PRINCE HARRIES TEN DAY WOG SHOOTING SPREE

 

 It has been announced that Prince Harry is coming back from his shooting party in Iraq where he was serving undercover. So that other troops would not recognize him he wore a false moustache. Prince Harry embarked on the old colonial ideal of shooting savages in the gap year after their degrees have been bought. He said that Iraqis were easier to ‘bag’  than pheasants as they could not fly. How nice to know that our prince ‘following in the footsteps of that other great heroic royal, Prince Andrew’ (Daily Mail), is out there protecting our nation from terrorism. Surely a comfort in these troubled times.

Just Another Day in Iraq….

Sunday: 93 Iraqis Killed, 67 Wounded

Updated at 10:40 p.m EST, Nov. 4, 2007 At least 93 Iraqis were killed or found dead and another 67 were wounded in the latest violence. Among the incidents was the discovery of a mass grave near Ramadi, and the shooting death of an Iranian pilgrim near Baghdad. Also, no Coalition soldiers were reported killed. Near Ramadi, Iraqi security forces discovered a mass grave containing approximately 40 corpses and dozens of civilians cars believed to have been seized by al-Qaeda connected militants. In Baghdad, four dumped bodies were recovered. An IED in Harithiya left one policeman dead and six others wounded. Two people were wounded in the Karrada Mariam neighborhood. In Saidiya, gunmen killed two female principals at different area schools. A Finance Ministry adviser and his driver were gunned down in Jamiaa. Also, the Iraqi army, with U.S. support, captured 12 suspects in the Adhamiya neighborhood; however, the Sunni Association of Muslim Scholars condemned the raid, which occurred at a religious college. Thirteen more suspects were arrested in western Baghdad. A car bomb in Samarra killed five and wounded 15, including policemen; a second bomb was defused. Two suicide bombers wounded a combined 19 people in the Bab Sinjar area, near Mosul. Near Hibhib, three Peshmerga troops were killed and five more were wounded during an attack. A car bomb in Tikrit killed three people and wounded 13 others. A child was among the dead. Also, three bodies, including one belonging to a police lieutenant colonel, were found. Motorcycle-riding gunmen killed a policeman west of Kut yesterday. Also, the wife of a police officer was kidnapped in a separate incident in the city. Police in Garma arrested 30 suspects and discovered three decomposed bodies. A decapitated corpse was recovered in Abbasi. One soldier was killed and three more were wounded in Khalis. A child was killed and a woman was injured during a mortar attack. Also, nine bodies were discovered. Near Muqdadiyah, a policeman was killed in a drive-by shooting. One woman was killed and another was injured in Abu Saida Gunmen killed a woman in Seif Saad. A body was found in Baquba. Near Baquba, a blast at a house killed a woman and a girl in a neighboring home; a man was also injured. A roadside bomb near town killed one person, and a severed head was found nearby. Near Baghdad, an Iranian pilgrim was killed during an armed attack near a passenger bus. A woman was also injured during the incident. British troops in Basra destroyed a missile launching facility in the al-Shoala area. No casualties were reported. Four people were killed during clashes in Buhriz. A joint U.S.-Iraqi force raided a funeral in Diwaniya and arrested 23 suspects. Two people were detained earlier in a separate incident. Also, tensions over the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) have now left one dead and four wounded in northeastern Syria during a demonstration. Thousands of Kurds attended a funeral for the dead youth. Kurds populate regions in Syria, Iraq, Turkey, Iran and Armenia. Meanwhile, eight Turkish soldiers held by PKK rebels were released. Compiled by Margaret Griffis ANTI-WAR.COM

Surprise Decision of Iraqi Government

Iraq scraps oil deal; Russia threatens to retaliate

By ANDREW E. KRAMER
NEW YORK TIMES

BAGHDAD — Guided by American legal advisers, the Iraqi government has canceled a controversial development contract with the Russian company Lukoil for a vast oil field in Iraq’s southern desert, freeing it up for potential international investment in the future.

 In response, Russian authorities have threatened to revoke a 2004 deal with creditor nations to forgive $13 billion in Iraqi debt, a senior Iraqi official said.

The field, West Qurna, has estimated reserves of 11 billion barrels, the equivalent of the worldwide proven oil reserves of Exxon Mobil, America’s largest oil company. Hussain al-Shahristani, the Iraqi oil minister, said in an interview that the field would be opened to new bidders, perhaps as early as next year.

The contract, which had been signed and later canceled by the Saddam Hussein government, had been in legal limbo since the American invasion. But the Kremlin remained hopeful it could be salvaged until this September, when al-Shahristani traveled to Moscow to inform officials there that the decision to cancel it was final, he said.

The Russian government, newly emboldened in international affairs by its expanding oil wealth, is still backing Lukoil’s claim and protesting what it considers selective enforcement of contracts in Iraq.

“We will defend our interests,” Dmitri Peskov, the Kremlin spokesman, said in a telephone interview. “It is the government’s obligation to defend the interests of our companies in foreign countries.”

One Iraqi official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was discussing a confidential diplomatic exchange, described Russia’s response as, “If you do the deal, we can muster the political muscle to forgive the debt.”

The field will produce 1 million barrels of oil a day after four to five years of development, according to both Iraqi oil officials and Lukoil.

Bush’s Worst Nightmare

FOR more than five months, the US has been trying to orchestrate a political transition in Pakistan that would keep General Pervez Musharraf in power without making a mockery of George Bush’s promotion of democracy in the Muslim world.

On Saturday, those carefully laid plans fell apart spectacularly. Musharraf’s move to seize emergency powers and abandon the constitution left the Bush Administration close to its worst nightmare: a US-backed military dictator who is risking civil instability in a country with nuclear weapons and an increasingly alienated public.

Musharraf declared a state of emergency to prevent the country from tumbling into chaos and seeing an Islamic, nuclear Pakistan fall into the grip of extremists.

Khan Pitafi :Answer this: what has been the sole utility of Pakistan for the West throughout its history? It was and is the containment of communism in general and Russia in particular. First the West was afraid of communism’s potential growth in India. Then as the Soviet Union crumbled, Pakistan was initially asked to work on bringing the resources of the Central Asian states to the warm waters. But the actual purpose was to keep these states away from the suzerainty of Moscow. When the West realised that this was not possible, an obstacle was created to impede Russia’s eastward growth in the shape of an unstable Afghanistan. If you think that the US is losing in Afghanistan, you are grossly mistaken. An unstable Afghanistan, which destabilises Pakistan, meanwhile keeping Iran under pressure and sanctions too serve their purpose best. Washington does not see China and India as threats anymore. Now the real trouble is with Pakistan because it can at any time align with Russia and help stabilise the region. 

BELARUS ‘OPPOSITION’ PROTEST MARCH

The demonization of states hostile to US interests goes on, if its not Cuba or Venezuela with their irritating do-goody social reforms and health services for the poor, its China or Russia, who dare to try and compete with the US.  As for Belarus, their crime has been to be show too much interest in aligning their country with Russia, and not the ever-expanding NATO, which, in pushing up against Russia’s borders and increasingly encircling the country, subserves Washington’s designs of containing a potential regional threat to US primacy. “If you make the case for Russia in NATO, then there would be no reason for NATO.” (Alexander Haig). Hamas, et al. are accused of buying elections and intimidating the opposition, while voters are threatened by the West with sanctions and economic dislocation if they make the wrong choice at the polls. And while the government is accused of abusing its control of the state media, antigovernment media, funded by Western governments and NGO’s, flourish. They did in Yugoslavia, and do today in Belarus, where they are allowed to operate freely, some even openly advocating insurrection. Foreign-controlled media inciting uprisings in the streets wouldn’t be tolerated for a second in America. But they are expected to be tolerated by defiant leaders elsewhere, judged against a higher standard than America’s leaders ever are, or ever expect to be. Governments that seek to right historical injustices or to challenge the devastating impact of rampant globalization, are left isolated, and more easily brought down in favour of compliant regimes whose interests line up with the West’s corporate economic structure military expansionism. The fight between these wayward governments and the US led West has hardly been fair. They are no match for the  Western government’s armament of sanctions, military and economic threats, and the ability to buy politicians, NGOs and civil society.

HITLER REVEALED AS CLOSET UNTERMENCHEN MUSIC LOVER

A recent discovery of the fuehrer’s record collection revealed well worn music by Russian and Jewish composers. One of the pianists he listened to was a Jew exiled in Vienna before the anschluss.

ARMAGEDDON ‘WILL HAPPEN IN NEW YORK’ SAY MUSLIMS

Muslim clerics, fed up with American evangelists going on about how armageddon is near and will be fought in the middle-east, have brought out their own, official, version of the end of the world. ‘It will happen in America’, a muslim spokesperson said.

‘An earthquake in San Francisco will coincide with a major war being fought in Manhattan, thus causing America to ‘break in half”.

American evangelists hit back today saying ‘fact: there is no war going on, or imminent, in New York at the moment. Fact: nearly all the countries of the middle-east are either at war with each other or fighting themselves’.

Here is a handy calendar detailing the dates of the run-up to armageddon, with feast days and holidays. 

THE PEASANTS REVOLT

                                    I’ve an idea, why don’t we start a revulsion?

 Some thinkers on the left now are advocating  hating the rich individually, and not the system that made them rich. But the underpin of the system are the working class, the poor. Where would the rich be without them? Notwithstanding the fact that many working class people think their rich after they’ve bought their council house and put a bronze doorknocker on. What about hating the poor?
Left wing intellectuals pontificate against inequality and the corrupt capitalist system without taking into account that the biggest cog in the system are not the rich but the working class.
In this country (UK) the reform act of 1867 brought the working class into the electoral process for the first time.
This was viewed with extreme trepidation amongst the ruling class who thought that, with the enfranchisement for the first time of the masses, Britain was in for a continuous string of left-wing governments.
What happened? Apart from the few years of Attlee, Wilson and Keir Hardy
we have been led by mainly Conservative governments of the ruling class.
When Attlee instigated the setup of the welfare state and other socialist type policies such as the nationalisation of industries, how did the workers show their gratitude?
At the next election they voted the ruling class back in.
How much education do they need?
Long ago I worked for some time in a construction company, and if you want ignorance, if you want prejudice, its was there by the bucketful from the workers.
Although most of them were able to read, their entire reading matter mainly consisted of their daily right-wing tabloid.
In my view it is the working class who are the main obstacle to socialism. Get rid of those and then the middle classes will be the new prolateriat, and lets see how they like slaving ten hours a day just for bread and dripping and some bacon on a Sunday.

LIT ‘POLONIUM MAN’ VINENKO

Someones been arrested for the murder of Berezovsky’s hitman Litvinenko http://www.guardian.co.uk/russia/article/0,,2085363,00.html

Now Russia has stated that it might do a deal with the British government and ’swap’ Litvinenko’s alledged murderer for tiny tearaway Boris.

This of course is very unreasonable of the Russians, as all Boris (business partner of corporate fascist Jeb Bush) has done is call for the  overthrow of Putin, and used his billions amassed under Yeltsin (when he sold Russia off), to prop up anti-Putin regimes.

Beckett’s inane anti-Russia ramblings (and those of other “supportive EU countries” should they materialise) just highlight the glaring hypocrisy in which the UK government and their sidekicks are submerged – what with all the denied Russian requests for extradition of numerous rubber barons, Chechen terrorists etc (Russian citizens, mind you) by a number of Western European governments in the last 10 years. The Government has demanded full cooperation. I am guessing that they are about to taste a bit of your own medicine in this respect.  

AFTER 6 YEARS, HOW DEMOCRATIC IS AMERICA?

The main reasons why Bush and his cohorts have not succeeded yet in closing down a relatively open society is because of

• THE ‘CONSTITUTION’. Bush famously (or notoriously) said, ‘they keep on throwing this thing called the constitution at me’, particularly with regard to Guantanamo and phone and email surveillance. The constitution is worshipped by most Americans as much as is their flag and any tampering is frowned upon.
• WORKING FROM WITHIN A DEMOCRACY. Americans take their democracy very seriously. As well’s they ought, as Bush is constantly trying to thwart the constraints of democracy. But, even after 6 years of Bush, America is still more democratic than the old Weimar Republic.
• THE MEDIA. Bush would like Rupert (Goebbels) Murdoch’s Fox News to be the only news outlet in America. (It nearly is). But, at present there are plenty of other more liberal news outlets for the more discerning American.
• THE INTERNET.  One would think that internet porn would be anathema to all god-fearing upright Americans, and that Bush would have attempted to deal with it with more rigorously than he has done. But as part of the ‘tittytainment’ to keep the masses happy, internet porn serves a useful purpose. As for internet news, Bush is not worried at this point. But AMERICANS BEWARE, when the US is further up the ladder of fascism, will the ordinary Joe, with his porn, Everybody Loves Raymond and other assorted drivel notice the tampering and censorship that inevitably will come?.