Bankster Bailouts Of 2008/9 Exceed Over 200 Years Of Major Government Spending .... Biggest heist ever.Honduras - Apparently the coup makers are not only out of bounds, they are out of their minds as well...
Also found via IncaKolaNews (above), In Honduras, a media crackdown.
Europe - This is disgusting: OSCE equates the Soviet Union with Nazi Germany. "Out of 385 assembly members, only eight voted against the resolution." More at Russia Today, with criticism including a quote from Greek Communist MP Kostas Alissandrakis who says the resolution is "not aimed against Stalin, who is long dead, but against Communism in general, and in the times of a crisis, when workers’ discontent is on the rise”. [hat tip to Alamet]
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Saudis give nod to Israeli raid on Iran
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“The Saudis have tacitly agreed to the Israeli air force flying through their airspace on a mission which is supposed to be in the common interests of both Israel and Saudi Arabia,” a diplomatic source said last week.
Although the countries have no formal diplomatic relations, an Israeli defence source confirmed that Mossad maintained “working relations” with the Saudis.
John Bolton, the former US ambassador to the United Nations who recently visited the Gulf, said it was “entirely logical” for the Israelis to use Saudi airspace.
Bolton, who has talked to several Arab leaders, added: “None of them would say anything about it publicly but they would certainly acquiesce in an overflight if the Israelis didn’t trumpet it as a big success.”
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Predictably, Netanyahu's office issued an official denial per the Jerusalem Post, saying the report was "completely false and baseless."
Mostly fearmongering at this point, I'd guess, but who knows how it will develop in the months to come...
Pictures from pro-Zelaya demonstrations in Honduras. Impressive!
And Medea Benjamin reporting from the ground:
Thursday - Hondurans Call Out for Help from the International Community
Saturday - No Press Freedom in Post-Coup Honduras
There is no doubt in my mind that Barack Reagan was not only well informed about the planned kidnapping of Zelaya, his admin must have given the military and its civilian finger puppets the green light for the coup to go ahead. Negroponte’s trusted connections and henchmen needed to retake control of the country, ensuring the US sphere of influence south of its border won’t shrink even further than what it already has over the last decade.
At the same time, the unashamed and in your face attempt at bringing down a democratically elected government served the double purpose of sending a clear warning signal to the growing number of South American leaders intent on breaking free from US clutches, informally letting them know that Obama’s goons have also drawers full of papers concerning plans for their overthrow. To me it seems as if the real contest is between the US administration and Chavez’s ALBA, with Honduras being just a pawn caught in the crossfire.
Been trying to find on the ground info on the current situation in Hondurasyou’re your links are much appreciated Alamet. Rumours have it that Zelaya had stacks of cash hidden in the presidential palace, however statements made by people desperately trying to defend the military removal and forced exiling of a democratically elected leader are by their very nature rather circumspect.
Thanks very much Juan for providing this forum. Though I haven't said very much, I've also been feeling the lack of MoA.
Anyway on more substantive matters, re
The Saudis have tacitly agreed to the Israeli air force flying through their airspace on a mission.
You have to understand that the authors of the article, Mahnaimi and Baxter, are well-known fiction writers, who are always ready to transmit a (usually false) message that Tel Aviv wants to put out. there's a long history.
You have to understand that the authors of the article, Mahnaimi and Baxter, are well-known fiction writers
thank s alex.
re medea benj of code pink.
i have to say straight up , she totally bows me away. talk about hot shit. i seriously DO have to write a post cuz my inside up close look and exposure to this woman..if you trust me..
really she is astounding. i met her at the airport coincidentally between connecting flights on the way to cairo and recognized her immediately (of course she knew nothing of me), as usual it was a case of right time right place (my specialty). i am almost tongue tied describing her but ..she tiny. she's huge in a tiny form . as a little person it is very unusual to come literally face to face w/people. i clicked w/her immediately, and i do think of myself as a fairly courageous person but she puts me to shame.
she has no fear whatsoever. she plunges in and faces people and issues. going on a code pink adventure w/her is like massive activist boot camp. the minute we heard netanyahooz was going to speak in tel aviv she's like..oh yeah we're so there. she throws together demos like no tomorrow in seconds. one minute you're on a bus and the next you're..hey why NOT flash this event,,in 5 minutes.
anyway.. thanks for posting that alamet. i wish i was there. hell, anyone could have flown down but medea did. not surprising in the least. she is very pure, a very pure being.
140 dead in Xinjiang riots in China, with the death toll expected to climb higher. That is a lot of death in a single night's rioting!
My early impression is that this is a larger scale repeat of the Tibet uprising early last year, and the majority of the casualties likely ethnic Han killed by the rioters... The regional government says the violence was "instigated and directed from abroad," pointing towards the US based separatist World Uyghur Congress.
US finger here is my first thought of course, except, I can't quite see how the US can afford to provoke a major separatist incident and get on the wrong side of the Chinese government at this time of critical financial vulnerability... Hoping ChinaHand2 or others knowledgeable on the region will offer us some insight!
Photo Essay - Tragedy in Honduras: Army Shoots and Kills Protesters
One can't help but notice... not a single English sign in the entire demonstration.
MEMRI is not my favorite source of information, but this is interesting:
Iraqi Commentators: Saudi Arabia Is Behind Terror in Iraq
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The most forceful accusation against Saudi Arabia came from Hadi Al-Ameri, chairman of Iraq's parliamentary Security and Defense Committee, who accused Saudi Arabia of heading a group of countries in the region that opposed the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq's cities. Al-Almeri said that Saudi Arabia was responsible for the recent bombings in Iraq, and must take a stand against them. He added that the bombings had been financed from outside the country, and that the perpetrators were members of Al-Qaeda and the Iraqi Ba’th Party.
In the article mentioned above, Dr. 'Abd Al-Khaliq Hussein accused Saudi Arabia of promoting terrorism in Iraq: "Reliable reports have proven that 50% of all terrorists sent to Iraq, as well as most of those who carry out suicide attacks there, are from Saudi Arabia. As is well known, the Saudi regime is a police regime, [so that] no Saudi terrorist can enter Iraq without the authorization and blessing of the Saudi government."
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Found via Friday Lunch Club.
paul street: Honduras, Washington, and Liberal-Left Grasping at Straws
Another good article about Honduras that I found very informative: A Coup is Not a Coup. A Not-Coup is a Coup.
Iraq - As the troops withdraw, the oil execs move in...
Xinjiang - Ghost of Marx haunts China's riots
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As the influence of Marxism as the dominant ideology is diminishing in China, the sense of political equality is also abating. Today, common people aren't really considered the owners of the country, and laborers are no longer a respected class. Capitalists have become the government's guests of honor.
In China, political equality based on class equality has collapsed. For the past 60 years, this idea of class equality was a basis on which all common people, including minorities, could maintain an identity as one member of the Chinese political community.
Now, the economic and political marginalization of ethnic minorities is destroying the foundation of some ethnic groups' Chinese identity. At the same time, this marginalization is deeply misunderstood by many of the majority Han ethnic group.
The shared identity of the Chinese - as socialist labor - is gradually falling to pieces. The resulting riots in Urumqi may be just the start of something much, much bigger.
The kind of analysis that makes natural sense to me...
Alamet
MEMRI is not my favorite source of information, but this is interesting:
As usual MEMRI is all mixed up. They've pulled odd remarks from everywhere and put them together.
A couple of extremist Shi'a who are spouting off, and MEMRI wants to make a big issue. Extremist Israelis say much worse things.
The main accusation is that most of the suicide bombers in Iraq are Saudis. True. and no doubt there are individual Saudi financiers. But it's far from that to say that Saudi Arabia as a state is behind the events.
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