(Military) Preaching:

My dear US army, I do not like jokes made from words like 'A full 46 death on the other  side and we have nothing, just na na na ná nà!'

My preaching is short, I just whisper at this point '40 thousand civilians into the heartlands'. Lets keep it with that because I never ever ask for the fourth time to change behavior. 

Comment: After this staff sgt. Jones starts explaining that just the previous day he has called his wife and he had promised to his wife that he will never put his life in harms way because they had this wonderful 10 month old baby... And this all on CNN, the Cable News Network.
Of course the 46 killed (terrorist) opponents never have these kind of troubles! No no, sgt Jones himselves said this all so clearly, quote:

Well, what they attempted to do -- and we don't know if it's actually civilians. I called them all terrorists. If they're blocking the streets or if they're attempting to block the streets, then obviously they're not a civilian. They're some sort of combatant. They're helping out the terrorist projects with that. I'm a true believer of that.

Comment: Read the last alinea's of sgt Jones over at least three times. Sgt. Jones is a 'true believer' into some kind of stuff, but what stuff exactly? 

Comment: Well SilverBullet I could talk very long upon this, but as far as I see it stuff will be more or less like next: The European Military Forces will only be 'duplicative' in the highest ranks, for the rest there is a whole lot of practical stuff that might come handy 'duplicating' in the process too. For example every screw and every bolt and nut has it's own 'NATO code' (for technical specifications, for ordering and replacing and so), these 'NATO parts' will be used too of course...
May be you wonder why it would be handy if the highest ranks are a copycat of the NATO highest ranks? That is simple, when the time is right all other NATO members will suddenly and at the very same moment put their boots on the ass of America and America will be thrown out of NATO. (Just like (may be) now is happening at the US dollar value old man.)
This ass kick is for a lot of reasons but one of those reasons is that we are not waiting upon some guy eating abundantly out of his nose every time one of his 'colleagues' try to speak some words. It is rather clear that America is a power junkie and she needs a good and long cold turkey, power is too addictive when you do not have a solid backbone! 

Title: Next MBD at 13 Dec & the first Giant MBD at 29 April 2003.
 

So Rummycup lets proceed with the next (quote):
Questions are also likely to be raised over plans to include a mutual defence clause in the new EU constitution, whereby the EU would defend any member state if attacked.

Comment: Like I said before NATO is not that relevant any longer because they used the article five stuff upon the 9/11 attacks while carefully 'forgetting' to investigate how stuff really happened. No no Rummycup, big lies give rise to big powers and it was your government that willingly neglected the little but fundamental role of Mr. Reinko Venema. So Europe would be served with a simple clause like 'Attacking a member state is attacking all' (While in the meantime the Reinko Venema format for making war can deal with hefty quarrels between member states...).

Comment: Yes my dear Chinese general Peng, the consequenses of a full blown raid on Taiwan could have devastating consequences for China in general. May be if you all add it up it could be a full decade back in time for China.

Well if this is what you political leaders want why not do it?

To be honest, we are now over fifty years after the civil war from 1949. The existing situation is such that Taiwan and China will not come together within the timespan of one or two decades (when this reuniting would go 'spontaneous'). So the question is why exactly is the Chinese leadership willing to throw the country a full decade back? Why is this issue so important? Only some macho nationalist attitude or are there more (real) reasons at hand? Do you know this Peng? 

Comment: This is sad because again one thousand Euro is more important than one thousand human lives. There can be only one kind of language applied to this and that is the 'best understandable language' there is. 
To put stuff into perspective; In the spring of 2001 I wrote jokingly upon these twin buildings and it's employees like 'I will dance on their grave!' According to my humble opinion these little words could have made the choice of the WTC buildings much more definite (while skipping that crop duster fun). 

So on the one hand I feel sad but on the other hand there is no turning back and that special language that is the best understandable needs to be spoken. This time not on the raid date but before this date, at the moment I know the raiding date I will let you know, sorry operatives I have to turn to you again for deterring just a lousy one thousand bucks... (And it is a pity that after all these months no one into that IBG building is capable of grasping the simple truth as it is, just look at the shape of your twin building my dear IBG employees. Is that shape so difficult to understand?) 

Comment: This is a wonderful example of American arrogance, just so wonderful and it is not for nothing that with every helicopter blown away I just feel so good. And this was long before the Holy President had to arrive at the conclusion that 'war is inevitable' because the evil Iraqis constantly hide all their Weapons of Mass Destruction!
So with this kind of 'Holy President wisdom' in the back of my mind I am not very satisfied upon the behaviors of the US army inside Iraq. Why proudly kill in the dozens when you only face what you deserve? You were the ones believing the crap from the White House, you were the ones that believed that you would be greeted as liberators (partially you were, but strangely enough not by all Iraqis & how is this possible?). And last but not the least, you were the ones that did the RoadOfDeath ending Gulf War one while the US ambassador in Iraq told the Iraqi government the evening before invading Kuwait that there likely wouldn't be 'any problem' upon this particular invasion.  

Comment: My dear IQ43, only next Summer I can return to the Palestine/Israeli equation again. That is because I would like to have some backpack filled with five devastating blasts, and I am not talking about one of those small 'female lawyer' blasts from begin October my dear boy IQ 43. (In case you do not understand, this Palestine female lawyer blasted herself two days after the 'military only' month of September in the year 2003)
I hope in my so called 'backpack' will be a hefty five fold of the attacks against the Italian military police in Iraq, that was some attack man! Wow, I felt good for many days and I hope so much that all five 'back packers' for Summer 2004 will be at least that size! 

Comment: Sorry George, again it is too late and it is too little. In terms of the former War On Drugs we see that America needs a long cold turkey from that addictive daily money inflow. That is good for the soul and declines the American arrogance a little bit.
But George, why not compare our powers at this moment? The day I created the NightmareOnTheUS$ that very evening there was a severe two percent decline in dollar value. You have a 'one percent' smash this day, so how will this all end my dear George?
Do you have more potential ramming stored in your closet and what do I have in terms of 'Weapons of Massive Dollar Destruction'? So George, who has the biggest WMDD?  

 Sell US equities, buy the US dollar!

By Dr. Marc Faber M

My position for the next month or so is to liquidate US equities, and to go long on the US dollar and bonds.

Short term, commodities including gold, equities and the Euro seem to be somewhat overbought, while the US dollar and bonds are becoming oversold. Therefore, my bet for the next month or so is to liquidate US equities, and to go long on the US dollar and bonds. 

What worries me most at present is that even I, a skeptic, can't find any good reason why stock markets around the world would decline significantly.

Comment: Well Marc, here in Holland we have even a saying for this kind of behavior. It goes like this: 'The eye of the master makes the horse lean.'

But Marc, with saying that you are some kind of imbecile I am partially wrong. Very wrong, just look at the next quote from Marc:
What better economic paradise could a society wish for than an environment in which assets such as stocks and properties appreciate, while consumer goods decline in price? 

Comment: A very wise observation my dear Marc, very wise. To be honest I have broken my head upon the reasons why the 'leading Western academic economic folks' are so afraid of just a little bit of deflation. All that so called scientific crap upon 'harm to the economy' with only a few percent of deflation is just so stupid. This whole nonsense theory is only rooted in fear, deep fear. And this fear has its roots into the Great Depression from the 1930 years between both World Wars. 

That whole 'deflation is bad' theory is only a fear driven theory, but since Americans are the perfect flock stuff people they are not capable of correcting this nonsense. A pity, therefore we now have the NightmareOnTheUS$! A good medicine for the addicts to the inflow of the equivalent of 1500 million Euro a day towards that country, they need to get some simple cold turkey treatment otherwise this will only hinder the development of the rest of this planet. And that is something I cannot allow.....

Comment: What astonishing details, I almost jumped for joy! Just after one of those schmutzy heroine 'judicial deals' from one of those moral crap telling American prosecutors the guy was stabbed to death. This is a good day, that is a fact! (It was a full 3 years back since the last US prosecutor was killed and by American standards that is a long long time ago).

Like I said before I am 'expecting' attacks next winter against Dutch courthouses and I am hoping upon 'Five prosecutors in one blast' (a simple handgrenade or some backpack filled with good booming parts, just be creative my dear readers, just be creative). Because after all the entire Dutch judicial system is lying on its back from this stupid WarOnDrugs and even from that point of view it is perfectly logical to wipe out some local prosecutors. 

Comment: At some times I even asked sarcastically & ironically that this dinosaur US army needs to ask advice at the Israeli defense forces about how to turn stuff into a fine mess. Well, the US army has found the meaning of irony too; of course this will not work. Quoting on:

The idea U.S. forces in Iraq may be taking lessons in occupation and counterinsurgency from the Israeli Defense Force may have only just begun to make the news in America, but it has been obvious to Iraqis for some time. For residents of the Sunni Triangle, who have spent years watching TV images of the residents of the West Bank and Gaza living under siege, surrounded by checkpoints and suffering periodic air strikes and military sweeps, the Palestinian experience offers a ready template for understanding the turn taken by their own lives over the past six months. Whole villages have been surrounded by razor wire, their residents forced to pass through checkpoints; U.S. aircraft and artillery have blasted buildings suspected of being used by insurgents; there have even been instances of family members of suspected insurgents being taken into custody when their wanted relatives can't be found. As one Iraqi waiting on line at a checkpoint last week told the New York Times, "I see no difference between us and the Palestinians." That's a worrying development for U.S. authorities, since in the eyes of much of the Arab world, the humiliation of occupation has served to justify terrorism against the Israelis.

Comment: My dear US army, these methods will fail into turning stuff into the right direction. The living example is indeed the occupation of Palestine territories by the Israeli army. But let met tell you only a small anecdote why this will fail: 

So these are the simple facts as they happened late autumn 2002, these simple facts also demonstrate abundantly that 'containment' does not work. When the US army simply is not capable of making good battles so all who see that agree on 'This or that party has indeed won' they will fail. Just like the Israelis failed, the axiom of 'overwhelming power' can only exist when it's dual is around. The dual is of course what some call 'terror'. That is because this dual feeds on the use of overwhelming power.
Or is this analysis to simple? Well, good luck with the copycat of the Israeli defense forces, but those strategies will not help much in the long run.   

Comment: Suddenly I have even more good hope gained upon the next Military Bloody Day next Saturday 13 December in the Christian year 2003. Yes, just suddenly I have even more good hope...

But as far as I know the (long term) policy still stays the same, this policy is:

• Improvement for the Iraqi population while
• Turning stuff into some military Vietnam for the US army (without agent orange jokes and so)

Comment: This is plain unbelievable, I hoped it would be inside Belgium but as far away from the NATO headquarters as possible. Ok, simply outside the city of the NATO headquarter would have been enough.
Now I am just wondering how some independent EU cell could emerge that is even within that NATO building and likely even using American software. There are even 'NATO attaches' to give 'advice', why does my mouth taste that bad suddenly? 

U.S.-based firms vying for billions in Iraq reconstruction contracts might be cheering a little this week, thanks to the Pentagon's decision to exclude companies based in countries that actively opposed the U.S.-led war to oust Saddam Hussein. That's bad news for French and German firms that have traditionally done a lot of work in Iraq, and just possibly good news for companies based in the U.K., Spain and other U.S. coalition partners. 

Under an order signed by Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz on Dec. 5 and first revealed in media reports earlier this week, the Pentagon has created a list of 63 countries whose companies are eligible to compete for $18.6 billion in contracts tied to reconstruction efforts in Iraq. The reason for the hot-or-not list? Wolfowitz cited "essential" security concerns.

Comment: Well my dear Wolfowitz (or better; my dear Hollowwitz), I am not completely against this particular decision if indeed the end result will be less debt for the Iraqis. If the 126 billion US dollar figure is correct there is serious shaving needed given the fragility of this starting economy. This (heavy) argument is in favor of the US government, against the exclusion of anti war countries is the simple fact the rebuilding costs could might be lower without this 'policy'. 

Hollowwitz, the main flaw in your reasoning is the next: Before Gulf War II these countries were invited to take part into operation Iraqi freedom. So in practice you were willing to fight together and you did not see any 'security concerns' in those days.
Rebuilding Iraq is only trade and sharing of (non military) knowledge and now you suddenly see 'essential' security concerns. Sorry Paul, your intentions might be good but I do not buy this particular kind of crap.  

In the case of Shafer's discovery, it was 2 to the 20,996,011th power minus 1. The find was independently verified by other participants in the project.

Comment: No comment right now, I just hope this is prelude and I am still nervous to the bone. This day is important, there is no denying this. 

The dollar's rise eased fears that foreign investors, faced with the declining value of their dollar-denominated assets when converted back into their own currencies, would dump U.S. equities and Treasury bonds.

Comment: Just days later I created the NightmareOnTheUS$ while giving some 'selling advices'. Also on Tuesday 25 November the high 7.2 percent economical growth in the US (third quarter) became public; and on that day it 

So all idiots who did skip my 'selling advice' of US bonds & similar stuff are looking at a nice 4.5 percent decline in value (if not hedged) in just 18 days.
Like I said that day "Aren't my selling advices not the best there are? And am I not your friend?" 

Well dear investors, for the sake of capitalism the next stop is at 1,35 $/Euro. Be prepared! 

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They might have many reasons for this and may be the level of payment is a reason that is understandable for Western media mindsets and therefore gets published.

My dear Ricardo, has the US army already investigated if I (Reinko Venema) was indeed some (devilish) role model for the 19 attackers from September 2001? 
Ricardo, suppose as some hypothetical exercise of mind, that indeed this is true. That indeed I was some (devilish) role model. Suppose furthermore that the US army never operates from that kind of wisdom.
In that case, how can you stop the most devastating and big attacks on the US army & coalition forces? How Ricardo, how? 

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14 December: At least 17 people die in an attack on a police station in Khalidiya a (suicide) car bomb attack, the bomb crater is over 2 meters deep 
22 November: At least 18 people die in car bomb attacks on police stations in the towns of Khan Bani Saad and Baquba, north of Baghdad 
12 November: 26 die in suicide attack on Italian police base in Nasiriya 
2 November: 16 US soldiers die as Chinook helicopter downed 
27 Oct: Red Cross and other buildings in Baghdad bombed, more than 30 killed 
12 Oct: Baghdad Hotel bombed, six dead 
9 Oct: Police station in Baghdad bombed, 10 killed 
29 Aug: Mosque near Najaf bombed, 90 to 125 reported including Shia Islam's top cleric in Iraq 
19 Aug: UN headquarters in Baghdad bombed, 23 killed including head of mission 
7 Aug: Jordanian Embassy bombed, 14 killed

Lets make a 'Tour the World' of the month of August to compare what vision upon the 9/11 attacks is more accurate. Mine or the White House version of this all.

Because the White House did again give no reaction at all they did earn my heavy disgust, the only thing the Holy President did was making phone call after phone call after each attack (giving condolences and stuff like that). 

But at the end of August the 'desired' amount of daily deaths did indeed come out sharply, that was very good work from what I call 'the operatives'. Until now the August month is still a spike in civil deaths, so why the Media silence upon what I have to say? Why? 

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Of course I have broken my head upon this question too my dear American friends, but since it is clear that on Military Bloody Day number six not one single coalition soldier died the facts speak for themselves. Facts are it can't be me, or is this analysis to simple my dear audience? 

So who calls for the shots? And are these only 'state sponsored devils' or are they just like those free 'peer to peer' networks exchanging 'free files' on subject outside the average imagination? 

Who calls the shots in this 'war on terror'? Who? 

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An idiot is what you are, just look at the rest of this planet. Who is not fighting against America? Who is not indulging in this? IDIOT!   

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Comment: The European model needed in this case looks a bit like this; All countries get some 'voting weights' according to their population size. For example a country of 63 million people has a weight of 63, they will have 63 votes to throw in.

Suppose in the European parliament this country has to vote for the next bill:

Bill 1963: <We will destroy America or may be not>

Well, the folks of this particular 63 million country needs a bit of scratching on the head before they can finalize such a beautiful bill and they come up with the next:

- 3 votes do not want to vote (non votes)
- 26 vote in favor of this bill (+26 votes)
- 34 vote against this evil bill (-34 votes)

That's all, the net result will be 26 minus 34 = minus 8 votes. You get the 'voting point' in this? There is still plenty of room to give rise to 'wheeling and dealing' while there is plenty of democracy too. Beside the European parliament also the United Nations need to work along simple lines like this, but that is another chapter. 

Second comment: From a strategic point (in the WarOnTerror) kind of view it is strange that the countries Spain and Poland were the blockers in this (but I do not know the details of this particular 'reformed system' so may be they are wise. May be.) 

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Comment: Ah, some very interesting detail these 'contacts with resistance' forces. I have some thoughts upon this too (some things are very clear although the Americans simply not see this) but since the 'Feind hört mit' I have to shot up my big keyboard born mouth.

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What could happen with the 'international law status' of this particular four days bombing in question? Although nowadays in practice international laws on warfare are just a muppet show as the World Trade Organization is, in the future this could be different.

The Holy President George Doubleyou Bush said it himself: 'I want international institutions that can be taken seriously and are not irrelevant.' That is what he said himself.   

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"If the camera wasn't on, I would have bashed your face," one detainee was allegedly told by a guard. "The camera is your best friend."

During two incidents captured on videotape, the report said, "we observed officers escort detainees down a hall at a brisk pace and ram them into a wall without slowing down before impact." In the numerous "slamming" incidents recorded on tape, the report said, there was no evidence that the detainees had provoked or attacked the guards.

No, this is not that much impressive (although running at brisk pace with blind folded people is some interesting detail, I just guess each country reacts different upon attacking stuff). Impressive would be detailed reports of what happened to all those people that were sent abroad to get some 'questioning'. That's impressive my dear America, that's impressive...

Against this foreign sending of 9/11 detainees that wonderful presidential prose explaining that "Sixty years of supporting oppressive regimes did not make this country one little bit safer." This is also impressive. 
Very impressive, but the last are only words while the wall smashing (and worse) are deeds done by the 'freedom lovers'. 

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(Monday 15 Dec 16.55 hours) Nah, the 'DOW DOW DOWN' words aren't working today! ;)
How is this possible? I sure have to work on my 'dictator capabilities' or not?
But serious, the DOW is allowed 'to party' of course and US financial mindsets can wonder if the big stock markets are on the historic P/E ratio of one to 15 again (because now at the end of 2003 all companies must have implemented new techno stuff so the beginner advantage is lost and it has to go back to it's historical level, otherwise foreign investors will not invest into the USA...)

For the rest, I have a little flu so today I will not write some letter to al Queda and I will not explain how you can draw the social logarithm of humanity inside the science of Social Quantum Mechanics. 
Sorry, at first I want to fly the flu out of my little building.

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Comment: Well it is good to have this confirmed from your corner too, you know Ayman I grew worried after the ending blast of August. The worldwide blasts from August were very important and a lot of people did learn a lot of lessons from it, but I grew worried later on...
But luckily there was some wonderful series of Military Bloody Days observed while the resistance crossed the borders of cultural and religious differences. And the last was very good in keeping Iraq together, I have been very emotional upon that (because a collapse into civil war after August would have been one of the biggest failures of my life, but I am still smiling now...).

Let me close this comment with some personal remark Ayman, you trigger some kind of 'uncle feelings' in me. That is because you are indulging into anti-American stuff for a few decades while I am doing that for only a few years... By the way, do you consider the GreatMoneyDrain upon America, this NightmareOnTheUS$ a good or a lousy idea?  

Comment; Just as some example, the Deutsche Bank has lost something like 6 billion Euro from that decline in the valuation of the US dollar so far in this year 2003 (the last 2 billion were after the creation of the NightmareOnTheUS$ and sometimes I just wonder what would happen if the Deutsche Bank would go short heavy on some stuff...[this in a smart short going attack of course, not like the CNN commercials of Deutsche Bank where they declare they are only after 'aiming higher' just like their clients do]). 

• THE hole he hid in had only one opening. It was blocked. He could not have escaped. So was it in effect a prison? Was he being held there as part of a trade-off? 

• WHAT was the $US750,000 (about $A1 million) found on him for?

• WHY did he have no communications equipment? Not even a mobile phone was on him.

Comment: Well this was found on a website called the Sunday Mail (from Australia) so it could be the journalist or reporter that is fundamentally stupid in this. But how come that somebody like Saddam even does not have a mobile phone on him? 
May be, in case you are interested, let me inform you that only in this solar year 2003 I accepted a mobile phone for the first time (because I do not have a normal phone anymore due to lack of money and so). But I leave this pre paid phone always at home and (almost) never take it with me, that's lethal stuff you know. Wanna be a sitting duck for all parties with voice recognition software? Just take your mobile phone with you wherever you go! 

• Item one, the item of social ranking. The higher the target the better the jamming stuff will be, but even presidents cannot jam hard upon aviation radio frequencies (or frequencies used by his or her own security services). 
• Item two, the item of electro-magnetic spectrum used by jammers. Just go around the corner of radio frequencies and imagine the next example: Just one kilometer away from the moving target crossing some 'bride' a good sniper is standing, in it's hands (or on some tripod) is some good quality laser gun. With this laser gun the good sniper could trigger the (roadside) bomb.
• Item three, the item of 'jamming recognition'. Again a simple idea but this one is hard to implement, the bomb just 'recognizes' the jamming apparatus and says BOOM when it estimates that the jamming is at it's 'maximum'. (I prefer item two, but if you have good technical specifics upon that particular jamming stuff you could try item three but please minimize that stuff we call collateral stuff.)
• Item four, the item of (partially) wired booming devices. You can use good quality coax cable in trying to avoid jamming or even glass fiber (no radio frequency jammer can disturb glass fiber wired stuff...). 
• Item five, the item of robustness. These days the most advanced jammers even have stuff that can disturb electronics, so do not use advanced micro chips running on just a few electrons a second but take a look at old fashioned transistors using a lot of currency (so only extreme strong waves of some spectral stuff can destroy the functionality of the apparatus).   

That's it my dear Pakistanis, don't forget that Gods gift to humanity is for sure our brain (therefore we have such lousy bodies and we do not have real 'gorilla power' in our bodies...). But my dear Pakistanis, why do I mention you again? That is because you were the first that reacted very positive upon some simple ideas of how to make 'Simple Cyber War'. To Musharraf I can say; 'Do not take this personnel my man, in general I only attack policies and not people. The only exception on this is the so called SniperList.'   

In March 1984, under international pressure, America condemned Iraq's use of such chemical weapons. But realising that Baghdad had been upset, Secretary of State George Schultz asked Mr Rumsfeld to travel to Iraq as a special envoy to meet Saddam's Foreign Minister, Tariq Aziz, and smooth matters over.

Comment: This is a lovely finding, this is the real face of America once more. This is the way they are and it is not for nothing that I am hoping upon something like forty thousand dead in the next big attack... That is not for nothing my dear America, it's all to late and to little what you are doing now! 
But since the Americans are still so very proud upon their beloved Ronald Regan, we quote on:

America's relationship with Iraq at a time when Saddam was using chemical weapons is well-documented but rarely reported.

During the war with Iran, America provided combat assistance to Iraq that included intelligence on Iranian deployments and bomb-damage assessments.  

Comment: Of course stuff like that is not reported, by now I have found out how the US media works! At first each and every US journalist/reporter cannot fly away too far from the herd, as a second the 'story told' must be comprehensible to the average American mindset (this triggers severe borders of debility on) and thirdly it must not compromise White House statements/policies in this WarOnTerror while (fourth) all the time just pretending they are a 'free press'. Quoting on:

Iran had submitted a draft resolution asking the U.N. to condemn Iraq's chemical weapons use. The U.S. delegate to the U.N. was instructed to lobby friendly delegations in order to obtain a general motion of "no decision" on the resolution. If this was not achievable, the U.S. delegate was to abstain on the issue. Iraq's ambassador met with the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., Jeane Kirkpatrick, and asked for "restraint" in responding to the issue - as did the representatives of both France and Britain.

Comment: Again I wonderful finding, did not the present president of the USA complain before GulfWarII that he wanted 'International organizations that can be taken serious and are not irrelevant'? Now, didn't he want this? Well , may be the Americans will have it that way...
The next quote is what some American media outlet (syfi dot com) makes of the interesting 'lobby works' to achieve a 'no decision' on the above mentioned resolution (or may be another UN resolution is mentioned, anyway the spin is perfect so perfect):

The Reagan administration condemned the use of chemical weapons under pressure from the United Nations, but continued to cultivate ties with Baghdad for business, energy and political interests. 

And a little part of the Rummycup reaction upon this 'minor disturbance':

Rumsfeld on Tuesday said that such diplomacy was standard in history and that the United States continued to have relations with countries that are "not behaving in the way we would like them to behave". 

"We nonetheless have diplomatic relations and communicate on a variety of subjects," Rumsfeld said. "There's nothing unusual about that then and today". 

Rumsfeld told reporters he did not recall any memorandums or written instructions about his trips to Iraq. "The only surprise is that someone reached into a duffel bag that is 20 years old" and came up with the document, he said.

Comment: A few months after the 'little fault' in the State of the Union became known to the public the wonderful mindset of Rummycup came up with the next 'Only yesterday I found out that there were some minor mistakes in the State of the Union, but it was all technically correct. Now the next question please... Yes you maddm in the corner.'  

Comment: Well, if you are finally after all this time pick up investigation lines like this it is just once more proved that America is in many ways a 'dinosaur country'. Beside this I have only one more thing to say; Lately I recited again for this particular stuff and about five weeks later another 'anthrax scare' was observed (but the mail in question was radiated). So was there anthrax yes or no? I found no Media reports on this little but important item... 

Comment: Again we see (to speak in White House wordings) that they are only killing civilians and children and elderly. For a great deal this only emerges from the use of some military axioms that are a bit outdated. 

Comment: Since the US army is constantly refusing to review the military axioms she is using she must not complain that I call stuff like this 'very good'. You know Western military mindsets, it is always the same with you; You cluster together and seal your area completely off from the environment, after softer targets are selected by opponents you always start complaining upon the 'terror level' of those 'coward attacks'. 
Well, a bunch of cowards is what you are with your ways of fighting. In the meantime I sometimes feel very proud upon the achievements of the Iraqi insurgency. Oh oh US army, you are so 'pre 9/11' you are so dinosaur. How often did I not ask from you to give me good battles? And what do you do?
So in the meantime you must not complain upon phrases in the above like 'and wounding at least 172' (mostly civilians likely). You must not complain when your own seeds gets harvested. You must not complain...

It is not for nothing I often ask for the hardest possible targets, it is not for nothing that I have asked the Iraqis often to 'write their lessons down' so that in a sharp detail knowledge accumulates upon 'how to attack the US army'. Because only with enough dead coalition soldiers the present military mindset will give themselves a scratch on the head and only with enough dead Western soldiers stuff will change... 

At last to the Iraqis; good luck with this all while the operatives too must not forget the long term policy still applied to the Iraqi equation:

• Turn stuff into a military Vietnam for the US & coalition military forces, &
• Serious improvement for the Iraqi population. 

Comment: Just think a bit upon the "because it's a tactic that's been employed around the country", what the hell is the guy saying? To my humble opinion it has just never emerged into all Media files that the tactic of (simultaneous) suicide attacks is used into the holy heartlands. 

And since I said before that if you want to understand the American 'free press' behavior these days you must take a look at the 'free press' during World War II, what can we conclude upon this? Is this just a 'constantly misunderestimating' kind of thing, or have there been suicide attacks carefully not reported via the American Media? (Because that would only lift the spirit of the enemy...)

By the way, did you notice that the 'all American looking guy' Ridge is now SECRETARY Ridge? Don't you think that Ridge is so very 'American looking'? When you see him you instantly know that he is an American, again we see that in this American country looks are more important than brains. 

Now we quote on a bit more from the whitehouse dot gov website:

QUESTION: Saying the chatter is up, the highest it's been since September 11th, is a pretty dramatic statement, but how would you compare it to, say, the Orange Alert that you called last February when there were CIA reports saying an imminent attack was probably about to happen and obviously didn't? But how would you compare it to that time? Is the chatter more serious? Is it more intense? 

SECRETARY RIDGE: I think the level -- again, I don't recall numerically, quantitatively, that time, but any time the federal government goes from Yellow to Orange or Orange back down to Yellow, there's a consensus within the intelligence community that not only the volume but the credibility and the kind of reporting merits us to either raise or lower the level of threat. 

So I think it's a -- it's more important to focus on the fact that there is that consensus within the intelligence community that we go up.

Comment: Very interesting, very interesting that there is that 'consensus within the intel community'. Wow stupid Ridge boy, I could tell you stories but I won't. Only a small but nice detail, here we go:

A long time ago I found the number of American death via traffic accidents and calculated it back to the 9/11 size. I do not remember the exact result anymore, but the whole of 9/11 is less then 14 days of traffic deaths in America. After my simple & humble calculation I observed the next my dear Ridge boy (two examples emerging within 7 days after the humble calculations):

• Just 'by accident' I looked at some German morning news show and there was some 'terror expert' invited and to my big amazement the guy used exactly the same calculation &
• Some relatively frustrated white house official had wisdom like "The terrorists are trying to get us to sleep, but we won't!"

So Ridge this 'consensus into the intelligence community' was very funny to me in those long lost days. But Ridge, just like a lot of foreign intel folks have great fun with the Americans some financial figures too are not completely satisfied with America. Beside the impending terror stuff this is of concern too my dear Ridge, it just looks as if the emperor is loosing clothes on a regular basis. Or not?    

US: Terror threats can be bogus

Washington - A top US lawmaker expressed concern on Sunday that the al-Qaeda may be deliberating spreading false information about security threats in the United States in a bid to wrong-foot US authorities and maximize public panic.

"It's a very inexpensive way for terrorists to do great damage and inflict costs on the United States of America," Representative Christopher Cox said.

Asked if the elevated terror alert over the Christmas holiday could have been caused by al-Qaeda releasing disinformation, Cox, head of the House of Representatives' Homeland Security Committee, replied: "That concerns me a great deal. That's a very real possibility." 

Comment: My dear Christopher Cox, don't you see you are on very dangerous grounds with this? The SuperSmart white house together with devoted hard working Americans in the homeland defense department have not for nothing lightened up the thread level. Why don't you stand beside your Holy President Christopher? You are failing your Holy President, you are failing your country, you have surely crossed the border of decency with your low remarks that 'This could be hoaxing stuff'. 
My dear Christopher, you must be one of those lefties one of those democrats who always try to attack the Holy President whenever they can. Don't you understand the 'natural order' from these years my dear Christopher? When the Holy President says that often one and one adds up to three than this is simply the way it will be... Why do you drift so far from the most simple patriotic duties? Is it that difficult to remember that one and one makes three?  

China mulls reducing Iraq debts

China will consider cutting the debts owed by Iraq as a humanitarian gesture, Prime Minister Wen Jiabao has said. 

The announcement came US envoy James Baker met top Chinese leaders - and follows Japanese and European pledges to write off Iraqi debts.

It is hard to get precise numbers on the sums which Beijing is owed by Iraq, our correspondent says. 

The figures mentioned in the media range from just over one billion to several billion dollars, most of it for construction and oil industry work done before the first Gulf war.

Comment: Well my dear Chinese, I have no idea about how much money we are talking but anyway I have to say the next: 'To me two things jump to the forefront, the first is the simple fact that the average income per Chinese citizen is far below that of some of the other countries. The second is the fact that your population is 40 times as big as the Iraqi population'.
So with these facts in mind you might have 'something' to mull but it isn't very much. To be honest, you have nothing to mull in this particular case of just a few billions. 

But I am in a good mood today so I even have a reward for you; Within the latest policy of the so called NightmareOnTheUS$ (started on 24 & 25 November so five weeks back or so) you are allowed to peg your currency (the yuan) to the US$ at your profit. You must be reasonable of course, this is not a blanc cheque but if the Americans start complaining you could subtly whisper 'But the Dutch guy said so'. After that you likely won't get much complaining, but you must be 'reasonable'.

By the way my dear Chinese government, now we are on the line anyway may I ask you the next: In the year 2002 just every time I wrote the word 'China' down in these writings, the local folks from the local Chinese food service were scared to the bone. Only 3 to 4 weeks later they were able to look me in the eye again, these people were really afraid at those times...
My dear China, I am well aware of the fact that the Dutch secret service is a bunch of coward fatbags but I considered that kind of behavior as very unpolite. Very unpolite.
So my dear Chinese government, don't forget that at every instant in time I could choose to grow a bit of so called 'cell structure' in your country too. 

The first bundle of thoughts = swap (Hun, Operative):

• A wise chieftan gives tough assignments to Huns who can rise to the challenge.
• Huns only make enemies on purpose.
• Appoint the most capable Hun, give her both responsibility and authority, then hold her accountable.   

The second bundle of thoughts = swap (Hun, American):

• A Hun's perception is reality for him.
• Every Hun has value -- even if only to serve as a bad example.
• Some Huns have solutions for which there are no problems.
• Suffer long for mediocre but loyal Huns. Suffer not for competent but disloyal Huns.