PJC Journal – Original

I do recall
speaking once with a wise American, probably the only one that I would like to call wise anyway, an ex CIA project manager that I had the pleasure
of working with many years ago, who described to me his own country in the following
terms. 

'America is the only nation on earth, that has gone
from infancy to senility, with no period of maturity'.  

The events of the
past few days have certainly reinforced that view in my mind.

Whilst George
Dubya was giving his all in front of the nation, with the entire press corp
focused on the words coming out of his mouth in disbelief, another lesser known
group was having a press conference of its own across town, with a briefing
called – How to make the Military Surge Work – A complimentary Political Plan
for Iraq. 

Who is this other
group? The Iran
Policy Committee. 

The Iran Policy
Committee, formed in January 2005, set up and run by Dick Cheney is a pressure
group meant to influence US government policy towards Iran, and is made up of former White House,
State Department, Pentagon and CIA officials. 

They
said “President Bush is suggesting a surge of U.S. Forces in Iraq and corresponding political
benchmarks for the government of Iraq to become more inclusive.
Yet, the government of Prime Minister Maliki has failed to meet such milestones
in the past and is unlikely to do so in the future because of the influence of Tehran on Baghdad. As the Iranian regime works
to increase sectarian strife in Iraq, new analysis by the Iran
Policy Committee suggests a role for the Iranian opposition in Iraq to build a national compact
among the Iraqi factions.”

They
said a lot more as well, you can read the Press release here 

So, why would the
“Iran Policy Committee” be making public statements about Iraq? And commenting that Prime Minister
Maliki won’t be able to meet milestones in the future?

Because Iran is now the new enemy. 

Recall how I
mentioned in an earlier blog that an ‘event’ would occur, in response to Sir
Ian Blair’s comments about internment.  I
suggested that these ‘events’ would happen both here and in the US.

As part of George
Bush’s plan, he has given overall command of the land forces to a Naval
officer, which people could not immediately appreciate or understand, and in
addition to the  22,500 troops there
would be extra carrier task forces deployed. 

Two US carrier task forces will certainly make
the Persian Gulf a very congested place, which it is
already, even before the new arrivals get there.  We have already seen a US nuclear sub collide with a Japanese
tanker this week.

It therefore
seems that such congestion will be for a reason. Either to provide the means
for a massive hit on Iran or to serve as sitting ducks for a new Pearl Harbour type of sacrifice that would rally
Americans behind the new war.  

Such an ‘event’
would certainly galvanise the American public to support U.S. troops going into Iran.

Having already provoked
Iran by storming their Consulate in Irbil, seeing the build-up of US forces in the
region, hearing an escalation of rhetoric from the White House, the Iranian
government must be aware that there is an underlying plan to attack them. 

Given an
opportunity, in just the same way that the Argentines were presented with the
British Fleet moored in San Carlos water….. if Iran were to strike the first blow, this would
provide the only justification that George Bush is looking for.

For Tony Blair, I
have to say that his body language and presentation over the past week has been
somewhat out of kilter to the normally confident and determined man we are used
to seeing, confident in the mission that was Afghanistan and Iraq. 

His delay in
making a comment about Saddam.  His delay
in giving a very weak comment about Bush’s speech.

He now has the
appearance of a frightened rabbit caught in the headlights, probably having
just dawned on him that up until now he has been the willing accomplice of
probably the maddest man on earth, and he is now way out of his depth.

Related Reading:

Stop the War Coalition: Main Page, Osama Bin Laden, John Rees, Communist Party of Britain, Communist Party of Great Britain Provisional Centre, Committee

Front Page (Sterling Main Street)

Old Yishuv: Musta'Arabi Jews, Sephardi Jews, Four Holy Cities, Jerusalem, Main Page, Safed, Tiberias,Jaffa, Deluge Myth

Driving Change: How the Best Companies are Preparing for the 21st Century

Un tour du monde des écoliers, à portée de main

I do recall
speaking once with a wise American, probably the only one that I would like to call wise anyway, an ex CIA project manager that I had the pleasure
of working with many years ago, who described to me his own country in the following
terms. 

'America is the only nation on earth, that has gone
from infancy to senility, with no period of maturity'.  

The events of the
past few days have certainly reinforced that view in my mind.

Whilst George
Dubya was giving his all in front of the nation, with the entire press corp
focused on the words coming out of his mouth in disbelief, another lesser known
group was having a press conference of its own across town, with a briefing
called – How to make the Military Surge Work – A complimentary Political Plan
for Iraq. 

Who is this other
group? The Iran
Policy Committee. 

The Iran Policy
Committee, formed in January 2005, set up and run by Dick Cheney is a pressure
group meant to influence US government policy towards Iran, and is made up of former White House,
State Department, Pentagon and CIA officials. 

They
said “President Bush is suggesting a surge of U.S. Forces in Iraq and corresponding political
benchmarks for the government of Iraq to become more inclusive.
Yet, the government of Prime Minister Maliki has failed to meet such milestones
in the past and is unlikely to do so in the future because of the influence of Tehran on Baghdad. As the Iranian regime works
to increase sectarian strife in Iraq, new analysis by the Iran
Policy Committee suggests a role for the Iranian opposition in Iraq to build a national compact
among the Iraqi factions.”

They
said a lot more as well, you can read the Press release here 

So, why would the
“Iran Policy Committee” be making public statements about Iraq? And commenting that Prime Minister
Maliki won’t be able to meet milestones in the future?

Because Iran is now the new enemy. 

Recall how I
mentioned in an earlier blog that an ‘event’ would occur, in response to Sir
Ian Blair’s comments about internment.  I
suggested that these ‘events’ would happen both here and in the US.

As part of George
Bush’s plan, he has given overall command of the land forces to a Naval
officer, which people could not immediately appreciate or understand, and in
addition to the  22,500 troops there
would be extra carrier task forces deployed. 

Two US carrier task forces will certainly make
the Persian Gulf a very congested place, which it is
already, even before the new arrivals get there.  We have already seen a US nuclear sub collide with a Japanese
tanker this week.

It therefore
seems that such congestion will be for a reason. Either to provide the means
for a massive hit on Iran or to serve as sitting ducks for a new Pearl Harbour type of sacrifice that would rally
Americans behind the new war.  

Such an ‘event’
would certainly galvanise the American public to support U.S. troops going into Iran.

Having already provoked
Iran by storming their Consulate in Irbil, seeing the build-up of US forces in the
region, hearing an escalation of rhetoric from the White House, the Iranian
government must be aware that there is an underlying plan to attack them. 

Given an
opportunity, in just the same way that the Argentines were presented with the
British Fleet moored in San Carlos water….. if Iran were to strike the first blow, this would
provide the only justification that George Bush is looking for.

For Tony Blair, I
have to say that his body language and presentation over the past week has been
somewhat out of kilter to the normally confident and determined man we are used
to seeing, confident in the mission that was Afghanistan and Iraq. 

His delay in
making a comment about Saddam.  His delay
in giving a very weak comment about Bush’s speech.

He now has the
appearance of a frightened rabbit caught in the headlights, probably having
just dawned on him that up until now he has been the willing accomplice of
probably the maddest man on earth, and he is now way out of his depth.

Related Reading:

Soviet Main Street

Stop the War Coalition: Main Page, Osama Bin Laden, John Rees, Communist Party of Britain, Communist Party of Great Britain Provisional Centre, Committee

Indian Literature: Sanskrit literature, Main Page, Mahabharata, Classical language, Sangam literature, P?li Canon, Vedas, Indian epic poetry, Assamese ... Bengali literature, Bhojpuri language

Old Yishuv: Musta'Arabi Jews, Sephardi Jews, Four Holy Cities, Jerusalem, Main Page, Safed, Tiberias,Jaffa, Deluge Myth

Philby: intelligence service aux mains d'un agent soviétique

I am not normally given to making any comments on this blog with regard to the events in Iraq. However, the storming of
an Iranian consulate in Irbil, northern Iraq by American forces has not only irked
both the Iranian and the Iraqi government, with both governments claiming that
it was sovereign territory, but it has crossed an Internationally agreed boundary. 

It is not clear whether
the American troops were thinking in a local mode in trying to neuter a centre
of terrorist activity, and thereby protect Iraqi civilians and coalition
troops, or in a wider context and searching for incriminating evidence against Iran, but the wider implications were not sufficiently
thought out before the action took place. 

Other methods
could have been employed to surround and isolate the building and shut it down
as a control centre, cutting off the water, power, phones, and using electronic
jammers to prevent the use of mobile phones.

The actions of
the U.S. forces will only serve to legitimise the actions of
any government or regime anywhere in the world to enter the Embassy or Consulate
premises of another nation, based upon the precedent set by the Americans. 

Whilst I give my
full support to coalition troops fighting on the ground, who must look for new
and innovative ways to protect themselves, having been placed in harms way by
their respective governments, the fact remains that unless the U.S. adheres to
these international conventions on sovereignty, they are in serious danger of
loosing even more of the much needed international support for their actions in
Iraq.

Related Reading:

Driving Change: How the Best Companies are Preparing for the 21st Century

Front Page (Sterling Main Street)

Un tour du monde des écoliers, à portée de main

Old Yishuv: Musta'Arabi Jews, Sephardi Jews, Four Holy Cities, Jerusalem, Main Page, Safed, Tiberias,Jaffa, Deluge Myth

Philby: intelligence service aux mains d'un agent soviétique

I am not normally given to making any comments on this blog with regard to the events in Iraq. However, the storming of
an Iranian consulate in Irbil, northern Iraq by American forces has not only irked
both the Iranian and the Iraqi government, with both governments claiming that
it was sovereign territory, but it has crossed an Internationally agreed boundary. 

It is not clear whether
the American troops were thinking in a local mode in trying to neuter a centre
of terrorist activity, and thereby protect Iraqi civilians and coalition
troops, or in a wider context and searching for incriminating evidence against Iran, but the wider implications were not sufficiently
thought out before the action took place. 

Other methods
could have been employed to surround and isolate the building and shut it down
as a control centre, cutting off the water, power, phones, and using electronic
jammers to prevent the use of mobile phones.

The actions of
the U.S. forces will only serve to legitimise the actions of
any government or regime anywhere in the world to enter the Embassy or Consulate
premises of another nation, based upon the precedent set by the Americans. 

Whilst I give my
full support to coalition troops fighting on the ground, who must look for new
and innovative ways to protect themselves, having been placed in harms way by
their respective governments, the fact remains that unless the U.S. adheres to
these international conventions on sovereignty, they are in serious danger of
loosing even more of the much needed international support for their actions in
Iraq.

Related Reading:

Stop the War Coalition: Main Page, Osama Bin Laden, John Rees, Communist Party of Britain, Communist Party of Great Britain Provisional Centre, Committee

Indian Literature: Sanskrit literature, Main Page, Mahabharata, Classical language, Sangam literature, P?li Canon, Vedas, Indian epic poetry, Assamese ... Bengali literature, Bhojpuri language

Driving Change: How the Best Companies are Preparing for the 21st Century

Old Yishuv: Musta'Arabi Jews, Sephardi Jews, Four Holy Cities, Jerusalem, Main Page, Safed, Tiberias,Jaffa, Deluge Myth

Soviet Main Street

A Pacific-wide
alert has been issued for the Australian international conman Peter Foster, who
is under house arrest in Fiji, has not been seen for two days and may
have fled several days earlier to the Pacific island of Vanuatu on a drug-trafficking boat.

The alert has
been issued by the Pacific Transnational Crime Co-ordination Centre, a
Pacific-wide centre of regional police forces, including the Australian Federal
Police. 

As police hunted
for Foster in the Vanuatu capital, Port Vila, yesterday, it emerged that he is
now suspected of defrauding the Federated States of Micronesia Government of
$US580,000 ($F976,266) in a land title scam.

Foster, a serial
fraud, was nowhere to be seen although documents with his name on them were
among the vessels manifest. 

The confusion
over his whereabouts was compounded by a Fiji military spokesman saying his officers
had seen Foster in Fiji on Tuesday night, some days after his
alleged departure.

A Suva magistrate issued a bench warrant for his
arrest on Monday after he failed to appear on three fraud-related charges
including forgery and obtaining a work permit by fraudulent means.  

Foster was
recently embroiled in sensational allegations that he taped a Fijian political
party official admitting last year's election was rigged.

Foster, who has
claimed to have been working undercover for the military, accused senior
military officers of preventing information he gathered on corruption within
the Soqosoqo Duavata ni Lewenivanua Party from reaching Commodore Bainimarama.
“I believe there are forces at work within the military, deliberately
trying to undermine the commander,” Foster said.

Foster said he
could not understand why the military had not released more of the secret video
tapes he recorded for them, or why it was suddenly treating him as “the
enemy within”.

“I've done
everything they have asked and I have put my neck on the line for them.”
He said the tapes contained further “evidence” of corruption within
the SDL and the Laisenia Qarase Government, overthrown by the coup of December
5.

“I have
found out that my letter to Frank (Bainimarama) was never given to him and I
have learnt that he has been told that all of the tapes are the same,”
said Foster. 

“I believe
there is a deliberate undermining of the commander and he is being fed some
wrong information. I know he would be horrified by it. “The whole thing
just stinks and I am fearful of it all. “It's a living nightmare.”

Related Reading:

Soviet Main Street

Old Yishuv: Musta'Arabi Jews, Sephardi Jews, Four Holy Cities, Jerusalem, Main Page, Safed, Tiberias,Jaffa, Deluge Myth

Philby: intelligence service aux mains d'un agent soviétique

Un tour du monde des écoliers, à portée de main

Indian Literature: Sanskrit literature, Main Page, Mahabharata, Classical language, Sangam literature, P?li Canon, Vedas, Indian epic poetry, Assamese ... Bengali literature, Bhojpuri language