Yeah, but there aren't only you yankees who have money to iinvest (if you still have any now that your banks coffers are empty).
So far nobody seems to put a dime in the US stock market.
I think the Islamabad stock exchange won't be that "abad" next years.


--> We are working hard on that. (no, just kidding we don't do anything.)

The election of the new Pakistanese president will be IMO a major turn for Pakistan. It will be the first "democraticaly elected" (thought not elected directly by poeple votes). It must not bad for the future of the country and its economy.

Let's hope peace returns to these troubled parts of the world:  Lebanon, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan etc
"The Jihad Belt", "The Army Fatigue Road".


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Welcome Sued.

First, in the conetemporary art world,  it's impossible for an artist to be shown let alone win an award if he makes mockery of judaic symbols. (One exception is when he/she is visibly a jew hinself.)

Second it's pleasant for the art world to see desecration of christian symbols for a variety of reasons: kitch culture, gay pride, unbeliefs of the jews in the christian myths, intello-leftism, sensationalist wannabe etc.

Sure an artist who would joke about judaism would pass for a neo-nazy immediately. But it's not only that.

And now they have arrested the deputy head commity of de-baathification.

Because since they are in their cave and can't go outside more than 10 meters, they couldn't go buy a dvd writer. they still use their crappy VHS recorder. LOL

Since their demand are irrealistical and totaly impossible to be delivered whatever the political decision might be, I'd say, talks to them with false promises until a team comes to freee the hostage.

Two scenarios:
1/ They realy kill an hostage every hour
--> Immediate intervention (after, say, 3 or 4 hours)
2/ They don't but keep on treathening to do so
--> More talks and negotiations. Eventualy the group surrender with a promise of immunity except for the one who shot the killed hostage. Or intervention when the team is ready.

Good point, Zenter.

Terry,

I see it as a good news. It will cost less to the US.

Idiot contemporary art non sens.




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Yeah, I wonder what he would say if it was a star of david.
Try to exhibit a desecrated star of David in a modern art museum and you will see.

It's almost official. They had an agreement on 2011. (That's 10 years after 9/11).
Do you think it will come through?

I'v read something different:


That's 445 civilians killed by the Talibans against 255 by the Afghans and the coalition.

What is unacceptable is that the Afghans and the coalition killed more than half civilians by NOT targeting civilians than the Taliban are killing BY targeting them...

LOL, and you call yur articles "information"?
It's not because they are Israelis or British that they convince me. Nothing in these articles shows that Israel has a political agenda in Georgia.

So let's say Israel has sold weapons to Georgia and maybe sent a few technicians to teach how to use them (by no means the hundreds of military trainers on the battlefield previousely reported). So what?
They do that with everybody who buy weapons from them.

Again, oversimplification and total ignorance in geography and european politics.

The Ossietian and Abkhazian conflict are local business with no link to the external world (I mean the group of hills where the shoot-outs happen).

Georgia is far from being in Nato, the missile shield in Poland is far from being build (I know Poland), and Russia is not going to change their attitude with their main trading partner just because the Georgian mafia godfather has shelled Ossetian civilians.

PiermatoZwo
I agree with you. Shaakashvili has made a big mistake. IMO, what an idiot.

First he should have known that he had no chance against the Russian army.
Second South Ossetians are pro-russians, he had no support in the local population, especialy after he bombarded them.

IMO, he is very lucky it's the moderate Medvediev who is president, otherwise Russian soldiers would have occupied the whole Geogia and started a Chechen style conflict.

Cass
How long are your going to post articles which are less and less relevant to your claims of Israel involvement?
This string of articles which you post and which I read is going nowhere. Yourself, you are not able to say something coherent. It's so vague and confusing, that I still don't know what we have to open our eyes upon.
One article said that Israel had hundreds of military instructors in Georia, which from all evidences is not true.
And I still don't know what Israel would do there. Israel which is struggling with Hezbullah and Hamas, certainly won't want to mess with Russia for some inter-village vendettas in Georgia...

mdma
Cass is "she", not "he".
She has a prodigious imagination, but I can't follow it, it's too far fetched this time...

Cass

I'v been reading the whole articles. Yet I still wonder why you posted them.
The first is irrelevant (it's talking of some Iran oil being purchased indirectly by israel - Interrsting but nothing to do with the Georgian conflict)

The second is plain BS: Why would Israel be behind a conflict which precisely shut down the pipeline supposed to bring them oil?
It's Shaakashvili who attacked Ossetia first and it was very bad for the multinational consortium operating the pipeline. Probably for that reason Shaakashvili didn't get the US support he expected. he goofed with oil and now the West arranged a cease-fire behind his back.
Secondly, the article pretends to let me believe that Israel would have been involved in a conflict AGAINST Russia? And about oil on top of that? Come on...

The Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline is providing oil to a wide range of countries, via a wide range of companies, each owning from 2 to 12% stakes in the pipeline.
Israel is at best a small partner here. Israel uses maybe 0.3% of this oil. And you talk as if the pipeline was build for them. Absurd.