¿Hay diferencias entre izquierda y derecha? Europa, una vez más, vive
con ironía estos tiempos de confusión.  Los polacos, escépticos como
pocos, rememoran una antigua traición al rey por parte de todos sus
vasallos en el siglo XVIII en la ciudad de Targowica, para concluir que
Prawica, Lewica, wszystko Targowica: un ripio que viene a decir que
tanto izquierda, como derecha terminan en traición.  Que son lo mismo,
vamos.

Los españoles de izquierda, para picar a los que se consideran de
derechas, les espetan no sin cierto ánimo de revancha muy ibérico:
"¡Aunque seáis de derechas, tenéis la sangre roja y el corazón a
la izquierda!".  Los franceses, que son de un pragmatismo helador,
afirman tener el corazón a la izquierda pero la cartera a la derecha
(avoir le coeur à gauche et le portefeuille à droite).  Pero son los
alemanes quienes verbalizan con más finura este debate al recordarnos
a todos que "la mano izquierda es la que tiene el pulgar a la
derecha" (Links ist wo der Daumen rechts ist).

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Brits Find No Evidence of Iran->Iraq Arms Traffic

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http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/100506C.shtml

British Find No Evidence of Arms Traffic From Iran

Troops in southeast Iraq test US claim of aid for militias.

By Ellen Knickmeyer

On the Iraq-Iran Border – Since late August, British commandos in
the deserts of far southeastern Iraq have been testing one of the most
serious charges leveled by the United States against Iran: that Iran is
secretly supplying weapons, parts, funding and training for attacks on
U.S.-led forces in Iraq.

A few hundred British troops living out of nothing more than their
cut-down Land Rovers and light armored vehicles have taken to the desert
in the start of what British officers said would be months of patrols
aimed at finding the illicit weapons trafficking from Iran, or any sign
of it.

There’s just one thing.

"I suspect there’s nothing out there," the commander, Lt. Col. David
Labouchere, said last month, speaking at an overnight camp near the
border. "And I intend to prove it."

Other senior British military leaders spoke as explicitly in
interviews over the previous two months. Britain, whose forces have had
responsibility for security in southeastern Iraq since the war began,
has found nothing to support the Americans’ contention that Iran is
providing weapons and training in Iraq, several senior military
officials said.

"I have not myself seen any evidence – and I don’t think any
evidence exists – of government-supported or instigated" armed support
on Iran’s part in Iraq, British Defense Secretary Des Browne said in an
interview in Baghdad in late August.

"It’s a question of intelligence versus evidence," Labouchere’s
commander, Brig. James Everard of Britain’s 20th Armored Brigade, said
last month at his base in the southern region’s capital, Basra. "One
hears word of mouth, but one has to see it with one’s own eyes. These
are serious consequences, aren’t they?"

They are. Allegations that Iran or its agents are providing military
support for Iraqi Shiite Muslim militias and other armed groups is one
of the most contentious issues raising tensions between Washington and
Tehran. Most gravely, U.S. generals and diplomats accuse Iran of
providing infrared triggers for special explosives that are capable of
piercing heavy armor.

Evidence of Iranian armed intervention in Iraq is "irrefutable," one
U.S. commander in Iraq, Brig. Gen. Michael Barbero, told Pentagon
reporters in August. The lead U.S. military spokesman in Iraq renews the
allegation almost weekly in Baghdad.

Iraq’s remote Maysan province is "a funnel for Iranian munitions,"
said Wayne White, who led the State Department’s Iraq intelligence team
during the war and now is an adjunct scholar at the Washington-based
Middle East Institute. White said that in the first year of the
occupation a well-placed friend had seen "considerable physical evidence
of it, and just about everyone in al-Amarah knew about it." Al-Amarah is
the commonly used name of Maysan province.

Here in Maysan, Jasim Alawa Salum, an Iraqi father of 10 whose home
is in a warren of thatched farmhouses near the border, agreed. "All
troubles come from Iran," he said, bending his head to show a wound from
the 1980s Iran-Iraq war.

But Maj. Dominic Roberts of the Queen’s Dragoons said: "We have
found no credible evidence to suggest there is weapons smuggling across
the border."

Asked why he could declare himself so confident that no arms were
coming through, Labouchere mildly cited his confidence in Iraq’s border
force.

Guards at one of the 27 border forts now used to guard Maysan were
dismissive of talk of military support from Iran. "It’s just
fabrication," insisted one, Haidar Hassan.

At one crossroads checkpoint, two border guards grinned awkwardly
when a British desert patrol stopped in. No smugglers had come by, no
untoward travelers, no problems, the guards said. The guards, however,
come from tribes with a history of smuggling, and since the fall of
Saddam Hussein, Iraqi border workers have redoubled their reputation for
taking bribes.

To determine the truth of the charges, British commanders say, the
British troops did something no other large-scale conventional unit in
the U.S.-led coalition here has tried. They gave up their base.

Almost every night for months, rockets and mortar rounds had pounded
Abu Naji, the outpost where British forces made their home outside
Amarah, Maysan’s provincial capital. In the base’s last five months of
use, 281 rockets or mortar rounds hit Abu Naji, Labouchere said.

Young soldiers would slip out of base at night to try to find the
attackers. They would return in the morning as frustrated as when they
left, he said. "The boys felt they were powerless," Labouchere said.

So the British forces packed up. The night before they left, mortars
gave Abu Naji a farewell pounding.

About 5,000 townspeople gathered at the gates of Abu Naji on Aug.
24. When British troops pulled out that afternoon, the mobs moved in.
Iraqi forces briefly tried to hold back the crowds, then gave way, said
Maj. Charlie Burbridge, a British military spokesman at Basra. The mobs
looted the base down to the bricks.

"This is the first Iraqi city that has kicked out the occupier!"
loudspeakers at the local offices of Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr
trumpeted.

In their new mission, the British spread out over a desert carpeted
with shrapnel, the legacy of the eight-year Iran-Iraq war that claimed
the bulk of its 1 million dead here in the deserts of Maysan. Pressing
all hands into duty, a former tank crewman became a medic; the regiment
chaplain took the wheel as a fuel tanker driver.

If trouble in most of Iraq had inevitably followed foreign soldiers,
the soldiers in Maysan didn’t seem to hear anything coming. Attackers
had lobbed a rocket or mortar round at them during their first week in
the desert, but there had been nothing since, they said.

At the least, Labouchere said, "I am satisfied our presence will
reduce" the dangers for the rest of Iraq.

Ultimately, however, the British can do little more than demonstrate
that the borders are closed, Labouchere said. Save for that, he said,
they find themselves trying "to prove a negative."

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Vietnam Champions Nuclear-Free Peace in Korea

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Prensa Latina, Havana
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Vietnam Champions Nuclear-Free Peace in Korea

Hanoi, Oct 5 (Prensa Latina) Vietnam is in favor of denuclearization of the
Korean Peninsula and champions a prevalence of peace, stability, and
development in that Asian territory, said a Vietnamese Foreign Ministry
communiqué on Thursday.

Foreign Ministry Press and Information Secretary Le Dzung said in a
declaration the Vietnamese government exhorted those involved in the Korean
dissent to abstain from actions that could worsen the situation.

It also called them to restart the six-party talks, to be able to resolve
their differences to move to an agreement that guarantees peace and
stability in the region and the world.

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Blair Defends NATO in Afghanistan

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Prensa Latina, Havana
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Blair Defends NATO in Afghanistan

London, Oct 5 (Prensa Latina) British Prime Minister Tony Blair said the
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) troops in Afghanistan were
necessary.

Although chaos imposed by foreign military since the Oct 7, 2001 US
invasion has made 90,000 people lose their homes, Blair says the situation
is better now without the toppled Taliban regime.

He uses tired arguments to justify NATO control of southeast Afghanistan
due to increased action by the resistance.

More than 2,000 British soldiers replaced the US troops in operation
Lasting Liberty last May to fight the Taliban in Afghanistan. Twenty men
have already been lost in the past two months.

Blair called the presence of NATO, with 30,000 men, "absolutely necessary
to guarantee global security."

Yet the British blame PM Blair policy on Iraq and Afghanistan for turning
the country into target of possible terrorist attacks.

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The logic of the flower is the logic of the fruition and
perpetuation of life. It is the logic of CONSUMMATION – of being
the complete unfoldment and mature product of the species and life
that is in it contained. And it is the logic of CONTINUITY – of being
the steppingstone for life as it was and into the future. In combining
the logic of consummation and continuity, the flower becomes the
fulfillment of life – and the method by which life goes on.

The logic of the flower is not linear; indeed it is marvelously non-
linear. The logic of the flower is akin to a quantum swirl, in which
the two purposes of the flower – to CONSUMMATE the species and to
CONTINUE it – intermingle and interpenetrate and interweave. It is
an exquisite combination of two sets of logic, creating a dynamic
tug-and-play leading toward excellence and self-refinement. It is a
dynamic duality between two sets of logic, each of which partakes of
and adds to the other and is itself by the other enriched.

The logic of consummation and the logic of continuity complete each
other and feed into each other. Consummation creates something
worth having been created; continuity allows it to go on. Without
consummation, continuity is nothing but perpetuation of misery;
without continuity, consummation dies out. Combining the two,
makes possible for there to be both beauty and its lasting existence.

The flower as consummation completes the species; is
the fulfilment of its potentiality; is further its accomplishment.
The flower is therefore by her nature delicate; soft; tender; and
determined in pursuit of beauty and excellence – the beauty and
excellence that stand as the accomplishment of existence and its
fruition made manifest.

The excellence-pursuing, beauty-pursuing nature of the flower of
course makes her sensitive to criticism of all kinds. If one is the
consummation of the species then one must be not only her absolute
best but likewise the best of what came before her; and the state of
being the flower therefore demands tremendous effort of mind and
heart; an interweaving, an intersynthesis, an integration of all
influences and the triumphing over them of life.

The flower is therefore in need of being noticed, understood and
appreciated. That, being seen falsely as vanity or insecurity, is in
fact functional to the flower’s nature: As Consummation and Fruition
of the Species and of what has come before. The gigantic work that
is done to exist at a level of functioning that makes possible for
there to be a thing such as a flower, justly requires
appreciation; and while this legitimate need may easily be usurped
to lead to bad places, it can be likewise fulfilled in a principled
and determined manner by those who see the beauty of flowers and are
dedicated to making this world a world in which flowers can bloom.

Another vulnerability in the structure is that it does not ipso
facto discriminate legitimate from illegitimate influences and is
not only frequently subject to influences that are malicious,
deceptive or wrongful, but likewise allows negativity from beings
that do not possess any similar standard of self-demand or are
intolerant of beauty and excellence. Thus, the flower is frequently
torn apart when confronted with judgmental interposition of logic
other than one by which she herself runs, which is held to be true
logic but which is itself nowhere near to describing life and the
universe, and certainly nowhere near to describing the logic by
which the flower exists. What is thought illogical, is in fact
something that runs by a logic different from the perversion of
logic that’s used to assay it; and in human society the flower gets
attacked for deviating from such logic when in fact her own logic is
far more intricate, far more valuable and far more life-suffused
than the concept of logic that wants to see all things in straight
lines and miss out entirely on the curvatures and complexities that
exist in the universe and through which the universe is made the
miraculous place that it is. The universe is not made of brick; and
unless one’s logic can create a flower then it is not competent to
be judging the logic by which she herself runs.

The logic of CONTINUITY is the logic of affinity with life and her
link to the posterity. The flower is fiercely determined in the
well-being of the yet-to-be; indeed she is effectively self-
sacrificing toward that end. She is concerned for the good of the
children; likewise for good of the species and of life itself. That,
is functional to the second purpose of the flower – to perpetuate
life – and to the logic of CONTINUITY that is its essence.

The logic of CONTINUITY is collective; the logic of CONSUMMATION
is individual. That is as it should be; the world lives through all of
its creatures as well as itself. To make possible individual unfoldment
–
and to add it to the storehouse of life – create not only life but life

worth having been created. And to make possible continuity of life,
means to take all new that is created at every individual point of
CONSUMMATION and integrate it into the next step.

The self-perfecting character of the CONSUMMATION logic – and the
self-sacrificing one of the CONTINUITY logic – are frequently seen
as being contradictory to each other. The worst misrepresentation is
the hypocrisy accusation; a claim that somehow wanting to be loved
and appreciated for the unique self, and wanting the good of the
world are somehow incompatible. In effect, life exists in itself and
through its creatures; and the good of the life includes the good of
the creatures as well as the good of the whole. The life exists
further through self and through others; and to insist on good for
self while also allowing and working for good of others is not only
the healthy stance but in fact one that is intellectually honest.

The logic contained in the flower is the logic that has applications
for the world ravaged by misuses of linear logic. Thus, to allow the
various forms of individual good, while also contributing to the
whole, is the consummate stance; the stance that allows for the
fruition of both the entirety and the facets. And that makes the
best of individualism and the best of altruism all at once –
avoiding the individualism’s wrong of cruelty and altruism’s wrong
of oppression, while allowing instead for individualism’s virtue of
freedom and altruism’s virtue of compassion and good of all.

Ilya Shambat
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Russia Still Opposes Sanctions Against Iran

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The Irish Times – Oct 6, 2006
http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/world/2006/1006/1158591431495.html

Russia states opposition to sanctions campaign against Iran

by Daniel McLaughlin

RUSSIA: Russia said yesterday that it opposed using sanctions to stop
Iran enriching nuclear fuel, while Britain announced that the UN
Security Council would discuss just such a move next week.

"I think that until all diplomatic possibilities have been exhausted,
sanctions would be extreme," Russia’s foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov,
said about Iran, which insists that it wants to enrich uranium for use
in nuclear power stations, not weapons.

Mr Lavrov said EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana had failed to
persuade Tehran to accept a package of incentives offered by Britain,
France, Germany, the United States, China and Russia, in return for
halting enrichment.

"We are continuing our diplomatic efforts," said Mr Lavrov on a visit to
Poland.

"Some members of the six nations already want to impose sanctions
against Iran. We, however, think first we must continue multilateral
actions."

Diplomats say the US, Britain and France favour an embargo on sales of
nuclear and missile technology to Tehran as a first step, which could be
followed by other sanctions, including a travel ban on Iranian officials
and the freezing of their assets.

Russia and China have opposed such a move, but Britain’s ambassador to
the UN, Emyr Jones Parry, said yesterday that the issue would be
discussed next week.

"I expect the Iranian dossier to re-emerge in New York in the course of
next week," he said, adding that discussion would relate to the
imposition of sanctions.

Mr Lavrov said he would discuss Iran with other foreign ministers in
London today, but US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice said logistical
problems might force the meeting to be scrapped in favour of
consultations over the weekend.

While in Warsaw, Mr Lavrov also revealed that Moscow was "working
directly with the leaders of North Korea" to persuade them to scrap
plans to test an atomic bomb.

"We must do everything so that doesn’t happen," he said, as the US,
Japan and the EU urged Pyongyang to back down on its threat.

Mr Lavrov also said Poland’s decision on whether to host a US
anti-missile base would influence Russian policy on its "strategic
stability and national security".

Russia’s military says it might reconsider planned arms reductions if
Poland or the Czech Republic hosts the site, even though both nations
and the US insist the base would not threaten Russia, but protect
against missile attack from the Middle East.

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EU Commissioner and "stubborn unelected bureaucrats"

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[The real story is not that EU civil servants have undue influence over
policy decisions but on who's behalf they exercise that influence.  The
lobby system in Brussels is awash with corporate cash and its effects
are every bit as corrupting as the infamous Washington lobby.  It
contributes to the "democratic deficit" at the heart of the EU project
which was crystallised in the recent electoral defeat of the proposed EU
constitution. But for a Commissioner (an unelected official in charge of
vast swathes of EU policy) to be saying this smacks of the kettle
calling the pot black. -SMcG]

The Irish Times – Oct 6, 2006
http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/world/2006/1006/1158591431461.html

Commissioner castigates EU civil servants

Günter Verheugen: reducing bureaucracy does not "fit in with their own ideas"

by Honor Mahony in Brussels

BELGIUM: The vice-president of the European Commission has launched a
scathing attack on the bureaucracy that serves him, claiming
high-ranking EU civil servants are far too powerful, have their own
little fiefdoms and sometimes put forward their own opinions as the
official position of the commission.

In an interview with German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung yesterday,
Günter Verheugen, who is in charge of the important industry portfolio,
said "there is a permanent power struggle" between commissioners and
high-ranking bureaucrats.

"Some of them think: the commissioner is gone after five years and so is
just a housekeeper, but I will still be there," he said.

"The whole development in the last 10 years has brought the civil
servants such power that in the meantime, the most important political
task of the 25 commissioners is controlling this apparatus," he
continued.

The commissioner said the power struggles all occurred "under the
surface", adding that "the commissioners have to take extreme care that
important questions are decided in their weekly meeting and not decided
by the civil servants among themselves.

"Unfortunately, it sometimes happens that in communication with member
states or parliament, that civil servants put their own personal
perspective across as the view of the commission," he told the
newspaper.

He also indicated that his personal hobby horse, deregulation and making
EU laws simpler, was falling foul of stubborn unelected bureaucrats.

He maintained that some of the units in the commission "evidently did
not want to take the head of the commission’s aim to reduce bureaucracy
seriously because it did not fit in with their own ideas".

Mr Verheugen’s views have been tacitly supported by head of the European
Commission José Manuel Barroso, also a great believer in a lighter
regulatory touch.

Evidently prepared for the barrage of questions that the criticism would
raise, a commission spokesman said Mr Verheugen’s remarks were part of
the "very normal, necessary creative tension you get when change is
deemed to be necessary".

He added that they were "proof of a real passion to go further and show
that the European political process is coming out of the political
morass".

Mr Verheugen’s controlled outburst follows months of dissatisfaction
among certain commissioners over the state of the 20,000-strong
commission bureaucracy headed by the extremely powerful, hard-to-move
director generals.

Some of them have alluded to the rigidity of the bureaucracy in past
interviews but none has been as outspokenly critical as the
twice-serving German commissioner.

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ICC Should Probe Israeli War Crimes: UN Food Expert

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AP via The Jordan Times – 6-7 October 2006
http://jordantimes.com/fri/news/news9.htm

UN food expert says ICC should investigate Israel for possible war crimes

GENEVA (AP) — The International Criminal Court should investigate whether
Israel is guilty of war crimes for a bombing campaign in Lebanon that
blocked access to food and water, a United Nations rights expert said
Thursday.

Jean Ziegler, the UN Human Rights Council’s special envoy on the "right to
food," said Israel’s bombing of farmland and blockade of Lebanon’s ports in
its monthlong war with Hizbollah — during the main farming and fishing
season — caused considerable hardship to the Lebanese that was still being
felt.

"The government of Israel should be held responsible under international law
for the violations of the right to food of the Lebanese civilian
population," he said in an 18-page report. "Individuals should be held
responsible for violations of the right to food and water." Ziegler, an
independent expert appointed by the Human Rights Commission, visited Lebanon
in September in the aftermath of the 34-day conflict that ended in
mid-August.

He said the contamination of fishing waters by an oil slick and the presence
of hundreds of thousands of cluster bomblets in the south of the country
would have a "long-term impact on livelihoods and access to food and water."
Ziegler cited a Lebanese ministry of agriculture estimate that the conflict
caused direct losses to farming of several hundred million US dollars.

However, the UN food agency, which coordinated aid deliveries to Lebanon
during the conflict, said it is pulling out of the country as planned on
October 24.

"The general outlook is good and confirms our view that we should not remain
in Lebanon longer than necessary," said World Food Programme said in a
statement.

"Foodstuff is available at affordable prices in the country," it said.

Ziegler’s report focused only on the impact of Israeli bombing in Lebanon
and did not cover the effects of Hizbollah rocket fire on northern Israel.

It was warmly received by Arab and Muslim countries when presented to the
47-nation council in Geneva this week. Israel, however, denounced Ziegler,
saying he went beyond the authority given to him by the council. "In all of
his reports, Mr. Ziegler always transgresses the limits of his mandate. The
latest report — which touches upon several external issues — is no
exception," Itzhak Levanon, Israel’s ambassador to the UN in Geneva, told
the Associated Press. Like its predecessor the UN Human Rights Commission,
the council appoints outside experts who are assigned countries or subjects
and are given wide latitude in their reports.

Ziegler first was appointed by the commission in 2000 and was given a second
three-year mandate in 2003, which was taken over by the council.

Ziegler previously has sparred with Israel and the United States. Last year,
Ziegler compared the Gaza Strip to an "immense concentration camp." UN
Secretary General Kofi Annan and High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise
Arbour criticised Ziegler for the comparison.

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Turkish military commander says Cease-fire is a foreign word for Turkey

Newly appointed Turkish military General Yasar Buyukanit spoke to his nation
through a televised military union conference. Buyukanit called his Turkish
people to support Turkish military offensive against to Kurdish people. He
continued as saying, "Turkish military will not stop until single Kurd left
alive anywhere in this planet". Buyukanit called PKK as a terrorist
organisation who got help from the west particularly the EU. He called his
Turkish nation to be calm as Turkey will get stronger in the near future and
will destroy so called western civilization.

Head of the Turkish military Junta General Buyukanit told in the conference
that the Turkish military does not believe in negotiations and they only
have the capacity to destroy whatever in their pad. Turkish general accused
some of the Parliamentarians in the Turkish assembly of treason and helping
the terrorists. He warned the parliamentarians to respect and obey the
Turkish constitution, which it was written by the military junta on 1982.

Turkish General accused Belgium consulate Hansjörg Kretschmer as a criminal
who is working against the great Turkish state. He said, "Why this person
greatly disturbed with my speeches?"

Turkish military General dismissed the professional arm forces in Turkey as
he pointed out that this would damage the military income (i.e. his salary).

He also said a lot of other things but I will not go through and translate
all of it because this may create more hatred against Turkey and Turkish
people!

You can find the full article in Turkish here;

 http://www.milliyet.com.tr/2006/10/03/index.html

You can see a small headline in the above link "GENERAL WITH A FULL OF
ANGER"

 http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/anasayfa/

http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/gundem/5189959.asp?m=1&gid=112&srid=3428&o…

This is another well-known newspaper in Turkey headline this as "Turkey is
threatened, every action is legitimate". This newspaper also informs as the
11 channels live televised that Turkish Military Junta’s speech and all of
the other Turkish channels recorded. What a brainwashing ehh?

Moral Psychology