Here are most of the main stories of the moment, I think. Some we already have covered. Including quite a bit on Africa; Nigeria, Zimbabwe and Uganda, this Kony fellow. I've been researching a bit this weekend, wanted to write something on the wider topic of Africa, but have come to realise that this is far too general for the detail I want to get across. Better off as a series, perhaps an A-Z starting with Angola and Algeria? I gather Ghana is called by Washington 'a model of democracy' for the rest of Africa to follow, and Botswana's economy is one of the world's success stories of the moment. Will need to look into these.
Fox News
Shocking, not least after how Ahmadinejad's 'map' comments were received and deliberately mistranslated with MEMRI's help (see our archives). Anyone who wishes to argue that this is a mis-quote or similar will be smart to quote me ... "I don't take Pravda any more seriously than The Sun". But no - this is a shining example of purposeful omission by mainstream media, which we know well bends, mostly, to the Zionist agenda. Imagine a British Prime Minister saying this about Wales, or a US President, about Cuba?
Israel's latest offensive in Gaza, below...
British Forces News
Opening negotiations for Taliban to come to the table and talk?
Independent.co.uk
Far as I can gather, Nigeria's Boko Haram are largely, like Kony's LRA threat, a spent force, already on the wane. AFRICOM and western media are trying to tie them to al Qaeda and hype this threat as though it were new, but this is just not true. Simply, criminal elements have taken the name of Boko Haram. I can only state that this is my opinion, but I wouldn't take the alleged links with 'al Qaeda' very seriously, nor do I think there is much of an AQ presence in Africa at all, except for AFRICOM itself staging what they need, and perhaps groups like Somalia's al-Shabaab.
WHO IS JOSEPH KONY? Kabiza.com
THE LORD'S RESISTANCE ARMY Warchild.org.uk
The Guardian UK
Well, of course he does! He doesn't want to end up like Carla Del Ponte, exiled to Argentina and out of harm's way. It's a psy-op, nothing less.
CHINA BAILING OUT ZIMBABWE? AfricanArguments.org
http://www.africom.mil/
Philosopher's Stone
MUJAHEDIN-E-KHALQ (MEK) ... GET TO KNOW Globalsecurity.org
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_activities_in_Iran
MEK support
The PBS documentary series "Frontline", reported, in October 2007, CIA supports Anti-Iranian organizations such as the People's Mujahedin of Iran (also known as the MEK or MKO) which has been involved in terrorist activities within Iran. Iran has demanded that the US stop supporting the MEK in exchange for stopping its support of Shiite's in Iraq.[24] The show quoted Vali Nasr, author of The Shia Revival as saying the Iranians had hoped that the fall of Saddam would destroy the MEK, which is generally unpopular in Iraq...the MEK operated in Iraq as an arm of Iraqi intelligence against Iranian operatives in Iraq, against Shi'ites and against the Kurds. And, in fact, one of the major pressures on the United States to round up the MEK and put them in a camp did not come from Iran; it came from [Iraqi President] Jalal Talabani.... And I think at a third level the Iranians look at the MEK issue as a test of U.S. goodwill...."
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/13/us/us-supporters-of-iranian-group-mek-face-scrutiny.html
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/02/report-the-u-s-and-israel-support-terrorists.html
Miliband is of course an MIT-educated CIA asset, but having been Blair's Foreign Minister, no doubt his opinion is informed, and holds weight. Programme opens with a domestic British item on child benefit, but continues with a great piece on electoral fraud in the Russian elections, and toward the end, I was very pleased to hear Paxman trump the Israeli ambassador, when he tried to claim that Israel are not threatening other countries. Never been all that keen on Paxman either, but he also clearly knows a thing or two about world politics...
WHAT ABOUT ISRAEL'S NUKES? New Statesman
HOW PEACE-PROVOCATEURS ARE DEFUSING RELIGIOUS TENSIONS IN INDONESIA Independent.co.uk
KANDAHAR
Reuters
WillyLoman @ Wordpress
Red Phoenix
Edit, 13 March: The official story is changing already... looks like it was not just a lone soldier with a 'brain injury' who 'lost it', at all. Gotta hope the guilty are brought to justice convincingly. However, if the official story were not tailored thus, what to do about those in service who inevitably crack under stress; how to stop this kind of thing happening by 'accident'?
Is it time to get out?
THE DIRTY WAR ON WIKILEAKS IS NOW TRIAL BY MEDIA IN SWEDEN by John Pilger for ANTIWAR.COM
ISRAELI AIRSTRIKES IN GAZA Antiwar.com
Latest from Reuters - a truce has been called after four days of bombing
This Is Money.co.uk
Question - if the EU collapses, so what? What happens then?
Independent, nonparty civic associations – The Belgrade Forum for a World of Equals, The League of Veterans of the People’s Liberation Struggle of Serbia and the Club of Generals and Admirals of Serbia – are organizing commemorative activities on the occasion of the 13th anniversary of the NATO 1999 aggression against Serbia (FR Yugoslavia).
Global Research
SANA - Syria News Agency
Pak Observer
TheDaily.Sk
Slovakia matters, in my opinion, in terms of what we report here, because - a) it's in the Eurozone, b) Russia's two best friends in Europe, probably, are Serbia and Slovakia, and c) Slovakia's elections take place this weekend, with the left expected to win. Greater ties between Bratislava and Moscow were made public in recent months. Never overlook the 'little' nations.
NATO-AZERBAIJAN RELATIONS NATO site
YEMEN'S SALEH HANDS OVER POWER ArabianBusiness.com
SRI LANKA - FOOTAGE RELEASED OF EXECUTION OF LTTE LEADER'S SON Independent.co.uk
FACEBOOK & GOOGLE ON TRIAL IN INDIA News.com.au
The Economist (2011)
PinkNews.co.uk
Egypt Independent
Egypt Independent
4.8 quake reported in Hurghada, I'll be interested to know if this is normal? And how is it being received by the more zealous Bible-prophecy believers? Johnny? I read last night that previous quakes in that area have been 'parting' the sea, as is said to have happened in Moses' time. I see it as evidence for a natural phenomenon which explains that story, but am not out to prove or disprove... would just like to know how the Christians are interpreting it?
BALOCHISTAN'S MISSING Balochwarna.com
WHICH BALOCHISTAN? ComingAnarchy.com
MetroNews.ru
PanArmenian.net
EXXON EYE TURKISH SHALE GAS Reuters
Counterpunch
And finally... mercenaries in Africa. Remember Simon Mann, and the Equatorial Guinea coup, financed by Mark Thatcher, son of former British Prime Minister, Margaret?
Until next time, RemixedPhoenix for S.L.G.
Can anyone please find me the most recent report you can, of Joseph Kony seen alive?
AntwortenLöschenScott Creighton (Willy Loman) wrote the 'Goldstein Effect' piece, linked here, about that. I feel it rings true. Nobody has seen Kony alive for about 5 years. I just read, minutes ago on an Australian news site, 'SAS hunt terrorists in Africa'... here we go! He's the new bogeyman.
AntwortenLöschenI have much editing to do here... back later :)
Actually this is not an impeachement bill for Obama at all in spite of what Fox Editorials would like you to believe.
AntwortenLöschenIt is a House Resolution introduced last week which says that use of the military by the executive branch without explicit authorization from Congress would be an impeachable offense:
It does not directly call for impeachment, but only declares as a resolution “that it is the sense of Congress that, except in response to an actual or imminent attack against the territory of the United States, the use of offensive military force by a president without prior and clear authorization of an act of Congress violates Congress’s exclusive power to declare war… and therefore constitutes an impeachable high crime and misdemeanor under Article II, Section 4 of the Constitution.”
In any event prior committments of troops in accordance with existing law are totally legal and would not be subject ex post facto to a Joint Resolution that has no chance of passing the Senate and being signed into law by the President.
This is simply a publicity stunt on the part of Republicans that will most likely be pushed as a House Simple Resoultion that does not have the force of law.
In any event it is not getting much publicity at all and rightly so. The conservatives need to try again as they are sinking fast.
omg thread is rolling.. seeing a few faces around here I haven't done in a while... I'm taking a smoke break, edit ongoing.
AntwortenLöschenThanks Gent, I kinda guessed that... but I need to use Fox et al, if I'm gonna use GlobalResearch... keep it balanced, you know?
We aim to please :)
Oh well, missed deadline. May do some more later, otherwise tomorrow.
AntwortenLöschenTo follow...
Red Sea earthquake. Italy - the EU's 'achilles heel'. Weapon seized from Israeli diplomat at Cairo airport. Balochistan's missing. Turkey / France row. Australian anti-gay political scandal.
I've had enough for tonight. Gonna watch a movie. New one... 'Abduction'.
Buvay! Pereproshuyu, ale ya wzhe mushu yty...
What's new with the Mexican drug cartels?
AntwortenLöschenAnd why can I find so little internal news from Saudi Arabia?
AntwortenLöschenMaybe things are always the same there? News are swept under the carpet probably...
AntwortenLöschenGonna finish this post now, adding a couple of bits more up-to-date...
AntwortenLöschenFinito. Only 17 hours late lol
AntwortenLöschenGreat piece of work! Again! Thank you Mike! :-)
AntwortenLöschenElsewhere - to all valued SLG members, past and present - though I no longer have a badge, and don't wish for one... I would recommend simply not feeding the troll. Starve it of attention and it, hopefully, will go away. This group is for grown-ups.
AntwortenLöschenWilkommen, Ulla
AntwortenLöschenNot forgetting the LulzSec / Stratfor / FBI storyline... Monsegur hinted to journalist James Ball that he may have links to the CIA... even James Corbett in BoilingFrogsPost's latest video, remarks that the Stratfor information, like the Bin Laden body item, and Recep Erdogan's cancer, are nothing more than 'claims', the implication being that these may be planted, false-flag, gossip or simply not true, since we now know Lulzsec's leader was working from an FBI desk. I haven't forgotten that months ago, our very own Goodstuff predicted that Wikileaks' reliability would be undermined in this way...
AntwortenLöschenTherefore, don't forget the precursor to Wikileaks, still going and still good: Cryptome
http://cryptome.org/2012/03/monsegur/usa-v-monsegur5.htm
I would also hasten to add that 'Lulzsec' and 'Anonymous' are not strictly the same thing. I maintain that the original core ethos is a 'Robin Hood' ideology, and GENUINE Anonymous will NEVER do anything like attack the US' power-grid. Be vigilant.