[05#34] 2.3=4=12.25=#55: 0.Japan-BRIC. 1&4.Iraqi Election. 2.Russians/Jews:200Years. 3."AngloZionist"?? 5.Israeli 20,000.

Nice & WARM! & getting cooler daily this week. 8am mom tel asking about Mei's tel of fury about dog. Instead of kicking someone's shoe to the corner daily, moved a tall quasi-book-case from garage to genkan, then phone from next to micro-oven to nearby sofa of my computer work, and so on, very, very nice! Then full bath. Emails to topics below, and answering [W] & [G] with "the carefree 1950s" of ABCtv "Happy Days 30th Anniversary Reunion", 8-10pm. Now 11:47pm. To bed. 0) Japan-BRIC: "Shrewd Japanese financial diplomacy: sidestep Americans and the G7 and focus on emerging BRIC Alliance (Brazil, Russia, India, China)", Priya Laskar, India Daily Special Correspondent, February 01, 2005: http://www.indiadaily.com/editorial/02-01-05.asp "" BRIC’s demand and growth is so heavy that the G7 is going no where without considering the effects of BRIC on the global economies. For example, the G7 had no clue that the crude oil price can go to $50 a barrel because of India and China’s demand. On top that survival of G7 economy now hinges on crude supply from another BRIC nation – Russia." Japan and China should play in Asia a role similar to the Franco-German alliance in Europe, a driving force of European integration, including monetary integration," Sakakibara said. "Closer Japanese-Chinese cooperation would represent a strong force if the G-7 were reorganized into a G-4 or G-5. "Internally Japan is extremely nervous about its close dependence on G7 especially the US economy which has all signs of catastrophe especially if BRIC keeps growing. "" 1) Iraqi Election (1) "Send in the Marines or fortify the lawyers?", By Rami G. Khouri, Daily Star staff, Wednesday, February 02, 2005: http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=5&article_id=12310# "" Two very different kinds of events took place in the Middle East last Sunday that neatly capture the riddle of how best to promote political change, democracy and the rule of law in this stubbornly autocratic region. The war-induced democratic elections in Iraq and a conference of Arab democracy activists in Beirut on judicial reform spoke volumes about whether Arab democracy will result more from external or internal pressures. In Iraq, the American armed forces that toppled the former Baathist regime headed by Saddam Hussein, culminated their nearly two years of military administration of the country by holding an election for a transitional national assembly that will write a permanent constitution. Washington and a few others have heralded war-borne democracy as a feasible approach, under the circumstances, to promoting freedom and good governance in the Middle East, despite the high cost of the American-led policy in Iraq: tens of thousands of dead and injured people on all sides, widespread diplomatic tensions, increased terrorism and violence, and reshuffled relationships and new worries throughout the region. "" [[ "" The Daily Star – A Short History: Founded in June 1952, to serve the growing number of expatriates lured by the oil industry, The Daily Star initially circulated in Lebanon but rapidly spread its wings to cover most of the Arab world. Its publisher, Kamel Mrowa, already owner and editor-in-chief of the successful Arabic daily Al-Hayat, not only wanted to relay news of their own countries to expatriates but also to introduce the region to non-Arabic readers. His vision made The Daily Star the leading English language newspaper in the Middle East throughout the 60s. That tradition was continued after his death in 1966 by his widow, Salma Elbissar, until the outbreak of war forced the suspension of publication. The paper offices and press were in the middle of what became a battlefield. At the beginning of 1983, when hopes of a permanent cessation of hostilities were high, Kamel's eldest son, Jamil, aided by his two brothers Malek and Karim, planned a re-launch of the paper. Republication started in November of that year but the prospects for the paper -- and the country -- suffered a devastating blow on February 6 of 1984 when the civil war intensified. The flight from the country of many of the intelligentsia robbed the paper of half its staff and many of its readers. Despite that, The Daily Star continued as a daily newspaper until mid-1985 and as a weekly for 12 months after that, until the continuing war again forced its suspension. After the onset of peace in 1991 and establishment of a master plan to rebuild the country three years later, Jamil Mroue was determined to start again. In 1996,as the paper recommenced publishing, Mroue introduced state-of-the-art technology into the Middle East , imported experienced journalists from abroad, recruited a dynamic, young Lebanese team and iced the cake with editorial services previously unknown to indigenous papers. The Daily Star signed an exclusive marketing representation, printing and distribution agreement with the International Herald Tribune in year 2000. Under the terms of the agreement, the Daily Star represents the IHT in all the GCC, Lebanon , Syria , Jordan , Egypt , Yemen and Iraq . The Daily Star will also produce local editions wherever possible. The newspaper is also a leading source of Middle East news and information on the Internet -- www.dailystar.com.Ib -- With a firm and growing following. The Daily Star on-line edition is the Web's leading source of Lebanese and regional news. Updated daily, this site brings together an unmatched combination of high-quality content and powerful interactive capabilities. The site allows you to access continuous regional and Lebanese news coverage on politics, business, religion and much more. Plus, you can search our Lebanese news archive, send a message to an old friend, look up a job in our classified advertising section or simply stay in touch with the current art and entertainment scene in Lebanon and across the Middle East . "" ]] (2) "The Story of the Ghost" By William Rivers Pitt, t r u t h o u t Perspective, Monday 31 January 2005: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/013105W.shtml "" In all the media hoopla over Sunday's "election" in Iraq, a few details got missed. The powerful and influential Association of Muslim Scholars is not buying the idea that there was some great democratic breakthrough with this vote. AMS spokesman Muhammad al-Kubaysi responded to the election by saying, "The elections are not a solution to the Iraqi problem, because this problem is not an internal dispute to be resolved through accords and elections. It lies in the presence of a foreign power that occupies this country and refuses even the mere scheduling of the withdrawal of its forces from Iraq." "We have consistently argued," continued al-Kubaysi, "that elections can only occur in a democracy that enjoys sovereignty. Our sovereignty is incomplete. Our sovereignty is usurped by foreign forces that have occupied our land and hurt our dignity. These elections... are a means of establishing the foreign forces in Iraq and keeping Iraq under the yoke of occupation. They should have been postponed." "" 2) Russians/Jews in Russia for 200 Years: "" Interview with Solzhentisyn about "200 Years Together" "", Lydia Chukovskaya, Moscow News( http://english.mn.ru/english/ ), January 1-7, 2003: http://iraqwar.mirror-world.ru/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=38074 "" With his Dvesti let vmeste, or 200 Years Together, a historical study of the relationship between Russians and Jews in Russia, Alexander Solzhenitsyn calls for a better understanding and mutual empathy between the two nationalities. The second volume of the book, spanning the period from the 1917 Revolution to the mid-1970s, is about to hit the bookstalls. Ahead of the publication the author was interviewed by Moskovskiye novosti editor Viktor Loshak in his house at Troitse-Lykovo We had a meeting shortly before Book 1 came out, and it was clear that Book 2 was on the way and could have been brought out literally within weeks. Nonetheless, 18 months have passed since. "" "" Solzhenitsyn's is a different, above-the-fray vantage point. His is a different objective, totally devoid of writer's vanity: Not really needing our approval, Solzhenitsyn seeks to act as a kind of referee in a protracted historical debate. He does not seem to care even whether there is still anyone left in the ring or whether Russian Jews, having acquired the Russian language and culture, have fully assimilated. Meanwhile, anti-Semites, for want of something better to do with their narrow minds, will keep harping on their tune, even if not a single Jew, so hateful to them, remains on the planet. With his book, comprising evaluations of tsars, Khrushchev, Beria, Galich, and Zhabotinsky, and quotations from Lenin to Stalin to Grigory Pomerants to Lydia Korneevna Chukovskaya, Solzhenitsyn stepped into the minefield of the Jewish issue. And he walked across it confidently - maybe because there is no longer a mine that could blow up his authority. "Russian Jew. Jew. Russian. How much blood has been spilled, how many tears shed over this; what untold suffering there has been, and at the same time how much joy in spiritual and cultural growth. There were, and there still are, many Jews who bore this brunt - being a Russian Jew and Russian at the same time. Two loves, two passions, two struggles - isn't this too much for one heart?" Lydia Chukovskaya http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/articles/ChukovskayaSolzhenitsyn.htm "" 3) "AngloZionist Machinations II: Part II. REALPOLITIK AND IDEOLOGY BEHING THE MILITARY COOPERATION AND DURING THE COLD WAR", By: Alexus on: 31.01.2005 [15:46 ] (113 reads) ?? http://iraqwar.mirror-world.ru/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=38147 "" On August 14, 1941, merely six weeks after Hitler attacked the USSR, F. D. Roosevelt and W. Churchill signed the “Atlantic Charter”, a declaration that is usually viewed as a list of democratic principles and general formulas of the aim of this war - it is stressed that both the US and the UK “seek no aggrandizement, territorial or other”. The Atlantic Charter appealed to the right of all the nations for self-determination and proclaimed “the right of all peoples to choose the form of government under which they will live”. The peoples never asked anyone for such permission and, therefore, the purport of such declaration is to claim the right of the Anglo-Saxons to judge whether the existing sovereign states deprive their peoples of their rights and to selectively deny recognition of sovereignty. The US and the UK also declared their intention to contribute to restoration of “sovereign rights and self government” to “those who have been forcibly deprived of them”, making no reference to Hitler’s aggression. The “nations” included not only the states, but also the peoples had had no states of their own. Should this paragraph be formulated as a return to the pre-war status, it would only mean cancellation of the effects of aggressions and annexations by Germany, the Axis and their satellites. But there was no such definition. It was a declaration of the right to recognize or not recognize not only the results of aggression, but also the pre-war reality since the war began. In fact, it was an euphemistic declaration of the world map a tabula rasa and of the right to “draw the fates of the peoples living there” (according to Col. House’s interpretation of the Russian section of President Wilson’s “Fourteen Points”). Roosevelt first of all meant the Baltic States, South Slavs, and all the peoples of Russia, except for Russians - “the victims of the imperialist policy of the Communist Russia” - that will appear in the US Congress “Captive Nations Resolution” (P.L.86-90, 1959). Important evidence comes from the activities of the mysterious US Committee on Foreign Relations. Before August 1942 the CFR did an extremely intense job of systematizing and studying the possibilities of rearrangement of post-war Europe, working mostly on its central and eastern part. It included the “Group on Review of Peaceful Intentions of the European Nations.” The meetings of this Group included participation and even reports by A. Smetona (ex-President of Lithuania), K. R. Pusta (ex-Foreign Minister of Estonia), A. Bilmanis (ex-Latvian “Ambassador Plenipotentiary” to the USA, Austrian Archduke Otto von Hapsburg, A. A. Hranovsky (President of the “Organization for Revival of the Ukraine”), representatives from Macedonian political organizations, Polish emigration elite, former officials of Czechoslovakia and Romania, O. Jaszi (ex-Hungarian Minister of Nationalities), and many others. The Group was chaired by H. F. Armstrong himself. Members of this Group were A. Dulles and W. Mallory (Executive Secretary). The fact that “nations” represented in this Group did not match fully the European states that officially existed in Europe before Hitler’s aggression give another reason to interpret the Atlantic Charter not as a demand of rejection of Hitler’s aggression and return to the pre-war status, but as an instrument of rearranging even the pre-war European borders using the aggression as a pretext. The US relied exactly on the same “buffer” Eastern and Central European forces in 1990s’ NATO expansion to the East after the geopolitical significance of Russia / USSR diminished. "" "" In 1996 the U.S. National Defense University republished H. Mackinder’s book with a foreword by US Air Force Lt. Gen. Ervin Rokke, President of this University. Rokke discovers that “already in 1942 Allied strategic planners recognized the value of Mackinder´s work, which they used in engineering the defeat of Germany”, and later he admits that “the entire anti-Soviet Cold War (1947-1991) was merely an interlude” in the “the greater struggle for supremacy over the World Island by the maritime powers”. According to Rokke, “regional strategic concerns” force the NATO powers “to once again rely” on the “classic” idea of geopolitical war for world domination proposed by Mackinder. The US and NATO strategy in Yugoslavia and the ideological motivations were similar to the strategy in the 19th and early 20th century. The works of Sethon-Watson and Mackinder remain actual, and so does the work of Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky who mentioned the most tempting “sea-to-sea” sphere of influence along the meridian from the Baltic to the Mediterranean sea, which Germas tried to create twice, in 1914 and 1941, but now it seems this task may be accomplished by Anglo-Saxons who, unlike Hitler, succeeded in equating their great-power aspirations with the universal system of ethics. Vardar Morava valley becomes the key to “strengthen the US foothold in Eurasia through Transatlantic partnership” so that the “expanding Europe” could become a “real springboard for advancement into Eurasia”. This is how the geopolitical strategy of the US is viewed by Z. Bzezinsky, whose maps remind of Mackinder’s “geopolitical axis of history” and the constructions of F. Nauman and other ideologists of the German “Grossraum”. Special Coordinator of the Stability Pact for South-Eastern Europe, Bodo Hombach, put it straightforwardly that as compared to the previous period, while “before 2000 we still followed the strategy of isolating Serbia…now we can actually speak of reintegration of Yugoslavia into the International community”, and the objectives of the Pact were defined by him as “a chance and a duty not only to adapt to the EU standards, but jointly learn the lessons of post-war Europe” (Internationale Politik. 2000. N 11.) However, the lesson is: the new repartition of the world yielded no fruit to the European powers. Instead, it destroyed the true chance of rebirth for Germany and politically significant Central Europe, that could become a bridge between the West and the East for the first time in the history. Today the process of turning Easter Europe into Central Europe, and the western territories of the historical state of Russia - into the Eastern Europe is merely a link in the geopolitical chain formulated by the Council on Foreign Relations: “from Bohemia” - which is now a member of NATO - “to the Persian Gulf” - where a regional sovereign state of Iraq was destroyed - and “to the Himalayas” almost encroached by Taliban. This chain is intended to squeeze Russia in a circle from the Baltic sea to the south, then cutting it off from the Black and the Caspian seas, then turning to the East and vanishing in the depth of Central Asia, where the fight for orientation of the newly emerged states of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan is going on. Both its structural sections and its missing links are already clearly visible, which shows apparent interconnection of all the diverse tools that constructed this arc - from the pro-Atlantic lobby in the Baltic states, anti-Russian fronts in Belarus and Ukraine, to NATO’s invasion in the Balkans, creation of Islamic quasi-formations in Europe (Bosnia, Kosovo), linked by this arc to Chechnya and Taliban, whose ambitions stretch as far as the Pamir. Now that the Russian foreign policy is slowly freeing itself from the virtual dogma of infantile Sakharov-Gorbachov school, I would like to draw attention to the great 200-year efforts of pre-revolutionary Russia in the South. Without being formulated into any kind of a doctrine, it nevertheless possessed the intuitive structural integrity and managed to survive in the most complicated context of interests and civilizations surrounding it. This policy never concealed the national interests, yet it never equated itself presumptuously to the “universal” values, and had principles. It had always been able to commensurate its abilities with the obstacles, to “concentrate” when needed, and to refrain from risky actions. "" 4) Iraqi Election: "This Election Will Change the World. But Not in the Way the Americans Imagined", By: Robert Fisk in Baghdad, The Independent U.K., Saturday 29 January 2005: http://truthout.org/docs_2005/01292005A.shtml 5) Israeli 20,000 Immigrants: "Israel to bring 20,000 immigrants from Ethiopia by 2007", AMY TEIBEL, Associated Press Writer, Monday, January 31, 2005: http://iraqwar.mirror-world.ru/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=38177 "" (01-31) 19:19 PST JERUSALEM (AP) -- By the end of 2007, Israel will bring in the last 20,000 Ethiopians who claim they were forced to convert from Judaism, according to a government decision announced Monday. ""