[05#6] 1.6=4=11.26: Scssn 7:EU Cascadia; Russia-US 5:BRIChina-Israel

Thinly cloudy turn fair cool. Up 7:50, waiting all day for fixing rent-house roof lead as ordere by A-Mei last night, & emails to installing "Microsoft® Windows AntiSpyware (Beta)" from [G]'s Janet, failed to remove 1 MiniBug (busy, not responding), & move most of Inbox left-over to created folders. Just past 6pm. After breakfast, moved printer closer to this main computer, & cleaned near backyard door. tv closer to the door. A-Mei & Jun are back, and out as yesterday again for today's World Journal, $0.50. Then to the house for rent and moved some more soil from near fence to around the house in dark for just over 10 (felt like 20) minutes quick and nice exercise. Home receiving on "[Cascadian_Bioregionalism] Re: secession or annexation", so going to "1) Secession #7: Cascadia of the EU!" 7:50 starting dinner now. Finishing this blog just past midnight! 1) Secession #7: Cascadia of the EU! "" "freely joining altogether Beyond all Borders ever more Communities #1000:[secession or annexation]" [Tsai 05.1.6=4 #1] Dare I venture to state this is really a great idea? Suddenly it's so real and beautiful. So far I have been saluting and cheering the EU from across ocean far away, until now. Now, it's incredibly right here! Just free and joining altogether step by step (even any moutain climbing or global driving and sailing start from a step. BBC indeed.. ================================= a_cascadian wrote: I do not think its crazy. Actually I have been suggesting it for awhile or as a step in the process of total independance. Byannexation to Canada we are protected by military treaty as a NATOmember from the narco-petro fascists. A merger between northernCascadia and southern Cascadia would intergate our economic andinfrastructural systems. And we, a united Cascadian people, wouldshift the power base of Canada from an east coast orientation to awest coast orientation.--- In Cascadian_Bioregionalism@yahoogroups.com, wrote">wrote:> A crazy, yet welcome thought that I'm sure many people might have isa proposal to British Columbia-- or Canada on the whole-- that theyannex us into their territory. When you think about the change ofhands the northwest has gone through; Russia during the 18th century,followed by France, and then the vast expanse called the OregonTerritory-- I think it's only fitting after 150 years or so, that wechange once again. "" 2) Russia-US #5: BRIChina-Israel 1. Russia-Israel "" "'Silent crisis' in Russia-Israel ties", By Khalid Amayreh in the West Bank, Thursday 06 January 2005, 16:35 Makka Time, 13:35 GMT "", NEWS GLOBAL, © 2003 - 2004 Aljazeera.Net http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/27F3F58B-8B78-4AEF-A279-1AAF7ACC9CD1.htm "" It is no secret that the Mossad has been making efforts to disrupt Russia's supplies of nuclear materials to Iran," the EU diplomat, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said. "" 2. Russia:BRIC - US:"New Pentagon Vision" (1) Russia:BRIC "Putin leads BRIC alliance (Brazil, Russia, India, China) and plays oil trump card ?some Russian Yukos oil assets for China and India" http://www.indiadaily.com/editorial/01-04f-05.asp "Investors all over the world stampede to get in BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China) emerging superpowers but there are spots of problems" http://www.indiadaily.com/editorial/12-18a-04.asp "Will Fannie Mae (FNM) prick the BRIC fantasy? Yukos saga a lesson on emerging markets" http://capuchinomics.com/news/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=125&Itemid=68 (2) US:"New Pentagon Vision" "" "New Pentagon Vision Transforms War Agenda", by Bruce K. Gagnon Global Network Space Newsletter 16 Winter 2005 http://globalresearch.ca/ 6 January 2005 "", Space Alert!, Centre for Research on Globalisation:Centre de recherche sur la mondialisation http://globalresearch.ca/articles/GAG501A.html "" Pentagon transformation is well underway. The U.S. military is increasingly being converted into a global oil protection service. Thomas Barnett is a professor at the Navy War College in Rhode Island. He is author of the controversial book The Pentagon零 New Map that identifies a "non-integrating gap" in the world that is resisting corporate globalization. Barnett defines the gap as parts of Latin America, Africa, Middle East and Central Asia all of which are key oil-producing regions of the world. In what Barnett calls a "Grand March of History" he claims that the U.S. military must be transformed in order to preemptively take control of the gap, so the U.S. can "manage" the global distribution of resources, people, energy, and money. (It has long predicted that the gap between rich and poor around the world will continue to widen and that the Pentagon will be used to keep the boot on the necks of the people of the third world to the benefit of corporate globalization.) Barnett maintains that as jobs move out of the U.S. the primary export product of the nation will be "security." Global energy demand will necessitate U.S. control of the oil producing regions. "We will be fighting in Central Africa in 20 years," Barnett predicts. In order to implement this new military vision," Barnett maintains that the U.S. military must move away from its often-competing mix of Air Force-Navy-Army-Marines toward two basic military services. One he names Leviathan, which he defines as the kick ass, wage war, special ops, and not under the purview of the international criminal court. Give us your angry, video game-playing 18-19 year olds, for the Leviathan force, Barnett says. Once a country is conquered by Leviathan, Barnett says the U.S. will have to have a second military force that he calls Systems Administration. This force he describes as the "proconsul" of the empire, boots on the ground, the police force to control the local populations. This group, Barnett says, "will never come home." According to Michael Klare, professor of Peace Studies at Hampshire College, "American troops are now risking their lives on a daily basis to protect the flow of petroleum. In Colombia, Saudi Arabia, and the Republic of Georgia, U.S. personnel are spending their days and nights protecting pipelines and refineries, or supervising the local forces assigned to this mission." Klare continues, "The DoD has stepped up its arms deliveries to military forces in Angola and Nigeria, and is helping to train their officers and enlisted personnel; meanwhile, Pentagon officials have begun to look for permanent bases in the area, focusing on Senegal, Ghana, Mali, Uganda and Kenya." The Wall Street Journal has reported that "a key mission for U.S. forces (in Africa) would be to ensure that Nigeria's oil fields, which in the future could account for as much as 25% of all U.S. oil imports, are secure." National Guard units across the U.S. are now being assigned the task of developing on-going basing relationships with each nation on the African continent. Role of Space Technology The Bush administration is also exploring the possibility of expanding the emerging missile defense system into Eastern Europe as an element in the strategic containment of Russia, China and the Middle East. The Pentagon has been negotiating with Hungary, Romania, Poland and the Czech Republic about one or more of them hosting new missile defense bases. Oil-rich Iran is to be encircled by missile defense posts in Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Iraq, and Afghanistan. In order to pull all of this together the Pentagon claims it will need "a God's-eye view" of the world. A new "internet in the sky" is now being built for the wars of the future. Costing well over $200 billion, the new web would give war machines and military forces a common language, instantly emitting an encyclopedia of lethal information about all enemies. According to Art Cebrowski, director of the Pentagon'sOffice of Force Transformation, "What we are really talking about is a new theory of war." The military wants to know "everything of interest to us, all the time," says one Pentagon insider. Military intelligence including secret satellite surveillance covering most of the Earth will be posted on the war net and shared with troops. "The essence of net-centric warfare is our ability to deploy a war-fighting force anywhere, anytime. Information technology is the key to that." Thus U.S. military and economic control of the gap will be dependent on a system of networked computers. Fusing weapons, secret intelligence and soldiers in a global network what the military calls net-centric warfare will, they say, change the military in a way the Internet changed business and culture. "" (3) China-US "China's Geostrategy: Playing a Waiting Game", Report Drafted By:Dr. Michael A. Weinstein, PINR, 07 January 2005 http://www.pinr.com/ http://www.pinr.com/