I couldn’t find statistics for local utility shut offs in my area, but I knew we would start to see more and more of this.
Houses everywhere are going vacant. People don’t say goodbye, they don’t leave a number, they just disappear. With their disappearance we add another vacant house to the street. But families living in housing without utilities is a new sight for me to behold. I spoke recently with a rep from So Cal Edison who, full time contacts residence who have had their electricity turned off due to non payment. She has a negotiator sent in and they work on a reduced payment. It’s amazing to me, that now, it is becoming acceptable in California to camp out in your home.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has stated that he believes the US, backed by Israel, is preparing to attack two countries in the middle East within months as part of an expansion of the ‘war on terror’.
Ahmadinejad also stated that the attacks would function as a psychological war on Iran, without specifying whether he believed Iran would be physically attacked or how he had reached his conclusions.
“We have precise information that the Americans have devised a plot, according to which they seek to launch a psychological war on Iran,” Ahmadinejad told Iranian state media Press TV.
“They plan to attack at least two countries in the region within the next three months,” he added.
Though Ahmadinejad did not elaborate on which two countries were in US crosshairs, it must be assumed he is referring to Syria and Lebanon – both Iranian allies and both previous targets of US backed Israeli aggression in recent years. အျပည့္အစုံဖတ္မယ္.. ဒန္.. ဒန္.. ဒန္
WASHINGTON – A former CIA director says military action against Iran now seems more likely because no matter what the U.S. does diplomatically, Tehran keeps pushing ahead with its suspected nuclear program. Michael Hayden, a CIA chief under President George W. Bush, says that during his tenure a strike was "way down the list" of options. But he tells CNN's "State of the Union" that such action now "seems inexorable." He predicts Iran will build its program to the point where it's just below having an actual weapon. Hayden says that would be as destabilizing to the region as the real thing.
Major General Luo Yuan, deputy secretary general with the PLA Academy of Military Sciences, explained the reasons why China is opposed to the U.S.-South Korean military exercises in the Yellow Sea in a recent online discussion with netizens on People's Daily Online.
Luo pointed out five reasons behind China's opposition to the joint military exercises:
First, in terms of security, Chairman Mao Zedong once said, "We will never allow others to keep snoring beside our beds." If the United States were in China's shoes, would it allow China to stage military exercises near its western and eastern coasts? Just like an old Chinese saying goes, "Do not do unto others what you do not want others to do unto you," if the United States does not wish to be treated in a specific way, it should not forcefully sell the way to others.
Second, in terms of strategic thinking, China should take into account the worst possibility and strive to seek the best results. The bottom line of strategic thinking is to nip the evil in the bud. The ultimate level of strategic thinking is to subdue the enemy without fighting. Preventing crisis is the best way to resolve and overcome the crisis. China's current tough stance is part of preventive diplomacy.
Third, in terms of geopolitical strategy, the Yellow Sea is the gateway to China's capital region and a vital passage to the heartland of Beijing and Tianjin. In history, foreign invaders repeatedly took the Yellow Sea as an entrance to enter the heartland of Beijing and Tianjin. The drill area selected by the United States and South Korea is only 500 kilometers away from Beijing. China will be aware of the security pressure from military exercises conducted by any country in an area that is so close to China's heartland.
At least 16 people have been killed during a US drone attack in Pakistan’s northwestern tribal belt, security officials say.
A Pakistani security official said that the drone struck a home used by militants in Dwasarak village, about 40 km west of Wana, on Saturday.
“The locals have pulled 16 bodies and some survivors from the debris of the compound that was hit by the missiles,” the officials told DPA on condition of anonymity.
Two US drones fired four missiles, another official added as two intelligence officials also confirmed the missile strikes.
Dozens more were injured in the attack and the death toll was expected to rise, reports say.
Over the past few years, hundreds of people, mostly civilians, have been killed in similar US attacks in the region. အျပည့္အစုံဖတ္မယ္.. ဒန္.. ဒန္.. ဒန္
Republicans in the US House of Representatives have introduced a measure that would green-light a possible Israeli bombing campaign against Iran.
Resolution 1553 provides explicit support for military strikes against Iran, stating that Congress backs Israel’s use of ‘all means necessary’ against Iran, “including the use of military force,” BBC Persian reported.
The introduction of the measure coincides with a pattern of renewed calls for military strikes that have escalated since President Obama signed Congressional Iran sanctions into law.
Neoconservatives who were instrumental in orchestrating the Iraq War, such as Bill Kristol and Reuel Marc Gerecht, have led the stepped up calls for military action.
Hawkish former Bush administration official John Bolton recently laid out the game plan to prod Israel into attacking Iran, arguing that outsiders can “create broad support” for a strike by framing it as an issue of Israel’s right to self-defense. အျပည့္အစုံဖတ္မယ္.. ဒန္.. ဒန္.. ဒန္
After about two and a half years during which the danger of war between the United States and Iran was at a relatively low level, this threat is now rapidly increasing. A pattern of political and diplomatic events, military deployments, and media chatter now indicates that Anglo-American ruling circles, acting through the troubled Obama administration, are currently gearing up for a campaign of bombing against Iran, combined with special forces incursions designed to stir up rebellions among the non-Persian nationalities of the Islamic Republic. Naturally, the probability of a new fake Gulf of Tonkin incident or false flag terror attack staged by the Anglo-American war party and attributed to Iran or its proxies is also growing rapidly.
The moment in the recent past when the US came closest to attacking Iran was August-September 2007, at about the time of the major Israeli bombing raid on Syria.1 This was the phase during which the Cheney faction in effect hijacked a fully loaded B-52 bomber equipped with six nuclear-armed cruise missiles, and attempted to take it to the Middle East outside of the command and control of the Pentagon, presumably to be used in a colossal provocation designed by the private rogue network for which Cheney was the visible face. A few days before the B-52 escaped control of legally constituted US authorities, a group of antiwar activists issued The Kennebunkport Warning of August 24-25, 2007, which had been drafted by the present writer.2 It was very significant that US institutional forces acted at that time to prevent the rogue B-52 from proceeding on its way towards the Middle East. The refusal to let the rogue B-52 take off reflected a growing consensus in the US military-intelligence community and the ruling elite in general that the Bush-Cheney-neocon policy of direct military aggression towards all comers had become counterproductive and very dangerous, running the risk of a terminal case of imperial overstretch. အျပည့္အစုံဖတ္မယ္.. ဒန္.. ဒန္.. ဒန္
In his latest statements, President Obama has expressively warned Iran against an imminent nuclear strike. The surprising remarks by the politician who snatched the Nobel Peace Prize for his conciliatory stance in recent years, violated the UN Charter and astounded public opinion.
"The continued presence of all options on the table"; this is the disappointing message which a Nobel Peace Prize laureate dispatches internationally. In his latest interview with CBS news, American President Barack Obama refused to rule out the possibility of a military strike against Iran by harking back to the famous catchphrase of former U.S. President George W. Bush who once devised, regarding Iran's nuclear program, the popular sentence of "all options are on the table".
Putting the quality and quantity of these options aside, the very "table" on which the options should be placed is as well a matter of controversy. Who is in the position to decide the destiny of Iran's nuclear program? Which table is the U.S. President referring to? What's wrong with Iran's nuclear program in lieu of which a 70-million nation should go on with crippling sanctions, continued threats of military strike, isolation and economic embargo? What's the definite answer to the simple question that "why should the U.S., France and Israel possess nuclear weapons"? Which one is more offensive and violent? Iran's nuclear program which has been demonstrated again and again that does not have anything to do with military purposes, or the adventurous, aggressive trajectory Washington and its European allies have begun to go across? အျပည့္အစုံဖတ္မယ္.. ဒန္.. ဒန္.. ဒန္
"A sitting duck is a defenceless victim, an easy target, vulnerable to attack"
What this latest resolution suggests is that Washington and its NATO allies not only control the UN Security Council, they ultimately also call the shots on foreign policy in Moscow and Beijing.
This Security Council resolution should dispel the myth of competing super powers. Both China and Russia are an appendage of the New World Order.
As far as international diplomacy is concerned, both China and Russia are "Paper Tigers", with no teeth. "'Paper Tiger' [纸老虎 (zhǐ lǎohǔ)], meaning something that seems as threatening as a tiger, but is really harmless."
Both China and Russia are the victims of their own failed decisions within the United Nations Security Council.
An attack on Iran would immediately lead to military escalation. Syria and Lebanon would also be targeted. The entire Middle East Central Asian region would flare up, a situation which could potentially evolve towards a World War III scenario.
PESHAWAR, Pakistan Sixteen Shiite Muslims were killed and four wounded Saturday in an apparent sectarian ambush in a remote tribal town in Pakistan, a paramilitary spokesman and local officials said.
The attack took place in the Sunni dominated Charkhel area on Tal-Parachinar road in the violence-hit Kurram tribal district, close to the Afghan border in the country’s northwest.
The victims were heading to Peshawar in two passenger vehicles when unidentified gunmen ambushed them and then fled, officials said.
“Sixteen people from the Shiite community have been killed and four were injured in the attack,” a senior security official in Peshawar told AFP.
“Today’s incident was a result of sectarian violence,” he said.
Major Fazal-Ur-Rehman, a spokesman for the paramilitary Frontier Corps, also confirmed the attack.
Local administrative and intelligence officials said all the dead were Shiite Muslims, adding that the toll could rise.
OTTAWA — Defence Minister Peter MacKay announced Friday morning a $9-billion plan to buy military fighter aircraft, a deal that will constitute the largest military purchase in Canadian history.
The new fighter aircraft would replace the current fleet of CF-18s, beginning in 2016. Those fighters were recently upgraded at a reported cost of $2.6-billion.
“I’m convinced the F-35 (fighter jet) is good for Canada, good for Canadians, good for the Forces and good for Canadian industry,” Mr. MacKay said during a late-morning news conference at hangar at the Ottawa airport.
But the acquisition of an expected 65 new F-35 joint strike fighters from U.S. firm Lockheed Martin Corp., has already drawn the ire from federal Liberals. အျပည့္အစုံဖတ္မယ္.. ဒန္.. ဒန္.. ဒန္
The U.A.E. may be about to support the U.S. and Israel in their rumored plans to attack Iran, according to reports from Der Spiegel.
The U.A.E.’s ambassador to the U.S., Yousef Al Otaiba, recently expressed his concerns that the costs of having Iran be a nuclear power were too high for his country, and worth the costs of going to war with the country:
But, he added, “if you are asking me, ‘Am I willing to live with that versus living with a nuclear Iran,’ my answer is still the same. We cannot live with a nuclear Iran. I am willing to absorb what takes place at the expense of the security of the U.A.E.”
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev recently expressed his concerns that Iran was close to building a weapon, after Iran announced it had 20 kilograms of 20 percent enriched uranium.
This will only lead to growing worries over the plans of both the U.S. and Israel regarding war with Iran.
OTTAWA - Canada will take no lectures on human rights from a country that stones its citizens to death.
That is Ottawa's response to Iran's criticism of the treatment of protesters by police at the G20 summit in Toronto.
Tehran called in Canada's charge d'affairs on Wednesday to remind him of Canada's international commitments to allow peaceful demonstrations, according to Iran's state Press TV.
The story, posted on the network's website, contains the headline "Iran slams Canada over G20 brutality."
The diplomatic salvo, which appears to be retaliation for Canada's repeated criticism of Iran's human rights record, did not sit well with Ottawa.
"Canada will take no lectures on human rights from Iran," Melissa Lantsman, a Foreign Affairs spokeswoman told The Canadian Press in an email.
"Canada has a system which affords all citizens due process of the law. This is something that Zahra Kazemi was never afforded." အျပည့္အစုံဖတ္မယ္.. ဒန္.. ဒန္.. ဒန္
Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani has slammed the Group of Eight (G8) nations as unfit to pass judgment on Iran's nuclear program.
Speaking at a ceremony in the western Luristan Province, Larijani said the G8 faces certain failure in efforts to shut down Tehran's nuclear program, criticizing the group's policy of seeking to pressure Iran through sanctions that target the country's economy.
"The (G8's) latest statement says the new UN (Security Council) sanctions resolution must be fully implemented. This coming from countries who follow a policy of creating an economic crisis and have even called for the suspension of 20 percent enrichment activities," the Majlis speaker was quoted as saying by Fars News Agency.
Larijani went on to blast the group's reference to the issue of human rights in Iran and highlighted the civilian death toll of the US-led war in Afghanistan as well as the notorious US prisons in Iraq and Cuba. အျပည့္အစုံဖတ္မယ္.. ဒန္.. ဒန္.. ဒန္
Diplomacy and sanctions won’t stop Iran from building a nuclear warhead, according to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
“There has only been one time that Iran actually stopped the program,” Netanyahu told Fox News’ Chris Wallace Sunday. “That was when it feared US military action.”
The prime minister agreed with CIA Director Leon Panetta that sanctions would “probably not” stop the Iranians.
But Netanyahu wouldn’t say whether he had discussed military action with President Barack Obama.
“I’m not going to get into the confidential discussions, and I’m not confirming anything of the sort but I am saying that the president’s position that all options are on the table might actually have the only real effect on Iran if they think it’s true,” he said. အျပည့္အစုံဖတ္မယ္.. ဒန္.. ဒန္.. ဒန္
Former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad says the US compelled the UN Security Council to impose sanctions against Iran in order to weaken the country and lay the ground for a military attack.
“The world is made to believe once again the lie that Israel’s existence is being threatened by a nuclear armed Iran,” Mohamad said at the opening of the Breaking the Gaza Siege summit in Kuala Lumpur.
He went on to add that these sanctions were adopted despite the fact that Mohamed ElBaradei, the former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), had repeatedly stated that there is no evidence of Iran pursuing military nuclear program. အျပည့္အစုံဖတ္မယ္.. ဒန္.. ဒန္.. ဒန္
On the 2nd July 2010 the Costa Rica Congress authorized the entry of 46 U.S. warships capable of carrying 200 helicopters and warplanes, plus 7,000 U.S. Marines “who may circulate the country in uniform without any restrictions” , plus submarine killer ships to the Costa Rican coast for “anti-narcotics operations and humanitarian missions’ between 1st July 2010 until 31st December 2010.
With this kind of nation destroying firepower, it gives real meaning to the expression “war on drugs”, but if this a real six month “war on drugs” we should expect to see some fantastic results, right? အျပည့္အစုံဖတ္မယ္.. ဒန္.. ဒန္.. ဒန္
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of Evil Islamization is …..for
good men to do nothing. နွစ္ေပါင္း ၁၄၀၀ ေက်ာ္ အတြင္း မြတ္ဆလင္တို ့ဧ။္
က်ဴးေက်ာ္ သတ္...
