They should not have been there in the first place

Please get these guys out of there!!!

A New Zealand Army patrol came under attack in Afghanistan when a four vehicle patrol was hit by a bomb.

Explosion hits NZ army patrol in Afghanistan
No one was injured.

The improvised explosive device (IED) exploded on the flank of the patrol, Army spokesman Captain Zac Prendergast told Fairfax Media.

“The statement ‘very lucky’ does come to mind,” he said.

“The crater that was created by this device was about 700 mm by about 300 mm deep. It could have been a lot worse.”

Army investigators are examining the scene to determine who may have planted the device and whether it was linked to the Taliban.

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Iran is next

Contrary to what is published in the mainstream press Iran has every right to build nuclear facilities for peaceful purposes. It signed the non-proliferation treaty and has opened its facilities to the IAEA in compliance with the treaty, even the Washington post had to admit to that. Compare this to Israel who has never signed any treaty but who illegally developed nuclear weapons anyway.

As for the alleged anti Semitic madness of Ahmadi Najad, again the corporate owned media did not tell the truth.
The often quoted rant about the destruction of Israel was a fraudulent translation. Ahmadi Najad referred to the Regime that currently rules. Ahmadi Najad has cordial relations with the Iranian Jewish population that have lived peacefully in Iran for hundreds of years and he has donated money to the Jewish hospital in Tehran not exactly regular behaviour for a rabid anti Semite. In fact Ahmadi Najad has cordial relations with groups of religious Jews worldwide.
Contrary to what most people believe the Muslim world and the Jews have no religious conflict. In every Muslim country there used to be flourishing Jewish communities. Pogroms and Anti Semitism happened only in the Christian world.  It wasn’t until secular Zionist Jews began to colonise the country we now know as Israel.  It was the maltreatment of the local Palestinian population that started the decline in the relationship that the Jews had with their Arab neighbours.

The Muslims accept Jesus as one of the prophets and have great respect for the Jewish religion since they believe that they are just the next step in the development of the Semite religion and that both religions come from the same arch father Abraham. Don’t believe me let these Jews tell you themselves.

The US has accused Iran of wanting to destroy Israel and of warmongering, but let’s remember that Iran has not attacked another nation in three hundred years. The only time Iran was at war was when Iraq attacked Iran with the assistance and weaponry (including poison gas and other weapons of mass destruction) of the US.  It would also be foolish to the extreme for Iran to attack Israel, since both Israel and its buddy the United States could annihilate Iran and whatever you may think of Iran is not a suicide nation.

Another fable perpetuated by the Corporate media about how the Iranian regime does not want to give its people freedom and democracy, can easily be debunked. It was in the last election that the Iranian people elected a more hardline government themselves, in response to the pressure of the US on their country.
In addition to this it was the US who actively destroyed the Iranian democracy when the CIA actively engineered the fall of Mossadegh.

So now that we have cleared up all these little misunderstandings let’s get on with the real reason the US Government wants to attack Iran, to prevent the already massive collapse of their empire, and to get their hands on the oil. Let me say that again; they want the O.I.L. and…  They want to protect very existence of the dollar as the reserve currency.

The powers that be want control over the oil of the entire middle east, and in case you think that this is a good thing let me relief you of that mistaken idea. Big oil does not want control of the oil fields so that it will be easier to access for us Westerners; they want control over the oil fields so that they can make more profit by making it more expensive.

Exxon and their ilk have been making a killing in the last 7 years. So if you think,”what do I care about a couple of dead “rag heads” in a desert somewhere, if the Americans get their hands on the oil, that’ll be sweet because they are the good guys and they will keep my tank filled,” think again, because they have no such plan, OK?

Not a lot of people in politically dangerously naive New Zealand know that Saddam Hussein didn’t lose his life because he was a nasty tyrant, the US was perfectly fine with that, but because he did something the US wasn’t fine with; in September 2000 he started to sell Iraqi oil for other currencies than the dollar.
This was unforgivable in the eyes of the moneyed elite of the US. The US dollar is the worlds reserve currency, and the sole source of the power that the US has. In order to buy gas and oil you have to pay in US dollars, this means that the world’s nations had to hoard huge amounts of US dollars, they not only used it to pay for gas and oil they used it for all international trade. This made the US the powerhouse it seems today. If Saddam Hussein were to get away with this it would mean that other oil producing countries might be tempted to follow his example and that would destroy US hegemony and its debt ridden economy.

It was the single most important event which triggered the wish to attack Iraq. The problem was of course that, they could not attack Iraq without a damn good reason, and for the rest of the world the decision of a political leader, even one as despicable as Saddam, to change the currency he was selling oil for, would not suffice. So the “Money party” did what it always does when it wants to have its way: it engineered a false flag attack on their own people to create consent for war. No let me correct that, if you are content to believe that 19 young Arabs ordered by a mad mullah in a cave in Afghanistan could defeat the US military machine than I won’t rob you of that dream, you have to belief in something and it is hard to admit that a Government or factions in a government would do something so horrific to their own people, even though there are numerous events that proof exactly that is what governments do if they want to go to war, but if you are even remotely doubtful that such a thing as a false flag event could indeed have been perpetrated than you owe it to yourself to check out this page and from there on do your own research

The 911 horror attack on the World trade centre and the Pentagon was a blessing or as Bush said’ “it is an opportunity“.

And sure enough, with the whole world (even Tehran held huge demonstrations against the attack and in sympathy with the US) grieving for the victims and in horror over what we had seen that day, America got what it wanted; permission to go to war, with Afghanistan, hell the whole world joined in with that one. We all hated the Taliban and it was right for America to want to get Osama bin Laden. Except, not only did they let Osama get away a couple of times Bush actually said he didn’t think that Osama was that important.

And as time went on we heard more and more how Saddam was connected to al Qaeda (in reality he hated Muslim extremists with a vengeance, because they were unpredictable, violent and a threat to his need for total control) yellow cake, WMD, nuclear aspirations and more which all turned out to be lies, lies and more lies. The quick removal of Saddam turned out to be nothing of the sort and for those of you who think that the US is going to leave Iraq I’ve got news; yep, you guessed it. 14 permanent military bases have been built in the last 5 years and the biggest embassy ever build is built in Iraq.

Oil prices have risen to a massive $ 105, a barrel even though the US controls the oil fields of Iraq. That in itself should be enough to convince the rest of the world that Big oil has no plans the ever let the price of oil come down. It could have helped the “liberated” Iraqis to build and develop its oil fields and rebuild the country and in return make a decent profit, but it hasn’t done that. In fact the country is in total ruins, 1.2 million people have died as the result of the war and some 3 million people are refugees. No oil is being produced since the war began. (Except illegally, robbing the Iraqi people of much needed revenues)

So were to from here? Well, downhill I fear. It seems Iran is next.
The smearing and the accusations have already started a long time ago and if it had been up to the evil twin in the White House Iran would already have been destroyed a long time ago. However, Iran’s cooperation with the IAEA, and the fact that more and more people were waking up to the Imperial exercise the current US regime is engaged in made it impossible for them to create enough consent for an all out attack on Iran. Another false flag attack was likely aborted when members of the military discovered that six lines nuclear warheads were flown over the United States in a spectacular breach of protocol.  As with the events of 911 the entire event was presented as a chain of errors, but in the aftermath six personnel related to the incident have died violently with no investigation is to why.

But, and this is a big BUT, time is running out for the evil empire. The hubris with which the powers that be entered into this unholy adventure thought that by now everything would have been done and dusted. They probably really thought that Iraqis would throw flowers at the soldiers feet and would happily give them control over the oil fields, and they probably thought that the Afghanistan tribes would be relieved to be free from Taliban fundamentalist rule, and they probably really thought that the Taliban once beaten would not dare to challenge the NATO an US troops. But they were wrong. And they are getting desperate. In order to remain in power and to keep the American economy, devastated by 7 years of war, with its population up to their noses in debt, and with absolutely no means to repay the worst National debt ever in human history, they desperately need control over all the middle eastern oil fields. With 70 million Americans wanting a new investigation in the events of 911, and a worldwide growing awareness that they lied to us about 911, Afghanistan and Iraq, the reason to maintain a diplomatic relationship with the rest of the world is eroding, and the raw need for control is slowly becoming more visible. Additionally as more and more countries are leaving the collapsing dollar and the Western worlds engineered housing bubble is collapsing exposing millions of people to losing their house, and the job loss due to outsourcing becomes more visible there is every reason to suspect that the true power brokers, the bankers and the corporate CEO’s who are often one and the same have every reason to fear that the American population, who up until now have been extremely docile, could rise up in an attempt to take to take their country back.

Today a Russian newspaper announced that Russian intelligence are reporting a massive build up along the Iraqi and Iranian borders, the report preparations for both an air and a ground attack on Iran.  Seems that the powers that be no longer care what the rest of the world thinks, and rumour has it that we can expect an attack on Iran around the 6th of April.
If you think that the finance world and United States policies with regards to him Iran or two entirely separate issues you might want to read this article, on March 20 the financial world declared war on Iran in its own way.

In the meantime not happy with the lack of success in Iraq United States military increased its bombing of the city of Basra in conjunction with an attack of Iraqi military troops in order to kill of its main opposition leader “el Sadr”.

There is nothing more dangerous than an empire in its death throws.

 

Today is a day of sadness.

Today I have to perform a sad duty; the funeral and commemoration of a much loved family member, the favourite aunt of my husband.

Jessy was a nurse for most of her live. She took care of war veterans of WWII and the Vietnam war in New Zealand.
She died peacefully in a hospital bed surrounded 24 hours a day in the last three days of her live by us her family. She was 91 and ready to go.
Her live had been good and full, and until the very last moment she was a strong independent woman.

So today we mourn her passing and we celebrate her live. We who have never seen a days war in our lives. We who expect to live our lives to the full with nothing other than an accident or an illness to cut short our lives.

Just imagine that. Nobody will invade our country because we are too far away from everything and we don’t live on top of oil, or something else that a country with a huge army wants, and takes what it wants without regard of who lives on top of what it wants. In fact it is quit happy to shoot, torture or kill in other horrible ways those that object to being occupied by a hostile greedy nation, that used an attack on their own soil as an excuse to invade, even though your country had nothing to do with those attacks.

Today as I grief Jessy, I leave you with the Winter soldiers of 2008, as they testify to the brutal occupation they were ordered into and had to partake in.

The Iraqis you see were not so lucky, they lived on top of oil, and America wants it, you see. Iraq had nothing to do with the attacks of 911, but than neither had Afghanistan, it just so happened they had stopped growing opium, and the Taliban had refused to sign a contract allowing America to build a bloody great pipeline for oil through their country.

Just imagine your favourite aunty with perhaps you favourite nephew driving her to the market because since the invasion of your country the extreme Christians in your country had taken over and deemed a woman alone in a car a sin against god (We only were allowed out alone for say the last 1oo years and we only got the voting right until much much later, and I remember when my mother wanted to learn how to drive a car she was ridiculed as were most women, because women were unfit to drive, and her wish to have her own job and earn her own money cost her, her marriage, in fact in my native Holland to this day there are numerous ultra Christian groups that forbid their women to work out of house, drive a car, go out unchaperoned by a male relative, be alone with a male in her own home without another female relative, and use her right to vote, and who consider the male to be the head of the house.) and as your favourite aunty and nephew drive through the mainstreet, the get caught up in a US raid on their city. You hear about the raid from one of your neighbours who is lucky to be alive, and your long wait begins. You hope against all hope that your aunty and your nephew (Let’s give them some names shall we, they are like us human beings, they are called Aisha and Yousef) are just stuck somewhere and you stay awake all night to see the if the light in the apartment across the street gets turned on, but it stays dark and you hope it’s just another blackout, but you know better because other apartments have their lights on, and in the morning you get out and you search hospital after hospital, morgue after morgue, and when you’re are finally lucky enough to find them, you will see their bodies riddled with bullets, and pain in their faces, and you know they died alone and all you can do is wash them and bury, that is if you are a male because as a woman in your occupied country with extremist Christians you can’t even do that, you have to stay at home and wait when and if the men will come home.

Or perhaps in Afghanistan you will be at a wedding with all your family and there is music and dance and the bride and the groom look radiant and you’re so happy because it is for the first time that you can sit with the men of your tribe because you finally old enough to be with them, and you look proudly at your your favourite aunty and she looks back at you and you can see that she is proud of you coming of age, and your father gives you his gun and you are allowed, for the first time to fire the celebratory gun shots, but than all of a sudden a US or NATO fighter jet flies over and you see with horror the sprays of bullets hitting the women, your favourite aunty pushed back by the bullets hitting her and your young favourite niece who looked so wonderful in her new dress looses half her head when a bullet hits her and the men run towards them and the second plane kills your father, your father who was also your best friend who taught you everything you know and with his gun you fire in rage after the jets who have long since gone, and when the silence returns there is only wailing and screaming and blood.

The next day we read in our corporately owned newspapers, that US jets have taken out a major Taliban leader, and only three days later on page four a small article appears correcting that story.

As I grief for my husbands favourite aunty Jessy who died peacefully surrounded by her family please give this a thought, and ask your self the question why are we involved in an illegal war of aggression, and why are none of our political leaders addressing this sad and horribly wrong issue. Because it has to stop.

For more testimonies just click on one of the videos.

Pentagon Holds Thousands of Americans 'Prisoners of War'

As Jeanette Fitzsimons pointed out to me New Zealand is not complicit in the illegal war in Iraq, but if the US treats it’s own soldiers like this is there any reason to believe they are acting different in Afghanistan were the situation is quickly deteriorating. So why does New Zealand still have soldiers in that Illegal war of Aggression and why is this not an issue in the up coming election? I suggest that we spread this around, and call for the peaceful and orderly withdrawal of our troops from Afghanistan.

Sgt. Kristofer Shawn Goldsmith was one of the many soldiers and Marines, veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan, who gave testimony at last weekend’s Winter Soldier investigation. They spoke from personal experience about what the American military is doing in those countries. They gave examples of what they had done, what they had been ordered to do, what they had witnessed, how their experiences had wounded them, both physically and psychically, and what kind of care and support they have, or most often have not gotten since coming home. The panel Goldsmith was on was called “The Breakdown of the U.S. Military,” so he surprised the audience when he said that he was going to talk about prisoners of war.

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Death of the Bees: GMO Crops and the Decline of Bee Colonies in North America

‘Commercial beehives pollinate over a third of [North}America’s crops and that web of nourishment encompasses everything from fruits like peaches, apples, cherries, strawberries and more, to nuts like California almonds, 90 percent of which are helped along by the honeybees. Without this pollination, you could kiss those crops goodbye, to say nothing of the honey bees produce or the flowers they also fertilize’.1

      This essay will discuss the arguments and seriousness pertaining to the massive deaths and the decline of Bee colonies in North America. As well, it will shed light on a worldwide hunger issue that will have an economical and ecological impact in the very near future. 

      There are many reasons given to the decline in Bees, but one argument that matters most is the use of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) and “Terminator Seeds” that are presently being endorsed by governments and forcefully utilized as our primary agricultural needs of survival. I will argue what is publicized and covered by the media is in actuality masking the real forces at work, namely the impact of genetically modified seeds on the reproduction of bee colonies across North America

      Genetically modified seeds are produced and distributed by powerful biotech conglomerates. The latter manipulate government agricultural policy with a view to supporting their agenda of dominance in the agricultural industry. American conglomerates such as Monsanto, Pioneer HiBred and others, have created seeds that reproduce only under certain conditions, often linked to the use of their own brands of fertilizer and/or insecticide.

The genetic modification of the plant leads to the concurrent genetic modification of the flower pollen. When the flower pollen becomes genetically modified or sterile, the bees will potentially go malnourished and die of illness due to the lack of nutrients and the interruption of the digestive capacity of what they feed on through the summer and over the winter hibernation process.

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Tory donor winds up hedge funds in face of SEC charges

Another question for John Key; were you as a bond and derivatives man (He was the head of the European bonds and Derivatives department for Merrill Lynch for a while according to his own website) involved with this hedge fund?

By Stephen Foley in New York
Thursday, 27 March 2008

Lewis Chester, one of the UK’s richest hedge fund managers and a donor to the Conservative party leader David Cameron, has promised to fight allegations in the US that he aided and abetted frauds against millions of mutual fund investors.

Pentagon Capital Management, Mr Chester’s well-connected hedge fund – whose current and former investors include politicians and tycoons – has put a freeze on client money, telling them it will wind up the business in the coming months rather than see it collapse when the legal action becomes public in the next few days.

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The housing bubble was engineered

Daniel Estulin  has researched the Bilderberg club for 20 years. One of the originators of this group was Prince Bernard of the Netherlands. His daughter Queen Beatrice is still the one of the ones in control of this group. She is my Queen since I am Dutch. It was common knowledge in the Netherlands that the Prince was into the big corporate world, was being paid big bucks for all kinds of secret interventions and power games.

Did the bankers know that the housing bubble was going to collapse into a  worldwide disaster?

Well, sensible economists  knew in 2002 and well before:

http://www.cepr.net/documents/publications/housing_2002_08.pdf

Bankers aren’t stupid, they’re greedy, they know and they plan:

In the meantime 60.000 houses were foreclosed in Los Angeles in one month alone:

While the American empire is collapsing how far are they going to drag us with them?

Don’t believe me, educate yourself.

Pentagon rules out including Fallon in Iraq hearing next month

Fallon once famously said that war with Iran would not happen on his watch. Well, his watch has ended. He was forced to step down because he was sick of the wars of aggression and against attacking Iran. No wonder they don’t want him to testify.

PENTAGON (AP) – The Pentagon won’t be including Admiral William Fallon as 1 of its witnesses when military and diplomatic officials testify in front of Congress next month.

The hearing focuses on the next steps in the war on Iraq.

The Pentagon says the decision not to include Fallon has nothing to do with his abrupt resignation as the head of U.S. command in Iraq and Afghanistan. Fallon announced earlier this month that he’d be leaving his post on March 31st. The move triggered accusations that Fallon was forced out because of his opposition to the administration’s policy toward Iran.

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Winter Soldiers Sound Off

If you still think that American soldiers are in Iraq or Afghanistan to bring them our “freedomsthan perhaps it’s time you read this and yes, I sincerely wonder why NZ soldiers are involved in these horrific wars of conquest and theft. Everything changed after 911 and I can’t see the Muslims profiting much from it do you? But than there is Halliburton, Blackwater, KBR, and the International banking world who have made a killing. (No pun intended) I wonder about the shares in the portfolios of John Key and his National mates, and yes also  about the shares in the portfolios of Helen Clark and her labour mates.

Jason Moon suffers from persistent insomnia as he wrestles with memories of his time in Iraq. “While on our initial convoy into Iraq in early June 2003, we were given a direct order that if any children or civilians got in front of the vehicles in our convoy, we were not to stop, we were not to slow down, we were to keep driving,” says the former National Guard and Army Reserve member. “In the event an insurgent attacked us from behind human shields, we were supposed to count. If there were thirty or less civilians we were allowed to fire into the area. If there were over thirty, we were supposed to take fire and send it up the chain of command. These were the rules of engagement. I don’t know about you, but if you are getting shot at from a crowd of people, how fast are you going to count, and how accurately?”

Moon is taking part in Winter Soldier. This is public testimony organized by the Iraq Veterans Against the War about the human consequences of failed U.S. policy in the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan.

The group takes its name from the Winter Soldier testimony by Vietnam Vets, including John Kerry, in 1971, which played a part in turning public opinion against that war.

“We’ve heard from the politicians, from the generals, from the media—now it’s our turn,” said Kelly Dougherty, executive director of Iraq Veterans Against the War. Dougherty, who served in Iraq in 2003 as a military police officer, said, “It’s not going to be easy to hear what we have to say. It’s not going to be easy for us to tell it. But we believe that the only way this war is going to end is if the American people truly understand what we have done in their name.”

When I was reporting from Iraq for eight months on and off between November 2003 and February 2005, Iraqis told me of atrocities U.S. soldiers were committing. The accounts now from soldiers themselves confirm an awful picture.

Iraq's oil ministry invites companies to bid on oil, gas development projects

BAGHDAD: Iraq’s Oil Ministry said Sunday that it has invited local and international oil companies to bid for contracts including one to develop a natural gas field in a Sunni area in the west of the country.

The ministry has set a deadline of April 24 for companies to submit detailed plans to help develop the Akkas gas field, located in the former Sunni insurgent stronghold of Anbar province, the ministry said on its Web site.

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