One trillion dollar has vanished in Iraq and Afghanistan

Three billion US dollars in Cash has been airlifted into Kabul to pay for the American “counter insurgency strategy”

Kabul airport: Are they gathered to get some cash, just arrived from Washington?

This is a fresh report from Wall Street Journal.

According to a report by the CNN in January 2005, 15 billion in cash did vanished in Iraq to pay for Washington’s past mistakes.

WASHINGTON (CNN) -January 31st 2005: – Nearly USD 9 billion of money spent on Iraqi reconstruction is unaccounted for because of inefficiencies and bad management, according to a watchdog report published Sunday.

An inspector general’s report said the U.S.-led administration that ran Iraq until June 2004 is unable to account for the funds.

Severe inefficiencies and poor management” by the Coalition Provisional Authority has left auditors with no guarantee the money was properly used,” the report said.

(end of report).

In February 2007, The UK Newspaper The Guardian had this report:

“How the US sent $12bn in cash to Iraq. And watched it vanish”

“The US flew nearly $12bn in shrink-wrapped USD 100 bills into Iraq, then distributed the cash with no proper control over who was receiving it and how it was being spent.

The staggering scale of the biggest transfer of cash in the history of the Federal Reserve has been graphically laid bare by a US congressional committee”

An US security officer guards hundred dollars notes at the airport in Baghdad.

The Bosten Globe wrote in 2006 about the cost of the war in Iraq:

The estimate was two billion USD a week.

More than 200 weeks has passed since that information was passed on to the readers.  The war in Iraq alone, has since 2006 lifted the US tax payers for close to half a trillion US dollars.

My comment:

You have to be pretty dull, to fail to understand that this is not only mismanagement. This is an ongoing crime.

Because the US taxpayers money is finally ending up in the hands of Taliban and al-Quaeda. The “aid” from Washington do strengthen them.

The ruling counter insurgency strategy is based on the following agreement in Washington: “Let fly in some cash, and pay for our security to anyone on the ground who has a big smile, and looks friendly”

The result of the “cash for security strategy” is less US and NATO casualties, for some time. But the flip side of the coin, is that this seems to rapidly change.

18 per cent of the Afghan personal NATO have coached have deserted. They were supposed to become “friendly Islamic police officers and soldiers”.

Where have the cash, and these Muslims landed?

Just take a fresh look across the frontline.

Blair to push Israel towards the Mediterranean sea

David, why did you let Tony Blair off the hock?

David: You should have made your conversation with Tony Blair a little bit less comfortable.

Sometimes you just missed a golden opportunity. But to often its just bad journalism.

David Horowitz is the Editor in chief of Jerusalem Post. This weekend, he had the chance to ask Tony Blair some serious questions. Like:

- Do you know the distance from number 10 Downing Street, to Wimbledon in South London?

It takes 20 minuets to drive from Central London to Wimbledon on a nice blue day.

The correct answer is:

Approximately the same distance as from the western point of the so called “West Bank”, to the Mediterranean sea.

Just go an measure the distance from the city of Netanya, north of Tel Aviv.

The distance is 15 kilometers.

How do you defend a nation, that is just 15 kilometers wide?

David Horowitz topped his article about Blair with some funny lines about Coriander and Kassams. Than he let Tony Blair end the article, with what should have been the start of the conversation.

- What is “the ground that you (Israel) can defend most easily”?

Because Blair is of the opinion, that Islam and Arab nations is right in their demands of the Jewish people moving back behind the cease fire lines, prior to the 1967 war. It is called “the two-state-solution”.

These border lines never brought peace to the Middle East. The PLO was formed in 1964 to overrun these borders, and force the Jews towards the blue sea behind them. This Islamic “peace plan” is what Blair believe in the right way.

Lets read the end of the article in Jerusalem Post:

How troubled are you, and how troubled should we be, about the demonization and delegitimization of Israel?

(Blair answering)

It does trouble me because I think that the security of Israel is a fundamental part of our security too, in countries like mine.

The lesson is to take the ground that is always justifiable. And there is ground that is justifiable. That’s why the policy we’ve now articulated on Gaza is a sensible policy. I, as a friend of Israel, can go out and justify this policy. As you put it in your paper, ‘Coriander, yes; Kassams, no.’ I can justify that policy.

What I found hard to justify was ‘Coriander, no.’ There is a constant battle here [against delegitimization] that anyone in Israel is well aware of. That’s why the smart thing is always to be on the ground that you can defend most easily…..?????????

Source: Jerusalem Post.

UK’s largest union wants to expel Israeli Ambassador

“An immediate sanction for the illegal attack on the flotilla, we call on the government to expel the Israeli ambassador”.

UNISON’s deputy general secretary, Keith Sonnet (left) is an committed anti-Zionist.

The anti-Zionist rhetoric in United Kingdom starts to sound like the messages sent out by the Ayatollah controlled Iran.

The emergency motion was introduced on the third day of the annual conference of UNISON, the largest public sector union with around 1.4 million members.

It said Israel was “brazenly lying” over the flotilla incident, as it “attempted to define it as an attempted lynch mob of its troops by passengers on the boats. This is a further sign that Israel does not respond to words of condemnation, only action will have any effect,” the motion states.

The union will now support a full boycott of Israel – economic, cultural and sporting; it has joined the boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign and will suspend ties with the Israeli union Histadrut.

One attendee said that the few Unison members who spoke against the motion were heckled. Lilach Head, a care worker from Devon, spoke against the motion and was heckled. She said the atmosphere was intimidating and the vote was called before more people could speak against it.

“Only three people were able to speak against the motion, there were six others waiting but then the vote was called. There was no hope,” she said.

Ambassador Ron Prosor

The Israeli embassy in London said the motion was “misleading” and “dishonest” and an “outrageous attempt” by anti-Israel activists to manipulate the union to serve their agenda.

“We categorically reject this misleading and dishonest motion. This is yet another outrageous attempt by anti-Israel elements to manipulate a union into serving their agenda”.

Source: Jerusalem Post.

My comment:

The First Prime Minister of Israel, David Ben-Gurion was a committed Socialist. In the 1950-both the Labor party and British workers were close friends of the Zionist state, that was build up on the same values as the Social Democratic idea.

- Lets live in Kibutz, have everything in common, and share with everyone in need.

I guess this was what Jesus of Nazareth would have done, if He had come back to Israel in 1948?

What has happened to the socialists in Europe?

The Zionist idea of a Jewish homeland with Jerusalem as its capital is still the same as in 1955. Nothing has changed.
Than, why do the unions in the United Kingdom side with the Islamic forces, that wants to destroy this Jewish nations, that is built on the same values as they protect in their own party programs?

Why do the unions in the United Kingdom side with Islam, that do not respect any of these values?

What a mad , mad world north of the white rocks of Dover.

Barry Rubin: “Cash to Hamas is like sending cash to Vietcong in North Vietnam”

Sending a cheque of 200 million USD to Hamas, is like sending the same amount of “aid” to the Vietcong during the Vietnam war.

One of the Police commanders in Saigon, execute a Vietcong guerrilla in 1968.

Barry Rubin is tired of US President Obama. In a featured OP Eds in Jerusalem Post, the Israeli director and Middle East expert, says bluntly that Obama is making a huge mistake. And in my reading of Rubins message:

Obama is a traitor of both the American and Israeli people.

Rubin reacts to Obama forcing the Israeli Government to legalize Hamas, by opening up for free trade over the Gaza border.

“This abdication of strategy and politics would be like the US making a commitment to help the people of North Vietnam during the Vietnam War or North Korea during the Korean War by pouring in money and goods unconditionally, saying this would help lead to a moderate unified state”

Rubin also react sternly to Obama’s demand for changes in Israeli policies towards the Hamas regime in Gaza.

“One would expect the words “unsustainable” and “demands fundamental change” to mean the president demands the overthrow of the Hamas regime. In fact, it signifies the exact opposite: He demands that regime’s stabilization”.

“Don’t those who govern the Gaza Strip as a dictatorship (an anti-Semitic, anti-American, terrorist, revolutionary Islamist, would-be genocidal, Christian-expelling, women-repressing and allied to Iran dictatorship at that) matter one bit?

Source: Barry Rubin in Jerusalem Post

The writer is director of the Global Research in International Affairs Center and editor of Middle East Review of International Affairs and Turkish Studies. He blogs at www.rubinreports.blogspot.com

My comment:

US President Obama wants to stabilize the Hamas-regime.  To send “aid” to the Islamic Jihad movement, is like offering Hitler aid to the bruised people of Berlin in November 1944.

To make peace with Hitler, that is what President Obama had done if He had been the US Commander in Chief during World War II.

The American people can only get rid of Obama by a popular vote in the next Presidential election. They better do that, to get rid of this curse they have placed on their own heads.

Belgium Police consider Catholic cardinals to be criminals

Cardinal Bertone: ‘No precedent even in communist regimes’ for Belgian police raid”

Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone is the head of the Vatican statehood, gifted the Papal system by Facsist Italy.

On Saturday morning, Cardinal Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone stated that the way Belgian judicial and police forces carried out a raid on the retired Archbishop of Brussels and the archdiocese’s office had “no precedents even in communist regimes.”

Searching for dossiers on cases of pedophilia, the police went so far as to break open the tombs of Cardinals Jozef-Ernest Van Roey and Leon-Josephy Suenens with pneumatic hammers. The Belgian police also prevented bishops and others in a meeting at the archdiocesan offices from leaving the meeting room for nine hours.

Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone was asked for comment on the recent search of Archbishop Andre-Joseph Leonard’s offices in Mechelen.

He called the lockdown “a kidnapping, a grave and inconceivable fact,” according to L’Osservatore Romano, the Vatican’s semi-official newspaper.

Cardinal Bertone looks after the political affairs for the Pope.

“There are no precedents even in communist regimes,” he said of the methods used during the search, which saw the authorities confiscate confidential files collected by the archdiocesan-sponsored commission investigating the matters.

Repeating the condemnation of the Church for acts of sexual abuse against minors, Cardinal Bertone expressed his regret that they were allowed neither food nor water during the entirety of the search.

Search:  Catholic News Agency (CNA).

My comment:

Who told these old men, who feel they are above the law, that they could investigate their own crimes?

Its high time that the Vatican is striped by its diplomatic immunity. The World has forgotten that it was the Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini that gave the Pope a state of his own in 1929.

In 1870, the Pope was ousted by a popular vote in the city of Rome. 59 years later, the Pontiff was brought back by the Fascists, and Roman Catholicism made state religion in Italy.

If it had not been for the rise of the Italian dictator, the Pope would have continued the exile, where he and his cardinals could do less harm.

If the Papal cover of legal immunity had been taken away with the fall of Fascism in Europe in 1945, hundreds of thousand of sexually abused children would have got the message before the crime took place.

Interpol should bypass the Catholic police in Italy, and raid the Vatican it self and conduct a proper investigation of the secret files.

“Catholic leaders who complain about police action, should be ashamed of them selves”

“Two weeks ago, Bertone’s boss claimed church officials will “do everything possible” to stop future child sexual violations. Today, Bertone is prematurely and irresponsibly lashing out at what may prove to be an extremely effective way of doing that”.

Joelle Casteix is a spokes woman for abused Children, betrayed by the Vatican priesthood.

Statement by Joelle Casteix of Newport Beach California, Western Regional Director of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests.

Source: SNAPnetwork.org

A Press release from Joelle Casteix: Read more:

New Zealand comedian: “Hitler had a right to roast the Jews”

Comedian David Fane resigned on Sunday after claiming Hitler had a right to “roast” the Jews.

It is yet not political correct to defend Hitler and the Holocaust. Not even if you are a comedian like David Fane.

A New Zealand actor-comedian on Sunday apologized and resigned from his radio and television jobs for making anti-Semitic and homophobic jokes at a media event in Auckland last week.

Last Wednesday, in a three-minute spot in which he was told to roast the bosses of advertising agencies at the dinner, David Fane, 43 quipped: “I want to eat you, but I won’t because I don’t want to get HIV.”

“Would you roast a HIV person?” he asked his audience.

“You’d roast them because they’re expendable,” he continued, “like the Jews. Hitler had a right, you know.”

Fane’s comments sparked outrage among the local Jewish community. The president of the New Zealand Jewish Council, Stephen Goodman told the Herald on Sunday, “It is a very anti-Semitic statement. While we wish to preserve the rights of freedom of speech, he went over the line.”

Source:  Israeli Magazine, Haaretz.

My comment:

There is some good news, and some bad news in this story.

The bad news is that senseless people defend the Holocaust, even in New Zealand.

The good news is that there are still responsible people around, who hold neo-Nazi’s accountable.

UN Human rights adviser: “The US and Israel are monsters”

Miguel D’Escoto Brockmann embraced Ahmadinejad in 2008, and called Israel an “Apartheid state”. Now he is appointed adviser for the UN Human Rights Council

- My good friend Mahmoud form Iran. After the Islamic dictator telling the UN that he would "end" Zionism in Israel, Miquel D'Escoto Brockman embranced Ahmadinejad.

Nicaraguan ex-Sandinista Miguel d’Escoto is already abusing his new mandate as adviser to the UN Human Rights Council

On September 17, 2008, D’Escoto embraced President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad after the Iranian leader delivered a strongly anti-Israel and anti-Zionist speech to the UN General Assembly. In response, Professor Gabriela Shalev, Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, called D’Escoto an “Israel hater.”

As the Geneva-based non-governmental organization UN Watch warned last week, controversial ex-Sandinista Miguel d’Escoto is already abusing his new mandate as adviser to the UN Human Rights Council to promote divisive politics, pledging today on Colombian TV to use his UN podium specifically to target the U.S., which he compared to a “monster,” and Israel.

“A man who has eagerly sided with international criminals such as Iran’s Ahmadinejad and Sudan’s Al-Bashir has no credibility on human rights, and embodies precisely the inverted morality and debased political culture that currently reigns at the UN Human Rights Council, which just this week added Col. Qaddafi’s Libya as a member,” said UN Watch executive director Hillel Neuer.

Source: UN Watch

My comment:

This man feels Ahmadinejad is a better protector of human rights, than democratic nations.

The United Nations (UN) is in principle a good idea. But in practical life, the organization is a disaster.

If the World only were a gathering of free and democratic states, the UN would be able to establish peace and promote co-existence between people of different races and cultures.

But since almost 100 nations are ruled by cruel and evil dictators, there is not much hope. United Nations has become their tool for doing evil.

I regards to the UN support for gangster states like Iran and Libya, and their constant condemnation of Israel, there is no hope that this forum with its HQ in New York, can be of any use for people who love the truth.

Muslim youth stone Jewish dancers in Germany

“Anti-Semitic feelings are widespread in both far-right and Muslim communities in Germany”.

This picture is from a Hamas rally in January 2009 in Barcelona in Spain.

This is a statement by Charlotte Knobloch. She is the president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, and she spoke to the German newspaper Die Welt.

The latests Muslim attack on Jews in Germany has shocked the Jewish World. Last weekend several Muslim youth shouted “Juden Raus”, and threw stones at the Jewish dance group Chaverim in the city of Hanover.

Charlotte Knobloch warns against Islamic forces of neo-Nazism in Germany

German police are investigating the stoning of a Jewish dance group trying to perform on the street in Hanover’s Sahlkamp district, which has a large immigrant community.

Police said several Muslim immigrant youths were among the attackers and two youths were being questioned.

Alla Volodarska, of the Progressive Jewish community of Hanover, told Associated Press news agency she had spoken to the dancers involved.

“What happened is just so awful. The teenagers started throwing stones the moment our dance group was announced, even before they started dancing.”

Charlotte Knobloch, president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, told the Die Welt newspaper that anti-Semitic feelings were widespread in both far-right and Muslim communities in the country.

“It particularly saddens me that those anti-Semitic views can already be seen with such vehemence among children and youths,” she said.

Source: The BBC and multiple media.

UK cancels Visa for Muslim televangelist Zakir Naik

He praises Osama Bin Laden, and have been invited to the UK to preach Islam at the Al-Khair Peace Convention 2010 in Sheffield.

Zakir Naik praises Osama Bin Laden and preach about the peaceful religion of Islam.

The Liberal-Conservative coalition government came under pressure and banned the entry of controversial televangelist Dr Zakir Naik.

Naik recently was in the spotlight after he praised Osama Bin Laden and acts of terrorism, criticised non-Muslims, and drew the indignation of Muslims of various denominations after criticising their beliefs.

The peace conference in the UK was canceled when the star preacher was banned from British soil.

Naik  was planned to be the star speaker at the Al-Khair Peace Convention 2010 in the UK, this weekend.

A UK Visa has already been issued to him for this event, although the media outlet The News reported that many of his crew members were refused UK visas. A Labor MP was approached by the organizers to help expedite the visa process for those who were not issued a visa but he refused to help them, The News reported.

Naik has preached on many inter faith platforms with other false prophets and teachers.

Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron was called by critics of Naik to ban the cleric and make a firm public statement.

A UK Border Agency spokesperson said: “Each case is considered on its own merits. When assessing a visa application we will consider the previous conduct of the individual and we will ensure that the UK does not support or provide a platform for the promotion of violent extremism”.

“We reserve the right to revoke someone’s visa if they are found to be promoting extreme views which are contrary to UK values.”

Source: Multiple media.