Archive for January 9th, 2008
Egypt:H5N1, 25 patients per day have been hospitalized for the past several days
Egypt:H5N1, 25 patients per day have been hospitalized for the past several days
H5N1 Transfers to Cairo Unclear
Recombinomics
January 7, 2008
A 23-year-old woman has escaped from a hospital in Egypt after being preliminary diagnosed with a deadly bird flu virus, local media reported on Monday.The woman was hospitalized last week with high temperature in the town of Tahta in the Upper Egyptian Sohag Governorate. She fled the hospital following the doctors’ decision to transfer her to a special clinic.The above comments describe one of the many suspected H5N1 patients hospitalized in Egypt.
About 25 patients per day have been hospitalized for the past several days, and their current status remains unclear (see satellite map for detail and locations). Although some patients have tested negative for H5N1, many are still being held at local infectious disease hospitals for further testing. Local media reports describe plans for transfer of confirmed cases to the Abbassia Fever Hospital in Cairo.Although the number of hospitalized patients and clusters has been high, there have been no confirmed cases announced in the past week.
The above case may be one patient who was slated fro transfer to Cairo. The number of patients who have been transferred remains unclear. Details on the number of such patients and their condition would be useful.
http://www.recombinomics.com/News/01070803/H5N1_Egypt_Transfers.html
UFO Files: Black Box UFO Secrets Revealed
UFO Files: Black Box UFO Secrets Revealed
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Pas d’emploi dans la nouvelle économie, ni dans l’ancienne
Pas d’emploi dans la nouvelle économie, ni dans l’ancienne
Décembre n’a apporté aucun emploi aux Étasuniens. Tout au contraire, le secteur privé a perdu 13.000 postes par rapport au mois précédent.
Si décembre donne un signe avant-coureur sur la nouvelle année, elle va être mauvaise. L’année dernière, saluée par les propagandistes républicains et les économistes du « libre-échange » comme la preuve que la mondialisation bénéficie aux Étasuniens, a été maussade. Selon les données des listes de personnel non agricole du Bureau des Statistiques du Travail, la « super économie » des États-Unis a créé le nombre misérable de 1.054.000 nouveaux emplois nets en 2007. (BLS Job Numbers, 5 janvier 2008)
Même cette valeur est insuffisante pour entretenir la croissance de la population, et les Étasuniens découragés, incapables de trouver un job, laissent tomber de force le travail, faisant par conséquent monter le taux du chômage à 5%.
Au cours de la dernière année, les industries de production de biens étasuniennes, continuant sur leur longue tendance, ont perdu 374.000 postes.
Mais la production de ces choses appartenait à la « vieille économie. » La « nouvelle économie » procure des services. L’année dernière, 1.428.000 boulots de services ont été créés dans le secteur privé.
Le propagandistes du « libre-échange » ont-ils raison sur le fait que les emplois de service, qui sont notre avenir, sont ceux de haut de gamme dans la recherche et le développement, l’innovation, l’entreprise capitaliste, la technologie de l’information, la haute finance, et les sciences et l’ingénierie, dans lesquels les États-Unis auraient une telle pénurie de scientifiques et d’ingénieurs qu’on devraient les importer de l’étranger avec des visas de travail ?
Non, selon les statistiques officielles de l’emploi.
Quelles professions fournissent les 1,4 millions postes de service en 2007 ?
Les serveuses et les barmen en représentaient 304.200, soit 21% des nouveaux boulots de service de l’année dernière et 29% des nouveaux emplois nets.
Les soins de santé et d’assistance sociale en constituaient 478.400, soit 33% des nouveaux jobs de service et 45% des nouveaux emplois nets. Les soins de santé mobiles et les hôpitaux en justifiaient la part du lion.
Les professionnels et les affaires de services en représentaient 314.000, soit 22% des nouveaux boulots de service et 30% des nouveaux emplois nets. Est-ce que ces professionnels et ces jobs de services sont les emplois haut de gamme dont parlent les « libre-échangistes » ? Jugez par vous-même. Les services à la construction et à l’habitation représentent 53.600 postes. Les services de comptabilité en justifient 60.500. L’architecture et l’ingénierie en représentent 54.700. La conception de systèmes informatiques et les services apparentés justifient 70.400 emplois. Le conseil en gestion en représente 88.400.
Il y avait davantage d’emplois pour les préposés hospitaliers que pour les architectes et les ingénieurs. Les serveuses et les barmen représentaient l’année dernière un plus grand nombre de nouveaux jobs que l’ensemble des professionnels et des affaires de services.
Le commerce de gros et de détail, le transport et les services publics représentaient 181.000 nouveaux emplois en 2007.
Où sont les autres nouveaux emplois ? Quelques-uns sont éparpillés dans les arts, les divertissements et les loisirs, la réparation et la maintenance, le personnel et le service de blanchissage, et chez les membres d’associations et d’organisations.
C’est tout.
Gardez à l’esprit que les 374.000 postes perdus qui produisaient des biens doivent être soustraits des 1.428.000 nouveaux boulots de service pour arriver au chiffre net des emplois gagnés. Les nouveau jobs de services représentent plus de 100% des nouveaux emplois nets.
Gardez à l’esprit aussi que bon nombre de nouveaux postes ne sont pas occupés par des citoyens Étasuniens. Beaucoup d’emplois d’ingénierie et scientifiques sont occupés par des étrangers faits entrer avec des visas de travail. Les Indiens et les autres étrangers peuvent être embauchés pour travailler à un tiers de moins que le salaire étasunien. Les emplois d’ingénierie et scientifiques qui sont délocalisés sont payés un peu moins d’un cinquième du salaire étasunien. Même les infirmières étrangères sont embauchées avec des visas de travail. Nul ne sait combien de préposés hospitaliers sont des clandestins.
Quelle super nouvelle économie les Étasuniens ont ! La croissance de l’emploi a décidément une saveur tiers-mondiste. Un très faible pourcentage des nouveaux postes de l’année 2007 exigent une formation supérieure. Depuis qu’il y a si peu d’emplois pour les diplômés universitaires, quelle est « la réponse de l’enseignement » ?
Où sont les avantages de la délocalisation pour les Étasuniens ? La réponse est : Les profits sont réservés à un très petit nombre de cadres, qui reçoivent des primes de plusieurs millions de dollars pour accroître les bénéfices en délocalisant les emplois. Le reste du fric va aux escrocs de Wall Street, qui ont vendu à des gens pleins de confiance les produits dérivés du subprime (emprunt à haut risque).
Les « libre-échangistes » prétendent que le bénéfice est dans les prix bas de Wal-Mart (une chaîne de supermarchés bon marchés). Mais les prix sont bas uniquement parce que la Chine maintient sa monnaie arrimée au dollar. De cette manière, la valeur de la monnaie chinoise chute avec celle du dollar. Cette indexation ne durera pas éternellement. Le dollar a perdu 60% de sa valeur par rapport à l’euro durant les années du régime Bush. Déjà, la Chine est en train d’ajuster le cours de sa monnaie. Quand le yuan sera désarrimé du dollar, les clients de Wal-Mart penseront qu’ils sont chez Neiman Marcus (une sorte de Fauchon à l’étasunienne).
Tout comme les Étasuniens ont été trahis par « leurs » dirigeants à tous les niveaux du gouvernement, ils ont été trahis par les « leaders » des affaires à Wall Street et dans les entreprises. Les élitistes du gouvernement et des entreprises se sont avérées être les pires ennemis des Étasuniens eux-mêmes.
Paul Craig Roberts fut Secrétaire Adjoint au Trésor dans l’administration Reagan. Il est l’auteur de Supply-Side Revolution : An Insider’s Account of Policymaking in Washington, Alienation and the Soviet Economy et Meltdown: Inside the Soviet Economy, et est coauteur avec Lawrence M. Stratton de The Tyranny of Good Intentions : How Prosecutors and Bureaucrats Are Trampling the Constitution in the Name of Justice.
Clic ici pour l’entrevue [en anglais] de Peter Brimelow de Forbes Magazine avec Roberts au sujet de la récente épidémie d’inconduite des procureurs.
Original : http://www.vdare.com/roberts/080107_jobs.htm
Traduit au mieux par Pétrus Lombard pour Alter Info
James Petras: Israel Attacks Intelligence
James Petras: Israel Attacks Intelligence
The NIE and the US Military have struck a blow against the planners of World War III. Will this lift the US Congress off its collective knees to finally address US interests in the Middle East?By James Petras
Special to PalestineChronicle.com“The most important thing (sic) that should be said about Bush is that had I told him that I was opposed to this move (Annapolis meeting), he wouldn’t have embarked on it. I could have blocked the move. Had I been unwilling to co-operate with him, Bush wouldn’t have coerced me….I spoke to the President with unparalleled sharpness about these matters (bombing Iran’s nuclear facilities) and my comments were extremely well received – regarding the freedom (to bomb Iran) we are reserving for ourselves and what we will and won’t do. — Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in Haaretz November 29, 2007.Introduction
During and immediately after the Annapolis meetings to discuss peace, Israel abducted the student president of Beir Zeit University for dissent, launched over 50 attacks on Gaza killing and wounding over 50 Palestinian civilians, police and militia, set in motion a vast building project of 250 new apartments in Palestinian East Jerusalem, projected permanent Israeli military posts in the West Bank, rejected any time limits or specific goals in their negotiations with the PLO and launched a virulent dismissal of the major US intelligence report (National Intelligence Estimate) on the non-existence of an Iranian nuclear weapons program.
Israel’s presence at Annapolis had absolutely nothing to do with peace or promises to negotiate in good faith: Their purpose was to deflect attention from their meat-grinder style genocidal policies in Gaza and their relentless drive to savagely dispossess all Palestinians of any territory or semblance of autonomy, literally turning off the lights (energy), gas and water to 1.4 million Palestinians residing in Gaza. Since September 11, 2001 the Israeli state, Zionists inside the US government and the entire leadership of the Major American Jewish Organizations have been entirely devoted to pushing the US into Middle East wars on behalf of Israel. In the run-up to the Iraq War, Zionists in top strategic decision-making positions in the Pentagon, the Vice President’s Office, the White House and the National Security Council designed and executed war policy, fabricated evidence, wrote Presidential speeches, organized press conferences and presidential agendas, purged critics in the military and intelligence agencies and altered intelligence reports to suit their purposes.
Israeli and Zion-Con success in destroying Iraq however was secured at an enormous cost in US military casualties, demoralization and one trillion dollars (and counting) in cost to the US taxpayers. As a result, public opinion dramatically shifted against the war, despite the intervention of the Israeli regime in shaping US public opinion via its army of ‘Israel-First’ academic and journalistic scribes and propagandists with broad access to the US mass media.
As I pointed out in an earlier article, the devastating effects, which the Israeli-Zioncon-promoted Iraq War has had on the US military, and intelligence agencies, led to widespread opposition within the US state to the Israeli-Zionist push for mounting a new war against Iran. This historic struggle over Iran policy split the top echelons of the Washington policy making. On the one hand, the Israeli Firsters controlled or influenced the White House, the majority of Congress and key Congressional committee chairpersons, the financing of both major political parties, the leading presidential candidates and the bulk of the mass media. The opposition was led by senior active and retired military officers, backed by the great majority of middle level officers and ground troops, especially the reserves. The entire range of top intelligence officials were disgusted by the ‘Israel Firsters’ in the Pentagon because of their distortion of their previous reports and fabrication of ‘intelligence’ via newly invented agencies and their reliance on Israeli disinformation over US intelligence.
This monumental struggle within the government was not merely about US military policy toward Iran (which is crucial) but also about who rules the US, who commands the US military and who formulates intelligence reports that inform policy, and more basically whose interests are being served. The military command in the Middle East, led by Admiral William Fallon, came out publicly opposing the Israeli-Fifth Column policy to bomb Iran. The active commanders were meekly backed by the rubber-spined Defense Secretary, Robert Gates, and surreptitiously (at first) by the top intelligence chiefs. The Zion-Cons retaliated by launching the White House and Congress in a crusade to escalate economic sanctions and to ‘keep the military option’ on the table. Every major Israel-First academic and propaganda think tank followed up the Israeli war planning with a wave of op-ed articles and interviews throughout the mass media about Iran’s immediate nuclear threat. The President, who does nothing contrary to Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert (as trumpeted by Olmert himself), pronounced an apocalyptic message to the world in October 2007 (six weeks before the National Intelligence Estimate was finally released) proclaiming the advent of ‘World War Three’ against Iran’s nuclear weapons program and the threat of a nuclear attack (a ‘holocaust’) by Iran against the people of the US and Israel.
The White House was privy to the findings in the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iran at least 9 months before they were made public, as witnessed by President Cheney’s frequent interventions to alter their content and conclusion and repeated efforts to postpone their publication because it undermined the basis for their push to attack Iran. The Israeli government and its US Fifth Column, well aware of the forthcoming publication of the findings of sixteen top US intelligence agencies, did everything in their power to precipitate a US war with Iran, from issuing hair-raising tales of the ‘existential threats to Israel’s survival’ to encouraging, rousing bellicose speeches by AIPAC, Zionist and Jewish community leaders. Israel went to war with Iran’s ally (Hezbollah) in Lebanon, bombed Syria which has a mutual security pact with Iran, escalated Israeli-trained Kurdish terrorist attacks across the Iranian border in order to provoke Iranian retaliation – to no avail. AIPAC and its Congressional allies led by Israeli-US Senator Lieberman pulled all stops to force a conflict, increasing sanctions against bankers and corporations dealing with Iran and even labeling the Iranian military special force, the ‘Republican Guards’ as an illegal ‘terrorist organization’ and thus an automatic target of US military attacks under the doctrine of the ‘War against Terror’. The hyper-activity, the vicious military attacks, the strident rhetoric against all critics of the military option, and the urgency, with which the Israelis and their US supporters acted, was not due to any imminent Iranian nuclear threat but a desperate effort to precipitate the war before the US NIE became public and undermined their entire war propaganda campaign and military preparations for an attack.
The NIE findings temporarily closed the book on the White House-Israeli-Zionist Big Lie that Iran was engaged in developing weapons to launch a nuclear war. The NIE report refuted its own previous conclusions of 2005, which were heavily influenced by the White House and its Zionist-Israeli backers. The reversal of conclusions was not based on ‘new data’ or information techniques as is claimed. The change resulted from a dramatic shift in the balance of forces within the US government and in particular the strengthening of the US military elite versus the pro-war Zionist Power Configuration, a shift shaped by the enormous and unending American losses in Iraq and Afghanistan.
A key factor in pushing the US intelligence agencies to break with their past subjugation to White House manipulation and Israeli-Zionist fabricated intelligence was the repeated failures and incredible stupidity of the Israeli intelligence agencies – leading to a loss of their credibility. Israeli intelligence blundered and miscalculated on Hezbollah’s strength and organization which led to a debacle when Israel invaded Lebanon in the summer of 2006. Israeli estimates on Iraqi capacity to resist invasion and foreign occupation (so eagerly accepted and propagated by top Zionist Pentagon officials in the lead up to the invasion) led to the now 6 years of a US war of attrition in Iraq with no end in sight. Israel’s intelligence totally underestimated Hamas’ electoral strength in the run-up to their electoral victory over the PLO. Israeli intelligence overestimated the PLO’s military capacity to defeat and destroy Hamas in Gaza. Israel’s claim to have detected a nuclear facility in Syria, which it bombed, was an international joke – as even Moses could not have destroyed a (fictional) nuclear facility without producing a speck of radioactive dust! Learning from Israeli intelligence agencies’ tendency to feed disinformation to its clients in the US Government in order to further Greater Israel’s claims to Mid-East hegemony at the expense of Washington’s long term interests, the US national intelligence community asserted its independence and published its report denying each and every Israeli-Zionist-White House assertion concerning Iran’s nuclear weapons program and, in particular, pointing to the end of research into nuclear weapons as far back as the fall of 2003.
Israel Rejects the US NIE
While governments, the United Nations and experts around the world recognized the rigorous, systematic, comprehensive methods used to compile the data leading to the report declaring that Iran was free of nuclear weapons programs, one and only one state objected: The Jewish State of Israel. And in the USA only one nationwide configuration of organizations refused to reconcile itself to the absence of any Iranian military threat to Israel (not to speak of the US, a distant secondary consideration) and that was predictably the Zionist Power Configuration, specifically the Presidents of the Major American Jewish Organizations.
Speaking for the Israeli Government, Defense Minister Ehud Barak, with the predictable arrogance and contempt that Israeli officials treat any US policy analysis or statement that doesn’t pass their editorial approval and toe their line, dismissed the NIE: ‘We cannot allow ourselves to rest just because of an intelligence report from the other side of the earth (sic) even from our greatest friend’. (Guardian of London, December 4, 2007). Though the NIE may weaken the White House drive to war, the fact that Israel rejects the report means that its war preparations will continue and that means that its entire Zionist Power Configuration in the US will continue to pursue Israel’s interest in destroying Iran.
Following Orwellian logic AIPAC twisted the NIE report to fit Israel’s rejectionist lead (as it never fails to do) by arguing that the NIE report bolsters the case for continued confrontation, belligerency and isolation (Jewish Telegraph Agency, December 4, 2007). In fact according to the perverse argument of AIPAC spokesman Josh Block, the absence of any Iranian nuclear weapons threat should result in greater pressure on Iran! ‘All in all, it’s (the NIE) a clarion call for additional and continued (my emphasis) effort to pressure Iran economically and politically to end its illicit nuclear program.’(Jewish Telegraph Agency, December 4, 2007).
Once again the Israel Firsters – embracing all the major Zionist organizations and community councils – defy all logic, and the most comprehensive and in depth empirical intelligence report of the US in favor of the propaganda emanating from the failed Israeli intelligence agencies and the Israeli regime. In a continuous barrage of articles and television interviews, the entire Zionist Power Configuration (ZPC) buried the NIE report, refocusing attention on themes like ‘Iran’s nuclear program still a threat’ (Daily Alert, December 7, 2007). During the entire week (December 3-7, 2007) the Presidents of the Major American (sic) Jewish Organizations – covering the entire range of financially powerful Jewish organizations in the USA – published an average of nine articles (nearly 50) propagating the Israeli line. The articles disparaged, distorted and dismissed the NIE and continued to push for the ‘military option’ (euphemism for launching a massive attack on Iran) as well as new economic sanctions to destroy the Iranian economy and the livelihood of its 70 million citizens. The euphoria of anti-war critics who claim the NIE report laid to rest the threat of a new US war with Iran is premature, as is their idea that the ‘Israel Lobby’ was dealt a decisive blow. The ZPC never lost a beat: Israel Firster and Zion-Con fanatic, US Treasury Undersecretary, responsible for terrorism and financial intelligence, Stuart Levey, succeeded in convincing China to tighten trade credit, making trade more difficult and costly for Iran’s private sector. (Financial Times, December 6, 2007, p. 1).
Internationally, the United Kingdom’s Foreign Secretary David Millband – a long-time supporter of Israel with close family ties to the Zionist state – predictably followed the Bush-Israel-ZPC line in all but dismissing the NIE report and emphasizing the need to ‘keep the pressure on Iran’. Millband, who on his recent visit to Israel, refused to even pass a glance at Israel’s shutdown of electricity and fuel to the 1.4 million Palestinians caged up in Gaza, spent an entire evening exchanging pleasantries with his settler relatives in Tel Aviv. He accused the non-nuclear Iran of being a major threat to the international community because it produces what he called ‘fissile material’ and ‘missiles’. Every large and medium size country in the world produces enriched uranium and possesses missiles; to impose a sinister construction on Iran’s civilian and defense projects is laughable. (Financial Times, December 6, 2007) Millband dismisses out of hand their civilian application and parrots word for word his Israeli mentors’ line about ‘hidden programs’ and other such unsubstantiated Zionist propaganda. Recent revelations of large-scale, long-term Zionist financing of the highly indebted Labor Party’s electoral campaigns by millionaire moguls and self-proclaimed ‘Labor Friends of Israel’ (Independent, December 6 2007) suggests that Millband’s rapid rise to head the Foreign Ministry had less to do with his minimal international affairs experience and more to do with the ‘special relations’ between millionaire Zionist fundraisers and past and present Labor Party leaders, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.
In France President Sarkozy appointed Zionist zealot Bernard Kouchner, (a fervent supporter of humanitarian intervention including the US invasion of Iraq), to head the Foreign Ministry after ‘consultations’ with leading French Jewish organizations, which had rejected an earlier candidate, deemed not pro-Israel enough. Bernie Kouchner and Nicky Sarkozy immediately picked up the Israeli line, dismissing the NIE Report and calling for new economic sanctions even as the original justification (Iran’s so-called nuclear weapons program) was found to be a lie. Nicky and Bernie called for a new UN National Security Council resolution adding greater sanctions against Iran (AFP, December 7, 2007). The Bush-Millband-Kouchner-Israeli logic parallels Stalinist-Nazi logic — the more the intelligence reports demonstrate the absence of a nuclear weapons program, the greater the nuclear threat; the lesser the present threat, the greater the future threat; the lesser the empirically verifiable threat, the greater the secret threat. The NIE report made liars of the White House and Congressional Democrats and the Presidents of the Major American Jewish Organizations who ‘knew’ Iran had a nuclear weapons program. Even more revealingly, it demonstrates that for the same war mongers, Iranian nuclear weapons is not the motivating force for their drive to attack Iran. Leaving out the weapons motive, it is abundantly clear that attacking Iran through sanctions and military threats is deeply rooted in the Israeli priority of destroying Iran as an adversary to its Middle East power grab and its assault and territorial dispossession of Palestinians.
The ZPC, Millband, Kouchner, Olmert, and the White Houses’ efforts to push for a third round of UN sanctions is likely to be rejected. On December 4, China’s UN Ambassador, Wang Guangya, announced that the NIE report called into question the need for new sanctions, ‘I think we all start from the presumption that now things have changed. I think council members will have to consider that.’ (Al Jazeera, December 5, 2007). China, with $17 billion dollars in direct trade with Iran and up to $30 billion via Dubai, and with Iran as a major Middle East oil supplier and with no Zionist lobby to reinforce Israeli diplomatic pressures, is free to pursue its own national interests. The case can be made that Russia, under President Vladimir Putin, will follow China’s lead and object to new sanctions. Nevertheless, the US Congress and in particular its influential Committee chairpersons continue to blindly follow Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s pronouncement post-NIE: ‘It is vital to pursue efforts to prevent Iran from developing a capability like this (sic) in the United States’. Leading Congressional Israeli-American zealot, Thomas Lantos, convoked a congressional hearing on the NIE Report and invited two top ex-government advisers and ultra-Zion zealots, David Wurmser and Martin Indyk to testify.
Conclusion
There is no question that the anti-(Iran) war groups in the US military and intelligence agencies struck a serious blow to the ongoing war plans of the White House, Israel and their agents in the ZPC. The setback includes a temporary defeat of its massive war propaganda and their fabrication of an ‘existential threat’ to the world community (Israel)’. Nevertheless the publication of the NIE hit the headlines for only a few days, followed by a barrage of hostile propaganda in all of the US mass media which called into question the peaceful intentions of Iran and even twisted certain probabilistic phrases to contradict the main findings.
From the vantage point of Americans trying to free their government and the American public of Israeli and ZPC tyrannical monopoly of opinion, the NIE Report struck a blow against the credibility of the White House and Zionist spokespeople in the Congress, National Security Council, Homeland Security and the Justice and Treasury Departments regarding Iran’s so-called nuclear weapons program. But the quickness, depth and scope of the Israeli response especially magnified by its representatives in the US, the French and British foreign offices, demonstrates that the pro-war Israel Firsters are still deeply embedded in positions of political power and willing to defy the US intelligence and military establishment. Without shame or substance, with aggressive outbursts and manipulative semantical skills, the ZPC moves forward toward new sanctions, despite the systematic empirical refutation of its principle argument. Only a blind, irrational tribal-ethnic loyalty to Israel can account for the ready denial of the NIE report and automatic embrace of Israel’s continued fabrications. As in the thirties when overseas Nazi sympathizers defended Hitler’s’ lies about Communists torching the Reichstag and Communist fellow travelers defended Stalin’s purges as exemplary judicial processes, our Zionists continue to deny every systematic empirical report (like the NIE) which contradicts Israel’s lies and fabrications about Iran’s nuclear weapons programs.
Beyond the important issue of dual loyalties (very much in evidence in the ZPC’s response to the NIE report) there is the re-emergence of the question of a US-backed Israeli war with Iran. The military option will be buttressed by an Israeli military intelligence propaganda report dismissing the NIE. It will claim secret Iranian nuclear weapons programs buried somewhere near the center of the earth and therefore undetected by US intelligence informants, satellite photos, UN inspectors, defecting (or kidnapped) Iranian Generals or any other US source. Only Israel’s superior intelligence agencies (which failed in Lebanon, Iraq and the Gaza Strip), based on its Chosen People (with their unassailable intelligence hot-line to the ‘Omniscient One’ – the same ‘One’ who does the ‘Choosing’) can be right – even if they have to once again ‘cook the data’ to make the case to the uninitiated.
The NIE and the US Military have struck a blow against the planners of World War III. Will this lift the US Congress off its collective knees to finally address US interests in the Middle East? Will it re-awaken a currently moribund peace movement, terrified to confront the most virulent organized warmongers? Will it allow Congress and the US public to challenge the ZPC’s stranglehold on US-Middle East policy?
Will the British public and peace movement dare to challenge a Labor Government and Foreign Office bought and paid for by the ‘Labor Friends of Israel’? Will the French public and intellectuals of Paris recover their republican credentials and reject its first and foremost Israel First regime?
Two weeks after the Annapolis Meeting, Israeli Housing Minister Zeev Boim gave US Secretary of State Condeleeza Rice the ‘bristly cucumber’ (a Mediterranean style ‘slap in the face’) when she pleaded with the Jewish state to stop building new settlements in Palestinian East Jerusalem because, ‘it doesn’t help to build confidence’. Boim went on to say, ‘Secretary of State Rice should be congratulated for her efforts in re-launching the peace process (sic)…but this cannot be constantly linked to the cessation of construction in Jerusalem…There is thus nothing to prevent construction anywhere else in Israel.’ (Al Jazeera, December 8, 2007).
Just as the Jewish state can dismiss its vague promises to the Bush regime on the so-called ‘peace process’ in short order, so does Israel reject the NIE report on the absence of a nuclear weapon program in Iran and prepare for war – backed by the entire ZPC.
Surprisingly it is not liberal or leftist opinion leaders who have raised the relevant issues pertaining to the questions of war and peace in the Middle East, the Israeli-White House threats of starting World War III. It is the spy agencies in the US and their allies in the US military, the paragons of past wars and present destabilization campaigns (read – Venezuela). It is an irony of history. But just the same, this is the real world in which we live, where Western intellectuals and cultural heroes have abdicated their responsibility to challenge the Zionist Power Configuration operating on behalf of an aspiring Middle East colonial power.
- James Petras ‘latest books are The Power of Israel in the United States(Clarity Press 2006) and Rulers and Ruled in the US Empire: Bankers ,Zionists and Militants(Clarity Press 2007)
Iran calls US video ‘fabricated’
Iran calls US video ‘fabricated’
In the recordings the Iranian boats appear
to ignore US warnings to move away AFP
Iran’s state media says the video and audio recordings of Iranian Revolutionary Guards boats confronting US warships in the Strait of Hormuz were fabricated.
The Pentagon has said that five Iranian speedboats approached its ships on Sunday, radioing the vessels and threatening to blow them up.
In a video just over four minutes long shot from the bridge of the destroyer USS Hopper, the small boats can be seen racing near the wake of the US ships and crossing close to each other.
“The footage released by the US Navy was compiled using file pictures and the audio has been fabricated,” the state-run English-language channel Press TV quoted an official in the Revolutionary Guards as saying on Wednesday.
The state-run al-Alam Arabic language channel also ran a similar denial quoting a source from the country’s elite military force.
Repeated warnings
In the Pentagon video, the Iranian boats appeared to ignore repeated warnings from the US ships, including horn blasts and radio transmissions, as the ships moved through the Strait of Hormuz into the Gulf.
From the Hopper’s bridge, after spotting the approaching Iranian boats, a navy crew member says over the radio: “This is coalition warship. I am engaged in transit passage in accordance with international law. I intend no harm. Over.”
In video
-Pentagon video and audio of the confrontation
-Tom Ackerman reports on reaction to the incident
Often uneven and shaky, the video condenses what US navy officials have said was a 20-minute confrontation early on Sunday between three navy warships and five Iranian fast boats.
It ends with a blank screen, as only the audio of the navy’s final warning can be heard, just after the voice apparently from one of the small boats warns that “I am coming to you”.
“Inbound small craft: You are approaching a coalition warship operating in international waters. Your identity in unknown; your intentions are unclear,” the unidentified US navy crew member says.
He then cautions the Iranians that if they do no steer clear they will be “subject to defensive measures”.
“Request that you alter course immediately to remain clear,” the crew member says.
After a pause, the voice over the radio issues a final threat: “You will explode after indecipherable minutes.”
A navy crew member then repeats the threat he has heard, saying: “You will explode after a few minutes?”
‘Provocative act’
Stephen Hadley, the US president’s national security adviser, said on Wednesday that Iran must bear the consequences of any further confrontations.
“This was a very provocative act by the Iranians and could have and came very close to resulting in an altercation between our forces and their forces,” he said.
“It’s the kind of incident that can provoke exchange of fire and we think the Iranians need to be on notice that they are fishing in troubled waters here.”
The audio and video recordings were made separately, but were pulled together by the US navy.
US military officials, including Vice-Admiral Kevin Cosgriff, the most senior US navy commander in the Gulf, cautioned that they had not been able to definitively connect the radio call with one of the Revolutionary Guards boats.
Commander Lydia Robertson, a spokeswoman for the 5th Fleet, said “the ships were close enough to shore that the call could have come from a shore station, it could have come from another boat.”
She said: “But the call did happen while the small boats were there.”
Iran’s foreign ministry has played down the incident as routine and suggested that the boats had not recognised the US vessels.
“That is something normal that takes place every now and then for each party,” Mohammed Ali Hosseini, a spokesman, told the state news agency Irna.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/6EBE816A-5816-4F8F-9D36-4C080DEA1DFE.htm
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Comment : …those tapes are fake!!!
1. Those boats were pleasure boats NOT the Iranian speedboats that they use to protect their waters (look and see if you see any soldiers in them).
2. The “Amerikkkan warships” shown in those videos were smaller ships like the ones used in smaller countries naval and coast guards, and not US Carriers or the like (compare the sizes of the pleasure boats and the warships).
3. NOWHERE did you see ANY pleasure boat drop ANY boxes in front of any ship. Once again, the US lied!!!
4. The “Iranian” voices were also superimposed onto this video. They had no Iranian accents, and noone talks like the way they did on that video. (We’re going to ‘explode’ you!). Remember the United SNakes did this with Iraq as well. There were supposed to be filming Iraqis talking (in English instead of Arabic no less) talking about ‘…did you hide the weapons of mass destruction yet?’
5. Once again, see the fuzziness of the video, just like what the AMerikkkan government uses in their Osama bin Laden tapes to try and conceal the truth!!!
…those tapes are fake!!!
1. Those boats were pleasure boats NOT the Iranian speedboats that they use to protect their waters (look and see if you see any soldiers in them).
2. The “Amerikkkan warships” shown in those videos were smaller ships like the ones used in smaller countries naval and coast guards, and not US Carriers or the like (compare the sizes of the pleasure boats and the warships).
3. NOWHERE did you see ANY pleasure boat drop ANY boxes in front of any ship. Once again, the US lied!!!
4. The “Iranian” voices were also superimposed onto this video. They had no Iranian accents, and noone talks like the way they did on that video. (We’re going to ‘explode’ you!). Remember the United SNakes did this with Iraq as well. There were supposed to be filming Iraqis talking (in English instead of Arabic no less) talking about ‘…did you hide the weapons of mass destruction yet?’
5. Once again, see the fuzziness of the video, just like what the AMerikkkan government uses in their Osama bin Laden tapes to try and conceal the truth!!!
by Kamau_Ajamu on 09.01.2008
Algérie : à qui profitent les attentats ?
Par Eduardo Garcia
Paris, le 7 janvier 2008 (Nouvelle Solidarité) — Désormais, les Algériens devront apprendre à retenir leur souffle au onzième jour de chaque mois, date symbolique des attentats du 11 septembre aux Etats-Unis. En effet, après les attentats du 11 avril et du 11 juillet, Alger a été, à nouveau, meurtrie par une double attaque à la voiture piégée le mardi 11 décembre 2007.
Ces deux opérations simultanées ont ciblé le nouveau siège du Conseil constitutionnel à Ben Aknoun et le siège du Haut commissariat aux réfugiés HCR à Hydra, faisant 22 morts et 167 blessés, selon les chiffres officiels avancés par le ministre de l’Intérieur. Une fois de plus, ces attentats ont été revendiqués par l’organisation d’Al-Qaeda au pays du Maghreb islamique AQMI, ex GSPC (Groupe salafiste pour la prédication et le combat).
La thèse développée dans notre dernier article paru dans Nouvelle Solidarité (28/09/07), sous le titre « Ces attentats qui cachent la guerre des matières premières », paraît être confirmée par le contexte entourant ces derniers événements. En effet, ils semblent être à l’origine de l’annulation des accords très vastes de coopération militaro-énergétique signés en 2006 par l’Algérie et la Russie.
Rappelons que c’est suite à la visite du président Poutine en Algérie en 2006 que deux très gros contrats ont été conclus entre les deux pays :
- Un mémorandum d’entente et de coopération entre Gazprom et la Société nationale des hydrocarbures algérienne Sonatrach, définissant toute une politique de coopération dans le domaine énergétique et laissant même planer l’idée de la création d’un cartel mondial du gaz ;
- La signature d’un important contrat d’armement de 8 milliards de dollars.
La question d’un cartel du gaz a suscité beaucoup de craintes parmi les pays européens, notamment la France, l’Italie, le Portugal et l’Espagne dont l’Algérie est un important fournisseur aux côtés de la Russie. La Grande-Bretagne a protesté par l’intermédiaire de son entreprise BP qui a qualifié cette idée de « stupide ».
Les Etats-Unis qui avaient déjà mal digéré la décision du président Bouteflika d’annuler la loi de privatisation des hydrocarbures et de surtaxer les revenus des groupes pétroliers étrangers lorsque le prix du pétrole dépasse les 30 dollars le baril, ont été les plus virulents contre la création d’une OPEP gazière.
En effet, le 11 juillet 2007 la Chambre des représentants américaine a adopté un projet de loi visant à contrecarrer la création d’une telle OPEP du gaz.
Le républicain Don Manzullo, l’un des dix auteurs de ce projet, a déclaré que la création d’un cartel de producteurs de gaz naturel réunissant, entre autres, la Russie, l’Iran, le Venezuela et le Qatar ruinerait l’industrie d’armement américaine et affecterait la capacité de défense des Etats-Unis : « Des substances issues du gaz naturel sont largement utilisées dan l’industrie d’armement. Une coupure des livraisons compromettra la base de l’industrie d’armement américaine et affectera nos capacités de défense ».
Plus loin il affirmait : « Nous ne devons pas laisser apparaître un nouveau groupe de maîtres chanteurs à l’instar de l’OPEP qui ne manquera pas d’accaparer les fournitures mondiales de gaz naturel et de les placer sous contrôle ». Le projet de loi stipule que « les efforts déployés en matière de création d’un cartel ou de tout autre mécanisme de manipulation des fournitures de gaz naturel sur le marché mondial en vue de fixer des prix arbitraires et hors marché à des fins de pression politique sont considérés par les Etats-Unis comme une démarche inamicale menaçant la sécurité des Etats-Unis et du monde entier ».
Plus loin le document résume : « Des officiers de l’OTAN ont pour leur part mis en garde contre le danger de dépendance croissante de l’Europe par rapport à l’énergie russe et à la possibilité que des fournisseurs de rechange, tels que l’Algérie, commencent à coopérer avec la Russie. ».
Or voici qu’à la veille des attentats du 11 décembre, dans un entretien avec le Wall Street Journal, le PDG de la Sonatrach, Mohamed Meziane, prétendait qu’en réalité le mémorandum qui liait sa compagnie à Gazprom depuis août 2006 n’avait rien donné de concret et avait expiré au début du mois d’août 2007, et qu’il n’avait pas pour but de « manipuler les prix ».
Pour le Wall Street Journal, les propos du PDG confirmaient que la perspective d’une OPEP du gaz n’était pas sérieusement envisagée. Il concluait que ces remarques manifestaient clairement la volonté de l’Algérie de se démarquer publiquement de Gazprom et de l’idée d’un cartel du gaz.
Le 11 décembre dans l’après-midi, juste après les attentats, la Sonatrach annonçait, dans un communiqué officiel, l’annulation du contrat qui la liait à Gazprom sans fournir le moindre détail justifiant cette décision. Le 12 décembre, au lendemain des attentats, un autre communiqué des autorités algériennes annonçait le gel du contrat d’armement avec la Russie, justifiant sa décision par la plainte adressée officiellement par le président Bouteflika, début août, au président Poutine, dans laquelle le Président algérien se plaignait de la non-conformité de la première livraison des MIG-29 avec les clauses du contrat signé par les deux pays.
C’est ce qui aurait motivé la décision de l’Algérie de mettre un terme à sa collaboration énergétique avec la Russie.
Alors que le quotidien algérien l’Expression du 6 décembre rapportait que quatre nouveaux avions de chasse de type Sukhoi Su-30MK, qu’il qualifiait d’avions hors pair, faisant partie du contrat, seraient livrés à l’Algérie avant la fin 2007 par le constructeur russe d’avions de chasse Irkout.
Plus loin, il note qu’ »en décembre, des avions de transport russes AN-124 et AN-22 ont effectué trois vols pour acheminer deux premiers MIG-29 SMT et deux MIG-29 UBT en Algérie ».
Ces informations font donc état d’une bonne entente dans l’exécution du contrat de coopération militaire.
Le quotidien marocain La Gazette rapportait le 20 octobre, qu’après les livraisons graduelles des avions MIG-29 et des chasseurs bombardiers Sukhoi, l’Etat russe avait donné instruction à son agence d’exportation d’armes Rosoboronexport, de répondre positivement à toutes les requêtes de l’armée algérienne pour obtenir des facilités financières, techniques et même au niveau des échéances.
La même source rapporte que le président de Rosoboronexport, Serguei Tchemezov, avait été vu la semaine précédente au cercle national de l’Armée à Alger, en compagnie du chef d’état-major, le général de corps d’Armée Ahmed Gaid Salah.
Tout ceci n’a aucun sens. Si la collaboration entre l’Algérie et la Russie battait de l’aile depuis août, pourquoi avoir attendu le jour même et le lendemain des attentats pour annoncer officiellement ces ruptures de contrat ?
Pourquoi geler un contrat impliquant plusieurs types d’avions, la construction de frégates et de sous-marins, des systèmes de défense aérienne et autres, alors que seuls les MIG 29 seraient en cause ? Pourquoi, enfin, lier ce problème à la question de la coopération énergétique ?
La vérité semble se trouver dans les conflits de lobbies mafieux internes aux services algériens (le DRS) où la loi est faite par les grands intérêts internationaux des hydrocarbures et bancaires, notamment anglais, et les Américains qui sont à leur traîne.
En effet, Le Courrier d’Algérie rapportait le 20 décembre que les autorités russes avaient laissé entendre que la présidence algérienne en tant que telle n’était pas d’accord avec ce gel, et que la prochaine visite du président Bouteflika à Moscou au mois de janvier prochain, serait consacrée à débloquer la situation afin de maintenir les bonnes relations qui lient les deux pays.
Selon les autorités russes, citées par Ria Novosti, la réponse à la requête de Bouteflika, rédigée en accord avec Poutine qui préside la commission créé pour traiter ce problème, n’a pas pu être remise au président Bouteflika lui-même, même par le biais de l’ambassadeur de Russie en Algérie !
Mais qui profite de ce énième changement d’alliances ? L’Angleterre d’abord qui, du Kenya à l’Afghanistan et au Pakistan, promeut une stratégie de tension, cherchant à tirer la carte gagnante dans le krach du système financier qui frappe actuellement le monde. L’Angleterre encore, qui mène une guerre sournoise contre la Russie, dans laquelle elle entraîne les anglophiles de l’administration Bush/Cheney, dans diverses parties du monde.
Enfin, les contrats qui ne vont pas à la Russie se placent en Occident. Le journal Al Khabar du 15 décembre mentionne des contrats stratégiques signés par la Sonatrach avec les grandes compagnies gazières comme la norvégienne Statoil, British Petroleum, British Gaz et l’italienne ENI. Pour les Russes, grands perdants dans cette affaire, il n’y a pas photo.
Ria Novosti note, le jour même de la résiliation du mémorandum, que « les Algériens ont conclu la semaine dernière un nouvel accord avec Gaz de France, aux termes duquel ils se sont engagés à livrer à la société française du gaz liquéfié jusqu’à 2019. Dans le même temps, Sonatrach construit deux gazoducs au fond de la Méditerranée, qui permettront à l’Algérie d’augmenter de 50 % ses livraisons de gaz à l’Europe ».
Gaz de France et Sonatrach ont signé d’importants accords début décembre, créant aussi une société mixte qui ambitionne de fournir le marché américain en gaz naturel liquéfié.
Plus troublant encore, quelques jours après les attentats, les autorités algériennes ont retiré un contrat à des firmes espagnoles pour la reprise du projet de Gassi Touil, le confiant à deux compagnies proches de la Maison Blanche, KBR Halliburton et Wheather Ford.
Bien que nous soyons totalement favorables, dans les pages de ce journal, à la coopération économique Nord-Sud, nous nous opposons fermement à cette loi de la jungle de chaque puissance pour soi, qui fait fi des véritables intérêts des populations à long terme. En organisant les marchés internationaux en faveur d’un projet comme celui de Pont terrestre eurasiatique que nous défendons dans ces pages, nous pourrons rétablir un ordre de croissance forte au service des peuples.
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Ron Paul kicks Laura Ingraham’s head – Voter Fraud Against Paul Confirmed in Sutton, N.H
Ron Paul kicks Laura Ingraham’s head
THE FULL INTERVIEW HERE:
http://www.cedricharris.com/rp_vs_laura.mp3
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Caller to C-SPAN concerning Sutton County Ron Paul votes
Voter Fraud Against Paul Confirmed in Sutton, N.H.
Kurt Nimmo
Truth News
January 8, 2008According to a post this evening on the Ron Paul Forums, vote fraud occurred in Sutton, New Hampshire:
Sutton with 100% reporting reported 0 votes for paul but poster in Sutton posted: My mom, aunt, and dad all voted for RP today in my hometown, My mom and aunt both work passing out ballots, and checking them off. I just looked at the politico map and it says their town has ZERO votes for Ron. Now i know that there isn’t corruption on voting in that little town, so where they reported it must be. What do I do, anyone know???Originally Posted by sstjean View Post
This was posted to ronpaul-801 tonight: “This town numbers are wrong wrong wrong on this map. I am from Sutton originally and my parents and one aunt all voted for Ron Paul today and Sutton says 0. So this is wrong. This is a town that had 20 people counting the ballots and I have no reason to believe that they cheated. Small town and I was born and raised there. The real numbers will come in by morning. The electronic machines in the big towns are the ones we have to worry about.”Earlier in the day, Brad Blog reported other suspicious behavior: Our Spidey-sense started tingling before going to bed last night and hearing reports, on MSNBC, that there were 17 paper ballots cast in Dixville Notch, NH’s midnight, first-in-the-country voting. The report said that there were only 16 registered voters in the tiny voting precinct, yet 17 votes had been cast — suggesting that somehow, paper ballot “voter fraud” skullduggery was afoot.Brad, however, believes the story is easily debunked:
Given that one of those reports seems to have begun on The DRUDGE REPORT earlier today, we’re not particularly surprised that the MSM kept repeating the easily-debunked stories running all day.
That, even while there are reasons to be concerned about how the paper ballots used in the New Hampshire Primary will actually be counted by the hackable Diebold optical-scan systems used in the state, as controlled and programmed by an outrageously bad private contractor there.
Of course, there is plenty of room for hank-panky, as Michael Collins notes:
81% of New Hampshire ballots are counted in secret by a private corporation named Diebold Election Systems (now known as “Premier”). The elections run on these machines are programmed by one company, LHS Associates, based in Methuen, MA. We know nothing about the people programming these machines, and we know even less about LHS Associates. We know even less about the secret vote counting software used to tabulate 81% of our ballots. People like to say “but we use paper ballots! They can always be counted by hand!”
But they’re not. They’re counted by Diebold. Only a candidate can request a hand recount, and most never do so. And a rigged election can easily become a rigged recount, as we learned in Ohio 2004, where two election officials were convicted of rigging their recount….
In short, the stage was set by Diebold and Republican operatives to rig yet another election, as the above first-hand account seems to indicate
http://www.truthnews.us/?p=1587
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Vote Recount money bomb $67,000 – VOTE FRAUD CONFIRMED
Posted January 9th, 2008
Ok, so by now we all know vote fraud has been confirmed in Sutton, NH. They recorded zero votes, but now they’ve admitted that Ron Paul received 31. Also, there was a ton of suspicious activity last night. How about Hillary’s lawyers intimidating Obama and Ron Paul poll workers, and kicking some of them out, or how about the “other” category for the dems in one of the precincts having a ridiculous number of votes dumped into it, very suspicious!! I mean NO ONE thought Hillary was going to win, and she comes back and BEATS Obama in NEW HAMPSHIRE??? NO, no, no.
The Ron Paul campaign needs $67,000 to recount the NH votes, it will be great publicity and they can’t call us kooks because we have now CONFIRMED fraud in Sutton.
