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Putin muestra su apoyo al programa nuclear civil iraní
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Irán ha recibido el apoyo implícito a su programa nuclear en la declaración final de la cumbre de países ribereños del mar Caspio que se ha celebrado este martes en Teherán. Especialmente relevante ha sido el del presidente ruso, Vladímir Putin, …
Ahmadinejad propone asociación económica de países del Mar Caspio El Diario CoLatino
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Así que después de la foto de Aggggggggmi con Evo Morales, tenemos mejor foto del encuentro que es sin duda esta -y no es un Photoshop-:

Aunque el horno no está para bollos, creo que esta foto precisa de un importante examen. Cuando se lo mandé a Kate se partió de risa y hasta lo ha puesto en su blog:

It certainly seems that the two nutjobs are getting on quite well. Putin waltzes in and makes his virility abundantly clear; Ahmadinejad, not so much. He looks like an awkward, 13-year-old girl who has just hit puberty and is, for whatever reason, enamored with this meathead bully.

Bwahahahaha!! Pero aún se ve mejor en esta otra:

Atención a esa mirada de Putin a Khamenei… Para que luego digan que en Irán no hay homosexuales.. Pero ¿qué dices? Eso es un invento americano…
En cuanto a la importancia de la reunión, es mucha más de la que en principio se puede considerar: y no sólo por el programa nuclear.

El centro de Asia es uno de los lugares a los que menos se presta atención, pero que sin embargo, tienen una posición estratégica, por lo que su importancia ha aumentado exponencialmente durante los últimos años. Ya trataré sobre ello más adelante, pero es fundamental tener en cuenta que tienen una gran riqueza energética. Esto les hace ser el centro de una serie de movimientos tanto rusos como chinos para evitar un incremento de la influencia sobre todo de EEUU.
Así que esta foto tiene más importancia que la sola reunión entre Rusia y China:

¿Por qué? Pues porque de derecha a izquierda vemos al diviiiiiiiiiino Aggggggmi ( le voy a dar un bono de peluquería…), a súper-Putin, al presidente de Kazajstan Nursultan Nazarbayev, al de Turkmenistán President Kurbanguly y al de Azerbayán.

Todas las fotos las encontré en el blog de Gateway Pundit.

A los iraníes les preocupa esta visita de Putin, porque piensan que Agggggggmi con tal de asegurarse su apoyo va a renunciar a los derechos que tradicionalmente reclama Irán respecto del Mar Muerto. Todo sea por la energía pacífica nuclear…

Antes de esta reunión había tenido lugar otra entre Putin y Merkel, en la que había dos temas a tratar: el energético (cómo no) y la independencia de Kosovo. Pero Merkel, que es cuidadosa y pragmática (¡me encanta!), ya le ha hecho saber que, aunque no es anti-rusa, para ella es más importante la relación con EEUU.

Otros posts interesantes en español:
La Alianza Verde-Roja se está rompiendo todavía más:

“El comunismo ha sido lanzado en la papelera de la historia como predijo el ayatolá Jomeini”, dijo Ghasemi, y añadió que la única forma de salvar el mundo era a través de un “movimiento religioso y pro-justicia”.

Pero Aleida Guevara (la hija del Ché que, junto con su hermano, han estado de visita en irán), hablando “en nombre del pueblo de Cuba”, respondió indignada. Somos una nación socialista”, dijo, y subrayó que el pueblo cubano está agradecido con la ahora desaparecida URSS. Guevara aconsejó “acudir siempre a fuentes originales y no a traducciones”. “Mi padre nunca habló de Dios. Nunca conoció a Dios. Mi padre sabía que no había una verdad absoluta”.

Seguro que los del MSV piensan otra cosa…
Unholly Alliance @ snipfer:

un cafre que contribuye regularmente en lo que podríamos definir como la mainstream media progre angloparlante; anda por la red proponiendo que países tan libres y cuya protección de la libertad es tan deseable como Rusia, Irán, Siria, Venezuela y los demás países amenazados por los estados neocons, firmen un pacto de defensa mútua.

Lo que nos faltaba…

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Putin invites Iran’s Ahmadinejad for Moscow talks
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From CNN:

Putin, who is in Tehran to attend a summit of Caspian Sea nations, said that he and the other leaders agreed that “peaceful nuclear activities must be allowed” in the region.

“The Iranians are cooperating with Russian nuclear agencies and the main objectives are peaceful objectives,” he said.

Russia is building Iran’s first nuclear power plant and has resisted moves by the U.S. and its allies to impose stronger U.N. sanctions against Tehran.

On Monday, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates reiterated the Bush administration’s stance that “all options” must be kept “on the table” in confronting the threats posed by Iran — a reference to the option of using military action against the long-time U.S. adversary.

“We should have no illusions about the nature of this regime or its leaders — about their designs for their nuclear program, their willingness to live up to their rhetoric, their intentions for Iraq, or their ambitions in the Gulf region,” Gates said in a speech to the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs.

And he says this after he agreed with Sarkozy in saying that iran has a nuclear weapons potential. He had also agreed with Bush in the same issue.

The importance of the summit is great, but not only because of the main target of this meeting, but also because of the consequences that can have for Iran. The first is the loss of the rights Iran has been claiming over the Caspian Sea, which Iranians are fearing are going to be given away by Aggggggmi and the Ayatollahs to ensure Russian support.

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A spokesman for Iran’s foreign ministry, Mohammad Ali Hosseini, denied any such plot had been uncovered, characterizing the news as disinformation spread by Iran’s adversaries.
“These sort of reports are completely baseless and in direction with psychological operations of enemies of relations between Iran and Russia,” Hosseini said in a statement.

Former communist bloc to bypass Russia on oil needs @ DW.
Putin, Merkel Meet in Shadow of US-Russia Chill @ DW.

“For Putin, the most important thing will be evening the scales with regard to the latest draft of the European Commission in terms of protecting their market from foreign competition,” Peskov told the German press agency DPA.
The commission is considering the introduction of a tough reciprocity clause for energy relations with third countries.
“Of course, Russia is looking for equal conditions and fair competition for Russian companies, including Gazprom,” Peskov said ahead of the summit.
[…] Russia has denounced Western support for independence for Kosovo, the ethnic Albanian-led province which has threatened to declare independence unilaterally from Serbia unless the international community comes up with a solution by December 10.
[…] “Their relationship is normal without being friendly. She is careful and pragmatic and she never misses an opportunity to say that the United States is more important to her than Russia, although she is not anti-Russian,” Rahr told AFP.

I like Merkel very much. She is diplomatic but honest at the same time for being a politician.

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Iran is not your friend: Putin and Che’s daughter get a taste of Iranian hospitality @ Fausta.

While Russia’s fearless leader (who is the first Russian leader to visit Iran since Stalin) and the Iranian spokesman want to put lipstick on that pig of a visit, it sounds to me like the intelligence services from both countries do not mutually trust each other well enough to have kept the purported threat from becoming public.

Demanding the right to respond, Aleida Guevara told the conference that Qassemi’s claim might be based on a bad translation: “My father never mentioned God,” she said as the hall sighed in chagrined disbelief. “He never met God.”

The remarks caused a commotion amid which Aleida and her brother were whisked away, led into a car and driven to their hotel under escort.

But the poop didn’t hit the fan until later in the evening, by the end of which both Aleida and her brother Camilo “had become nonpersons”, in Taheri’s words, and the Iranians had forgetten that Che was a Marxist.

The good thing is that Aleida Guevara was wearing a hijab!!! This is not good @ Infidels are Cool.
Putin shows his true colors @ Debbie.

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De El Semanal Digital:

Su autor es Christopher C. Horner, experto en regulación y legislación sobre el calentamiento global y asesor al respecto tanto del Senado de Estados Unidos como del Parlamento Europeo.sostiene Horner que esa verdad de fe no es verdad. Forma un conjunto de “mentiras convenientes”.

En la primera parte del libro demuestra por qué son “convenientes”: básicamente, porque refuerzan la tendencia autoritaria de los Estados y -quizás más importante- sobre los Estados. Jacques Chirac lo confesaba sin ambages, al considerar el Protocolo de Kioto como “el primer componente de un auténtico gobierno global”. Además, favorecen la formación a nivel planetario de una corriente de simpatía con los movimientos anticapitalistas (el ogro de la empresa contaminante) y antinorteamericanos (el país que más CO2 expulsa a la atmósfera). Datos estos últimos que, curiosamente se contradicen con la realidad: Estados Unidos, que no es signatario del Protocolo de Kioto, está frenando sus emisiones, mediante la autorregulación empresarial y su búsqueda de la eficiencia, más que la Unión Europea con el rígido control del mercado de derechos de emisión.

Y en la segunda parte explica por qué son “mentiras”. Aunque no es solamente Horner quien lo señala. Ya hace algunos años se publicó el insustituible El ecologista escéptico de Bjorn Lomborg, antiguo miembro de Greenpeace. Pero es que esta misma semana, apenas unas horas antes de que Al Gore fuese civilmente canonizado con el Premio Nobel de la Paz, un juez británico se opuso a que La verdad incómoda pudiese ser material didáctico obligatorio en las escuelas -que era lo que sustanciaba la demadna- precisamente porque muchas de sus afirmaciones carecen del consenso científico necesario.

Qué miedo me da esto. Más poder para organizaciones, órganos, etc. fuera del control de los ciudadanos… Y encima, nebulosas: no se sabe quién está gobernando realmente ni quién se está beneficiando…

Sin embargo, su nombramiento tiene una importante carga política: les están diciendo a los USA que la Academia de Nobel quiere un demócrata en la Casa Blanca. Vale, y yo quiero un Jurado del Nóbel que no dé los premios por razones políticas si no, en este caso, por haber de verdad contribuido a la Paz. De verdad, es penoso.

Pero esto no es todo: Obama, candidato demócrata a las Elecciones del 2008 (que ha sido acusado de esconder que la mitad de su familia es musulmana y que él mismo recibió educacion islámica en su niñez) dice que ” la religión debe tener un importante papel en el cambio global, subrayando que el Génesis dice que “se nos confió la Tierra para que el planeta continuase estando limpio, seguro y habitable para nuestros hijos”. A ustedes les importa un bledo la religión, el cambio climático, los ciudadanos, etc… Lo único que quieren es más poder. Y déjense de pesadear con estas cantinelas.

Photoshop encontrado en: Neoconservador al habla.

Posts anteriores:
Al Gore escoge a España como primer país hispanohablante para desarrollar su proyecto.
Al Gore gana el Nóbel de la Paz - Al Gore Nobel Prize winner.

Otros posts de interés:
Al Gore o una mentira millonaria @ El mentidero.
Blog Action Day: Salvemos la Grova @ Elentir.

When I hear speak about a Global Government I always shiver. Very far from citizens’ control. No one knows who is really governing and who is benefiting from all of this…

The political significance of Gore’s selection is clear, given that he is still an active figure in American politics, widely mentioned as a potential presidential candidate, who has on occasions attacked both the foreign and domestic policies of the Bush administration. At the very least, the award can be taken as a signal from the Norwegian political establishment - from which the selection committee is chosen - that it hopes for a Democratic victory in the 2008 presidential election. -more

See also the cartoon…

Funny related post:

“Thanks to Al Gore’s movies, speeches and books,” said the unnamed spokesman, “Terrorists and tyrants around the world will soon lay aside the weapons of war and give peace a chance by working together to develop a hybrid car that runs on cheap, clean-burning gunpowder.”

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El ex vicepresidente de EEUU Al Gore y el responsable de la ONU contra el cambio climático, han recibido el Nobel de la Paz.Conjuntamente. También optaban al premio, pero s ehan quedado en la cuneta, el indio Rajendra Pachauri, presidente del Grupo Intergubernamental sobre el Cambio Climático (IPCC) de la ONU, y la candidatura del presidente de Bolivia, Evo Morales.
 LA JUSTICIA LO DEJA EN EVIDENCIA
Queda probado que el documental de Al Gore sobre el calentamiento global es “alarmista y exagerado”. La Justicia británica ha puesto reparos a la presentación en las escuelas de esta película. La verdad incómoda -aunque con muchos réditos- del ex vicepresidente estadounidense Al Gore. El juez Michael Burton, del Tribunal Superior de Londres, afirma haber identificado nueve errores importantes en la película y se pregunta si debería ostrarse a los escolares.
Burton reconoce que el filme, galardonado con dos Oscar, es “bastante exacto” en la presentación de las causas y probables efectos del cambio climático, pero ha agregado que algunas de las afirmaciones que se hacen en el son “alarmistas y exageradas”. El veredicto señala que la “visión apocalíptica” del filme es políticamente partidista y no un análisis imparcial de la ciencia del cambio climático. “Es de todos sabido que no es simplemente una película científica, aunque está claro que se basa en investigaciones y opiniones de científicos, sino política”.

Al Gore gana el Nobel de la Paz - Cantabria Liberal: Actualidad y análisis político de Cantabria en clave liberal

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!
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The committee said they had been chosen for “their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change”.

Mr Gore, 59, was vice-president under Bill Clinton and has since devoted his efforts to environmental campaigning.

The UN’s panel of 3,000 scientists is the top authority on global warming.

PJM:

An enthusiastic advocate of awarding Al Gore a Nobel Peace Prize, PJM columnist Jules Crittenden contends that anointing the “fiery prophet of global warming” would continue the Nobel’s committee’s grand tradition of honoring “empty, fraudulent or hypocritical gestures.”

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So after his visit to USA and his photos holding hands in a lovable way to Bolivian Evo and his embrace with Venezuelan Chávez , Aggggggmi returns as a hero to Iran. From Gateway Pundit:

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad returned home a hero after his very successful lecture at Columbia University and after thrashing the United States and the West at the United Nations.
Hero Mahmoud returns to Tehran…

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad returns home a hero after his brave stand at Columbia University.
(ISNA)

The leaders of the Iranian Parliament (Majlis) met the brave orator at the airport.
(ISNA)

(ISNA)

Read it all… (no, I am not going to do a very easy joke with the distance of Aggggmi’s hands, although it could be easily done, after his “lovable” pose with Evo ).

That’s not all. From Kamagir.net:

The president said, while recognizing people’s concerns, that the nation should attend mosques to thank Allah for this glorious victory.

So now, in his imagination, being called a “petty and cruel dictator” is a glorious victory. This man has a problem with perception… and with other things (don’t get angry with me, Cruzcampo but do not deny me that this man is not very well… psychologically I mean…).

Meanwhile, he has said that “America brought 9/11 to themselves“. Making friends, eh? But that’s not all:

The Iranian parliament meanwhile has declared the US armed forces and CIA as “terrorist organizations” in a childish tit-for-tat over our branding of the terrorist Quds forces as terrorists.

Bwahahahaha!!! Well, I’m sure that some of Hollywood star would agree (remember George Clooney and Syriana -en español aquí-?) but that certainly doesn’t mean it is really a terrorist organization…

More at Infidels are Cool:

Caroline Glick writes about Iran’s overlooked message

[T]here is a reason that the West ignores the dangers facing it. The Western media ignored Ahmadinejad’s message, just as it has insistently ignored the messages of bin Laden and Fatah throughout the years, because Westerners have a hard time believing that anyone would want to abide by the Islamic world view which denies mankind’s desire for freedom.

And meanwhile:

A court in the Iran’s second largest city, Mashad, has sentenced to death by stoning a mother-of-three for having an extra-marital affair, an Iranian newspaper reported Friday.

The daily Quds said the married woman’s lover had confessed to having had sex with her and that the court sentenced him to 100 lashes.

There are currently eight women in Iranian prisons waiting to be executed by stoning, a practice usually reserved for those found guilty of adultery according to the Islamic republic’s laws.

Well, there are no homosexuals in Iran, the women’s rights are respected… How many more lies? Is he going to say that he has a beautiful haircut too?

And certainly there is also equality: the woman is going to be STONED to death, while he has been sentenced to 100 lashes. We have seen a lot of images from stoning but very few from lashes’ sentences. This one is from the sentence of 80 lashes because of abusing alcohol and having extramarital sexual relations:

Saeed Ghanbari receives 80 lashes for abusing alcohol and having sex outside marriage.

From Plateau:

The real shots in Iran are called by the ‘inner circle’ ruling Mullahs, and, ultimately, by the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Ahmadinejad is a puppet and the front-man. Iran is not a Democracy. It is a Theocracy with semblance of Democracy. Even if 20% of the population voted for Ahmadinejad, the supreme leader Ali Khamenei, categorically, determines and approves of those who can or cannot run as candidates for presidency. Ahmadinejad was elevated and chosen, by Khamenei, for the presidency in Iran.

Nevertheless, Ahmadinejad is a deceiver - the same applies to Rafsanjani, Khatami and a whole host of other IR officials, who continue to liaise with the West. The difference: some - such as Rafsanjani and Khatami - are much more “diplomatic” than Ahmadinejad.

Or much more hypocrites….

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Hmm, así que después de su tour por América -incluyendo sus fotos haciendo manitas con Evo -, Agggmi ha vuelto a Irán, y ha sido tratado como un héroe. El “presidente” iraní incluso dijo a la nación que, en vez de irle a recibir al aeropuerto, “debían ir a las mezquitas a dar gracias a Alá por su maravillosa victoria“.

O sea, que, según Agggggmi, que a uno le llamen “mezquino y cruel dictador” es una maravillosa victoria. A mí me da que, como todos las personas crueles y frías con el dolor ajeno, este señor tiene un problema psicológico grave…

Asimismo, el hombre que quería visitar la Zona Cero de Manhattan, ha dicho que “América se buscó el que pasara el 11/S“. Francamente no sé qué quería celebrar en la zona. ¿O sí? (Piensa mal y aún te quedarás corto). Y al mismo tiempo, el Parlamento iraní ha declarado que las Fuerzas Armadas de EEUU y la CIA son “organizaciones terroristas“, en “represalia” por la calificación de las fuerzas “Quds” como terroristas por EEUU.

Claro que en esto habría artistas de Jolivú que les darían la razón.

Por supuesto, como ya dijo que no había homosexuales en Irán -y lo que pasa es que, o los han matado o están en puestos muy altos del Gobierno, como leí el otro día que puso un gracioso-, ahora va a convencernos bien de que a las mujeres no se las persigue en Irán y se respeta sus derechos: una mujer casada y madre de tres hijos va a ser lapidada por tener una relación extra-matrimonial. Pero claro, es que al hombre, mitad de la relación extra-matrimonial lo han sentenciado a 100 latigazos. Considerando que con 80 te pueden matar, vemos que los derechos de las mujeres están tan respetados como los de los hombres…. O sea, NADA.

La foto que vemos arriba es del Daily Mail de este verano. El hombre, al que tienen breada la espalda a latigazos, es Saeed Ghambari, acusado de “abusar del alcohol y de mantener relaciones sexuales fuera del matrimonio” (ya veo algunos de “my acquaintance” cambiando su idea del Islam en general y de Irán en particular de inmediato…. ). Me interesan especialmente los dos verdugos. ¿A que asemejan esos verdugos de la Edad Media, crueles hasta el tuétano, a los que les gustaba torturar a todos los pobres infelices que caían en sus manos? Parece que están diciendo “te desollaré vivo aunque sea lo último que haga“.

La noticia dice que “le sujetaron los brazos y las piernas para que no pudiera irse“. No me extraña que quisiera. Me duele la espalda a mí sólo de ver la foto…

Pero como dice Plateau, Aggggggmi es lo mismo que Jatamí (el del “Diálogo de las Civilizaciones” Ehhh, no, con ciertas personas los abrazos no: “Narices perderás y aún dientes si te dejas besar de ciertas gentes“) o Rafsanjani, pero lo que pasa es que estos son más diplomáticos. O más hipócritas aún.

The crackdown continues.
News from The Associated Press

Soldiers with automatic rifles fired into crowds of anti-government demonstrators Thursday, killing at least nine people in the bloodiest day in more than a month of protests demanding an end to military rule.Bloody sandals lay scattered on some streets as protesters fled shouting “Give us freedom, give us freedom!”

On the second day of a brutal crackdown, truckloads of troops in riot gear also raided Buddhist monasteries on the outskirts of Yangon, beating and arresting dozens of monks, witnesses and Western diplomats said. Japan protested the killing of a Japanese photographer.

Daily demonstrations by tens of thousands have grown into the stiffest challenge to the ruling junta in two decades, a crisis that began Aug. 19 with rallies against a fuel price hike then escalated dramatically when monks began joining the protests.

With the government ignoring international appeals for restraint, troops fired into packs of demonstrators in at least four locations in Yangon, witnesses and a Western diplomat said. Protesters - some shouting “Give us freedom!” - dodged roadblocks and raced down alleys in a defiant game of cat and mouse with soldiers and riot police that went on for most of the day.

Some 70,000 protesters were on the streets at the height of the chaos, though the total was difficult to estimate as different groups broke up and later reformed.

Sandals were strewn by a pool of blood at one spot where people fled approaching police. In a brave challenge, a bare-chested man emerged from one crowd to advance toward riot officers, then was felled by a rubber bullet and suffered a beating by officers who took him away.

They are fighting bravely against the Junta:

Local residents in South Okkalapa township have surrounded security forces who returned to Ngway Kyar Yan monastery to arrest the abbot following last night’s raids.

At least 130 monks were detained in the raid on the monastery, and personal belongings including robes, rice and 2,000,000 Kyat in cash were seized.

Security forces returned at around noon today to arrest the abbot and took up positions surrounding the monastery.

But hundreds of thousands of local residents, outraged by the raids, surrounded the troops, shouting anti-government slogans and demanding the immediate release of the detained monks.

Other developments today:

1. Burma says it will issue a visa to UN special envoy Ibrahim Gambari, who is being urgently sent to the country
2. the Association of South-East Asian Nations voices “revulsion” at the killings and urges Burma - one of its members - to exercise restraint
3. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour warns Burmese leaders that they could be prosecuted for their actions

Found in Burmanet.org.

Last news are that Kyang Kyang, General Than Swe’s wife, their daughter, Thadar Swe and their grandson have taken a plane to go abroad. Something which is really worrying.

USA has announced sanctions against 14 Burmese officials.

Oh, and Myanmar is how the Junta named the country, so the Burmese people are not very fond of it.
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En español:

La Junta Militar birmana acepta la entrada al país del enviado de la ONU.

China y Rusia evitan una condena de la ONU. capullos   ( y siento el lenguaje…).

El Ejército birmano reprime una manifestación a tiros y causa al menos 9 muertos.

Al iniciarse el día, una inmensa multitud se había reunido de nuevo en torno a la pagoda Sule. “Les damos 10 minutos. Si no se van, emplearemos medidas extremas”, gritaron los soldados a través de megáfonos. Poco después, por lo menos 100 personas habían sido detenidas y obligadas a subir a camiones militares, mientras los otros manifestantes huían corriendo por las calles del centro, explicaron los testigos.

Los jóvenes, acompañados por unos 20 monjes budistas, cantaron el himno nacional birmano mientras encaraban a decenas de policías y soldados armados que les impedían el paso, afirmaron los testigos.

“El general Aung San nunca habría ordenado al ejército que matase al pueblo”, gritaron, en referencia al difunto héroe de la independencia birmana y padre de la líder pro democrática y premio Nobel de la Paz Aung San Suu Kyi.

EEUU anuncia sanciones contra 14 altos cargos birmanos.

¿Un nuevo Tiananmen?

El último episodio acontecido en la revuelta popular de Birmania hace temer lo peor. Anoche, Kyaing Kyaing, esposa del jefe de la Junta Militar, el general Than Shwe, acompañada de su hija, Thadar Shwe, y de uno de sus nietos, tomó un vuelo de Air Bagan en primera clase y abandonó el país.

La situación de Birmania (formalmente Myanmar, nombre que, por cierto, la oposición no acepta porque fue una ocurrencia del nuevo orden castrense) no ha hecho más que ir a peor desde que el pasado 19 de agosto la Junta Militar que gobierna el país con mano de hierro decidiera subir el precio del combustible un 500%.

La revuelta popular de estos días, a diferencia de la que desencadenó la matanza de 1988, está liderada por el movimiento budista, y encabezada por los monjes de la gran pagoda de Shwedagon, el primer santuario del país, símbolo de la nación, que hasta ahora no se había destacado por su hostilidad al régimen.

En el país no se celebran elecciones legislativas desde 1990, cuando Aung San Suu Kyi, al frente de la Liga Nacional por la Democracia (LND), consiguió una victoria abrumadora que la facción militar se negó a reconocer y que resolvió disolviendo el parlamento y encarcelándola, para más tarde ponerla bajo un arresto domiciliario que todavía hoy continúa.

Desde entonces, Than Shwe, mantiene a su país sometido a un régimen de terror y secretos, fortaleciendo el papel del ejército y asfixiando toda aspiración democrática. Además, en este tiempo, se ha esforzado por lograr un acercamiento a China, Rusia, India y Tailandia, países muy interesados en los recursos naturales birmanos, fundamentalmente el gas. Y a tenor de los acontecimientos, lo ha conseguido: El Consejo de Seguridad de la ONU instó ayer a la Junta Militar a ejercer la “contención” en sus actos violentos contra la población civil, pero el veto de China evitó la condena del máximo órgano de Naciones Unidas contra el régimen.

Y otra vez los recursos energéticos de por medio.

My Spanish friend Aquiles sent me this video from “insurgents”‘ propaganda in Iraq. A must see, specially considering that, as Aquiles says:

These killers pretend they are very funny, and think that outside USA we are going to laugh about their “jokes”, but they don’t know how mistaken they are. Surely, the national and international leftists are going to laugh heartily seeing these videos, but to me, with each vehicle they are exploding, they are only reminding me about the Spanish soldiers who have being killed in Afghanistan in similar circumstances, two of them only two days ago. So, THEY AREN’T FUNNY AT ALL.

The other two videos were posted by friend-blogger David Drake to remember the 9-11.You can see them here. Totally different and supporting the people who really merit our support.

From CNN:

Authorities trying to aid two girls seen in a sexually explicit videotape say they have identified one and were showing images of the other Thursday in the hopes that someone would recognize her.

Police want to know the identity of this little girl, who appears to be 4 or 5.

The tape was turned in to police by a man who said he found it in the desert.

It shows a man performing sex acts on a girl around 4 or 5 years old, and shows a girl believed to be 10 to 12 years old appearing in “some kind of peep show,” said Nye County sheriff’s detective David Boruchowitz.

Authorities hope identifying the girls will help them locate the abuser.

Still photos of the younger girl, fully clothed, have been widely broadcast. Boruchowitz announced Thursday that the older girl had been identified.

He said the photos of the younger girl were being released because her life could be in danger.

“She could still be in this situation and (be) abused currently as we speak,” Boruchowitz said.

“The easiest way to explain it is if you can imagine the absolute worst things that can happen to a little girl at the hands of an adult male, that has happened and beyond,” he said of the video. “It is by far the most heinous and horrible thing that you can possibly imagine on there.” Watch authorities describe the disturbing case »

The older girl did not appear to have been sexually abused on the tape and the footage appeared to have been shot from a different room, Boruchowitz said.

Just repost it at your site, right? Someone could know her. This is outrageous.

This is a post run for the campaign of Bloggers against Abuse.

Ahmadinejad, when leaving Teheran, thought US nationals love him:

Nonetheless, before he left Tehran for New York on Sunday, Ahmadinejad told Iran’s state-run media that he believes Americans want to hear him out.

Although these were how he was described:

‘TEHRAN’TING LUNATIC … bloody handed villain … bearded blowhard” —New York Post.

“Iranian thug … madman” — New York Daily News.

“Maniac” — Republican Rep. Vito Fossella of Staten Island.

“Can’t get a decent haircut” —Post columnist Andrea Peyser.

Iran’s Ahmadinejad: No attack on Israel - Yahoo! News

NEW YORK - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Monday that Iran would not launch an attack on Israel or any other country, and he does not believe the U.S. is preparing for war against Iran. “Iran will not attack any country,” Ahmadinejad told The Associated Press, when asked if his country would ever strike first against Israel.Iran has always maintained a defensive policy, not an offensive one, he said, and has “never sought to expand its territory.”

He said he did not believe the U.S. was preparing for war.

“I believe that some of the talk in this regard arises first of all from anger. Secondly, it serves the electoral purposes domestically in this country. Third, it serves as a cover for policy failures over Iraq.”

Ahmadinejad dismissed statements by U.S. military officers and intelligence reports that Iran secretly provides weapons to insurgents fighting against U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, particularly the shaped projectiles that have harmed U.S. troops in roadside attacks.

“Why would we want to do that?” Ahmadinejad declared. “This would really be inappropriate for us. We are friends with both Iraq and Afghanistan. Insecurity in Iraq and Afghanistan undermines our own national security; it basically goes against what we believe.”

Hehehehe! This man is un-be-lie-va-ble! He has said repeatedly that he wants to wipe Israel off the map and now he says he does not want to attack anyone.

The problem can be even worse because it appears Iran has bought three nuclear heads from Kazakhstan. Paolo has left me a comment to tell me about the news:

According to Regnar Rasmussen, who was worked as an interpreter and analyst for the Special Forces of the Danish Army, and in the Criminal Police Department of his country, the key to the Iranian nuclear problem happened back in 1991, when the President from Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbaiev sold three nuclear warheads to Iran.

In autumn 1991 Nursultan Nazarbayev, the president of Khazakhstan, sold three nuclear warheads to the Iranians. The Iranians wanted to use them as a prototype for their own bomb manufacturing. The price was said to have been 7.5 billion USD. Whether this amount is true or just the fantasies of a less paid government official, I cannot verify. The amount was to cover all bribes and kick-offs and military protection during transport. Every country involved had demanded their fair share of the deal.

Anyway, the warheads were removed from a military depot somewhere in Kazakhstan and transported by train down to Makhachkala in Daghestan. Here they were reloaded onto huge trucks and then taken through the Caucasian region and into Turkey. In the city of Dogubeyazit the Iranians met the convoy and took over. The three vehicles were then driven by Iranian drivers down to the border post Bazargan, where they entered Iranian territory.

The warheads were brought down to Teheran and parked in the military campus Lavizan. Here they were seen by a soldier who later defected to Israel and told the story to the Israeli intelligence services who at that time were unable to verify the matter further. Various rumours have been circulating ever since. Some stories say two bombs, some say four. The correct number, however, is three.

Long before the downfall of communism in 1989 nuclear technology had been proliferated by the Soviet Union. The Mullah Regime had had connections and cooperation with the Soviet Union since the early days of the Islamic Revolution in 1978/79, but after 1989 hundreds and hundreds of Russian nuclear scientists were hired on by the Iranians who offered exorbitant wages and golden palaces to them in order to secure their loyalty. This has to be seen on the background of Soviet living conditions in those days. No wonder the Iranians could pick and choose as they wished.

I am personally convinced that Iran quickly managed to duplicate the bombs and that their only obstacle was to produce sufficient quantities of enriched uranium or other substances for their bombs. As of today I am convinced that Iran has had the nuclear bomb already for some years and is now only waiting for a good opportunity to wipe Israel off the map.

(Question: Are there another warheads who were sold like this? And to whom?)

But that’s not all:

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad questioned the official version of the Sept. 11 attacks and defended the right to cast doubt on the Holocaust in a tense appearance Monday at Columbia University, whose president accused the hard-line leader of behaving like “a petty and cruel dictator.”

Ahmadinejad smiled at first but appeared increasingly agitated, decrying the “insults” and “unfriendly treatment.” Columbia President Lee Bollinger and audience members took him to task over Iran’s human-rights record and foreign policy, as well as Ahmadinejad’s statements denying the Holocaust and calling for the disappearance of Israel.

“Mr. President, you exhibit all the signs of a petty and cruel dictator,” Bollinger said, to loud applause.

He said Ahmadinejad’s denial of the Holocaust might fool the illiterate and ignorant.

“When you come to a place like this it makes you simply ridiculous,” Bollinger said. “The truth is that the Holocaust is the most documented event in human history.”

Ahmadinejad rose, also to applause, and after a religious invocation, said Bollinger’s opening was “an insult to information and the knowledge of the audience here.”

“There were insults and claims that were incorrect, regretfully,” Ahmadinejad said, accusing Bollinger of falling under the influence of the hostile U.S. press and politicians. “I should not begin by being affected by this unfriendly treatment.”

During a question and answer session, Ahmadinejad appeared tense and unsmiling, in contrast to more relaxed interviews and appearances earlier in the day.

Ohh, little Ahmi was sad because they haven’t treated him as good as he though, hein??

Kate has linked to a live-blogging post from Columbia. Read it all. But I’m going to reproduce an excerpt which is very significant of Ahmi’s behaviour:

In response to a question about the treatment of homosexuals in Iran, Mr. Ahmadinejad was initially evasive, instead talking about the death penalty, which, he pointed out, exists in the United States. “People who violate the laws by using guns, creating insecurity selling guns, distributing guns at a high level are sentenced to execution in Iran,” he said. “Very few of these punishments are carried out in the public eye.”Pressed by Dean Coatsworth on the original question about the rights of gay men and lesbians in Iran, Mr. Ahmadinejad said: “In Iran, we don’t have homosexuals like in your country. We don’t have that in our country.”

The audience booed and hissed loudly. Some laughed, uncomfortably.

“In Iran, we do not have this phenomenon,” Mr. Ahmadinejad continued, undeterred. “I do not know who has told you that we have it. But as for women, maybe you think that maybe being a woman is a crime. It’s not a crime to be a woman. Women are the best creatures created by God. They represent the kindness, the beauty that God instills in them. Women are respected in Iran.”

And this other one, specially striking considering that he has defined himself before as a “university instructor“:

In his most pointed arguments yet, Mr. Ahmadinejad said that science and research had been used in the West as tools of oppression.

But it’s much more shocking the attitude of Daily Kos readers towards Ahmadinejad. What a collection of moonbats!!

Last may I wrote:

16-year-old girls hanged for having pre-marital sex [while stating that hanging is less cruel than being stoned to death…], beating peaceful young protesters in the street and women not-dressed Islamic way, detaining dogs for being Un-Islamic and beating (130 lashes) to a Norvegian-Iranian for drinking two beers, obliging the shop-keepers to saw off the mannequin breasts, etc, etc..

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Así que según Ahmadenijad:

1. decir “voy a borrar a Israel del mapa” no es tener una actitud ofensiva, es más, es querer tiernamente a Israel. Hay amores que matan… La cosa se complica porque, al parecer, en 1991, Kazajstán vendió tres cabezas nucleares a Irán, que fueron transportadas por varios contrabandistas, almacenadas en Lavizan. Los iraníes pudieron duplicarlas. Quien lo dice es un traductor y analista para las Fuerzas Especiales del Ejército Danés que estaba destinado a misiones en la zona de Oriente Medio en esa época.
2. en Irán no hay un solo homosexual, pero luego se les detiene en manada.
3. a las mujeres se las trata maravillosamente (maravillosamente mal, vamos), incluso se las pega si no se tapan (derecha).
4. se define como un “instructor universitario” “que discute científicamente con sus alumnos semanalmente”, pero luego dice que “la ciencia y la investigación han sido usadas por Occidente como instrumentos de opresión”. Ejem…

En Irán, como podeis ver en los links de arriba “se ha colgado a chicas de 16 años por tener relaciones sexuales prematriamoniales, mientras se afirma que es mejor colgarlas que no lapidarlas ( ), se ha pegado a chicos porque estaban manifestándose pacíficamente y a mujeres como la de la imagen porque no iban vestidas a la manera islámica, se ha detenido a perros por no ser islámicos o se han dado 130 latigazos a un hombre de nacionalidad noruego-iraní por beber dos cervezas, se ha obligado a los propietarios de tiendas de moda a tapar los pechos de los maniquíes de los escaparates, etc“.

En fin, un mentiroso compulsivo.

Si ayer veíamos que en Afganistán habían secuestrado a dos soldados italianos, hoy estos habían sido liberados (ambos están heridos, uno de ellos de manera seria). Pero también hoy nos hemos enterado de la muerte de dos soldados españoles en la misma zona. ¿La causa? Lo más probable es que fuera una bomba explosionada por control remoto:
Libertad Digital: Hallan restos de cable en el lugar del atentado que mató a dos soldados españoles

El Ministerio de Defensa informó en un principio de que el vehículo BMR en el que viajaban los dos soldados españoles muertos y los seis heridos en Afganistán había pisado una mina. Pero horas después el Departamento de José Antonio Alonso ha señalado, en un comunicado, que se han localizado restos de cable, en concreto 70 metros, en la zona del atentado, por lo que no descartan la hipótesis de una bomba explosionada por control remoto al paso de los militares españoles. Mientras, el presidente intentó convencer a los españoles de que se trata de una “misión de paz” y de que enviar nuevos soldados no es aumentar las tropas.

Los fallecidos son Germán Pérez Burgos y Stanley Mera Vera.

RIP.

Ayer escribía que EEUU había exigido a España el envío de más tropas SI quería colocar al general Sanz Roldán en la  OTAN. Pero a la vez, Zapatero, en vez de decir que a) en Afganistán se libra una guerra y b) el envío de nuevas tropas -que es necesario según ya escribí ayer- es porque quiere colocar al general, dice todo lo contrario…

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Another two Spanish soldiers have died in Afghanistan. Although at first, it was thought that the BMR vehicle had gone over a mine, which exploded then, the discovery of a cable (of about 70 meters) in the attack surroundings, has made the military consider the possibility of a bomb, activated by remote control.

At the same time, PM Zapatero has tried to convince everyone that the mission in Afghanistan is “a peace mission” and that sending new soldiers there is not rising the number of Spanish troops deployed in the Asian country.

Yesterday, I wrote that USA had asked Spain for a rise in the number of troops deployed in Afghanistan, IF Zapatero wanted General Sanz Roldán to be new President of the Military Comission of NATO. Looks like Zapatero also forgot that part in his speech.

Libertad Digital: Bush exige a Zapatero más presencia en Afganistán si quiere colocar al general Sanz en la OTAN

A dos meses de la votación en Bruselas, sede de la Alianza Atlántica, comienzan a realizarse movimientos encaminados a valorar si realmente el candidato español es el militar idóneo para estar al frente de un comité, al que le corresponde la misión de aprobar los documentos y planes de la OTAN.Según publica este domingo el diario ABC, EEUU, pieza clave en la elección (el comandante supremo para Europa es el general estadounidense John Craddock) no ve con buenos ojos este nombramiento, y no por la personalidad o la valía del general en cuestión, sino por las reticencias que despierta el papel de la España de Zapatero en el orden internacional, tras la sonada espantada en la Guerra de Irak.

Por eso, según afirma el diario de Vocento, los estadounidenses no descartan condicionar su apoyo a Félix Sanz Roldán a “un mayor compromiso” de España en la misión que lleva a cabo la OTAN en este país asiático. Esto se traduce, según fuentes de la Alianza, en más tropas y un papel más activo de las mismas sobre el terreno.

De momento, el Gobierno de Zapatero se ha negado a enviar más tropas. Máxime cuando la zona este donde se encuentran las tropas españolas es cada vez más comprometida y aumenta la inseguridad por la mayor presencia de talibanes, que han llegado procedentes del sur de Afganistán, tras la ofensiva americana que los ha desplazado hacia el norte.

Todo ello juega en contra de Félix Sanz Roldán, cuya candidatura se ha presentado en el peor momento de la misión en Afganistán, la principal que desarrolla la OTAN y que se ha convertido en el mayor desafío y en el que esta organización se juega su prestigio.

Era de esperar…

Al mismo tiempo, dos italianos han sido secuestrados en el oeste de Afganistán, junto con sus dos ayudantes afganos. Estaban realizando tareas de relación con los autoridades civiles afganas. La misión italiana en Herat, está intentando localizarles. El presidente Hamid Karzai ha dicho que en cuanto tengan alguna noticia la hará llegar a Italia.

Irán ha sido otra vez acusado de mandar armas a los talibanes y las tropas inglesas han encontrado algunos búnkers de los Talibán.

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Zapatero wants Spanish General Sanz Roldán to lead NATO, a very surprising wish considering that Spanish PM is not a very good friend of USA, leader of NATO, and the shameful withdrawal from Iraq.

So Bush has asked Zapatero for more support in Afghanistan in exchange of US support to Gral Sanz Roldán. Zapatero’s Government has announced Spain is not sending more troops to the Asian country, as the ones who are already there have a very compromised situation and the insecurity is rising because of the increasing presence of the Talibans there, who are arriving from the South, after US offensive.

A very illogical decision: as there are more Talibans, I am not sending more troops.

From Yahoo:

Two Italian military personnel were believed to have been kidnapped in western Afghanistan, and police Sunday said they were searching for the pair and their two Afghan staff.

At a meeting at the United Nations, Afghan President Hamid Karzai told participants he had information about where the Italians were and would pass the information to Italian authorities, said U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad.

In northeastern Afghanistan, meanwhile, NATO helicopters fired on a group of suspected insurgents in response to a rocket attack. Four Afghans died and 12 were wounded, the alliance said, and officials were investigating whether the dead and wounded were Afghan police or civilians targeted mistakenly.

The two missing Italians, with their Afghan driver and translator, drove through a police checkpoint in the Shindand district of Herat province on Saturday, and they have not had any contact with anyone since, said Gen. Ali Khan Hassanzada, chief of police criminal investigations in western Afghanistan.

An official from the Italian embassy in Kabul said the Italians last spoke with officials at their base on Saturday night during “routine contact.” The Italian military in Herat was trying to reach them again.

“We believe they have been kidnapped together with two Afghans,” the Italian Defense Ministry said. “The personnel were carrying out liaison activities with local civilian authorities.”

Meanwhile, Iran is once again accused of giving weapons to the Taliban (and yet, Ahmi is going to speak to the American people…) and UK troops have uncovered some Taleban bunkers.