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From Wired and the Guardian:
This article is another stone in the grave of the |NeoCons, the Likud etc., and is rendering the Zionist rhetoric senseless, to the point where its only effect is to dumb down its own supporters.
The upper yellow route has so far never been used, read the full article for details, this excerpt deals with Iran.
The Taliban has staged repeated attacks on Afghanistan’s perilous Khyber Pass against trucks loaded with NATO supplies. The international security forces, including Germany’s Bundeswehr, are scrambling to find safer routes — and might even consider one through Iran. …
The best road networks among all neighboring countries are to be found in Iran, a country neighboring Afghanistan that has recently had significant issues with the West, though for other reasons. These problems with Iran have made this alternative taboo. But NATO is desperate to find a solution and, according to diplomatic sources in Pakistan, it is also negotiating with Tehran “at a lower level.” The rapprochement already began under former President George W. Bush, who had accused the mullah-controlled regime of being in league with the Taliban. But now that Obama is in office, ironically enough, there is a better chance that Iran could end up helping the United States — also known as the “Great Satan” — and its allies.
During his first state visit to Kabul in August 2007, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad promised Afghan President Hamid Karzai his full support in the struggle for stability. “The best friend of Iran,” Ahmadinejad insisted, “is a country that is economically powerful and developed.” So far, Iran has paid Afghanistan more than $1 billion (€770 million) in development aid.
A usable long-distance road already exists in Afghanistan. India, one of the biggest investors in Karzai’s country, has built a road between the city of Zaranj on the Iranian border and Delaram, which lies about 200 kilometers (125 miles) to the northeast in Afghanistan. The road could link the Iranian port of Chabahar with Afghanistan’s turbulent south. –more–
Pakistani employees inspect burned-out trucks at a NATO terminal outside the northwestern city of Peshawar on December 7, 2008. Taliban militants launched a pre-dawn raid on a NATO terminal in Pakistan, torching 65 trucks carrying supplies for troops in Afghanistan and killing a guard, police said. AFP PHOTO/Tariq MAHMOOD
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Our Lords and Masters must have told the Guardian to print nothing of consequeunce …
The flavour suggests a comfortable confident President who feels time is on his side
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 17 February 2009 20.10 GMT Ian Black in Damascus
In recent months Damascus has become the Middle Eastern capital to visit: Nicolas Sarkozy, with characteristic panache, blazed the way for France and Europe; David Miliband and other EU foreign ministers followed. Turkey is also playing a key role. …
“Bush failed in everything,” says the president. “They [the Bush administration] worked hard to achieve regime change. But it didn’t work. It didn’t work because I am not an American puppet and have good relations with my people.” …
Next month’s Arab summit in the Qatar’s capital Doha could be the opportunity for a collective Arab response to recent events: a key issue, says Assad, is to restore Palestinian unity after the debilitating split between the PLO in the West Bank and the Islamists of Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
Hamas is a sensitive issue in Syria. Its exiled leader, Khaled Meshal – once the target of a Mossad hit team – is based in Damascus and enjoys the protection of the authorities. But Assad is quick to defend its right of resistance to Israel – widely supported by ordinary citizens – and to minimise his own influence over the Palestinian movement. …
In the light of comments such as these, suggestions he may downgrade his relationship with Hamas or Hezbollah seem wide of the mark. …
Overall, his view is that violence is a symptom, not the cause of the Middle East’s problems.
Nor is Syria’s strategic relationship with Iran, its ally since the 1979 revolution, up for grabs. Dialogue with Tehran should begin at once, he says, and westerners should not “waste their time” on imagining that June’s presidential election will change anything fundamental. …
“We don’t allow anyone to make o[u]r internal issues a matter for relations. Europeans and Americans supported the occupation of Iraq. Talking about values has no credibility any more. And after what happened in Gaza they have no right (to criticize us) at all.” –more–
Spy chief: We risk a police state
Dame Stella Rimington, the former head of MI5, has warned that the fear of terrorism is being exploited by the Government to erode civil liberties and risks creating a police state.
Dame Stella, 73, added: “The US has gone too far with Guantánamo and the tortures. MI5 does not do that. Furthermore it has achieved the opposite effect: there are more and more suicide terrorists finding a greater justification.” She said the British secret services were “no angels” but insisted they did not kill people.
Dame Stella became the first woman director general of MI5 in 1992 Photo: MARTIN POPE
Dame Stella accused ministers of interfering with people’s privacy and playing straight into the hands of terrorists.
“Since I have retired I feel more at liberty to be against certain decisions of the Government, especially the attempt to pass laws which interfere with people’s privacy,” Dame Stella said in an interview with a Spanish newspaper.
“It would be better that the Government recognised that there are risks, rather than frightening people in order to be able to pass laws which restrict civil liberties, precisely one of the objects of terrorism: that we live in fear and under a police state,” she said.–more–
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US blasted for human rights violations
Tue, 17 Feb 2009 08:54:19 GMT
Inmates at the US detention camp in Guantanamo Bay, CubaAnti-terror measures by the US and the UK have seriously damaged the standing of international human rights laws, a study reveals.
The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) said in its recent report that human rights violations committed in anti-terror efforts worldwide have been shocking.
The report, based on a three-year global study, declares that many measures employed in the fight against terrorism after the 9/11 attacks on the US were illegal and counter-productive.
“In the course of this inquiry, we have been shocked by the extent of the damage done over the past seven years by excessive or abusive counter-terrorism measures in a wide range of countries around the world,” said ICJ member Arthur Chaskalson.–more–
February 13, 2009 by Mark T. Market
“Believe nothing, no matter where you read it or who has said it, not even if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.”
- Siddharta Gautama Buddha
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“The remark of even a child is to be accepted, if it is in accordance with reason; but the remark of even Brahma Himself, the creator of the world, is to be rejected like a piece of straw if it does not accord with reason.”
Yes we’d all like everything to continue as it is. But that’s redundant. And token voices of redefinition and regurgitation and intellectualizing aren’t going to help.
There might be a few more lucrative deals around. Or even the possibility of nuking. But the clock is ticking and time is vanishing.
Challenge it all. The basic tenets of ancestry, family and heritage will remain, the conditioning is deep. But yelling anti zionism isn’t enough.
Challenging the the theft and murder might save the day. Challenging the revisionism will help. And forget about my country right or wrong. Or you’re either for us or against us.
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Some time ago, we also featured Jiddu Krishnamurti’s speech when he dissolved his own religious order, which rings well with Buddha’s words.
http://thecriticalthinker.wordpress.com/2008/08/22/jiddu-krishnamurti-critical-thinker/
There is a passage right in the beginning of Vasishtha’s Yoga by Swami Venkatesananda that states almost the exact same thing, I just thought that I would share.