[05#39] 2.8=2=12.30=#60: Lunar New Year's Eve, lady for renting. 1)US Economic Wars/911. 2)Russia -Turkey&Iran.

Cloudy not too cool: 7am Jan-tong tel mom door closed, he thought it were 8am here, so left with New Year saluting. So up, 7:30? mom up, diary & 2 calender books examination again. Bowed & knelt 3 times, I prayed to the Heaven and all gods and ancestors, and for world peace and got shen-gao, or ok from the above. 9:15 breakfast, picked pillow covers & sleep cloth for washing and to house of no change to home. Full bath, lunch, emails, answering 1 [G] city driving, 2 [W] on "(Not Brave sole terror) New World #1000" & "#1001: Militias". Both AW & DF answered. Mom tel 4:30 to go, all 3 family members here work as usual. Swift deleted emails one by one, finished yesterday's blog, then now here, 5:39pm! Going to worship before dark! Only Ju there help cooking, mom started eating at the worshipping table, too dark for w. ancestors, done in the morning also, so simple hand bowing. Then started for dinner myself, then Ju, then Hiro arrived. A Taiwanese lady with her girl friend came, shown by Ju all around, looked nice. Mei tel asking whether going home. Talked with Hiro on the last Manchu princess, Chinese politics. A man tel for our house. 10pm left, 12:20 abandoned this at around "before dark!" and tomorrow's blog and emails, bed1:05, all bed already. 1) US Economic Wars: "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man", by John Perkins (1) Amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1576753018/qid=1107744884/sr=8-1/ref=pd_ka_1/002-9682655-5592850?v=glance&s=books&n=507846 "" Editorial Reviews Amazon.com John Perkins started and stopped writing Confessions of an Economic Hit Man four times over 20 years. He says he was threatened and bribed in an effort to kill the project, but after 9/11 he finally decided to go through with this expose of his former professional life. Perkins, a former chief economist at Boston strategic-consulting firm Chas. T. Main, says he was an "economic hit man" for 10 years, helping U.S. intelligence agencies and multinationals cajole and blackmail foreign leaders into serving U.S. foreign policy and awarding lucrative contracts to American business. "Economic hit men (EHMs) are highly paid professionals who cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars," Perkins writes. Confessions of an Economic Hit Man is an extraordinary and gripping tale of intrigue and dark machinations. Think John Le Carré, except it's a true story. Perkins writes that his economic projections cooked the books Enron-style to convince foreign governments to accept billions of dollars of loans from the World Bank and other institutions to build dams, airports, electric grids, and other infrastructure he knew they couldn't afford. The loans were given on condition that construction and engineering contracts went to U.S. companies. Often, the money would simply be transferred from one bank account in Washington, D.C., to another one in New York or San Francisco. The deals were smoothed over with bribes for foreign officials, but it was the taxpayers in the foreign countries who had to pay back the loans. When their governments couldn't do so, as was often the case, the U.S. or its henchmen at the World Bank or International Monetary Fund would step in and essentially place the country in trusteeship, dictating everything from its spending budget to security agreements and even its United Nations votes. It was, Perkins writes, a clever way for the U.S. to expand its "empire" at the expense of Third World citizens. While at times he seems a little overly focused on conspiracies, perhaps that's not surprising considering the life he's led. --Alex Roslin Product Description: Confessions of an Economic Hit Man reveals a game that, according to John Perkins, is "as old as Empire" but has taken on new and terrifying dimensions in an era of globalization. And Perkins should know. For many years he worked for an international consulting firm where his main job was to convince LDCs (less developed countries) around the world to accept multibillion-dollar loans for infrastructure projects and to see to it that most of this money ended up at Halliburton, Bechtel, Brown and Root, and other United States engineering and construction companies. This book, which many people warned Perkins not to write, is a blistering attack on a little-known phenomenon that has had dire consequences on both the victimized countries and the U.S. "" {2} "WILL THE REAL ECONOMIC HIT MEN PLEASE STAND UP? Meditations on 9/11 Truth", by Catherine Austin Fitts: http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/010705_economic_hitmen_summary.shtml "" [Many people have asked me what I thought about the recently popularized book Confessions of an Economic Hit Man and I have held my tongue because I just didn't have time to do the brilliant deconstruction of the book's "limited hangout" approach performed here by Catherine Austin Fitts. In this article the former Assistant Secretary of Housing and past managing director of Dillon Read brings us face to face with the horrors for which we all share a measure of responsibility. Those who would have us work through and affirm the current system don't want these horrors to be seen, because any recognition of them leads on to other realities that are darker still. Fitts also makes clear the point that I was making in Seattle which has been so widely misrepresented. There are no real avenues left for 911 activism in the traditional sense of the word. The election is over. All three 9/11 suits (Hilton, Mariani and the Saudi case) have been dismissed or morphed as I said they would be. Congress has shown and will show no courage. The 9/11 Commission (totally compromised) has closed its doors. The Justice Department (part of the 9/11 plot) will do nothing. The courts are compromised and the mainstream media (also part of the crime) has moved on. NY Attorney General Elliot Spitzer has yet to do anything with the 9/11 material he has received, remaining quiet in order to protect his bid for the NY state house. "" 2) Russia & Turkey, and Russia-China & Iran: (1) Turkey's Russian Connection for the EU? "Turkish-Russian Relations: Implications for Eurasia's Geopolitics", Report Drafted By:Dr. Bulent Aras, PINR: Feb. 9, 2005" http://www.pinr.com/ "" The U.S. military deployment in different parts of Eurasia, the pro-Western change in domestic landscapes of Georgia and Ukraine, the U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are, among others, the developments that have paved the way for the emergence of a new geopolitics in Eurasia. The European and U.S. expansion into former Soviet territories influences Russian policymakers to seek new alliances in Asia. Russian rapprochement with Iran, China and India are examples of this new policy. In this sense, the new developments in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks are bringing together the policies of not only Russia and other major Asian powers, but also some critical European states like France and Germany. After receiving a negotiation date for E.U. membership, Turkey is emerging as a European actor in the region. However, Turkey's new orientation was tested during the subsequent domestic transformations of Georgia and Ukraine. Turkey adopted a low profile attitude toward the Russian policies vis-à-vis Ukraine and Georgia, and sensitively displayed a constructive outlook by pointing to the relevant international norms and agreements as the way to resolve the crises. Ankara tries to avoid taking sides in any "Russia versus the West" struggles, while developing its own relations with Moscow. "" (2) Iran's Way Out with Russia? Assisted by China? 1. FROM: Middle East Newsline, ""directed by Steve Rodan, a journalist with more than 20 years experience who has worked for U.S., European, Arab and Israeli newspapers, radio and television. Rodan is fluent in Arabic and Hebrew and has won awards for investigative and enterprise reporting. He was one of the first journalists to write on Iran's missile and nuclear weapons programs, Israeli-Russian joint defense marketing, and the first to document Egyptian-North Korean missile cooperation. He has provided exclusives to such publications as Jane's Defence Weekly in London, Defense News in Washington, Military Technology in Bonn, The Jerusalem Post in Israel, The Sunday Express in London and Le Nouvelles Actuelles in Paris. He has traveled extensively and is both an expert of the region as well as a specialist on military and strategic issues"": http://menewsline.com/about_us.html "IRAN REPORTS DEFENSE TIES WITH RUSSIA": http://menewsline.com/stories/2005/february/02_03_1.html "" NICOSIA [MENL] -- For the first time in years, Iran has reported defense and military relations with Russia. Iran's ambassador to Russia reported defense and military cooperation between the two countries. It was the first time a senior Iranian official asserted that the two countries were engaged in defense and military projects. "Russian-Iranian cooperation is also developing in the military and technical sphere," Iranian ambassador to Moscow Gholamreza Shafei said. "" Shafei was quoted by the Russian Itar-Tass news agency as saying that Iran sought to develop cooperation with Moscow. Shafei did not cite any defense and military projects between the two countries. 2. "CHINESE ARMS EXPORTS TO IRAN", By Bates Gill, MERIA Journal, v.2 #2, May 1998: http://meria.idc.ac.il/journal/1998/issue2/jv2n2a7.html "" Dr. Bates Gill is director of the East Asian Nonproliferation Project, Monterrey Institute of International Studies. This paper is a shortened version of "Silkworms and Summitry: China's Arms Exports to Iran and U.S.-China Relations." "" "" Chinese arms exports to Iran have caused considerable concern within the international community, particularly for the United States. In conjunction with the U.S.-China summit of October 1997, China apparently took a number of steps to curtail sensitive transfers to Iran as part of a broader, more positive trend in Chinese nonproliferation policy. But numerous concerns persist that China continues to provide Iran with systems and technologies that contribute to further development of its cruise and ballistic missile capability, as well as to its nuclear, chemical and biological weapons programs. ""