And that is all.

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Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Floatin' Powa News Service vs The Power of Evil


Earth, Wind & Fire
Evil

Everyone who exalts himself will be humbled.
~ Luke 18:14

OIC intelligence ministers meet in Morocco

OIC Sez: Muslim Ummah awaits Obama’s vision, pledges beyond America

Iran Urges OIC Members to Avoid Using Word "Israel"


Iran to launch legal action against Israel over Gaza

US envoy vows 'direct' nuclear diplomacy with Iran

Susan Rice told reporters that President Barack Obama's administration looked forward to "engaging in vigorous diplomacy that includes direct diplomacy with Iran, as well as continued collaboration and partnership with" the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany.
Top commander supports Ahmadinejad
Iran's top military commander endorses President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's candidacy in the upcoming elections
It could get messy.....

Obama’s special Middle East troubleshooter, (Mitchell) was chairman of a law firm that was paid about $8 million representing Dubai’s ruler in connection with a child-trafficking lawsuit

Hamas and Fatah Meet in Cairo

Hamas Says Abbas Must End Its Peace Talks with Israel

EU aid chief in Gaza condemns Israel and Hamas
Hamas said it was "shocked" at his comments.
Israel? Not so shocked.

EU for "Palestinian unity with Abbas in charge"

Israel stymies French push to lift Hamas boycott

Noam Schalit to Paris to meet Sarkozy

Israel mulling 1000-for-1 prisoner exchange

"There was no ban," [on journali sts entering the Gaza Strip –Ed.] Seaman declared, "Israel did not want to endanger the lives of the workers at the crossings so we didn't open them, not for humanitarian reasons and not for foreign journalists."

Janitor pleads guilty in Tenn. nuclear parts theft

Man pleads guilty in Iranian military parts case
Prosecutors say Keshari, a 48-year-old naturalized U.S. citizen who was living in California, was a middleman between Iranian buyers and a supplier based in South Florida. The supplier also has been charged and is scheduled to go to trial in May.
Obama phones leaders in Germany, Russia, France

...And he gives his first interview as POTUS to Al Arabiya TV:



Dhimmah Carter Sez: US Can Get NK to Give Up Its Nuclear Weapons

Dhimmah's NAKBA:
Jimmy Carter said Monday that Israel will face a "catastrophe" unless it revives the Mideast peace process and establishes an independent Palestinian state.

In an interview with The Associated Press, he said Arabs will outnumber Jews in the Holy Land in the foreseeable future.
Funny, that's just what Rabbi Kahane used to say...

Russian foreign ministry delegation in NK

North Korea denounces South's unification minister


N. Korea says Seoul plans invasion

Raul Castro to visit Russia Jan. 28

NATO head, Russia's Ivanov to discuss resuming ties Feb. 6


Russia's king of crude

EU Parliament Official Sez: Let Iran participate in Nabucco

Gazprom officials met with Budapest ahead of Nabucco gathering

Gazprom eyes 30-year contract with Ukraine

Ukraine-Russia gas deal could be overturned

Gazprom looks at offshore arctic

Russia's Severstal to idle Ohio steel furnace
Severstal (CHMFq.L), Russia's largest steel maker, said on Monday it will idle its Mingo Junction, Ohio electric arc furnace next month because of poor steel market conditions.
New Delhi supports TAPI pipeline

Tajiks face electricity rationing in capital city

Lead Chevron Lawyer Discusses the Rigors of Defending Big Oil

Indonesia to get natural gas from Chevron, ExxonMobil


Clinton: Energy security a major US foreign policy element


The following was released today by the Republican National Committee:

Goldman Sachs Economist Alec Phillips Said Preliminary Estimates Show That Only $250 Billion Of The $825 Billion Stimulus Will Make It Into The Economy In 2009.

"'As the size of the overall package grows, estimates of the amount of stimulus Congress will provide appear to be shrinking,' said Goldman Sachs economist Alec Phillips. 'Preliminary estimates imply that of the $825 billion Congress is considering, only $250 billion will make it into the economy in the current calendar year.'" (Emily Kaiser, "Economy To President Obama: Help Me Now," Reuters, 1/25/09)

Goldman Sachs' Report: "Preliminary estimates imply that of the $825 billion Congress is considering, only $250 billion will make it into the economy in the current calendar year. This could still change as the package works its way through Congress, but these estimates highlight the political and practical challenges in enacting an effective fiscal package, particularly in 2009." (NBC's "Meet The Press," 1/25/09)

[SNIP]

Gold Man Sacks Sez: US Banks May Be the New Utilities

Goldman sours further on banks

"Charity venture firm" hires former Goldman Sachs exec

Pfizer’s bid is being financed by banks that received fed bailout $: Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup & Bank of America

Perella Weinberg Hired by FDIC as Bank Bailout Strategy Adviser

In the 1980s, the FDIC hired New York-based Morgan Stanley as an adviser when the agency decided to sell its stake in Continental Illinois, the Chicago-based bank that had to be rescued in 1984 with a $4.5 billion government bailout. Continental had hired Goldman Sachs Group Inc. as an adviser.
Senate OKs careless taxpayer Geithner to run Obama's Treasury

Massive Trial in Turkey Provides Look into 'Deep State'

In India, Clues Unfold to a Fraud’s Framework


Satyam to get training award from US body

A US-based professional body is ignoring the almost surreal events in recent weeks at Satyam Computer Services and bestowing the troubled software company with an award that recognises the internal training that Satyam conducts for its employees. The American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) said the Hyderabad company was chosen for the award in December before it was engulfed in the financial scandal on January 7.
OOOOOoooOOooooo, Lookie:

SEARCH: The American Society for Training and Development / Goldman Sachs

2001: Goldman Sachs Hires Laura Liswood to Focus On Global Leadership and Workforce Diversity

Ms. Liswood has worked with Goldman Sachs for the past three years, facilitating employee workshops and advising the firm on issues relating to diversity in the workplace. She is the author of Women World Leaders, which chronicles the careers of 15 current and former women world leaders. She is the co-founder and Secretary General of the Council of Women World Leaders located at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Ms. Liswood's experience includes being the CEO/President of the American Society for Training and Development, holding executive positions at Rainier National Bank and in the airline industry

Etc., Etc., Etc.

Drug Money Keeping Global Banks Afloat

The United Nations' crime and drug watchdog has indications that money made in illicit drug trade has been used to keep banks afloat in the global financial crisis, its head was quoted as saying on Sunday.

2 prominent Saudi firms establish Sharia-compliant real estate finance co

Albaraka Bank Syria will be established with a capital of $100 million, which will be subscribed to by the promoters and shareholders in a public offering

SEARCH: Albaraka /Goldman Sachs

Malaysia's Bank Islam identifies potential M&A partner

SEARCH: Malaysia Bank Islam/Goldman Sachs

'Stewmaker' Stirs Horror in Mexico

MEXICO CITY, Jan. 26 As the nation's drug war rages on, with its weekly tallies of headless torsos, it is getting harder to produce a shock wave in the Mexican media. But the gruesome recipes of "The Stewmaker" have gripped public attention here, as authorities describe how a "disposal expert" working for a Tijuana drug cartel boss allegedly got rid of hundreds of bodies by dissolving the corpses in vats of acid.
Alaska's Redoubt volcano threatens eruption

5.6 in the Aleutian Islands

Active Volcano Erupted in Europe

5.9 in Indonesia

Thousands displaced by Sunday's China/Kazakh border 5.0

5.3 in Bolivia

Bolivia faces crisis as Evo Morales wins referendum

Bolivia is facing a political crisis after President Evo Morales won a decisive victory in a referendum designed to enhance his own powers and turn the country into a quasi-Socialist state


Earth, Wind & Fire
Power

WFRL: Revolutionary Etude


Chopin
Revolutionary Etude
Op.10 #12 in C minor
1831
The étude appeared around the same time as the November Uprising in 1831. Chopin was unable to have a strong participating role because of his poor health, and allegedly he poured his emotions on the matter into many pieces that he composed at that time - the Revolutionary Étude standing out as the most famous example. Upon conclusion of Poland's failed revolution against Russia, Chopin cried "All this has caused me much pain. Who could have foreseen it!"
November Revolt in Polish Lands of Russia 1830-1831


Into your hands he has placed mankind
and the beasts of the field
and the birds of the air.
Wherever they live,
he has made you ruler over them all.
You are that head of gold.
~ Daniel 2:38

Monday, January 26, 2009

Gerald Honigman: Hamas, Gaza, And The U.N.N.


Jüdischer Tango (Jewish Tango)
Ich hab' kein Heimatland (I Have No Motherland)
1933

Hamas, Gaza, And The U.N.N.
(United Nauseating Nations)

by Gerald A. Honigman


No sooner was Israel reborn in the wake of the Holocaust in May 1948 as a result (on the human part of the deal, at least) of a United Nations' vote, it was attacked by a half dozen Arab nations--most of which had gained their own independence only recently as well. From that moment on, with a few (but important) rare exceptions, the U.N. would work to basically try to undo its "mistake" of permitting the resurrection of the Jew of the Nations.

Can't help it...visions of the Hebrew Prophets pour though my mind. Some excerpts from Ezekiel 37:
The hand of the Lord was upon me... set me down in the midst of the valley full of bones.... very many... and, lo, they were very dry.

And He said unto me, "Son of man, can these bones live?" And I answered, "O Lord God, thou knowest."

Thus saith the Lord God unto these bones; 'Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live: And I will lay sinews upon you, bring flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you.' "

So I prophesied... there was a noise...shaking, and the bones came together, bone to bone... sinews and flesh came up upon them, and skin covered them above: but there was no breath in them.

Then said He unto me, "Prophesy unto the wind, Son of man, and say to the wind, 'Thus saith the Lord God: 'Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.' "

So I prophesied... and the breath came into them, they lived, and stood up upon their feet....

Then He said unto me, "Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, 'Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost....Therefore prophesy and say, 'Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, O My people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel..."
Whoa...! Heavy stuff...I still get goose bumps..

Written some twenty-six centuries or so ago, if this wasn't the resurrected phoenix of the Jews--Israel--then I'm Michelangelo.

And when Jews from the remote corners of the "Arab" world--where they also didn't know what the morrow would bring and were commonly known as yahud kelb/Jew Dog killers of prophets --were gathered to be flown to Israel, with tears they recited the Hebrew prophecy predicting that they would return to Israel on the wings of eagles as they boarded the planes used in Operation Magic Carpet.

One of those above 1948 Arab attackers, Transjordan, became independent two years earlier. Its army was led by British officers and, like Egypt's, was well equipped with Allied armaments left in the region after World War II.

Since the Emirate's own story is crucial for understanding attempts made to try to balance conflicting Arab and Jewish claims over that part of the Turks' previous empire which emerged as the Mandate of Palestine after World War I, I frequently reference this in my work. Arabs bring up their tale of how Jews allegedly stole all of the land over and over again; hence my own need to repeatedly remind readers of the truth as well.

Colonial Secretary Winston Churchill convened the Cairo Conference in 1921. As a result of this and other machinations of the latest empire (the Brits') to acquire the land of the Jews--Judaea--since the fall of the latter to Hadrian's Roman armies in 135 C.E., Britain's Hashemite Arab allies were awarded all of the original 1920 Mandate of Palestine east of the Jordan River--almost 80% of the total area–in 1922.

Transjordan's King Abdullah attributed this gift to an act of Allah in his memoirs. Along with other observers, Sir Alec Kirkbride, the Brits' East Bank (of the Jordan River) rep, had much to say about this as well in A Crackle Of Thorns.

Not long afterwards, Abdullah's brother, Emir Faisal, was gifted with all of the Mandate of Mesopotamia--renamed Iraq. Millions of Kurds thus saw their own best chance at independence shattered on behalf of Arab nationalism and British Petroleum politics as well.

The Ottoman Turkish Empire had ruled most of the region for the previous four centuries. Most of those above invading and other "Arab" states had, in turn, become Arab by the conquest, subjugation, and forced Arabization of millions of native peoples who survived earlier jihads in the wars of the Dar ul-Islam against the Dar al-Harb...another point I feel a need to stress repeatedly.

Similar stories could be told all over the region...millions of native, non-Arab peoples, within the power vacuum created by the collapse of empire, seeing their own hopes for freedom and independence in the new nationaist age swept away on behalf of the Arab Nation. Some later fought alongside Arabs against the Mandatory Powers...did them little good after the French and the British left the scene (one way or the other), however.

From Egypt, through North Africa into the Sudan, to Lebanon, Iraqi and Syrian Kurdistan, and elsewhere, scores of millions have all been forced to consent to this forced Arabization process.

As Egypt's most famous native "Uncle Tom" Copt, the late President Sadat's Foreign Minister Dr. Boutros Boutros Ghali basically summed it up for Israel (as well as all others) in an interview with an Israeli author: if you want to be accepted in the neighborhood, you have to consent to Arabization.

The post-1922 up to the current fight, therefore, has been to create a second state for Arabs in what's left of "Palestine"--not a first...the Arabs' 22nd in total spread out across over six million square miles of territory. And that state is expected, by "moderates" willing to tell the West what it wants to hear, as well as the more honest Hamas types, to replace the sole state of the Jews–not live peacefully along side it.

Back to the United Nations...

In 1947, another partition plan was presented which would have divided the roughly 20% of the Mandate of Palestine left after the creation of Transjordan in half between Jews and Arabs.

Had Arabs accepted this, they would have wound up with some 90% of the total original area.

They rejected this offer on the grounds that all was part of the Dar ul-Islam and/or their "purely Arab patrimony." The rest is history.

Some things change, others never do. Israel's fight with Hamas, Fatah, and others today is the same as it was back then.

Back to May, 1948...

The U.N. watched its newest child brutally attacked upon birth. It did nothing to stop the onslaught and only finally stepped in after the Jews turned the tide of the battle.

Afraid that they would push the Arabs back even further and take more of the non-apportioned territory of the Mandate, the U.N. finally acted. Keep in mind that, unlike Arab claims, these were not "purely Arab" territories.

The armistice lines drawn up by the UN. in 1949 simply marked the point where hostilities were stopped.

Amongst other things, they left Israel a mere 9-miles wide in some places, and not much more in its strategic waist--where most of its population and industry are located. Many peole travel farther than that just to go to work. It should not be a surprise, therefore, that these became known as the Auschwitz Lines--a constant invitation to Arabs to attack. The lines were never expected to be Israel's real borders, as America's own U.N. rep, Dr.Ralph Bunche, wrote about himself.

Recall that as a result of the 1948 Arab assault, Trans jordan grabbed the non-apportioned west bank of the Jordan River (where both Jews and Arabs had roots, owned land, and were allowed to live). Now holding both banks, it changed its name to Jordan (since it now held territory from other parts of the Mandate besides those across the river)--and made all the land it now held Judenrein (Jew free)--including east Jerusalem. Numerous age-old synagogues were destroyed, ancient Jewish tombstones were used to pave roads, build latrines, and so forth. Only two nations recognized that illegal seizure.

While Jordan thus emerged above, Pharaoh--who had used Gaza to invade the land of the Jews for thousands of years--once again grabbed that coastal strip.

Note that during the time Jordan and Egypt held Gaza and the West Bank (aka, Judea and Samaria, its real name)--almost two decades--no one demanded the birth of the Arabs' second state in Palestine in those areas. Not a peep from the United Nations either...

As another result of the Arab attempt to nip a microscopic, resurrected Israel in the bud, two refugee situations were created...another point that needs to constantly be reemphasized.

The Arabs have continued to this day to thrust the plight of their own refugees--created primariliy as a result of their own actions--into everyone else's faces--people who were pawns (willingly or unwillingly) of the Arabs' own murderous schemes that backfired. Scores of millions of non-Arab peoples also became refugees as a result of wars over the last century. Yet the folks who have received the most aid have been the biggest whiners.

Arab refugees, right from the start, were made virtual wards of the world--unlike all the others above. The United Nations Relief Works Agency (UNRWA)--whose spokemen, right now, are villifying Israel over Gaza--was created just to cater to these folks--most of whom were newcomers themselves coming into the land because of its economic development by the Jews.

The U.N.'s predecessor, the League Of Nations Permanent Mandates Commission, recorded numerous Arabs crossing into the Mandate from the surrounding Arab states. Many more slipped in through very porous borders under cover of darkness and were never recorded. And still many others arrived with Muhammad Ali and son Ibrahim Pasha's armies from Egypt about fifty years or so earlier and never left...all alleged "native Palestinians." Hamas's virtual patron saint (for whom those rockets Gaza has been blasting israel with are named as well as Hamas's "militant wing), Sheikh Izzedin al-Qassam, was from Latakia, Syria. Arafat was born in Cairo.

Indeed, so many Arabs were recent arrivals themselves into the Palestinian Mandate that UNRWA had to adjust the very definition of "refugee" from its prior meaning of persons normally and traditionally resident to those who lived in the Mandate for a minimum of only two years prior to 1948.

Now, keep in mind that for every Arab who was forced to flee the fighting that Arabs started (after all, how dare Jews want in one tiny, resurrected state what Arabs demand for themselves in some two dozen others), a Jewish refugee was forced to flee "Arab"/Muslim lands into Israel and elsewhere...but with no UNRWA set up to assist them. Why not?

UNRWA has been openly hostile to Israel from the getgo. It has long allowed the promotion of anti-Western and anti-Semitic attitudes among the Arabs it serves, and has done little to help solve the problem of their refugee status--unless giving shelter and employment to those who would terrorize and destroy their Jewish neighbor counts in his regard.

Before Israel's current round of fighting in Gaza, back in 2004, UNRWA Commissioner-General Peter Hansen told the Canadian Broadcasting Company "I am sure that there are Hamas members on the UNRWA payroll and I don't see that as a crime."

Solid evidence and documentation obtained from Arabs on the spot have revealed that UNRWA has turned a blind eye to Arabs setting up mortar and rocket firing positions adjacent to U.N. schools, hospitals, private homes, and so forth. Additionally, in this latest round, Israel had solid intelligence that Hamas leaders were hiding in the basement of such a hospital.

Similarly, when Israel was forced to go after Hizbullah in Lebanon in 2006, it turned out that the U.N force there, UNIFIL, not only did not prevent attacks on Israel but allowed Hizbullah to set up its positions right next to UNIFIL units. After a U.N. position got hit as a result, pictures made the rounds showing just such a Hizbullah position right next to a U.N. building. Furthermore, solid evidence surfaced that UNIFIL members collaborated with Hizbullah to enable the kidnaping of Israeli troops from inside Israel proper-the move which started the war in the first place.

Ahhh, the United Nations...Nice to know where many millions of American tax dollars are going to, isn't it?!?!

Turning the clock back again, from 1948 to1956, Israel was attacked repeatedly by Arabs using Egyptian and Jordanian territories as their bases. In 1956, when Egypt blockaded it at the Strait of Tiran, Israel struck back hard. France and Great Britain were peeved at Egypt's Nasser as well for nationalizing the Suez Canal, so the time was ripe.

In a lightening assault, Israel soon found itself on the banks of the Suez Canal.

Before Western pressure forced it to withdraw--note the inaction of the U.N. to stop Arab attacks on Israel and so forth which provoked the Sinai Campaign (sound familiar?)--Israel's David Ben-Gurion received assurances that if Egypt ever played the same blockade game again, it would be recognized as a casus belli. This would become very important, once again, in the not-too-distant future. A United Nations Emergency Force was also set up in Gaza and at the Strait of Tiran to supposedly prevent such happenings again.

So, tell me please...what good is a fireman who, at the first smell of smoke, disappears from sight?

In Spring 1967, Egypt's Nasser must have been all sugared up once again.

Pharaoh amassed 100,000 troops, but instead of chariots, he positioned planes, tanks, artillery, and so forth on Israel's border, reinstated the blockade, and ordered the U.N. force out of Gaza so his tank divisions would have an open door.

Without a wink, the U.N. turned tail and ran--leaving Israel, once again, all on its own. Nasser, meanwhile, got other Arab nations to jump aboard his own latter-day Final Solution bandwagon as well. While Syria was up to its eyeballs in this right from the start, others--like Jordan's young King Hussein--had to be lured into this a bit later.
Big mistake...

Well, as you probably know, things didn't quite turn out as Arabs planned...

In six days in June 1967, Israel destroyed several Arab air forces, left hundreds of their tanks smoldering, took thousands of prisoners, etc.and so forth...Remember Ben-Gurion's casus belli deal in 1956 regarding a renewal of blockade?

Oh yes--I almost forgot...

Israel also now found itself holding all of the Sinai Peninsula (in which it developed oil fields, established important air bases, and at last gained a little strategic depth) up to the Suez Canal; in control of the Strait from which it had been repeatedly blockaded; on top of the Golan Heights, from which its farm villages and fishermen on the Sea of Galilee had been repeatedly attacked; in Gaza; and back in Judea and Samaria--the "West Bank," from which all Jews were either previously slaughtered or later excluded from as a result of Transjordan's land grab in 1948. Places like Hebron--where the Hebrew Patriarchs and some of the matriarchs are buried--and elsewhere once again saw Jews.

And in a rare moment (Divine guidance?), something else next happened which proved to be not par for the U.N.'s usual course.

After much argument, and thanks to America and Great Britain--folks who also opposed Israel in the past--the final draft of the U.N. document, UNSC Resolution 242, which dealt with any future Israeli withdrawal, was worded in a precise way which called for the creation of secure and real borders to replace Israel's '49 Auschwitz lines. It also allowed for a necessary revision of those borders in order to undo–somewhat at least–the travesty of the '49 U.N.-imposed lines.

Here's Britain's Lord Caradon on 242...

It would have been wrong to demand that Israel return to its positions of June 4, 1967, because those positions were undesirable and artificial. After all, they were just the places where the soldiers of each side happened to be on the day the fighting stopped in 1948. They were just armistice lines. That's why we didn't demand that the Israelis return to them.

President Ronald Reagan commented on this same subject on September 1, 1982...

In the pre-1967 borders, Israel was barely 10-miles wide... the bulk of Israel's population within artillery range of hostile armies. I am not about to ask Israel to live that way again.

Regardless of the renewed pressure that will undoubtedly be coming with the new American President's administration, Israel must insist upon those territorial adjustments it was promised in order to right an historical wrong. A fair compromise must be demanded by Israel's own new leaders.

The State Department opposed Israel's creation from the start and has been usually hostile ever since.

Expect more of the same, if not worse, coming from the Foggy Folks with an Obama Administration.

The Jews the new President appoints to work with him are as reassuring on this matter as James Baker's stick it to the Jew of the Nations "Jew Boys" were before--a good shield to deflect criticism later on from Jews who really care. I truly hope I'm wrong here...but doubt it. In fact, President Obama apparently just loves Baker's Jew Boy Dan Kurtzer--Foggy Bottom's Jew point man used to force the Jews in Israel to ignore 242 and return to their previous suicidal Auschwitz lines.

The new President had already sent his well-known, anti-Israel friend and special envoy, Robert Malley (raised in a family of anti-Zionists and Communists who counted Yasir Arafat as a close friend), to Lebanon's slave master and Iran's best buddy, Syria, before he even took the oath of office.

Now, pray tell, what might that be all about?

Decades ago, Israel had already offered a retreat from well over 90% of the Golan Heights to Syria in return for a true peace...

.....'Twasn't good enough for Iraq's Saddam Hussein's twin butchers in Damascus, the Assad boys–neither Papa nor Junior.

So, guess who and what's gonna be offered up to try to wean Syria away from Iran? The same folks whose arms are going to be twisted even further than they were already by Condoleezza Rice & Co. to believe that Mahmud Abbas's latter day Arafatian Fatahniks are really the good cops. After all, President Bush had already begun arming, training, funding, and otherwise supporting those alleged doves of peace.

Trust me Jew of the Nations, to such folks you should give away the store and bare the necks of your kids...

Expect much more of the same (if not worse) with President Obama, close friend and associate of Rashid Khalidi and numerous other blatantly anti-Israel folks. Louis Farakhan has called him the messiah.

With a final return (for now) to the United Nations, let's just say that with Arab genocidal actions being/having been waged against millions of Kurds and black Africans, and Arab murder and subjugation being waged against millions of Copts, Jews, Amazighen/Berbers, and others, the only thing that the United Nations seems capable of doing is vilifying Israel and placing it continuously under the high power lens of moral scrutiny for its determination to survive and defend itself despite the United Nations' indifference. Indeed, most of all of the latter's condemnations have been aimed solely at Israel.

Perhaps it's time for Israel to seriously consider withdrawing from the United Nauseating Nations or, at the very least, make sure that it quickly elects a new generation of leaders who will know how to stand their ground and demand the fair territorial compromises Israel is entitled to and must have regardless of who's tightening the screws.

Floatin' Powa News Service vs The Glow Ball Church of Obamanable Hopenpocracy


The Rolling Stones
Sympathy For The Devil



Sky News, BBC won't broadcast Gaza charity appeal
Good.

Archbishop joins criticism of BBC refusal to screen Gaza appeal

Naturally, this is the same thug hugging asshole that said Sharia in the UK was "unavoidable".
Sure it is, Sir Dhimmsalot....because of Archbishops like YOU. Arch Dhimmi, you.

Abbas regime sentences Palestinian man to death for helping Israel


Tony Al-Blair meets Fayad in Ramallah, applauds Obama's appointment of Mitchell
Fuckin' guy wants to play Lawrence of Arabia...

Mitchell will be there Monday

Universities cancel study abroad in Israel

Hamas opens offices and prepares for talks

Hamas Proposes Year-Long Truce with Israel
While they reload.
Hudna, Hudna, Hudna, KABOOM!

Visiting Hamas exec says Obama will not bring change
Nope, he will bring folding money only!

Obama pledges to actively seek Middle East peace

U.S. Army War College Publishes Apologia for Hamas

Iran promises to reconstruct destroyed parliament building in Gaza

Iran tests air-to-air missile

Iran's Minister of Culture to go Morocco for OIC meeting


4.0 in Eastern Iran


Former German Chancellor Schroeder to visit Tehran in February

EU Removes MEK / People's Mujahadeen From Terror List

MEK


Etisalat (UAE) plans $5 bln 5-yr Iranian investment

US seizing of Iranian ship 'a covert op'

So covert, I am posting this here right now!

Mugabe begs Libya, Iran, Russia and China for cash
Beasts of a feather....

Islamists seize Somali MPs' base


Marines Propose Iraq Withdrawal
The U.S. Marine Corps is proposing to completely withdraw from Iraq later this year and shift 20,000 Marines to Afghanistan, boosting the Obama administration's plan to devote significant new resources to the Afghan war.

Gen. James Conway, the top Marine commander, said Friday that the combat portion of the Iraq war was effectively over. "The time is right for Marines in general terms to leave Iraq," he told reporters.
Guantanamo Case Files in Disarray
Naturally!

Karzai anger at US strike deaths
Yer fuckin' welcome.

Pakistan Deploys Soldiers to Guard Schools Against Taliban

India Sez: We face gas crisis if Iran/Turkmen pipeline is scrapped


Egypt participates in Hungarian Nabucco summit

Turkish energy minister to attend Nabucco summit

Gazprom Eyes Joint Venture In Slovakia

Gazprom will pay for everything!

They certainly will.

Russia plans base in Georgia "rebel region"
NATURALLY!

Japan's Idemitsu eyes doubling oil export capacity

Gas prices continue to rise

China to unveil petrochemical stimulus package

OPEN SECRETS: Gold Man Sacks Summary

Goldman Sachs, Gaohua and UBS Securities (Beijing) have won a series of IPO deals in mainland China. PetroChina, Asia's biggest oil producer, recently hired the UBS unit to help sponsor its Shanghai IPO, expected to raise $7 billion in the fourth quarter of this year

Again, Gaohua IS Gold Man Sacks, Fang's division. I don't think the author of that piece realizes that. Now, whoTF is UBS? (You BS - lol....again, the shit is writing itself....)

BINGO!

FEBRUARY, 2007:

Foreign early birds to the market include Wall Street banks Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs. Morgan Stanley has long had a leg up on most of its global rivals in the Chinese market. In 1995, it bought 34.3 percent stake of the country's first investment bank joint venture China International Capital Corp. (CICC).

Goldman Sachs owns 33 percent of the Beijing-based joint venture Goldman Sachs Gaohua Securities Co, which was established in 2004.

"UBS will become a neighbor of Goldman," said another banking source in Beijing. Goldman is working on at least two big-sized Shanghai initial public offerings for Ping An Insurance and Bank of Communications separately these days. UBS Securities is inheriting control of about 26 branches from Beijing Securities, which no longer exists.
EXIGENT!

Kingdom Holding Co 4280.SE, owned by Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, said on Saturday that it had revised its fourth-quarter earnings to show a small overall profit after initially reporting a net loss close to $8.3 billion.

The revision followed the completion of an examination by Kingdom Holding of its preliminary financial earnings for 2008 and a "re-categorization of some items of its income statement," according to a statement posted on Saudi bourse website.

Based on this "re-categorization," the company said, Kingdom Holding showed an "overall" profit of 276 million riyals ($73.6 million).

The company reported on January 20 a Q4 net loss of 30.97 billion riyals ($8.26 billion) after a dive in the value of its assets, which include a substantial stake in Citigroup (C.N). Kingdom's spokeswoman Heba Fatani declined to immediately comment on the official stock market disclosure.

Morgan, Banks May Split $207 Million in Fees for Pfizer-Wyeth
Pfizer’s advisers -- Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Barclays Plc and Citigroup Inc. -- together may get $82 million in fees, not counting what they’ll earn arranging a $22.5 billion lending package. The transaction is the biggest in health care in almost five years.
Highest Rates in Generation Confront Everyone Without Fed Funds

Two Illinois congressmen urged the Treasury in October to avoid taking any regulatory action against a struggling bank in their state, illustrating the aggressive efforts some politicians are taking to help hometown lenders during the bank crisis

In a letter they sent, Democratic Reps. Danny K. Davis and Luis Gutierrez also asked government officials to provide financial aid to National Bank of Commerce, based in the Chicago suburb of Berkeley, Ill. (Read the letter.)

Regulators rebuffed the request, and the two-branch bank failed on Jan. 16.

Obama Economic Adviser Predicts Relief Within Weeks of Stimulus

Geithner pleads for patience on financial fix

Summers Says Economy Entering ‘Difficult’ Time, Needs Stimulus

Obama aide won't rule out more money for bailouts

Here comes 'terrible'

The Talented Mr. Madoff

The Sacking of Bill Kristol

Davos scales back glitz
Mighty effin' white of 'em

Details on Davos World Economic Forum

Iceland's Business Minister Resigns

Iceland's PM: Government Has Collapsed
To the deafening roar of crickets from the Glow Ballers

Buying carbon credits gains steam

Todd Stern expected as "US climate change envoy"

Obama’s Partisan, Profane Confidant Reins It In
WASHINGTON — Early this month, Barack Obama was meeting with the House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, and other lawmakers when Rahm Emanuel, his chief of staff, began nervously cracking a knuckle. Mr. Obama then turned to complain to Mr. Emanuel about his noisy habit.At which point, Mr. Emanuel held the offending knuckle up to Mr. Obama’s left ear and, like an annoying little brother, snapped off a few special cracks.
Glow Ballers Galore Shoot the Hopium
All they are saying, is give Hopium a chance!

Top 25 liberals in US media

Belgian creche killer may have murdered weeks before

4.5 in S Australia

5.1 in Sumatra

Ten killed in Turkish avalanche

Three killed in Scottish avalanche



The Prophet Zimmy
1979 Grammy Awards
Gotta Serve Somebody

WFRL ~ ...But The Caravan Moves On


Road of the Gypsies
Mustafa Kandirali ~ Kandira Karsilamasi


Deep Purple
A Gypsy's Kiss

It's come to this ...
A gypsy's kiss
.
All your power's gonna fade in the haze.



Sunday, January 25, 2009

WFRL: My Strange Uncles From Abroad


Gogol Bordello
My Strange Uncles From Abroad


My strange uncles from abroad
Yes I never met them
But I took everything they wrote
And I'll never forget them
Through the mystical communication
Deep within it all comes true
Forming underground railroad
For our ultimate break through!
My strange nephews from abroad
I'll meet them on the cosmos streets
And we will drink to how we never told you
To trust a plastic beat
Bright open eyes they are still looking
They are still finding
A few unpoisoned hearts
No matter where you are exiled.
No matter where you are exiled!



Dragoste de tigan

Floatin' Powa News Service vs The Faces of the Stranger


Billy Joel
The Stranger

Well we all have a face
That we hide away forever
And we take them out and
Show ourselves
When everyone has gone
Some are satin some are steel
Some are silk and some are leather
They're the faces of the stranger
But we love to try them on


Iran says Obama's first step to change should be distance from Israel
Naturally!

Even Ordinary Iranians Took Up This Banner

Hamas Sez: Arms will flow to Gaza despite security

US Navy stopped Iranian ship carrying weapons headed to Gaza

Iran: Desperately Seeking Uranium

My Gaza War Diary

Palestinian Authority admits harboring and paying terrorists
You don't say!

Gazans say Hamas kept them in homes used by gunmen


Israeli Cabinet to endorse legal backing for IDF


Malaysia To Ask OIC Train Palestinian 'Citizen Journalists'

Erdogan: Israel broke 6-month truce

Al-Jazeera coverage of Gaza widely watched in America

01/09/2009: Sheikh Al-Qaradhawi, on Al-Jazeera TV
"Oh Allah, take your enemies, the enemies of Islam. Oh Allah, take the Jews, the treacherous aggressors. Oh Allah, take this profligate, cunning, arrogant band of people. ... Pour Your wrath upon them, oh our God. Lie in wait for them. ... You destroyed the Pharaoh and his soldiers ... Oh Allah, take this oppressive, Jewish, Zionist band of people. Oh Allah, do not spare a single one of them. Oh Allah, count their numbers, and kill them, down to the very last one."
Israel: forced to fight terrorism for 60 years
Danbury, CT: I'm Catholic, 75 years old and have witnessed Israel's history since its creation in 1948. Since then, I've witnessed Israel's "neighbors" attempt to liquidate the Jewish state, utilizing the same insane hatred Hitler used exterminating 6 million Jews from 1935 through 1945.
Good on ya, Frank Pellegrini. But did you see this?

Vatican Reinstates Holocaust Denier

The Vatican on Saturday lifted an excommunication ban against Bishop Richard Williamson, one of four bishops who were banned in 1988 for taking on the office of bishop against the wishes of then-Pope John Paul II.

Williamson is a Holocaust denier, and has repeatedly said that the gas chambers did not exist and that no more than 300,000 Jews were killed during World War II, mostly of starvation. In addition, Williamson has declared that the Jews are plotting to take over the world, and that the U.S. and Israel were behind 9/11. In an interview with Swedish television conducted last November but broadcast last week, Williamson said that he believed that there were “no gas chambers."

“Between 200,000-300,000 perished in Nazi concentration camps, but not one of them by gassing in a gas chamber,” he said, adding, “I believe that the historical evidence is hugely against 6 million having been deliberately gassed in gas chambers as a deliberate policy of Adolf Hitler.”
Obama's election to feature prominently in Israeli poll

Bush gives Obama political cover

Inauguration extravaganza sees journalists caught up in the moment

Obama's Evangelicals


The George Mitchell Appointment:

The Tactics of "Symmetrical Negotiations" May Not Work in "Asymmetrical Conflicts"
The 2001 Mitchell Report was seen as an "even-handed" document, reflecting President Clinton's directive to "strive to steer clear of...finger-pointing. As a result, the committee attempted - even at the risk of straining credibility - to split the blame for the crisis. The Mitchell Committee could not ignore Palestinian terrorism and the Palestinian use of civilians as human shields. Israel's transgression - and there had to be one to balance Palestinian sins - was its settlement activity. The committee recommended a "freeze [of] all settlement activity, including the ‘natural growth' of existing settlements." Israelis objected that the freeze - never mandated in the interim stages of the Oslo Accords - would serve to reward the Palestinians' terrorism.
Ukraine seeks changes to Gazprom deal

Gazprom in NIS takeover next week?

Gazprom creates joint venture with Kuwait's Noor

Russia's Ambitions in Latin America

Bolivia nationalizes one of the last remaining foreign owned natural gas fields

Bolivia votes on leftist, indigenous constitution

Gazprom offers more gas to Hungary

Naturally, because....

Starting 1/27 in Budapest: International Energy Summit on Nabucco

Russia takes over Hungarian airline

Russia: No Concern For Potential Nabucco Pipeline

Nabucco to Call for Gas Pipe Builders by Early 2010

2 more Russian dissidents shot dead

Siemens eyes nuclear joint venture with Russia

Russia: old nuclear satellite poses no threat

Former KGB agent to publish “new data” on nuclear espionage
The book further suggests that Juilus Rosenberg’s wife, Ethel, was indeed complicit in her husband’s espionage activities; that internal KGB records “unequivocally identify [Alger] Hiss as a long-term espionage source” for the GRU (Soviet military intelligence); and that nuclear scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer, who headed the US MANHATTAN project, was in fact “not a spy, although not for lack of KGB effort”. The New York Times has published a vague review of Mr. Vassiliev’s new book, which neglects to mention the strong criticism that his first book drew.
Russia says 'ice broken' in chilly NATO relations
"The ice has been broken because the informal NATO-Russia meeting on Monday marks a resumption of large-scale activity in all our cooperation with the alliance."
Turkmenistan & the extraordinary and plenipotentiary ambassador of the Russian Federation!

Gülen responds to "allegations"

Ankara plan equip archeological expedition in Turkmenistan

3.5 at the Turkmen/ Iranian border


Iceland's commerce minister resigns

India needs gas pipelines

India and Kazakhstan sign civil nuclear cooperation pact

Indian PM in intensive care after heart surgery

North Korea says South exercises could provoke war


Swiss Release Suspect in Nuclear Case


Judge OKs $7M Enron, Goldman Deal

It is important to watch who the Gold Man Sacks is upgrading and downgrading:
Sigma Aldrich (SIAL) NewsBite - SIAL Upgraded By Goldman Sachs
OK, WTF does Sigma Aldrich do, Babba and whyTF should we care?

Sigma-Aldrich Corporation is a chemical company, supplier of reagents and materials for use in research and development, diagnostics and analysis. They have facilities in 36 countries and manufacture most of the chemicals they sell
OK, Q: who on their board is related to Gold Man Sacks?

A: Avi Nash
Managing Director of Avi Nash LLC (Former partner of Goldman Sachs)

Avi M. Nash Managing Director of Avi Nash LLC, a management consulting firm in Greenwich, Connecticut, that works with global chemical industry leaders in mergers and acquisitions, capital market transactions and other strategic matters. Prior to launching his firm in 2003, he was a partner at Goldman Sachs, New York, New York, for more than five years. He has been a director of the Company since November 2005. Age 55.
Avi Nash heads a management-consulting firm bearing his name
Since 2003, the firm’s insights have been sought by companies representing 50% of the chemical industry’s market capitalization in the US and Europe.

The firm works with global chemical industry leaders in 3 areas:

1 ) M&A (mergers & acquisitions),
2) Capital Market Transactions, and
3) Corporate Strategy,

providing a unique blend of strategic, financial, & industry viewpoints.

Avi retired as a partner of Goldman Sachs in ‘02. Prior to his retirement, he headed the firm’s Global Chemical Industry Group, as well as the North American Basic Materials Group, in the investment research division. He joined Goldman in ’87, became a Vice President in ‘89, a Managing Director in ‘96, and was elected
a Partner in ‘98.

He built Goldman’s chemical presence from ground base and led Goldman’s team to a #1 ranking globally.

He continues to mentor MD and VP level executives at Goldman as a consultant.
Over the last two decades, Avi has been involved in numerous chemical and Ag-biotechnology transactions, ranging in size from $75 mill to over $10 bill. They include some of the largest US IPOs such as Monsanto, Celanese, and Lyondell Chemicals; European ones such as Syngenta; and Asian ones such as Titan
Petrochemicals (Malaysia), Indian Petrochemicals & Shanghai Petrochemicals.

He assisted in dozens of M&A transactions in the Americas, Europe and Asia, including the Dow-Union Carbide, the Rohm&Haas-Morton and
Monsanto-Pharmacia mergers. He is active in guiding the strategies of many chemical companies, specialty as well as commodity, and has been an invited speaker at numerous corporate board meetings as well as industry
gatherings such as the World Economic Forum, NPRA and American Chemistry Council.

Prior to joining Goldman Sachs, Avi was a senior business strategy consultant with Booz, Allen & Hamilton from ‘84 to ’86, focusing on specialty chemicals and materials. Earlier, he served UOP Inc. from ‘77 to ‘84, including positions in R&D, plant design &construction, marketing, and strategic planning.

Avi serves on the board of directors of Sigma-Aldrich Corporation and is a Trustee of The Hopkins School, New Haven, CT. He has a Master of Management degree from Northwestern University (Kellogg) in ‘81 and an M.S. (ChE) from Syracuse University in ‘77. In ‘02, he was named a “Distinguished Alumnus” by the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, from where he received a B.Tech (ChE) degree in ’75.
....I'll just call him Chemical Avi. BTW, that Hopkins School strikes me as a sinister Glow Ballers Incubation & Reeducation Center.

Well, mah Ferals, Loons, Infidels & Freaks: I give you: Gold Man Sacks, GloCo:

GloCo-Motives: Arguing the Case for Globalization May 2006 Three years ago, we introduced the concept of GloCo—the successful and profitable global company of the future. We offered eight criteria for GloCo and a list of firms that might meet our criteria. The companies we flagged as potential GloCos have collectively outperformed their local equity indices over the past decade.

Meeting our eight criteria is necessary, but probably not sufficient, for the challenging task of becoming GloCo. This is especially true as the opposition to globalization builds strength.

To thrive in a challenging and rapidly changing environment, companies need to focus on building five key relationships: with employees, consumers, local communities, governments and investors.

With each of these groups, GloCo must forcefully argue the case for globalization, showing that it helps the greater good as well as the bottom line. GloCo needs to demonstrate that globalization is likely to yield broad and sustainable benefits, including wider consumer choice, greater opportunity, economic development and more inclusive governance structures. It is in GloCo’s own self-interest to pursue these challenges with vigor.

GloCo-Motives: Arguing the Case for Globalization
May 2006 [PDF, 278 KB]

Getting Globalization Right : Meeting the Challenge of the Century

(2003) July 23, 2003 [PDF, 591 KB]

The Challenge of the Century: Getting Globalization Right
(2003) January 24, 2003 [PDF, 885 KB]
GloCo must forcefully argue the case for globalization, showing that it helps the greater good as well as the bottom line. GloCo needs to demonstrate that globalization is likely to yield broad and sustainable benefits, including wider consumer choice, greater opportunity, economic development and more inclusive governance structures. It is in GloCo’s own self-interest to pursue these challenges with vigor.

Although the American public has been generally unaware, such arguments are not new. Once the province of the Utopian Left, globalist ideology took root in American financial circles after the turn of the Twentieth Century, and expanded into commerce and manufacturing following the Second World War. By mid century, they had become so pronounced that James Paul Warburg stated before the U.S. Senate on February 17, 1950 that:

We shall have a World government, whether or not we like it. The only question is whether World government will be achieved by conquest or consent.

Shitting Brics yet, purple proles?

The US Mega Bad Bank

Drunk Broker Sets Fire to WTC Elevator


Regional Banks Reject TARP Funding

Firms That Got Bailout Money Keep Lobbying

Lehman's Japanese real estate assets now on sale

China Rejects Currency Manipulation Charge

A giant in China, an eye on the US

6.1 in Anchorage, Alaska


5.0 in NW China

Chaitén's Caldera Chugging Chunks Continuously
Say it ten times, FAST!


Leonard Cohen ~ 1967
The Stranger Song

Well, I've been waiting, I was sure
we'd meet between the trains we're waiting for
I think it's time to board another
Please understand, I never had a secret chart
to get me to the heart of this
or any other matter
When he talks like this
you don't know what he's after
When he speaks like this,
you don't know what he's after.

Let's meet tomorrow if you choose
upon the shore, beneath the bridge
that they are building on some endless river
Then he leaves the platform
for the sleeping car that's warm
You realize, he's only advertising one more shelter
And it comes to you, he never was a stranger
And you say ok the bridge or someplace later.


And then sweeping up the jokers that he left behind ...

And leaning on your window sill ...

I told you when I came I was a stranger.