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Curtis Mayfield
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Why I Am a Bad Jew

Israel Zohar \ Uzi Rozenblat
Bad Jew Jammin'

Why I Am a Bad Jew

By: Rami Kaminski, MD

For centuries, we lived in Berdichev. In the brutal Ukrainian winter of 1941, SS soldiers arrived there and rounded up eighty-seven members of my family, babies, young adults, octogenarians, stripped them naked, marched them to a nearby ditch, and executed them. Their lifeless bodies fell silently into a mass grave.

During their two millennia in the Diaspora, Jews were not known to resist. There are few recorded instances in which Jews turned against their host nations or retaliated against their murderers. Instead, the survivors if there were any were expelled or left for another place. The murdered were regarded as good Jews. They accepted their fate helplessly, without resistance.

This narrative of the Jews has played out on the historical stage with boring monotony: Jews get killed because they are Jews. Nothing novel about it. After the Holocaust, however, the world, disgusted by this particularly ghoulish period of history, accorded some sympathy for the Jews.

Media commentary about the ongoing Gaza War reveals the world has now reverted to its pre-Holocaust perspective. Today, the only good Jew is a powerless Jew willing to become a dead one. The Zionist Revolution is to "blame". It changed everything. Jews re-created their own country.

The Arabs attacked the new Jewish state the day after independence and promised to complete Hitler's genocide. In succeeding decades, the Arabs attacked again and again. Strangely, the Jews, many of them refugees from Arab nations, adopted a surprising, new tactic: they fought back. With Zionism, the Jews stubbornly refused to follow the centuries-old script. They refuse to be killed without resistance. As a result, the world has become increasingly enraged at their impertinence.

The recent events in Gaza and Mumbai make this plain. In 2005, Israel eliminated all Jewish presence in Gaza making it Judenrein and handed it over to the Palestinians. Left behind were synagogues and thriving green houses. The Arabs looted and destroyed them literally the day after Israel 's withdrawal was complete. Where these structures once stood, the Palestinians built military bases and installed rocket launchers to shell Israeli civilians. To date, some 7,000 missiles have fallen on Israeli cities and towns, killing and maiming dozens, and sowing widespread terror. Medical studies reveal nearly all Jewish children in the communities bordering Gaza suffer from serious, trauma-induced illness.

The Gazan Palestinians then elected Hamas to lead them. Hamas proceeded to kill or imprison their political rivals, and its leaders, true to the Hamas charter, were unabashed in clearly stating their aims: they will not stop until they achieve their Final Solution, kill all the Jews, take over the land of Israel , and establish a theocracy governed by Islamic law.

As killing Jews for being Jews has been a national sport for centuries, Islamic militants are justified in believing they are merely fulfilling historical tradition in Argentina, India and Gaza. Surely the Jews in Mumbai did not occupy Gaza. They were tortured and killed just for being Jews. And predictably, in the eyes of the world, they immediately became good Jews, just like my murdered family in Bertishev.

Good Jews would wait until Hamas has weapons enabling its members to achieve their ultimate goal of absolute mass murder. Those enraged by Israel's defensive military action insist Hamas uses only crude rockets, as if Qassams were BB guns, and military inferiority were somehow equivalent with moral superiority. In fact, Hamas now has Iranian-supplied Grad missiles which have landed on Beer Sheva and the outskirts of Tel Aviv.

Westerners have had only sporadic exposure to the indiscriminant killing in the name of holy war which Israel has lived with for years. Memories of 9-11, Madrid , and London have dimmed. This is not because the Islamic militants made a careful choice of weapons. They simply have not yet acquired nuclear bombs. Once they do, the West will develop a less detached view about the Islamists professed intentions for the infidels.

The only enlightened people in the civilized world who actually get it are the Israelis. They've not had time for detached philosophical ponderings. They've been too busy confronting the reality of Islamic fundamentalism.

Soon, Iran will have nuclear weapons. It will give them to Hezbollah and Hamas. Today, Jews must take a position: either be "good" Jews willing to be slaughtered without resistance, or be bad Jews who defend themselves at the cost of being pariahs of our enlightened world. Good Jews would wait for another six million to be murdered, and pick up to leave for another country to start the cycle again. The bad ones refuse to go calmly into the ditch.

I confess: I'm a bad Jew!

Rami Kaminski, MD, is Director and Founder of the Institute for Integrative Psychiatry in New York, a not-for -profit organization aimed at evaluating current psychiatric services and how they integrate with medicine, such as the mutual effects between medical and psychiatric conditions.

Prior to that, Dr. Kaminkski was the Commissioner's Liaison to Families and Community and Medical Director of Operations at the New York State Office of Mental Health. Dr. Kaminski also holds an academic position as Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University. He earned recognition in 1990 from Mt. Sinai Hospital as Physician of the Year, and received the Exemplary Psychiatrist Awards from the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill.

Dr. Kaminski 's research explores neuropsychiatric aspects of brain disorders, such as Alzheimer and Parkinson's disease and movement disorders, as well as psychopharmacology of schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders. He was for many years Director of The Schizophrenia research Unit at Mount Sinai Hospital in NYC. Dr. Kaminiski also served as the Medical Director of the PMHP and consultant to the committee in charge of developing the Special Needs Program.

WFRL: A Spin for Groupies, Strippers & Glow Ballin' Porkulater Whores

Sly & the Family Stone
Jane is a Groupie

Shame, Shame.

Floatin' Powa News Service: Charting the Rapid Dhimmise of the Glow Ball

Procol Harum
Wreck of the Hesperus

GLICK: Obama's new world order and Israel

Bluntly stated, the world that will challenge the next government will be one characterized by the end of US global predominance.

She's right, but I do not agree this begins with Obama, it merely manifests concretely into our reality under him. Big difference. It took almost a century of usurpation to anoint this usurper.

Abbas ready for talks with Israel
Ain't that special?

Abbas' "Moderate" FATAH stops paying Palestinian children's hospital bills in Israeli hospitals and has them removed to Arab hospitals...

Hadassah Hospital says that for the past week no payments have come in and Palestinians whose children are being treated there have been instructed by Palestinian health officials to place them in facilities in the West Bank, Jordan or Egypt. “Suddenly we have had 57 patients dropped from our rolls,” lamented Michael Weintraub, director of pediatric hematology, oncology and bone marrow transplantation at Hadassah. “We have been bombarded by frantic parents. This is a political decision taken on the backs of patients.”
The Palestinian health minister, Fathi Abu Moghli, said he was examining the entire referral procedure because he was tired of adding to what he called Israel ’s “oil well,” meaning the payments for Palestinian patient care. In particular, he said, he had no desire to see the injured from the Gaza war get Israeli care.

“We already pay $7 million a month to Israeli hospitals,” he said in a telephone interview. “Since the first day of the Gaza aggression I said that I will not send to my occupier my injured people in order for him to make propaganda at my expense and then pay him for it.”

An Israeli clinic set up with great fanfare on the Israeli-Gaza border the day the war ended on January 18th has already been closed since both Hamas , the rulers of Gaza and the Palestinian Authority essentially boycotted it. The Palestinian Authority pays for the care in Israel of its citizens — or much of it — out of its budget.

That means WE pay for it, and now they are pocketing that money or using it for weapons or who knows WTF via sentencing their children to die in substandard facilities. Like they give a rats ass anyway, if the kids live they will only encourage them to become human bombs later on.


2007: Fatah Militant: U.S. Training Was Key to Intifada's Success

"I do not think that the operations of the Palestinian resistance would have been so successful and would have killed more than one thousand Israelis since 2000 and defeated the Israelis in Gaza without these [American] trainings," a senior officer of President Abbas's Force 17 Presidential Guard unit, Abu Yousuf, said.

Iran Quickly Trying To Get Weapons Into Gaza Strip

Ahmadinejad: Iran Is Ready for Talks With U.S.
....So long as we remain "polite", Dhimmis.

Iran Offers ‘Dialogue With Respect’ With US

Biden Seeks Better US Ties With Russia, World
Koom Bah MFing Humbug, you GlowBallin' ass.

US urges Russia to consider missile offer

Meantime, Glow Ballin' Khatami "The Reformer" has officially announced his candidacy and the Moderate Myth Making has begun in earnest...

Iran's volunteer forces have been assigned to fight threats of a "soft overthrow"

Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari, the commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), revealed the news at a gathering of 5,000 commanders of Tehran's Basij units, according to the report. Jafari was quoted as saying that Basij forces were assigned by the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei to fight the threat of soft regime change plots. "The supreme leader has decided to assign this grave responsibility to Basij," added the IRGC commander.

Iran warns its enemies against any invasions
They are gearing up for a possible PM BiBi:

Arab press despair as Israel votes

Israelis Vote as Security Concerns Boost Netanyahu

Livni-Netanyahu battle too close to call

Spanish premier meets Iranian parliament speaker
I am sure he was most polite.

Iran's embrace of Bolivia builds influence in US backyard


Washington's man in Iran
ALL HAIL GLOWBALL DHIMMING!

For two hours one day in early 2008, a tall, silver-haired man sat in an office in Iran's ornate Ministry of Foreign Affairs compound. He came to beg, plead and charm.

Russia and Iran's Missiles

Even though Moscow claims to welcome the Obama Administration's initiative to engage in direct talks with Iran, it is unlikely to alter its public stance that Iran is neither building a nuclear weapon nor presenting a missile threat. Given all the evidence to the contrary, as well as Iran's proximity to Russia, Central Asia, and the Caucasus, we need to understand why Russia adopts this posture.

Kyrgyz vote on US base held up by Russian aid

Preemptive Quagmire Agitprop:

MUNICH — The war in Afghanistan will be “much tougher than Iraq,” President Obama’s special representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan said at a security conference here on Sunday.

“There is no magic formula in Afghanistan,” the envoy, Richard C. Holbrooke, warned an audience of European policy makers and military planners. “There is no Dayton agreement in Afghanistan,” he added, referring to the peace accord he negotiated to end the war in Bosnia. “It’s going to be a long, difficult struggle.”

Mr. Holbrooke was part of a high-level American delegation at the annual Munich Security Conference over the weekend. The group, led by Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and including Gen. James L. Jones, the national security adviser, and Gen. David H. Petraeus, the head of the United States Central Command, did not paint a rosy picture of the situation in Afghanistan.

UCCCCH, Please with yer freakin' DAYTON AGREEMENT .....

The conference took place from November 1 to November 21, 1995. The main participants from the region were Serbian President Slobodan Milošević (representing the Bosnian Serb interests due to absence of Karadžić), Croatian President Franjo Tuđman, and Bosnian President Alija Izetbegović with Bosnian Foreign Minister Muhamed "Mo" Sacirbey.

The peace conference was led by U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher, and negotiator Richard Holbrooke with two Co-Chairmen in the form of EU Special Representative Carl Bildt and the First Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia Igor Ivanov. A key participant in the US delegation was General Wesley Clark (later to become NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR) in 1997). The UK military representative was Col Arundell David Leakey (later to become Commander of EUFOR in 2005). The Public International Law & Policy Group (PILPG) served as legal counsel to the Bosnian Government delegation during the negotiations.

Later on, Wesley Clark testified in secret at the Hauge WHILE he was seeking the Democratic nomination for president and no one said boo.....and then they made sure Milosevic had nothing to say about anything anymore. Whatever he was, or wasn't, I give him this: his story never changed. And any police interrogator will tell you that generally means the perp is telling the truth as he sees it. The area today is an utter hell hole, it is Al Qaeda's European base, and the main route for distributing Afghan heroin into Europe, the proceeds from which go to fund the jihad. GOOD JOB, MFers! Dayton agreement Akbar!

TODAY: US diplomat holds Afghan supply talks in Moscow

Mubarak on his way to the Seat of the Ottoman Caliphate
To discuss Israel, naturally.

Official Egyptian Fatwa Bans Membership In Islamic Organizations

Under the fatwa, the modern Islamic organizations, which call to restore the Islamic Caliphate under their rule, have caused division in the ranks of the Muslims, have established military wings, and have tried to instigate coups against the Arab governments – despite the fact that these governments have set Islamic religious law as the main source of their legislation. Therefore, these organizations have removed themselves from the community of Muslims.

Egypt can be redeemed...Babylon must be destroyed.
~ Floatin' P.

This story is not in English, this descriptive blurb was translated for me:

The mayor of a town in north-east Italy has banned the wearing of burkas in any public place, and is preparing to introduce local regulations banning Muslim prayer in public places and the building of mosques or minarets, and imposing local dishes in restaurants, to halt the proliferation ethnic fast-food stalls selling kebabs and couscous.

Good for him, but I think banning kebabs and couscous may be a wee tadling bit much...

Pope to meet with American Jewish Leaders

The church drew widespread condemnation when the pope rehabilitated on January 24 four bishops excommunicated in 1988 because they were ordained without Vatican approval.

When he "rehabilitated them" this conferred back upon them the title of "Bishop"?

"There was not one Jew killed in the gas chambers. It was all lies, lies, lies," Williamson said in a 1989 speech at Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes church in Sherbrooke, Canada.

In the same speech, the paper said Williamson had also claimed that "the Jews created the Holocaust so we would prostrate ourselves on our knees before them and approve of their new State of Israel... Jews made up the Holocaust, Protestants get their orders from the devil, and the Vatican has sold its soul to liberalism." The paper also reported that Williamson wrote letters in 2001 and 2002 blaming "Judeo-Masonry" for the two world wars and claiming that Jews were bent on world domination.

The Venezualen Pogram:

Meanwhile, Mr. Chávez’s policies for dealing with the students are growing more repressive, with officials claiming some student protests turned violent or were about to do so. In recent days, the secret intelligence police have begun searching the homes of student leaders.

State media are also exerting pressure on the students, in at least one case singling out leaders of Jewish origin for scrutiny.

Hindutva Rising

The latest Old versus New India hubbub began one Saturday last month when an obscure Hindu organization, which calls itself Sri Ram Sena, or the Army of Ram, a Hindu god, attacked several women at a bar in the southern Indian college town of Mangalore and accused them of being un-Indian for being out drinking and dancing with men.

Sri Ram Sena are known locally as "the Hindu Taliban". So, who needs sharia when ya got indigenous permission to whoop women's asses?

WTF is a "sea change"?

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is organizing a summit meeting on climate change next month where he hopes President Barack Obama will confirm a "sea change" in U.S. environment policy, diplomats said.

I'll tell you!
Sea change or seachange is an idiom for broad transformation...

The phrase sea-change comes from Shakespeare, you morons. It appears in The Tempest:

Full fathom five thy father lies:
Of his bones are coral made:
Those are pearls that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that doth fade
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.

I don't think any of them realize this, though.

A federal government report says there is a remote possibility that the U.S. Army may be missing some nerve gas.
EXIGENT!

The 20th century closed with a vicious bombing aimed at Wall Street. We've largely forgotten about the one that opened it

Gazprom's delegation visits Venezuela

Gazprom to form joint venture in Vietnam

Gazprom Invading Estonia

Kulgu dam divides Estonian-Russian border and the Estonian half is attached to the formerly-mentioned ground. Russian half of the dam is held by TGK, which produces electricity in a hydroelectric power station on Narva River. The water table in Narva reservoir depends on that dam, which itself depends on Narva’s Power station. TGK is demanding a lease contract and the right to build buildings from the Estonian government. This would give the use of the Estonian part of the to them. The suit is also based on article in the Tartu Peace Treaty of 1920, according to which Estonia grants precedence for Russia “for producing electricity by using waterfalls of Narva River, also, other conditions are determined in separate agreements.”

Russia will request negotiations with European and other foreign banks to postpone repayment on up to $400 billion of its private debt

Russia denied on Tuesday it was considering restructuring debt after a Japanese newspaper reported that banks in the country would seek government help to postpone loan repayments of up to $400 billion in corporate debt.

At the American Thinker: George Soros is right about "Bad Bank"
Oh my, intellectual honesty free of partisan identity politics bullshit. Unheard of!

World Bank Spent More Than a Year Covering Up Destruction of Albanian Village

Managers at the World Bank provided false information to the agency's board of directors about a $39 million, politically-connected European "coastal cleanup" project that led to the destruction and destitution of a powerless village in Albania in 2007 — and then spent nearly two years trying to cover it up

Philippines: Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago will have to search the Internet for evidence on the alleged rigging of bids for World Bank-funded projects and the supposed involvement of First Gentleman Jose Miguel Arroyo.

Sharia! Coming soon to a World Bank near you:

The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank are not fit for purpose and need to change dramatically in the wake of the worst financial crisis in living memory, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Monday.

SNIP

No... he is not saying this in response to any corruption scandal....

"I see a big argument about how the IMF and the World Bank are to be financed in the future, one that will require us to talk about the reserves in different countries, talk about what sort of loan or bond facility we can develop, perhaps with the Arab states, perhaps even with Sovereign Wealth Funds," he said.

Mark my words: The Glow Ballers will soon enough anoint Sharia Finance as "Moral Capitalism"

Adam Smith.org: The emergence of the meaningless phrase ‘moral capitalism’ in the political world is worrying.
Yes, I think so too.

UK: We need moral capitalism

UK: Ed Balls, the Children's and Schools Secretary, said the downturn was likely to be the most serious for 100 years, and his comments appeared to raise the prospect of a return to the Far Right politics of the 1930s and the rise of Facism.

His warning, in a speech to activists at the weekend, came after a trade union baron warned that far right parties were trying to hijack the campaign for "British jobs for British workers".

You don't say! SEE: ENTRYISM

Now the Gold Man is hosting a freakin' "Agro-Biotech Forum"
This coming hot on the heels of their Energy and Health Care Forums. The Hedge Fund Forum is still postponed at least until Sharia Finance can be declared Moral Capitalism.

OHHHH Lookie there's a Gold Man Sacks Technology & Internet Conference too!! And they just NOW switched venues in a hurry on this one as well for some indecipherable reason:

Goldman Sachs which has accepted $10 billion in federal bailout funds, will hold its Technology and Internet Conference Feb. 25-27 at the San Francisco Marriott instead of the Mandalay Bay casino-resort.

"The decision to relocate the conference is based on our best efforts to operate according to the requirements of the new landscape of our industry," Canaday said.

Did he just say something translatable from Gold Man GlowBabble to English? Didn't think so. What the MFer actually said was "None of your business, gleeking plebe, I'll porkulater!"

Gold Man Sacks CEO Sez: Wall Street Needs Tighter Controls
UCCCCCHHHHHH......

As the Obama administration begins to rewrite the rules governing the US banking industry, Blankfein reflects on some of the lessons from the crisis.

Oy.

Goldman Vice Chair's $3.7 Million Sale

Goldman downgrades Chevron to buy
Uh-oh.

Gov’t Explores Move To Push GM Into Bankruptcy

US Stocks Drop as Investors Await Porkulater

Lobbyists Creeping into Obama Administration
Creeping, as lobbyists are wont to do.

Emerging economies told to go green or risk losing inward investment

Kansas agency tries to clarify policy on CO 2
Good luck with that!

Porkulater clears hurdle in Senate

Geithner Set to Make Public Case for Bank Bailout Plan

Justice Dept. Uses 'State Secrets' Defense

The Obama administration invoked the same "state secrets" privilege as its predecessor in federal court in San Francisco yesterday in opposing the reinstatement of a lawsuit that alleges that a Boeing Co. unit flew people to countries where they were tortured as part of the CIA's "extraordinary rendition" program.

The 180-degree reversal of Obama's State Secrets position:

Apparently, the operative word in that highlighted paragraph -- unbeknownst to most people at the time -- was "the Bush administration," since the Obama administration is now doing exactly that which, during the campaign, it defined as "The Problem," the only difference being that it is now Obama, and not Bush, doing it. For journalists who haven't bothered to learn the first thing about this issue even as they hold themselves out as experts on it, and for Obama followers eager to find an excuse to justify what was done, a brief review of the State Secrets privilege controversy is in order.

Nobody -- not the ACLU or anyone else -- argues that the State Secrets privilege is inherently invalid. Nobody contests that there is such a thing as a legitimate state secret. Nobody believes that Obama should declassify every last secret and never classify anything else ever again. Nor does anyone even assert that this particular lawsuit clearly involves no specific documents or portions of documents that might be legitimately subject to the privilege. Those are all transparent, moronic strawmen advanced by people who have no idea what they're talking about.

Oh the Irony!

Leahy Proposes Panel To Investigate Bush Era

CA Judges tell state to free thousands of inmates

Unrest continues at Redoubt

"Volcanic tremor is ongoing with variable amplitudes, and small discrete earthquakes are occurring at a rate of one to several events per hour."

Discrete!

6.0 in northern Peru

Barry McGuire
Eve of Destruction

William Blake: The Book of Urizen

In the complex mythology of William Blake, Urizen is the embodiment of conventional reason and law....

Urizen is a So Smart.

William Blake: The Book of Urizen
Music: "Giants Orbiting"~ Iain Bellamy

The Urizen Books of William Blake

Self-closd, all-repelling: what Demon
Hath form'd this abominable void
This soul-shudd'ring vacuum?--Some said
"It is Urizen", But unknown, abstracted
Brooding secret, the dark power hid.

Times on times he divided, & measur'd
Space by space in his ninefold darkness
Unseen, unknown! changes appeard
In his desolate mountains rifted furious
By the black winds of perturbation

For he strove in battles dire
In unseen conflictions with shapes
Bred from his forsaken wilderness,
Of beast, bird, fish, serpent &element
Combustion, blast, vapour and cloud.

And Los round the dark globe of Urizen,
Kept watch for Eternals to confine,
The obscure separation alone;
For Eternity stood wide apart,
As the stars are apart from the earth

Floatin' Powa News Service: The Natural Result of Usurpation

Bob Marley & The Wailers
Natural Mystic

Iran: US strategy change to facilitate direct talks

Biden promises foreign policy shifts

Larijani: Iran awaits 'concrete offer ' from Washington

Larijani visits Al Andalus while he is waiting....

He is going to have an interview today with Zappy Dhimmhead...

Iran 'ready' for new nuclear proposals

SEPTEMBER 2008: Why the West thinks it is time to talk to the Taliban

Negotiations have begun in secret with the enemy in Afghanistan. Jason Burke reveals the back channels of diplomacy that led to the controversial talks

DECEMBER 2008:

The United States and the Afghan government can talk to moderate Taliban members, but only from a position of strength, Washington's envoy to the United Nations Zalmay Khalilzad said

Zalmay Khalilzad: You know.... the dude GWB appointed to replace the fired John Bolton

TODAY: Afghanistan's Karzai Offers Peace to 'Friendly Taliban'

Taliban Beheads Polish engineer

Video Is Said to Be Polish Hostage’s Beheading in Pakistan

Jews to Vatican: Holocaust denial is a crime

World Jewish leaders told Vatican officials that denying the Holocaust was "not an opinion but a crime"

The Biggest Honor Killing of All:

The editor-in-chief of the Times of Oman, that country's paper of record, has published an open justification of the Holocaust.

Arrests Made in Venezuela Synagogue Attack

Seven Venezuelan police agents and four civilians have been arrested in connection with an attack on a synagogue

'Israel agrees to free all prisoners demanded by Hamas apart from 4'

BiBi promises to keep Golan, undivided Jerusalem

Anyone remember this part of Saturday's links?

Obama Campaign Manager To Visit Azerbaijan
Really? WHY?

Azerbaijan crucial to Western hopes of increased Caspian gas exports

Well.... lookie here:

David Plouffe and the Call of Oil

Barack Obama took office just a few weeks ago and already David Plouffe, his campaign manager, appears to be doing quite well for himself. He’s already signed a lucrative book deal, which seems fair enough, but now he’s flying off to oil-rich Azerbaijan at the invitation of a pro-democracy front group that works closely with the ruling despot.

According to Radio Free Europe, Plouffe will be giving a speech and also be meeting with President Ilham Aliyev, who inherited power from his father, a former KGB chieftain who took over the country when the Soviet Union collapsed.

Russia: Biden's words on US nuclear stance 'very positive'

A Russia Reality Check

As European leaders listened joyfully here to the Obama administration's first expressions of foreign policy, nothing pleased them more than Vice President Biden's vow "to press the reset button" in relations with Russia.

[SNIP]

Over the past year, Russia has invaded the sovereign state of Georgia, parts of which it continues to occupy; cut off natural gas to parts of Europe during the depth of winter; sold weapons to Iran and Venezuela; and otherwise made itself disagreeable.

Russia: Filling the power vacuum created by Obama

These moves by Russia will change the balance of power.

They already have.

Obama May Postpone Afghan "Surge"; Severe Problems in Supply Routes

While the attention of the US public and the news media here has been consumed (understandably enough) by the congressional debate over the economic stimulus plan, America's war in Afghanistan has nearly collapsed because of logistical problems.

US Military Supplies Allowed Through Russia

Russia’s foreign minister, Sergey V. Lavrov, said Friday that Russia had fast-tracked approval of a plan to allow the United States military to ship nonlethal equipment across Russian territory to Afghanistan.

“We gave our consent, literally, in 24 hours,” he said. “We expect our American partners to provide a concrete request with the quantity and description of cargo. We shall grant the relevant permission as soon as it happens.”

As we were saying: US/NATO Afghan supply routes blocked

US envoy in Pakistan on quest for Afghan stability

Russia denies influencing Kyrgyzstan on US base

Russia to bury radioactive waste in Turkmenistan

Merkel: Include Russia in Euro security

Arianespace (France) And Thales (US/France) to build satellites for Gazprom

A Pipeline to Trouble

Turkey to back Nabucco even if EU membership talks stall
We'll see.

Merkel in political crisis as economy minister resigns

The Icelandic Volcano Erupts

In December, reports surfaced that Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson pushed his Wall Street bailout package by suggesting that, without it, civil unrest in the United States might grow so dangerous that martial law would have to be declared. Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), warned of the same risk of riots, wherever the global economy was hurting. What really worried them wasn't, I suspect, the possibility of a lot of people thronging the streets with demands for social and political change, but that some of those demands might actually be achieved. Take the example of Iceland, the first --but surely not the last -- country to go bankrupt in the current global crash.

Today in Russian Business

State-run banks could unite to co-manage toxic assets from borrowers who default on loans as a means of 'cutting expenses'.

Gee.....where have I heard that before?

Porkulater, Spudniktariats!

Shelby: Stimulus 'the socialist way'

U.S. Taxpayers Risk $9.7 Trillion on Bailouts as Senate Votes

Gold Man Sacks predicts another $9b stimulus

GM to invest $1B rescue money in Brazil

US Treasury delays bank bailout announcement

US Treasury to prop up housing under revamped bank bailout

Treasurys down ahead of massive bond issuance

5 Billion Dolla Gubbmint Pepco secures 4 Mil in credit

2 Mice Carrying Plague Disappear From NJ Lab, FBI Says No Public Health Risk

Australia bushfires toll expected to reach 230

AUSTRALIA has been singled out as a target for "forest jihad" by a group of Islamic extremists urging Muslims to deliberately light bushfires as a weapon of terror.

US intelligence channels earlier this year identified a website calling on Muslims in Australia, the US, Europe and Russia to "start forest fires", claiming "scholars have justified chopping down and burning the infidels' forests when they do the same to our lands".

The website, posted by a group called the Al-Ikhlas Islamic Network, argues in Arabic that lighting fires is an effective form of terrorism justified in Islamic law under the "eye for an eye" doctrine.

The posting — which instructs jihadis to remember "forest jihad" in summer months — says fires cause economic damage and pollution, tie up security agencies and can take months to extinguish so that "this terror will haunt them for an extended period of time".

"Imagine if, after all the losses caused by such an event, a jihadist organisation were to claim responsibility for the forest fires," the website says. "You can hardly begin to imagine the level of fear that would take hold of people in the United States, in Europe, in Russia and in Australia."

Televisions 'to be fitted in contact lenses within ten years'

Crews clean 65000-gallon oil spill near Chicago

Hundreds stand in line for tickets to FLA Obamarama

Bloodstone
Natural High ~ 1972

WFRL: You signed and sealed it ~

The Scorpions
Humanity

Humanity
Auf wiedersehen
it's time to say goodbye
The party's over
as the laughter dies
an angel cries

Humanity,
It's au revoir to your insanity
You sold your soul to feed your vanity,
your fantasies and lies

You're a drop in the rain,
Just a number not a name
And you don't see it
You don't believe it
At the end of the day
You're a needle in the hay
You signed and sealed it
And now you gotta deal with it

Humanity humanity
Good bye

Be on your way
Adios amigo
There's a price to pay
For all the egotistic games you played
The world you made is gone

In your eyes
I'm staring at the end of time

Nothing can change us
No one can save us from ourselves

WFRL: Shake, Rattle & Roll

Big Joe Turner had the original:

Big Joe Turner
Shake Rattle & Roll
1954


Big Joe Turner
Shake Rattle & Roll ~ live

Bill Hailey & the Comets
Shake Rattle & Roll





Elvis
Shake Rattle & Roll

Floatin' Powa News Service vs The Judas Priests

Judas Priest
Electric Eye

ALL PHOTOS WERE TAKEN AT THE MUNICH SECURITY CONFERENCE

Iran busted attempting to funnel millions to Hamas

Priorities of petroleum projects in Iran’s 5th Development Plan
Ooooo, the 5th development plan! Ican't wait till they get to Plan 9!

Iran opens largest world ethylene complex
No, Ethylene is not Maybelline's cousin!

Thousands flee Tamil Tiger area

India wants Pakistan declared terror state
And they are right.

CIA: "The British Pakistani community is recognised as probably al-Qaeda's best mechanism for launching an attack against North America"

Pakistan Defends Freedom for Rogue Nuclear Scientist

THIS IS CALLED COLLECTING THE JIZYA:
Pakistan demands unconditional aid from U.S.

WHICH we are already paying them:
WORLD BANK TO GIVE PAKISTAN 2 BILLION

Iraq's Christian Assyrians Caught in Middle of Mosul Vote

Christians have frequently been targeted since turmoil swept the country after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, although the attacks have ebbed with a sharp drop in overall violence.

Churches, priests and businesses of the generally prosperous, well-educated community have been attacked by militants who denounce Christians as pro-American "crusaders." The body of Paulos Rahho, the Chaldean Catholic archbishop of Mosul, also was found in March following his abduction by gunmen after a Mass.

Obama administration playing Dhimmiprole to Russia and Iran

US to put European missile shield plans on hold
Biden says US willing to discuss Iran's nuclear plans

QUOTES: What they said at the Munich Security Conference

CZECH DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER ALEXANDR VONDRA: "It's too late to start building a pipeline when the gas stops flowing and too late to start building a shield when the missile is already in the air."

FRENCH PRESIDENT NICOLAS SARKOZY: "I don't think the Russia of today is a military threat to NATO or the European Union."

EU FOREIGN POLICY CHIEF JAVIER SOLANA: Called Washington's offer a "very, very important change." "The Iranians have to think very, very carefully about the meaning of that and contribute also with a positive response."

Czechs, Poland Urge US to Stick With Missile Shield

Oh sure, let the Czechs and the Poles twist in the wind... it's not like we haven't done THAT shit before. MFers.

Sarkozy says mutual trust urgently needed between Russia, EU
Oy with Sarkozy already. A whore's whore, him.

Livni turns to the left for votes
Yet another whore's whore.


Bolton: 'With no likelihood of US use of force, that leaves Israel'

With the end of the Bush administration, the possibility of US use of military force against Iran's nuclear program has dropped essentially to zero. The diplomatic effort failed years ago, and I don't think any renewed American effort is fundamentally going to make any difference. Iran has all the scientific and technological knowledge it needs right now to create a nuclear weapon. We can tell from publicly available information from the International Atomic Energy Agency that Iran has enough low-enriched uranium which, if enriched to weapons-grade levels, would allow it one nuclear weapon now, and possibly another one or two this year. Let me stress here: That's what we know publicly from the IAEA - no James Bond involved in that calculation - and there may well be additional activities we don't know about, which would make Iran's capability even more substantial. So, if the diplomatic option has failed, that leaves only regime change or the use of force. And with no likelihood of American use of force, that leaves Israel.

NEWSWEAK SEZ: We Are All Socialists Now
Well, well, well.... Seems Newsweek has hired some unhinged loons...

The architect of this new era of big government? History has a sense of humor, for the man who laid the foundations for the world Obama now rules is George W. Bush, who moved to bail out the financial sector last autumn with $700 billion.

Communist Party Hails New Obama Era
NATURALLY!

Will the US embrace global socialism?
Will we? We already have. Tick Tock! MORAL CAPITALISM, they will call it, so that the spudniktariats can live in sweet denial for a while longer......

Bomb plants to shift to control of Pentagon

The Obama administration is considering whether to shift the management of nuclear weapons production to the Pentagon from the Energy Department, a step that would end more than 60 years of civilian control over nuclear bomb manufacture.

EXIGENT!

Rahm takes over census

The Obama Administration has moved the census out of the Department of Commerce and into the White House, putting Rahm Emanuel in control of doing the census:

Now, why would Rahm Emanuel want the Census under his control in the White House? Huh? Why might that be? "The census is used to allocate federal aid to states and draw electoral districts," the New York Times editorial board wrote in order to REMIND PRESIDENT OBAMA that he might not want a REPUBLICAN in charge of drawing "electoral districts." Good god almighty. So now Obama's administration has decided that they'll do the census themselves.

Obama to Expand Powers of NSC:

Just in case you missed it, the Washington Post has a news-making interview with President Obama's National Security Adviser, Gen. Jim Jones (Ret.), this morning in which Jones discusses the pending expanded powers of the National Security Council. Through a pending presidential directive, President Obama will expand the NSC's membership and increase its authority "to set strategy across a wide spectrum of international and domestic issues," writes the Post's Karen DeYoung.

[insert my nodding head HERE]

Isn't Google's Latitude Just a Bit Creepy?
Little bit around the edges, yeah.

Niger jails journalist for story on Chinese deal

Soussada Ben Ali, editor of L'Action, an independent weekly newspaper, was arrested after a Jan. 13 article that accused the Finance Ministry of irregularities in awarding a contract worth over 800 million CFA franc ($1.56 million) to a Chinese firm.

[SNIP]

Niger, one of the world's poorest countries, has close ties with China. The state-owned China National Petroleum Company has signed a $5 billion deal to produce crude oil in Niger and build a refinery and a 2,000 km (1,250-mile) export pipeline.

Chinese VP in Mexico on Business

Mexico could serve as a door for China's investment in Latin America and a factory producing goods for export, a senior official of a Mexican business promotion group told Xinhua on Saturday.

Juan Carlos Cante Reyes, Asia director of the ProMexico, a state-owned organization in charge of promoting trade and investment, was speaking prior to the official visit of Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping to Mexico and four other Latin American countries and Malta.

China starts work on east end of giant gas pipeline

State-owned major China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) has contracted to import 30 bcm of gas a year from Turkmenistan via the new pipeline.

Turkmenistan was one of the most remote and isolated places on the planet. Now it's reinventing itself -- as a playground for Western tourists.

Gazprom vows stable gas supply for Japan

Russian gas giant Gazprom plans British electricity sales
Putin be up in your UK, stealin' your autonomy.

Russian energy min tempts German firms

Putin Sez: Europe Has Rights Abuses of Its Own

Arms scandal hurts Moscow in Caspian Great Game

Russia Leads Arctic Race to Claim Northwest Passage

At a Nato conference, the Secretary-General, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, warned that members might need a military presence in the Arctic because of growing tensions. Russia, with a third of its territory north of the Arctic Circle, has been noisiest in its claims. Its Defence Ministry has prepared a national directive, laying claim to large parts of the region.

In September Anatoli Serdyukov, the Defence Minister, flew to Nagurskoye military station, a northern outpost, to prepare this strategy document. Britain, Canada, the US, China, Norway, Denmark and the EU all are preparing different claims. Canada doubled its funding for mapping the seabed last year and said that it would open an army training post at Resolute Bay, and a deep-water port. In the final weeks of his presidency, George W.Bush issued the US’s strategy for the region...

MEPs Call On Whole of EU to Recognise Kosovo

Pepco Customers Complain of Soaring Bills

That's 5 Billion Dollar Gubbmint Pepco to you, plebe...

The Incredible Shrinking US Job Market

Treasury's Geithner To Unveil Plan to Aid Financial System Monday
Here come dee BAD BANK...

Soros on Bad Bank

The process would lead to difficulties in valuing toxic securities and generate covert subsidies for affected banks

Wikileaks has released nearly a billion dollars worth of quasi-secret reports commissioned by the United States Congress.

The 6,780 reports, current as of this month, comprise over 127,000 pages of material on some of the most contentious issues in the nation, from the U.S. relationship with Israel to abortion legislation. Nearly 2,300 of the reports were updated in the last 12 months, while the oldest report goes back to 1996. The release represents the total output of the Congressional Research Service (CRS) electronically available to Congressional offices. The CRS is Congress's analytical agency and has a budget in excess of $100M per year.

Behold, Al Andalus: Spain: No. 1 place in recruitement of Islamist terrorists in Europe

Australia ablaze: 'Hell in all its fury' brings death to Victoria

Italy's PM seeks law to keep comatose woman alive

Madagascar opposition chief vows to fight on

Judas Priest
Tyrant