Feb 25, 2009

Understanding the global financial crisis


U.S. concentration camps



More than 600 prisoners have been kept in Guantanamo Bay Concentration camp in small cages for years. They are kept there, with no charges against them, without access to the courts to challenge their confinement. The United States government illegally occupies that part of Cuba's territory. It is held under a lease negotiated between Cuba and the U.S., which gave the United States the right to use Guantanamo Bay "exclusively as coaling or naval stations, and for no other purpose." Fidel Castro, who calls the Guantanamo base "a dagger plunged into the heart of Cuban soil," refuses to cash the rent checks the U.S. government sends annually. He says: "An elemental sense of dignity and absolute disagreement with what happens in that portion of our national territory has prevented Cuba from cashing those checks." The United States, according to President Castro, has transformed Guantanamo base into a "horrible prison, one that bears no difference with the Nazi concentration camps." Australian lawyer Richard Bourke asserted on ABC Radio that prisoners had been subjected to "good old-fashioned torture, as people would have understood it in the Dark Ages." The Red Cross reported that "the US authorities have placed the internees in Guantanamo beyond the law. This means that, after more than eighteen months of captivity, the internees still have no idea about their fate, and no means of recourse through any legal mechanism... Barack Obama has ordered the closure of the Guantanamo Bay torture camp. He also ordered that all prisoners still in Guantanamo be treated in accordance with the Geneva Convention.


The horrors of Abu Ghraib. I can think of no better recruiting boost for Al Quaeda than prisons like Abu Ghraib. During the time of Saddam Hussein’s rule, Abu Ghraib, located in a predominantly Sunni Muslim neighborhood on the western outskirts of Baghdad, was notorious for torture carried out by the regime. After the American invasion, it changed hands, but served essentially the same purpose. It became a holding center for opponents of the American occupation and others swept up in arbitrary mass-arrests of Iraqi civilians. In the fall of 2003, with opposition to American forces intensifying, more "aggressive" interrogation techniques were introduced into the prison, under the direction of top American military and political officials. It was at that time that the notorious photographs and videos of torture were taken, and since the initial photographs were released in 2004, Abu Ghraib has become, for masses of people around the world, a symbol of the brutality and ruthlessness of the American military.

So the pictures taken in German concentration camps remind us of American crimes in our day? Well, we don’t want to compare numbers. Every nation has a few bad boys who get carried away once in a while, doesn’t it? In a civilised world the rules of law should be applied equally. So far, the ‘international community’ has failed to hold those responsible for war crimes against the Iraqi people accountable for their crimes. Just remaining in Iraq, breathing its air, is a war crime! Sadly, despite the overwhelming evidence, those who are responsible for these international crimes have been either promoted to higher positions or re-elected to high office. What about their crimes in Afghanistan? What about U.S. crimes against people of Serbia? What about camps that World never heard of (like Camp Bondsteel in Kosovo)? Various countries have signed agreements with the U.S. not to prosecute Americans for war crimes at all. Just to make sure...

CIA secret prisons. The hidden global internment network is a central element in the CIA's unconventional war on terrorism. It depends on the cooperation of foreign intelligence services, and on keeping even basic information about the system secret from the public, foreign officials and nearly all members of Congress charged with overseeing the CIA's covert actions. The existence and locations of the facilities referred to as "black sites" in classified White House, CIA, Justice Department and congressional documents are known to only a handful of officials in the United States and, usually, only to the president and a few top intelligence officers in each host country. Virtually nothing is known about who is kept in the facilities, what interrogation methods are employed with them, or how decisions are made about whether they should be detained or for how long. The secret detention system was conceived in the chaotic and anxious first months after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, when the working assumption was that a second strike was imminent. The CIA has been hiding and interrogating some of its most important al Qaeda captives at a Soviet-era compound in Eastern Europe, according to U.S. and foreign officials familiar with the arrangement. The secret facility is part of a covert prison system set up by the CIA nearly nine years ago that at various times has included sites in eight countries, including Thailand, Afghanistan and several democracies in Eastern Europe, as well as a small center at the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba, according to current and former intelligence officials and diplomats from three continents...

What WikiLeaks showed is the scale of torture was huge, it was widespread – and even more, the US and Britain were absolutely complicit. This is not a matter of a few soldiers turning a blind eye. This is a case of the American military issuing central commands to not act on torture and breaches of human rights and so on. And if there were any justice in the world, not only would the torturers be punished, but so would the American and British authorities who went along with it.

Feb 24, 2009

RIO CARNAVAL the best party in the world










Once a pagan celebration in ancient Rome, Carnival in Rio de Janeiro is now considered one of the greatest shows on Earth. The first festivals of Rio date back to 1723. The famous carnival parade has been going on since the 1930s. The parade starts Sunday evening and continues into early morning Monday of the celebration (at the end of february). The purpose of carnival is for samba schools to compete with fellow rival schools, it is the climax of the whole carnival festival. Street festivals are very common during carnival and are highly populated by the locals. Elegance and extravagance are usually left behind, but music and dancing are still extremely common. Anyone is allowed to participate in the street festivals. Bandas and bondos are very familiar with the street carnival especially because it takes nothing to join in on the fun expect to jump in. While female dancers can come out topless, judges draw the line when it comes to exposing genitalia. Nudity rules are often being breached, because it is a great chance to get naked and dance in the streets and have fun and there are also freaks from around the world joining the party... The show performed by drag queens and children is a must see!

Feb 17, 2009

Nobel Peace Prize is a JOKE!



Who is responsible for selecting the Nobel Peace Prize Laureates? The Norwegian Nobel Committee, composed of five members appointed by the Storting (Norwegain Parliament). The Committee's composition reflects the relative strengths of the political parties in the Storting, and is assisted by specially appointed "expert advisers". According to the rules laid down by the Storting, election to the committee is for a six-year term, and members can be re-elected. Although this is not a requirement, all committee members have been Norwegian nationals. The Nobel Prize amount for 2008 is set at Swedish kronor (SEK) 10 million per full Nobel Prize (around 1 million USD). The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to 96 individuals and 20 organizations since 1901. When you look at the list you'll see that the award is just a political statement and that in recent years it has become a fucking joke!


Guys like Martti Ahtisaari ("for his important efforts, on several continents and over more than three decades, to resolve international conflicts"), Kofi Annan, Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres...Mikhail Gorbachev("for his leading role in the peace process which today characterizes important parts of the international community")... or Al Gore Jr("For their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change"), yeah in 2007(?!) like when we all knew! He was part of the problem not the solution... Ok, we all know that poor Kofi Annan was just an instrument of American government and don't forget the "oil for food" scandal. Gorbachev destroyed USSR and the great communist threat to free world and Arafat was a terrorist (so was Israeli government)... But Ahtisaari! He helped the birth of a terrorist country in the heart of Europe! "His efforts have contributed to a more peaceful world and to 'fraternity between nations' in Alfred Nobel's spirit..." yeah right! Oh wait, that guy Nobel was the armaments manufacturer who invented dynamite. "Perhaps my factories will put an end to war even sooner than your Congresses; on the day when two army corps will be able to annihilate each other in a second, all civilised nations will recoil with horror and disband their troops."...rrright. Alfred Nobel became rich by finding ways to kill more people faster than ever before but he was a pacifist. :P his prize is a lie and a joke and nobody cares who's the next Nobel Peace Prize winner. It could be motherfucking Richard Holbrooke I couldn't care less...


The Ahtisaari plan (for Kosovo) - what's inside?


Ahtisaari's plan is first and foremost a document designed to make UN Resolution 1244 (which ended the war) obsolete. "Immovable and movable property of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia or the Republic of Serbia located within the territory of Kosovo at the time of this settlement shall pass to Kosovo." that is called plunder. "A new professional and multi-ethnic Kosovo Security Force, KSF, shall be established, and shall develop a lightly armed component capable of specified security functions, in accordance with Annex VIII of this settlement." that is called legalizing a terrorist movement. "No later than 9 months from the entry into force of this settlement, Kosovo shall organise general and municipal elections..." never happened. "The European Union shall establish a European Security and Defense Policy, ESDP, mission in the field of rule of law.","NATO shall establish an International Military Presence, IMP, to support implementation of this settlement, as set forth in Annex XI of this settlement." that's called independence, right? U.S. military camp Bondsteel is the biggest foreign US military base since the Vietnam War. It is located in Serbian Province of Kosovo, close to vital oil pipelines and energy corridors presently under construction, such as the US sponsored Trans-Balkan oil pipeline. As a result defence contractors—in particular Halliburton Oil subsidiary Brown & Root Services—are making a fortune. In 1992 Dick Cheney, as Secretary of Defence in the senior Bush administration, awarded the company a contract providing support for the US army’s global operations. Cheney left politics and joined Halliburton as CEO between 1995 and 2000. In less than three years it has been transformed from an encampment of tents to a self sufficient, high tech base-camp housing nearly 7,000 troops. According to Colonel Robert L. McClure, writing in the engineers professional Bulletin, "Engineer planning for operations in Kosovo began months before the first bomb was dropped..."

"What are the two things that can be seen from space? One is the Great Wall of China, the other is Camp Bondsteel."

In April 1999, British General Michael Jackson, the commander in Macedonia during the NATO bombing of Serbia, explained to the Italian paper Sole 24 Ore "Today, the circumstances which we have created here have changed. Today, it is absolutely necessary to guarantee the stability of Macedonia and its entry into NATO. But we will certainly remain here a long time so that we can also guarantee the security of the energy corridors which traverse this country." It was about oil and gas all this time and Martti Ahtisaari was there to make it possible. He was a bypass because Serbia would never recognize the new NATO-terrorist state and because Russia put veto in UN security council on any such proposal. Serbia rejected Ahtisaari plan but who cares! Martti got the Nobel Prize for that, wowee good for him. He also got free albanian pussy, the old finnish fart, motherfucker. He sold his soul to the devil for couple of millions of dollars. "Building bridges for peace" Bullshit! I shit on Nobel Prize when Martti Ahtisaari got it!



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Feb 13, 2009

space junk and satellite killers







The question "Is it possible for two orbiting satellites to collide?" has been answered. The crash occurred on Tuesday at an altitude of about 780km, destroying both satellites (A privately-owned US telecommunications satellite has collided with a defunct Russian satellite) and creating a cloud of debris that officials say could threaten other satellites including the International Space Station. Approximately 95% of the objects in the illustration above are orbital debris. Space debris or orbital debris, also called space junk and space waste, are the objects in orbit around Earth created by humans, that no longer serve any useful purpose. They consist of everything from entire spent rocket stages and defunct satellites to explosion fragments, paint flakes, dust, and slag from solid rocket motors and other small particles. These objects travel at speeds over 22,000 miles an hour (35,000 kilometers an hour). At such high velocity, even small junk can rip holes in a spacecraft or disable a satellite by causing electrical shorts that result from clouds of superheated gas. Nicholas Johnson, the chief scientist and program manager for orbital debris at NASA in Houston, Texas, and his team have devised a computer model capable of simulating past and future amounts of space junk. The model predicts that even without future rocket or satellite launches, the amount of debris in low orbit around Earth will remain steady through 2055, after which it will increase.
The debris population will continue to grow. We know it will only get worse. Something like that happened on the night of January 11-12, 2007 after China launched a rocket which destroyed the outdated weather satellite Feng Yun 1C.(read article) the United States Feb. 20, 2008 smashed into small pieces a defunct U.S. satellite using a modified Standard Missile-3 interceptor. In classified projects shielded from public debate, the US has been widely reported to be developing "satellite-killers" of its own, using more advanced technologies, including lasers...

Feb 11, 2009

Mandarin Oriental Hotel burned down!


















Erik Amir, a senior architect at the firm behind the complex, the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, said the fire had destroyed years of hard work.

"I think it's really sad that this building is destroyed before it can be opened to the public."

The unfinished 159-metre Mandarin Oriental hotel, which was scheduled to open later this year, was part of CCTV's iconic headquarters complex that helped transform the Chinese capital's skyline for last year's Olympics. The CCTV building itself was not damaged. The authorities suspect the blaze could have been sparked by an Olympics-style fireworks display set off on the final day of Chinese New Year celebrations on Monday night. The blaze, which raged for five hours before being put out early on Tuesday, killed one fireman and injured several others...


Feb 6, 2009

Richard C. Holbrooke and his terrorists...




Wtf is Richard Holbrooke? He urged NATO to drop "bombs for peace" in Bosnia and was the chief architect of the 1995 Dayton Peace Agreement. He has also served as vice chairman of Credit Suisse First Boston, managing director of Lehman Brothers, managing editor of Foreign Policy, and director of the Peace Corps in Morocco. Ambassador Holbrooke has received seven Nobel Peace Prize nominations; is the author of To End A War; and is the co-author of Counsel to the President and one volume of the Pentagon Papers. He is the chairman of the Asia Society, chairman of the American Academy in Berlin, president and CEO of the Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, and serves on numerous boards. He is based in New York, NY. Richard Holbrooke is the new US special representativeon a tour on resolving what he calls the "mess" in Afghanistan. He told that he had "never seen anything remotely resembling the mess we have inherited [in Afghanistan] ... it's going to be much tougher than Iraq". Here is why he's perfect for the job:
So he is a "peacemaker" who wants his Nobel Peace Prize so bad that he would take off his shoes and sit to talk with islamic terrorists, Al-Quaeda even (like albanian KLA in Kosovo) to achieve his goals.
"I had already met with senior KLA representatives in secret, with no publicity, weeks and weeks earlier (before photo shoot with terrorists). And I had been in steady contact with them, because they were a legitimate part of the process. Whether they espoused a violent solution or not, you couldn't ignore them, because they were imposing their presence on the relationship. But Rugova, the acknowledged leader of the Albanians--the man who preached non-violence, who has photographs of Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr., in his house--was the person we dealt with publicly." /the interview/
The terrorist organization KLA is the product of Islamic extremists which have been granted enormous backup of the American, German and some other governments, in spite of the fact that it is the organization which deals with narcotics and crime.
"I know a terrorist when I see one and these men are terrorists," /The United States special envoy to the Balkans, Robert Gelbard.
American Administration and German government have been actively helping KLA since 1992 - with arms, training, intelligence information, and, what is the most important, with significant political backup. the turning point in its position took place in 1998, when the American envoys Richard Holbrooke and Peter Galbrait posed with the leaders of this criminal organization, in front of the cameras. When the Stalinist regime was overthrown in Albania in 1992, KLA was mostly active inside Albania and among Albanian emigrants in Germany, where they were active as purely criminal organization, entirely busy with trafficking of narcotics and extortion of money. Not much has changed since that time except that KLA received political-military support from the Iranian government and then also from the American and German governments. Iran had special role of training the KLA members for terrorist operations. Clinton's Administration has been spreading the propaganda that KLA represent the Kosovo population of the Albanian origin. That is without any doubt incorrect. KLA has been financed for a number of years by extorting money from their people in Diaspora threatening them they will kill their family or relatives at home, by trafficking drugs and using violence mostly against their own people. Back in 1998, a man called Florin Krasniqi (the man that funded and smuggled weapons to the Kosovo’s Muslim Albanian gunmen prior to 1999) went to Pakistan to make weapons purchases. According to the latest book by Pakistani President Musharaff, Muslims consider war in Kosovo a Jihad. Krasniqi also funded the campaign of John Kerry and at the fundraiser Richard Holbrooke and Wesley Clark were also present chatting with Krasniqi and other former Muslim KLA members whom Krasniqi employed. Holbrooke and Clark extracted over $500,000 for Kerry on that fundraiser...

So we can conclude that Al-Quaeda was/is funding U.S. Administration and that U.S. is creating terrorist safe havens for them. Serbian Province of Kosovo was recognized as an independent state by most European countries. Why now, in the midst of fighting Muslim Terrorists all over the world, would the U. S. and the EU bless the birth of another Muslim Terrorist country in the middle of Europe?! Kosovans are not a nation, so why should they have a nation state? Nor is it a multi-ethnic state where the rights of all are respected. It is small, economically unviable, unstable political entity which arouses great enmity from its neighbours and can act as a base for organised crime in the future. We know already that jihadists from Yemen and Chechnya have fought for the KLA and that Saudi Arabia has pumped huge amounts of money into building mosques and religious centres there. Unless they are dealt with very differently there is a danger that Kosovo will become a beachhead of Islamic terrorism in Europe. It doesn't make sense unless that's exactly what U.S. wanted. Bin Laden was made by the CIA and he was one of their key players in organizing Muslim volunteers in Bosnia, Kosovo and Afghanistan. The U.S. poured funds and arms into Afghanistan, and by 1987, 65,000 tons of U.S.-made weapons and ammunition a year were entering the war . Now, he is their public enemy #1... How come?

Feb 4, 2009

Iranian space nukes satellites



The United States has voiced "grave concern" after Iran launched its first domestically built satellite. Robert Wood, a US state department spokesman, said that Tuesday's satellite launch by Tehran could "possibly lead to the development of ballistic missiles". The satellite, named Omid (Hope), was launched into orbit by rocket and is the first in a series that Iran plans to put into space by the end of next year. Iran is under two rounds of UN sanctions due to its refusal to halt uranium enrichment, which the US and other Western nations fear could lead to the production of nuclear weapons. Iran said the satellite had already completed its first mission to transmit a message from Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who spoke at the launching ceremony. “With God’s help and the desire for justice and peace,” he said, “the official presence of the Islamic republic was registered in space.”. In using its own rocket to launch the satellite, Iran joined eight other nations that have used their own technologies to send objects into orbit (Russia, the United States, France, Japan, China, Britain, India and Israel). Amateur observers have already spotted the bright craft in the night sky. Aerospace experts said Iran’s growing fleet of rockets had drawn most heavily on aid from North Korea. Over the years, Tehran’s efforts to build a fleet of large rockets, and to buy and make satellites, have received technical help from Russia, China, India, Italy and North Korea. In Israel, Yiftah Shapir, an expert on ballistic missiles and space technology at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv, played down the launching as an event that was expected and had little military significance. The Iranians “already have missiles that can reach Israel,” he said. So for at least one country, he added, this was “nothing new.” The experts said the step represented no immediate military threat and no reason to rush the deployment of antimissile arms in Europe, which the Bush administration sought to counter the threat of Iranian missiles. Weapons experts agreed that the act was mainly a symbolic accomplishment because the satellite was very small. Launching a heavy warhead intercontinental distances would require a far more powerful missile.
Iran’s action had more to do with sending a message to Washington and asserting influence as a regional power than with achieving a new military capability. It’s a way for the Iranian people to stand proud, but to do it in a way that is still within a civilian program.

collateral murder

Bush knocked down the towers