Czytasz wypowiedzi wyszukane dla słów: Pressure Chief
Temat: _________Zbeszczeszczona_przez_arabstwo_Bazylika_!
50 youths said prisoners in Bethlehem siege
The armed Palestinians holed up in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem were
keeping some 50 children and young men virtual prisoners in the church's
cellar, a 20-year-old Palestinian who escaped related yesterday.
By Ori Nir, Amos Harel and Gavin Rabinowitz
The armed Palestinians holed up in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem were
keeping some 50 children and young men virtual prisoners in the church's
cellar, a 20-year-old Palestinian who escaped related yesterday.
The youths were permitted to go out only for short periods, one at a time, and
were suffering from hunger and thirst, as well as fear and boredom, Taher
Manasra said. "Our food was a pretzel apiece [per day]," he said. "Once, they
also gave us a hot meal of rice."
Manasra said he had slipped out through an aperture in the church wall
yesterday to gather edible plants for food. He was promptly shot in the leg -
by an Israeli sniper, he assumes - and following negotiations via Red Cross
intermediaries, he was taken for treatment to Hadassah University Hospital in
Jerusalem.
Five other Palestinian youths also left the church yesterday afternoon with the
assistance of the Red Cross mediators, after IDF soldiers spied them standing
at the church entrance waving a white flag. They said that priests inside the
church had helped them to escape.
The five, who are not on the IDF's wanted list themselves, told their
interrogators that many of the wanted men in the church would also like to give
themselves up, but are under pressure not to do so both from the leaders of the
group and from senior Palestinian Authority officials.
Manasra, an unemployed resident of the nearby Deheisheh refugee camp, said he
had been shopping for groceries in the Bethlehem market about 15 days ago when
he suddenly heard a series of explosions and saw people fleeing into the
church. He therefore did the same. Inside, he said, members of the Palestinian
Authority's security services had sent all the younger civilians into the
cellar.
"They treated us strictly, and we even had ask for permission to go to the
bathroom," he said. "We were allowed to be in the bathroom for only five
minutes." He said a member of Force 17, PA Chairman Yasser Arafat's
presidential guard, had stood watch over the youngsters with a rifle and had
ensured that they remained seated in their places all day. He said that the
people in the cellar had spent most of their time sleeping.
Manasra said he did not know why they had been kept confined to the cellar, but
assumed it had been either for their own protection or to keep them from
getting in the fighters' way. He estimated that in addition to the 50 youths,
some 200 armed men were inside the church. He claimed that even among the
fighters, morale was very low. He said he believed that they were also short of
food, even though he and his comrades had smelled things cooking in the rooms
occupied by the gunmen.
Despite the growing tensions between the gunmen and the civilians and among the
wanted men themselves, IDF Chief of Staff Shaul Mofaz said yesterday that the
standoff at the church could last for as long as another two weeks.
Meanwhile, several hundred Israeli Arabs, led by the heads of the Christian
churches in Israel, demonstrated yesterday at the military roadblock north of
Bethlehem against the IDF siege of the Church of the Nativity. The
demonstration passed quietly and dispersed after about an hour.
A catastrophe for Christianity
"With two Muslim bodies inside the Church of the Nativity, Christianity could
be facing an absolute disaster in Bethlehem," said Cannon Andrew White, the
special representative of the Archbishop of Canterbury in the Middle East. "It
would be catastrophic if two Muslim martyrs were buried in the church. It could
lead to a situation like that in Nazareth," he said.
White said the issue of removing the two bodies from the church was of primary
concern to religious representatives of all three parties involved in the
stalemate around the church. However, he said that after intensive mediation
efforts, plans to temporarily bury the bodies inside the basilica had been
abandoned, but that no progress had been made in formulating a plan to bring
the bodies outside the church.
"We are concerned with two primary issues here," said White. "The first is the
violation of the holy places. The second is humanitarian needs, even for those
who have already violated the sacred places of Christianity by bringing weapons
into the church," he said. "Holy places have always been a place of refuge, but
not for those bringing in weapons."
Temat: APOCALYPSE NOW (7) The World Trade Center Attack
APOCALYPSE NOW (7) The World Trade Center Attack
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PART 5
The World Trade Center Attack
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Israel: A nation that spies on America and
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sells our secrets to our worst enemies
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In the 1980s, Israel recruited an American Jew, Jonathan Pollard, to
spy against the United States. After his apprehension, Israeli
officials at first claimed he was a rogue agent, but later they admitted
that Pollard was working for them from the beginning.
Other than the Jewish spies, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, who gave
our atom bomb secrets to the Soviets, probably no spies have
ever done more damage to our country than that which was done
by this single Israeli spy: Jonathan Pollard.
Israel's use of Pollard's information not only destroyed
our intelligence operations in the Mideast; it practically destroyed
our intelligence apparatus in the Soviet Union and the Eastern
Bloc.
Many of America's most loyal and best agents in the
Communist world were executed because Israel sold or bartered
Pollard's stolen information to the Soviets. As the article
below by Eric Margolis shows, our wonderful friend and
ally, Israel would not even allow the United States to debrief
the Mossad agents who handled the Pollard spying so as to help
determine the full extent of the damage done to the United States
and the dangers posed to American agents overseas.
Some of the enormously sensitive secrets stolen by Pollard may have
been either sold, or bartered, by Israel to the Soviet Union.
A number of key CIA agents in the East Bloc were allegedly executed
as a result of Pollard's spying. The KGB likely gained access to
top-secret U.S. codes, either directly from Israel, or through spies
in Israel's government. In short, Pollard's treachery caused one of
the worst security disasters in modern U.S. history.
So, Israel, which receives billions of American aid, has treacherously
spied on and harmed the very security of the United States. To further
demonstrate their contempt for us, they even bartered the top secret
information they had stolen from us, to America's worst
enemies.
Even after Israel's public relations apologies for the Pollard spying,
it has continued to spy on us.
The Los Angeles Times in 1997 reported that an American Jew
named David A. Tenenbaum, admitted to divulging secrets to Israel.
To quote the Los Angeles Times: civilian engineer working at an
Army command facility near Detroit has admitted divulging classified
military information to Israeli officials over the last 10
years.
Even after Israel proved its willingness to spy on us and critically
damage America's intelligence operations, President Clinton
appointed a dedicated, Zionist Jew to Chairman of the National
Security Council, the highest intelligence position in the White
House. Even the Israeli daily Maariv referred to Berger as a
warm Jew, meaning that he is devoted to Israel first.
Appointing Berger as National Security Council chief after
the Pollard Spy Case is pure insanity.
The fact that Israel could commit these outrages against the United
States without suffering scathing media attacks or even the end of aid
to Israel, shows their extreme power over us and the treason that
reaches into the highest echelons of the American establishment. It is
no wonder that Ariel Sharon could make the following statement to
Simon Peres when he suggested that Israel might lose American aid if
it did not pull back recent Israeli incursions.
Sharon responded: Every time we do something you tell me America
will do this and will do that . . . I want to tell you something very clear:
Don't worry about American pressure on Israel. We, the Jewish people,
control America, and the Americans know it.
Temat: Raport komisji bankowej: Balcerowicz pod sąd?
W USA nie ma tego problemu. System nauczania jest zbudowany na
> innych podstawach.
Nic nie wiesz na ten temat aktywisto.
O kryminalistach Sorosie i Balcerowiczu sprzedawczyku propagande
uprawiasz.
Poland: In late 1989, Soros organized a secret meeting between
the "reform" communist government of Prime Minister Mieczyslaw
Rakowski and the leaders of the then-illegal Solidarnosc trade union
organization. According to well-informed Polish sources, at that
1989 meeting, Soros unveiled his "plan" for Poland: The communists
must let Solidarnosc take over the government, so as to gain the
confidence of the population. Then, said Soros, the state must act
to bankrupt its own industrial and agricultural enterprises, using
astronomical interest rates, withholding state credits, and
burdening firms with unpayable debt. Once thie were done, Soros
promised that he would encourage his wealthy international business
friends to come into Poland, as prospective buyers of the privatized
state enterprises. A recent example of this privatization plan is
the case of the large steel facility Huta Warsawa. According to
steel experts, this modern complex would cost $3-4 billion for a
western company to build new. Several months ago, the Polish
government agreed to assume the debts of Huta Warsawa, and to sell
the debt-free enterprise to a Milan company, Lucchini, for $30
million!.
Soros recruited his friend, Harvard University economist Jeffery
Sachs, who had previously advised the Bolivian government in
economic policy, leading to the takeover of that nation's economy by
the cocaine trade. To further his plan in Poland, Soros set up one
of his numerous foundations, the Stefan Batory Foundation, the
official sponsor of Sach's work in Poland in 1989-90.
Soros boasts, "I established close personal contact with Walesa's
chief adviser, Bronislaw Geremek. I was also received by [President
Gen Wojciech] Jaruzelski, the head of State, to obtain his blessing
for my foundation." He worked closely with the eminence gris of
Polish shock therapy, Witold Trzeciakowski, a shadow adviser to
Finance Minister Leszek Balcerowicz. Soros also cultivated relations
with Balcerowicz, the man who would first impose Sach's shock
therapy on Poland. Soros says when Walesa was elected President,
that "largely because of western pressure, Walesa retained
Balcerowicz as minister." Balcerowicz imposed a freeze on wages
while industry was to be bankrupted by a cutoff of state credits.
Industrial output fell by more than 30% over two years.
Soros admits he knew in advance that his shock therapy would cause
huge unemployment, closing of factories, and social unrest. For this
reason, he insisted that Solidarnosc be brought into the government,
to help deal with the unrest. Through the Batory Foundation, Soros
coopted key media opinion makers such as Adam Michnik, and through
cooperation with the U.S. Embassy in Warsaw, imposed a media
censorship favorable to Soros's shock therapy, and hostile to all
critics.
www.questionsquestions.net/docs04/engdahl-soros.html
Temat: How Israeli terrorism and American treason caused
Israel: A nation that spies on America and sells o
Israel: A nation that spies on America and sells our secrets to our worst
enemies
In the 1980s, Israel recruited an American Jew, Jonathan Pollard, to spy
against the United States. After his apprehension, Israeli officials at first
claimed he was a “rogue agent,” but later they admitted that Pollard was
working for them from the beginning. Other than the Jewish spies, Ethel and
Julius Rosenberg, who gave our atom bomb secrets to the Soviets, probably no
spies have ever done more damage to our country than that which was done by
this single Israeli spy: Jonathan Pollard.
Israel’s use of Pollard’s information not only destroyed our intelligence
operations in the Mideast; it practically destroyed our intelligence apparatus
in the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc.(28) Many of America’s most loyal and
best agents in the Communist world were executed because Israel sold or
bartered Pollard’s stolen information to the Soviets.(29) As the article below
by Eric Margolis shows, our “wonderful friend and ally” Israel would not even
allow the United States to debrief the Mossad agents who handled the Pollard
spying so as to help determine the full extent of the damage done to the United
States and the dangers posed to American agents overseas.
Some of the enormously sensitive secrets stolen by Pollard may have been either
sold, or bartered, by Israel to the Soviet Union.
A number of key CIA agents in the East Bloc were allegedly executed as a result
of Pollard's spying. The KGB likely gained access to top-secret U.S. codes -
either directly from Israel, or through spies in Israel's government. In short,
Pollard's treachery caused one of the worst security disasters in modern U.S.
history…
So, Israel, which receives billions of American aid, has treacherously spied on
and harmed the very security of the United States. To further demonstrate their
contempt for us, they even bartered the top secret information they had stolen
from us – to America’s worst enemies. Even after Israel’s public relations
apologies for the Pollard spying, it has continued to spy on us. The Los
Angeles Times in 1997 reported that an American Jew named David A.
Tenenbaum “admitted to divulging secrets to Israel.”(30) To quote the Los
Angeles Times, “A civilian engineer working at an Army command facility near
Detroit has admitted divulging classified military information to Israeli
officials over the last 10 years.”
Even after Israel proved its willingness to spy on us and critically damage
America’s intelligence operations, President Clinton appointed a dedicated,
Zionist Jew to Chairman of the National Security Council, the highest
intelligence position in the White House. Even the Israeli daily Maariv
referred to Berger as a “warm Jew,” meaning that he is devoted to Israel first.
(31) Appointing Berger as National Security Council chief after the Pollard Spy
Case is pure insanity.
The fact that Israel could commit these outrages against the United States
without suffering scathing media attacks or even the end of aid to Israel,
shows their extreme power over us and the treason that reaches into the highest
echelons of the American establishment. It is no wonder that Ariel Sharon could
make the following statement to Simon Peres when he suggested that Israel might
lose American aid if it did not pull back recent Israeli incursions. Sharon
responded:
“Every time we do something you tell me America will do this and will do
that . . . I want to tell you something very clear: Don't worry about American
pressure on Israel. We, the Jewish people, control America, and the Americans
know it.”
Temat: Koszt utrzymania Izraela
jak infoemacja rzedow jest preparowana dla mediow
BBC has fresh details to support its dossier claim
By Kim Sengupta
30 June 2003
The BBC will present fresh details about how the Iraqi weapons dossier was
allegedly "sexed up'' by Downing Street and accuse Alastair Campbell of
giving "inaccurate'' evidence to the official inquiry into the affair.
Publication of the claims, in the next 48 hours, will reignite the
unprecedented row just as the Blair Government appears keen to damp it down.
According to senior sources, the corporation has decided at the highest level
not to give in to the relentless pressure from the Government.
Journalists and officials at the BBC have spent the weekend poring over the
testimony given by Mr Campbell to the Foreign Affairs Select Committee.
According to the sources they have discovered "inaccuracies and
inconsistencies'' in what the Prime Minister's communications chief told MPs.
Andrew Gilligan, the BBC reporter who has been the focus of government attacks,
will produce further information on how the intelligence services were
supposedly pressured by Mr Campbell about the "45-minute threats'' posed by
Saddam Hussein, which appeared in the first Downing Street dossier last
September.
An investigation is under way, allegedly at the behest of Number 10, to hunt
down Mr Gilligan's source.
Mr Gilligan, the defence and diplomatic correspondent of Radio 4's Today
programme, has told Richard Sambrook, the head of news at the BBC, the identity
of his informant. Greg Dyke, the director general, has been given details of
the source but not his name.
Sources within the intelligence services have indicated that they will
be "combative'' if the Government attempts to start a witch-hunt to find out
those responsible for leaks to a number of journalists about the unhappiness
within the services over how intelligence on Iraq was manipulated.
The hierarchy at the BBC is also ready for a prolonged confrontation with
Downing Street over the affair. Both Mr Dyke and Gavyn Davies, the chairman of
the board of governors, have links with New Labour. Taking on the Government at
this stage is seen as a measure of their independence, according to BBC sources.
Mr Gilligan, with the backing of the BBC, has announced that he is ready to sue
Phil Woolas, the deputy leader of the House of Commons, over the allegation
that he misled the Foreign Affairs Select Committee. The BBC reporter had said
he will proceed to sue Mr Woolas, who made the allegations in a letter to Mr
Gilligan, which was also given to the media, unless he gets a retraction and an
apology.
Unlike the accusations made against Mr Gilligan by Mr Campbell, Mr Woolas's
remarks are not covered by parliamentary privilege.
Although Mr Gilligan has his critics within the BBC, the general consensus
appears to be that the corporation should not back down in the confrontation
with Number 10. A senior source said: "We shall let the public make up its own
mind about Alastair Campbell when we present an analysis of his evidence."
Three former Beeb men lead attack on corporation
The Government's fierce attacks on the BBC over allegations that Downing
Street "sexed up" a dossier on Iraqi weapons have been led by three former BBC
journalists who now work for the government.
Phil Woolas, the deputy leader of the Commons, is being threatened with legal
action by Andrew Gilligan over his claim that the BBC defence correspondent may
have misled the inquiry by the Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee. Mr
Woolas is a former assistant producer on BBC2's Newsnight programme, and has
battled with Jeremy Paxman, its presenter, over the issue.
The most explosive clash was on Saturday when Ben Bradshaw, a former BBC Radio
4 reporter who is now an Environment minister, locked horns with John Humphrys,
the presenter of Radio 4's Today programme.
The third ex-BBC man is Tom Kelly, Tony Blair's official spokesman, who used a
press briefing last week to list 12 questions the BBC should answer about its
story. Mr Kelly, whose boss is Alastair Campbell, started his career with the
BBC, holding several senior posts in Belfast and London.
Lord Birt is believed to have encouraged the close links with Labour as part of
a campaign to protect the licence fee. Several other ex-BBC staff have links to
Downing Street.
The BBC's claims that it is even-handed will receive some backing tomorrow when
Theresa May, the Tory chairman, meets BBC bosses to complain of anti-Tory bias.
Temat: Dzieci Libanu
Resistance points to drawn-out war
Resistance points to drawn-out war
Paul McGeough, Chief Herald Correspondent in Beirut
July 28, 2006
ANALYSIS
Israel has bought time to press on with its air and ground offensive in
Lebanon, but fierce resistance by Hezbollah points to a much longer and
costlier war than anticipated by its army.
As the US and Britain stared down Arab and European demands for an immediate
ceasefire at a crisis meeting in Rome, the Israelis suffered their worst combat
losses since the war began.
Eight Israeli soldiers were killed and 22 wounded in ferocious fighting on
Wednesday in Bint Jbeil, a south Lebanese town which the Israelis had claimed
to be under their "total" control 24 hours earlier. In nearby Maroun al-Ras,
which the Israelis captured last weekend, another soldier died.
The Israeli military spokesman, Major Zvika Golan, said his men were ambushed
by about 100 militia because Hezbollah's anti-tank mines had forced them to
approach Bint Jbeil on foot. "We walked into a wasp's nest and we knew it would
be a wasp's nest," he said.
A senior officer on one of Israel's armoured brigades told The Jerusalem Post
that the capture of Bint Jbeil, which Israel says is a Hezbollah stronghold,
was expected to take two to three days. The fight entered its fifth day
yesterday.
Israel claims to have killed up to 200 Hezbollah fighters and to have destroyed
or seized much of its arms and munitions, but none of that has slowed the rate
at which Hezbollah is launching missiles at northern Israel - up to 150 of them
crashed in on Wednesday, injuring about 30 Israeli civilians.
A decision by Israel to permit some humanitarian help into Lebanon allowed
three Jordanian C-130 Hercules military transports to drop supplies into Beirut
and to evacuate urgent medical cases for treatment in Amman.
But painful negotiations were continuing to win guarantees of safety for relief
convoys attempting to reach distressed communities in Lebanon's south.
After the Lebanese Prime Minister, Fouad Siniora, made an impassioned plea for
a halt to the slaughter, the Rome meeting revealed diplomacy in a poor light.
It haggled for 30 minutes on whether the communique would urge all to "work
immediately to bring a ceasefire" or "work to bring an immediate ceasefire",
sources in the meeting said. Backed by Britain, the US Secretary of State,
Condoleezza Rice, held the line for "work immediately to bring a ceasefire".
The meeting did nothing to fast-track a ceasefire. Its reference to the UN
Security Council is not likely to be dealt with until early next week - and it
will take many weeks for its call for UN-led international forces to be
executed.
In any event, Israel has indicated it will not accept foreign troops until it
has achieved its military objectives.
The conference's call for a regional meeting is fraught too.
The UN Secretary, General Kofi Annan, insisted a lasting peace would require
the involvement of Hezbollah's key sponsors - Syria and Iran. He said: "It is
clear we need a new push for comprehensive peace. Without this, we are only
buying time until the next explosion."
But Syria and Iran were not invited to Rome and both the Americans and the
Israelis have virtually no relationship with either regime.
Despite the humanitarian crisis in Lebanon, which Washington champions as an
emerging Middle East democracy, the US insists the war is an opportunity to
address big picture issues - in which it sees no post-conflict role for
Hezbollah.
Dr Rice said after the meeting: "This is a region that has had too many broken
ceasefires".
The principal task of a UN force, Dr Rice said, should be to help the Lebanese
Government to disarm Hezbollah. While the US and Britain won the day in Rome,
observers were struck by their isolation in the face of rising anxiety in
Europe and especially in the Arab world, at being seen to have signed off on
prolonging a conflict that is causing regional anger and instability.
Mr Siniora threatened "legal proceedings" against Israel, though he did not use
the term "war crimes".
He ended his plea with a quote from Roman historian Tacitus, which he said
applied to Israel's conduct: "They created a desolation and call it peace".
Acknowledging Wednesday's battle losses, Major General Udi Adam, who heads the
Israeli Northern Command, predicted that attacks in Lebanon could go on "for
several weeks," adding: "We expect more days similar to this one."
Despite strong support for the war, Israel Radio said that Wednesday's
casualties could provoke a turn in public opinion.
The military commentator, Ron Ben-Yishai, was quoted as saying: "There will be
pressure from the public for a change of strategy. This will be a shock."
www.smh.com.au/news/world/resistance-points-to-drawnout-
war/2006/07/27/1153816321237.html
Temat: ONZ boji sie Assad Terrorista i Jego Klan
ONZ boji sie Assad Terrorista i Jego Klan
Officials omitted from report
Names of five high ranking Syrian officials omitted from final report on
Hariri assassination, including those of President Assad's brother, brother-
in-law; German Prosecutor Mehlis says wanted to avoid 'wrong impression' of
guilt. Meanwhile Secretary of State Rice demands Syrian accountability for
hit
Yitzhak Benhorin
At a press conference held in New York Friday, Detlev Mehlis, the German
prosecutor who headed the investigation into the assassination of former
Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, faced piercing questions pertaining to
the controversial decision to edit the names of five Syrian officials out of
the final report on the inquiry.
Syria's Guilt
Main suspect: Assad's brother-in-law / Ynet and news agencies
According to German Magazine Stern, five top Syrian officials questioned by
U.N. investigator 'not as witnesses, but as suspects'
Full Story
Rumors have been circulating in recent days that UN Secretary General Kofi
Annan has asked Mehlis to be extra careful with the publication of the names.
However, Mehlis himself denied that any such pressure has been asserted.
The names omitted from the final report included those of Assef Shawkat, the
Syria military intelligence chief and brother-in-law of President Bashar
Assad and the president's younger brother Maher Assad.
The original report stated that the evidence collected in the investigation
indicated that several high ranking Syrian officials close to the president
were involved in the Hariri hit, including General Shawkat.
Mehlis at the press conference (Photo: Reuters)
According to the report, Shawkat may have played a central role in planning
the assassination: The general has forced Islamist fundamentalist Ahmed abu-
Adas to film a video in which he claims responsibility for the murder, which
took place two weeks later.
The tape was indeed broadcast, but could not be corroborated.
Mehlis claimed he deleted the officials' names from the report because he
wanted to avoid creating an impression that the men were guilty.
The names were mentioned by witnesses, but the officials were not convicted
in court, Mehlis said. He added that he decided to take the names off the
final version of the report so that it does not appear there are any
substantial evidence against them.
"It could give the wrong impression" Of guilt and the presumption of
innocence must remain, he said.
The prosecutor insisted that no one, including Secretary General Anan, has
intervened with the decision to omit the names, and said he would not have
accepted any such interference.
Rice demands Syrian accountability
At a press conference held in Alabama, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza
Rice demanded Syria is held accountable for its involvement in the murder.
"Accountability is going to be very important for the international
community," Rice told reporters as she flew with Britain's Foreign Secretary
Jack Straw for a tour of Alabama.
"We cannot have the specter of one state's apparatus having participated or
having been involved in the assassination of the former prime minister ... In
another state," Rice said.
Syria's U.N. Ambassador Fayssal Mekdad said to reporters that his country
continues to cooperate with the investigation, but added that the
investigation is "A very political analysis" and said accusations Syria
wasn't cooperating were "Absolutely incorrect and far away from the reality."
"I would like to confirm once again that Syria believes, strongly believes,
that it is innocent and the committee has to look somewhere else to find
those who committed this heinous crime," Mekdad said.
Roee Nahmias and news agencies contributed to this report
Temat: airbus - zdobycza socjalizmu ? dotacje ....
airbus - zdobycza socjalizmu ? dotacje ....
US seeks end to support for Airbus
By Edward Alden and Caroline Daniel in Washington and Raphael Minder in
Brussels
Published: July 8 2004 23:58 | Last Updated: July 8 2004 23:59
The US wants the European Union to end government support for future
commercial aircraft developed by Airbus, the European civil aircraft maker,
and is prepared to abandon a 1992 bilateral agreement that permits such
subsidies, according to US officials.
Robert Zoellick, US trade representative, said on Thursday that the success
of Airbus should disqualify it from any new government subsidies. "If there
were ever justification in 1992 or earlier for a start-up industry, that has
long been overcome," he said.
He said he had talked with EU officials and was seeking a solution that would
bar European governments from financing a new aircraft to compete with
Boeing's 7E7, the new mid-sized jet that this week secured its first European
orders. Asked whether that would require a renegotiation of the 1992
agreement, he said: "That will require trying to fix the problem."
The re-opening of the 1992 deal could trigger a high-profile trade dispute
between the US and EU in an industry critical to both. Although Boeing has
fallen behind Airbus in global market share of civil aircraft sales, it
remains the single largest US exporter.
A spokeswoman for Pascal Lamy, the EU's trade commissioner, said Washington
had not formally requested negotiations, but: "We may have a mutual interest
in discussing the 1992 agreement."
She added: "The US concerns are the same as those we have about the support
given to aircraft producers in the US."
EU officials played down the threat as election-year politics by the Bush
administration under pressure from Boeing, which is trying to save a
lucrative tanker deal with the US Air Force. Boeing, under its chief
executive Harry Stonecipher, has promised to "raise the rhetoric" over
European government support for Airbus.
The 1992 deal permitted European governments to use advance royalty financing
to pay for up to one-third of the development costs of new aircraft. Airbus
is expected to repay the loans based on the volume of future sales. Under
those terms, Boeing claims that EU governments provided over $4bn in aid for
the launch of Airbus' A380, which threatens to displace Boeing's 747 in the
long-haul market.
Allan McArtor, chairman of Airbus North America, denied that support for the
A380 constituted a subsidy, and said that Boeing was the one unwilling to
live within the constraints of the 1992 agreement. "It's not an Airbus
problem but a Boeing problem of compliance," he said, pointing to support
from Washington State for the 7E7.
The US focus on the 1992 pact suggests that it does not want to bring a World
Trade Organisation case alleging that European support for the A380 violated
WTO restrictions on subsidies. The EU has said that would trigger a similar
case against US support for Boeing.
But Mr Zoellick did not rule out the possibility of such a case. "It's not
only a question of the 1992 agreement, it's a question of their WTO
obligations," he said.
Temat: Iran , twardy orzech do zgryzienia ,...
Cus na deser ,...
uklony
Co bys powiedzial na strefe bezatomowa w tym rejonie
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Toward a different nuclear policy
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By Zeev Maoz 08:56 21/12/2005
In the past month - either as an integral part of the election campaign or due
to external reasons - there has been a revival of the debate on the need,
feasibility and timing of an Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear facilities.
Benjamin Netanyahu's declaration of the need to do so, Ariel Sharon's
confirmation of the existence of such a military option, the cautions issued by
the director of Military Intelligence and by the IDF chief of staff that Iran
is expected to reach the point of no return in March 2006, and articles by
several experts imply that the issue is very much on the mind of Israel's
defense establishment.
This development is not unrelated to the news that Israel has purchased two
submarines from Germany, which the foreign media reports are intended to shore
up Israel's second-strike capability.
The debate on Iran's nuclear capability, and the Israeli response to it, raises
to the surface a fundamental paradox that is inherent to Israeli nuclear
policy. The fact that preemptive military action is even under discussion is
cogent proof that those steering our defense policy - and Israeli defense
experts, the vast majority of whom are ardent supporters of Israel's nuclear
policy - in effect do not believe that Israel possesses effective nuclear
deterrence.
On the one hand, they cultivate an image of nuclear capability for the purpose
of deterring potential adversaries. On the other, whenever any state in the
region is suspected of nearing the threshold of nuclear capability, they begin
to consult on the requisite military move to forestall such an eventuality.
The Begin Doctrine - which declared that Israel will not allow any country in
the region to develop weapons of mass destruction - was never actually
implemented, and the fact is that the majority of Israel's neighbors have
developed substantial chemical, biological and missile capacities.
Nevertheless, the doctrine is dusted off - in word and in thought - whenever
the nuclear dark cloud drifts over the region, and that does not necessarily
mean over the skies of Israel.
By now it is clear that Israel's nuclear image presents no deterrent to
guerrilla warfare and terror, that is does not deter Arab states from limited
wars (Yom Kippur, for instance), and that it did not deter Saddam Hussein from
launching Scud missiles at population centers in Israel. The mere consideration
of a preemptive strike indicates that the possibility of mutual nuclear
deterrence does not hold out much promise. All parties agree that nuclear
deterrence is ineffective against an irrational enemy. If that is the case,
then what exactly is Israel achieving by its nuclear image?
Israel also excels in creativity and assertiveness on matters related to
military initiatives. Part of this superiority derives from the fact that its
defense policy has been characterized by a tendency to wield a light trigger
finger whenever a real or imagined threat has surfaced.
Conversely, Israel's peace policy is distinguished by a response-driven
approach: diffidence, over-cautiousness and a predilection for avoiding risks.
The debate on the Iranian nuclear threat is notable not only for the arguments
for and against a military attack, but also for what is not being said. It
lacks any serious discussion of the possibility of Israel launching a
diplomatic initiative to eliminate nuclear weapons in the Middle East.
The contradiction inherent to the Israeli nuclear policy - stoking the image of
a nuclear deterrent capacity to whose effectiveness Israel itself does not
subscribe - requires a profound reexamination of the internal logic of this
policy. The time has come to begin relating to Israel's nuclear image as a
negotiating chip, and to seriously consider if a Middle East disarmed of
weapons of mass destruction would not be preferable to a nuclear Middle East,
or to a Middle East in which Israel possesses a nuclear monopoly.
Israel could bring real international pressure to bear if it were to initiate
nuclear disarmament. It is mature enough and strong enough to consider the
principle of "he who dares, wins" not only by means of military initiatives,
but also in the matter of diplomatic initiatives.
The writer is professor of political science at the University of California,
Davis, and at Tel Aviv University.
Temat: Te bandziory spia ze soba ...
Heheh , to by sie trzymalo kupy gdyby nie pominiety (celowo czy nie) szczegol ,
mianowicie , gdyby nie "out of district" mamona zydowskich organizacji i mediow
ktora plynie obfitym strumieniem do przeciwnika kandydata ktory podpadl zioncom
Na ten temat mozna poczytac bazujac na doswiadczeniach bylego Congressman'a
Charles Percy , Paul Findley , Cynthia McKinney ,...
uklony
During the Specter-Yeakel campaign, the Inquirer 's reporter assigned to it
repeatedly pointed out that Yeakel was wealthy and was putting money into the
campaign, but never mentioned that Jewish PACs were pouring money into the
Specter camp, although this information was publicly available. Yeakel's church
had sponsored a Middle East program in which several of the speakers had
criticized Israel. The Specter campaign took this up as showing "anti-
Semitism," calling on Yeakel to dissociate herself from the program. The
Inquirer played this up as real, never mentioning that Specter himself had been
one of the speakers on the program. The paper published a series of letters by
lobby members denouncing the church, and with ad hominem attacks on some of the
church leaders, and blatantly false statements, such as "No Jewish leader has
attempted to equate criticism of Israel with anti-Semitism." The lobby leader
who engaged in the daily faxing of criticisms had seven letters and four Op Ed
columns published in the paper during 1991-92. A letter by this writer
criticizing the Inquirer 's news coverage of the Senate campaign elicited a 5-
single spaced page letter of reply from the Executive Editor, but the critical
letter was not published. And replies from Yeakel's church group, even by
individuals personally attacked, were refused publication by the paper. This
cave-in and one sided policy on the editorial page paralleled serious bias in
the news department. It is not clear that bias would not have been present
without the incessant lobby pressure, but that surely took its toll.
“Israel Controls the U.S. Senate” — William Fulbright, Chairman of the U.S.
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations.
I’ve never seen a President — I don’t care who he is — stand up to them [the
Israelis]. It just boggles the mind. They always get what they want. The
Israelis know what is going on all the time. I got to the point where I wasn’t
writing anything down. If the American people understood what a grip those
people have got on our government, they would rise up in arms. Our citizens
certainly don’t have any idea what goes on.
Admiral Thomas Moorer, former Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Long-time Democratic congressman (and economist!) Clarence Long acknowledged to
Paul Findley that "Long ago I decided that I'd vote for anything that AIPAC
wants. I didn't want them on my back....I made up my mind I would get and keep
their support."
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w wiekszosci okregow zydow nie ma albo stanowia sladowa mniejszosc. nic zatem
nie zmusza kongresmana do glosowania w duchu izraela.
Temat: Ludzie tesknią za gierkiem
>>>>W takim razie Gierek zaprzepaścił szansę podporządkowania sobie zachodu -
zamiast brać, mógł udzielać im pożyczek. Dlaczego tego nie robił? Pewnie nigdy
się nie dowiemy. <<<
Gierek to nie MFW ani BŚ, to nie mógł, po 2 primo na to trzeba miec kase, w/w
kase daja USA oraz juz zlapane wpulapke kraje, po 3 primo za gierka fridman byl
jeszcze monetarysta i wierzyl w swoje teorie, ktore ulegaly jednak ewolucji, bo
to uczony i mysli wraz z ewolucja swiata, stiglitz za gierka wogole byl znany
nielicznym , dzieki pracy w Banku Swiatowym , obserwuja realne prajkyki i ich
skutki stworzyl teorie,
Od czasów Gierka Polska jest jednym z państw drenowanych przez zagraniczny
kapitał, a odpływ środków obrotowych z naszego kraju odbywa się w stopniu
proporcjonalnym do adaptacji naszych przepisów do zasad wolnorynkowych. Obecnie
jedynym obszarem naszej gospodarki, nie w pełni dostępnym dla spekulacyjnego
pieniądza, jest handel gruntami rolnymi. Pozostałe przepisy dostosowaliśmy już
do standardów ustalanych przez posiadaczy kapitału i im służących.
Obecnymi dogmatami demokratury są wzrost gospodarczy oraz wolny przepływ
oprocentowanych kapitałów. Założenia te zostały wzięte pod lupę przez
alternatywnych ekonomistów, wśród których znajduje się ubiegłoroczny laureat
nagrody Nobla w ekonomii, Joseph Stieglitz. Zauważyli oni, że to właśnie
oprocentowanie kapitału wywołuje konieczność wzrostu gospodarczego, ten zaś
wymaga rosnących inwestycji kapitałowych, realizowanych drogą zagranicznych i
wewnętrznych pożyczek, zniewalających rządy i narody. Oprocentowanie kapitału
służy wyłącznie tym, którzy go posiadają, a zuboża pożyczkobiorców. Nie dającą
się zbić argumentacją przeciwko stałemu wzrostowi gospodarczemu jest też obecne
tempo dewastowania naturalnych zasobów planety, nie mające precedensu w
historii świata cywilizowanego.
Sposobem powstrzymania demokratury przed zatraceniem się w obłędzie zwalczania
skutków, które sama wywołuje (nasza bieda i wynikająca z niej przemoc są
wynikiem decyzji politycznych, a nie tego, że jesteśmy głupi czy leniwi) jest
powołanie alternatyw ekonomicznych.
Joseph E. Stiglitz was Chief Economist at the World Bank from 1996 until 1999,
during which time he became quite critical of World Bank policy. Under pressure
to keep quiet, he resigned in protest.
i jeszcze 1 kawalek:
When the IMF decides to assist a country, it dispatches a "mission" of
economists. These economists frequently lack extensive experience in the
country; they are more likely to have firsthand knowledge of its five-star
hotels than of the villages that dot its countryside. They work hard, poring
over numbers deep into the night. But their task is impossible. In a period of
days or, at most, weeks, they are charged with developing a coherent program
sensitive to the needs of the country. Needless to say, a little number-
crunching rarely provides adequate insights into the development strategy for
an entire nation. Even worse, the number-crunching isn't always that good. The
mathematical models the IMF uses are frequently flawed or out-of-date. Critics
accuse the institution of taking a cookie-cutter approach to economics, and
they're right. Country teams have been known to compose draft reports before
visiting. I heard stories of one unfortunate incident when team members copied
large parts of the text for one country's report and transferred them wholesale
to another. They might have gotten away with it, except the "search and
replace" function on the word processor didn't work properly, leaving the
original country's name in a few places. Oops.
It's not fair to say that IMF economists don't care about the citizens of
developing nations. But the older men who staff the fund
Temat: Jarosław Kaczyński: To sprawa pana Tuska
Hi Rooboy,
I'm not here to take political sides. That never interested me. Although your
gentle critique of Mr Tusk cannot be taken as serious and as having solid
foundations. Never mind that. What I'm on about is this. If you follow the
various pre-election utterances of the then PM, Mr Jarosław Kaczyński, and of
his closely reigned in followers, back in the autumn of 2007, you will easily
discern a clear pattern of Mr J. Kaczyński concentrating his vitriol against his
main opponent, Mr Donald Tusk. That vitriol had an obvious political motive, and
it followed very clearly the then political pre-election calendar. Mr J.
Kaczyński decided, in one of his frequent moments of madness, that Mr Tusk was
in charge of some kind of mafia in the Baltic region of Poland. (I’m almost
quoting the little fellow here.) This the birthplace of "Solidarity", it is
also Mr Donald Tusk's home ground and power place, and it is also a place of
special importance to those who respect and admire Mr Lech Wałęsa. (Mr J.
Kaczyński tells lies about Mr Wałęsa, as well.) It seems that Mr J. Kaczyński
had instructed the boss of the CBA (Central Anticorruption Bureau), Mr Mariusz
Kamiński, to make sure that by the time the elections were announced Mr Tusk
should be compromised, and almost dead and buried. And so two innocent people,
Mrs Sawicka, a an MP from PO, Mr Tusk's party, and the mayor of Hel, Mr Mirosław
Wądołowski, were chosen to represent the corruption that Mr J. Kaczyński had
planned in his head. A trap had been laid. There was a whole team of CBA agents,
with its own HQ, running round Mrs Sawicka, honey entrapment, no costs spared,
and all. By the time she received the "corrupt" money, she had been under
constant pressure from CBA, to do exactly this!, since the spring, and possibly
since January, of 2007, until her arrest in October of that year. Mr Wądołowski
apparently had accepted, very unwittingly, a promotional business folder from
the CBA officers, parading as businessmen, without having the slightest
knowledge that the folder contained some 150000 zlotys, circa 30000 in sterling.
The whole thing was carefully timed to coincide with the impending Polish
parliamentary election. At the time of the arrests Mr J. Kaczyński said that the
electorate "should now know for whom not to vote". The very same words were
repeated, word for word !!! by the CBA boss Mr Kamiński, during
his official press conference, a few days later. Rooboy, can you imagine such a
show happening in a civilised democracy? The chief of the Central Anticorruption
Agency working directly to the script coming from the office of the prime
minister? Can you imagine, let's say, British or Australian procurators
deciding to charge anybody arrested after such flagrant political police action
sanctioned and overseen by the prime minister himself? Give me a break. All this
is so ridiculous that it can stretch any sane man's credulity. But, alas, and
sad as it is, it has happened. And the trial of those two unfortunates is now
underway, bringing shame to the good name of Poland in the world, and to her
judiciary in particular.
There has been a fresh development today, 6th October, 2009. The very boss of
the CBA, Mr Kamiński, has heard at the office of the Rzeszów Procurator charges
of abusing power, of being in charge of illegal CBA actions, of forging
documents, and of committing perjury. (All that to do with another action of the
CBA.) If the case goes to court, and if he is found guilty Mr Mariusz Kamiński
can go down for 8 years. Sanity is returning to Poland.
Temat: Troche zdrowego rozsadku.
Troche zdrowego rozsadku.
www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/129628
Published: 01/27/09, 1:04 AM
Ya'alon: No More Retreats; Arabs Never Accepted Our Existence
by Gil Ronen
(IsraelNN.com) Lt.-Gen. (res.) Moshe “Bogey” Ya'alon, who is eighth on Likud's
Knesset list, opened the first session of the three-day Jerusalem Conference
with a Zionist speech of the old-fashioned, hard-hitting kind, that outlined a
new strategy for Israel: no more retreats.
“We suffer from inertia in our way of thought,” Ya'alon said. “We pretend that
there is a Palestinian entity which has recognized Israel.
But from the dawn of Zionism there has not been an Arab movement that was
willing to recognize Israel as the sovereign state of the Jewish nation.
Mahmoud Abbas said it well before Annapolis: "Why should Judaism, this
religion, have a state?" But we didn't want to listen. We blur this in the
political and public debate.”
Ya'alon pointed to a disconnection from reality in Israel's strategic thinking.
“We pretend that the problem began in the Six Day War,” he told a packed hall
at Jerusalem's Regency Hotel. “But did the Arabs recognize us before the Six
Day War?
We wanted peace in exchange for territories, but we received terror for
territories. And when we exited Gaza unilaterally, we received rockets for
territory...
After the Disengagement we went to Annapolis anyways. We didn't change the
concept. Isn't this confusion?”
'Let's try something else'
The former Chief of Staff pooh-poohed the claim that the retreats were forced
upon Israel by United States:
“The United States did not pressure Israel to go to Oslo, or to carry out the
Disengagement, or to do what it did last year with the Syrian President. There
is a blurring here also. I think that after September 2000 we should have
stopped and said
– 'we've tried two states for two peoples, let's try something else.'”
“We pretend that the conflict is the Middle East is a territorial one but it
is a clash of civilizations,” Ya'alon said.
“We retreat from Lebanon and we think that this will cancel the Hizbullah's
reason for existing but the exact opposite happens.”
Confusing the Arabs
Ya'alon outlined his prescription for the next government's policy:
“We must stop talking about territories for peace, about the division of
Jerusalem, and let the Arabs in Judea and Samaria have autonomy. Just by
talking about retreats we give jihadist Islam a boost.”
“Some of our politicians have a hidden agenda of a binational state,” he
accused. “This confuses the Arabs. When Israeli politicians turn into our
enemies' advisors and we remain silent we confuse them,” he said, in an
apparent reference to Ra'am-Ta'al's Ahmed Tibi, who was Yasser Arafat's
advisor before running for Knesset.
He also took jabs at statements made by outgoing Prime Minister Ehud Olmert
and Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, without mentioning their names:
“We need leadership that doesn't say 'we are tired of fighting wars.' The
nation is not tired and the army is not tired. If the leadership is tired it
should be changed. As for another statement, that the state of Israel is
finished if we do not return to the 1967 borders: time works in favor of
whoever makes good use of it,” Ya'alon stated.
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