Category Archives: International

International, U.S.

World War 3, Asian Front: Pakistan attacks Iran, Iran executes Pakistanis! False Flag op to justify U.S. invasion?

27 October 2013 (18:02 UTC-07 Tango 26 October 2013)/22 Dhu’l-Hijja 1434/05 Aban 1391/23 Ren-Xu (9th month) 4711

On the night of 25 October, 14 Iranian border police were killed, six wounded and three cops were kidnapped (some reports say six cops were kidnapped), in the region of Saravan.  Iran says the attackers came from the U.S. ally Pakistan.

Iranian officials protested to Pakistan’s chargé d’affaires in Tehran.  Iran says the attackers are U.S.-Saudi supported anti-Shia terrorists.

Because of a lack of response from the U.S. ally Pakistan, on 26 October Iran hanged 16 captured Pakistani anti-Shia terrorists.  Iran says in the past 30 years more than 4-thousand of their border police have been killed by U.S.-Saudi backed anti-Shia terrorists and illegal drugs traffickers.

 

Business/Economics, International, U.S.

Too Big to Jail: Elitists ripped off by their own elite hotel!

26 October 2013 (14:52 UTC-07 Tango)/21 Dhu’l-Hijja 1434/04 Aban 1391/22 Ren-Xu (9th month) 4711

The Maryland, U.S.A., based elitist hotel chain, Ritz Carlton, admits to ripping off wealthy customers at their Osaka, Japan, hotel.

In a press conference the hotel’s general manager, Oriol Montal, admitted he knew back in July that customers in the restaurant were not being served what they ordered.  Food items were being made with cheaper ingredients.  Montal also admitted that some food items were contracted out to third party food services.

However, in true elitist style Montal blamed the restaurant’s menus for the bait-n-switch, saying the menus had incorrect item descriptions.  This does not explain why he said nothing for the past three to four months since learning of the problem.  Montal says he will refund his rich customers their money.

Montal admitted there is no oversight regarding how the hotel restaurant is run.  In July he was told of shrimp ingredients that were not what was printed on the menus.  He claims that it was this month (October) that he was told, apparently by a restaurant whistleblower, that other food items, like bread, were not what they seemed.

I hope all those laissez-faire elitists liked their bait-n-switch meals!

International, U.S.

World War 3, West Asian Front: The new Zio-Wahabbi Empire of Saudi Israelia, twist on prophecy of Gog and Megog! Palestinians to be sacrificed to create Israel-Saudi Arabia alliance?

26 October 2013 (03:18 UTC-07 Tango)/21 Dhu’l-Hijja 1434/04 Aban 1391/22 Ren-Xu (9th month) 4711

“When you hear the Saudis talking about what needs to be done in order to prevent a nuclear Iran, I mean it sounds familiar. I think that you can hear that Arabic sounds familiar to Hebrew when it comes to Iran.  In order to prevent Iran from having a nuclear weapon, we need to cooperate with those [Kingdom of Saudi Arabia] who understand that Iran is a threat to them as well. But unfortunately, the open conflict with the Palestinians makes it impossible or very difficult for them to act with Israel.”-Tzipi Livni, Israeli Minister of Justice

“Gog and Magog are at work in the Middle East.”-George W. Bush to French President Jacques Chirac.  Reports say Chirac consulted with religious scholars to figure out what the hell Bush was talking about.

“If the Israelis and Saudis merged into one country, just think how much fun they could have together bulldozing Christian and Islamic history, religion and culture!”-Kevin Barrett, political analyst

 

 

International, U.S.

World War 3, Asian Front-Afghanistan, 07-09 October 2013: Hundreds of people disappeared! More U.S. taxpayers ripped off! Japanese taxpayers give away $13 million! U.S. puppet warlord admits War Crimes! $12 billion oil deal!

Helmand Province: In Greshk District, a suicide car bomber killed two civilians and two cops, four cops wounded.

Maidan Wardak Province: Three villages in Syed Abad District were hit by U.S.-NATO Israeli style home invasions. Reports say explosives were used to access some residential compounds.  Eight people kidnapped, six motorcycles and three cars/trucks destroyed.

Nangarhar Province: In Shirzad District, a major battle resulted in at least 20 Afghan National Army killed, 27 wounded.  A woman and two kids were wounded, and one Mujahid killed.  In Khogiyani District, a ANA soldier was killed by Mujahid sniper.  In Achin District, villagers report that U.S. forces raided a home, killing a husband and wife and their son, and kidnapping their nephew.  In Khogiyani District, reports that 150 villagers have gone missing!  The reports also say whoever took them also took all their personal possessions.

Uruzgan Province: In Chinartu District, reports that for the past 15 days villages have been hit by Israeli style home invasions by U.S. led government forces.  Mosques and schools have been targeted as well.  Dozens of people beaten and kidnapped.

Zabul Province: In Qalat City, people reported that a security guard working for U.S. forces at Qalat airbase started shooting at U.S. forces in a guard tower.  People don’t know what happened to the guard but think many U.S. personnel were shot.  The airbase was locked down and no Afghan employees were allowed in or out.

Presidential candidate and war criminal,  Abdul Rashid Dostum, admitted his role in murdering fellow Afghans by apologizing for it: “It is the time that we should apologize for the Afghan people who were sacrificed due to our policies. I am taking the first step, and apologize for the people who suffered from the violence and civil war in the country.”

President Hamid Karzai called a grand meeting (Loya Jirga) to decide the fate of the Obama regime’s demands for a new military pact.  Some Afghan senators are refusing to take part.  Karzai also blamed U.S. led NATO for making Afghanistan insecure: “On the security front the entire NATO exercise was one that caused Afghanistan a lot of suffering, a lot of loss of life, and no gains because the country is not secure.”-BBC interview

Despite dealing with natural and man made disasters, the Japanese government gave $13-million USD of their taxpayers’ money to Afghanistan.  Actually it was given to United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS), which will then give it to the Afghan Independent Directorate of Local Governance.  This is already on top of $21-million Japan gave directly to the Independent Directorate of Local Governance.

The United States Air Force has given the Afghan Air Force two brand new C-130 transport aircraft.  They’re part of a planned total delivery of 24 C-130s.  The U.S. taxpayer is forking over hundreds of million of dollars to pay for the aircraft.  Originally the USAF was going to give Italian C27s to Afghanistan, but after already spending $600-million on the deal it was decided to go with C-130s.  U.S. taxpayers are also giving Afghanistan recon drones and 20 Super Tucano training aircraft.

While the U.S. government continues to spend taxpayer’s money on weapons for other countries, the Pentagon halted death gratuity payments for families who had sons or daughters killed in Afghanistan.  The excuse was the supposed government shutdown, which actually affected only 18% of government spending.

The Afghan Ministry of Mines announced $12-billion worth of oil contracts.  The lucky winners are Turkish Petroleum International Company (TPIC) and Dragon Oil from United Arab Emirates.

“There is a bloody war happening, and no one is talking about it!”-Ahmad Majidyar,  American Enterprise Institute and adviser to the U.S. Army

“Bush stopped talking about Afghanistan almost immediately after he shifted focus to Iraq.  Afghanistan was truly a forgotten war when Obama took over and it became it again after the surge was over.  The result is the public really has no idea what’s going on there.”-A. Trevor Thrall,  George Mason University

“….a lot of Afghanistan’s future depends on whether Western nations feel guilty enough about the mess they made to stay involved.”-Graeme Smith, International Crisis Group

“…we’re tired of it…”:-U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Mike Toole, in Kabul

07 October was the 12th year of the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan.  I found it amazing that the pro-occupiers interviewed on main streamer U.S. TV continue to say the U.S. has to stay in order to get the “remnants” of al Qaeda.  Really, after 12 years of massive repression by the U.S. there’s still “remnants” of al Qaeda?   Most people would considered that a big Fail!

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) blamed the United States for turning Afghanistan into a narco-state.  The UNODC said the U.S. has done nothing to create an economy that is not reliant on illegal drugs or corruption.  Under international law, if you invade and occupy a country you are legally responsible for everything that takes place during your occupation.

17-18 July 2013: MORE PROOF THE UNITED STATES COMMITS WAR CRIMES! PROOF THAT WOMEN ARE WORTH MORE THAN MEN IN AFGHANISTAN!

Business/Economics, International, U.S.

Exceptional Failed State: Study says U.S. citizens too stupid to compete in Global workplace! Older U.S. workers smarter!

25 October 2013 (15:17 UTC-07 Tango)/20 Dhu’l-Hijja 1434/03 Aban 1391/21 Ren-Xu (9th month) 4711

Despite the fact that people in the U.S. have decent access to computers and the internet, they actually score lower in intelligence than even countries who lack access to technology!

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development released the results of their comparison of average workers in a couple dozen countries, including the United States.  U.S. workers lose!

The average U.S. worker earned a “Mean proficiency in literacy” score of 262.  Only France, Spain, Italy and Cyprus scored lower.  Surprisingly German workers scored only 267.1.  The average score is 270. Russian workers scored 275.2.  Not surprisingly, Japanese workers are way ahead of the pack with a high score of 293.6 (but their high technical intelligence still doesn’t make them much money).

Those scores include people in the age range of 16 to 65 years.  When OECD cut the age range to just 16 to 24 years, U.S. workers scored even lower, dropping to 260.9, meaning the older U.S. workers are smarter than the young workers.

This contrasts with most other countries, who saw a jump in their literacy score when the older workers were left out of the equation.   This is not good for the United States, because it suggests that as more older workers retire, or are refused jobs because of their age (like me), the overall global competitiveness of U.S. workers will continue to fall in the coming decades.

When it comes to the “adjusted” math (numeracy) score the U.S. worker does worse.  Only Cyprus and Italy scored lower than the U.S.  And it gets even worse when you throw out the old fogies: U.S. workers aged 16 to 24 suck with the lowest score of 240!  Even the young workers of Cyprus beat the U.S. in math!

The OECD also gave the U.S. poor IT and problem solving scores, but my dumb ‘merican brain couldn’t take it anymore (I is college edumacated, yes I is, Idaho State Uni).  Check it out for yourself: OECD Skills Outlook 2013.

Business/Economics, International, U.S.

Exceptional Failed State: EU to sanction U.S. companies! End sanctions against Iran! France & Germany to make joint anti-U.S. statement! EU makes historic deal with Canada!

25 October 2013 (23:01 UTC-07 Tango 24 October 2013)/20 Dhu’l-Hijja 1434/03 Aban 1391/21 Ren-Xu (9th month) 4711

“We are allies facing challenges together. But such an alliance can only be built on the basis of trust. I repeat that spying among friends is not at all acceptable against anyone and that goes for every citizen in Germany.”-Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany, Merkel used to live in the Stasi police state of East Germany so she knows the U.S. NSA spying ops are evil

“It is inconceivable and unacceptable that there should be acts of espionage of this type.”-Enrico Letta, Premier of Italy

“I cannot imagine to sign an EU-U.S. free trade agreement given that basic privacy rights have been breached.”-Sigmar Gabriel, German Social-Democratic Party

For those who don’t think the U.S. spying on its allies is a big deal, guess what? The U.S. has lost Europe as it’s only major ally!

At least 28 European Union leaders are being spied on by the NSA.   The NSA spied on at least 35 leaders around the World.

At least 70 million French phone calls have been monitored by the NSA.

Germany summons U.S. ambassador, John B Emerson, over NSA spying.

The former head of the DGSE (French intelligence), Alain Juillet, is surprised at the scale of “pillage” conducted by the U.S. NSA.  The rogue actions of the U.S. against its own allies now jeopardizes the U.S. led War on Terror.

French President Francois Hollande, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, are working together writing up a joint anti-U.S. statement. It’s reported they will make demands on the U.S. government concerning what it can and cannot do in Europe!

The European Union (EU) has sanctioned the Terrorist Finance Tracking Program (TFTP) agreement with the United  States.  That’s because the U.S. NSA used it to spy on Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT).   SWIFT supplies secure messaging services to legitimate financial companies.

The EU now says the World’s biggest free trade deal is now in jeopardy because of the United States!  It’s known as TTIP (Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership).  At the current EU summit members of parliament will debate imposing sanctions against the U.S. IT companies involved with helping the NSA.  The TTIP deal could have benefited the U.S. economy by $150-billion USD.

On top of that, the EU delegate to Iran, Hannes Swoboda, stated that EU sanctions against Iran should be ended “…in a step by step manner…”

Canada and the EU have agreed, in principle, to the historic CETA (Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement).  Under the deal the EU will end 100% of its tariffs on Canadian industrial products within seven years!  The EU would also accept certification of Canadian products by Canadian inspectors.  For the Canadian auto industry it could result in a 12 times increase in exports to Europe (the Canadian auto industry is not happy with the U.S. imposed NAFTA).  Canada is supposed to apply the same trade policy to European products.  CETA also affects trade of food and intellectual property.

 

Business/Economics, International

Postal service cuts delivery days by half!

24 October 2013 (11:53 UTC-07 Tango)/19 Dhu’l-Hijja 1434/02 Aban 1391/20 Ren-Xu (9th month) 4711

While package volume is up, letter volume has crashed so low (30% drop), government officials have decided to drastically cut delivery service.

In the British empire country of New Zealand the government announced they are cutting New Zealand Post delivery from six days per week down to as few as three!  At least 1-thousand people will lose their jobs!

Postal Worker’s Union blames the 1997 law that allowed private companies to collect and delivery letters.  The government Post service is limited to standardized service and rates, but private companies are not. The PWU says in a way the 1997 law is actually subsidizing the private postal companies, but even with that the private companies are handling only 10% of the mail.

The Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing union has pointed out that cost cutting within the New Zealand Post have already been made, and moving to three day a week delivery is unnecessary.

It’s also been pointed out that moving to three day a week delivery will result in massive backlog in postal centers as packages and letters will pile up.  The three day a week delivery schedule begins in 2015.

 

 

 

International, U.S.

World War 3, Afghan Front: U.S. led NATO falling apart! Calls emergency meeting!

24 October 2013 (11:29 UTC-07 Tango)/19 Dhu’l-Hijja 1434/02 Aban 1391/20 Ren-Xu (9th month) 4711

“….they are telling us ‘no panic yet’.”-unnamed NATO official to Rueters

As I’ve written in a previous Afghanistan update, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization is being destroyed by continued deployment to Afghanistan.  Now it’s not just financially, it’s for legal reasons.

NATO leaders have just called for a “strategic planning assessment”, all because Afghan President Hamid Karzai is refusing to sign a new military pact with the United States: “….we can’t finalize our preparations until we have finalized negotiations on the legal framework.”-Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO Secretary-General during NATO press conference

NATO member Germany kind-o-blamed the United States: “Our decision depends on these decisions. We have made an offer, but we need clarity on the rights and duties of our soldiers and we need clarity on the U.S. decision.”-Thomas de Maiziere, Defense Minister of Germany, interview with BBC

NATO officials told Reuters that despite the official 2014 pullout, they expect to have 12-thousand NATO troops remain in Afghanistan!

International, U.S.

Martial Law Gun Control BS! International Police boss says give everyone guns like in Texas!

24 October 2013 (20:56 UTC-07 Tango 23 October 2013)/19 Dhu’l-Hijja 1434/02 Aban 1391/20 Ren-Xu (9th month) 4711

“Ask yourself: If that was Denver, Colorado, if that was Texas, would those guys have been able to spend hours, days, shooting people randomly? What I’m saying is it makes police around the world question their views on gun control. It makes citizens question their views on gun control. You have to ask yourself, ‘Is an armed citizenry more necessary now than it was in the past with an evolving threat of terrorism?’ This is something that has to be discussed.  For me it’s a profound question.  People are quick to say ‘gun control, people shouldn’t be armed,’ etc., etc.  I think they have to ask themselves: ‘Where would you have wanted to be? In a city where there was gun control and no citizens armed if you’re in a Westgate mall, or in a place like Denver or Texas?'”-Ronald Noble, Secretary General of Interpol, interviewed by ABC News