U.S. and United Arab Emirates (UAE) officials confirm that a U.S. Navy ship shot at an Indian fishing ship off the coast of UAE.
The U.S. 5th Fleet says personnel of the USNS Rappahannock fired a .50 caliber (12.7 mm) machine gun at a small boat. They claim the fishing boat was warned to stay away. One man on the fishing boat was killed, three men wounded.
“I hope this helps. There are protests all the time, and nothing ever happens.”- Inbar Paz, frustrated protester
15 July 2012, in retaliation for conditions which led to an Israeli army reserve veteran setting himself on fire, Israeli Social Justice movement demonstrators attacked a government building.
It’s being reported that more than 2,000 Israelis attacked the Israeli National Insurance Institute, trying to set it on fire, and painting the slogan, Price tag Moshe Silman, around the entrance.
57 year old Silman is in critical condition with 94% of his body burned, after he set himself on fire on 14 July 2012. He was protesting his life long hard work and tax paying in Israel, only to get no help when he became unemployed after having a stroke.
Before burning himself Silman said that Israel “…..robbed me of everything and left me with nothing.”
Protests are taking place in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Haifa and Beershaba.
Since the 1970s Israel has become the top receiver of U.S. taxpayer funded grants, most of which goes to buying weapons. Under the Bush Jr administration it jumped to $3 billion USD per year, and the current Obama administration is continuing that trend!
15 July 2012
In Logar Province, early morning coordinated attacks wound at least 20 people.
In Parwan Province, local officials say several Mujahideen were killed in battles with Afghan government forces, at least three Afghan troops wounded.
Former Afghan National Directorate for Security chief, Amrullah Saleh, revealed that 1,800 Afghan government troops have been killed in the past three months, along with 4,000 Afghan troops being wounded!!!
Amurullah Saleh says it is a direct result of the Mujahideen Spring Offensive! He added that what is going on in Afghanistan is all out Civil War, the United States has not done anything to stop such violence, but is only making things worse!
Recently Afghan President, Hamid Karzai, said 20 Afghan soldiers are being killed every 24 hours fighting for the U.S. occupation!
14 July 2012
In Herat Province, at least three Italian occupying troops were wounded when the armored vehicle they were in drove over a mine.
Also in Herat Province, the mayor of Shindand district was assassinated. He was shot in front of his house by Mujahideen.
International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said a U.S. led occupation troop “…died following an insurgent attack in eastern Afghanistan today.”
In Kandahar Province, a government security boss was assassinated. He was shot while on his way to work. No one knows who did it.
Also in Kandahar Province, a firefight left three civilians and three Mujahideen dead.
In Samangan Province, at least 25 people killed, including a dozen government officials, and 60 people wounded, when a wedding was hit by a suicide bomber. The wedding was being held at a hotel because of the number of guests. Witnesses say the bomber blew himself up as the government officials gathered in front of the hotel.
The Afghan Interior Ministry claims “Afghan forces launched the operations in Kandahar, Helmand, Zabul, Logar, Ghazni, Paktia, Herat, Bamyan, and Baghlan provinces, killing 40 Taliban [Mujahideen] militants over the past 24 hours.”
13 July 2012
ISAF said a U.S. led occupying troop “…died following an improvised explosive device attack in southern Afghanistan today.”
In Helmand Province, local officials discovered that Afghan security identification cards are being given to Iranian and Pakistani spies.
In Laghman Province, the provincial women’s affairs chief was assassinated by explosion. Her husband was also killed, her two children are wounded.
12 July 2012
In Oruzgan (Uruzgan) Province, two Australian occupying Diggers (soldiers) were wounded when their Bushmaster drove over a mine.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has asked Mujahideen leaders to stop the Civil War and run for political office: “The foreigners are leaving, so come and talk to us. Political parties can have their offices and say what they want about the government. Put down your guns and open an office.”
In Helmand Province, two people killed, two wounded after they drove over a mine. Also, a reporter working for BBC was killed in the same area.
“I can’t afford medication or rent. I paid millions in taxes, I served in the army and in the reserves until I was 46. I won’t be homeless and that is why I am protesting against all the wrongs Israel imposes on people like me.”-Moshe Silman, set self on fire
This statement against the Israeli government is not from an Arab, but an Israeli!
Silman is now in critical condition with 90% of his body burned. He set himself on fire in Tel Aviv, at one of the many anti-elitists protests, which are rapidly spreading throughout Israel.
“He was a completely normative person, who lived in Tel Aviv, but then his business went under. He became a cab driver and suffered a stroke, which left him unemployed.”-Ofer Barkan, Israeli Social Justice movement
14 July 2012 was the first anniversary of the Israeli Social Justice demonstrations. At least 10,000 people took part in the anniversary demonstrations.
By the way, all those taxpayers in the United States should remember that every year their government gives away hundreds of billions of their money to the Zionist Elitist government of Israel, and it all goes to weapons and in the pockets of the zionist elites.
“We are, first of all, opposed to the American visit to Egypt. Why? Because they (Americans) are trying to put pressure on the new presidential institution. And we fundamentally cannot accept any interference in Egyptian affairs!”-Protester attacking Hillary Clinton
15 July 2012, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met with Egyptian Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, supposedly to convince the junta to turn government power over to the newly elected Egyptian President (at least that’s the official report by Chock Full o’Crap western media).
But the Egyptian people (90% Muslim) are not buying that claim, especially since after the meeting Tantawi continues to say he will not give power to anyone who is a member of the Muslim Brotherhood.
In Alexandria protestors threw bottles, tomatoes and shoes at Clinton’s motorcade. Similar protests were held at the Cairo hotel where she was staying Saturday night.
The elected President is the first Egyptian President not connected to the military since 1952. He is a member of the Muslim Brotherhood. Reports say the Obama Administration is asking the junta to go easy on the Muslim Brotherhood, and this has Egyptian Christians upset.
Coptic businessmen and church leaders have issued written objections to U.S. melding in Egyptian politics. Looks like the U.S. is damned if they do and damned if they don’t in Egypt.
15 July 2012, the Arab Peninsula principalities, known as United Arab Emirates (UAE), announced the operation of a pipeline avoiding the Strait of Hormuz (which could be shut down).
The 400 kilometer (248.5 mile) long Abu Dhabi Crude Oil pipeline connects the Habshan oil fields on the Persian Gulf side of the Strait of Hormuz, with the port city of Fujairah, which is on the Indian Ocean side of the Strait.
The pipeline can flow up to 1.8 million barrels of oil daily, about 70% of UAE’s production.
Japanese officials are happy, because the UAE is Japan’s second biggest source of petroleum. Saudi Arabia is number one, Iran number three.
“This trend marks the beginning of the end for the Al Saud regime and the establishment of a popular rule in Saudi Arabia!”-Mohammad Bayatian, Iranian Industries and Mines Committee
14 July 2012, the steadily growing revolutionary movement in the U.S. puppet state Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has escalated to organized attacks on government forces and prison wars.
Saudi Arabia’s state-run news agency reported that a police station was attacked with firebombs and machine guns. One attacker reported killed, four cops wounded.
Also on Saturday, the al-Hayer political prison erupted into all out war between pro-monarchists (those whom the U.S. & U.K. support), and pro-democracy (supported by Iran) inmates. At least two people reported killed.
There have been massive protests for at least a week now. It started when a Shia cleric was attacked, wounded and arrested by Saudi cops. Since then Saudi cops have killed many protestors, including an 18 year old on 14 July 2012.
The Saudi regime is also detaining anyone suspected of being politically opposed to the British Empire established Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. On 15 July 2012, at least ten women were arrested on the grounds they were connected to politicians opposed to the Al Saud regime.
Since February 2011, protesters have held numerous demonstrations in the eastern provinces. The eastern provinces border the Persian Gulf, and are where all the oil is shipped out on tanker ships.
Also, the eastern provinces of Saudi Arabia are where the overwhelming majority of Shia Muslim Arabs live. Saudi Arabia is ruled by royalists who are Salafi/Wahhabi Muslims, the same Islamic group that Osama bin Laden was part of, the same Islamic group that most of the members of the U.S. named al Qaeda belong to, the same Islamic group that most of the 9/11 attackers belonged to.
The Chock Full o’Crap western media continues to say Saudi royalist leaders are Sunni, bull crap! The Saudi’s are behind attacks on Sunni (as well as Shia) Iraqis! Other Arab Peninsula country leaders (who’re Salafi/Wahhabi) are behind attacks against Libya, Egypt and Syria!
The First Saudi State was established in 1744, and was partly motivated by Wahhabi Islam’s call to get all westerners out of the Middle East. That order still stands today, so it is the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia that is the enemy of the West, not Iran, not Afghanistan, not Iraq, not Libya and not Syria!
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia became a protectorate of the British Empire in 1915 (Treaty of Darin), and was consolidated under the rule of Ibn Saud in 1932.
So why does the United Kingdom and United States support Kingdom of Saudi Arabia if it is anti-west? It’s all about the oil money! Western leaders don’t give a crap about what really matters to their own people, it’s all about the money!
Saudi leaders support the West only because that’s the biggest market for their oil. It’s all about the money!
So Western leaders, and Saudi leaders, give only lip service to their ideals; democracy in the West & Wahhabism in the Arabian Peninsula. Western leaders will gladly send those fool enough to think they’re fighting to protect their freedom to kill innocent people in other countries, and/or, those murderous enough to desire to kill “brown skins” & “towel/rag heads” ’cause them kind’o people ain’t christians. And the Saudi leaders gladly turn a blind eye to their own people who actively seek to kill western infidels.
Wake up people! It ain’t the Iraqis, it ain’t the Afghans, it ain’t the Libyans, it ain’t the Syrians and it ain’t the Iranians that are the enemies of the West! It’s our very own Western leaders in bed with an Arab kingdom that’s been biding its time, waiting to complete the Wahhabi order to cleanse the Middle East of western infidels and establish their own version of Dar al-Islam!!!
In 1973 U.S. President Richard Nixon (a Republican Christian) made a deal with Saudi Arabia: They could have more say in the price of oil if buyers were forced to use the U.S. dollar (now you know why we’re in the pockets of the Saudis).
This is where the term petrodollars comes from. The deal involves the New York Mercantile Exchange (aka NYMEX, aka Commodities Exchange. Now controlled by CME Group), and London’s International Petroleum Exchange, or IPE.
Now you know why the British Empire, the mortal enemy of the U.S., and Saudi Arabia, a declared enemy of the West by Wahhabi clerics, are tied to the United States. All these leaders, they don’t care about you!!!
“As much as $800 trillion in financial products are pegged to LIBOR, so any manipulation of this rate is of serious concern!”-U.S. Representative Randy Neugebauer, House Financial Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
14 July 2012, current United States Secretary of the Treasury, Timothy Franz Geithner, knew of illegal interest and currency manipulation by LIBOR while he was chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (a privately run bank).
According to recent reports, in 2008 a Barclays employee told Geitner “…we know that we’re not posting um, an honest…” rate. The unnamed employee then went on to explain that Barclays just wanted to “…fit in with the rest of the crowd.”
An interesting statement since Barclays is actually an international banking leader!
“I wish I could say I’m shocked, because it is shocking. But regulators have not been particularly effective or aggressive in the past two decades of finance.”-Frank Partnoy, University of San Diego School of Law
The latest reports say officials with the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank knew of such rate fixing back in 2007: “In the context of our market monitoring following the onset of the financial crisis in late 2007, involving thousands of calls and e-mails with market participants over a period of many months, we received occasional anecdotal reports from Barclays of problems with LIBOR.”-New York Federal Reserve Bank statement
In April 2008, a Barclays employee told the New York Federal Reserve: “…where I would be able to borrow without question it would be higher than the rate that I’m actually putting in.”
Geitner notified government officials, including the U.S. Department of the Treasury (then run by Hank Merritt “Hank” Paulson Jr under President George Bush Jr). Seemingly no one was concerned, because nothing was done to stop it.
On 13 July 2012, the Bank of England (BoE) admitted to getting a letter from Geitner, back in June 2008. The letter kindly asks the British controlled LIBOR to “…eliminate incentive to misreport.”
BoE responded simply by saying Geitner’s request “seem sensible”.
Since last year, the number of Too Big to Fail banks being investigated has grown to several dozen! The scandal involves banks in North America, Europe and Japan (the regional members of the Trilateral Commission).
“The story is quite shocking and brings us back to the banking industry’s most irresponsible behavior of the past!”– Joaquin Almunia, Vice-President of the European Commission, and Commissioner responsible for competition
14 July 2012, a top European Union official has admitted that the recent LIBOR scandal involving top British & U.S. banks, also involves top Japaneses and European banks, and government officials knew about it.
LIBOR, or London Interbank Offered Rate, is an interest rate charged to other banks, and is done on behalf of the British Bankers’ Association in London, England, U.K.
As of 2008 there were 60 international banks, including U.S. banks, beholden to the LIBOR.
Japan has their own version called TIBOR (Tokyo Interbank Offered Rate). The European Union has their version called EURIBOR (Euro Interbank Offered Rate).
EURIBOR is based in Belgium and involves at least 43 international banks.
EU Vice President, Joaquin Almunia, says his investigation into international interest rate fixing, as well as currency value fixing, began last year. It’s starting to look like the Too Big to Fails formed illegal cartels to favor a few and screw over the rest of us: “The alleged rate rigging is a major competition concern. This is why we started investigating a number of banks last year for their possible concerted manipulation of (interest rate) benchmarks such as LIBOR, EURIBOR and TIBOR, the Tokyo rate, for several currencies. The investigations have top priority because this sort of collusion can seriously harm competition worldwide and on our continent, in particular.”
In Japan the TIBOR scandal is making waves. On 06 July 2012, it was revealed that in June the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) pulled out of TIBOR. RBS is one of the banks under investigation.
UBS and Citigroup also withdrew from TIBOR earlier this year. They are also suspects. As of 06 July there were three non-Japanese banks still involved with TIBOR; JP Morgan, BNP Paribas and Deutsche Bank.
On 13 July, it was reported in the Japanese news media that the Japanese Bankers Association began investigating how interest rates and currency manipulations are arrived at by TIBOR.
It was also revealed that Japan’s Financial Services Agency fined Citigroup and UBS for such manipulations, last year! Japanese officials are saying that there’s no proof (so far) that Japanese banks were directly involved in illegal activities.
However, a top Japanese bank has put their London, U.K., employees on notice. Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ has essentially put its two currency traders in London under house arrest! The reason is that they are suspected of involvement in the British based LIBOR scandal.
Since last year, the number of Too Big to Fail banks being investigated has grown to several dozen! The scandal involves banks in North America, Europe and Japan (the regional members of the Trilateral Commission).
Check my blog for other LIBOR reports.
11 July 2012
“Unfortunately four of our brave local police were killed and two others injured in this cowardly attack.”-Hekmatullah Kochi, Zhari district police spokesman
In Kandahar Province, Afghan police turned on each other. Four people killed after two cops began shooting at other cops. Local officials are saying the Mujahideen infiltrated local police units.
International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) says a U.S. led occupying soldier was killed by an explosion: “An International Security Assistance Force service member died following an improvised explosive device attack in southern Afghanistan today.”
At least 237 U.S. led occupying personnel have died in Afghanistan since the beginning of this year.
ISAF claims to have captured two Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan leaders. The capture actually took place on 07 July 2012.
10 July 2012
In Kunduz Province, local police officials are reporting that German troops ran over children with their armored vehicle. They say one child was killed and two wounded. The U.S. puppet German government has not commented.
While in Japan raising more international taxpayer money for his country, President Hamid Karzai told reporters that Mujahideen were involved with current peace talks. However, Mujahideen groups around Afghanistan immediately denied that they were involved with peace talks with the Afghan government.
09 July 2012
In Paktiya and Nuristan provinces, local officials are reporting fire fights with Mujahideen. In Paktiya about 400 Mujahideen attacked a local government compound. At least one cop and two Mujahideen were killed. In Nuristan, local officials claim residents repelled an attack by so called Mujahideen.
Afghan government officials are also claiming that residents in the provinces of Ghazni and Faryab repelled so called Mujahideen attacks.
In Kandahar Province, five people were killed. Some reports say three of those killed were suicide bombers. Their car bomb went off too soon according to local police. The other two killed were children.
In Maidan Wardak Province, Mujahideen claim they killed five U.S. Marines. Reports say NATO confirmed the attack, but not the identity of those killed.
What Economic Recovery? A 92 year old Afghan newspaper, Etifaq-e-Islam, has finally called it quits. This after surviving the Soviet occupation, Civil War and Taliban government. Apparently working under U.S. occupation was too much financially. The newspaper had been relying on subsidies from local supporters, but the last few financial backers called it quits.
In Helmand Province, five people killed, 13 wounded, when a motorcycle bomb exploded: “An explosive laden motorbike was detonated through a remote control device near an Afghan Local Police checkpoint in Mirmandab area of Gereshk district Sunday evening, as a result two ALP policemen and three civilians lost their lives.”-Daud Ahmadi, local government spokesman
A former Chicago State University professor, who specializes in studying Afghanistan, Mohammed Duad Miraki, says the majority of the billions of USD in aid money does not go to the Afghan government. Regarding some $60 billion USD in aid, only 23% made it to the Afghan government, “…the rest has been used by international corporations and donors and over priced experts.”
Miraki added: “None of the $60 billion that have come to Afghanistan in any shape and form has affected the Afghan people in a positive way.”
Recently the international community, led by the U.S., has agreed to give Afghanistan another $16 billion USD, and of course it’s coming from taxpayers!
In Samangan Province, a traffic accident involving Afghan soldiers who just completed basic training, left 11 dead and 19 injured. It took place on Kabul-Mazar-e-Sharif highway. Local officials say reckless driving is to blame. This comes as the Afghan government recently admitted that many deadly traffic accidents are being caused by reckless driving by police!
In Kandahar Province, a series of coordinated explosions killed three people, and wounded two children.
ISAF claims to have captured another leader, along with several suspects, this time in Khost Province.
08 July 2012
70 countries pledged $16 billion USD to Afghanistan at the Tokyo Conference.
In Ghazni Province, the provincial prosecutor was assassinated. He was shot, and no one claims responsibility.
In Kandahar Province: “This morning a tractor and small truck hit roadside bombs in Arghistan district, killing 14 people and wounding three.”-Abdul Raziq, local police chief
In Helmand Province, local officials say Mujahideen attacked and killed five cops. Local police say they killed 22 Mujahideen.
ISAF reports eight U.S. led NATO occupying troops killed by a Mujahideen attack. The attack took place on 07 July.
An unnamed U.S. official confirmed the ISAF/NATO report, and added that six of the occupying personnel killed in southern Afghanistan were U.S. troops.
NATO also reported that two other occupying troops were killed on 07 July, but their nationality has not been released. This makes 07 July 2012 the deadliest day for NATO, so far.