On September 2 Turkey officially cut all military ties to Israel. On September 5 Turkey gave Israel two days to get their diplomats the hell out of Turkey!
This action is in retaliation for Israel refusing to apologize for killing nine Turkish peace activists back in May 2010. Turkey used to be Israel’s strongest ally in the region, until the May 2010 incident.
In an interview with the British Broadcasting Corporation’s Iranian channel, BBC Persian, Abdul Rahman Haji Ahmadi admitted they are conducting military action against Iran with the help of the United States.
Abdul Rahman Haji Ahmadi is the boss of the Party for a Free Life in Kurdistan (PJAK) terrorist group.
He said the PJAK had built tunnels into Iran from Iraq. They also received new weapons and equipment, including 120mm mortars, from the U.S. consulate in the northern Iraqi city of Arbil.
Currently Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) is in battle with the PJAK. This follows attempts by Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) to mediate between the Iranian Kurdish rebels (PJAK) and Iranian government. The mediation failed after PJAK forces killed two Kurds: “But the PJAK terrorist group paid no heed to the KRG’s appeals and mediation (and) martyred two local Kurdish forces… and this proved to the KRG that the terrorists had ignored its requests.”-Hamid Ahmadi, IRGC Colonel
Human Rights Watch has come across nearly 300 pages of documents, found in the offices of Libya’s external security services, along with ten of thousand of documents found in the abandoned British Embassy in Tripoli. The documents show how the United States and the United kingdom supported Gaddafi right up until sanctions were imposed.
Those documents also show that Gaddafi tortured terror suspects sent to him by the U.S. and U.K. One of those tortured on the request of the U.S. and Britain is now a rebel leader!
Abdel Hakim Belhadj (also known as Abdullah al-Sadiq), the military commander who led the revolutionary forces into the Libyan capital Tripoli, is now demanding an apology from the U.S. and British governments over that torture.
In 2004, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) detained Abdel Hakim Belhadj in Malaysia, over suspicions of having links to Al-Qaeda. He applied for asylum to the British government, but instead the British renditioned him to Libya, where he was tortured in the name of the U.S. led War on Terror.
Now Abdel Hakim Belhadj is a major rebel leader in Libya, do you really think he and his followers are going to do what the U.S. wants? This is potentially a case of “blowback” in the making.
The documents also show that French and U.K. intelligence agents, and even Scotland Yard, worked to protect Gaddafi’s sons from assassination. Here’s an interesting coincidence; the assassin was from Qatar. Qatar is now the biggest Arab supporter of the current rebel TNC!
One should wonder why NATO allies worked hard to protect Gaddafi’s son Saif from assassination, as recently as 2004, and now they’re trying to blow him up! Is this action against the Gaddafi family really some kind of effort to cover up war crimes committed by Gaddafi, at the behest of the U.S., and allies, in the War on Terror?
Other documents show that Gaddafi is probably hiding by using military technology he recently got from the British! In 2007 Britain supplied Libya with the most up-to-date command and control systems made by General Dynamics UK, which is similar to Bowman Systems used by the British Army. One of the features is that it allows you to communicate electronically without being tracked.
Other documents show Libyan militant groups are connected to Al-Qaeda. One group known as LIFG (Libyan Islamic Fighting Group), was directly linked to Al-Qaeda. The former LIFG leader, Abdel Hakim Belhaj, is now current leader of the rebel Tripoli Military Council! Is this proof that the U.S. and U.K. are in bed with Al-Qeada?
With thousands more documents still to be analyzed, the true extent of the relationship between the United States, Britain, Al-Qaeda and Libya has yet to be revealed!
Despite the rebels controlling most of Libya, the number of refugees fleeing into Tunis has increased!
Tunisian media reports that prior to the rebel take over of Libya there were about 7,000 Libyans fleeing into Tunis every day. Now that number has jumped to 9,000 per day!!! And just at the Tunisian-Libyan border post of Ras El Jedir!
If the Libyan rebels are all about democracy and freedom, and representing the majority of Libyan people, why are there more Libyans fleeing now, than before the rebels took control?
The new Defense Minister Yasuo Ichikawa, and the new Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba, both say they will push for the agreed to moving of USMC units from one part of Okinawa to a new location, also on Okinawa.
People living on Okinawa would like to see the USMC gone altogether, but Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba stressed the importance of the U.S. forces in Japan’s defense plans against China.
U.S. forces are part of a multilayered mechanism to avoid misunderstandings in case of ‘accidental occurrences’ between Japan and China.
The new Prime Minister of Japan, Yoshihiko Noda, is about to publish his national security policy in a Japanese magazine. Reportedly this will include plans to control territories that many Japanese believe inherently belong to Japan.
For several months now, Japan and China have had run ins involving disputes over territorial water, and islands. This includes harassment of fishing boats by both the Japanese and Chinese navies.
There are also incidents concerning islands in the South China Sea, in which China, Japan, Philippines and Vietnam all lay claim to. The South China Sea has potentially the largest oil reserves in the world (it’s the real reason the U.S. was at war in Vietnam).
Other issues involve the control of islands north of Hokkaido, which were lost to the Soviet Union after the Second World War. Japan wants them back and Russia says no way.
Prime Minister Noda is basing his plan on the vision of former Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, who wanted to create a Japan led East Asia community in 2009. The aim of the idea is to create stable economic and security systems across the region. If anyone knows history, this sounds just like the reasoning of Imperial Japan, the same reasoning that led to Japan attacking the U.S. Navy at Pearl Harbor in 1941, thus creating the Second World War.
Typhoon Talas, now Tropical Storm Talas, continues to slam Japan. On the Kii Peninsula, in west central Japan, rainfall has topped a record-breaking 1,800 millimeters (5.9 feet) in one village.
Even though the storm is over the Sea of Japan it continues to pummel land with rain as it moves north. Talas is expected to dump up to 40 millimeters (1.5 inches) of rain per hour in the Kanto and Tohoku regions, in eastern to northeastern Honshu.
Hokkaido, the island north of Honshu, heavy rain of up to 60 millimeters (2.4 inches) per hour could fall through Tuesday. To make matters worse, another storm is approaching Japan.
All the rain has caused at least 54 landslides. In Nara Prefecture, mid-western Japan, an overflowing river has reportedly been dammed up with mud and rocks at five locations in Tenkawa Village and Gojo City. This could cause a massive flood once the nature made dams break lose. Emergency officials are scrambling to figure out what to do.
Japanese media reporting that many areas of Japan, that were hit by typhoon Talas on Friday and Saturday, are still flooding.
The damage is the worst since typhoon Tokage hit in 2004.
At least 34 people were killed, and at least 55 are missing. In Nachikatsuura, Wakayama Prefecture, rescuers found the body of Saki Teramoto, the daughter of Mayor Shinichi Teramoto. Saki was engaged to be married. Mayor Teramoto’s wife, Masako, is still missing.
Bridges, roads and even World Heritage Scared Sites have been destroyed.
Talas is a word from the Philippines meaning “sharpness.”
In a survey done by Ipsos Mora y Araujo, citizens of 24 countries were asked how they viewed immigrants. The United States did not lead the way with immigrant haters, still more than half of U.S. citizens hate immigrants.
The Ipsos survey asked various questions regarding immigrants, but basically most European and American residents don’t like immigrants, which is ironic considering that most European and American countries are made up of immigrants.
The country that leads the way in hatred of immigrants is Belgium, with 72% of respondents saying immigrants are bad for their country. Argentina, United Kingdom and United States are on the same wavelength, with about 61% of their citizens hating immigrants.
50% of Australians and 41% of Canadians say immigrants make it harder to find a job. One Canadian respondent explained their view of immigration as ‘yes, you can move here, but just not where I live’.
So where to move, now that it’s becoming clear that the United States isn’t a place where you can achieve your dreams?
47% of Brazilians say immigrants are good for their economy, and 49% say immigrants make Brazil an interesting place to live. Could explain Brazil’s exploding population numbers. Brazil now has the 5th largest population in the world. Officially 192 million people live in Brazil, that’s almost equal to all the other South American country’s populations combined!
1,900 Costa Ricans were studied, those who ate a lot of white rice, and those who preferred beans to rice.
In Costa Rica there’s been a trend of increased white rice consumption, instead of beans, and there’s been an increase in diabetes. Researchers wanted to know if there is a connection between white rice and diabetes.
In the study, reported by the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, some of the people were asked to eat beans instead of white rice. People who ate beans instead of rice had a 35% reduction in metabolic syndrome.
“[White] Rice is very easily converted into sugar by the body. It’s very highly processed, it’s pure starch and starch is a long chain of glucose. Beans compared with rice contain much more fiber, certainly more protein and they typically have a lower glycemic index, meaning they induce much lower insulin responses.”-Frank Hu, Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, in a Reuters interview
The researchers are concerned with the diets of people in the United States, because the amount of white rice consumption is going up, and that could explain why rates of diabetes keep going up.