Czytasz wypowiedzi wyszukane dla słów: Pressure Chief
Temat: 12 lutego
14 lutego
kolejne "leg down" powinno przyjsc z uk. ladne niusy:
www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/4614655/Government-may-have-to-take-full-control-of-Lloyds.html
blogs.telegraph.co.uk/james_kirkup/blog/2009/02/13/lloyds_shares_taxpayers_taking_a_bath
to tez dobre:
Barclays sparked surprise yesterday as it disclosed that it had expanded its
balance sheet by a mammoth £900 billion over the past year, making it
significantly bigger than the entire British economy.
business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/banking_and_finance/article5697765.ece
www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/4615708/Pressure-on-Lloyds-chief-as-shares-dive.html
Temat: IS DEFLATION MADE IN CHINA
CHINY + 9,9 GDP W 1Q 2003
Niezle zaczeli rok i SARS ich nie pognebil.
China seen keeping yuan-dollar tie
Morgan Stanley economist doesn't see currency floating soon despite pressure
from trading partners.
July 7, 2003: 9:58 AM EDT
BEIJING (Reuters) - Morgan Stanley's top economist said Monday he is confident
China will not bow to mounting pressure from major trading partners to revalue
its dollar-pegged yuan currency.
"I do not think that China is going to run the risk of accelerating its pace of
opening up its capital markets because of adverse consequences in the global
economy," said Stephen Roach, managing director and chief economist at the U.S.
investment bank.
China, the world's best performing major economy, with year-to-year growth of
9.9 percent in the first quarter, had become a scapegoat for weak performances
elsewhere, he said.
Temat: Izrael musi pozbyć sie broni masowego rażenia.
Izrael musi pozbyć sie broni masowego rażenia.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/comment/0,10551,1111567,00.html
If Libya can do it, why not Israel?
We can no longer turn a blind eye to the fifth largest nuclear power
www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_1462137,00.html
Tripoli - A Libyan newspaper, Al-Jamahiriya, says the international community should pressure Israel to eliminate its weapons of mass destruction, saying Tripoli's renunciation of such arms meant Israel no longer had an alibi for having them.
"The Libyan initiative must encourage the international community to discuss the case of Israel and put pressure on the Israelis to eliminate their weapons of mass destruction
Libya took the world by surprise when it announced on Friday that it had developed weapons of mass destruction and vowed to renounce them.
"Israel's weapons should no longer escape checks by Blix and ElBaradei," said the paper, referring to former UN chief arms inspector Hans Blix and the head of the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei.
Temat: Dolarowy klopot?
If the dollar does continue to fall and sets off a
withdrawal of funds, this ?trouble? will confront
Greenspan in the form of a dilemma. On the one hand,
maintenance of economic growth will require that
interest rates be kept at their present low levels. On
the other hand, confronted with an outflow of dollars
and the threat of a run on the currency, the Fed will
be under pressure to increase official rates.
Calculations are already being made as to the impact of
a rapid fall. According to Morgan Stanley chief
economist Stephen Roach, a ?hard landing? of the US
dollar, defined as a 20 percent loss of value by the
end of the year, would have a ?devastating impact on US
financial markets? as foreign investors sought to move
out of dollar-denominated assets and US investors
likewise sought non-dollar assets. This movement would
result in lower bond and equity values with
?significant negative consequences for a
wealth-dependent US economy.?
This will spell ?serious trouble? for the world
economy?more dependent than ever on an expanding US
market?as what seemed to be a virtuous circle in the
late 1990s, in which financial inflows into the US
prompted still greater inflows, turns increasingly vicious.
Temat: "klamac jak Bush"
"klamac jak Bush"
z prasy brytyjskiej o klamcu-Bushu:
Bush’s fate is tied to the controversy over Iraq’s WMD. Westminster Editor
James Cusick looks at Dubya’s chances of a second term
Americans are no longer buying the idea that the war in Iraq was worth it.
Half of US citizens, in recent polls, say they now believe George W Bush’s
administration exaggerated intelligence reports about Saddam Hussein’s
weapons of mass destruction. But even with a long shadow now cast over the
White House’s ability to tell it straight, it would seem Bush just can’t stop
himself.
Last week the President – whose campaign promise was to restore “honour and
dignity” to the White House – offered his own evidence that his presidency no
longer believes US voters take much notice of what he says. Explaining why
the US had to force regime change in Iraq, he said “We gave him [Saddam] a
chance to allow weapons inspectors in, and he wouldn’t let them in. After a
reasonable request we decided to remove him from power.”
This wasn’t minimalist revisionist history, this was just a lie. Saddam ,
through pressure from the UN Security Council and resolution 1441, was forced
to re-admit weapons inspectors back into Iraq. Their search lasted months. In
March, with UN chief weapons inspector Hans Blix asking for more time to
complete his task, Bush, with the express backing of Tony Blair, denied the
UN more time and invaded Iraq.
The death of David Kelly and the limited independent inquiry that will now
follow, will deliver new facts into an already heated arena.
Temat: Reakcje UE na śmierć zakładnika i sytuację w Iraku
Reakcje UE na śmierć zakładnika i sytuację w Iraku
A nawet więcej: w sprawozdaniach dzielnych korespondentów GW z Iraku brakuje
informacji, że cały szereg różnych kontyngentów militarnych w Iraku okopało
się w swoich bazach odmawiając współpracy z Amerykanami.
Polecam tłumaczom Pana Red.Nacz. ( artykuł ten zainteresowałby WSZYSTKICH
czytelników GW: Le Canard Enchaine z 14. kwietnia:
France's Foreign Affairs Ministry received information
that "several foreign contingents went back to their bases in Iraq
and refused to participate in the fighting with the Americans."
The same article also reports that the Aug. 6, 2001
Presidential Daily Briefing on the dangers of a bin Laden attack
against the U.S., was written "after another initiative taken" by
the CIA; that is the discussion which took place in July 2001 at
the American Hopsital in Dubai between CIA representative Larry
Mitchell and Bin Laden; the meeting's existence is today
confirmed "unofficially" by certain FBI officials.
The mission was an attempt to calm,
even threaten,
this former great friend of America.
Finally, the article states
that following the Madrid bombings,
heavy pressure was exerted on the allies
by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Richard Myers,
for a NATO intervention into Iraq,
under the pretext that no country is allowed to remain neutral,
under those circumstances.
Temat: Co to jest ?
Co to jest ?
Napadli, zamieszali, zabili kilkadziesiat tysiecy osob a teraz mowia
przedstawicielom rzadu napadnietego kraju, ze "ich cierpliwosc jest na
wyczerpaniu" . Czy jest to brak wyczucia sytuacji, bezczelnosc czy po prostu
zwykla glupota ?
Aha, "troubled nation" to jest Irak. Dlaczego ta nation jest troubled ?
BAGHDAD - Making his third visit in four months to Iraq, Defense
Secretary Robert Gates took a decidedly stronger tone as he warned the
troubled nation's leaders that American patience is wearing thin.
On his unannounced trip, the Pentagon chief said Iraq's leaders have to move
faster to bring together the warring factions.
The session centered on operations in Iraq, as well as the progress of the
ongoing military buildup, and it came as Gates ratcheted up the pressure on
the Iraqi political leaders.
"The clock is ticking," Gates told reporters Thursday. "I know it's
difficult, and clearly the attack on the council of representatives has made
people nervous, but I think that it's very important that they bend every
effort to getting this legislation done as quickly as possible."
Temat: How did we get into this mess?
How did we get into this mess?
"A unique combination of ideology, special-interest pressure,
populist politics, bad economics, and sheer incompetence has brought
us to our present condition.
Ideology proclaimed that markets were always good and government
always bad...."
www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2008/11/stiglitz200811
Ten sam gosc, J. Stiglitz - byly chief economist World Banku i Nobel
Laureate, byl na C-Spanie onegdaj i .... just absolutely trashed
ta "tricle down" scheme Poulsona. Video z jego wypowiedzia jest na C-
spanie ale nie moge jej otworzyc.
Temat: What would Bush do if
I know about Hollyburton and John Edward clobbered Chimp Cheney big time on
that one. BTW, your pages are slow loading up so I gave up. In fact Edwards
helped through many lawsuits regarding the Hollyburton scandal and it only
makes me more sympathetic (and glad!) that you Americans have lawyers like
Edwards. He's got the gift of the gab (as most lawyers do) but he's got his
facts together and that's what counts! Chimp Chia Pet Cheney was squirming
under John Edwards' pressure yesterday and it was a sight for sore eyes. He is
just as inefficient of a speaker/debater as his Commander in Chief bigger Chia
Pet Bush.
That whole Hollyburton thing makes me sick to my stomach. And that's NOT
Michael Moore only. That's facts that became known way after the movie was
finished. And it's not only Chia monkey Cheney that dipped his grabby paws
in "no bid" contracts. Bush's old man, "Bush-backer Bechtel", the construction
firm, and of course a Texas-based company by the name of Exxon-Mobil both
dipped their mitts in similar contracts.
I hope the American people will see through the BS and go with Kerry.
ON the other hand, our Canadian dollar is getting stronger by the day...do we
want the American's to do well?
Just joking! :)
Temat: Złoty słabnie w bardzo szybkim tempie
Gość portalu: Hajduk napisał(a):
> To tak jakbym usłyszał "Iran szykuje się do
> wojny z Izraelem" i zlikwidował firmę w Dubaju i pozbyłbym się
> nieruchomości w Arabii Saudyjskiej...
Dzisiaj wyłącznie jeżeli mowa o Wschodniej Europie to rozchodzi się
o Polskę a głównie o Bank PKO
Jak podaje dzisiaj Bloomberg: “Central Europe has now been in focus
for a number of weeks,” said Beat Siegenthaler, chief emerging-
markets strategist at TD Securities in London. “Anything connected
with these markets has been under pressure. Banks have been very
active and very aggressive in the region. At the moment it doesn’t
look good.”
Głównie własnie rozchodzi się o Bank Pekao: "Italy’s UniCredit,
which owns Poland’s Bank Pekao SA as well as operations in Ukraine,
Kazakhstan and Russia, declined 7.4 percent to 1.13 euros. Bank
Pekao, Poland’s biggest lender, slid 19 percent to 70 zloty.
Raiffeisen International Bank-Holding AG of Austria, which operates
solely in former Communist countries, sank 14 percent to 13 euros."
Poza tym mamy hurtową wyprzedaż banków na całym swiecie i także w
USA gdzie wiele z banków nadal jest narażone inwestycjami we
Wschodniej Europie.
Temat: Irak - najważniejszy poligon polskiej armii
Przegląd US-prasy na akt. temat
[source: Wash Post, NY Post, wires, 9/3/03]
FALL-OUT FROM THE "VIETNAM IN THE DESERT"
Iraq is so out of hand
that even leading members of the uniformed military in the U.S.,
including Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
Marine Gen. Peter Pace are "lobbying" the Administration
for a UN resolution so other nations
will help supply military forces,
reported that {Washington Post}, Sept. 3.
That is just a small part of the mounting pressure;
some other signs are:
* Thomas White, the former Army Secretary ousted by
Rumsfeld, has written a book exposing that "the plan for winning
the peace is totally inadequate."
He adds that the current policy
"threatens to turn what was a major military victory into a
potential humanitarian, political and economic disaster."
White agreed with Gen. Eric Shinseki who told Congress
that more than 200,000 troops would be needed for "peace
keeping" in Iraq,
which Rummy and Wolfowitz vehemently denied.
* After less than four months, 9/11 "hero" NYC Police
Commissioner, Bernard Kerik quit as the Iraq Occupation's police
chief, responsible for recruiting and training the Iraqi police
force. Kerik would have been at the Baghdad police station on
Sept. 2, when the bomb went off, but he changed his plans at the
last minute to leave Iraq one day earlier.
* {New York Times} oped by the Middle East Policy Council's
Donald Hepburn, points out how pathetic and incompetent the
Cheney war has been.
He says, in the 1991 Gulf War, the U.S. coalition effort
was called "Operation Tin Cup" and raised $60 billion
from "the coalition".
Now it should be called "Operation Begging Bowl"
Temat: w zagramanicznego portalu
w zagramanicznego portalu
Polish far right, populists enter government Friday May 5, 07:32 PM
WARSAW (AFP) - Poland's far-right and populists entered power in coalition
with conservatives, forming a government that, more than six turbulent months
after legislative elections, will finally command a majority in parliament.
The coalition will consist of the nationalist, virulently anti-EU League of
Polish Families (LPR), the anti-liberal, populist Samoobrona (Self-Defense)
and the conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party.
In a televised ceremony, President Lech Kaczynski named LPR
leader Roman Giertych and Samoobrona chief Andrzej Lepper as deputy prime
ministers.
(...)
Since parliament resumed session in November, and amid venomous public
quarrels between political parties, PiS has been unable to pass laws promised
to voters in the election campaign.
In the new Cabinet led by Prime Minister Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz of PiS,
Samoobrona's Lepper becomes agriculture minister in addition to his deputy
premier role, and LPR chief Giertych takes over at the education ministry.
(...)
Giertych is a devout Catholic who is deeply opposed to the spread of
homosexuality, to euthanasia and abortion. He has also spoken out against
Poland adopting the euro.
Samoobrona, during its election campaign, pressed for Poland's accession
treaty to the European Union to be renegotiated, for greater government
control over Poland's central bank, and for higher unemployment benefits.
Lepper has since softened his rhetoric, saying Friday that "everything must
be done to take advantage of EU funds and invest them in infrastructure, into
road construction, because that's the worst problem in Poland."
(...)
But with the hardline Catholic, nationalist LPR in the mix, the coalition
government is expected to have 245 seats, or a majority of 15.
Analysts were sceptical about how long the new coalition will last, and
warned that the entry of nationalists and populists into power could harm the
economy.
Ryszard Petru, an analyst for BPH bank, told AFP: "It's a negative signal for
the economy, but its effects will probably be limited as the economy is
developing" despite the country's turbulent political scene.
"However, a grim scenario cannot be completely ruled out, as populist
pressures threaten to discourage investors," Petru added.
Temat: Araby sie morduja __a winni sa Swiat,Izrael ,EU i
Araby sie morduja __a winni sa Swiat,Izrael ,EU i
inni Arabowie !!! TAK MOWI HAMAS .
Winni bo im pieniedzy nie daja ! Jak nie to bedziemy mordowac ! Doslownie tak
mowi przywodca Hamas palestynskich terrorystow. Banda rzezimieszkow ktora
szantazuje caly swiat.
______________
May. 16, 2007 15:32 | Updated May. 16, 2007 17:15
Hamas blames world, Israel and Arabs
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
DAMASCUS, Syria
The international community, Israel and Arab countries are to blame for the
current inter-Palestinian fighting in the Gaza Strip for failing to life an
economic siege on the Palestinians, a senior Hamas official said Wednesday.
The remarks by Moussa Abu Marzouk, deputy head of Hamas' political bureau,
came as fighting renewed between Hamas and Fatah in Gaza early Wednesday when
Hamas gunmen stormed the home of a top Fatah official in Gaza City, killing
five bodyguards inside, Palestinian security officials said.
The attack comes after a brutal day of factional fighting between Hamas and
Fatah rivals in Gaza that killed 15 people. Four days of intense Palestinian
infighting in Gaza have killed 41 people.
"The international community and Arab countries shoulder part of the
responsibility for the current events due to their attitudes toward the
national unity government," Abu Marzouk told The Associated Press by telephone
in Damascus. "The continued financial and political siege has pushed matters
to this simmering tension."
He also blamed Israel and Arab apathy toward the economic sanctions for the
fighting.
"The Israelis are behind all these events," Abu Marzouk said. "It's illogical
that the Arabs stand idle watching the Palestinian arena while it's on the
verge of explosion under the siege. ... This is a constant pressure that has
led to a real explosion."
Abu Marzouk singled out Javier Solana, the European Union's foreign policy
chief, for criticism. "He was one of the main instigator for these events
because he is continuing his siege of the Palestinian people and had boycotted
Palestinian elections," the Hamas official said.
The major donors have demanded that Hamas recognize Israel, renounce violence
and commit to past agreements before aid is restored. Hamas has rejected the
demand.
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1178708616387&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Temat: VW przesadzil...
VW przesadzil...
W VW sypia sie glowy. Powodem sa "ograniczone sukcesy" w zmianie wizerunku
rynkowego. Proba wejscia w klase "S" okazala sie wpadka - Phaeton nie
sprzedaje sie nawet w polowie tak dobrze, jak sie spodziewano (a i tak byly
to skromne plany). Touareg rowniez nie narzeka na problemy z nadwyzka popytu.
Plany auta klasy super-sport (z centralnym silnikiem) prawdopodobnie zostana
odlozone na polke. Jednoczesnie podstawowe dla VW produkty segmentow B, C i D
stracily momentum. Nie jest dobrze. Mysle, ze proba rozciagniecia marki "dla
ludu" na obszar "dla elit" to jakies nieporozumienie. Uwazam, ze powinni
skupic uwage na podstawowych segmentach, gdzie ostatnio nie idzie im
najlepiej.
DAREKK
VW SALES CHIEF BUECHELHOFER OUT
Volkswagen AG said Tuesday its sales and marketing director and management
board member, Robert Buechelhofer, had left the company over a policy dispute
that industry sources said was linked in part to the launch of VW's new
luxury car. Buechelhofer, 60, came to VW eight years ago after resigning from
BMW's board in the wake of current VW chairman Bernd Pischetsrieder
appointment as chairman at BMW. Buechelhofer's departure, say observers,
follows a series of clashes with Pischetsrieder, including one over the slow
start-up of VW's Phaeton luxury car, with Buechelhofer complaining that a
lack of engine variants was to blame for tepid reception of the car in
Germany. One possible replacement for Buechelhofer is Dr. Jens Neumann, who
has been the board member in charge of North America during VW's renaissance
in this market. The resignation also comes at a time when VW is under
increasing pressure from former chairman Ferdinand Piech's heavy investment
in premium vehicles like Phaeton and the Touareg SUV, while segments closer
to Volkswagen's traditional brand equity languish with older product. VW
expects to sell 7800 Phaetons this year, and has denied it had originally
planned to sell between 12,000 and 14,000. VW reportedly released around 2000
demonstration models last year to dealers and VIPs to try and establish
credibility with the car. The group warned in March that its operating profit
would fall this year if weak demand and unfavorable exchange rates persisted
and said earnings for the first quarter of 2003 would be significantly below
the previous year. -Jim Burt
Temat: CNN: Izrael wdarł się do systemu wyborczego USA
Info z internetu na ten temat poruszany przez CNN
UNISYS - THE MOSSAD'S TROJAN HORSE?
Unisys is headed by Lawrence A. Weinbach, who is president, chief executive
officer and chairman of the computer giant who provides computer equipment and
software for all of the key agencies of the U.S. government and leading
companies.
Under Weinbach, Unisys has integrated Israeli security software, provided by
the Israel-based Check Point Software Technologies and Eurekify, into its own
software. Israeli software, written by Mossad-linked companies, now "secures"
the most sensitive computers in the U.S. government and commercial sector.
"Unisys combines Check Point's security technologies within Unisys solutions
across strategic vertical markets including the commercial and federal
sectors," Unisys says on its website. "100 percent of the Fortune 100 rely on
Check Point for unequalled security and worry-free protection," it says.
The Mossad-written Check Point security software (aptly enough named), has been
integrated since 1997 into Unisys software and computer systems and is clearly
providing Israeli military intelligence with Trojan Horse infiltration of the
most sensitive U.S. government and commercial computer systems.
The Israeli penetration of U.S. government computer networks through the Larry
Weinbach and the Unisys Trojan Horse makes the similar Israeli penetration
through Ptech during the 9-11 terror operation seem small. One can only
conclude that Israeli intelligence is privy to all the information on U.S.
government and commercial computers and has been since about 1998.
Israeli military intelligence is inside the mind and nervous system of the
ENTIRE U.S. government as well as all of the Fortune 100 companies.
What was that that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said to Shimon Peres
about Jewish control in America shortly after 9-11?
"Don't worry about American pressure," Sharon said during a weekly meeting of
the Israeli cabinet, "We the Jewish people control America."
Temat: Zbrodnicze dziedzictwo rewolucji francuskiej ...
Tu masz po angielsku, skoro tylko takim przekazom dajesz wiarę:
Athanase Seromba (born 1963) is a Rwandan priest who was found guilty of
involvement in the Rwandan genocide.
At the time of the genocide, Seromba was priest of a Catholic parish in
the Kibuye province of western Rwanda. He is charged for the deaths of
around 2,000 Tutsis who took refuge in his parish church. According to the
charges brought against him, Seromba ordered his church to be bulldozed,
and then shot the survivors between April 6 and 20, 1994.
Seromba fled Rwanda in 1994 to Europe and, lived in Italy using the alias
Anastasio Sumba Bura. Under pressure from Carla Del Ponte, currently a
Chief UN War Crimes Prosecutor, Seromba surrendered himself to the
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) on February 6, 2002. On
February 8, 2002 he pleaded not guilty to the charges of genocide,
complicity in genocide, conspiracy to commit genocide and extermination as
a crime against humanity. His trial began on September 20, 2004 before the
Third Trial Chamber of the ICTR. On 13 December 2006, he was found guilty
and sentenced to 15 years in prison.
Tu masz po polsku na temat nadzorującego Serombę biskupa:
www.oecumene.radiovaticana.org/POL/Articolo.asp?c=16510
Wprawdzie został zwolniony z zarzutów, ale do złudzenia przypomina to
zwolnienie z zarzutów zwielgusa.
Zresztą ukrywanie samego ks. Athanase Seromba przez 10 lat w parafii pod
Watykanem mimo ścigania go przez inspektorów MTS mówi samo za siebie. Watykan
nakazał mu dobrowolne ujawnienie się po zagrożeniu nagłośnienia faktu ukrywania
Seromby przez Watykan na forum międzynarodowym. Dla przypomnienie - wszystko to
się działo za pontyfikatu JP2.
Jako ciekawostkę mogę dorzucić, że "J.E. ks. bp Augustin Misago" koncelebrował
uroczystości w bazylice katedralnej w Sandomierzu w otoczeniu naszych
purpuratów w dniach 19-20 listopada 2004 r.
W Holandii osadzono oprócz wymienionej jeszcze trzy inne zakonnice za
działalność "misyjną" w Ruandzie. Informacje na ten temat znajdziesz w necie
zarówno w jęz. polskim jak i angielskim.
Czy nie uważasz, że temu sposobowi misjonarstwa religijnego i nepotyzmowi
trwającemu od 2000 lat należało by postawić tamę?
Temat: Balcerowicz na golasa
Soros, Wałęsa, Geremek, Sachs, no prosze:
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: EU wants to widen economic ties with Israel
EU wants to widen economic ties with Israel
EU wants to widen economic ties with Israel
By Aluf Benn, Haaretz Correspondent , Haaretz Service and Agencies
The EU-Israel association council on Monday
stressed the need to widen economic ties with
Israel, a European radio station reported. The
council convening in Brussels is attended by
Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom and 25 European
foreign ministers.
The Radio Free Europe station
quoted EU officials as saying
that the bloc's ties with
Israel are "wider and deeper"
than with any other country
in the region. Besides
growing trade volumes, both
sides are interested in
advancing cooperation in
fields like agriculture,
energy, and science. Israel is also keen to
participate in the Galileo satellite project,
the satellite positioning system currently
being developed by the EU, set to rival the
U.S. geo-positioning system (GPS), the
officials said.
The Europeans are also planning to criticize
Israel's refusal to receive any EU
representative who has met with Palestinian
Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat.
Ahead of the Brussels meeting, Prime Minister
Ariel Sharon and Shalom have agreed to lift the
boycott on EU foreign policy chief Javier
Solana, who has met Arafat, and allowed him to
meet with senior officials in Jerusalem such as
the director-general of the Foreign Ministry,
but not with any cabinet ministers.
The EU will also raise the issue of the West
Bank security fence. The radio quoted an EU
official as saying that the EU will warn Israel
that deviations from the current and planned
route of the fence from the green line
separating Israel and the Palestinian
territories could "prejudge future
negotiations." Worse still, the official said,
the fence could make the widely supported
two-state solution a "physical impossibility."
Ahead of the meeting EU officials proposed to
pressure Israel by threatening to harm the
development of future relations with it, but
the proposal was turned down, among others
because of the intervention of German Foreign
Minister Joschka Fischer.
It was also decided not to raise the issue of
taxing products manufactured in the settlement
during the meeting.
Temat: US congress nie zgadza sie na szwindel tysiaclecia
US congress nie zgadza sie na szwindel tysiaclecia
Despite Pressure, House GOP Hesitant on Financial Rescue Plan
By Paul Kane
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, September 23, 2008; 12:41 PM
House Republicans remained reluctant to approve legislation that
would provide a $700 billion bailout for the financial securities
industry after a more than 80-minute sales pitch this morning from
Vice President Cheney and President Bush's chief of staff, Joshua
Bolten.
GOP leaders asked Cheney and White House officials to brief the
lawmakers on the urgent need to pass the legislation after members
of Congress returned to Washington yesterday jittery about the size
and scope of the administration's request. But rank-and-file
lawmakers leaving the meeting gave no indication that they were
ready to give swift approval to the bailout.
"Just because God created the world in seven days doesn't mean we
have to pass this bill in seven days," said Rep. Joe Barton (R-
Texas), the ranking member of the House Energy and Commerce
Committee.
"The jury's really out [on] how the Congress is going to act," said
Rep. Zach Wamp (R-Tenn.).
The legislation's prospects rest largely on keeping it a bipartisan
package with substantial support from both Democrats and
Republicans. Neither side wants to be trapped into supporting a plan
that many believe will be politically unpopular on Election Day,
according to lawmakers and aides in both parties.
House Democrats held their own weekly meeting on the plan last
night, during which many expressed doubts and complained about the
White House's rapid timetable for approval, according to lawmakers.
This afternoon, senators will break into their separate partisan
policy luncheons to digest the emerging details of the White House
proposal, as well as the competing versions Democrats may offer.
After Cheney left the House GOP meeting shortly before 10:30 a.m.,
Republicans remained huddled for another 35 minutes with Bolten and
other Bush advisers. Later they acknowledged widespread reluctance
among lawmakers to approve such a large plan so quickly.
"Nobody wants to do this, nobody wants to be involved in this,
nobody wants to take the chance. But I would argue if we do nothing,
we are jeopardizing our economy, jobs and people's retirement
security. So I would think Congress has to act, and they have to act
quickly," said House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio).
Temat: USA i Izrael wywolaly trzesienie ziemi
40 Years of Zapping the Sky?
As far back as 1958, the chief White House advisor on weather modification,
Captain Howard T. Orville, said the U.S. defense department was studying "ways
to manipulate the charges of the earth and sky and so affect the weather" by
using an electronic beam to ionize or de-ionize the atmosphere over a given
area.
In 1966, Professor Gordon J. F. MacDonald was associate director of the
Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics at the University of California,
Los Angeles, was a member of the President's Science Advisory Committee, and
later a member of the President's Council on Environmental Quality.
He published papers on the use of environmental-control technologies for
military purposes. MacDonald made a revealing comment: "The key to geophysical
warfare is the identification of environmental instabilities to which the
addition of a small amount of energy would release vastly greater amounts of
energy. " World-recognized scientist MacDonald had a number of ideas for using
the environment as a weapon system and he contributed to what was, at the time,
the dream of a futurist. When he wrote his chapter, "How To Wreck The
Environment," for the book Unless Peace Comes, he was not kidding around. In it
he describes the use of weather manipulation, climate modification, polar ice
cap melting or destabilization, ozone depletion techniques, earthquake
engineering, ocean wave control and brain wave manipulation using the planet's
energy fields.
He also said that these types of weapons would be developed and, when used,
would be virtually undetectable by their victims. Is HAARP that weapon? The
military's intention to do environmental engineering is well documented, U.S.
Congress' subcommittee hearings on Oceans and International Environment looked
into military weather and climate modification conducted in the early
1970's. "What emerged was an awesome picture of far-ranging research and
experimentation by the Department of Defense into ways environmental tampering
could be used as a weapon," said another author cited in Angles Don't Play This
HAARP.
The revealed secrets surprised legislators. Would an inquiry into the state of
the art of electromagnetic manipulation surprise lawmakers today? They may find
out that technologies developed out of the HAARP experiments in Alaska could
deliver on Gordon MacDonald's vision because leading-edge scientists are
describing global weather as not only air pressure and thermal systems, but
also as an electrical system.
www.haarp.net
Temat: Jarosław Kaczyński: To sprawa pana Tuska
Hi, Rooboy
I will be brief.
1. You did say in one of your posts something about corruption within PO. So far
none has been found. Read today's news from Poland.
I quote you: "… ultimately tusk and tusk alone is responsible for the widespread
corruption within his government, and his inability to address this situation
confirms that he is a poor manager...”
Rooboy, there is no corruption in the PO government.
2. I am not a PR man for PO. What on earth gave you this idea? I'm an ordinary
citizen expressing his views. Just like you. Rooboy relax. This forum is now
read by just the two of us, I reckon. What we write here is of no interest or
importance to anybody. Do you really think that any decision makers are reading
the "GW" forums? Most unlikely. So I will not pass on to Mr Tusk your advice,
which you have so generously given free of charge. One advice of yours is that
Mr Tusk does not sack Mr Kamiński. Rooboy, Mr Kamiński has got serious criminal
charges laid against him, of abusing power, of being in charge of illegal CBA
operations, of forging documents, of committing perjury. Not bad for a chief of
state anticorruption bureau. How can Mr Tusk not sack him? Do you
really think Mr Tusk can afford to ignore the present situation, and the serious
criminal charges facing Mr Mariusz Kamiński, without risking damaging his
credibility? Apart from the fact, that if found guilty, Mr Kamiński could face
imprisonment of up to 8 years, he is also a serious threat to the
constitutional stability of Poland. Mr Tusk is guilty of a serious error to do
with Mr Kamiński. He should have sacked him two years ago.
3. Are you saying that Poland is not ready for a civilised and independent
public television service? Why not? Do you not think that PiS has done enough
damage to the process of Polish democratisation? Twenty years have passed from
the fall of Communism. And there still is external political pressure and
censorship at TVP. Just because there are politicians afraid of free debate,
does that mean that they should have any say in the running of a public
broadcaster? They want to be free to limit my freedom. But I want to be free, as
well. Is that not reasonable?
4. I do not understand your views on nationality. I used your son's example only
because you seem to have proposed a syllogism.
pozdr
t1
Temat: gra o pkn orlen?
dalej...
> tylko ze bp ma ochrone i blogoslawienstwo wujka sama oraz bossow swiatowego
> kapitalu. dlatego kreml musi sie liczyc z tnk-bp i nie moze zrobic tej firmie
> takiego kesimu jak zrobil chodorkowskiemu
... a mimo to zaczyna jakby iskrzyc...
www.templetonthorp.com/pl/news926
Putin Allays TNK-BP Worries
President Vladimir Putin offered a show of support for the country's top oil
exporter, TNK-BP, during a Kremlin meeting Friday with BP's chief executive,
Lord Browne.
In a sign of possible upcoming relief for the oil major, which is grappling with
a back tax claim of nearly $1 billion, Putin said he hoped the 50-50 joint
venture between BP and Tyumen Oil would continue to grow at the same rapid rate
it has since its creation in February 2003.
"We were not mistaken when we supported your decision two years ago," Putin
said, praising the company for being what he called a good corporate citizen.
"Let me express my hope that your business in Russia will continue to grow at
the same rate."
The meeting was the first between the two men since Browne received Putin's
blessing amid much fanfare for BP's groundbreaking $8 billion investment deal.
Nearly two years after the deal was struck, however, TNK-BP appears to be coming
under pressure in a much changed climate, as the state seeks greater control
over the oil sector and foreigners look likely to be prevented from taking
controlling or equal stakes in new strategic ventures.
Two weeks ago, the oil major said it had been levied with a back tax claim of
nearly $1 billion for 2001, while its future growth plans have been thrown into
doubt by a new government bill to bar foreign-owned companies from bidding for
major strategic fields.
Putin economic aide Igor Shuvalov told reporters after the meeting that neither
Putin nor TNK-BP
Temat: Przedwyborcza (w USA) ciekawostka:
Przedwyborcza (w USA) ciekawostka:
Here is a quick look into THREE former Fannie Mae executives who have helped
bring down Wall Street, AND WHAT THEY ARE DOING TODAY.
Franklin Raines was a Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at Fannie Mae.
Raines was forced to retire from his position with Fannie Mae when auditing
discovered severe irregulaties in Fannie Mae's accounting activities. At the
time of his departure (Wednesday, Dec.22, 2004) The Wall Street Journal noted,
" Raines, who long defended the company's accounting despite mounting evidence
that it wasn't proper, issued a statement late Tuesday (Dec. 21, 2004)
conceding that "mistakes were made" and saying he would assume responsibility
as he had earlier promised. News reports indicate the company was under
growing pressure from regulators to shake up its management in the wake of
findings that the company's books ran afoul of generally accepted accounting
principles for four years." Fannie Mae had to reduce its surplus by $9 billion.
Raines left with a "golden parachute" valued at $240 Million.
The government filed suit against Raines when the depth of the accounting
scandal became clear. The gov ernment noted, "The 101 charges reveal how the
individuals improperly manipulated earnings to maximize their bonuses, while
knowingly neglecting accounting systems and internal controls, misapplying
over twenty accounting principles and misleading the regulator and the public.
The notice explains how they submitted six years of misleading and inaccurate
accounting statements and inaccurate capital reports that enabled them to grow
Fannie Mae in an unsafe and unsound manner." These charges were made in 2006.
The Court ordered Raines to return $50 million dollars he received in bonuses
based on the miss-stated Fannie Mae profits.
Tim Howard was the Chief Financial Officer of Fannie Mae. Howard "was a strong
internal proponent of using accounting strategies that would ensure a "stable
pattern of earnings" at Fannie. In everyday English - he was cooking the
books. The government investigation determined that, "Chief Financial Officer,
Tim Howard, failed to provide adequate oversight to key control and reporting
functions within Fannie Mae,"
On June 16, 2006, Rep. Richard Baker, R-La., asked the Justice Department to
investigate his allegations that two former Fannie Mae executives lied to
Congress in October 2 004 when they denied manipulating the mortgage-finance
giant's income statement to achieve management pay bonuses.. Investigations by
federal regulators and the company's board of directors since concluded that
management did manipulate 1998 earnings to trigger bonuses. Raines and Howard
left Fannie Mae under pressure in December 2004. Raines's departure was
structured as an early retirement. Howard resigned.
Howard's "Golden Parachute" was estimated at $20 Million!
Jim Johnson is a former executive at Lehman Brothers who was later forced
from his position as Fannie Mae CEO. A look at the Office of Federal Housing
Enterprise Oversight's May 2006 report on mismanagement and corruption inside
Fannie Mae, and you'll see some interesting things about Johnson.
Investigators found that Fannie Mae had hidden a substantial amount of
Johnson's 1998 compensation from the public, reporting that it was between $6
million and $7 million when it fact it was $21 million. Johnson is currently
under investigation for taking illegal loans from Countrywide while serving as
CEO of Fannie Mae.
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Johnson's "Golden Parachute" was estimated at $28 Million.
WHERE ARE THEY NOW?
FRANKLIN RAINES?
Raines works for the Obama Campaign as a Chief Economic Advisor
TIM HOWARD?
Howard is also a Chief Economic Advisor to Obama
JIM JOHNSON?
Johnson was hired as a Senior Obama Finance Advisor
and was selected to run Obama's Vice Presidential Search Committee
IF OBAMA PLANS ON CLEANING UP
THE MESS - HIS ADVISORS HAVE
THE EXPERTISE - THEY MADE
THE MESS IN THE FIRST PLACE .
Would you trust the men who tore the "old"
Wall Street down to build the New Wall Street ?
Temat: CNN chief accuses Israel of terror
CNN chief accuses Israel of terror
CNN chief accuses Israel of terror
Oliver Burkeman in New York and Peter Beaumont in Jerusalem
Tuesday June 18, 2002
The Guardian
Ted Turner, the billionaire founder of CNN, accuses Israel today of engaging
in "terrorism" against the Palestinians, in comments that threaten to lead to a
further decline in the news network's already poor relations with the Jewish
state.
"Aren't the Israelis and the Palestinians both terrorising each other?" says
Turner, who is vice-chairman of AOL Time Warner, which owns CNN, in an
exclusive interview with the Guardian.
"The Palestinians are fighting with human suicide bombers, that's all they
have. The Israelis ... they've got one of the most powerful military machines
in the world. The Palestinians have nothing. So who are the terrorists? I would
make a case that both sides are involved in terrorism."
His remarks were last night condemned by Ariel Sharon's government, which
called them "stupid". Andrea Levin, director of the American pro-Israeli media
watchdog Camera, said the comments were a "reprehensible" attempt to "blur the
line between perpetrator and victim".
In his first British interview since the September 11 attacks, Mr Turner - who
broke philanthropic records in 1997 when he donated $1bn to the UN - argues
that poverty and desperation are the root cause of Palestinian suicide
bombings.
But Daniel Seaman, a spokesman for the Israeli government, said: "My only
advice to Ted Turner is if people assume you are stupid, it is just best to
keep your mouth shut rather than open your mouth and confirm everyone in that
view."
Mr Turner also admits that he was wrong to call the September 11
hijackers "brave" in a speech in Rhode Island that sparked outrage. "I made an
unfortunate choice of words," he says, adding that his ownership of the Atlanta
Braves baseball team meant the word was never far from his mind. "Look, I'm a
very good thinker, but I sometimes grab the wrong word ... I mean, I don't type
my speeches, then sit up there and read them off the teleprompter, you know. I
wing it."
Mr Turner is moved to tears at one point in the interview by the "depressing"
combination of conflicts like that in the Middle East and the state of the
environment, which he says demands massive global attention - "or, you know ...
it's goodbye".
A senior minister in Yasser Arafat's cabinet told the Guardian he welcomed Mr
Turner's comments. Many Palestinians complain just as bitterly of a pro-Israeli
bias in CNN's coverage - mocking it as the "Zionist News Network" - as Israel
complains of a pro-Palestinian one.
"I feel it reflects a more consistent approach," said Ghassan Khatib, Mr
Arafat's newly appointed labour minister and until recently director of the
Jerusalem Media and Communications Centre, a Palestinian media monitoring unit.
"One of the problems in trying to reduce the violence has been the focus of so
much international attention on Israeli rather than Palestinian civilian
deaths, although four times as many Palestinians have been killed."
CNN has been a punchbag for both sides. A widespread perception of bias among
some Israelis and US supporters of Israel has prompted several boycotts by
pressure groups, urging viewers to switch to Rupert Murdoch's Fox News channel.
But three months ago, in an interview with CNN's Christiane Amanpour, Mr Arafat
slammed down the phone after accusing her of anti-Palestinian bias. "You are
covering with these questions the terrorist activities of the Israeli
occupation and the Israeli crimes," he said. "Be quiet. Be fair. Thank you, bye-
bye."
CZYTAJCIE:
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Temat: 2 dolary za 1 Euro. Watek numer 4
Fed sends clear message of higher rates ahead
Fed sends clear message of higher rates ahead
17:23 2005/10/21
WASHINGTON (AFX) A flurry of Fed speeches this week delivered a single message
to financial markets: the Fed will continue hiking interest rates over the next
several meetings, Wall Street economists said
"Basically, the Fed continues to telegraph to the market that they are not in a
rush to stop the pace of rate hikes," despite the impact of Hurricanes Katrina
and Rita, said Steven Ricchiuto, chief U.S. economist at ABN Amro Inc. The FOMC
has already raised shortterm interest rates by a quarterpercentage point eleven
straight meetings since June 2004
While it used to be fashionable to complain that the Fed was being opaque, the
speeches by top Fed officials, particularly one Wednesday by Fed governor Donald
Kohn, were crystal clear, economists said. "They all seem to be on the same
page," said Mike Moran, chief economist at Daiwa Securities. The unified message
is that the risks are tilted toward higher inflation. While there will be a
slowdown as consumers grapple with higher energy costs associated with the
storms, it is less of a concern, Moran said. "So the natural call is more
increases in interest rates," Moran said
Next year's cap at 4.5 or 5.0? Economist agreed that the Fed will hike rates by
a quarterpercentage point at the last two meetings of the year on Nov. 1 and
Dec. 13, bringing the Fed funds rate up to 4.25. Many economists see the Fed
taking interest rates up to 5.0 next year, while others have the Fed pausing at
4.5. The rate hikes will slow the pace of demand, cooling off consumer spending
and the housing market, dampening inflationary pressures
Economists said Fed officials remain nervous that interest rates are still too
low, or "accommodative," which means boosting growth. Officials want to push the
Fed funds rate to a "neutral" level that neither retards or fosters growth
But a neutral range of interest rates is a fuzzy concept that constantly varies.
Janet Yellen, the president of the San Francisco Fed, put the midpoint of her
neutral range of interest rates at 4.5. Subtle signals Ricchiuto said Fed
officials want the market to understand that the economy is not likely to repeat
its remarkable performance in the late 1990s of a decade of growth with low
inflation because of a burst in productivity growth
"That is what they are subtly telling you," Ricchiuto said
David Wyss, chief economist at Standard & Poors, said another important theme,
perhaps best articulated by Fed governor Roger Ferguson, is that the economy is
flexible enough to bounce back from the destruction caused by the hurricanes.
"That is why we are doing better than you might expect, given all the shocks to
the system," Wyss said
Wyss cautioned that the Fed speeches shouldn't be taken as a complete roadmap of
future policy
The Fed is always more comfortable explaining what they are doing instead "of
telling us they are going to change what they are doing," he said
Some economists did see hints that the Fed could slow, but not stop, the pace of
tightening
As the Fed gets closer to neutral, the Fed might not have to move at every
meeting, Moran said
"But that is not November. They are going to go at November," he added
Temat: Ani slowka o wyjsciu Syriu z Lebanonu?
Ani slowka o wyjsciu Syriu z Lebanonu?
Tyle bylo krzyku, ze niby obiecuja ale nigdy nie wyjda bo jeszcze nawet daty
nie ustalili. A oni wczoraj wszyskie zolnierzyki i nawet szpiegowie z krainy
bezdeszczowcow wyszly co do ostatniego. Mnie to ogromnie cieszy bo jedna
mniej wymowka dla szalenca Busha i jego neoconskiej swity aby naprawiac
swiat, szczegolnie ten roponosny.
Mysle ze zapelnie to malenka luke w Wiadomosciach GW jak zacytuje to z New
York Times:
Lebanon, April 26 - The last of Syria's troops left Lebanon on Tuesday after
a bittersweet ceremony near the border, ending a military presence that for
29 years helped Syria control Lebanon and confront Israel through proxy
militias.
As the remaining soldiers crossed into Syria - driven out by international
pressure and by Lebanese demonstrations over the past two months -
politicians here also acknowledged that serious challenges now faced a more
independent Lebanon, not least a democracy hobbled by sectarian divisions and
bitter memories of civil war. The first test is fast approaching, with the
cabinet expected to call for new elections before May 31.
On Tuesday morning, Lebanese and Syrian military officers gathered at an
airbase in this Bekaa town, about 10 miles from the Syrian border, to bid
farewell to 300 or so crisply uniformed Syrian troops and top intelligence
officers, and hundreds of other troops securing roads to the border. Military
bands from both countries played as commanders exchanged medals before
dignitaries and military attachés from numerous countries, including the
United States, France and North Korea.
"Brothers in arms, thank you for your sacrifices," said Gen. Michel Suleiman,
commander of Lebanon's army, who bid the soldiers goodbye with an Arabic term
meaning "Until we meet again." "Together we shall always remain brothers in
arms in the face of the Israeli enemy."
Prominently featured in the audience was Maj. Gen. Rustom Ghazali, Syria's
latest top intelligence chief in Lebanon, a post from which Syria was widely
believed to have held the reins of Lebanese politics for years.
Syria entered Lebanon in 1976, a year after civil war broke out, as part of
an Arab peacekeeping force. But the Syrian role took a serpentine course. The
government of the late Hafez al-Assad, father of the current Syrian
president, Bashir al-Assad, befriended and betrayed various factions, and for
the past 15 years, Syria was dominant.
The Syrians were invited in by Suleiman Franjieh, a Maronite Catholic who was
then president, as a counterweight to Palestinian guerrillas who had allied
with leftist Muslim forces. But the Christians later became enemies of the
Syrians and, in recent years, their sharpest critics.
Meanwhile, while ostensibly championing the Palestinians, Syria set compliant
Shiite Muslim militiamen against refugee camps in the 1980's. And the Syrians
were blamed by most Lebanese for assassinations of prominent political
figures.
The Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982 seemed likely at first to end Syrian
influence. But then Bashir Gemayel, who was Israel's ally, was assassinated
shortly after his election as president, and his militiamen massacred
Palestinians. The United States sent a peacekeeping force but it left after
242 marines and sailors died in a Shiite suicide bombing. Israeli troops
eventually withdrew under attacks by the Shiite group Hezbollah.
After another half-decade of civil war, a fragile peace was reached in 1989
and Syria was to leave. But Syria only solidified its power in 1990 when the
United States and France, in effect, turned a blind eye in Lebanon and in
exchange got a symbolic deployment of Syrian troops in the first Persian Gulf
war.
By then, in the anarchic fighting, the Christian-led Lebanese Army had
massacred a Christian militia and the Syrians, in turn, had attacked and
crushed the Lebanese Army. At that point, the civil war ended with Syria
firmly in charge.
Last September the United Nations, in Resolution 1559, called for Syria's
withdrawal, and for the disarming of all militias in the country. Late last
year, Prime Minister Rafik Hariri resigned his post and called for Syria to
comply. He was assassinated Feb. 14, setting off popular demonstrations
fueled by a widespread belief that Syria was involved in the killing. The
protests only increased international pressure on Syria to get out.
"Syria has now fulfilled that demand," said Gen. Ali Habib, leader of the
Syrian Army. "Syria never had any desires or ambitions in Lebanon except to
preserve its unity."
Temat: Iran nakazuje Żydom i chrześcijanom noszenie op...
List do AIPAC od Betty McCollum
A LETTER TO AIPAC
By Betty McCollum
The letter below was sent by Representative Betty McCollum, a Democrat from
Minnesota, to the executive director of AIPAC. The bill mentioned, H.R. 4681,
the Palestinian Anti-Terrorism Act of 2006, would place so many restraints on
aid to the Palestinian people, and so many restrictions on the administration's
ability to deal with the Palestinians, that even the State Department has
opposed it. AIPAC has strongly backed it. The Senate version of the bill, S.
2237, would allow the administration far more flexibility. On April 6, the House
International Relations Committee passed H.R. 4681 by a vote of 36 to 2;
McCollum was one of the two nays. As of May 11, AIPAC has yet to respond to her
demand for an apology.
—Michael Massing
April 10, 2006
Mr. Howard Kohr
Executive Director
American Israel Public Affairs Committee
440 First Street, NW; Suite 600
Washington, D.C. 20001
Dear Mr. Kohr:
During my nineteen years serving in elected office, including the past five
years as a Member of Congress, never has my name and reputation been maligned or
smeared as it was last week by a representative of AIPAC. Last Friday, during a
call with my chief of staff, an AIPAC representative from Minnesota who has
frequently lobbied me on behalf of your organization stated, "on behalf of
herself, the Jewish community, AIPAC, and the voters of the Fourth District,
Congresswoman McCollum's support for terrorists will not be tolerated."
Ironically, this individual, who does not even live in my congressional
district, feels free to speak for my constituents.
This response may have been the result of extreme emotion or irrational passion,
but regardless, it is a hateful attack that is vile and offensive to me and the
families I represent. I call on AIPAC to immediately condemn this un-American
attack and disavow any attempt to use this type of threat and intimidation to
stifle legitimate policy differences. I will not stand to be labeled or
threatened in a manner that questions my patriotism or my oath of office.
Last week, I did vote against H.R. 4681 during mark-up of the bill in the House
International Relations Committee. As a Member of Congress sworn to uphold the
Constitution, and ensure the security of the US and represent the values and
beliefs of the constituents who I serve, it was my view that H.R. 4681 goes
beyond the State Department's current policies toward Hamas and the Palestinian
Authority and potentially undermines the US position vis-à-vis the coordinated
international pressure on Hamas. The language contained in S. 2237 accurately
reflects my position.
Keeping diplomatic pressure on Hamas to renounce terrorism, recognize the State
of Israel, dismantle terrorist infrastructure, and honor past agreements and
treaty obligations, while preventing a humanitarian crisis among the Palestinian
people, are all policy goals already strongly supported by myself, the Bush
administration, Congress and the American people. But, if the purpose of H.R.
4681 was to send another strong message to Hamas and the Palestinian people, as
Congress already has sent with the passage of S. Con. Res. 79, then I disagree
with the vehicle for that message. In my opinion, Congress should be
articulating clear support for the Secretary of State's present course of
action; not creating a new law which likely diminishes the diplomatic tools
needed to advance US policy goals with regard to the Palestinian people,
potentially cuts US funding to the United Nations, and largely restates current
law while creating on-going and burdensome unfunded reporting requirements.
As you well know, in Congress we do not shy away from condemning the vile words
of despots and dictators who use anti-Semitism as a weapon to incite hatred,
fear and violence. AIPAC should not have a lower standard for persons affiliated
and representing its organization when they label a Member of Congress who
thinks for herself and always puts the interest of our nation and people first a
supporter of terrorists.
You and your colleagues at AIPAC have the right to disagree with my position on
any piece of legislation, but for an AIPAC representative to say that I would
ever vote to support Middle East terrorists over the interests of my country
will never be tolerated by me or the families I serve. This incident rises to a
level in which a formal, written apology is required.
Mr. Kohr, I am a supporter of a strong US–Israeli relationship and my voting
record speaks for itself. This will not change. But until I receive a formal,
written apology from your organization I must inform you that AIPAC
representatives are not welcome in my offices or for meetings with my staff.
Betty McCollum
Member of Congress
4th District, Minnesota
Washington, D.C.
www.nybooks.com/articles/19063
Temat: Wojsko izraelskie użyło zakazanej broni
Gość portalu: sabra and shatila napisał(a):
> Israel nie wypełnia rezolucji ONZ nawet sprzed 35 lat.....
Israel's army chief opens fire on his political masters
By Ross Dunn, Herald Correspondent in Jerusalem and agencies
August 27 2002
The head of Israel's army, Moshe Ya'alon, has criticised Israel's decision to
withdraw its troops from southern Lebanon two years ago. He says it encouraged
the Palestinians to go "war".
He told an assembly of the country's rabbis in Jerusalem that Palestinian
terror and the prospect of a hostile state getting control of nuclear weapons
constituted "the most serious security threat to Israel".
General Ya'alon refused to accept that the conflict, which began in September
2000, was a popular uprising or intifada by the Palestinian people.
"We are not talking here about popular action by the public that embarked on a
struggle. The Palestinian Authority reached a decision by which it believed
that it would succeed in defeating us by means of an initiated campaign of
terror and violence. It is the Palestinian leadership that is
directing this war."
Bowing to pressure from the military, the Israeli Government ruled out any
early withdrawal from Hebron on the weekend, further jeopardising an agreement
for a phased withdrawal of re-occupied areas of the West Bank.
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Violence erupted in the northern territory and the Gaza Strip, where
Palestinian factions continued talks on a common position and ending attacks
inside Israel, despite Israel's freeze of the security plan.
Left-wing politicians criticised General Ya'alon's comments. They said he
should stick to purely military affairs, and not make political speeches.
General Ya'alon said that the Palestinians and the Arab world had seen it as a
weakness when Israel pulled out of southern Lebanon. They had concluded that
Israel would yield to pressure to force it to withdraw from the West Bank and
Gaza Strip.
He said he was not particularly troubled about the implications of an American
strike on Iraq.
"I tell you that the Iraqi threat does not keep me awake at night. We are fully
capable of defending ourselves from it."
In the West Bank, the son of the first known Palestinian woman to be executed
as an Israeli collaborator said yesterday gunmen tortured him until he invented
a story about his mother's involvement in a militant's death.
Ikhlas Khouli, a 35-year-old mother of seven, was shot dead at the weekend
after being seized from her home in the West Bank city of Tulkarem.
Bakir Khouli, 17, lifted up his T-shirt yesterday to reveal black and blue
marks he said were made by electrical wires shortly before his mother was
killed.
"They accused me of helping Israeli intelligence. When they started beating me
with this wire, I confessed and invented a story."
Temat: Weapons inspectors turn fire on Britain and US
Weapons inspectors turn fire on Britain and US
Weapons inspectors turn fire on Britain and US
By Rupert Cornwell in Washington and Andrew Grice
21 December 2002
George Bush was under intense pressure yesterday to give UN weapons
inspectors intelligence data that the US says proves Iraq is lying when it
claims to have given up its weapons of mass destruction.
Hours before Mr Bush was to meet the UN secretary general, Kofi Annan, and
senior Russian and European representatives, Hans Blix, the chief weapons
inspector, delivered a stinging attack on the US and Britain, accusing them
of failing to co-operate with his team.
"If the UK and the US are convinced and they say they have evidence, then one
would expect they would be able to tell us where is this stuff," Mr Blix
said. Asked if he was getting enough co-operation from Western intelligence
agencies, he said: "Not yet. We get some, but we don't get all we need."
Mr Blix spoke as inspections moved into a new, more intense phase. The
Security Council has asked his team of weapons inspectors to provide a
detailed assessment of Iraq's arms declaration on 9 January. Two days ago,
Washington declared that omissions in the 12,000-page inventory submitted by
Baghdad constituted a "material breach" of its obligations to the UN.
That phrase, in American eyes, clears the way for the use of force, though
the Bush administration has indicated it will wait a few weeks before
launching an attack. Mr Bush said last night the Iraqi declaration was "a
disappointing day for those who long for peace".
Tony Blair told British troops yesterday to prepare for possible military
action in Iraq – in an attempt to increase pressure on Saddam Hussein to give
up his weapons of mass destruction. In a Christmas message that was broadcast
to British forces around the world, the Mr Blair heaped praise on
their "amazing" work in the past year but warned them: "I am afraid the
expectation is there will be a lot more to do in the upcoming year." The US
is doubling its troop strength in the Gulf to 100,000.
Mr Blair said: "When we are dealing with someone like Saddam Hussein, unless
you do have the capability to use force if necessary, it is very hard to make
the world a more secure and more peaceful place. And sometimes I think the
best, indeed the only way, of avoiding war is to be prepared for one if you
have to have it."
The first hint of any intelligence sharing came on Thursday when the US
Secretary of State, Colin Powell, having lambasted Iraq's "total failure" to
comply with UN resolution 1441, promised "additional support" that
would "make the inspections process ... more targeted and effective".
Britain said it would give UN inspectors details of telephone calls from Iraq
that had been intercepted. One senior British official said: "We are giving
him [Mr Blix] intelligence and we will be giving him more over the next few
weeks."
Mr Blair said Britain would aid the weapons team in its search for Iraqi
weapons of mass destruction. BUT DOUBTS PERSISTS OVER WHWTHER THE US &BRITAIN
POSSESSES THE HARD EVIDENCE THEY CLAIM TO HAVE (Hmm!?!!! -dopisek igb)
Temat: Arabska chec na Pokoj z Izraelem !!! ha.. ha
fredzio54 napisał:
> Szimon Peres idz do Domu, oslo zdechlo w czasie Urody !
>
>
> Generals: ten years of talks with Palestinians have yielded nothing
>
> By Aluf Benn, Ha'aretz Correspondent
>
>
>
>
> Senior IDF generals, prompting an argument with Foreign Minister Shimon Peres
> Wednesday, told the Inner Security Cabinet that ten years of talks wit the
> Palestinians had led to nothing, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict would
> continue and that an American attack on Iraq would be an expression of
> the "conflict between civilizations."
>
> At a briefing, covering annual intelligence assessments, Director of Military
> Intelligence Major General Aharon Ze'evi (Farkash) and the head of the
> research department in military intelligence Brigadier General Yossi
> Kuperwasser told the security cabinet that Iraq does not pose a life-and-
> death threat to Israel and does not possess nuclear weapons. The generals
> presented Iraq, Iran and Libya as components of a "strategic world threat."
>
> Peres had reservations regarding the assessment that ten years of talks with
> the Palestinians have led to nothing and said that there have been
> advancements in negotiations with the Palestinians. Peres also disagreed with
> the general's assessment that an American attack on Iraq is an expression
> of "a conflict between civilizations."
>
> According to the military intelligence assessment, the United States is not
> working towards retaining stability in the region but rather is interested in
> making internal changes in the Arab countries in the Middle East
>
IDF analysts present a gloomy outlook
By Amos Harel
The intelligence branch of the Israel Defense Forces is due to present its
annual assessment to the inner cabinet today. Major General Aharon Ze'evi,
director of military intelligence, yesterday presented the assessment to the
defense establishment headed by Defense Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer.
The assessment says Israel does not have a partner for diplomatic agreements at
this stage - most certainly not in Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser
Arafat. There are no signs of Arafat agreeing to step down in the coming
months, nor of a potential successor, the military analysts believe.
In fact, there are no signs of an end to the confrontation with the
Palestinians in the coming year.
For these reasons, the IDF thinks Israel must concentrate on managing the
conflict in such a way as to avoid it escalating or slipping into a conflict
with other Arab countries. On this point, Ben-Eliezer expressed a difference of
opinion.
He said that, despite the overall pessimism of the intelligence analysts, he
considered it strategically important for Israel to show the Arabs a blueprint
for peace.
"The question is not just how to manage the conflict but also how to come out
of it," Ben-Eliezer said. "If we provide the Palestinians with a good, serious
option, a partner might come out of this on the other side."
Ben-Eliezer thinks Israel's military action in the territories has exhausted
itself.
At this point, there is no choice but to continue taking an activist role in
the West Bank since this is the only means to prevent terrorists from leaving,
but he does not believe the continued pressure will break the Palestinians.
Chief of Staff Moshe Ya'alon believes, however, that this could be
the "decisive year" in which the Palestinians lose the will to continue the
violent conflict. For this reason, he would like to see the IDF keeping up
pressure on the Palestinians.
The most central issue of the coming year is expected to be an American attack
on Iraq and its repercussions on the entire region, the military analysts say.
It is possible the operation will be put off until the beginning of next year.
Ben-Eliezer said he believed the war would have positive regional effects since
other countries such as Syria and Iran would restrain their hostile intentions
for fear of American action against them.
Temat: Pakistan moves against al-Qaeda,15 dead
Pakistan moves against al-Qaeda,15 dead
Pakistan moves against al-Qaeda
The Pakistani leader has backed the campaign against al-Qaeda
Pakistani troops are reported to have killed 12 suspected al-Qaeda fighters
during a major operation near the border with Afghanistan.
The army says most of the people killed or captured by the army in a
prolonged gun battle in the district of South Waziristan were foreigners.
The rugged tribal area borders on the Afghan province of Paktika, which has
become a centre for ousted Taleban fighters.
The present security operation began hours before a senior American
official, Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, was expected in
Pakistan.
But his trip has now been rescheduled for unspecified reasons.
Al-Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden and his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahri, are often
reported to be hiding somewhere along the long and remote border.
Bodies seen
Hundreds of Pakistani troops are believed to be involved in what is being
described as one of the biggest ground operations against al-Qaeda remnants
in more than a year.
The Pakistani army began the operation "upon the receipt of credible
intelligence about the presence of al-Qaeda elements", an army statement
released on Thursday said.
"I will kill enemies of Islam" - the 'University of Jihad'
The army says troops have surrounded the entire area, making it extremely
difficult for the al-Qaeda fighters to escape.
A reporter at the scene for the Associated Press news agency said he saw the
bodies of four suspected militants and that the army said eight more bodies
were close by.
Women and children sheltering in compounds with the militants surrendered
before the shooting started, according to the army.
The head of the operation, Major General Faisal Alavi, said: "Al-Qaeda
people have taken refuge in these five big compounds. We do not know how
many people are hiding there."
The operation is "against foreign elements who were most likely involved in
attacks against coalition forces in Afghanistan," military spokesman Major
General Shaukat Sultan told AFP.
"These foreign elements were causing nuisance to the local inhabitants", he
added.
The tribal region of South Waziristan is a highly conservative area and the
rugged tribesmen have traditionally supported the Taleban across the border.
One Afghan district, Barmal, which has seen resurgent Taleban activity, is
only 15 kilometres (nine miles) from the border from South Waziristan.
Anti-extremist pressure
The Pakistan Foreign Ministry announced on Thursday that an expected visit
by US Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage had been delayed.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Masood Khan said this was due to "scheduling
issues" but did not elaborate.
Earlier, the US State Department said that Mr Armitage would encourage
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf to put more military pressure to block
any Taleban elements.
Pakistan has complained that Afghanistan is not doing enough to track down
extremist elements.
Pakistani security forces have co-operated closely with the US in efforts to
track down Osama Bin Laden and other al-Qaeda supporters in areas on the
Afghan border where they could be hiding.
Temat: The World Condemns Israel&# 8217;s &# 8220;State Terrorism"
The World Condemns Israel&# 8217;s &# 8220;State Terrorism"
PARIS, March 8 – Hundreds of people gathered in central Paris Thursday in a
demonstration called by left-wing political rights groups in support of the
Palestinians, as leaders of 18 African states attending a summit in Libya
condemned Israel's "state terrorism" and pledged their support for Palestinian
President Yasser Arafat.
Carrying banners bearing slogans such as "Stop the massacre in Palestine", the
crowd listened to speakers demand the dismantling of Jewish settlements and the
dispatch of an international peacekeeping force to the Middle East, Agence
France-Presse (AFP) reported.
Meanwhile, some 1,000 Israeli Arabs marched through the center of Haifa in
northern Israel Thursday to protest deadly Israeli incursions in the
Palestinian territories.
According to AFP, protestors, mainly from the Arab Israeli Hadash party,
carried signs saying: "The occupation is the terrorist," and "The government is
murderous."
From late Thursday, March 7 to early Friday, March 8, Israeli occupation forces
killed a total of 27 Palestinians in the West bank and Gaza Strip.
Meanwhile, African leaders, attending a summit in Syrte, Libya, condemned
Israel's "state terrorism" and pledged their support for Palestinian President
Yasser Arafat.
Members of the Community of Sahel-Saharan States, known as COMESSA from its
initials in French, also adopted a series of resolutions on the conflicts in
their continent.
The summit, in a final statement carried by AFP, said COMESSA "firmly condemns
Israel's state terrorism and calls on the international community to take
immediate measures to exert pressure on the occupation force and lift the
blockade imposed on President Arafat."
Leaders of 18 African states also addressed "a message of support and
solidarity" to the Palestinian President, in the statement read out at the end
of the two-day summit by COMESSA's secretary general, Mohammad al-Madani al-
Azhari of Libya.
COMESSA includes Libya, Burkina Faso, the Central African Republic, Chad,
Eritrea, Mali, Niger, Somalia, Sudan, Morocco, Tunisia, Senegal, Egypt,
Djibouti, Gambia, Nigeria and two new members: Benin and Togo.
This year's summit was attended by 13 heads of state as well as six ministers
and government chiefs.
In another development, Russia condemned Thursday Israeli violence against
Palestinians, saying it was fast and presented "a very dangerous scenario".
Russia sharply criticized the use of force by the Israeli government,
which "resorts to harsher and harsher means and leads only to further
escalation of the conflict," the foreign ministry said in a statement.
"The situation in the Middle East is developing in a very dangerous scenario.
The confrontation has turned into a war, aimed at wearing each other out," the
statement added.
Moscow particularly slammed attacks on Palestinian President Yasser Arafat's
residence, schools and refugee centers.
Meanwhile, Jordan's King Abdullah II on Thursday assured the Palestinian
President of his support and rejected Israel's policies towards the Palestinian
people, officials said.
During a telephone call with Arafat, Abdullah expressed "his solidarity with
the Palestinian people and its leadership," an official said.
The king also "rejected Israeli policies and the accomplished fact it is trying
to impose on the Palestinians," the official added.
Abdullah also promised Arafat that "he will pursue his efforts with the United
States and the international powers to find a way out of the grave situation in
the region".
Around 108 people have been killed, including 77 Palestinians and 31 Israelis,
since Thursday, February 28, when Israeli troops carried out deadly incursions
into two Palestinian refugee camps, triggering Palestinian retaliation and
fierce counter-attacks by the Israeli army.
And in Cairo, Arab League Secretary General Amr Mussa urged the Palestinian
people Thursday to keep up their resistance to Israel's military onslaught.
"The current situation ... confirms the necessity for the Palestinian people to
continue to exercise their legitimate right to resist the continued occupation
and aggression" of Israel, he said in a statement.
Mussa called for the international community's "immediate intervention" to
force Israel to halt the violence.
Temat: !___Turysci__w_"goscinie"_u_ISLAMISTOW_zyja??__@??
!___Turysci__w_"goscinie"_u_ISLAMISTOW_zyja??__@??
W Lutym islamisci bandyci porwali 31 turystow z EU w Algeri !
I cisza , EU boi sie interweniowac u mordercow islamskich znanych
z podzynania gardel , teraz pytaja sie grzecznie o swoich
porwanych obywateli .
Czy otrzymaja odpowiedz , czy tylko trupy !
(swoja droga kto jezdzi do dzikusow islamskich )
Pressure Mounts on Algeria to Find Missing Tourists
Sat May 10, 2003 04:01 PM ET
By Paul de Bendern and Hamid Ould Ahmed
ALGIERS/ILLIZI (Reuters) - European governments are growing impatient with
Algeria over its efforts to find 31 tourists who vanished in the Sahara
desert in late February and early March, diplomats and media said on
Saturday.
The Algerian government said last weekend it was in contact with unnamed
assailants believed to be holding the tourists, who disappeared while
traveling in seven separate groups to the south of the North African
country, an area known for its banditry.
But in a confusing twist, the government on Tuesday denied it was in contact
with any armed groups and said no negotiations were under way to free the 15
Germans, 10 Austrians, four Swiss, a Dutchman and a Swede.
"We are receiving snippets of information, but authorities have given us
very little concrete information in the last week or so," a diplomat in
Algiers said. "Some (governments) are getting impatient."
Swiss French-language weekly magazine Hebdo reported in its latest edition
that the Algerian authorities had received ransom demands for between $23-
$34 million for the group. A Swiss government source said authorities were
investigating the report.
An Austrian military officer liaising with searchers in southern Algeria was
upbeat on the fate of the holiday-makers.
"I'm optimistic but I can't give you details," said the officer in the
desert city of Illizi, 750 miles southeast of Algiers.
A Western diplomat said he believed the Algerian authorities were in contact
with the hostage-takers. "I am confident a solution will be found," he said.
About 5,000 Algerian troops are searching the vast Algerian Sahara, an area
the size of France. Military aircraft and helicopters, equipped with night
vision, are also being used.
Government and diplomatic sources suspect the hostage-takers are armed
rebels or local bandits linked to rebel groups.
Some media reports suggest the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat
(GSPC) may be responsible for the kidnappings. The GSPC is waging a bloody
war against the authorities and is suspected of having links to Osama bin
Laden's al Qaeda network.
But Swiss-French journalist and author Richard Labeviere, writing in Hebdo
magazine, said the tourists were being held by an infamous bandit chief,
Mokhtar Belmokhtar, well-known to the Algerian authorities as a smuggler of
cars, arms and cigarettes. (Additional reporting by Richard Waddington,
Zurich)
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