Saturday, 26 February 2011
THE SAGA OF THE MERCENARY SOLDIER, PART II
Mercenaries are in the headlines again; Qaddafi's personal foreign legion are basically a pack of thugs from Zimbabwe.
Suspected African mercenaries stand in a room in a court in Benghazi as they are held by anti-Qaddafi protesters, February 24, 2011
. . . they are heathen savages, capable of the most horrific atrocities. To call them barbarians is an insult to all barbarians everywhere . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . STORMBRINGER
Iraq: Where's The Gratitude?............by Dan Friedman
The WSJ reports that now Iraq has joined the Arab uprising sweeping the Middle East. That’s right, the people we fought and died for in order to give them a democracy are using their democracy to rise up against it. In turn, Iraq’s democratic” government is employing many of the same repressive techniques that we’ve seen in Libya, Egypt and Iran. The whole thing is almost too much irony for my system to stand. df
Iraqi Crowds Air Grievances
News...........
Arizona Lawmakers May Make Colt Official State Gun
Letter from Kabul: The Afghan Bank Heist
Boeing Wins U.S. Air Force Tanker Battle
Zumba banned after Oz Education Department building shakes violently
Ivory Coast close to civil war
High risk banks likely to fail in US
Average Wall Street bonus falls to $128,530
Predicting the next regime to topple
Now, a password for your vehicle
Wealthiest presidents: Father George, JFK, TR
Forces tech their toll on Taliban
Dunkirk? No, it's more like Carry On Follow That Camel
The foolish cuts that leave us defenceless
British forces would struggle to mount small military intervention, claim officers
Exposed: Gaddaffi Inc.
Russian jailed for selling fighter jets for £3
Russia to build Bangladesh's first nuclear plant
Oppression in Libya: A Peek at the Inner Workings of Gadhafi's Dictatorship
Al-Qaida's Embarrassment: Revolutions Mark Setback for Terror Group
IAEA reports new intelligence on Iranian nuclear weapon
and finally..........
Breasts and Legs: Duck and Goose cooking
Who owns "US?"..............from Rico
WHO owns US debt today?
Congratulations! The privately-owned foreign banking entity a.k.a. "The FED" apparently does, having surpassed China...handily...by achieving ownership of US Treasurys 37% greater than China! Huzzah!
Now, there are very few things that the FED really has direct control over, and the one certain thing you can point to is our Adjusted Monetary Base. This is what it looks like today. Fugly! Almost as fugly as the FED's Balance Sheet.
Let's return to my original question, just from a different prespective. Ask NOT who owns US debt, but who now owns "us" (we the people)?
Friday, 25 February 2011
The Missing Ingredient in Obama’s Witches’ Brew.........by Dan Friedman
I am not one who subscribes to the theory that Obama is creating crises in order to manipulate them. For one thing, Obama is not that smart. And more important, the theory is in the realm of the occult, impossible to prove. And if it’s impossible to prove it’s a diversion and a waste of time - especially when Obama serves up blatant debacles every day that are visible to the naked eye.
Here’s one that’s in the queue working its way to the front of the line now: Hezbollah and/or Hamas start a war with Israel. When you come to think of it, the timing couldn’t be better. The imaginary “peace process” has been sent to the hospice and the Arabs have been unable to gain an inch of Jewish ground. Normally, this in itself should create enough anger for Iran’s proxies to abandon restraint and lose their self-control. But when you add the chaos already in the background and Obama’s clear message that he’s still on the Arab side of the Israeli-Arab conflict, then you’ve created an opportunity that’s too good for Israel’s enemies in Gaza and Lebanon to pass up.
I predicted that the last two years of Obama’s first term would see his mistakes abroad eclipse our concerns about how he is screwing up at home. I’m off to good start. My fervent wish is that the Tea Party will notice, then broaden their myopic agenda to include the mess Obama is making of our “foreign entanglements.”
News...............
Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up, Feb. 24th
Around the World in 80 Lines - Or Less
General Ordered Intelligence Team to Use Jedi Mind Tricks on U.S. Senators
Obama stimulus bill has new price tag
The Swiss have the right idea about firearms
Student accused of plotting to bomb Bush home
Jimmy Carter consoled Helen Thomas last summer after controversial remarks
Gaddafi's son leaves father to join protesters
Mosque surveillance a must
Flexisexuals: Straight women who kiss girls and like it too
Basic Instinct scene is most-paused
Prostitutes ply trade near dangerous buildings
Porn Crackers: Britons tongue-tied over takeaway
London shop to make breast milk ice cream
Why do women have casual sex?
Makes you proud to be British! As the Libyan rescue finally limps into action, Cameron and Hague apologise for fiasco, Clegg admits he forgot he was in charge and a minister gaffes over the SAS
How can we be so blindly stupid as to sell arms to despots then bleat about democracy?
Libya: Gaddafi's billions to be seized by Britain
Navy cuts will put lives at risk, warn Forces chiefs
Accidents at MoD cost £20m, including man burned by Christmas pud
Russian rearmament: Moscow fears China and Islamist insurgents
Moscow's purchase of French warships causes panic from Washington to Tokyo
Pakistani intelligence service warns relationship with CIA is at breaking point
Col Gaddafi's son 'in hiding on Venezuelan island'
The Precarious Rebellion: Eastern Libya's Taste of Freedom Tainted by Fear
and finally.........
Cracking the problem of hydrogen-fuel future by little Jimmy May
9 of the most secretly creepy breakfast cereal mascots
Awwwww
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