This is part two of PIMCO's look at the growth prospects for the global economy. Part one can be found here.
The year ahead will likely be very challenging for the global economy. Growth faces several hurdles that PIMCO believes collectively will impose a sense of greater uncertainty and increased volatility on financial markets. These hurdles include the need for accelerated balance sheet deleveraging, slowly creeping but surely rising risks of financial and economic de-globalisation, and the constant drumbeat of re-regulation, particularly in developed country banking systems.
أطلقت قيادات من الجبهة الإسلامية للإنقاذ المحظورة، اليوم الاثنين 26ديسمبر، موقعا على شبكة الإنترنت باسم الحزب، وهو أول موقع يتم فتحه في إطار النشاطات التي يقوم بها قياديو الحزب المحل رغم الحضر القانوني على نشاطاتهم.
وجاء في كلمة الرقم الثاني في الحزب المحل علي بن حاج بمناسبة افتتاح الموقع قوله: إن الموقع "مفتوح على مصراعيه وكل من أراد أن يساهم في إثراء هذا الموقع بالمقالات الهادفة وعرض المظالم المتنوعة - صوتاً وصورة- التي يعاني منها مختلف أبناء الشعب الجزائري عبر جميع ولايات القطر".
وقد تضمن الموقع أول بيان أصدره مناصفة كل من عباسي مدني وعلي بن حاج، اليوم، جاء فيه أنهما قاما بـ" تكليف محامين دوليين لرفع شكوى لدى الهيئات الدولية الحقوقية والجهات القضائية ذات الاختصاص في هذا الشأن ضد النظام الجزائري، لإلغاء قانون العار وإرجاع الحقوق المسلوبة لأصحابها".
وأكد البيان أن هذه الخطوة هي رد على مصادقة المجلس الشعبي الوطني على المادة الرابعة من قانون الأحزاب الجديد والذي تمنع عودة الأعضاء السابقين في الفيس إلى النشاط السياسي
In interview with Newsweek/Daily Beast, Vice President Biden asserted that “the Taliban per se is not our enemy.”
The ongoing reconciliation process has long included bringing in forces who have taken up arms against the U.S. and against the Afghan government, but Biden might face criticism for stating that as an organization the Taliban is not the enemy of the U.S., when its leadership and members have devoted so much time, resources and energy towards killing American soldiers.
Republicans are already circulating the quote, noting that U.S. forces are still killing, and being killed by, Taliban fighters, trying to figure out how to use the quote given the reality that any peace in Afghanistan will by necessity likely need to include a brokered peace with Taliban forces.
In the wide-ranging interview, Biden talks about how Pakistan was able to live with a Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, which the U.S. would have been able to do had the Taliban stopped harboring al Qaeda. He asserts that the U.S. could have lived with the Taliban too, if that government had turned over al-Qaeda members.
Then the VP then turned to the reconciliation process, saying, “We are in a position where if Afghanistan ceased and desisted from being a haven for people who do damage and have as a target the United States of America and their allies, that’s good enough. That’s good enough. We’re not there yet. Look, the Taliban per se is not our enemy. That’s critical. There is not a single statement that the president has ever made in any of our policy assertions that the Taliban is our enemy because it threatens U.S. interests. If, in fact, the Taliban is able to collapse the existing government, which is cooperating with us in keeping the bad guys from being able to do damage to us, then that becomes a problem for us.”
امير قطر يخبر القذافي عن مخطط لقلب النظام في السعودية بالاتفاق مع الاستخبارات الغربية في تسجيل مسرب من ارشيف الاستخبارات الليبية http://muslm.net/vb/showthread.php?t=464165
We have all seen in the news over the past year the terrible conflict in Libya, but we are not all aware of the true story.
We have heard a very one sided argument presented to us from our media. We have heard many lies, which appear to be covering the truth from us so we cannot make a clear, fair judgment for ourselfs.
This film has been created to show the people of the world another side of the story. The side from the Libyan people them selves.
We have been led to believe the majority of Libyans wanted an over- throw of their govnment, but this is far from the truth.
تعرضت القوات الجوية الأمريكية لانتقادات شديدة بعد الكشف عن إلقاء بقايا رفات ما لا يقل عن 274 جنديا أمريكيا في مقلب للقمامة بولاية فرجينيا
وأقرت القوات الجوية بالإجراء المثير للجدل الشهر الماضي وقالت: إنها أوقفته في عام 2008 .
لكنها لم تكشف عن عدد الجنود الذين ألقيت بقايا رفاتهم في القمامة إلا بعد تحقيق أجرته صحيفة واشنطن بوست.
والقوات الجوية الأمريكية مسئولة عن التعامل باحترام مع رفات الجنود في قاعدة دوفر الجوية، وهي نقطة الدخول الرئيسية لقتلى الحرب الأمريكيين في حربي العراق وأفغانستان.
وهاجم راش هولت وهو عضو ديمقراطي في الكونجرس إدارة القوات الجوية للأمر ووصف الإجراء بأنه 'تدنيس واضح.'
وجرى تطبيق هذا الإجراء في دفن أشلاء جنود أمريكيين قتلوا في انفجارات كبيرة وعثر على بقاياهم بعدما كانت أسر الجنود قد تسلمت جثثهم.
وقالت القوات الجوية:إن أسر 274 جنديا قتيلا أعطت الجيش الإذن بالتعامل مع أي بقايا لكنها أضافت أن الأسر لم تكن على علم بأن هذه الرفات ستنتهي بها الحال في مقلب للقمامة بعد حرقها.
ودافع رئيس أركان القوات الجوية الأمريكية نورتون شوارتز عن قرار عدم إقالة أي شخص على خلفية الإجراء، لكن وزير الدفاع الامريكي ليون بانيتا طلب من القوات الجوية إعادة النظر في العقاب الذي ستفرضه بسبب ما حدث.
وأمر بانيتا أيضا بمراجعة مستقلة لإجراءات الدفن الحالية في دوفر.
المختصر/ نشر موقع الصليب الأحمر الأمريكي ِAmerican Red Cross تقريرا حول جثث قتلى حركة طالبان الأفغانية في المعارك التي تدور بينهم وبين القوات الأجنبية، واستغرب الصليب الأحمر الذي كلف بتجميع الجثث ودفنها في (مزار شريف) عدم تعفن جثث مقاتلي طالبان. يقول التقرير: إن الخبراء أرجعوا السبب للجو البارد هناك، ولكن صدمهم ان جثث جنود تحالف الشمال تنتفخ، وتخرج منها رائحة كريهة. ويضيف أن الخبراء يحاولون البحث عن اللغز في الطعام الذي يأكله مقاتلو طالبان، وهل هناك علاقه بين الطعام والتركيبة الدموية، خصوصا وأن بعض المقاتلين تبقى دماؤهم حارة وهم ميتون
الصورة تجمع الخال زكريا بكلا من إبراهيم وحسين أنباء شقيقته زوجة أسامة بن لادن
عدن أونلاين/ خاص:
قال زكريا أحمد السادة شقيق زوجة أسامة بن لادن إن السلطات الباكستانية رفضت تسليمه شقيقته وأولادها الخمسة للعودة بهم إلى اليمن بعد أن كانت نفس السلطات قد وعدت في وقت سابق بترحيلها إلى اليمن وأوضح زكريا إن السلطات الباكستانية رفضت التجاوب مع طلبه وأنه لا يسمح له بزيارة شقيقته وأبنائها إلا كل سبعة أيام.
وأضاف أن شقيقته وكل زوجات بن لادن تحت الإقامة الجبرية وأنه لا يسمح لجميع أفراد العائلة بمغادرة المكان وأبدى قلقه من الحالة التي وصل إليها الأبناء الذي قال إنهم لم يروا ضوء الشمس منذ وقت طويل وأن ظروفهم الصحية قد تتدهور خاصة مع دخول فصل الشتاء وحول الظروف التي يعيشونها قال السادة إن جميع عائلة بن لادن تسكن في منزل واحد وتفرض عليهم السلطات حراسة مشدده وتمنع الجميع من زيارتهم قائلاً إنه وبصعوبة جداً أستطاع اللقاء بشقيقته وأولادها .
وحول انتقال كل عائلة بن لادن إلى قطر قال "السادة" أن السلطات الباكستانية لا تزال تتحفظ بالعائلة وأنها لم تستجب لأي جهود من قبل السفارة اليمنية هناك والتي تبذل جهوداً كبيرة لاستعادة شقيقته حسب وصفه وإعادتها إلى اليمن وناشد عبر إيلاف جميع المنظمات الحقوقية إلى مخاطبة الحكومة الباكستانية للإيفاء بما وعدت به في وقت سابق ودعا جميع الناشطين الحقوقيين في اليمن إلى مساندته في إستعاده شقيقته وأولادها حيث وقد مضت فترة كبيرة وهو لا يزال في باكستان في ظروف معيشية صعبة.
وقد نشر زكريا السادة في صفحته على موقع التواصل الاجتماعي "فيس بوك" صورة جمعته مع أبناء الشيخ أسامة بن لادن، إبراهيم وحسين واللذان يتحدثان اللغة العربية الفصحى هذا وتعتبر أول الصور لأبنا أسامة بن لادن من أرملته اليمنية.
Dear brothers and sisters. Now is the time to open your eyes!
In a stunning move that has civil libertarians stuttering with disbelief, the U.S. Senate has just passed a bill that effectively ends the Bill of Rights in America.
The National Defense Authorization Act is being called the most traitorous act ever witnessed in the Senate, and the language of the bill is cleverly designed to make you think it doesn't apply to Americans, but toward the end of the bill, it essentially says it can apply to Americans "if we want it to.
Bill Summary & Status, 112th Congress (2011 -- 2012) | S.1867 | Latest Title: National Defense Authorization Act for.
This bill, passed late last night in a 93-7 vote, declares the entire USA to be a "battleground" upon which U.S. military forces can operate with impunity, overriding Posse Comitatus and granting the military the unchecked power to arrest, detain, interrogate and even assassinate U.S. citizens with impunity.
Even WIRED magazine was outraged at this bill, reporting:
Senate Wants the Military to Lock You Up Without Trial
...the detention mandate to use indefinite military detention in terrorism cases isn't limited to foreigners. It's confusing, because two different sections of the bill seem to contradict each other, but in the judgment of the University of Texas' Robert Chesney — a nonpartisan authority on military detention — "U.S. citizens are included in the grant of detention authority."
The passage of this law is nothing less than an outright declaration of WAR against the American People by the military-connected power elite. If this is signed into law, it will shred the remaining tenants of the Bill of Rights and unleash upon America a total military dictatorship, complete with secret arrests, secret prisons, unlawful interrogations, indefinite detainment without ever being charged with a crime, the torture of Americans and even the "legitimate assassination" of U.S. citizens right here on American soil!
If you have not yet woken up to the reality of the police state we've been warning you about, I hope you realize we are fast running out of time. Once this becomes law, you have no rights whatsoever in America. — no due process, no First Amendment speech rights, no right to remain silent, nothing.
The US senate does not want us to speak. I suspect even now orders are being shouted into telephones and men with guns will soon be on their way. Why? Because while the truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power. Words offer the means to meaning and for those who will listen, the enunciation of truth. And the truth is, there is something terribly wrong with this country, isn't there? Cruelty and injustice...intolerance and oppression. And where once you had the freedom to object, to think and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and systems of surveillance, coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission. How did this happen? Who's to blame? Well certainly there are those who are more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable. But again, truth be told...if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror.
I know why you did it. I know you were afraid. Who wouldn't be? War. Terror. Disease. There were a myriad of problems which conspired to corrupt your reason and rob you of your common sense. Fear got the best of you and in your panic, you turned to the now President in command Barack Obama. He promised you order. He promised you peace. And all he demanded in return was your silent, obedient consent.
More than four hundred years ago, a great citizen wished to embed the fifth of November forever in our memory. His hope was to remind the world that fairness. Justice, and freedom are more than words - they are perspectives. So if you've seen nothing, if the crimes of this government remain unknown to you, then I would suggest that you allow the fifth of November to pass unmarked. But if you see what I see, if you feel as I feel, and if you would seek as I seek...then I ask you to stand beside one another, one year from November 5th, 2011, outside the gates of every court house of every city DEMANDING our rights!!
Together we stand against the injustice of our own Government.
We are anonymous. We are Legion. United as ONE. Divided by zero. We do not forgive Censorship. We do not forget Oppression. US SENATE... Expect us!!
Following the Pakistani government’s recent decision to shut down NATO supply lines into Afghanistan indefinitely, Russian officials upped the ante by subtly threatening to close off northern routes for the occupation if the U.S.-led military alliance refuses to back down on a proposed missile defense system in Europe. According to analysts, such a move by Russia at this point would either spark a new war or force a rapid withdrawal of supply-starved Western forces from the region.
Russian Ambassador to NATO Dmitri Rogozin was widely quoted last week as saying that if the military alliance refuses to offer a serious response to the Kremlin’s demands, "we have to address matters in relations in other areas." And the Russian government’s cooperation in the NATO occupation of Afghanistan could be one of those areas, he warned.
Western officials apologized for the killings. But it was not enough. Outraged Pakistanis poured into the streets as the regime ordered border crossings and U.S. airbases closed. NATO chiefs were left scrambling to route all of the necessary supplies through the "Northern Distribution Network" via Russia and former Soviet states bordering Afghanistan to the north.
The new geopolitical situation — NATO’s absolute reliance on Russian cooperation to keep the landlocked Afghan war going — has given the Kremlin a powerful bargaining tool. And while the Russian regime has supported the NATO occupation so far, that could change.
The U.S. government recently worked out agreements with its counterparts in Romania and Turkey to set up new missile defense systems — supposedly to protect Europe from a hypothetical attack by Iran. But the Russian regime is not happy about it, arguing that it would alter the nuclear balance of geopolitical power, and has become increasingly vocal in recent weeks.
Another contentious issue straining relations between Washington and Moscow is the Russian government’s controversial alliance with the regime of Syrian “President” Bashar Al-Assad. NATO governments have become increasingly aggressive, applying new waves of sanctions on Syria and even issuing veiled hints of a possible regime-change operation in the works.
Meanwhile, Russian authorities have steadfastly refused to cooperate with the Western belligerence toward Assad. The communist dictatorship ruling mainland China and the Russian government both recently vetoed a resolution in the United Nations Security Council condemning the Syrian regime. And Russia is expected to continue frustrating NATO efforts at the international level — especially after what happened in Libya.
But with Russia’s newfound leverage, the U.S. government and the military alliance are in a tough spot, analysts said. “Simply raising the possibility of cutting supply lines forces NATO and the United States to recalculate their position in Afghanistan,” noted George Friedman, founder of the Austin, Texas-based intelligence firm Stratfor. “No matter how small the probability, it places more than 100,000 U.S. and allied troops in a vulnerable position.”
Most observers agreed that Russia was probably unlikely to follow through with the threat, at least not as a first response. Blocking NATO’s supplies would, of course, create enormous problems for the Western occupation of Afghanistan. But it would also create more than a few headaches for the Russian government.
Still, it is not outside the realm of possibility.
"If the U.S. is not responsive, then a cutoff could be a reality at some point," said Ivan Safranchuk, deputy head of the Institute of Contemporary International Studies in Moscow. "Russia would like the U.S. to be more serious about Russian concerns."
Other Russian analysts defended the nation’s right to use such a threat as a bargaining tool to pressure the U.S. government. “There are processes which are critically important for Russia — which are about Russia’s national security,” explained Yury Krupnov of the Institute for Demography, Migration and Regulation Development.
Citing Washington’s proposed missile program in Europe and the expansion of NATO along Russia’s borders “without taking into consideration Russia’s concerns,” Krupnov told Russian TV network RT that the policies give Moscow the right “to use any leverage it has to be heard by its partner.”
If the supply routes were eventually cut off, analysts universally acknowledge that the consequences would be devastating for NATO and U.S. forces. The Western-backed regime of Afghan leader Hamid Karzai would almost certainly collapse quickly, too.
Strategy Professor Michael Vlahos at the U.S. Naval War College explained that Russia has even more leverage than Pakistan right now. “The U.S. has a very tenuous kind of placement in Afghanistan and it is highly vulnerable to the Pakistanis,” he told RT. “But it is more vulnerable to Russia. If Russia were to withdraw its permission for the U.S. to use its rail lines we would be in a very difficult position in Afghanistan.”
Pakistani analysts, meanwhile, were even more blunt about the potential catastrophic scenario. Experts cited by Pakistan's The News International said the Russian threat, if acted upon, would deliver the “deathblow” to the NATO occupation, creating a “cold deathtrap” for Western forces that would cause massive casualties.
“Americans and NATO troops have been strangled in Afghanistan,” said retired Lt. Gen. Hamid Gul, the former chief of Pakistan’s Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) agency. And if Russia follows through, which Gul believes is a very real possibility, the situation would become even more dire for Western powers.
“NATO troops will have to exit Vietnam-style,” Gul noted, calling for cooperation between the governments of Pakistan and Russia on the matter. “And that, too, by using Pakistan’s airspace, because Iran will never let U.S.A. use its airspace.”
Even if Russia is bluffing, however, massive damage has already been done. Analysts pointed out that the vulnerability of the Western alliance and its occupation has been unveiled for the world — and the Afghan fighters battling the coalition — to see.
“The United States and NATO have been exposed as waging a war that depended on the willingness of first Pakistan and now increasingly Russia to permit the movement of supplies through their respective territories,” wrote Stratfor’s Friedman. “Were they both to suspend that privilege, the United States would face the choice of going to war to seize supply lines — something well beyond U.S. conventional capacity at this time — or to concede the war.… Washington, of course, hopes the Pakistanis will reconsider and that the Russians are simply blowing off steam. Hope, however, is not a strategy.”
The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan tried to downplay concerns. "Whatever terms need to be negotiated they will be handled between diplomats and the states of the Northern Distribution Network,” a spokesman was quoted as saying in The Australian. “ISAF does not negotiate with the Russians on border crossing rights." All supplies through the NDN, however, currently pass through Russian territory before reaching the Afghan border.
Following the Russian statements, U.S. Ambassador to NATO Ivo Daalder proclaimed that President Obama planned to proceed with the missile defense system "whether Russia likes it or not." Russian leaders, meanwhile, have reportedly already ordered the military to develop plans for attacking and disabling the as-yet non-existent U.S. missile sites in Europe.
Some analysts expected an eventual triumph of diplomacy on the supply-lines and missile-shield issues. Others, however, warned that the escalating tensions might even be the beginning of an impending third world war.
ترددت منذ دقائق أنباء عن وفاة الرئيس المخلوع حسني مبارك، إكلينيكيا حيث أكد شهود عيان من العاملين داخل المستشفى عن وجود هياج كبير داخل المركز الطبي العالمي حول الجناح الذي يقيم فيه مبارك. وأضاف شهود العيان أن جسد الرئيس السابق في حالة خمود كامل وتوقف نهائي لجميع وظائف المخ متضمنا وظائف جذع المخ. وأكد الشهود أن الأطباء شخصوا الحالة مبدئيا وأوضحوا عدم قدرة مبارك على الاستجابة لجميع المؤثرات الطبية المختلفة واختفت حركة حدقة العين. كانت بعض المواقع قد نشرت خبر بكاء وعويل وتدهور صحة مبارك بعد مشاهدته مقتل القذافي علي يد الثوار حيث انتابت مبارك حالة من الهيستريا كادت أن توقف قلبه لمجرد سماعه الخبر لولا تدخل الأطباء وإعطائه جرعة مهدئة. وسيطرت حالة الخوف على مبارك حينما شاهد مقتل القذافي ودخل في نوبة بكاء خوفاً من أن يلاقي مصير معمر القذافي , وقد كثفت القوات المسلحة تواجدها الأمني أمام المركز الطبي خوفاً من 'بطش الثوار' لا سيما وهو يحاكم بتهمة قتل الثوار أثناء اندلاع ثورة الخامس والعشرين من يناير
