I guess our "Independent Commanders" have been forgetting to ASK FOR MORE TROOPS,,LIKE THE TRAITOR IN CHIEF HAS BEEN SAYING FOR THE LONGEST TIME.
HOW THIS CONGRESS&THE LAST HAS FAILED TO IMPEACH ,REMOVE&NOT JAILED THAT VIETNAM ERA DESERTER, THAT WAS ELECTED BY THE SUPREME COURT,
Secondly while Barack Obama would be the first black man to win the presidency in this country, the concept isn't at all new to Africans as Nelson Mandela served as the president of South Africa from 1994-1999.
While the OP is entitled to their political leanings, I for one want a little realism and it's in no way realistic to think that voting for Obama will suddenly cause a flood of Africans to come to this country, just as voting for McCain won't magically cause an influx of senior citizens to want to move here.
Finally please remember when you go out to vote that neither candidate is going to be a cure all for the mess this country is in and in this election especially we need not to vote based on race or gender but rather on the issues which effect America as a whole. So much attention has been focused on the color of Obama's skin and what the GOP spent on Palin's wardrobe that the bigger picture is being missed. Who do you want to handle the war in Iraq? Who do you think has the better plan for reducing our reliance on fossil fuels? Who will best support your lifestyle in terms of their feelings on GLBT marriages ect.? You get the point, happy voting!
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999 Africans for every single American walking around!
6 land masses the size of the continental United States can be fit into the continent of Africa; .. EVERY PERSON IN AFRICA (950 million people) WANTS TO MOVE TO THE UNITED STATES; if Obama gets elected.. they're going to hop on any flight or ship to get to the U.S. .. there's going to be a major flood of Africans coming into the U.S. that will create the biggest disaster that America has ever seen! HOW MUCH IMPACT?? Try and imagine 999 Africans for every single American walking around!
I'm just as frustrated with how things are going as the next guy but I'm more conservative in my ways and will choose to vote for the man who will deal with the issues that effect me most. My own research and my own experiences have proven to me that the mass influx of aliens over many many years has lead to many of the problems in America. Democrats directly allowed the housing crisis to spiral out of control. Democrats want open borders and more people. More people means more taxes. More greed.
I'm out of work right now because of the saturated job market and employers who choose cheap immigrant labor over more established Americans. And the only man on the ballot who will do anything about the immigration issue is McCain. Although he won't say he'll enforce immigration laws, because he'll lose the latino vote, I know he will. So we all vote according to the issues that affect us most.
When you strip away the national polls and look down deep into each of the battleground states, you find that this is NOT a runaway election for Barack Obama.
In fact, the race is tied in almost ALL of the battleground states.
The Mason Dixon poll for Fla. and Virginia not only has Obama and McCain statistically tied, but up to 9% of voters in each state are still undecided.
We see the same trends in Ohio and Missouri.
For the past several weeks the media have been trumpeting every poll showing Obama ahead. Polls showing McCain-Palin's strength get shoved to the bottom of the page.
The media wants to create a "feeling" of Obama's imminent victory. It is nothing less than psychological warfare to drain you of your enthusiasm.
Don't buy into this nonsense.
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The Far Right's Fear/Smear, Divide & Conquer Game Plan Exposed
Wake up people, and don’t be fooled again. You are being shamelessly lied to and manipulated. You are being conned into helping drive the last few nails into the coffin of what once was the proud, prosperous, secure and free United States of America.
As we've approached the November election, you have been witness to the most diabolical and vicious political smear operation since that perpetrated by Hitler and the Nazis.
What is it all about?
It's all about demonizing, discrediting and destroying Barack Obama in the eyes of voters, defeating him, at any cost, in order to prevent a Democratic Presidency.
Who is behind it?
In general terms, the Republican Party. In more specific terms, a national alliance of hard-core Conservatives, powerful interests within the corporate-military-industrial-energy complex, Wall Street firms, free trade advocates, anti-tax zealots, militant pro-Israeli ideologues, Christian fundamentalists, racists, sexists, homophobes, anti-unionists and right-wing media shills like Rush Limbaugh, Fox News, the Weekly Standard, Townhall.org and Newsmax. Simply stated, a conglomeration of the forces that have thrived and been influential in the right-wing rule of America during the Reagan-Bush era, and who are determined to not only keep America headed in the same direction Bush/Cheney & Co. have been taking us in, but to complete their agenda of securing permanent dominion over America and the world and turning our nation into a capitalist-corporatist-fascist theocracy.
On the local level, this mentality is personified in the 2-3 rabid Right Wingers who plaster CL groups with an unending litany of lies, smears and hate propaganda about Obama and the Democratic Party day in and day out. Rest assured, nearly every posting you see here that is critical of the Left, no matter what it says or who it purports to have been posted by, is the work of these miscreants. And yes, the postings supposedly from disgruntled Hillary supporters, Nader supporters, 'Reagan Democrats', Black voters who think Obama is wrong for America, and most recently the false "Ashley Todd" attack in Pittsburgh, PA..
Why are they going after Obama with such ferocity?
For the same reason that Christ was crucified, Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse were rubbed out, Gandhi, JFK and Martin Luther King were assassinated, and Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for 27 years. By occupying the moral high ground, speaking truth to power, challenging our government to do what is right, and by taking a stand for what is truly in the interest of We The People as well as peace and freedom throughout the world, Obama represents a profound threat to an evil, self-serving system of lies, greed and oppression that serves a corrupt elite that is determined to maintain the status quo and protect its strangle-hold on wealth and power by any means necessary. You may rest assured that good old-fashioned racism is also involved.
Are these things that the Right Wingers post all over CL every day about Obama really true? For example, is he a Muslim, did he attend a radical madrassah, does he hate America, does he hate white people, is he a terrorist sympathizer, is he friends with Hamas and bin Laden, does he hate Israel, has he knowingly accepted contributions from terrorists, is he a Communist or a Socialist, is he a homosexual, does he support and promote late-term and after-birth abortions, is he responsible for our high gas prices, is he an arrogant elitist who looks down at working-class Americans, does he disrespect our troops, does he refuse to put his hand over his heart during the National Anthem or say the Pledge of Allegiance, is his wife an America-hating Black supremacist, etc.?
They are absolutely and unequivocally false. Every one of them. The anti-Obama smears you see here every day are either blatant lies or are things that have been taken out of context and re-framed within a different context and a version of things that serves the propaganda interests of the smear-merchants, and spewed forth as fact. When these liars are busted on their bullshit, they either attack and contemptuously dismiss those who confront them, or drop the subject temporarily and move on to other lies, or just keep defiantly posting the same lies over and over anyway. They are hit-and-run artists and character assassins, whose interest is not in constructively debating issues and getting to the truth about the candidates, but rather creating controversy and damaging Obama. As in every presidential campaign dating back to 1968, the Republicans are trying to win by destroying the Democrat as opposed to honestly and fairly promoting their own candidate. They almost never talk-up McCain, they spend 95% of their time and effort running-down Obama. That fact alone speaks loudly as to their legitimacy and their motives.
As for those who are taking the concept of sleazeball dirty tricks to a new low throughout CL, the truest and nicest thing that can be said about them is that they are disturbed, deluded and mired in irrational hate. Psychologically healthy, well-integrated people do not do the things these people are doing.
Do the people who are saying these things actually believe them?
NO. They are very well aware of the fact that 99% of what they're saying is unmitigated bullshit. But they are liars, cheaters, dissemblers and election thieves with an extreme ideological agenda, who are determined to win by whatever means is necessary, and they do not give a rat's patootie about the truth. They are telling these lies and disseminating these smears because they know they can't win honestly and fairly. The Far Right has a track record of success with its sleazy propaganda tactics dating all the way back to the Nixon and Reagan days. They believe that many of you in the electorate (the "unwashed masses" as they like to refer to you) are dumb enough, naive enough, gullible enough, uninformed enough, suggestible enough, blind enough, fearful enough, prejudiced enough, angry enough, confused enough or whacked out enough on religion to fall for their lies and smears again, and in doing so deliver the highest office in the land (again) to the very people who got us into the mess we’re in. Proof positive of the fraudulence and dis-ingenuousness of all of this in the fact that no matter how many times the anti-Obama smears are conclusively and irrefutably shown to be lies, the smear-merchants continue to try to spoon-feed them to you. Like their dirty tricks mentor Karl Rove, they are infused with an almost demonic arrogance as they cut and slash their way through the objects of their wrath, and they actually get a perverse thrill out of being diabolical, dishonest and sleazy.
In this 2008 election campaign, perhaps the most important one in America history, the Far Right is concentrating its efforts on four things: (1) re-energizing its core constituencies through fear, flag-waving bellicose nationalism and the standard "God, Guns and Gays" rhetoric, (2) blaming the Democrats for the failures of the Bush administration as well as the energy crisis and high gas prices, (3) demonizing and discrediting (aka "swift boating") Obama to enough independent and undecided voters so that they will vote for a 3rd party candidate (which helps their cause immensely) in an effprt to swing a few critical states in their favor and (4) fomenting discord between the Obama and Clinton factions so as to split the Democratic Party and siphon off Clinton votes in favor of McCain. Inasmuch as our state is one of the key battleground states that could determine the outcome of the election, they are pouring it on here for all they're worth.
YOU the voting public are the battle ground upon which this political equivalent of chemical weapons is being unleashed. YOU are the cannon fodder for this all-out war on truth, goodness and justice. YOU are the objects of deceit and manipulation through which the nefarious agenda of the Far Right is intended to be accomplished again. YOU are being looked to as unwitting accomplices, yet again, in the destruction of democracy, the defeat of freedom, the perversion of the Constitution and the absolute takeover of America by forces that are every bit as dark and sinister as those that plunged Europe and the world into the most appalling chapter of death and destruction in human history, in the 1930's-1940's.
Obama's "God Damn America" Church gave the Lifetime Achievement Award to Nation of Islam President Louis Farakhan.
Obama's "God Damn America" Church published it's support for the Muslim Terrorist Group, the "Hamas Manifesto" in its Church magazine, i.e., "The Trumpet".
Obama went, Sunday after Sunday, to the "God Damn America" Church, for 20 years.
Obama voluntarily chose to remain loyal to the "God Damn America" Church for 20 years.
Obama sat in the pews of the "God Damn America" Church for 20 years.
Obama's Radical Pastor, Rev. Jeremy Wright, led to the "God Damn America" Church
for 20 years.
Obama sent his two daughters to the "God Damn America" Church for years
and years, to learn from the Radical Pastor, Rev. Jeremy Wright.
Obama was married in the "God Damn America" Church,
by the Radical Pastor, Rev. Jeremy Wright, many years ago.
Obama's Radical Pastor, Rev. Jeremy Wright, endorsed Nation of Islam Leader Louis Farahkan with a "Lifetime Achievement Award", teaches hate and intolerance, and repeatedly condemned white people and America, for 20 years.
Obama voluntarily chose this church, this Pastor, this Reverend, this ideology,
this philosophy, this hatred, this radicalism, this racism, for 20 years.
Henry Merritt "Hank" Paulson Jr works at the pleasure of the President.
This historic financial mess is making wealth never seen before
in a few hands at the peoples expense.
"GWB43" - imagine being at the top of global infrastructure seeking more global control. GWB43 is the most successful president in history.
You don't think these people have the next president who ever he is locked in.
News:
Their is more than two doors to the Presidency; do something different than you did in the last 30 years.
Change the American Dream
Do something unprecedented!
People have a right to know how their government
works.
10/01/2008 Drake Minder wrote:
in a local news group
I don't think we have two years. The infrastructure will be totally
difference. My campaign is a bit more than a protest vote.
Drake Minder Warned us - March 5, 2005
Major News Flash:
Corporate America doesn't exist anymore!
Those who pulled one party lever; just gave
control to globalism by way of corporate greed
and we all will be accountable to it!
This is McCain's tactic: to bring up doubt about Senator Obama so to scare the people (loyal to Republican's fear and smear tactical maneuvering) and hopefully incite them to vote for him. On the opposite side of the coin, Obama makes his points presents his policies and hopes you will vote for him not because he smeared McCain's reputation or character, but because of the plans he has for America which work well in our advantage seeing as McCain's golf buddy W. tossed us $5,000,000,000,000 in more debt.
If you cannot get over the fact that Barack Obama is black and aspires to be President of the United States, maybe you should take a good look around the US and see the diversity we have and yet how we remain united through it. Look at how on 9/11 persons of every tribe, kindred and tongue gave of what they had, black for white, white for black, Hispanic for Asian and every other which way. We do not have the time to be separated by issues that are simply another means of dividing us as a people!
Senator Barack Obama is not your stereotypical black man. Some look at him and can only see black skin and immediately think thug, gangster, drugs, irresponsible and uneducated when he is the exact opposite. Intelligent, reserved, cool headed, knowledgeable, wise etc. This is not to say Senator McCain is not intelligent as well. He (McCain) served this country through war and has an impressive track record working in a bi-partisan manner to get work done, opposing even his own party when what they were doing was wrong and voting constantly for what he believed in.
But in these times when the middle class is hurting and our economy is receding, we cannot afford to elect someone who serves in the best interest of the wealthy 5% again. We cannot let the 5% be over-stimulated with tax cuts, benefits and out of this world health care coverage while the 95 live paycheck to paycheck, every cent accounted for every dollar measured.
Wake up people, and don’t be fooled again. You are being shamelessly lied to and manipulated. You are being conned into helping drive the last few nails into the coffin of what once was the proud, prosperous, secure and free United States of America.
As we've approached the November election, you have been witness to the most diabolical and vicious political smear operation since that perpetrated by Hitler and the Nazis.
What is it all about?
It's all about demonizing, discrediting and destroying Barack Obama in the eyes of voters, defeating him, at any cost, in order to prevent a Democratic Presidency.
Who is behind it?
In general terms, the Republican Party. In more specific terms, a national alliance of hard-core Conservatives, powerful interests within the corporate-military-industrial-energy complex, Wall Street firms, free trade advocates, anti-tax zealots, militant pro-Israeli ideologues, Christian fundamentalists, racists, sexists, homophobes, anti-unionists and right-wing media shills like Rush Limbaugh, Fox News, the Weekly Standard, Townhall.org and Newsmax. Simply stated, a conglomeration of the forces that have thrived and been influential in the right-wing rule of America during the Reagan-Bush era, and who are determined to not only keep America headed in the same direction Bush/Cheney & Co. have been taking us in, but to complete their agenda of securing permanent dominion over America and the world and turning our nation into a capitalist-corporatist-fascist theocracy.
On the local level, this mentality is personified in the 2-3 rabid Right Wingers who plaster CL groups with an unending litany of lies, smears and hate propaganda about Obama and the Democratic Party day in and day out. Rest assured, nearly every posting you see here that is critical of the Left, no matter what it says or who it purports to have been posted by, is the work of these miscreants. And yes, the postings supposedly from disgruntled Hillary supporters, Nader supporters, 'Reagan Democrats', Black voters who think Obama is wrong for America, and most recently the false "Ashley Todd" attack in Pittsburgh, PA..
Why are they going after Obama with such ferocity?
For the same reason that Christ was crucified, Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse were rubbed out, Gandhi, JFK and Martin Luther King were assassinated, and Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for 27 years. By occupying the moral high ground, speaking truth to power, challenging our government to do what is right, and by taking a stand for what is truly in the interest of We The People as well as peace and freedom throughout the world, Obama represents a profound threat to an evil, self-serving system of lies, greed and oppression that serves a corrupt elite that is determined to maintain the status quo and protect its strangle-hold on wealth and power by any means necessary. You may rest assured that good old-fashioned racism is also involved.
Are these things that the Right Wingers post all over CL every day about Obama really true? For example, is he a Muslim, did he attend a radical madrassah, does he hate America, does he hate white people, is he a terrorist sympathizer, is he friends with Hamas and bin Laden, does he hate Israel, has he knowingly accepted contributions from terrorists, is he a Communist or a Socialist, is he a homosexual, does he support and promote late-term and after-birth abortions, is he responsible for our high gas prices, is he an arrogant elitist who looks down at working-class Americans, does he disrespect our troops, does he refuse to put his hand over his heart during the National Anthem or say the Pledge of Allegiance, is his wife an America-hating Black supremacist, etc.?
They are absolutely and unequivocally false. Every one of them. The anti-Obama smears you see here every day are either blatant lies or are things that have been taken out of context and re-framed within a different context and a version of things that serves the propaganda interests of the smear-merchants, and spewed forth as fact. When these liars are busted on their bullshit, they either attack and contemptuously dismiss those who confront them, or drop the subject temporarily and move on to other lies, or just keep defiantly posting the same lies over and over anyway. They are hit-and-run artists and character assassins, whose interest is not in constructively debating issues and getting to the truth about the candidates, but rather creating controversy and damaging Obama. As in every presidential campaign dating back to 1968, the Republicans are trying to win by destroying the Democrat as opposed to honestly and fairly promoting their own candidate. They almost never talk-up McCain, they spend 95% of their time and effort running-down Obama. That fact alone speaks loudly as to their legitimacy and their motives.
As for those who are taking the concept of sleazeball dirty tricks to a new low throughout CL, the truest and nicest thing that can be said about them is that they are disturbed, deluded and mired in irrational hate. Psychologically healthy, well-integrated people do not do the things these people are doing.
Do the people who are saying these things actually believe them?
NO. They are very well aware of the fact that 99% of what they're saying is unmitigated bullshit. But they are liars, cheaters, dissemblers and election thieves with an extreme ideological agenda, who are determined to win by whatever means is necessary, and they do not give a rat's patootie about the truth. They are telling these lies and disseminating these smears because they know they can't win honestly and fairly. The Far Right has a track record of success with its sleazy propaganda tactics dating all the way back to the Nixon and Reagan days. They believe that many of you in the electorate (the "unwashed masses" as they like to refer to you) are dumb enough, naive enough, gullible enough, uninformed enough, suggestible enough, blind enough, fearful enough, prejudiced enough, angry enough, confused enough or whacked out enough on religion to fall for their lies and smears again, and in doing so deliver the highest office in the land (again) to the very people who got us into the mess we’re in. Proof positive of the fraudulence and dis-ingenuousness of all of this in the fact that no matter how many times the anti-Obama smears are conclusively and irrefutably shown to be lies, the smear-merchants continue to try to spoon-feed them to you. Like their dirty tricks mentor Karl Rove, they are infused with an almost demonic arrogance as they cut and slash their way through the objects of their wrath, and they actually get a perverse thrill out of being diabolical, dishonest and sleazy.
In this 2008 election campaign, perhaps the most important one in America history, the Far Right is concentrating its efforts on four things: (1) re-energizing its core constituencies through fear, flag-waving bellicose nationalism and the standard "God, Guns and Gays" rhetoric, (2) blaming the Democrats for the failures of the Bush administration as well as the energy crisis and high gas prices, (3) demonizing and discrediting (aka "swift boating") Obama to enough independent and undecided voters so that they will vote for a 3rd party candidate (which helps their cause immensely) in an effprt to swing a few critical states in their favor and (4) fomenting discord between the Obama and Clinton factions so as to split the Democratic Party and siphon off Clinton votes in favor of McCain. Inasmuch as our state is one of the key battleground states that could determine the outcome of the election, they are pouring it on here for all they're worth.
YOU the voting public are the battle ground upon which this political equivalent of chemical weapons is being unleashed. YOU are the cannon fodder for this all-out war on truth, goodness and justice. YOU are the objects of deceit and manipulation through which the nefarious agenda of the Far Right is intended to be accomplished again. YOU are being looked to as unwitting accomplices, yet again, in the destruction of democracy, the defeat of freedom, the perversion of the Constitution and the absolute takeover of America by forces that are every bit as dark and sinister as those that plunged Europe and the world into the most appalling chapter of death and destruction in human history, in the 1930's-1940's.
.What if John McCain were a former president of the Harvard Law
Review?
*What if Barack Obama finished fifth from the bottom of his
graduating class?
*What if McCain were still married to the first woman he said 'I do' to?
*What if Obama were the candidate who left his first wife after she no
longer measured up to his standards?
*What if Michelle Obama were a wife who not only became addicted to pain
killers, but acquired them illegally through her charitable
organization? *What if Cindy McCain graduated from Harvard?
*What if Obama were a member of the Keating-5? *What if McCain were a
charismatic, eloquent speaker?
If these questions reflected reality, do you really believe the election
numbers would be as close as they are? This is what racism does. It
covers up, rationalizes and minimizes positive qualities in one
candidate and emphasizes negative qualities in another when there is a
color difference. You are The Boss... which team would you hire? With
America facing historic debt, 2 wars, stumbling health care, a weakened
dollar, all-time high prison population, mortgage crises, bank
foreclosures, etc.
Educational Background:
Obama:*Columbia University - B.A. Political Science with a
Specialization in International Relations. *Harvard - Juris
Doctor (J.D.) Magna Cum Laude
Biden:*University of Delaware - B.A. in History and B.A. in Political
Science.*Syracuse University College of Law - Juris Doctor (J.D.)
vs.
McCain:*United States Naval Academy - Class rank: 894 of 899
Palin:*Hawaii Pacific University - 1 semester*North Idaho College - 2
semesters - general study*University
of Idaho - 2 semesters - journalism*Matanuska-Susitna College - 1
semester*University of Idaho - 3 semesters - B.A. in Journalism
The MV Iran Deyanat. Photo from Maritime News Russia.
On August 21st, 2008, the MV Iran Deyant, 44,458 dead weight bulk carrier was heading towards the Suez Canal. As it was passing the Horn of Africa, about 80 miles southeast of al-Makalla in Yemen, the ship was surrounded by speedboats filled with members of a gang of Somalian pirates who grab suitable commercial ships and hold them and their cargos and crews for ransom. The captain was defenseless against the 40 pirates armed with AK-47s and rocket-propelled grenades blocking his passage. He had little choice other than to turn his ship over to them. What the pirates were not banking on, however, was that this was no ordinary ship.
The MV Iran Deyanat is owned and operated by the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL) - a state-owned company run by the Iranian military that was sanctioned by the U.S. Department of the Treasury on September 10, shortly after the ship's hijacking.
According to the U.S. Government, the company regularly falsifies shipping documents in order to hide the identity of end users, uses generic terms to describe shipments to avoid the attention of shipping authorities, and employs the use of cover entities to circumvent United Nations sanctions to facilitate weapons proliferation for the Iranian Ministry of Defense. The MV Iran Deyanat departed Nanjing, China, July 28, and, according to its manifest, planned to sail to Rotterdam, where it would offload 42,500 tons of iron ore and "industrial products" purchased by an unidentified “ German client”. The ship has a crew of 29 men, including a Pakistani captain, an Iranian engineer, 13 other Iranians, 3 Indians, 2 Filipinos, and 10 Eastern Europeans, stated to be Albanians.
The MV Iran Deyanat was brought to Eyl, a sleepy fishing village in northeastern Somalia, and was secured by a larger gang of pirates - 50 onboard and 50 onshore. The Somali pirates attempted to inspect the ship's seven cargo containers but the containers were locked. The crew claimed that they did not have the "access codes" and could not open them. Pirates have stated they were unable to open the hold without causing extensive damage to the ship, and threatened to blow it up. The Iranian ship’s captain and the engineer were contacted by cell phone and demanded to disclose the actual nature of the mysterious “powdered cargo” but the captain and his officers were very evasive. Initially they said that the cargo contained "crude oil" but then claimed it contained "minerals." Following this initial rebuff, the pirates broke open one of the containers and discovered it to be filled with packets of what they said was “a powdery fine sandy soil” ....
Within a period of three days, those pirates who had boarded the ship and opened the cargo container with its gritty sand-like contents, all developed strange health complications, to include serious skin burns and loss of hair. And within two weeks, sixteen of the pirates subsequently died, either on the ship or on shore.
News about the illness and the toxic cargo quickly reached Garowe, seat of the government for the autonomous region of Puntland. Angered over the wave of piracy and suspicious about the Iranian ship, authorities dispatched a delegation led by Minister of Minerals and Oil Hassan Allore Osman to investigate the situation on September 4. and they witnessed some of the deaths due to exposure to ‘something on that ship.’
The Somali pirates initially set the ship's ransom at $2 million and the Iranian government provided $200,000 to a local broker "to facilitate the exchange." The $2 million dollar ransom agreement, which was supposedly secured on September 6th, never took place for reasons unknown. After September 10th, sanctions on IRISL were applied specifically because the company was said to engaged in illicit operations on behalf of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Serious negotiations were broken off completely. Iranian authorities subsequently denied that it agreed to the price nor had paid any money to the pirates. Nevertheless, after sanctions were applied to IRISL on September 10, Osman says, the Iranians told the pirates that the deal was off. "They told the pirates that they could not come because of the presence of the U.S. Navy." The region is patrolled by the multinational Combined Taskforce 150, which includes ships from the U.S. Navy's Fifth Fleet. Subsequently, it was disclosed that the U.S. government had offered to pay $7 million to the pirates to "receive entry permission and search the vessel." Officials in the Pentagon and the Department of State have consistently refused to comment on the situation.
The exact nature of the cargo remains officially a mystery but officials in Puntland and Baidoa are convinced the ship was carrying weapons to Eritrea for Islamist insurgents. "We cannot inspect the cargo yet," Osman said, "but we are sure that it is weapons."
The US Navy (and the French and the Russians) have been hove to off the coast of Eyl, going anywhere once released, it will be seized once it gets to sea. The specific clauses that have been approved in both the UN and in Congress would allow the US Navy to seize the ship under the suspicion clause. The claims that there are weapons onboard, and the possibility there might be chemical weapons, has insured there is at the very minimum, an inspection of the ship by outside authority will be mandated. At this writing, the MV Iran Deyanat is at anchor, watched closely by American, French and Russian naval units.
Although American intelligence and government sources are maintaining a strictly observed silence, the same does not apply to the Russians and so it is that we learn the real story of the MV Iran Deyanat. She was an enormous floating dirty bomb, intended to detonate after exiting the Suez Canal at the eastern end of the Mediterranean and in proximity to the coastal cities of Israel. The entire cargo of radioactive sand, obtained by Iran from China (the latter buys desperately needed oil from the former) and sealed in containers which, when the charges on the ship are set off after the crew took to the boats, will be blasted high into the air where prevailing winds will push the highly dangerous and radioactive cloud ashore.
Given the large number of deaths from the questing Somali pirates, it should be obvious that when the contents of the ship’s locked cargo containers finally descended onto the land, the death toll would be enormous. This ship was nothing more nor less than the long-anticipated Iranian attack on Israel. Not the expected rocket attacks (which could be intercepted by the Israelis) but an even more deadly and unexpected attack by sea.. It is very interesting to note that the Israeli government has in the past few weeks, been loudly demanding that the United States establish a naval blockade of Iran.
The reason for this blockade would be to prevent any more Iranian ships with deadly cargos from attacking either Israel or other targets from the sea.
This article was written by by Brian Harring
www.brianharring@yahoo.com
Monday, October 20
Iranian Ship was a Dirty Bomb Pt 2
The Iranian Mystery Ship: Death from the Sea Part 2 - Bush Betrays Israel
October 20, 2008
by Brian Harring
(Part 1 can be found here)
“October 10, 2008 Armed Somalia pirates on Friday released three Indians and 26 other members of the crew on board a hijacked cargo ship after keeping them in captivity for more than one and half months. ….The ship MV Iran Deyanat, carrying 40,000 tonnes of iron ore en route from China to Netherlands, was hijacked on the Red Sea by Somali pirates on August 22.” 80 nautical miles off the coast of Yemen.
The MV Iran Deyanat set sail from Nanjing, China, at the end of July and, according to its manifest, planned to travel to Rotterdam, where it would unload “42,500 tons of iron ore “and "industrial products" purchased by a German client. Its arrived in the Gulf of Aden, on August 20 and was scheduled to reach the Suez Canal on August 27
Steaming past the Horn of Africa, 82 nautical miles southeast of al-Makalla in Yemen, i, the MV Iran Deyanat, was entering the Gulf of Aden, on its way to the Suez Canal, when it was surrounded by Somali pirates in fast, small speedboats and boarded. About 22,000 ships a year pass through the Gulf of Aden and its northern terminus, the Suez Canal. Because armed pirates from Somali bases have been raiding commercial shipping, the region is patrolled by the multinational Combined Taskforce 150, which includes ships from the U.S. Navy's Fifth Fleet. An American-based website, http://www.longwarjournal.org/ strongly pro-U.S. Department of Defense initially discussed this on September 22 but, like the DoD, has had nothing to say about it since, and this in spite of an enormous flood of commentary on the internet that never somehow seemed to filter its way downward to any aspect of the American media. After her capture and removal to a Somali port, the Deyanat’s cargo containers were broken into by the pirates in search of loot.
The result? Sixteen of them died of extreme radiation poisoning.
Once this bizarre and frightening information emerged, a blackout was imposed inside the United States and from the date of capture until today, not one word of this has ever been seen in or on the American media. No news about the growing rumors, ever reached the ears of anyone by the usual old-fashioned way but the internet was flooded with many articles and theories.
The ship was released by Somali pirates on October 10, after a $250,000 cash bribe was paid by the U.S. Navy for her release. The MV Iran Denyant was taken into immediate custody of a joint naval taskforce present, to include Russian and French ships. Crew members had all been interrogated and all of them, deemed “uninformed of the ship’s course or cargo” were duly released to their diplomatic representatives. The ship was boarded, occupied and thoroughly searched by U.S. Navy specialists but a subsequent report on the suspicious cargo containers has been heavily classified.(‘Top Secret- Galactic’)
Russian sources indicate that the ship was carrying a “highly radioactive” cargo in specially built” containers and that this cargo was falsely listed in the ship’s manifest. Also, there were many falsities in the manifest, to include a false listing of the cargo, “chemicals,” “rocks,” “oil,” or “iron ore” and other fictions, and the destination of it. A subsequent investigation into the alleged German firm to whom the ‘chemicals and ‘machine parts’ were to be delivered proved that there was no such German firm involved. At the request of American authorities, the Russians have refused to release any further information.
I have a correct copy of the ship's real manifest that a U.S. Navy source faxed me about two hours ago. There was no rocket fuel on board. Her cargo contained "a significant quantity" of radioactive waste from China, in lead-lined and secured cargo containers. The ship was never boarded by anyone from the time she left Nanjing in China until the Somali pirates grabbed her. Sixteen pirates died within two weeks, of heavy radiation poisoning, and three more are expected to die. An international force consisting of American, Russian, French and Dutch ships were involved in blockading the ship and preventing her from leaving Somalian waters. A "ransom" of $250,000 was eventually paid by the U.S., the ship boarded by the Navy, her cargo secured and the crew interrogated and eventually released and the ship was moved, under her own power and with an American crew, to the Muscat port where the U.S. Navy has docking rights. Her manifest was entirely false. The ship was not going to Rotterdam and there was no “German businessman” to take charge of the fictional cargo.
The entire matter has been shut up and you will never see any mention of it in any mainstream media. The matter is now considered closed. There still remain a number of questions that need to be answered. Both Israel, and at her behest, from Washington, there has been a great outpouring of animosity directed at Tehran, and many threats; for economic sanctions by the United States and overt attacks by Israel. In light of this past behavior, the most important question is why this incident, with its horrifying implications, has been studiously ignored, even shut down, by both countries.
Perhaps the reason might lie in the fact that Bush is planning to announce his intention to open a ‘US Interest Section’ in Tehran just after the presidential elections on November 4th. This would follow a period of almost 30 years when diplomatic relations between the two countries were broken off. The movers behind this effort are U.S. Secretary of State, Condoleeza Rice and a number of high-level officials in the Department of State, the CIA and more recently by Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
What it comes down to is that in the last months of his régime, George Bush is going to do to Israel what he did to Georgia: Betray them.
Georgia was our true friend, a wonderful new democracy that was opposed to the evil empire of Vladimir Putin. She also became a U.S. and Israeli military base and American soldiers, some 2,000 plus of them, trained the Georgian army and equipped them with hundreds of millions of dollars of American equipment. When the volatile and unstable Georgian president decided to attack two breakaway provinces of his new country, the American government was well aware of this and did nothing to stop him. The attacks, which caused considerable damage to civilian targets and resulted in a number of deaths, brought in massive Russian armored units, caused the rout and collapse of the newly-fledged Georgian army and, most important, the immediate flight of all American and Israeli military advisors from the country.
The equipment and an enormous amount of intelligence material was left for the Russians. Bush’s rapid desertion of a “firm ally” was duly noted by many countries. As well as discrediting Bush, the swift and forceful Russian reaction showed that the ferocious NATO whom Bush had been threatening Putin with over the years turned out to be a paper tiger, another blot on the US escutcheon.
The military, and diplomatic, reason for this demarche is that the American military is currently totally incapable of engaging Iran in any kind of a land war, as is Israel, and that in this case, as in Georgia and as it may well soon be in the Ukraine, discretion is the better part of valor. And we must not forget the Iranian oil which America can now buy from a country that hitherto was unavailable for commerce in this vital natural resource,
Ergo, Iran will not be taxed for her failed attempt to obliterate Israel, and a number of other countries, and the story about the huge floating bomb will never see official light of day.
The reaction of the Neocons in specific and the American Jewish community in general when they discover their only ally’s defection to the enemy can only be imagined. Whether candidate McCain is aware of this volte face is not known but since the Bush people view McCain as a nut, it is very possible that no one told him about this. Poor Bush. He wants a legacy and if he can’t get the love of his subjects, he can at least try to command their respect for a president who made global peace and got more oil for the United States. (and after eight long years of trying to make global war!)
by Brian Harring
tbrnews.org
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