unchallenged
And then:
"Seven months after a major investigation spelt out Europe's involvement in a murky U.S. torture and kidnapping programme, the EU's governments have claimed they are powerless to prevent such human rights abuses in the future."
From:RIGHTS-EUROPE: Torture Flights Could Land Again
18:40 09/10/2007
"He said Russia and China have drafted an international declaration on the non-deployment of weapons in space and sent it to the UN.
"It is necessary to establish the rules of the game in space," he said, adding that the deployment of weapons in space could have unpredictable consequences, since such weapons are "very complex systems."
"A sizable war could break out," the commander said.
He said space must not be the sphere of interests of any one country.
"We do not want to fight in space, and we do not want to call the shots there either, but we will not permit any other country to do so," he said.
Popovkin also said that Russia has an integrated missile attack warning system, covering the country's entire territory."
Hello US who is the bad boy then? And at the same time Russia puts its bloody flag in the Arctic? Who is the .....
From:Russia promises retaliation if weapons deployed in space
18:20 09/10/2007
"Speaking in February 2003, a month before the invasion, Mr Bush told his Spanish counterpart that US forces would be in Baghdad by the end of March regardless of whether the United Nations authorised the use of force.
He also talked about punishing countries that failed to support a UN resolution backing the war and outlined an offer by Saddam Hussein, the former Iraqi leader, to go into exile in return for $1bn, which he said the US would reject."
It is coming out little by little. I will give them five more years and then we can see what the world is going to do. You and me hopefully will be here to see it.
From:New light cast on Bush's plans for Iraq war
17:46 09/10/2007
"According to press reports, about 34 per cent of the budget the US government initially allocated for the reconstruction of Iraq has been diverted to private security firms."
That is a lot of reconstruction, like killing off the local population by degrees as we saw in Baghdad with the Blackwater lot.
From:'We'll revoke Al-Maliki's licence first'
17:12 09/10/2007
"Anti-Semitism
This all-purpose epithet of opprobrium is designed to conflate Israel with World Jewry, thereby implying that to attack one means to attack the other. In truth, the term is meaningless, as I wrote in an earlier essay: “Strictly speaking, ‘semitic’ is a linguistic term denoting a family of Afro-Asiatic languages, of which we have today Arabic, Hebrew, Maltese, and the South Arabic languages of northern Ethiopia. Ancient semitic languages included Akkadian, Canaanite, Amorite, Ugaritic, Phoenician, Punic, Aramaic, as well as ancient Hebrew and Syriac.”"
Bloody good definition init?
War As Freedom, And Fraud As Fact
17:04 09/10/2007
"Afrah Sattar, 27, was on a bus approaching the square when she saw the guards fire on the white car. She and her mother, Ghania Hussein, were headed to the Certificate of Identification Office in Baghdad to pick up proof of Sattar’s Iraqi citizenship for an upcoming trip to a religious shrine in Iran.
When she saw the gunmen turn toward the bus, Sattar looked at her mother in fear. “They’re going to shoot at us, Mama,” she said. Her mother hugged her close. Moments later, a bullet pierced her mother’s skull and another struck her shoulder, Sattar recalled.
As her mother’s body went limp, blood dripped onto Sattar’s head, still cradled in her mother’s arms.
“Mother, mother,” she called out. No answer. She hugged her mother’s body and kissed her lips and began to pray, “We belong to God and we return to God.” The bus emptied, and Sattar sat alone at the back, with her mother’s bleeding body.
“I’m lost now, I’m lost,” she said days later in her simple two-bedroom home. Ten people lived there; now there are nine.
“They are killers,” she said of the Blackwater guards. “I swear to God, not one bullet was shot at them. Why did they shoot us? My mother didn’t carry a weapon.”
Downstairs, her father, Sattar Ghafil Slom al Kaabi, 67, sat beneath a smiling picture of his wife and recalled their 40-year love story and how they raised eight children together. On the way to the holy city of Najaf to bury her, he’d stopped his car, with her coffin strapped to the top. He got out and stood beside the coffin. He wanted to be with her a little longer.
“I loved her more than anything,” he said, his voice wavering. “Now that she is dead, I love her more.”"
Make up your own mind, mine is already wired.
From:Blackwater Guards Killed 16 as US Touted Progress
10:57 09/10/2007
"According to Petras, a sociologist at Binghamton University, New York, the pro-Zionist "power configuration" is not just the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee(AIPAC). The Zionist lobby is so powerful, Petras argues, it "calls the shots" and "supports the escalation of the Iraq war and the savaging of Palestine, Somalia and Afghanistan.""
I can understand why Israel is fucked up about Palestine, but what the hell they have to do with Afghanistan and Somalia? Bind Moggles man!
19:39 08/10/2007
When I watched the news clip, about the judge who died in a fireball, my thoughts about nature got simplified .
17:00 07/10/2007
Sorry for regurgitatimg old news but this article is interesting, if you be interested in the middle East.
"In an article entitled “The Next Act” published last November, Hersh wrote: “In the past six months, Israel and the United States have also been working together in support of a Kurdish resistance group known as the Party for Free Life [PJAK] in Kurdistan. The group has been conducting clandestine cross-border forays into Iran, I was told by a government consultant with close ties to the Pentagon civilian leadership, as ‘part of an effort to explore alternative means of applying pressure on Iran.’ (The Pentagon has established covert relationships with Kurdish, Azeri and Baluchi tribesmen, and has encouraged their efforts to undermine the regime’s authority in northern and southeastern Iran.) The government consultant said that Israel is giving the Kurdish group ‘equipment and training.’ The group has also been given ‘a list of targets inside Iran of interest to the US’.”"
From:Washington’s proxy war inside Kurdish Iran
15:24 07/10/2007
"US military snipers operating in Iraq are "baiting" Iraqis by scattering items like detonation cord, plastic explosives and ammunition, and then ambushing and killing those who pick them up, The Washington Post reported today.
The newspaper said the classified program was described in investigative documents related to recently filed murder charges against three snipers accused of planting evidence on Iraqis they killed."
Well this happens downtown in Bristol too. They put an unlocked car with the keys in the ignition, and keep an eye on it. And you guess the rest orrct. US system coppied by UK. Now admired by Iraqis!
From:US snipers baiting Iraqis - report
14:08 07/10/2007
Blackwater fans listen:
"The great irony is that while our nation is engrossed in a campaign to disband militias funded by Syria and Iran, it is doing so with our own private militias – some 180 or more of them operating in the Iraq theatre. Their strength in Iraq is estimated at from 20,000 to 50,000 contract soldiers, although the numbers and their mission are kept from the scrutiny of Congress. How many and what they are doing is a matter of guesswork for those whom we have elected to represent us."
I think that comes as the fourth step towords Fascism init?
From:Is Blackwater A Black Hole?
17:08 05/10/2007
"Amnesty notes that Texas, which operates America’s busiest execution chamber, has banned one of the chemicals involved for use in euthanising pets, because it does not effectively mask pain."
Americans are crazy!
From:Amnesty Lists Horrors of US Executions
13:05 05/10/2007
Bit of US history during Nixon, Reagan, Bush Sr, and Clinton. Good article if you are brave!
As Hillary Runs for the White House, Consider Bill's Refusal to Explore Bush I Scandals
11:47 05/10/2007
Here we go again with the Sunni population of Iraq. What they say is Al Quaeda never existed in Iraq before the US invation. Majority of the Sunnis do not like the Al Quaeda Iraq (AQI). They say moment US leaves Iraq they will get rid of AQI. No place for Bush & co is it?
"Several sources we reached in the Sunni community agreed that AQI, a predominantly Sunni insurgent group that did not exist prior to the U.S. invasion -- it started in 2005 -- will not exist for long after coalition forces depart. AQI is universally detested by large majorities of Iraqis of all ethnic and sectarian backgrounds because of its fundamentalist interpretation of religious law and efforts to set up a separate Sunni state, and its only support -- and it obviously does enjoy some support -- is based solely on its opposition to the deeply unpopular U.S.-led occupation of Iraq."
Remember Nicaragua? AQI according to the local Sunnis are put there by the occupying US. US wants to drag this war for some other reason than democracy in the region. I wonder?
"In July, three of the most prominent Sunni insurgent groups agreed to join forces in a concerted effort to end the occupation. Abd al Rahman al Zubeidy, a spokesman for one of the groups, told the Guardian: "Resistance isn't just about killing Americans without aims or goals. Our people have come to hate Al Qaeda, which gives the impression to the outside world that the resistance in Iraq are terrorists. We are against indiscriminate killing, fighting should be concentrated only on the enemy." He added that "a great gap has opened up between Sunni and Shia under the occupation and Al Qaeda has contributed to that … Most of Al Qaeda's members are Iraqis but its leaders are mostly foreigners. The Americans magnify their role, even though they are responsible for a minority of resistance operations.""
From:
Only a U.S. Withdrawal Will Stop Al Qaeda in Iraq
Iraq Poll September 2007
The Iraqi Public on the US Presence and the Future of Iraq
Most Iraqis Want U.S. Troops Out Within a Year
11:26 05/10/2007
In the world there are 7,000 languages spoken today. More than half of them does not have a written form. 96% of the world's languages are spoken by just 4% of the population. Half of the world's languages are spoken in Asia and the Pacific Islands. Only 4% of the world's languages come from Europe. A language dies every 14 days.
Listen to this man!
"The hot spots listed at Tuesday’s briefing:
· Northern Australia, 153 languages. The researchers said aboriginal Australia holds some of the world’s most endangered languages, in part because aboriginal groups splintered during conflicts with white settlers. Researchers have documented such small language communities as the three known speakers of Magati Ke, the three Yawuru speakers and the lone speaker of Amurdag.
· Central South America including Ecuador, Colombia, Peru, Brazil and Bolivia — 113 languages. The area has extremely high diversity, very little documentation and several immediate threats. Small and socially less-valued indigenous languages are being knocked out by Spanish or more dominant indigenous languages in most of the region, and by Portuguese in Brazil.
· Northwest Pacific Plateau, including British Columbia in Canada and the states of Washington and Oregon in the U.S., 54 languages. Every language in the American part of this hotspot is endangered or moribund, meaning the youngest speaker is over age 60. An extremely endangered language, with just one speaker, is Siletz Dee-ni, the last of 27 languages once spoken on the Siletz reservation in Oregon.
· Eastern Siberian Russia, China, Japan — 23 languages. Government policies in the region have forced speakers of minority languages to use the national and regional languages and, as a result, some have only a few elderly speakers.
· Oklahoma, Texas and New Mexico — 40 languages. Oklahoma has one of the highest densities of indigenous languages in the United States. A moribund language of the area is Yuchi, which may be unrelated to any other language in the world. As of 2005, only five elderly members of the Yuchi tribe were fluent."
FRom: A language dies every two weeks, researchers say:
and
Global Language Hotspots
10:20 05/10/2007
I am not afraid of death as I am sitting here and writing this. But I am concerned about the things they going to dicover after I am gone. But at the same time when I read articles like the link below, I am not that sorry to die before!
From:
Arctic ice disappearing:
08:38 02/10/2007
MEK What are they?
08:28 02/10/2007
Ha ha ha tee hee:
At an art exhibition there was a painting 3 very naked, and very black men, sitting on a bench. What was unusual was that the men on both ends of the bench had black penises, but the man in the middle had a very pink penis. The picture was titled "Home for Lunch."
Two women were standing there, staring at the picture, scratching their heads and trying to figure this out.
The artist walked by and noticed the women's confusion. "Can I help you with this painting?" he asked.
"Well, yes!!" said the one woman. "We were curious about the picture of black men on the bench! Why does the guy in the middle of the three have a pink penis?"
"Oh," said the artist. "I'm afraid you've mis-understood the painting. The three men are not africans, they're coal miners, and the fellow in the middle went home for lunch."
10:50 01/10/2007
Today I am moving out of Saly Army Hostel. It was a good time, different. I cannot say I enjoyed the stay here; but it was god send compared to the state I was in. Thank you Saly Army.
That been two years since I did not have my own place. It is going to be trying times to come. What with utilities bills and cooking and looking after a flat?
I cannot say I am happy as the bloody social has taken my Incapacity off again. That is the fourth time in ten years they questioned my madical state. I have a feeling there is some bugger in the DHSS office who does not like me. I have half a mind to sue them; wonder whether there is any grounds. Do you know a good Lawyer?
18:07 29/09/2007
"An outbreak of cholera in Iraq has spread with new cases confirmed in Baghdad, Basra and for the first time the northern districts of Tikrit, Mosul and Dahuk, the World Health Organization said Tuesday.
This takes to 2,116 the number of confirmed cases of cholera in Iraq, and 11 deaths from the disease, WHO said."
Hope US soldiers get a dose of this shit and take it back ome init? Not very nice thought but what the hell worse thoughts are thought.
18:05 29/09/2007
"The plan, drawn up with former Carter administration foreign policy expert Leslie Gelb, would provide for a federal system as permitted by Iraq's constitution, stop Iraq from becoming a failed state and:
- Separate Iraq into Kurdish, Shiite and Sunni entities, with a federal government in Baghdad in charge of border security and oil revenues.
- Aim to defuse sectarian violence by offering Sunnis a share of oil revenues.
- Boost reconstruction aid and debt relief.
- Launch an international diplomatic effort to rally the world's great powers and Iraq's neighbors to the new federation's cause."
New plans to divide Iraq and control by the US senate:
17:57 29/09/2007
"President Bush’s transportation secretary, Mary Peters, with White House approval, personally directed a lobbying campaign to urge governors and two dozen House members to block California’s first-in-the-nation limits on greenhouse gases from cars and trucks, according to e-mails obtained by Congress."
From:How the White House Worked to Scuttle California’s Climate Law
12:38 29/09/2007
This is specialy for my own reference:
There is no evidence to suggest at this moment there are any Iranian or Lebonese instructers in Iraq; according to this:
Bush's 'proxy war' claim over Iran exposed
12:29 29/09/2007
For any one interested in what Gen. Petraeus wrote when he came back from the first stint in Iraq, Goto:
U.S. Military Counterinsurgency Manual, December 2006
11:55 29/09/2007
"But IBM's Hollerith punch card technology did exist. Aided by the company's custom-designed and constantly updated Hollerith systems, Hitler was able to automate his persecution of the Jews. Historians have always been amazed at the speed and accuracy with which the Nazis were able to identify and locate European Jewry. Until now, the pieces of this puzzle have never been fully assembled. The fact is, IBM technology was used to organize nearly everything in Germany and then Nazi Europe, from the identification of the Jews in censuses, registrations, and ancestral tracing programs to the running of railroads and organizing of concentration camp slave labor.
IBM and its German subsidiary custom-designed complex solutions, one by one, anticipating the Reich's needs. They did not merely sell the machines and walk away. Instead, IBM leased these machines for high fees and became the sole source of the billions of punch cards Hitler needed."
Another part of the puzzle falls into place. See this in a book: "IBM and the Holocaust"
Review: IBM and the Holocaust
Talking about fascism have a look at this:
Fascist America, in 10 easy steps
"1. Invoke a terrifying internal and external enemy
2. Create a gulag
3. Develop a thug caste
4. Set up an internal surveillance system
5. Harass citizens' groups
6. Engage in arbitrary detention and release
7. Target key individuals
8. Control the press
9. Dissent equals treason
10. Suspend the rule of law"
And check this:
Spy Satellites Turned on the U.S.
Me I am not surprised. In 1933 the elite in US tried to overthrow Roosvelt in a coup which failed. And in the article I found this:
" 'You know the American people will swallow that. We have got the newspapers. We will start a campaign that the President's health is failing. Everyone can tell that by looking at him, and the dumb American people will fall for it in a second…' The businessmen also promised that money was no object: Clark told Butler that he would spend half his $60 million fortune to save the other half.
And what type of government would replace Roosevelt's New Deal? MacGuire was perfectly candid to Paul French, a reporter friend of General Butler's: 'We need a fascist government in this country… to save the nation from the communists who want to tear it down and wreck all that we have built in America. The only men who have the patriotism to do it are the soldiers, and Smedley Butler is the ideal leader. He could organize a million men overnight.'"
Not much different nowadays init? US people I mean.
And then:
"Americans today would be appalled to learn of the many famous millionaires back then who initially admired Hitler and Mussolini: Henry Ford (who is shown being idolized by Hitler), John D. Rockefeller, John and Allen Dulles (who, besides being millionaires, would later become Eisenhower's Secretary of State and CIA Director, respectively), and, of course, everyone on the above list. They disavowed Hitler and Mussolini only after their atrocities grew to indefensible levels.
The plot fell apart when Butler went public. The general revealed the details of the coup before the McCormack-Dickstein Committee, which would later become the notorious House Un-American Activities Committee. The Committee heard the testimony of Butler and French, but failed to call in any of the coup plotters for questioning, other than MacGuire. In fact, the Committee whitewashed the public version of its final report, deleting the names of powerful businessmen whose reputations they sought to protect. The most likely reason for this response is that Wall Street had undue influence in Congress also. Even more alarming, the elite-controlled media failed to pick up on the story, and even today the incident remains little known. The elite managed to spin the story as nothing more than the rumors and hearsay of Butler and French, even though Butler was a Quaker of unimpeachable honesty and integrity. Butler, appalled by the cover-up, went on national radio to denounce it, but with little success.
Butler was not vindicated until 1967, when journalist John Spivak uncovered the Committee's internal, secret report. It clearly confirmed Butler's story:. "
From:The Failed Conspiracy to Overthrow President Franklin D. Roosevelt
11:45 29/09/2007
"Jena became a nationwide symbol for racism in the criminal justice system when six black students faced life sentences on attempted murder charges after a schoolyard fight that injured a white student. Outcry around the case grew when it was revealed that the fight occurred in the context of rising racial tensions at the school, where nooses were found hanging from a tree in the schoolyard after black students attempted to sit in the traditionally all-white area. When the first defendant was found guilty of second-degree battery and conspiracy by an all-white jury, Thursday’s protest was planned to coincide with his sentencing hearing. The case has become a symbol of racial bias in criminal justice system around the country."
Black students attempted to sit in the traditionally all-white area. What? In the 21st century? I don't be;ieve it! But check this website for it and you and I will have to believe it.
FRom:In Historic March, Tens of Thousands Gather from Across Nation to Demand Justice for Jena Six
11:34 29/09/2007
"On the border between Iraq and Iran, privately owned Apache helicopters deliver US special forces to a covert operation."
What the hell the US Army using mercenaries to transports themselves. The Mericans are crazy!
"None of the estimated 48,000 private military operatives in Iraq has been convicted of a crime and no one knows how many Iraqis have been killed by private military forces, because the US does not keep records.
According to some estimates, more than 800 private military employees have been killed in the war so far, and as many as 3,300 wounded.
These numbers are greater than the losses suffered by any single US army division and larger than the casualties suffered by the rest of the coalition put together.
A high-ranking US military commander in Iraq said: "These guys run loose in this country and do stupid stuff. There's no authority over them, so you can't come down on them hard when they escalate force. They shoot people.""
From:Making a killing: how private armies became a $120bn global industry
11:30 29/09/2007
"LONDON (Reuters) - Britain has amassed a stockpile of more than 100 metric tons of plutonium -- enough for 17,000 bombs of the size that flattened Japan's Nagasaki in 1945, a report from the country's top science institution said on Friday.
The toxic stockpile, which has doubled in the last decade, comes mainly from reprocessing of spent uranium fuel from the country's nuclear power plants, so to stop it growing the practice must end, the Royal Society said."
From:Britain has plutonium for 17,000 Nagasaki bombs
10:18 29/09/2007
In Iraq the Shia population seems to have three different camps; Al-Sistani, Mahdi Army militia loyal to radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and the Badr Brigade militia linked to the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council. They are all fighting for supremacy in Iraq. Let the best pcamp win!
From:Killings of 2 al-Sistani aides suggest worsening Shiite-Shiite feuding
18:27 27/09/2007
Chinese person emits 6,5 Cubic tonnes of Carbon Dioxide per year. US citizen does 20 CT per year. Wonder how muh we do?
11:13 27/09/2007
Love this one!
"What Would I Do If I Was A Terrorist?
By Dominic Jermano
22 September, 2007
Countercurrents.org
Hi my name is Mohammad Abullaabullabulla. I live in Afghanistan and my brother Mohassammanmama lives in Iraq. We are terrorists. We are going to win the war on terror. And we want to get the bomb to protect ourselves.
This is what my brother is doing. It is said that America has pounded our countries with tons of DU known as Depleted Uranium. We have it everywhere, and people are saying we are dying from it. But I think I can use it for our own bombs.
I ordered a nice metal detector from the internet. It is being shipped soon to us£¬although I don¡¯t need it, because shrapnel and metal is everywhere to include blown up tanks and shells and casings. And what we really like are the DU tips found from your expended munitions.
The cruise missiles are especially cool. Although a little beat up, my brother said I can use them to grind up into powder and make our own DU bombs. I found some bags lying in the streets, you know the ones they put over the heads of our brothers; and I use them to collect my metal parts.
I put a scarf over my mouth and I found an old pair of glasses blown off some guys face in a car bombing. I had to wipe away the dried blood, but they are pretty useful to protect my eyes when I do the grinding. It¡¯s a little blurry but they work ok. I know that I am becoming contaminated with DU; but I don¡¯t mind. I can stay alive long enough to make more good missiles.
In fact we are planning to sell DU dust to Osama. They can put the dust in the rocket held shoulder missiles called stingers. Or maybe we can do some smelting and make a real good DU tip and fasten it to our stingers. You know these stingers are pretty good. They stopped the Russians. Now we are going to see about stopping you.
We¡¯re especially happy that you will continue to use DU Depleted Uranium munitions against us, to keep us well supplied. We use all the metal parts to grind into dust and using other scientific methods can keep our production costs much lower I suspect than yours. We are very happy about these developments. Again thank you, and see you on the battle field! Yippee hi ho!
Can you imagine that; look what Bush has done! He has given the stuff to terrorists? They don't care if they become contaminated because they would die anyway from their conventional TNT bombs.
They can scavenge tanks, and dig up shrapnel that is loaded with radioactive material to put in stingers. They will use it against the USA.
And the funny thing about it is the USA will fire more at them, so they can go out to dig up more expended rounds. Here Shrub spends all this money on the war for munitions, and it costs the terrorists nothing to make them. Just go out their front door, and get it.
Pretty pathetic what Bush has done. In fact he is fired. He needs to pack his gear and get out of the White House. He is done OUT OF TOWN. He needs to face criminal charges. The War is over. American people are not going to allow this war to go on any longer. It is done. We need to help clean up Iraq and Afghanistan before they get more of the DU material. We need to ban DU munitions, and foremost end the idea of War. War is Terror.
This will expose MIC once and for all. I am trying to stop this war. It is clear the terrorist are winning with Bush. This can be used in a court of Law against the Military Industrial Complex, to make them ban the use of DU Depleted Uranium for munitions."
What Would I Do If I Was A Terrorist
11:01 27/09/2007
This is funny. This is supposed to have happened in 2005 and now after the bloody murder done by Blackwater thugs in Iraq, they are investigating it. Hmmmm can you smell the .....
"Federal prosecutors are investigating whether staff from controversial US security company Blackwater smuggled weapons to Iraq, according to reports."
From:Blackwater ‘Arms Smuggling Probe’
10:53 27/09/2007
Best news I heard for a long time mate:
"The generals acted independently, coming in their own ways to the agonizing decision to defy military tradition and publicly criticize the Bush administration over its conduct of the war in Iraq.
What might be called The Revolt of the Generals has rarely happened in the nation’s history.
In op-ed pieces, interviews and TV ads, more than 20 retired U.S. generals have broken ranks with the culture of salute and keep it in the family. Instead, they are criticizing the commander in chief and other top civilian leaders who led the nation into what the generals believe is a misbegotten and tragic war."
From:Generals Opposing Iraq War Break with Military Tradition
10:50 27/09/2007
Continueing the saga of IAF bombing Syrian desert sites>
"Israel's decision to attack Syria on Sept. 6, bombing a suspected nuclear site set up in apparent collaboration with North Korea, came after Israel shared intelligence with President Bush this summer indicating that North Korean nuclear personnel were in Syria, U.S. government sources said."
FRom:Israel, U.S. Shared Data On Suspected Nuclear Site
10:41 27/09/2007
First Italy now Germany; lets see who comes next. Any bets?
"FRANKFURT, Germany --U.S. authorities have told Germany that they will not extradite 13 purported CIA agents sought in the alleged kidnapping of a German citizen, an official said Saturday"
From:Germany: U.S. won't send kidnap suspects
10:22 27/09/2007
Tony Bens Diaries Funny bits:
"At about 20 to three Tony Blair walked on to the platform with Cherie. I could see exactly where the teleprompters, the glass panels he reads from, are.
I've just got such a yearning one year to put a cushion on each of them, so that it would destroy the speech.
He launched into a totally unreconstructed case for the war against Iraq. "Support me, and even if you don't, I'll go to war." Very over-confident. It was a managing director's speech. There was no participative sense in it at all."
"Monday, November 11
Tonight Blair made his Mansion House speech. Seeing him in a white tie, guarded by policemen with sub-machine guns and snipers, was ridiculous.
He gave a grave warning about terrorist attacks when he himself is just about to bomb Iraq and kill a lot of innocent people. I thought it was utterly disgusting."
"Friday, January 31
IRAQ. I was met in Amman by one of the officials from the Iraqi Embassy, and we were in time for the connection to Baghdad.
In the morning, as the dawn broke, it was beautiful, the light slowly coming up, red; we crossed the River Tigris and arrived in Baghdad at 7am.
At six o'clock I was met and taken to the home of Tariq Aziz [Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister]. We sat in his sitting room, and his wife later came and brought some tea. He has eight grandchildren. He's a nice guy.
He told me that he had been a poet and a writer and a painter, and he'd come into politics in 1958. It was a three-hour meeting, very friendly, lots of laughter and jokes, and philosophical and serious.
Phoned Lissie and told her I was okay. Funnily enough, after I'd spoken to her, I picked up the phone again and I heard a recording of my entire conversation so there's no doubt it was all being recorded.
That happened when I was a minister, so it doesn't surprise me."
"The whole interview, including interpretation, took about an hour and ten minutes, and then we had a final talk. He was uncomfortably friendly! He said: "Oh, I wish you'd come more often." Thank God the cameras were off by then.
He said "Come back" and so on.
A lot of people will be absolutely disgusted to hear that he was so friendly, and disgusted that I was friendly to him, but for God's sake, it was to stop a war!
Channel 4 News had a bit about my return home. Nothing in the BBC bulletin. Josh thought Alastair Campbell has probably warned the media to keep off it."
"Tuesday, March 18
Clare Short withdrew her resignation. I never thought she'd stick to it. The argument is that she's the best person to supervise the reconstruction of Iraq, but of course that requires Iraq to be destroyed first, so she's going along with the destruction so that she can help with the reconstruction."
"Monday, April 7
The Tory candidate for Eastleigh at the last election came up to me tonight.
He said he'd been to a party, last November I think, at which Lady Thatcher was present with Norman Tebbit, and he'd gone up to her and asked her what she regarded as her greatest achievement, and she replied: 'New Labour.' That says it all really."
"Tuesday, May 6
George Galloway was suspended from the Labour Party by the General Secretary today - quite incredible really. That's the nature of the Labour Party - no free speech in Blair's Labour Party.
The fact that Galloway, who spoke against the war, would be bringing the Party into disrepute when Blair, who took us into the war, wasn't bringing it into disrepute is quite extraordinary."
"Then he talked about David Blunkett [Home Secretary] and Blunkett's famous speech as our education spokesman that under Labour there will be no selection - "Watch my lips, no selection." And of course there was selection!
Hattersley heard later that Blunkett had said: "Oh, what a fool Roy is! Doesn't he realise I am a politician?" That was devastating"
"Monday, June 23
A comedian dressed as Osama Bin Laden broke into Windsor Castle for Prince William's 21st birthday party; it has been treated so seriously, you'd hardly believe it.
Also, the Government is about to sign an extradition agreement with America, whereby America expects the UK to hand over anybody without a court hearing in Britain. Blunkett is an impossible man.
Wednesday, July 16
Had a lovely anonymous letter from someone in Tring. "Dear A***hole, Saw you on the Politics Show. It's time you buggered off and lived with Saddam Hussein, or die like your ghastly wife."
So at least I haven't sold out."
Not a bad Man init?
20:49 26/09/2007
"In Haiti, for instance, workers are paid 11 cents an hour by corporate giants such as Disney, Wal-Mart, and J.C. Penny. The United States is one of the few countries that has refused to sign an international convention for the abolition of child labor and forced labor. This position stems from the child labor practices of U.S. corporations throughout the Third World and within the United States itself, where children as young as 12 suffer high rates of injuries and fatalities, and are often paid less than the minimum wage."
And
"In 1990, shoes made by Indonesian children working twelve-hour days for 13 cents an hour, cost only $2.60 but still sold for $100 or more in the United States."
Sick init?
"Q: What are the greatest threats to local water supplies?
Maude Barlow: First of all, we are creating an ecological crisis by not taking care of our water supplies. Surface waters are being polluted, and we are mining our groundwater at unsustainable rates. At the very time when corporations are privatizing everything, our governments are allowing corporations to move in and take over the ownership of essential resources like water.
So we have a double whammy: Our governments are allowing corporations to pollute our water, and then they are signing contracts with corporations to bring in clean-up technology and make billions of dollars cleaning it up. The very sector of society that is polluting our water is turning around and selling our water back to us. And this is going to be more and more of an issue in the future. We'll be increasingly drinking water that has been polluted by corporations, then cleaned up by corporations, then bottled and sold to us by corporations."
From:World's Water Supply at Risk
So how does it work:
First the World Bank (WB) lends money to say Haiti. Then Haiti has to pay back the money plus a hefty interest on it. For some reason if Haiti cannot pay the interest then H has to borrow the money from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The thing is IMF will not just lend money, they ask the government of H to do something called Structural Adjustment Program (SAP).
This SAP is to do with changing laws of the country. It has to grant tax breaks to transnational corporations, reduce wages, reduce the protection of local enterprises from foreign imports and foreign takeovers and privertize the countries economies eg. selling at a scandalously low prices their state owned mines, railroads and utilities like water, gas, and electrics to private corporations. On top of that H will have to open out the forests to clear for strip mining, transportation networks for the mines without due regard to the ecological damage. The health, education, transportation and food in the country suffers from cutbacks to save money for the IMF and WB loans and interests.
When the foreign imports glut the market the local produce has no competition. As the iMF rules that the government of H cannot give subsudies to the local farmers and countries like US gives it's farmers 70% subcidies the products which are imported cost far less money than the local products, eg. Ghana and its rice vs American rice. So the local farmers have to look for work elsewhere and migrate to the towns and cities. On top of the legal reduction of wages there is a work force hungry for work and the multinational corporations make use of this without mercy.
For the US companies like Disney, Wal-Mart, and J.C. Penny get a tax concessions and relocation expenses at the cost to the tax payers in US. And US has refused to sign the international convention for the abolition of child labor and forced labor helping these money grabbers, to use children as young as 12 years who work long hours and without insuarence against injuries, with impunity. Well that is how I understand it. It is so simple I cannot understand people like Blair and Brown does not do anything about it. Ofcourse the rich countries get richer from this process and I should not complain as my benefits come from that shit!
From:Mystery: How Wealth Creates Poverty in the World
20:36 26/09/2007
News just in ... ha ha....relly I found this about the Blackwater shooting in Iraq - which the main media did not mention about. So far 28 people have died.
First point the explosion of a road side bomb went off not in the vicinity as Blackwater determined but far away.
"The reports we got from members of the public, Iraqi security personnel and government officials, as well as our own research, leads to a markedly different scenario than the American version. There was a bomb blast. But it was too far away to pose any danger to the Blackwater guards, and their State Department charges. We have found no Iraqi present at the scene who saw or heard sniper fire.
Witnesses say the first victims of the shootings were a couple with their child, the mother and infant meeting horrific deaths, their bodies fused together by heat after their car caught fire. The contractors, according to this account, also shot Iraqi soldiers and police and Blackwater then called in an attack helicopter from its private air force which inflicted further casualties."
Then Blackwater says there were insurgents shooting at them. This is not correct according to the people who got shot at.
"Those on the receiving end tell another story. Mr Salman said he had turned into Nisoor Square behind the Blackwater convoy when the shooting began. He recalled: "There were eight foreigners in four utility vehicles, I heard an explosion in the distance and then the foreigners started shouting and signalling for us to go back. I turned the car around and must have driven about a hundred feet when they started shooting. My car was hit with 12 bullets it turned over. Four bullets hit me in the back and another in the arm. Why they opened fire? I do not know. No one, I repeat no one, had fired at them. The foreigners had asked us to go back and I was going back in my car, so there was no reason for them to shoot."
Muhammed Hussein, whose brother was killed in the shooting, said: "My brother was driving and we saw a black convoy ahead of us. Then I saw my brother suddenly slump in the car. I dragged him out of the car and saw he had been shot in the chest. I tried to hide us both from the firing, but then I realised he was already dead."
Jawad Karim Ali was on his way to pick up his aunt from Yarmukh Hospital when shooting started and the windscreen exploded cutting his face. " Then I was hit on my left shoulder by bullets, two of them another one went past my face. Now my aunt is out of hospital and I am sitting here. There was a big bang further away but no shots before the security people fired, and they just kept firing.""
AND
"Sunday's shooting happened at Mansour, once one of the most fashionable districts of Baghdad, with roads flanked by shops selling expensive goods, restaurants and art galleries. In the height of the sectarian bloodletting between Shias and Sunnis earlier this year dead bodies would be regularly strewn in the streets. A semblance of safety has returned since, and Mansour was held up as an example of how the US military "surge" was cutting the violence.
We were in Mansour on Sunday when we heard the sound of a deafening explosion just after midday. Black plumes of smoke rose from a half-blasted National Guard (army) post near a mosque. Five or six minutes afterwards there was the sound of prolonged shooting towards the south.
Police Captain Ali Ibrahim, who was on duty near Nisoor Square, said: " We heard the bomb go off, it was very loud, but it wasn't at the square. The police were, in fact, trying to clear the way for the contractors when they became agitated, they opened fire. No one was shooting at them."
Asked about the witness accounts, Ali al-Dabbagh, an Iraqi government spokesman, confirmed: "The traffic policemen were trying to open the road for them. It was a crowded square and one small car did not stop, it was moving very slowly. They started shooting randomly, there was a couple and their child inside the car and they were hit.""
Here is the original link make up your own mind, mine is already fucked!
The real story of Baghdad's Bloody Sunday
20:20 26/09/2007
"By one estimate, Baghdad was once 65 per cent Sunni; today it is 75 per cent Shia."
I like that. Bush does not like Iran who is Shia and makes Iraq full of Shia.
A common fact now but you don't get this the main media like BBC, ITV, C4, C5. Sorry I don't read newspapers. One time I heard that all the paper annually used by Bangladesh as a country, is equal to, all the paper used in the production of Wall Street Journal in a week - mind not printing.
20:05 26/09/2007
Terrible Police state news from the US:
"The Bush Administration has been collecting detailed records on the travel habits of Americans headed overseas, whether you fly, drive or take cruises abroad -- not simply your method of transit but the personal items you carry with you and the people you stay with, according to documents and statements obtained by the Washington Post."
FROM:Massive Surveillance Net Keeps Track of Americans' Travel -- Even the Size of Hotel Beds
13:51 26/09/2007
"While the U.S. State Department has placed the PKK -- a Kurdish rebel movement in Turkey -- on its list of terrorist organizations, Pejak, the PKK's Iranian branch, is not on the list and its leaders even visit the U.S"
ET
"In 2003, as Trita Parsi's Treacherous Alliance shows, there was enough common ground for a deal. In May 2003, the Iranian authorities sent a proposal through the Swiss ambassador in Tehran, Tim Guldimann, for negotiations on a package deal in which Iran would freeze its nuclear program in exchange for an end to U.S. hostility. The Iranian paper offered "full transparency for security that there are no Iranian endeavors to develop or possess WMD [and] full cooperation with the IAEA based on Iranian adoption of all relevant instruments." The Iranians also offered support for "the establishment of democratic institutions and a non-religious government" in Iraq; full cooperation against terrorists (including "above all, al-Qaeda"); and an end to material support to Palestinian groups like Hamas. In return, the Iranians asked that their country not be on the terrorism list or designated part of the "axis of evil"; that all sanctions end; that the US support Iran's claims for reparations for the Iran-Iraq War as part of the overall settlement of the Iraqi debt; that they have access to peaceful nuclear technology; and that the US pursue anti-Iranian terrorists, including "above all" the MEK. MEK members should, the Iranians said, be repatriated to Iran.
Basking in the glory of "Mission Accomplished" in Iraq, the Bush administration dismissed the Iranian offer and criticized Guldimann for even presenting it. Several years later, the Bush administration's abrupt rejection of the Iranian offer began to look blatantly foolish and the administration moved to suppress the story."
Further on it says:
"U.S. pre-war intelligence on Iraq was horrifically wrong on the key question of Iraq's possession of WMDs, and President Bush ignored the intelligence to assert falsely a connection between Saddam Hussein and September 11. This alone is sufficient reason to be skeptical of the Bush administration's statements on Iran.
Some of the administration's charges against Iran defy common sense. In his Reno speech, President Bush accused Iran of arming the Taliban in Afghanistan while his administration has, at various times, accused Iran of giving weapons to both Sunni and Shiite insurgents in Iraq. The Taliban are Salafi jihadis, Sunni fundamentalists who consider Shiites apostates deserving of death. In power, the Taliban brutally repressed Afghanistan's Shiites and nearly provoked a war with Iran when they murdered Iranian diplomats inside the Iranian consulate in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif. Iraq's Sunni insurgents are either Salafi jihadis or Baathists, the political party that started the Iran-Iraq War."
FROM:Iraq Sets the Stage for Possible U.S. War with Iran
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Saturday, September 29, 2007
DU, Plus two degrees & septic truck
12:51 24/09/2007
We are blisfully unaware of something called Depleted Uranium as it does not happen here. but more and more DU is let out into the atmosphere it gets everwhere, may be Bristol too.
"United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) "self initiated" a Report warning the government that if fifty tonnes of the residual dust, from the explosions of the weapons on impact, was left "in the region", they estimated it would generate "half a million" extra cancer deaths by the end of the century (2000.)"
AND
"Further, "depleted" is a misnomer. These weapons are made from waste from the nuclear fuel cycle and thus contain the whole lethal nuclear cocktail. DU weapons (sold to seventeen countries that are known and possibly others - why let poisoning the planet and its population get in the way of numerous millions of quick bucks) are equivalent to spreading the contents of a nuclear reactor around the globe."
AND
"In Bosnia and the former Yugoslavia where DU weapons were used (with missiles also dropped accidentally in neighbouring countries, by the US, to whom all the world's lives are seemingly cheap) the "Iraq Syndrome" became quickly apparent.
Even European peacekeepers on relatively short tours of duty became ill, developed leukaemia’s and other cancers and a number died. A five man film crew from BBC Scotland all tested DU positive after filming for less than a week there."
11:35 24/09/2007
Once in a way something nice happens.
"A humpback whale freed by divers from a tangle of crab trap lines near the Farallon Islands nudged its rescuers and flapped around in what marine experts said was a rare and remarkable encounter."
From:Daring rescue of whale off Farallones
But on the other hand it can be bad as this one says:
"A Clay County woman's family said it's seeking justice after their loved one died shortly after being shocked 10 times with Taser guns during a confrontation with police."
From: Wheelchair-Bound Woman Dies After Being Shocked With Taser 10 Times
"Plus two degrees: the consequences
Arica: Between 350 and 600 million people will suffer water shortages or increased competition for water. Yields from agriculture could fall by half by 2020 while arid areas will rise by up to 8 per cent. The number of sub-Saharan species at risk of extinction will rise by at least 10 per cent.
Asia: Up to a billion people will suffer water shortages as supplies dwindle with the melting of Himalayan glaciers. Maize and wheat yields will fall by up to 5 per cent in India; rice crops in China will drop by up to 12 per cent. Increased risk of coastal flooding.
Australia/New Zealand: Between 3,000 and 5,000 more heat-related deaths a year. Water supplies will no longer be guaranteed in parts of southern and eastern Australia by 2030. Annual bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef.
Europe: Warmer temperatures will increase wheat yields by up to 25 per cent in the north but water availability will drop in the south by up to a quarter. Heatwaves, forest fires and extreme weather events such as flash floods will be more frequent. New diseases will appear.
Latin America: Up to 77 million people will face water shortages and tropical glaciers will disappear. Tropical forests will become savanna and there will be increased risk of coastal flooding in low-lying areas such as El Salvador and Guyana.
North America: Crop yields will increase by up to 20 per cent due to warmer temperatures but economic damage from extreme weather events such as Hurricane Katrina will continue increasing.
Polar regions: The seasonal thaw of permafrost will increase by 15 per cent and the overall extent of the permafrost will shrink by about 20 per cent. Indigenous communities such as the Inuit face loss of traditional lifestyle.
Small islands: Low-lying islands are particularly vulnerable to rising sea levels with the Maldives already suffering land loss."
Something nice to look forword to circa 2015 init?
Got it from: 'Too late to avoid global warming,' say scientists
17:58 23/09/2007
"And then—not that it matters to amnesiac Americans—the Reagan administration sold arms to Iran during the so-called Iran-Contra scandal, with Israel acting as a middle man and facilitator, a blatant violation of the Arms Export Control Act. Interestingly, the fanatical neocon Iran hater, Michael Ledeen, who now calls for mass murdering Iranian school children, played an instrumental role in these illegal transactions. Instead of spending his golden years in federal prison, Ledeen works for the American Enterprise Institute, where he calls for killing Iranians in broken record fashion."
FRom http://www.inteldaily.com/?c=173&a=3609">Neocons and Israelis Condemn Iran for Vowing Self Defense
17:35 23/09/2007
"During an eight-hour working day, U.S. tax dollars spent in the battle zones of Iraq total $112 million. These figures are extrapolated from a report by the Congressional Research Service (CSR), a bipartisan agency which provides research and analysis for the U.S. Congress. It put the war's average cost in 2007 at around $10 billion a month.
That translates into $333 million a day, $14 million an hour, $231,000 a minute and $3,850 a second. Even for the world's richest country, this is serious money."
From: COLUMN-The $3,850 per second war and its victims:Bernd Debusmann
17:32 23/09/2007
"More than 180,000 Americans, Iraqis, and nationals from other countries work under a slew of federal contracts to provide security, gather intelligence, build roads, forge a financial system, and transport needed supplies in a country the size of California.
That figure contrasts with the 163,100 U.S. military personnel, according to U.S. Central Command in Tampa, Fla., the organization responsible for military operations in the Middle East. The Pentagon puts the military figure at 169,000. There are another 12,400 coalition forces in Iraq."
and
"According to Central Command, there are 137,000 contractors working in Iraq under Defense Department contracts and almost half of those are Iraqis. More than 22,000 are U.S. citizens and the remainder hail from other countries. Close to 7,300 are security workers."
From: 180,000 Private Contractors Flood Iraq
16:30 23/09/2007
Us currency is becoming a paraiah in the money market. The best friend Saudi Arabia who is worth $3,500bn has refused to cut the interest rates par with the US. They don't want same recessionary conditions in the United States. They might peg out of the US dollar. Kuwait has olready done it. WOW!
12:26 23/09/2007
"Fog Fact:
The counterinsurgency manual recommends a force ratio of between 20 and 25 troops per 1,000 in the population.
The math is very simple. The current estimated population of Iraq is 27,500,000.
The proper size of a counterinsurgency force is therefore a minimum of 550,000, more comfortable at 687,500.
Right now, at the peak of the surge, there are about 169,000 coalition troops (92 percent U.S.) in Iraq. That's 381,000 short of the minimum. Or 506,000 short of the more ideal ratio."
This is from Patraeus's big thesis he wrote called U.S. Army's counterinsurgency manual"
Wow US needs a hell of a lot more army in the Iraq scene init? Hope they have more private contracters.
Ahem.... theres a lot more in:
Petraeus: A Failure by His Own Standards
10:25 23/09/2007
Hmmmmm....
"The EEA’s initiative will increase pressure on governments and public health bodies to take precautionary action over the electromagnetic radiation from rapidly expanding new technologies. The German government is already advising its citizens to use wired internet connections instead of Wi-Fi and landlines instead of mobile phones.
The scientific review, produced by the international BioInitiative Working Group of leading scientists and public health and policy experts, says the “explosion of new sources has created unprecedented levels of artificial electromagnetic fields that now cover all but remote areas of the habitable space on Earth”, causing “long-term and cumulative exposure” to “massively increased” radiation that “has no precedent in human history”."
I think I am too old to get stressed up on this.
FROM: Sorry didn't get the link oops. May be later.
09:32 23/09/2007
The Bush's world.
"Consider this: In 2000, when Bush took office, gold was $273 per ounce, oil was $22 per barrel and the euro was worth $.87 per dollar. Currently, gold is over $700 per ounce, oil is over $80 per barrel, and the euro is nearly $1.40 per dollar. If Bernanke cuts rates, we’re likely to see oil at $125 per barrel by next spring. Inflation is soaring. The government statistics are thoroughly bogus. Gold, oil and the euro don’t lie. According to economist Martin Feldstein, “The falling dollar and rising food prices caused market-based consumer prices to rise by 4.6% in the most recent quarter.” (WSJ)
That’s 18.4% per year---and yet, Bernanke is still considering cutting interest rates and further fueling inflation?!?"
AND
"“The conventional value paradigm is unable to explain why the market capitalization of all US stocks grew from $5.3 trillion at the end of 1994 to $17.7 trillion at the end of 1999 to $35 trillion at the end of 2006, generating a geometric increase in price earnings ratios and the like. Liquidity analysis provides a ready answer.” (Asia Times)
“Market capitalization zoomed from $5.3 trillion to $35 trillion in 12 years?!?
Why? Was it due to growth in market-share, business expansion or productivity?
No. It was because there were more dollars chasing the same number of securities; hence, inflation."
From: The Triumph of Structured Finance
I think Bush wants a proper mess in the financial state in the world so that the shock of it to the people can be made use for the neo-cons agenda. First shock the people and in the chaos which occurs the law can be easily changed. Just like he did after 11th Sept do-da. The Uk Blair government did the same in criminal justice bill. All over the world the law has been changed to suit the police state. We watch!
Read THIS
"In the "10 easy steps" outlined by Wolf, countries move from open to closed and repressive societies by devolving past certain markers, and Wolf makes a powerful case for the way in which the United States is following a similar pattern without any significant deviation. In each instance she compares and contrasts how America's adherence to the pattern compares or contrasts with the pattern in pre-World War II Germany.
The 10 steps are:
Invoking an external and internal threat Establishing secret prisons Developing a paramilitary force Surveiling ordinary citizens Infiltrating citizens' groups Arbitrarily detaining and releasing citizens Targeting key individuals Restricting the press Casting criticism as "espionage" and dissent as "treason" Subverting the rule of law"
In US:
"We have lost the right not to be detained and held without charge, the right not to be tortured, and the right not to be spied on in our homes."
AND
"Democrats is that they have two choices. One is to pass atrocities like the Protect America Act, which Bush will sign. That was the bill that erased the fourth amendment and legalized unconstitutional spying. When they get around to the "Love, Harmony, and Joy" Act, you can be sure we're all about to be killed.
The second option, as they see it, is to pass bills and have them vetoed. Of course they know in advance that it's all theater, that their bills are destined to be vetoed, but they view their whole job as an election campaign, and they don't think the public will catch on to what they're doing."
From: Is Peace or Impeachment Possible?
On the same subject Northern Rock lent money without having enough capitol in the bank. A total of £200 billion was in the mortgage books. NR needed £4 to £5 billion for the customers when they came for the money. So as the bank's business model is flowed the tax payer had to come out with the money. Why? If I lent you some money and you run away then will the law courts try to get the money back. They will ask how come you lent the money without a proper collateral? This does not make sense. I am not surprised to learn this morning that Brown is going to have a snap election in Oct. 25th; looks like they want to win an election before things get worse.
11:19 22/09/2007
I like to do an experiment. Sometimes I get a feeling of someone. Its like the person comes into my thoughts, whithout any thing I persieve making it. Sometimes the person comes into my thoughts due to something I see or hear - persieve. So if I make a note of these two sensations and get the other person to do the same. Then at the end of the day, week or month we compare the notes. I need volunteers.
17:17 20/09/2007
In Afghanistan people from US donated a Sceptic truck.
This is what happned:
"The new waste incinerator donated by the U.S. government is completely useless. Even if the hospital had been trained how to run it, they can't afford the fuel.
“It’s not used very often … at all,” he said.
It was a gift from the American people.
“Isn’t that nice?” Warner said.
Warner is a public health expert from San Diego who's taken it upon himself to do what no one else in Afghanistan seems to be doing - documenting the failures in reconstruction. He says the system can't be fixed unless those responsible first admit that it's broken.
But it's a hard sell, as Warner discovered when he tried to report his findings to officials at the Pentagon.
“I was brought aside and they told me, ‘Don't tell that story.’
I said ‘Why not?’
And they said ‘Well, this is one of our success stories,’” he said.
A success story that quickly turned to disappointment for the hospital when they discovered that a septic truck donated by the U.S. with brand new tires and a new coat of paint wasn't new at all. In fact, it's at least 60 years old and starts up with a crank."
Hee Hee loads of shit this sceptic stuff.
Email me!
We are blisfully unaware of something called Depleted Uranium as it does not happen here. but more and more DU is let out into the atmosphere it gets everwhere, may be Bristol too.
"United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) "self initiated" a Report warning the government that if fifty tonnes of the residual dust, from the explosions of the weapons on impact, was left "in the region", they estimated it would generate "half a million" extra cancer deaths by the end of the century (2000.)"
AND
"Further, "depleted" is a misnomer. These weapons are made from waste from the nuclear fuel cycle and thus contain the whole lethal nuclear cocktail. DU weapons (sold to seventeen countries that are known and possibly others - why let poisoning the planet and its population get in the way of numerous millions of quick bucks) are equivalent to spreading the contents of a nuclear reactor around the globe."
AND
"In Bosnia and the former Yugoslavia where DU weapons were used (with missiles also dropped accidentally in neighbouring countries, by the US, to whom all the world's lives are seemingly cheap) the "Iraq Syndrome" became quickly apparent.
Even European peacekeepers on relatively short tours of duty became ill, developed leukaemia’s and other cancers and a number died. A five man film crew from BBC Scotland all tested DU positive after filming for less than a week there."
11:35 24/09/2007
Once in a way something nice happens.
"A humpback whale freed by divers from a tangle of crab trap lines near the Farallon Islands nudged its rescuers and flapped around in what marine experts said was a rare and remarkable encounter."
From:Daring rescue of whale off Farallones
But on the other hand it can be bad as this one says:
"A Clay County woman's family said it's seeking justice after their loved one died shortly after being shocked 10 times with Taser guns during a confrontation with police."
From: Wheelchair-Bound Woman Dies After Being Shocked With Taser 10 Times
"Plus two degrees: the consequences
Arica: Between 350 and 600 million people will suffer water shortages or increased competition for water. Yields from agriculture could fall by half by 2020 while arid areas will rise by up to 8 per cent. The number of sub-Saharan species at risk of extinction will rise by at least 10 per cent.
Asia: Up to a billion people will suffer water shortages as supplies dwindle with the melting of Himalayan glaciers. Maize and wheat yields will fall by up to 5 per cent in India; rice crops in China will drop by up to 12 per cent. Increased risk of coastal flooding.
Australia/New Zealand: Between 3,000 and 5,000 more heat-related deaths a year. Water supplies will no longer be guaranteed in parts of southern and eastern Australia by 2030. Annual bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef.
Europe: Warmer temperatures will increase wheat yields by up to 25 per cent in the north but water availability will drop in the south by up to a quarter. Heatwaves, forest fires and extreme weather events such as flash floods will be more frequent. New diseases will appear.
Latin America: Up to 77 million people will face water shortages and tropical glaciers will disappear. Tropical forests will become savanna and there will be increased risk of coastal flooding in low-lying areas such as El Salvador and Guyana.
North America: Crop yields will increase by up to 20 per cent due to warmer temperatures but economic damage from extreme weather events such as Hurricane Katrina will continue increasing.
Polar regions: The seasonal thaw of permafrost will increase by 15 per cent and the overall extent of the permafrost will shrink by about 20 per cent. Indigenous communities such as the Inuit face loss of traditional lifestyle.
Small islands: Low-lying islands are particularly vulnerable to rising sea levels with the Maldives already suffering land loss."
Something nice to look forword to circa 2015 init?
Got it from: 'Too late to avoid global warming,' say scientists
17:58 23/09/2007
"And then—not that it matters to amnesiac Americans—the Reagan administration sold arms to Iran during the so-called Iran-Contra scandal, with Israel acting as a middle man and facilitator, a blatant violation of the Arms Export Control Act. Interestingly, the fanatical neocon Iran hater, Michael Ledeen, who now calls for mass murdering Iranian school children, played an instrumental role in these illegal transactions. Instead of spending his golden years in federal prison, Ledeen works for the American Enterprise Institute, where he calls for killing Iranians in broken record fashion."
FRom http://www.inteldaily.com/?c=173&a=3609">Neocons and Israelis Condemn Iran for Vowing Self Defense
17:35 23/09/2007
"During an eight-hour working day, U.S. tax dollars spent in the battle zones of Iraq total $112 million. These figures are extrapolated from a report by the Congressional Research Service (CSR), a bipartisan agency which provides research and analysis for the U.S. Congress. It put the war's average cost in 2007 at around $10 billion a month.
That translates into $333 million a day, $14 million an hour, $231,000 a minute and $3,850 a second. Even for the world's richest country, this is serious money."
From: COLUMN-The $3,850 per second war and its victims:Bernd Debusmann
17:32 23/09/2007
"More than 180,000 Americans, Iraqis, and nationals from other countries work under a slew of federal contracts to provide security, gather intelligence, build roads, forge a financial system, and transport needed supplies in a country the size of California.
That figure contrasts with the 163,100 U.S. military personnel, according to U.S. Central Command in Tampa, Fla., the organization responsible for military operations in the Middle East. The Pentagon puts the military figure at 169,000. There are another 12,400 coalition forces in Iraq."
and
"According to Central Command, there are 137,000 contractors working in Iraq under Defense Department contracts and almost half of those are Iraqis. More than 22,000 are U.S. citizens and the remainder hail from other countries. Close to 7,300 are security workers."
From: 180,000 Private Contractors Flood Iraq
16:30 23/09/2007
Us currency is becoming a paraiah in the money market. The best friend Saudi Arabia who is worth $3,500bn has refused to cut the interest rates par with the US. They don't want same recessionary conditions in the United States. They might peg out of the US dollar. Kuwait has olready done it. WOW!
12:26 23/09/2007
"Fog Fact:
The counterinsurgency manual recommends a force ratio of between 20 and 25 troops per 1,000 in the population.
The math is very simple. The current estimated population of Iraq is 27,500,000.
The proper size of a counterinsurgency force is therefore a minimum of 550,000, more comfortable at 687,500.
Right now, at the peak of the surge, there are about 169,000 coalition troops (92 percent U.S.) in Iraq. That's 381,000 short of the minimum. Or 506,000 short of the more ideal ratio."
This is from Patraeus's big thesis he wrote called U.S. Army's counterinsurgency manual"
Wow US needs a hell of a lot more army in the Iraq scene init? Hope they have more private contracters.
Ahem.... theres a lot more in:
Petraeus: A Failure by His Own Standards
10:25 23/09/2007
Hmmmmm....
"The EEA’s initiative will increase pressure on governments and public health bodies to take precautionary action over the electromagnetic radiation from rapidly expanding new technologies. The German government is already advising its citizens to use wired internet connections instead of Wi-Fi and landlines instead of mobile phones.
The scientific review, produced by the international BioInitiative Working Group of leading scientists and public health and policy experts, says the “explosion of new sources has created unprecedented levels of artificial electromagnetic fields that now cover all but remote areas of the habitable space on Earth”, causing “long-term and cumulative exposure” to “massively increased” radiation that “has no precedent in human history”."
I think I am too old to get stressed up on this.
FROM: Sorry didn't get the link oops. May be later.
09:32 23/09/2007
The Bush's world.
"Consider this: In 2000, when Bush took office, gold was $273 per ounce, oil was $22 per barrel and the euro was worth $.87 per dollar. Currently, gold is over $700 per ounce, oil is over $80 per barrel, and the euro is nearly $1.40 per dollar. If Bernanke cuts rates, we’re likely to see oil at $125 per barrel by next spring. Inflation is soaring. The government statistics are thoroughly bogus. Gold, oil and the euro don’t lie. According to economist Martin Feldstein, “The falling dollar and rising food prices caused market-based consumer prices to rise by 4.6% in the most recent quarter.” (WSJ)
That’s 18.4% per year---and yet, Bernanke is still considering cutting interest rates and further fueling inflation?!?"
AND
"“The conventional value paradigm is unable to explain why the market capitalization of all US stocks grew from $5.3 trillion at the end of 1994 to $17.7 trillion at the end of 1999 to $35 trillion at the end of 2006, generating a geometric increase in price earnings ratios and the like. Liquidity analysis provides a ready answer.” (Asia Times)
“Market capitalization zoomed from $5.3 trillion to $35 trillion in 12 years?!?
Why? Was it due to growth in market-share, business expansion or productivity?
No. It was because there were more dollars chasing the same number of securities; hence, inflation."
From: The Triumph of Structured Finance
I think Bush wants a proper mess in the financial state in the world so that the shock of it to the people can be made use for the neo-cons agenda. First shock the people and in the chaos which occurs the law can be easily changed. Just like he did after 11th Sept do-da. The Uk Blair government did the same in criminal justice bill. All over the world the law has been changed to suit the police state. We watch!
Read THIS
"In the "10 easy steps" outlined by Wolf, countries move from open to closed and repressive societies by devolving past certain markers, and Wolf makes a powerful case for the way in which the United States is following a similar pattern without any significant deviation. In each instance she compares and contrasts how America's adherence to the pattern compares or contrasts with the pattern in pre-World War II Germany.
The 10 steps are:
Invoking an external and internal threat Establishing secret prisons Developing a paramilitary force Surveiling ordinary citizens Infiltrating citizens' groups Arbitrarily detaining and releasing citizens Targeting key individuals Restricting the press Casting criticism as "espionage" and dissent as "treason" Subverting the rule of law"
In US:
"We have lost the right not to be detained and held without charge, the right not to be tortured, and the right not to be spied on in our homes."
AND
"Democrats is that they have two choices. One is to pass atrocities like the Protect America Act, which Bush will sign. That was the bill that erased the fourth amendment and legalized unconstitutional spying. When they get around to the "Love, Harmony, and Joy" Act, you can be sure we're all about to be killed.
The second option, as they see it, is to pass bills and have them vetoed. Of course they know in advance that it's all theater, that their bills are destined to be vetoed, but they view their whole job as an election campaign, and they don't think the public will catch on to what they're doing."
From: Is Peace or Impeachment Possible?
On the same subject Northern Rock lent money without having enough capitol in the bank. A total of £200 billion was in the mortgage books. NR needed £4 to £5 billion for the customers when they came for the money. So as the bank's business model is flowed the tax payer had to come out with the money. Why? If I lent you some money and you run away then will the law courts try to get the money back. They will ask how come you lent the money without a proper collateral? This does not make sense. I am not surprised to learn this morning that Brown is going to have a snap election in Oct. 25th; looks like they want to win an election before things get worse.
11:19 22/09/2007
I like to do an experiment. Sometimes I get a feeling of someone. Its like the person comes into my thoughts, whithout any thing I persieve making it. Sometimes the person comes into my thoughts due to something I see or hear - persieve. So if I make a note of these two sensations and get the other person to do the same. Then at the end of the day, week or month we compare the notes. I need volunteers.
17:17 20/09/2007
In Afghanistan people from US donated a Sceptic truck.
This is what happned:
"The new waste incinerator donated by the U.S. government is completely useless. Even if the hospital had been trained how to run it, they can't afford the fuel.
“It’s not used very often … at all,” he said.
It was a gift from the American people.
“Isn’t that nice?” Warner said.
Warner is a public health expert from San Diego who's taken it upon himself to do what no one else in Afghanistan seems to be doing - documenting the failures in reconstruction. He says the system can't be fixed unless those responsible first admit that it's broken.
But it's a hard sell, as Warner discovered when he tried to report his findings to officials at the Pentagon.
“I was brought aside and they told me, ‘Don't tell that story.’
I said ‘Why not?’
And they said ‘Well, this is one of our success stories,’” he said.
A success story that quickly turned to disappointment for the hospital when they discovered that a septic truck donated by the U.S. with brand new tires and a new coat of paint wasn't new at all. In fact, it's at least 60 years old and starts up with a crank."
Hee Hee loads of shit this sceptic stuff.
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Friday, September 21, 2007
Iraq Museums, Sunni Shia Divide, & CIA.s Failures
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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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.
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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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