Thursday, June 30, 2011
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Monday, June 27, 2011
Sunday, June 26, 2011
President's Prerogative are not to be Arrogant defiance to Congresional law
This week we experience the most arrogant and defying President of our modern times......Since the inception of the Wars Power's Act in 1973.... a law created by the most extreme liberal part of Congress and design to hold back Pres. Nixon (a Republican) and all future presidents from over extending this nation's Time, Talent and treasure pursuing battles worldwide without congressional approval...
Well yes the only two Presidents that did not ask Congress for permission (Clinton & now Obama) happen to be both Democrats... and the three that did ask: Reagan, Bush father and Bush son.....were Republicans..... no wonder President Nixon should be snickering in his tomb.......the last great act of defiance.... the most liberal President since Jimmy Carter, has not even contemplated to ask Congress but inform them that in his opinon and that of his staff of Chicago Boys.......It is not a conflict but a support operation of NATO,,,,,,,,,, Hog wash Mr. President........Your lawyer friends from Chicago are not constitutional lawyers...... and Nixon is laughing in his grave seeing how a Liberal Democrat is wiping his rear with a law created by the most liberal of his party to curtail all Presidents form keeping troops overseas without consent ot Congress he also played the card that Clinton did during Kosovo... well your approval of funds for this operation.....implicitly says you approve? no your are not right........ Keep it up and it won''t be 27 senators next time but quite more from both parties that will tell you how much long you stay in office...... Respect the law, constitution always and the life of those willing to give them for a just cause
Well yes the only two Presidents that did not ask Congress for permission (Clinton & now Obama) happen to be both Democrats... and the three that did ask: Reagan, Bush father and Bush son.....were Republicans..... no wonder President Nixon should be snickering in his tomb.......the last great act of defiance.... the most liberal President since Jimmy Carter, has not even contemplated to ask Congress but inform them that in his opinon and that of his staff of Chicago Boys.......It is not a conflict but a support operation of NATO,,,,,,,,,, Hog wash Mr. President........Your lawyer friends from Chicago are not constitutional lawyers...... and Nixon is laughing in his grave seeing how a Liberal Democrat is wiping his rear with a law created by the most liberal of his party to curtail all Presidents form keeping troops overseas without consent ot Congress he also played the card that Clinton did during Kosovo... well your approval of funds for this operation.....implicitly says you approve? no your are not right........ Keep it up and it won''t be 27 senators next time but quite more from both parties that will tell you how much long you stay in office...... Respect the law, constitution always and the life of those willing to give them for a just cause
Friday, June 24, 2011
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Monday, June 20, 2011
Sunday, June 19, 2011
Analizing Robert Grainger's article in Al Jazeera
Robert’ Grenier’s article is the topic of the week “…Obama, Afghanistan, and the wages of sin…”
Grenier’s approach to the Obama doctrine of Foreign Policy
It is axiomatic in warfare that the overall goals of a campaign and the strategy to achieve them should be determined in advance of decisions regarding the resources - money, equipment, people, time - to be applied. It is the former which must dictate the latter. And if it should transpire that, for one reason or another, the resources necessary to achieve one's goals are not available, then both the goals and the strategy need to be adjusted accordingly.
We have no choice under this administration, regardless of the actual conditions on the grounds, the President is forced to meet a suspense based on a promise that could compromise the gains of this spring….
Ryan Crocker the new ambassador, just has mild hopes of success in this counter insurgency campaign. John Kerry a liberal democrat, Chairman of the Senate Foreign relations committee is highly critical on both the military and civilian reconstruction portions of the plan.
'Fragile and reversible' gains shifting of Taliban to other provinces….
On the security front, even the US military, understandably eager to tout the positive results of its counter-insurgency "surge" in Helmand and other parts of the Pashtun South, is careful to characterise its gains as "fragile and reversible", while nervously eyeing the deterioration of security further east - due in part, perhaps, to the influx of fighters pushed out by the US military elsewhere - and hoping it will be allowed to shift surge forces there, rather than sending them home.
It is clear Afghanistan will not be ready by 2014 to provide for their own security, and to have a functional government.
And yet, nowhere is the administration suggesting that a change of strategy is in order. Those pressing for a relatively large initial drawdown of US troops, on the order of 15,000 of the current complement of 100,000, generally do not make a concomitant demand for a complementary change in strategy. It appears, instead, that they would prefer to compensate for a losing strategy by denying it resources. This, of course, is a prescription for disaster - but one consistent with the path laid out by the US president.
The evolution to date of the administration's policy in Afghanistan does not reflect well on President Obama. Having politically painted himself into a corner by embracing the struggle there as a "war of necessity", Obama rather sanctimoniously pledged to commit the resources necessary for a highly ambitious program of Afghan nation-building in March 2009. His ardour for the project waned considerably, however, just five months later, when he was informed by his newly appointed Afghan commander, (General Stanley McChrystal, that the price tag of a successful counter-insurgency would be 40,000 troops higher than expected - and that even then, success was not assured.)
Pursuing a genuine course?
Clearly working against his better judgment, but politically committed to a counter-insurgency course, Obama struck a fateful compromise: He would largely acquiesce to the military's immediate resource demands and stick with a comprehensive counterinsurgency strategy, but deny his forces either the time or the sustained commitment of resources necessary for such a US-led strategy to succeed. In short, he would violate the iron rule of war planning, completely separating resource considerations from consideration either of goals or of strategy. To square this contradiction, he would simply insist that the transition to a large Afghan security force, never realistic in the first place, be accomplished far more rapidly than originally planned.
Indeed, there is no sign that the administration is pursuing a genuine course correction in Afghanistan. Its current hope appears to be that the Taliban will acquiesce in a negotiated settlement which will save the Americans from the consequences of their folly. That is unlikely to happen. Meanwhile, as internal US pressure builds for withdrawal, the day of reckoning - when the gulf between US aims and means in Afghanistan becomes impossible to ignore - looms ever larger. Such, as they say, are the wages of sin.
Grainger clearly shows why this pragmatic president is not a leader of troops, nor a world leader committed to a cause, but a bureaucrat, a lawyer who deals with sensitive international security matters like a bank transaction, just another day at the office balancing a budget….keeping a political promise
Saturday, June 18, 2011
Friday, June 17, 2011
Thursday, June 16, 2011
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Monday, June 13, 2011
Sunday, June 12, 2011
Saturday, June 11, 2011
Friday, June 10, 2011
Thursday, June 9, 2011
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
China aircraft carrier confirmed by general BBC News
The head of China's General Staff of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) has confirmed that China's first aircraft carrier is under construction. Gen Chen Bingde refused to say when the carrier - a remodelled Soviet-era vessel, the Varyag - would be ready. A member of his staff said the carrier would pose no threat to other nations.
The 300m (990ft) carrier, which is being built in the north-east port of Dalian, has been one of China's worst-kept secrets, analysts say. Gen Chen made his comments to the Chinese-language Hong Kong Commercial Daily newspaper.
Symbol of power The PLA - the largest army in the world - is hugely secretive about its defence programme.
The carrier was constructed in the 1980s for the Soviet navy but was never completed. When the Soviet Union collapsed, the rusting hull of the Varyag sat in dockyards in Ukraine
A Chinese company with links to the PLA bought the Varyag claiming it wanted to turn it into a floating casino in Macau. The carrier is thought to be nearly finished, and is expected to begin sea trials later this year. But the BBC's Michael Bristow in Beijing says that does not mean it will then be ready to undertake operational duties. Learning how to operate it - and fly planes off it - will take a few more years to master, our correspondent says.
Lt Gen Qi Jianguo, assistant chief of the general staff, told the Hong Kong Commercial Daily that even after the aircraft carrier was deployed, it would "definitely not sail to other countries' territorial waters".
"All of the great nations in the world own aircraft carriers - they are symbols of a great nation," he was quoted as saying.
Lt Gen Qi said China had always followed a "defensive" principle for its military strategy."It would have been better for us if we acted sooner in understanding the oceans and mapping out our blue-water capabilities earlier. "We are now facing heavy pressure in the oceans whether in the South China Sea, East China Sea, Yellow Sea or the Taiwan Straits," he said.
China is engaged in maritime border disputes with several countries - including Vietnam and the Philippines.
The US has also expressed concern about its rising naval ambitions.
The PLA has invested heavily in submarines. It is believed to be close to deploying the world's first "carrier-killer" ballistic missile designed to sink aircraft carriers while they are manoeuvring at sea up to 1,500km offshore, and it is building its own stealth fighter aircraft along with advanced carrier-based aircraft built from Russian designs.
Lt Gen Qi said China had always followed a "defensive" principle for its military strategy.
"It would have been better for us if we acted sooner in understanding the oceans and mapping out our blue-water capabilities earlier.
"We are now facing heavy pressure in the oceans whether in the South China Sea, East China Sea, Yellow Sea or the Taiwan Straits," he said.
China is engaged in maritime border disputes with several countries - including Vietnam and the Philippines.
The US has also expressed concern about its rising naval ambitions.
The PLA has invested heavily in submarines. It is believed to be close to deploying the world's first "carrier-killer" ballistic missile designed to sink aircraft carriers while they are manoeuvring at sea up to 1,500km offshore, and it is building its own stealth fighter aircraft along with advanced carrier-based aircraft built from Russian designs.
Lt Gen Qi said China had always followed a "defensive" principle for its military strategy.
"It would have been better for us if we acted sooner in understanding the oceans and mapping out our blue-water capabilities earlier.
"We are now facing heavy pressure in the oceans whether in the South China Sea, East China Sea, Yellow Sea or the Taiwan Straits," he said.
China is engaged in maritime border disputes with several countries - including Vietnam and the Philippines.
The US has also expressed concern about its rising naval ambitions.
The PLA has invested heavily in submarines. It is believed to be close to deploying the world's first "carrier-killer" ballistic missile designed to sink aircraft carriers while they are manoeuvring at sea up to 1,500km offshore, and it is building its own stealth fighter aircraft along with advanced carrier-based aircraft built from Russian designs.
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Monday, June 6, 2011
Fin de semana de perdidas, Weekend of losses
Fin de semana de perdidas, y para colmo ninguno de los problemas del mundo se resolvio… Empezando por Latinoamerica Aparenta que Oyanta Humala ha Ganado las eleciones en el Pero con un 51.3% a su favor y un 48.7% en contra….. Aqui viene la primera perdida ya que Peru vuelve al pasado, vuelve a una era de grandes gobiernos, centralizados, intervenciones, y perdida de capital extranjero……. Si le van a creer al Sr. Humala por haber jurado sobre una biblia que no llevaria al pais por el camino del Alba (Chavez) entonces, todavia queda un ingenuo en el Peru. Y si el individuo nos sorprende y se tira con una izquierda moderada tipo Brasil, tipo Uruguay….sigue siendo una perdida ya que lo que mueve la economia del Peru es la inversion extranjera y eso ya se esta viendo en las ultimas semanas cuando empezo a puntear como possible ganador… Asi que aqui perdieron los Peruanos. Por creer en la justicia y la igualdad….en tiempos de economias globales…
Weekend of losses and worst of all none of the world’s problems got resolved. Starting with Latin Amaerica it is quite apparent that Oyanta Humala has won the elections with a 51.3% vs a 48.7% of his rival, This is our first loss, since Peru returns to the past, to an era of greater government centralized, interventions and loss of foreign investment capital. If you believe that Mr. Humala will change because he swore on a bible that he would not take the country via the (Alba) Chavez formula, then there is still a disbeliever in Peru. And suppose this individual does assume a modrate left stance much like Brazil and Uruguay then it is still a loss since Peru’s economy thrives on foreign investments. This has been clearly evident last couple of weeks since he started to gain on the polls as frontrunner and possible winner. So this is a loss for all Peruvian’s for believing in justice, equality in times of global economies.
La segunda perdida viene de Yemen, aqui el Sr. Ali Abdul Saleh, sale de su pais en busca de tratamiento a sus heridas de las cuales nos enteramos fueron mas graves que lo inicialmente reportado, y se oye un regocijo en el pais ya que las facciones en contra de el acuerdan a un cese al fuego, pero no sabemos si el gobierno Saudi le permitiria regresar y es ahi donde viene la segunda perdida… ya que esto seria la forma para remediar una transicion en Yemen….. Pero todavia hay muchos factores como sus hijos y entorno que controlan unidades especiales y servicio secreto…. Asi que o esto va a ser un acto de astucia Saudi o otra perdida mas este fin de semana
The second loss comes from Yemen here Mr. Ali Abdul Saleh departs his country seeking medical attention for the wounds he suffered, of which now we find out had been more serious than reported and we hear of great crowds rejoicing his departure and we still don’t know if the Saudi government will permit him to return and thusfor becomes our second loss for the weekend since this could very well be the solution for the transition in Yemen… but we still have many factors such as his sons and entourage which still control elite units in the army and the secret service. So this could turn out to be an astute Saudi plan or another loss for this weekend
La tercera perdida viene de la frontera con Israel y Siria…….20 muertos y mas de 220 heridos, todo por un aniversario…..el numero 44 de la derrota de la Guerra de los seis dias en 1967. Chronicas de unas muertes anunciadas……. Se veia que esto iba a suceder ya que ocurrio hace un par de semanas cuando se cumplio el aniversario de la creacion del Estado de Israel….. Aca se sabia que otra vez intentarian cruzar las fronteras, que desafiarian al ejercito Israeli y asi ocurrio……al fin y al cabo solo muertos para enterrar y no lograron nada….
The third loss comes from the border between Israel and Syria… 20 dead and more than 220 wounded, all because of the anniversary of the Six day War, its 44th anniversary in 1967. Chronics of a death previously announced…. We saw it coming since we saw it happen over two weeks ago when we had another anniversary (the foundation of the State of Israel) from then we knew that they would try again to cross over, defy the Israeli Army and it happened…..at the end only dead to be buried and they accomplished nothing…
Un articulo del Sr. Robert L. Grenier en Aljazeera (ex agente de la CIA) resalto mas esta tercera perdida que nos enseña las realidades demograficas, la polarizacion de opiniones y lo que si podria ser el futuro de un solo estado.
An article by Mr. Robert L. Grenier in Aljazeera (Ex CIA agent) brought up this third loss by which he highlights the demographics, the polarization of opinios and what could be the future on a one state solution.
Finalmente la cuarta perdida viene de Pakistan……..18 muertos y 30 heridos en una reposteria en el pueblo de Noswhera otro intento de venganza por la muerte de OBL (Osama Bin Laden)… pero tambien la muerte del Numero dos de Alqaeda en el ambito operacional Iliays Kashimiri (el autor intellectual del ataque a Mumbai en el 2008) uno de lo que se visualizaba como el futuro lider operacional de Alqaeda fue ajusticido con un projectil de un dron, pero est todavia no ha resuelto ni el problema del terrorismo ni la Guerra en Afghanistan …
Finally the fourth loss comes from Pakistan…. 18 dead and 30 wounded in a bomb attack on a bakery in the town of Noswhera, another attempt in revenge for the death of OBL(Osama Bin Laden)… but also possibly for the death of the number two man (operational) in Alqaeda Iliays Kashimiri (the author of the Mumbai attack of 2008) one who was visualized as the next operational lider of Alqaeda who had justice served at the end of a missile fired by a UAV drone but still this has not resolve theproblems of terrorism or the war in Afghanistan…
Weekend of losses and worst of all none of the world’s problems got resolved. Starting with Latin Amaerica it is quite apparent that Oyanta Humala has won the elections with a 51.3% vs a 48.7% of his rival, This is our first loss, since Peru returns to the past, to an era of greater government centralized, interventions and loss of foreign investment capital. If you believe that Mr. Humala will change because he swore on a bible that he would not take the country via the (Alba) Chavez formula, then there is still a disbeliever in Peru. And suppose this individual does assume a modrate left stance much like Brazil and Uruguay then it is still a loss since Peru’s economy thrives on foreign investments. This has been clearly evident last couple of weeks since he started to gain on the polls as frontrunner and possible winner. So this is a loss for all Peruvian’s for believing in justice, equality in times of global economies.
La segunda perdida viene de Yemen, aqui el Sr. Ali Abdul Saleh, sale de su pais en busca de tratamiento a sus heridas de las cuales nos enteramos fueron mas graves que lo inicialmente reportado, y se oye un regocijo en el pais ya que las facciones en contra de el acuerdan a un cese al fuego, pero no sabemos si el gobierno Saudi le permitiria regresar y es ahi donde viene la segunda perdida… ya que esto seria la forma para remediar una transicion en Yemen….. Pero todavia hay muchos factores como sus hijos y entorno que controlan unidades especiales y servicio secreto…. Asi que o esto va a ser un acto de astucia Saudi o otra perdida mas este fin de semana
The second loss comes from Yemen here Mr. Ali Abdul Saleh departs his country seeking medical attention for the wounds he suffered, of which now we find out had been more serious than reported and we hear of great crowds rejoicing his departure and we still don’t know if the Saudi government will permit him to return and thusfor becomes our second loss for the weekend since this could very well be the solution for the transition in Yemen… but we still have many factors such as his sons and entourage which still control elite units in the army and the secret service. So this could turn out to be an astute Saudi plan or another loss for this weekend
La tercera perdida viene de la frontera con Israel y Siria…….20 muertos y mas de 220 heridos, todo por un aniversario…..el numero 44 de la derrota de la Guerra de los seis dias en 1967. Chronicas de unas muertes anunciadas……. Se veia que esto iba a suceder ya que ocurrio hace un par de semanas cuando se cumplio el aniversario de la creacion del Estado de Israel….. Aca se sabia que otra vez intentarian cruzar las fronteras, que desafiarian al ejercito Israeli y asi ocurrio……al fin y al cabo solo muertos para enterrar y no lograron nada….
The third loss comes from the border between Israel and Syria… 20 dead and more than 220 wounded, all because of the anniversary of the Six day War, its 44th anniversary in 1967. Chronics of a death previously announced…. We saw it coming since we saw it happen over two weeks ago when we had another anniversary (the foundation of the State of Israel) from then we knew that they would try again to cross over, defy the Israeli Army and it happened…..at the end only dead to be buried and they accomplished nothing…
Un articulo del Sr. Robert L. Grenier en Aljazeera (ex agente de la CIA) resalto mas esta tercera perdida que nos enseña las realidades demograficas, la polarizacion de opiniones y lo que si podria ser el futuro de un solo estado.
An article by Mr. Robert L. Grenier in Aljazeera (Ex CIA agent) brought up this third loss by which he highlights the demographics, the polarization of opinios and what could be the future on a one state solution.
Finalmente la cuarta perdida viene de Pakistan……..18 muertos y 30 heridos en una reposteria en el pueblo de Noswhera otro intento de venganza por la muerte de OBL (Osama Bin Laden)… pero tambien la muerte del Numero dos de Alqaeda en el ambito operacional Iliays Kashimiri (el autor intellectual del ataque a Mumbai en el 2008) uno de lo que se visualizaba como el futuro lider operacional de Alqaeda fue ajusticido con un projectil de un dron, pero est todavia no ha resuelto ni el problema del terrorismo ni la Guerra en Afghanistan …
Finally the fourth loss comes from Pakistan…. 18 dead and 30 wounded in a bomb attack on a bakery in the town of Noswhera, another attempt in revenge for the death of OBL(Osama Bin Laden)… but also possibly for the death of the number two man (operational) in Alqaeda Iliays Kashimiri (the author of the Mumbai attack of 2008) one who was visualized as the next operational lider of Alqaeda who had justice served at the end of a missile fired by a UAV drone but still this has not resolve theproblems of terrorism or the war in Afghanistan…
Sunday, June 5, 2011
Saturday, June 4, 2011
Friday, June 3, 2011
Areas where food supplies could be worst hit by climate change
"We are starting to see much more clearly where the effects of climate change on agriculture could intensify hunger and poverty," said Patti Kristjanson, an agricultural economist with the CCAFS initiative that produced the report.
A leading climatologist told BBC News that agriculturalists had been slow to use global climate models to pinpoint regions most affected by rising temperatures.
By Jennifer Carpenter
Science reporter, BBC News
Thursday, June 2, 2011
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
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