Friday, November 18, 2011

Client Magnet: A Blog Planning Template for Lawyers....LOL


Client Magnet: A Blog Planning Template for Lawyers....LOL

Mike Mintz


http://community.martindale.com/legal-blogs/Lawyer_Tech_35/b/hacking_martindalecom_connected_tips_tricks_and_tutorials/archive/2011/03/09/client-magnet-a-blog-planning-template-for-lawyers.aspx


Whether you call it "blogging" or "blawging," writing for social media is scary, even for lawyers.

Most members of the bar are used to spending many billable hours polishing anything they will present or publish. The misplacement of an apostrophe or an innocent typo can mean death and ruin even to the fiercest litigator. In a medium where formalities are eschewed almost as a badge of honor, lawyers may find it difficult to make the transition from brief writing to blog posting, but don't worry: we've got you covered. After all, we're teaching you how to hack martindale.com Connected.

Why Should Lawyers Blog?

There are many reasons why you may be considering blogging, despite your busy day. I spoke to popular blogger and lawyer Mark Herrmann about this subject on a podcast last month called Sex, Drugs, and In-House Counsel: Mark Herrmann Goes Above The Law. You can listen to it here.

For those of you who don't know Mark, he built a successful niche blog on The Drug and Device Law Blog which attained 40,000 readers per month. He then began writing for the number one legal blog in the world, Above the Law, on a column called "Inside Straight" about his experiences now that he went in-house. The difference? Above the Law gets about 40,000 readers per hour!

Some of the benefits we discussed on the podcast regarding lawyers blogging were:

  1. Subject Matter Expertise - writing a daily or weekly blog requires that you stay current on updates in that area. If you are a looking for an excuse to spend time surfing the Internet for the latest or even pretending to be an investigative reporter (which in some sense you are) then doing a blog may be for you.
  2. Exposure and Building Your Profile - there is a discussion going on right now in the Thought Leadership for Lawyers group on Connected about whether it is in a law firm's best interest to encourage lawyers to build their profile at the firm, when it is likely they will leave soon after. Developing people costs money in training and other expenses. Want to develop your people at a huge discount? Start a blog and let them become a main contributor responsible for content and readership. They will build their profile while your firm builds a marketing asset.
  3. Marketing Asset - okay, nice segway into this third point, but that's exactly what a blog is (among other things), a marketing asset. It is a place you can point current and potential clients to that is going to be more interesting (hopefully) than your boring law firm website. The blog is also a place you can interact with them and create dialogue. In short, it has the ability to support the building of the firm's profile, which is why we invest in marketing assets in the first place, right?
  4. Clients - let's face it: if your are in the business of law it's all about getting more clients. Most clients either ask a friend about which lawyer to use or ask Google (which is also their friend). When you blog daily, that raises your profile in the eyes of Google. When attached to a law firm website, the blog provides much needed "Google Juice" so you will rank higher in results for search terms relating to your posts (there are plenty of tricks to packing posts with search terms which I'll discuss in a later post as well).

"It sounds great Mike," you say, "but how do I get started?" I'm glad you asked.

The best place to get started with any project, (and yes, blogging is a project), is with some planning. The follow template provides 7-questions that should help you define what your blog is about and what direction to take it in. Try to answer this as completely and simply as possible.

Blog Planning Template for Lawyers

  1. What are your goals in blogging (establish expertise among peers, attract clients, SEO, etc.)? What does success look like?
  2. Who is your ideal reader? What problems are they facing and can you give any guidance via the blog? How can you take this a step further and connect emotionally with what they are going through?
  3. What digital assets does the firm currently have (articles, white papers, recordings or video, etc.)? Are there opportunities here to repurpose (republish sections) and promote those via the blog?
  4. What is your schtick going to be, i.e. what makes your posts special besides the subject matter that will create a raving fan base?
  5. Do you have any promotion channels for the blog posts (of course you do, but I want to know what you have thought of!)? Some suggestions include: Twitter, attaching post titles with links to email signatures, email newsletters, etc.
  6. Are you familiar with copywriting basics (blogs are not briefs ... they should not be boring)?
    • Attention getting headlines
    • Problem solving and issue raising
    • Linking and tagging
    • Using images
    • Break up long posts with lists and subheads
  7. Finding your voice - who will be the personality of the blog? Will you have multiple authors? I always think blogging works better when you tie a post to an individual rather than a firm.

Notice I don't list anything about tools or the Connected blogging platform. That is because tools are the easy part. Knowing what you are going to build is much more difficult. Think about it: if you are going to build a house, do you really care if I hand you a Bosch or a Black and Decker drill? No. As long as the tools work and can build what you are working towards they are fine. The same thing applies here.

Is your firm currently planning to launch a blog, and if so, what is it about? If not, what is stopping you? If you already have a blog, what tips can you share that have worked for you?




Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Why the BRICS won't 'save' ZIOCONNED Europe....


Why the BRICS won't 'save' ZIOCONNED Europe....
By Pepe Escobar

This Thursday, in Washington, finance ministers and central bank governors of the BRICS group of emerging powers - Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa - will get together and, in the words of Brazilian Finance Minister Guido Mantega, "Talk about what to do to help the European Union get out of this situation."

Hold your horses. Is this an emerging cavalry to the rescue? Could this be the end of the eurozone (eurotrash?) self-induced liquidity panic? Or is this just the BRICS graphically showing the writing on the wall - pointing to which way the economic wind is blowing?

The basic (Brazilian) idea is for BRICS financial muscle to buy some extra European sovereign debt. But only "solid" bonds - from Germany or the United Kingdom - would qualify. The rationale is that BRICS will win by diversifying reserves - China at $3.2 trillion, Brazil at over $350 billion, India at over $320 billion - and make more money than investing in US Treasury bonds.

The thing is selected BRICS have been diversifying their reserves for quite a while - especially China, as well as Brazil (which still remains the US's 4th biggest creditor, with over $210 billion).

There will be much to debate in Washington. India is not very enthusiastic. Nor is Russia; Moscow, via Arkady Dvorkovich, President Dmitry Medvedev's chief economic adviser, stated flat out that the Europeans must come up with a clear strategy for rescuing the PIIGS (Portugal, Ireland and Italy, Greece, Spain) before Moscow starts buying more eurozone bonds.

I wanna bite your apple
As for China, ask not what Beijing could do to Europe; ask what Europe has done to Beijing. Well, not much. The bombing by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) of Libya into democracy translated into massive losses for China, including the lightning repatriation of over 36,000 Chinese workers, and cancellation of dozens of contracts. Not to mention that NATO's war was fundamentally opposed by the BRICS - and the "NATO rebels" in Libya have already threatened to sideline Brazilian, Chinese and Russian companies from the fresh Libyan loot.

What Beijing really wants can be gleaned from what top adviser to China's central bank Li Daokui said at the recent World Economic Forum in Dalian, "The incremental parts of our foreign reserve holdings should be invested in physical assets."

Translation; "We would like to buy stakes in Boeing, Intel and Apple, and maybe we should invest in these types of companies in a proactive way." Daokui said there is an astonishing "$10 trillion" waiting to be invested in the US; over the collective dead body of the Republican party, one might add.

Daokui also said that only after "the US Treasury market stabilizes" would China be willing to "liquidate more of our holdings of Treasuries".

The operational word here is "liquidate" - not "diversify". That is, Beijing really wants to get rid of all those US dollars. Meanwhile, it will keep buying any available foreign assets in sight - as well as, inevitably, US dollars. Europeans should not get too excited; Beijing is as fond of euro debt as it is of dollar debt. Actually euro debt is now regarded as even more poisonous.

The return of the European dead
Critics of the Brazilian plan say the EU does not need a bail out. It is already awash in all those euros they print; what they need is "fiscal discipline". Additionally, it's a bad investment; the euro will inevitably lose against the yuan, the rouble or the real, and some eurozone countries may even default.

French economist Emmanuel Todd - who was predicting the decline of the US already before the invasion of Iraq - ranks the euro as a "zombie concept". Indeed - in the sense that wealthier northern Europe will never be ready to open their wallets to help southern Europe to reach an equivalent economic level.

National egoism rules. The euro is too expensive for Greece, Portugal, Spain, Italy and even France. The euro's rate in relation to the US dollar is adapted to Germany or the Netherlands, not for southern Europe. For these countries, the euro is like a cluster bomb on their growth.

And because the currency is so strong, companies are unable to export. They delocalize like crazy. And unemployment shoots up. That's why leaving the euro is a solution for all these countries whose competitiveness is in trouble. They can devalue their currency and get back in business.

But then there are the cons. Technically, for these countries to get back to their national currencies - say, the drachma, the peso, or the lira - is already a major headache in itself. Then these new (old) currencies will obviously fall; according to ING projections it would be something like 50% for Greece and Spain.

This means their debt, as well as the debts of their companies - denominated in euros - will rise exponentially. And the same for inflation; it would be parked in double-digit territory.

The only realistic solution for the European crisis would be a move towards a federal Europe (think of the United States of Europe). That would imply that the accumulated debt of all these countries would be Europe's debt (and also imply, on a positive register, no more speculation). The economy would be centralized, managed on a European-wide scale.

There's absolutely no evidence European-wide citizens are ready to accept such a project. Thus, the crisis is never-ending.

I want security, yeah
The BRICS's ultimate fear is that this perpetual eurozone wasteland plus American stagnation will lead to a global contraction also wreaking havoc all across Asia, South America and Africa.

Public opinion in the development world has long memories. Many would dream that as much as the IMF "helped" the global South by applying its dreaded "structural adjustments" - deregulating everything in sight and transferring more wealth to the already wealthy - the BRICs might now impose their own rules to "save" Europe.

That would be, in practice, permanent seats at the UN Security Council for the "B" and "I" in BRICS ("R" and "C" already have it). Brazil would demand real free trade in agriculture. And China would demand real freedom of investment.

But everyone knows that won't happen.

Another possibility - in terms of helping not only Europe but the global economy as a whole - would be for all BRICS to launch massive infrastructure projects. Then EU and US funds would be "encouraged" to get into the action. China already did it, and Brazil is doing it; but these massive investments in infrastructure are largely locally and regionally minded, and are not translating into more jobs for Europeans or Americans.

Even crisis-hit Western Europe, as a whole, is still the number one economy in the world; according to The Economist, a little less than 24% of the global total, compared to the BRICS at 21%. Yet the Europeans hold 32% of the votes at the International IMF, while the BRICS control only 11%.

So maybe that's what the BRICS are really after; they want to force a new correlation of forces at the IMF. To this end, why not undermine the power of the US dollar a little further, and to defy Europe a little more forcefully; but without betting on the US dollar, or the euro, or both, crashing. Sun Tzu would give it the thumbs up....

Sunday, September 11, 2011

The new Great Game in Central Asia...


The new Great Game in Central Asia...


China has set its sights on Central Asia, triggering a new Great Game in a region where Europe, Russia and the US have all long sought influence.

As the five Central Asian states become increasingly important as a source of oil and gas, a market for consumer goods and as the core of the strategically-important Shanghai Cooperation Organization,China is now “clearly confident it can reorient Central Asia towards Beijing” and away from the world’s other major powers.

China Analysis: The new Great Game in Central Asia, published today by the European Council on Foreign Relations and Asia Centre, explores these issues by analysing the evolving debates among experts within China itself. The authors argue that the EU should closely watch Chinese policy in Central Asia – the region is becoming “almost a laboratory for Chinese foreign policy.”

Key themes that emerge include:

  • China increasingly sees the five states of central Asia – Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan – as an important destination for investment and aid that could in turn leverage influence. It is positioning itself as a “good neighbour” to the region: Hu Jintao has made three trips there since 2009.
  • Beijing also sees the region as a source of fuel that could reduce Beijing’s risky dependence on maritime routes. Chinese analysts predict that Central Asia will be central in the “battle for resources” between the major powers.
  • The SCO is seen in China as a hedge against Western demands; some analysts hope it will become a quasi-military alliance that could veto a UN-based intervention in the region and carry out its own security actions, including against future terrorist threats.
  • China wants the Central Asian states to take a more active part in its fight against Uighur separatist movements

Key facts:

  • China overtook Europe as Central Asia’s principal trading partner in 2010, doing €23 billion of trade with the region’s five states compared with Europe’s €21bn
  • Over 10 percent of China’s oil and gas imports now come from Central Asia
  • Current members of the SCO are China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan: some Chinese analysts hope that both India and Pakistan will join in the medium-term

Download China Analysis: The new Great Game in Central Asia here


Friday, July 15, 2011

Senate Sergeant-at-Arms and former US Capitol Police chief leaked information to Fox News....


Senate Sergeant-at-Arms and former US Capitol Police chief leaked information to Fox News....a MOSSAD joint wall to wall!

July , 2011 -- Murdoch intelligence-gathering network extended to U.S. Congress....

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/07/13/a-murdoch-note/

U.S. Congressional sources have confirmed to us that the U.S. Capitol Police and other congressional officials shared sensitive information on members of Congress with Rupert Murdoch's media outlets in Washington, including Fox News, in a manner similar to the situation in the United Kingdom where reporters for Murdoch's now-defunct News of the World bribed British law enforcement officials for sensitive information on public officials and private citizens.

Representative Peter King (R-NY) has already leveled charges that News of the World reporters tried to bribe U.S. law enforcement officials for phone records and transcripts of wiretaps of victims of the 9/11 attack. King did not elaborate on why law enforcement would have found it necessary, in the first place, to wiretap the conversations of 9/11 victims and their surviving next-of-kin.

On March 28, 2007, we first reported the relationship between the newly-appointed U.S. Senate Sergeant-at-Arms Terrance Gainer, who was formerly the chief of the U.S. Capitol Police, and Fox News in three highly-publicized incidents involving only Democratic members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. The three incidents involved Fox News receiving information directly from Gainer on incidents involving then-Representative Cynthia McKinney (D-GA), then-Representative Patrick Kennedy (D-RI), and an aide to Senator Jim Webb (D-VA).

After a highly-publicized scuffle involving McKinney and an aggressive U.S. Capitol Police officer, one in which McKinney was physically assaulted by the officer, Fox News was the first to report the incident. The media hype resulting from the incident resulted in a criminal referral to the US Attorney for the District of Columbia. Shortly after Gainer resigned as chief and his being appointed by Senate Democratic Majority Leader Harry Reid, Representative Kennedy was involved in a minor automobile accident on Capitol Hill. Again, Fox News was the first to receive the information about the incident and Gainer stated publicly that Kennedy should have been given a sobriety test by the Capitol cops.

The third incident involved Phillip Thompson, the executive assistant to Virginia Democratic Senator Jim Webb, who was arrested by the Capitol Police at the Russell Senate Office Building for carrying a loaded pistol allegedly given to him by Webb. The Capitol Police enforced a DC law in force at the time that prohibited anyone other than law enforcement officers from carrying weapons in the District. Webb said he has a license to carry a concealed weapon in Virginia and Thompson, an ex-Marine, inadvertently carried the weapon into the building after dropping Webb off at the airport. March 2007 our report stated: "Details of the [Thompson] incident were leaked by the cops to Fox News and other neo-con outlets." We also reported that the leaks by US Capitol Police and Sergeant-at-Arms staff also occurred in the cases of McKinney and Kennedy.

Gainer is a long-time Republican who unsuccessfully challenged incumbent Richard M. Daley, Jr. as the Republican candidate for Cook County (Illinois) State's Attorney in 1988. Gainer got his start in law enforcement as a rookie Chicago cop in 1968 where he helped put down riots at the Democratic National Convention, a melee that saw Chicago cops clubbing anti-Vietnam War protesters.

As U.S. Senate Sergeant-at-Arms, Gainer is responsible for the installation and maintenance of the Senate's telecommunications networks and computer and other equipment, including those that handle Senators' e-mail, phone calls, faxes, Blackberry tweets, and photocopies of documents.

Some members of Congress have indicated the investigation of Murdoch's News Corporation's information-gathering practices warrant a full-scale investigation in the United States. Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) told CNN, "My bet is we'll find some criminal stuff . . . This is going to be a huge issue." Rockefeller said he may launch his own investigation. Perhaps he might want to start with the Senate's Sergeant-at-Arms and ask Harry Reid why he chose to appoint Gainer, a Republican, to the post after evidence surfaced that tied Gainer to leaks of law enforcement information to Fox News.

In Britain, law enforcement officials, including royal guards, reportedly asked the News of the World for money in exchange for personal information about the Royal family, including Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Philip, Prince Charles, Duchess of Cornwall Camilla, Duchess of Cambridge Catherine, and others. While he was Chancellor of the Exchequer and Prime Minister, Gordon Brown was also subjected to private communication surveillance by private detectives who had a close relationship with law enforcement agencies, including Scotland Yard....

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

What in the world is going on in the Zioconned Washington DC?


What in the world is going on in the Zioconned Washington DC?


A typical normal day within the confines of the crumbling Ziocon Empire of criminals.....


Banana Republic Watch: The Supreme Court Vs The People of the United States of America: On this news wire, we will track the Supreme Court’s attacks against the rights of the American people.

[Supreme Court cases/decisions listed]....



  • Hotel maid in DSK case sues New York Post for libel. Murdoch rag called maid a "hooker" and "prostitute." Since Coney Island is now rationing toilet paper due to budget cuts, perhaps the Post will just ship copies of the paper to Coney Island because the only thing any Murdoch paper is good for is wiping one's arse.
  • Exxon covered up mishandling of Yellowstone River oil spill. It's past time to seize the oil companies, sack and seize the profits of their executives, and create a state-owned oil company as in Venezuela.....


  • http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/07/13/a-murdoch-note/

    Friday, June 24, 2011

    ..... Fouad Siniora is a crooked CIA-MOSSAD Monster in sheep's clothing....فؤاد السنيورة


    .....فؤاد السنيورة

    Fouad Siniora is a crooked CIA/MOSSAD Monster in sheep's clothing....


    http://www.anamasry.info/video/siniora/



    يؤكد مصرفي بارز ان فؤاد السنيورة زار العاصمة الاميركية واشنطن منذ شهر ونيف بهدف التحريض على مرجعية مصرفية كبيرة وقطع الطريق على التمديد لها بحجة العلاقة الجيدة التي تربطها اقليميا ومحليا بجهات سياسية معينة .وان المرجع المذكور حاول لقاء وزير الخزانة الاميركي فلم يستطع كذلك الامر مع كبار معاونيه فاكتفى عندها بلقاء في مقهى مع مسؤول صغير كان زميلا لاحد مستشاريه الذي رتب هذا اللقاء وهو( م س ) فحاول تسويق فكرة الضغط المصرفي على الجوار اللبناني وكذلك على الاكثرية الجديدة عبر فتح ملفات بعض المصارف , وهو الامر الذي ترجم بتسريبات اعلامية عن استهداف مصارف لبنانية جديدة

    وتشير معلومات صحافية في واشنطن عن تكليف لوبي بموازنة 3 مليون دولار للهجوم على المصارف اللبنانية وعلى حاكم مصرف لبنان رياض سلامة , ولكن من سوء الطالع لهؤلاء ان المقال الاول الذي صدر في جريدة "وال ستريت جورنال" كان لكاتب اسرائيلي يكتب اسبوعيا في "يدوعوت احرونوت"



    Wednesday, June 15, 2011

    هل ستقوم الحكومة اللبنانية بتحويل أشرف ريفي إلى القضاء


    وبغض النظر عن التحولات الإقليمية التي جعلت الحكومة اللبنانية تبصر النور، يبدو أن الحكومة الجديدة، وبالإضافة إلى التحديات الاقتصادية والاجتماعية الداخلية، مقبلة على مرحلة جديدة من الضغوط الخارجية الهائلة، وهي قد بدأت فعلاً منذ اللحظة الأولى بصدور الموقف الأميركي، الذي اعتبر أن الولايات المتحدة ستحكم على الحكومة الجديدة «بناء على أفعالها»، ودعاها إلى نبذ العنف والابتعاد عن "الثأر"، بما يوحي أن واشنطن ستعتبر أن أي إقالة أو محاسبة لأي من وكلائها في الداخل أو من زرعتهم في التركيبة الأمنية والإدارية والسياسية في هيكلية الدولة اللبنانية، سيعتبر عملاً ثأرياً! وهكذا يكون أول التحديات أمام الحكومة اللبنانية الجديدة، مواجهة ضغوط الإدارة الأميركية التي خسرت وكلاءها السياسيين في السلطة التنفيذية، وتريد الحفاظ على ما تبقى من الوكلاء الأمنيين والإداريين.

    إذاً، التحدي الأول والأهم سيواجه بداية وزيرا الداخلية والعدل، ومن ورائهما كل الحكومة اللبنانية ووزرائها، إذ لا يمكن للحكومة اللبنانية أن تحصل على ثقة الشعب اللبناني وإيمانه بقدرتها على الحفاظ على أمنه وسيادته واستقراره، في ظل تمرد أمني وانقلاب على المؤسسات وسلطة الدولة وأن لا يحوّل مرتكبيه إلى القضاء، للفصل في هذه القضايا وإحقاق الحق.

    وهنا السؤال الأهم: هل ستقوم الحكومة اللبنانية بتحويل أشرف ريفي إلى القضاء بعد تمرده على رئيسه المباشر، وعلى رئيس الجمهورية؟ وهل سيفصل القضاء في شرعية فرع المعلومات وتخطيه لصلاحياته، خصوصاً الانقلاب الذي قام به، واحتلاله مبنى تابعاً لوزراة الاتصالات؟

    وهل سيحاسَب سهيل البوجي على تزويره محاضر جلسات مجلس الوزراء، وفبركة جلسات لم تعقد أساساً، وتمّ فيها اتخاذ قرارات هامة ومصيرية للبلاد؟

    وهل ستستكمل عملية التدقيق في الحسابات المالية، وما كشفته جلسة لجنة المال والموازنة من خلال ما أدلى به مدير عام المالية آلان بيفاني من حقائق خطيرة؟

    أسئلة كثيرة وفضائح نشرت على صفحات الجرائد وفي وسائل الإعلام، فهل من قضاء مستقل يفصل في هذه القضايا؟ وهل سيعتبر اللجوء إلى القضاء عملاً ثأرياً من قبل الولايات المتحدة ووكلائها في لبنان؟

    أما التحدي الثاني فسيكون بالتأكيد حول طريقة التعامل مع المحكمة الدولية الخاصة بلبنان وتمويلها، وهنا ستواجه الحكومة تحديات على جبهتين:

    الجبهة الداخلية، حيث سيلجأ فريق المستقبل وحلفائه إلى إثارة الكثير من الضجيج المذهبي لإحراج الرئيس ميقاتي، والقول بأنه يخضع لأوامر حزب الله، ويتخلى عن دم "الشهيد"، ولن يتأخر هذا الفريق في استخدام الإعلام والمنابر الدينية في هذا السبيل.

    أما الجبهة الخارجية، فيعوّل الغرب على المحكمة الدولية الخاصة بلبنان لاستخدامها أداة في السير بمشروعه المواجه للحلف المقاوم في لبنان، لذا نشهد أن الأصوات الدولية بدأت تتحدث منذ الآن عن "احترام لبنان لالتزاماته الدولية"، بما يشير إلى أن أي مسار قضائي أو برلماني لمناقشة موضوع المحكمة الدولية والتعاون معها وتمويلها، سيؤدي إلى ضجيج دولي وهيجان لن تسلم منهما الحكومة اللبنانية الجديدة.

    التحدي الثالث سيكون في ملف العلاقات اللبنانية السورية، خصوصاً إذا كشفت التحقيقات ضلوع لبنانيين في التآمر على سورية وأمنها، وكيفية التعامل مع هذا الملف، وما قد يترافق معه من طلبات سورية باسترداد بعض السوريين الفارين إلى الأراضي اللبنانية؛ تنفيذاً للاتفاقيات الموقعة بين البلدين.

    التحدي الرابع سيتجلى في المعركة الدبلوماسية والسياسية المفترض على الحكومة اللبنانية أن تقوم بها في مجال التنقيب عن النفط، خصوصاً أن الاتفاقية القبرصية الإسرائيلية تنتهك حق لبنان في نفطه، بينما يغيب اللبنانيون عن الحدث متلهين بسياسة المحاصصة واقتسام المغانم.

    بالتأكيد لن تسلم حكومة لبنانية احتاجت إلى أشهر لولادتها، وفي ظل استخدام دائم للبنان كساحة للإلهاء والإشغال، من تداعيات حراك إقليمي هائل على عتبة قرار أميركي بالبقاء في العراق وتمديد الاتفاقيات الموقعة مع الحكومة العراقية، وانتظار جلاء وضع الميدان السوري ليحسم الأميركيون خيارهم بأي من الاتجاهيْن سيسيرون في المنطقة. ففي ظل الهجوم الأميركي المضاد على الثورات العربية، والتعامل مع التطورات المستجدة في المنطقة، يعمل الأميركيون اليوم على خطين متوازيين: التعاون مع الاتجاه "الوهابي" وقائدته السعودية، أو التعاون والتنسيق مع الإخوان المسلمين وقائدتهم تركيا، وهكذا يكون الوضع السوري الميداني العامل الأساس في حسم الأمريكيين لخيارهم بأي استراتيجية سيسيرون، وبعد هذا الخيار يتحدد مصير اليمن وغيرها من القضايا الإقليمية، وبالتأكيد سيكون للبنان نصيبه من التطورات بحسب أي من الخيارين سيسير به الأميركيون.

    بالرغم من أن التحديات الخارجية التي ستواجه لبنان في الأشهر القليلة المقبلة لن تكون سهلة، لكن على الحكومة اللبنانية الجديدة أن لا تغفل الوضع الداخلي، خصوصاً في ظل تفاقم الوضعين الاقتصادي والاجتماعي، وركود موسم السياحة، وتنامي البطالة والهجرة، وعدم توفر فرص عمل للشباب، فلن يكون بمقدور الحكومة اللبنانية أن تتذرع بشعار "لا صوت يعلو فوق صوت المعركة" لحرمان اللبنانيين من أبسط حقوقهم في الضمان الاجتماعي، والتعليم والطبابة ونظام الشيخوخة، وغيرها من الأمور البديهية التي باتت من أبسط حقوق الإنسان الرئيسية، فهل ستكون الحكومة الجديدة على قدر التحديات الهائلة التي ستواجهها، وعلى قدر آمال اللبنانيين وحاجاتهم الملحة؟

    Tuesday, June 7, 2011

    Tuesday, May 31, 2011

    CIA COUP COMING IN GREECE AND POSSIBLY SPAIN TOO?

    The French Frogs will re-elect another CIA/MOSSAD shadow President in 2012 again....

    According to Germany's Bild newspaper, on 29 May 2011:

    The CIA has stated in a recent report that there may soon be a coup in Greece.

    Zerbricht Griechenland an der Krise: Geheimdienst befürchtet ... - [ Translate this page ]

    There has been a lot of rioting in Greece.

    The CIA and Mossad may want a military government in Athens, in order to promote their agenda.


    On 14 March 2007, Vladimir Putin presided over a pipeline deal with Greece and Bulgaria. (Russia, Greece and Bulgaria sign major oil pipeline deal ...)

    There is supposed to be a Russian oil pipeline through Greece.

    It was supposed to be completed by 2011
    .[1]

    In 2009, Bulgaria got a new government and it has been stalling the construction of the pipeline. (EU to help unblock Tran-Balkan pipeline)

    Russia provides Europe with a third of its oil and 40 percent of its natural gas, and the pipeline deal would increase these figures.

    Certain people, such as the CIA and its pals in the Greek military, may not like the deal and may try to change the government of Greece?

    The CIA put the military into power in Greece in 1967.

    The Greek Military ran a 'fascist' regime.

    In June 2008, an Iranian official criticized Greece for joining an Israeli military exercise that is claimed to be a rehearsal for a potential bombing attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities.

    The New York Times reported that more than 100 Israeli F-16 and F-15 fighters took part in the maneuvers over the eastern Mediterranean and Greece in the first week of June.

    The official expressed regret that Greece has kept silence on Israel’s provocative military exercise in its territory.
    (tehran times : Iran slams Greece for joining Israel’s military parade)


    Greece is important to Israel and to the USA.

    In 1996, the pro-PLO Prime Minister, Andreas Papandreou died.

    There followed an improvement in relations between Greece and Israel.

    Trade between Greece and Israel doubled between 1989 and 1995.
    (GREEK-ISRAELI STRATEGIC RELATIONS)

    In a visit to Athens, Israeli President Katzav said "we consider Greece an important economic partner of Israel's economy, as well as a gateway to the Balkans."


    Greece's Papandreou and Israel's Netanyahu

    On 17 August 2010, it was announced that Israel and Greece are seeking to expand military ties

    Former Greek Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou once compared the Israelis to the Nazis. (Mesimvrini, 10 August 1982.)

    In 1983, in the Greek Parliament, Ioannis Koutsoyannis blamed "the Jews, the Masons, the CIA and Moshe Dayan" for preparing and coordinating the 1967 military coup in Greece. (Greek Society)

    The bad guys have had a series of cunning plans designed to get control of Greece.

    In 1988, Abu Nidal, who reportedly worked for Mossad, attacked the Greek cruise ship, the Achille Lauro, leaving nine people dead.

    One of Mossad's aims was to turn Greece against the Palestinians.

    The Achile Lauro incident hastened the fall of Greek prime minister Andreas Papandreou. (Abu Nidal - Mossad Terrorist)

    Famous Greek Olga Farmaki

    And then there is the Greek economy.

    "It does appear to be financial warfare. As bankers look to loot nation after nation. Greece is only the beginning." (Greece is tipping. Is this financial war against the Eurozone?)

    At American Free Press, in March 2010, Victor Thorn wrote:

    "Beginning in 2001, Goldman Sachs concocted an elaborate financial scheme whereby billions in 'currency swaps' were funneled into Greece, only to be squandered and embezzled by government officials....

    "Greek newspapers such as Avriani are openly citing a Jewish plutocracy for plotting their nation’s demise...

    "In a Feb. 11 article entitled 'Greece Under European Union Diktat,' Peter Schwarz observed, 'The crisis in Greece is attracting the most parasitic representatives of finance capital, whose methods resemble those of the Mafia, with the European Commission serving as the consigliore to the godfathers of finance.'

    "One of the men he alluded to was Jewish speculator George Soros."


    Greek King and CIA-backed colonels

    The CIA and its friends have been active in Greece for some time.

    1. In 1944, in Greece, a large demonstration in Athens, against British interference in the government, was dissolved by gunfire from hidden soldiers.

    25 protesters were killed and 148 wounded.

    2. In 1967, in Greece, CIA-backed colonels carried out a military coup, resulting in a 'fascist' dictatorship.

    Thousands of Greeks were tortured and murdered by the CIA backed 'fascists'.

    (NATO's Secret Armies: Operation Gladio and Terrorism in Western Europe - Google Books Result )

    3. In 1985, 15-year-old Michalis Kaltezas was shot by a police officer, triggering violent clashes between youths and the police in Athens.

    4. In December 2008, Greek youths rioted after the police shot a boy

    15-year-old Andreas Grigoropoulos was shot dead on 6 December 2008 by a police officer.

    Witnesses told Greek TV the policeman fired directly at the boy.

    The Colonels

    The CIA, reportedly, has used acts of terrorism to keep the right-wing in power in Greece.

    (The following is from: Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II - Google Books Result)

    "In the April 1967 national elections in Greece, the veteran liberal leader George Papandreou seemed certain to be re-elected as prime minister.

    Papandreou had been elected in 1964 with the only outright majority in the history of modern Greek elections.

    A joint campaign by the Greek military and the CIA to unseat him began immediately...

    The Gladio 'Sheepskin' group was involved in a campaign of terrorist bombings, which were blamed on the left, and two days before the election campaign was to begin, a military coup brought to power a junta led by George Papadopoulos, a member of the Greek intelligence service KYP.

    The CIA had created the KYP and Papadopoulos was on the payroll of the Agency for some 15 years.

    Along with hundreds of other KYP officers, he had received training in anti-subversive techniques in the United States.

    Papadopoulos was "a great believer in Hitler's new order" ...

    He plunged Greece for the next seven years into a nightmare of martial law, censorship, arrests, beatings, torture and murders.

    8,000 were killed in the first month alone.

    Before the end of the year, Amnesty International reported that "torture as a deliberate practice is carried out by the Security Police and the Military Police."

    The Greek junta contributed $549,000 to the 1968 Nixon-Agnew election campaign in the United States.

    A Senate investigation to discover if this was CIA money finding its way back home, was abruptly cancelled at the direct request of Henry Kissinger
    . "


    Thomas Countryman 'NSA/CIA liaison in Athens'

    http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/01/136216.php

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=K99LvfeWBoc





    Saturday, May 14, 2011

    Real changes in the Russian security and elite military forces ?


    Real changes in the Russian security and elite military forces ?

    One of the more exotic technologies for tracking deeply submerged submarines consists of using a satellite based radar to measure the tiny elevation of the water surface of the ocean above an otherwise well hidden and silently moving submarine. Some less exotic techniques including detecting wakes, tiny differences in water temperatures, magnetic fluctuations and many other "indirect" methods. What I propose to do today is something similar: to try to look at some possible signals of what might be happening hidden deep inside the Russian security establishment.

    Doku Umarov
    As some of you might have recalled, I have regularly covered what I saw as a government campaign to defund, "reform" (read: shut down) and otherwise weaken the Russian elite military forces. A Spetsnaz brigade was dismantled, the military intelligence service (GRU) was almost reduced to a Department of the General Staff, the 106th Airborne Division came close to being simply eliminated, and a number of top officers were either rather "mysteriously died" or resigned. Things got totally out of control when the Airborne Forces almost officially demanded the sacking of Defense Minister Serdyukov.

    Magomedali Vagabov
    And then things suddenly seemed to cool down, and an eerie silence covered this entire "front". There are now some signs that things have actually begun to change.
    First, the Russian security services have embarked on a major campaign to capture or eliminate the leaders of the Wahabi underground in the Caucasus.

    Even before the bombing of the Domodedovo airport in Moscow several top leaders of the Wahabi underground in the Caucasus (such as Magometali Vagabov) were killed in the course of several special operations. Following the Domodedovo bombing (which was officially claimed by the self-styled "First Emir of the Emirate of the Caucasus" Doku Umarov) the campaign to track
    Abdullah Kurd
    down and kill the Wahabi leaders suddenly intensified and achieved major successes. Many top officials of the Wahabi insurgency were killed including "Moganned" (a Saudi national), "Abdullah Kurd" (a Turkish national), Israpil Validjanov, Asker Djapuev and even Astemir Mimishev - the assassin of the Mufti of the Kabardino-Balkar Republic. All of them were killed in the time period between April and May of this year.

    The one still not caught, although his death has been announced many times only to be proven wrong is Doku Umarov himself. Umarov, arguably the very last "historical" leader of the Chechen insurgency alive, has skillfully managed to escape many times from some very close calls, but there is no doubt in my mind that the noose around him is now extremely tight and that he will be killed very soon.
    Asker Djapuev

    As for the insurgency itself, it is reduced to two basic types of operations: high visibility "symbolic" terrorist attacks such as the one in Domodedovo or small, local level, assassinations of junior policemen and murders of "collaborators". The single best indicator of the real capabilities of the insurgency is that it is handled only by Ministry of Internal Affairs forces and not by the military (the exception being, of course, the killing of top level commanders which is typically a join effort of the FSB and the GRU with logistical support from local police forces).

    Astemir Mamishev
    Bottom line: the insurgency has been defeated, most of its leaders are dead, and the scope and nature of Wahabi terrorism in the Caucasus and south Russia has been brought down to something similar to what the IRA was in the years preceding the Good Friday Agreement.

    Of course, there is a Presidential election coming up in Russia and Medvedev has been challenged for many of his policies (betrayal of Iran, his "reforms" of the military, Russia's vote in the UN on Libya and many others) and, just like Obama, he needs to market himself as a "strong leader". This is particularly true considering that Prime Minister Putin is far more popular than Medvedev.

    Moganned
    There are also signs that Medvedev is openly courting elite Russian military forces. First, there was the absolutely unprecedented move to award the Order of Kutuzov to the 45th Independent Special Operations Airbore Regiment as a whole (rather than to one individual). Not only that, but this year the 45th Independent Special Operations Airborne Regiment was invited to the Victory Parade on Red Square.

    Something even more amazing happened on the same day: for the first time ever the traditionally super-secret GRU Spetsnaz forces were also represented during the Victory Day lead by a Spetsnaz Colonel who was identified by name (!). Considering the fact that Spetsnaz GRU forces are still normally
    Israpil Validzhanov
    under order never to even show their faces, having them participate in a parade transmitted worldwide is an absolutely amazing, I would say earth-shattering, departure from the usual practice.

    Medvedev also showed his support for the Special Forces of the Internal Ministry during a visit to the HQ of the "Rys'" Spetsnaz unit which included a lengthy conversation with the officers of this elite unit.

    Clearly Medvedev is going out of his way to make all the political moves needed to show his support for the previously neglected security forces. His efforts actually go beyond the symbolic.

    Spetsnaz GRU sniper in Ossetia
    The 106th Guard Airborne division has recently received a lot of high tech gear including UAVs, reconnaissance vehicles and ATV, top of the line night vision gear, encryption communications, advanced computerized command and control networks, etc. A division which was almost disbanded is now receiving lavish care from the Kremlin.

    Of course, this could all be a short lived, one-time, effort in order to achieve some political gains. But this might also signal that Medvedev has finally accepted the fact that he cannot indefinitely oppose the security establishment and that a typically Russian backstage deal was made between the Kremlin and the security and key military forces. I am inclined to believe that the latter is true.

    45 Airborne Spetsnaz on Victory Day
    Whatever may be the case, this is clearly good news for Russia in general and for the Caucasus in particular. After two decades of absolute horror and chaos, there is a least a non-irrelevant possibility that some normalization and recovery might take place. The combined action of the security forces and the Kremlin's campaign to support non-Wahabi Islam are slowly bringing about some results. What is now needed is another double struggle: to bring in economic growth to the Caucasus and a merciless crackdown at the local corruption which is absolutely horrendous, even by Russian standards.

    Spetsnaz "Rys'" officer
    Medvedev has embarked on a massive campaign to fight corruption in Russia. This campaign is centered on two mains tracks: a massive overhaul of the hideously corrupt and incompetent police force combined with an equally ferocious crackdown on corrupt government officials. The faces of sacked police generals are now paraded on TV on an almost daily basis and the Kremlin is using the crafty pretext of a "re-attestation" of *all* the Internal Ministry official (from the rank and file to the very top commanders) to sack anybody who is perceived as corrupt or incompetent. The Russian public in understandably viewing all this with a lot of skepticism, or even cynicism, and only time will show if all these efforts are for real or not. The key test, in my opinion, will be if the Kremlin will be willing (and able) crackdown on the all-powerful Mafia and gangs of thugs which have prospered in the Caucasus for many decades.

    Spetsnaz GRU Col. Tkachuk on Victory Day
    The problem of the Wahabi insurgency cannot be separated from the problem of the south Russian mob - the two are twin brothers, closely linked at many levels. For example, one of the reasons why only central "elite" Spetsnaz forces have been able to eliminate so many Wahabi leaders is not that such operations require an amazing amount of military skills, but simply because the central Spetsnaz forces have no connections to the local mob or the local police (which, for all practical purposes is one and the same).

    This is an ambitious multi-tired program for sure, but one which is vital for the stability and security of all of Russia. If it takes a looming Presidential election to finally make it happen, then this is a good thing....



    HK

    HK
    RIP

    Arithmetics of Disdain,

    At a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act"

    It is noteworthy that the State Department's list of global terrorist incidents for 2002 worldwide failed to list the car bombing attack on Hobeika and his party.... But Listed a small Hand Grenade thrown at a U.S. franchise in the middle of the night when the place was closed, empty and no one was hurt? The White House wanted to ensure the terror attack on Mr. Elie Hobeika, and his party of three young men with families, was censored from the report. The reason was simple: this attack ultimately had Washington's and Israel's fingerprints all over it....Given the actual climate of political cacophonies, deceit, deception and intrigue in Lebanon of today, Lebanon of the LIARS of NEOCONVILLE, it has been proven beyond a shadow of a doubt, that Mr. Elie Hobeika was a visionary Leader and a Hero.Lebanon will probably never know a Leader of this caliber.My dear friend ELIE, you have been reborn on January 24th 2002.Heroes are reborn the day of their Martyrdom .ELIE, you are more alive today, than many living political corpses,walking and talking in Beirut Lebanon every day, until resurrection.At a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act"- G. Orwell A U.S. intelligence source revealed to me, that in the world of intelligence "carve out" subcontracts such confusion is often the case with "plausible deniability" being a foremost concern in ALL covert operations, especially in Elie Hobeika's case on January 24th 2002, & Hariri's Feb. 14th 2005... Notwithstanding Jacques CHIRAC's gesticulations and false sorrow for the loss of his "friend" Rafic HARIRI, he has been regularly organizing official meetings in Paris for Asef Shawkat with his services to secure SYRIA for and with Assef Shawkat,....


    The propensity of governments to create secrets out of the obvious is one of the more tedious aspects of international relations. But this secret is not obvious, and it is not trivial. Though it is true, and I hold the KEY.



    Fabrications, LIES , False Flag operations, CIA and MOSSAD.It has been proven beyond a shadow of a doubt,that ALL stories which came out immediately after the Assassination of Mr.Elie Hobeika, Fares Sweidan,Dimitri Ajram, and Waleed El-Zein, were completely &utterly FALSE. It was a pure fabrication by the KILLERS;AND the CIA'S Foreign Denial and Deception Committee (FDDC),to cover their tracks. Standard operating procedure...101I mean by that, the stories relating to Elie trying to find IMAD Moughnieh, the alleged attempted contacts with CIA, MOSSAD, etc. , the missing Iranian diplomats, the 9 most wanted by CIA, whose names have been circulated then,on purpose by CIA, to 7 ministers in the Lebanese Government, etc. [names which CIA has completely forgotten now,one of them has proven since to be a CIA asset himself...] ALL these were a tortuous web of lies to cover the tracks of the Murderers of CIA, MOSSAD, and their Syro-Lebanese tools.Special ongoing Investigation.Oct. , 2007- On September 15, 2001, just four days after the 9-11 attacks,CIA Director George Tenet provided President [sic] Bush with a Top Secret"Worldwide Attack Matrix"-a virtual license to kill targets deemed to be a threat to the United States in some 80 countries around the world. The Tenet plan, which was subsequently approved by Bush, essentially reversed the executive orders of four previous U.S. administrations that expressly prohibited political assassinations. Mr. Elie Hobeika will be the first target of the US administration, to pave the way for its Iraq Invasion .It planned to directly control the "Energy Basin" and ALL the OIL Transportation routes,from Pipelines to the Maritime avenues and choke points in the Gulf areas, and from central Asia to Mauritania and beyond.But most of all, Mr. Elie Hobeika will be made to pay dearly with his life,for daring to change his politics and views, after experiencing first hand,THE BRUTALITY OF THE ISRAELIS AND THE AMERICANS ,and their CULTURE OF VIOLENCE , Intrigue, murder & very bad Politics.The BUSH+CHENEY Energy MATRIX, coming to a place near you SOON.The awakening is near. It will be like a hurricane passing with untold fury.Mark my Words: .....

    http://anaconda-manifesto.blogspot.com/


    THE assassination of yet another Lebanese MP — the seventh anti-Syrian figure to be murdered since the slaying of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in February 2005 — has brought Lebanon to the brink of a catastrophe. It threatens to be even more devastating than the 1975-90 civil war. The country’s survival as an independent unified state is now at stake. The divide between anti-Syrian and pro-Syrian blocs is now unbridgeable.

    As to fears of fresh civil war, it is already a reality. With ministers and pro-government MPs being assassinated, the government even more besieged than the one in Iraq, surviving MPs in hiding, who can talk of political normality? Lebanon is at war with itself. How long before that translates into general armed conflict is anyone’s guess. It would be naive to imagine that Ghanem’s killing will be the last. The anti-Syrian majority in Parliament is now razor-thin. Those behind this and the other killings are obviously determined to bring down the government of Prime Minister Fouad Siniora by the physical elimination of its parliamentary majority.

    There can be no doubt that more assassinations are planned and will be attempted. If that happens and the Lebanese government falls as a result and is replaced by a pro-Syrian government, it will trigger a wave of retaliatory violence — against Hezbollah, against the Shiite community and against pro-Syrian figures. Open warfare waits in the wings.

    Syrian protestations that it had nothing to do with Antoine Ghanem’s murder and the others may be true. It is quite possible that the killings are wholly internal, the work of pro-Syrian elements inside Lebanon who want power back. There are certainly some who do not want a new president elected to replace Emile Lahoud. It is even possible that Israelis were behind the killings, intent on destabilization and making Syria appear the villain — possible but unlikely; they have much to lose if a Hezbollah-dominated, pro-Syrian government were installed in Beirut.

    The problem is that very few believe Syria’s innocence. They ask the question “who benefits?” and, in the case of each assassination, come up with the same answer: Damascus and its clients in Lebanon. That belief robs Syria of having an acceptable role in Lebanon for a long time to come. The majority of Lebanese want their sovereignty to be absolute; with no interference from anyone — be they Syrian, Israeli, Iranian, American or whatever. That dream, however, is being car-bombed to oblivion....

    Forget what you've heard about objectivity. Not even cameras are objective. To nearly everything you analyze (and report on) you bring notions based on - but not limited to - your class, gender, skin color, ethnicity, native language, upbringing, education, religion, culture, playground experiences, political orientation, the influences of people you trust and things about the way our brains work that nobody even knows yet. Like sponges, we absorb stereotypes and clichés about other people's attitudes and behavior which skews our perceptions in ways we don't even realize. So don't fool yourself into believing in objectivity. The best you can achieve is fairness, and that's a tough path to stick to as well.

    And then we'd have a talk about the textbook description of objectivity, which is that "every story has two sides," a pernicious dualistic myth that profoundly undermines what is supposed to be a search for truth....



    The even greater danger with these dark clouds forming over Lebanon is for the region. With Syria’s links to Iran, Iran’s links to Hezbollah, rising tension over Iran’s alleged nuclear ambitions, there is a chain explosion waiting to happen. An Israeli attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities, an American attack on Iran, a Syrian attack on Israel, more Lebanese assassinations: One could trigger another. The temperature is fast rising on the Middle East’s northern rim — and it is near flash point.

    ***************************************************

    Petition USA

    Dear Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee,
    http://judiciary.senate.gov/ , thanks for your
    great work defending the USA Constitution, with
    "EQUAL JUSTICE UNDER LAW" ,Separation
    between Churches and State and Free Speech,
    and my questions are:1) since most likely the Senate

    will approve Michael Mukasey as the new A.G.of

    the United States, and since as you know,he is an

    orthodox Israeli-American and with dual citizenship,
    American and Israeli,

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_B._Mukasey
    http://phillyfreedom.blogspot.com/ , NYT Sept.
    18.07 "Washington outsider with many sides"
    http://voxpopnet.net/
    for info on Mukasey as Judge of the WTC-
    Insurance 9/11 case , will he respect other
    religions exactly thesame as his?2) since he is an

    ordained rabbi within his orthodox community,will his partners get treatment better or different in any way
    from the one you or I or anybody else would get from

    him in the United States of America?

    3) what happens to all the Security Contracts
    and Military deals he and his son Marc are
    doing with the Companies and Interests of
    Giuliani Partners and other associates ?

    4) what happens with all the deals they
    worked on in his son's law firm,
    Bracewell&Giuliani?since Bracewell&Giuliani has

    offices in the South Asia, like in Kazakhstan,a big

    oil supplier ruled by an extreme undemocratic leader,
    Nazarbayev, will the Mukasey's and Giuliani's
    get special deals? with no supervision? political
    donations? will the actual law firm of Mukasey
    get special deals too? will anybody ask ? or will
    they just say yes :blindly?

    5) Michael Mukasey

    and his son Marc are strong AIPAC supporters ,

    but will anyone in the Senate ask anything about their relationship to these political-military-religious-financial
    and foreign groups? we know that no one
    will,but is that right? isn't special treatment?
    the A.G.?

    6) Chairman,this powerful military-religious-
    financial group , of which Michael Mukasey is
    a leader, will have unprecedented influence in
    the Justice Dpt. ,White House and Congress,
    not to mention over the average taxpayer,
    and since many members of the orthodox
    community to which he belongs are diamond,
    gold,jewelry,insurance ,real estate and tobacco
    dealers and wholesalers while claiming Tax
    Exemption due to religious condition,will his
    appointment stop all the Investigations of the
    IRS and Justice Dpt.as well as Commerce,etc.?
    and back taxes?
    do average Americans have a guarantee of
    equal treatment?
    when we start getting prosecuted for asking
    questions,what recourse do we have ? any ?
    and since orthodox Mukasey will most likely
    install many members of his organized religious
    group into office,will we be forced to request
    help from the same community like his with
    the special privilege?7) Judge Mukasey was in

    charge of the 9/11/01 Trial case between the

    leaseholders of the WTC,SIlverstein-Goldman-

    Pacific-etc., and the 23 Insurance Companies these

    new leaseholders called just days before 9/11 to
    open dozens of policies over everything in
    the Towers, services,leases,businesses,contracts,
    profits,hardware,you name it,their premiums
    were millions of dollars a week, didn't make
    any business sense,unless they knew what was
    going to happen a few days later ,and
    everybody in N.Y. and around the world
    was waiting for answers from the Trial ,
    and then Judge Mukasey put a lid on the
    Trial and no news came out, NOTHING !!!!
    and everybody asked why ?, if it is a patriotic
    case,why no news at all ?why the secrecy ?
    why Judge Mukesay didn't want anybody in
    America to know everything about Silverstein
    and his dozens of policies? , then we also found
    out that then N.Y.State A.G. Eliot Spitzer
    wrote a Friend of the Court brief supporting
    Silverstein,the AG siding with one of the
    parties!, and the Judge and Spitzer started to
    push the Insurance Companies to settle for 2
    events,a total of 7 billion dollars to Silverstein
    and his partners, many of the Insurance
    Companies refused because they knew
    something was not right and eventually they
    settled on 4.6 billion dollars for Silverstein ,
    but we still never got any details in any
    newspaper ,radio or TV,NOTHING ! I WOULD
    LIKE TO ASK JUDGE MUKASEY WHY ? ,
    but we do know that no one will ask him
    anything in D.C., he and his Orthodox
    Congregation partners rule,after all they all
    go to Israel together and share Religious
    Ceremonies with Kissinger, Chertoff,
    Bloomberg ,Silverstein,etc., and yet we hear
    S. Schumer and other neocons saying to the
    media that they want to learn more from
    the man !8) Chairman,this new A.G. will have
    unprecedented influence over President Bush
    and VP Cheney,since he is the only one that
    can prosecute the 2,is it wise to have a
    member of a foreign religious-political group
    having so much power over the President and
    the Vice-President of the United States of
    America ? safe ? smart? patriotic?We know that MR..Mukasey was selected by
    Joshua Bolten and approved by Senator
    Schumer and others,so since "they" run
    Washington,it's a done deal ,hearing Senator
    Schumer telling the Media how wonderful
    Mukasey is and that his nomination cuts
    down on pressure on the White House, do
    they extorted a deal from the President:
    Our orthodox candidate and we stop asking
    for White House U.S. Attorney papers and
    information?is that why Bush looks so depressed?

    is that how Schumer,Bolton, Emanuel,Specter,
    Lieberman and Bloomberg are going to run
    this country?
    because clearly with Mukasey as A.G.,they
    run this country lock,stock and barrel,it's
    that how our Constitutional Rights end ?
    Extortion of the President of the United
    States?,
    hearing Schumer and Specter, it's clear that it
    was all about getting the Christians out of the
    Justice Dpt. and installing the neocon orthodox
    in, is that how they do it ?A partner of Mukasey

    as adviser to Giuliani , the neocon Pedhoretz,

    has repeatedly pushed with Pr.Bush to bomb Iran,

    to attack, and since Sen. Lieberman and Sen. Kyl

    are pushing to brand Iran's Military a terrorist

    Organization, is this the beginning of a concerted

    effort to push for war? it's important to remember
    all this , because in 2002 and 2003 all these
    neocons with Sen.Schumer,S.Coleman,
    Sen.Boxer,R.Emanuel,Kristol,Safire, Wolfowitz,
    Perle,Feith,Kagan,Abrams,Fleischer,Edelman,
    Whitman, Kaplan,Kellner,Gutman,Berman,
    Sulzberger,Murdoch,Karmazin, ex-sec.Cohen,
    Gorelick,Chertoff,Wainstein,Kissinger,etc.,
    were pushing for war every day on the media
    and yet now they are attacking anyone that
    mentions it, they are warning elected officials
    like R.Moran that to mention these facts is
    anti-this and anti-that and "watch it ", they
    are bullying any one that mentions what happen
    before the USA went to Iraq,and worst: they
    insist now on their media that only Bush-
    Cheney-Rice-Rumsfeld are responsible , that
    no one else pushed for this war:

    THEY ARE RE-WRITING HISTORY!!! and
    it looks like its not the first time, it sounds
    like they always pull the same trick: they push
    for war,financed with their Hedge Funds and
    then with the media they erase any links to
    themselves, this is criminal; to push for war
    and then to hide and blamethe Christians
    only,that's evil and SHOWS LOTS OF
    WEAKNESS ON THE PART OF THE USA,
    THIS IS A DISASTER FOR THIS GREAT
    COUNTRY! to confirm an organized
    religious-political-military from a foreign sect
    and laws to Attorney General is
    un-Constitutional,illegal, un-American and
    goes against the core of the USA values,
    thousands died to defend the USA
    Constitution from foreign religions, how can
    the Senate now approve a religious leader ?
    will they even ask this question? will they
    commit High Treason ?when you look at these

    incompetent and criminal decisions against the

    Rule of Law and the Declaration of Independence,
    how can Taxpayers petition the Government
    for any rights?Thanks for your great work defending
    America from foreign and domestic enemies,
    in my humble opinion, this situation
    looks to me like occupation and foreign control,
    and to you ?America knows that George Washington,

    Lincoln and all the Founding Fathers would be proud of
    your defense of the USA Constitution against
    High Treason and High Crimes,

    thanks.

    US Citizens

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    Saakashvili Ordered me to Get Rid of Patarkatsishvili’ – Okruashvili


    Ex-Defense Minister Irakli Okruashvili has made yet another startling allegation against his former ally, President Saakashvili. The president, he said, had personally ordered him to liquidate Badri Patarkatsishvili, a business tycoon.
    Speaking live on Imedi TV’s talk show On the Air late on September 25, Okruashvili said: “Saakashvili told me that we should get rid of him [Patarkatsishvili], in the same way as happened to Rafik Hariri, the former Lebanese prime minister, who was killed in a car bomb attack.”
    “In July 2005,” Okruashvili said, “Saakashvili asked me: what did I think about getting rid of one person… - Badri Patarkatsishvili? And then he [Saakashvili] outlined a very detailed plan on how to get rid of him.”
    Okruashvili continued: “It was absolutely clear to me that it was a trap for me as well, because they would have gotten rid of me as well after getting rid of Patarkatsishvili.”
    He said in response he told Saakashvili that he needed time to think about it.
    “Meanwhile, I met with one person who at that time was working with the Americans and told him about the president’s proposal,” Okruashvili said. “I did it in the hope that the information would have been passed on to the Americans… It was Zaza Gogava [now Chief-of-Staff of the Georgian armed forces] However it did not work. Because after a month Saakashvili again repeated his demand about getting rid of Patarkatsishvili.”
    “Then I met with another person in Turkey, whose identity I can not reveal. He also has close links with the Americans. He's not a Georgian citizen. I told him about Saakashvili’s plan. This information, it seemed, was delivered to the Americans, because since then Saakashvili never talked with me about getting rid of Patarkatsishvili.”President Saakashvili, who is currently in New York for the UN General Assembly Session, has yet to comment on his former ally’s allegations.

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    Irakli Okruashvili, ex-defense minister and once President Saakashvili’s closest ally, has accused the president of engaing in “anti-state steps” and “ordering murders.”
    In his first public statement since he quit the government last November, Okruashvili also finally announced the launch of his political party – Movement for United Georgia. He refused to take question after his ten-minute speech, but said he planned to give further details and “answer all questions” during a TV appearance planned for later on Tuesday.
    “I will definitely speak more on these crimes, which were masterminded by the authorities,” he said. Okruashvili added: “I was ordered by Saakashvili several times to liquidate certain influential and important people, which I refused to do.” He gave no further details.
    There has been considerable speculation that “a war of compromising materials” would precede Okruashvili’s political comeback and the unveiling of his new opposition party.
    Okruashvili said at the news conference in his party's headquarters in downtown Tbilisi that “fascist trends” and “anti-state steps undertaken by the authorities” had convinced him and his co-thinkers to set up the new movement. He also suggested that it hadn't been easy to launch the party.
    People, he said, “are terrorized” because of “repression.” “Those with dissenting opinions are deemed ‘enemies of the state’ and the government is refusing to hold a dialogue with them,” he said.
    This, he said, had made it difficult to convince people to engage in public life.
    Okruashvili said that the anti-corruption campaign was “unreal.” The prisons, he said, were full of petty criminals, while corruption continued to thrive among “top level officials, Saakashvili’s inner circle and his family.”
    “Three years ago when I was Interior Minister,” Okruashvili said, “I arrested Temur Alasania, the president’s uncle, for extortion of USD 200,000. I, however, had to release him on the president’s insistence.”
    He also accused the authorities, and personally Saakashvili, of, as he put it, “a deliberate anti-Orthodox Church campaign” and “of fighting against Georgian traditions and values.”
    “Saakashvili has an inner hatred of the Georgian Orthodox Church,” Okruashvili said. “The Georgian church is the most respected institution in Georgia. [Because of this] he [Saakashvili] perceives the Church as his main competitor. While in his inner circle, I often heard him talking about splitting the Church and discrediting the clergy.”
    He also said that there was “a clear attempt” by the Saakashvili administration “to re-write Georgia’s history, as if nothing Georgian existed before the Rose Revolution, and everything new is being created by Saakashvili.”
    Okruashvili also made an obvious attempt to appeal to other walks of life by saying that the older generation, those over 50, had been “neglected and humiliated.”
    Internally displaced persons from Abkhazia and South Ossetia, he said, “were not regarded as human beings during ex-President Shevardnadze’s regime and this trend has continued in the Saakashvili regime as well.”
    He also criticized the authorities’ policies towards the secessionist regions.
    “We were one step away from reclaiming one of our lost territories,” Okruashvili said, apparently referring to South Ossetia.
    Several months before his resignation from the cabinet, Okruashvili said that he had planned to celebrate the 2007 New Year in Tskhinvali, the capital of breakaway South Ossetia. Commentators said that Saakashvili’s decision to move Okruashvili last November from the Defense Ministry to the Ministry of Economy was largely because of Okruashvili’s perceived hawkish stance on South Ossetia.
    In his speech on September 25, Okruashvili said that “only Saakashvili’s weakness, inability and fear” had foiled plans to reclaim the secessionist region. He also said Saakashvili was too weak to take an unspecified “historic decision.”
    He also criticized Tbilisi’s decision to create the provisional South Ossetia administration, led by Dimitri Sanakoev. Okruashvili said Sanakoev had no respect and authority among the population of the region. He also said that installing Sanakoev was “an imaginary attempt” to unite the country.
    Okruashvili explained his decision to “quietly” quit the government without voicing his discontent was because of, as he put it, his sense of “civil responsibility.”
    “Army officers, who are still my friends, asked me to do it quietly,” he said and added that by doing so he had denied the country’s enemies an opportunity to speculate on a split within the government.
    Okruashvili admitted that he shared “the responsibility for some mistakes because I was also once part of this government.”
    “I, however, have done nothing but good for my country when in government,” he added. “So any attempt to discredit me will fail.”
    Towards the end of his speech, he implied that he might have presidential ambitions.
    “Georgia will be united only if it has a president who doesn't humiliate and insult its own people,” Okruashvili said.
    Throughout his speech, Okruashvili's fellow party members stood beside him. They include: lawmakers Tea Tlashadze, Ketevan Makharashvili, Koka Guntsadze, Gia Tortladze and Gia Tsagareishvili; former Deputy Defense Minister Levan Nikolaishvili and a lawyer, Eka Beselia.
    Two former journalists from Rustavi 2 TV station, Nana Lezhava and Natia Lazashvili, were also there. Both quit the TV station shortly after Rustavi 2 changed hands last November following Okruashvili’s resignation.