ExxonMobil-led consortium nets 'supergiant' Iraq oil field
posted 11/20/2009, 6:01 PM (The Daily Star) [Category: Geopolitics] BAGHDAD: An ExxonMobil-led consortium has beaten rival Russian, French and Chinese groups to bag initial rights to develop Iraq’s West Qurna field, the Oil Ministry said, adding momentum to Iraq’s bid to unlock its oil riches. With reserves of 8.7 billion barrels, West Qurna is among the prized Iraqi fields eyed by Western oil majors as they face flat or lower output at home and stiff competition from Chinese and Indian oil companies in bidding for oilfields elsewhere.
“The consortium led by ExxonMobil, which includes Shell, won the contract to develop West Qurna Phase One oilfield,” Oil Ministry spokesman Asim Jihad said.
The initial deal was signed in Baghdad on Thursday but needs Cabinet approval before it can be finalized.
The 20-year contract is part of a raft of deals Iraq is close to formalizing in a bid to catapult itself to the world’s third largest oil producer after decades of war and economic decline.
There is no guarantee that Iraq’s next government – to be elected in January – will honor the deals, but it injects optimism into prospects for Iraq’s battered oil sector and a second oil bid-round in December, after a lacklustre June auction.
ExxonMobil, partnering Royal Dutch Shell, beat Russia’s LUKOIL – which had teamed up with US oil-major ConocoPhillips – and two other groups led by France’s Total and China’s CNPC.
ExxonMobil’s output target for West Qurna Phase One beat those of its rivals and allowed it to clinch the contract, said an Iraqi oil official, who was part of the negotiating team.
“This is better for us,” the Iraqi oil official said. “We need higher production. This is a supergiant field and it has the capacity to produce even more than the target set by Exxon.”
The group plans to raise the field’s output nearly five-fold to 2.325 million barrels per day (bpd) from less than 500,000 bpd at present, Iraqi Oil Min... (more)
The country’s biggest foreign visa consultancy firm has revealed that applications have soared in the last seven months by 80 per cent to almost 4,000 a week. Ten years ago the figure was just 300 a week.
Most people are relocating within the Commonwealth – in Australia, Canada and South Africa. They are almost all young professionals and skilled workers aged 20-40. ... (more)
A controversial taxpayer-funded “job centre” opened in Mali this week is just the first step towards promoting “free movement of people in Africa and the EU”.
Brussels economists claim Britain and other EU states will “need” 56 million immigrant workers between them by 2050 to make up for the “demographic decline” du... (more)
As The Corbett Report reported yesterday, veteran Bilderberg researcher Daniel Estulin has obtained documents from inside last week’s G20 Finance Minister’s meeting in St. Andrews, Scotland. The documents--including attendee lists, drafts of the conference’s communique and handwritten notes with deatils about who said what during delibe... (more)
Army Sends Infant to Protective Services, Mom to Afghanistan
posted 11/16/2009, 7:48 AM (Inter Press Service) [Category: Geopolitics] VENTURA, California - U.S. Army Specialist Alexis Hutchinson, a single mother, is being threatened with a military court-martial if she does not agree to deploy to Afghanistan, despite having been told she would be granted extra time to find someone to care for her 11-month-old son while she is overseas.
Hutchinson, of Oakland, California, is currently being confined at Hunter Army Airfield near Savannah, Georgia, after being arrested. Her son was placed into a county foster care ... (more)
AP: The footage will no doubt be used by insurgent propagandist... (more)
Amazing Pictures, Pollution in China
posted 11/12/2009, 11:19 PM (ChinaHush) [Category: Geopolitics] Villagers from Kang village in Linfen City, Shanxi Province (山西省临汾市下康村) due to long-term consumption of the polluted water contaminated by industrial waste, there were 50 people who have cancer and cerebral thrombosis. 64-year-old Wang Baosheng got ill since 2003, he has fester all over his body so he cannot go to bed and lying face down on the edge of the bed each day. July 10, 2005
... (more)
Under the Copenhagen Treaty China will have to make no cuts, the USA which puts out much less actual pollution due to strict environmental rules will have all its remaining factories moved to China where they can pollute at will and in fact spread more pollution. It does not get anymore shameless.
Wednesday November 11th, 2009
Soros Calls for World Currency and “New World Architecture”
posted 11/11/2009, 5:37 AM (Infowars) [Category: Geopolitics] In a shocking Op-Ed piece published Thursday on project-syndicate.org, globalist financier George Soros calls for a "New World Architecture". In his essay, he states how international capitalism, led by the United States has "broken down" and how "A new multilateral system based on sounder principals must be invented" through the use of the IMF (International Monetary Fund). Soros goes on to recommend SDR's (Special Drawing Rights), created by the IMF, as a replacement for the declining ... (more)
General Khodaidad Khodaidad said the majority of drugs are stockpiled in two provinces controlled by troops from the US, the UK, and Canada, IRNA reported on Saturday.
He went on to say that NATO forces are taxing the production of opium in the regions under their control.
Copenhagen Treaty is Open Global Government
posted 11/03/2009, 6:07 PM (Wall Street Journal) [Category: Geopolitics] We can only hope that world leaders will do nothing more than enjoy a pleasant bicycle ride around the charming streets of Copenhagen come December. For if they actually manage to wring out an agreement based on the current draft text of the Copenhagen climate-change treaty, the world is in for some nasty surprises. Draft text, you say? If you haven't heard about it, that's because none of our otherwise talkative political leaders have bothered to tell us what the drafters have already cobbled t... (more)
Soros: China Will Lead New World Order
posted 10/29/2009, 3:38 PM (Infowars) [Category: Geopolitics] Billionaire globalist George Soros told the Financial Times during an interview that China will supplant the United States as the leader of the new world order and that America should not resist the country's decline as the dollar weakens, living standards drop, and a new global currency is introduced.
Asked what Obama should discuss when he visits China next month, Soros stated, "This would be the time because I think you really need to bring China into the creation of a ne... (more)
Among them, Ki-moon argued in the Tuesday edition that a "global governance structure" must be levied to ensure that nations collaborate on how resources are deployed and managed.
Japan's Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama argued nations should take advantage of the region's more rapid recovery from the recession than the West.
"It would be meaningful for us to have the aspiration that East Asia is going to lead the world," he said.
Leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) are meeting other region... (more)
Thursday October 22nd, 2009
Navy's New Slogan: A Global Force For Good
posted 10/22/2009, 8:14 PM (Navy Times) [Category: Geopolitics] The Navy’s new recruiting slogan, “America’s Navy: A global force for good,” was designed from the outset to motivate existing sailors as much as to entice young people to enlist.
But according to reactions by Navy Times readers in the week since the slogan was made public, that plan isn’t working.
“Holy cow! This is getting really stupid. Why do we need to change our slogan again? I don’t think it describes the Navy at all,” said Machinist’s Mate 1st Class (SS/SW) ... (more)
Monday October 19th, 2009
Angry Protestors Set Fires on the Champs-Elysees
posted 10/19/2009, 10:14 AM (ABC News) [Category: Geopolitics] Angry French farmers blocked the famous Champs-Elysees Avenue in Paris early this morning to call attention to the difficulties their sector is going though. Several other French cities were also affected. In Poitiers (western France), farmers dumped about a thousand cubic meters of soil in the city center. French media reported that several hundreds of tractors converged towards the centers of several French cities from north to south, disrupting or stopping traffic on roads and highways. 52,0... (more)
Saturday October 17th, 2009
Obama Poised to Cede US Sovereignty, Claims British Lord
posted 10/17/2009, 7:32 PM (Fightin’ Words) [Category: Geopolitics] The Minnesota Free Market Institute hosted an event at Bethel University in St. Paul on Wednesday evening. Keynote speaker Lord Christopher Monckton, former science adviser to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, gave a scathing and lengthy presentation, complete with detailed charts, graphs, facts, and figures which culminated in the utter decimation of both the pop culture conce... (more)
Thursday October 15th, 2009
John Bolton Suggests Nuclear Attack on Iran
posted 10/15/2009, 9:15 AM (The Faster Times) [Category: Geopolitics] This Friday, the American Enterprise Institute will host an event addressing the question “Should Israel attack Iran?” The event includes, among others, Iran uberhawk Michael Rubin and infamous “torture lawyer” John Yoo, but the real star is likely to be John Bolton, the former U.N. ambassador whose right-of-Attila views left him an outcast even within the second Bush a... (more)
President Klaus, the fiercely Eurosceptic Czech leader, is the last obstacle for the agreement after its ratification in the other 26 EU states but he has told supporters that he will never sign, The Times has learnt.
Asked during a walkabout on Sunday not to put his name to the treaty, Mr Klaus replied... (more)
Wednesday October 14th, 2009
Obama Quietly Increasing U.S. Force in Afghanistan
posted 10/14/2009, 6:12 AM (Washington Post) [Category: Geopolitics] President Obama announced in March that he would be sending 21,000 additional troops to Afghanistan. But in an unannounced move, the White House has also authorized -- and the Pentagon is deploying -- at least 13,000 troops beyond that number, according to defense officials.
The additional troops are primarily support forces, including engineers, medical personnel, intelligence experts and military police. Their deployment has received little mention by officials at the Pentagon a... (more)
U.S. Story on Iran Nuke Facility Doesn't Add Up
posted 10/03/2009, 3:38 PM (IPS News) [Category: Geopolitics] WASHINGTON, Sep 29 (IPS) - The story line that dominated media coverage of the second Iranian uranium enrichment facility last week was the official assertion that U.S. intelligence had caught Iran trying to conceal a "secret" nuclear facility.
But an analysis of the transcript of that briefing by senior administration officials that was the sole basis for the news stories and other evidence reveals damaging admissions, conflicts with the facts and unanswered questions that under... (more)
You never hear it asked, "Why should the U.S. give a damn about what Communist China or some other dictatorship thinks about our policies?"
The U.S. President is supposed to represent the U.S. people, he is supposed to be accountable to us, he should not be off meeting with world leaders and allowing them to direct U.S. policies, yet that is exactly what they are openly doing. They are putting the people of their own countries aside and allowing foreign governments to determine their domestic and foreign policies. That's treason.
Very interesting, within the first five minutes the UN cut the audio feed (as mentioned on the Fox News feed) and when it comes back he is saying the swine flu was made in a lab.
YouTube's Rodvid67u6 Description: Libya's Moammar Kadafi is well awar... (more)
This is not the part they cut out.
In UN speech, Gaddafi suggests Israel behind JFK assassination
posted 09/25/2009, 1:19 AM (Raw Story) [Category: Geopolitics] Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi called for a reopening of the investigations into the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., during his speech at the UN on Wednesday, and pointed the finger at Israel in Kennedy's death.
In a wide-ranging speech that took place just after President Obama's address to the UN, and which ran much longer than scheduled, Gaddafi asked why Jack Ruby, "an Israeli," killed Kennedy's assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, and suggested Kenn... (more)
The disclosure will provoke concerns that health officials will not be able to stem the growth of the worldwide H1N1 pandemic in developing countries. If the virus takes hold in the poorest nations, millions could die and the economies of fragile countries cou... (more)
While touted by Obama and his supporters as the "good war," there is mounting evidence that the Pentagon and the CIA are engaged in a war against the population of the region involving death squads, disappearances and torture.... (more)
Panel Advises Obama to Prepare Iran Attack
posted 09/19/2009, 3:40 PM (Bloomberg) [Category: Geopolitics] Infowars Note: One of the directors the Bipartisan Policy Center recommending the possible mass murder of Iranians is Norman R. Augustine, the former chairman and CEO of Lockheed Martin. The center also features globalists from the Aspen Institute and bankster operatives from JPMorgan.
The U.S. should begin preparing crippling sanctions on Iran and publicly make clear that a military strike is possible should the Iranian government press ahead with its nuclear effort, a bi... (more)
US-IRAN: War Drums Begin Beating in Washington
posted 09/19/2009, 3:40 PM (IPS News) [Category: Geopolitics] WASHINGTON, Sep 11 (IPS) - As nuclear negotiations between Iran and the West continue to move slowly, U.S. President Barack Obama is coming under growing pressure from what appears to be a concerted lobbying and media campaign urging him to act more aggressively to stop Iran's nuclear programme.
Obama has given Tehran an end-of-September deadline to respond substantively to his offer of diplomatic engagement. But already hawks in the U.S. – backed by hardline pro-Israel organisati... (more)
Syrian Government Daily: 9/11 – An American, American-Israeli, or CIA-Pentagon Conspiracy
posted 09/19/2009, 3:37 PM (MEMRI.org) [Category: Geopolitics] On September 11, 2009, the eighth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, the Syrian government daily Al-Thawra published several columns doubting the "official version" of that day's events, and claiming that the attacks were an American or American-Israeli conspiracy, citing U.S. researchers and historians to back up their claims.
The following are translated excerpts from the columns:
Chinese Girl Becomes Media Darling After Expressing Desire to Become "Corrupt Official"
posted 09/08/2009, 12:12 AM (The Epoch Times) [Category: Geopolitics] A short video posted on NanDu.Net, a Chinese news website, featuring a six year old girl from Guangzhou City has become the talk of China. When asked about her ideal life, the first grader proudly announced that she dreamed of becoming “a corrupt official, as they have lots of property.” The video was soon being discussed throughout the major media and Internet forums.
By late Sept. 2, the video had already received 14,000 hits, but was soon blocked and later deleted by the websit... (more)
Microsoft pushes for single global patent system
posted 09/08/2009, 12:09 AM (CNET News) [Category: Geopolitics] A senior lawyer at Microsoft is calling for the creation of a global patent system to make it easier and faster for corporations to enforce their intellectual property rights around the world.
In a blog posting on Tuesday, Microsoft’s Deputy General Counsel Horacio Gutierrez said that a backlog of patent applications internationally was need... (more)
"The U.S. is using the fight against the FARC to justify their military presence in Colombia. I regret to say: they are the best instrument of the empire at the moment," Morales said at a press conference.
The Bolivian President reiterated his rejection of the military agr... (more)
Wednesday August 26th, 2009
Fidel Castro says racist right-wingers fight Obama
posted 08/26/2009, 6:37 PM (Reuters) [Category: Geopolitics] HAVANA (Reuters) - President Barack Obama is trying to make positive changes in the United States, but is being fought at every turn by right-wingers who hate him because he is black, former Cuban leader Fidel Castro said on Tuesday.
In an unusually conciliatory column in the state-run media, Castro said Obama had inherited many problems from his predecessor, George W. Bush, and was trying to resolve them. But the "powerful extreme right won't be happy with anything that diminishe... (more)
Friday August 21st, 2009
Honduras: Military Coup Engineered By Two US Companies?
posted 08/21/2009, 4:46 AM (John Perkins) [Category: Geopolitics] I recently visited Central America. Everyone I talked with there was convinced that the military coup that had overthrown the democratically-elected president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, had been engineered by two US companies, with CIA support. And that the US and its new president were not standing up for democracy.
Earlier in the year Chiquita Brands International Inc. (formerly United Fruit) and Dole Food Co had severely criticized Zelaya for advocating an increase of ... (more)
When Mr Clinton touched down in North Korea, the former president was seen as the man who could force the hand of Kim Jong Il and orchestrate the release of the journalists.
But it later emerged that it was Kim Jong Il himself who had invited Mr Clinton to Pyongyang and had guaranteed freedo... (more)
Pope calls for "world political authority"
posted 07/07/2009, 4:45 PM (Reuters) [Category: Geopolitics] VATICAN CITY - Pope Benedict on Tuesday called for a "world political authority" to manage the global economy and for more government regulation of national economies to pull the world out of the current crisis and avoid a repeat.
The pope's call for a re-think of the way the world economy is run came in new encyclical which touched on a number of social issues but whose main connecting thread was how the current crisis has affected both rich and poor nations.
U.S.-built bridge is windfall — for illegal Afghan drug trade
posted 07/07/2009, 4:43 PM (McClatchy Newspapers ) [Category: Geopolitics] NIZHNY PANJ, Tajikistan — In August 2007, the presidents of Afghanistan and Tajikistan walked side by side with the U.S. commerce secretary across a new $37 million concrete bridge that the Army Corps of Engineers designed to link two of Central Asia's poorest countries.
Dressed in a gray suit with an American flag pin in his lapel, then-Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez said the modest two-lane span that U.S. taxpayers paid for would be "a critical transit route for trade and ... (more)
Following a White House meeting with Washington’s closest Latin American ally, Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, President Obama reiterated the position that the ouster of Zelaya was illegal. However, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told report... (more)
Obama Claims CIA Involvement In Iran "Patently False"
posted 06/26/2009, 10:50 PM (Infowars) [Category: Geopolitics] President Barack Obama was forced to address accusations that the CIA was involved in fomenting the post-election riots in Iran during his White House press conference yesterday, claiming the allegations were "patently false," despite the fact that the U.S. government publicly gave the CIA approval to undertake a destabilization campaign in Iran more than two years ago.
"There are reports suggesting that the CIA is behind all this - all of which is patently false but it gi... (more)
Mousavi, prime minister for most of the 1980s, personally selected his point man for the Beirut terror campaign, Ali Akbar Mohtashemi-pur, and dispatched him to Damascus as Iran's ambassador, according to former CIA and military officials. ... (more)
Wednesday June 24th, 2009
Time for 'new world order': Brazilian President
posted 06/24/2009, 6:15 AM (AFP) [Category: Geopolitics] The global financial crisis has reduced the differences between nations and created the opportunity to form a new world order, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Wednesday.
Speaking after a meeting with Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev in the Kazakh capital Astana, Lula called on the global community to seize on the crisis to create a fairer world for developing nations.
"I want to say that before the crisis, there were many countries wh... (more)
In recent years, I have often told listeners that I feel Americans need their own change - a perestroika, not like the one in my country, but an American perestroika - and the reaction has been mark... (more)
"When I phoned the British embassy and asked them to explain to the powerful secret society that had set their goons on me that I was essentially a humorous journalist out of my depth, I wasn't being funny. I was being genuinely desperate," he wrote. I know exactly how he feels.
Gotta love it, before this writer went to Bilderberg he considered it all to be a big joke, read his first articles and notice how smug and "witty" he is! Now, after going and being harassed to hell he wants to lead the revolution! - Chris, IL
WASHINGTON – The latest meeting of the secretive, half-century-old Bilderberg Group concluded yesterday outside of Athens with a few arrests, but little news.
Demonstrators from the political left and right shouted outside the Astir Palace hotel letting some of the wealthiest and most powerful people in the world know they weren't entirely welcome.
Several dozen Greek demonstrators gathered outside the Astir Palace hotel in the coastal town of Vouliagmeni to criticize the Bilderberg Group, an international group that was founded half a century ago in the Netherlands.
It has no widely known headquarters, meets secretly at luxury hot... (more)
Guardian Reporter at Bilderberg: Fear my pen
posted 05/19/2009, 12:30 AM (The Guardian) [Category: Geopolitics] You can't quite make out the face of the Bilderberg delegate on the waterskis, but I'm pretty sure from his shape that it isn't Ken Clarke. Is it the US deputy secretary of state, James Steinberg? No, Steinberg prefers a shorter rope. "Next year I bring a bigger lens," says Paul Dorneanu, the young Romanian Bilderberg hunter who took the photo.
He shows me another: a long-range shot of two happy globalists in an inflatable d... (more)
I don't know if they're discussing global financial unification or the season finale of Grey's Anatomy over their prawn cocktails. I don't even know what the vegetarian option is for starters. Butternut squash?
You're going to have to forgive me for speculating, but that's a... (more)
Europe Minister Caroline Flint said that every operational unit of the British Army, the Royal Navy and RAF will be on offer as part of an EU 'force catalogue'.
This would help form a 60,000-strong, joint EU military reaction force to police the world's trouble-spots.
Questioned by MPs this week, about Britain's commitment to the cont... (more)
Gordon Brown declared that a $1 trillion package to stimulate economic growth agreed at yesterday's G20 summit in London will ensure that the world pulls out of recession more quickly.
Speaking after the one-day summit of the world's richest nations in the Docklands, the Prime Minister said there were "no quick fixes", adding: "Today's decisions will not immedi... (more)
The first thing to be said is that everyone is in the same boat. And they have to bail together. This contrasts to the old days when capitalists and communists exchanged insults as their ships passed in the night.
The worst threat at this G20 summit was a remark by French President Nicolas Sarkozy that he would walk out if there was not better regulation of banks and financia... (more)
Please note: there is no new world order and anyone who says so is a terrorist.
Wednesday April 1st, 2009
Mexico's Fox touts EU-like integration for the Americas
posted 04/01/2009, 5:54 PM (Express-News) [Category: Geopolitics] Former Mexican President Vicente Fox was in San Antonio Friday, delivering a wide-ranging address about U.S.-Mexico relations that touched on trade, the drug war, comprehensive immigration reform and the United States' “mammoth” financial crisis that has spread worldwide.
Fox also delivered a message of hope — hope that someday Canada, the United States and Mexico, indeed the rest of Latin America, would function like the European Union.
Private military companies to supersede regular armies
posted 03/02/2009, 12:36 AM (Pravda.ru) [Category: Geopolitics] Private military companies (PMCs) have become rather popular nowadays in terms of providing specialized expertise or services of a military nature. These units can compete with special services and regular armies. There are such companies in Russia, although they are not so widely spread in the country in comparison with their prototypes in the West. As experience shows, the PMCs will prevail in the future.
The history of private military companies started on June 24, 1997, when e... (more)
"Now," as one 23-year-old Kabul shopkeeper, Qand Mohmadi, put it, "we think America is supporting both the Taliban and the Afghan government. That’s what everyone says."
Indeed, the rumor of U.S. support for the Taliban is virtu... (more)
Israel takes control of more West Bank land
posted 02/21/2009, 11:20 AM (Associated Press) [Category: Geopolitics] JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel has taken control of a large chunk of land near a prominent West Bank settlement, paving the way for the possible construction of 2,500 settlement homes, officials said Monday, in a new challenge to Mideast peacemaking.
Successive Israeli governments have broken promises to the United States to halt settlement expansion, defined by Washington as an obstacle to peace. Ongoing expansion is likely to create friction not only with the Palestinians, but with Pre... (more)
Emerging global elite to use new global media to educate 'global citizens'
posted 02/21/2009, 11:19 AM (World Tribune) [Category: Geopolitics] Elite members of the World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos, Switzerland, recently considered a proposal for a new global television network to usher in a state of “global governance.” The concept strikes some as authoritarian, even totalitarian. But the parent company of Fox News was one of the sponsors of this year's gathering. ShareThis
The media proposal, which was included in “The Global Agenda 2009” report, is to create “a new global network” with “the capacity to con... (more)
As a poll showed more voters are turning against him, the Prime Minister warned that countries must see the financial crisis as the chance to forge a new financial system.
Setting the scene for April's G20 talks in London, Mr Brown said: 'If what happens to a bank in one country can within minutes have devastating effects for banks on a different continent, then ... (more)
Australian PM calls for new economic order
posted 02/07/2009, 10:07 PM (AFP) [Category: Geopolitics] SYDNEY (AFP) — Australia's prime minister has called for a "new world order" of government intervention and regulation, blaming capitalist greed for the global economic crisis.
Kevin Rudd's administration came to power in November 2007, ending more than a decade of conservative, free-market rule, and has already launched a series of stimulus measures in response to the crisis.
"The time has come, off the back of the current crisis, to proclaim that the great neo-lib... (more)
That opportunity involves a seeming contradiction. On one level, the financial collapse represents a major blow to the standing of the United States. While American political judgments have often proved controversial, the American pr... (more)
Saturday January 3rd, 2009
Israeli troops dance as they await the order for a Gaza war
posted 01/03/2009, 2:51 AM (McClatchy Newspapers ) [Category: Geopolitics] ALONG THE ISRAEL-GAZA STRIP BORDER — In a muddy field overlooking the smoke-blackened Gaza Strip skyline on Tuesday, young soldiers from an Israeli tank unit linked arms with euphoric civilians and joined them in the hora, a circular dance, in anticipation of a possible ground invasion of the Palestinian territory.
Far overhead, a pair of Israeli Apache helicopters fired on a target inside Gaza, unleashed diversionary flares and disappeared to the north. Elsewhere in the autonomou... (more)
US to double military forces in Afghanistan
posted 12/26/2008, 9:58 PM (World Socialist Web Site) [Category: Geopolitics] US Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Admiral Michael Mullen announced Saturday that the Pentagon will nearly double the number of US troops engaged in the occupation and colonial-style war in Afghanistan. The announcement is in line with the policy advanced by Democratic President-elect Barack Obama to shift American military resources to the “real front” in the “global war on terrorism.”
Mullen made official the military “surge” that is to be conducted in Afghanistan under Obama dur... (more)
Friday December 19th, 2008
2008 Greek riots - The Big Picture
posted 12/19/2008, 12:35 AM (Boston.com) [Category: Geopolitics] Young students offer flowers to riot police while others blocked off Syntagma (Parliament) Square on December 13, 2008, following more than a week of clashes over the police killing of a 15-year-old. (LOUISA GOULIAMAKI/AFP/Getty Images) (0 Comments)
U.S. Targets Hamid Gul as a “Terrorist”
posted 12/14/2008, 6:00 PM (Infowars) [Category: Geopolitics] It’s rather ironic that the U.S. wants to classify Hamid Gul and three other ex-ISI as terrorists. The U.S. says Gul is suspected of providing political and moral support to the Taliban-led resistance in Afghanistan. “Gul said he had recently been informed by a senior official in Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry that he had been placed on a U.S. watch list of global terrorists, along with several others. He said that he was shown a U.S. document that detailed several charges against him, including al... (more)
Officials say that the Security Service is aware of around 30 serious plots at any given moment, suggesting that at least 21 of them are tied to Pakistani groups.
On a visit to Islamabad, the Prime Minister delived a blunt demand to President Ali Asif Zardari to improve his... (more)
DEBKAfile's military sources report that the US began massing this formidable array of floating firepower at the outset of the Islamist terrorist attack on the Indian city of Mumbai last Wednesday, Nov. 26.
Tehran responded typically with a threat of retaliation shou... (more)
This gamble was likely to end in one of two extreme ways: with either a resurgence of inflation; or a downward spiral into depression, civil disorder, and possibly wars. Both outcomes will cause a rush for gold.
"They are throwing the kitchen sink at this," said Tom Fitzpatrick, the bank's chief tec... (more)
Parliament speaker Mahmoud al-Mashhadani said Thursday an overwhelming majority of the lawmakers who attended the session voted in favor of the pact.
The agreement was passed on Thursday with 144 of the 198 lawmakers present voting in favor. A total of 35 other lawmakers also voted against the agreement.
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G20 finance ministers pose for mug shots.
Villagers from Kang village in Linfen City, Shanxi Province (山西省临汾市下康村) due to long-term consumption of the polluted water contaminated by industrial waste, there were 50 people who have cancer and cerebral thrombosis. 64-year-old Wang Baosheng got ill since 2003, he has fester all over his body so he cannot go to bed and lying face down on the edge of the bed each day. July 10, 2005
A foreign soldier walks through a poppy field in Afghanistan. The Afghan minister of counter narcotics says foreign troops are earning money from drug production in Afghanistan.
Billionaire globalist George Soros told the Financial Times during an interview that China will supplant the United States as the leader of the new world order and that America should not resist the country's decline as the dollar weakens, living standards drop, and a new global currency is introduced.
Asian leaders meeting in Thailand are discussing plans to "lead the world" by forming an EU-style community by 2015.
Angry French farmers blocked the famous Champs-Elysees Avenue in Paris early this morning to call attention to the difficulties their sector is going though. Several other French cities were also affected. In Poitiers (western France), farmers dumped about a thousand cubic meters of soil in the city center. French media reported that several hundreds of tractors converged towards the centers of several French cities from north to south, disrupting or stopping traffic on roads and highways. 52,0... 
President Obama announced in March that he would be sending 21,000 additional troops to Afghanistan. But in an unannounced move, the White House has also authorized -- and the Pentagon is deploying -- at least 13,000 troops beyond that number, according to defense officials.
A short video posted on NanDu.Net, a Chinese news website, featuring a six year old girl from Guangzhou City has become the talk of China. When asked about her ideal life, the first grader proudly announced that she dreamed of becoming “a corrupt official, as they have lots of property.” The video was soon being discussed throughout the major media and Internet forums.
The release of the two US television journalists from North Korea may be regarded as a triumph but the reality is that the US may have paid a high price to bring the women home.
NIZHNY PANJ, Tajikistan — In August 2007, the presidents of Afghanistan and Tajikistan walked side by side with the U.S. commerce secretary across a new $37 million concrete bridge that the Army Corps of Engineers designed to link two of Central Asia's poorest countries.
Astir Palace Hotel Resort, reported site of this year's Bilderberg Group meeting
Britain is willing to provide all our Armed Forces to fight under the EU flag in future wars, a minister has revealed.
Slowly the shape of the world after the financial flood is beginning to emerge.
Private military companies (PMCs) have become rather popular nowadays in terms of providing specialized expertise or services of a military nature. These units can compete with special services and regular armies. There are such companies in Russia, although they are not so widely spread in the country in comparison with their prototypes in the West. As experience shows, the PMCs will prevail in the future.
As the new US administration prepares to take office amid grave financial and international crises, it may seem counterintuitive to argue that the very unsettled nature of the international system generates a unique opportunity for creative diplomacy.
Young students offer flowers to riot police while others blocked off Syntagma (Parliament) Square on December 13, 2008, following more than a week of clashes over the police killing of a 15-year-old. (LOUISA GOULIAMAKI/AFP/Getty Images) 
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