IRAN MUST FIGHT BACK: Oil Embargo Europe Now

Iran must fight back: Embargo Europe now. I think it is very logical in the spirit of self-preservation that Iran identify which European country, or any country for that matter, contemplating to stop buying oil from Iran and stop selling oil to that country now. Oil prices will almost certainly soar as Europe scrambles to find a replacement, while others who are yet undecided will most certainly drop their plans to stop buying oil from Iran. Other OPEC members secretly sympathetic or unwilling to collide with Iran on this particular issue will find reasons not to sell to European hostile countries, and yes, high prices mean more extra cash for the Arabs in the Gulf. It is a win-win situation for Iran and the Arabs and a defeat of the evil designs of the West. It is wrong for the USA to assume that it can reverse the power of oil as a weapon. Oil is Iran’s weapon of mass destruction, not the USA’s. 

PressTV - 'Iran must stop exports before oil ban':

'Iran must stop exports before oil ban'

A former Iranian intelligence minister says before the European Union (EU) starts to actually ban Iran's oil imports, Tehran should preemptively stop oil exports to EU member states.

EU foreign ministers are expected to meet on January 23 to make a final decision on banning Iran's oil imports by member states and freeze the country's Central Bank assets.

Reacting to the EU plan to ban Iranian oil, Ali Fallahian said Monday that Iran must respond by immediately halting oil exports to EU members as of now.

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http://www.presstv.ir/detail/222666.html

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CHEERS FOR THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD: New Egyptian parliament convenes

God does not change a people’s situation until they change it themselves. Today is the first of the great changes that is expected for 2012. Never has there been in the imagination of anyone; in and out of Egypt that the Muslim Brotherhood will reign supreme in Egypt’s Parliament. Together with the Salafists (the flipside of the same coin of Wahabbism) won a staggering 70% of parliament. USA has no other choice but to side/deals with the Muslim Brotherhood; the one it views as lesser of two evils (just a figure of speech). How this event affects the future of the region remains to be seen as the brotherhood takes a foothold in the land where its origins have been deeply rooted in suspicion that hanged its founder; Saed Ibn Qut'b. The one the media rarely if ever does it mention is Sudan: Omar Basher is a member of the Muslim Brotherhood :-) 

PressTV - New Egyptian parliament convenes:

Egypt's new parliament has convened for the first time since the country's popular revolution ousted former dictator Hosni Mubarak in February.

The opening session was held two days before the first anniversary of the start of the revolution, with Muslim groups dominating the assembly for the first time.

The lower house of parliament is expected to elect the speaker of the house and his two deputies.

Egypt's top parties agreed last week to nominate a member of the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), Mohamed Katatni, for speaker.

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BLOCKBUSTERS: busting Israel’s anti-peace blocks

Israel is a nation not only in perpetual war against its neighbors but a society in turmoil, constantly at war among itself, drawn along the lines of ethnicity of their origins and religious degrees of fundamentalism. We have been treated recently to news where women are being excluded from social life; where extremist Jews are demanding the segregation of sexes in public places, but these are minor frictions compared to the political blocks drawn along the same ethnic divides that are not only rocking but wrecking Israel through war and steady warmongering. The suggestion by a prominent American Jew to sanction an assassination of the US president by Israel must not be taken lightly. The guy is dead serious, and some freakish-minded Jew may just pick up the cue and pick up the gun. Remember JFK and Rabin…A LONE gunman, and that’s the end of it; life goes on. 

Anti-peace Coalition Governing Israel : Information Clearing House:

Anti-peace Coalition Governing Israel
The Blockbusters

By Uri Avnery

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HOW HAS “peace” become associated with the dominant and domineering Ashkenazim?

That is one of the great tragedies of our country.

Jews have lived for many centuries in the Muslim world. There they never experienced the terrible things committed in Europe by Christian anti-Semitism. Muslim-Jewish animosity started only a century ago, with the advent of Zionism, and for obvious reasons.

When the Jews from Muslim countries started to arrive en masse in Israel, they were steeped in Arab culture. But here they were received by a society that held everything Arab in total contempt. Their Arab culture was “primitive”, while real culture was European. Furthermore, they were identified with the murderous Muslims. So the immigrants were required to shed their own culture and traditions, their accent, their memories, their music. In order to show how thoroughly Israeli they had become; they also had to hate Arabs.

The case of the “Russians” is different. They grew up in a society that despised democracy, admired strong leaders. The “whites”, Russians and Ukrainians, despised and hated the “dark” peoples of the south – Armenians, Georgians, Tatars, Uzbeks and such. (I once invented a formula: “Bolshevism minus Marxism equals Fascism”.)

When the Russian Jews came to join us, they brought with them a virulent nationalism, a complete disinterest in democracy and an automatic hatred of Arabs. They cannot understand why we allowed them to stay here at all. When, this week, a lady deputy (though “lady” may be euphemistic) from St. Petersburg poured a glass of water on the head of an Arab deputy from the Labor party, nobody was very surprised. (Somebody quipped: “a Good Arab is a wet Arab”). For Lieberman’s followers, Peace is a dirty word, and so is Democracy.


SOME PEOPLE blame us, the democratic peace movement, for not recognizing the problem early enough, and not doing enough to attract the members of the various blocs to the ideals of peace and democracy. Also, it is said, we did not show that social justice is inseparably connected with democracy and peace.

I must accept my share of the blame for this failure, though I might point out that I tried to make the connection right from the beginning. I asked my friends to concentrate our efforts on the Oriental community, remind them of the glories of the Muslim-Jewish “golden Age” in Spain, of the huge mutual impact of Jewish and Muslim scientists, poets and religious thinkers throughout the ages.

A few days ago, I was invited to give a lecture to the faculty and students of Ben-Gurion University in Beer Sheva. I described the situation more or less along the same lines. The first question from the large audience, which consisted of Jews – both Orientals and Ashkenazim, and Arabs – especially Bedouins was: “So what hope is there? Faced with this reality, how can the peace forces win?”

I told them that I put my trust in the new generation. Last summer’s huge social protest movement, which erupted quite suddenly and swept [“along”?] hundreds of thousands, showed that yes, it can happen here. The movement united Ashkenazim and Orientals. Tent cities sprang up in Tel Aviv and Beer Sheva, all over the place.

Our first job is to break the barriers between the blocs, change reality, create a new Israeli society. We need blockbusters.

Yes, it is a daunting job. But I believe it can be done.

Uri Avnery is an Israeli peace activist and a former Knesset member. He is the founder of Gush Shalom. http://zope.gush-shalom.org

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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30316.htm

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ASSASSINATE OBAMA; owner/publisher of ATLANTA JEWISH TIMES tell Netanyahu

If you think for a moment that Jews will not assassinate a US president if it serves Israel’s interest, you are wrong. In fact, Andrew Adler, owner and publisher of Jewish Atlanta Times, may have saved Obama’s life by suggesting Israel’s Netanyahu should order a Mossad hit team to assassinate Obama. Any plan by Israel, if there is one, no matter how remote, may have been aborted by Andrew Adler, who had since apologized for his comment that appeared in his paper. Imagine if such a suggestion had come from a Muslim newspaper owner/publisher in or outside of the USA. It would have been a global headline in all major media outlets screaming Muslim terrorists out to assassinate the US president :-( 

Uproar after Jewish American newspaper publisher suggests Israel assassinate Barack Obama - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News:

Uproar after Jewish American newspaper publisher suggests Israel assassinate Barack Obama

Op-ed in Atlanta Jewish Times says the slaying of the president may be an effective way to thwart Iran's nuclear program.

By Chemi Shalev

NEW YORK - The owner and publisher of the Atlanta Jewish Times, Andrew Adler, has suggested that Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu consider ordering a Mossad hit team to assassinate U.S. President Barack Obama so that his successor will defend Israel against Iran.

Adler, who has since apologized for his article, listed three options for Israel to counter Iran’s nuclear weapons in an article published in his newspaper last Friday. The first is to launch a pre-emptive strike against Hamas and Hezbollah, the second is to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities and the third is to “give the go-ahead for U.S.-based Mossad agents to take out a president deemed unfriendly to Israel in order for the current vice president to take his place and forcefully dictate that the United States’ policy includes its helping the Jewish state obliterate its enemies.”

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http://www.haaretz.com/news/international/uproar-after-jewish-american-newspaper-publisher-suggests-israel-assassinate-barack-obama-1.408429

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My life’s no-little mysteries: ASTRAL TRAVEL to another country.

 ASTRAL JOURNEY to another country.

Bonifacio Monument

In 1995, I sometimes had a very strange dream that I believed could be an authentic experience of astral projection. Although it is only one of many, this one is so vivid that I can remember every minute detail as if I were physically present.

I was standing on the steps of the Bonifacio monument at Grace Park in Caloocan City. Commuters in Metro Manila know it better as ‘Monumento.’ On both sides of the steps were lampposts about 7 to 8 feet tall with crystal-ball-like lamps atop each post. The way the horizons looked gave me the hint of a breaking dawn. Because the traffic was light on the Epifanio de los Santos Avenue (EDSA), the time could have been about 5 O’clock in the morning. With the 5-hour time difference between Saudi Arabia and the Philippines, I must have dreamed shortly after midnight in KSA.

I passed this monument many times in the past, but not since I came to Saudi Arabia—not in the past 15 years or so. I don’t remember the monument having a stage-like platform on the side facing EDSA Avenue. It must have been renovated since I left.

 A few days after the dream, I received a call from my eldest daughter, Norayda. She wanted to transfer to Manila Central University [MCU], one of the oldest Medical Colleges in Metro Manila. Strangely, it is just across the street from the Bonifacio Monument (refer to the photo from maps.google.com). Because of the dream, I said I had no objection.

 The only knowledge I have of the university’s physical makeup is what I've seen from the street. Stranger still, I dreamt of being inside the University Campus at least two times before this dream. 

Several months later, during my leave, my wife and I drove to the University to pick up my daughter. I didn’t tell my wife about my dream, but I was planning to check it all the time. The Bonifacio Monument was precisely as I saw it in the dream.

When I maneuvered my car into the parking lot, I was awestruck by the two-story white building on one side of the road (refer to the photo with the red arrow partly covered by trees). In the other two dreams I had, I stood on the side of that building. I saw precisely the spot where I stood in the dream. A few years later, my daughter graduated from the university, and in March 2000, she passed the Med. Tech. Licensure Board Examination.

…and if you think astral projection from one country to another is weird or maybe okay, why not? But how about going to another planet? C’mon; get out of here :-)

I really did astral travel to two uninhabited planets on different occasions. I thought I was dreaming or hallucinating, but when I read many years later that such a planet could exist, I said, "Wow!" 

https://www.amazon.com/Nosca-Khalid/e/B01NA7APYQ

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France threatens to pull out of Afghanistan

Historians didn’t call Afghanistan the "grave yard of Empires" for nothing. A glimpse of what composes the coalition forces emerges a COCKTAIL OF EMPIRES of the past meaning: MAGSAMASAMA PA KAYO. If an Afghan dies; he died a hero defending his country but if a coalition forces dies; he died for no reason, a meaningless death in a foreign land where even his spirit will feel alien, lost and extremely uncomfortable. 

France threatens to pull its troops out of Afghanistan early – USATODAY.com:

France threatens to pull its troops out of Afghanistan early

PARIS (AP) – France suspended its training operations in Afghanistan and threatened to withdraw its entire force from the country early, after an Afghan wearing an army uniform shot and killed four French troops Friday and wounded others.

The attack — the second time this month an Afghan soldier has killed French forces — came during a particularly deadly 24 hours for the international military coalition. Six U.S. Marines also died in a helicopter crash late Thursday.

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http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/story/2012-01-20/nato-troops-afghanistan/52688964/1
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'KSA will use all options against Iran' :-(

One more reason why Muslims world over should be afraid; very afraid. USA/Israel/NATO would be very please if KSA and Iran starts to shoot at each other’s. To them; it is a dream comes true but hey; what if these two oil giants target each other’s oil fields. USA/NATO minus Israel plus the Arabs will almost certainly descend upon Iran to fulfill the messianic battle of; you guess it right: ARMAGEDDON. 

PressTV - 'KSA will use all options against Iran':

'KSA will use all options against Iran'

Saudi Arabia's former intelligence chief says Riyadh will use “all available options” to defend itself against Iranian “threats” that might trigger “unwanted military confrontation.”

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Iran's OPEC Governor Mohammad Ali Khatibi also warned the country's Persian Gulf neighbors last Sunday that they will be responsible for any consequences, should they agree to compensate for the Islamic Republic's oil exports in the event of Western sanctions against Tehran.

“The mounting escalation and persistent tensions might end up in an adventure with unpredictable consequences or in an unwanted military confrontation,” AFP quoted Faisal as saying.

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