Psychiatry, Political Abuse?

From our history as a human kind, we have been mislead by many politicians, religious leaders and media (newspapers, tv, radio and books)

How do I know? I read a lot of articles ha ha hee hee.

I have no problem with my mental state except when I get angry. so don't! There seems to be quite a few people who suffer from mental illness in UK according to the boffins.

The facts and figures around Mental Health in the UK are alarming.
 

•1 in 4 people will experience some kind of mental health problem in the course of a year
•Mixed anxiety and depression is the most common mental disorder in Britain
•Women are more likely to have been treated for a mental health problem than men
•About 10% of children have a mental health problem at any one time
•Depression affects 1 in 5 older people
•Suicides rates show that British men are three times as likely to die by suicide than British women
•Self-harm statistics for the UK show one of the highest rates in Europe: 400 per 100,000 population
•Only 1 in 10 prisoners has no mental disorder

Now lets take them one by one.
 1 in 4 have mental problems in the last year. Hurray I am not one of them.
 Anxiety and depression is an on going mental problem for me. Just before I try to chat up a bird I have anxiety. When I get the thumbs down from her I feel depressed. So I have a problem.
 I am male.
 So when I concider these I must be either sufferer or not.

In US it is similar but there are more names for these disorders in the mental capacity.

So in the past history of human kind we have seen psychiatry and politics go hand in hand. And I wrote this in my other blogsphere.

Drones Are Here To Stay And Kill

We are in the 21st century and we are getting better at killing more and more people. Now we do not need human beings to be in the front line. We are proud to present the drones. The killing of innocent civilians are just collateral damage. Now I present to you a very well researched article about US action in Pakistan.

After nine months of research and more than 130 interviews, in what is being called one of the most exhaustive attempts by academics to evaluate Washington’s drone wars, the Stanford and New York universities’ law schools have finally put out a damning report.

According to the new study, just one in fifty victims of the CIA program of “targeted” drone strikes in Pakistan’s tribal areas are known militants, while between 2,562 and 3,325 people were killed in Pakistan between June 2004 and mid-September this year – of whom between 474 and 881 were civilians, including 176 children.

Based on these and other figures, the report calls the strikes politically counterproductive and damaging, concluding they have killed innocent civilians, ruined the local economy, undermined respect for international law and left the people of the tribal areas psychologically battered, constantly living under the daily threat of annihilation from the air.

The report especially focuses on children becoming collateral damage of strikes, and comes down particularly hard on the common tactic of the “double-tap” strike where initial strikes are followed up by further missiles, killing an even greater number of civilians, and putting fear into the hearts of rescuers who often wait for hours before daring to visit the scene of an attack.

You can read all the article here.

Now we in the free world has a new toy called the Sea Drone. it is an underwater toy which responses to a computer in a far far away land. Are you getting excited now. I tell you this one costs a lot of money.If you want to buy one you can always contact this place: The Naval Undersea Warfare Center. Here it is:

Nice init?

The US Navy is currently experimenting with a new breed of drone submarines in the waters next to Newport, Rhode Island. Their hope is that these drones will take the first steps (or the first doggy paddle, if you will) into a future of autonomous submarines.

These drones, which are technically known as Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (of course) could be a “game changer” for the Navy, said Christoper Egan, a program manager at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center. Every single thing that makes aerial drones so effective can just as easily be applied to submarines.

One of the biggest advantages is size — if you have a pilot in a submarine, then you automatically have a minimum size requirement. You need a control system, air, and a supply of food and water if you expect the submarine to remain submerged for days at a time. Once you remove a person from a submarine, you can shrink the submersible down to the size of, say, an adult tuna or a torpedo. That makes for more efficient, stealthier submarines that cost only a fraction of the cost of a conventional one-man submersible.

These drones could be used to map the ocean floor, detect enemy mines, gather surveillance, or assist in anti-submarine warfare. For example, one clever little drone is the Razor, which uses stealthy, flipper-like devices to drift through the ocean, kind of like a sea turtle. The Navy hopes that the Razor would be virtually undetectable by enemy systems.

I plucked above from this article. 

So as stated it is for peaceful work for us humans as well as the oceans. Oceanographers are clapping their hands and shouting"Bravo". But we war like people do not stop there. They state in the article something called the Razor. That cannot be detected by the enemy. May be they are thinking about sharks and big whales. No my friend there is more to it than that. We introduce to you The Large Displacement Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (LDUUV). 

The LDUUV will have a large payload bay, making it capable of releasing sensors, communication buoys, smaller UUS and weapons. The Navy's current emphasis is on persistent surveillance “over the horizon.” However, its most significant impact could be in mine warfare, both offensive and defensive.

In the counter-mine role, the LDUUV will be able to detect and locate mines, then engage and neutralize them safely. And the LDUUV could make offensive mine laying more controllable and clandestine. In the transformational mine concept, the LDUUV lays networked sensors across a wide area. These track and identify every vessel within range. Depending on the situation, any vessel can be engaged, by either an anchored weapon or a torpedo from the UUV itself. The advantage of using an LDUUV is that the minefield can be switched on or off, or changed in size. It can be emplaced in advance, and never activated. De-mining and clear-up do not pose the major problem that they do with traditional mines.

The Navy plans to release a request for proposals for the LDUUV in 2014. Last October Rear Adm. Barry Bruner, the Navy's undersea warfare director, indicated that up to 10 LDUUVs would be procured. The LDUUV is being pitched as a helper to complement manned submarines. However, if it achieves the technology goals for endurance and autonomy, it will pose serious questions of what exactly large unmanned craft could not ultimately do.

I pay respect to this article

Here is a map of the seas around Middle East.

Straight of Hormuz is a narrow shipping lane, just 34 k wide at the narrowest point. each side of authority has 3 k and a buffer zone of 3k. Iran has laid mines in the area and in 1988, one of which injured 10 when it blew a hole in the guided missile frigate USS Samuel B. Robert. So last month (September 2012)there was a big Naval Exercise in the seas around Iran.

The admiral in charge of the U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet on Thursday defended the large American-led naval exercises in the Persian Gulf and other strategic Mideast waterways as a way to ensure stability and security in the region, rebutting Iran’s concerns about what it sees as foreign military meddling.

More than 30 countries are involved in the anti-mine exercises. Although the Navy says the maneuvers are purely defensive and not directed at any country, they are widely seen as a message to Iranian officials who have threatened to block the Strait of Hormuz at the mouth of the Gulf.

Yes I found these article, one, two. 

Then we connect the dots from far far above this blog about the underwater drones.

The USS Ponce is to serve as a “staging and command post for mine hunting operations”.  USS Ponce (See above) is also carrying an “underwater drone” .  “The BAE Systems Plc (BA/) 25mm guided ‘‘Mark 38 Mod 2,” and Kingfish unmanned underwater vehicle are among the programs the Pentagon this year accelerated under a “Fast Lane” initiative to counter Iranian naval weapons. One of the most serious threats, the Navy says, are Iranian speedboats that can employ “swarming” tactics.” (Bloomberg, September 19, 2012)

There are questions about all this when we read this bit in that article.

These war games serve essentially two related purposes.

1. To threaten and intimidate Iran with a massive display of military might.

2. To deliberately create conditions within proximity of Iran’s territorial waters, which could lead to a Gulf of Tonkin type incident. The latter would involve military provocation conducive to confrontation and/or response by Iran.  This incident, would in turn provide a justification for attacking Iran on the grounds of self-defense.

The unspoken objective of warship diplomacy is to trigger an all out war. The objective is to portray Iran as the aggressor, as a threat to peace and security. Already insinuations abound in the Western media  to the effect that Iran may attempt to “draw the Americans into a conflict”. Confrontation in the Strait of Hormuz is part of the simulations and scenarios contemplated by US and allied military planners:

“Western leaders are convinced that Iran will retaliate to any attack by attempting to mine or blockade the shipping lane through which passes around 18 million barrels of oil every day, approximately 35 per cent of the world’s oil traded by sea.” (Ibid )

 I am not trying to scare people but it would be wise for all to consider not having any arms for attacking other countries. Ah yes we can always have some arms for defense, yes?

I thank this well researched article byJulie Lévesque

Global Research, September 28, 2012

Url of this article:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/american-drones-for-covert-underwater-warfare-against-iran/

Funny Stuff from Oplympics' Commentators

My earlier report on Olympics London 2012

Did they really say that???????

Here are the top nine comments made by NBC sports commentators so far during the Olympics that they would like to take back:

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1. Weight-lifting commentator: 'This is Gregorieva from Bulgaria. I saw her snatch this morning during her warm up and it was amazing.'
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2. Dressage commentator: 'This is really a lovely horse and I speak from personal experience since I once mounted her mother.'

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3. Paul Hamm, Gymnast: 'I owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and father.'
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4. Boxing Analyst: 'Sure there have been injuries, and even some deaths in boxing, but none of them really that serious.'
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5. Softball announcer: 'If history repeats itself, I should think we can expect the same thing again.'
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6. Basketball analyst: 'He dribbles a lot and the opposition doesn't like it. In fact you can see it all over their faces.'
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7. At the rowing medal ceremony: 'Ah, isn't that nice, the wife of the IOC president is hugging the cox of the British crew.'
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8. Soccer commentator: 'Julian Dicks is everywhere. It's like they've got eleven Dicks on the field.'
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9. Tennis commentator: 'One of the reasons Andy is playing so well is that, before the final round, his wife takes out his balls and kisses them... Oh my God, what have I just said?'

Sept 11th Is 'ere Again; Shall We Kill Its Ugly 'ead for Good?

So here we are on the day of the worst incident on US soil. Who are the perpetrators and why is a very strong debate amongst many. At the same time, brings sad memories for the relatives of the people who died and injured. I do not know why, but as uncomfortable it can be I like to write some to bring inaccuracies of the reported account.

First I like to bring the account of the planned defence of US by it's defence program and why it failed badly.

Let us take Mr Rumsfeld's eerie predictions shall we? The day before this on the 10th Sept Mr Rumsfeld admitted to the press that over 3 trillion dollars are missing from the Pentagon funds.

More money for the Pentagon, CBS News Correspondent Vince Gonzales reports, while its own auditors admit the military cannot account for 25 percent of what it spends.

"According to some estimates we cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions," Rumsfeld admitted.

$2.3 trillion — that's $8,000 for every man, woman and child in America. To understand how the Pentagon can lose track of trillions, consider the case of one military accountant who tried to find out what happened to a mere $300 million.

"We know it's gone. But we don't know what they spent it on," said Jim Minnery, Defense Finance and Accounting Service.

Minnery, a former Marine turned whistle-blower, is risking his job by speaking out for the first time about the millions he noticed were missing from one defense agency's balance sheets. Minnery tried to follow the money trail, even crisscrossing the country looking for records.

"The director looked at me and said 'Why do you care about this stuff?' It took me aback, you know? My supervisor asking me why I care about doing a good job," said Minnery.

He was reassigned and says officials then covered up the problem by just writing it off.

"They have to cover it up," he said. "That's where the corruption comes in. They have to cover up the fact that they can't do the job."

The Pentagon's Inspector General "partially substantiated" several of Minnery's allegations but could not prove officials tried "to manipulate the financial statements."

Twenty years ago, Department of Defense Analyst Franklin C. Spinney made headlines exposing what he calls the "accounting games." He's still there, and although he does not speak for the Pentagon, he believes the problem has gotten worse.

"Those numbers are pie in the sky. The books are cooked routinely year after year," he said.

Another critic of Pentagon waste, Retired Vice Admiral Jack Shanahan, commanded the Navy's 2nd Fleet the first time Donald Rumsfeld served as Defense Secretary, in 1976.

In his opinion, "With good financial oversight we could find $48 billion in loose change in that building, without having to hit the taxpayers."
 

From CBS Evening News.

And we know that Flight 77, allegedly piloted by an incompetent, made an aerobatic, spiralling descent over Washington, effecting a 270-degree turn to strike the Pentagon from a western approach at ground level. The side struck was the only one with an exterior wall hardened against attack, and was relatively empty while renovation continued.

From The Pittsburg Post Gazette, December 20, 2001: "One Army office in the Pentagon lost 34 of its 65 employees in the attack. Most of those killed in the office, called Resource Services Washington, were civilian accountants, bookkeepers and budget analysts. They were at their desks when American Airlines Flight 77 struck."

The Arlington County After-Action Report noted that the "impact area included both the Navy operations center and the office complex of the National Guard and Army Reserve. It was also the end of the fiscal year and important budget information was in the damaged area." And Insight Magazine editorialized that "the Department of the Army, headed by former Enron executive Thomas White, had an excuse [for not making a full accounting]. In a shocking appeal to sentiment it says it didn't publish a "stand-alone" financial statement for 2001 because of "the loss of financial-management personnel sustained during the Sept. 11 terrorist attack."
 

 How much of this is true no one will know for atleast 100 years. Even then they will stay buried for the good of the nation. Ha! But for theory of conspiracy this is high lark. If you like to see the whole article go here please.

This 2.6 trillion did not happen on the 10th Sept 2001. It has been debated right through 2000 to 2001. Lets see what was said and when. On February 12, 2001;   "How much does it take to run the U.S. military? Gwen Ifill discusses military spending with four experts."

JOHN ISAACS........... There's still huge accounting problems in the Pentagon. They don't even know how much money they have or are spending. The inspector general of the Pentagon said there are 2.3 trillion dollars in items that they can't quite account for. That's not billion. That's trillion dollars. $2.3 trillion -- and the General Accounting Office said there are about $27 billion in inventory items that they can't find. It's not a matter of money -- if the review just results war money put into the pentagon we'll be going in the wrong direction. It's time to move back.

 

According to 2001 predicted defence budget the total is $ 305,421 million. So to get to 2,3 trillion it must have gone for years before, and that means Clinton era and before. The fact is; that was very unfortunate that the announcement by Rumsfeld came the day before. Then comes another fact: the Pentagon had all the secrets and was destroyed files, computers and most precious the people who accounted for the Gov. I have not come across this before. Most probably this was buried for a few years.

Is United Nations Biased?

I always wondered about this dilemma of the UN. So I did a bit of digging and this is what I found about it. Sorry if I made UN look smaller by calling UN 'it'. I should have used 'them' instead init?

Copied from wikipedia:

The United Nations (abbreviated UN in English, and ONU in French and Spanish), is an international organisation whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace. The UN was founded in 1945 after World War II to replace the League of Nations, to stop wars between countries, and to provide a platform for dialogue. It contains multiple subsidiary organisations to carry out its missions.

There are 193 nations except of course Vatican City. They do not sit with the common people. Any way I am not going to bore you with all the details as you can read it here and here. But do not forget that WHO is part of the UN.

Back in 2009 I copied a list of killings and massacres, Zionists. It starts like this:


June 30, 1924. According to Israeli journalists Shlomo Nakdimon and Shaul Mayzlish, Dutch Jew Jacob Israël de Haan was assassinated by Avraham Tehomi on the orders of Haganah leader Yitzhak Ben-Zvi for his anti-Zionist political activities and contacts with Arab leaders.

Now these are known facts you can find from any search engine in the net. The fact is that the people who did the killings are known and very few of them were taken to a court of law. Some are acts of treason like this one:

January 11, 1941 a letter by Lehi, which would be later referred to as the Ankara document, was sent from Vice Admiral Ralf von der Marwitz, the German Naval attaché in Ankara, depicting an offer to "actively take part in the war on Germany's side" in return for German support for "the establishment of the historic Jewish state on a national and totalitarian basis, bound by a treaty with the German Reich."The letter was signed by Avraham Stern and the later Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Fil...llaboration.jpg


  But if you are not lazy you can go this page. And this blog I copied from atheos blog. The original cannot be read unless invited. Any way here is the link.

Paul Kagame, president of Rwanda, was/is complicit in the civil war in Congo. He and his cohorts made immense amount of money. UN report says so. What the hell did the UN do? You can also check wikipedia for more info on him.

Here is a taste of the article.

In April 2001, he was identified as Tibere Rujigiro in the U.N. Panel of Experts on the Illegal Exploitation of Natural Resources and Other Forms of Wealth in the Democratic Republic of the Congo as one of the figures illegally exploiting Congo's wealth. His implication this time comes in financial contributions to CNDP and appropriation of land.

This brings to light the organisations he is a part of, which include but are not limited to the Rwanda Development Board, the Rwandan Investment Group, of which he is the founder, and Kagame's Presidential Advisory Council. They have members as notable as Rev. Rick Warren, business tycoon Joe Ritchie, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Scott Ford of Alltell, Dr. Clet Niyikiza of GlaxoSmithKline, former U.S. President Bill Clinton and many more.

Now the UN is after all sorts of people who has done crimes against  humanity, but do not want to go against the very people who has done these astrocious crimes, and their bedfellows. Do you think we are in the same planet. People of the world wake up. It is getting darker here by the minute. UK gov is going about arresting and giving long term prison sentences to the demonstrators against poverty, but is toothless taking bloody handed Blair into IRC. They block all issues. I don't really know what the American people think about their leaders like Bush. Now my dear calm down.


Do you know what NAM means it is just Non-Aligned Movement (NAM). Do you know what it stands for, what they want to do etc.  No. I did not and I found their website.  For people who do not want to go there, I shall give the gist of it.

In Indonesia they had their first meeting. And this is what the web page starts like.

The Non-Aligned Movement is a Movement of 115 members representing the interests and priorities of developing countries. The Movement has its origin in the Asia-Africa Conference held in Bandung, Indonesia in 1955. The meeting was convened upon the invitation of the Prime Ministers of Burma, Ceylon, India, Indonesia and Pakistan and brought together leaders of 29 states, mostly former colonies, from the two continents of Africa and Asia, to discuss common concerns and to develop joint policies in international relations. Prime Minister Nehru, the acknowledged senior statesman, along with Prime Ministers Sukarno and Nasser, led the conference. At the meeting Third World leaders shared their similar problems of resisting the pressures of the major powers, maintaining their independence and opposing colonialism and neo-colonialism, specially western domination.

 But the wikipedia says this:

The organisation was founded in Belgrade in 1961, and was largely the brainchild of Yugoslavia's president, Josip Broz Tito; Indonesia's first president, Sukarno; Egypt's second president, Gamal Abdel Nasser; Ghana's first president Kwame Nkrumah; and India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. All five leaders were prominent advocates of a middle course for states in the Developing World between the Western and Eastern blocs in the Cold War. The phrase itself was first used to represent the doctrine by Indian diplomat and statesman V.K. Krishna Menon in 1953, at the United Nations.

 5 yrs is nothing. So 2012 they have 120 members according to wiki, but NAM website says 117 members as 2012. Hmmm......init ?

The policy to govern the principles of the movement were first argued and voted for in the next conference held in Cairo in 1961 The criteria for the policy of the movement at Cairo is as follows:

1. The country should have adopted an independent policy based on the coexistence of States with different political and social systems and on non-alignment or should be showing a trend in favour of such a policy.
2. The country concerned should be consistently supporting the Movements for National Independence.
3. The country should not be a member of a multilateral military alliance concluded in the context of Great Power conflicts.
4. If a country has a bilateral military agreement with a Great Power, or is a member of a regional defence pact, the agreement or pact should not be one deliberately concluded in the context of Great Power conflicts.
5. If it has conceded military bases to a Foreign Power the concession should not have been made in the context of Great Power conflicts.

In 2012 NAM held their 16th Summit meeting in Tehran, Iran. 120 Nations took part which included 27 presidents, 2 kings and emirs, 7 prime ministers, 9 vice presidents, 2 parliament spokesmen and 5 special envoys. At the summit, Iran is taking over from Egypt as Chair of the Non-Aligned Movement for the period 2012 to 2015. It was nice and friendly, I heard, until the invited guest Ban Ki Moon, the current UN Sect. General, made his speech. Speech in total can be read in this page. He says this:

Since the last NAM Summit in Sharm-el-Sheikh in 2009, this part of the world has been at the epicentre. Tunisia. Egypt. Libya. Yemen and beyond.

The Arab Spring was not imposed or exported. It did not arise from an external conflict or dispute between states.

It came from within -- from people. People who stood up for a better future.

People who spoke out for universal values.

 I am not sure this man is living on our planet. Egypt, Lybia and Syria, we all know, US, UK etc etc were involved in the uprisings. Even CIA has admitted to it. Not imposed or exported he says. I wonder whether he thinks we all are dumb and ignorant about world issues. Then he goes to Africa and says this:

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the security situation and sexual violence against women remain a source of deep concern. We continue to closely follow the unrest in Mali that has profound implications for the region. I commend the African Union for its firm stand against unconstitutional changes of government.

Now here he is speaking of Congo without a word about Kagami who is the instigator and money man behind Congo conflict. You remember earlier I sited the pages. UN has all the researched papers and they themselves, made a report about it. Here is a report by BBC on the 12 may of this year.

The United Nations says it has evidence that a rebellion in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo is being fuelled by recruits and support from neighbouring Rwanda.

The BBC has seen an internal UN report which accuses Rwanda of complicity in supplying weapons and soldiers to the rebels in DR Congo.

The BBC's Gabriel Gatehouse reports from eastern DR Congo.

This is the UN's own report in 1999. It shows a very badly handled security operations in Rwanda, with the whole of the government members been killed.  And recently US has been naughty again according to this report.

The United States has been accused of blocking a UN report which examines claims that Rwanda is fuelling a violent rebellion in neighbouring Democratic Republic of the Congo.

The Congolese government said the UN group of experts' report is being stalled by Rwanda and its allies on the security council to protect President Paul Kagame.

Rwanda vehemently denies that it is sending fighters and weapons across the border. Kagame rebuked Congo and said it should take responsibility.

Kagame with friends like Blair and Clintons can easily do things we cannot even think about huh?  At the same time you cannot ignore the fact that people who live in this world are not properly made to understand. Boffins come out with big words to confuse us, common people. It is like the middle ages, when the religions were written in old languages, which a common man who cannot read will have to understand through the preachers. Now a days the bloody preachers are the teachers, politicians, etc. Media has come to the top of the list. Even the news readers are very good at talking boffin, and for me it is baffoon. Ask any of the news readers whether they understood what they read. 7 out of 10 will say no. That is a statistic, brought out by their own association.

I am as usual rabbiting on and on about UN's biased atmosphere we all complain about. we all think we cannot do sumink about it. But you all can do it. Here is what made me write this obnoxious blog about UN. If you care to read it you understand, someone who is a journalist has got an opening. I say this authour is biased as well. We all are. Read on please.

I am not going to put the whole article here, but this is what a Nambibian resident says about the UN.

The South African forces led by a certain Captain Swanepoel came with helicopter gunships and personnel carriers and attacked the SWAPO military base at Omugulu – gOmbashe and that marked the beginning of the protracted military confrontation with South African colonial forces that ended with the battle of Cuito-Cuanavale in 1988.

The struggle was long and bitter. Throughout the years we organised the struggle at the diplomatic, political and military fronts. For us these fronts were equally critical. In addition to this SWAPO sent students to study in various fields all over the world. It is not possible for me to get into the details of the struggle here, suffice it to say that throughout the years of the liberation struggle our liberation movement grew from strength to strength and we never wavered to fight the enemy effectively at all fronts.

Unfortunately, as is the case everywhere in the world there are known cases of betrayal of the struggle by the puppets and those who collaborated with the colonisers. Namibia could have got its independence in 1979 but that independence was deliberately delayed. We met with the 5 Western Contract Group of countries in New York in that year to finally find ways and means to implement UN Security Council Resolution 435. This Contract Group of Countries were the USA, Canada, France, UK and West Germany all of whom were UN Security Council members at the time.

The South African regime under the leadership of Vorster brought to New York a delegation of its puppets led by Judge Martinus Theunis Steyn as Administrator General of South West Africa (Namibia). These puppets were mostly composed of the members of the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance (DTA) so called interim Government and the leader of their delegation was Administrator-General Steyn.

One wonders how on earth can some people pretend to fight for the independence of Namibia and at the same time be in the delegation led by the same colonizers of the country they pretend to liberate. It defies any logic that any person or organization can be financed by and put in a delegation of the same enemy and colonizer whom such person or organization pretends to fight against. But that was the reality of the political situation in 1979 when we met in New York and other times in Geneva.

At that time in 1979 the South African colonial regime realized that if UN Security Council Resolution 435 will be implemented the SWAPO Party will win all the seats in the parliament therefore there was a need for South Africa to derail the process. It was with this in mind that while we were busy negotiating the implementation of Resolution 435 in New York the South African military forces bombed Cassinga and other places occupied by SWAPO in Angola to derail the process. Unfortunately they succeeded in doing so and the talks ended.

It then took another 10 years before the implementation of Resolution 435 - the years during which South Africa worked hard to create a force in Namibia that will be able to challenge SWAPO at the elections during the implementation of Resolution 435. The South African regime badly needed that time during which it intended to empower its puppets. It was during these 10 terrible years that the South African apartheid regime killed many more Namibians both in the country and in neighbouring countries.

For example the father of my own wife Palastus Shetunyenga was hanged by Koevoet and his family was not allowed to remove his body from the tree on which he was hanged until the body got decomposed. It was so cruel that the family was able only to collect the decomposed component parts of the body under the tree and burry the same.

Amarovu Junias Iita the father of Elizabeth Negumbo the present Chief of Immigration, Ministry of Home Affairs and Immigration, was also beaten to death by Koevoet elements on 16 March 1986 at Uupomako village in Okatana Constituency, Oshana Region. So also David Sheehama the father of our musician Ras Sheehama and many others, the list can go on. It is indeed painful and unfortunate but the truth must be told for generations to come to know what happened in this country of ours.

Among other serious and notorious plots were the attempts by P.W. Botha to divide Angola into South and East Angola. The whole idea was to install puppet Jonas Savimbi as a ruler of Southern Angola. By doing so the South African regime was hoping to prevent SWAPO from entering Namibian from Angola, since Savimbi as the leader of Southern Angola with the help of South Africa would have made sure that SWAPO is prevented from entering Namibia through Southern Angola.

At the same time a puppet administration was to be put into place in Namibia, which was also going to be controlled by South Africa. With a puppet government in Southern Angola and a puppet government in Namibia the Western countries would have given political and diplomatic recognition to the puppet government in Namibia thus making the efforts of the UN to implement Security Council Resolution 435 difficult if not irrelevant all together.

These diabolic schemes were known and Cuban forces instead of being withdrawn were in fact increased with the arrival of massive reinforcements 1987. New military air bases were hurriedly built at Matala and Kahama from which additional air strength was provided. MIG 23 bombers could then use these new air bases to enhance air attacks on South African forces easily. To make things worse for South Africa it became increasingly difficult for that regime to replace the military equipment and planes which the regime was loosing through attacks by the combined forces of Cuba, Angola and SWAPO because no country wanted to be seen supplying weapons to the pariah regime of South Africa openly. Slowly but surely the South African military dominance was becoming weaker.

South Africa could no longer withstand the devastating attacks by Cuban, Angolan and SWAPO forces at Cuto-Cuanavale and the war ended with South Africa being defeated. The diabolic scheme failed and the way was now open for the implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 435. SWAPO came back to Namibia with its arms that it later donated to the NDF when the new army was created.

The abovementioned protracted struggle at different stages produced heroes and heroines of this land of the brave. It is against this background that we all have to reflect and remember all our heroes and heroines on the 26 August – HEROES DAY. These heroes and heroines can be both those who are no more with us and those who are still alive. They need and indeed deserve the respect, appreciation, praise, commendation and admiration of all of us. For those who are no more with us, their blood waters our freedom.

I know the name Steyn comes out in a lot of news. A connection...you find them. I am not biased at the moment. Yes watching a game of cricket played in UK, South Africa v England, I found why that name seems familiar. World's best fast bowler Dale Steyn, who plays for South Africa. He comes from Phalaborwa

I am not the only one who thinks UN is a puppet. There are others. This article writes about the thorn in the arse of Israel Palestine, and the way the Zionists are handling the housing problems.

Israeli officials today reiterated their "outrage" at the United Nations Human Rights Council for deciding to probe illegal settlement activity in the occupied West Bank, adding that they would never cooperate with any probes and would bar any members of the mission from entering the territory.

The UN appointed a panel of three experts to conduct a fact-finding mission on how settlements, illegal under international law, impact the Palestinian civilians living under Israeli occupation.

Israeli official statements blasted the panel as inherently flawed, insisting that any investigation of Israel would have to be "biased" and that the UN should focus its investigations exclusively on "non-democratic countries."

Israel had severed all ties with the human rights council months ago when the notion was initially raised. The probe is expected to focus only on the occupation's impact on Palestinians and not its legality, since there seems to be no real question that the occupation is illegal and that the construction of settlement in occupied territory is a violation of the Geneva Conventions.

                    
Yes we in the UN have to bow down with our tail between our legs huh? The original article bt Haaretz can be read here.

Enjoy a bit of angry people about their problems in utube here.


As the last one of my long - 12 hours of reading and giving you the facts - blog I want to give you much celebrated and vilified former president of South Africa, Mr Thabo Mbeki.  In this very nicely explained article you find Thabo talking about how the UN has abused power to keep the war fires burning in Africa. Here is a taste.

Western countries use the United Nations as a Trojan horse to sideline African initiatives in brokering political dialogue and resolving conflicts in preference for military intervention to foist puppet regimes across the continent, former South African President Thabo Mbeki says.

Speaking to the media in Windhoek, Namibia, this past week, Mbeki said the UN was a willing tool for US interventionist policies and illegal regime change in Africa.

At the same time, Mbeki noted, the African Union is consistently ignored by both the UN and Western countries and lacks the military might to confront NATO.

Mbeki mediated in Cote d`Ivoire from 2004 to 2006, and using his knowledge of the country`s political problems advised the international community on how best to tackle last year`s post-electoral crisis.

That advice was largely ignored by the UN, which joined forces with France and for the first time actually conducted offensive military missions in a member state rather than restrict itself to its peacekeeping role.

Fo the more interested readers I give you the whole article.

Olympics In London

It was a very nice experience we all in UK had during the Olympics time. One timeonly ticket for me as I am getting older now and cannot envisage another Olympics in this country. There was only one little incident the media tried to put it down as one of those things. Yeah but it did happen. The finals of the 100m race. The finalists were all lined up and all set to go....In the silence an empty bottle was thrown right behind the athletes.Luckily no one heard it except the USA own man Gatlin the bronze winner. But he never thought about it. This is the photo of the incident.

Bottle shown with the black arrow in lane 5

In BBC or any UK news of the action where the person was arrested was not shown. But on sky news I saw it, which I did not record. I am not sure whether the person in a white top sitting behind the athletes, threw the bottle. But in my memory it looked like him on Sky News. Check it.

White arrow?

See my funny commentators' gaffs here

Oil, Oil More Oil

There seems to a wee plan by Iraq, Syria and Iran, of a oil pipeline called Pipelineistan. The problem was that was finaced by ther Russian oil company Gazprom

In late 2010, his government signed a memorandum of understanding with Iraq for the construction of two oil and one gas pipeline to carry gas and oil from Iraq’s Akkas and Kirkuk fields, respectively, to the Syrian port of Banias on the Mediterranean Sea. In July 2011 Iranian officials announced a $10 billion gas pipeline deal between Syria, Iraq and Iran that would transport gas from Iran’s South Pars gas field, the world’s biggest, through Iraq to Syria. Also planned was an extension of the AGP from Aleppo, in Syria, to the southern Turkish city of Kilis that could later link to the proposed Nabucco pipeline linking Turkey to Europe, if that pipeline ever materializes.

This is from OpernOil article.

As long as Russia is with Syria the sanctions against Syria is very difficult to enforce. There are off shore bank who put the proverbial spanner in the works. The Wall street journal has been investigating this and you might like to read it.

According to the CIA FactBook the oil production in Syria is 401,000 bbl/day (2010 est.).

In the world Syria comes 32nd in the production chart.

The oil consumption of the country is 292,000 bbl/day (2010 est.). There is barely enough to sell. What other reasons than getting oil is there. Unless of course you find that ther best way to get at the enemy is diviode them. Then get a puppet for a few years and everything goes back to normalities.

Proved reserves of oil is 2.5 billion bbl (1 January 2011 est.) and comes 32nd in the world ranking.

More War Crimes, Now In Syria

I already pointed out that Libyan al Qaeda members are in Turkey, here. And a few other notable blood thirsty character from Libya has moved to Syrian border. That you can read here.

So when I heard about the killing of Syrian officials by the 'Free Syrian Army' last week I am not surprised, but the war mongering Foreign Secretary of not so great Britain and vice president of US are very happy indeed. Champoo time. Non of the Western media put this one in the TV programs of news. But the peace making Russians did. Here is the clip.

I am still shaking after seeing this video for the third time. I live in a peaceful country and I think most of the readers as well. Why do our blood thirsty politicians support these criminals.

This article ends with this.

Such extra-judicial killings might be a sign of things to come if the 17-month uprising against President Bashar AL-Assad spins further out of control.

Asia Times Online correspondent Pepe Escobar told RT that such massacres occur “all the time” in today's Syria.  He believes, however, that summary executions of this nature will push minorities to fight against the rebels.

“I received this video from a source in Arabic, and then I asked for a translation. This is a very important clan in Northern Aleppo.  Some of them were executed in cold blood, this is what this two and a half minute video shows. This is an extended clan. They have like 20,000 brothers, sisters and extended family in this tribal clan,” Escobar said.

“So this means that all of these people, instead of being recruited to the opposition, now they will fight the opposition because they are being executed in cold blood. This explains, among other things, why Christians all over Syria are taking up arms to defend themselves. Because they know if there is a post-Assad controlled [government] by Sunni hardcore elements, including Salafi Jihadists, they are going to be unprotected minorities. At the moment they are protected minorities under the Assad regime," he continued.

You can read the original here.

Expert Advice From Brookings Inc

This is called "Saving Syria: Assessing Options for Regime Change" by Daniel Byman, Michael
Doran, Kenneth Pollack, and Salman Shaikh.

The article starts with the following:

Syria is trapped on a crumbling precipice, and how ever it might fall will entail significant risks for the United States and for the Syrian people.

Why I wonder these boffins think that anyone outside US is a blloody terrorist. Specially the muslims. I know Assad is no angel, but the intel systems in the West is sophisticated enough to see that their borders and within are safe. Ach Don't talk about Sept 11th etc. That was Bush Cheyney 'Pearl Harbour' episode. 50 or years later you will find out, if I am lucky I might as well about what really happened to Twin Towers.

This memo lays out six options for the United States to consider to achieve Asad’s overthrow, should it choose to do so:

1. Removing the regime via diplomacy;
2. Coercing the regime via sanctions and diplomatic isolation;
3. Arming the Syrian opposition to overthrow the regime;
4. Engaging in a Libya-like air campaign to help an opposition army gain victory;
5. Invading Syria with U.S.-led forces and toppling the regime directly; and
6. Participating in a multilateral, NATO-led effort to oust Asad and rebuild Syria.

Yeah I like you to visit this website to read it all.


Now we go back 55 years ago in 1957 to see what British Prime minister Hon H Macmillan and President D Eisonhower planned an attack on Syria. Historians have known that there was a plan but there were no proper documents describing them. You see, Duncan Sandys, Mr Macmillan's defence secretary, kept notes, and they were discovered, may be after 50 year secrecy law-time has passed by, Matthew Jones, a reader in international history at Royal Holloway, University of London.

Part of the "preferred plan" reads: "In order to facilitate the action of liberative forces, reduce the capabilities of the Syrian regime to organise and direct its military actions, to hold losses and destruction to a minimum, and to bring about desired results in the shortest possible time, a special effort should be made to eliminate certain key individuals. Their removal should be accomplished early in the course of the uprising and intervention and in the light of circumstances existing at the time."

The document, approved by London and Washington, named three men: Abd al-Hamid Sarraj, head of Syrian military intelligence; Afif al-Bizri, chief of the Syrian general staff; and Khalid Bakdash, leader of the Syrian Communist party.

 Well even a ten year old can see the similatrities init? Hmmm I wonder how many ten year old's read this blog. LOL. This historical article was pointed by Global Research, but the real article was printed in Guardian news paper during the Iraq war.

More About Syria

Is this the best Zionist move since they got the Palestine. I always wondered why Turkey joined in the wrath agaionst Syria. now I seen the light. I will let you know the secret but read this for a bit.

Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu visited the disputed kurdish area in north Iraq. wonder why as turkey has got problems of their own with PKK. Oil....more of the black stuff. Turkey wants to sign oil contracts with Kurdish Regional Government. This area borders with Iran to the east, Turkey to the Northh and Syria to the West. This is becoming more clear now.

According to the article this was written by Hurriyet Daily News columnist Murat Yetkin on the 7th Aug:

Because Iraq [is] at risk of falling apart. Massoud Barzani, the leader of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in the north of the country, which borders Turkey, has started to sign oil and gas deals with energy giants despite the objection of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki in Baghdad, who refuses to approve a hydrocarbons law to regulate the sharing of oil and gas income. The energy giants have an interest in supplying more oil and gas that is not controlled or is less controlled by Russia and Iran to Western markets; Turkey provides an option under NATO protection for both Iraqi Kurdish and Azeri resources to be transferred further west. The presence of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in the KRG region and its armed campaign is, of course, a pain in the neck and a big obstacle to greater cooperation..

Further he said this:

There are already political and economic actors trying to push Turkey to claim some energy-rich parts of Iraq and Syria, which would mean a regime change such as a federated Turkey, with Kurdish and possibly Arabic members,” which, he conceded, “could drag the whole region into a chain reaction of wars.

Allright thanks for reading this. If you want to read the whole, which is very educational go here please .

What The People Said About Syria (added)

These articles I site here are from the Global Research E-newsletter and others. So I am going back to November of last year (2011).

Yes I remember the "Arab Spring"  concocted by the media and I was really interested in this. Conspiracy theories were rampant those days and it was very difficult to decipher the facts from the rest of the garbage. So I collected some articles in my Gmail account. This article starts like this:

The name "Arab Spring" is a catch phrase concocted in distant offices in Washington, London, Paris, and Brussels by individuals and groups who, other than having some superficial knowledge of the region, know very little about the Arabs. What is unfolding amongst the Arab peoples is naturally a mixed package. Insurgency is part of this package as is opportunism. Where there is revolution, there is always counter-revolution.

The upheavals in the Arab World are not an Arab "awakening" either; such a term implies that the Arabs have always been sleeping while dictatorship and injustice has been surrounding them. In reality the Arab World, which is part of the broader Turko-Arabo-Iranic World, has been filled with frequent revolts that have been put down by the Arab dictators in coordination with countries like the United States, Britain, and France. It has been the interference of these powers that has always acted as a counter-balance to democracy and it will continue to do so.

Before I read this I have seen some articles about the "21st century US of A".  But them were just books. If I believed all of them I will still be believing that atom is  the smallest particle in universe. The teachers never said, that, this information is only at the present moment as we cannot see inside the atom. Damn here I go off track. Do forgive me. to be more enlightened read the rest here.

In Oct 2011 I read an article about what happened in the past. How US, UK and Europe manhandled Latin America to submission. Latin America became enslaved in policies of US, UK and  Europian countries and you and me know what happened. Countries like Venezuela ultimately got rid of the terrorists like World Bank etc. 

The image of Latin America portrayed by the mass media and held by the educated public is a region of frequent coups, periodical revolutions, perpetual military dictatorships, alternating boom and bust economies and an ever-present International Monetary Fund (IMF) dictating economic policy.

In contrast the same opinion makers plus their academic counterparts project images of the United States and the European Union as stable societies, with steady economic growth, incremental expansion of social welfare programs, resolving issues via consensual compromises and practicing sound fiscal policies.

In recent times, the better part of the current decade, these images have taken on the character of ideological dogmas – they no longer correspond to reality. In fact a good argument can be made that the roles have been reversed: the US and EU are in perpetual crises and Latin America, at least most of the major countries, have experienced stability and growth which is the envy (or should be) of Washington pundits and financial commentators. This ‘role reversal’ has been recognized by many US, EU and Asian investors and multinationals, even as respectable journalistic hacks for the Financial Times, NY Times and Wall Street Journal still write about vulnerabilities, imbalances and other weaknesses while grudgingly acknowledging the dynamic growth of the region.

Progressive opinion is equally at fault, focusing on the ‘advances’ of the left regimes but overlooking the underlying dynamics affecting most of the region and thus losing sight of the new points of conflict and contention.

We will proceed to outline the contrasting realities between the crises ridden “North” (US/EU) and the sustained growth of the “South” (South America). The analysis will raise questions of whether the South American experience is transferable to the North and what ‘structural adjustments' would be necessary to pull the US and EU out of the downward spiral of stagnation and violent conflicts which have characterized these regions for the better part of the past decade.

This is a very nicely, unbiasely research gem. please go here to get the best of it. I will add on the rest as I get time.(Cor Blimey said me donkey to the wise man...I managed to get the dxxxxx "Quote" to work salute)

I don't know how much this story has anything to do with the war. But this happened just after the US elections and Obaba went to turkey and addressed the parliament in Turkey. This is reported from Jerusalam, and could be a bit of mud flingimg. Do not forget to see the words like 'allegedly' is thrown in for good measure.

A Syrian national was arrested in connection with a plot to assassinate President Obama during a key speech he is set to deliver tomorrow, a Saudi newspaper claimed today.

      

The newspaper, al-Watan, reported Turkish security services arrested a Turkish resident of Syrian origins Friday who confessed to a plot to stab the U.S. president with a knife during his speech tomorrow to the U.N.'s Alliance of Civilizations summit in Istanbul. The man allegedly told  interrogators he was working with at least three other people to execute his assassination attempt.

Read the rest here in the WorldNetDaily website article here. 

Greenland Ice Cap

It is doom and gloom for all of us according to the scientists. The ice cap in Greenland has melted 97% unprecedently or is it as predicted. The ice cap melts every 150 years, last time was in 1889. The rest is unknown.

For several days this month, Greenland's surface ice cover melted over a larger area than at any time in more than 30 years of satellite observations. Nearly the entire ice cover of Greenland, from its thin, low-lying coastal edges to its two-mile-thick center, experienced some degree of melting at its surface, according to measurements from three independent satellites analyzed by NASA and university scientists.

On average in the summer, about half of the surface of Greenland's ice sheet naturally melts. At high elevations, most of that melt water quickly refreezes in place. Near the coast, some of the melt water is retained by the ice sheet and the rest is lost to the ocean. But this year the extent of ice melting at or near the surface jumped dramatically. According to satellite data, an estimated 97 percent of the ice sheet surface thawed at some point in mid-July.



 

This I got from Nasa website.  To understand about Greenland and it's ice cap i went to wikipedia. Nice reading for a person who lives on higher ground. But for people who live in the areas near the sea it is a very tense situation. The numbers wiki gives about the amount of water stored in the ice cap is not something to laugh at. The people who laughed at climatic scientists will have to sink their heads in shame. wiki says this. but the data is not upto data, as the information above came out yesterday.

Positioned in the Arctic, the Greenland ice sheet is especially vulnerable to climate change. Arctic climate is now rapidly warming and much larger Arctic shrinkage changes are projected. The Greenland Ice Sheet has experienced record melting in recent years and is likely to contribute substantially to sea level rise as well as to possible changes in ocean circulation in the future. The area of the sheet that experiences melting has increased about 16% from 1979 (when measurements started) to 2002 (most recent data). The area of melting in 2002 broke all previous records. The number of glacial earthquakes at the Helheim Glacier and the northwest Greenland glaciers increased substantially between 1993 and 2005. In 2006, estimated monthly changes in the mass of Greenland's ice sheet suggest that it is melting at a rate of about 239 cubic kilometers (57 cu mi) per year. A more recent study, based on reprocessed and improved data between 2003 and 2008, reports an average trend of 195 cubic kilometers (47 cu mi) per year.These measurements came from the US space agency's GRACE (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment) satellite, launched in 2002, as reported by BBC. Using data from two ground-observing satellites, ICESAT and ASTER, a study published in Geophysical Research Letters (September 2008) shows that nearly 75 percent of the loss of Greenland's ice can be traced back to small coastal glaciers.

Please go here to read the rest.

THen I came across an article written some time ago (as I could not find the date of URL: reader's project; find the date please and comment ta), and the article is not very informative but the comment is just ha ha ha. Here it is.

Craig Dillon 4 months ago

The big problem is that we don't really know the processes involved in the melting of such a large ice sheets. If it was just a big block of ice, we could just calculate how long it would take considering different projections of air temperature. But that is NOT the case. Ice sheets are under geologic stresses that make them fracture and flow. Already atmospheric CO2 is at a level not seen since the pliocene, much higher than it was during the Eemian period. Within this century, we will have achieved CO2 levels not seen since the Cretaceous. Greenland will NOT melt in isolation. Antarctica will also melt to some degree.
If we could be confident that it would take 20,000 years to achieve sea level rises of 20 to 80 feet, then we could be complacent about the future. The process would be so slow that cities could easily creep inland as oceans slowly rose.
From what we are seeing now, that does not seem likely. Don't paleoclimate studies show that climate changes have occurred in remarkable short periods? Don't current observations indicate large and growing methane emissions from Arctic Ocean clathrates, which has not happened since the Eocene?

In my lifetime, I have seen Lake Michigan become 10 degrees fahrenheit warmer.
Your optimism is charming, but does not consider significant and profound factors. Considering you are a paleoclimatologist, I can only wonder how much you are receiving from the Cato, Heartland, or other Koch backed institutes to write such a puff piece.

Something in this blogging website is not working. I could not get the bloody "quote" function to work. Since Google took over this lark it has more functions but hilariously But, anyhow, here is the link to the above .
We all believe in what the boffins say. Here is first few paragraphs from,what they said last august.

The entire ice mass of Greenland will disappear from the world map if temperatures rise by as little as 2C, with severe consequences for the rest of the world, a panel of scientists told Congress today.

Greenland shed its largest chunk of ice in nearly half a century last week, and faces an even grimmer future, according to Richard Alley, a geosciences professor at Pennsylvania State University
"Sometime in the next decade we may pass that tipping point which would put us warmer than temperatures that Greenland can survive," Alley told a briefing in Congress, adding that a rise in the range of 2C to 7C would mean the obliteration of Greenland's ice sheet.

The fall-out would be felt thousands of miles away from the Arctic, unleashing a global sea level rise of 23ft (7 metres), Alley warned. Low-lying cities such as New Orleans would vanish.

Bloody awful init? Now read the rest if you want to get more depressed. Here I can give you a website with facts etc.

World Economy

Since 2008 more and more people in the world are fed up of their economic situations. They blame the politicians. But no one blames the bloody banksters. funny huh?

The economic mood is exceedingly glum all around the world. A median of just 27 percent think their national economy is doing well, according to a survey in 21 countries by the Pew Research Center’s Global Attitudes Project. Only in China (83%), Germany (73%), Brazil (65%) and Turkey (57%) do most people report that current national economic conditions are good.

The public mood about the economy has worsened since 2008 in eight of 15 countries for which there is comparable data, while it is essentially unchanged in four others. The Chinese are the lone exception. They have been positive about their economy for the past decade.

Less than a third of Americans (31%) say the U.S. economy is doing well. That figure is up 13 percentage points from 2011. (But it is down 19 points from 2007, the year before the financial crunch began.) A median of just 16% of Europeans surveyed think their economy is performing up to par. That includes just 2% of the Greeks and 6% of the Spanish and Italians. Among Europeans, only the Germans (73%) give their economy a thumbs up. And just 7% of Japanese believe their economy is doing well.

Now if you are like me, you can always read the full report here.

Corporations And Tax US Stylee

I found some remarkable facts about US corporations and how they pay tax. Beleave or not some Corporations just do not pay tax, they get rebates. Ha ha hee hee. Did you know that US corporations pay less tax than the lowest-income Americans?

Some figures below are taken from Think progress conomy website.

Pepco Holdings (–57.6% tax rate), General Electric (–45.3%), DuPont (–3.4%), Verizon (–2.9%), Boeing (–1.8%), Wells Fargo (–1.4%) and Honeywell (–0.7%) These are few of the thirty corporations who got paid rebates totaling nearly 11 million dollars. Their pretax profits were $ 160 million.

– Seventy-eight of the 280 companies paid zero or less in federal income taxes in at least one year from 2008 to 2010…In the years they paid no income tax, these companies earned $156 billion in pretax U.S. profits. But instead of paying $55 billion in income taxes as the 35 percent corporate tax rate seems to require, these companies generated so many excess tax breaks that they reported negative taxes (often receiving outright tax rebate checks from the U.S. Treasury), totaling $21.8 billion. These companies’ “negative tax rates” mean that they made more after taxes than before taxes in those no-tax years.

At the end total figures are corporations paid only 11% tax, and low-income Americans paid 17.5%. If you are reading this, I advice you to become a corporate tax lawyer, and cream it.

And talking about tax in US there is some more dirt.  The combined 2011 federal tax for eight companies, the likes of, IBM , Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Microsoft, Apple and Oracle , Cisco and google. All relied on government and military innovations.

By the way are so called derivatives traded by banks taxed. No. Do you know the amount traded? More than a Quadrillion dollars. Hmmm.

I got these facts from an article in Commom dreams.

Dalai Lama, Mao And Me

As a generation born in 60's I remember my hippy father and mother debating heavily on the subject of China in Tibet. I grew up thinking that Dalai Lama and Tibet to be the down trodden and weak, and supported many petitions, demonstrations against the Chinese gov.

Little did I know that dalai Lama in his younger days was a Communist. Even Wiki page does not say anything about, Dalai Lama being a Maoist Communist. Now Dalai Lama is saying that, "I am a Maoist, and Mao treated me as a son." Need I say more? Is this a new trick by the holy man to become the new friend of China and slowly get independance? High politics is not for the meer mortals. If it is: it would be called another conspiracy theory.

Now how do I know this. Listen to this. And I searched a bit and found out a bit more of this new saga in Chinese politics.

This is from the Asia Times . You might have to mute your sound as there is advetrts which can not be stopped and gets on one's nerves.

The Dalai Lama said he was "attracted by some aspects of Communism," adding that Marxist theory had an "emphasis on equal distribution."

"When I was in China, I learnt Marxist economy theory, which has an emphasis on equal distribution, rather than just profit. Since we human beings created this (economic) problem, we also have the ability to overcome it. In spite of our difficulties, we should not give up our hope...we must keep our self confidence, that is very important," the Dalai Lama said.

  Utube video makes further alligations about the two with the CIA mixed in. According to this, Dalai Lama's Maoist views were considered to be not in line with the Tibetan rebels, against Chinese occupation. These rebels we all know were supported by the US via CIA and later dropped when US started the trade agreements with China.

If you are ready for a bit of confusion; read this and you might be, just like me, wondering where politics ends and politcs begins again. Reincarnation or what? There are few links on that page to see what the freedom fighters think about this. CIA connections. Ahhh! that's another conspiracy theory.

Yo North Americans, Do You Want To Get Depressed

Yeah I read this article and thought. Huh huh I am glad I am not in US. But you my delightful reader of this might like it. And please do forgive me, I said it might depress you. Well it starts like this:

Ever since the beginning of the financial crisis and Quantitative Easing, the question has been before us: How can the Federal Reserve maintain zero interest rates for banks and negative real interest rates for savers and bond holders when the US government is adding $1.5 trillion to the national debt every year via its budget deficits? Not long ago the Fed announced that it was going to continue this policy for another 2 or 3 years. Indeed, the Fed is locked into the policy. Without the artificially low interest rates, the debt service on the national debt would be so large that it would raise questions about the US Treasury’s credit rating and the viability of the dollar, and the trillions of dollars in Interest Rate Swaps and other derivatives would come unglued.

Do you really want to read it huh?  OK here is the link.

Is This Majority's Thinking In US?

“Don't waste any more time or energy on the presidential election than it takes to get to your polling station and pull a lever for a third-party candidate-—just enough to register your obstruction and defiance—and then get back out onto the street. That is where the question of real power is being decided.” Chris Hedges, May 2012

As I am not very first hand in the life of US I have to read second hand thoughts, and I likes 'em. Here is a bucketload of them, check it out if you dare!

Palestinian "Prisoners"

Funny things happen over the world when everyone is involved in other things like Lybia, Syria etc. There are 4600 prisoners in Israel. Most or all of them are held under a 'law' of the horrible Zionist comparable to Germany or any others many years ago. Held without trial. Well US is doing it and why the hell can't they huh? So according to AI etc etc these prisoners are not getting enough medicle attention by Israel. 1,600 according to Israel or 2,500 according to Palestinisns, have gone on hunger strike.

Most notable of them are Thaer Halahleh and Bilal Diab. They are being held under “administrative detention,” a policy that can keep some Palestinian prisoners in custody for months — even years — without charges. No one knows whether these two has been involved in any killings, but they belong to a 'dreaded' terror group called Islamic Jihad.


This is whats happening now, stripped from Prisoner Support etc etc website.

Ramallah, 10 May 2012 – Addameer lawyer Mona Neddaf visited four hunger strikers in Ramleh prison medical clinic today, including Thaer Halahleh, now on his 73rd day of hunger strike.

According to Ms. Neddaf, Thaer’s condition continues to deteriorate. The prison doctor has said to Thaer that he could die at any moment. Thaer has lost significant weight, and now weighs 55 kg. He has exceedingly low blood pressure and his temperature is fluctuating at dangerous levels. In addition to vomiting blood, Thaer is also bleeding from his gums and lips. The prison doctor also told him that he now has an infection in part of his body. Thaer is drinking water, but not taking any vitamins or minerals. Though he is very weak, Ms. Neddaf reported that mentally he is still strong. Thaer was supposed to receive a visit from his family today, but the Israeli Prison Service (IPS) cancelled the visit yesterday.

The health of Mohammad Taj, now on his 54th day of hunger strike, is also at a dangerous level. In addition, Jaafar Azzedine, on his 50th day of hunger strike, reported that he had stopped drinking water for a short period but has started to drink again, with minerals and vitamins. Nidal Shehadeh, who began his hunger strike on 17 April as part of the mass hunger strike, was moved back from a public hospital to Ramleh prison two days prior. He is on hunger strike in protest of receiving inadequate medical treatment while in prison.

Ms. Neddaf noted that all the prisoners on hunger strike in Ramleh prison are in isolated rooms. She further reported that they continue to be threatened by the IPS. Even at this stage of hunger strike, they have been told that if they do not stand for the “daily count”, they will not be permitted lawyer visits.

Addameer fears for the lives of Thaer, Bilal Diab, also on his 73rd day of hunger strike, Hassan Safadi, who is now on his 67th day of hunger strike, Omar Abu Shalal, who is now on his 65th day of hunger strike, and all the other prisoners on hunger strike whose critical conditions are being blatantly disregarded by Israel and the prison authorities. Addameer reiterates its call for immediate action on behalf of the hunger strikers.

My question is there are 4600 prisoners and why there are only 1600/2500 taking part. If I am a Palestinian person. I will try to forget about my differences with other Pal people and go against the common Zionist enemy. I have spoken via email to a few Pal people and they all have different views on the subject of oppression. And they hate other Pal people of other sects. Almighty UK has been good at dividing people in that area and it is still happening.

19th May; At last the IPS and the Palestinian prisoners have met, come to an agreement. Yes the hnger strike has ended. This is from the Prisoner Support Webpage.

Ramallah, 15 May 2012 – After nearly a full month of fasting, around 2,000 Palestinian political prisoners ended last night their mass hunger strike upon reaching an agreement with the Israeli Prison Service (IPS) to attain certain core demands. Addameer lauds these achievements of the prisoners’ movement and can only hope that Israel will implement any policy changes in good faith. Addameer especially commends those individuals who engaged in open hunger strike for over two months, displaying remarkable steadfastness in the struggle for their most basic rights.

The demands raised in the collective hunger strike, which was launched on 17 April, included an end to the IPS’ abusive use of isolation for “security” reasons, which currently affects ­­­­19 prisoners, some of whom have spent 10 years in isolation, and a repeal of a series of punitive measures taken against Palestinian prisoners following the capture of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, including the denial of family visits for all Gaza prisoners since 2007 and denial of access to university education since June 2011. Prisoners also called for an end to Israel’s practice of detaining Palestinians without charge or trial in administrative detention. Eight prisoners, including five administrative detainees, had already begun their hunger strikes as early as the end of February.

The details of the agreement signed last night by the prisoners’ committee representing the hunger strikers was recounted today to Addameer lawyer Fares Ziad in his visit to Ahed Abu Gholmeh, who is a member of the committee, and to Addameer lawyer Mahmoud Hassan during his visit to Ahmad Sa’adat in Ramleh prison medical clinic, who conveyed what he was told last night when members of the committee came to Ramleh to announce the end of the hunger strike.

According to Ahed Abu Gholmeh, the nine members of the hunger strike committee met yesterday with a committee consisting of IPS officials and Israeli intelligence officers and determined the stipulations of their agreement. The written agreement contained five main provisions: the prisoners would end their hunger strike following the signing of the agreement; there will be an end to the use of long-term isolation of prisoners for “security” reasons, and the 19 prisoners will be moved out of isolation within 72 hours; family visits for first degree relatives to prisoners from the Gaza Strip and for families from the West Bank who have been denied visits based on vague “security reasons” will be reinstated within one month; the Israeli intelligence agency guarantees that there will be a committee formed to facilitate meetings between the IPS and prisoners in order to improve their daily conditions; there will be no new administrative detention orders or renewals of administrative detention orders for the 308 Palestinians currently in administrative detention, unless the secret files, upon which administrative detention is based, contain “very serious” information.

For the five administrative detainees on protracted hunger strikes, including Bilal Diab and Thaer Halahleh, who engaged in hunger strike for a miraculous 77 days, their administrative detention orders will not be renewed and they will be released upon the expiration of their current orders. These five have been transferred to public hospitals to receive adequate healthcare during their fragile recovery periods. In regards to Israel’s practice of administrative detention as a whole, Ahmad Sa’adat further noted that the agreement includes limitations to its widespread use in general. Addameer is concerned that these provisions of the agreement will not explicitly solve Israel’s lenient and problematic application of administrative detention, which as it stands is in stark violation of international law.

Addameer has observed that Israel has consistently failed to respect the agreements it executes with Palestinians regarding prisoners’ issues. For this reason, it will be essential for all supporters of Palestinian political prisoners to actively monitor the events of the next few months to ensure that this agreement is fully implemented. As a human rights organization committed to the international standards of the rights of prisoners, Addameer will also continue to monitor closely the conditions inside Israeli prisons in order to assure that conditions meet compliance with international human rights and humanitarian law.

On the day commemorating 64 years since the Palestinian Nakba, it is regrettable that it has taken the near-starvation of Palestinian political prisoners en masse to call attention to their plight; it is therefore imperative to take this opportunity to not only applaud their achievements but also to push forward lobbying efforts on their behalf and demand a just and permanent resolution for their cause. Addameer extends its utmost gratitude to the dedicated activists and institutions, including members of civil society and the diplomatic community, who have supported the Palestinian prisoners in their campaign for dignity.

I do hope the Palestinians forget there own damned differences and unite to get freedom for themselves. Otherwise.............. we don't want to go there do we.