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Sunday, April 5, 2015

Re: Iran’s Persian statement on ‘deal’ contradicts Obama’s claims

Iran

On Apr 5, 2015 1:09 AM, "Baron LeMaris" <baron.lemaris@gmail.com> wrote:

Iran's Persian statement on 'deal' contradicts Obama's claims

April 4, 2015 | 4:35pm

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Iran's Persian statement on 'deal' contradicts Obama's claims
Barack Obama and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif.Photo: AP; EPA

"Iran Agrees to Detailed Nuclear Outline," The New York Times headline claimed on Friday. That found an echo in the Washington Post headline of the same day: "Iran agrees to nuclear restrictions in framework deal with world powers."

But the first thing to know about the highly hyped "historic achievement" that President Obama is trying to sell is that there has been no agreement on any of the fundamental issues that led to international concern about Iran's secret nuclear activities and led to six mandatory resolutions by the United Nations Security Council and 13 years of diplomatic seesaw.

All we have is a number of contradictory statements by various participants in the latest round of talks in Switzerland, which together amount to a diplomatic dog's dinner.

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Obama receives an update from John Kerry in Iran inside the Situation Room on April 1st.Photo: Reuters

First, we have a joint statement in English in 291 words by Iranian Foreign Minister Muhammad Javad Zarif and the European Union foreign policy point-woman Federica Mogherini, who led the so-called P5+1 group of nations including the US in the negotiations.

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John Kerry and his team watch from Lausanne, Switzerland as President Obama makes his state address on the status of the Iran nuclear program talks on April 2nd.Photo: Reuters

Next we have the official Iranian text, in Persian, which runs into 512 words. The text put out by the French comes with 231 words. The prize for "spinner-in-chief" goes to US Secretary of State John Kerry who has put out a text in 1,318 words and acts as if we have a done deal.

It is not only in their length that the texts differ.

They amount to different, at times starkly contradictory, narratives.

The Mogherini and French texts are vague enough to be ultimately meaningless, even as spin.

The Persian text carefully avoids words that might give the impression that anything has been agreed by the Iranian side or that the Islamic Republic has offered any concessions.

The Iranian text is labelled as a press statement only. The American text, however, pretends to enumerate "Parameters for a Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action" and claims key points have been "decided." What remains to be done is work out "implementation details."

When referring to what Iran is supposed to do, the Iranian text uses a device of Persian grammar known as "nakarah," a form of verbs in which the authorship of a deed remains open to speculation.

For example: " It then happened that . . ." or "that is to be done."

But when it comes to things the US and allies are supposed to do, the grammatical form used is "maerfah" which means the precise identification of the author.

This is an example of the first form: "The nuclear facilities at Fordow shall be developed into a center for nuclear research and advanced Physics." It is not clear who is going to do those things, over what length of time, and whether that would be subject to any international supervision.

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From left, Chinese Ambassador to the United Nations Wu Hailong, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, German Foreign Minister Frank Walter Steinmeier, European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini, Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarifat, Russian Deputy Political Director Alexey Karpov, British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry arrive for nuclear talks at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne.Photo: Reuters

An example of the second form: "The United Nations shall abrogate its previous resolutions while the United States and the European Union will immediately lift sanctions [imposed on] financial, banking, insurance, investment and all services related to oil, gas, petrochemicals and car industry."

The Iranian text opens by insisting that it has absolutely no "legal aspect" and is intended only as "a guideline for drafting future accords."

The American text claims that Iran has agreed to do this or that, for example reducing the number of centrifuges from 19,000 to 6,500.

The Iranian text, however, says that Iran "shall be able to . . ." or "qader khahad boud" in Farsi to do such a thing. The same is true about enrichment in Fordow. The Americans say Iran has agreed to stop enrichment there for 15 years. The Iranian text, however, refers to this as something that Iran "will be able to do," if it so wished.

Sometimes the two texts are diametrically opposed.

The American statement claims that Iran has agreed not to use advanced centrifuges, each of which could do the work of 10 old ones. The Iranian text, however, insists that "on the basis of solutions found, work on advanced centrifuges shall continue on the basis of a 10-year plan."

The American text claims that Iran has agreed to dismantle the core of the heavy water plutonium plant in Arak. The Iranian text says the opposite. The plant shall remain and be updated and modernized.

In the past two days Kerry and Obama and their apologists have been all over the place claiming that the Iranian nuclear project and its military-industrial offshoots would be put under a kind of international tutelage for 10, 15 or even 25 years.

However, the Persian, Italian and French texts contain no such figures.

The US talks of sanctions " relief" while Iran claims the sanctions would be "immediately terminated."

The American text claims Tehran has agreed to take measures to reassure the international community on military aspects of its nuclear project, an oblique reference to Iran's development, with help from North Korea, of missiles designed to carry nuclear warheads. There is absolutely no echo of that in the Iranian and other non-American texts.

In his jubilatory remarks in the Rose Garden Thursday, Obama tried to sell the Americans a bill of goods.

He made three outrageous claims.

The first was that when he became president Iran had " thousands of centrifuges" which would now be cut down to around 6,000. In fact, in 2008, Iran had only 800 centrifuges. It was on Obama's watch and because of his perceived weakness that Iran speeded up its nuclear program.

The second claim was that thanks to the scheme he is peddling "all of Iran's paths" to developing a nuclear arsenal would be blocked. And, yet, in the same remarks he admitted that even if the claimed deal is fully implemented, Iran would still be able to build a bomb in just a year, presumably jumping over the "blocked paths."

Obama's worst claim was that the only alternative to his attempts at surrendering to the obnoxious Khomeinist regime would be US involvement in "another ground war in the Middle East."

He ignores the fact that forcing Iran through diplomatic action, sanctions and proximity pressures to abide by six UN resolutions could also be regarded as an alternative. In other words, preemptive surrender is not the only alternative to war.

Obama is playing a bizarre game that could endanger regional peace and threaten the national security of the US and its allies. He insisted that Kerry secure "something, anything" before April 14 to forestall the US Congress' planned moves on Iran.

He also wanted to stick it to Netanyahu, settle scores with Republicans, and please his faction within the Democratic Party; in other words, taking strategic risks with national security and international peace in the pursuit of dubious partisan gains.


Sunday, January 11, 2015

Friday, December 19, 2014

global warming

http://www.hirhome.com/climate_change/global_warming_faq.htm

the HIR web site has alot of junk. but the global warming story is very
interesting... AGW or not? see end of part 6....

Friday, October 3, 2014

Monday, June 9, 2014

Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Monday, April 28, 2014

Saturday, April 12, 2014

Saturday, April 5, 2014

Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Sunday, February 16, 2014

Saturday, February 8, 2014

security barrier

"Officials said the Israeli military assessed that nearly 100,000 Palestinians were illegally living in Israel. They said between 6,000 and 8,000 Palestinians crossed into Israel every month despite the West Bank barrier."


who said that the fence is the main element in reduced terrorism?
who said that israel is an apartheid state?  let me in!!!

Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Sadat

Even Anwar Sadat, who later became a heroic maker of peace with Israel, began his career as a Nazi collaborator, and when rumors surfaced in 1953 that Hitler was still alive, Sadat wrote a fervent public letter declaring, “I congratulate you with all my heart, because though you appear to have been defeated, you were the real victor. … That you have become immortal in Germany is reason enough for pride.”

per your latest broadcast!

Monday, February 3, 2014

Sunday, February 2, 2014

Markets


just came across this chap.
excellent input well worth reading.

http://hussmanfunds.com/wmc/wmc140127.htm

though i became very bullish back in spring 2009 because of the "wealth effect",
based on several factors, i became very cautious two months ago.

forget the first paragraph in the essay and ignore the Funds section.
there are numerous very interesting data points in the article.

one element that i suspect he is not properly incorporating into his analysis is the next surge in inflation.
i believe that he has been a bear for some time. thus missing out on the 2013 surge.

also, check out the links.


btw: the following quotes from obama's state of the union are very informative. are obama and yellen in the process of abandoning the "wealth effect"?


"Today, after four years of economic growth, corporate profits and stock prices have rarely been higher, and those at the top have never done better. But average wages have barely budged. Inequality has deepened. Upward mobility has stalled. The cold, hard fact is that even in the midst of recovery, too many Americans are working more than ever just to get by; let alone to get ahead. And too many still aren’t working at all.

So our job is to reverse these trends."


                                 "And while the stock market has doubled over the last five years, that doesn’t help folks who don’t have 401(k)s.
                                 That’s why tomorrow I will direct the Treasury to create a new way for working Americans to start their own
                                 retirement savings: MyRA. It’s a -- it’s a new savings bond that encourages folks to build a nest egg."


Friday, January 24, 2014

Friday, January 17, 2014

Saturday, January 11, 2014

Thursday, January 9, 2014

Thursday, January 2, 2014

land swaps

read
and the upper westside and lawrence should be swapped into israel!

Saturday, November 16, 2013

oil in australia?

read hired Barclays Bank to find an investment partner for the next stage of the project, costing $150-$300 million.

Friday, November 15, 2013

zionist christianity

read
Sentimentality is the abiding temptation of the Left even as callousness is the abiding temptation of the Right.

Thursday, November 14, 2013

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Friday, October 11, 2013

deficit and funding

krugman is correct: "We would, once again, be signaling that the financial industry gets special treatment because it can threaten to shut down the economy if it doesn’t."

why are people warning about stopping medicare and soc sec payments?
ss and medicare payments should not come from general gov't accounts!!??
let medicare and ssa sell some of their assets if necessary. those sales do not increase the gov't deficit.
medicare funding
Medicare is not bankrupt

soc sec funding
see jack lew statement


Why can't the SSA sell some of its treasury security holdings? It would not increase the gov't debt. those bonds were already issued and are already part of the $16.999T debt ceiling!
I do not understand what all these people are talking about!

Thursday, August 15, 2013

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Sunday, April 21, 2013

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Bernard Lewis and islamic anti-jew

http://pjmedia.com/blog/muhammad-morsis-islamic-jew-hatred-bernard-lewis-islamic-negationism/?print=1

well worth reading. i know you admire bernard but.......


Since the late ninth century, the Shi’ites have been expecting the emergence of the hidden imam-mahdi, armed with divine power and followed by thousands of martyrdom-seeking warriors. He is expected to conquer the world and establish Shi’ism as its supreme religion and system of rule. His appearance would involve terrible war and unusual bloodshed.

Ahmadinejad, as mayor of Teheran, built a spectacular boulevard through which the mahdi would enter into the capital. There is no question that Ahmadinejad believes he has been chosen to be the herald of the mahdi

Shi’ite Islam differs from Sunni Islam regarding the identity of the mahdi. The Sunni mahdi is essentially an anonymous figure; the Shi’ite mahdi is a divinely inspired person with a real identity.

However both Shi’ites and Sunnis share one particular detail about “the coming of the hour” and the dawning of messianic times: The Jews must all suffer a violent death, to the last one. Both Shi’ites and Sunnis quote the famous hadith [Sahih Muslim, Book 40, Number 6985]  attributed to Muhammad: The last hour will not come unless the Muslims fight against the Jews, and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and the stone or the tree would say: “Muslim! Servant of Allah! Here is a Jew behind me; come and kill him!” Not one Friday passes without this hadith being quoted in sermons from one side of the Islamic world to the other.

The rise of Jewish nationalism — Zionism — has posed a predictable, if completely unacceptable challenge to the Islamic order — jihad-imposed chronic dhimmitude for Jews — of apocalyptic magnitude. As historian Bat Ye’or has explained [6],

…because divine will dooms Jews to wandering and misery, the Jewish state appears to Muslims as an unbearable affront and a sin against Allah. Therefore it must be destroyed by Jihad.

This is exactly the Islamic context in which the widespread, “resurgent” use of Jew annihilationist apocalyptic motifs — Sunni and Shi’ite alike — would be an anticipated [6], even commonplace occurrence.

Such is the state of ferment we find in the Muslim world of today. It was epitomized [17] by the openly expressed annihilationist sentiments of Muslim Brotherhood “Spiritual Guide” Yusuf al-Qaradawi which marked his triumphal return to Cairo Friday February 18, 2011. After years of exile, his public re-emergence [17] in Egypt was sanctioned by the nation’s provisional military rulers. Qaradawi, a vocal advocate [17] of Islam’s Jew-hating mainstream canon (like the late Al-Azhar Grand Imam Tantawi), used the occasion to issue a clarion call [17] for the jihad re-conquest of Al-Aqsa mosque, i.e., Jerusalem.

A message to our brothers in Palestine: I have hope that Almighty Allah, as I have been pleased with the victory in Egypt, that He will also please me with the conquest of the al-Aqsa Mosque, to prepare the way for me to preach in the al-Aqsa Mosque. May Allah prepare the way for us to (preach) in the al-Aqsa Mosque in safety — not in fear, not in haste. May Allah achieve this clear conquest for us. O sons of Palestine, I am confident that you will be victorious.

This pronouncement was met [17] with thunderous applause by the millions assembled in Tahrir Square celebrating the so-called Arab Spring.

Sadly, if predictably, Bernard Lewis in an April 2, 2011 Wall Street Journal interview [17], although wary of Qaradawi, ignored the immensely popular cleric’s mainstream, canonical jihadism and Jew-hatred. But Lewis did manage to reject his own repeated [17] 1950s characterization of Islam as authoritarian, even totalitarian, while burbling [17] his now oft repeated pieties about the putative tolerant, anti-authoritarian “tradition” of Islam, to cast a hopeful light on the Arab Spring:

The whole Islamic tradition is very clearly against autocratic and irresponsible rule.. We have a much better chance of establishing…some sort of open, tolerant society, if it’s done within their systems, according to their traditions.

Historian Robert Kaplan has dispassionately analyzed [17] the views of Bernard Lewis on Islamic Jew hatred. Kaplan’s discussion [17] provides broader insights which help elucidate how Lewis may have developed the other self-contradictory, or apologetic positions he has taken on Islamic authoritarianism and dhimmitude. As Kaplan explains [17], central to Lewis’s method are the invalid generalizations he proffers, absent any hard data, i.e., supportive facts.

Lewis puts Islam’s record regarding Jews in a favorable light mainly with the generalizations he makes rather than the particular facts he marshals. These generalizations, which crumble under the slightest scrutiny, are of four general types. One holds that the least onerous version of Muslim oppression is typical of Muslim practice….A second type of generalization claims that the worst of the behavior of Christians towards Jews was the norm… A third variety of generalization employed by Lewis claims that Muslim abuses are far less bad than the worst imaginable abuses by non-Muslims… A fourth type of generalization ascribes to “human nature” rather than Islam, with no basis of evidence, the unattractive characteristics exhibited by Muslims.

Kaplan describes [17] perhaps the most egregious example of the first type of generalization, as follows:

Lewis writes “dhimmitude was a minor inconvenience Jews learned to live with …under Muslim rule the status of dhimmi was long accepted with gratitude by Jews.”  In making this improbable claim he gives no evidence or explanation. Could he mean that the Jews were grateful for not being killed?

Kaplan also demonstrates [17] how Lewis employs a cynical manipulation of semantics to negate the concept of Antisemitism in Islam.

How does Lewis reach the conclusion that Antisemitism is unknown to classical Islam? He defines Antisemitism as hatred of Jews according to Christian doctrine, not simply hatred of Jews. In doing so he distorts the ordinary meaning of “antisemitism” which in contemporary English means hatred of Jews.

Once again, it is illuminating to juxtapose [17] Lewis’s attempt to deny the existence of Antisemitism in Medieval Islam, with the conclusions [6] of S.D. Goitein, based upon the latter’s thorough philological and historical analyses of the primary source Geniza documents. Thus, in the specific context of the Arab Muslim world during the high Middle Ages (circa 950-1250 C.E.), Goitein’ s seminal analyses revealed [6] that the Geniza documentary record employed the term antisemitism,

…in order to differentiate animosity against Jews from the discrimination practiced by Islam against non-Muslims in general. Our scrutiny of the Geniza material has proved the existence of “antisemitism” in the time and the area considered here…

Goitein cites [6] as concrete proof of his assertion that a unique strain of Islamic Jew hatred was extant at this time (i.e., up to a millennium ago) — exploding Lewis’s spurious claim of its absence — the fact that letters from the Cairo Geniza  material,

…have a special word for it and, most significantly, one not found in the Bible or in Talmudic literature (nor registered in any Hebrew dictionary), but one much used and obviously coined in the Geniza period. It is sinuth, “hatred”, a Jew-baiter being called sone, “a hater.”

Incidents of such Muslim Jew hatred documented [6] by Goitein in the Geniza record come from northern Syria (Salamiyya and al-Mar‘arra), Morocco (Fez), and Egypt (Alexandria), with references to the latter being particularly frequent.

A concluding example illustrates how Lewis’s Islamic apologetics — primarily via the same spurious method of “generalization” Kaplan identifies — morphs into frank moral confusion.

Lewis and Islam

http://pjmedia.com/blog/muhammad-morsis-islamic-jew-hatred-bernard-lewis-islamic-negationism/?print=1

non-invasive surgery

no doubt you have seen this!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfJemqkby_0&feature=youtu.be

Friday, December 7, 2012

zionism and demography

well worth reading
many attractive but very false ideas and conclusions. the good news is that hopefully the progressive/liberals that read the article will have few if no children and the world can move forward. all forecasts of shortages etc. have proven to be false. remember the 1960 conference of Rome which predicted collapses within ten years. the writer did pick up on the 9 billion estimate for 2050 down from the previous UN prediction of 12B. very low cost energy vitiates all the shortage arguments. and no doubt eventually man will emigrate from the earth.

Wednesday, November 28, 2012

fools




IT is easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.
 
MARK TWAIN


verification?

http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-noose-around-israels-neck.html

ask berel!


Zohar VaYeira 119a: (In the year (57)73): Then all the nations of the
world shall combine together against the daughter (or house) of Ya'akov
in order to drive her from the world. It is of that time that it is
written: "And it is a time of trouble unto Ya'akov, but out of it he
shall be saved" (Jeremiah 30:7) At that time all the souls in the
Heavenly storehouse of souls will be used up, and will need to be
re-created (that is the gilgulim of the 6 million Jews from the Shoah
will be alive in Eretz Yisrael)...And in the year (57)73 all the kngs of
the world will assemble in the Great City of Rome, Maryland?? (to
accomplish the above), and the Holy One Blessed Be He will shower on
them fire, hail, and meteorites until they are all destroyed, with the
exception of those who will not yet have arrived there yet (that is
those who were not so eager to come.) You see Daniel, there is nothing
to fear this time. G-d has the entire situation under control.

Sunday, November 25, 2012

Mobs


    Insanity in individuals is something rare – but in groups, parties [and] nations. It is the rule.

    At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.

    Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. – Friedrich Nietzsche (1844- 1900)

Sunday, November 11, 2012

the masses

    Insanity in individuals is something rare – but in groups, parties [and] nations. It is the rule.

    At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.

    Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. – Friedrich Nietzsche (1844- 1900)

Thursday, November 8, 2012

nif

http://www.nif.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1448:it-wont-end-with-the-vote&catid=21:guest-voices

heavy wet snowstorm took down more trees and power lines including Lynn's last evening.'who knows when power will return to this third world country...

Saturday, September 15, 2012

Fwd: book


not finished reading but the authors are a bit confused about money supply and printing of money.
they claim huge increases in  money supply will cause enormous inflation.
i too believe that eventually the USA will have serious inflation which may turn out to at least initially be constructive....

see attached money supply data and charts:

http://www.shadowstats.com/charts/monetary-base-money-supply

if anything there is a precipitous decline in various measures of money supply!!

Annual Growth and Money Stock Levels Since 2006 (Scroll down for longer term charts)

   

 Longer Term Historical Charts (Note logarithmic scaling)

   
   

 

 




Thursday, August 16, 2012

Tuesday, August 14, 2012