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artfilms underworld unrepentant commnuist view from iran war within a breath white rose society whitehouse wish hounds women s field zentropa znet about rickb human artist fool ynys mon uk the blog is called ten percent because of what kurt vonnegut wrote when remembering susan sontag she was asked what she had learned from the holocaust and she said that 10 percent of any population is cruel no matter what and that 10 percent is merciful no matter what and that the remaining 80 percent could be moved in either direction and i m writing it because i need the therapy and i lust for world domination pages about meta create account log in entries feed comments feed wordpress com thursday blog action for burma 30 september 2007 rickb just got this in a comment free burma international bloggers day for burma on the 4th of october international bloggers are preparing an action to support the peaceful revolution in burma we want to set a sign for freedom and show our sympathy for these people who are fighting their cruel regime without weapons these bloggers are planning to refrain from posting to their blogs on october 4 and just put up one banner then underlined with the words free burma www free burma org which is fine and dandy and i will support something that shows solidarity however i don t think me not posting for a whole day while shit is still going down in burma is actually as helpful as continuing to blog about it um i mean i think it works if it focuses your blog for the day on burma and you refrain from other subjects perhaps use the downtime from blogging to send notes to companies trading with the regime and contact your elected representatives and make sure they know they must help the democracy movement also there are demos planned so check for those on saturday 6th october there will be an international day of action with marches and protests a non stop vigil is also being held outside parliament but i think i will continue although i will solely post about burma on thursday the 4th posted in uncategorized tags action blogging burma solidarity comments off on thursday blog action for burma blair agreed to attack on iran 30 september 2007 rickb well according to sy hersh s latest during a video conference over the summer bush allegedly told ryan crocker the us ambassador to iraq that he was considering striking iranian targets across the border and that the british were on board according to the article but it s mostly about a change of focus selling the attack as protecting the marauding troops in iraq president george w bush has requested the joint chiefs of staff revise plans for a possible attack on iran with the focus on surgical raids against the iranian revolutionary guard corps which washington accuses of targeting us forces in iraq the magazine wrote previous contingency plans called for a more elaborate bombing campaign against suspected nuclear sites in iran as well as other infrastructure the magazine reported citing unnamed former officials and government consultants bush and his advisers have adopted the new counter terrorism approach recognizing the us public is not convinced that iran poses an imminent nuclear threat and that the us intelligence community believes tehran is at least five years away from obtaining an atomic bomb as blairwatch asks dos the change of pm alter that position of support now how can i put this it fucking well better gordon or guess who you are sharing a cell with until you die oh yeah and cell is a best case scenario for you two nulab fuckwits capice posted in uncategorized tags bush crime family empire iran iraq the war on terror scam war criminals war pimps 1 comment burma the good the bad the ugly money 30 september 2007 rickb as i linked to in the previous post and moa also reports on the burma campaign us yes we have succeed in making two companies that trade with burma halt their business that benefits the junta one of them from the dirty list i wrote to i didn t get a reply but i don t mind seems the md was growing a conscience the burma campaign uk today warmly welcomed announcements by timbmet and k j howells and son that they will no longer sell teak from burma timber exports are a major source of revenue for the regime in burma in an email to the burma campaign k j howells stated in light of the recent brutal treatment of the burmese people by the military we have made the decision to end all ties with suppliers of burmese products and will not place any further orders until a democratic government is put in place i have contacted my primary supplier who has also announced their withdrawal of ties with burma and we are now together looking at alternative sources just two words for that fuck yeah so why not ask the other firms on the dirty list why they still want be bff with the generals click here includes contact details including email also the burma campaign needs funds they ve been providing comment and information for media across the world hundreds of calls a day so show them some love click here meanwhile around 3 000 people have joined a protest in london today the biggest demonstration for burma in the uk so far tomorrow demonstrators will converge on the german embassy calling on germany to stop blocking eu economic sanctions background to the eu s relationship with the junta the current eu common position is pathetic said mark farmaner burma campaign uk it has no economic impact on the regime if you wanted to design a sanctions regime to miss the mark this would be it current eu measures against burma include an arms embargo welcome but the eu has made no effort to secure a united nations arms embargo so the regime can still purchase weapons from other countries a ban on non humanitarian aid again welcome but not a measure that has a serious impact on the regime an end to gsp trade privileges again no significant economic impact on the regime a visa ban for senior regime officials and their families otherwise known as the shopping ban as exemptions in the visa ban allow regime officials to attend many international meetings in europe as the british foreign office has admitted regime officials rarely came to europe anyway a freeze of assets held in europe by people on the visa ban list from information released to the burma campaign uk by the german and british governments less than 7 000 has been frozen in all 27 eu member states again hardly a measure to bring the regime to its knees a limited investment ban targets pineapples but not gas or timber pineapples jeebus now the us is publicly better not least because it is a way to lessen chinese influence in the region but via godlessliberalhomo there is this short history of us oil corporation unocal chevron involvement in burma even in burma however bush s support for human rights yields to his fondness for the oil and gas industry burma has large natural gas reserves and multinational oil corporations want to cash in chevron corporation is currently the largest u s investor in burma with a partnership stake in the multi billion dollar yadana gas pipeline project the yadana project was originally developed by unocal another american oil company which was acquired by chevron last year although new investment in burma is prohibited the pipeline is grandfathered in under an exception pushed by unocal for preexisting projects the bush administration has close ties to chevron secretary of state condoleezza rice was a member of the chevron board of directors for 10 years before bush was elected and even had a chevron oil tanker named for her until it was quietly renamed after bush took office and halliburton the oilfield services giant formerly headed by vice president dick cheney has numerous ties to chevron signing several multimillion dollar contracts during cheney s tenure indeed even before chevron acquired unocal and the yadana project bush s government actively took steps to thwart accountability for the yadana project when refugees who had suffered rape torture enslavement and murder at the hands of soldiers protecting the yadana pipeline sued unocal in u s court the bush administration intervened to try to convince the courts that the lawsuit should not proceed the administration essentially argued that even if the case would not actually interfere with u s relations with burma holding unocal liable would create a precedent that could conflict with u s foreign policy in other parts of the world much as sarkozy s previously mentioned position he professes support for the democracy movement but in reality announcing a freeze of what is already frozen is hardly revolutionary it allows the president to surf on the notion of a french new deal for human rights while protecting french economic interests so it really is up to us our governments the ruling classes global capital corporations are not disturbed one bit by a regime reported to be cremating people alive myanmar s proven gas reserves were 19 trillion cubic feet at the end of 2006 according to bp plc s world review of statistics while that s only about 0 3 percent of the world s total reserves at current production rates and thailand s contract price for gas the deposits are worth almost 2 billion a year in sales over the next 40 years it points to the potential that myanmar has said kang wu a fellow at the university of hawaii s east west center in honolulu altogether nine foreign oil companies are involved in 16 onshore blocks exploring for oil enhancing recovery from older fields or trying to reactivate fields where production has been suspended according to total s web site a block is an area onshore or offshore in which an oil company is granted exploratory and discovery rights offshore nine companies including total petronas pttep south korea s daewoo international corp chinese state run companies china national offshore oil corp or cnooc and china petroleum chemical corp or sinopec are exploring or developing 29 blocks total said despite economic sanctions against myanmar by the united states and the european union total continues to operate the yadana gas field and chevron corp has a 28 percent stake through its takeover of unocal existing investments were exempt from the investment ban this is about people and the bastards that govern us in burma at home in the genocide in iraq and the capital that grows with every death posted in uncategorized tags burma capitalism corporate terrorism fight the power imperialism politics state terror 2 comments un envoy meets aung san suu kyi but not top generals 30 september 2007 rickb the bbc report it very positively expecting he will meet the top leaders today al jazeera find it more curious that gambari didn t initially meet with senior general than shwe or his deputy but has met with the imprisoned opposition leader elected leader there must be a result from this visit said razali ismail a malaysian diplomat and gambari s predecessor as un special envoy gambari must get a promise from the military that they will not shoot the people who express their views on the streets we cannot let the people down he said all amid the lockdown by the armed forces and the beginning of disappearances the military has managed to quell any sign of a protest at the moment and judging by the way soldiers are going round the city they are preparing to face an enemy they have a list of names that they are going through and a lot of people have gone to ground we are now getting some reports of disappearances of people we know at least one journalist who worked for a weekly newspaper has gone missing but do not know exactly how many others have disappeared a short translated transcribed telephone conversation on ko htike s blog er they shot people got killed er but it seems like it wasn t as bad as yesterday in terms of number of deaths however we will know the accurate picture tomorrow er la another disturbing news is that er i would like 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