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Giuliani: We need a President who can say 'bomb' Iran
By David Taintor / Talking Points Memo
The war drums are beating louder and louder for Iran. And on CNN Thursday night, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani did his part, casually saying President Obama should threaten to "bomb" Iran to prevent the country from developing a nuclear weapon.
Obama has made the situation more complicated by being such a "weakling," Giuliani said, including writing a secret letter to Ayatollah Ali Khamanei asking for a dialogue. By David Taintor / Talking Points Memo The war drums are beating louder and... more-
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Pakistan Nukes Safe? NO. « Ramani's blog
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Wikileaks: Al-Qaeda Threatens to Unleash ‘Nuclear Hellstorm’ because Bin Laden killed
According to news reported by WikiLeaks, threats have been received from al-Qaeda terrorists, stating that they will “unleash a nuclear hellstorm” upon Western countries if Osama bin Laden is ever caught or killed.
Further, an al-Qaeda senior commander revealed that their group has hidden a nuclear device somewhere in Europe, which will be exploded if and when Osama bin Laden is nabbed or assassinated, per recent “top secret” documents, publicized by whistle-blower WikiLeaks.
These files contain confidential specifics regarding the backgrounds and confinement of 780 prisoners who have been held or released from the Guantanamo Bay detention facility in Cuba, including their medical condition and whatever information they have divulged during questioning.
The questioning discovered other possible plots – including one to recruit staff at Heathrow Airport and the poisoning of public buildings in the U.S. by putting cyanide in the air conditioning. About 200 detainees labeled as dangerous international terrorists and hundreds were assessed as “low-level foot soldiers.”
Also disclosed, was information that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, operational commander of al-Qaeda, along with approximately 150 innocent Pakistanis and Afghans were arrested and jailed. Some were just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Any of those persons taken to Guantanamo were basically unable to prove their innocence, even if they were innocent.
Certain U.S. and European news centers, have received these documents which state that at the time of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the U.S., the key figures associated with al-Qaeda, were meeting in a safe house in Karachi, Pakistan. From this location, they watched the airplanes crash into the World Trade Center, on live TV.
At the same time, the accused planner of the USS’ Cole bombing, near Yemen, was recuperating from a tonsillectomy; the mastermind of the Bali 2001 bombing was busy purchasing lab equipment for a biological weapons endeavor.
By the next day, many of the al-Qaeda terrorist associates quietly returned to Afghanistan to do their strategic planning for an extended war, as reports were made by the Washington Post, about new information on the al-Qaeda terror brigade’s location.
The secret files describe the 9/11 terrorist assaults and the locations of its’ planners at the time of the attacks, which included the “world’s most wanted” – Osama Bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri his deputy.
The documents also state that on Sept. 15th, bin Laden and his group met in Kandahar province, at a guest house to “defend Afghanistan against infidel invaders” and to “fight in the name of Allah.”
In spite of the promise by President Obama when he took office, to close Guantanamo Bay – he couldn’t win his political fight with Republicans over this matter - and now he won’t be able to close it at all – a rather embarrassing situation for Obama.According to news reported by WikiLeaks, threats have been received from al-Qaeda... more-
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We, Aliens from Mars? Additional Proof, Hinduism. « Ramanan50's Blog
Pointers from Hinduism.We have references in The Old Testament as well.
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GORDON DUFF: THE CARDBOARD LOTHARIOS : Veterans Today
ANALYZING STAGED WORLD CONFLICT
By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor
In 2006, North Korea exploded a plutonium based nuclear weapon, an unsuccessul test of either a “found” nuke in poor repair, or something poorly designed. America had predicted that they were at least five years from this capability, we always hear the same story, everyone is five years from having nuclear weapons. On May 25th, 2009, North Korea exploded its second bomb, its first clearly identifiable nuclear weapon, a “Hiroshima sized” bomb, tiny by US standards. What we didn’t say is that the signature of this bomb had been seen before.
An identical nuclear weapon, manufactured at the same facility, same design, same impurities, had been exploded in September 22, 1979, in a test in the Indian Ocean conducted jointly by Israel and South Africa. When UN inspectors were asked to come to South Africa in 1990 to arrange to dismantle their nuclear weapons, ten bombs were admitted to having been built with one tested. Today we claim six existed, none were tested and three never existed. One of those three exploded in North Korea. The mystery is, how did it get there? Are American “broken arrow” nukes, recovered, sold and traded? What “special country” might do this?
The cover story was that Pakistan through nuclear scientist, Dr. A. Q. Khan, had supplied Korea with the required highly specialized centrifuges along with nuclear triggers and advanced missile technology. Investigations have shown, however, that the US had asked, or rather demanded, President Musharraf “convince” Khan to confess to this and a seemingly endless series of nuclear proliferation violations from South Africa to Libya to Germany. The deal was that Khan had to confess but would be immediately pardoned. We have another mystery, who was the US covering for and why? Who wanted it to seem like North Korea had a real nuclear program, who would profit by this? What could be more comical than “Cardboard Lothario” Kim Jung-il, war mongering mastermind terrorizing the world from one of the most isolated and poverty stricken nations on earth. I could carve a better “axis of evil” dictator out of a banana.
Who are the Cardboard Lotharios? They are world leaders and conflict driven icons who simply don’t seem to fit. We knew where Hitler came from, we understood Napoleon, Mussolini, even George W. Bush. With a world bereft of “prime movers,” no major ideological struggles, no national races for dwindling resources, only multi-national corporations carving away the world, today’s chaos is purely manufactured and the cardboard cutout bad-boys aren’t even good actors. Who invented Osama bin Laden, Bibi Netanyahu, Mullah Omar, Kim Jung-il, Hugo Chavez, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad? Do we add Hameed Karzai to the list? How to people like Libya’s Muammar Gadaffi simply quit, get taken off the list and retire as though they had been to some sort of “terrorist mastermind rehab?” Remember Muqtada al-Sadr, the Iraqi cleric whose Mahdi army was the caused mayhem in Iraq? How can Gulbuddin Hekmatyar be number one on the world terror list and be asked by Americans to open negotiations with the Taliban at the same time? Anyone smelling a rat?
A hypothesis, several forces, conspiratorial in nature, hiding in plain sight are “out there.” The players, oil, arms, banking, are the real powers in the world, easily “super-governments,” well beyond any Illuminati-Freemason or Bilderberg conspiracy. Their game, ”they” meaning the real powers that control the governments, is managing continual regional conflicts where none, according to respected studies of the dynamics of global conflict and the real clash of “civilizations,” should exist. We live in a world where our wars, our news, the stories and myths we accept as gospel are little more than part of a play. Shakespeare had said, “All the world’s a stage and the men and women merely players” (William Shakespeare, As You Like it, Act II, Scene VII) How can we get to this point? Lets take a look at today’s hotspot, Iran.
Running with our hypothesis, we could look at two tiers of conflict, geopolitical and “irregular warfare” or “globalterrorism.” Depending on your local school system, you might call terrorism and insurgency “asymetrical warfare.” Were neither to exist, either or both can be created and stimulated easily and inexpensively yet both are major sources of significant economic gain for those pulling the strings. Conflict propagation is far more valuable than conflict resolution. Quoting Robert Duval in Apocalypse Now, “Someday, this war could end….”
To play the game, civilian rule in the United States had to be eliminated. To do that, control of the media was a must, that and an iconic disaster, a “New Pearl Harbor” as author David Ray Griffin called it, had to push America into blind obedience. Doubters became “soft on terror” and faced public scorn or worse. The icon, of course, was 9/11, nearly a decade later barely surviving under the weak cover story of a dozen or so angry Arabs performing endless acts that violate, not only all probabilities but several physical laws as well. Even the whitewash of the 9/11 Commission blew up in their faces with demands for criminal investigations being refused and all real findings classified. All that has been needed is for the media to push the myth, hide the real findings and ignore the controversy. Thus, the most massive fraud in world history was created, a three trillion dollar looting of America, two nations invaded, over a million killed and a decade of war.
To keep it going, all that has been needed is a few perfectly timed terrorist acts, London, Madrid, Detroit, Times Square, Mumbai, dozens in Pakistan, all, like 9/11, showing “Oswald ” dupes traveling around the world with the ease of diplomats in private jets.
All that was required to provide cover for an imagined worldwide terrorist conspiracy, banding together groups that hate each other more than us is the same branding process we follow when buying soap and toothpaste. “Can you give me a pack of bin Ladens, a bottle of the Mullah Omar and a bag of those Hezbollah’s please? Oh, and a lottery ticket.” You could spend a lifetime talking about terrorist leaders but one thing is true of all of them. They all worked for intelligence agencies, either the CIA, ISI, RAW, MI-6, Mossad, the Saudis or someone. For those who don’t know, an ISI officer in Pakistan is more comfortable with a Mossad agent than, let’s say, a political opponent in his own country. Anyone who works for or with one intelligence agency is likely to be handed around like a drunken sorority girl in a football locker room.
What does our hypothesis say? No terrorists were in Iraq, we attacked and suddenly, we were up to our necks in terrorists for years. When Osama bin Laden died in Afghanistan in 2001, the same bin Laden reputed to be in exile at the Kennedy compound in Palm Beach, he may have been the only person in the world America knew for certain had nothing to do with 9/11. If you don’t think the FBI confirms this, go to www.fbi.gov.
More at the link:ANALYZING STAGED WORLD CONFLICT By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor In... more-
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Conservative Foreign Policy Critique: Nuclear Weapon Is Like a Giant, Erect Penis
You were hoping for a picture?
This post originally appeared on the Booman Tribune.
If you asked me to come up with an essay critical of Barack Obama’s foreign policy from a Republican point-of-view, I’d probably come up with something like this because it is so predictable. You begin with the penis.
I despair of this latest episode of gestural theater designed to make the U.S. look exquisitely reasonable (should we call it “Jimmy-Cartesian”?), but which in truth results in the U.S. looking flaccid, or worse, complacent. After all, who gains from a presidential posture that has, in effect, stigmatized our most potent deterrent?In terms of foreign policy—or, better put, foreign clout—the U.S. is going through a startling period of auto-emasculation. Barack Obama has discarded his predecessor’s big stick—the wielding of which should have confirmed the flaws not of big sticks but of his predecessor—and replaced it with a mission of almost messianic outreach to our foes and most adamant competitors (while, at the same time, snubbing allies like Britain, Israel and India; Robert Kagan has a doughty essay on this in The Washington Post.)
You see, a nuclear weapon is like a large erection. George W. Bush’s foreign policy was like a large erection. Ally and adversary alike were cowed and impressed by these large erections. Obama is taking the blood out of our impressive foreign policy and system of deterrence. When it comes time to criticize a Democratic president’s foreign policy, the first thing is to accuse him of having a limp dick.
But that only gets you so far. You next have to do a bit of explanation. Why does the president have a limp dick? And this is where you compare him to the Europeans, who seem to have become so demilitarized that they’ve forgotten to reproduce. It all comes down to a simple trade-off. You can have health care or you can be exceptional in the imperialistic sense, but you can’t do both.
In the Obama narrative, America has been a reckless source of trouble for the world because of its arrogant interventionism. Obama’s solution, in the words of Charles Hill, a professor at Yale, is the following: “Close out the wars, disengage, and distance ourselves in order to carry out the real objective: the achievement of a European-style welfare state. Just as Reagan downsized government by starving it through budget cuts, Obama will downsize the military-industrial complex by directing so much money into health care, environ-o-care, etc., that we, like the Europeans, will have no funds available to maintain world power.
I was a bit surprised when, in the late stages of the health care debate, I first saw the right making this formulaic argument that health-care-for-all could only come at the expense of our unique role of global cop. But the argument has gone viral in the last month. As an argument on the fringes, it may be helpful to the Republicans, but I’d be interested in what would happen if you put the question to the American people. Not that I really accept the premise, but what would the American people choose if offered a European-style safety net at the cost of a significant roll-back of U.S. military spending (with a concomitant reduction in U.S. influence in global affairs)?
Of course, no right-wing critique of a Democratic president’s foreign policy would be complete without some strikingly unfair and hypocritical attacks. So, first we must be critical of Obama’s decision to put democracy over friendship in Honduras (a decision shared with the Organization of American States (OAS)).
(Of course, it is OK to be unilateralist in the formal renunciation of strategic options, as happens with any nuclear self-denial; otherwise, multinational solidarity is always to be preferred, even when it leads to the backing of anti-American forces, as has happened in Honduras.)
And then we must criticize Obama for not putting lofty ideals (like the democratization of the Middle East) over any pragmatic concerns.
Obama’s foreign policy has two pillars: conciliation as a tool for peace (defined as lending a close ear to every recalcitrant nation, while abjuring any American right to be censorious); and an avowed preference for pragmatism over any values-based evangelism (in effect, the elevation of pragmatism to the status of directive principle).
You’d think that advocating democracy for Honduras would get you credit for having a “values-based evangelism” in foreign policy, but this is a right-wing essay.
There is also an unseemly side to the pragmatism that is Obama’s international leitmotif. Paradoxically for a man who incarnates the progress of civil liberties in his own country, the president has literally banished human rights (that quintessentially liberal and Democratic concern) from U.S. foreign policy—just because Bush took up the cause. Of rights in China, Egypt, and elsewhere, the Obama administration has spoken only with an excessive, and dispiriting, circumspection.
As much as I admire President Obama, he has hardly incarnated progress on civil liberties. That comment is an obvious nod to the president’s race and the right of black people not only to vote but to run for public office. There are other civil liberties, like the right to hold the government accountable for lawbreaking and the right not to be assassinated by your government without any due process. But we must maintain the limp-dick narrative here, so we’re moving on…
So one wonders—as Putin embraces Chavez and Karzai plays host to Ahmadinejad; as Russia asserts the right to repudiate any nuclear-arms reduction treaty and China gives us the bird on the yuan; as the alliance with India languishes and the one with Britain experiences unprecedented atrophy; as Israel expresses acrid disagreement with us and Japan seeks to rip pages out of its postwar rulebook—what all the pragmatism has really, truly accomplished……other than give our delighted adversaries a free pass and our friends a very rude wakeup call.
An interesting set of beefs. On the front-page of the New York Times right now: U.S. and Russia Sign Nuclear Arms Pact. On the Reuters newswire: China Hints At Readiness to Let Yuan Rise. At the Washington Post: China to join talks on Iran sanctions at U.N.. As for the others, I see no problem in having some acrid disagreement with Israel over their settlement policy and I doubt Guam will tip-over after we reposition some of our Japanese-based forces there. Our relationships with India and Britain are just fine. And I think it’s taking the Monroe Doctrine a little far to worry about low level Russia-Venezuela arms deals. The only area where I share any concern is Afghanistan, where I presume my solution is not shared by this right-wing columnist for the Wall Street Journal and the Hoover Institution.
Teddy Roosevelt said we should talk quietly and carry a big stick. The right has tweaked this to be: expose your huge erection and scream at anybody passing by who hasn’t noticed it.You were hoping for a picture? This post originally appeared on the Booman Tribune.... more-
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Iran pursuing nuclear weapon - Clinton
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said today that evidence was mounting that Iran was pursuing a nuclear weapon.
'The evidence is accumulating that that's exactly what they are trying to do,' Mrs Clinton said in remarks in the Qatari capital, Doha.She said Washington wants a peaceful solution to the nuclear dispute with Iran, but does not want to engage with Tehran 'while they are building their bomb'.
'I would like to figure out a way to handle it in as peaceful an approach possible, and I certainly welcome any meaningful engagement, but ... we don't want to be engaging while they are building their bomb,' she added.
Mrs Clinton is in on a three-day trip to Qatar and Saudi Arabia, aimed at enlisting broader regional support in a drive to stop Iran's sensitive nuclear work.US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said today that evidence was mounting that Iran... more -
USA and Japan prepares for North Korean nukes
North Korea has a simple respond to this: if international communites are aginst its rocket launch the country will restart it’s nuclear plant that produces weapons-grade plutonium.North Korea has a simple respond to this: if international communites are aginst its... more-
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North Korea threatens to reopen nuclear plant
North Korea warned to restart its weapons-grade plutonium nuclear plant if international communities punished the country for next month’s planned missile launch.North Korea warned to restart its weapons-grade plutonium nuclear plant if... more-
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