KIRKUK EXPLOSION, TURKISH OPPOSITION, MOPPING UP

All along, for years, now, throughout this blog, I have been highlighting and following Turkey's EXTENSIVE, MILITANT, historic, voluminous protests, organization, demonstrations, strikes, sit-ins, against their privatizing, counter-revolutionary, reactionary, pseudo-Islamic AKP Nazi dictatorship.

NOT ONE WORD OF SUPPORT OR RECOGNITION HAS EVER FLOWED OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF ANYONE HERE FOR TURKEY'S OPPOSITION AND RESISTANCE. TO THIS DAY, NOTHING. A DEAFENING SILENCE CONTINUES.

Indeed, just the opposite. And, of course, in my previous blogs, I demonstrated why. The pseudo, fake, ersatz Left, ANSWER AND RAMSEY CLARK coalition, and, I might add, their competing, sister CFR connected organization, UFPJ, perpetuate, aid and abet OFFICIAL US policy regarding Turkey's AKP criminal, Fascist conspiracy called a government.

I truly believe my blog is PERHAPS the ONLY one in United Suckers and Assholes Nazi dictatorship that has consistently followed and supported Turkey's resistance and opposition. And, so, now, more on Turkey's abysmal AKP privatization.

"World water forum opens in Turkey with riot police quelling protest":

http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/english/domestic/11218082.asp

And, as I had previously reported from another source, "U.S. says it may need Turkey during withdrawal from Iraq- FM Babacan":

http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/english/domestic/11221318.asp

The above is all part of regional "mopping up." Talabani says he will not run for another term and the so-called "Iraqi president rules out possibility of independent Kurdish state":

http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/english/world/11219530.asp

I first told you this would be a contingent part of mopping up, regime change, regional alignment because Heritage Oil, which had a previous KRG partnership with the as yet unnamed, mysterious Eagle Group of Iraq, began disengaging from Kurdistan. Heritage knew something. The telltale sign of the canary in the coalmine.

While the above is reported, the following is ALSO reported regarding Iraq's as yet undetermined oil law:

"Kurds Warns on Oil Contracts, But Exports Seen Soon
Published 03/14/2009 by Rigzone

Addax Petroleum Corporation
The oil minister of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region warned foreign oil companies against signing deals with Baghdad on fields in territory the Kurds claim.Ashti Hawrami also said Kurdistan would start exporting oil in the coming months.Baghdad has invited ...
READ FULL ARTICLE

And, here's a link to a FULL page of related articles on the above...

http://www.silobreaker.com/DocumentClusterReader.aspx?Item=16_2262173638247579648

Of course, corrupt AKP Turkey, itself, is a key player in the Western sponsored Nabucco gas pipeline project. Thus, 'Nabucco is backbone of market - project's CEO':

http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/english/finance/11194781.asp

Concurrent to the above events, two PRESS RELEASES follow.

Indeed, blatant press releases proudly distributed, announced, promoted, advertising their events BECAUSE the rest of you are TOO STUPID to do anything about it.

So, for example, "Dubai to host The Middle East Money Summit 2009":

http://www.zawya.com/story.cfm/sidZAWYA20090316104219/lok104200090316

And, "Top Financial Organizations Support the Upcoming 9th GCC Banking Conference," which, of course, to be well attended by JP Morgan, Deutsche Bank and a roster of other Nazi affiliated names:

http://www.zawya.com/story.cfm/sidZAWYA20090316112905/lok112900090316

So, United Assholes, Suckers and doormat nation, go marching around screaming and yelling about Palestine, Gaza, Israel with the fake, impotent, ersatz Left, who will say and do NOTHING concrete about ANY of the above, nor, even demand, god forbid, single-payer health care in the US, while aiding, abetting and helping Nazi Citigroup/Exxon Obooma's foreign and domestic Debt Dictatorship policies succeed.

And, of course, absolutely NOTHING is, has or will be said about Iran, which, I assure you, will experience congruency and regime change along with Talabani and Maliki.

Finally, here's my answer, first, from Greece:

http://www.libcom.org/news/antifascist-protesters-march-smash-neo-nazi-expansionist-stunt-ioannina-nw-greece-16032009

And, then, a successful hunger strike by Russian steelworkers. Tell me the last time one has seen ANY such actions, either above or below, in United Suckers and Assholes Nazi Citigroup/Exxon Obooma Dictatorship? Of course, this still does not represent Russian re-nationalization, which is THE key:

http://johnhelmer.net/?p=835

As for the rest of you, here, you can all drop dead, which is exactly Obooma's response to those advocating for single-payer health care, here, in United Suckers and Asshole Nazi Dictatorship nation. I would not be seen with, participate, legitimize nor breath the same air with Nazi/Fascist collaborators, frontpersons and enablers. I am waiting for the rest of YOU, in turn, to turn around and tell Nazi Citigroup/Exxon Obooma and his/their policies and supporters to Drop Dead. And, to ACT.

SURREAL REALITY, PART 2

Well, having been away from the internet for a few days...
"How should I begin?
And how should I presume?" asks J. Alfred Prufrock.
"In the room the women come and go
Talking of Michelangelo..."

(http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_2/eliot.html)

Not much has changed, for sure.
Certainly, not for the better.

Since my last post concerned surreal reality, let's play catch up and have some entertainment by doing alittle more on that same subject.

For example, here's variations on a theme,
"Mussolini Now an Official Hero of Latvia."
Now, do not get me wrong.
I love Italy and Italian cinema, language, food, culture, and so on.
But, I think choosing Mussolini is a bit of a stretch:

http://www.regnum.ru/english/1136182.html

Anyway, after digesting the above indigestible meal, please recall my many previous posts about United Suckers and Assholes oxymoron, self-annointed and dubbed, "peace" candidate AND co-founder of JBANC,
( http://www.jbanc.org/ )
which, of course, includes Latvia, Democratic House Rep Dennis Kucinich and JBANC's sister organization, Victims of Communism, in which, once again, Kucinich is a participant. They are now participating in an upcoming "pro-liberation" European conference on anti-Communism:

http://www.financiarul.ro/2009/03/14/conference-on-anti-communism-organised-by-laszlo-tokes-in-brussels/

Although the above represents a continuum from my previous post, just below, variations on a theme exist elsewhere, as well.

For example, the following entries discuss discrepancies surrounding both meaning and methodology regarding the term, "objectivity."
I thought my preceeding information, above, contributed to this discussion, and, for want of anything else, I label this phenomenoa "objective surrealism":

http://uncensoredarabwomanblues.blogspot.com/2009/03/on-objectivity.html

And, then:

http://arabwomanblues.blogspot.com/2009/03/sentences.html

Objective surrealism abounds endlessly, from Iraq to United Suckers and Assholes Citigroup/Exxon Obooma Nazi Dictatorship. It is global and universal.

At the heart of the United Suckers and Assholes Dictatorship objective surrealism is a phenomenoa of gangster/mob led labor management, cooptation, collaboration, intimidation, harrassment, fear and strong arm techniques to control and implement a Fascist, Nazi agenda and strangle any possible unified resistance or opposition to it from within.
I hear stories about the above decadent and hypocritical processes unfolding and intensifying from individuals daily who are more aware that past is prologue and what Nazification/Fascism means, union busting under the name of unionism, wholesale privatization, private corporate pension fund investments, automatic dues and political contributions to the Democratic Party, theft, corruption, etc.
The workers feel and are trapped.
Trapped in manufactured illusions of objective surrealism.
Lemmings led off the cliff to die.

THE SURREAL COMEDY CALLED REALITY

I cannot write fiction. I was not blessed with such a fertile and fantastic imagination.
Reality is much more overwhelming, ironic, fantastic, unbelievable and convincing than any fiction I could possibly dream up.
I leave fiction to more capable hands and minds than mine.

So, I have no other way, words, terms to describe and express what I see unfolding before my eyes than the surreal comedy of reality, a juxtaposition of ironic facts versus the disconnect of official and unofficial mythological, implausible, inconsistent, irrational narratives, explanations and denial.
Alice In Wonderland Through the Looking Glass--darkly, I might add.

For example, YESTERDAY, in my blog, just below, I linked to an article, report, about Hamid Jafar's interlocking, interconnected Crescent Oil (Dana Gas/Abraaj) octupus now apparently planning to expand and develop Iran's South Par's gas field.

This morning, I truly gasped and began laughing aloud, really, aloud, as I read the following report.
I continue chuckling to myself amusedly whenever I think about it.
I can't tell anybody, here.
They have NO idea to what I am referring:

"TEHRAN, Mar 11, 2009 (AFP) - A top Iranian official said on Wednesday that French energy giant Total will have no "active role" in developing a huge gas field in Iran and that a new partner had been found for the project..."
END OF EXCERPT, above, from following link, which is just an AFP reprint:

http://www.zawya.com/story.cfm/sidANA20090311T130720ZOPD81/lok130725090311

The AFP report NEVER names the partner.
As if it is a mystery!
How much more obvious and comical can all this subterfuge and double, triplespeak be?

Meanwhile, on the subject of Hamid Jafar's interconnected Dana Gas/Crescent Oil/Abraaj octupus, Abraaj Capital, aside from the above, is expanding further, of course:

http://www.zawya.com/story.cfm/sidZAWYA20090311041336/lok041300090311

Now, for the next part, I ask the reader's indulgance here to understand that if one is situated in the middle of United Assholes and Suckers nation almost NOBODY knows, for EXAMPLE, both Turkey and Iran are bombing the PKK, that an ogoing, hot war exists about which nobody here is aware, unless, of course, like myself, one goes searching for specific information on the internet and alternative sources.
So, keeping in mind the above note, more surreal comedy:

"...Ex-PKK terrorists joining US army to fight in Afghanistan- Turkish TV
Some ex-members of the terror organization PKK are being recruited to the U.S. army to join military operations in Afghanistan, broadcaster Kanal D reported on Tuesday..."

Above EXCERPT continues in the following:

http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/english/world/11184415.asp

Well, as the proverbial "they" say, one man's (un or underemployed) terrorist is another's freedom fighter.

And, then, we arrive at Egyptian Privatization.

In addition to recent Israel/Egypt/Gaza/Lebanon gas wars, there's Eygpt's EFG-Hermes and, once again, numerous interconnected, overlapping, corporate directorships and shareholders, Citigroup, the burgeoning Dana Gas empire, etc.

THIS/THAT is THE PATTERN, characteristic of modern or latter day capitalist Nazi/Fascist DICTATORSHIPS, along with concomitant internal and external military suppression and repression needed, by definition, to accomplish this goal.
So, an EXCERPT, link/article below:

"...Mahmoud Mohieldin, Egypt's minister of investment since 2004, knows full well he's in the eye of the storm. Abroad, economies are in shreds, trading partners have mothballed their ships and new foreign investors are almost impossible to identify. At home, his plan to hand over majority of ownership of most of the state-owned companies to the public is under fierce fire. ...
....Of late, Mohieldin has drawn fire by setting out a plan to transfer majority ownership of 85 publicly-held Egyptian companies to the public by listing them on the EGXEGX The Egyptian Exchange and giving citizens a bundle of shares. The details are copious in this project, which Mohieldin describes as "an Egyptian version of mass privatization to transform state ownership to Egyptian public ownership." But it's not going to be "your typical eastern European mass privatization..."
END OF EXCERPT FROM:

http://www.zawya.com/story.cfm/sidZAWYA20090311120037/lok120000090311

And, finally, last but not least, a few anecodotal notes on the surreal comedy of everyday life in the bowels of United Suckers and Assholes Nazi Dictatorship.

A new coalition has emerged, in response, having noticed that they have been totally and completely excluded by the Nazi Citigroup/Exxon Obooma Administration, advocating and organizing SPECIFICALLY for universal, single payer health care insurance here in United Suckers and Asshole Dictatorship.
Here's their website:

http://www.singlepayeraction.org/

Very nice.
However, this development is now going to pit the advocates of not-for-profit universal single payer, government sponsored medical insurance directly AGAINST our Nazi collaborative labor unions, who are busy supporting all things Obooma, including his/their for-profit, privatized, health care insurance industry AND its expansion into the Middle East through their/our pension fund investments.

This will lead inevitably to heightened confrontations, tensions and contradictions between and within the Nazi Citigroup/Exxon Obooma Dictatorship, organized labor and everybody else, all of whom will shortly discover how irrelevant, meaningless, marginalized and powerless are they within the current power edifice, lacking either full or partial backing of a MILITANT, unified and politicized labor force, population and strikes.
Nonetheless, this will lead to further political fracturing.
And, the true meaning of class war and power will become apparent and evident to all.

Simultaneous with the above, I receive e-mails daily from a variety of sources, organizations, individuals, so-called 'community groups,' ALL OF WHOM SUPPORT or SUPPORTED NAZI CITIGROUP OBOOMA's candidacy, his/their trillion dollar tax stimulus, bank bailouts, giveaways, trillion dollar debt, such as the notorious and infamous Acorn, local labor unions, the panopoly of the ersatz Left, all now complaining about horrific local, city and state public service cutbacks, pension funds, disproportionate taxes, health care, labor issues, etc., totally oblivious of the cause and effect relationship in which THEY, themselves, participated and helped to produce. Well, as I said, the charateristic is surreal.

And, lastly, a minor, but, personal note, a hilarious surreal experience to me, at least.
While flipping through TV channels to get to the one I wanted the other day, I did a doubletake when my eyes HAPPENED to land upon the Chairman of the CPUSA (Communist Party USA) being interviewed on Nazi Ruppert MURDOCH'S FOX TV station!
Talk about the odd couple.
Now, what was the Chair of the CPUSA doing on Murdoch's TV station?
The CP Chair was singing the praises of Nazi Citigroup/Exxon's Obooma Administration. After all, both Obooma and the CPUSA Chair represent the Left, don't they?
So, what better than to bring the CPUSA itself to defend Obooma's Leftist bona fide credentials, should anyone begin to question this fact.
Again, I found myself laughing hysterically aloud.
Hollywood entertainment could not do it better.
Of course, I take him/it with a grain of salt.
It is ALL entertainment, theatre, amusement, ascribed role playing, acting, scripted.
The CPUSA has been purged, infiltrated, decimated A LONG TIME AGO, like our labor unions.
Both became extensions, adjuncts of the Democratic Party and ersatz Left.
There is a joke, more or less, that the CPUSA is a WPA,(Roosevelt's New Deal acronym, 'Work Project Administration,' employment project) for covert agents and operatives.
Without them, the CPUSA would disappear and evaporate.
On that apogee of SURREAL life in Nazi Citigroup/Exxon Obooma's Alice in Wonderland Through the Looking Glass-Darkly Dictatorship, I will arbitrarily terminate this entry.

CARLYLE GROUP, EXXON, CRESCENT, CALPERS, IRAN...THE GANG'S ALL HERE...

From their own press release:
"March 09, 2009#2009-015:
The Carlyle Group Raises First Middle East and North Africa Fund at $500 Million..."

http://www.carlyle.com/Media%20Room/News%20Archive/2009/item10645.html

And, abit more on the subject with a trail of embedded links:

http://www.pehub.com/33623/carlyle-raises-500-million-mena-fund/

And a REMINDER from a 2007 article as to WHY NO labor opposition exists in United Suckers and Asshole nation:

"...Calpers, the California Public Employees' Retirement System, among other pension funds, is planning to invest in Carlyle's Middle East fund and is also an investor in Ripplewood and Colony Capital..."
Above EXCERPT from:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/09/26/business/dubai.php

And, for those familiar with it, the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton Business School is in Dubai, of course.
For those unfamiliar with it, Wharton is a "prestigious" brand name, here, in United Suckers and Asshole Nation.
But, for those unfamiliar, you can read about it right here, as well as the all star roster of attendees at the following Wharton-Dubai event:

http://www.zawya.com/story.cfm/sidZAWYA20090216111809/lok111800090216

And, then, there is, of course, Hamid Jafar's UAE based Crescent Oil/Dana Gas/Abraaj octupus, connected to Iran and Pakistan.
And, now Crescent plans to develop Iran's South Pars gas field apparently:

http://www.zawya.com/story.cfm/sidZAWYA20090310045234/lok045200090310

And, by the way, Iran to Privatize their State Bank Mellat:

http://www.ameinfo.com/185354.html

And, then "Exxon Aims for Big Role in Iraq."
Certainly NOT a surprise:

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE52812L20090309

Correspondingly, Exxon Execs had a recent, "productive" meeting with their house slave boy, Nazi Citigroup/Exxon Obooma, whom, I am quite sure, received his marching orders from them:

http://www.rigzone.com/news/article.asp?a_id=73720

And, then, here's an interesting one regarding Exxon and Gazprom:

http://www.rigzone.com/news/article.asp?a_id=73008

And, for every article above, there are hundreds more.

So, you fucking morons, idiots, assholes, suckers, go marching around with the total, completely impotent, irrelevant, collaborative, ersatz Left this week, yell and scream about Gaza and Israel, as our health care, industry, labor and everything else is sold off and down the drain, liquidated, privatized in COLLABORATION with ALL the above and Nazi Citigroup/Exxon Obooma's United Suckers and Assholes nation of SUBSIDIZED astronomical debt and peonage to all the above.

For those who would like to end on a more positive, inspirational note, I recommend the following, including their previous films:

http://www.crossingthelinefilm.com

ANSWER COALITION, RAMSEY CLARK, BEIRUT CONFERENCE, ERSATZ LEFT

I am going to extract/excerpt a particular subject matter from a previous blog entry I did approximately one year ago, February 20, 2008.
The reason will become apparent when I link it to the present. So, from my February, 2008 entry:

"...Speaking of the odd couple, the Muslim Brotherhood and Cindy Sheehan, I am going to discuss interconnection between ALL of the above and the response to my previous blog, February 16, which illicted an enormous response.
All is interconnected.
In my previous blog about Obama, February 16, I linked, for comparison purposes, to information from the tenc website about Marko Perkovic's revived Nazi Croatian Ustashe rallies:

http://www.tenc.net/

However, the tenc website ALSO did some excellent work, previously, about Ramsey Clark's presence at the former trials of the Yugoslavian leader, Milosevic.
From the tenc website, beginning with May, 2003 and following thru in a series of articles EXPOSING previous US Attorney General Ramsey Clark's psuedo defense role in the Milosevic trials:

www.emperors-clothes.com/milo/ramsey1.htm

Ramsey Clark, as noted, is/was attached to the "Left" International Action Center, here, in the US, and, they, in turn, to the ANSWER coaliton in the US, which sponsors lots of demonstrations.
Just this past year, only a few months ago, in November 27-29, 2007, the same Ramsey Clark was THE US representative and, apparently, from what I read, President, at an international, "All India Anti-Imperlialist Forum," in India.
I want to draw EVERYONE'S attention to the "political resolutions" adopted at this presumed Left international forum, approximately half or two thirds down the text, note especially, those "political resolutions" numbered, #3, #4 and #5, supporting Hizbullah, Nassrallah and Kurdistan, opposing Turkey:

www.inteldaily.com/?c=117&a=4646

It becomes abundantly clear just what purpose Ramsey Clark served at this conference.
The same one being served BY ALL OF THE ABOVE taken together.
The "Left," in the US, is the Right.
It is incumbent upon everyone and anyone who attended the preceeding conference to DISAVOW, REPUDIATE and DISASSOCIATE themselves and/or their organizations, from the above political resolutions.
They are disastrous and counter-revolutionary ones..."
End of excerpt from my OWN blog entry as follows:

http://karlmarxwasright2.blogspot.com/2008/02/gulf-house-to-form-first-energy-bank.html

And, now, keeping the above in mind and/or as reference guide, moving on to a current Beirut Forum held in January, 2009. Compare and contrast CAREFULLY, ATTENTIVELY:

http://www.iacenter.org/palestine/beirut-forum012509/

If you've done your homework correctly, well and properly and have been following THIS blog, all along, the implications and conclusions of ALL those named at the above Beirut Conference should be obvious and transparent.

Hezbollah, of course, is supported by Iran and together they are just as much reponsible for counter-revolution and slaughter in Iraq and Lebanon and elsewhere as is anyone else they name. And, of course, it was Hezbollah that BLOCKED and ABORTED Lebanon's scheduled general strike alittle while back.

Hezbollah is despicable.

And, of course, the above NOTICEABLY did NOT name IRAN, nor Iran's Nazi occupation, militias, proxy forces in Iraq, death squads, torture, INCLUDING Iraqi Palestinians.

It is also quite extraordinary and remarkable that REPUTED Baathists were sitting in the same room with their ARCH ENEMY and, of course, NOTHING was said about any of the above. And, NOTE the following sentence I EXCERPTED:

“...In this part of the world the resistance is Islamic..."

CHARACTERIZING resistance as "Islamic" is clear and intentional. In an OVERALL context, one can have an "Islamic" ELEMENT, but, a small part, only an ingredient. But, that is very different. At the same time, "secular Leftists," as they were described, were present. So, the following sentence, EXCERPT, again, MY emphasis in BOLD...

"...important goal of the forum is how, despite the ideological contradictions, to find how to work together hand in hand to achieve unity against imperialism...”

Never mind imperialism emanating from Iran, nor, for that matter, much else of the other players and actors in both this and that part of the world I have documented on this blog.

Draw your own conclusions.

To me, the perfidy and the reasons for it are obvious.

And, THAT is why I will NOT participate in ANY upcoming, ersatz Opposition events in United Suckers and Assholes nation in the next week or so.

I will not legitimize, condone, sanction, the illegitimate Nazi enablers and collaborators, both here and abroad, not to mention a futile waste of one's time and energy for the above reasons.

They represent the despicable enablement of Nazism and class capitulation and collaboration, rationalized and characterized hypocritically as Left Opposition. Sickening, nauseating, horrendous betrayal and self-serving opportunism, well paid, no doubt. Leadership, I mean. It is truly appalling.

So, you will most definitely, certainly, NOT see me in Washington, DC, on March 21, nor, anywhere else with ANY of the above at any time, whatsoever.

I recommend they be BOYCOTTED!

"CONTROLLING MIDEAST IS KEY TO US"

First, a few quick notes gleaned from various sources.
Russia's Regnum reports that the recently closed US Kyrgyzstan air base MAY be relocated EITHER to Turkey or Georgia.
And, then, I was reading somewhere else, can't recall where now, that Turkey MAY train Iraqi troops, soon. That makes sense too IF one understands context.

Now, for that context, to turn to the featured article, headline above.

In case you have not figured it out yet after voluminous information and you happen to have returned recently from living on planet Mars or the dark side of the moon, the above/below heading/article states,
"Controlling Mideast Is Key to US":

http://www.zawya.com/story.cfm/sidGN_06032009_10291863/lok000000090306

And, the flip side of this process are the results you see everywhere else.
Planned Western economic obsolescence, depression, sellout and selloff at bargain basement prices, union busting, etc.
On that note, alittle update from Greece:

http://www.libcom.org/news/antifascist-protest-marches-end-riots-neonazi-hqs-torched-ground-athens-05032009

Other info available about strikes in Eygpt, etc. on the above website.

And, now as part of the above, a slight digression from the usual and a SMALL, MINOR discussion of a BIG, LARGE subject.
In the following, a few profound questions are raised in the midst of cultural, linguistic and helpful political insight.
There is ONE question in particular I want to highlight or address AFTER reading the following:

http://arabwomanblues.blogspot.com/2009/03/dialogues.html

And, here's what I want to highlight:

"...- so my fifth point is a question that I and other Iraqis keep asking ourselves.Could it be that the Americans have been so stupid and reckless in conducting this invasion and occupation or is that a continuous deliberate plan to tear the Iraqi fabric into sects and ethnicities, so that Iraq remains some mirage, a loose country with no identity and no weight in Middle Eastern and World politics ?..."

To really answer the above, I, or, one would have to do something called history.
That is, I/one would have to go through primary source material, research, classified documentation, witnesses, testimony, etc.
That would be the only way to really answer the above.
The rest is speculative, hypothetical deduction.
But, in lieu of such a history project, I will take a stab at the question anyway and the way it is posed.

First of all, what happens/ed in Iraq and Iran is NOT isolated, circumscribed, self-contained, applicable to Iraq and/or Iran only, in a hermetically sealed bottle.
So, the answer to the above question is:
BOTH are correct.
It is NOT an either/or "stupid and reckless" versus "continuous deliberate plan..."
It is BOTH.

Rule number one.
War does NOT necessarily achieve its desired outcome.
It's a crap shoot, a throw of the dice.
Hitler certainly did NOT achieve what he had been hired or expected to do, i.e, finish off the Bolshevik Revolution.
He failed miserably, altho nonetheless enriching himself and many others in the short term.
Instead, the very opposite occured, the Soviet Union EXPANDED!
And, global revolution with it.

That is the reason why many smart people advise NOT to go to war.
Only fools rush in where angels dare to tread.
Once having done so, however, they are now committed to achieving the desired outcome by any and all means necessary.

This requires LOTS of adjustments from the original game plan to a changing, dynamic, fluid situation with many moving parts and variables.

As you recall, since Rafsanjani's name was mentioned, recently, the initial game plan called for Rafsanjani to be elected in Iran and Allawi as PM in Iraq.
And, certainly, Putin pulled some BIG and unexpected surprises and punches in the midst of all this with Yukos, Gazprom and Khordokovsky.
And, initially, Turkey did NOT allow US troops to transit its region.
That was another problem.

But, again, rather than a long laundry list, making a complex subject very brief, just a few more points.

Most importantly, significantly, this is the VERY FIRST MAJOR WAR/INVASION that the US INITIATED/INSTIGATED ON ITS OWN, BY ITSELF, on the Eurasian land mass, continent.
This was/is big time STUPID!!
That's error number one, first and foremost.
Iraq is NOT an isolated island, entity, not a banana republic, NOT geographically contiguous or nearby to the US, NOT a part of its "sphere of influence," etc.

And, for those of you who recall Vietnam, the US did NOT initiate that war.
It was France. The US adopted Vietnam as its own.
As in Korea and Vietnam, both were extensions, outcomes, continuums from the events of WWII, which represented a profound world upheaval.
And, in both cases, above, the US had to retreat.

And, then, more recently, AFTER the demise of the Soviet Union, in Yugoslavia, it was NATO, not the US acting alone.
Nor was there a US ground invasion.
Once again, they had proxy forces.
Likewise, in Gulf, Iraq War I, it was an "overwhelming" military force.
And, still, then, they did NOT pursue Iraq proper with a land invasion for THE ABOVE REASONS.

This time, however, the US INITIATED and placed itself BASICALLY ALONE, big time, big scale, into a major military adventure, incursion, smack dab into the center, middle, hub, the fulcrum of the Great Game and a complex geopolitical web of competing cultures, borders and languages with ancient and recent antipathies, militaries, contested and competing empires and power struggles with TENUOUS equilibrium and balance in all the above.

And, of course, Iran had initiated an 8 year devastating war with its immediate neighbor, Iraq.
Thus, it is absolutely extraordinary and incomprehensible that ANYONE could possibly present the Iranian occupation of Iraq as a "liberation."
One might as well say, which 'they' did at the time, Nazi Germany "liberated" France.
Anyway, returning to the main theme.

The US broke that delicate regional, geostrategic balance to which I refer above when they launched their military escapade.
As "they" said, if you break it, you own it.
This set into motion a complex chain of events and cascading results, the dominoe effect.

Then, comes the necessity for mopping up to try to repair the competing, conflicting military and economic interests and geopolitical damage from the "law of unintended consequences" of destabilizing military action/war, about which I have commented in previous blogs.

This process continues today.

It is MY own, personal contention, when history books look backwards, THE fatal military flaw, tactical, political mistake, blunder, outside of the initial invasion, was the Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld cabal's collaboration, alliance, association and dependence upon Iran.
The latter, however, served as the enabler, justification and intrinsic ingredient of the former's decision to invade and occupy.
It was the lunacy of Nazi insanity and war on the cheap--utilizing Iran.
And, everyone knows what happens when one is penny wise pound foolish.

Anyway, this is THE shortest response I can give to an otherwise very, very long answer.
And, the story is hardly over.

Each and every step of the way, however, the United Suckers and Assholes nation digs themselves deeper and deeper into the above competing, conflicting and contradictory quackmire with NO end in sight due to multiplying, many, manifold contradictions unleashed.

BUT, EVERY TIME opportunity exists, presents itself, to positively alter and significantly change the balance of power equations, the ersatz Opposition here, and, many other places, does/did NOTHING, ranging from NO support whatsoever for Turkey's vociferous, militant, Opposition to their Nazi, privatizing, psuedo-Islamic AKP to denial and fictionalization about Iran's role in Iraq and the Middle East AND the orchestrating comparable Swiss role of the GCC speculative bubble, Western pension fund investments, Nazi Citigroup Obooma, etc.
Of course, "they," the ersatz Opposition, always find the convenient Israeli distraction, but, NONE of the rest.
This is a long laundry list.

RELATED domestic considerations exist, too many to itemize, ranging from non-existent universal, single payer health care, here, in the US, to an INTENTIONALLY sabotaged and aborted, INDEPENDENT million worker march and the CONTINUED anti-Communist, Cold War policies of their umbrella labor leadership, hierarchy, the AFL-CIO(CIA), and, now, Andy Stern's SEIU mafia organization.

I have highlighted some of these major points on my blogs past and present.

Consequently, the United Suckers and Assholes and their nominal class representatives dig themselves and, thus, all of us, deeper and deeper into the INEXORABLE logic and existential economic dependency of the above with no exit in sight because THEIR OSTENSIBLE LEADERSHIP EXERCISES NO INDEPENDENT CLASS POSITIONS AND HAS NO INDEPENDENT CLASS DEMANDS.
"With enough shovels..." they continue supporting the above policies.

They represent NO substantive alternatives.
They HAD/HAVE opportunities for INDEPENDENT political action.
They did and do NOT exercise those opportunities.
They continue functioning as handmaidens to the above agenda.
And, the existential, intertwined economic dependency hole in which everybody finds themselves as a consequence grows ever deeper and deeper.

If this is not self-destructive class betrayal, denial and stupidity, I do not know what is.

So, in short, the answer to the above question, I would characterize them OBJECTIVELY as "stupid, reckless..." and arrogant precisely BECAUSE OF their insane, totally destabilizing and feckless policies which now necessitate "amelioration."
They are in a cul-de-sac, an impasse, a conundrum of ticking time bombs, a crescendoing upwards spiral of numerous, multiple contradictions of their own making
which they are attempting to juggle and keep from spinning completely out of their control.
In so doing, it actually escalates, feeding upon itself.

So, this is a VERY SHORT response to a very valid, profound question, above, and a necessarily long answer which I cannot give.

AMERICA'S FINEST

The following sums it up neatly.
Not only the United Suckers and Assholes, but, Iran and Iraq's Finest and some others as well:

http://arabwomanblues.blogspot.com/2009/03/fuck-it.html

And, about the finest, above,
"Middle East Will Lead the World Out of the Downturn":

http://www.zawya.com/story.cfm/sidZAWYA20090304104458/lok104400090304

That's today's brief editorial commentary.
But, here's a slightly different note, a horse of another color, to end:

http://www.ptudc.org/content/view/172/1/

More another time.

DETROIT LOCAL 24, STERN GANG, WHITE HOUSE MOB

Two related posts for today.
This one and the one below it.

I posted the following two videos mostly for those who know LITTLE OR NOTHING about the nature and character of Nazi Citigroup Obooma's White House and their MAJOR so-called labor supporters, the Andy Stern gang's SEIU, "Change to Win," mob union.
The first video is from Puerto Rico and the previous US Presidential campaign in 2008.
The second video is more recent from Detroit Local 24.
Even if you cannot follow the internecine aspects of the various union locals, names and affiliations, I have posted these two videos because they give one a FLAVOR of the character, tactics and nature of Andy Stern's Chicago based "Change to Win" SEIU leadership AND the Chicago gangster milieu from which Nazi Citigroup Obooma emerges, receives support and is attached.
The following two videos represent a pattern of operation.

So, video number one from Puerto Rico, 2008:

http://www.laborvideo.org/

Then, more recent video number two from Detroit Local 24:

http://vimeo.com/2983140

And, then, my other, previous post for today, just below...

NO EXEC PAY LIMITS, OBOOMA NUKES THE US

The following article reports the Federal Reserve nixed executive pay caps for those receiving one of our many Nazi Citigroup Obooma taxpayer subsidized GIFTS, boon, bonanza, inflationary funny money, voodoo economics, debt.
THE reason I chose this article is NOT executive pay caps.
I chose it for the FOLLOWING EXCERPT BELOW:

"...You see, the TALF is basically the government's bid to fire up the engines of the securitization market by providing cheap credit to anyone who wants to buy bonds based on bundles of student loans, auto loans, credit card loans and Small Business Authority-backed business loans....
....Basically, this is a bid to get hedge funds and others who didn't get TARP funds to play with TALF dollars..."
END OF EXCERPT FROM:

http://www.silobreaker.com/DocumentReader.aspx?Item=5_2262151770622918656

As a reminder, a previous EXCERPT from my post of Saturday, February 21, 2009, to which I will link afterwards:

"...The Obama administration hopes to jump-start this crucial machinery by effectively subsidizing the profits of big private investment firms in the bond markets. The Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve plan to spend as much as $1 trillion to provide low-cost loans and guarantees to hedge funds and private equity firms that buy securities backed by consumer and business loans...
...Simon Johnson, an economics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund, said many people might take a dim view of the TALF program because it provided government subsidies to investors like hedge funds. Investors who borrow from the Fed could enjoy annual returns of 20 percent or more..."
Above from previous blog entry:

http://karlmarxwasright2.blogspot.com/2009/02/nazi-citigroup-obooma-subsidizes-hedge.html

Of course, just the other day, I posted a March 10 Dubai Conference about "Hedge Funds Galore...":

http://karlmarxwasright2.blogspot.com/2009/03/hedge-funds-galore-bluestone-coal.html

And, Feb 23, 2009,
"Wealth Funds Await Market Bottom to Make the Kill...":

http://karlmarxwasright2.blogspot.com/2009/02/wealth-funds-await-market-bottom-to.html

The above list is by no means exhaustive.

Nazi Citigroup Obooma frontman/puppet marches out on TV and utters inarticulate rantings and mumblings about this, that or the other policy.
Clearly he has absolutely NO idea of the subject matter about which he TRIES to pontificate knowledgeably.
He stutters, stammers, hedges, gets his crib sheet and memorizes speaking points.
He might as well be speaking about theoretical physics.
Anything spontaneous and he is intellectual dead meat.
He makes NO SENSE whatsoever. JUST like Bush!
From THAT point of view, Clinton is light years ahead of him. And, of course, Reagan was an actor.
Perfect for the job.

On the other hand, suddenly, we have an ad hoc, new industry, the Obooma critique crowd, many of whom are the very same people and organizations who supported Nazi Citigroup Obooma in the first place, as if ALL the above was not known prior to his election and discovered afterwards, after they elected him and AFTER he passed his trillion dollar fake stimulus bill, for which there is/was NO outrage, NO organizing and NO demonstrations, strikes, protests, THEN.

Well, I have NO plans whatsoever to waste my energies by joining a fake, controlled Opposition, an Opposition which ALWAYS manifests itself conveniently AFTER the fact, after the damage is done.
An Opposition whose demands are conveniently amorphous and non-specific, thus, non-threatening and controlled.
A Demonstration Opposition, like elections, for show purposes, only. Like all or most of this country.

HEDGE FUNDS GALORE! BLUESTONE COAL, DUPONT/DOW

The upcoming 10th Annual World Middle East Hedge Fund Conference will be held in Dubai, where else, March 10, 2009.
Here's a choice EXCERPT, link following:

"...The survey, which was conducted amongst 269 institutional investors, fund managers and service providers from around the world and the Middle East, revealed that 39% of investors believe that the current depressed markets and heightened risk premia offer a great entry point for fresh investment. Unsurprisingly, the hedge funds themselves are even more optimistic, with 55% of hedge funds stating that the current environment offers exceptional opportunity..."
END OF EXCERPT FROM:

http://www.zawya.com/Story.cfm/sidZAWYA20090301125241/Fresh%20Hedge%20Fund%20Investments%20Expected%20in%20the%20H2%20and%20into%202010

Meanwhile, the largest US, and, I believe, world's second largest, chemical industrial conglomerate, Dow Chemical, amongst MANY others, expands into the Middle East, Saudi Arabia.
The aborted Dow-Kuwait deal continues to receive some scrutiny, attention and low volume murmurings:

http://www.zawya.com/Story.cfm/sidZAWYA20090301101449/Dow%20Chemical%20in%20the%20Middle%20East%20and%20Saudi%20Arabia

As a sidenote for those already grounded in reality as opposed to Nazi Citigroup Obooma fictional voodoo economics.
The real name of the game, of course, is greater capital concentration, consolidation and monopoly.
In 2007 speculation floated about a consolidation between the twin US chemical GIANTS Dow and Dupont.
It's something about which I have LONG wondered, given the above scenario.

An article appeared in 2007 about the subject, which included, of course, JP Morgan as a key player:

http://seekingalpha.com/article/36580-dow-plus-dupont-equals-drama

Now industrial share prices are artifically depressed.
It seems to me the logical moment and perfect excuse to consolidate Dow and Dupont. If not now, when?
This would create a giant, monolithic chemical conglomerate, a behemoth striding across the globe.
Depending on which source/chart one consults, Dupont slides somewhere between first and sixth place on the global chemical corporate scale, Dow second or so.
A combo between Dow and Dupont clearly would create THE largest, integrated world chemical corporation.

As another interesting EXAMPLE of these calculated processes, back in United Suckers and Asshole territory, West Virginia's Bluestone Coal was bought by another Russian oligarch's company, Mechel, for $425 MILLION INSTEAD OF $4 BILLION!
That is quite a difference in price spread:

http://caps.fool.com/Blogs/ViewPost.aspx?bpid=151971&t=01001969285338122140

But, John Helmer says more about the above Bluestone deal in the context of other matters.
Helmer does NOT believe the above was a good bargain.
However wonderful as is Helmer, normally, I think he MAY be wrong on this point.

It sounds like a bargain to me and our Nazi Citigroup Obooma Fuhrer is giving LOTS AND LOTS AND OODLES AND TONS of taxpayer subsidized dollars away to various private energy companies.
The Bluestone deal is undoubtedly suspicious, but, then, ALL, most, many are suspicious, manipulated arrangements, insider information, connections, etc.
So, Mechel MAY know something the rest of us do not:

http://johnhelmer.net/?p=794#more-794

Of course, our US Bluestone Coal deal is simply part and parcel of a much larger, grandieose, global scheme illustrated by the above and everything else I have had on previous blogs, i.e., entire countries and resources for sale at artifically depressed, bargain basement prices, created by an equal artificial, speculative bubble and its timed collapse, coordinated by the SAME Citigroup, JP Morgan, their international friends, associates, affiliates, interlocking directorates, shareholders, partnerships, through the GCC, Middle East money-go-round, revolving back door, ALL financed with help of United Suckers and Assholes taxpayer debt, mercenary armies, etc.

I will not even bother about the many fictional, nonsensical narratives surrounding Iraq and elsewhere.

Information and reality is readily available to anyone who chooses to look.
The only ones lulled to sleep in self-serving, questionable blissful denial and ignorance are the United Suckers and Assholes living in Nazi Citigroup Obooma's Alice in Wonderland Through the Looking Glass world.

"MY KUNEVA"

Like some previous material I posted on my blog, recently, I thought this one speaks for itself and should be "liberally" disseminated:

http://www.occupiedlondon.org/blog/2009/03/01/my-kuneva/

For more info go to the above website:

www.occupiedlondon.org/blog

And/or:

www.libcom.org

More later.

LET THE WORLD KNOW: MARCH: "NO" CITIGROUP OBOOMA NAZI AGENDA

On the week of March 13-21, some activities are being planned by ad hoc organizations and groups throughout United Suckers and Asshole nation AGAINST our current Nazi Citigroup Obooma Administration's agenda and their WHOLESALE sellout and selloff of this country and the world.
Nazi Citigroup Obooma is Bush continued, Part II.

To paraphrase Republican Presidential candidate McCain's VP, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, who THEY lambasted, "you can put lipstick on a pig, but, it is still a pig!"
THAT is MY message to Nazi Citigroup Obooma, Biden, et. al.
So, come "yawl," SEIU, Andy Stern gang, "Change to Win," mafia, gangster, goon squad, come picket MY blog like you did Sarah Palin and others!

Since our Vichy led unions, above, are corrupt, collaborative and in bed with the policies of our Nazi Citigroup Administration, our unions will NOT in ANY way, shape or form lead opposition, resistance or strikes, as you all should already know.

Indeed, they have, are and will sell out EVERYBODY, everything, you, me, the country, their own membership and anything that walks, crawls, breathes, swims, flys and is alive on planet earth.

But, for those who can attend, there will be at least one labor event, a "troublemakers" organizing workshop in NYC on March 21.
Here's the info:

http://labornotes.org/nyc

For everyone else, rank and file, union or nonunion, everyone and anyone, you will have to organize your own opposition and/or join with others.
MAKE NOISE. BE ALIVE!! MAKE YOURSELF KNOWN!

And, the places, ways, methods, means and areas to pressure and access are NOT restricted to Washington, DC, and Nazi Citigroup Obooma land which could not care less and will have no effect whatsoever.

The pressure points, places and institutions are financial, industrial, regional, local, Citigroup, JP Morgan, labor UNIONS, GM, Auto, Steel, Energy, Exxon, Dow Chemical, Dupont, Medical Insurance Companies, every institution and industry who collaborates with, profits from and supports the United Suckers and Assholes Nazi Citigroup Obooma DICTATORSHIP.

NAZI CITIGROUP OBOOMA'S AGENDA IS A TOTAL, COMPLETE, UNMITIGATED FICTION, FABRICATION, LIE!
LET THE WORLD KNOW!!

Everyone has to recreate and set their own agendas and tactics and expose ALL the above and our totally corrupt, gangster led union leadership for what they are.
Double, triple, quadruple speak and hypocrisy is commonplace and overwhelming in Nazi Citigroup Obooma's Alice in Wonderland Through the Looking Glass nation.
Day is night, night is day.
Up is down, down is up.
Black is white, white is black.

The epitome of CLASS contradiction and hypocrisy are represented by United Suckers and Assholes labor pension fund INVESTMENTS in ALL the many blood soaked, blood stained private corporations that support and benefit from Nazi Citigroup Obooma's expansive global agenda and wholesale degradation and destruction of United Suckers and Assholes nation and the entire planet.

DIVEST!
NO pension funds should be invested in ANY private corporations!
No excuses. No apologies. No way. No how!

NATIONALIZE AND EXPAND OUR SOCIAL SECURITY SYSTEM AND IMPLEMENT IMMEDIATE, UNIVERSAL, SINGLE PAYER HEALTH CARE.

And, certainly NO taxpayer monies, NO subsidies, whatsoever, to Citigroup, JP Morgan and friends.

LIQUIDATE, DISBAND AND PROSECUTE CITIGROUP!!
REMOVE TREASURY SECRETARY GEITHNER!

And, as a reminder, a few previous links.
First:

http://karlmarxwasright2.blogspot.com/2009/01/what-we-will-and-will-not-get.html

And, "I Am Just a Man..."

http://karlmarxwasright2.blogspot.com/2009/02/i-am-just-man.html

And, AFTER reading the above, a postscript. Turns out, I am a man is a woman! Indeed, a splendid woman! Here is a response in a COMMENT section I received on a previous blog which I will reproduce, because, once again, the above writer is so eloquent:

"Kerry Hinzman said...
Hey,I can't believe so many people are posting I am just a man.Thanks for posting it on your blog. Its now been viewed by many people from all over the world and the feedback is amazing. When I wrote it last week I wrote it from the viewpoint of a man because that is how society views auto workers. I'm actually a mother of 3 though and have worked in the industry for almost 23 years.There is something I don't think people realize and that is they have been lied to about the men and women who work in this industry. Lied to by elected officials, economists and some very dishonest and corrupt journalists who all have the same agenda and that is to see the fall of unions. The hate they are inciting in people is scary and no different than the hate Hitler encouraged the German people inflict on the Jews. If the auto workers were a religious group these acts would be viewed as hate crimes. Thanks for posting it and hopefully more people will read it and see we're not the monsters we've been painted as.Take care.Kerry HinzmanCAW local 707..."

The above COMMENT was underneath, following my previous blog below:

http://karlmarxwasright2.blogspot.com/2009/02/global-strikes-oboomas-3-trillion-debt.html