Qualcosa per il weekend

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Ex primo ministro della Russia, EVGENY PRIMAKOV

Evgeny Primakov Named in International Scandal
Mar. 01, 2006

Former U.S. undersecretary of defense Gen. John Shaw was the main speaker at the Intelligence Summit conference held in Alexandria, Virginia, a suburb of Washington DC, last week. Current and former employees of 16 U.S. intelligence organizations gathered at that conference. Shaw told those assembled that the Americans were unable to find any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq because Russian intelligence agents had removed them shortly before the U.S. invasion began. Shaw based his conclusions on his own investigation in Baghdad after the fall of dictator Saddam Hussein and on information provided by the British MI6 intelligence service, a high-placed Ukrainian source close to the late OSCE representative in Ukraine David Nicholas, former British ambassador to Ukraine Julian Walker (also formerly ambassador to Qatar and Iraq) and former Ukrainian military attachй in Washington Igor Smeshko.

According to Shaw, “Operation Emergency Exit” had been ready since Soviet times. In December 2002, former Russian prime minister and then Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry Evgeny Primakov flew to Baghdad with former deputy defense minister Vladislav Achalov and former air defense chief of staff Igor Maltsev. Primakov remained in Baghdad until the American invasion in March 2003 and the generals who accompanied him remained even after the invasion began. While they were there, several convoys of trucks were dispatched to Syria. According to Shaw, they carried weapons, and the ingredients and equipment for their manufacture. Two Russian ships departed from the Iraqi port of Umm-Qasr in March 2003 as well and dumped weapons of mass destruction into the Indian Ocean.

Niente male, che gioia per la Siria, una bella fantasia … ma pare che suddetto Generale abbia qualche problema di credibilità per questione di fondi ($) misteriosamente persi di vista

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The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton, speaks Sunday during the American Israel Public Affairs Committee's annual Policy Conference in Washington.

Bolton warns Iran of ‘painful consequences’
U.N. ambassador says U.S. has upped measures to stave off nuclear threat
March 5, 2006

WASHINGTON - Iran faces “tangible and painful consequences” if it continues its nuclear activities and the United States will use “all tools at our disposal” to stop this threat, a senior U.S. official said Sunday, ahead of a crucial international meeting on Iran.

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton, speaking at a convention of Jewish-Americans, said it is too soon for the U.N. Security Council to impose sanctions on Iran but other countries are talking about doing so and Washington is “beefing up defensive measures to cope with the Iranian nuclear threat.”

msmbc

Pro-Israel Lobbying Group Roiled by Prosecution of Two Ex-Officials
By SCOTT SHANE and DAVID JOHNSTON
Published: March 5, 2006

WASHINGTON, March 4 — The annual gathering of the nation's top pro-Israel lobbying group, which starts here on Sunday, will be addressed by Vice President Dick Cheney and United Nations Ambassador John R. Bolton. Politicians are lined up to warn of the threat from Iran and Hamas. Workshops will offer advice on winning the legislative game on Capitol Hill. [...]

But the question of dual loyalty, to the United States and to Israel, became touchy after the investigation was revealed. At last year's conference, the group broke with tradition and did not sing the Israeli national anthem.
This year, officials have said, the tradition will be restored. Both the American and Israeli anthems are on the program.

NYTimes

Washington splits over best policy to halt Iran's nuclear plan
By Tom Baldwin
March 06, 2006
Visiting MPs were astonished by a lack of consensus on the eve of the crucial nuclear meeting
Attoniti, confusi e disorientati sulla linea di condotta americana mentre AIEA ... dovrebbe decidere

Condoleezza Rice, the US Secretary of State, who will today hold talks in Washington with Sergei Lavrov, the Russian Foreign Minister, is advocating a cautious approach.

“Nobody has said that we have to rush immediately to sanctions of some kind,”

John Bolton, the US Ambassador to the UN, who is a hawk on the issue.

He told the MPs that he wanted a “Chapter 7 resolution” under which the UN would authorise military action, such as air strikes, against Iran.

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Dubai and the Strait of Hormuz
By Mike Whitney
Online Journal Contributing Writer
Mar 6, 2006

Napoleon Bonaparte said, “If you want to understand the policy of a country, look at the map.”

Geography is fate.

OnlineJournal

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Party Hacks
By Chris Floyd
Published: March 3, 2006

Two weeks ago, an obscure, unelected, Republican-appointed official in California decided the future of the world. That future -- at least for the next several years -- will be an accelerating nightmare of war, corruption, repression, atrocity and terror. That's because the loyal apparatchik has, with the stroke of a pen, guaranteed the perpetuation of the Bush faction in power in 2008 and beyond.

One of the few certainties in modern U.S. politics is that no Democrat can win the presidency without carrying California. Thanks to the Electoral College system set up by the Founding Oligarchs to keep the low-born rabble from voting directly for president, the big haul of California's electoral votes is crucial for Democrats to offset the multitude of small, sparsely populated states that reliably vote Republican. Bagging California doesn't guarantee Democratic victory, but without it, the cliffhanger electoral counts in the goosed elections of 2000 and 2004 wouldn't even have been close.

Thus, the sudden, hugger-mugger decision by California Secretary of State Bruce McPherson to override the objections of his own experts and certify the eminently hackable voting machines of the politically partisan firm, Diebold, for use throughout the state means, quite simply, that the fix is in for 2008. It doesn't matter who the Democrats run -- Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John Edwards, George Clooney or Jesus H. Christ in an Uncle Sam suit. It won't make a bit of difference. California is lost, the presidency is lost and the Bushists are in -- already. It's over.

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A Riyad, Chirac salue les réformes démocratiques
Pierre Rousselin
06 mars 2006
lefigaro


Chirac is well ahead of Bush in the opinion of Arab publics
Editorial, Daily Star
Monday, March 06, 2006

... This difference in approach - France's soft power and engagement as opposed to America's hard power and isolation - explains how Chirac, despite his history of blind support for regional despots, has managed to portray himself as a hero in the Arab world while Bush, who speaks incessantly of freedom and democracy, remains a villain in the eyes of Arab publics.

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"Civil war in Iraq, in short, would be a humanitarian tragedy but not a strategic one."
Xymphora
6 marzo 2006

Dovreste leggere questa incredibile raccolta di opinioni scritte da Daniel Pipes (foto) sulla desiderabilità di una guerra civile in Iraq. Da un'intervista con la Australian Broadcasting Corporation (che trovate anche qui; grassetto mio):

"Il tipo morale è uno che va bene, ma non è determinante. Questo è per dire che noi vogliamo davvero aiutare gli Iracheni. Tutti noi vogliamo vedere un Iraq libero e prosperoso, ma per noi non è un obbligo morale. Solo perché ci siamo sbarazzati di Saddam Hussein non significa che siamo obbligati a sistemare l'Iraq. Penso che il grande risultato della coalizione sia stato essersi sbarazzati di questo spaventoso e tirannico delinquente che controllava l'Iraq. Un pericolo per gli Iracheni, la regione ed il mondo esterno. Questo non implica che dobbiamo - possiamo provare - ma non significa che siamo obbligati - a sistemare l'Iraq".

Qui c'è il pdf di un articolo del 1987 (trovato qui) dallo stesso Daniel Pipes - insieme a niente meno che Laurie Mylroie! - in cui sostiene che gli Stati Uniti riforniscono quello stesso 'delinquente spaventoso e tirannico' con armi, spionaggio e concessioni economiche. Chi diavolo è Daniel Pipes per parlare di obblighi morali? Dato il fatto che un paese sovrano è stato attaccato sulla base di argomentazioni legali molto deboli basate su bugie, e il fatto che lo status criminale di Saddam sembra dipendere completamente dalla sua volontà di non favorire gli interessi statunitensi ed israeliani, gli Stati Uniti sono moralmente e legalmente del tutto responsabili per il danno che hanno fatto. Gli Statunitensi faranno meglio a sperare che gli Stati Uniti restino al top, perché quando non lo saranno più avranno delle richieste di compensazioni. E saranno richieste ingenti.

*Traduzione dall'inglese a cura di CARLO MARTINI per www.comedonchisciotte.org

New world order
DANIEL PIPES, ESPERTO DELL'ODIO

Esperto onnipresente degli studi televisivi e commentatore abituale dei più grandi periodici, Daniel Pipes si è convertito nel teorico mondiale dell'islamofobia. Figlio di Richard Pipes, il sovietologo che ridiede fiato alla corsa agli armamenti durante il governo Ford, nonchè figlio spirituale di Robert Strausz Hupè, il visionario del nuovo ordine mondiale, Daniel Pipes dirige un'infinità d’istituti strategici.
A Lui si devono concetti di moda quali quelli di " nuovo antisemitismo", " militante dell'islam "e "cospirazionismo".
Sostenitore dell'eliminazione totale dei palestinesi, è stato nominato da George Bush come amministratore dell’istituto Statunitense per la Pace.

*Traduzione a cura di FRANCO CILLI

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ADL Commends President Bush for Daniel Pipes Appointment to U.S.
Institute of Peace

New York, N.Y., August 25, 2003 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) commended President George W. Bush for appointing Middle East scholar Daniel Pipes to the board of the United States Institute of Peace.

In a letter to President Bush, Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director, said:

We commend you for appointing Daniel Pipes to the board of the United States Institute of Peace.

As a world renowned expert on the Middle East and extremist Islam, Dr. Pipes provides an important approach and perspective to the challenges facing the U.S. in the post-9/11 world.

We are pleased that Dr. Pipes will be given the opportunity to share his expertise and viewpoint as a member of the board of the U.S. Institute of Peace.

Read more online on our web site at http://www.adl.org/PresRele/Mise_00/4342_00

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La "Par condicio" è sbarcata nelle redazioni dei giornali americani, si chiama “balancing”

Today’s Washington Post, Pg. A1:

Today’s Washington Post, E.J. Dionne, Pg. A17:

It is now an ingrained journalistic habit: After a period of bad news for President Bush, media outlets invariably devote time and space to “balancing” stories that all say more or less: “Yes, the Republicans are in trouble, but the Democrats have no alternatives, no plans,” etc.

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I Procuratori: Le bugie del Moussaoui hanno condotto a 9/11 !

11 settembre a processo (2:28)
ADSL

Negli Stati Uniti, 4 anni e mezzo dopo l'11 settembre, gli attacchi all'America arrivano in tribunale. Si apre infatti il processo a Zacarious Moussaoui, l'unica persona sinora accusata per gli attentati.

Moussaoui's Lies Led to 9/11, Jury Told
As Death Penalty Trial Begins, Defense Says Government Ignored Attack Warnings

By Jerry Markon and Timothy Dwyer
Washington Post Staff Writers
Tuesday, March 7, 2006

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Cheney: Iran faces ‘meaningful consequences’
U.S., Russia close ranks over Tehran's nuclear program
March 7, 2006

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A funny video for a special girl dedicato



a Condi Rice che stantuffa in palestra.

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