"DUBAI GETS $8 BILLION FROM CITIGROUP" AND MORE

"Dubai Gets $8 Billion Financing From Citigroup"
(Remember these are US TAX DOLLAR funded subsidies going to Dubai via Citigroup Nation):

http://www.zawya.com/story.cfm/sidGN_15122008_10267253/lok000000081215

"UAE, US Officials Call on Congress, Obama to Support Bilateral Relations":

http://www.zawya.com/story.cfm/sidWAM20081214232004324/lok081100081214

UAE and Pakistan Discuss New Pacts:

http://www.zawya.com/story.cfm/sidWAM20081214232004324/lok081100081214

France Hopes for UAE-EU Agreement:

http://www.zawya.com/story.cfm/sidZAWYA20081214034017/lok034000081214

"Zurich Group Bullish on Region," GCC area:

http://www.zawya.com/story.cfm/sidZAWYA20081214062601/lok062600081214

Development of Egypt's Port Said, Suez Canal area.
I find this one particularly notable, since I have always assumed the long awaited desire exists to reverse the process of Middle Eastern nationalization BEGUN with Nasser's nationalization of Egypt's Suez Canal and which our current counter-revolutionary project committed to destroy:

http://www.zawya.com/story.cfm/sidZAWYA20081215052916/lok052900081215

And, finally, I emphasize, as well, continuing from previous blogs about congruency, mopping up, Iran, Kurdish Peshmerga, Turkey, Iraq's so-called provincial elections, NATO/US/Gulf military, economic alignments, Pakistan, Afghanistan,
"Use of Force Strong Option if Diplomacy Fails, Says Bahrain":

http://www.zawya.com/story.cfm/sidGN_14122008_10266918/lok000000081214

FROM GREECE: "WE ARE IN CIVIL WAR..."

A declaration from Greece resistance, opposition, uprising stands alone:
"We Are in a Civil War.."

http://www.occupiedlondon.org/blog/2008/12/12/we-are-in-civil-war-with-the-fascists-the-bankers-the-state-the-media-wishing-to-see-an-obedient-society/

Here is some TV footage of Greece's recent General Strike, something, for any reason whatsoever, we NEVER see in the US:
(Note: There might be a few seconds of commercial preceding the strike footage):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7775065.stm

And, then, last but not least, I am simply going to reprint a rather lengthy excerpt from someone else's blog and I will link to their post following the excerpt:

A society in denial (personal rant)
"To kick off with a necessary disclaimer, I haven't turned into a political analyst overnight. To the contrary, my knowledge of political theory is very limited & either too bookish or too cartoonish, plus I always seem to not comprehend &/or leave out some important details. If you choose to read what follows, then, do not take anything for granted - do your own research & form your own opinions, don't take it from me. (More importantly: instead of reading the entire ranting below, read the translations I point out in it, those articles are really insightful.)Those in need of overviews & summary reports on what has been going down can find a couple here, here, & elsewhere (follow links around). Most of these are compiled by people not in greece at the moment, which means that they're not eyewitness accounts of events but rather compilations of such accounts, political analyses, & what have you. There are certain things that have become clear - & not to me only - in the last couple of days; in my view, they can be summarized along the lines of "a representative segment of the youth is revolting; the state & the mass media remain in denial."For one thing, the state-sponsored myth that the unrest is due to the "usual familiar unknowns" & to the "special circumstances" prevailing in the Exarchia quarter has collapsed with a loud bang: K. Raptis did an outstanding job there, in an article penned in Sunday (!) already (seek a translation below; the original is here). (As an occasional reader of greek newspapers, I can certify that this level of clarity of thinking - & of honesty - is not a commonplace occurrence in greek journalistic circles.) The same is true of S. Kouloglou's analysis early Tuesday morning (seek a translation below; original here) - both correctly, I believe, identified this as the tip of an iceberg: concealed beneath the surface, real, very-very real anger was fueling the first reactions. Further, it was clear from the beginning that the revolt did not even only specifically concern anarchists or leftists or what you want to call them; this is another (also state- & mass media-sponsored) myth which simply holds no water. In fact, it did not even concern these groups to a larger extent than other groups of citizens, despite the sentimentally charged central place Exarchia assumed in the story: the police station attacks carried out exclusively by school students (particularly the Sunday attack in Thessaloniki), the 5,000 people demonstrating in Patra yesterday against the outrage of the local police working side by side with neonazis (neonazis! honestly, can you wrap your head around this?), the reports concerning elderly citizens hurling lemons at the Riot Squad or of an old man in crutches standing face to face with the Riot Squad or of somebody in suit-&-tie trying to reclaim a 15-year-old from the police force's grip, all these testify that the common people feel an ignominy at the way their own state treats them that has little to do with political affiliations (or the absence thereof). The fact that anarchists & leftists got involved into this may well be because these people understand solidarity (& often have a heart) as well as they understand police brutality & repression. Were even more members of PASOK (the center party in greece) not remorseless strategists or scared-shitless-middle-class-members (depending on their position in the party), they could have participated equally well in the demonstrations, as this murder affects them as much as anybody else.The government, instead, has been trying - up to this very moment - to blame all of this on one or another conspiracy theory: from minister of the interior P. Pavlopoulos' statement "image is one thing & reality is another" (had he replaced 'reality' by 'content,' he could at least have applied for the Most Misguided Situationist Quotation Award) to K. Karamanlis' statements about (unnamed) political forces which stir up trouble (correct; such as his own party's murderers, members of the Kalampokas team - seek below for the background -, which were reportedly spotted in Patras back in action). & my personal favorite: P. Pavlopoulos claiming - on Monday evening! - that the government has made the city safe; a reporter asking, not bothering or not managing to hide the disdain in his voice, how is it possible that he claims such a thing at a moment when the President of the Republic has to spend the night in the presidential building because it's not safe for him to be transported back home; P. Pavlopoulos' answer: I claim that the city is safe because it is safe. This is not only about the obvious tautology; even his first sentence is flawed, as if the issue were the fucking government! The center is getting looted & this jerk can only think of his government! Bush Jr. got shit about the now infamous photo of him looking down on New Orleans from his jet plane in the wake of the Katrina disaster; can you imagine even him coming out & defending his government without a word about what that government has actually done or is going to do to relieve those affected?What's basically so interesting about this whole situation, were you to sit back & think about it idly (& from a certain, comfortable in its shoes, middle-class perspective), is exactly the aforementioned ignominy: a 15-year-old gets shot, people take to the streets - immediate result: people get beaten up brutally. (Recall the SKAI radio correspondent who went berzerk on Sunday, as he watched multiple men of the Riot Squad beating up, instead of arresting, a 15-year-old in the center of Athens; recall his words: "They've learned nothing! Nothing!") People flood the streets again; not only do they get beaten up again, the police decides to collaborate with the shadow state (yes, the neonazis!) & the mass media decide to call the latter "infuriated citizens" - as if this were the '50s & the '60s all over! Additionally: cops take out their guns & point them at demonstrators, while yet other cops shoot in the air - one dead boy is clearly not enough (yes, they HAVE learned nothing!). The district attorney who, apparently, plans to absolve those responsible for the "claypot incident" (search for it below), suggests that the special guards be allowed to walk free. On Monday evening, the government sends a clear message to the looters that no crackdown is scheduled for before Tuesday noon - immediate result: that same evening, the city center is looted to an extent that makes people think of Los Angeles in '92. Also, there's a whole shitload of pictures out there of "hooded ones" embedded in the police force (yes, I do believe that these are the same hoods that smashed things up in the city center; do you have a better explanation? Does the police have a better explanation? If it is, what is it?) & still more mind-boggling stuff, such as: the minister of the interior is all smiles off camera (or at least when he thinks he's off camera). & even more: on the night of the murder, the minister of educational affairs S. Stylianidis (who, in my view, is perfectly unfit for any post related to educational affairs) enjoys an evening out (heavy duty, too: in a club with live music); the next day, he attends a football match.& this still remains the tip of the iceberg. Recall that, in the last year & a half only, the people living in the country have gone through:(a) forest fires, who left .... acres of charred forests & about 100 people dead;(b) the revelation that minister of culture (ha!) G. Voulgarakis became a millionaire overnight (actually, in the last 4 years);(c) the same minister's reply to a newscaster's question (loosely amounting to "granted that what you did was legal; was it also ethical?") that ethical is identical to legal; in a country where I don't recall any minister having even being charged by a court of law with corruption/profiteering, this amounts to ethical is identical to achievable: if you can pull it off, you're doing fine;(d) an immense scandal involving officials (reportedly high in the hierarchy) handing over vast amounts of state property to the church (the same church that refuses to even sum up its possessions - much less reveal them - & is exempt from taxes, although the church functionaries are paid by the greek state);(e) the Siemens scandal, where it was revealed that pretty much everybody with influence, in both ND & PASOK (the two major political parties in greece), was on the take; & as there's no free lunch, Siemens was getting a preferential treatment in state affairs - much like selling tax money short & pocketing the net amount.Finally, as S. Kouloglou & K. Raptis among others pointed out (as even L. Fabius pointed out; see above), all of these affairs (which have monopolized the front pages for weeks on end & thus were highly visible) occurred in a country where people in their '20s are employed (if at all) at a starting salary of as low as 660 euro (Athens is far more expensive than Berlin, for example, & comparable to, maybe, Amsterdam - apart from housing at least). Without social benefits & maybe without vacation - certainly without prospects; often forced to meet their employer halfway & get part of his/her contributions for social security/retirement plan as cash instead. Immediate result? What else: people lodging with their parents until into their 30's; people scared shitless to graduate, as their prospects are nil; people who are dying to get into the civil servant sector, i.e., get on the government's tab (in a country where that particular sector is already overgrown); people who get on that sector as temporary employees & spend years (literally) waiting for their salaries.How, then, could one be surprised that these people revolted? Every single response of the government to the events in the last few days has added insult to injury, much like the humiliation many greeks must feel reading their Sunday paper of choice or turning on their TV & reading/seeing the same people that condemn them to precarity amass immense fortunes by selling short the citizens they have been elected to represent. (I know that this is what made me add 'occasional' to my self-description 'reader of greek newspapers' - that feeling I get of some corrupt, remorseless, insatiable bastard pointing at me through the pages & laughing in my face every time I read about multimillion deals & compare it to emails I receive from friends living in greece.)Meanwhile, leaders in the rest of Europe apparently turn their heads south to size up the situation. The prime minister K. Karamanlis, who's in Brussels today, has reportedly conferred with his equals regarding the possibility of the riots spreading to the rest of Europe. S. Kouloglou wrote, once again, an excellent article regarding this issue (seek a translation above). Those who gathered to protest in The Hague (&, as I learned yesterday, also in Paris & maybe even elsewhere) had time to observe the reaction of the mass media & decipher what they observed: at least one TV crew in The Hague, at least one interview with a journalist in Paris (regarding the fact that the ambassador did not even deign to meet with the protesters) - net result: zero television time in the first case (& only sporadic, dried-out mentions of the incident in the local newspapers attributing the march solely to greeks; we don't want to plant fancy ideas in the queen's subjects, do we?), no mention of the ambassador incident in the second one. Even worse, the dutch conservative newspaper NRC Handelsblad did publish some articles which were simply revolting - representative sample (last paragraph): " The hooligans [it's a time honored tradition of dutch newspapers to stripping everyone protesting of any ideology by calling them a hooligan] have caused, i the past few days, damages of approximately one billion euro. 3,000 people face losing their jobs, because the stores [where they work] must stop or move. Some fear losing a quarter of their turnover during this month of big celebrations. Meanwile, the same protesters scream about the economy shrinking." A very dutch logic, indeed: work, get paid, live happily, let those who know better take big decisions [the benelux governments bailed out Fortis recently, which cost 11 billion euro; hardly anybody bat an eye]. They left out the distressing fact that people in greece don't quite get paid enough to live happily - greece is not the netherlands: get a clue.Thankfully, some foreign mass media start getting a clue. Previous attempts clearly didn't hit the spot: I'm still laughing with BBC's article; not that it's that bad, but did anyone really believe that the explanation "rebellion is deeply embedded in the Greek psyche" would settle the question once & for all? Sounds good, but fit for a novel, not for a political analysis. Others were performing even more sloppily, reproducing state propaganda (all dutch papers on Monday which made a mention to the riots, for example), focusing on the number of cops wounded (CNN), & of course absolutely everybody interprets absolutely everything in economical terms (this is the modern agenda, after all - economy provides the setting, period). Well, this latter tendency won't leave any reports any time soon, but at least journalists seem to be doing their homework a little bit better, focusing on what lies under the stone-hurling & the massive demos - even in NRC somebody got off their ass & decided to look into the G700 phenomenon (known to the rest of the world as precarity). At the same time, it could be that the mobilization assumes a more (?) strategically sound form, with an announcement from the Polytechnic putting forth political demands (seek a translation below) & TV & radio station occupations; it's hard to tell, & half of the the leftists seems to be rejoicing with the fact that the revolt has had no leaders, while the other half with the fact that a strategy develops (don't forget that the greek movement is rather fragmented).That's it, let's get back to some translations.."

Above text taken from the following:

http://tapesgoneloose.blogspot.com/

"RISE OF THE UNIVERSAL ARAB EMIRATES"

Two posts for today.
This and the one below about it about "GM And Middle East."

I assure everyone, I do NOT create these articles or headlines whole cloth out of my head, like the one above.
Fiction is nowhere as good as reality.

Like the Turkish Daily News, the jaw dropping headline/article above/below speaks for itself,
"Rise of the Universal Arab Emirates":

http://www.gulfnews.com/opinion/columns/nation/10265952.html

And, of course, to accompany the above, another upcoming Gulf, Doha, meeting in March, 2009, for investment and finance with the usual cast of characters, those who bought and purchased America's billion dollar Fascist President at whose behest Obummer serves:

http://www.ameinfo.com/178131.html

Additionally, an "Intelligence" publication, an oxymoron, Stratfor, recently posted an analysis dealing with the world's current "Financial Crisis" and the happy, coincidental role Gulf States can play in this global crisis.
I will link to the Stratfor article, subsequently.

First, however, within the Stratfor article itself is/was a second link to a very large, nice area map.
So, I will save everyone the effort of an extra click, especially for those geographically challenged, and link to the area map Stratfor used, FIRST, then, their article.
So, first, the map of the area to which they are referring:

http://www1.stratfor.com/images/interactive/GCC_outlook.htm

And, then, the article, itself:

http://www.stratfor.com/memberships/127735/analysis/20081124_gcc_states_eyeing_opportunities_global_financial_crisis

And, now, not unsurprisingly, a continuation from the ongoing US/NATO/Gulf strategic, economic military alliance,
the "US Wants to Sign Nuclear Deal with UAE Soon":

http://www.zawya.com/story.cfm/sidANA20081212T120807ZASC69/lok120813081212

GM AND MIDDLE EAST

As usual, ignore ALL corporate TV and media about GM's bailout.
It is an anointed, choreographed political dance, a bouncing ball, for purposes of political posturing and coverage amongst ALL parties concerned with outcome predetermined.
And, here is the outcome from my previous blog entries:

First and foremost, number one, from my entry of November 30, 2008:

"Middle East Market is GM's Silver Lining."

Before reading the following article--it is a short one--NOTE the very last paragraph, which I will highlight, first.
Think about the implications of this last paragraph in CONTEXT:

"...Asked if the company is talking with any government or SWFs from the Middle East, he said: " We are not in conversations with the government but we are in talks with our dealerships and our business partners in the region who have significant contacts. We leave it to the dealers in a particular market to have any dialogue with the government."

http://www.zawya.com/story.cfm/sidZAWYA20081127035531/lok035500081127

And, from my entry of June 27, 2008:

...Meanwhile, as for America's 1930's, historic, Communist led union and GM, its intentional obsolescence and bankruptcy, GM, as just about everything else I've been following, is the Phoenix rising from the ashes in the sands of the Gulf and Middle East:

www.zawya.com/story.cfm/sidZAWYA20080608035708/lok035700080608

And, finally, from my entry of November 11, 2008:

And, by the way, GM in the US is going bust, BUT, NOT in Russia. The opposite being the case:

http://en.rian.ru/analysis/20081111/118241475.html

GREECE AND THE EURASIAN GAS GAME

I thought it helpful to put into context SOME factors not much discussed related to recent Greek developments and Greece's significant role in the following context and WHY it is so important WHO controls Greece, like Turkey, Pakistan, etc.

So, I highlighted the introductory paragraph from the following with a link in pink at the end, "more information..." whereupon, if you click it, you can read the remainder:

"South Eastern Europe in the Big Eurasian Gas Game: New Supply and Transit Challenges:

Natural gas remains the key source of energy for the European Union and the biggest share of it is currently supplied by Russia's Gazprom. With energy security at the top of EU's agenda, diversification of gas supply routes is set as top priority for the coming years. South Eastern Europe (SEE) is a region expected to play a crucial role in mid- and long-term gas supply diversification for most of Europe. Currently at stake for SEE is the advantage of becoming a new hub of gas transit from Middle East, Central Asia and the Caspian region en route to EU consumers... More information..."

Many more papers are available on the same subject from the same page from which I pulled the above regarding Greece.
If you bother to read and/or glance at all of them, you can put together a fairly good geographic picture of how the pieces, countries, fit together strategically in this "game":

http://www.gasandoil.com/goc/marketintelligence/welcome.html

And, in a somewhat eclectic manner, I came across the following article about a Greek shipping company named DryShips, related to all the above, "Setting Sail For an Economic Rebound":

http://money.cnn.com/2008/12/10/markets/thebuzz/index.htm

At the following link, as the article notes, DryShips is a small, curious, startup shipping company in 2004-5 with only 2 employees, located in the Marshall Islands.

At the following, a direct link to their website is provided, and, you can peruse their Directors.

This represents a PATTERN for places all over the globe, a typical element of the Fascist, global privatization conspiracy:

http://money.cnn.com/quote/snapshot/snapshot.html?symb=DRYS

I will not comment on the current, fluid, explosive, dynamic events in Greece, since this news can be followed from lots of sources better than I on the internet.

I will only add one note. One can easily note the complete and conspicuous absence of any acknowledgment, support or recognition of Greece's revolutionary, ongoing, militant labor struggle and student protests and insurrection from the US and its non-existent, Fascist led labor movement and fake Left.

THEIR job is the contrary, to control the American labor movement and make sure such things NEVER happen in the US. To contain organized labor as an appendage of the Fascist project. So, the US just had an itsy-bitsy, baby labor protest, sitdown strike, a few hundred people, and, DONE. Finished. Over. It is/was certainly cost effective, expedient and political grandstanding to throw a few thousand dollars to a few hundred laid off workers and tell them to go home and shut up, rather than let others get the idea they might do something else more militant.

WE ALL ARE GREEK!!

Excerpted from the following, link below:

"...The government has vowed to crack down on the rioters. But with the general strike tomorrow against government austerity programmes and attacks on pensions and tens of thousands of angry workers on the streets aggressive police action could lead to serious repercussions for the state."

http://libcom.org/news/shots-ring-out-athens-riots-continue-09122008

There is global opposition and resistance to Fascism, counter-revolution and reaction and Greece is at the forefront, a catalyst.

WE ALL are Greek!

GREECE AND THE PIECE OF SHIT CALLED THE US

Here's a roundup of events and issues in Greece:

http://libcom.org/news/rioting-explodes-across-greece-08122008

In the US, we do not even have a universal, free, higher public education system.
Not to mention health care, pensions and not much of anything else over which the Greeks fight.
When reporting on Greece, here, they neglect to mention ANY of these factors.
Just a bunch of rioting anarchists.

What we do have here, instead, is lots of pliable, idiotic, moronic, passive SUCKERS!!
The biggest and largest bunch on the planet.
So, we get one, small, little, tiny, local factory protest, which ONLY wants some severance pay and it is considered an enormous event, while the remainder of the resources of the entire country is sold off and down the drain in collusion with a Fascist demagogue labeled progressive along with totally corrupt and Fascist labor leadership and NONE of what the Greeks take for granted and for which they fight.

The following article sums it up nicely for me, except for the fact they are incorrect about OJ Simpson.
He's a shmuck, also.
Two shmucks do not a mensch make.
But, the sense and tone of what they describe is accurate, much more accurate then the heaps and heaps of verbal garbage, apologists, passivity, stupidity, propaganda I read and hear everyday, here.
Mountains and mountains and tons of sophisticated intellectual obscurantism that continue to give legitimacy to a totally criminal institution called the American government and their upcoming Citigroup Nation slave in the White House and all those same people who helped to put him there in the first place.
When I say they get what they deserve, I most definitely, adamantly mean it:

http://www.indiadaily.com/editorial/20326.asp

Meanwhile, in a previous blog I mentioned the Dow Chemical and Kuwait story.
And, as well, RESISTANCE to it in Kuwait, itself.
Much more resistance in tiny, retrograde Kuwait than anything from the passive suckers in the US.
Here's an update on that story:

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/081208/dow_chemical_job_cuts.html

THE CURIOUS CASE OF THE MISSING LINK, SHAHZAD & AZIZ, "SELL, SELL, SELL IN PAKISTAN"

In a previous post, I noted all of the many links I have utilized from the Turkish Daily News disappeared.
Indeed,the TDN, itself, disappeared, along with all their previous articles and links, apparently.

There's another very curious missing link to me, in addition to the TDN.

In previous blogs, I linked to an article published June 10, 2005, in the Asia Times, entitled, "Sell, Sell, Sell in Pakistan."
The article was co-written by Syed Saleem Shahzad and Sajid Aziz.

I reproduced my previous blog entry from May, 2006, in which I referred to the above link on my present blog.
You will see it noted here, AND, you will notice the ATimes link to the preceding article does NOT work:

http://karlmarxwasright2.blogspot.com/2008/11/from-may-2006-abraaj-jafar-dana-gas.html

I am mystified by the cause or reason for this particular missing link because, so far, every other previous ATimes link I try DOES work and ATimes is still very much alive and well and kicking and in existence.

FURTHERMORE, at least one of the authors of the above article/link is NOT a slouchy fellow.
Here's a thumbnail sketch of Syed Saleem Shahzad's bio, or, credentials/connections:

httwikipedia.org/wiki/Syed_Saleem_Shahzadp://en.

And, just to be sure it was not a fluke, I did NUMEROUS other searches both on the ATimes website, itself, other search engines, under the article heading AND under the name of the authors.

Again, I found the link, but, the link NEVER worked.

So, I would really like to know why this particular article has vanished from public archives and a request to have it reproduced in full for reference purposes.

The closest I came in content matter to the above while doing some searches through the ATimes website, was the following article about Pakistan privatization and the UAE again from 2005:

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/GF24Df01.html

But, although itself very interesting, this is not the correct article.

Consider this brief blog entry to be an open, public question and letter to the Atimes to solve the case of the mysterious missing link.

A seemingly simple thing to do.

PAK-AFGHAN DEAL AND GREECE

Well, for the latest episode in "As the World Turns," a seemingly endless US TV soap opera.

Just after posting my previous entry, below, where it was reported infamous Afghan General Dostum flew to Turkey on the heels of Mumbai as a tripartite meeting occurred between Turkey, Pakistan and Afghan FMs, guess what was just announced from those meetings?
Come on.
You can guess.
I know my readers are smart cookies.

Afghanistan and Pakistan agreed to fight terror TOGETHER.
Imagine that!
Could anyone have guessed?
Me and a few thousand, million others, I suppose.
Here's their proud, official proclamation on this matter:

http://hawk.heraldinteractive.com/news/international/asia_pacific/view/2008_12_05_Afghanistan__Pakistan_to_fight_al-Qaida_together/

Additionally, much of the US power Establishment has made taxpayer financed social visits, free jaunts, to Pakistan and India these past few days, including a Congressional entourage which encompassed McCain:

http://www.dawn.com/2008/12/06/top15.htm

The clinchers to the above. The ones I love the most.

First, "Pakistan Likely to Get $2 Billion Loan from Saudi Arabia and the UAE," with more money to come, from the IMF:

http://www.zawya.com/story.cfm/sidZAWYA20081205081209/lok081200081205

Geez.

If I sponsor some terrorism maybe they will throw a few billion dollars my way as a reward.

Second, emerging from the tripartite meeting in Istanbul between Turkey, Pakistan and Afghanistan FMs to which I refer above and in my previous post, in addition to promulgating they would all fight terrorism together, a corresponding announcement, "Business Leaders to Encourage Trilateral Cooperation." Wow! What another startling development of joint compatibility! It blows my mind:

http://www.dawn.com/2008/12/07/ebr4.htm

And, one more irresistible article related to the above, "Pakistan Pushing for More Free Trade with GCC" (and Arab states):

http://www.gulfnews.com/business/Trade/10265507.html

Meanwhile, for those following the murky world of state sponsored, narco-terrorism, here's an interesting one which I'll leave others to assess its truth value and accuracy:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/Pakistan/US_sanctioned_LeTs_Hafiz_and_Zaki_Lakhvi_in_May/articleshow/3805518.cms

Turning to global resistance and class war. On this matter, I have some truly remarkable events to report. Both events and some following links are available on the same website: www.libcom.org

First, the US has just taken its own teeny-weeny, itsy-bitsy, baby step in the correct direction with "Angry Laid Off Workers Occupy Factory in Chicago":

http://libcom.org/news/construction-workers-occupy-factory-chicago-07122008

Well, congratulations are in order.
The US birthed a labor infant, above.
Unless their infant gets lots of support, nurturing, attention AND grows up, matures and develops, the infant will suffer from premature crib death, I'm afraid.
However, the adorable little labor infant IS getting some high profile attention for reasons as yet to be determined:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081208/ap_on_re_us/workers_takeover;_ylt=AgsGg8YzKvyzzENY2vyzorFvzwcF

Maybe, next, they all should call upon that great progressive leader for whom they ALL voted and supported, Obummer, for assistance since he and they are Chicagoans together and Obummer is such a great community leader and organizer, according to the propaganda.

And, call on national labor LEADERSHIP as well, not the isolated union local.

We shall see what happens and what comes of it all.

In contrast to the above American labor infant, we have a full fledged, grown, mature, experienced, seasoned labor adult in Greece. The following extraordinary, remarkable events have taken place in Greece.

First, a nursing strike, seizure and occupation of the Greek Minister of Health office:

http://libcom.org/news/tension-athens-nurses-occupy-minister-health-during-48-strike-while-students-clash-police-0

And then, apparently, more followed. Riots are reported in Greece with one death, but, of course, no background and NO context is provided, as if these riots simply occur spontaneously, out of the blue.

For those completely uninitiated with the present and previous context and background of militant Greek labor strikes and politics, here's a starter for you. Happy reading:

http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=greece%2C+strikes&fr=yfp-t-501&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8

May they ever be an inspiration!

AFGHAN GEN DOSTUM AND IRAQ OIL LAW

Before commenting on the main purpose of this entry, the Iraq Oil Law, in light of recent events in Mumbai, I thought the following, small news item rather intriguing.
It confirmed that infamous, former Afghan General Dostum just flew to Turkey, and, depending on which source one reads, either Dostum is in voluntary exile or just visiting:

http://www.worldbulletin.net/news_detail.php?id=32702

And, here's one more link with a slightly different interpretation.

Simultaneous to Dostum and Mumbai, it so happens a Turkish, Pakistani and Afghan tripartite summit was held in Turkey.

TRIPARTITE MEETING SECOND LINK BELOW:

http://www.jansamachar.net/display.php3?id=&num=16925&lang=English

TRIPARTITE MEETING:

http://www.worldbulletin.net/news_detail.php?id=32769

And, now, for Iraq's Oil Law.
On December 3, Azzaman reported the Iraq Oil Law compromise reached between the KRG and Baghdad had collapsed:

http://www.azzaman.com/english/index.asp?fname=news\2008-12-03\kurd.htm

Two days later, a contradictory report about an Iraq Oil Law compromise. In addition, on the upper right hand side of the following link, in a box, further articles about various companies cancelling, altering their previous KRG negotiated contracts:

http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/41160

So, which is accurate?
What will happen?
I believe the latter, above, for the following reasons.

An excerpt from my previous blog of September 28, 2008:

"...Kurdistan's Heritage Oil, partnered with the mysterious Eagle Group of Iraq, which I've speculated might be Talabani, and/or Barzani, themselves, apparently, either will be sold outright, or, "some" of their assets sold.
It is speculated those assets will be in Kurdistan.
From their own corporate website, a terse, September 18 Press Release on the subject. Note, JP Morgan Cazenove, advisor:

www.heritageoilltd.com/resource/fzxrtqdn2eo8z89xslscp62r.pdf

Seems to me like rats leaving a sinking ship.

I've had much in previous blogs about the nefarious role of Heritage, etc. But, a good reminder, to which I've linked before, and, especially in recent connection between the Obummer mafia campaign and mafioso extraordinaire, Tony Buckingham, current owner of Heritage Oil, the following:

http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m41015

Also, Russia reaffirms Iraq's territorial integrity:

http://www.uruknet.info/?p=47542

Apparently, some private Russian companies are being offered the potential to invest in Iraq.
And, of course, further UN and NATO/international forces being planned for intervention and "peace keeping" in Iraq..."
END OF EXCERPT

Direct link for above entry:

http://karlmarxwasright2.blogspot.com/2008/09/predictions-fulfilled-news-of-our-death.html

In addition to my preceding excerpt, the following, NOW, "Nato Reiterates Pledge to Build Iraq's Security Force":

http://www.zawya.com/story.cfm/sidGN_05122008_10264804/lok033005081205

And, if that isn't sufficient enough proof, the final nail in the coffin,
"Iraq's Oil Conference Buzzes With Prospects...":

http://www.rigzone.com/news/article.asp?a_id=70370

The preceding all consistent with the "international policy shift" consolidated by the US 2006 mid-term Congressional election.

On THAT subject, an EXCERPT from my previous entry of March 5, 2008:

"....As you may recall if you have been reading my blog for some time, October 2005 was when I first forecast a REVERSION to the former, strategic policies of "trilateralism, internationalism," represented by Kissinger, the CFR, PRIOR to America's 2006 midterm elections, which is precisely what happened, our November Coup, as I called it.
On October 13, 2005, I did a blog entitled, "Silent Coup in Washington..."
...What then ensued, as I said in my blogs, was an orchestrated, predetermined, November 2006 mid-term Congressional shift represented officially by Democratic victories and their subsequent policy shifts represented above, i.e., the November Coup, which is why there has been and will be no American Presidential impeachment proceedings.
For all THEIR above intents and purposes, the coup already occurred.
For purposes of partisan politics, political posturing, global expediency, it is much more convenient and better to keep the current asinine idiot in the White House, present him as the titular leader, obscure responsibility and blame, with no messy hearings, continuity of government and power, the facade of democracy and so on.
I think others can extrapolate on the possible innumerable unmentioned reasons why such a policy would be politically advantageous, from domestic to global purposes.
Thus, the current American Presidential campaign/election is a continuum of the process begun, above, culminating officially with a new President, a new titular head, whomever it may be.
The following organization represents this clearly:

http://www.usglobalengagement.org/

And their testimony, today, in Congress on "Smart Power...":

www.usglobalengagement.org/Portals/16/ftp/Testimony.pdf ..."

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AUSTRALIA, THE GCC AND RELATED FASCIST NOTES

The following article about Australia and the Middle East, altho not named as such, specifically, our International Nazi GCC cartel/conspiracy.

I will EXCERPT first from the article below what I consider the salient point and then provide a link:

"...TREASURER Wayne Swan says suggestions the Government has struck a deal to channel funds from the Middle East into a new infrastructure bank for the states are "just absurd...They have floated the idea of a national infrastructure bank that would borrow money on their behalf....But when asked in parliament by Deputy Opposition Leader Julie Bishop why is the Government establishing a new bank which will channel petrodollars from the Middle East to state Labor..."

For the remaining context read the article/link:

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24750868-26103,00.html

And, here are a few more highlights from global, International Fascism, counter-revolution and reaction, led by the US.

Kuwait and Dow Chemical to form a joint venture. Hopefully, I do not need to explain the importance of Dow Chemical:

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Dow-finalizes-KDow-venture-apf-13708168.html

No sooner than the above is/was announced, opposition and resistance emanated from tiny, little, retrograde Kuwait, resistance larger than anything from America's collaborative, supine Fascist trade unions, fake Left and despicable Nazi Congress combined together:

http://www.zawya.com/story.cfm/sidZAWYA20081204052334/lok052300081204

Then, following along from other Fascist dictatorships, plans to circumvent Gazprom and supply Nabucco gas to the EU from Egypt via Bulgaria and Turkey:

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Bulgaria-interested-in-apf-13745235.html

And, hoping to pry open Mongolia's natural resources to foreign capital ownership:

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Mongolia-to-reopen-talks-on-apf-13742680.html

Then, further French and UAE consolidation:

http://www.zawya.com/story.cfm/sidZAWYA20081204101348/lok101300081204

The IMF and, amongst a long list of other places, Lebanon:

http://www.zawya.com/story.cfm/sidDS281108_dsart10/lok064520081128

And, an added reflection about Pakistan.

I do not find it surprising or shocking that the US and NATO, and, even Russia and India, create a terror excuse to intercede and "mop up," destroy or control the Frankenstein monster the US created in the first place in Afghanistan and Pakistan that became an impediment to "progress," as defined by privatization and regional economic integration, just like Iran's barbaric Nazi militias and their partners in crime, the Kurdish Peshmerga in Iraq.

The mafia and international drug syndicates certainly bump off and liquidate each other. So, why not these folks? After all, they are born of the same ilk. They are related. Everybody knows the character and background of Pakistan's ISI in the Afghan-Soviet war. It's no secret.

The following article recaps some of it. The only important part missing in the following, however, are details surrounding the financial interconnections of BCCI which continue to the present day in the GCC Cartel conspiracy.

There was even a fictionalized Hollywood movie version proudly presenting America's creation of their miserable, Islamic, Afghan-Pakistan "Freedom Fighters." The movie was titled, "Charlie's War," based on Democratic Congressman Charlie Wilson's role and funding.

So, for a short, terse, bare bones background, recap, minus BCCI:

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=11279

And, since I always like to feature one amongst many possible points of global resistance, today, Hungary, in addition to tiny Kuwait, above:

http://www.marxist.com/hungary-demonstration-november-08.htm

Nothing in this area to report in the US. Just the opposite. All quiet on the Western Front. Our historic, present day, UAW labor union leadership grovels and kowtows in Congress for a few funds and promises to essentially liquidate itself and concede almost all gains they made in previous contracts. Why don't they all just take a gun, shoot themselves or commit hari-kari and save everybody a bunch of trouble.

Instead, we go through endless Congressional hearings, theatrics and TV melodrama, with a predetermined and prescripted outcome, which, of course, Citigroup did not do, at all. Citigroup just made their many billions of dollars agreement, quietly, over the weekend and announced it on a Monday morning. A "gentleman's" handshake is all it took.

IRAN'S MOBINA GROUP, BELARUS AND PAKISTAN

The intersection of Iran and Belarus begins with a report that Iran's Mobina Group is interested in purchasing Belarus bank shares:

http://www.mojnews.com/en/news_full_story.asp?nId=4223

However, after doing some searches on the internet, I could come up with absolutely no further information other than that stated above on Iran's seemingly nebulous and murky Mobina Group.
No website.
Nothing on Mohammad Reza E(I)zadbin, named above.
No Board of Directors, shareholders, etc.
Nothing.

However, "Iraninan," presumably, Mobina Group was present at a very well attended, recent, international Belarus Investment Forum in London in November, 2008, from which the report above emanates.

The following link for this very well attended Belarus Investment Forum:

http://www.belta.by/en/print?id=307347

The preceding Belarus investment forum in London in November, 2008, at which Iran's Mobina Group was present, in turn, emanates from a project entitled, "Office For a Democratic Belarus in Brussels," and I am linking to one of the papers available on their official "Office" website, "Prospects for Privatization in Belarus":

http://belinstitute.eu/images/stories/documents/sa52008en.pdf

Following with more information and links is the website of "Office For A Democratic Belarus Brussels" from which I extracted the above link/paper:

http://www.democraticbelarus.eu/

Meanwhile, returning to where I began, the Mobina Group.
Reminds me of a previous question.
WHO is the Eagle Group of Iraq, business partner with Heritage Oil in KRG administered Kurdistan?
So, I might ask a similar question, again.
WHO does "Iran's" Mobina Group represent?

However, at this point, I PRESUME, although, of course, I could be incorrect, depending on the answer, the significance of the Mobina Group is considerably less than that of the mysterious Eagle Group of Iraq partnered with Heritage Oil and the KRG.

And, for those of you concerned about Pakistan, rest assured.
Pakistan has been and continues to be, since creation of the BCCI (Bank of Commerce and Credit International, otherwise known as Bank of Crooks and Criminals International) and Pakistan's ISI and their roles in the Afghan-Soviet war, an integral partner of US, Nazi/Fascist plans and the GCC, Middle East speculative and privatizing bubble.

So, the following about Pakistan, which sums it up, in addition to all else I've had on my blogs:

"Pakistan Government to Increase Foreign Direct Investment":

http://www.menafn.com/qn_news_story_s.asp?StoryId=1093223260