2005[#58].2.27=7:4703.1.19[#19/60]: P. moved car across. 1,2,3)Russia, Oil, "New Threats"<>USA. 2)USA<>Media.

Nicely cloudy, rain coming evening: Drove mom to Art Sale at Crown Plaza for frame, because of Ju/Jung sisters' competition according to mom, then to Korean Tofu again to Yung-ho supt. Late afternoon back to o.h., drove to house when rain was sneaking in, so dragged soil around house for over one hour? P. came and responded to my request and moved his car from front across the street. Back home wet from sweat to bath. Lung's girl friend came for 2nd time? Emails & topics. Now 8:28pm, leaving for o.h. in big rain, rather big dinner, to bed 12:55! 1) Russia <> USA: "New Cold War and US-Russian Bratislava Summit", By K Gajendra Singh, Al-Jazeerah, February 24, 2005: http://www.aljazeerah.info/Opinion%20editorials/2005%20Opinion%20Editorials/February/24%20o/New%20Cold%20War%20and%20US%20Russian%20Bratislava%20Summit%20%20By%20K%20Gajendra%20Singh.htm "" US bid to subjugate the whole world to its will by force has run aground in the Iraqi quagmire by the resistance and US does not know how to come out of this . Strategically, Russia with growing support from most former Turkic republics in Central Asia , China and others is moving to stop the march of western capitalism and US power , which has given the world Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib and Fallujah . The talk by US leaders of liberty , elections and democracy sounds like a sick joke. US occupation forces have created a Green Zone around Saddam’s Palaces in Baghdad (how the US media used to denigrate their construction). In Beirut , a massive US embassy structure has been built . In Amman , before the author left Jordan , he was struck by the new massive US embassy , which could house a military division or more . With military bases in Iraq, is US trying to run the region from military bases in Iraq and embassy safe heavens .The Pakistani army had tried it in Bangladesh in 1971 and faced with local opposition and insurgency, failed miserably . My favourite philosopher Diogenes , the cynic would have said .What an achievement by Ben laden. He brought down communism to its knees with help from western capitalism , conservative US client states in the Gulf and elsewhere , China and Pakistan with ISI , a state within a state. And after organising September 11 attacks on US symbols of economic and military might , he is now succeeding in bringing Russia in the fight against US led western domination by force. That Muslim masses almost everywhere hate USA is some achievement. "" 2) Oil <> USA: "The Real Threat Coming from Iran", Posted by caseykhan at February 23, 2005 12:47 PM: http://blog.lewrockwell.com/lewrw/archives/007485.html "" Iran is proposing to develop something far more threatening to Bush interests than nuclear capability, WMD's, or even terrorists. According to this interesting article by William Clark, Iran has been planning to set up an international oil exchange denominated in the Euro currency. What needs to be understood is that if the world begins to primarily price crude in Euro, America will suffer as a net importer of the product, which incidentally will harm American corporate profits. The Iranian example as argued by Clark will be just like many US wars in the past. As Smedley Butler argued war is essentially the ultimate form of corporate welfare. The world is starting to ask the important question of why should we hedge oil with dollars instead of the more valuable euro? Iraq talked about it. Iran now is talking about it. Russia's hinting at it. Why does this development have the US government and its special interests all in a tizzy? Well to put it simply the entire warfare welfare state is at stake. If the dollar collapses, inevitibly so does the American empire and the free ride it has been enjoying on the rest of the world. Iraq and Iran may have never declared war on the people of the US, but by deciding to switch to Euro's they have effectively declared war on the US socialist state. According to Clark: "" 3) "New Threats" <> USA: "FBI Forecasts New Threats to the United States", February 24, 2005, by Jim Kouri, CPP: http://www.mensnewsdaily.com/archive/k/kouri/2005/kouri022405.htm "" The FBI forecasts that sub-national and non-governmental entities will play an increasing role in world affairs for years to come, presenting new “asymmetric” threats to the United States. In a report to the National Association of Chiefs of Police, FBI officials claim that although the United States will continue to occupy a position of economic and political leadership — and although other governments will also continue to be important actors on the world stage — terrorist groups, criminal enterprises, and other non-state actors will assume an increasing role in international affairs. Nation states and their governments will exercise decreasing control over the flow of information, resources, technology, services, and people. "" 4) USA <> Media: "Dead Messengers: How the U.S. Military Threatens Journalists", By Steve Weissman. "t r u t h o u t Investigation, Part I: Hearing What Eason Jordan Said", Thursday 24 February 2005: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022405A.shtml "" Do American soldiers purposely kill journalists, as CNN's Eason Jordan supposedly said? Or, could the problem be even worse? ""