Abdullah Abdullah's refusal to take part in the Afghan presidential election runoff on November 7 is a watershed event. From his point of view, the former foreign minister did the sensible thing, having carefully assessed he had no stake whatsoever in a runoff that he had zero chance of winning.
President Hamid Karzai has also shown the door to Abdullah's Western sponsors. They had approached in hopes of gaining a last-minute "deal" that would see Abdullah, their protege, gain some position in the future administration. Abdullah saw that from this point onward, the law of diminishing returns would be at work if he kept pecking at Karzai.
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The latest broadside in the New York Times, portraying his brother, Wali Karzai, as a drug trafficker, has taken matters to a point of no return. American officials who spoke out of turn have done colossal damage to US interests in Afghanistan. It was probably meant as a desperate, last-ditch attempt to sling some more mud at Karazi. Hopefully, Washington will not order an inquiry into the New York Times story, as John Kerry, chairman of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, reportedly sought.
Any such inquiry will only end up bringing out of the cupboard skeletons that neither Kerry nor US President Barack Obama will want to see.
Washington must take serious note that the response to the New York Times report has come from none other than the Afghan Minister of Counter-Narcotics, General Khodaidad Khodaidad. The minister has brought into public debate Afghanistan's best-kept secret: the role of foreign troops in drug trafficking.
read more @ asia times
2. C. Story latest report: German arrests mask major Bush syndicate bust
excerpt:
His investors’ funds were placed in life insurance annuities offered by an associate of Seuss, Thomas R. Meyer, a US citizen and German nation (dual citizenship) based in Omaha, Nebraska.
The original main reports containing this information can be accessed here:
http://www.miamiherald.com/103/story/1305438.html?storylink=omni_popular
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&;sid=arF4rW9G1Ot8
TRANSLATION: A MAJOR 'BUST' OF THE BUSH-41 MONEY-LAUNDERING NEXUS
The arrested and mentioned perpetrators cited in these skeletal reports ARE ALL GERMAN.
read the report here
COINCIDENCE that Chinese general was in Nebraska on 10/28 for STRATCOM meeting?:
Abraham Denmark, director of the Asia-Pacific Security Program at the Center for a New American Security in Washington, DC described Xu's visit to US STRATCOM as possibly enabling a discussion between the US and China on space and cyber issues, in addition to nuclear issues. Because Major General Yin Fanglong, director of the political department of the Second Artillery Corps, which commands China's missile and nuclear forces, was also part of the delegation, nuclear strategy and policy-related issues may well have been on the agenda in Nebraska, too.
3. Moscow news to relaunch Arabic version
LONDON, November 2 (RIA Novosti) - RIA Novosti will relaunch the Moscow News paper in Arabic in the next few days after a 17-year break, the editor-in-chief of the Russian news agency said.
To begin with, MN in Arabic will be a monthly publication with a circulation of 150,000 copies in 15 Arab countries and Israel. If it proves a success, the paper could switch to weekly or even daily editions, Svetlana Mironyuk said on Sunday.
The move is part of a new strategy the Russian government has drafted to consolidate relations with the Arab world in all spheres, primarily in politics and the economy.
read more @ ria novosti
4. keep your hands inside the coaster, we are at the top of the second hill
It is becoming more and more evident, to the astute observer of realistic economics, that the second dip in the "W" global recession is coming up quickly. This is of course, identical to what took place between the 1929 collapse and the 1931 final landing. The world economy fell hard, bounced high and than fell into a deep black hole, that it took it thirty years to climb out of. This time will be worse, at least for the Anglos and more specifically the Americans.
read more @ pravda
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