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And Now… A Nuclear Japan?

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Prensa Latina, Havana
http://www.plenglish.com

And Now… a Nuclear Japan?

Tokyo, Oct 15 (Prensa Latina) After new sanctions were imposed to Korea
Popular Democratic Republic (RPDC) for making a nuclear test recently Japan
is ready to be equipped of atomic weapons as part of its "strategy of
defense."

The government Democratic Liberal Party (PLD) insisted on a TV debate the
country could be provided with this type of armament to avoid a possible
attack.

In this sense Nuclear weapons are a choice, told Shoichi Nakawaga president
of PLD Political Council.

Nakawaga said it is necessary to find a way to make Japan a nuclear power.
I mean, I’m not the one in charge to say it and Tokyo supports the
denuclearization principle, he expressed.

A few days ago, on the fringes of the UN Security Council, the Nippon
government imposed new measures against the RPDC because of the nuclear
test made last Monday.

The prohibition of importations and entrance of North Korean ships in
Nippon ports is included in the six-month unilateral punishment

ln abo dor

PL-27

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Report: British Army chief calls for Iraq pullout

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CNN – Oct 12, 2006
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/10/12/iraq.general/index.html

Report: British Army chief calls for Iraq pullout

LONDON, England (CNN) — The chief of the British Army has called for a
pullout of British troops from Iraq "sometime soon" and said that
post-invasion planning for that war was "poor, probably based more on
optimism than sound planning."

Gen. Richard Dannatt told London’s Daily Mail newspaper that he had
"more optimism" that "we can get it right in Afghanistan."

Dannatt said that Britain’s continued presence in Iraq had made the
country less secure.

Britain should "get ourselves out sometime soon because our presence
exacerbates security problems," he told the newspaper in an interview
published Thursday.

"I don’t say that the difficulties we are experiencing round the world
are caused by our presence in Iraq, but undoubtedly our presence in Iraq
exacerbates them."

Dannatt, who took over as the Army’s chief of general staff in August,
said that the U.S.-led coalition’s plan to establish a democracy in Iraq
that would be "exemplar for the region" was unlikely to happen.

"That was the hope, whether that was a sensible or naive hope, history
will judge," he said. "I don’t think we are going to do that. I think we
should aim for a lower ambition."

Dannatt’s views directly contradicts the position of British Prime
Minister Tony Blair, who is a staunch supporter of the war and U.S.
President George W. Bush’s closest ally in the fight.

Blair and Bush both insist that troops must stay in Iraq until Iraqi
security forces are able to stand up on their own.

But with the country edging nearer to civil war — if not already
immersed in it — Dannatt said that the strategy for implementing an
Iraqi democracy was ill-prepared.

""I think history will show that the planning for what happened after
the initial, successful war-fighting phase was poor, probably based more
on optimism than sound planning," he said.

Dannatt said that Britain had essentially overstayed its welcome in Iraq.

"The military campaign we fought in 2003 effectively kicked the door
in," he said, noting that was a far cry from being invited into the country.

"Whatever consent we may have had in the first place may have turned to
tolerance and has largely turned to intolerance."
U.S. strategy under review

The comments by Gen. Dannatt came as the top U.S. general acknowledged
that the U.S. strategy in Iraq was under review.

Gen. Peter Pace, the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, told
CNN the overall Iraq strategy was under review, including the linchpin
of U.S. exit strategy — relying on Iraqi forces to take up the fight.
(Full story)

"Are those assumptions still valid? If they are OK, then how are we
doing in getting to where we are supposed to be going?" Pace said. "If
we’re getting there, how do we reinforce that? If we’re not, what should
we change?

Pace’s candid comments came a day after Gen. George Casey, the head of
U.S. troops in Iraq, met with President Bush, whose Iraq policy is being
questioned by key members of his own party.

Pace said he and the other joint chiefs were debriefing commanders just
back from the front lines, including one colonel recognized as a rising
star and creative thinker — Col. H.R. McMaster, the author of 1997 book
"Dereliction of Duty," considered the seminal work on military’s
responsibility during Vietnam to confront their civilian bosses when
strategy was not working.

Meanwhile, the other key aspect of U.S. strategy — getting the Shiites
and Sunnis to form a "unity government" — also appears to be unraveling.

Bitter debate is raging between Iraqi politicians over a just-passed law
that would allow the creation of semi-autonomous federal regions,
something the Sunnis see as a step towards partition, with Kurds getting
the North, the Shiites the south and the Sunni isolated without oil in
the central part of the country.

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Chers amis, chers électeurs, les néolibéraux s’évertuent à considérer l’état
providence comme le pire des modèle économiques, alors que beaucoup
d’Européens, en particulier les Frnaçis, pensent différemment. Le lutin
contestataire Demos en est fort désolé pour la réalité économique que les
néolibéraux nous fourguent sous le prétexte fataliste du réalisme
économique. Les Étasuniens, emblématique ramassis d’égoïstes glucosés et
irresponsables, n’ont pas toujours fait du capitalisme sauvage. Ils ont fait
du keynésianisme pendant plus de 50 ans. C’est à dire de 1929 à l’arrivée de
Reagan, et ils s’en sont mis plein les poches ! Cette Amérique là, pouvait
prétendre au rêve américain car à l’époque la productivité profitait à tous.

Sur les 200 ans d’existence des USA, les décideurs étasuniens ont fait du
libéralisme quand l’Europe faisait du libéralisme et du keynésianisme quand
l’Europe faisait du keynésianisme  (peut importe qui l’imposait à l’autre)
Il n’y a que depuis les années 80 que les étasuniens ont entraîné le monde
dans le capitalisme radical. Trente années de libéralisation de l’économie
crescendo pour aboutir à un désastre hilarant s’il n’entraînait derrière lui
son cortège d’injustices et de victimes innocentes. En Europe, la belle idée
européenne sur laquelle notre pays a constamment fondé ses espoirs, cette
idée d’une Europe des Peuples put le fric. L’Afrique crève de faim.
L’apocalypse règne au Moyen-Orient, la société étasunienne est en pleine
décadence … Comment espère t-elle atténuer les contradictions qui
l’affaiblissent creusant un abîme en son sein à l’image de nos civilisations
occidentales ..? Que les néolibéraux cessent de nous racontez leur
balivernes. Tout le monde connaît, à présent, les raisons qui ont décidé
l’administration Bush d’envahir l’Irak, Tout le monde a compris qu’on
torture au nom de la liberté. Tout le monde a vu le traitement infligé aux
pauvres de Louisiane; la violence et l’insécurité inouïe dans laquelle
l’individualisme, l’égoïsme et la révolte des exclus ont entraîné cette
société débile. Tout le monde s’est aperçu que les étasuniens font cavaliers
seuls, et qu’ils n’offrent aucune autre alternative aux Etats indépendants
que d’être leur vassaux ou leur ennemi.

Pourquoi cet acharnement ? Comment un individu tel que Bush a t-il pu
parvenir à la tête de la plus grande de démocratie au monde ? Pourquoi cette
montée du radicalisme religieux tant chez le musulman que le chrétien
américain ? N’y a t-il pas là le signe d’une détresse tant chez l’Arabe
humilié que chez le noir africain affamé ou l’étasunien isolé dans un modèle
matérialiste qui ne défend plus d’autre valeur que la réussite sociale et
l’argent ? Les hommes n’ont-ils pas comme point commun la nécessité de
croire en quelque chose, quelque chose d’autre, quelque chose qui pourrait
être différent..? Ce besoin vital échappe manifestement aux néolibéraux et
nous sépare car il y a là des questions fondamentales qui transcendent de
loin leur bilan de comptable poussiéreux, et sur  lesquelles nous devons
débattre dans l’intérêt de la pérennité de nos civilisations communes.La
réalité que j’évoque est emblématique du reproche que font les néolibéraux
du monde entier aux Français de trop "réfléchir" Comme si l’on pouvait
impunément reprocher aux gens de trop penser !A ce sujet le lutin
contestataire Demos invite ceux qui en ont encore envie à méditer sur une
pensée de Shakespeare : «La réalité est faite de l’étoffe de nos
songes»Toute la philosophie n’est qu’une méditation de Shakespeare a dit
aussi Emmanuel Levinas avec, j’en suis profondément convaincu, beaucoup de
raisonnement et de justesse….

———————————————–
Une calotte, une mandale, une mornifle peut être ? Ou, pour les natures
suicidaires, une talmouse …
Demos le blog …  http://www.blogg.org/blog-31810.html  …
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http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/english/5265689.asp?gid=74

Armenian FM Oskanian asserts: Our aim is not to humiliate Turkey

Emboldened by last week’s decision by France to approve a bill
penalizing those who would publicly deny the so-called Armenian
genocide, Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian has come forward
with a new allegation against Turkey: "The fact that Turkey has not
recognized the events of 1915-1917 as it should means that the genocide
is still occuring."

 Oskanian, who asserts that despite this Yerevan is anxious to
normalize relations with Ankara, went on to say "It is difficult to say
that things are going well just because France and Switerzerland have
accepted bills recognizing the Armenian genocide. Our real aim is not
to have other countries recognize this genocide. Also, we gain nothing
from humiliating Turkey. For Turkey to ask for a special research
commission to be formed while its borders with us remain closed is not
a very honest or genuine action."

Oskanian’s comments came in the "NZZ am Sonntag" newspaper on Sunday in
Switzerland. He also said "The fact that Turkey has not accepted or
recognized the Armenian genocide up until now means that it is still
continuing. But, as this country’s foreign minister, my duty is to look
towards the future and to find a way to normalize relations with
Turkey."

http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/english/5265649.asp?gid=74

Pamuk’s Nobel: Deciphering the code of silence in Ankara

With 5 days having passed now since the announcement that Turkish
author Orhan Pamuk had won the 2006 Nobel Prize for Literature, sources
in Ankara have begun to speculate on the reasons behind President Ahmet
Necdet Sezer’s silence.

 President Sezer, who has not publicly congratulated Pamuk, is said by
sources close to Cankaya to be reflecting "suspicion" in the top levels
of government in Ankara over the timing of Pamuk’s award, which
followed only a year after controversial remarks made by the novelist
concernign the so-called Armenian genocide.

A government sources in Ankara noted this weekend that Sezer represents
both the state and the nation, and that as such "The President has
chosen silence in regards to historical knowledge and the principles of
governance. This means there is some anger."

The same sources, touching on Pamuk’s comments on the "massacres" of
Armenians and Kurds within Turkey, said "The President does not have
the luxury of forgetting these comments. The fact that the bill
proposing jail time for people denying the so-called Armenian genocide
in France was accepted on the same day that the Nobel was awarded to
Pamuk has made the government and the people of Turkey uncomfortable. I
think that the silence from the President on this issue is an
expression of this."

http://www.zaman.com/?bl=economy&alt=&trh=20061016&hn=37420

Stores Shutters Come down

By Zelis Yildiral, Istanbul
Monday, October 16, 2006
zaman.com

 In response to France’s proposed law to criminalize denial of an
Armenian genocide during World War I, some companies are closing their
stores.

Yesterday, most stores in the Taksim Square district that sell French
goods did not open.

Many foreign members of the United Brands Association (UBA), a
non-governmental organization of the Turkish retail sector, are
concerned about reaction to the bill and are taking extra precautions.

Boycotts of French products are spreading all over the country.

>From Istanbul and Izmit in the west, to Konya and Nevsehir in the east,

fresh protests continued. Shelves in a market in Erzurum were cleared
of French products and residents in Nigde, not content to leave it at
that, burnt their French products.

In many stores, once favored products are being returned or left on the
shelves after customers learn of their French origin.

The cosmetic sector is being especially affected as 80 percent of
cosmetic products sold on the market belong to French companies.

Shoppers are going right past shelves stacked with Vichy and Loreal
creams, shampoos and make-up products.

Long-time Loreal user Ayse Genc says, "I don’t know what France is
trying to do, but it’s hurting the friendship between two
countries."

Aysel Ordu says that from now on she is checking the label for French
origins, and adds "I’ve given up a French perfume I really like
I’ve been using for two years."

http://www.zaman.com/?bl=politics&alt=&trh=20061016&hn=37414

‘Turkey (is) Discriminated Against Consciously’

Monday, October 16, 2006
zaman.com

 Democratic Leftist Party (DSP) chairman Zeki Sezer claimed that the
French parliament’s passing of the bill penalizing a denial of an
Armenian Genocide was not a "mental lapse " as previously claimed,
but part of a conscious and discriminative policy against Turkey.

Sezer issued a press release evaluating Prime Minister Recep Tayyip
Erdogan’s comment stating that France had experienced a "mental
lapse."

Sezer said neglecting France’s attitude would be a fatal mistake and
added that Turkey could not be alert enough against possible dangers,
and should prepare for them in advance.

The DSP Leader said French President Jacques Chirac explained he would
do his best to prevent the bill’s acceptance, though he noted "The
French President did not say a word while the bill was passing through
parliament."

http://www.zaman.com/?bl=international&alt=&trh=20061016&hn=37388

France Easily Forgot Vichy Horror

By Foreign News Desk
Monday, October 16, 2006
zaman.com

Backlash against the French National Assembly’s approval of a bill on
Thursday, which makes it crime to deny that an Armenian genocide
occurred during World War I, continues.

In an opinion piece defending free speech in the British newspaper The
Observer, the author characterized the French National Assembly’s
passing of the Armenian bill as "wrong and bad," and commented that
the French had so easily forgotten the horror of the Vichy regime.

The commentary spoke of author Carmen Callil, who wrote a book about
the agony the Jews suffered during the Vichy regime, and France’s
subsequent convenient amnesia.

Before attempting to pass genocide denial laws in an atmosphere of
censorship, the French should have to remember their previous
cooperation with the Nazi party in deporting Jews, the newspaper said.

The commentary added that the Armenian bill was also aimed to
"complicate" Turkey’s EU accession; a dreadful attitude for
France to assume while believing that their acts were
"irreproachable" during World War II.

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Sunnis in Parliament Revolt; Brits Want Out

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Informed Comment – Oct 13, 2006
http://www.juancole.com/

Informed Comment

by Juan Cole

British Chief of Staff Calls for Troop Withdrawal

Sunnis in Parliament Revolt over Vote on Confederacies

53% of Americans want a timetable to be set for when US troops would leave
Iraq. The funny thing? A big majority of Iraqis also wants a timetable!
Here we have a case where the two publics agree, on a reasonable policy
that would improve the situation, but where political elites ignore them
and go on making the situation worse.

Is this an instance of speaking truth to power? Or just power speaking
truth? Sir Richard Dannatt, the British general who recently became Chief
of the General Staff, says that British troops should leave Iraq because
their presence is exacerbating the violence. ITV quotes him as saying,

  ‘ "As a foreigner, you can be welcomed by being invited in a country,
  but we weren’t invited certainly by those in Iraq at the time.

  "The military campaign we fought in 2003 effectively kicked the door in.

  "Whatever consent we may have had in the first place, may have turned to
  tolerance and has largely turned to intolerance." ‘

I don’t think the British military is going to be in Iraq much longer.
Certainly no longer than Tony Blair is PM. If the chief of the army is
demonstrating this sort of rank insubordination toward the prime minister,
who has supported a continued British military role in Iraq, it is a sign
that the prime minister is a lame duck and that there are indications that
his successor will draw down the British troops in Basra.

Al-Sharq al-Awsat [Ar.] reports that the Iraqi cabinet has demanded that
Iraqi security forces be given a bigger role in security operations, and
that that of the multinational forces be reduced. It appears that that
would suit Gen. Dannatt to a "T." Dick Cheney may be a harder sell.

The political fallout of the controversial vote on Wednesday in the Iraqi
parliament for a provision that allows the formation of further provincial
confederacies continued to roil Iraq on Thursday.

There is a controversy about whether there really was a quorum of deputies
voting (at least 138 of 275 MPs), with Shiites claiming 140 and Sunnis
claiming 133 or less. The vote was by raised hands with no count, so there
is no way independently to verify that there was a quorum. On the other
hand, Sunni fundamentalist speaker of parliament Mahmud al-Mashhadani was
the one who announced that a quorum had been reached. He then stormed out
in protest.

The Shiites and Kurds hold a majority in parliament, so that any time they
can agree on an issue, they can always outvote the Sunni Arabs. This
dynamic is one of the reasons for which Sunni Arabs reject the new
political system. They had been in power via the old Baath Party, and now
they would lose every vote on issues important to them.

These charges and counter-charges by Shiite and Sunni Arab leaders reported
by AP seem especially disheartening and suggest to me that partition of the
country is not only a likely outcome but may be nearer than we think:

  ‘ Triumphant with the bill’s passage, the Shiite SCIRI leader Abdul-Aziz
  al-Hakim dismissed Sunni opponents of federalism as "Saddamists,
  Baathists and Takfiris (Islamic radicals)."

  Al-Mutlaq, of the Sunni Dialogue Front, meanwhile, said the votes of the
  Shiite lawmakers shouldn’t be counted anyway, suggesting they were
  really loyal only to mainly Shiite Iran.

  "They hold Persian citizenship … and so don’t have legitimacy to be
  parliament members according to Iraqi constitution," he said. ‘

The Lancet study asserting that the Iraq conflict has cost the lives of
between 420,000 and 780,000 Iraqis continues to generate controversy. But
Dan Murphy of the CSM quotes public health officials pointing out that its
methodology was sound, contrary to what Presiden Bush asserted. Murphy’s
article also puts its finger on the likely source of the discrepancy
between the Lancet numbers and those of the Iraqi ministry of health: The
ministry employees cannot travel easily to places like Baqubah and Kut and
Ramadi to collect death statistics from local officials. I can remember
talking recently to a Shiite from Baghdad who said that virtually no one
routinely goes to Najaf from the capital any more because the roads are too
unsafe. Najaf was only an hour’s drive from Baghdad in the old days.

The Iraqi police administrators have to budget for the loss of 25 policemen
a day– 10 killed and 15 wounded.

Reuters reports 38 deaths from political violence in Iraq. On the other
hand, al-Sharq al-Awsat estimates 33 killed in Baghdad alone, so Reuters
has undercounted. Major incidents include:

  ‘ BAGHDAD – Gunmen raided the offices of al-Shaabiya Iraqi satellite
  television channel in Baghdad and killed 11 people, including guards,
  technicians and administrative staff, the station manager said. The
  Interior Ministry said nine were killed in the raid.

  BAGHDAD – A bomb placed under a car and a car bomb exploded in quick
  succession, killing five people and wounding 10 in central Baghdad,
  police said.

  BAGHDAD – A motorbike strapped with explosives targeted a police patrol
  and killed three people, including a policeman, and wounded 15,
  including five policemen, in northern Qahira district, police said. . .

  BAQUBA – A total of 12 people were killed in different districts of the
  religiously mixed city of Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) north of Baghdad,
  police said. . .’

Reuters reports on how violence and instability in Iraq has limited
political participation and forestalled a plan for national reconciliation.

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The so-called war in Iraq is not about oil it is about people.
Human people. Almost 1 million people exterminated by the
"Feds-Klan" and the Bush empire and the world does nothing
to stop Adolf in the White House. Bush is as evil as Hitler
and the "Feds-Klan" in America is worst than the NAZIs ever
were. In America there are millions of dead people walking around
as slaves of the "Feds-Klan". They are former humans who were
"Klanned" then brought back as slaves. Bush’s agenda is to destroy
any country that "hates" the "Feds-Klan" and its evil agenda:
The New World Order!  Face it, America is dead. We have
been "Klanned" or enslaved by the "Feds-Klan".

If you think 1 million un-educated iragi gentiles exterminated is
an atrocity then you should not look very close at the people that
comprise the 300 million that call themselves American. They are
either "Feds-Klan" or they are corpses walking around or they are
human who are being systematically exterminated.

In order to stop the world wars you must first stop the "Feds-Klan" and
the New World Order.

Address the real problem of the "Feds-Klan" and the invasion of world
by
a race of evil telepaths that basically are controlling reality and
humans
perceive as reality. They control all human communication and thought
on this
planet and it is about time the human race woke up and smelled the
coffee
concerning that they are living with aliens that consider human beings
as
vermin.

Oh, about that little 911 WTC thing__that was the result of the
"Feds-Klan"
via Clinton and Bush. And the human world believed it was an attack on
America by the middle east__more like an attack on America by Madonna
and Detroit. The WTC attack was planned back in the 1960′s when
the building was being designed__believe it or not!

Believe what you want but I know for a fact there should be at least
1 billion human beings living in the United States at this point in
time.
Where are they all? The "Feds-Klan" cleaned them off the face of the
Earth.

So, the next time you take that cute chick on a date remember that
there is a reason she shaved her pubix hair__this is a sign that she
has been "Klanned" and that she can take you or take you upstairs
instantly. Just a warning guys the "Feds-Klan" feminist wear the pants
in this country__military pants.

>From the "Feds-Klan" hive of Orlando where Mickey Mouse has

been turned into "Klinger",

Wayne E. Manzo,
Banished Celebrity Publisher, Human Rights Leader, Scientist
(yes, I sued Bush in Federal Court),

www.mansueact.com
www.mansueact.com/mansue.com/scandal.html
wma…@yahoo.com
mansuedot…@lycos.com