Posted by
Derrick Michael Reid on Tuesday, March 24, 2009 11:14:28 AM
Turkey and Iraq join to suppress Kurdish rebels, a good thing, for the global confluence.
The PKK, the Kurdish militant wing, has been branded a terrorist organization, and rightly so, using terror to perfect a political result.
For those who have their global antenna up, the global confluence marches on, day by day, mostly in baby steps, undiscernable by most, by and large. The CORE (of connected countries) v GAP (of rouge nations) struggle to bring all peoples functioning together per functional rule sets, is a continuing global process driven by human cultural evolution, with a 5000 year bull run history. The confluence is not only a coming together of all nations, but also, a force for maintaining and cementing national borders, within which, individual and group rights, are or should be respected, in this democracy century.
Think about this, two democratically elected middle east countries, effectively being so, have joined a common cause, and that is to suspress rebellion by the Kurds. The fight is not against TWO RECOGNIZED UN COUNTRIES, but between two democratic countries suppressing insurgency. As in "Walking Liberty, Is Real Money" teachings, this is not war between countries, but the dust from the steps of walking liberty about the globe, an insurgency. The trick is to pound them, while offering equal civil rights and freedom of expression, to sedate the rebellion in kurdistan, which is part in Turkey and part in Iraq. If every group was given freedom, the world would fly apart, and there would be no more confluence. Russia chechnia rebellion is a case in point. Rather we like Putin or not, a heavy hand was necessary to sedate the rebellion there, to keep Russia from flying apart, and the chaos that would result, affecting the global community. Tsar Putin did well in Chechnia, despite all the western comdemnations of Putin's heavy hand there. The kurd should seek local elected controls in areas of turkey and Iraq, and secure peaceful residences, and rights, and fully join those nations, while also seeking their rights therein.
This dove tails into S. Ossetia in Georgia. S. Ossetia should remain in Georgia, per recognized borders, yet, Georgia should also respect their rights. Currently, it is an autonomous region, kinda like a indian reservation. With the Russki bear eyeing any opportunity to grawl on the international stage for prestige feeding of the RED EATING russkie bears, Georgia should negotiate with Russia, suitable security arrangement and protected right in S. Ossetia, rather than sucker punching the Russians to create an international incident to build NATO admission concensous in western europe. These autonomous regions and insurgencies are of course tricky, but the thing to do, is cement borders with guarrantee rights, as the interim solutions, until the insurgent decide to fully join. American indians should do the same here in the US, or they will otherwise remain, 3rd class citizens, and should be treated as such. There should be NO aid or votes, whatsoever for indians on US reservations. If the indians want to join the USA, and obtain government support and benefits, then join the team, fully, otherwise, go pound tom toms.
Derrick Michael Reid
Laguna Beach CA
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Rebel Kurds reject call to lay down arms in Iraq
BAGHDAD – Kurdish rebels on Tuesday rejected calls by Iraq's president to stop fighting against Turkey and leave Iraqi territory as the visiting Turkish president stepped up pressure on the Baghdad government to act against the group.
President Jalal Talabani made the call Monday during a press conference with visiting Turkish President Abdullah Gul. Talabani, who is a Kurd, said it was in Iraq's interest to remove fighters of the Kurdistan Workers' Part, or PKK, from Iraqi soil.
Talabani also called on the rebels to lay down their arms, but he has made similar calls in the past that have been ignored and the government announced no imminent plans to take action against the rebel group.
The central government has frequently denounced the PKK as terrorists, but it is limited in its ability to act against the rebels, who are based in semiautonomous Kurdish territory in northern Iraq. Baghdad also have been preoccupied with fighting violence elsewhere in Iraq.
"Jalal Talabani doesn't have the authority or the will to utter such words, and we don't take orders from him," PKK spokesman Ahmed Deniz said.
"We are publicly warning Talabani that such statements will lead to grave consequences and much of the achievements of (Iraq's) Kurds will be lost," Deniz told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. He did not elaborate.
PKK rebels, who stage cross-border raids into Turkish territory from sanctuaries in northern Iraq, have been fighting for autonomy in Turkey's southeast since 1984. The conflict has killed tens of thousands of people.
Gul, who arrived Monday on the first trip to Iraq by a Turkish head of state in 33 years, met with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on Tuesday, according to a government statement. A day earlier, he urged Iraqis to crack down on Kurdish rebels.
"The time has come to remove the element that is a source of trouble," Gul said during Monday's press conference. "We need to engage in a joint struggle to completely eradicate terrorism."
Turkey has carried out several cross border airstrikes against rebel targets and is pressing Baghdad and the Kurdish regional government to step up efforts against the Kurdish rebels from their side.
Tensions escalated last year after the rebels killed about two dozen Turkish soldiers in attacks in October.
The areas where the PKK operates are under control of the Iraqi Kurdish regional administration rather than the Arab-dominated central government in Baghdad.
Iraqi police, meanwhile, raised the death toll to 27 in a suicide bombing Monday against a Kurdish funeral in Jalula, a northern town where Kurds and Arabs are competing for power.
U.S. officials believe Kurdish-Arab tension is among the major flashpoint issues threatening Iraqi stability now that the danger posed by Sunni and Shiite insurgents has been diminished.
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Fr. Sebastian
St James Catholic Church
Yunzko, Salkalinsk Isle Russia
Food for thought,
Genesis 1:28 God blessed them; and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth."
Genesis 9:7 "As for you, be fruitful and multiply; Populate the earth abundantly and multiply in it."
And boy did we ever!!!!
Matthew 22:40 "On these two commandments depend the whole Law and the Prophets."
Luke 6:31 "Treat others the same way you want them to treat you.
Romans 13:8 Owe nothing to anyone except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.
Galatians 5:14 For the whole Law is fulfilled in one word, in the statement, "YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF."
Well now that is the trick, aint it, in the global confluence?
Sure, in populating the earth, we have been selfish, oppressive, and brutal at times, and we humans are not perfect.
We are siners, so forgives us lord.
BUT WE, as a global people, ARE TRYING!!!!!
Would you all do me a huge favor.
Compare in your mind to the state of affairs in Berlin in 1943, and the state of affairs in London on 2009 at the G20.
We aint there yet, we have 1) Polish Missiles, 2) Iranian Nukes, 3) NK Nukes, 4) Tiawan, 5) Pakiland Islamofascist Terrorists, inter alia, as hot spots, but, by and large, NOT BAD for selfish greedy little humans? eh?
BUT WE CAN DO BETTER!!!!! Pray my friends, for all peoples on earth.
We as a global people are learning civility, but its long and slow process, with selfishness, biases and cultural retarding forces, but we will universally get there, as the confluence marches on!!
Peace be with you, ALL MY FRIENDS on earth, eventually including some misguided throat slitters and nuvo nuke builders.
Derrick Michael Reid
Laguna Beach CA
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Dear Derrick,
Thanks for your food for thought.
You have found real insights
We all lack the sense of love for our neighbours. this is a fact thoughout the centuries and all over the world. We lack the sense of love to our own neighbours, that is our parents who gave us life, we lack our sense of love to our brothers and sisters, our relatives and friends and our teachers and finanlly our friends who helped us to grow as civilized persons, in religious education and school education. we can see hatred and killings in our own families and in our neibourhoods. then this is carried on in our own countries and in the world as a whole. This is all because of our selfish motives, goals and interests.
Any way let us pray always for ourselves that we become more loving to our own lives and love all with whom we come in contact. then each and everyone in the world begins to love one another then there will be peace and harmony in the families, in the neighbourhood and in the country and in the world.
Yours truly,
Fr. Sebastian Marian D' Silva
St. James' Roman Catholic Church
Street, Pobedy 26 B
Yuzno - Sakhalinsk 693000
Russian Federation
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War Aint Allowed, as the Confluence Marches On
The global confluence has its roots in GOD and is driven by humanistic sought after freedom in the face of controlling governments seeking socialistic utopian control over the people. These aspects have had more force over the last few hundred years as empires abut each other with no more room to conquer new unexplored lands and enslave and colonize other peoples. The human cultural evolution is driven by people seeking freedom that is based in the high-five of freedom, GOD GOLD GUNS LAND and VOTE.
The global confluence is perfected through international functional rule sets, such as, WTO, UN, treaties, and international diplomacy, where the CORE of connected countries (US, Russia, EU, China, Japan etc.) learns to live together to prevent global war and to gang pile upon an arrant CORE member, while concurrently sedating the GAP of rough nations (in land gaps between core areas) such as Iran and NK. There is now sufficient negative feedback to contain CORE imperialism and to dominate GAP nations leading them into the membership of CORE nations, as an on-going movement toward increased global civility, where, the long term projection is a movement from hot war and fiat money to trade war and gold honest money, on a global basis.
This day, for example, lets look at a few situations.
Russia, US, China, SK, and Japan, along with support from many other nations, are trying to contain NK rocket launches. Here, civilized nations of the CORE are dog piling an arrant GAP nation, to contain that arrant child.
The UN is sending a delegation to Israel in investigate trumped-up war crime investigations, as Israel endures international pressure to stop its war machine against the GAZA terrorists.
NATO, with some Russian offers of support, are leading in Afghanistan and Pakistan (gap nations), attempting to sedate terrorists there, eg to bring moderate Taleban into the Afghan political process, and thereby bring them into the CORE.
Concurrently, the CORE is placing constraints upon itself while seeking to control GAP members to bring them into the family of civilized nations. Essentially, WAR is increasingly not allowed these days, and is becoming increasingly disfavored as a means of dispute resolution, relying upon the international function rule sets and the collective force of the CORE as a whole. For example, if a CORE nation launches perceived aggression, the world immediately responds with condemnations and negative feedback, eg the Russians driving to deep into Georgia.
HOT WARS are being replaced by TRADE WARS before our very eyes, as international economic competition is heating up, as the hot war machine substitute, in global power plays, in the global confluence. Countries are devaluing their FIAT currencies, for example, to maintain international market share, which is the quintessential means of unfair international competition. CORE nations with interlocking economies, will not generally seek to BOMB their customers, and cut their own throats, as a retarding force to CORE member imperialism, which is a result of populating the earth and having abutting lands and safe international trade lanes, in the global confluence. The negative feedback global controls are now substantially in place, as the TRADE WARS increasingly replace HOT WARS.
In terms of the second aspect, where FIAT MONEY is eventually replaced by REAL HONEST MONEY, as the personal, business, and international medium of exchange, pressure is placed upon leaders to solve economic crises, and solutions are sought, such as at the G20, leading to a reevaluation of the entire fiat money complex. The translation from FIAT MONEY to REAL MONEY, which serves increasing individual freedom and constrains governmental control over the peoples' lives, is starting to move, most notably of late by Putin's call for an international currency having a gold component. Putin, in my view, is ahead of all others including the USA which does not want to give up its position as lead dog in the hierarchy of global economic powers, which transition to real money reduces socialistic dictatorial power of elected officials over the people, where elected officials are effectively now social dictators, in their respective totalitarian democracies, suppressing human freedom in nearly every country, as the current NEW WORLD ORDER, that is to evolving over time.
A multitude of intranational economic rebellions is coming, marked by increasing street riots, and will be marked by fiat money collapses, and economic catastrophes, leading to alternative solutions to money management. Only real money offers both increases in individual freedom of all of the peoples, as governments would be required to use honest money and balanced budgets, which increases power, and that means freedom, in the hands of the folks, but also is the only medium of exchange that fully supports free and fair trade, without governmental subsidies, deficits, and unfair competition, that will be increasingly hot issues, driving all toward a common medium of exchange that is not subject to abuses of over fiat money printing, as you just can not print as many gold coins as you wish to unfairly project international power and influence. The international cultural drivers will be the continuous sought after freedom by the people and the sought after fair competition among nations. In the trade wars, productivity will be reign supreme, as productive governments become the rulers of the world, where the highest premium of all nations is placed upon productivity to maintain global power and influence, and that means, a shift back toward capitalism, as the new world order shifts over time from global totalitarian democracies to global democratic capitalism, with increased freedom of all peoples.
The current state of affairs is changing faster all the time, and the initial estimates of the transition from war/fiat to trade/gold may have been to pessimistic, that is, the transition is accelerating before our very eyes. Once projected to the out years of 2025-35, we may just get there within the next few years, especially if led by a global economic collapse, where FIAT MONEY and IMPERIALISTIC WAR is eventually seen as the selfish evils they are, and are replaced by the only real alternatives, which are honest REAL MONEY and fair TRADE WAR. It is really exciting to watch it all go down, actually, right there, in front of our own eyes, for all to see, for those who have their global confluence antennae up.
Derrick Michael Reid
Laguna Beach CA USA
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Russia, China, US, SK, and Japan and reacted and have in varying degrees effectively condemned the NK rocket launches. Sure it was all talk, but nonetheless, its core nations trying to restrain a GAP nation. The confluence marches on. China could control NK, but must be keeping NK as a bargaining chip.
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Nuclear Free Earth
To all my fellow neoconservatives, PNAC groupies, and globalizers, I urge you all to join my call to rally around the presidential standard and support Obama's call for the elimination of all nuclear weapons on earth. We should have expected that Obama would be a socialistic totalitarian that he certainly is, but as previously indicated, America's 1-2 dynamite punch of the executive sequence of GWB-BHO is working its magic as predicted. We must proceed carefully of course, but proceed we should and we must as we as a global people come together in this democracy century as the global confluence marches on.
The world is moving fast in the transition from hot wars and fiat money to trade wars and real money. This call by our president is in furtherance of the natural cultural evolution of mankind. We Americans must shift our current thinking to meet the challenges directly ahead. The trade wars will be the new means of projecting international power where competitiveness will become the single most important premium in the years ahead, as the world transits to fair trade wars enabled by a return to real honest money of gold and silver to prevent international unfair competition. We must encourage robust minting of gold and silver coins to enable this inevitable futures. We must make our industry more competitive, and try to defeat the totalitarian socialistic agenda now in DC, but concurrently try to bring civility about the world.
As we move away from the destructive attitudes of the 20th century, and the methodology of military means for projecting dominance, we must prepare ourselves for our inevitable future. We should encourage state minting of real money to put real honest money in the hands of the folks to prevent anarchy in the event of a global fiat complex collapse and make way for a return to real money globally. We should seek to abolish the FED bank, its controlling interest rates and inflation targets, and the enslaving global fiat money complex. We should encourage peaceful relations and fair international trade.
I do not dismiss the threats around the world, out of hand, but from my perspective, I do not see Russia or China actually seeking dominance through military imperialism, despite what you may read in the papers, eg Georgia. I actually see the Russians wanting to join NATO and Polish missile shield strategies, in an alliance with the US, and to engage in technology transfers for energy that we need, so they can implement a minimal competitive posture in the years ahead. I see China seeking only to maintain national borders, including the integration of Taiwan back into China under the US one China policy, that would only happen when China become democratic, which they will in time. I see the civilized world joining the fight against the islamofascists. I see allot of international cooperation, a good thing.
Sure it is a dangerous world, and we should not kid ourselves into believing that all is fine, and we should be on guard, but we should also drop our suspicious natures of our 20th century military adversaries, and lead with the olive branch at this time in our human cultural evolution as the global confluence marches on day by day. Bush correctly gave a war a chance, and now is the right time for Obama to give peace a chance. The dynamite 1-2 punch is working just fine. Don’t be afraid of our future, but embrace it intelligently.
On this issue, Obama is playing it smart, in my view, by out doing the pacifists, as this is the right time in history for such a move. The CORE of connected countries, (Russia, EU, USA, China, Japan, etc.) are sufficiently intertwined and interconnected at this time that it is now ripe for a call for the elimination all nuclear weapons, verifiably of course, with continued reductions along with the halt of the nuvo nuke builders in NK and Iran.
My conservative friends, Obama's call for the elimination of nuclear arms is a natural and expected step in the global confluence in this 21st century. We should embrace it and fully support it, and rally behind the presidential standard on this issue.
Derrick Michael Reid
Laguna Beach CA USA
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BANGKOK – Swarms of anti-government protesters attacked the prime minister's car, seized control of major intersections in the capital and commandeered buses, bringing new chaos to the Thai capital as the country's ousted leader threatened to return from exile to lead a revolution.
The pro-Thaksin demonstrators, calling themselves the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship, say Abhisit's four-month-old government took power illegitimately and want new elections. They also accuse the country's elite — the military, judiciary and other unelected officials — of undermining democracy by interfering in politics.
The confluence marches on in Thailand.
Democracy v Dictatorship.
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From the BEST OF THE BEST, Charles Krauthammer. NO better analyst/commentator
This one I like, 2/13/09 about Iraq.
H REID "The War is Lost"
WASHINGTON -- Preoccupied as it was poring through Tom Daschle's tax returns, Washington hardly noticed a near-miracle abroad. Iraq held provincial elections. There was no Election Day violence. Security was handled by Iraqi forces with little U.S. involvement. A fabulous bazaar of 14,400 candidates representing 400 parties participated, yielding results highly favorable to both Iraq and the United States.
Iraq moved away from religious sectarianism toward more secular nationalism. "All the parties that had the words 'Islamic' or 'Arab' in their names lost," noted Middle East expert Amir Taheri. "By contrast, all those that had the words 'Iraq' or 'Iraqi' gained."
Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki went from leader of a small Islamic party to leader of the "State of the Law Party," campaigning on security and secular nationalism. He won a smashing victory. His chief rival, a more sectarian and pro-Iranian Shiite religious party, was devastated. Another major Islamic party, the pro-Iranian Sadr faction, went from 11 percent of the vote to 3 percent, losing badly in its stronghold of Baghdad. The Islamic Fadhila party that had dominated Basra was almost wiped out.
The once-dominant Sunni party affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood and the erstwhile insurgency was badly set back. New grass-roots tribal ("Awakening") and secular Sunni leaders emerged.
All this barely pierced the consciousness of official Washington. After all, it fundamentally contradicts the general establishment/media narrative of Iraq as "fiasco."
One leading conservative thinker had concluded as early as 2004 that democracy in Iraq was "a childish fantasy." Another sneered that the 2005 election that brought Maliki to power was "not an election but a census" -- meaning people voted robotically according to their ethnicity and religious identity. The implication being that these primitives have no conception of democracy, and that trying to build one there is a fool's errand
What was lacking in all this condescension is what the critics so pride themselves in having -- namely, context. What did they expect in the first elections after 30 years of totalitarian rule that destroyed civil society and systematically annihilated any independent or indigenous leadership? The only communal or social ties remaining after Saddam Hussein were those of ethnicity and sect.
But in the intervening years, while the critics washed their hands of Iraq, it began developing the sinews of civil society: a vibrant free press, a plethora of parties, the habits of negotiation and coalition-building. Reflecting these new realities, Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani this time purposely and publicly backed no party, strongly signaling a return -- contra Iran -- to the Iraqi tradition of secular governance.
The big strategic winner here is the United States. The big loser is Iran. The parties Tehran backed are in retreat. The prime minister who staked his career on a strategic cooperation agreement with the United States emerged victorious. Moreover, this realignment from enemy state to emerging democratic ally, unlike Egypt's flip from Soviet to U.S. ally in the 1970s, is not the work of a single autocrat (like Anwar Sadat), but a reflection of national opinion expressed in a democratic election.
This is not to say that these astonishing gains are irreversible. There loom three possible threats: (a) a coup from a rising and relatively clean military disgusted with the corruption of civilian politicians -- the familiar post-colonial pattern of the past half-century; (b) a strongman emerging from a democratic system (Maliki?) and then subverting it, following the Russian and Venezuelan models; or (c) the collapse of the current system because of a premature U.S. withdrawal that leads to a collapse of security.
Averting the first two is the job of Iraqis. Averting the third is the job of the U.S. Which is why President Obama's reaction to these remarkable elections, a perfunctory statement noting that they "should continue the process of Iraqis taking responsibility for their future," was shockingly detached and ungenerous.
When you become president of the United States you inherit its history, even the parts you would have done differently. Obama might argue that American sacrifices in Iraq were not worth what we achieved. But for the purposes of current and future policy, that is entirely moot. Despite Obama's opposition, America went on to create a small miracle in the heart of the Arab Middle East. President Obama is now the custodian of that miracle. It is his duty as leader of the nation that gave birth to this fledgling democracy to ensure that he does nothing to undermine it.
(Is not Charles Krauthammer just supurb? None Better)
THE CONFLUENCE MARCHES ON.
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In Pakistan, the US and NATO, (with a little INDIAN help) are pressing the taleban in Afghanistan, pushing them toward islamabad. OK, we understand that. Clinton raises the concern, as well she should. Islamabad is giving tabelan to show their stuff, and they are, causing a COUNTER reaction in Islamabad. It is necessary for talaben to ruthless invade the swat valle and buner province, to then give Islamabad political cover in a COUNTER-INSURGENCY. While other cry the SKY IS FALLING, I see it just the opposite, as a natural progression in the squeeze play. Other see it as bad. I THINK IT PERFECT, as ...
THE CONFLUENCE MARCHES ON.
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Did you see Russian President say "colorful" political debate is needed?
Hang with me folks. Its a very long process. Been going on in earnest for over a 100 years, but THE CONFULENCE MARCHES ON.
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Well, finally, another INSURGENCY bites the dust.
The TIMEL TIGERS are defeated and are throwing in the towell in Sirlanka.
THE CONFLUENCE MARCHES ON.
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Your Excellency, Mahinda Rajapaksa, President, Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka is part of the global community. As the global confluence marches on, insurgencies within in various nations, represents internal conflicts that need to be resolved. The world community looks to Sri Lanka in that regard. It is in the GLOBAL COMMUNITY INTEREST, that the rebellion in Sri Lanka be defeated ONCE AND FOR ALL. I would urge you to:
1) Prosecute HOT WAR on the Tamil tigers, and give them no quarter of safety to regroup, as you have the advantage now, and YOU MUST PRESS your advantage.
2) ALWAYS give the rebels an opportunity to LAY DOWN and SURRENDER their weapons, otherwise, take em out with a black flag.
3) ALWAYS give the rebels an opportunity to join the political process with rights of free speech, with an integral Sir Lanka.
4) PRESS the rebel to their clear defeat, brutally as needed to achieve that end.
5) BOOT OUT, french, Swedish, UN, or others trying to complicate matters with HUMAN AID, but tell them SRI LANKA government would accept aid for LOYAL CITIZENS, that the SRI LANKA GOVERNMENT has exclusive control over passing out aid as SRI LANKA government deems best, SO AS TO NOT AID THE REBELS ONE LITTLE BIT.
I wish you great success in defeating this rebellion, ONCE AND FOR ALL, and bring the tigers into the political process, with their political rights of vote, and speech guaranteed for joining the government fully as loyal citizens. (see memo "walking liberty" below)
YOU HAVE THEM IN A CORNER, GO FOR THE THROAT, and be done with the rebellion. NOW is the time for courage and the brutality necessary to end the rebellion, to bring peace, finally, throughout all of SRI LANKA.
I wish you great success.
Derrick Michael Reid
Laguna Beach CA USA
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090428/ap_on_re_as/as_sri_lanka_civil_war
Sri Lanka says it is still fighting rebels
A rebel-linked Web site said Tuesday that the government continued to use heavy weapons in the fight, despite its promise.
Sweden's Foreign Minister Carl Bildt was also to have made the trip, but he said Tuesday he had been denied entry by the government. Bildt said no reason had been given for the decision, and government officials in Colombo declined to immediately comment on the report.
1) Continued heavy weapon fighting, and
2) Boot out the internatinal observers.
Yeap, they listen to "sound" reasoning.
Mere coincidence, you make the call.
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Mahinda Rajapaksa, President, Sri Lanka
Sir,
My sincere congratulations for conducting and prosecuting the suppression of the tiger rebels, as well as BOOTING the Sweden diplomat out of Sri Lanka.
Stay the course. Defeat the Tigers. Made them publicly surrender for all to see.
Release them with loyalty oaths. Etc.
BRAVO BRAVO BRAVO!!! I am glad someone has a back bone these days, to do the RIGHT THING, and end the rebellion.
Those EU p***ks, by seeking peace AT ALL COSTS, merely act to effectively prolong struggles, prolong misery, and effectively promote life long wars and insurgencies.
THEY ARE NO BODY's friends, just a bunch of EU COWARDS, glorifiying themselves in their own minds, to the continued suffering of many. THEY ALWAYS TAKE THE REBEL/TERRORIST side of any conflict, because they believe they have influence with established government. Its a ruse. A false trap. And trust me, they will seek to BRING YOU up on trumpted up war crimes, for DEFYING their CONTROL of hostile situations.
Eliminate the Tiger rebellion, once and for all, GO FOR THE THROAT, and end it, and tell those EU turds, to float back home.
This is not about ending the fighting, but EU control, and false realization of needed action. The EU is full of appeasing cowards. They only protect rebels and terrorists.
I would throw them all out. But, Sweden was a good start.
Very Well Done Sir,
You have my best wishes.
Derrick Michael Reid
Laguna Beach CA USA
EU slams Sri Lanka snub to Sweden as 'grave mistake'
LUXEMBOURG (AFP) – The European Union on Tuesday lashed out at Sri Lanka's decision to deny a visa to Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt, describing the move as a "grave mistake" and warning Colombo of repercussions.
"It is lamentable that the Sri Lankan government denied him a visa," Czech Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg, whose country holds the EU's rotating presidency, said after talks among the bloc's foreign ministers in Luxembourg.
"I do think it is a grave mistake of the Sri Lankan government, which will of course have repercussions in Europe and will influence the further relations between the Sri Lankan government and the European states."
Schwarzenberg praised Bildt for his work for peace and on human rights.
Earlier, Bildt announced that he had recalled Sweden's top diplomat in Sri Lanka for consultations after the visa was denied, on the eve of a planned trip there with his British and French counterparts.
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Pakistani jets pound militants close to capital
By CHRIS BRUMMITT, Associated Press Writer Chris Brummitt, Associated Press Writer –
11 mins ago
ISLAMABAD – Pakistani jets and attack helicopters struck Taliban positions in mountains close to the capital Tuesday as part of a widening offensive against militants spreading out from the lawless region along the border with Afghanistan, the military said.
With residents reporting ground troops also moving into the Buner area, the operation could allay worry in the U.S. and other Western nations that nuclear-armed Pakistan lacks the will to fight extremists in the northwest, where al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden is thought to be hiding.
The attack stands to further strain a shaky peace deal in the Malakand region, which Buner is a part of. The truce has been widely viewed in the West as a surrender to the militants and a sign Pakistan's shaky civilian government does not recognize the threat they pose.
Pakistan has waged several offensives in the border region since the Sept. 11, 2001, attack on the U.S., resulting in the deaths of dozens of civilians and the flight of hundreds of thousands of people from their homes.
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The Paki squeeze play. What did I tell you? NATO-Islamabad squeeze play, as the confluence marches on.
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In Sri Lanka, the president, is following my script!!!
1) go for throat, 2) boot out EU appeasers, and 3) demand surrender.
Sri Lanka demands Tiger surrender
COLOMBO (AFP) – Sri Lanka gave Tamil Tiger fighters and their leader 24 hours to surrender after tens of thousands of trapped civilians managed to flee on Monday from the last area under rebel control.
The deadline for Tigers supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran and his guerrillas would run out at midday (0630 GMT) Tuesday, said defence ministry spokesman Keheliya Rambukwella.
"We warn Prabhakaran and his cadres to surrender within the next 24 hours," he told reporters, without specifying what action would be taken if the ultimatum was ignored by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).
The confluence marches on.
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Pakistan, going big, breaking out their battle tanks in the Swat valley against the taliban.
The US/NATO-Paki army pincer in the swat valley is death to taliban. Moderate taliban seek peace deal, to end fighting to join afghan political PROCESS.
THE CONFLUENCE MARCHES ON!!!
Pakistan's military said its forces have killed 55 to 60 Taliban militants in the last 24 hours in heavy fighting in Taliban-held areas of the northwest.
While Pakistani forces captured the main town in Buner hours after the offensive began on Tuesday, troops continue to battle Taliban fighters for control of high strategic positions.
Pakistani forces park their tanks in Lal Qila Maidan after taking over the area from Taliban in Lower Dir, 01 May 2009
Going to plan!! The confluence marches on.
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Update from Nepal.
Tensions have risen for months as Dahal's ruling Maoists have struggled with the army over its refusal to integrate former rebel units into its ranks as required by a U.N.-brokered peace agreement. The dismissal of army chief Rookmangud Katawal on Sunday is likely to further enflame those tensions and could unravel the coalition government.
The second-largest party in the coalition, the Communist Party of Nepal (United Marxist Leninist), said it was quitting the government because Dahal had not obtained the coalition partners' approval before sacking Katawal.
"We decided to withdraw our support to protest the prime minister's unilateral decision," party general secretary Ishwar Pokhrel said. The Communist Party has traditionally been part of the political mainstream, while the Maoists until 2006 were a rebel group fighting government troops.
The Maoists gave up their 10-year armed rebellion in 2006 and joined a peace process. They confined their fighters in U.N.-monitored camps and locked up their weapons. They joined elections last year and emerged as Nepal's largest political party.
Disagreements between the Maoists and other parties have triggered several crises which delayed formation of the lawmaking Constituent Assembly and the writing of a new constitution.
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The global confluence is a very slow process, micro-steps, 2 forward 1 back, but over the long run, it is an unstopable force. Here, communists (an economic system rather than a political system), is joining, albite slowly, the democractic process, no doubt pushing for socialistic democracy, (code for, you guessed it, TOTALITARIAN DEMOCRACY).
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KUWAIT CITY – Four Kuwaitis have become the first women elected to their nation's parliament, a resounding victory in a conservative Persian Gulf country where the legislature has been men-only for almost half a century.
Women gained the right to vote and run for office in 2005 but failed in two previous elections to win seats in the 50-member parliament. Official results from Saturday's vote were read out by judges on state-owned TV on Sunday.
Kuwait, one of the few democracies in the Gulf, has led the region in giving its people political rights. Some critics, however, say the country's political stability and economy have suffered due to the powerful parliament's frequent clashes with Cabinets that are still selected and led by the ruling family.
Thousands of Sri Lankans poured into the streets Sunday morning, dancing and setting off celebratory fireworks, after President Mahinda Rajapaksa declared victory in the country's quarter-century civil war with the separatist rebels.
In Sir Lanka, the President declares victory.
Thousands of Sri Lankans poured into the streets Sunday morning, dancing and setting off celebratory fireworks, after President Mahinda Rajapaksa declared victory in the country's quarter-century civil war with the separatist rebels.
"We are celebrating a victory against terrorism," said Sujeewa Anthonis, a 32-year-old street hawker.
As the fighting raged on in recent days, concerns mounted for the fate of the tens of thousands of civilians trapped in the war zone amid heavy shelling and intense fighting.
But all 50,000 civilians fled the area over the past 72 hours, clearing the way for the government to finish off the rebels, military spokesman Brig. Udaya Nanayakkara said Sunday. With journalists and aid workers barred from the war zone, it was not possible to verify the assertion.
I know of no other who called for the government to crush the tigers and end it once and for all. (Mere coincidence?)Human cultural evolution. Imagine, its 2009 and Kuwait women have more rights. Yet, in Moscow, riot police threw in jail, gay rights protestors, which is always a good thing. That is a hat trick!!!
The confluence marches on
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Mahinda Rajapaksa, President, Sri Lanka
Sir,
You have my congratulations for your great victory against the rebels. I was pleased that the EU/UN and ICRC were excluded during the battles. They know how to provide aid, but dont know how to resolve conflicts, and are ALWAYS counter-productive to resolution of hot war problems and they should always be excluded during hot wars, but invited in during times of peace with aid needs, such as now. Now, as you were necessarily ruthless in war, you must now be overly GENEROUS in peace, and extend help to the defeated rebels at every opportunity. You must make sure that their rights to speech and press and equal protection under the law are secure. You must help rebuild their areas, and here, you may bring in the UN and ICRC to help with that, as that is what they do best, (NOT RESOLVE CONFLICTS). You must not allow revenge against the rebels, but rather, publicly throw open your arms to your countrymen, and welcome them back as loyal citizens, and do so repeatedly. You should be seen EVERY DAY, on TV welcoming the defeated ones back as loyal citizens, and explain plans to help provide jobs, aid, and reconstruction to HELP the rebels rejoin the country, FULLY. You must encourage the majority to help this minority rejoin fully the country and government, and you should find defeated rebels and place them in political posts and best you can to further re-integration. This re-integration is just as important as winning the war. Be generous in peace, as you were brutal in war, and Sri Lanka futures will be a secure one.
WELL DONE, and, BEST OF LUCK.
Derrick Michael Reid
Laguna Beach CA
THE CONFLUENCE MARCHES ON!!
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