Nieuws-depressie? Afgebrand? Geen zin? Vormverlies? Drugs- of drankprobleem? Belegger? Bankier? Minister van Financiën? Het spijt me, maar deze week gaat er geen “briefing” komen. De eerste keer in drie jaar. “Donkerdoorn, je bent een slappe zak! Hoe ga jij in Rumsfeld’s naam peak-oil, de kredietcrisis, Obama en de komende wereldoorlog overleven?” Goede vraag, morrelende zappies. Daarom wil ik jullie vragen het deze week te doen. Lang leve de comments en de luiheid: iedereen kan het beter dan die loser Donkerdoorn. Om alvast een voorzetje te geven: nieuw team Afghanistan, Obama en meester Netanyahu+Iran deadline, de nieuwe oorlog in Pakistan, Noord Korea, Wouter “I Love Banks” Bos, Sieg Obama! en onze vrienden in Rusland. Ga los, commentator! Laat zien dat er minstens 5 lezenswaardige tussen zitten. Als we de 5 halen, that is......and remember: er is altijd het zaplog.
Een klein werkvoorbeeldje:
Economie
Paparapata..paparapta...It’s the muppet show! Economisch nieuws is tegenwoordig zo “unreal” en de rol van politici zo “muppet” dat men niets anders meer kan doen dan vertwijfeld afvragen of we nog hier op aarde zijn of ergens in looloo-land. Schaamteloos.
Het gaat los met Wallstreet puppet en Amerikaans minister van Financiën Timothy Geithner. Off-balance market? Laten we de aanbevelingen van Goldman Sachs Group Inc, JPMorgan Chase & Co, Credit Suisse Group AG en Barclays Plc letterlijk tot wet maken en een soort “old boys club” voor deze banken scheppen.
Wouter “niets aan de hand” Bos: laten we pensioenfondsen in de papierbagger van banken mee laten doen. De smerige......
Verzekeraar Lloyds maakt zich zorgen dat het niet 90% van de verliezen op “toxic assets” (260 miljard Pond) richting de belastingbetaler kan schuiven.
Iraq's Ministry of Human Rights has declared in a report that hundreds of people were tortured in Iraqi prisons last year.
The New York-based Human Rights Watch has also declared that the torture or abuse of Iraqi prisoners is "routine and commonplace."
Saoedi-Arabië: olieprijs kan in 2-3 jaar naar boven de 150 dollar
Zonder de noodzakelijke investeringen kan de olieprijs binnen 2 tot 3 jaar stijgen naar boven de 150 dollar.
Conservative compares waterboarding to beer funnels
President Nicolas Sarkozy has formally opened a French military base in the United Arab Emirates, France's first permanent base in the Gulf.
The flags of France and the UAE were raised at a ceremony at the so-called "Peace Camp" in the Abu Dhabi emirate.
France is a leading military supplier to the Gulf state, and signed a nuclear co-operation agreement last year.
Its new base will host up to 500 French troops and include a navy base, air base, and training camp.
iedereen kan het beter dan die loser Donkerdoorn.
Roubini: VS eind dit jaar uit recessie, maar herstel is beperkt
De economsiche groei zal volgens Roubini in de VS in de komende twee jaar slechts zo'n 1% zijn. 'Dat is onder het potentieel van 3%'. Het herstel in de VS is volgens dr Doom zwakker dan anders.
The Pentagon is prepared to leave fighting forces in Iraq for as long as a decade despite an agreement between the United States and Iraq that would bring all American troops home by 2012, the top U.S. Army officer said Tuesday.
A 14-year military interrogator has undercut one of the key arguments posited by Vice President Dick Cheney in favor of the Bush Administration’s torture techniques and alleged that the use of torture has cost “hundreds if not thousands” of American lives.
The interrogator, who uses the name “Matthew Alexander,” says he oversaw more than 1,000 interrogations, conducting more than 300 in Iraq personally. His statements are captured in a new video by Brave New Films (below).
“Torture does not save lives,” Alexander said in his interview. “And the reason why is that our enemies use it, number one, as a recruiting tool…These same foreign fighters who came to Iraq to fight because of torture and abuse….literally cost us hundreds if not thousands of American lives.”
Moreover, Alexander avers that many — as many as 90 percent — of those captured in Iraq said they joined the fight against the United States because of the torture conducted at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay.
“At the prison where I conducted interrogations,” Alexander said, “we heard day in and day out, foreign fighters who had been captured state that the number one reason that they had come to fight in Iraq was because of torture and abuse, what had happened at Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib.”
Afghan was taken to Guantanamo aged 12-rights group
Martelen dode soldaten op
On his return from his consultation with Obama in Washington, the brownshirted Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that it was Israel’s responsibility to “eliminate” the “nuclear threat” from Iran.
What nuclear threat? The US intelligence agencies are unanimous in their conclusion that Iran has had no nuclear weapons program since 2003. The inspectors of the International Atomic Energy Agency report that there is no sign of a nuclear weapons program in Iran.
Who is Iran bombing? How many refugees is Iran sending fleeing for their lives?
Who is North Korea bombing?
The two great murderous, refugee-producing countries are the US and Israel. Between them, they have murdered and dislocated millions of people who were a threat to no one.
No countries on earth rival the US and Israel for barbaric murderous violence.
But Obama gives assurances that the US will protect “the peace and security of the world.” And the brownshirt Netanyahu assures the world that Israel will save it from the “Iranian threat.”
Where is the media?
Why aren’t people laughing their heads off?
France last week denounced Netanyahu's statement that Jerusalem would remain Israel's undivided capital forever, adding to world criticism over the premier's refusal to publicly endorse the creation of a Palestinian state.
Rachel Maddow: Indefinite detention? Shame on you... President Obama
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uuWVHT1WUY
Wat Bush nooit gelukt is, lijkt Barack Obama wel te gaan lukken. Hij en z'n boevenbende willen mensen onbeperkt kunnen opsluiten voor terroristische daden die ze mogelijkerwijs over een aantal jaren zouden kunnen begaan.
Euh... beetje te vaak naar Minority Report gekeken, Barack? Thank you, Satan.