http://www.gogabber.com/blog.php forum chat singles friends en Sat, 04 Sep 2010 08:42:02 GMT vBulletin 60 http://www.gogabber.com/images/eyeeasy/misc/rss.jpg http://www.gogabber.com/blog.php http://www.gogabber.com/blog.php?b=148 Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:31:10 GMT The new owner is a light and and " airy fairy" soul ,
but not " my cup of tea" .
He has been posting just like me -- except his posts are trivial and even more trivial . Perhaps they are exactly what you want .
But they make me yawn .
So . It's Good Bye from me and it's good bye from him .
Try to live your life as better than tossers .
My book should be out this time next year ]]> ramonrive http://www.gogabber.com/blog.php?b=148 http://www.gogabber.com/blog.php?b=147 Fri, 27 Aug 2010 21:15:43 GMT As predicted . The American economy and philosophy is collapsing There is no way out for the simple and greedy Americans . Latest figures show how... As predicted . The American economy and philosophy is collapsing
There is no way out for the simple and greedy Americans .
Latest figures show how America is moving back into Recession .
Leave it to Bernanke and Geitner . They will guarantee that America sinks -- put simple people in charge and you get simple solutions .
Pity that it will drag us all down but the Eurozone was guaranteed to sink under its own stupidity within the next two months , regardless .
Just watch the street riots from about November onwards .

If anybody is reading and they are not stupid . Bet everything on America sinking and invest and live in South East Asia or Indonesia , Chile or Brazil .
That is the future . ]]> ramonrive http://www.gogabber.com/blog.php?b=147 http://www.gogabber.com/blog.php?b=146 Thu, 26 Aug 2010 20:43:36 GMT As Uncle Booby Vee from Canada has pointed out ,( the Canada near to the Satanic States ) , America has fallen into poverty .See his video from... As Uncle Booby Vee from Canada has pointed out ,( the Canada near to the Satanic States ) , America has fallen into poverty .See his video from Atlanta .
Already America is assuming third world status and as we saw with American desperation in the Mexican Oil spillage crisis and their inability to crush third world aggressors in Iraq and Afghanistan , the might of America's Satanic forces has become a matter of ridicule among emerging power blocks --- Southern Asia , India , Brazil and China .
America is imploding , strangled with its own debt and a country of ridicule among emerging economies including Singapore and Indonesia that are growing up to ten times faster .
Russia has burnt itself to paralysis-- thanks to Putin the Devil's Gang Master . And now they burn from Radiation , and Nile Disease spreads across the South -- those very lands taken from the Moslems .
Are these two Land Areas those that the four horsemen of the Apocalypse will totally destroy ?
Will God's Angels destroy the old order finally in 2012? ]]> ramonrive http://www.gogabber.com/blog.php?b=146 http://www.gogabber.com/blog.php?b=145 Wed, 25 Aug 2010 08:31:52 GMT Mister Vee . This is for thee. Did Osama bin Laden Confess to the 9/11 Attacks, and Did He Die, in 2001? by Prof David Ray Griffin Mister Vee .
This is for thee.





Did Osama bin Laden Confess to the 9/11 Attacks, and Did He Die, in 2001?

by Prof David Ray Griffin








In 2009, I published a little book entitled Osama bin Laden: Dead or Alive?1 Much evidence, I showed, suggested that Osama bin Laden had died on or about December 13, 2001. (Although this book was ignored by the US press, it received major reviews in British newspapers,2 and it even provided the basis for a BBC special.3) Pointing out that the only evidence to the contrary consists of “messages from bin Laden” in the form of audiotapes and videotapes that have appeared since 2001, I devoted one chapter to an examination of the most important of these tapes, showing that none are demonstrably authentic and that some are almost certainly fakes.

In the chapter preceding that examination, I discussed two videotapes containing purported interviews of Osama bin Laden in the fall of 2001, when the issue was whether he had been responsible for the 9/11 attacks. I suggested that both of these tapes, in which bin Laden allegedly admitted his responsibility, were fakes. If they were, I pointed out, this fact would increase the likelihood that all of the “Osama bin Laden tapes” appearing in the following years – when the question of whether he was still alive was added to that of his responsibility for 9/11 – were also fakes.

The clearest example, I argued, was the most famous of the so-called bin Laden confession videos. Having allegedly been found in a private home in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, in late November 2001, it is sometimes called the “November 9 bin Laden video,” because this date was stamped on it, implying that this was when it was made. It is also called the “bin Laden video of December 13,” because that was the date on which it was released to the public by the Pentagon – which is perhaps significant, given the evidence that bin Laden may have died on that day. (If he had, he would have obviously, and perhaps conveniently, been unable to comment on whether the tape was authentic.) In any case, I provided several reasons for concluding that this video was almost certainly fabricated.

I also suggested, with greater tentativeness, that another pre-2002 video had been fabricated. This one had been described in a November 11, 2001, article in London’s Telegraph by David Bamber entitled “Bin Laden: Yes, I Did It.” According to Bamber, the Telegraph had on the previous day “obtained access” to a video in which “Osama bin Laden has for the first time admitted that his al-Qa'eda group carried out the [9/11] attacks.” Bamber added that this video, which would “form the centrepiece of Britain and America's new evidence against bin Laden,” was going to be released to the public on November 14.4

When November 14 came, however, British Prime Minister Tony Blair said that his government did not actually have the video or even a complete transcript. But his government released quotations said to be “extracts” from it – quotations that were widely regarded as confirming Bamber’s assertion that bin Laden, when asked about 9/11, had in effect replied: “I did it.”

Saying that it was “hard to know what to make of this episode,” I argued that, if both the Telegraph and “intelligence sources” had copies of such a video, then Blair’s government would surely also have a copy. And if it did have a video in which bin Laden had for the first time confessed his responsibility for the 9/11 attacks, Blair’s government – which at the time was encountering much skepticism from the Muslim world about bin Laden’s responsibility for those attacks – would surely have released it.

Or, I added, Blair’s government would have done this “unless the video was a fake and the government decided, between November 11 and 14, that the fakery was so obvious that it should deny having a copy while merely releasing damning ‘excerpts.’”5

Then, while pointing out that “[t]his explanation is . . . merely one possibility among many,” I added two further factors supporting the “suspicion that a fake ‘bin Laden confession video’ had been made”: Blair had recently tried but failed (as the BBC pointed out) to provide convincing evidence of bin Laden’s responsibility for the 9/11 attacks; and Blair was getting ready to announce emergency powers to override human rights legislation in order to imprison suspected terrorists.6

There was only one problem with my argument: I had somehow missed news stories revealing that the reported video was a tape of an hour-long interview of bin Laden that, after being recorded on October 21 by Al Jazeera’s Kabul correspondent, Tayseer Allouni, was not aired by Al Jazeera.7 This fact, not being generally known at the time, was not mentioned in news reports appearing during the following month. On December 12, however, the New York Times reported that Blair had been referring to an Al Jazeera interview.8 And then CNN, which had an affiliate agreement with Al Jazeera, aired several minutes of this interview on January 31, 2002, after which, on February 5, it posted the entire transcript online.9

My speculation that the tape reported by Blair might have been a fake was, therefore, baseless, reflecting research that was, to say the least, inadequate.

This fact was recently pointed out in a critique of my book by Maher Osseiran entitled “Osama bin Laden, Dead or Alive? An Irrelevant Question Asked by David Ray Griffin.”10 Osseiran’s article contained four criticisms:
1. Whether bin Laden is dead or alive is irrelevant.

2. It had long been known that the video to which Blair referred was an interview of bin Laden by Al Jazeera.

3. I should have known that the bin Laden video released on December 13, 2001, was also not a fake, because Osseiran had shown, in articles known to me, that it was an authentic video made during a sting operation.

4. There is no good evidence for my book’s claim that bin Laden died in 2001.
Although I agree with Osseiran’s second criticism, I disagree with the other three. I will discuss his four criticisms in the above order (which is the order in which he introduced them).

Criticism #1: The Question of Whether Bin Laden Died in 2001 Is Irrelevant

In explaining the claim that he considered important enough to put in the title of his critique – that it is irrelevant whether bin Laden is dead or alive - Osseiran said that my book was based on an “irrational rationale,” namely:
“In the world of David Ray Griffin and his cheerleaders, if it is possible to prove that bin Laden is dead, wars would immediately come to an end.”
Osseiran did not, however, quote any statement to show that I hold any such belief – which is understandable, because I have never made any such statement. Having no idea why Osseiran attributed such an absurd belief to me, I will simply move on to his reason for calling the question of bin Laden’s continued existence irrelevant:
“[i]t is irrelevant because the war policy makers in the U.S. government can easily deal with a bin Laden death and find ways to justify their never ending war on terror.”
I agree that civilian and military leaders would seek to justify their current war policies even if they had to admit that Osama bin Laden was dead. But Osseiran’s claim – that US policy makers could “easily” deal with convincing evidence of bin Laden’s death, so that such evidence would be irrelevant – is surely wrong, for several reasons.

First, it is widely recognized that a crusade against an allegedly evil government or movement can more easily garner support insofar as that government or movement has a leader who can be portrayed as extraordinarily evil.

Since 9/11, Osama bin Laden has been thus portrayed by American leaders. For example, after skeptics had questioned the authenticity of the video released December 13, 2001, in which the bin Laden figure clearly took responsibility for the 9/11 attacks, President Bush said that those who considered this video a fake were simply hoping for the best about “an incredibly evil man.”11 Bush’s press secretary, Ari Fleischer, said: “Everybody knows how evil Osama bin Laden is.”12 A Reuters article in 2002 said: “Bush constantly described the Saudi-born militant as an incarnation of evil.”13 In an essay entitled “Constructing an Evil Genius,” Samuel Winch, a professor of communications and the humanities, wrote: “Osama bin Laden was framed in news media reports from 1999 through 2002 as an evil genius . . . very similar to the fictional villain Dr. Fu-Manchu, a Victorian horror novel character.”14 The loss of such a figure would be far from insignificant.

In the second place, President Obama has greatly intensified the focus on bin Laden. Back in November 2008, when Barack Obama was still the president-elect, one of his advisers said of bin Laden: “This is our enemy, and he should be our principal target.”15 Shortly after he assumed the presidency, Obama himself, having been asked how important it was to apprehend bin Laden, said:
“My preference obviously would be to capture or kill him. But if we have so tightened the noose that he's in a cave somewhere and can't even communicate with his operatives, then we will meet our goal of protecting America.”16
In June 2009, a UPI story said:
“Finding al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, believed still in hiding in Pakistan, remains a top priority for the United States, CIA Director Leon Panetta said.”17
Three months later, a news report based on statements from Obama’s senior counterterrorism advisor, John Brennan, was entitled: “US Says Hunt Still on for Bin Laden.”18 In December 2009, Obama’s military commander in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal, referred to bin Laden as an “iconic figure . . . whose survival emboldens al-Qaeda as a franchising organization across the world.”19

Because the Obama administration has said not only that the main reason we are in Afghanistan is to prevent al-Qaeda from attacking America again, but also that al-Qaeda will remain an especially dangerous threat as long as its “iconic” leader is still alive, the acknowledged death of that leader would surely undermine the administration’s public rationale for remaining in Afghanistan.

Moreover, bin Laden is relevant to the war rationale – to give a third reason why acknowledgment of his death could not be easily absorbed - not only because of his presumed survival but also because of his presumed location. The Afghan war has increasingly become the “Af-Pak” war, because of increased US military operations inside of Pakistan, and these operations have been largely justified on the basis of “intelligence” that bin Laden, along with other al-Qaeda leaders, is there. In President Obama’s March 2009 speech in which he laid out a “new strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan,” he said:
“[A]l Qaeda and its extremist allies have moved across the border to the remote areas of the Pakistani frontier. This almost certainly includes al Qaeda's leadership: Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri. They have used this mountainous terrain as a safe-haven to hide, train terrorists, communicate with followers, plot attacks, and send fighters to support the insurgency in Afghanistan. For the American people, this border region has become the most dangerous place in the world.”20
In light of such assertions, a widespread agreement that bin Laden was no longer with us would severely undermine the Obama administration’s professed rationale for the expansion of the war into Pakistan, thereby further increasing opposition to the Af-Pak war among the press and the public.

Whereas these first three points are more than sufficient to refute the claim that the question posed by my book is irrelevant, the most decisive reason is a fourth: The book’s argument, to recall, was not merely that bin Laden is probably dead but also that he has probably been in this state since mid-December 2001. If this is true and were to become publicly acknowledged, the dozens of “messages from Osama bin Laden” that have appeared since 2001 would be exposed as fakes. People in America and around the world would, therefore, realize that some organization had been fabricating these tapes for the purpose of deceiving them into thinking that bin Laden was still alive.

If it were to be learned, moreover, that these tapes had been fabricated by the Pentagon, as part of its “psyops” (psychological operations), then the military leaders who had authorized their creation would be exposed as guilty of breaking the law prohibiting the US military from directing propaganda at the American people. Questions as to why they did this – questions that would likely lead to answers involving the “military-industrial complex” – would probably follow. A lot of people would not like such questions to be raised.

In light of these considerations, Osseiran’s first criticism is clearly false. I turn now to his second. ]]> ramonrive http://www.gogabber.com/blog.php?b=145 http://www.gogabber.com/blog.php?b=144 Tue, 24 Aug 2010 16:30:10 GMT The destruction of the three buildings in September , 2001 is presented to the Western World as the greatest single act of terrorism ever witnessed ,... The destruction of the three buildings in September , 2001 is presented to the Western World as the greatest single act of terrorism ever witnessed , and its operational inspiration is taken to be the Saudi ,Osama Bin Laden .
As a direct result , America and a coalition of other country forces invaded Afghanistan to catch this despicable bounder whilst at the same time ( and to get good value for money ) knocking the Taliban into shape whom-- it was judged --- did not run their country along American lines .
But the Truth of the matter is far different from the picture painted. Tragically this picture has become sanctified as an unwritten manual, " For self righteous people to get angry about and start spluttering nonsense "
Increasingly the official view is being challenged . Not just by a lunatic fringe who are given the label of "Conspiracy Theorists " ( to be said in sneering tone) . But now by expert witnesses whose testimony has repeatedly been forgotten or deliberately omitted in the official reports and world experts on the key matters allegedly at the bottom of the incident .
Anybody reading the several reports of the official position on 9/11 will be aware of the glaring omissions and deliberate lies .
The three buildings fell because they were primed to explode and collapse using some of the rarest fire and explosion accelerants in the world and only held by the American Military . This matter is beyond dispute and in scientific terms is fact .
There is the strongest possible scenario of Osama escaping into Pakistan from North West Afghanistan around December 11th 2001 and with the Americans fully aware of this planned move well in advance . At this point Osama had repeatedly denied any involvement in 9/11 .
After that , he disappeared and many commentators believe he died .Probably of Kidney failure though it is quite possible that he was killed --- a very suitable case for martyrdom
Only then did videos and tapes start appearing where he claimed incident responsibility . All of these tapes and videos have been declared fakes by international experts .

So here is the official version of 9/11 dismissed in summary form .
The support evidence exists and there is so much of it that it would take a week to read .
I will await any response and later will be happy to give the references which supports the real likely truth .
For anybody tempted to believe their patriotic fervour is measured in childish responses -- please go away .
I appreciate that to a certain type of American in particular , this debunking is too much for them to even contemplate . The Russians had the same type of problem initially when it became evident that Gang Master Putin and his band of FSB thugs did much the same type of thing to Russia in 1999.
However , the discerning among you will realise that SCADs are the way that modern police states believe they have to work .And who among you believes with good reason that they do not live in a police state --- Statarat possibly ?


SCAD=State Conspiracy Against Democracy ]]> ramonrive http://www.gogabber.com/blog.php?b=144 http://www.gogabber.com/blog.php?b=143 Wed, 18 Aug 2010 18:21:44 GMT Here's some of the background to the final war --- could the simple and unthinking US really do this ?

The stockpiling and deployment of advanced weapons systems directed against Iran started in the immediate wake of the 2003 bombing and invasion of Iraq. From the outset, these war plans were led by the US, in liaison with NATO and Israel.
Following the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the Bush administration identified Iran and Syria as the next stage of “the road map to war”. US military sources intimated that an aerial attack on Iran could involve a large scale deployment comparable to the US "shock and awe" bombing raids on Iraq in March 2003:
"American air strikes on Iran would vastly exceed the scope of the 1981 Israeli attack on the Osiraq nuclear center in Iraq, and would more resemble the opening days of the 2003 air campaign against Iraq.(See Globalsecurity )
"Theater Iran Near Term"
Code named by US military planners as TIRANNT, "Theater Iran Near Term", simulations of an attack on Iran were initiated in May 2003 "when modelers and intelligence specialists pulled together the data needed for theater-level (meaning large-scale) scenario analysis for Iran." ( (William Arkin, Washington Post, 16 April 2006).
The scenarios identified several thousand targets inside Iran as part of a "Shock and Awe" Blitzkrieg:
"The analysis, called TIRANNT, for "Theater Iran Near Term," was coupled with a mock scenario for a Marine Corps invasion and a simulation of the Iranian missile force. U.S. and British planners conducted a Caspian Sea war game around the same time. And Bush directed the U.S. Strategic Command to draw up a global strike war plan for an attack against Iranian weapons of mass destruction. All of this will ultimately feed into a new war plan for "major combat operations" against Iran that military sources confirm now [April 2006] exists in draft form.
... Under TIRANNT, Army and U.S. Central Command planners have been examining both near-term and out-year scenarios for war with Iran, including all aspects of a major combat operation, from mobilization and deployment of forces through postwar stability operations after regime change." (William Arkin, Washington Post, 16 April 2006)
Different "theater scenarios" for an all out attack on Iran had been contemplated: "The US army, navy, air force and marines have all prepared battle plans and spent four years building bases and training for "Operation Iranian Freedom". Admiral Fallon, the new head of US Central Command, has inherited computerized plans under the name TIRANNT (Theatre Iran Near Term)." (New Statesman, February 19, 2007)
In 2004, drawing upon the initial war scenarios under TIRANNT, Vice President Dick Cheney instructed USSTRATCOM to draw up a "contingency plan" of a large scale military operation directed against Iran "to be employed in response to another 9/11-type terrorist attack on the United States" on the presumption that the government in Tehran would be behind the terrorist plot. The plan included the pre-emptive use of nuclear weapons against a non-nuclear state:
"The plan includes a large-scale air assault on Iran employing both conventional and tactical nuclear weapons. Within Iran there are more than 450 major strategic targets, including numerous suspected nuclear-weapons-program development sites. Many of the targets are hardened or are deep underground and could not be taken out by conventional weapons, hence the nuclear option. As in the case of Iraq, the response is not conditional on Iran actually being involved in the act of terrorism directed against the United States. Several senior Air Force officers involved in the planning are reportedly appalled at the implications of what they are doing—that Iran is being set up for an unprovoked nuclear attack—but no one is prepared to damage his career by posing any objections." (Philip Giraldi, Deep Background,The American Conservative August 2005)
The Military Road Map: "First Iraq, then Iran"
The decision to target Iran under TIRANNT was part of the broader process of military planning and sequencing of military operations. Already under the Clinton administration, US Central Command (USCENTCOM) had formulated "in war theater plans" to invade first Iraq and then Iran. Access to Middle East oil was the stated strategic objective:
"The broad national security interests and objectives expressed in the President's National Security Strategy (NSS) and the Chairman's National Military Strategy (NMS) form the foundation of the United States Central Command's theater strategy. The NSS directs implementation of a strategy of dual containment of the rogue states of Iraq and Iran as long as those states pose a threat to U.S. interests, to other states in the region, and to their own citizens. Dual containment is designed to maintain the balance of power in the region without depending on either Iraq or Iran. USCENTCOM's theater strategy is interest-based and threat-focused. The purpose of U.S. engagement, as espoused in the NSS, is to protect the United States' vital interest in the region - uninterrupted, secure U.S./Allied access to Gulf oil." (USCENTCOM, http://www.milnet.com/milnet/pentago...c.htm#USPolicy, link no longer active)
The war on Iran was viewed as part of a succession of military operations. According to (former) NATO Commander General Wesley Clark, the Pentagon's military road-map consisted of a sequence of countries: "[The] Five-year campaign plan [includes]... a total of seven countries, beginning with Iraq, then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Iran, Somalia and Sudan." In "Winning Modern Wars" (page 130) General Clark states the following:
"As I went back through the Pentagon in November 2001, one of the senior military staff officers had time for a chat. Yes, we were still on track for going against Iraq, he said. But there was more. This was being discussed as part of a five-year campaign plan, he said, and there were a total of seven countries, beginning with Iraq, then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Iran, Somalia and Sudan. (See Secret 2001 Pentagon Plan to Attack Lebanon, Global Research, July 23, 2006)
The Role of Israel
There has been much debate regarding the role of Israel in initiating an attack against Iran.
Israel is part of a military alliance. Tel Aviv is not a prime mover. It does not have a separate and distinct military agenda.
Israel is integrated into the "war plan for major combat operations" against Iran formulated in 2006 by US Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM). In the context of large scale military operations, an uncoordinated unilateral military action by one coalition partner, namely Israel, is from a military and strategic point almost an impossibility. Israel is a de facto member of NATO. Any action by Israel would require a "green light" from Washington.
An attack by Israel could, however, be used as "the trigger mechanism" which would unleash an all out war against Iran, as well retaliation by Iran directed against Israel.
In this regard, there are indications that Washington might envisage the option of an initial (US backed) attack by Israel rather than an outright US-led military operation directed against Iran. The Israeli attack --although led in close liaison with the Pentagon and NATO-- would be presented to public opinion as a unilateral decision by Tel Aviv. It would then be used by Washington to justify, in the eyes of World opinion, a military intervention of the US and NATO with a view to "defending Israel", rather than attacking Iran. Under existing military cooperation agreements, both the US and NATO would be "obligated" to "defend Israel" against Iran and Syria.
It is worth noting, in this regard, that at the outset of Bush's second term, (former) Vice President Dick Cheney hinted, in no uncertain terms, that Iran was "right at the top of the list" of the "rogue enemies" of America, and that Israel would, so to speak, "be doing the bombing for us", without US military involvement and without us putting pressure on them "to do it" (See Michel Chossudovsky, Planned US-Israeli Attack on Iran, Global Research, May 1, 2005): According to Cheney:
"One of the concerns people have is that Israel might do it without being asked... Given the fact that Iran has a stated policy that their objective is the destruction of Israel, the Israelis might well decide to act first, and let the rest of the world worry about cleaning up the diplomatic mess afterwards," (Dick Cheney, quoted from an MSNBC Interview, January 2005)
Commenting the Vice President's assertion, former National Security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski in an interview on PBS, confirmed with some apprehension, yes: Cheney wants Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to act on America's behalf and "do it" for us:
"Iran I think is more ambiguous. And there the issue is certainly not tyranny; it's nuclear weapons. And the vice president today in a kind of a strange parallel statement to this declaration of freedom hinted that the Israelis may do it and in fact used language which sounds like a justification or even an encouragement for the Israelis to do it."
What we are dealing with is a joint US-NATO-Israel military operation to bomb Iran, which has been in the active planning stage since 2004. Officials in the Defense Department, under Bush and Obama, have been working assiduously with their Israeli military and intelligence counterparts, carefully identifying targets inside Iran. In practical military terms, any action by Israel would have to be planned and coordinated at the highest levels of the US led coalition.
An attack by Israel would also require coordinated US-NATO logistical support, particularly with regard to Israel's air defense system, which since January 2009 is fully integrated into that of the US and NATO. (See Michel Chossudovsky, Unusually Large U.S. Weapons Shipment to Israel: Are the US and Israel Planning a Broader Middle East War? Global Research, January 11,2009)
Israel's X band radar system established in early 2009 with US technical support has "integrate[d] Israel’s missile defenses with the U.S. global missile [Space-based] detection network, which includes satellites, Aegis ships on the Mediterranean, Persian Gulf and Red Sea, and land-based Patriot radars and interceptors." (Defense Talk.com, January 6, 2009,)
What this means is that Washington ultimately calls the shots. The US rather than Israel controls the air defense system: ''This is and will remain a U.S. radar system,' Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said. 'So this is not something we are giving or selling to the Israelis and it is something that will likely require U.S. personnel on-site to operate.'" (Quoted in Israel National News, January 9, 2009, emphasis added).
The US military oversees Israel's Air Defense system, which is integrated into the Pentagon's global system. In other words, Israel cannot launch a war against Iran without Washington's consent. Hence the importance of the so-called "Green Light" legislation in the Congress sponsored by the Republican party under House Resolution 1553, which explicitly supports an Israeli attakc on Iran:
"The measure, introduced by Texas Republican Louie Gohmert and 46 of his colleagues, endorses Israel’s use of “all means necessary” against Iran “including the use of military force.” ... “We’ve got to get this done. We need to show our support for Israel. We need to quit playing games with this critical ally in such a difficult area.”’ (See Webster Tarpley, Fidel Castro Warns of Imminent Nuclear War; Admiral Mullen Threatens Iran; US-Israel Vs. Iran-Hezbollah Confrontation Builds On, Global Research, August 10, 2010)
In practice, the proposed legislation is a "Green Light" to the White House and the Pentagon rather than to Israel. It constitutes a rubber stamp to a US sponsored war on Iran which uses Israel as a convenient military launch pad. It also serves as a justification to wage war with a view to defending Israel.

In this context, Israel could indeed provide the pretext to wage war, in response to alleged Hamas or Hezbollah attacks and/or the triggering of hostilities on the border of Israel with Lebanon. What is crucial is that a minor "incident" could be used to spark off a major military operation against Iran.

Known to US military planners, Israel (rather than the USA) would be the first target of military retaliation by Iran. Broadly speaking Israelis would be the victims of the machinations of both Washington and their own government. It is, in this regard, absolutely crucial that Israelis forcefully oppose any action by the Netanyahu government to attack Iran.
Global Warfare: The Role of US Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM)
Global military operations are coordinated out of US Strategic Command Headquarters (USSTRATCOM) at the Offutt Air Force base in Nebraska, in liaison with the regional commands of the unified combatant commands (e.g.. US Central Command in Florida, which is responsible for the Middle East-Central Asian region, See map below) as well as coalition command units in Israel, Turkey, the Persian Gulf and the Diego Garcia military base in the Indian Ocean. Military planning and decision making at a country level by individual allies of US-NATO as well as "partner nations" is integrated into a global military design including the weaponization of space.
Under its new mandate, USSTRATCOM has a responsibility for "overseeing a global strike plan" consisting of both conventional and nuclear weapons. In military jargon, it is slated to play the role of "a global integrator charged with the missions of Space Operations; Information Operations; Integrated Missile Defense; Global Command & Control; Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance; Global Strike; and Strategic Deterrence.... "
USSTRATCOM's responsibilities include: "leading, planning, & executing strategic deterrence operations" at a global level, "synchronizing global missile defense plans and operations", "synchronizing regional combat plans", etc. USSTRATCOM is the lead agency in the coordination of modern warfare.

What this means is that the coordination of a large scale attack on Iran, including the various scenarios of escalation in and beyond the broader Middle East Central Asian region would be coordinated by USSTRATCOM.


There's a lot more .But I guess you get the drift of how matters might occur .
It would be a good time to attack having knocked down Russia for the short term . There is talk of killer epidemics present in their infancy in Russia and , if true and they spread , Russia will be impotent .
My oh my !! . What a happy coincidence that would be . ]]> ramonrive http://www.gogabber.com/blog.php?b=143 http://www.gogabber.com/blog.php?b=142 Mon, 16 Aug 2010 16:11:43 GMT Matters now go from awful to unbelievably ghastly as huge tracts of Russia lie under radiation fallout . The very air above Moscow streets is being... Matters now go from awful to unbelievably ghastly as huge tracts of Russia lie under radiation fallout .
The very air above Moscow streets is being water sprayed in a desperate attempt to lower the radiation readings . So far ordinary people have little or no idea what is going on .

Russian bloggers report on radioactive contamination in Moscow and measures taken by local authorities. One of them writes:

"Radioactivity background sharply increased in Moscow. Burning forests, where Russia hid consequences of its environmental crimes, such as Tula region, Aleksin and Uzlovaya, began to discharge radioactivity accumulated during the Chernobyl disaster.

Forests are burning, where they hid the contamination from the Mayak Highly Radioactive Wastes Burial Site and the like. Burial sites with tons of foreign radioactive wastes, brought to Russia for storage from all over the world, are also burning. Radioactive dust is spread all across Russia, including Moscow.

Street cleaning vehicles appeared in Moscow - with water pulverized upwards. And they appeared at a time when smoke in the air disappeared, and dummy Muscovites made fun of it, they say that city authorities do it just to write reports, for the sake of bureaucratic instructions.

In fact, the aim of these measures is degassing as they do in case of a nuclear war. This way you can wash out traces of radioactivity which has nothing to do with smoke and smog. It is just the fact that air is contaminated with strontium. Radioactive strontium is transparent and does not smell, but it still needs to be removed from the air. That is why water from vehicles is directed upwards. Transparent and seemingly clean air in Moscow is dangerous.

Kiev 1986 and Moscow 2010, it is all the same now. All this highly radioactive dirt, which did not reach Moscow in 1986 and was accumulated by forests in Russia, is now released, like from a burning trash, and flies to Moscow".

Meanwhile, Russian media reported about smog and panic in Komarchevskom district of Bryansk region and in the city of Bryansk itself. As noted by local residents, they learned about the burning of highly radioactive post-Chernobyl forests in their region from Moscow newspapers and TV. Local authorities keeps such news strictly secret.

As explained by older residents in Bryansk region, if the post-Chernobyl forests blaze with a renewed force, then the chances are even stronger for radioactive contamination of their whole region.

Meanwhile, Russian government gradually began to make its citizens to accept the fact that large areas of the country are now contaminated with radioactive wastes. A Moscow newspaper "Peasants' Gazette" published an article on Sunday on how to inhibit radiation sickness with proper food. The paper advises Russian citizens to eat more vegetables containing pectids, and, while dying in agony, not to grudge against authorities, but to hope that vegetables could heal them from radiation sickness. The paper writes:

"Vegetables are needed to preserve the immune system, which is weakened under the influence of radiation. Green plants (their eatable parts), like sorrel, parsley, lettuce, have in comparison with green onion, garlic, carrots (fascicle plants) greater ability to inhibit primary radionuclides up to 5.5-fold.

Because of anti-radiation properties of spices, it is desirable that people living in conditions of increased radiation widely use them for cooking.

Salted cucumbers, tomatoes, watermelons protect against radiation. Radioactivity of cesium-137 in food with pickled vegetables is about half the radioactivity in fresh vegetables. Fruit and vegetable juices are used to prevent iodine deficiency", the paper writes.

Similar articles were also published in the Moscow magazine "The Real Master" and other Russian media outlets. Not a single similar article ever appeared in Russia for the last 24 years since the Chernobyl disaster in 1986. ]]> ramonrive http://www.gogabber.com/blog.php?b=142 http://www.gogabber.com/blog.php?b=141 Sun, 15 Aug 2010 18:55:41 GMT Russia will not officially admit to likely radiation poisoning on a massive scale following the wild fires which have devastated the country . But... Russia will not officially admit to likely radiation poisoning on a massive scale following the wild fires which have devastated the country .
But Russia has lied on this subject since 1949 when the first radiation spillage occurred on a huge scale .
Lake Karachai in the Chelyabinsk area is the most radiation poisoned place on the planet and the known records from the Secret City and the Mayak plant are almost too awful to comprehend .
In order to acquaint Russians of just a little of their own past in this area ,I give a very brief summary of accidents following this initial report -- all officially denied and covered up .
Incidentally , how many of you know that Moscow actually changed the local weather pattern following the Chernobyl reactor explosion and drove radiation away from Russia and Moscow onto Belarus .




According to the Norwegian environmental organization Bellona, heatwave settled on the territory of Russia led to the emission of radiation, not only because of forest fires raging in Russian radiation-contaminated forests, but also because of the drought, which led to the exit of radiation from radioactive lakes in Chelyabinsk region. Environmentalists from the Movement for Nuclear Safety presented the facts in a special statement addressed to Putin's governor Yurevich.

They pointed out in it that due to the abnormally dry and hot summer radiation is carrying in the Urals accumulated by environment resulting from: fire of contaminated forests, removal of radiation from the dried silt from the reduction of groundwater level and drainage of contaminated silts of wetlands, removal of radiation as a result of contaminated peat land fire.

There are three nuclear sites of Russia located in the Chelyabinsk region, from which emission of radioactive wastes into the environment is occuring now, including in nearby ponds. Radioactively contaminated sites, cemeteries and places of storage of radioactive waste, are concentrated around closed administrative-territorial formations Snezhinsk, Trekhgorniy and Ozersk.

The most catastrophic situation is in the zone of Mayak Production Association, which is still drops and stores radioactive waste in open water: lakes of Kyzyltash, Karachay, Old Swamp and Tatysh in Asanovskih marshes, as well as in four reservoirs of Techenskogo stage, surrounded by wetland. The banks of the river Techa are also polluted.

The radioactive dust, that accumulated at the bottom of reservoirs, because of the shallowing of contaminated lakes, spreads to the neighboring territories.

The situation of 1967 is repeating, when exposed banks of the contaminated Lake Karachai were spread by whirlwinds carrying radiation that was spread throughout a significant portion of the Chelyabinsk and neighboring regions, - say environmentalists. - This led to the necessary evacuation of several dozen populated areas that were contaminated as a result of windborne radiation."

The exact numbers of thousands or tens of thousands died immediately from radiation sickness, and hundreds of thousands of deaths from cancer is still a state secret of the Soviet Union, which later became a state secret of the Russian Federation.

The Mayak enterprise does not deny the fact of shallowing, as impossible to deny the obvious, but carefully conceal data on the real radiological situation in the region.

Russian environmentalists fondly call criminal authorities to take immediate actions to prevent the spread of contamination.

"We call for urgent measures to prevent social and environmental consequences of removal of radioactivity associated not only with fires, but also with the shoaling of water - storage of liquid radioactive waste at the three nuclear plants of the Chelyabinsk region: in Snezhinskб Trekhgorny and Ozersk", says environmentalist, leader of Chelyabinsk Yabloko party, Talevlin.

In particular, environmentalists want to allow them to expand the monitoring posts in the wrongly declared classified sensitive sites, to organize the measurement of alpha and beta activity in air, monitoring of groundwater levels and to inform the public about the condition of air pollution by radiation, so that people can self-avoided staying in vast areas of high radiation formed now.

Vladimir Slivyak, co-chair of the Russian environmental organisation Ecodefence, told Bellona about the criminal policy of the Russian government, hiding the truth from the Uralians the fact that they are smitten by radiation.

Large number of forest fires was recorded in July in heavily infested woods near the Mayak. According to official statistics from Russian Center for Forest Protection, Roslesozaschita, only on July alone in the South Urals occurred much as 500 forest fires, and a huge part of them raged and is raging in radioactive forests. The fact that forest fires have not yet been completed in July in the sense of emission of radiation into the environment, they are more than compensated for in August, Russian ecologist witnessed.

Now in Russia, Stalin's concept of "Russian Forest" is on the right equivalent to the term of "radioactive forest".

Norwegian environmentalists reminded that the radiation from Chernobyl-1 was strongly affected by the forest not only in Bryansk, but also in the Kaluga and Tula regions. Radiation there is carried out now by forest fires and winds throughout Russia.

Yelena Popova, the head of Moscow's radiation monitoring centre, told Reuters:

"There is a possibility of the appearance in Moscow of radioactive winds from the Kaluga and Tula region. These two areas in the south-west of Moscow, were also severely affected by Chernobyl-1 ".

"There is a possibility that winds could bring contaminated air from Kaluga or Tula regions if major fires erupt there. These two Russian provinces a little under 200 km (125 miles) southwest of Moscow that were also polluted by Chernobyl-1".

Have there been such winds in Moscow, and how much radiation they brought to the city, Popov did not mention.

Norwegian environmentalists pointed out that the emission of radiation occurred also with the Voronezh nuclear power plant due to raged and raging forest fires on the station. ]]> ramonrive http://www.gogabber.com/blog.php?b=141 http://www.gogabber.com/blog.php?b=140 Fri, 13 Aug 2010 06:37:25 GMT Since the dramatic release of a US military film of a US airborne shooting of unarmed journalists in Iraq, Wiki-Leaks has gained global notoreity and... Since the dramatic release of a US military film of a US airborne shooting of unarmed journalists in Iraq, Wiki-Leaks has gained global notoreity and credibility as a daring website that releases sensitive material to the public from whistleblowers within various governments. Their latest “coup” involved alleged leak of thousands of pages of supposedly sensitive documents regarding US informers within the Taliban in Afghanistan and their ties to senior people linked to Pakistan’s ISI military intelligence. The evidence suggests however that far from an honest leak, it could well be calculated disinformation to the gain of the US and perhaps Israeli and Indian intelligence and a coverup of the US and Western role in drug trafficking out of Afghanistan.

Since the posting of the Afghan documents , the Obama White House has given the leaks credibility by claiming further leaks pose a threat to US national security. Yet details of the papers reveals little that is sensitive. The one figure most prominently mentioned, General (Retired) Hamid Gul, former head of the Pakistani military intelligence agency, ISI, is the man who during the 1980’s coordinated the CIA-financed Mujahideen guerilla war in Afghanistan against the Soviet regime there. In the latest Wikileaks documents, Gul is accused of regularly meeting Al Qaeda and Taliban leading people and orchestrating suicide attacks on NATO forces in Afghanistan.

The leaked documents also claim that Osama bin Laden, who was reported dead three years ago by the late Pakistan candidate Benazir Bhutto on BBC, was still alive, conveniently keeping the myth alive for the Obama Administration War on Terror ---at a point when most Americans had forgotten the original reason the Bush Administration allegedly invaded Afghanistan, namely , to pursue the Saudi Bin Laden for the 9/11 attacks.

So is Pakisatan being demonised?

The naming of retired General Gul as a key liaison to the Afghan “Taliban” forms part of a larger pattern of US and British recent efforts to demonize the current Pakistan regime as a key part of the problems in Afghanistan. Such a demonization greatly boosts the position of recent US military ally, India. Furthermore, Pakistan is the only muslim country possessing atomic weapons. The Israeli Defense Forces and the Israeli Mossad intelligence agency reportedly would very much like to change that. A phoney campaign against the politically outspoken Gul via Wikileaks could be part of that geopolitical effort.

The London Financial Times says Gul’s name appears in about 10 of roughly 180 classified US files that allege Pakistan’s intelligence service supported Afghan militants fighting Nato forces. Gul told the newspaper the US has lost the war in Afghanistan, and that the leak of the documents would help the Obama administration deflect blame by suggesting that Pakistan was responsible. Gul told the paper, “I am a very favourite whipping boy of America. They can’t imagine the Afghans can win wars on their own. It would be an abiding shame that a 74-year-old general living a retired life manipulating the Mujahedeen in Afghanistan results in the defeat of America.”

Notable, in light of the latest Afghan Wikileaks documents, is the spotlight on the 74-year-old Gul. Gul has been outspoken about the role of the US military in smuggling Afghan heroin out of the country via the top-security Manas Air Base in Kyrgyzstan.

As well, in a UPI interview on September 26, 2001, two weeks after the 9-11 attacks, Gul stated, in reply to the question who carried out Black Sept. 11?, “Mossad and its accomplices. The US spends $40 billion a year on its 11 intelligence agencies. That’s $400 billion in 10 years. Yet the Bush Administration says it was taken by surprise. I don’t believe it. Within 10 minutes of the second twin tower being hit in the World Trade Center , CNN said Osama bin Laden had done it. That was a planned piece of disinformation by the real perpetrators...”
Gul is clearly not well liked in Washington. He claims his request for travel visas to the UK and to the USA have repeatedly been denied. Making Gul into the arch enemy would suit some in Washington nicely.

Who is Julian Assange?

Wikileaks founder and “Editor-in-chief”, Julian Assange, is a mysterious 29-year-old Australian about whom little is known. He has suddenly become a prominent public figure offering to mediate with the White House over the leaks. Following the latest leaks, Assange told Der Spiegel, one of three outlets with which he shared material from the most recent leak, that the documents he had unearthed would “change our perspective on not only the war in Afghanistan, but on all modern wars.” He stated in the same interview that ‘”I enjoy crushing bastards.” Wikileaks, founded in 2006 by Assange, has no fixed home and Assange claims he “lives in airports these days.”

Yet a closer examination of the public position of Assange on one of the most controversial issues of recent decades, the forces behind the September 11, 2001 attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Center shows him to be curiously establishment. When the Belfast Telegraph interviewed him on July 19, he stated,
"Any time people with power plan in secret, they are conducting a conspiracy. So there are conspiracies everywhere. There are also crazed conspiracy theories. It's important not to confuse these two...." What about 9/11?: "I'm constantly annoyed that people are distracted by false conspiracies such as 9/11, when all around we provide evidence of real conspiracies, for war or mass financial fraud." What about the Bilderberg Conference?: "That is vaguely conspiratorial, in a networking sense. We have published their meeting notes."
That statement from a person who has built a reputation of being anti-establishment is more than notable. First, as thousands of physicists, engineers, military professionals and airline pilots have testified, the idea that 19 barely-trained Arabs armed with box-cutters could divert four US commercial jets and execute the near-impossible strikes on the Twin Towers and Pentagon over a time period of 93 minutes with not one Air Force NORAD military interception, is beyond belief. Precisely who executed the professional attack is a matter for genuine unbiased international inquiry.

Notable for Mr Assange’s blunt denial of any sinister 9/11 conspiracy is the statement in a BBC interview by former US Senator, Bob Graham, who chaired the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence when it performed its Joint Inquiry into 9/11. Graham told BBC, "I can just state that within 9/11 there are too many secrets, that is information that has not been made available to the public for which there are specific tangible credible answers and that that withholding of those secrets has eroded public confidence in their government as it relates to their own security." BBC narrator: "Senator Graham found that the cover-up led to the heart of the administration." Bob Graham: "I called the White House and talked with Ms. Rice and said, ‘Look, we've been told we're gonna get cooperation in this inquiry, and she said she'd look into it, and nothing happened.’”

Of course, the Bush Administration was able to use the 9/11 attacks to launch its War on Terrorism in Afghanistan and then Iraq, a point Assange conveniently omits.

For his part, General Gul claims that US intelligence orchestrated the Wikileaks on Afghanistan to find a scapegoat, Gul, to blame. Conveniently, as if on cue, our own Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron, on a state visit to India, lashed out at the alleged role of Pakistan in supporting Taliban in Afghanistan, conveniently lending further credibility to the Wikileaks story. The real story of Wikileaks has clearly not yet been told. ]]> ramonrive http://www.gogabber.com/blog.php?b=140 http://www.gogabber.com/blog.php?b=139 Mon, 09 Aug 2010 19:42:55 GMT Unlike Shadow who has suddenly found a story today , I blogged this virtually two weeks ago . I told you Russia was Burning . If Russians do not... Unlike Shadow who has suddenly found a story today , I blogged this virtually two weeks ago .
I told you Russia was Burning .
If Russians do not burn their puppets Putin and Medvedev , they, themselves , are possibly
not worth saving .
The legislation last year which caused this disaster are disgusting . --a 75% reduction in Forest watchers and Monitors to save money .
Total failure to see what was happening straightaway .
Lying every day about every aspect .

Every figure and statement about this tragedy is a lie .
Multiply the areas affected by five and the people dead by a factor of up to 20 .
There are a minimum of 20,000 who have already died .

St Petersburg is next . Starting now .
The Hospitals and Morgues dare not report the true figures .

This is a disgraceful blot on Russian History and their leaders should be be taken to the Hague and prosecuted ]]> ramonrive http://www.gogabber.com/blog.php?b=139 http://www.gogabber.com/blog.php?b=138 Sun, 08 Aug 2010 13:09:54 GMT I Do not know what to do,think i need some good advice.thing arent working for me no more.am heartbroken I Do not know what to do,think i need some good advice.thing arent working for me no more.am heartbroken ]]> nelson3490 http://www.gogabber.com/blog.php?b=138 http://www.gogabber.com/blog.php?b=137 Sun, 08 Aug 2010 13:09:24 GMT I Do not know what to do,think i need some good advice.thing arent working for me no more.am heartbroken I Do not know what to do,think i need some good advice.thing arent working for me no more.am heartbroken ]]> nelson3490 http://www.gogabber.com/blog.php?b=137 http://www.gogabber.com/blog.php?b=136 Sat, 31 Jul 2010 08:18:32 GMT Now we have escalating war in Somalia . This type of thing is barely reported in mainstream media and represents the classic way that the US pursues... Now we have escalating war in Somalia .
This type of thing is barely reported in mainstream media and represents the classic way that the US pursues its strategy of Global Warfare .
Of course the Islamic world and others rightly perceive this as Terrorism because such actions always coincide with tremendous exploitation and wealth creation opportunities for the United States of America .
The ordinary American Jo has no idea what is happening and , if asked , the State always tells Jo that whatever is being done is for their future , the good of their children and for the world community .It is utter Bull Shit and lies and damned lies !
It is actually good old fashioned Imperialism run by modern spin .
I and others told you this would happen from the moment we had that farcical incident of the alleged Detroit bomber at the year end .This allowed the US and Nato countries to put their collective fingers on Somalia for gradual invasion and occupation .
Why do you think the UN is not worth the charter it is founded on ?
Answer : To allow the US to play Conductor and Orchestra to the very Musical they have composed and scored .
America are the mightiest rogue Terrorist State this planet has ever seen
You are watching the same principles of operation at work in Pakistan ( what a farce the Times Square so called Bombing was !! ) and also with the US propping up Columbia with a view to regime change ( at minimum) in Venezuela .
Wake up Americans .You are allowing the sowing of the seeds for your own overthrow and few outside your shores will mourn your demise when you are down on your knees
Create a UN that people believe in and its members respect and Trust .
Do things for the benefit of all and not just to benefit the Bankers , Arms Producers and controllers of Medicines and Life Resources .








The 15th biennial African Union summit in Kampala, Uganda ended on July 27 with mixed results regarding support for U.S. and Western European plans to escalate foreign military intervention in nearby Somalia.

The 35 heads of state present at the three-day meeting were reported to have authorized the deployment of 2,000 more African troops to back up the beleaguered Western-backed Transitional Federal Government (TFG) in Mogadishu and to bring the full complement of forces doing so to 8,000, but the new contingent will probably consist solely of troops from Uganda and Burundi, which supply the approximately 6,000 already serving with the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM). Reports of another 2,000 reinforcements from Djibouti and Guinea are problematic and their deployment remains to be seen, not that pressure will not be exerted on those two nations and others from outside the continent.

AMISOM is the successor to the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) Peace Support Mission in Somalia (IGASOM) set up in 2005 by the six-member group which includes Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan and Uganda and which also was to have provided 8,000 troops for deployment to Somalia. The 53 members of the African Union except for Uganda and Burundi have been loath to commit military units to intervene in fighting in Somalia, whether against the Islamic Courts Union five years ago or against al-Shabaab insurgents currently.

In late 2006 U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met with Ugandan Foreign Minister Sam Kutesa to plan the earlier IGASOM operation and in January of 2007 Uganda pledged its first troops which, along with those included in a reported offer by Nigeria, were to total 8,000.

Three and a half years later, there are only 6,000 foreign troops in Somalia (now under AMISOM, the only difference being the acronym now employed) and all of those from Uganda and Burundi, both nations U.S. military clients and surrogates.

The African Union (AU) initially approved AMISOM on January 19, 2007 and granted it a six-month mandate. In July of 2010 the real prime movers behind the mission, the U.S. and its NATO allies in the European Union, are pushing for an escalation of armed intervention in Somalia with more Western-trained Ugandan troops conducting open combat operations: Changing the mandate from, to use the terms employed to mask military aggression, peacekeeping to peace enforcement.

The first attempt by the U.S. and its non-African allies to enforce a compliant government in the Horn of Africa nation, Ethiopia's invasion in December of 2006, was assisted by the Pentagon's Joint Special Operations Command (headed up by now retired General Stanley McChrystal until early in 2006), which conducted military operations inside Somalia no later than the beginning of the next year. At the time Ethiopia was the second largest recipient of U.S. military aid in Africa (another of the three countries bordering Somalia, Djibouti, being the first) and American military personnel were stationed in the country. Logistical and other assistance was provided by the Pentagon for the operation.

On the sidelines of the recently concluded African Union summit U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Africa Johnnie Carson "gathered the presidents of Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania, Djibouti and Uganda, along with the prime minister of Ethiopia for a closed-door session" to push for more aggressive military operations in Somalia. The State Department official was quoted as saying, "We came away even more united and committed to work together strengthen the TFG, to help strengthen AMISOM, to help strengthen the forces for stability in Somalia and to help do as much as we can to help beat al-Shabab. Al-Shabab represents a foreign and a negative influence that cannot only be destructive inside Somalia, but across the entire region." [1]

Note the opprobrium attached to the word foreign. With what Carson called "a wake-up call not only for the region but for Africa as a whole" [2] sounded by deadly bombings in the Ugandan capital on July 11, more foreign troops armed, trained, and airlifted by great powers in North America and Europe are destined for deployment to Somalia.

Officials from the European Union and from Britain and France - the two main historical colonial masters on the African continent - were present at the meeting with Carson and America's East African proxies. [3] A Voice of America report on the closed-door meeting reminded readers that "The European Union, the United Nations and the United States are the main financial contributors to the African Union's AMISOM peacekeeping force in Somalia." [4]

The arm-twisting produced few results. Despite claims by the chairman of the African Union Commission, Gabon's Jean Ping, that troops from Djibouti and Guinea (Conakry) would join AMISOM/IGAD forces from Uganda and Burundi, the additional troops will almost surely come entirely from the last two nations. Also, the nearly three dozen heads of state at the AU summit rejected the Ugandan (and Western) demand for a "peace enforcement" rules of engagement mandate.

The current chairman of the AU, president of Malawi Bingu wa Mutharika, told reporters, "There have been calls for a change in the mandate to a more robust approach to the insurgent attacks in Somalia by Uganda and Burundi, to go beyond Mogadishu, (which is) their current limit, but (we) did not decide on that."

Ping, however, indicated that the U.S. and NATO allies have not abandoned plans for intensified military operations in Somalia, stating, "We need equipment to match with the change in combat approach. We need helicopters for that. The United States and the U.K. are considering our request...." [5] He also mentioned that France could provide additional helicopters.

Even the Attorney General of the U.S., Eric Holder, attended the AU summit as the Obama administration's representative and saw fit to impose his opinions on the 53-nation organization. Before the summit began he met with several of the continent's heads of state and in prepared remarks to the summit affirmed that "The United States...recognizes that ending the threat of al-Shabaab to the world will take more than just law enforcement. That is why we are working closely with the AU to support the African Union’s Mission in Somalia. The United States applauds the heroic contributions that are being made on a daily basis by Ugandan and Burundian troops, and we pledge to maintain our support for the AU and the AU Mission in Somalia." [6]

Lightly-armed al-Shabaab militants have now been elevated by Washington to the status of a threat to the world, though Holder's colleague Carson limited his hyperbole to branding them a "negative influence...across the entire region." The dual bombings in Kampala, incidentally, have been attributed to the group as a warning sign to Uganda to remove (and certainly not to increase) its troops in Somalia, but in fact appear like a provocation designed to accomplish the opposite result.

Four days before the AU summit commenced, the defense chiefs of the six Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) nations - Uganda, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia and Sudan - met to discuss boosting troop deployments to Somalia.

Weeks before IGAD had recommended that not the earlier cited figure of 8,000 but fully 20,000 foreign troops could be deployed to Somalia in yet another attempt to salvage the Transitional Federal Government, which doesn't even control much of the country's capital despite 6,000 Ugandan and Burundian troops serving as its army. 20,000 foreign troops entering Somalia in the face of overwhelming popular opposition is not a peacekeeping mission. It is an invasion.

In mid-July Ugandan officials announced that their nation's neighbors in IGAD and in the Eastern Africa Standby Brigade (EASBRIG) - Burundi, Comoros, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Sudan, Seychelles, Somalia and Uganda - had given "soft support" should Uganda "go on the offensive in Somalia."

"Ugandan officials now confirm that Kampala is pursuing a two-track strategy that could see it follow Al Shabaab into Somalia with or without UN Security Council consent." A news report disclosed that the Yoweri Museveni administration is prepared to mobilize the entirety of the 20,000 troops needed for a full-scale invasion of Somalia and "military sources say Uganda feels it has the capacity to go it alone in Somalia and has been building up its military strength for such an eventuality." [7]

The nation's air force has acquired "additions to its arsenal in recent weeks" from its Western patrons "in what observers see as a concerted push to increase Uganda's military capability." ]]> ramonrive http://www.gogabber.com/blog.php?b=136 http://www.gogabber.com/blog.php?b=135 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:22:07 GMT I guess the so called letter from the housewife ( I wonder what a CIA or FBI plant letter would look like ? )represents the nastiest piece of... I guess the so called letter from the housewife ( I wonder what a CIA or FBI plant letter would look like ? )represents the nastiest piece of propaganda I have seen for a long time .
1.There is far more evidence suggesting that 9/11 was a CIA directed happening than there is evidence that it was created by outside Terrorists .
2. The idea that 9/11 was linked to the Taliban is unsupportable .
3.The idea that Osama was responsible also does not stand up to scrutiny . He denied it completely until all real signs of him disappeared in mid December 2011 .
Thereafter all subsequent videos on which he is claimed to appear are written off as fakes by experts .
Many experts believe he died quite shortly after he moved into Pakistan around December 12th and in all probability his diseased kidneys were the key death determinant .
4 The Terrorist American behaviour on a global basis far exceeds anything yet done by Al Qaeda or any splinter groups sharing similar extreme views .



I suppose the so called" letter"( just a hate rant by an ignorant person ) is about as racist and disgraceful as it is possible to imagine .
It is the KKK raised to international proportions but now with any disaffected Muslim standing in for the reviled Nigger .

I would get a great deal of personal satisfaction from seeing anybody publishing such obscene rubbish arrested and severely punished in the courts on a number of issues in this country .
There are many times I am proud to be British and this is one of them .
We would not allow such promoters of Hate , Racism and Religious intolerance to walk free .
As a country , we overall have too much self respect and love of the complete Truth . ]]> ramonrive http://www.gogabber.com/blog.php?b=135 http://www.gogabber.com/blog.php?b=134 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:54:01 GMT What do we think of the last paragraph , boys and girls ? Is it the wrath of the Gods? But according to Yankee and Koschka this is all rubbish!! I... What do we think of the last paragraph , boys and girls ?
Is it the wrath of the Gods?
But according to Yankee and Koschka this is all rubbish!!
I wonder what the hundreds of thousands who could be left homeless or worse will think about that ?

Voronezh is burning in great fire. Heat in Moscow has once again broken records.

Russia is burning in fires due to an unprecedented hellish heat. Emergency situation was proclaimed in Voronezh in southern Russia on the border with Ukraine on July 29 due to the forest fires. Huge numbers of hotbeds of fire are registered. Mass evacuation of residents is being conducted.

Traffic has been completely blocked on the highway "Don" in the Voronezh district. Several city districts and suburban holiday villages were burnt down. The whole town is clouded in acrid smoke. Residents of many neighborhoods are already left without electricity. Thousands and thousands of residents of Voronezh are fleeing the city.

A correspondent of the Moscow newspaper KP reports:

"Giant fire is approaching the center of Voronezh. The fire reached the outskirts of Voronezh on July 29 at 10 am. Gradually it spread to townships located already inside city boundaries. Some hotbeds are burning in city district of Voronezh. Everything is burning. The city is in a ring of fire".

"Strong wind helps fire to spread", The Russian Regnum agency explains.

A correspondent of the Moscow newspaper Novyye Izvestiye reports:

"Residents of Voronezh and its outskirts woke up this morning from the acrid smell of smoke. The city is gradually encircled in a ring of forest fires: settlements, children's camps, tourist camps are burning. However, the evacuation of the population from the city is hampered by the fact that a part of the federal highway "Don" is blocked for security reasons (the woods near the road are in flames). Residents of the city trying to escape from the fire, stood in interminable traffic jams.

A state of emergency has been declared in the Voronezh region. Voronezh residents were asked not to leave their homes and not to use personal vehicles to flee, media outlets report. The government for some reason prefers to have residents of Voronezh burnt alive.

The fire has already burnt down the Voronezh neighborhood of Maslivka and city quarters in the Kozheven Kordon district and the Zemlyachky street. Thousands of residents have left their burnt and not yet burnt houses. The fire continues to spread rapidly".

Exactly the same picture as in Voronezh is observed now in many other large, medium and small cities in central and southern Russia. A huge number of villages and rural areas were already destroyed by fire.

Record levels of air temperature were recorded meanwhile in Moscow and Nienschanz (AKA St. Petersburg) on Thursday, July 29. A temperature 35.2 degrees was recorded in the capital of the Russian Empire at 13:00, which is one degree above the previous maximum registered on July 29, 1920.

Previous records were registered on July 10 and July 12. For the last eight day,s the temperature in Moscow has been abnormally high. The absolute record of temperature in this city of 37.5 degrees centigrade was recorded three days ago. Forecasters suggest that it will be beaten in the near future.

In Nienschanz, an air temperature record of 35.3 degrees was registered on Thursday. The previous temperature record was registered on June 15, 1998 and it was 34.6 degrees.

Crops were destroyed by hellish heat in central Russia. A very hungry winter is expected for the Russians.

Natural fires are raging on the territories of Vladimir, Ivanovo, Penza, Tver, Rostov Regions, and in Udmurtia, Mordovia ant the internal Republic of Komi. According to a Moscow paper, Nezavisimaya Gazeta, over thousand fires broke out in the Nizhny Novgorod region during the abnormal heatwave. The area of fire spreading there covers almost 50 thousand hectares, hundreds of Russian homes were burnt.

Dozens of houses were burnt in Moscow Region yesterday evening in Kolomna, Lukhovitsy and Krasnogorsk districts.

Huge fires destroyed houses in the village of Mokhovoye, Lukhovitsy district, and in the village of Kadanok of the same district.

A settlement Negomosh in Kolomna district of Moscow region was also affected from the fire.

Houses are burning in the settlements of Gorodets, Kolomna district, and in Opalykha, Krasnogorsk district. Hundreds of homes were burned, hundreds of people fled or were evacuated.

Meanwhile, Russian Christians started increasingly speaking about God's punishment for Russia's crimes. Christian processions to plead God to stop the fires are held in some Russian cities and towns. ]]> ramonrive http://www.gogabber.com/blog.php?b=134