Peter Khan Zendran

Iran defense news roundup

2012-01-18T11:47:00.000-08:00

Lest anyone think that I have not been keeping up on news regarding Iran my assessment of the following incidents should prove otherwise.
Contrary to what people think Iran does posses the capability to close the Gulf, as people forget that Iran’s 14 Attack Submarines, 6 Missile Frigates, 10 Missile Corvettes are all armed with modern weapons, and Iran has ramped up it’s Naval production, not to mention these Naval assets can be used in a joint Missile/Air strike. While Iran has shot down the spy drone one must not forget that Itan had obtained stealth technology from the downed F-117 in Yugoslavia in 1999, the question is successfully incorporating this technology in it’s fighters and bombers, and to do it soon.
If the Aircraft Carrier the Iranian Navy successfully intercepted is the USS John C Stennis CVN-74 then this means that america’s navy’s best assets are vulnerable to attacks from Iran’s surface fleet. Notice also the Iranian ships “rescued” by America. That ship in the Arabian sea was Iranian owned but crewed by Baluchis, and it is interesting that the USS John C Stennis CVN-74 and the USS Kidd DDG-100 were responsible for rescuing that ship. Incidentally the previous USS Kidd DDG-993 was originally built for Iran as the IIS Kurush and is currently in service with the Taiwanese Navy as the ROCS Keelung. That ship rescued by the USCG was simply crewed by Iranian kids taking the boat out on a joyride when they got lost, not merchants on a trading journey.
Notice also the recent bombings carried out in Iran by israelis, people forget that the israelis are using moles inside Iran to carry out the operations. Notice the base that was bombed was under the command of Satrip Moghadam, who was related to Sepahbod Moghadam, the last SAVAK commander, and the Moghadams are of a prominent jewish background with ties to israel. The Iranian government would be best off putting their jewish population in prison to prevent further attacks.
Speaking of foreign menace if the UN were serious about going after Iran why hasn’t it done so after Iran’s police allowed the british embassy to be attacked? Or take the case of camp ashraf, now that the American military has pulled out of Iraq why hasn’t the rest of the World condemmed Iran for it’s handling of the mujhadeen e khlaq? Perhaps because they realize the Iranian community is right in going after those whackos and other threats to it’s sovereignity, no matter the regime.
Also notice the hekmati case and the girl who was stoned to death after her sentence was commuted. Bear in mind that this was done by the Iranian government in retaliation for the mistreatment of Iranians who were imprisoned in america, myself included. People in america need to look at their own actions before they judge Iran.

Facts about occupy provicence provaceturs posing as protesters

2012-01-12T11:37:00.000-08:00

Below are facts about some of the occupy providence protesters who set me up.
The one who initially invited me to occupy providence was jared paul. He is a longtime provacetur who has worked with international answer and other organizations. He was the one responsible for calling the july 2007 protest which resulted in a confrontation with the north providence police, and was the one responsible for inciting street people against me over the story leslie yeransian did in the summer of 2008 where she portrayed street people as thieves. He is affiliated with critical mass, animal/earth liberation front, and other groups which provoke violence at protests under the guise of peace. He has also acted as a thug for unions, and he was the one responsible for having the screen actors guild blacklist leslie yeransian over abovementioned story.
The one who invited me to attend further occupy providence events was mike mccarthy. He was one of the original members of occupy wall street who incited the conflict with police on the Brooklyn bridge and helped organize occupy providence and link them up with the occupy wall street movement.
The one who invited the provaceturs to occupy providence to attack on me and then called the providence pigs is artemis moonhawk. She is a member of american andian movement and food not bombs. Additional provaceturs I spotted at occupy providence are martin lazzareschi, who has impersonated police and law enforcement, joyce katzbegs, and charles Feldman. These people say they want social justice but end up provoking violence and act only to enrich themselves.

Zendran Politiclal prisoner because of occupy providence

2012-01-12T11:13:00.000-08:00

On Columbus day October 10, 2011 I was attacked by six provaceturs while at occupy providence who showed up shortly after 3PM. As I was fighting them off the providence police showed up and one of the occupy providence protesters, artemis moonhawk, pointed me out to them. I was then grabbed by 2 provedence pigs who refused to say if I was under arrest, and as I kept fighting them off 2 more showed up before I was handcuffed. I was held overnight and was told I was being charged with disorderly conduct. When I was arraigned I was told I was being charged with disorderly conduct, resisting arrest, and 2 counts of assault, one for beating up a providence cop and one for beating up an attacker. My bail was set at $50,000 and during my incarceration they refused to treat me for a gum infection, and as a result I was isolated from November 1 2011 onwards and my court date was pushed back to January 2012 because of my health. During my incarceration the two assault counts were dropped due to action by my lawyer because of my health problems. On January 2012 I was finaly arraigned before judge bucci, pled not guilty, and my bail was reduced to personal recognizance.

Anti war project at brown headed by informant

2011-10-09T14:19:00.001-07:00

This is a perfect example of the hypocrisy of shit u. Despite the
anti-war platitudes dr slutz here spews she only got her job by
informing on those in thye anti-war movement who supported real change
and action, including making false police reports on activists, myself
included. Remember, always judge people by their actions, not their
words.
Peter Z

Brown University study examines cost of War on Terror

01:00 AM EDT on Friday, October 7, 2011

By Bryan Rourke

Journal Staff Writer

Catherine Lutz, of Brown University, is co-director of the Eisenhower
Project at Brown’s Watson Institute for International Studies, which
prepared the “Costs of War” study.

The Providence Journal / Sandor Bodo

PROVIDENCE — The war on terror continues; so does the cost and the
chronicling.

“You can’t make informed decisions without this information,” said Catherine Lutz of Brown University.

Lutz is co-director of the Eisenhower Project at Brown’s Watson
Institute for International Studies. The organization’s “Costs of War”
study has been reported worldwide with its website receiving 50,000 hits
from 169 countries since its June release. Visit costsofwar.org.

Hits rose in August during federal debt negotiations, Lutz said; and in
September during the 10th anniversary of 9/11. Now we’ve reached another
notable prompt.

Friday is the 10th anniversary of U.S. military operations in
Afghanistan. Thursday, “Costs of War” was presented in Washington to a
congressional panel on the war in Afghanistan.

The report’s cost calculations aren’t finished because the war isn’t
finished.

“We’re still following the numbers,” Lutz said.

The numbers, Lutz said, are “stunning”: 225,000 killed, and up to $4
trillion spent, factoring in future medical care for disabled veterans.

The 22 report researchers, will offer another report next fall, Lutz
said, offering bigger costs for the United States, and for its allies,
including Iraq and Afghanistan. Also, Lutz said, the follow-up will
chronicle the profits of war.

In 2008, Lutz said, the Pentagon paid military contractor Lockheed
Martin $30 billion.

“Lockheed received nearly more money from the government than the EPA, the Department of Labor and the Department of Transportation combined,” Lutz said.

Now, months after the release of “Costs of War,” Lutz reflects on the
response to it.

“Some people say, ‘Wow, those are huge numbers — the dollar figure, people killed and refugees. This means the war has been misbegotten.’ Some people say, ‘You can’t put a price on what the war has accomplished.’ People’s political view tends to inoculate them against the information changing their point of view.”

The “Costs of War” was reported in media in North America, South
America, Europe and Asia.

“The foreign reporters tend to ask questions about whether this has been a burden on us and if it is putting gasoline on the fire of America’s decline. The American reporters have been very interested in the veterans’ stories.”

Lutz is also interested in the veterans’ stories. She wonders how many
stories involve post-traumatic stress disorder, traumatic brain injury
and suicide.

“The U.S. government should be more forthcoming with data,” Lutz said.

The number of disability claims from the war, Lutz said, exceeds
600,000. Much of the information veterans organizations have from the
government, Lutz said, is a result of Freedom of Information Act
requests.

“The craft of governance has become the craft of public relations and information control,” Lutz said. “That is not the way a democratic government should operate.”

A goal of the report, Lutz said, is to look at the complete cost of the
war.

“People have done the body counts for a variety of wars. But the financial, social and political costs, I’m not sure.”

Another goal of the report, Lutz said, is to look at war as a means to
tame terrorism.

“Were there other ways this could have been done with less loss of life? The historical record suggests there are.”

“Costs of War” cites a Rand study of 268 terrorist groups, 1968 to 2006. In 83 percent of cases, Lutz said, resolution was reached through political accommodation, intelligence and policing. Military might succeeded in 7 percent of cases.

The ultimate goal of “Costs of War,” Lutz said, is to learn the complete
costs of war: on soldiers and civilians, on budgets and taxpayers. And,
she said, we must remember what we learn.

“This says let’s not engage in a kind of historical amnesia.”

Russia consideres scrapping Project 941/"Typhoon" subs

2011-10-06T09:23:00.000-07:00

What are the Russians thinking? This is as stupid as making the smaller
Aircraft Carriers and allowing France to manufacture Russian Amphibious
Assault Ships. They should at least keep one of these ships as a Museum
or in reserve, after all, these are the most powerful submarines ever
built as well as the ultimate doomsday ship.
Peter Z

http://english.pravda.ru//russia/economics/29-09-2011/119185-typhoon_borei-0/?mode=print
Russia's gigantic Typhoon submarines to be scrapped

29.09.2011 15:03
Russia's gigantic Typhoon submarines to be scrapped. 45500.jpeg
Yuri Dolgoruky submarine

The world's largest ballistic missile submarines of Project 941 Akula
(Shark), known as Typhoon, will be decommissioned before 2014 and used
for scrap metal, a source at Russia's Defense Ministry told the Izvestia
newspaper.

All three operating submarines of the project - Arkhangelsk, Severstal
and Dmitry Donskoi - will thus be destroyed. The Dmitry Donskoi cruiser
was previously used as the base for launching Russia's new Bulava
ballistic missile. The decommissioning of the missiles will cost the
Russian budget hundreds of millions of rubles, experts said.

Defense officials said that it became impossible to use the
above-mentioned submarines for intended purposes because of the
Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START-3), which Russia had signed with
the United States. Specialists of Sevmash Enterprise (the maker of the
subs) said that it could be possible to redesign the submarines to use
them as undersea gas tankers or all-season marine freight vessels.
However, defense ministry officials said that the cost for this work
would be unreasonably high.

It was Borei class submarines that ruined the career of the Typhoons,
defense officials said. Borei is a new class of submarines, which
Sevmash Enterprise currently builds. The new subs will be armed with
Bulava missiles.

The tests of Borei submarines ended successfully, which made the
maintenance of bulky and more expensive typhoon submarines pointless.
The crew of the Borei sub is 1.5 times smaller than that of the Typhoon.
Maintenance costs also differ in Borei's favor. To crown it all, it is
much more difficult to detect Borei submarines in the water, officials
said.

Officials representing the Defense Ministry also said that any work to
redesign the submarines would cost tens of billions of rubles.
Therefore, it would be more reasonable to spend this money on building
new vessels, they said.

Specialists of Sevmash Enterprise said, though, that the Typhoon subs
could be transformed into undersea tankers and freighters to transport
liquefied gas, oil and cargoes for polar ports. "This reconstruction may
not cost that much," representatives of the enterprise said.

Alexander Konovalov, the President of the Institute of Strategic
Estimations, shares a different point of view. According to him, the era
of Typhoons is gone for good.

"This is a gigantic thing. It is the largest sub in the world, and it is
very expensive in its exploitation. Moreover, there are no missiles for
these subs," he said.

The fate of gigantic submarines was determined by the START-3 Treaty,
which was signed by Russian and US presidents in the spring of 2010. The
treaty restricted the strategic arsenals of the two countries to 1,550
nuclear warheads.

Russia's Project 955 Borei and 667BDRM Dolphin submarines may carry over
1,100 nuclear blocks. The remaining part can be used by long-distance
aviation and Special Purpose Missile Troops.

One Typhoon class submarine is capable of carrying of only 120-200
nuclear warheads.

Russia's Defense Ministry has already decommissioned three of the six
Akula submarines before in accordance with the START-2 Treaty. Russia
decided that it was too expensive to maintain the battle capacity of
those submarines. Each cruiser required nearly 300 million rubles a
year.

The decommissioning process took place as follows. Spent nuclear fuel
was unloaded from the reactors. The equipment was dismantled afterwards.
The subs were then transferred to the dry dock. In the dock, specialists
cut out the reactor compartments from the subs. The compartments were
subsequently transferred to long-storage facilities in the Murmansk
region.

The utilization of one cruiser cost $10 million. Two million dollars of
the amount were assigned from the Russian budget. The remaining funds
were provided by the United States and Canada.

The Project 941 or Akula, ("Shark") class submarine (NATO reporting
name: Typhoon) is a type of nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine
deployed by the Soviet Navy in the 1980s. With a submerged displacement
of 48,000 tons,the Typhoons are the largest class of submarine ever
built,large enough to accommodate decent living facilities for the crew
when submerged for months on end.The source of the NATO reporting name
remains unclear, although it is often claimed to be related to the use
of the word "Typhoon" by Leonid Brezhnev in a 1974 speech while
describing a new type of nuclear ballistic missile submarine. Soviet
doctrine for these vessels was to have them launch SLBMs while submerged
under the arctic ice, avoiding the traversal of the GIUK gap to remain
safe from the enemy attack submarines and anti-submarine forces.
Technically Typhoons were also able to successfully deploy their
long-range nuclear missiles while moored at their dock.

The Borei class is a class of nuclear-powered ballistic missile
submarine produced and operated by the Russian Navy. The class is
intended to replace the Delta III, Delta IV and Typhoon classes now in
Russian Navy service. The class is named after Boreas, the North wind.
The sub is 160 meters long; its maximum displacement measures 24,000
tons. The submergence depth - up to 400 meters. The crew - 107 people.

Sevmash currently builds three Borei class submarines: Alexander Nevsky,
Vladimir Monomakh and Saint Nikolai. The construction of the first
submarine - Yuri Dolgoruky - began on November 2, 1996. The sub was
launched on February 12, 2008.

Alexander Nevsky was launched on December 6, 2010. The sub is to be
passed into service in 2012.

Дмитрий Судаков

News roundup of "arab spring" news not being reported

2011-10-02T17:08:00.000-07:00

While it is true that the situation in Syria and Libya is getting a lot of coverage, people forget other aspects of what is going on in the Arab World. That is not to minimize what is going on, as war could seem likely with Syria, as america could use the pretext of it's ambassador being attacked to go to war as it has done before, and I don't find it coincidental that an opposition council was created so soon after this incident. Also notice what is going in Libya, as Africa is not only harboring Qaddafi's family but assisting him, as they realize the true western backed nature of the rebels.
interesting enough it is not being reported that Tunisia acquired 6 german Albatross class Corvettes, which are the equal of the israeli saar class, right before the uprisings, and that Lurssen stopped the sale of the 3 Nakhoda Ragam class FFG's to Algeria around the time of the uprisings in that country. Those two pieces of military news not being reported show there is more going on than people just pissed off at their government.
Peter Khan Zendran

Syria opposition launches national council
APBy ZEINA KARAM - Associated Press | AP – 1 hr 49 mins ago

BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian dissidents on Sunday formally established a broad-based national council designed to overthrow President Bashar Assad's regime, which they accused of pushing the country to the brink of civil war. Syrians took to the streets in celebration, singing and dancing.

In a restive northern area, meanwhile, gunmen killed the 21-year-old son of Syria's top Sunni Muslim cleric in an ambush, the state-run news agency reported. The cleric, Grand Mufti Ahmad Badreddine Hassoun, is considered a close supporter of Assad's regime and has echoed its claims that the unrest in Syria is the result of a foreign conspiracy.

The announcement of the Syrian National Council at a news conference in Istanbul appeared to be the most serious step yet to unify a deeply fragmented opposition. It follows five days of intense battles between the Syrian military and army defectors in the country's central region that raised the specter of all-out armed conflict.

Prominent Syrian opposition figure Bourhan Ghalioun, who read out the founding statement of the SNC at the news conference in Istanbul, accused the regime of fomenting sectarian strife in Syria to maintain its grip on power.

"I think that this (Assad) regime has completely lost the world's trust," he said. "The world is waiting for a united Syrian (opposition) that can provide the alternative to this regime, so that they can recognize it," he added.

"The council denounces the (regime's) policy of sectarian incitement ... which threatens national unity and is pushing the country to the brink of civil war," he said.

Syria's volatile sectarian divide means that an armed conflict could rapidly escalate in scale and brutality. The Assad regime is dominated by the Alawite minority, an offshoot of Shiite Islam, but the country is overwhelmingly Sunni Muslim.

The opposition movement has until now focused on peaceful demonstrations, although recently some protesters have been reported to have taken up arms to defend themselves against military attacks. Army defectors have also been fighting government troops.

Sunday's killing of the mufti's son took place in the Saraqeb region of the restive northern Idlib province as he left the university where he studied. He was shot in the chest and kidney and died later of his injuries. The news report gave no details on who might have been behind the killing.

In forming a national council, the Syrians are following in the footsteps of Libyan rebels, who formed a National Transitional Council during the uprising that ousted dictator Moammar Gadhafi. The Libyan council won international recognition and has now become the main governing body that runs the country.

Groups of Syrians poured into the streets in southern and central regions of the country to celebrate the announcement.

Although the mass demonstrations in Syria have shaken one of the most authoritarian regimes in the Middle East, the opposition has made no major gains in recent months. It holds no territory and still has no clear leadership.

The Syrian opposition consists of a variety of groups with differing ideologies, including Islamists and secularists, and there have been many meetings of dissidents claiming to represent Syria's popular uprising since it erupted seven months ago. But the new council is the broadest umbrella movement of revolutionary forces formed so far.

A group of Syrian activists had declared the preliminary formation of the council last month, but its structure and goals, and a founding statement signed by major opposition factions, had not been announced until this conference.

The SNC announced in Istanbul appears to have received the recognition of the largest Syrian opposition factions.

Members said it includes representatives from the Damascus Declaration grouping, a pro-democracy network based in the capital; the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamic political party banned in the country; various Kurdish factions; and the grass-roots Local Coordination Committees, which have led protests across the country; as well as other independent and tribal figures.

Istanbul conference spokesman Ghalioun said one major benefit of the council to the Syrian opposition would be to provide a single body with which other countries could coordinate. He urged Syrians everywhere to support it and said it would be a vehicle for democratic change.

The council's statement said it categorically rejects any foreign intervention or military operations to bring down Assad's regime but called on the international community to "protect the Syrian people" from "the declared war and massacres being committed against them by the regime."

It said that protesters should continue to use "peaceful means" to topple the Syrian leader.

The organizers have not named a leader for the national council, but appeared to give a leading role to Ghalioun, a respected and popular opposition figure who is also a scholar of contemporary oriental studies at the Sorbonne in Paris.

Syria's uprising began in mid-March amid a wave of anti-government protests in the Arab world that have so far toppled autocrats in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya. Assad has reacted with deadly force that the U.N. estimates has left some 2,700 people dead.

In other developments Sunday, a state-run Syrian newspaper warned U.S. Ambassador Robert Ford against meddling in Syrian affairs if he wants to avoid more "rotten egg" attacks in the future. The Al Baath newspaper, a mouthpiece of the Syrian regime, accused Ford of supporting armed anti-government groups in Syria and said he should expect further "unpleasant treatment" as long as his country meddles in Syrian affairs.

Supporters of Assad pelted Ford with eggs on Thursday as he visited Hassan Abdul-Azim, an opposition figure in Damascus.

The Obama administration summoned Syria's ambassador in Washington to hear formal U.S. condemnation of the assault.

The government said it retook control of the rebellious central town of Rastan Sunday after hunting down "armed terrorists" holed up inside. But the fighting there highlighted the increasingly militarized nature of an uprising started months ago by peaceful protesters.

Syrian activists say the fighting in Rastan had pitted the Syrian military against hundreds of army defectors who sided with anti-regime protesters. It was among the worst clashes in the uprising.

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Zeina Karam can be reached on http://twitter.com/zkaram

Gadhafi son denies Interpol allegations
APBy KIM GAMEL - Associated Press | AP – 2 hrs 1 min ago

TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Moammar Gadhafi's son, al-Saadi, denied allegations of corruption and intimidation and called Interpol's decision to put him on the equivalent of its most-wanted list political, according to an email sent Sunday.

Al-Saadi Gadhafi is under house arrest in Libyan neighbor Niger, where he fled after Tripoli fell to revolutionary forces. His father and two of his brothers are in hiding, presumably inside Libya, as fighting between revolutionary forces and Gadhafi's loyalists continues on three fronts.

Al-Saadi "regrets the issue of a red notice by Interpol and strenuously denies the charges made against him," an email forwarded to The Associated Press said.

Interpol issued a red notice for al-Saadi last week based on accusations he misappropriated property and engaged in "armed intimidation" when he headed the Libyan Football Federation. He also was a special forces commander and is the subject of U.N. sanctions for commanding military units involved in repression of demonstrations.

The international police agency said the notice was issued in response to a request by the Libya's National Transitional Council, which has assumed leadership of the North African nation. Niger, which borders Libya on the south and long benefited from Gadhafi's largesse, has said it would study the question.

In the email, al-Saadi called the Interpol notice a "clear political decision to recognize the de jure authority of the National Transitional Council taken without appropriate regard to the current absence of a functioning, effective and fair system of justice in Libya."

It said al-Saadi "worked tirelessly to promote football in Libya, priding himself on the fact that Libya was formerly selected to host the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations." It added that Gadhafi's son "continues to call on all sides to seek a negotiated and peaceful resolution to the present conflict."

The South African Football Association has signed an agreement with Libya's post-Gadhafi football federation to host the 2013 African Cup of Nations, while Libya will stage the 2017 games.

The email was relayed to the AP on Sunday by defense attorney Nick Kaufman, who has been involved in a number of international criminal cases. Kaufman said he was contacted by an intermediary he identified as al-Saadi's press secretary, Jackie Frazier.

Al-Saadi fled to Niger in mid-September along with several other regime loyalists, including some generals.

Interpol also has issued red notices for Moammar Gadhafi and his son Seif al-Islam upon request by the Hague-based International Criminal Court. Both men have been charged with crimes against humanity.

Interpol had urged authorities in Niger and surrounding countries — and those with direct flights to Niger — to watch out for and arrest Gadhafi "with a view to returning him to Libya" for prosecution.

Interpol's red notices are the highest-level alerts they can issue to their member countries. The notices do not force countries to turn over suspects but strongly urge them to, and countries who ignore such notices can come under pressure from the international community.

Gadhafi's eight adult children have played influential roles in Libya, from commanding an elite military unit to controlling the oil sector. Al-Saadi, 38, headed the Libyan Football Federation, and at one point played in Italy's professional league but spent most of his time on the bench.

Another Gadhafi son is with his daughter Aisha and wife in neighboring Algeria — along with other family members — while Khamis Gadhafi, who led the Khamis Brigade that fought in the west, was reportedly killed in battle, although that was never confirmed.

Libya's new rulers have gained control of most of the country, but revolutionary forces still face fierce resistance in Gadhafi's hometown of Sirte, Bani Walid and pockets in the southern desert. NATO recent extended its mission, although the top U.S. commander for Africa said Saturday that the military mission is largely complete.

Army Gen. Carter Ham, head of U.S. Africa Command said that the National Transitional Council and its forces should be in "reasonable control" of population centers before the end of the NATO mission, dubbed Unified Protector. And he said they are close to that now.

http://articles.janes.com/articles/Janes-Defence-Weekly-2005/Tunisian-Navy-boosts-its-capabilities.html
Tunisian Navy boosts its capabilities, MIDDLE EAST/AFRICA

The Tunisian Navy is set to augment its capabilities with the acquisition of a further four surplus German Navy Albatros-class (Type 143B) missile fast attack craft, under a EUR33 million (USD40.3 million) agreement.

An initial two Type 143Bs, S-65 Sperber and S-66 Greif were delivered to the Tunisian Navy in June. The second batch, consisting of S-63 Geier and S-68 Seeadler, is currently on its way to Tunis and will be officially handed over to the navy on 29 September. The last two vessels, S-69 Habicht and S-70 Kormoran, are scheduled to enter Tunisian Navy service on 13 December.

http://www.ocnus.net/artman2/publish/Business_1/How_Lurssen_Wooed_Brunei.shtml
How Lurssen Wooed Brunei
By Intelligence Online 04/06/2009
Jun 15, 2009 - 7:44:53 AM

Like car owners, governments insist that somebody take old equipment off their hands before buying new armaments. Complicated to set up, such deals nonetheless help suppliers to win contracts. The three Offshore Patrol Vessels (OPVs) that Germanyâ€™s Lurssen yard is about to deliver to the Royal Brunei Navy were sold in return for the Germans helping Brunei get rid of three slightly older ships. Brunei initially contracted Britainâ€™s GEC-Marconi in 1998 to deliver three OPVs. Bought out by BAE Systems Surface Fleet Solutions, GEC delivered the Nakhoda Ragam in 2003 and the Bendahara Sakam and Jerambak in 2004. The three patrol boats were equipped with VL Seawolf and MM40 Exocet Block 2 missiles made by MBDA. But Brunei refused to take delivery of the vessels on the grounds they didnâ€™t correspond to specifications that had been negotiated with the British group. Lurssen then stepped in to offer to take them off Bruneiâ€™s hands and re-sell them in return for a contract with Brunei for a similar number of ships. Through its affiliate Global Naval Systems, Lurssen offered the British-built patrol vessels to several Gulf countries but didnâ€™t find buyers. Finally, it got Algeria to acquire them last year. The proceeds from the sale of GECâ€™s ships to Algeria will be partly deducted from the price of the three new vessels for Brunei.

Like car owners, governments insist that somebody take old equipment off their hands before buying new armaments. Complicated to set up, such deals nonetheless help suppliers to win contracts. The three Offshore Patrol Vessels (OPVs) that Germanyâ€™s Lurssen yard is about to deliver to the Royal Brunei Navy were sold in return for the Germans helping Brunei get rid of three slightly older ships. Brunei initially contracted Britainâ€™s GEC-Marconi in 1998 to deliver three OPVs. Bought out by BAE Systems Surface Fleet Solutions, GEC delivered the Nakhoda Ragam in 2003 and the Bendahara Sakam and Jerambak in 2004. The three patrol boats were equipped with VL Seawolf and MM40 Exocet Block 2 missiles made by MBDA. But Brunei refused to take delivery of the vessels on the grounds they didnâ€™t correspond to specifications that had been negotiated with the British group. Lurssen then stepped in to offer to take them off Bruneiâ€™s hands and re-sell them in return for a contract with Brunei for a similar number of ships. Through its affiliate Global Naval Systems, Lurssen offered the British-built patrol vessels to several Gulf countries but didnâ€™t find buyers. Finally, it got Algeria to acquire them last year. The proceeds from the sale of GECâ€™s ships to Algeria will be partly deducted from the price of the three new vessels for Brunei.

Source:Ocnus.net 2009

Update on watson weirdness

2011-10-01T11:05:00.000-07:00

I took this last night during the storm as my digicam was busted
http://twitter.com/#!/peterzendran/media/slideshow?url=http%3A%2F%2Ftwitpic.com%2F6tjmv4
Oddly enough these aliens did the same thing 3 years ago at the watson institute, check my youtube videos and see for yourself.
Peter Z

Iranian Naval buildup, showing Zendran influence

2011-09-28T10:16:00.000-07:00

While this news of Iran upgrading the weapons on it's ships is old hat
the other news stories are not. Notice the announcement of the Atlantic
deployment comes after the first successful Mediterranean deployments
which included submarines. And notice the article about building
Aircraft Carriers. While such ships are at least a decade away Iran is
capable of building other ships for it's fleet, including Amphibious
Assault Carriers like the kind Indonesia and India operates, and Iran
may be studying India's new Carrier being built in Kochi. Also notice
this comes three years after I posted this
http://peterkhanzendran.blogspot.com/2008/12/iranian-naval-design-recommendations.html
That the Iranian Navy could have ignored this is next to impossible.
Consider also how rouhani, iranpoliticsclub, bahman nassiri, and other
prominent Iranians are ow starting to mimic me on Iranian security
issues.
Peter Khan Zendran

News - English
News numbre: 9007040361
2011-09-28 - 11:41

Iran Equips Army, IRGC Naval Forces with New Anti-Ship Cruise Missiles

TEHRAN (FNA)- The Iranian Defense Ministry supplied large numbers of a
newly produced powerful ant-ship cruise missile to the country's Navy
and the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) to boost Iran's naval
defense power.

During a ceremony attended by Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General
Ahmad Vahidi, the Defense Ministry delivered the Qader (Mighty)
anti-ship cruise missiles to the Army's Navy and IRGC's naval force.

Addressing the ceremony, also attended by Iranian Navy Commander Rear
Admiral Habibollah Sayyari and Commander of the IRGC Naval Force
Brigadier General Ali Fadavi, Vahidi said that Iran has managed to
mass-produce the missile in the shortest time possible.

He stressed that production of the missiles showed that the Iranian
Defense Industries are able to satiate the Iranian Armed Forces' missile
needs.

As regards the features and specifications of the new missile, Vahidi
said Qader is an anti-ship cruise missile with a range of 200km and
enjoys a short launch time and is able to hit all naval vessels,
including frigates and warships, as well as onshore enemy targets.

Tehran launched an arms development program during the 1980-88 Iraqi
imposed war on Iran to compensate for a US weapons embargo. Since 1992,
Iran has produced its own tanks, armored personnel carriers, missiles
and fighter planes.

Yet, Iranian officials have always stressed that the country's military
and arms programs serve defensive purposes and should not be perceived
as a threat to any other country.

News - English
News numbre: 9007040331
2011-09-28 - 10:33

Iran Planning Naval Buildup Near US Coastal Waters

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Navy Commander Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari
announced that the country plans to move vessels into the Atlantic Ocean
to start a naval buildup "near maritime borders of the United States".

"Like the arrogant powers that are present near our marine borders, we
will also have a powerful presence close to the American marine
borders," Sayyari said.

Speaking at a ceremony marking the 31st anniversary of the start of the
1980-1988 war with Iraq, Sayyari gave no details of when such a
deployment could happen or the number or type of vessels to be used.

On July 19 Sayyari also said that Iran was going to send "a flotilla
into the Atlantic".

The remarks come as another high-ranking Iranian military official
rejected a recent US request to establish a "red phone" link between the
countries in the Persian Gulf.

"We would establish direct contact with the United States if we would
ever go to the Gulf of Mexico," Commander of the Islamic Revolution
Guards Corps (IRGC) Navy Ali Fadavi said.

He rejected the US demand, and explained, "In the view of the Islamic
Republic of Iran, the presence of the US in the Persian Gulf is
illegitimate and makes no sense."

The Iranian navy has been developing its presence in international
waters since last year, regularly launching vessels in the Indian Ocean
and the Gulf of Aden to protect Iranian ships from Somali pirates
operating in the area.

Iran also sent two ships into the Mediterranean for the first time in
February, via the Suez Canal, to the annoyance of Israel and the United
States.

And in July, Sayyari announced that an Iranian submarine had completed
an inaugural mission in the Southern Indian Ocean and the Red Sea.

News - English
News numbre: 9007040435
2011-09-28 - 18:29

Commander: Iran Plans to Build Aircraft Carriers

TEHRAN (FNA)- The Iranian Navy plans to start designing and building
heavy vessels such as aircraft carriers, a senior Iranian Navy commander
announced on Wednesday.

"The Iranian Army's Navy has done a good job in designing and building
various types of vessels, and now after acquiring the know-how and
experience the Navy is after designing and building chopper and aircraft
carriers," Deputy Commander of the Iranian Navy for Research and
Self-sufficiency Jihad Capitan Mansour Maqsoudlou said.

Speaking to the Islamic republic news agency, Maqsoudlou said that the
Navy has also accomplished designing of new vessels.

"Manufacturing chopper or aircraft carriers may consume time, but
inability has no place amongst us since we believe that WE CAN," the
commander said.

He pointed to the Iranian Navy's major development plan, dubbed as
Velayat (religious leadership), and said manufacturing vessels and
submarines of different class and type is on the agenda of the Navy
based on the plan.

The Captain further named Jamaran 2 Destroyer as the most noteworthy
vessel under production at present, and said it is among the several
vessels in the final stages of production.

Iran's first home-made destroyer, Jamaran 1, was launched in late
February 2010. The Mowdge Class vessel has a displacement of around
14,000 tons and is equipped with modern radars and electronic warfare
capabilities and is armed with a variety of anti-ship,
surface-to-surface and surface-to-air missiles.

The remarks by Maqsoudlou came as Iranian Navy Commander Rear Admiral
Habibollah Sayyari announced yesterday that the country plans to build
up a naval presence "near the maritime borders of the United States".

"Like the arrogant powers that are present near our marine borders, we
will also have a powerful presence close to the American marine
borders," Sayyari said.

Speaking at a ceremony marking the 31st anniversary of the start of the
1980-1988 war with Iraq, Sayyari gave no details of when such a
deployment could happen or the number or type of vessels to be used.

Sayyari had first declared on July 19 that Iran planned to send "a
flotilla into the Atlantic".

Iran's naval power has even been acknowledged by foes. In a Sep. 11,
2008 report, the Washington Institute for the Near East Policy said that
in the two decades since the Iraqi imposed war on Iran, the Islamic
Republic has excelled in naval capabilities and is able to wage unique
asymmetric warfare against larger naval forces.

According to the report, Iran's Navy has been transformed into a highly
motivated, well-equipped, and well-financed force and is effectively in
control of the world's oil lifeline, the Strait of Hormuz.

www.farsnews.com
©2006 Fars News Agency. All Rights Reserved

Open letter to patrick kennedy on Iran

2011-09-25T16:19:00.000-07:00

Your statements in support of the mujhadeen e khalk, who have paid you to be their pet micktard, are nothing short of inflammatory and based on your ignorance of Iranian history and Culure. Having being kicked out of politics because of such ignorant behavior I thought you would have come to face reality, instead I wonder if you realize who’s money you are taking and just what you are getting into.
I wonder if you realize that the first mistake your family made in dealing with Iran happened when your uncle president kennedy got involved with savak chief Sephabod Teymour Bakhtiar in his ploting to overthrow Mohammed Reza Shah, even after Bakhtiar was removed as savak chief, directling threatening Iran’s sovereignity. I wonder that your uncle’s refusing to give money in American aid to Iran unless Mohammed Reza Shah implemented sweeping government reforms led to the rise of khomeini, for though Mohammed Reza Shah had intended to implement reforms, the way john f kennedy had him implement them only incited radical muslims, and starting a tradition among the American democratic party of screwing over Iran.
It is true many Iranians had planned to kill john f kennedy, but the cia beat us to it, and it is true that savak trained sirhan sirhan. It is also true that the Iranian community has had a hand in ruining the political career of your family, yourself included, because of the many slights we have received from members of your family, and we have done this because we know your dirty secrets. We know you only came out as being in treatment for depression to conceal your drug addiction. We know you take drugs because you are under the spell of others in the democratic party like madeline halfbright, hillary cunton and your uncle ted’s cronies. We know you and your uncle had constituents who arrived at your office to bring legitimate concerns to your attention arrested. We know that if people knew how your relatives really behave you would be chased out of the country.
Most importantly, we know you have consistently voted against Iran , be it in support of the war on terror or in support of sanctions. Why you have done this we do not know, but it has contributed to your downfall. Instead of learning from your mistakes you nave continued your mistake by becoming the paid micktard for the mujhadeen e khalq. I wonder if you are aware that the mujhadeen e khalq is responsible for many of the worst atrocities in Iran during the 1978-9 revolution, including bloody sunday. Or that they are responsible for some of the worst atrocities committed during the 1980-8 war with Iraq , where they served alongside saddam hussein’s forces. Were these people to have their way with Iran we would have a situation worse than the mullahs have created. Why do you back these suskimargi who will only create more chaos?
Then again I wonder if you are acting as a pawn in a greater plot. After all, you have consistently acted as a pitchman for the new world order while posing as a democrat. After all, those members of the democratic party who have advocated war have advanced in their positions of power in the American government, retaining them despite popular discontent. And I find it more than coincidental that some veterans with the organization that is preserving the USS John F Kennedy played a sick prank on me, accepting some turmeric from me after they told me they had health problems, then admitting that is was a prank, not realizing that the man who gave me the turmeric is an Imperial Iranian Air Force veteran who knew a late member of that organization. Were it not for such ignorance this item would not even be embargoed by your pals in the american government and it could have been used to keep your sister alive. Not to mention how the American government is repeatedly harassing Iranians who do not support invasion of Iran , something which will lead to global war and destruction.
I wonder what your sense of reality is. After all someone either on drugs or who is mentally weak can behave as incoherently as you. The only time I ever saw you act coherently was when you were running from me at that demonstration in August 2008. Then again, you pretty much run when people see you as you really are. I wonder if you ever truly have taken a look at the people around you and met with people before you made decisions that have ruined their lives. In terms of the Iranian community not once have you ever met with us, despite the fact that we are one of the most prominent communities in the boston and new england region.
My challenge to you is this. I dare you to meet with any member of the Iranian community in your area and explain to us your behaviors. I dare you to spend at least a day in our shoes off your drugs and controllers before you continue your behavior. Are you man enough to do this?

Columbia students to dine with Ahmadinejad

2011-09-16T10:36:00.000-07:00

Interesting how Ahmadinejad is choosing who he meets with, and how he is
ignoring the Iranian community at large in his NY visit as usual.
Peter Khan Zendran

Report: Group Of Columbia University Students To Dine With Iranian
President
September 13, 2011 1:16 PM

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – A group of Columbia University students are
expected to have dinner with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad next
week in Midtown.

According to the Columbia Spectator, the school’s newspaper, as many as
15 members of the Columbia International Relations Council and
Association were invited.

CIRCA vice president of academics, Tim Chan, told the paper the Sept. 21
meeting is still tentative and none of the members expressed any
reservations about breaking bread with the controversial Iranian leader.

Meanwhile, Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal, two American hikers jailed for
over two years in Iran on espionage charges, could be freed “in a couple
of days.”

An Iranian court has set bail at $500,000 for each of the men — the same
arrangement that allowed fellow hiker Sara Shourd to go free a year ago.

The hikers all deny the charges and say they may have mistakenly crossed
into Iran while hiking in Iraq’s Kurdish region.

On NBC’s ‘Today’ Show, Ahmadinejad said Tuesday that he hopes the
release will improve relations with the U.S.

There’s speculation that Iran may have timed the potential release to
coincide with Ahmadinejad’s visit to New York later this month for the
United Nations General Assembly. Shourd was released last year just as
Ahmadinejad made his way over for the annual gathering.

Ahmadinejad’s previous visits for the UN General Assembly have been the
source of much controversy and sparked a number of protests.

During last year’s visit, he claimed that the United States was behind
the 9/11 attacks.

“Some segments within the U.S. government orchestrated the attacks to reverse the declining economy and its grips on the Middle East in order to save the Zionist regime,” Ahmadinejad said.

President Barack Obama responded by saying, “It was offensive. It was
hateful and particularly for him to make the statement here in
Manhattan, just a little north of ground zero, where families lost their
loved, ones was inexcusable.”

In trying to explain his 9/11 theories, Ahmadinejad said his real
concern is for the poor American taxpayer, who after the terror attacks
has been shelling out billions for the war on terror.

“We are trying to defend the rights of the American people here so their money is not used to kill people in Iraq and Afghanistan,” Ahmadinejad said.

Good riddance nigress simmons

2011-09-16T09:10:00.000-07:00

This news could not come soon enough, to think this decision was made on my birthday too. As usual this announcement is full of airbrushed lies, as nigress simmons ruined brown by packing it with black supremacists, discriminating against all non-Black Africans, including Black Asians, not to mention promoted those professors who agreed with her and got rid of those who dissented, including faculty and students who expressed anti-war/anti-police state views. Not to mention the experiments conducted by brown's medical departments which would make mengele cream his pants.
Even more interesting this comes as I am getting relief for what happened in 2008 as the following evidence has come out in my favor
1. That the brown pig who created the problems for me on April 14, 2008, bob enos, did so to pick a fight with me, and the injuries he sustained in the fight where I beat him up on April 18, 2008 ultimately proved fatal as he was in and out of the hospital from then until he died in February 2011 because of those injuries, and that he lied on his reports whereas all other officers who responded admitted that I took him and 2 other cops out, and had it not been for enos' actions nothing would have happened.
2. That a catherine hanni had not only deliberately provoked the incident on April 14, 2008 by falsely directing me to the brown police but since then I have received harassing mail from her.
3. That watson institute faculty, including jeff kirkman and cathy lutz, deliberately lied about me to advance their careers at brown.
Overall, and administration which started out with so much promise has gutted a once great academic institution.
Peter Z

President Simmons announces plans to step down at end of academic year
September 15, 2011 | Contact: Marisa Quinn | 401-369-4204
Ruth J. Simmons Eighteenth President of Brown University
Professor of Comparative Literature
Professor of Africana Studies
Ruth J. Simmons, 18th president of Brown University, will conclude her term as president at the end of the current academic year. Simmons, in her 11th year as Brown’s president, will continue as professor of comparative literature and Africana studies.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — In messages sent today to the Brown Corporation, faculty, students, staff, and alumni, Brown University President Ruth J. Simmons announced that she will conclude her presidency at the end of the 2011-12 academic year. Simmons, who took up her duties as Brown’s 18th president in July 2001, is in her 11th year.

“I write to you in all humility to tell you of my plans to step down from the Brown presidency at the end of the current academic year and to thank you in advance for what will have been eleven deeply satisfying years at the helm of this wonderful institution,” Simmons wrote. “... I recently decided that this is the ideal time both for Brown and for me personally to begin the process of transitioning to new leadership.”

In her years at Brown, Simmons has reinvigorated the University with a 20-percent increase in the faculty, vastly improved resources for student financial aid, new academic initiatives, improved facilities and support for research, broader and deeper international academic relationships, and extensive redevelopment of the University’s historic College Hill campus. She also led the University through some of the most difficult economic times since the 1930s, following through on important construction projects — a new home for the Alpert Medical School, the Granoff Center for Creative Arts, the fitness and aquatic center, the Robert Campus Center and others — in spite of financial and economic pressures.

“Ruth’s leadership at Brown has been monumental. From the moment of her arrival in Providence, Ruth has inspired our community to raise our sights while providing the wisdom, direction, and leadership to achieve our highest aspirations,” said Chancellor Thomas J. Tisch. “She has paid careful attention to every critical facet of the University, from renewing our commitment to shared governance, to reaffirming our essential role in tackling even the thorniest issues through respectful and informed civil discourse.”

At Commencement ceremonies in 2011, the Brown University faculty presented Simmons with its Susan Colver Rosenberger Medal, the faculty’s highest honor and fullest measure of its esteem.

In her message to the community, Simmons said she would retire as Brown’s president on June 30, 2012, but will continue to be of service to the Corporation and the new president. After a leave, during which she will take up projects she has put on hold during her presidency, she will continue at Brown as professor of comparative literature and Africana studies.

As prescribed in the University’s Charter of 1764, the Brown Corporation is responsible for selecting the University’s president.

“Given the strengths of Brown, our robust governance, and engaged community, we are confident that we will find an inspiring leader to succeed Ruth and to build upon the many significant accomplishments of the last decade,” Tisch said. “We anticipate a thoughtful, measured, and inclusive search process and will be outlining the steps we will take in that regard in the coming weeks.”
Highlights of the Simmons presidency
Vision and planning

Early in her presidency, Simmons articulated a vision for Brown that would revitalize its core activities of teaching and research: at least 100 new faculty positions, a 20-percent increase; a larger and more competitive graduate school; expanded course offerings, including seminars for first-year students; improved financial aid; need-blind admission; increased research capacity with new laboratories and enhanced research support.

Simmons presented her proposals to the Brown Corporation in February 2002, her second Corporation meeting, and received unanimous support. The subsequent Plan for Academic Enrichment was approved by the Corporation in February 2004 and continues to guide the University’s growth and strategic planning.

“President Simmons’ plan was comprehensive and bold. Her vision challenged Brown to strive to reach new heights and encouraged constructive self-criticism throughout the University community,” said Stephen Robert, who was Brown’s chancellor when the plan was developed and approved. “All this, with superb execution, has elevated Brown beyond our most optimistic dreams.”
Academic enrichment

Advancing the goals of the Plan for Academic Enrichment, the University has been able to:

increase the size of its faculty by 20 percent (from 573 in the fall of 2001 to 687 in the fall of 2011), attracting both outstanding junior faculty and senior faculty of international renown throughout all disciplines;
expand its programs of direct academic exchange with international universities, notably in India and China, and organize those international efforts in a new Office of International Affairs;
develop new collaborative relationships and joint programs with local and regional partners, including Trinity Repertory Company, the Rhode Island School of Design, the Marine Biology Laboratory at Woods Hole, and the Draper Laboratory;
assume greater leadership in biology, medicine and public health through faculty expansion, curricular enhancements, improved financial support for medical students, stronger partnerships with affiliated teaching hospitals, and a new medical education facility for the Alpert Medical School. The Alpert Medical School now ranks 29th in the U.S. News & World Report ranking of U.S. medical schools;
invest in expanded graduate study, adding degree programs, improving stipends, and increasing applications;
establish fully funded need-blind admission and revise its financial aid policies so that students from families earning less than $100,000 will not have loans as part of their financial aid package. Sixteen percent of undergraduates who entered Brown this fall are the first generation of their families to attend college. Forty-three percent of Brown undergraduates receive need-based grants;
increase cultural, ethnic, racial, and socioeconomic diversity throughout the University community, including the appointment of an associate provost as the University’s first diversity officer;
work in concert with the city and state so that the University’s development efforts in the Jewelry District can help revitalize an important and historical area of Providence. (Under a June 2003 agreement, Brown and other universities agreed to make annual contributions to sustain the city’s economic health);
establish new centers and institutes, including the Cogut Center for Humanities, the Brown Institute for Brain Science, the Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics, and others;
reestablish the Division of Engineering as the Brown School of Engineering;
create a new Department of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences in newly renovated space at Metcalf Laboratory.

Boldly Brown: The Campaign for Academic Enrichment

To support the goals of the Plan for Academic Enrichment, Brown undertook a $1.4-billion comprehensive campaign — more than three times larger than its previous capital campaign — and met its original goal 18 months early, in May 2009. Included in the campaign’s achievements were the University’s first $100-million gifts: $125 million from alumnus Sidney Frank, $100 million of which was devoted to undergraduate financial aid, and $100 million from the Warren Alpert Foundation, which renamed the University’s medical school and secured its new home in the Jewelry District of Providence. The campaign continued until its original endpoint of Dec. 31, 2010, raising a total of $1.61 billion.
Confronting difficult issues

In the spring of 2003, Simmons established the Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice and charged it with developing a full account of the University’s relationship to slavery and the transatlantic slave trade. In addition to documenting an element of its history that had received scant mention, Simmons sought to demonstrate how an institution dedicated to the development and transmission of knowledge could take on even the most difficult topics through research, presentations, and open, respectful exchanges involving the entire community.

The committee’s report, Slavery and Justice, delivered in October 2006, set a standard for conducting difficult discussions, a standard that has informed efforts at Brown and other institutions. It also led to a significant response by the University that included establishing an endowment to support public education for the students of Providence, new master’s degree programs and tuition-free fellowships in urban education and urban education policy, proposals for a memorial, and significant investments in financial aid and recruitment of underrepresented students, including students who are the first in their family to attend college.
The historic College Hill campus

In the fall of 2001, the University engaged the architectural firm R.M. Kliment & Frances Halsband to develop a planning framework so that the physical campus could be developed to support the growth envisioned in the Plan for Academic Enrichment. After 15 months of analysis and consultation, the University had a plan that would allow development of as much as 1 million square feet of additional space without compromising the unique qualities of the historical Brown campus. A combination of renovation and new construction produced:

The Sidney Frank Hall for Life Sciences;
The Perry and Marty Granoff Center for Creative Arts;
The Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World;
The Stephen Robert ’62 Campus Center;
The Cogut Center for the Humanities;
conversion of J. Walter Wilson from a biology laboratory to a center for student services and activities;
renovation of Metcalf Laboratory as a home for the new Department of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences;
The Walk, a pedestrian link between the Pembroke Campus and Lincoln Field (available in pdf);
The fitness and aquatic center, nearing completion on Hope Street near Lloyd Avenue. A major new addition to the athletic complex, the project includes the Katherine Moran Coleman Aquatics Center, the Nelson Fitness Center, the David J. Zucconi ’55 Varsity Strength and Conditioning Center, and the Ittleson Quadrangle.

Moving beyond College Hill

The consulting architect concluded that Brown’s plans would require more space than the historic campus could offer. In February 2005, the Brown Corporation endorsed recommendations that the University secure options for campus expansion beyond College Hill. It was an opportunity for Brown to work more closely with the city and state toward the revitalization of a significant part of the capital city.

The University had already taken its first step. In May 2003, Brown announced the purchase of the Doran-Speidel Building, a former watchband factory in the Jewelry District. In less than a year, the University reconfigured the structure’s 105,000 gross square feet for research purposes and rededicated the facility as the Laboratories for Molecular Medicine. As many as 150 researchers, including faculty, laboratory staff and student assistants, now work in the building.

In August 2005, Brown purchased the 11-story former Old Stone Square at 121 South Main St. That building now houses the Program in Public Health and the Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics.

In October 2006, Brown announced its purchase of seven buildings in the Jewelry District. One of those properties — 222 Richmond St. — became a new home for the Alpert Medical School, opened on August 15, 2011, to admit the Medical Class of 2015.
Editors: Brown University has a fiber link television studio available for domestic and international live and taped interviews, and maintains an ISDN line for radio interviews. For more information, call (401) 863-2476.

Profitting from World economic problems, the british commonwealth

2011-09-10T10:22:00.000-07:00

With all the focus on the economic problems in the EU, China, and America few people are asking who is benefiting from their problems, namely which countries. To this the answer which people are ignoring is the british commonwealth nations, most prominently the uk, Canada, and Australia.
In obtaining this answer one must look at the behavior of the paper and bullion currencies of those countries. While the Euro, Chinese Yuan, and American dollar have gone down in value, either deliberately or by outside control, the british pound and Canadian and Australian dollars have gone up in value. In terms of bullion coinage the british commonwealth has a major edge in international distribution.
While at present Worldwide Chinese Panda bullion coinage is the most popular bullion coinage in the World China’s main distributor, Pandaamerica, is very capricious in dealing with it’s customers, and as China lacks the global infrastructure to distribute the coins anywhere this is a problem. America has similar problems, especially with government agencies targeting people sending certain types of bullion outside of America, and both America and China have counterfeiting problems. The EU has a more complex problem there. The major bullion producing country in the EU’s Eurozone is Austria, with the Netherlands and France also producing bullion coins which are not as popular. The major problem again is a global distribution network. While the Scandinavian nations have an excellent Worldwide distribution network their policy of not allowing their products to be undersold prevents many countries from outside the EU from patronizing the Scandinavians distribution network. That leads us to the british commonwealth.
The largest distributor of bullion and precious metal coinage in the World is Downies of Australia. When Downies bought Murray Church’s Euro Collections International, which was the official distributor for the Mints of Austria and Poland, Downies expanded their influence. However instead of improving the business of the former ECI nations it hindered them. As Downies acts as the official foreign distributor for many foreign countries it is easy for them to impede the overseas trade of these countries, and many Central and Southern Asian, African, and Latin American countries who they have done business with, as well as EU countries.
By contrast not only have the uk, Canada, and Australia benefitted by Downies but so has the Perth Mint, which issues official and Bullion coinage for most other british commonwealth countries. Notice also how countries like Kazakhstan and Somalia who issue bullion coins which are not well known have seen losses because of this distribution network, how India and Malaysia have been discouraged from issuing their own Bullion coinage for this reason. Lastly, notice the Irish crisis, which was a topdown problem engineered by bankers with british commonwealth ties who wanted to discourage Scotland form accepting the Euro instead of the pound. When one follows the money around the World this is what one sees.

Another Iranian traitor, Medhi Rouhani

2011-09-03T09:35:00.000-07:00

I recently recieved this
Eagle of IRAN announces the date for mass protest nationwide to over
thrown the islamic regime in IRAN
Friday 23rd of September 2011

اطلاعیه مشترک مبارزین راه آزادی ایران و
گروه نظامی سیاسی عقاب ایران

روز رستاخیز ملت ایران

جمعه اول مهر ماه سال ۱۳۹۰ ساعت ۷ بعد از ظهر

گروه نظامی سیاسی عقاب ایران و همرزمان

سر لشکر خلبان مهدی روحانی

Source: http://www.eagleofiran.com/faq.html
That this old fool medhi Rouhani can incite people to act stupidly like
this when Iran is facing threat of invasion and any removal of the
current government infrastructure would cause chaos for a long time,
especially as Iranians abroad ar epoorly organized, shows only that he
is a traitor interested only in himself.
Peter II, Khan-e-Mazendaran

Syria slammed by american hypocrites

2011-08-20T09:20:00.001-07:00

Notice this is going on as american backed rebels in Libya advance
towards Tripoli, and at a time when american backed rebels in Syria are
causing disruptions in Syrian cities where there are major Syrian
military concentrations. Just another example of the military
industrial complex trying to create the climate to launch a war with
Syria and waste more lives and material.
Peter Z

http://english.pravda.ru/news/world/19-08-2011/118795-Obama-0/?mode=print
Barack Obama calls on Syrian counterpart to quit

19.08.2011 13:28

Barack Obama calls on Syrian counterpart to quit. 45168.jpegPresident
Obama has now called on Syrian President Bashar Assad to quit. But if he
did, or if he is toppled, who would replace Assad?

There's no clear answer. Assad and his late father, Hafez Assad, have
ruled Syria for four decades and have not tolerated anything that
resembles a genuine opposition inside the country's borders.

"There is no opposition in Syria. There are opposition groups," said
Lebanon's Wissam Tarif, who has been a prominent campaigner for
democracy and human rights in the Middle East, says NPR.

But the diplomacy left many questions unanswered, including how the
demand for his ouster can be backed up in the absence of any appetite
for military intervention, and who might take his place.

The messages from Washington, London, Paris, Berlin and Brussels
coincided with a United Nations report recommending that Syria be
referred to the International Criminal Court for investigation of
possible crimes against humanity.

Much of Syria was quiet Thursday, although activists reported intense
shooting around noon in the flashpoint city of Latakia.

Syria's UN Ambassador Bashar Ja'afari accused the U.S. of waging a
"humanitarian and diplomatic war" against his country in order to
instigate further violence by sending "the wrong message to the
terrorist armed groups that they are under American and Western
protection", according to Detroit Free Press.

Mr. Obama also froze all Syrian assets under American jurisdiction,
barred Americans from doing business with the Syrian government and
called for sanctions by other countries.

Mr. Casey called for Mr. Assad to leave office at an Aug. 2 Foreign
Relations hearing.

"Our allies in the Arab League and Turkey have extensive diplomatic and
economic ties to Syria, and can exert a powerful influence on Assad's
regime," Mr. Casey said. "I strongly encourage members of the
international community to lend their voices to this growing chorus, and
publicly declare their opposition to the Assad regime and its brutal
treatment of the Syrian people", informs Scranton Times-Tribune.

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Another dangerous mousavi

2011-08-05T08:24:00.000-07:00

With abdolrahim mousavi as the joint chief of staff to Iran's military
and seyeed mahmoud mousavi as deputy Navy commander, both related to mir
hossein who acted as an american provacetur, one wonders how secure
Iran's defense is.
Peter Khan Zendran

News - English
News numbre: 9004295689
2011-07-20 - 17:07

Navy Equips Logistic Units with Long-Range Missiles

TEHRAN (FNA)- The Iranian Navy has equipped a number of its logistic
vessels and units with long-range surface-to-surface missiles, a senior
Navy commander announced on Wednesday.

"Missile frigates and destroyers have been equipped with these missiles
since long time ago and the surface-to-surface missiles of the logistic
vessels were successfully tested and assessed during the recent naval
wargames, dubbed as Joushan," Navy's Deputy Commander for Operations
Rear Admiral Seyed Mahmoud Mousavi told FNA.

The commander further announced that the Navy also plans to equip its
vessels with modern air defense systems.

"Right now we are mounting air-defense missile systems onto a number of
surface vessels. Other units will also be equipped with these systems
after final tests," he noted, adding that these new equipments are added
to the artillery systems that have already been mounted onto these
vessels.

Mousavi also said that a comprehensive program is underway to equip
Iran's naval units with choppers, adding that the move will boost the
operational range of the country's naval fleets.

Last November, Lieutenant Commander of the Islamic Republic of Iran's
Navy Rear Admiral Gholam Reza Khadem Biqam said that the Navy plans to
equip all its destroyers and military vessels with military choppers as
part of its broader plans for boosting the operational range of its
fleets.

"To safeguard the security zone of the naval units when fulfilling
missions in vast areas, all the Navy destroyers and vessels that have a
flight deck should be equipped with choppers," he told FNA at the time.

www.farsnews.com
©2006 Fars News Agency. All Rights Reser

Iranian nuclear progress, Bushehr to come online in days, other plants make progress

2011-08-03T08:35:00.000-07:00

What is important is how Iran's neighbors will react. Despite the fact
that Iran's nuclear plants will provide an alternate to Oil, many people
want to use Iran's nuclear program to attack Iran. These include
zionists and whackos in the media like jeff kuna and joel skoussen who
advocate an attack on Iran if the Bushehr plant and other nuclear
facilities become fully operational.
Peter Khan Zendran

News numbre: 9005040887
2011-07-26 - 15:56

Bushehr N. Power Plant to Join National Grid Next Month

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran's first nuclear power plant will join the national
power grid by the end of August, an Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman
announced on Tuesday.

"We hope that the Bushehr power plant would become operational by the
end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan (late August)," Ramin
Mehman-Parast said in his weekly press conference here in Tehran today.

Mehman-Parast added that construction phase of the plant "have almost
become completed and it is currently in the testing stage".

"Iranians would, by that time (late August), officially celebrate" the
operation of the Bushehr power plant.

Iran signed a deal with Russia in 1995, according to which the plant was
originally scheduled for completion in 1999. However, the project was
repeatedly delayed by the Russian side due to the intense pressure
exerted on Moscow by the United States and its western allies. Russia
finally completed construction of the plant last summer.

On October 26, Iran started injecting fuel into the core of the Bushehr
nuclear power plant in the initial phase of launching the nuclear
reactor.

The facility operates under the full supervision of the International
Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

www.farsnews.com
©2006 Fars News Agency. All Rights Reserved

News - English
News numbre: 9005060300
2011-07-28 - 15:44

Iran Not to Stop N. Program

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian top diplomat Ali Akbar Salehi underlined Tehran's
firm resolve to continue nuclear progress, and said Iran will never halt
its uranium enrichment activities.

"Everyone should accept the fact that Iran's nuclear program has reached
a point where it cannot be stopped or reversed," Salehi said in an
interview with Rusiya Al-Yaum Arabic news channel on Wednesday.

"The Islamic Republic of Iran will not halt its nuclear program," he
added.

Salehi argued that nuclear technology in Iran has moved far ahead as a
fundamental and essential part of industry with centers spread all
across the country, and thus cannot be held back.

"After we have trained and employed thousands of nuclear scientists, how
could the West halt our uranium enrichment program?" the Iranian
minister questioned. "They should know that this is a fact."

Salehi described the West's pressure against Iran over its civilian
nuclear activity "as a test of patience and endurance" for the Islamic
Republic, and vowed, "No threat could shake and disrupt our independence
and sovereignty."

The Iranian official said the nuclear reactor in the facility in the
central city of Arak, Markazi province, was planned to be launched after
three to four years and would be capable of producing 45 megawatt
electricity.

Regarding the nuclear power plant in the southern city of Bushehr,
Salehi said the facility would soon produce electricity in a trial mode
and join the country's power grid.

He hailed the cooperation by Russian experts and their efforts to start
the Bushehr power plant and expressed optimism on the future of
Tehran-Moscow ties.

Iran, a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and a
member of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), insists that
its nuclear program is solely directed at the civilian applications of
the technology.

www.farsnews.com
©2006 Fars News Agency. All Rights Reserved

Michael Savage and CAIR get the facts wrong on Islam and forced conversion

2011-07-24T15:53:00.000-07:00

Recently both Michael Savage and the Council on American-Islamic Relations have made incorrect statements about the spread of Islam. On Friday July 22, 2011 Michael Savage went into a history of how Islam was spread by the sword. While this was true he omitted many important facts and made many misstatements. He neglected to mention that the Arabia of the Prophet Muhammad was conquered by Khosrow I, Shahanshah e Iran in the year 570, the year the Prophet Muhammad was born, and that though the Prophet Muhammad made war on Arab and Jewish tribes he was in fact also seizing land from Sassanian Iran. Savage also incorrectly stated that Abu Bakr launched wars of counquest, when it was in fact Umar, who succeeded Abu Bakr in 634, who launched the wars of aggression. Savage falsely praised The Iranian Sphabod Rustam, who lost the battle of Qadasiya to the Muslims, ignoring the fact that Iran lost that battle because of the Iranian inability to fight in a sandstorm. Savage also ignored the fact that after Umar’s conquest of Egypt the Muslim forces were defeated by the Nubians when the Muslims tried to conquer Africa south of the Sahara. Savage also ignores that one of the reasons the Muslims lost Poitiers in 732 was because that the Muslims were overfocused on conquering Mazendaran, the only part of Iran where resistance to Islam was successful, for by the time the Muslims had conquered Mazendaran Islam had adopted many Zoroastrian practices both faiths became hard to distinguish. Had Savage done his research properly instead of listened to idiots calling in he would have noticed this.
Just as glaring are statements by the Council on American-Islamic Relations claiming that the fact that Islam was spread by the sword is a misconception. In CAIR’s Journalist’s Guide to Understanding Islam and Muslims they state that the fact that Islam was spread by the sword is ”based on incomplete and incorrect knowledge” and that Islam spread quicker during times of peace than during war. CAIR forgets that during the life of the Prophet Muhammad and in the century following his death armed force was the main method of conversion, and that indigenous faiths were so subverted that reversion away from Islam extremely difficult, and that outside the Arab community Islam adopted many local traditions which caused splits in Islam.
I would strongly suggest to those reading this to obtain a copy of my book “Iran; The Lion of War” and read Chapter 8, Iran Slammed by Islam for better reading on the subject.

Bruce Sundlun dies, odd timing

2011-07-23T10:13:00.000-07:00

Not only was Bruce Sundlun someone I knew, I met him during the comissiong ceremonies for the USS Rhode Island SSBN-740 in Newport on July 9, 1994 and I dealt with him on the USS John F. Kennedy CV-67 project, how this story almost got buried got me mad at the propaganda press. Not only did this occur during a heatwave hours before he died I was over by the state house making sure that the Middle eastern Art festival planned for that evening stayerd shut down, particularly because of the nature of the people who came up with the idea for the event. His passing at this time is a reminder to us al to keep our wits when everyone else is losing theirs.
Interesting this piece mentions how he handled the banking crisis, had he been tougher on the banks I would still have my fortune for that was when washington trust and lenihan law did their dirty deeds.
Peter Z

Bruce Sundlun, fiery former R.I. governor, dies at 91
8:10 PM Thu, Jul 21, 2011

By G. WAYNE MILLER
Journal staff writer

Former Rhode Island Gov. Bruce G. Sundlun, whose heroism in war, success in business, fiery political career and complex private life made him into one of the state's legendary figures, died Thursday at his home in Jamestown. He was 91 years old.

A statement from his family announcing his death Thursday said:

"Former Governor Bruce Sundlun died peacefully tonight at his home in Jamestown. He was surrounded by his loving family. As a husband, father and grandfather he was our north star. We are deeply grateful for his love and lessons throughout our lives."

Sundlun had been hospitalized recently for an undisclosed ailment.

U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., who was Sundlun's legal counsel and business regulation director during his terms as governor, released the following statement early Thursday evening regarding Sundlun's death:

"I mourn the passing of Bruce Sundlun, a beloved friend and mentor. Bruce's accomplishments as an athlete, soldier, lawyer, businessman and politician would each make his a memorable life; together they made him one of the most remarkable and accomplished Rhode Islanders in our history.

"But most who knew Bruce will remember him for his personality: warm-hearted and funny, impatient and irrepressible, courageous and determined. No one who knew Bruce ever doubted where he stood. He was a towering figure in our state's history and a vibrant figure in the lives of his friends and family. My love, thoughts and prayers are with them."

Read more comments from fellow politicians, associates and friends.

A Democrat, Sundlun served two terms as governor, from 1991 to 1995, during one of Rhode Island's deepest recessions and the worst banking collapse in the state's history.

He was both praised and vilified for his handling of the crisis -- just as admiration for all his accomplishments was always colored by reaction to his formidable ego, his personal style and his succession of romances that led to five marriages and four divorces.

"What lessons would I have for people?" Sundlun said in a Journal interview in January 2010, on the eve of his 90th birthday. "Play it straight. Who, what, where, when, how. Those are the facts of life."

Asked if he had any regrets, Sundlun said: "Not really, that I can think of. I don't have any enemies that I know of. And it wouldn't trouble me if I did."

Born on Jan. 19, 1920, Bruce George Sundlun was the first child of Jan Zelda (Colitz) and Walter Irving Sundlun, whose parents came to America from Lithuania. The Sundluns lived on the East Side of Providence.

"I think I was the first Jewish kid to ever go to the Gordon School," Sundlun, who started in kindergarten at the elite school, said in a 2006 Journal profile.

Sundlun started in kindergarten and made lifelong friends at Gordon -- but also experienced anti-Semitism.

He remembered competing in a foot race at the end of third grade. "I won hands down," Sundlun said. "It was the first time I ever realized I had any athletic ability or could run fast. And the two guys who came in second threw me down on the ground and called me a dirty Jew." Audio slideshow: Sundlun talks about growing up on Providence's East Side.

Gifted with a sharp, analytical mind that would later suit him to the practice of law, Sundlun attended Providence's Classical High School, leaving after junior year for private Tabor Academy in Marion, Mass. He entered Williams College in September 1938 and when Hitler invaded Poland a year later, Sundlun, a sophomore, suspected that America eventually would be drawn into the conflict.

Enlisting in the U.S. Army Air Corps after the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, Sundlun trained as a B-17 bomber pilot. He was on his 13th bombing run over Germany on Dec. 1, 1943, when his Flying Fortress, Damn Yankee, was shot down, killing four of its nine-man crew.

Parachuting into Nazi-occupied Belgium, Sundlun evaded capture and connected with the Belgian Underground, eventually joining the Maquis, a branch of the French Resistance that was waging guerrilla war against the Germans near the Swiss border. He was a Jew on the run in a land occupied by Nazis.

"We would play it cool until sometime during the night, then we'd go in and attack [German Army] transport, find their fuel trucks, and shoot 'em up and try and set 'em on fire," Sundlun recalled in the 2006 profile. "The Germans would fight back and there'd be some gunfire, but we'd do more damage to them than they'd do to us 'cause we knew every rock and tree."

Five months after being shot down, Sundlun escaped to safety. The U.S. would later honor him with the Purple Heart, the Distinguished Flying Cross, and an Air Medal with oak leaf cluster. France would bestow the Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur.

Sundlun finished his studies at Williams College in 1946 and three years later, graduated from Harvard Law School. After serving as an assistant U.S. attorney in Washington, he went into private practice, then left law in 1970 to become president of an executive jet company.

Six years later, he was named president and CEO of The Outlet Co., based in Rhode Island, which he transformed into the highly profitable Outlet Communications, no longer in business.

At its peak, Outlet had 16 radio and television stations, including WJAR Channel 10. The company's stock sold for $4 when Sundlun took over. It sold for $68 when he was done a decade later.

Sundlun was a millionaire, with several homes, in Rhode Island, Jamaica and the Washington area -- and he was increasingly active in national and Democratic politics, including with President John F. Kennedy, who named Sundlun co-chairman of his 1961 inaugural committee.

And he was well into a turbulent romantic life that would be another of his hallmarks, prompting countless tales, some of which he was happy to substantiate himself.

In 1949, Sundlun married his first wife, Madeleine (Schiffer) Eisner, the mother of his three sons, all of whom survive him: Tracy Walter, Stuart Arthur, and Peter Bruce. After their divorce, Sundlun married sculptor Pamela (Soldwedel) Barrett in 1966. Barrett divorced him and Sundlun became involved with the actress and philanthropist Barbara FitzGerald, who died of cancer in 1973.

Joyanne Carter, his third wife, was FitzGerald's close friend. They walked the aisle in 1974, but their marriage foundered. In 1983, Sundlun told The Journal, "She invited me for lunch one day in Washington and after dessert she said. 'Well, now you're deserving of a present.' She served me with papers for a divorce."

Two years later, Sundlun married his fourth wife, Marjorie Lee, a woman two decades younger whose warm, vivacious manner stood in contrast to her husband -- and proved an asset on the campaign trail.

After serving on statewide commissions and the Providence School Board, and working for a variety of civic causes, notably the Trinity Repertory Company and the Providence Performing Arts Center, Sundlun in 1986 ran for governor against incumbent Edward D. DiPrete. DiPrete walloped him, two-to-one.

DiPrete also won the rematch two years later -- by a much-closer margin. But in 1990, Sundlun tapped again into his millions to finance his campaign and ran a third time. He buried DiPrete, who was mired in scandal that eventually sent him to prison.

Sundlun planned an imperial inauguration that included a B-17 flying over the State House, but even before the celebration, on the evening before he took office, Sundlun, about to turn 70, received worse news. The Rhode Island Share and Deposit Indemnity Corp., which insured 45 banks and credit unions, had collapsed. Untold numbers of people risked losing their life's savings.

Many years later, the memory of the banking crisis and a $200 million deficit in the state budget still rankled Sundlun. "When I look back at the mess I inherited from that -- f---ing DiPrete...," he said, too angry to finish.

Closing the credit unions and the struggle to come up with a way to pay off depositors dominated the first 18 months of Sundlun's tenure. After the closing, disclosures of corruption in the General Assembly and the DiPrete Administration on behalf of the insurer, the infamous RISDIC, fanned the ire and anger of depositors.

There were nasty demonstrations at the State House almost daily. As the months dragged on and depositors remained without their money, Sundlun endured some ugly protests.

Perhaps the worst came on Sept. 6, 1991, when more than 1,000 depositors picketed, screamed and taunted Sundlun and other leading Democratic political figures at a party fundraising event at Rhodes-on-the-Pawtuxet in Cranston. Sundlun was burned in effigy. There were placards comparing Sundlun with Hitler.

Depositors eventually got their money back, through a $700 million bailout plan that was financed by using a portion of state sales tax revenue to pay off bonds. Sundlun successfully ran for re-election in 1992 but was defeated in the 1994 Democratic primary by Myrth York. Gubernatorial terms at the time were two years long.

In his four years as governor, Sundlun led a major overhaul of the state Workers Compensation System and started the state's RIteCare program that provides medical insurance to poor children.

On social issues, he supported abortion rights and gay rights.

In his frequently combative style (one of his printable nicknames was "Captain Blowhard"), Sundlun pushed through the renovation and expansion of the terminal at T.F. Green Airport, now named for him; the Rhode Island Convention Center; the Providence Place mall, and moving the University of Rhode Island's Providence campus from Smith Hill to the old Shepard Building downtown.

"I think history will treat him well," said the late Elmer Cornwell, a Brown University political science professor and expert on Rhode Island politics. "He didn't come from a political background, he came from the corporate world. He was used to making tough decisions and his forcefulness served the state well during some very difficult times."

Sundlun was just nine months into his first term as governor when his wife Marjorie, walking with a childhood friend in her upstate New York hometown, was struck and nearly killed by an elderly driver. Doctors saved her life, but her brain was badly damaged.

Governor Sundlun flew to the hospital, where, in a news conference to discuss his wife's condition, he wept -- one of the few times in his life he ever did, he said. Marjorie recovered but was never the same. Sundlun divorced his fourth wife in 1999, after, he says, he arranged for her financial security.

It was during Sundlun's second term as governor that he publicly acknowledged he was the father of a daughter, Kara (Hewes) Sundlun, now an Emmy-award winning news anchor at Hartford station WFSB, Channel 3, and the child of an affair. Sundlun agreed to pay for her college education and remained close to Kara, who changed her last name to his.

"She's got a better personality than I do," Sundlun said in 2006. "She's naturally nice, although I'm getting nicer."

After divorcing Marjorie, Sundlun was seen in the company of Soozie Dittelman, a photographer and owner of East Greenwich Photo, whom he had met several years earlier when he was president of Temple Beth-El in Providence. They married on New Year's Day 2000, when Sundlun was almost 80.

Stories about Sundlun have been part of the Rhode Island landscape for decades. There is the story of his shooting raccoons at his Newport estate, of berating a CVS clerk for failing to carry plastic forks he wanted for a Christmas party, of driving dangerously but defiantly in his old age. All were true, and highly publicized.

After losing the governorship, Sundlun taught political science at the University of Rhode Island. Courses he taught included political leadership and Rhode Island politics.

"His style was somewhat aggressive, but as the students got to know him, they appreciated the wealth of knowledge he had," said Prof. Maureen Moakley of URI, who team-taught a course with Sundlun.

Sundlun mellowed with advancing age, but he never entirely lost the edge that was forged by his difficult childhood, his war experiences, and his business and political battles. His increasing difficulty in hearing and stubbornness in not wanting to use hearing aids made conversations in recent years exercises in mutual shouting -- but until the end, he was full of stories.

And, at least sometimes, there were signs of uncharacteristic softness and even self-reflection.

"No one ever called me a nice human being -- although Soozie's gone pretty far toward changing me into a nice human being," he told the Journal five years ago. "I think basically I am a nice human being. But I'm 86 when I say that."

Sundlun is survived by his wife, children, stepchildren and stepgrandchildren.

With reports from Scott MacKay, former Journal staff writer

Hypocrisy regarding murdoch news hacking

2011-07-20T08:50:00.000-07:00

As bad as this behavior by murdoch is people forget that other companies
do this all the time. An excellent example is how suckerberg's facebook
adn linkedin use hacking techniques, like the friend finders on facebook
and linkedin, to go into people's e-mail accounts and obtain e-mail
addresses, something newscorp's myspace has not done. It will be
interesting to see how this plays out.
Peter Z

Murdochs in the dock

By Ian Burrell, Media Editor
Tuesday, 19 July 2011

The phone hacking scandal that has claimed the jobs of Britain's two
most high-profile police officers, caused the closure of one of the
country's most famous newspapers, prompted 10 arrests so far and led to
calls for the resignation of the Prime Minister reaches a critical
juncture today with a moment of high drama to rival anything that the
British media has produced before, either in real life or fiction.

The founder and the appointed heir to the world's most famous media
empire will take centre stage in the next act of the hacking saga.

Rupert and James Murdoch will sit before a panel of MPs and face
questions that the company over which they preside was involved in phone
hacking on an "industrial scale", made illegal payments to police
officers and sought to corrupt the democratic process by "owning"
politicians. In their answers, for which they have been carefully
drilled by a team of lawyers and media trainers, the pair will attempt
to rescue a tarnished reputation and distance themselves from serious
criminality.

They will do so under intense pressure from their own shareholders, who
have seen the value of their stock fall by almost a fifth – 17.9 per
cent – since it emerged that the murdered schoolgirl Millie Dowler had
been among victims of the company's journalists. The answers of the
Murdochs will also be analysed by a number of investigating bodies,
including the media regulator Ofcom which is gathering evidence on
whether News Corp is "fit and proper" to own a broadcasting licence in
the UK, and the Serious Fraud Office.

The pair's evidence will be followed by that of Rebekah Brooks, who
resigned her post as their chief executive at News International last
week, before being arrested on Sunday by police investigating the
hacking and illicit payments made to officers. Yesterday Brooks fought
back. Her lawyer, Stephen Parkinson, hinted that his client would take
steps to redress damage to her reputation. "Despite arresting her
yesterday and conducting an interview process lasting nine hours, [the
Metropolitan Police] put no allegations to her and showed her no
documents connecting her with any crime. They will in due course have to
give an account of their actions and in particular their decision to
arrest her with the enormous reputational damage that this has
involved."

For James Murdoch the appearance before MPs will be a screen test like
no other. As he prepared to take his seat in front of the House of
Commons Culture, Media & Sport committee today, he was facing criticism
from those who doubt that he possesses the abilities to run the News
Corp empire founded by his father.

The pressure on him intensified yesterday with a growing clamour for him
to relinquish his role as chairman of BSkyB, the satellite broadcaster
which he helped to build into a successful business. BSkyB's
non-executive directors were reported to be unconvinced that Murdoch can
cope with the job when he is caught up in the phone hacking affair, and
that they would watch his performance today ahead of discussions later
this week.

That view was echoed by the satellite broadcaster's first chairman,
Andrew Neil, a former editor of the Murdoch-owned Sunday Times.
"Non-Murdoch shareholders in BSkyB [are] indicating James's future as
Chairman [is] likely determined by his Commons performance," he said
last night.

Yesterday the Liberal Democrats asked Ofcom to act now on whether News
Corp should be allowed to have even the 39 per cent stake in BSkyB that
it possesses. Don Foster, the party's media spokesman, said James should
follow the example of senior police officers and his colleague Rebekah
Brooks and resign, even if he was not admitting wrong doing. "I think
his position is untenable," he said. A poll for ITV News last night
showed that two-thirds of the public thought James should quit.

The hearing

Rupert Murdoch, Chairman and Chief Executive, News Corp

What would represent a victory?

He emerges as an honourable tycoon who was kept in the dark about the
scale of the scandal. He demonstrates that he had no knowledge of the
out-of-court settlements to Gordon Taylor and Max Clifford in 2008; that
it was at his insistence that News International co-operated with the
police; and that he does not exercise undue influence in the police,
media and government. He apologises.

And defeat?

He admits he had knowledge of widespread phone hacking prior to January
2011. Yet it becomes apparent that he failed to take charge of the
crisis and ensure News International co-operated fully with police. He
comes across as arrogant or mendacious and/or appears to be vague or
doddery, casting questions over his ability run a global multimedia
giant in the digital age.

And a score draw?

He avoids implicating himself in any direct knowledge of phone hacking
prior to January 2011 but seems out of touch and acknowledges that he
has made mistakes in handling the affair.

James Murdoch, Chief executive, Europe and Asia, News Corp

What would represent a victory?

MPs are impressed by his grasp of detail and candour. He demonstrates
that he was badly advised by lawyers and executives over the 2008
settlements to Taylor and Clifford by naming the executives and
detailing their advice. He comes across as an astute and honest
executive dealing with a formidable range of business problems, and
shows remorse for the scale of wrongdoing at News International.

And defeat?

He comes across as a management-speak dalek devoid of empathy. He admits
that he knew wrongdoing extended to beyond a single reporter but yet
failed to inform the Metropolitan Police. He puts up spurious legal
arguments for not giving straight answers to straight questions. He
shows his temper.

And a score draw?

He agrees that he was not in complete control of News International but
comes across as a decent individual who has been shocked by what has
happened.

Rebekah Brooks, Former chief executive, News International

What would represent a victory?

She persuades the committee that she had no role in any wrongdoing and
that the fault lies with other executives. She proves that she was on
holiday when a private investigator working for the News of the World
hacked into the mobile phone of Milly Dowler while she edited the paper.
She comes across as decent, vulnerable and hurt by the damage to her
reputation. A victim not a perpetrator.

And defeat?

She is defiant, haughty or arrogant and refuses to give straight
answers. Fails to explain how she could not have known about phone
hacking and payments to police officers on her watch, nor the
out-of-court settlements to Gordon Taylor and Max Clifford. Trapped by a
skilled inquisition.

And a score draw?

She agrees she failed to grasp the seriousness of wrongdoing at the News
of the World, but is able to show that she personally had no role in any
wrongdoing.

Good riddance dean donutfucker

2011-06-24T10:14:00.000-07:00

This news is long overdue. During his entire tenure as pig chief in
providence dean has been the one who had singled me out for legal
harassment, be it direct or proxy, during his entire tenure as chief,
and if one still doubts this check my BCI and you will notice my entire
legal troubles occurred during his tenure as chief, all because my
stepfamily in Greenwich and fairfield county accepted bribes from him
and his coworkers when he was Stamford pig chief. Though others
suffered worse has he gutted the Providence police, like he did the
Stamford police, be it homeless people arrested for disorderly conduct,
people having medical problems on the street being charged with failure
to move, women asking men out on a date being arrested for prostitution,
etc. I had to bear the brunt of it. Interestingly enough nobody
mentions how dean let that same daughter drink cocktails at the Biltmore
on November 2, 2010 which I witnessed, and yet nobody said anything
there, yet they made a big deal over this party. The timing of this
could not be better, notice the date of the resignation, the 7 year
anniversary of my first victory as a Pro se Litigant, and the date of
the party, the 10 year anniversary of Leila's murder, and it is good to
see dean get a taste of his own medicine. I even wonder if the sheeple
noticed the headline on yesterday's paper below this headline, how
chafee appointed someone who runs a kids gulag in glocester to be the
new dcyf director. All the same this is long overdue and occured
because of sheep in the public who allowed it to happen and only ended
because of those who never quit.
Peter Z

Esserman suddenly resigns as Providence police chief
04:01 PM EDT on Thursday, June 23, 2011

By Amanda Milkovits

Journal Staff Writer

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- After nearly 8½ years heading the state’s largest
police department, Police Chief Dean M. Esserman suddenly announced
Wednesday that he was resigning.

The decision was his, Esserman said in a hastily arranged news
conference at the Providence Public Safety Complex. A controversy over
underage drinking at a party celebrating his daughter’s graduation from
La Salle Academy had become a “distraction,” he said.

“I love this Police Department. I’ve come to love this city. And I also love my family,” Esserman said. “… But this has become a distraction, a distraction in my home, a distraction for me, and a distraction for this Police Department.”

Public Safety Commissioner Steven M. Pare said that he hadn’t asked for
Esserman’s resignation, nor did he find anything in his evaluation of
the party that would cause the chief’s dismissal. Pare said no rules or
laws were broken.

“He’s a great leader,” Pare said. “We’ll move on. This agency is bigger than any individual.”

Esserman’s decision surprised many officers. He had survived a
no-confidence vote from the police union, criticism over his abrasive
leadership style and attacks on his salary and benefits. Three of last
year’s four mayoral candidates said that they would fire him.

Taveras was the only one who withheld judgment. After evaluating the
department this spring, the mayor decided to keep Esserman, crediting
him with improving the department, rooting out political interference
and establishing a community-based approach to policing. But unlike
former Mayor David N. Cicilline, Taveras didn’t offer him a contract.

Esserman said he’ll stay until June 30. It’s also the last day for 75
officers who received layoff notices. All are facing losing their jobs
in the city’s financial crisis, unless the city and police union can
reach $6 million in concessions.

Esserman didn’t mention the layoffs as a factor in his decision to
leave. It was personal. It was about his family. And, he said, it was
time.

“I’m proud of the work we’ve done,” he said. “We’ve come a long way in eight years. It’s time for somebody else.”

Cicilline appointed Esserman in January 2003. The ex-prosecutor and
former police chief in Connecticut and New York walked into a department
in turmoil.

The department had been rocked by revelations in the federal corruption
trial of then-Mayor Vincent A. Cianci Jr. that a former police chief had
helped some officers cheat on their promotions.

Gilda Hernandez pins the badge on her husband, Dean Esserman, after he
was sworn in as Providence police chief in 2003 as then Mayor David N.
Cicilline looks on.

Journal Files / MARY MURPHY

There was scandal and division among officers and mistrust from the
community. Complaints of brutality, civil-rights violations and
allegations of misuse of federal funds drew the attention of the U.S.
Department of Justice. And the department closed itself off from working
with other agencies and organizations.

In eight years, Esserman brought community policing to every
neighborhood, assigned detectives to investigate the cheating scandal,
beefed up units investigating gangs, guns and internal affairs. He
introduced computer mapping of crimes, so the police could evaluate what
was happening in the city and prevent crimes, and opened the department
up to partnerships with other law enforcement agencies, organizations
and schools.

The crime rate began to fall, longstanding drug markets vanished, and
even murders plummeted. The department drew national attention for its
crime-prevention initiatives and community-centered approach. Last fall,
the department and Roger Williams University won a federal grant to
establish the first educational institute for law enforcement in New
England.

But the department also endured scandal — four officers were caught up
in a state police investigation into a drug ring last year, a detective
was convicted of assaulting a handcuffed man this year.

And Esserman’s temper and brusque style blistered colleagues and
underlings, and alienated some city leaders. Some were celebratory when
they learned of his resignation. Others were stunned.

In Upper South Providence, the director of the Davey Lopes Recreation
Center said he was disappointed. “Dean Esserman has been very good for
Providence,” said George Lindsey, “and I don’t care what anyone says, at
the end of the day, if you live in the city, you recognize the
difference from before Esserman came and now.”

In Washington, D.C., Chuck Wexler, executive director of the Police
Executive Research Forum, said the chief’s work gave Providence national
recognition.

“The Providence Police Department is a different place today than it was 8½ years ago,” said Wexler. “He came in at a time of turmoil, accusations and questions … and 8½ years later, the Providence Police Department is a better place, and the community is a safer place.”

As for the recent controversy, Wexler said, “When you’re a change agent,
you’re under attack all the time. Your whole life becomes an open book.”

When Taveras became mayor, Esserman’s contract expired and his future
was uncertain.

In February, he was suspended for one day without pay after an incident
involving a sergeant who was having a coughing fit while Esserman was
addressing officers at a training session. Witnesses said Esserman
cursed and threatened to throw a cup of coffee in the sergeant’s face.

This month, as the city began handing layoff notices to 75 new officers,
Councilman Michael J. Correia asked Esserman in a letter to “be a man of
his word” and resign. The letter said that Esserman had announced on two
occasions that he would volunteer to leave before pink slips were given
to any of his officers.

Then came the graduation party June 10 at his East Side home.

Esserman said that he and his 27-year-old son were chaperoning the party
when young people started suddenly arriving late. He said he discovered
some of them drinking alcohol, and he and his son ordered everyone to
leave. Some ran off with alcohol.

Esserman said he called Pare that night to tell him what happened.

Some criticized his handling of the party, including the head of the
Rhode Island chapter of Mothers Against Drunk Driving, who asserted that
he should have called the police to disperse the crowd. Pare said he
would evaluate the incident.

Pare said Wednesday that he hadn’t finished his evaluation when Esserman
handed him his resignation.

“I’m sure a lot of things played in his mind about why he should resign,” Pare said. “There are a lot of things happening in the Providence Police Department.”

Esserman said he was taking responsibility for what happened at his
house. “You’ve got to believe this was my decision,” he said. “You have
to believe I made this decision because it’s become a distraction.”

Neither he, nor Pare would explain why the party was a distraction.

Pare said the chief’s resignation, coming in the middle of restructuring
and all-but-certain layoffs, was “challenging,” but didn’t leave the
department in chaos.

And then, the mayor’s director of communications shut off questions.

-- With staff reports from Alisha A. Pina and Thomas J. Morgan

TIMELINE: Esserman’s trajectory

Jan. 10, 2003: Mayor David N. Cicilline announces hiring of Esserman,
“the best police chief in America.”

Jan. 24, 2004: Esserman announces conclusion of probe of Police
Department promotional-testing scandal. He moves to discipline at least
two active officers and strip pensions from two former officers.

April 16, 2005: Robbery suspects shoots and kills Detective James L.
Allen with Allen’s gun at police headquarters.

October 2005: Esserman announces he will be treated for colon cancer.

Jan. 22, 2007: Mayor and chief say major crime has hit a 30-year low,
thanks, in large part, to community policing.

Feb. 16, 2007: Cicilline renews Esserman’s employment contract for
another 4 years.

June 14, 2009: Police union votes no confidence in Esserman. Members
cite his abrasiveness, harping on past police corruption and
dressing-down of officers in public.

March 4, 2010: State police arrest 3 Providence officers involved in a
drug ring.

Sept. 27, 2010: $474,566 federal grant announced to establish regional
law-enforcement training and research institute, to be based at Roger
Williams University and Police Department.

Dec. 1, 2010: Mayor-elect Angel Taveras announces hiring of former state
police Col. Steven M. Pare as public safety commissioner. Action reduces
stature and power of chief.

Feb. 7, 2011: Esserman serves one-day suspension because he threatened
to throw cup of coffee in face of sergeant.

April 12, 2011: Taveras says he will retain Esserman.

June 10, 2011: Esserman breaks up graduation party for daughter in
family backyard after he said he realized that minors were drinking
alcohol.

June 13, 2011: Pare says he is evaluating incident.

Compiled by Gregory Smith from Journal archives

amilkovi@projo.com

Iran menaced as zionists bluster

2011-05-21T10:46:00.000-07:00

Notice how this spy bust in Iran's embassies came at a time when the
zionists are rejecting america's peace deal. Then again people must
realize that the one thing the zionists have in common with the green
movement and those rioting in Libya and Syria is that they are american
subsidized. The real peace solution is for america and their pawns to
butt out permanently. then real solutions can be implemented.
Peter Khan Zendran

http://aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2011/05/201152111430757256.html
Iran claims to break up CIA spy network
Network of "spies" controlled through US embassies in the United Arab
Emirates, Turkey and Malaysia, ministry says.
Last Modified: 21 May 2011 12:14
Iran's mistrust of America is deep; in 2009, Shane Bauer, Josh Fattal
and Sarah Shourd were charged with spying after they said they
accidentally hiked across the border [AFP]

Iran has arrested 30 people it says were engaged in a "complex espionage
and sabotage network" run by the United States, state media reported.

The network of alleged spies was controlled by the Central Intelligence
Agency through US embassies in the United Arab Emirates, Turkey and
Malaysia, according to an intelligence ministry statement posted on the
Mehr news agency's website on Saturday.

"Due to the massive intelligence and counterintelligence work by Iranian
intelligence agents, a complex espionage and sabotage network linked to
America's spy organisation was uncovered and dismantled," the statement
said.

"Elite agents of the intelligence ministry in their confrontation with
the CIA elements were able to arrest 30 America-linked spies through
numerous intelligence and counterintelligence operations."

The statement also said Iran had identified 42 US intelligence officers
in the three named countries.

"They engage in collection of information regarding Iran's nuclear,
aerospace defence and bio-technology fields," among other areas, the
ministry said.

The spy network worked under the cover of labour recruitment agencies,
the statement posted on Mehr's website said.

"The elites, educated and naive people were recruited to get visas,
residency permits, education abroad and employment," it said.

Spying in Iran can carry the death penalty. Washington has had no
diplomatic presence in Iran since the 1979 revolution which deposed the
US-backed shah and was followed by the lengthy occupation of the US
embassy.

Diplomatic cables published by the WikiLeaks website showed the US
operated information-gathering desks on Iran in neighbouring countries
where diplomats would seek to glean intelligence from travelling
Iranians.

The announcement of the arrests comes two days after Barack Obama, the
US president, made a speech on the Middle East, reiterating Washington's
view that Tehran sponsors terrorism and is seeking nuclear weapons,
charges Iran denies.
Source:
Agencies

http://aljazeera.com/news/americas/2011/05/2011520181538261950.html
Netanyahu: No return to 1967 borders
Israeli leader says Obama's call for future Palestinian state based on
1967 borders would leave country "indefensible".
Last Modified: 21 May 2011 07:58

Barack Obama and Binyamin Netanyahu affirmed their countries' "enduring
friendship" at the White House [Al Jazeera]

Israel is prepared to make "generous" concessions for peace in the
Middle East, but cannot go back to the country's "indefensible" 1967
borders, Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu said after White
House talks with Barack Obama.

Netanyahu's comments came after Obama, the US president, had said the
1967 borders, with mutually agreed land swaps, should form the basis for
a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians, in a major speech on
the Middle East on Thursday.

"A peace based on illusions will crash upon the rocks of Middle Eastern
reality... I think for peace the Palestinians will have to accept some
basic realities," Netanyahu said.

He said that a return to those borders was impossible because the region
had seen "demographic changes".

"While Israel is prepared to make generous compromises for peace, it
cannot go back to the 1967 borders because these borders are
indefensible."

A spokesman for the Palestinian Authority president, Mahmud Abbas,
responded to the statements, calling on Obama to further press Israel to
accept a Palestinian state based on the 1967 borders.

"Netanyahu's position is an official rejection of Mr Obama's initiative,
of international legitimacy and of international law," said Nabil Abu
Rudeina.

Hamas rejection

In statements made after their talks, both Obama and Netanyahu rejected
the involvement of Hamas in peace negotiations, following the recent
Palestinian unity deal involving the group and Abbas' Fatah faction.

Netanyahu said that Abbas would have to choose between "peace with
Israel and his pact with Hamas".

He also called Hamas the "Palestinian version of al-Qaeda".

Obama said, "It is very difficult for Israel to negotiate in a serious
way with a party that refuses to acknowledge its right to exist...
[Hamas] is not a partner for a significant, realistic peace process."

But Ghazi Hamad, a Hamas spokesperson, responded telling Al Jazeera:
"Hamas is not a terrorist organisation."

"We've spent 20 years in negotiations. It is enough. It is enough for
the Palestinians... Hamas is fighting for our people, for our homeland,
for our liberation, for our dignity, for our independence."

He also said that while a successful peace process remained to be seen:
"We cannot give Israel the carte blanch that they have to enjoy the
occupation... and to say we have to stop the resistance against the
occupation."

Right of return

Both Obama and Netanyahu spoke about refugees from the region, with
Obama calling for a right of return for Palestinians, and Netanyahu
largely focusing on Arab countries refusing support for Palestinians.

"Palestinian refugees cannot come to Israel... It's not going to
happen," he said.

Reporting from Shatti Beach refugee camp in Gaza, Al Jazeera's Nicole
Johnston said, "The statement is not surprising or unexpected for
Gazans... A lot of people here have lost hope of returning to what is
now Israel, returning to their homes."

She added, "People are very frustrated by the situation, but they're
also concerned with their more immediate needs", citing unemployment and
difficulty of access of resources.

On Thursday, Obama laid down his clearest markers yet on compromises
Israel should make towards peace in his speech on the 'Arab spring'.

Among his statements were support of a two-state solution, that
Palestinian territories should be demilitarised, and that borders should
be re-drawn as they were before Israel captured the West Bank and other
Palestinian land in 1967.

That position was seen as a message that Obama expected Israel to
eventually make concessions which they have resisted to date.

A senior Palestine Liberation Organisation official, Yasser Abed Rabbo,
said the PLO "favourably welcomes the Obama principles on the 1967
borders".

Quartet supports Obama

Before Obama and Netanyahu made statements, the Quartet of Middle East
negotiators - the United States, Russia, the European Union and the
United Nations voiced strong support for Obama's criteria for Middle
Eastern peace.

"The Quartet agrees that moving forward on the basis of territory and
security provides a foundation for Israelis and Palestinians to reach a
final resolution of the conflict through serious and substantive
negotiations and mutual agreement on all core issues," the group said in
a statement.

"The Quartet reiterates its strong appeal to the parties to overcome the
current obstacles and resume direct bilateral negotiations without delay
or preconditions," the Quartet said.
Source:
Al Jazeera and agencies

Results of the Arab/Muslim riots

2011-05-17T12:06:00.000-07:00

The uprisings in the Arab/Muslim World have changed the region for the worse. Many who rioted thought they would be making a better life for themselves, instead they have put into power forces worse than those they rioted against. To make matters worse they have brought foreign military forces into the region as we are seeing in Libya. Let us examine how this effects the balance of power in the region.
As the main group behind these rioters is the Muslim brotherhood, either directly or by proxy, many assume that the objective would be to unite the Muslim World in an all out attack on israel. Were this the case they could have not done this in a worse way. With the military seizure of power in Egypt the Muslim brotherhood has influence in the largest Arab army, and one which could at least take out a significant chunk of the israeli military. After Egypt the rioters stepped up their actions in Libya, Algeria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Yemen, and Bahrain, not a wise move if one were to build an alliance to attack israel in the Arab World. In the case of Yemen and Bahrain it is understandable, with the anglo-american military presence in those two countries, the pro-western attitudes of the rulers, and in the case of Yemen the strategic location. In the case of Jordan the actions are counterproductive, as the Hashemites have been long term allies of the Palestinians and only made peace with israel to free up resources to take care of internal issues, including the very issues the rioters are supposedly rioting against.
With Syria, and Libya these are countries which America has been after for years, and the uprisings provide a convenient pretext for intervention. This has happened in the case of Libya, and Qaddafi has proven surprisingly resilient in leading Libya’s military in protecting the country, and this could happen in Syria. With Saudi Arabia and Algeria full scale riots have yet to destabilize those countries, yet if they were to break out they have the military force to crush them. In the case of Yemen and Bahrain the people have legitimate grievances with their government, yet no clear plan has been made to redress the people’s grievances. So the question remains, what is the purpose for the riots?
As has been stated above the goal is not to attack israel, for if this were the case the current situation in Libya would not have occurred. What we have instead is fodder for american/foreign intervention. One thing people overlook is that many nato countries, like those participating in the attack on Libya, are undergoing major military restructuring, that includes acquiring more modern weapons, and any country in such a situation will soon find some excuse to go to war to use those new weapons. Most interestingly enough many of the same groups that put on the anti-war demos during the bush administration while receiving government funding and support are speaking out in support of the rioters in those muslim countries, helping to paralyze the anti-war movement in america. This is even more strange as these same groups until 2011 had nothing but praise for Qaddafi and Assad. Clearly those who fund them want them to focus their energies elsewhere.
Lest one think that the Arab/Muslim situation is unique and question the motives of the western military/industrial complex consider the following. The first is that the embargo of all goods of Iranian origin from entering america is being enforced more vigorously that the entry of Hispanics illegally through the Mexican border. The second is that after the reported killing of Osama bin Laden the american/nato military expedition has made no plans to leave Afghanistan, Pakistan, or Central Asia. Clearly these acts show that the American/nato forces are not focused on peace, they are focused on conquest, and are behaving in a desperate manner.

Zendran NoRuz trouble from customs

2011-05-13T09:44:00.001-07:00

Back in March a 1 Pahlavi Gold coin I ordered as a NoRuz gift was seized by customs as a suspicious item. In April I was informed by homeland security that customs would be holding the coin as the american government has put an embargo on all items of Iranian origin from entering america. I was informed the resaon for this blanket ban is to get Iran to cease it’s nuclear program. Yesterday I recieved the full refund of my order, as the package was insured.
This act by the american government is a clear act of discrimination. They forget that all past sanctions against Iran since 9/11 have failed and the at the “war on terror” is an excuse to go after Iranians and others from Western/Central Asia in the same way the “cold war” was an excuse to go after people of Slavic origin, organized crime busts are used to go after Italians, and drug busts are used to target Black Africans and Latinos.
Below is the e-mail conversations I had with the company I ordered that coin from.

Re: Pahlavi coin order trouble
From:”J&M Coin & Jewellery Ltd.” [Add]
To:”Peter Khan Zendran”
Date:Tue, 15 Mar 2011 3:07 PM (2 months ago)
Show originalShow full header> When I spoke to one of your employees I was informed that my order which
> was being detained by the us department of homeland security’s customs
> and border agency on the order of agent stan balingit.

Dear Peter:

Confirming that US Customs did seize this item and they are currently
investigating. We are certain the item is not a counterfeit and will let
you know as soon as any details become available.

Thanks for dealing with J&M.

- Gary, Shipping

–
J&M Coin & Jewellery Ltd.
Winner of the Consumers Choice Award for ‘best local
jeweller’ in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009

127 E. Broadway, Vancouver, BC, Canada V5T 1W1
Phone: (604) 876-7181 Fax: (604) 876-1518
Toll-Free Ordering: 1-888-244-9999
e-mail: jandm@jandm.com http://www.jandm.com
Bullion Website at http://www.bullioncoinsandbars.com

Re: Pahlavi coin order trouble
From:”J&M Coin & Jewellery Ltd.” [Add]
To:”Peter Khan Zendran”
Date:Tue, 15 Mar 2011 3:30 PM (2 months ago)
Show originalShow full header> have they done this to other orders as well recently?

Hi Peter:

No. This is a first time for us and we’ve been in the business since 1967.

Thanks for dealing with J&M.

- Gary

–
J&M Coin & Jewellery Ltd.
Winner of the Consumers Choice Award for ‘best local
jeweller’ in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009

127 E. Broadway, Vancouver, BC, Canada V5T 1W1
Phone: (604) 876-7181 Fax: (604) 876-1518
Toll-Free Ordering: 1-888-244-9999
e-mail: jandm@jandm.com http://www.jandm.com
Bullion Website at http://www.bullioncoinsandbars.com

Re: Pahlavi coin order trouble
From:”J&M Coin & Jewellery Ltd.” [Add]
To:”Peter Khan Zendran”
Date:Tue, 26 Apr 2011 4:29 PM (2 weeks 1 day ago)
Show originalShow full headerDear Peter:

Customs has confirmed that they have seized the item based on the
country of origin (Iran). They will be sending us an official letter to
confirm this but that is the end of our involvement in this matter.

You can now either contact US Customs immediately to protest or you can
wait until we receive the letter and we can send you a copy of it. As
Canadians we have no authority in the matter.

Thanks for dealing with J&M.

- Gary

–
J&M Coin & Jewellery Ltd.
Winner of the Consumers Choice Award for ‘best local
jeweller’ in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009

127 E. Broadway, Vancouver, BC, Canada V5T 1W1
Phone: (604) 876-7181 Fax: (604) 876-1518
Toll-Free Ordering: 1-888-244-9999
e-mail: jandm@jandm.com http://www.jandm.com
Bullion Website at http://www.bullioncoinsandbars.com

Re: Pahlavi coin order trouble
From:”J&M Coin & Jewellery Ltd.” [Add]
To:”Peter Khan Zendran”
Date:Thu, 5 May 2011 2:16 PM (6 days 3 hours ago)
Show originalShow full headerPeter:

I checked with our bookkeeper and was informed that a refund cheque has
been prepared and sent to you.

The cheque number is 5689, issued and mailed April 29, 2011.

Thank you.

- Hemant

–
J&M Coin & Jewellery Ltd.
Winner of the Consumers Choice Award for ‘best local
jeweller’ in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009

127 E. Broadway, Vancouver, BC, Canada V5T 1W1
Phone: (604) 876-7181 Fax: (604) 876-1518
Toll-Free Ordering: 1-888-244-9999
e-mail: jandm@jandm.com http://www.jandm.com
Bullion Website at http://www.bullioncoinsandbars.com

Crashers for british royal wedding crashed

2011-05-06T10:37:00.000-07:00

As much as I hate most of the windsors, some of these protesters, namely
those anarchist international provaceturs, brought this on themselves.
If they hadn't gone soft taking government grants to put on pickets, and
ignored hardcore training for clashes with the pigs like was done back
in the 90's and like other groups around the World do, they would have
got results. People in the english speaking World need to get their act
together fast or they will have nobody to blame but themselves for
living in a dystopia.
Peter Z

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/royal-wedding/8469617/Royal-wedding-Anarchists-planning-to-mar-Prince-William-and-Kate-Middletons-happy-day.html
Royal wedding: Anarchists planning to mar Prince William and Kate
Middleton's happy day
Anarchists are planning to hijack peaceful protests against the royal
wedding to launch violent attacks in central London.
Activists start a fire at Oxford Circus during a Trade Union Congress
(TUC) march in London on March 26, 2011
Activists start a fire at Oxford Circus during a Trade Union Congress
(TUC) march in London on March 26, 2011 Photo: AFP
Patrick Sawer
By Patrick Sawer 9:00PM BST 23 Apr 2011

221 Comments

Police fear a repeat of the chaotic scenes witnessed during the 400,000
strong trade union march against spending cuts last month, when small
groups of masked militants attacked shops and banks in London's busiest
shopping streets.

Individuals linked with UK Uncut – the protest group which carried out
the invasion and occupation of Fortnum & Masons in Piccadilly, during
the TUC march – are planning a headline-grabbing protest against the
marriage of Prince William and Kate Middleton under the slogan "Reclaim
the Royal Wedding".

They want hundreds of disgruntled opponents of the monarchy to mingle
with the crowds outside Westminster Abbey and in Parliament Square.

As the ceremony reaches its climax inside the abbey they plan to unveil
banners and placards and shout anti-royal slogans.

The protesters, who were banned by police from staging an official
protest outside Westminster Abbey, will gather in Trafalgar Square
before joining the throngs heading for the celebrations.
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Once there they plan to regroup and begin their protest.

In a carefully worded message on Facebook, Reclaim the Royal Wedding's
organisers said: "We cannot BE SEEN to condone any individuals or groups
who do protest outside Westminster Abbey because protesting in the
designated area is unlawful.

"Nor can we BE SEEN to condone the use of extremely effective megaphones
(which are disallowed), beautifully painted placards, remarkable banners
or other interesting devices of protest outside the Abbey or elsewhere
on the route.

"Also, we cannot BE SEEN to condone any other actions individuals or
groups might choose to undertake that would disrupt this occasion and
draw attention to other issues – such as the crippling cuts to public
services.

"Evidently, if they did occur, these sorts of actions, interruptions,
disruptions and images would be extremely embarrassing for the
Government and would generate massive worldwide media attention,
especially outside Westminster Abbey.

"It would be a remarkable spectacle!"

In on open invitation the statement adds: "However, if you would like to
meet up before heading off to watch the wedding, we will be casually
meeting at Trafalgar Square - around Nelson's column - between 9.30 and
10.30 am."

John Shepherd, Susan Petal and Ingrid Muller are three of the activists
behind the protest, which they say will attract hundreds of groups and
individuals.

Mr Shepherd, who studied war and peace studies at Keele University and
political science at University College London is a supporter of the
republican pressure group Republic, as well as UK Uncut.

"The monarchy for centuries has stood as a beacon of the status quo, at
the apex of our society it represents and perpetuates the sheer
inequality and wealth disparity in British society, and this wedding
reinforces that view," he said.

"We are not 'all in this together' and we want to make our voices heard,
peacefully."

However details of the event have been posted by Ms Petal and other
supporters on Facebook pages set up by adherents of the anarchist black
bloc, which revels in the tactics of violent confrontation with police
and was at the forefront of disturbances on the day of the TUC protest,
on March 26.

Writing on one of the largest black bloc Facebook pages Ms Petal said:
"Please support this event and invite your friends!"

Among the 1,500 people who have indicated they will attend the Reclaim
the Royal Wedding protest are trade unionists, left-wing activists and
environmentalists, as well as hundreds of students from colleges and
universities around the country.

But they also include numerous self-proclaimed anarchists and animal
rights militants.

While Scotland Yard is confident it can prevent any outbreaks of
disorder along the route of the procession, it fears anarchists will
cause trouble at other locations.

Targets could include shops with the royal warrant, tourist landmarks
and banks.

Several militants and anarchist groups have been plotting to disrupt the
wedding celebrations.

Some have boasted of preparing to come armed with masonry hammers to
break shop windows, catapults for firing ball-bearings at police horses
and smoke bombs.

One group, called Better Dead Than Wed, published details of the route
the royal couple will take to and from Westminster Abbey on the UK
Indymedia website, with a poster showing hangman's nooses round the
necks of William and Miss Middleton, under the slogan Time to Tie the
Knot.

The posting included the veiled threat: "I'm sure the activist community
will want to make sure the happy couple remember their special day."

Another group, The Government of the Dead, is to stage a 'zombie wedding
party' in Soho Square, before parading what they claim is a working
guillotine to Westminster where they intend to barrack and jeer the
royal procession.

The group is headed by Professor Chris Knight, a Marxist anthropologist
who was sacked by the University of East London over statements he made
about the use of violence against wealthy bankers.

Queer Resistance, a group of gay, lesbian and transsexual activists, are
planning to stage a flash mob near the route of the wedding in order to
mock the royal couple, in protest against cuts in spending on HIV care
and anti-homophobic bullying work in schools.

Shops and businesses along Oxford St, Regent St and Piccadilly fear they
will again be targeted by masked anarchists who last month smashed
windows, threw paint bombs and attempted to occupy banks and shops such
as Boots, Topshop and Vodafone.

More than 150 businesses were briefed by senior officers last Wednesday
about the security measures Scotland Yard plans to implement. They were
also advised on what security measures they can adopt to protect
themselves.

Police have banned any protests within the one mile security "footprint
of the wedding" around Buckingham Palace, the Mall, Whitehall,
Westminster Abbey and the Palace of Westminster.

A group of Muslim extremists who planned to burn the union flag outside
the Abbey have already been told they will be barred from gathering, as
will members of the far-right English Defence League who had intended to
hold a counter-demonstration.

Senior officers said that 60 anarchists arrested during the TUC march
have bail conditions that prevent them entering central London over the
wedding period and police spotters will keep a watch for activists who
have committed public order offences at demonstrations and may be
attempting to infiltrate the area.

A police source said: "The same faces often appear at different protests
and we will try and take a pre-emptive strike against them."

Police are receiving daily intelligence reports on plans to disrupt the
wedding from both covert and open sources, such as social networking
sites.

But they admit the black bloc tactic of militants turning up in small
groups to form a larger wedge of protesters is difficult for them to
anticipate.

Scotland Yard will have around 5,000 officers on duty, with 1,000 of
them operating as mobile teams to handle disturbances away from the main
event.

Assistant Commissioner Lynne Owens, head of central operations at
Scotland Yard, said: "If anyone comes to London on the day of the royal
wedding intending to commit criminal acts we will act quickly, robustly
and decisively."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13240683
BBC News UK
29 April 2011 Last updated at 18:42 ET
Royal wedding: Police arrest 55 around security zone

Scotland Yard has hailed the security operation surrounding the royal
wedding as an "amazing success" despite 55 arrests around its security
zone.

About half the arrests were for breach of the peace and a man was held
for an alleged sex assault on a girl, aged 14.

Ten people carrying climbing gear and anti-monarchy placards were
arrested near Charing Cross.

Other arrests were for drunk and disorderly, criminal damage, theft and
over a suspected environmental protest.

Three people were held in the Covent Garden area over the alleged
demonstration, police said.

Anti-terror powers were used to arrest one man who was seen taking
suspicious photographs of transport hubs and security personnel in the
Charing Cross area.

Three others were held over drug offences and four for allegedly
carrying an offensive weapon.

Met Police Assistant Commissioner Lynne Owens said the success of the
overall policing operation showed that the force could handle security
for next year's Olympic Games.

She said her 5,000 officers should be "immensely proud" of their role in
the "happy and safe" event.

She admitted to pre-event "nerves" and defended the decision to carry
out a string of pre-event raids as "entirely justified".
Police bans

An estimated one million people had gathered along the wedding route.

The police said that number was more than expected.

Officers questioned masked anti-monarchy protesters in Soho Square as a
huge security operation took place around Buckingham Palace, Westminster
Abbey and The Mall.

Thousands of police officers created a "ring of steel" around the
venues. Snipers took to rooftops and undercover officers mingled among
the crowds

More than 90 people were banned from the area and up to 80 VIPs were
granted personal protection.

Over the past few days police have arrested three people believed to be
planning to behead effigies at the wedding.

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Some Pakistani military news not being reported

2011-05-05T12:10:00.000-07:00

With all the fuss over bin Laden's killing in Pakistan near the Pakistani military academy people forget that this is only the latest in a series of incidents going back years. Below is a more recent example.
Currently there are Pakistani Naval personell on Mayport, FL as the us navy recently sold the ex-USS McInerny FFG-8 to Pakistan as the PNS Alamgir. What the Pakistani Military forgot is thaty the ex-FFG-8 is the second of the Oliver Hazard Perry class, a class notorious for structural and combat peoblems. The infamous USS Stark FFG-31 and USS Samuel B Roberts FFG-58 were of this class and were easily taken out. The australian navy is phasing out those FFG's of that clas it operates after the hmas adelaide was successfully detained by 5 Iranian Fath class Fast Attack Craft in December 2004. Spain is phasing out the 6 OHP FFG's it operates as well, as are Turkey and Taiwan, as Turkey is favoring the Meko design and Taiwan the LaFayette design. Only america, Egypt, and Bahrain continue to operate OHP FFG's.
How the Pakistani navy can make this screwup is beyond me, but it makes one wonder why they did it in the first place to endanger their troops like this.
Peter Khan Zendran

http://www.news4jax.com/news/26574162/detail.html
Frigate, Pier Damaged At Drydock

POSTED: Friday, January 21, 2011
UPDATED: 2:46 pm EST January 21, 2011
PNS Alamgir damaged in drydock
The PNS Alamgir and the drydock it was in were damaged while testing the ship's engines Friday morning.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- A Navy guided missile frigate that was sold to the Pakistani navy earlier this year was damaged on Friday morning, along with the pier of a Northside shipyard where the ship is undergoing repairs.

The USS McInerny was transferred in August and renamed the PNS Alamgir. It was at BAE Drydock -- formerly Atlantic Drydock -- in the 8500 block of Heckscher Drive for renovations before it was to steam for Pakistan next week.

The U.S. Coast Guard said the ship's engines were being tested when it lurched forward, slamming into the pier causing heavy damage to the pier and the bow of the ship.

There was no oil or fuel spill, but the hull was crumpled.

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More on bin Laden's death not being reported

2011-05-03T09:42:00.000-07:00

As some of you may know the media is reporting that the uss carl vinson
cvn-70 was the ship which disposed of Osama bin laden's body.
Recently I checked the website for the vinson and noticed the news
section has been down, along with other sections there
http://www.cvn70.navy.mil/
Nor is the crew reporting anything about their involvement in the bin
Laden affair on the ship's facebook page
http://www.facebook.com/USSVINSON
Clearly the navy is scared here. Even though the us navy is the largest
in the world many of it's ships are not as tough as they are reported to
be, this includes the vinson.
Peter Khan Zendran

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/uss-carl-vinson-osama-bin-ladens-burial-sea/story?id=13510831

USS Carl Vinson: Osama Bin Laden's Burial at Sea

Before Osama bin Laden's body was lowered to its
final resting place at sea, the last spot on earth to
host his remains was reportedly the deck of the
aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson.

When asked about the USS Carl Vinson's role in
burying bin Laden, a military official would not
confirm the ship's involvement. But Pentagon officials
previously told ABC News and other news outlets that
the 30-year-old naval vessel was indeed the ship
responsible for transporting bin Laden's body to its
burial, likely in the Indian Ocean.

In Islam, people are typically buried in the ground,
without a casket, before the next of five daily prayer
periods have taken place. The U.S. government
apparently decided it was risky for bin Laden to have
a known grave, lest it become a shrine to the world's
best-known terrorist.

Officials said that, in accordance with Muslim law, bin
Laden's burial at sea was conducted by a Muslim s
eaman, who recited the prayers and ensured that the
body was washed and wrapped appropriately in cloth.

But this task was hardly the Vinson's only high-
profile assignment. In the three decades since its
launch in 1980, the ship has earned the nickname
"America's favorite aircraft carrier." It has assisted with
key military and humanitarian operations around the
world.

The aircraft carrier, named for Democratic Rep. Carl
Vinson of Georgia (1883-1981), was first
commissioned on March 13, 1982. Vinson served
more than 50 years in the House, and during World
War II he became known as "the father of the two-
ocean navy."

USS Carl Vinson's Motto: 'Strength from the Sea'

After several sea trials, the ship took off from Norfolk,
Va., in 1983, for an eight-month world cruise, with a
crew of nearly 6,000 sailors, the ship's website says.

In the decades since its inaugural cruise, the ship has
continued to tour the world to support key military
campaigns. In the 1990s, it launched air strikes in
support of Operation Desert Fox and Operation

Southern Watch in Iraq. After the September 11
attacks, the USS Carl Vinson moved to the North
Arabian Sea, to launch the first strikes for Operation
Enduring Freedom.

In January 2010, the aircraft carrier was sent to Port-
au-Prince, Haiti, to assist disaster relief operations
after the devastating earthquake.

The ship also goes by the nickname the "Gold Eagle"
-- so called for the eagle prominently featured in its
seal. The eagle, which is meant to be emblematic of
the country, carries a banner displaying the Latin
phrase, "Vis Per Mare," which means "Strength from
the Sea" and is the ship's motto.

The USS Carl Vinson's Facebook page has nearly
28,000 "likes" but includes the warning "Loose Lips
Sink Ships!"

"ANY discussion or speculation of the ship's location
or anticipated inport dates before they're officially
released may result in revocation of access to this
page," the page's description says. "Remember, the
bad guys DO follow our Facebook page too."

Osama bin Laden reported killed in Pakistan

2011-05-02T09:49:00.001-07:00

In reading the reports of bin laden's death we must ask ourselves the
real questions. That is
1. What has been done to confirm this is really bin Laden and not some
double like Saddam Hussein was in 2003.
2. Why did this occur now, at this location which has been of interest
since 2005? Notice this occured when there is a changeup in the
government involving thye defense dpt and cia leadership.
3. Will american/nato forces pull out of Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq,
Central Asia, the Caucasus and the Gulf, as the whole purpose of the
american military presence initally was to get bin Laden?
4. Will the police state apparatus in america be dismantled? For the
past decade the "war on terror" has been used to target Muslims, Arabs,
Afghans, Iranians, Turanians, and the people of that region the same way
the cold war was used to target Russians, leftists, and people of Slavic
origin?
Peter Khan Zendran

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2011/05/2011522132275789.html
Americas

Osama bin Laden killed in Pakistan

US president confirms al-Qaeda leader's death, saying he has been killed
in firefight following US raid in Abbottabad.
Last Modified: 02 May 2011 09:21
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Osama bin Laden, the leader of al-Qaeda, is dead.

US president Barack Obama said bin Laden, the most-wanted fugitive on
the US list, had been killed on Sunday in a US operation in the
Pakistani city of Abbottabad, about 61km north of Islamabad.

"Tonight, I can report to the people of the United States and the world,
the United States had carried an operation that has killed Osama bin
Laden, a terrorist responsible for killing thousands of innocent
people," Obama said in a statement.

"Today, at my direction, the United States carried out that operation...
they killed Osama bin Laden and took custody of his body.

"The death of bin Laden marks the most significant achievement to date
against al-Qaeda.

"We must also reaffirm that United states is not and will never be at
war against Islam. Bin Laden was not a Muslim leader, in fact, he
slaughtered many Muslims," Obama said.

Four people, including one of bin Laden's sons, were also killed in the
operation.

According to New York Times, bin Laden's body was taken to Afghanistan
and later buried at sea.

Hours after Obama made the announcement, a top al-Qaeda ideologue
promised revenge for bin Laden's death. The commentator, going by the
online name Assad al-Jihad2 posted on websites a long eulogy for the
al-Qaeda leader and promised to "avenge the killing of the Sheik of
Islam".

The Pakistani Taliban also threatened attacks against government
leaders, including President Asif Ali Zardari, the Pakistan army and the
United States.

"Now Pakistani rulers, President Zardari and the army will be our first
targets. America will be our second target," Ehsanullah Ehsan, a
spokesman for Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), or Taliban Movement of
Pakistan, told Reuters by telephone from an undisclosed location.

US celebrations

Barack Obama called bin Laden's death the 'most significant achievement'
against al-Qaeda [EPA]
But as the news of bin Laden's death spread, crowds gathered outside the
White House in Washington DC to celebrate.

Former US president George Bush called his death a "momentous
achievement".

"The fight against terror goes on, but tonight America has sent an
unmistakable message: No matter how long it takes, justice will be
done," Bush said in a statement.

According to Al Jazeeera's Rosalind Jordan in Washington, the operation
had been in the making for the last nine or 10 months.

"The fact that it happened inside Pakistan, there have been suggestions
that Pakistani intelligence may have been protecting them," she said.

Patty Culhane, another Al Jazeera correspondent, said the US authorities
got intelligence last September and were able to track bin Laden down
through his couriers. They followed them to his compound which was
reported to be worth over a million dollars.

Reporting from Pakistan, Al Jazeera's Kamal Hyder said the development
had caught a lot of people by surprise .

"He was considered by many as a hero, but not to the extent that people
would come out on the streets. The reaction so far not likely to be
strong on the streets, perhaps a protest here or there by the religious
parties," he said.

'Symbolic victory'

Qais Azimy, Al Jazeera's correspondent in Kabul, said Afghan officials
described bin Laden's killing as a "symbolic victory", since he was no
longer directly connected to the group's field operations.

"This organisation (Al Qaeda) is more than Bin Laden, it may be
symbolised by Bin Laden, but it definitely is more than Bin Laden"

Mark Kimmit, US military analyst

Mark Kimmit, a US military analyst, said bin Laden's death "was not the
end of terrorism, but an end of a chapter."

"Capturing or killing bin Laden has more iconic value. It will have
symbolic value, because it has been a number of years since bin Laden
has exercised day to day control over operations. We still have an
al-Qaeda threat out there and that will be there for a number of years.

"This organisation (al-Qaeda) is more than bin Laden, it may be
symbolised by bin Laden, but it definitely is more than bin Laden," he
said.

It is, however, a major accomplishment for Obama and his national
security team. Obama's predecessor, George Bush, had repeatedly vowed to
bring to justice the mastermind of the September 11, 2001, attacks on
New York and Washington, but never did before leaving office in early
2009.

He had been the subject of a search since he eluded US soldiers and
Afghan militia forces in a large-scale assault on the Tora Bora
mountains in 2001. The trail quickly went cold after he disappeared and
many intelligence officials believed he had been hiding in Pakistan.

While in hiding, bin Laden had taunted the West and advocated his views
in videotapes spirited from his hideaway.

Besides September 11, Washington has also linked bin Laden to a string
of attacks - including the 1998 bombings of American embassies in Kenya
and Tanzania and the 2000 bombing of the warship USS Cole in Yemen.

Source: Al Jazeera and agencies

Zendran inheritance situation gets more coverage

2011-04-15T10:04:00.000-07:00

Recently the Westerly Sun caught john warren, who was president of washington trust, stalking me to an arts event where I have friends who regularly atend and exhibit their works. Below is the link to the pic the Sun took of me at that event
http://thewesterlysun.mycapture.com/mycapture/enlarge.asp?image=35066178&event=1208240&CategoryID=30379
Below is the pic the took of john warren at the same event
http://thewesterlysun.mycapture.com/mycapture/enlarge.asp?image=35066296&event=1208240&CategoryID=30379
All I can say to washington trust is BUSTED.
This also shows that people and businesses down there are getting more gutsy to call out crooks like washington trust.
Peter Z

Der hundenkanzellor rips off Zendran at shit u

2011-04-15T10:01:00.000-07:00

Recently shit u has once again hosted three former world leaders, dago dog prodi, el spicko escobar, and der huundenkanzellor gusenbauer. While the first two spewed their typical leftist lunatic diatrabe der hundenkanzellor’s words borrowed much from my own material, which is unsuprising as he has followed me on myspace and continues to follow my blogs. Notice his comments on social services and financial regulation, hardly the words one expects from a typical leftist.

Former Heads of State Discuss 'the Next Left' in the Global Economy
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April 14, 2011

Three former leaders of Italy, Austria, and Chile, who have all led progressive parties and movements in their long public careers, discussed the future of the “Next Left” at the Watson Institute this week.

Former Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi was joined on Tuesday’s public panel by former president of Chile, Ricardo Lagos, and ex-chancellor of Austria, Alfred Gusenbauer. All three are currently visiting professors at Brown.

The policymakers shared their views on the economic and political challenges faced by the next generation of the left – focusing on the global conceptions of inequality, income re-distribution, and taxation, as well as on the shifting axes of world power and the implications of the most recent global financial crisis.

In his remarks to open the panel, Prodi highlighted, among other things, the political challenges of using taxation as an instrument for income distribution, a sentiment that was later echoed by Gusenbauer.

“I paid the price when I became severe with taxes,” said Prodi, describing events that led to a Senate vote of no confidence against him and, consequently, his resignation in January 2008.

Lagos emphasized the need to place more importance on equality, noting that in the United States, for instance, the wealthiest one percent of the population earns about 25 percent of total income.

Furthermore, inequality is a fundamental determinant of social outcomes and health, according to Lagos, who cited findings from the recent book Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett.

According to the Lagos, the book’s findings show that that there is no rise in life expectancy and level of happiness above a threshold level of income per capita (roughly $20,000); furthermore, the book also established a strong correlation between high levels of inequality and social/health challenges of societal mobility, life expectancy, education, crime, and imprisonment.

In Latin America, according to Lagos, levels of per-capita income are rising though the region has yet to reach the “mythical” $20,000 threshold. “We’ve done it through mere fiscal expenditures,” he said, “but we’re still unable to touch taxes.”

Lagos also emphasized the importance of regulation and the critical role that international organizations like the World Bank have to play in restoring global financial health; for Latin America, the former Chilean president said it is important for countries to “speak with one voice.

“For the first time, we had a global financial crisis which Latin America had nothing to do with,” he said.

Gusenbauer criticized the “populist extreme right,” among other influences, for causing a global political crisis; such a crisis, Gusenbauer said, has undermined the “notion of nation” in different ways — including the transfer of power away from the nation-state because of European Union integration, and in Europe, the dilution caused by immigration.

Gusenbauer also suggested that taxpayers are bearing the cost of bailing out banks and other financial institutions during the crisis, while at the same time facing government austerity policies that reduce their public services.

“There is enormous expropriation of ordinary people,” he said, “because the banks were able to convince governments to bail them out.” He also added that allowing self-regulation in the financial sector was pointless and ineffective.

“Self-regulation is just a sophisticated way of saying ‘no regulation.’ It’s like asking a dog to be a guard over sausage,” Gusenbauer said.

Gusenbauer concluded by emphasizing that in an era of rising financial capitalism, the “Next Left” has to clearly decide which agenda it should pursue: “Either an agenda that serves Wall Street or one that serves Main Street.”

This week’s panel was the most recent in a series of Next Left events focusing on the future of progressive policy at the Watson Institute. Last October, Lagos and Gusenbauer spoke about “The Next Left: Globalized Social Democracy in the North and South.” In 2009, the series looked at the implications of Barrack Obama’s presidency for progressive policy.

By Watson Institute Student Rapporteur Dominic Mhiripiri ‘12

My response to reza pahlavi's recent q&a

2011-04-10T17:47:00.000-07:00

Recently reza pahlavi has made some statements in his Q&A which he published March 31 2011 which are nonsensical and show his true, scatterbrianed nature. For instance when asked about Ali-Reza’s fueral he dodges the issue asked by Seyed, namely why did he only attend a few memorials and not go out and meet more people, including those who knew Ali-Reza’s death was murder and not suicide.
Just as scatterbrianed is his response to Negin on the riots in North Africa, where reza pahlavi ignores that what happened in Egypt and Libya was the work of provaceturs, saying nothing for Mubarak, who did a lot for Iran and who was a close friend of the Pahlavis. That he could forget this shows he is either crazy or deliberatly insulting those who supported him and those close to him for years. Or he could be so caught up in his democracy trip, which is apparent in his answers about the green movement.
Notice in his responses he focuses too much on secular government and democracy, despite the fact that those calling for reform in that manner have been failures in government and in their lives, ie there is nobody to implement a democratic reform in Iran left. Notice he even acknoweledges that mousavi and karroubi are no longer an efective force in Iranian affairs, showing that he wants to take control of the “green movement” they helped spark. Now who will he copy next, for as usual reza pahlavi seems content to copy others rather than take decisive action himself.

Icke gets it wrong on Iran and color revolutions

2011-04-05T15:25:00.000-07:00

Yesterday I finally found a copy of Icke’s book human race get off your knees the lion sleeps no more in an independent bookstore in cambridge. When I read pages 163-168 I noticed he had his facts wrong about the political upheavals in Iran since 1953, Ukraine’s orange revolution, and the cia backed uprising in Georgia that ousted Shevardnadze. Not only did he as usual publish the wrong facts about what happened with Mossadeq, but even more idiotic ignored news reports of dick holbrooke’s presence in Iran before the 2009 elections, or that holbrooke got his ideas for what to do in Iran from my series “Victimization of the Farsi, Arab, Turanian, and Central and Western Asian Peoples” which was a three article sereis I published with Icke from 2001-2003 and which I made a book in 2004. Icke even ignored that mousavi was manouvered into being khomeini’s prime minister by the cia, comitted some of the worst atrocities Iran experienced, and was not honest about the rigging in the 2009 elections, that he involved in it very much so. He also ignored the fact that Yuschenko was poisoned, and that was the cause of the riots that put him into power as part of the orange revolution. While Icke was right about the Georgian elections being rigged against Shevardnadze he ignored the reason behind it, so that america could station troops there. Icke needs to do his homework better.

More nwo connections to mideast upheavals

2011-03-27T16:17:00.001-07:00

Recently I was checking for news from the watson institute when I
stumbled across this event.
http://www.watsoninstitute.org/news_detail.cfm?id=1488
Not only did brown lie as this event was not open to the public but
there were no adds for this event in advance. I did some digging on the
panelists and found there is plenty of dirt on both of them.
In checking shiva balaghi I found she had played a part in inciting the
riots in tahrir square and openly bragged about it on open source radio.
http://www.radioopensource.org/shiva-balaghi-egypt-in-the-spotlight-the-us-on-the-spot/
Additionally, shie is involved with the mer project.
http://www.merip.org/author/shiva-balaghi
Check mer and you will see it is run by chris toensig. Back in 2006
when at the watson institute I confronted toensig about how one of his
authors used info from an article I published on Icke's site in 2003
about katsav and mofaz's Iranian connections and I did not recieve
proper credit for it. The oven stuffer head of the middle east studies
dpt, elliott colla, decided to shoot his mouth off at me, even though
chris admitted I was in the right and the article did not properly quote
it's source, and as a result got in trouble for it.
I also checked on hussein banai and found his website here.
http://www.hussbanai.net/
Not only was he at brown at the same time I was involved with the watson
institute he only got his teaching job once I was no longer at brown.
Not to mention this little hajji baba was one of the ones who refused to
come to my support at all during my legal disputes with brown.
Over all, these are people who are selling out their heritage and have
nobody to blame for their problems but themselves.
Peter Khan Zendran

Royal pains for the Libyan, Iranian, and other Arab riots

2011-03-22T09:17:00.000-07:00

With all the focus on the conflict in the Muslim World people are forgetting some of the key players. In regards to the Libyan situation one key player who has been making a lot of noise is Prince Muhammad, the head of the Senussi dynasty which Qaddafi overthrew in 1969. While Prince Muhammad has been active in attending anti-Qaddafi events in the uk where he lives he has made no effort to return to Libya, in particular to Benghazi where the Senussis are originally from and where his presence could change the situation dramatically.
One other story not being reported is the fact that many of the anti-Qaddafi forces have been attacking ethnic minorities and reporting them as attacks against Qaddafi's forces, I must thank Workers World for bringing this to light where others ignore it, as for once we are in agreement. Interestingly enough they fail to mention that King Abdullah II of Jordan used similar tactics that Qaddafi used initially, that is meeting with political opponents and isolating those inciting riots, yet this is ignored as well.
Speaking of old enemies of mine reza pahlavi has been issuing an open call to attack Iran on his facebok page, but has been too cowardly to put it anywhere else on his site, I have included it here along with other news stories linked here. Apparently with mousavi and karroubi wiped out of action reza pahlavi is showing his true colors and trying to seize control of a faltering movement.
This is just the latest in his bizarre acts. Recently he pulled the facebook page created in memory of Prince Ali-Reza, has been silent about the death of Princess Azadeh, and has not criticized prince william and kate for not rescheduling their wedding, which is occuring on what would have been Prince Ali-Reza's 45th birthday. Right now reza pahlavi has been so obsessed with creating riots that he has forgot how to govern.
Interestingly enough when meeting with hayal alavi earlier this month she admitted that the american government has been behind the riots in Libya, Egypt, and Iran's green movement from the getgo, but the government will not admit it openly.
Speaking of military matters the Algerians have been hitting my Naval Images pages more often. This may seem trivial, but when one considers that Algeria has a sizeable Navy to go with it's military, and that mass riots could erupt there any day like they did in Libya, Egypt, and Yemen one must consider that any potential rioters would want to know what they're up against.
If one doubts this check the links and text below.

http://english.aljazeera.net/video/africa/2011/02/201122416028655869.html
Libya's 'crown prince' makes appeal
Muhammad al-Senussi calls for the international community to help remove Muammar Gaddafi from power.
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Muhammad al-Senussi, who would be Libya’s crown prince if the country still had a monarchy, has spoken out about the ongoing violence in the country from London.

Libya was a monarchy until Muammar Gaddafi took power in a military coup in 1969 and the exiled King Idris has long since died.

In this interview with Al Jazeera's Barnaby Phillips, al-Senussi asks the international community to help remove Gaddafi from power and stop the ongoing "massacre".

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-02-22/libya-s-crown-prince-says-protesters-will-defy-brutal-forces-.html
Libya’s Crown Prince Says Protesters Will Defy ‘Brutal Forces’
By Vivian Salama - Feb 22, 2011

Muhammad bin Sayyid Hassan as- Senussi, who would be Libya’s crown prince if the country still had a monarchy, said the people who were “killed by the brutal forces” of President Muammar Qaddafi are “heroes” and that their struggle will soon be victorious.

Qadaffi’s “fight to stay in power will not last long, because of the desire for freedom by the Libyan people,” Senussi, whose great-uncle King Idris was overthrown by Qaddafi in 1969, said in an e-mailed statement from London today. He called upon the international community “to halt all support for the dictator with immediate effect.”

Qaddafi’s crackdown on a week-long uprising, inspired by protests that overthrew the leaders of Tunisia and Egypt, has left more than 200 dead as regime supporters fired on demonstrators in Tripoli, according to Human Rights Watch. Libya’s royal family, which was for a period held under house arrest by Qaddafi, emigrated to the U.K. in 1988, according to the statement.

“I send my condolences for the heroes who have laid down their lives, killed by the brutal forces of Qaddafi,” the 48- year-old Senussi said. “The Libyan people have now chosen to challenge this regime peacefully until it is gone from Libya, and the people will not return to their homes until justice is delivered.”

To contact the reporter on this story: Vivian Salama in Cairo at vsalama@bloomberg.net

To contact the editor responsible for this story: Andrew J. Barden at barden@bloomberg.net

http://www.workers.org/2011/editorials/demonizing_gadhafi_0310/
Behind the demonizing of Gadhafi
Published Mar 2, 2011 4:50 PM

Africa continues to be the most underdeveloped continent, despite having the world’s most abundant mineral wealth.

The United States in 1847 created Liberia as a place to send freed African-American slaves. Eventually it became the biggest rubber plantation in the world. In the late 19th century, most of the rest of Africa was carved up by the European colonial powers, including Germany, Britian, Portugal, Spain, Italy, France and Belgium. By the time of World War I, Africa was nothing more than a gigantic plantation, with hundreds of millions of African peoples made into virtual slaves and their resources ripped off to help enrich European and U.S. capitalists.

After World War II, anti-colonial struggles spread like wildfire throughout Africa, bringing forth dynamic African leaders at the head of campaigns for independence and sovereignty from their former colonial oppressors. These heroic leaders included Patrice Lumumba, Amilcar Cabral, Samora Machel and Kwame Nkrumah.

Libya had been an Italian colony until Italy’s defeat in World War II. After the war, the U.S. and Britain set up a monarchy in Libya under King Idris I. Moammar al-Gadhafi was a military officer when he led a coup in 1969 against the monarchy. This led to the nationalization of Libya’s oil and social gains for the Libyan people.

In recent years, however, U.S. sanctions and military aggression against the Gadhafi regime led the government to make concessions and agree to austerity measures demanded by imperialist banks, all of which fueled unrest in the population.

On top of this growing imperialist intervention and pressure, the capitalist media are carrying out a vicious, vindictive campaign against Gadhafi, characterizing him in demonizing, racist terms like “mad dog.” Such terms are never used to describe former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak or other U.S. puppets in the Arab world, from Saudi Arabia to Jordan to Bahrain.

The U.S. has imposed sanctions on President Gadhafi and his family’s bank accounts; by contrast, the U.S. did not impose similar sanctions on Mubarak and his reported $70 billion in bank accounts. While President Barack Obama has publicly called for Gadhafi to step down from office, he treated Mubarak with kid gloves before the resolve of the Egyptian masses forced Mubarak to leave office.

The racist, hostile treatment of Gadhafi is not an isolated example. Another African leader who has been demonized in a comparable manner is Robert Mugabe, president of Zimbabwe. Unlike Gadhafi, Mugabe has been the leader of a national liberation movement, ZANU-PF. Mugabe forced Britain, the colonial oppressor, to the bargaining table in 1979 to work out an agreement in which Britain would subsidize the giving back to African war veterans of millions of acres of land stolen by white farmers. But Britain didn’t live up to the agreement. When Mugabe kept his promise to these freedom fighters by seizing the land, the U.S. and British governments in 2000 imposed genocidal sanctions on the Zimbabwean economy and also sought to isolate Mugabe with a prolonged character assassination. They called him a “tyrant” and “despot” and accused him of starving his people — when the real culprits were “structural adjustment” measures imposed by the IMF, along with periods of severe drought.

The Western imperialists have also made every effort to demonize President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan while funding secessionist movements in the oil-rich South and West of the country, imposing sanctions and bringing criminal charges against him in the International Criminal Court.

It is the right of any oppressed people to oppose and organize against their leaders if basic needs and rights are not being met. It is not the right of imperialist governments to manipulate, exploit and outright intervene in the internal affairs of another country while personally and politically demonizing their leaders. This is a violation of the basic right to self-determination.

There have been reports from news sources, including Al Jazeera, that low-waged migrants from Chad, Niger and other sub-Saharan African countries working in Libya have been physically attacked and accused of being “mercenaries” hired by Gadhafi. These attacks are being carried out by anti-Gadhafi forces who are receiving backing from the West.

The imperialists don’t care about any suffering of the Libyan people but will do what they deem in their interests to gain control of the oil that Libya possesses. The people of Libya don’t need imperialist intervention; they need and deserve reparations from imperialist banks and governments that have held back real economic development and political independence on a continent that has been severely abused for centuries, beginning with the devastating slave trade.

It is imperative that the progressive movement in the U.S. take up the clarion call of getting imperialism off the backs of the African people by intensifying the class struggle here. This is what real solidarity is all about.
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Did lincoln chafee rig the election?

2011-03-13T16:15:00.000-07:00

Last year I expounded on why Frank Caprio lost the RI Governorâ€™s race. In doing so I went over one key factor, election rigging. Of all his opponents one of them had the means to do this, lincoln chafee.

In looking at the election results two glaring inconsistencies stick out tho those who are in the state. The first is that Caprio lost his home precinct in providenceâ€™s federal hill neighborhood, the second was that lincoln chafee got a similar amount of votes in Newport as the democrat candidate for Congress in that district. While to an outsider this may seem normal all one has to do is talk to someone who lives and works in those neighborhoods it would sem ridiculous. In the first case Caprio is immensly popular in federal hill, and in newport the democratic candidate is immensly hated. If this is the case then it gives credence that rigging may have been involved.

While chafee may have been independent of political parties he was not independent of money, and during the time he was at the watson institute he came under the influence of the same people who funded acorn, and I should not have to mention the role acorn has played in rigging elections since 2008, mainly through voter intimidation and packing polls with their people to help ensure an outcome to their liking. Consider how the democratic candidate in the race mentioned above was also backed by acorn, and that chafee backed the 2008 presidential candidate who acorn backed.

He also dealt with people who had experience rigging elections, including former Brazilian president cardoso. While at watson cardoso published in his memoirs, and in them he mentions how once he was elected president two of the first things he did was to make voting mandatory for every citizen, and to make all voting electronic, thus making it easier to manipulate an election, as there are no paper ballots, or people to count them. In addition there were people from special interest gropus, be they zionist, latino, lgbt, Marxist, and various other government backed provaceturs who would all owe chafee favors were he to become governor.

One can argue whether or not chafee rigged the election, the bottom line is that he had the means to rig the election, and the people he knew who could rig the election had every reason to put him in for their own benefit. While lincoln chafee may have won the race, by hook or crook, and may be the new governor of RI he did so at great cost to himself and others. In his campaign he appealed to conservatives who were loyal to his family and to liberals and other radicals whoâ€™s views he claimed to share. In doing this he helped hasten the split in the democratic party caused by acorn. In the long term by becoming the governor as he did lincoln chafee has set things up for future conflict with the people of RI, be it political or physical.

From my Archiv, my July 2009 dialouge with reza pahlavi

2011-03-13T13:35:00.000-07:00

I pulled this out of my Archiv, this is the exact copy of a myspace conversation I had with reza pahlavi in July 2009 which I also e-mailed to reza and Shahbanou farah.

* From: "Peter Khan Zendran"
* To: fpahlavi@hotmail.com, rpsec@rezapahlavi.org
* Subject: My response to reza pahlavi staff on myspace
* Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 16:31:03 -0400

Man am Khan-e-Mazendaran and I do NOT appreciate ANYONE questioning my
heritage or my right to be involved in what is going on in Iran. Also I
have recieved a message that reza pahlavi has control over this page of
yours and that what is put up there is approved by him.
If there is any source of chaos in Iran is is thanks to actions by
people like reza pahlavi which I have detailed extensively. The "sea of
green" which has been quashed in Iran and is flickering out of Iran is
one which was created by cia mi6, cfr, and those who collaborate with
them and one that threatens Iran. The evil that is democracy was forced
on iran by inglisi e rusi to weaken Iran, and now amrika e zionism use
it to menace Iran further, and any Iranian who backs it is TRAITOR.
JAVID IRAN, MARG BAR AMRIKA.
Peter II, Khan-e-Mazendaran

----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: H.I.M. Prince Reza Pahlavi
To: Peter Khan
Date: Jul 26, 2009 10:39 AM
Subject: RE: Open letter to reza pahlavi

HEY,
please leave iran and iranian people alone in their own ways ,you and
people like you just do a chaos and discord with your false idea and
words in between .now iranaian people need more to alliance and our
Prince who was exiled out by these people with his family from iran in
very bad form now is strongly back to help for freedom in iran ,he had
enough activity befor this as well ,his life is now in his hand , time
was not ready befor but iranian people now are awake.
and he forgot all those bad treat that iranians did with his family in
1979 and he is backed for us as he was with us all times, we appreciate
it!
now all the good and bads in befor is passed away and we look to the
future...
i ask you now in this period of time to help this green freedom activity
of iranian people as you can IF YOU ARE INTERESTED or leave us alone
,thank you.

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My conversations with niac on Iran situation

2011-03-09T14:25:00.000-08:00

Below is an exact transcript of an online conversation I had with nobar elmi on the situation in Iran. What niac does NOT understand that calls for action in the name of upholding human rights is just another justification for invading Iran, and that the so-called human rights abuses are often unsubstantiated and for Iranians to handle, not for foreign powers to meddle in.

From:"Peter Khan Zendran"
To:"Nobar Elmi"
Date:Mon, 7 Mar 2011 4:44 PM (2 days ago)
Your response is delusional. The call for human rights is being promoted to justify invasion. Unless you're living under a rock you would have noticed the us military has increased it's presence in the Middle east after the unrest in Egypt, Bahrain and Libya in the name of human rights, and an attack is in all probability imminent.
Furthermore, I recieved your response about the"green movement" it is a pack of lies. Had you checked my blogs and links you would have seen that I and others have shown that the "green movement" is backed by the council on foreign relations and the cia.
If you are going to put out these lies and myth then do NOT send me your gohenahang.
Peter Khan Zendran

On Mon, 07 Mar 2011 16:31 -0500, "Nobar Elmi" wrote:
The case for war is already being pushed by the ‘pro-war’ elements on the Hill. (Believe me … they are very active and very loud.) We can either remain quiet and let them work their magic OR we can promote the alternative to war by emphasizing the importance of and need for human rights. We’re taking steps to ensure human rights is on the table, by doing things such as working to ensure there is an independent UN human rights monitor and encouraging the dialogue.

-Nobar

From: Peter Khan Zendran [mailto:peterkhanzendran@fastmail.fm]
Sent: Monday, March 07, 2011 4:21 PM
To: Nobar Elmi
Subject: RE: Invite: Answering the Iranian People's Call for Human Rights

What you are ignoring is that by slamming Iran for human rights violations you are making the inevatibility of war, be it with america, israel, or a civil war, inevitable. The niac principles on human rights are contradictory and lay the foundation for further conflict, not settlement. You can't have it both ways here.
Peter Khan Zendran

On Mon, 07 Mar 2011 16:15 -0500, "Nobar Elmi" wrote:
Hello Peter,

NIAC works very hard to emphasize that politicians cannot be in favor of human rights in Iran while simultaneously in favor of war or “crippling” sanctions. See this NIAC op-ed in the Huffington Post, for example: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/shawn-amoei/neocon-war-plans-undermin_b_679783.html

Our efforts, and specifically this conference, is intended to promote a discussion on the constructive steps that can be taken to promote human rights while expressing a strong opposition to war.

To pull directly from our website:
NIAC's Principles on Human Rights
•Human rights must be protected as part of any final negotiated settlement between the US and Iran. •Military confrontation with Iran must be prevented because war is the ultimate human rights disaster.•We must continue to draw attention to human rights violations in Iran and ensure the Iranian government is held accountable for its actions.It is up to the pro-peace community to emphasize that human rights and peace are reinforcing values. If our community doesn’t speak up, Members of Congress - and the community at large - will only hear from the other side.

I hope this helps clarify our position.

Regards,
Nobar

From: Peter Khan Zendran [mailto:peterkhanzendran@fastmail.fm]
Sent: Monday, March 07, 2011 3:56 PM
To: Nobar Elmi, NIAC
Subject: Re: Invite: Answering the Iranian People's Call for Human Rights

I am wondering if niac and the speakers are aware that they are using "human rights" in the same way "weapons of mass destruction" was used 8 years ago.
Peter Khan Zendran

On Mon, 07 Mar 2011 14:15 -0600, "Nobar Elmi, NIAC" wrote:

Dear Friend,
You are invited to NIAC’s March 15 Capitol Hill conference, Answering the Iranian People’s Call for Human Rights, featuring Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Suzanne Nossel, Swedish Ambassador Jonas Hafström, Congressional Progressive Caucus Chairman Keith Ellison (D-MN), and Nazila Fathi of the New York Times. The conference will examine a productive international approach necessary to address Iran's human rights crisis and provide needed space for Iran's democracy movement, and will highlight critical efforts underway to establish a UN human rights monitor for Iran this March.
I hope you can join us for this great event. Space is limited so please RSVP by Friday, March 11. We are also planning to webcast the event for those who are unable to attend in person.
Sincerely,
Nobar Elmi
Director of Community Outreach & Programming

Answering the Iranian People's Call for Human Rights
Tuesday, March 15th 2011
Dirksen Senate Building
Washington, DC 20005
8:30a.m. – 1:00p.m. EST
RSVP Here
With Special Addresses by:

Suzanne Nossel
U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Organizations

Ambassador Jonas Hafström
Ambassador of Sweden to the United States

Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN)
Original Sponsor of Stand with Iranian People Act

Nazila Fathi
Former New York Times correspondent based in Iran

A Panel Discussion:
The Human Rights Crisis and Iran’s Democracy Movement

Nader Hashemi
Co-Editor of The People Reloaded: The Green Movement and the Struggle for Iran's Future
Alireza Nader
International Policy Analyst,
Rand Corporation
Sarah Leah Whitson
Middle East and North Africa Director,
Human Rights Watch

Breakfast and Refreshments will be served.
RSVP ONLY by March 11th – RSVP Here
(http://www.niacouncil.org/hrconference)
Priority given to Members of Congress, Staff, & Accredited Media
For more information email lsamimi@niacouncil.org or call (202) 386-6325
Sponsored by Connect U.S. Fund, Ploughshares Fund, and Rockefeller Brothers Fund.
The views of the aforementioned individuals are their own and do not necessarily reflect those of the National Iranian American Council.

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Major blunder by niac on Iranian affairs

2011-03-05T10:32:00.000-08:00

Recently the national Iranian American council has chosen to go along with calling for human rights monitoring in Iran, using the detention of mousavi and karroubi as a justification. For an organization that claims to represent and protect Iranians this is hypocrisy for.
1. It gives a justification for military/subversive action against Iran, like the kind that was successful in Egypt, what is going in Libya, Bahrain, and Yemen, and what failed in Jordan.
2. Both mousavi and karroubi were responsible for the worst human rights violations that were committed when they served in the Iranian government under khomeini, and have connections with the cia, and were both to be put in power Iran would go the way of Iraq and Yugoslavia. What people also forget is that Malaysia has done the same thing with politicians who have threatened the safety of people, and risk condemnation to gain safety.
If anyone believes that niac is acting in the name of human rights then they believe in the tooth fairy.

More Iranian oddness, Princess Azadeh dies, pahlavis censor Ali-Reza's death

2011-02-28T12:24:00.000-08:00

Last night I was informed of the death of Princess Azadeh, the daughter
of Princess Ashraf, Mohammed Reza Shah's twin sister. Oddly enough
there has been next to no coverage of this in the media after Prince
Ali-Reza's murder.
Speaking of which I recently checked the site on facebook reza pahlavi
created for Ali-Reza, noticibly reza pahlavi will only show pictures of
the tributes left in front of Ali-Reza's apartment which were soon
vandalized, and not of the ceremony itself which was held on the boston
common. I wonder what the pahlavis are censoring?
Peter II, Khan-e-Mazendaran

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IRANDOKHT: Tribute to Princess Azadeh Shafigh Pahlavi (1951-2011)

by Darius Kadivar
26-Feb-2011

Princess Azadeh Shafigh, daughter of Princess Ashraf and her Egyptian
husband Ahmed Chafik Bey died on Wednesday February 23rd, 2011 in Paris
after a long battle against leukemia at age 60.

Below is the official announcement of the démise of the Brave Princess
who like her Brother Shahriar fought like a Lion and remained Loyal to
King and Country to the very end but lost only against the enemy within:
Cancer !

It is with immense grief that we would like to inform our compatriots of
the passing away of Princess Azadeh Shafigh Pahlavi.

We are deeply saddened to learn the passing away of Azadeh Shafigh,
sister of Shahryar Shafigh who was assassinated in Paris aftermath of
the Islamic Coup!

She was very much loved, admired and respected by the opponents of the
Islamic Regime for her courage and her love for Iran.

–Secretariat of HIM Princess Ashraf Pahlavi

Zendrans Worldwide Naval Images

2011-02-27T17:46:00.000-08:00

I have recently completed a project where I have put images of the World’s Navie taken from online sources of satellite inagess in online locations where anyone can access them. This includes the major and minor fleets of the World at strategic locations. This project includes the
US Navy
Военно-Морской Флот/Russian Navy
中國人民解放軍海軍/Chinese Navy
Marine Nationale/French Navy
Royal British Navy
भारतीय नौ सेना/Indian Navy
Marina Militare/ Italian Navy
Armada Espanola/ Spanish Navy
海上自衛隊/ Japanese Navy
대한민국 해군/ South Korean Navy
Marinha do Brasil/Brazilian Navy
กองทัพเรือ/ Royal Thai Navy
Deutsche Marine/ German Navy
Koninklijke Marine/ Royal Netherlands Navy
Turk Deniz Kuvvetleri/ Turkish Navy
Armada de la Republica Argentina/ Argentine Navy
Royal Canadian Navy
Marina de Guerra del Peru/ Peruvian Navy
Tentara Nasional Indonesia Angkatan Laut/ Indoneseian Navy
Πολεμικό Ναυτικό/ Greek Navy
中華民國海軍/ Taiwanese Navy
نیروی دریایی ایران/ Iranian Navy
Royal Australian Navy
Kongelig Norske Marine/ Royal Norwegian Navy
Kungliga Flottan/ Royal Swedish Navy
پاک بحریہ/ Pakistani Navy
Suid-Afrikaanse Vloot/ South African Navy
Kongelige Danske Marine/ Royal Danish Navy
Angkatan Laut Republik Singapura/ Republic of Singapore Navy
بحرية الملكية السعودية/ Royal Saudi Navy
Tentera Laut DiRaja Malaysia/ Royal Malaysian Navy
Marynarka Wojenna Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej/ Polish Navy
البحرية المصرية/ Egyptian Navy
Armada de Chile/ Chilean Navy
조선인민군 해군/ North Korean Navy
Armada Bolivariana de Venezuela/ Venezuelan Navy
Marinha Portuguesa/ Portuguese Navy
חיל הים הישראלי/ Israeli Navy
البحرية الجزائرية/ Algerian Navy
البحرية الملكية/ Royal Moroccan Navy
Hai Quan Viet/ Vietnamese Navy
Nigerian Navy
البحرية السورية/ Syrian Navy
Fortele Navale Romane/ Romanian Navy
Военноморски сили България/Bulgarian Navy
Armada de Mexico/ Mexican Navy
Військово-Морські Сили України/ Ukrainian Navy
Armada Nacional Colombiana/ Colombian Navy
البحرية الليبية/ Libyan Navy
বাংলাদেশ নৌবাহিনী/Bangladesh Navy
Royal New Zealand Navy
Marine Royal/ Belgian Navy
Armada Nacional del Uruguay/Uruguayan Navy
عمان السلطانية بحرية/ Royal Oman Navy
Myanmar Navy
Merivoimat/ Finnish Navy
البحرية الملكي البحريني/ Royal Bahraini Navy
Armada del Ecuador/ Ecuadorian Navy
Hukbong Dagat ng Pilipinas/ Phlippine Navy
Yugoslav Navy
الامارات بحرية/ United Arab Emirates Navy
Hrvatska Ratna Mornarica/ Croatian Navy
an tSirbhis Chabhlaigh/ Irish Navy
Sri Lankan Navy
Marina de Guerra Revolucionaria/ Cuban Navy
Kenyan Navy
Lietuvos kariniu juru pajegu/ Lithuanian Navy
Juras Speki/ Latvian Navy
Eesti Merevagi/ Estonian Navy
بحرية التونسية/ Tunisian Navy
Icelandic Navy
Tanzanian Navy
القوة البحرية الكويتية/Royal Kuwaiti Navy
قطر بحرية الملكي/ Royal Qatar Navy
Azerbaycan Hərbi Dəniz Quvveleri/ Azerbaijani Navy
Albanian Navy
Gabon Navy
Ghana Navy
Tentera Laut Diraja Brunei/ Royal Brunei Navy
Code d’Ivorie Navy
Sudanese Navy
Georgian Navy
بحرية اليمنية/ Yemeni Navy
Mauritius Navy
Kazakhstan Navy
Royal Naval Force of Jordan
Cameroon Navy
Mauritania Navy
Ethiopian/Eretrian Navy
Maltese Navy
Turkmenistan Navy
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20th century's greatest entertainer Peter Alexander dies

2011-02-26T11:04:00.000-08:00

What is most sad is that with all the people getting killed in riots
around the World or dying because of government mismanagement the
passing of someone who not only influenced culture in Europe, but also
around the World, who influenced american entertainers from the Rat Pack
to Richard pryor to Ed Sullivan, can get next to no attention. Had I
not spotted a copy of the Suddeutsche Zeitung by dumb luck this would
have been ignored. If you still doubt that Peter Alexander was that
great check my favorites section on youtube and see his works for
yourself. or check out the video below for an artistic shock your system needs.

Exposing the provaceturs behind the riots in Libya

2011-02-24T10:09:00.000-08:00

Below is my response to anarchist international's taking credit for being behind the Libyan riots. It is bad enough that the nigger in the white house is planning military action against his fellow Africans, but to have these provaceturs call themselves revolutionaries and spread blatant lies is sickening. More power to Qaddafi and those opposing these provaceturs who's start riots in the name of anarchy and demorcracy, destabilize countries, and pave the way for invasion by the very forces they claim to oppose.

Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 12:53 PM
From: "Peter Khan Zendran"
To: "Anarchist International Information Service - AIIS" , kuriltai@lists.riseup.net
Cc: "International newsmedia and mandated persons" , "Anarchists and syndicalists etc."
Subject: Re: The situation in Libya - dialog - update 2.

While I may be authoritarian I am NOT a marxist, I am a Titoist.
I have also been in enough conflicts, including physical conflicts, with the pigs and have done them damage on numerous occasions. That has included conflicts where I have had to deal with provaceturs who called themselves anarchists. Your nonsensical statements against leaders who benefit their people and statements in support of acts which will benefit tyrants and tyrannical coroporations only confirm this.
What you call scientific reasoning is nothing more than the propaganda of the very tyrants you claim to oppose.
GO TO HELL WHERE YOU BELONG AND DO NOT SEND ME THIS SHIT.
Peter Khan Zendran

On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 00:48 +0100, "Anarchist International Information Service - AIIS" wrote:
Hello again Peter Khan Zendran ,

Thank you again for interesting feedback.

They way you 'argument' fully reveal your marxist policy and that you are a marxist, authoritarian, and far from anarchist, proven beyond reasonable doubt by your own writings.

Your de facto marxist dialectical, pseudoscientific, hysterical rant is not scientific and matter of fact, and have thus no effect on us and the Anarchist International in general.

AI-members only listen to matter of fact scientific reasoning, not marxist dialectical pseudoscience and invectives - lies.

We have presented to you facts and results of real scientific research, and you will not listen, i.e. typically marxist and marxism and for marxists: Authoritarian and arrogant.

@-greetings B. Hansen for AIIS and AI

PS. We send our newsletters to several marxists for discussion and fun, but they are of course not networkmembers of AI. You will hear from us - a form of (click on:) direct action against your authoritarian marxism... But you are of course not an anarchist and not a member of AI.

As for USA - read IIFOR's and AI's resolution, decided with general consent on the International Anarchist Congress - and feel free to tell us what you think:

USA on the economic-political map - new president 2009 but no significant change in the system's coordinates

Once the well known anarchist Noam Chomsky was asked : "Would you describe the US as it is now as a fascist state?" Chomsky answered: "Far from it. In many respects it is the most free country in the world." It is true that the USA is far from fascist, and rather free. USA is ranked as no 22 among the countries in the world according to libertarian degree. Thus it is among the 25 most libertarian countries in the world.

The US' system is not fascist, but liberalist, located in the conservative sector of the liberalist quadrant of the economic-political map, see System theory and EP-map, at about 57%-60% authoritarian degree, the point estimate for USA at ca 57,5%, i.e. a libertarian degree at ca 42,5%.

The degree of capitalism in USA is estimated to ca 75,5%, i.e. very significant (the degree of socialism is only ca 24,5%). The gini-index is estimated to 40.8, i.e. significantly above 35.0. As a rule of the thumb a gini-index below 35.0 indicates socialism, while a gini-index equal to or above 35.0 indicates capitalism/economical plutarchy. Also several other indicators point to a high degree of capitalism, although a relatively high efficiency indicates an opposite tendency.

The degree of statism is estimated to ca 30,2%, and thus the degree of autonomy is ca 69,8%, i.e. very significant. This relatively high degree of autonomy is partly due to USA's strong regional and international position, partly due to the domestic situation, i.e. relatively low taxes and "small government", much NGOs, a functioning political/administrative democracy, also with primary elections, and tendencies of direct democracy in some states, etc.

However, these economical-political tendencies seen all in all are clearly authoritarian, but far from totalitarian, i.e. more than 67% authoritarian degree. These coordinates of the US system are average long term structural estimates, and today we see no tendencies of a significant change. Some people fear a development of the USA in fascist, ultra-authoritarian, direction, but the Anarchist International and IIFOR see no clear tendencies in this direction at the moment, although the people, seen as a class as opposed to the superiors in rank and /or income, should always be on the alert against fascist, ultra-authoritarian tendencies.

2008: The president election 2008 is a choice between neo-conservatives (Republicans) and conservatives (Democrats) and will probably not change the system in USA significantly. We have thus no expectations to the demagogue Barack Obama regarding significant change of the US system's coordinates. 2009: The president of USA, since 2009, Barack Obama, has limited influence, a powerful lobby of the military-industrial complex has most of the power, and the fundamental domestic and international aims of USA are not changed. We will probably see some marginal, mostly cosmetical changes, but no significant change of the system's coordinates on the economic-political map. As far as this issue of the new president, president Obama, having taken over and this continuing, the AI has always been saying that policies don't change much with personalities. Policies have national interests, and policies depend on an environment. The environment and national interests of the United States are the same. Obama has said USA shall lead, i.e. rule, the world. The anarchists strongly oppose this megalomaniac approach.

28.04.2009. The Obama-government's first big mistake. A YouTube video showed panicked New Yorkers scrambling as a Boeing 747 followed by a fighter plane flew frighteningly close to the lower Manhattan skyline. The Federal Aviation Administration said the aircraft, which functions as Air Force One when the president is aboard, was taking part in a classified, government-sanctioned photo shoot. Fran Townsend, who advised President George W. Bush for more than three years, called the move "crass insensitivity" in the wake of 9/11: "I'd call this felony stupidity." The half-hour flight triggered the evacuation of a number of office buildings in the city - Mayor Michael Bloomberg said he was "furious" he had not been warned. On Tuesday, Obama told reporters, "It was a mistake. It was something we found out about along with all of you. And it will not happen again." 08.05.2009. White House Military Office Director Louis Caldera has resigned amid controversy over a low-altitude flyover of New York. So Obama seems to put the blame on his subordinates. Obama should take the full responsibility himself.

15.05.2009. Anger at Obama Guantanamo ruling. Civil liberties groups and anarchists have reacted angrily to US President Barack Obama's decision to revive military trials for some Guantanamo Bay detainees. 18.11.2009. US President Barack Obama has for the first time admitted that the US will miss the January 2010 deadline he set for closing the Guantanamo Bay prison. Mr Obama made the admission in interviews with US TV networks during his tour of Asia. Also this time civil liberties groups and anarchists have reacted angrily. 15.12.2009 The Obama administration said it will move some Guantanamo Bay detainees to an Illinois prison, the Thomson Correctional Center, and hold US military commission trials there. Anarchists and others criticized Obama's plan as a.o.t a security risk. This move seems to create more problems than it solves, anarchists say. 23.12.2009. Rebuffed by skeptical lawmakers when it sought finances to buy an Illinois prison, the Obama administration is unlikely to close the Guantánamo Bay prison until 2011 at the earliest. 05.01.2010. Obama says he remains committed to closing the Guantanamo Bay detention center in Cuba, but not in January 2010 as promised.

10.11.2009. Anarchist comment to US President Barack Obama's response to last week's killings of 13 people at an army base in Texas, that of course the anarchists condemn.

Mr Obama's comments came in an address to a memorial service for the victims of the Fort Hood shootings, after he met relatives of those who died. Maj Nidal Malik Hasan, who was carrying out the massacre, was shot by police and remains in hospital. US intelligence authorities have said they knew Maj Hasan had been in contact with a cleric sympathetic to al-Qaeda.

Mr Obama said "It may be hard to comprehend the twisted logic that led to this tragedy, but this much we do know - no faith justifies these murderous and craven acts; no just and loving God looks upon them with favour," he continued. "And for what he has done, we know that the killer will be met with justice - in this world, and the next."

Anarchists at large are atheists, with a small dash of agnosticism, and thus believe about zero in "the next" world be it heaven, limbo or hell or something else, and we find it strange that Obama and his "we", "know" so much about "the next" world. How can Obama be certain that "the killer will be met with justice - in this world, and the next "? The anarchists at large are not among Obama's "we". He does not speak for us.

Anarchists are against capital punishment and other barbaric and authoritarian punishment "in this world" and believe about zero of punishment and justice in "the next", see Anarchism and Human Rights, Libertarian Human Rights . This is justice. Obama is a) for capital punishment and thus at odds with justice and should b) leave the practically certain lies about justice in "the next" world to a professional lier, and real beast, as the catholic pope. Obama's comments in this case confirm the megalomaniac tendency of Obama's ideas. The anarchists don't trust Obama and we warn others about this dangerous authority, practically certain at odds with justice and reality. Obama may be worse than Bush... What will be the next???

14.01.2010. About the earthquake in Haiti. "This is one of those moments that calls out for American leadership," according to US President Barack Obama who has announced fresh help for Haiti. Help is of course OK and supported by the anarchists, but "American leadership", i.e. ruler of the world - NO - the Anarchist International declares.

25.04.2010. Obama is obsessed with ruling the world, and is thus clearly opposed to the anarchists' real-democratic approach. An Internet search for "Obama lead world" gave the following headlines: "Obama lead world nuke talks", "Obama pledges to lead world into nuclear-free future", "Obama promises to lead world on climate change", "Obama: US will lead world in building next-gen clean cars", "US President Barack Obama has announced plans to invest billions of dollars in new nuclear power stations, should Australia follow Obama's lead," "We must lead the world: 'The Obama doctrine'", "Obama to world: 'We're ready to lead again'", and many more!!! "American leadership", i.e. ruler of the world - NO - the Anarchist International repeats.

12.08.2010. Gloomy picture for the people in the USA. More Americans fell into foreclosure in July as a sour job market kept them from making payments, and banks took over homes at a near record pace. Registered unemployment held at 9.5 percent in July but would have been higher if discouraged people had not left the workforce. The real unemployment may thus be much higher than 9.5 percent. Pessimism over the economy is rising and the grim mood could hurt both parties in the November 2 congressional elections, according to an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released on Wednesday 11.08.2010. Almost two-thirds of Americans believe the economy will worsen before it gets better, up from 53 percent who felt that way in January, the poll found.

Nearly six in 10 of those surveyed said the country is headed in the wrong direction, a percentage that has held steady in NBC/WSJ polling throughout the year. More than half of respondents said they disapprove of the way President Barack Obama is handling the economy. The poll also found Americans were split on Obama's overall job performance, with 48 percent saying they disapprove and 47 saying they approve. Unfortunately Obama and USA don't follow the advice from the World Economic Council - WEC, and must face the music.

28.10.2010. Ad midterm elections 2010: Perhaps the Democrats tendencially is the most libertarian of the parties, i.e. the least authoritarian party alternative, after all. But in general, vote for the candidate you think will do the best job, i.e. be most libertarian and thus least authoritarian, regardless of party. However, the Anglophone Anarchist Federation, section USA, calls on a boycott of the Tea Party candidates at the midterm elections 2010. 03.11.2010. Republicans rode a tide of voter discontent to take control of the House of Representatives and expand their voice in the Senate in elections Tuesday.

29.11.2010. USA = Unenlightened plutarchy plus unenlightened diplomacy. US-type diplomatic language. WikiLeaks has published some reports of the Obama-regime's diplomatic efforts: As to diplomats' portrayals of world leaders, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is said to have been holding "wild parties" and is described as feckless, vain and ineffective and sharing a close relationship with the "alpha dog", Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. PM Putin is also called 'Batman' and President Medvedev 'Robin'. President Nicolas Sarkozy of France is said to be thin-skinned and authoritarian. The WikiLeaks documents also described Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi as erratic and in the near constant company of a Ukrainian nurse who was described as "a voluptuous blonde". The Afghan president Hamid Karzai is described as paranoid. Etc. etc.! "My, my... what a diplomatic language," says a spokesperson for the Anglophone Anarchist Federation to AIIS.

The extreme capitalism/economical plutarchy in USA makes violation of fundamental workers' rights
The 'American dream' is a nightmare for the people, seen as a class in contrast to the superiors in income and/or rank
There is a $4 billion union-busting industry which aims at undermining trade union organizing

There is a poor record on worker protection, particularly in the areas of trade union rights and child labor, areas in which serious violations continue to take place. US law excludes large groups of workers from the right to organize. These include agricultural workers, many public sector workers, domestic workers, supervisors and independent contractors. Moreover, for most private sector workers forming labor federations is extremely difficult and anti-union pressure from employers is frequent. There is a huge union-busting industry which aims at undermining trade union organizing. Some 82 per cent of employers hire such companies that employ a wide range of anti-union tactics. Employers also force employees to listen to anti-union propaganda and threaten workers with company closures if they vote to form a labor federation. The US administration, rather than leading the way on protection of the rights of working people and on decent pay and conditions, has been intent on denying the freedom to join a union and bargain collectively to millions of American workers. This hurts America's working people and has a negative impact on workers' rights in other countries as well. Figures from the US Department of Labor show that the Bush Administration has been cutting back even further on labor law enforcement, now spending an average of only US$26 per employer, while spending on rigorous oversight of trade union activities amounts to an average of $2,500 per union/local union. This will probably not change much under the Obama Administration.

The Employee Free Choice Act, which would redress some of the imbalances workers are subject to, was blocked by Senate Republicans last year despite passing the House of Representatives and gaining majority support in the Senate. Moreover, the National Labor Relations Board took a number of decisions in 2007 which withdrew various workers' protections and weakened already ineffective remedies. Among these decisions was one that makes it harder for workers who are illegally fired to recover back pay and another to make it easier to discriminate against employees who are union representatives. Child labor is in many cases not effectively addressed in the US, particularly in agriculture and not least because of the hazardous conditions that children are exposed to. Many of the children are migrant farm workers, often Latino. Not enough urgency is being shown with the Children's Act for Responsible Employment (CARE) currently before the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections of the House of Representatives, which would bring standards for children working in agriculture in line with standards for other sectors. Moreover, child labor inspections are falling.

Concerning discrimination and remuneration it should be noted that women continue to earn less than men (80.8%), and that for most women of color this gap is even larger. Women earn less in every occupational category, even in occupations where they outnumber men. Nurses and middle school teachers earn 10% less than their male colleagues even though over 80% of the employees are female. Forced labor remains a problem in the US, in particular with forced labor in agriculture for migrant workers, and manufacturing (garments) in US overseas territories, in particular the Northern Mariana Islands. Working conditions are severe, and recruitment practices often result in indentured servitude.

14.01.2010. Social dumping. Immigrant sheepherders endure harsh work, low pay. Alone and thousands of miles from home, the immigrant sheepherder roams some of the West's most desolate and frigid landscapes, tending a flock for as little as $600 a month without a day off on the horizon. Colorado Legal Services, a Denver-based nonprofit legal assistance network, visited sheepherders with temporary work visas in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming and found they sometimes toil more than 90 hours a week, can't leave the isolated sites where they work and are grossly underpaid by US standards. Rep. Daniel Kagan, a Democrat from Denver, said sheepherders often don't speak English, don't know where they are, and depend entirely on their employers for food, water and contact with the outside world. "It struck me as a situation rife with the possibility of abuse, and I was afraid that we were looking at a situation of indentured servitude, of near slavery, right here in Colorado, and that troubled me a lot," Kagan said. The struggling US sheep industry argues the immigrants - and the current pay scale - are crucial to its survival and that the jobs give foreign workers opportunities for a better life back home. That is how the US capitalism works.

29.09.2010. Unresolved problems with the right to organize and other fundamental rights. USA still has a poor record on workers' protection, particularly with regard to trade union rights and child labor, areas in which serious violations continue to take place. US law excludes large groups of workers from the right to organize. These include agricultural workers, many public sector workers, domestic workers, supervisors and independent contractors. Moreover, for most private sector workers forming trade unions is extremely difficult and anti-union pressure from employers is frequent. There is a $4 billion union-busting industry which aims at undermining trade union organizing. Some 82 per cent of employers hire such companies that employ a wide range of anti-union tactics. Employers often force employees to listen to anti-union propaganda and threaten workers with company closures if they vote to form a trade union.

The rather limited "Employee Free Choice Act", which would redress a few of the imbalances workers are subject to, continues to be blocked by Senate Republicans despite passing the House of Representatives and gaining majority support in the Senate. Child labor is in many cases not effectively addressed in the US, particularly in agriculture and not least because of the hazardous conditions that children are exposed to. Many of the children are migrant farm workers, often Latino. The main labor confederation in USA, AFL-CIO, estimates that between 300,000 and 800,000 children are employed in agriculture under dangerous conditions. Moreover, the number of child labor inspections has been falling. Concerning gender discrimination, women continue to earn less than men (77.1%). While women represent 47.8% of total employment, only 29.0% of executive and senior level officials and managers are women. Furthermore women have no guarantee of paid family leave. Finally, forced labor remains a problem in the US, in particular with forced labor in agriculture for migrant workers. Sources: AIIS and ITUC.

1 in 6 went hungry in America in 2008

Forty-nine million people in American households — one in six — went hungry or had insufficient food at some point in 2008, the highest number since the government began tracking the problem in 1995. The biggest increases were among households with children and people who were hungry most often. The report, issued by the US Department of Agriculture, found that 17 million people in the US went hungry or did not eat regularly for a few days of each month over seven or eight months last year. That's a 45% increase from 12 million people in 2007. In 2008, 16.7 million children did not eat regularly at some point, up from 12.4 million in 2007. 17.11.2009.

The share of residents of USA in poverty climbed to 14.3 percent in 2009 and the increase is continuing

The percentage of Americans struggling below the poverty line in 2009 was the highest it has been in 15 years, the Census Bureau reported Thursday 16.09.2010, and interviews with poverty experts and aid groups said the increase appeared to be continuing this year. With the country in its worst economic depression and crisis since the Great Depression, four million additional Americans found themselves in poverty in 2009, with the total reaching 44 million, or one in seven residents. And the numbers could have climbed higher: One way embattled Americans have gotten by is sharing homes with siblings, parents or even nonrelatives, sometimes resulting in overused couches and frayed nerves but holding down the rise in the national poverty rate, according to the report. The share of residents in poverty climbed to 14.3 percent in 2009, the highest level recorded since 1994. The rise was steepest for children, with one in five affected, the bureau said. For a single adult in 2009, the poverty line was $10,830 in pretax cash income; for a family of four, $22,050.

USA has still not ratified United Nations' ILO Convention 98 on the Right to Organize and Collective Bargaining

The United Nations' International Labour Organization, ILO's Convention 98 on the Right to Organize and Collective Bargaining has still not been ratified by countries such as USA, Canada, China, India, Iran, the Republic of Korea, Mexico, Thailand, and Vietnam. Thus, approximately half of the world's economically active population is not covered by this worker friendly Convention, with USA up front. ILO Convention 98 was established in 1949, and among many other countries the Anarchies of Norway, Switzerland and Iceland have ratified this convention.

Unenlightened plutarchy

The system in USA is what economic Nobel Prize winner and anarchist Ragnar Frisch called an "unenlightened plutarchy", see the basic ideas of Frisch. For the World Economic Council's program against unenlightened plutarchy for the USA, see the WEC resolutions. USA has a long road to go before it becomes an anarchy, socialist and autonomous. It will probably not happen while Obama is in charge.

USA, see the WEC resolutions. USA has a long road to go before it becomes an anarchy, socialist and autonomous. It will probably not happen while Obama is in charge.

Unenlightened plutarchy, plutarchy in general and plutocracy

In the American Webster's unabridged dictionary second edition the word plutarchy is mentioned, and also plutocracy. Plutarchy means rule by the rich or rule of money, a form of archy [by finance-lords and similar, enronism, etc.]. Plutarchy may be economical and/or political/administrative. Economical plutarchy is the same as capitalism. Capitalism has two main forms, liberalism and fascism, economical plutarchy is significant in both. The economical plutarchists are the capitalists, the relatively rich, superiors in income.

Plutocracy is a form of "cracy", as in democracy, the word plutocracy may 1. mean the same as plutarchy, 2. but also just mean management by the rich or related to money. In an anarchism vs other -isms context, to be precise, the concept plutarchy is in general used, not the more diffuse plutocracy. The term "unenlightened plutarchy, "uopplyst pengevelde", was used by Ragnar Frisch about liberalism, the typical unenlightened plutarchy, but it may also be used about fascism. As a tendency in a bit curtailed form the unenlightened plutarchy may also be present in marxist, mainly social-democratic, systems.

"Unenlightened" in this context just underlines that plutarchy is not in the interest of the people, seen as a class as opposed to the superiors in rank and/or income. Plutarchy is practically always "unenlightened", a bad form of system/management seen from the people's perspective. In practice "enlightened plutarchy" does not exist, although there may be more or less of the unenlightened tendency. IIFOR

---- Original Message -----
From: Peter Khan Zendran
To: Anarchist International Information Service - AIIS ; kuriltai@lists.riseup.net
Cc: International newsmedia and mandated persons ; Anarchists and syndicalists etc.
Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 10:05 PM
Subject: Re: The situation in Libya - dialog - update
Your response is filled with lies similar to those disseminated by anarchist provaceturs like food not bombs and love and resistance, be it about Libya or what people in america have to suffer through.
DO NOT send me any more of your material as I wish to have no dealings with reactionary provaceturs.
Peter Z

On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 03:45 +0100, "Anarchist International Information Service - AIIS" wrote:
Hi again P.K. Khan

As you may see already at the indexpage at www.anarchy.no USA has economical plutarchy, and is thus rather far from anarchy. See also the rather critical note on USA at the http://www.anarchy.no/andebate.html. USA has according to IIFOR about 42,5 % libertarian degree and 57,5 % authoritarian degree, a conservative liberalist system, and ranked as no 22 of countries according to libertarian degree.

However according to IIFOR's analysis, see the top of http://www.anarchy.no/ija141.html , Libya is ranked as no 68 and has about 32,5% libertarian degree and 67,5 authoritarian degree, a totalitarian fascist system with more 666 per thousand authoritarian degree - rather evil, but not as evil as Somalia with ochlarchy an rivaling polyarchy as system and only about 20% libertarian degree and 80% authoritarian degree.

As far as we know only friends broadly defined of Colonel Gadhafi have such fringe benefits as you mention, not the people in the east of Libya, and these fringe benefits are really only peanuts, and are of course not free, but paid by oil money, which could be distributed as real pay in stead, so people could buy what they want themselves for it.

An oilrich country like Libya could/should have an anarchist economic-political system, as the Anarchy of Norway, with about 54 % anarchy/libertarian degree, and only 46% authoritarian degree, and ranked as no 1 according to libertarian degree.

But Colonel Gadhafi has centralized most of the power, economically and political/administrative, on a few corrupt hands, that is why the system is totalitarian and fascist, and not anarchist.

No real opposition has been allowed in Libya, under Colonel Gadhafi's autocratic rule, see http://www.anarchy.no/oslo.html . And of course not now. He and his henchmen use live rounds and kill 'his own' (click on:) people.

Tunisia and Egypt, which are in embryo revolutions will very likely not be taken over by USA, but will probabaly be less influenced by USA. And anarchists do in general not sign up to Lenin's' marxist-leninist 'imperialist' theories, which it seems like you do.

The same is the future for Libya, an anarchists system as in Norway is possible there, if Colonel Gadhafi and his henchmen step down.

We have information that the tribes are co-operating already, thus there will not be ochlarchy and chaos, see http://www.anarchy.no/oslo.html if Colonel Gadhafi and his henchmen step down.

If you support Colonel Gadhafi's autocratic rule, see http://www.anarchy.no/oslo.html , you are probably on a non-anarchist, wrong economic-political track. Supporting ultra-authoritarian (click on:) totalitarian fascism as Colonel Gadhafi's autocratic rule/system is far from anarchist as far as our analysis suggest.

Feel free to continue the dialog, anarchism is a.o.t. based on dialog and free matter of fact (scientific) criticism.

We looke forward to hear more from you.

Hear from you...

@-greetings B. Hansen for AIIS www.anarchy.no

Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 12:47 AM

1. The last time I checked people in Libya under Qaddafi's system have free internet, electricity, gasoline, and other free ammenities which people in capatilist countries like america do not provide for their citizens. Also people in Libya, be they citizens or foreigners, recieve more rights than people in capatilist countries like america.
2. If Qaddafi were to fall so would other countries in the region, be it Algreia, Morocco, Iran, Jordan, etc who are fighting american/zionist/capatalist imperialism, thus leaving themselves open to invasion by milittary force, civil war which will cost the lives of millions, or further corporate control/exploitation of their resources by foreign powers as happened 100 years ago.
Peter Khan Zendran

On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 00:37 +0100, "Anarchist International Information Service - AIIS" wrote:
Hi P.K. Zendran

Thank you for interesting feedback. We will go into a dialog with you with the purpose of reaching reasonable consensus on basic points via discussion, and matter of fact scientific reasoning.

We think as a start we have reasonable arguments, but first we will like to know why you think a) Colonel Gadhafi and b) his system is c) anarchist, and d), why he should not step down, in this case.

Hear from you...

@-greetings B. Hansen for AIIS www.anarchy.no

----- Original Message -----
From: Peter Khan Zendran
To: Anarchist International Information Service - AIIS ; International newsmedia and mandated persons ; Anarchists and syndicalists etc. ; kuriltai@lists.riseup.net
Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 11:52 PM
Subject: Re: Important mail. T-update 100: Social-individualist anarchist tendency in the Egyptian revolt. The anarchist black flag with a white fist, a symbol of peaceful non-ochlarchical libertarian resistance is carried by many protesters. The situation in Liby

If you are demanding that Qaddafi step down then you are NOT anarchists, rather you are just like the very provaceturs who call themselves anarchists who I have dealt with since 2002.
Peter Khan Zendran

On Tue, 22 Feb 2011 23:37 +0100, "Anarchist International Information Service - AIIS" wrote:

Hi fellow(s) - Important message!

IJA 1 (41), see below, is usually updated 2-3 times a day from about noon to midnight GMT + 1. We have the probably best coverage of the North African and Middle East revolts and (embryo) revolutions. We usually don't send updates per e-mail. Feel free to click on the link to IJA 1 (41) below to follow the news, analysis and comments, several times a day. Be updated, and discuss the updates with your fellows and own network (including AIIS etc)!

@-greetings - AIIS - www.anarchy.no

PS. Feel free to forward this e-mail to your own network!

* Read: Qatar, Tunisia, Egypt and other Arab countries on the economic-political map, including the popular revolt in Egypt - Frequently updated - Click here! *

From IJA 1/11 (41) Web: http://www.anarchy.no/ija141.html - Updated:
T-update 100: Social-individualist anarchist tendency in the Egyptian revolt. The anarchist black flag with a white fist, a symbol of peaceful
non-ochlarchical libertarian resistance is carried by many protesters. The situation in Libya.

22.02.2011. Social-individualist anarchist tendency in the Egyptian revolt. The anarchist black flag with a white fist, a symbol of peaceful non-ochlarchical libertarian resistance is carried by many protesters. The situation in Libya.

The anarchist black flag with a white fist, a symbol of peaceful and non-ochlarchical libertarian resistance, was carried by many through the streets of Cairo a.o.t. during the symbolic revolution that ousted president Hosni Mubarak. This is a symbol used by peaceful non-ochlarchical anarchists in different mixes at least since the 1970s. Black stands for anarchism, the fist for resistance or protest, and white for peace and the non-ochlarchical. This time it was probably imported via the Canvas (Center for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies, Serbia and international), rooted back to Otpor (Resistance), that some paranoid marxist leftists think is run by the CIA. It is however likely that organizations and individuals in USA, also some with links to CIA, may have given some money to Canvas, as many others world wide have. Canvas in general exaggerates its influence.

But Canvas' program and ideas stand on its own feet, i.e. a somewhat Tolstoy-inspired but secular, non-violent, form of social-individualist anarchism and resistance. Canvas' strategy and Tolstoy-inspired strategies in general have however its limitations, and may be manipulated in contra-revolutionary direction. But it is useful as a part of a more general strategy: As mentioned a development towards real democracy in Egypt must be done by the people's actions, i.e. act with dignity, use real matter of fact arguments and add weight behind via direct actions, including industrial actions, and via organization, dialog and elections. The main strategy of The Anarchist International - AI/IFA is basically neither pacifism nor terrorism, and for as little as possible violence. The limitations of a pacifist strategy are clear in Libya, and the policy in Egypt was not 100% pacifist. For more information about the main anarchist strategy, see Antimilitarism - an anarchist approach - IJA 2 (38) and The International Conference on Terrorism - IJA 4 (31).

Anyway Canvas' influence in Egypt was and is limited, although in 2009, in Belgrade, Canvas gave Egyptian youthgroup April 6 lessons in peaceful protest. The Egyptians however did not adopt some of Otpor's more whimsical tactics. The influence of The Anarchist International - AI/IFA, and all its sections, see The official link-site of AI/IFA, including The International Workers of the World - Egyptian section and The Anarchist Confederation of Africa - Egyptian section, is most likely more important in this connection. A somewhat anarchist, and mainly social-individualist anarchist tendency, with an Egyptian local touch, was and is significant in the still mostly informal people's movement in the country. The anarchist black flag with a white fist, a symbol of peacful non-ochlarchical libertarian resistance is carried by many protesters in Egypt.

Social-individualism, a libertarian tendency, is a centrist and progressive moderate form of anarchism, also called the third alternative, located between advanced social-democratic marxism and advanced social-liberalism on the economic-political map. Many social-individualists don't label themselves as anarchists for different reasons, but they are practically certain all de facto mainly moderate libertarians, i.e. for freedom and real democracy.

The anarchist black flag with a white fist, a symbol of peaceful non-ochlarchical libertarian resistance is carried by many during protests in Egypt.

By the way, the ultra-authoritarian, totalitarian, Muslim Brotherhood is sometimes sailing unders false anarchist black flag, documented by BBC 04.02.2011, and the International Anarchist Tribunal - IAT-APT handed out a Brown Card to the islamist movement for this serious break of the Oslo Convention.

Social-individualism, i.e. moderate libertarianism, including freedom and real democracy, is today an important tendency, especially regarding the middle to long term aim, also in Tunisia and in many other oppositions in North Africa and the Middle East. The earlier dominant islamist oppositions are less important today because the oppositions are broader people's movements, but islamism represents a contra-revolutionary strategic danger.

Libya: Gadhafi vows to die a martyr, calls on supporters to fight protesters in the street, Asscoiated Press reported: Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi vowed to fight on to his "last drop of blood" and roared at his supporters to take to the streets against protesters in a furious, fist-pounding speech Tuesday after two nights of bloodshed in the capital as his forces tried to crush the uprising that has fragmented his regime. Gadhafi's call portended a new round of mayhem in the capital of 2 million people. The night before, residents described a rampage by pro-regime militiamen, who shot on sight anyone found in the streets and opened fire from speeding vehicles at people watching from windows of their homes. Tuesday morning, bodies still lay strewn in some streets. Gunshots in celebration were heard after Gadhafi's speech, aired on state TV and on a screen to several hundred supporters in Tripoli's central Green Square, witnesses said.

Swathed in brown robes and a turban, the country's leader for nearly 42 years spoke from behind a podium in the entrance of his bombed-out Tripoli residence hit by US airstrikes in the 1980s and left unrepaired as a symbol of defiance. At times the camera panned back to show the outside of the building and its towering monument of a gold-colored fist crushing an American fighter jet. But the view also gave a surreal image of Gadhafi, shouting and waving his arms wildly all alone in a broken-down lobby with no audience, surrounded by torn tiles dangling from the ceiling, shattered concrete pillars and bare plumbing pipes. "Libya wants glory, Libya wants to be at the pinnacle, at the pinnacle of the world," he proclaimed, pounding his fist on the podium. "I am a fighter, a revolutionary from tents ... I will die as a martyr at the end," he said, vowing to fight "to my last drop of blood."

Gadhafi [falsely] depicted the protesters as misguided youths, who had been given drugs and money by a "small, sick group" to attack police and government buildings. He said the uprising was fomented by "bearded men" - a reference to islamic fundamentalists - and Libyans living abroad. He called on supporters to take to the streets to attack protesters. "You men and women who love Gadhafi ... get out of your homes and fill the streets," he said. "Leave your homes and attack them in their lairs." "The police cordons will be lifted, go out and fight them," he said, urging youth to form local committees across the country "for the defense of the revolution and the defense of Gadhafi." "Forward, forward, forward!" he barked at the speech's conclusion, pumping both fists in the air as he stormed away from the podium. He was kissed by about a dozen supporters, some in security force uniforms. Then he climbed into a golf cart-like vehicle and puttered away.

The turmoil in the capital escalates a week of protests and bloody clashes in Libya's eastern cities that have shattered Gadhafi's grip on the nation. Many cities in the east appeared to be under the control of protesters after units of Gadhafi's army defected. Protesters in the east claimed to hold several oil fields and facilities and said they were protecting them against damage or vandalism. The regime has been hit by a string of defections by ambassadors abroad, including its UN delegation, and a few officials at home. In response, Gadhafi's security forces have unleashed the bloodiest crackdown of any Arab country against the wave of protests sweeping the region, which toppled leaders of Egypt and Tunisia. At least 62 people were killed in violence in Tripoli since Sunday, according to the New York-based Human Rights Watch, but it cautioned that that figure came from only two hospitals. That comes on top of at least 233 people killed across the so far in the uprising, counted by the group from hospitals around the country.

The head of the UN human rights agency, Navi Pillay, called for an investigation, saying widespread and systematic attacks against civilians "may amount to crimes against humanity." The UN Security Council was holding an emergency session Tuesday, and Western diplomats were pushing for it to demand an end to the retaliation against protesters. Libya's deputy UN ambassador Ibrahim Dabbashi called Monday for the world body to enforce a no-fly zone over cities to prevent mercenaries and military equipment from reaching the regime. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said it was up to the council whether to discuss the proposal.

The first major protests to hit an OPEC country - and major supplier to Europe - sent oil prices soaring to more than $93 a barrel Tuesday. A string of international oil companies have begun evacuating their expatriate workers or their families, and the Spanish oil company Repsol-YPF said it suspended production in Libya on Tuesday. It accounted for about 3.8 percent of Libya's total production of 1.6 million barrels a day. World leaders also have expressed outrage. US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton called on Gadhafi to "stop this unacceptable bloodshed" and said the world was watching the events "with alarm."

Tripoli streets were largely empty during the day Tuesday, except for people venturing out for food, wary of militia attacks. One man in his 50s said residents of his neighborhood were piling up roadblocks of concrete, bricks and wood to try to slow militiamen. He said he had seen several streets with funeral tents mourning the dead. He described spending the night before barricaded in his home, blankets over the windows, as militiamen rampaged in the streets until dawn. Buses unloaded militia fighters - Libyans and foreigners - in several neighborhoods. Others sped in vehicles with guns mounted on the top, opening fire, including at people watching from windows, he said. "I know of two different families, one family had a 4-year-old who was shot and killed on a balcony in the eastern part of the city, and another lady on the balcony was shot in the head," he said. He, like other residents, contacted by the Associated Press, spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation.

One of the heaviest battlegrounds was the impoverished, densely populated district of Fashloum. There, militiamen shot any "moving human being" with live ammunition, including ambulances, so wounded were left in the streets to die, one resident said. He said that as he fled the neighborhood Monday night, he ran across a group of militiamen, including foreign fighters. "The Libyans (among them) warned me to leave and showed me bodies of the dead and told me: `We were given orders to shoot anybody who moves in the place,'" said the resident. Militias - which many witnesses say include foreign fighters who appear to be from sub-Saharan Africa - have taken the forefront in the crackdown in Tripoli. That is in part because Gadhafi has traditionally kept his military and other armed forces weakened to prevent any challenge.

The week of upheaval in Libya has weakened - if not broken for now - the control of Gadhafi's regime in parts of the east. Protesters claim to control a string of cities across just under half of Libya's 1,600-kilometer-long (1,000 mile) Mediterranean coast, from the Egyptian border in the east to the city of Ajdabiya, an important site in the oil fields of central Libya, said Tawfiq al-Shahbi, a protest organizer in the eastern city of Tobruk. He said had visited the crossing station into Egypt and that border guards had fled. In Tobruk and Benghazi, the country's second largest city, protesters were raising the pre-Gadhafi flag of Libya's monarchy on public buildings, he and other protesters said. Protesters and local tribesmen were protecting several oil fields and facilities around Ajdabiya, said Ahmed al-Zawi, a resident there. They had also organized watch groups to guard streets and entrances to the city, he said.

Residents are also guarding one of Libya's main oil export ports, Zuweita, and the pipelines feeding into it, he said. The pipelines are off and several tankers in the part left empty, said al-Zawi, who said he visited Zuweita on Tuesday morning. In Benghazi, protesters over the weekend overran police stations and security headquarters, taking control of the streets with the help of army units that broke away and sided with them. Benghazi residents, however, remained in fear of a regime backlash. One doctor in the city said Tuesday many spent the night outside their homes, hearing rumors that airstrikes and artillery assaults were imminent. "We know that although we are in control of the city, Gadhafi loyalists are still here hiding and they can do anything anytime," he said.

Gadhafi, the longest serving Arab leader, appeared briefly on TV early Tuesday to dispel rumors that he had fled. Sitting in a car in front of what appeared to be his residence and holding an umbrella out of the passenger side door, he told an interviewer that he had wanted to go to the capital's Green Square to talk to his supporters gathered there, but the rain stopped him. "I am here to show that I am in Tripoli and not in Venezuela. Don't believe those misleading dog stations," Gadhafi said, referring to the media reports that he had left the country. The video clip and comments lasted less than a minute. But Tuesday evening's speech lasted well over a half hour. During it, Gadhafi recounting his days as a young revolutionary leader who "liberated" Libya - a reference to the 1969 military coup that brought him to power - and his defiance against US airstrikes.

He insisted that since he has no official title, he cannot resign - Gadhafi is referred to as the "brother leader," but is not president. He [falsely] said he had not ordered police to use any force force used against protesters [i.e. the people] - that his supporters had come out voluntarily to defend him. "I haven't ordered a single bullet fired," he [falsely] said, warning that if he does, "everything will burn." He said that if protests didn't end, he would stage a "holy march" with millions of supporters to cleanse Libya. He demanded protesters in Benghazi hand over weapons taken from captured police stations and military bases, warning of separatism and civil war. "No one allows his country to be a joke or let a mad man separate a part of it," he declared.

The Anarchist International - AI/IFA and all its sections, see The official link-site of AI/IFA, including the anarchosyndicalist labor confederation International Workers of the World and The Anarchist Confederation of Africa, declared: "We call on Colonel Gaddafi and his henchmen to step down - NOW!... i.e. if not today, within a few days or weeks!! And we call on the Libyan people: Remember Direct Action and Antimilitarism - an anarchist approach - IJA 2 (38) & The International Conference on Terrorism - IJA 4 (31)!!!"

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Jordanian Royals impersonated online

2011-02-23T13:08:00.000-08:00

It is bad enough that the folks at goldman sucks and the cfr would create instability in Jordan and the region, but to do this kind of impersonation is too low for anyone to stoop to. Below is the e-mail conversartion I had with Princess Haya about her being impersonated online.

Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 11:23 PM
From: "Info"
To: "Peter Khan Zendran"
Subject: RE: MOHEMM

Dear Sir

I hope that you are doing well.
Please note that the email received is not authentic.
HRH Princess Haya does not and will not send emails like the one forwarded.

Thank you for bringing it to our attention.
Kind regards
HRH Office

________________________________________
From: Peter Khan Zendran [peterkhanzendran@fastmail.fm]
Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 11:55 PM
To: Info
Subject: MOHEMM

I recently recieved this. Is this an authentic message from HRH or is
this an impostor?
Peter II, Khan-e-Mazendaran

On Tue, 22 Feb 2011 00:07 +0000, "Princess Haya Bint Al Hussein of
Jordan" wrote:
> Dearest,
>
> I am Princess Haya Bint Al Hussein of Jordan, writing to inform you of
> our desire to invest in your country.
> Considering my current position, I hopes that the transaction is strictly
> confidential as possible until the completion of the transaction.
> Hence my desire to have you as my agent abroad to protect and invest my
> funds in a profitable business.
> I have therefore decided to investigate whether you would agree to act as
> a foreign agent in order to update this transaction. If you can handle
> this, then you can come back to me via email then I will direct you on
> how we will acheive these.
>
> Regards.
> Princess Haya Bint Al Hussein of Jordan.
> Email: HRHHayaBintAl-Hussein@hotmail.com
>
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Iranian Warships off Suez as israel sabre rattles with military

2011-02-17T13:29:00.000-08:00

These Iranian ships are off Suez as a demonstration of force by Iran,
notice how Iran has not sent any of it's Submarines to accompany the
Alvand and Khark. This is being done at a time when israel is expanding
it's navy, as the news below shows. Bear in mind that Air Independent
Propulsion was developed by Admiral Donitz, which he shared with america
at nuremberg during his trial, and as such the israelis can demand those
subs from Germany. Bear in mind with the riots going on in countries
throughout the region the chance of conflict is real, in any form.
Peter Khan Zendran

Egypt: Iran asks for warships to pass Suez Canal
By HAMZA HENDAWI Associated Press © 2011 The Associated Press
Feb. 17, 2011, 12:37PM

CAIRO — Two Iranian naval vessels have submitted a request to transit
the Suez Canal, Egypt's Foreign Ministry said Thursday. Israel has
expressed concerns over the plans, labeling them a "provocation."

Ministry spokesman Hossam Zaki said Egyptian authorities have received
the request to grant the vessels passage, while a Suez Canal official
said the Defense Ministry would process the application.

In Tehran, Iran's official English-language Press TV cited an Iranian
naval official saying the two warships are to pass through the canal.
The official said Tehran was in contact with Egypt about the ships.

Earlier, a canal official had said the Iranians had withdrawn a request
to transit the waterway, without giving an explanation for the
application's withdrawal. The official spoke on condition of anonymity
because he was not authorized to brief the media.

Ahmed al-Manakhly, a senior Suez Canal official, said international
agreements regulate the traffic through the canal. He said that only in
the case of war with Egypt may vessels be denied transit through the
waterway.

Al-Manakhly noted that Iran and Egypt are not at war, and said the final
decision on whether to grant the vessels' passage lies with the Defense
Ministry.

He said he will not allow any warships to transit the canal without
approval from the Defense Ministry.

The Suez Canal official identified the two vessels as the Alvand, a
frigate, and the Kharq, a supply ship, and said they were en route to
Syria. He said they were now in an area near Saudi Arabia's Red Sea port
of Jiddah.

Spokesmen for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Foreign
Ministry refused to comment.

Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Wednesday that Iran was
about to send two naval vessels through the Suez Canal for the first
time in years, calling it a "provocation."

Israel considers Iran an existential threat because of its disputed
nuclear program, ballistic missile development, support for militants in
the region and its threats to destroy Israel. While Israel has pressed
for international sanctions to stop Iran from developing nuclear
weapons, it has not taken the possibility of a military strike off the
table.

On Wednesday, U.S. State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley confirmed the
presence of the two Iranian ships in the area of the canal but would not
say whether that was considered provocative.

"There are two ships in the Red Sea," he said, "What their intention is,
what their destination is, I can't say."

Vessels intending to transit the canal, which links the Red Sea and the
Mediterranean, must give the waterway's authority at least 24-hour
notice before entering the canal.

Only ships that don't meet safety requirements are banned from using the
canal.

In the case of naval vessels, clearance from the Egyptian defense and
foreign ministries is required in advance, but is rarely withheld.

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As the threat of Iran obtaining nuclear capabilities looms, Israel is
seeking to build a sixth Dolphin-class (Type 800) attack submarine,
believed to be part of the country's nuclear second-strike capability.

With three Dolphin-class submarines in service and two under
construction by Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft in Kiel and Thyssen
Nordseewerke in Emden, the Israel Navy (IN) has initiated discussions
with the German government on building a sixth boat.

Under the 2006 contract, Israel is funding two thirds of the cost of
building Dolphins four and five, while the German government will fund
the remaining third of the project, which is estimated to cost a total
of EUR1 billion (USD1.46 billion).

The contract does include an option for building a sixth boat, although
it is not yet clear how Israel will finance it as the IN is already
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Anti-Iranian incitement coming from american government

2011-02-15T11:21:00.001-08:00

Now that it has been shown beyond doubt that the american government was
behind Mubarak's removal in Egypt they are trying to repeat what they
did in Iran in 2009. Only this time they are doing it more openly.
Recently clinton started a twitter feed which has been posting messages
inciting Iranians to acts of violence which will destabilize Iran and
make things worse and paving the way for conflict, be it with america,
israel, or a civil war. The link is below
http://twitter.com/USAdarFarsi
Do not fall for the lies of clinton. Notice also who is being followed
on that twitter account, the very people clinton and the american
government are menacing.
Speaking of clinton she is appointing marc grossman to replace dick
holbrooke as envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan. Whether he will
continue dick's policies is uncertain, but this comes at a time when the
american government is working openly to destabilize Iran, which has
been keeping things in Afghanistan and Pakistan stable.
Speaking of inciters an individual who uses the alias shah mahi has been
sending out invitations and messages for people to act out against Iran
via facebook. This individual was at Prince Ali-Reza's Boston memorial
and had spread slander about me via Prince Ali-Reza's facebook page.
Here is that person's link
http://www.facebook.com/people/Shah-Mahi/100000670192927
Right now I am securing info with select people because of individual.
I should not have to repeat that if things escelate in Iran, as well as
Jordan, Morocco, Bahrain, things will get worse fast.
Peter Khan Zendran

Pete vs. dick; The Black Op duel over Iran which brought down holbrooke.

2011-02-13T17:01:00.000-08:00

Few people realize that the riots in Iran in June 2009 and the green movement were, like most uprisings around the World, backed and orchestrated by people in america, namely dick holbrooke, the evil genius behind the breakup of Yugoslavia.
The rivalray with me and holbrooke began over Serbia’s elections, as I was instrumental in helping Kostunica get reelected in 2007. At the time I was involved in making Myspace a more respected tool which people, including World leaders, could use. When I connected with Kostunica via Myspace in 2006, he had been able to confirm that my grandfather’s godfather was King Petar I of Serbia and Yugoslavia. Kostunica and I also agreed on the issue of kosovo, that kosovo was an integral part of Serbia. On both issues dick holbrooke took personal issue with, the latter because it interfered with his designs on the region, and the former coming from the latter, for as part of his smear campaign against me he was one of the people who spread the rumor that I was a self-hating polish jew, when in fact he was the self-hating polish jew and that Kostunica was able to prove otherwise. This was to bring things to a head at the watson institute, where both he and I were involved.
On October 15, 2007 when holbrooke gave his lecture as part of the diractor’s lecture series on contemporary international affairs holbrooke stated that he was invovled in working to engineer plans for kosovo’s independence, and even discussed possible conflict with Iran over foreign interests. During the question and answer section I put him on the spot he responded evasively, and many in the audience shared my feelings, including suprisingly lincoln chafee, who was sitting a few rows in front of me in an unreserved seat and who left a few seconds after I did. Clearly, dick was annoyed by my actions, though he and I never acted out against each other while at watson.
After that holbrooke instituted a screening process for all who wanted to attend his talks at the watson institute, using the guise that he was busy working on hillary clinton’s campaign and wanted to prioritize his schedule, when in truth he was afraid of being upstaged. This he demonstrated on February 20, 2008 when ali allawi was giving his lecture at brown. As it turned out dick was sitting in the row in front of me and when he saw me he moved to the side. At that event I accused allawi of genocide and failing to help Iraq, and received an ovation from the crowd. Needless to say dick did not like that.
He would finally manifest his frustration against me by manipulating RI’s legal system. Knowing that I was in a legal dispute I was having with brown, holbrooke falsely told them I was menacing him, and allowed the bupd to use his office as an observation post. It was a member of the bupd using holbrooke office on April 17, 2008 who sounded the alarm when I went to the watson institute to discuss an event invitation I received after one of brown’s pigs claimed I was trespassed. As the details of that incident and subsuquent events, which culminated in my putting three members of the bupd in the hospital when retreving my property from the watson institute and being held until trial as my phone calls to people to bail me out were intercepted, being given a years probation for my actions, and my apeal being denied after I and my lawyer objected to my being held without bail as an appeal condition, which prevented me from presenting evidence in my own defense, are too well known I shall not go into them here. However as a result of his lies dick holbrooke succeeded in getting me court ordered off watson as a term of my probation. He had won that battle, but would lose the war in the long run.
After that incident dick holbrooke would use his position to intimidate people at watson into his line of thinking, and many of them went along with him as I was no longer there to defend them. He little realized that some people at watson still supported me and kept in touch with me via organizations outside of brown, and it was these people who kept me informed of activities there. Once clinton became secretary of state she took dick with her, though he retained the position of professor at large at brown, and took with him his council on foreign relations connections. In the cfr report he created on Afghanistan, pakistan, and Iran he used material from Chapter 8 of my book “victimization of the Farsi, Arab, Turanian, and Central and Western Asian Peoples”, the same book I raided watson and put three brown pigs in the hospital to retrieve on April 18, 2008. He would soon use his new position to become the new us special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan to meddle in Iranian affairs, including sneaking into Iran to meet with mir hossein mousavi and other dissidents, ie people who would soon be inciting the riots which broke out in Tehran after Ahmadinejad’s victory in the June 2009 presidential election, right up to the first week in June 2009.
What dick failed to realize is that I knew he was getting his material from my work and because of what I did on April 18, 2008 I had proof. In addition I had saved and memorized documents and incidents that had relevance to the situation and was able to disseminate it to show that the candidates the rioters/protesters were backing were in fact provaceturs of dick holbrooke. The people that saw this information included opposition groups allied with mousavi, and once they saw that if they joined the rioters/protesters they would be making things worse that is when the “green movement” began to crack. Along with the Iranian security forces who were able to keep order and Iran safe the fact that Iranians were able to see proof that mousavi and his supporters were being backed by the american government for nefarious purposes helped to act as the cop within to many Iranians.
Could Iran’s resistance won? That we will never know, for by collaborating with american government officals like dick holbroone they threw away their last, best chance for a win, and by doing so had become the very thing they opposed, bringing back memories of kermit roosevelt, schwarzkopf sr, huyser, and other americans who incited Iranians to a worse way of life. Not to mention people like saddam hussein, milosevic, etc. who america had becked then turned on, which was what most Iranians realized they would become if they joined the green movement, ie another controlled boogeyman to give the american military/industrial complex something to attack.
From that point on things went downhill for holbrooke in Central Asia. He had gambled on a win for mousavi to advance his agenda and crapped out. He realized that he could not improvise as he had done before and that he could not be trusted. Furthermore, his friends at brown/watson took a major loss in funding and patronage as they began to learn the details of what was really going on with brown/watson. Weakened in his work in Central Asia by the failure of his “green revolution” and weakened in his work at brown/watson his actions were like that of a plane on autopilot. When he suffered the heart problems that ultimately was the cause of his death those around the World he had wronged could breathe a sigh of releif. More than coincidentally his heart problems occurred after I posted a video message directed at some of his colleagues, some of who sent me harassing messages as a result. That he saw that message is probable, after all he was using my material, and his reported last words to end the war in Afghanistan were the confession of someone who knew he had been beaten, and knew who had beaten him.
Today as events unfold it is clear with dick holbrooke out of the picture that america is acting like a stumbling giant. Though I continue to have issues with his colleagues their behavior is like that of desperate creatures who know they no longer have holbrooke’s backing. With all his power and influence I was able to bring holbrooke down, and this is a lesson those around him forget at their risk.

Details on Egypt riot-cfr/goldman sucks connection

2011-02-13T14:42:00.001-08:00

I managed to find this online, and was lucky as once again brown has
been burying their info again.
This is the full press release of that Egyptian dissident Saad Eddin
Ibrahim who spoke at brown in 2005 when the entire Middle East Studies
dpt. was on sabbatical. I have the text packed away in storage, however
this is more than enough to show that what we are seeing in Egypt now
had origins as far back as 2005. Also notice the speakers for the panel
discussion below.
Peter Khan Zendran

http://brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/2004-05/04-104.html
25th Journal/Brown Public Affairs Conference
Experts To Discuss ‘Democracy in Middle East: Is It Possible?’

Scholars, journalists and international experts will gather at Brown
University April 3 and 4, 2005, for the 25th annual Providence
Journal/Brown University Public Affairs Conference titled “Democracy in
the Middle East: Is It Possible?” The keynote address, a Stephen A.
Ogden Jr. ’60 Memorial Lecture, will be delivered by Saad Eddin Ibrahim,
former Egyptian political prisoner and advocate for democracy and human
rights. All sessions are open to the public without charge.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Saad Eddin Ibrahim, a former political prisoner in
Egypt and now one of the Middle East’s best-known advocates for
democracy and human rights, will deliver the keynote address at the 25th
annual Providence Journal/Brown University Public Affairs Conference.
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The two-day conference, Sunday and Monday, April 3 and 4, 2005, will
focus on the question, “Democracy in the Middle East: Is It Possible?”
Both sessions – Ibrahim’s keynote Sunday at 4:30 p.m. and a panel
discussion of scholars and journalists Monday at 6:30 p.m. – will take
place in the Salomon Center for Teaching, located on The College Green.
The conference is open to the public without charge; doors open 30
minutes before the event begins.

Ibrahim’s address is being presented by the University as a Stephen A.
Ogden Jr. ’60 Memorial Lecture on International Affairs.

“The elections in Afghanistan, Iraq and among the Palestinians, as well as plans for multiparty elections in Egypt, have stirred a new debate about whether democratic institutions and a culture of freedom can take root in the Middle East,” said Michael Chapman, vice president for public affairs and University relations at Brown. “The possibility of democratic reform in that part of the world is arguably the most strategically important issue on America’s foreign policy agenda, and it is one that will confront us for many years to come.”

“We are fortunate to have at this year’s conference a group of experienced and very interesting people from both the Middle East and the United States to debate this question,” Chapman continued. “They will bring to our community an array of informed perspectives, both personal and intellectual, about whether democracy is really possible in a region that has, so far, resisted the spread of democracy that has extended to most other parts of the world.”
Saad

Saad Eddin Ibrahim

Keynote speaker Saad Eddin Ibrahim, a sociologist by training, is a
vocal critic of the regime of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. His
published criticism and his activities as a sociology professor at the
American University of Cairo and founder of the Ibn Khaldun Center for
Development Studies led to his indictment and conviction of defamation
in May 2002. He was sentenced to seven years in prison and had served
nearly one and a half years before Egypt’s highest criminal court
reversed his conviction.

Ibrahim is now a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson
International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C., speaking and
writing on Egyptian political affairs and working on a project titled
“Egypt’s Transition from Dictatorship.” He remains professor of
political sociology at the American University in Cairo and chairman of
the board of the Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies.

The Panel Discussion

The conference continues Monday, April 4, with a panel discussion on
democracy in the Middle East at 6:30 p.m. in the Salomon Center.
Panelists will include:

* Joshua Muravchik, resident scholar, the American Enterprise
Institute. His recent books include Heaven on Earth: The Rise and
Fall of Socialism; The Imperative of American Leadership; and
Exporting Democracy.
* Salameh Nematt, Washington bureau chief, Al-Hayat and the Lebanese
Broadcasting Corp. Nematt has covered the Iran-Iraq war, the Iraqi
invasion of Kuwait that led to Desert Storm and developments in the
Arab-Israeli peace process. In addition to reports for a number of
news organizations, Nematt also served briefly as an advisor to the
King of Jordan.
* Nora Boustany, diplomatic correspondent, the Washington Post.
Boustany has been posted to the Middle East, serving as special
correspondent in Beirut, Lebanon, bureau chief in Amman, Jordan, and
a roving correspondent in most countries of the Middle East. She has
won many awards for her coverage, including the George Polk Award
for foreign news coverage.
* John R. (Rick) MacArthur, journalist, author, and president and
publisher of Harper's Magazine. A former assistant foreign editor
for UPI, MacArthur has written for the New York Times, the Wall
Street Journal and other national publications. His books include
Second Front: Censorship and Propaganda in the Gulf War and The
Selling of Free Trade: NAFTA, Washington, and the Subversion of
Democracy.

The Stephen A. Ogden Jr. ’60 Memorial Lectures

Since 1965, the Ogden Lectureship has presented the University and its
neighboring communities with authoritative and timely addresses about
international affairs.

Stephen A. Ogden Jr., a member of the Brown class of 1960, died in 1963
of injuries sustained in an automobile accident during his junior year.
The Ogden family established the lectureship to achieve what Ogden had
hoped to accomplish through a career in international relations: the
advancement of international peace and understanding.

As the University’s most distinguished lectureship in international
affairs, the Ogden Lectures have brought many heads of state, diplomats
and other observers of the international scene to Providence. Current
and former heads of state have included King Hussein and Queen Noor of
Jordan, Mario Soares of Portugal, Carlos Salinas of Mexico, Shimon Peres
of Israel, Mikhail Gorbachev of the former Soviet Union, Ragnar Grímsson
of Iceland, Fernando Henrique Cardoso of Brazil, Valery Giscard
d'Estaing of France, Bettino Craxi of Italy, and others.

Providence Journal/Brown University Public Affairs Conference

The Providence Journal/Brown University Public Affairs Conference was
originally conceived as a single lecture to celebrate the 150th
anniversary of the Journal in 1980. At their first meeting, however, the
conference founders – Michael P. Metcalf, chairman and publisher of the
Providence Journal Co., and Howard R. Swearer, 15th president of Brown
University – immediately expanded the original lecture idea to a
three-day symposium featuring national experts.

The Public Affairs Conference was intended to be a contribution to
public discourse in Providence and Rhode Island by presenting
distinguished and informed commentators on issues of public concern.
Recent conferences have considered Homeland Insecurity: The Changing
Face of Immigration (2004); A Time of Great Consequence: America and the
World (the United States as the lone superpower, 2003); The City: No
Limits (2002); and The Dignity of Children (2001).

Democracy in the Middle East: Is It Possible?

4:30 p.m. Sunday, April 3, 2005
Salomon Center for Teaching
The Stephen A. Ogden Jr. ’60 Memorial Lecture on International Affairs

Saad Eddin Ibrahim, democracy and human rights activist, former
political prisoner in Egypt

6:30 p.m. Monday, April 4, 2005
Salomon Center for Teaching
Panel discussion

Joshua Muravchik, resident scholar, the American Enterprise Institute
Salameh Nematt, Washington bureau chief, Al-Hayat and the Lebanese
Broadcasting Corp.
Nora Boustany, diplomatic correspondent, the Washington Post
John R. (Rick) MacArthur, journalist, president and publisher of
Harper's Magazine

Connection between Ali-Reza's murder and Egypt/Arab riots

2011-02-12T11:56:00.000-08:00

With Mubarak being removed from power by the Egyptian Army on the 32nd anniversarry of the overthrow of Mohammed Reza Shah in Iran. While going over farah's memoirs last night I noticed that Ali-Reza was murdered on the 32nd anniversarry of the guadeloupe meeting where carter, callaghan, d'estaing, and schmidt agreed to remove Mohammed Reza Shah and back khomeini. Interestingly enough not only have farah and reza been silent about their friend Mubarak, but jehan sadat, widow of Mubarak's predecessor Anwar el-Sadat, has been silent too. Curiously jehan sadat was participating in the world affairs council's Middle East world leaders summit from January 3-5 2011. That summit lasted from December 29, 2010-January 12, 2011, and included zalmy khalilzad, jim baker, bill moyers, karen armstrong, joan brown campbell, and aaron david miller, just days before the riots broke in the Arab countries. Coincidence, I think not.
Peter Khan Zendran

More on Egypt/cfr connection NOT being reported

2011-02-11T11:14:00.000-08:00

Today acting on a hunch I decided to check the
watson institute's website, rmembering what happended there and at brown
regarding egypt in 2005. I found that someone from watson has been in
with the crowds in Egypt
http://watsoninstitute.org/news_detail.cfm?id=1460
Also this event got my attention
http://watsoninstitute.org/news_detail.cfm?id=1458
Do some digging on cammett and you'll see she was in Lebanon when israel
invaded, coincidence? The other speaker ian straughn was one who helped
pirated my work on wikimapia.
Also notice this program as well
http://www.watsoninstitute.org/news_detail.cfm?id=1455
The choices program is the same one that did a half-assed program on
Iran which could not answer detailed questions about Iran's history and
government.
The new world order at work here folks.
Peter Khan Zendran

Mubarak hands power over to Army

2011-02-11T10:38:00.000-08:00

This is suprising, not only as Mubarak had vowed to hold on to power, but that the Army was able to do this without killing him. Notice also that Mubarak is not fleeing Egypt, but is staying in the South Sinai. What is not being asked is who persuaded the Army to do this, and of the reprecussions this will have on the region. Even stranger is the role al-jazeera has played in inciting these riots, instead of acting impartial they have played into the hands of the cfr controllers, as the editorial below by mark levine discussing a new world order demonstrates. Notice also the date this occured, exactly 32 years after the cia/mi6 guadeloupe backed khomeini seized control in Iran. This is NOT a popular uprising removing a dictator, this is history repeating itself as western factions incite the masses to remove someone they percieve as a threat.
Peter Khan Zendran

Middle East

Hosni Mubarak resigns as president

Egyptian president stands down and hands over power to the Supreme
Council for the Armed Forces.
Last Modified: 11 Feb 2011 16:19 GMT
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Pro-democracy protesters in Tahrir Square have vowed to take the
protests to a 'last and final stage' [AFP]

Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian president, has resigned from his post,
handing over power to the armed forces.

Omar Suleiman, the vice-president, announced in a televised address that
the president was "waiving" his office, and had handed over authority to
the Supreme Council of the armed forces.

Suleiman's short statement was received with a roar of approval and by
celebratory chanting and flag-waving from a crowd of hundreds of
thousands in Cairo's Tahrir Square, as well by pro-democracy campaigners
who attended protests across the country on Friday.

The crowd in Tahrir chanted "We have brought down the regime", while
many were seen crying, cheering and embracing one another.

Mohamed ElBaradei, an opposition leader, hailed the moment as being the
"greatest day of my life", in comments to the Associated Press news
agency.

"The country has been liberated after decades of repression,'' he said.

"Tonight, after all of these weeks of frustration, of violence, of
intimidation ... today the people of Egypt undoubtedly [feel they] have
been heard, not only by the president, but by people all around the
world," our correspondent at Tahrir Square reported, following the
announcement.

"The sense of euphoria is simply indescribable," our correspondent at
Mubarak's Heliopolis presidential palace, where at least ten thousand
pro-democracy activists had gathered, said.

Pro-democracy activists in the Egyptian capital had marched on the
presidential palace and state television buildings on Friday, the 18th
consecutive day of protests.

Anger at state television

At the state television building earlier in the day, thousands had
blocked people from entering or leaving, accusing the broadcaster of
supporting the current government and of not truthfully reporting on the
protests.

"The military has stood aside and people are flooding through [a gap
where barbed wire has been moved aside]," Al Jazeera's correspondent at
the state television building reported.

He said that "a lot of anger [was] generated" after Mubarak's speech
last night, where he repeated his vow to complete his term as president.

'Gaining momentum'

Outside the palace in Heliopolis, where at least ten thousand protesters
had gathered in Cairo, another Al Jazeera correspondent reported that
there was a strong military presence, but that there was "no indication
that the military want[ed] to crack down on protesters".

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She said that army officers had engaged in dialogue with protesters, and
that remarks had been largely "friendly".

Tanks and military personnel had been deployed to bolster barricades
around the palace.

Our correspondent said the crowd in Heliopolis was "gaining momentum by
the moment", and that the crowd had gone into a frenzy when two
helicopters were seen in the air around the palace grounds.

"By all accounts this is a highly civilised gathering. people are
separated from the palace by merely a barbed wire ... but nobody has
even attempted to cross that wire," she said.

As crowds grew outside the palace, Mubarak left Cairo on Friday for the
Red Sea resort of Sharm al-Shaikh, according to sources who spoke to Al
Jazeera.

In Tahrir Square, hundreds of thousands of protesters gathered, chanting
slogans against Mubarak and calling for the military to join them in
their demands.

Our correspondent at the square said the "masses" of pro-democracy
campaigners there appeared to have "clear resolution" and "bigger
resolve" to achieve their goals than ever before.

However, he also said that protesters were "confused by mixed messages"
coming from the army, which has at times told them that their demands
will be met, yet in communiques and other statements supported Mubarak's
staying in power until at least September.

Army statement

In a statement read out on state television at midday on Friday, the
military announced that it would lift a 30-year-old emergency law but
only "as soon as the current circumstances end".

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Thousands are laying siege to state television's office

The military said it would also guarantee changes to the constitution as
well as a free and fair election, and it called for normal business
activity to resume.

Al Jazeera's correspondent in Tahrir Square said people there were
hugely disappointed with that army statement, and had vowed to take the
protests to "a last and final stage".

"They're frustrated, they're angry, and they say protests need to go
beyond Liberation [Tahrir] Square, to the doorstep of political
institutions," she said.

Protest organisers have called for 20 million people to come out on
"Farewell Friday" in a final attempt to force Mubarak to step down.

Alexandria protests

Hossam El Hamalawy, a pro-democracy organiser and member of the
Socialist Studies Centre, said protesters were heading towards the
presidential palace from multiple directions, calling on the army to
side with them and remove Mubarak.

"People are extremely angry after yesterday's speech," he told Al
Jazeera. "Anything can happen at the moment. There is self-restraint all
over but at the same time I honestly can't tell you what the next step
will be ... At this time, we don't trust them [the army commanders] at
all."

An Al Jazeera reporter overlooking Tahrir said the side streets leading
into the square were filling up with crowds.

"It's an incredible scene. From what I can judge, there are more people
here today than yesterday night," she said.

Hundreds of thousands of protesters havehered
in the port city of Alexandria [AFP]
"The military has not gone into the square except some top commanders,
one asking people to go home ... I don't see any kind of tensions
between the people and the army but all of this might change very soon
if the army is seen as not being on the side of the people."

Hundreds of thousands were participating in Friday prayers outside a
mosque in downtown Alexandria, Egypt's second biggest city.

Thousands of pro-democracy campaigners also gathered outside a
presidential palace in Alexandria.

Egyptian television reported that large angry crowds were heading from
Giza, adjacent to Cairo, towards Tahrir Square and some would march on
the presidential palace.

Protests are also being held in the cities of Mansoura, Mahala, Tanta,
Ismailia, and Suez, with thousands in attendance.

Violence was reported in the north Sinai town of el-Arish, where
protesters attempted to storm a police station. At least one person was
killed, and 20 wounded in that attack, our correspondent said.

Dismay at earlier statement

In a televised address to the nation on Thursday, Mubarak said he was
handing "the functions of the president" to Vice-President Omar
Suleiman. But the move means he retains his title of president.

Halfway through his much-awaited speech late at night, anticipation
turned into anger among protesters camped in Tahrir Square who began
taking off their shoes and waving them in the air.

Immediately after Mubarak's speech, Suleiman called on the protesters to
"go home" and asked Egyptians to "unite and look to the future."

Union workers have joined the protests over the past few days,
effectively crippling transportation and several industries, and dealing
a sharper blow to Mubarak’s embattled regime.

Source: Al Jazeera and agencies

The shaping of a New World Order

If the revolutions of 2011 succeed, they will force the creation of a
very different regional and world system.
Mark LeVine Last Modified: 06 Feb 2011 15:07 GMT
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Armed women on guard at one of Tehran's main squares at the start of the
Iranian Revolution [Getty]

I remember the images well, even though I was too young to understand
their political significance. But they were visceral, those photos in
the New York Times from Tehran in the midst of its revolutionary moment
in late 1978 and early 1979. Not merely exuberance jumped from the page,
but also anger; anger fuelled by an intensity of religious fervour that
seemed so alien as to emanate from another planet to a "normal" pre-teen
American boy being shown the newspaper by his father over breakfast.

Many commentators are comparing Egypt to Iran of 32 years ago, mostly to
warn of the risks of the country descending into some sort of Islamist
dictatorship that would tear up the peace treaty with Israel, engage in
anti-American policies, and deprive women and minorities of their rights
(as if they had so many rights under the Mubarak dictatorship).

I write this on February 2, the precise anniversary of Khomeini's return
to Tehran from exile. It's clear that, while religion is a crucial
foundation of Egyptian identity and Mubarak's level of corruption and
brutality could give the Shah a run for his money, the situations are
radically different on the ground.

A most modern and insane revolt

The following description, I believe, sums up what Egypt faces today as
well as, if not better, than most:

"It is not a revolution, not in the literal sense of the term, not a way
of standing up and straightening things out. It is the insurrection of
men with bare hands who want to lift the fearful weight, the weight of
the entire world order that bears down on each of us - but more
specifically on them, these ... workers and peasants at the frontiers of
empires. It is perhaps the first great insurrection against global
systems, the form of revolt that is the most modern and the most insane.

One can understand the difficulties facing the politicians. They outline
solutions, which are easier to find than people say ... All of them are
based on the elimination of the [president]. What is it that the people
want? Do they really want nothing more? Everybody is quite aware that
they want something completely different. This is why the politicians
hesitate to offer them simply that, which is why the situation is at an
impasse. Indeed, what place can be given, within the calculations of
politics, to such a movement, to a movement through which blows the
breath of a religion that speaks less of the hereafter than of the
transfiguration of this world?"

The thing is, it was offered not by some astute commentator of the
current moment, but rather by the legendary French philosopher Michel
Foucault, after his return from Iran, where he witnessed firsthand the
intensity of the revolution which, in late 1978, before Khomeini's
return, really did seem to herald the dawn of a new era.

Foucault was roundly criticised by many people after Khomeini hijacked
the revolution for not seeing the writing on the wall. But the reality
was that, in those heady days where the shackles of oppression were
literally being shattered, the writing was not on the wall. Foucault
understood that it was precisely a form of "insanity" that was necessary
to risk everything for freedom, not just against one's government, but
against the global system that has nuzzled him in its bosom for so long.

What was clear, however, was that the powers that most supported the
Shah, including the US, dawdled on throwing their support behind the
masses who were toppling him. While this is by no means the principal
reason for Khomeini's successful hijacking of the revolution, it
certainly played an important role in the rise of a militantly
anti-American government social force, with disastrous results.

While Obama's rhetoric moved more quickly towards the Egyptian people
than did President Carter's towards Iranians three decades ago, his
refusal to call for Mubarak's immediate resignation raises suspicion
that, in the end, the US would be satisfied if Mubarak was able to ride
out the protests and engineer a "democratic" transition that left
American interests largely intact.

The breath of religion

Foucault was also right to assign such a powerful role to religion in
the burgeoning revolutionary moment - and he experienced what he called
a "political spirituality", But, of course, religion can be defined in
so many ways. The protestant theologian Paul Tillich wonderfully
described it as encompassing whatever was of "ultimate concern" to a
person or people. And today, clearly, most every Egyptian has gotten
religion from this perspective.

So many people, including Egypt's leaders, have used the threat of a
Muslim Brotherhood takeover to justify continued dictatorship, with Iran
as the historical example to justify such arguments. But the comparison
is plagued by historical differences. The Brotherhood has no leader of
Khomeini's stature and foreswore violence decades ago. Nor is there a
culture of violent martyrdom ready to be actualised by legions of young
men, as occurred with the Islamic Revolution. Rather than trying to take
over the movement, which clearly would never have been accepted - even
if its leaders wanted to seize the moment, the Brotherhood is very much
playing catch up with the evolving situation and has so far worked
within the rather ad hoc leadership of the protests.

But it is equally clear that religion is a crucial component of the
unfolding dynamic. Indeed, perhaps the iconic photo of the revolution is
one of throngs of people in Tahrir Square bowed in prayers, literally
surrounding a group of tanks sent there to assert the government's
authority.

This is a radically different image of Islam than most people - in the
Muslim world as much as in the West - are used to seeing: Islam taking
on state violence through militant peaceful protest; peaceful jihad
(although it is one that has occurred innumerable times around the
Muslim world, just at a smaller scale and without the world's press
there to capture it).

Such imagery, and its significance, is a natural extension of the
symbolism of Mohamed Bouazizi's self-immolation, an act of jihad that
profoundly challenges the extroverted violence of the jihadis and
militants who for decades, and especially since 9/11, have dominated the
public perception of Islam as a form of political spirituality.

Needless to say, the latest images - of civil war inside Tahrir Square -
will immediately displace these other images. Moreover, if the violence
continues and some Egyptian protesters lose their discipline and start
engaging in their own premeditated violence against the regime and its
many tentacles, there is little doubt their doing so will be offered as
"proof" that the protests are both violent and organised by the Muslim
Brotherhood or other "Islamists".

A greater threat than al-Qa'eda

As this dynamic of nonviolent resistance against entrenched regime
violence plays out, it is worth noting that so far, Osama bin Laden and
his Egyptian deputy, Ayman Al-Zawahiri, have had little - if anything -
of substance to say about the revolution in Egypt. What they've failed
to ignite with an ideology of a return to a mythical and pure beginning
- and a strategy of human bombs, IEDs, and planes turned into missiles -
a disciplined, forward-thinking yet amorphous group of young activists
and their more experienced comrades, "secular" and "religious" together
(to the extent these terms are even relevant anymore), have succeeded in
setting a fire with a universal discourse of freedom, democracy and
human values - and a strategy of increasingly calibrated chaos aimed at
uprooting one of the world's longest serving dictators.

As one chant in Egypt put it succinctly, playing on the longstanding
chants of Islamists that "Islam is the solution", with protesters
shouting: "Tunisia is the solution."

For those who don't understand why President Obama and his European
allies are having such a hard time siding with Egypt's forces of
democracy, the reason is that the amalgam of social and political forces
behind the revolutions in Tunisia, Egypt today - and who knows where
tomorrow - actually constitute a far greater threat to the "global
system" al-Qa'eda has pledged to destroy than the jihadis roaming the
badlands of Afghanistan, Pakistan, or Yemen.

Mad as hell

Whether Islamist or secularist, any government of "of the people" will
turn against the neoliberal economic policies that have enriched
regional elites while forcing half or more of the population to live
below the $2 per day poverty line. They will refuse to follow the US or
Europe's lead in the war on terror if it means the continued large scale
presence of foreign troops on the region's soil. They will no longer
turn a blind eye, or even support, Israel's occupation and siege across
the Occupied Palestinian territories. They will most likely shirk from
spending a huge percentage of their national income on bloated
militaries and weapons systems that serve to enrich western defence
companies and prop up autocratic governments, rather than bringing
stability and peace to their countries - and the region as a whole.

They will seek, as China, India and other emerging powers have done, to
move the centre of global economic gravity towards their region, whose
educated and cheap work forces will further challenge the more expensive
but equally stressed workforces of Europe and the United States.

In short, if the revolutions of 2011 succeed, they will force the
creation of a very different regional and world system than the one that
has dominated the global political economy for decades, especially since
the fall of communism.

This system could bring the peace and relative equality that has so long
been missing globally - but it will do so in good measure by further
eroding the position of the United States and other "developed" or
"mature" economies. If Obama, Sarkozy, Merkel and their colleagues don't
figure out a way to live with this scenario, while supporting the
political and human rights of the peoples of the Middle East and North
Africa, they will wind up with an adversary far more cunning and
powerful than al-Qa'eda could ever hope to be: more than 300 million
newly empowered Arabs who are mad as hell and are not going to take it
any more.

Mark LeVine is a professor of history at UC Irvine and senior visiting
researcher at the Centre for Middle Eastern Studies at Lund University
in Sweden. His most recent books are Heavy Metal Islam (Random House)
and Impossible Peace: Israel/Palestine Since 1989 (Zed Books).

The views expressed in this article are the author's own and do not
necessarily reflect Al Jazeera's editorial policy.

Source: Al Jazeera

Bamiyan

2011-02-06T17:50:00.000-08:00

Something I found going through my archives and which I am posting here for others to read.

When Karabalgasun fell, it fell from its splendor as a gem of the
steppes, from its fame as the easternmost great center of the faith of
Mani, the Illuminator.
It is said that tens of thousands of dark, torch wielding horsemen
descended from north of the Orhon Valley, hailing down from the
monstrous hills surrounding the city before the dark of the night.
Flaming arrows were discharged, raining on palaces, temples and
pagodas like angels of death. The city soon found itself in hell,
perishing on a pit of fire and brimstone.
There was this Uighur prince, Tughlug Arslan Beg, who narrowly
escaped this Kyrgyz onslaught, which would bring the glory of the
Uighur empire to an abrupt end, after which Civilization would not
visit the valley of Karabalgasun for another 500 years. Tired and
dejected, Tughlug rode aimlessly, with a few of his vassals, toward
where the sun sets, where there still were followers of Mani, the
Illuminator.
"Beg, His Valiant Nobleness Arslan Beg, may your thirst of
spirit be quenched by the Light; May this Gobi desert be your ornate
rug; May the Eternal Sky be your yurt…" Rowshan, the jester, beat his
tambourine and started singing, hoping the cheer up his master.
"Rowshan, what's all that--- wouldn't a real yurt be more
helpful at this moment? When will we reach Samarkand?"
"Uh… Beg… Yes my Beg, another 13 days my Beg." --- All fell
silent as they marched on, observing a distant sandstorm ravaging the
ruinous ancient kingdoms of the Tarim Basin.
They finally reached Samarkand, only to find it overrun by
Tajik cavalrymen, who conducted raids of the Buddhist princedom and
garrisoned here, preparing for the investiture of their command of the
region by a certain Tahir ibn Hussein, the beloved of Allah and the
favorite of Caliph Harun al Rashid. There was not a decent Manichaeist
church to be found, all looted and carried to Tahir's fortress in
Balkh.
Tughlug clenched his teeth--- his face turned red with zeal---
and called upon his servants: "We will march southwest towards
Babylon, where the Prophet received the Angels of the Light. It is
there that I can find my peace of mind."
A few days on their southwestward journey, they arrived at a
site, a ghost town. They did not hesitate approaching this town, not
without awe and marvel, because--- presiding over the decayed adobes
and broken columns, were two giant statute of the prophet Buddha,
which, although weather beaten, still told of the heydays of a great
empire whose memories were otherwise long buried in the remote
history.
Stopping in front of the cavernous cliff where the Buddhas
were carved out, beholding this wonder of immortal hands, prince
Tughlug forgot about his grief and erupted into a hysterical joy,
covering his ears with both hands, screaming like a frenzied child,
his echo madly bouncing on the rocky walls in the surroundings over
and over again as if incarnating into ceaseless forms of existence
until it finally died down.
An old tattered man appeared in front of the crazed prince---
a dervish? No, a monk? No, a Brahmin, priest? A holy man. He seemed to
have just woken up from a long slumber, wearisome and cynical.
"Say, old man, what province on this great wide world are you
from?" Asked prince Tughlug.
"Young man, I am from Ard-allah, the Earth of God."
Tughlug startled a bit and Rowshan protested: "Over here is
Prince Tughlug Arslan Beg of Karabalgasun, Land of the Uighurs, the
Brave, Noble and Enlightened…"
Tughlug stopped Rowshan, looked up and surveyed around, and
rested his eyes on the old man: " Well then, Elder of Ard-allah… Do
you know… I am quite struck by the immensity of these… images of our
prophet Buddha. Who built it? When?"
"Yes my lord. These are in fact the monuments of the reigns of
Kushanshah Kanishka of old. His empire perished 500 years ago… They
said it wasn't men who destroyed this empire, for such a great empire
cannot be put down by human hands."
Tughlug felt a faintness seizing him, almost bringing him
aground from the saddle, and then he felt moistness blurring his eyes,
and wept. He said: " Old man, if you permit. My nation too, was such
that no mortal could destroy. On the night of its fall, I've seen the
Angels of Death. Now I am without home. Not even the faithful of Mani
are spared the mercy of God--- I just passed through Samarkand, that
city of Light. I saw wanton pillage and the rampage of believers of
the Arab religion. Come, Rowshan, come. Let's pray to Mani, for our
strength and deliverance."
The cynical old man interrupted: " Who is it that you are
praying to?"
"Pardon me?"
" Are you sure you are not praying to a dead man, for a dead
nation?"
Rowshan literally jumped up and, with rage, dragged the frail
old man to ground. He yelled hysterically to the offender: " You will
learn a lesson today, old… old beggar: do not insult a Uighur… do not
insult a Uighur before his Prince the Righteous, Pious and…" Tughlug's
face was also red with intensity.
The old man regained his balance, sat up on the dusty ground
and spoke with a panting voice: " Pri… Prince, a man is the most
powerful when he is without possession, most high when he is without
title. He will only see the true Light without prophets in between."
Tughlug burst in anger: " Lie! Pitiful lie! Mani is the
illuminator illuminated. It is through this window that Man can see
the true Light. He is the prophet of the Uighurs. It is from Mani that
we seek solace in misfortune. Although my nation is no more, my faith
lives on. It is in my prophet that my nation lives on and I know that
I am a noble prince of Uighur. The prophet is the pillar of my people
in exile, the pillar of my existence."
The old man, with a mysterious smile: "Oh no, my Lord the
Prince, don't let your existence blind you. You receive the Light
through the Heart. Your Ego is the curtain of the Heart; Nation is the
Ego of Humanity. Who are the prophets? What are the prophets but the
Light's shadow on Nations?" It took Tughlug quite a while to
contemplate on the old man's words, and then the prince burst into a
malignant laughter: "Hahaha, old fool… haha… I understand, I
understand that you are a mad, mad man…"
Tughlug then gathered his entourage and marched off in the
direction of Babylon again. Miles away from the giant cliffs, Tughlug
suddenly decided to turn back. Rowshan volunteered to go back alone
and chop that old man into pieces. But the prince stopped his horse
and gazed at the cliffs, murmured: " I've dreamed him… I've dreamed
him at the end of Babylon…"
By the way, later the prince bypassed the cliffs and Samarkand
on his way up to the marshes of Syr Darya. It is where he joined the
Oghuz nomads. There he would convert to Islam. One of his sons,
Seljuk, would seize Babylon, then called Baghdad and presided over an
empire reaching from Khorasan to Rum. The sons of Seljuk would see
Baghdad razed to the ground by the Mongols. But then an Oghuz vassal
of the Seljuks would again found a great empire extending from Iraq to
Europe to North Africa. It was these Ottomans, as they were call, who
proclaimed themselves to be the Caliphs of the Prophet, Amir of the
Faithful. And then, inevitably, this empire also fell.
Now the faithful of Islam lament the downfall of the
Caliphate. Some turn their grief and prayers into zeal and answer the
encroaching enemy forces with bullets and bombs.
It is a wintry day when the Taliban of Afghanistan capture
Bamiyan, where the great statues of Buddha stand. A Taliban minister,
as soon as he gets off the jeep, passes through the mortared rubbles
and corpses of Hazara fighters, and walks straight up to the open
ground facing the two badly weathered giants. He beholds these
monuments of awe, face turned red with intense zeal, and murmured:
"I've dreamed him… the mad man… I've dreamed him at the end of the
World…" And then he orders the demolition of the statues.

More Ali-Reza oddness

2011-02-06T17:49:00.000-08:00

I just checked the facebook page for Prince Ali-Reza. The link to my new article about his murder apparently has been taken down. Looks like someone is afraid of my getting the truth out.
Peter II, Khan-e-Mazendaran

Ghatl e Ali-Reza; Taman shud Pahlavi

2011-02-05T11:32:00.000-08:00

The death of Prince Ali-Reza on January 4, 2011 of a gunshot to the head under mysterious circumstances in Boston is one of great importance for Iran and World affairs. With the death of Ali-Reza the Pahlavi dynasty is effectively at an end, for reza Pahlavi has no proper heirs, and by this reza has demonstrated a complete neglect of duty and a pattern of disgraceful behavior which goes back to the 1980’s, and the handling of Ali-Reza’s death is the latest in this series of events.

Had the Pahlavi’s really cared about the death of Ali-Reza they would have made sure a thorough investigation was done into his death. Instead of making sure the Boston police did a thorough investigation of Ali-Reza’s death. Instead, they were quick to go along with reza Pahlavi’s lame excuse that his death was a suicide brought on by depression. It was the Iranian community in the Boston area, be they royalists or not, to notice that the Boston police did not do a proper investigation, that is not examining the neighbors, not checking for signs of forced entry, not handling the suicide note that was supposedly found and examining it properly, no proper ballistics test on the gun which supposedly killed Ali-Reza, in short doing everything to give cause to suspect his death was not a suicide. On top of it all reza Pahlavi chose to remain in Boston only for January 5, leaving that day and not attending any memorial services there for his brother or to meet with members of the Iranian community there who were effected by his loss.

As with any murder we must ask the question who benefits and who has benefitted. Certainly the Iranian community have not benefitted, that includes the mullahs. After all, as much as the mullahs were against Mohammed Reza Shah they as Muslims never would sanction any assassination that would create a topkill scenario for any family of their believers as this has done. Furthermore, there is an impending crisis over who would succeed ali khameni when he dies, and many mullahs are related to Iran’s royal families, and would be partial to a possible restoration, and as both reza and Farah have worked with the alavi foundation the mullahs have demonstrated they are not averse to Iran’s royals. This leads us to the Royalists. The same goes for Royalists, as many people forget that there are dozens of houses related to Iran’s royal dynasties, that despite their differences with the Pahlavi’s they would not want something like this to happen. The only benefit for royalists is that now Iran’s other royal houses will come into prominence as it is clear the Pahlavi’s are no longer in charge of Iran’s royalists.

This leads to the question who would want Ali-Reza dead. Clearly someone who wants to harm Iran. At present it has become clear that both the American government and the Zionists are having a hard time menacing Iran, be it by direct military invasion, economic and technological attrition, or by subversion within the country. After all, had Mohammed Reza Shah lived to 1982 without disruption Iran would have become strong enough to keep any country out of the Gulf, America included, and would have assisted the Palestinians in their struggle. Furthermore, there are transnational groups like the council on foreign relations who want Iran weak. Nor should we forget other factions in Asia and the region who would benefit from a weak Iran. As it is clear now who would want Ali-Reza dead we must now ask would someone have had the opportunity readily available to kill Ali-Reza? Were one to spend time in his neighborhood one would notice many hangouts for anarchists, political activists, and other radical action groups in the area, be they at colleges, bookstores, restaurants, or clubs, in other words plenty of place a potential assassin or terrorist would have to hang out while staking out Ali-Reza without drawing too much attention to themselves. The one remaining thing to succeed would be to have enough influence to make sure that the authorities would regard it as a suicide. At present not only have the Boston pd done a botch job in investigating Ali-Reza’s death no federal law enforcement agency is willing to investigate as well. This same scenario occurred around the strange deaths of Prince Shahriar, Princess Leila, Queen Soraya and Bijan Bakhtiari, Shabour Bakhtiar, Fereydoun Farrokhzad, which leads one to conclude that there was endorsement at some government level of any assassination.

As to the role of Farah and reza in covering up the true nature of Ali-Reza’s death one of two explanations abound. The first is that they are too distraught with grief, however if that were so they would not be acting so reclusive in avoiding the public, including those who share their grief. The second and most likely is that they know who did it, and if so there may be a degree of complicity in Ali-Reza’s death. If one would question why observe the behavior of Farah and reza since 1991 and you will see they have done everything to ruin the chances of a restoration in Iran. Consider their cremating Ali-Reza’s remains. Were the Pahlavi’s true Muslims they would not have done this, as Islam forbids cremation, were they closet Zoroastrians they would not have done it as Zoroastrianism expressly forbids cremation. However cremation would be an excellent way to cover up the true cause of death, which the Pahlavi’s clearly do not want know. Bear in mind that in Farah’s memoirs she clearly states she authorized a doctor to perform a procedure on Princess Leila which resulted in Leila’s death, after Leila had told Farah she did not want any contact with her.

Consider also why reza would not remain in Boston after January 5, nor would he and Farah attend any memorial services for Ali-Reza outside of Bethesda. Clearly they were afraid that someone in the Iranian community would have confronted them about the inconsistences with Ali-Reza’s death. Furthermore, form their behavior and the way the media related the news, I for instance did not learn the details until the morning of January 5 while doing work for RI’s Judiciary, it is clear the days of power and influence for the Pahlavi’s are over.

Odd censorship around Arab riots, facts few realize

2011-02-01T09:51:00.000-08:00

Last night ny call to coasttocoastam was cut off during conversation. Clearly someone listening in did not want me disclosing facts about the riots that are not being reported. Those include how rami khoury told Egyptian students at brown in september 2005 that in order to improve things in Egypt they had to get rid of Mubarak, or how brown let one of the 2005 Egyptian presidential candidates speak there during the spring 2005 semester when the entire Middle east studies dpt was on sabbatical. Most people forget the interconnections brown's faculty has with goldman sucks and the cfr, as many faculty there serve with those organizations, or how those groups manipulate elections in america and around the world. In america most people are familiar withacorn thuggery, most don't realize that acron and brown helpped rig the 2010 RI governor's race for linc chafee and the congressional race for Patrick Kennedy's seat.
In the Arab World most are not aware that the cfr/goldman sucks has a beef with the hashemites of Jordan and Morocco. The brown cronies in the cfr/goldman sucks are mad at the Hashemites as King Abdullah II, Prince Hassan, and Queen Noor pulled their donations and involvement from brown in 2008, as they are sick of the exceses of the cfr/godman sucks crew. If any trouble is to come in Jordan on belhalf of the cfr/goldman sucks crew expect it from the al-toukan family.
Notice also that Morocco is in the process of an arms expansion, which the cfr sees as a potential threat to their aims, and bear in mind that every major regime change in the Muslim World that has occured has happened when one of those countries has become strong enough to defend itself.
Peter Khan Zendran

Who's behind the Egypt riots?

2011-01-29T14:08:00.000-08:00

It's a good thing I heard about this piece last night on the savage
nation.
I remember back in 2005 brown university was hosting some of the 2005
Egyptian presidential candidates, at a time when the entire Middle east
Studies dpt was on sabbatical, and I shold not have to repeat the
goldman sucks/cfr connections brown has. If things get worse in Egypt
and spread to Jordan and Morocco, you will know the cfr has a hand in
this like in Iran in 2009.
Peter Khan Zendran

Egypt protests: America's secret backing for rebel leaders behind
uprising
The American government secretly backed leading figures behind the
Egyptian uprising who have been planning “regime change” for the
past three years, The Daily Telegraph has learned.

By Tim Ross, Matthew Moore and Steven Swinford 9:23PM GMT 28 Jan 2011

The American Embassy in Cairo helped a young dissident attend a
US-sponsored summit for activists in New York, while working to keep his
identity secret from Egyptian state police.

On his return to Cairo in December 2008, the activist told US diplomats
that an alliance of opposition groups had drawn up a plan to overthrow
President Hosni Mubarak and install a democratic government in 2011.

The secret document in full

He has already been arrested by Egyptian security in connection with the
demonstrations and his identity is being protected by The Daily
Telegraph.

The crisis in Egypt follows the toppling of Tunisian president Zine
al-Abedine Ben Ali, who fled the country after widespread protests
forced him from office.

The disclosures, contained in previously secret US diplomatic dispatches
released by the WikiLeaks website, show American officials pressed the
Egyptian government to release other dissidents who had been detained by
the police.

Mr Mubarak, facing the biggest challenge to his authority in his 31
years in power, ordered the army on to the streets of Cairo yesterday as
rioting erupted across Egypt.

Tens of thousands of anti-government protesters took to the streets in
open defiance of a curfew. An explosion rocked the centre of Cairo as
thousands defied orders to return to their homes. As the violence
escalated, flames could be seen near the headquarters of the governing
National Democratic Party.

Police fired rubber bullets and used tear gas and water cannon in an
attempt to disperse the crowds.

At least five people were killed in Cairo alone yesterday and 870
injured, several with bullet wounds. Mohamed ElBaradei, the pro-reform
leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner, was placed under house arrest after
returning to Egypt to join the dissidents. Riots also took place in
Suez, Alexandria and other major cities across the country.

William Hague, the Foreign Secretary, urged the Egyptian government to
heed the “legitimate demands of protesters”. Hillary Clinton, the US
Secretary of State, said she was “deeply concerned about the use of
force” to quell the protests.

In an interview for the American news channel CNN, to be broadcast
tomorrow, David Cameron said: “I think what we need is reform in
Egypt. I mean, we support reform and progress in the greater
strengthening of the democracy and civil rights and the rule of law.”

The US government has previously been a supporter of Mr Mubarak’s
regime. But the leaked documents show the extent to which America was
offering support to pro-democracy activists in Egypt while publicly
praising Mr Mubarak as an important ally in the Middle East.

In a secret diplomatic dispatch, sent on December 30 2008, Margaret
Scobey, the US Ambassador to Cairo, recorded that opposition groups had
allegedly drawn up secret plans for “regime change” to take place
before elections, scheduled for September this year.

The memo, which Ambassador Scobey sent to the US Secretary of State in
Washington DC, was marked “confidential” and headed: “April 6
activist on his US visit and regime change in Egypt.”

It said the activist claimed “several opposition forces” had
“agreed to support an unwritten plan for a transition to a
parliamentary democracy, involving a weakened presidency and an
empowered prime minister and parliament, before the scheduled 2011
presidential elections”. The embassy’s source said the plan was
“so sensitive it cannot be written down”.

Ambassador Scobey questioned whether such an “unrealistic” plot
could work, or ever even existed. However, the documents showed that the
activist had been approached by US diplomats and received extensive
support for his pro-democracy campaign from officials in Washington. The
embassy helped the campaigner attend a “summit” for youth activists
in New York, which was organised by the US State Department.

Cairo embassy officials warned Washington that the activist’s identity
must be kept secret because he could face “retribution” when he
returned to Egypt. He had already allegedly been tortured for three days
by Egyptian state security after he was arrested for taking part in a
protest some years earlier.

The protests in Egypt are being driven by the April 6 youth movement, a
group on Facebook that has attracted mainly young and educated members
opposed to Mr Mubarak. The group has about 70,000 members and uses
social networking sites to orchestrate protests and report on their
activities.

The documents released by WikiLeaks reveal US Embassy officials were in
regular contact with the activist throughout 2008 and 2009, considering
him one of their most reliable sources for information about human
rights abuses.

Prince Ali-Reza's Boston Memorial Service

2011-01-09T17:43:00.000-08:00

I would like to thank those who turned out last night on the Boston Common to attend and participate in Prince Ali-Reza's Memorial Service. Below is a video of my closing prayer at the service

Links to more photos of that event and other Memorial services can be found at the link below
http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=192162287465823&id=176036349103848
JAVID IRAN
Peter II, Khan-e-Mazendaran

Oddness in Prince Ali-Reza’s death

2011-01-06T12:21:00.001-08:00

As of late there are inconsistencies in the reports of Prince Ali-Reza’s untimely death. Here they are.
1. The boston police have refused to rule his partner, Sara Tabatabai, or any of his neighbors as a murder suspect, insisting on Sara’s story that it was a suicide.
2. The boston police did not properly contain the crime scene, literally allowing people to freely access the building and neighborhood during the investigation, thus not allowing to check if anyone had broken in or had behaved suspiciously.
3. Neither reza Pahlavi or the boston police are willing to release any copy of the suicide note or make it available for examination by experts.
4. His family is insisting he suffered from depression when he exhibited no signs of it throughout his life.
5. despite reportedly being at the Fairmount Copley Place hotel reza Pahlavi has not organized any funeral service arrangements in boston, despite the large Iranian community there no memorial services there are planned, and plans to cremate Ali-Reza’s body, which goes against Muslim practice, and dump the ashes in the Caspian Sea, despite the Pahlavis being unable to enter Iran at present.
On a personal note the last time I was at an event with Prince Ali-Reza was exactly 5 years ago today at a casmii forum at MIT, and I regularly walked by his house during my trips to boston.
Peter II, Khan-e-Mazendaran

Prince Ali-Reza 1966-2011

2011-01-05T12:53:00.001-08:00

Last night I heard the news of the death of Prince Ali-Reza, son of
Mohammed Reza Shah, in Boston.
Like many, this news has shocked me, but we must keep ourselves calm in
this time.
We must seek the truth regarding his death, as the press reports are too
dismissive. Like Princess Leila, Queen Soyara, Bijan Bakhtiari, and
other untimely deaths of Iranians, this is another shocker and must be
investigated. We must not let grief cloud our judgment.
Of importance as well is how his passing will be observed. Personally
distressing is he died on the last day of Maidyarem Ghambar. Even more
distressing is the fact that with all the press regarding his death no
memorial services have been planned.
As with any tragedy we must work together to become stronger from a loss
like this.
Peter II, Khan-e-Mazendaran

Responding to leslie yeransian's whacko rants

2011-01-05T08:06:00.000-08:00

Recently I reactivated my phone at the urging of those who said you might have gotten your act together and wanted to contact me. Instead, I found you are more of your fuckup self detached from reality.
Not only will people not let me forget how you lied to me and used me in 2008 your name continues to be mentioned constantly in connection with mine. And not only is it from people on the street, but from people in positions of authority who are fed up with your behavior, be it your lies or starting confrontations.
You can complain about me all you want, but the more you do so the more people will see you for the piece of human shit you are.
BRING IT ON

More oddness around Zendran impersonation

2010-12-28T12:23:00.000-08:00

Recently marjan/persia dicided to take things further with her site. That is that she decided to leave only selected comments up and switch to wordpress for all other comments. However, when you try to log in with your wordpress account it does not let you log on with your wordpress acount. Either she knows shit about the web or is up to her headfucking again.
Speaking of comments I'm suprised she's avoided my public page on facebook after I posted that video of my State Quarter collection, I guess she's afraid to see what a real loser she is when it comes to real cash. Or to follow that video to the youtube video message I made which gave dick holbrooke his fatal heart attack, removing the scourge which menaced Iran and who came up with the idea of sparking the green movement so america could control Iran's opposition movement.
What a divoneh jendeh-e-yahudamrika.

Zendran impersonations removed

2010-12-22T10:30:00.000-08:00

I just checked those links and found that those comments have been removed. I wonder why?
Also interesting that marjan has not mentioned this on her sites, yet she is clearly following me online, as I have traced her views back to her santa clara neighborhood.
As I have said before, if you are going to follow me online be honest about it.

Zendran impersonated online

2010-12-20T15:19:00.000-08:00

Within hours of my making that last post marjan/aka persia decied to impersonate me on her site. Below are links to comments she made on her website which she made using my name.
First one
http://www.clubpersiapele.com/biography/#comment-429
Second one
http://www.clubpersiapele.com/persia-pele-pictures/persia-pele-in-her-slutty-black-boots/#comment-426
Third one
http://www.clubpersiapele.com/persia-pele-pictures/persia-pele-so-sexy-in-her-glasses/#comment-427
Not only did I NOT make those comments they were made when I was NOT online whatsoever. This jendeh-e-yahudamrika is begging for trouble.
Peter Z

More online oddness

2010-12-18T13:19:00.001-08:00

Recently I noticed on wednesday through friday major oddness on facebook. Currently I have been working on a project there on naval satellite imaging, which tuesday night revieved support from members of the us military. From wednesday to friday I experienced trouble on my facebook account when uploading images or editing that page, but not since then. During those days someone linked up to me there who uses the name persia pele, real name marjan faritous of santa clara, got it in her head to pull another of her crazy acts, this time directing it at me by bragging she was a cia snitch. Since friday I have blocked that jendeh-e-amrika from my sites, as this kind of behavior in this day and age is inexcusable, and certainly not coincidental. It certainly is not coincidence that this occured imeadeatly after my celebrating dick holbrooke's death and the stuxnet virus being stopped. As we say where I live you join the snitches you get stiches.
Peter Z

Good riddance dick holbrooke

2010-12-14T09:18:00.000-08:00

To say the least I am overjoyed to hear that this piece of human shit
who has caused suffering for me personally and for millions got his, I
am only sad I did not whack this fucker myself. Not only was he
responsible for the legal problems I experienced at brown and the watson
institute by falsely claiming I was menacing him and giving the brown
pigs permission to use his third floor office as a stakeout point
against me, not to mention taking my writings from Chapter 8 of my first
book and twisting my material to cause problems in Iran, Afghanistan,and
Pakistan, he also created conflict in Easterm Europe,in short caused
suffering to people in lands my father's family comes from. My
condolonces go to Jovanka Tito, Mira Markovic, and those in Eastern
Europe and Western and Central Asia and throughout the World, even in
america, who felt his menaced in the name of peace for america,and I
must thank Chris Lydon for tipping me off in the summer of 2008 that
holbrooke was the evil genius responsible for my legal hell year in
2008. The World would have been better off had he never been born, and
I hope he rests in pieces in hell.
Also notice 2 other odd coincidences,there is no definitive biography of dick holbrooke,and his aorta rupture which lead to his death happened within hours of my posting a video message aimed at himand others on youtube. Coincidence?

http://www.watsoninstitute.org/news_detail.cfm?id=1433
In Memoriam: Richard Holbrooke, Peace Negotiato

December 14, 2010 Ambassador Richard Holbrooke is being remembered at
Brown and around the world today for his wide-ranging diplomatic
achievements, following his death yesterday at the age of 69. University
President Ruth Simmons issued a statement last night mourning the loss
of a man who was a commanding figure on the world stage but also an
engaged member of the Brown community, as a graduate of the
University’s class of ’62, former editor of the Brown Daily Herald,
honorary Brown doctor of law, former member of the Watson Institute’s
board of overseers, and most recently, Brown professor at large based at
the Institute.

While a professor here, prior to assuming the role of US special envoy
to Afghanistan and Pakistan, Holbrooke focused his attention on students
– holding study groups on such subjects as “Secrets of Diplomatic
Styles” and urging students to get involved in the world around them.
“You’ve got to get engaged and you mustn’t despair,” he said in
a major lecture on campus in October 2007. “It’s your opportunity to
participate and I urge you to do so.”

He also contributed his singular insight in collaboration with faculty
members on such research activities as the Human Terrain documentary on
US military strategy in Afghanistan and Iraq and on the book project for
Blue Helmets, Black Markets: The Business of Survival in the Siege of
Sarajevo.

Holbrooke, who is most recognized as the chief architect of the 1995
Dayton peace agreement that ended the war in Bosnia, “lived a life of
courage, usefulness and reputation,” President Simmons said. “Though
we will miss his presence and determination, his legacy will endure,
inspiring generations to strive for peace.”

More on wikimedia discredibility

2010-12-05T13:27:00.000-08:00

Below is the exact text of an e-mail from norman pearlstine's people in
regards to comments he made on September 19, 2007 about
wikipedia/wikimedia sources not being credible. Notice what is most
interesting is how he is afraid to be quoted on this, and if wiki-.org
sources are not credible why is he afraid to be quoted? This certainly
gives substance to rumors that wikimedia, including wikileaks, are not
the independent info sources people are lead to believe.

Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 2:42 PM
From: "Fasulo, Miranda"
To: "Peter Khan Zendran"
Subject: RE: For Norman Pearlstine, please send to him.

Dear Peter,
Mr. Pearlstine's office phoned and said that they would prefer that he
not be quoted.
Sorry,
Miranda

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Khan Zendran [mailto:peterkhanzendran@fastmail.fm]
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 9:30 PM
To: miranda1@brown.edu
Cc: babara_stallings@brown.edu
Subject: For Norman Pearlstine, please send to him.

Hi
I had asked earlier today about contacting Norman Pearlstine.
The reason is to quote what he said at his lecture on 9/19 aduring the
q&a session of his lecture about wikipedia not being a credible source
of information. I checked the video archive of his lecture and saw the
q&a session was edited out. Recently, I have experienced identity theft
and slander on wikipedia and wikimapia and have been speaking out
against both wikipedia and wikimapia, as they encourage this behavior.
Not only do I wish to quote Mr. Pearlstine on what he said, as his words
lend weight to this argument, but also show him and anyone else at
Watson firsthand evidence of discredible actions, including false info
and slander, on wikipedia and wikimapia.
Sincerely
Peter Khan Zendran

New security measures after murders of Iranian Nuclear scientists

2010-12-02T16:07:00.000-08:00

Hopefully Iran will make these measures tighter, not only for
scientists, but for it's equipment. Bear in mind with the way the
stuxnet virus was released, Iran's rapid recovery from it, and the
timing of these murders, along with clinton's action in the region and
the saudi king calling for war with Iran, it appears there is an
infiltrator in Iran's military and Nuclear Program, and I don't mean mo
forouzandeh.

News - English
News numbre: 8909110851
2010-12-02 - 19:24

Tehran to Intensify Security Measures for Iranian Scientists

TEHRAN (FNA)- A senior Iranian official announced that the country has
initiated proper measures to boost security for the Iranian scientists.

"We have been keen on [providing] security for our scientists and
specialists since last year, and based on a recent decision, protection
measures will be multiplied and other protection techniques will also be
applied," Head of Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Ali Akbar
Salehi said on Thursday.

The announcement came two days after Two Iranian university professors
Fereidoon Abbasi Davani and Majid Shahriari were assassinated in
separate terrorist bomb attacks here in Tehran on Monday morning with
the latter killed immediately after the blast.

Another Iranian university professor and nuclear scientist, Massoud Ali
Mohammadi, was also assassinated in a terrorist bomb attack in Tehran in
January.

Tehran Police Chief Brigadier General Hossein Sajedinia said a
motorcycle approached Shahriari's car and attached a bomb to the car
which exploded a few seconds later.

He added that in a separate incident terrorists attached another bomb to
Abbasi's car and escaped.

Salehi further said that the enemy has realized that Iran's nuclear
activities are progressing considerably well and have turned into a
power icon for the Iranian nation, so they are trying to deprive the
nation of this power.

www.farsnews.com
©2006 Fars News Agency. All Rights Reserved

Iran- wiki-media/leak connection NOT being reported

2010-12-01T09:59:00.001-08:00

With all the fuss over wikileaks being reported people are forgetting
several important facts about wikimedia/leaks, and also how wikimedia
has been biased against Iran. Last night I got the niac newsletter
discussing wikileaks, however they ignored several important facts.
The first and most important is that wikimedia, be it wikipedia,
wikimapia, or wikileaks, is run by a cabal of some 400 people who are
connected largely by the internet. They are the ones who approve what
is said on wikimedia, whether it is true or not. If you doubt this go
to the discussion board on wikimapia and see how wikimapia created a n
korakine mentions this himself. Below are several excellent examples of
this.
1. Go to wikimapia and go to Bandar Abbas Navy base. There you will
see that the people who run wikimedia/mapia repeatedly edited it as
"main raghead navy base" and that the main dispute on wikimapia began
when a person who had served in the australian navy put up false
information about the Iranian Navy, even disputing the fact that the
Sahand was raised despite the fact one could clearly see the remnants of
the hull of the Sahand in Bandar Abbas drydock. That person made a
slipup when he leaked the adelaide incident, where the australian FFG
adelaide was detained for several hours by Iranian PT Craft near Bandar
Abbas, and the australian navy confirmed this shortly thereafter and
soon decomissioned the adelaide. The e-mail of that individual is
joewhi2000@yahoo.com and he continues to put out false and racist info
about Iran on wikimedia.
2. Check the wikipedia article for Princess Leila. Not only does it
repeatedly put out false info about her life, saying she graduated from
brown university when she in fact dropped out of there in 1991 after
being hazed, it wiwll not allow facts and evidence to be posted about
her murder on wikimedia/pedia, and anyone who tries to correct that
article by showing evidence her death was murder has their work undone.
Furthermore, the editors at wikimedia/pedia will NOT meet with anyone in
person to se any evidence supporting those who say Princess Leila was
murdered, as they do repeatedly with others they do not like and
slander.
Just go to wikimedia and see for yourself how Iran is slandered there,
you will find plenty of evidence.

Update on Iran/Asia worm attack

2010-11-24T16:40:00.000-08:00

This is especially enlightening as
1. I got this from MIT's the tech which is the same paper which printed
that racist opinion on Iran in february.
2. It details how Computers in India and Indonesia were hit by it as
well. They were targeted to
3. Make it look like a random worm, which is bullshit because
4. India operates several israeli PT Craft and Indonesia has German and
Dutch built warships, as well as other German built military equipment
which iran also operates.
Peter Khan Zendran

Worm in Iran was perfect for sabotaging centrifuges
By William J. Broadand David E. Sanger
THE NEW YORK TIMES
November 19, 2010
Experts dissecting the computer worm suspected of being aimed at
Iran’s nuclear program have determined that it was precisely
calibrated in a way that could send nuclear centrifuges wildly out of
control.

Their conclusion, while not definitive, begins to clear some of the fog
around the Stuxnet worm, a malicious program detected this year on
computers, primarily in Iran but also India, Indonesia and other
countries.

The paternity of the worm is still in dispute, but in recent weeks
officials from Israel have broken into wide smiles when asked whether
Israel was behind the attack, or knew who was. American officials have
suggested it originated abroad.

The new forensic work narrows the range of targets and deciphers the
worm’s plan of attack. Computer analysts say Stuxnet does its damage
by making quick changes in the rotational speed of motors, shifting them
rapidly up and down.

Changing the speed “sabotages the normal operation of the industrial
control process,” Eric Chien, a researcher at the computer security
company Symantec, wrote in a blog post.

Those fluctuations, nuclear analysts said in response to the report, are
a recipe for disaster among the thousands of centrifuges spinning in
Iran to enrich uranium, which can fuel reactors or bombs. Rapid changes
can cause them to blow apart. Reports issued by international inspectors
reveal that Iran has experienced many problems keeping its centrifuges
running, with hundreds removed from active service since summer 2009.

Intelligence officials have said they believe that a series of covert
programs are responsible for at least some of that decline. So when Iran
reported this year that it was battling the Stuxnet worm, many experts
immediately suspected that it was a state-sponsored cyberattack.

The computer analysis, Albright’s Wednesday report concluded, “makes
a legitimate case that Stuxnet could indeed disrupt or destroy”
Iranian centrifuge plants.

The latest evidence does not prove Iran was the target, and there have
been no confirmed reports of industrial damage linked to Stuxnet.

Rumors of Iran-Venezuela terror axis kicked around

2010-11-19T10:15:00.000-08:00

I heard this whacko discuss this on michael savage's radio show. If
anything this is based on conjecture and is designed to inflame
anti-Iranian attitudes and to incite a war either in the Persain Gulf or
in Latin America. Furthermore, those un sanctions are biased and un
sanctions in general are selectively enforced.

http://blogs.cbn.com/stakelbeckonterror/archive/2010/11/17/stakelbeck-on-terror-shoe-exclusive-the-iranvenezuela-axis.aspx
Stakelbeck on Terror Show Exclusive: The Iran/Venezuela Axis

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Iran/Venezuela military and nuclear cooperation grows (11:43 into the
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installation in Venezuela. Plus, never-before-seen photos of Venezuelan
officials meeting with Hezbollah in Lebanon (17:14 into the show)

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this growing threat in our hemisphere? (23:31 into the show)

News regarding possible Iran-zionist conflict

2010-11-14T17:42:00.000-08:00

I just received these today. Though this may seem like saber rattling consider that the zionists mentioned here are desperate people who might take as many people with them as possible. Remember a new generation of jews and israelis is coming of age which is sick of the zionist agenda and these zionists mentioned below know this. Consider also that Iran is being considered the culprit in Missile launches off California and New York, when the former was done by a Chinese Type 94 class SSBN, the latter by a Russian Project 941 class SSBN, and that any excuse is being looked for to attack Iran. Not to mention the usual gohenahang from Iranian dissident groups and their backers which only inflames a possible war.
Peter Khan Zendran

Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2010 12:40 AM
From: "William O. Beeman"
To: undisclosed-recipients: ;
Subject: [kuriltai] Israeli War Plans: Report From a Recent Visitor to Israel

Subject: Israeli War Plans: Report From a Recent Visitor to Israel
Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2010 16:51:44 -0500

I pass this along without making any claims to verify its accuracy. From a NYC-based Israeli source, who just returned from Tel Aviv, where he met with senior IDF and Likud figures, including Netanyahu. He is one of the Likud "princes" whose father was one of Menachim Begin's closest personal friends. He is very close with Benny Begin.

During a one week recent stay in Israel, he conferred with a military grouping that he is a part of. They are generally opposed to the Iran war adventure and have a very active position within the current IDF hierarchy. The incoming IDF chief of staff, Gen. Galant, is a very independent-minded soldier, with his own strong views on the folly of an Iran attack. He is no pacifist. He was in charge of the commando units that carried out the Gaza Flotilla operation. He also ran a 16-man commando operation into southern Lebanon, tageting Hezbollah sites, which went afoul. Hezbollah had the capacity to intercept transmissions from Israeli surveillance drones that were coordinating with the commando team, and Hezbollah was able to stage an ambush, that killed 16 members of the IDF team. While the incident was totally hushed up, there is a serious IDF internal probe underway into the failed mission. Despite these setbacks, Galant was made the new COS of the IDF.

There is a serious conflict between MOD Barak and the outgoing COS Ashkenazi, over the way that Barak handled his replacement, appointing Galant months before the February 2011 turnover. Now, the Knesset has shortened the wait time before a retired IDF general can enter politics, from three years to 18 months. Ashkenazi is already planning a challenge to Barak for the chairmanship of the Labor Party in the next election, and he will have a great deal of support in that effort.

Source had a meeting with Netanyahu, and came away concluding that he is completely irrational, and stubbornly refusing to listen to advice, even from Benny Begin. Netanyahu is aware of the weakened political position of Obama, after the Nov. 2 midterm elections, and he plans to take advantage of this weakness to launch a hit against Iran. He has solicited and won the backing of Sarcozy in this. Bibi had several private meetings with Sarcozy. Sarcozy has agreed to support Israel in an attack on Iran, and the recent Anglo-French military alliance, forged during Sarcozy's recent visit to London, could be part of this French support for the Israeli attack on Iran. Shades of Suez 1956? An Israeli-French-British entente? Sarcozy came to this arrangement with Netanyahu, in opposition to the European Union's war-avoidance plans, which involve an approach to Iran, offering lucrative economic deals, if they freeze their nuclear program and remove the pretext for military action. Germany has emerged as the leading channel for this approach to Iran, and Sarcozy, in part, is reacting against Merkel's role in this EU effort.

The Israelis, during the Bush period, developed and partially tested a new bunker-buster weapon, which my source described as a "semi-nuke." This was tested in the past in Nevada and in South Africa, but it still is in the final testing phases, even though approximately 100 of these bombs have already been produced. The concern is that the fallout is strictly contained, and this requires some further refining. At least one of the Iranian sites targeted by Israeli planners is close enough to the Iraq border, that they are deeply concerned that no fallout crosses into areas where there are American forces. F-22 fighter jets "loaned" to Israel by President Bush have now been taken back by Obama, and so the French will provide top of the line Mirage jets to Israel. The French are also providing mid-air refueling for the dozen planes (backed by 250 aircraft altogether) that will carry out the bombing raid.

U.S. intelligence is aware of this situation, and Gates is deeply concerned that the situation has slipped out of any U.S. controls, due to indecision by Obama. This is a factor in Gates' determination to leave the Administration before August 2011.

For Israeli war planners, the biggest fear in not whether the operation itself will succeed or fail. The biggest concern is what will happen the day after. It is already factored into the equation that there will be very strong reactions to such an Israeli attack. The stock markets around the globe will crash, and other chaos could result. Israel will be clearly blamed and even further ostracized for the attack.

Israel is well aware of the Iranian retaliatory capabilities through Hezbollah and Hamas. They know that Iranian support for both groups has tripled in recent months. The strike plan developed by Ashkenazi involves attacks on southern Lebanon and Gaza, as the planes take off for their targets inside Iran.

Israeli war planners are aware of, and are factoring in several other possibilities. First, there is a belief that Syria could make a military move to take back the Golan Heights as Israeli forces are focused on these other targets. There is also a possibility of a military coup in Egypt, to prevent the succession of President Mubarak's son Gamal. Egypt could move into certain areas of the Sinai still held by Israel.

Israel is also aware of the danger of Pakistani strikes against Israel, in retaliation for the bombing of Iran. A French delegation is in Pakistan, in an effort to derail any Pakistani retaliation against Israel, which, of course, could involve the use of nuclear weapons, which would wipe Israel off the map.

Netanyahu does not have the support of even the Begin faction of Likud for this action. And if the attack takes place after February, when Gen. Galant takes over as COS of the IDF, he will refuse. Source suggests that Netanyahu has significant respect for Bill and Hillary Clinton, and they could possibly dissuade him from taking this reckless action. There was last week an eight-and-a-half hour meeting between Bibi and Hillary, and when she came out she said, "We still don't see eye-to-eye." The prospect of some kind of political deal or shakeup in Israel, in which Kadima could come into a grand secular coalition and kill this crazy war scheme, is not very real. Source believes that Avigdor Lieberman has sufficient power to block any move to oust him. He is too powerful to dump. Benny Begin met with him at length to get him to tone down the rhetoric. He was not particularly successful. He has built up a tremendous power base among the one million-plus Russian emigre.

When might such an operation be launched? My source believes that, if it does not happen before December 10, it will next be on the table for March or April 2011. Netanyahu is considering, but has not finalized in his mind, to order strikes in late November 2010. All IDF vacations have been suspended as of this week; and IDF officers studying abroad have been summoned home temporarily. The line circulating around is: "No repeat of the Yom Kippur War when Israel was caught by surprise."

END

Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2010 1:05 PM
From: "Barry Chamish"
To: yssma26@hotmail.com
Subject: defeated

www.barrychamish.com

ISRAEL DEFEATED, BECOMES PALESTINE
by Barry Chamish

Finally, perhaps as policy or maybe out of feelings of conscience or morality, Israel's military leaders are giving us clues to what to expect in the next war. This is a startling new reality if interpreted properly in any punctilious reading:

http://en.rian.ru/world/20101103/161190850.html

Outgoing military Intelligence Major General Amos Yadlin told the Knesset, "The next round won't be focused on one
theater but rather, will incorporate two or three," he said. "One cannot predict the future according to what happened during Operation
Cast Lead or the Second Lebanon War. It will be much bigger, much wider in scope, and with many more casualties."

http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=194587

Speaking at the International Conference on Fire and Combined Arms in an Urban Terrain in Zichron Ya’acov, IDF Chief-of-Staff Gabi Ashkenazi said that Israel will have to evacuate civilian populations during a future conflict with Hamas in the Gaza Strip or Hizbullah in Lebanon.

http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htatrit/articles/20101105.aspx

November 5, 2010: The head of Israeli military
intelligence warned his political superiors that the next major war
Israel encountered would likely result in much higher Israeli
casualties, especially to civilians (because) enemy missiles have a much longer reach, and can hit targets
throughout Israel. The Iranian master plan is for Hezbollah, Hamas, Syria and Iran to simultaneously fire as
many missiles and rockets into Israel as they can...If the Syrians used chemical warheads,
Israeli casualties could be as high as 16,000. Over 200,000 Israelis
would be left homeless, and it's believed about a 100,000 would seek
to leave the country...No unclassified government planning documents have
discussed what Israel would do in response to such an attack, but in
the past, Israel has threatened to use nukes against anyone who fired
chemical weapons at Israel (which does not have any chemical
weapons). But current plans appear to try and keep it non-nuclear for
as long as possible.

Israel commentator Emanuel Winston is panicking already:"They will target Israeli cities with a saturation missile attack. Therefore, Israel has no valid reason to follow any rules of retrained warfare...Consequently, Israel’s rules of engagement should first authorize preemptive attacks to hit all Arab/Muslim cities – including the small towns where Hezb’Allah has implanted missile launchers among their civilians, to strike every military base and, specifically, to take out key leaders hidden in their bunkers. This should be done with tactical nukes, air fuel bombs, sub-munition bomblets, EMP (Electro-Magnetic-Pulse) explosives that disable every computer-driven vehicle or gadget – in addition to every conventional weapon available. "

And well he should panic. What Israel's military leaders are now saying publicly is merely a hint, not the likely gruesome assessments for the actual Arab master plan going into effect. Summarized one would read:

The plan was to prevent Israel from getting organized by defeating it immediately in an assault of 80,000 missiles in one night. Israel has no defense against even one missile and would collapse quickly in the face of a torrent of rocket fire.
The attack began at 11 PM on a Friday night. Half the army was at home on Shabbat leaves, and in Tel Aviv thousands of young soldiers were in dance clubs. Tel Aviv was the city targeted with 10,000 missiles, many accurate to within a few meters. At 11:04 the missiles landed on the clubs. Dancing was exchanged for death in an instant. Sirens throughout the country alerted the citizenry of the attack but already it was too late for hundreds of victims. Missiles successfully struck the Reading and Hadera power plants and the coast went black. Attacks on the Paz Junction fuel depot caused a huge fireball that spread the flames through North Tel Aviv as far as Herzlia. Those trapped in rubble or fire had no one to extricate them. Even if rescue teams and ambulances could make it through the rutted streets, the searing heat, the encompassing darkness punctuated by the outlines of buildings engulfed in fire, it would have made no difference. Hospitals like Ichilov and Sheba were on their way to becoming gutted ruins.
In concert with Tel Aviv in deadly chaos, waves of missiles attacked airbases, especially Tel Nof and Nir David. Runways were unusable and crews were too overwhelmed to be effective. A combination of Russian surface to air missiles and deep bunkers would have made missions to neutralize the missile sites daunting in any case. With the Air Force barely functioning, the barrage was enjoying unforeseen freedom to continue with all its aims. Learning the lessons of the '06 war, the Israeli Navy was subjected to vicious land to sea missile attacks. Damage to the Dimona Nuclear Power Reactor threatens to become uncontrollable.
Jerusalem was barely targeted, but the destruction of the Knesset and the Israel Museum were deemed justifiable targets. The Dead Sea Scrolls are presumed to have charred beyond recognition in this attack of 70 pinpoint missiles.
Hizbullah and Hamas fifth columns in Israel carried out precise attacks on roads, blowing deep pits in them at locations which could not be bypassed. The army could not reach endangered villages. A 5000 man Hizbullah force has broken through to Metulla and is conducting door to door operations. Even the city's leftists who caused the growing tragedy by appeasing the Islam of permanent war, were not spared.
On the Judean Hills, settlers watched an orange glow on the horizon, interrupted only by missiles landing or gas pipes exploding. Tel Aviv was dying. Those Tel Avivans who could, escaped to the Negev where local tribes and Gazans, who poured into the desert looking for easy pickings, found them. At Hebron, an IDF radio plea to save the Jews there was most telling. "We need reinforcements. We're almost out of ammunition and we are surrounded by a hundred thousand Arabs." The reply was curt and distressing. "All roads are impassible. You're on your own."
What happened there is illustrative of the mass execution of Israelis throughout the new nation of Palestine. Gangs would barge into homes, keep the parents alive long enough to see their children raped, tortured and murdered. Then the husband would be forced to watch his wife slowly screaming in agony while mutilated and raped. The husband, who until recently had a slogan, "Never Again," now knows Never is back bigger and faster than ever. If he's lucky, he'll be kept alive for only and hour or two of violent Islamic justice.
As for God, He didn't show up. We assume He's out of miracles.

end

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Last time I tried to send out my book Bye Bye Gaza, the link failed. I fixed it, so again:
Quote from reader this week:
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The book is yours for just $10. Now who, all asked, would pay $10 when I just sent it for free? This is where the honor system enters from stage left.
I have only sent the book to trusted readers. No site or newsgroup received it. There is no news written that could be reprinted anywhere. It's, for now, just you and me. Now, I'm not the total sucker I'm widely assumed to be. I know some won't pay and some might. The some might is reward enough for me and for those loyal readers who cannot afford to pay.

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A tale of two cyberstalking cunts

2010-11-11T13:57:00.000-08:00

Recently I have noticed similarities regarding the works of two people in the media I have dealt with, which appear to be based on me.
One, kuspedar rezaei, who was the one who got me working for persianmirror and who continues to follow me online, now is affiliated with a group called beauty and the east
http://www.beautyandtheeast.tv/
The other, lil miss basket case leslie yeransian, who I was close with, renamed her blog bambi and the beast on September 9, 2009, after I dropped off something for her at a club she regularly hangs out at, letting her know what I and others really think of her and her friends
http://leslieyeransian.wordpress.com/author/leslieyeransian/
Coincidence, I think not.