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S-70 FIREHAWK CAUGHT IN RAIN STORM, POCATELLO AIRPORT 2012
“Our men and women in uniform overseas deserve the highest level of support provided by fair and honest contractors. As the Justice Department’s continuing efforts to fight procurement fraud demonstrate, those who put profits over the welfare of members of our military will pay a hefty price.”-Tony West, Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division of the Department of Justice
09 September 2012, justice officials in Japan, European Union and United States revealed that the capitalist system of shipping is corrupt, big time!
In Japan, the Japanese Fair Trade Commission raided the offices of at least one dozen shipping companies on 06 September. Investigators say the companies formed a cartel to monopolize the shipping industry.
The companies raided were Japanese and foreign. Nippon Yusen, Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Kawasaki Kisen were among the top Japanese companies publicly named.
However, the EU’s European Commission is refusing to name names, but they had raided several European companies in conjunction with the Japanese raid.
In the United States, investigations of shipping companies, by the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) have been ongoing for a long time.
Since January 2012 convictions, and even guilty pleas, have resulted from investigations into shipping companies ripping off U.S. taxpayers regarding the shipment of supplies to U.S. personnel in Afghanistan and Iraq, all the way to dumping petroleum wastes into the oceans.
Those cases include Greece’s Efploia Shipping, Denmark’s Aquarosa Shipping, Keoje Marine of Korea (south), Denmark’s Maersk Line Limited, Italy’s Giuseppe Bottiglieri Shipping Company, Singapore’s Target Ship Management, and Greece’s Ilios Shipping Company.
Currently, the DoJ is working with European and Japanese investigators, trying to break up cartels that have been formed by shipping companies. The shipping cartels are accused of price fixing, bid rigging, illegal market allocations, monopolization, attempts to monopolize, predatory pricing, tying arrangements and price discrimination.
The investigations include ground shipping, as well as by sea. Products being shipped by these cartels include paper products, telecommunications, soft drinks, highway and airport paving, life sciences, health care, furniture, coalbed methane gas and baked goods.
09 September 2012, the controversy over unnatural nuclear industry based fluoride (as opposed to the naturally occurring kind, which can also be bad in large amounts) continues in Arizona, Indiana and Oregon.
A Saint Joseph County Health Officer, in Indiana, is lambasting three cities for their ending of fluoridation of drinking water.
Walkerton town stopped fluoridation because of increased evidence that it is actually causing harm. President of the town council, Karol Jackson, pointed out that people are already exposed to enough fluoride: “It’s also in toothpaste, and some naturally occurs in the groundwater….”
The cities of Lakeville and North Liberty cited the growing financial burden on local taxpayers. By ending fluoridation of drinking water the two towns, combined, will save $2,000 per year: “I know it doesn’t sound like a lot, but we’re a small town and we’re trying to keep our rates low.”-Martha Tyler, Lakeville Town Council President
The Saint Joseph County Health Officer is ignorant, firstly because it turns out the local school district/corporation is still adding fluoride to the drinking water in the schools! Secondly, the health official claims that studies show fluoride protects childrens’ teeth. Tell that to the officials who got surprising results from their own study in Oregon!
In Portland, Oregon, city officials are trying to convince the voters to accept fluoridation of their drinking water. Portland is the largest city in the United States that, so far, refuses to fluoridate their water supply!
The dumb (and probably in the pockets of the fluoride industry) mayor, along with some city councilpersons, are trying to get residents of Portland to approve the fluoridation of their water. They’re claiming that the children of Portland suffer from dental problems.
The problem with that claim is that a 2007 study by the Oregon Department of Human Services shows the opposite. The study looked at dental problems of children in Portland and compared them to children outside of Portland.
The rate of urgent dental care in children outside of Portland was 1 in every 17. What about inside Portland, where fluoride is not used in the water supply? Only 1 in 100 needed urgent dental care!!! “Portland has better teeth!”-Kim Kaminski, member of anti-fluoridation group
Some non-white/European residents of Portland claim the city leaders’ closed door meetings on the issue smacks of racism: “I don’t appreciate you trying to alleviate your white guilt by putting toxins in our water!”-Frances Quaempts-Miller
But despite the mountains of eveidence that fluoridation is bad (remember, it’s mainly the English speaking countries that add the radioactive chemical to water, most other industrialized countries refused after their own research) residents of one Arizona town have fired two officials for stopping the use of fluoride!
The people of Gilbert has force the Public Works director to retire, and got the Water Manager fired. This after the officials decided to end the use of fluoride in the local water supply.
The end came when the fluoridation system was found to be so corroded that it need to be replaced. That was in July 2011, and it still hasn’t been replaced.
Get this, the Gilbert fluoridation system had been leaking for three years prior. It got so bad that a white powder was building up on the equipment, and Public Works employees were complaining of extreme irritation to the skin, nose and eyes. And this is the stuff you’re drinking!
The guttsy Water Manager explained the decision that got him fired: “It was my call to stop fluoridation until the issues with the room were resolved. Fluoride comes into the plant on the raw side naturally, so it’s not like there is no fluoride in the water.”-Chris Ochs
Don’t blame city officials for the nuclear industry fluoridation of Gilbert’s water supply, the dumb voters approved it by 54%, in the 2000 elections.
“…there were 884,000 discouraged workers in August…..Discouraged workers are persons not currently looking for work because they believe no jobs are available for them.”-Employment Situation Summary, U.S. DoL Bureau of Labor Statistics
“I don’t think they’re more lazy. It’s that there are less opportunities for them. They have it rough.”-Heidi Shierholz, Economic Policy Institute
07 September 2012, the expected 120,000 new jobs never happened (Once again the “experts” got it wrong). According to the U.S. Department of Labor (DoL), the official number of new jobs was only 96,000!
7,000 government jobs were lost in August, but the amazing thing is that the bailed out, and supposedly recovered, auto industry (Including parts makers) laid off 8,000 people! That’s according to the DoL’s Bureau of Labor Statistics.
In fact most of the job losses were in the Manufacturing Sector (A total of 15,000 jobs lost), the very sector that President Obama was touting during his DNC speech the night before the jobs numbers were released.
Another interesting note; the official unemployment numbers fell, ever so slightly, to 8.1% (A 0.2% drop from the month before, big freakin’ whoop! By the way, it depends on which Table your looking at. Table A-14 from the Bureau of Labor Statistics says the rate is 8.2%, and for July it was 8.6%). But here’s the significant part; DoL admits the unemployment drop is not because people found work, it’s because tens of thousands of young adults quit looking for a job!
People who do not look for work for 4 weeks are not counted in the unemployment numbers.
“The government does not want to tell the truth in the Parliament. It wants to run away from the coalgate scam [a reference to a political scam involving coal allocations in India] and wants to evade the issue of corruption by raising the fuel price….Once the session is adjourned, government and the oil marketing companies will go for another hike in the price of diesel, petroleum, and other petroleum products and it has become a routine for the Congress….”-Prakash Javadekar, Bharatiya Janata political party in India
In the United States, as of 05 September 2012, the contract price for New York Ultra Low Sulfur Diesel (ULSD) was at $3.15 USD per gallon for delivery on 12 October 2012. That can be considered the wholesale price before it gets to the gas station. You can add another one or two dollars, plus taxes, retail at the pump in October.
The 05 September contract is not as high as the peak in March 2012, that hit $3.30, wholesale. The 2012 low contract price for ULSD was in June, at $2.70 per gallon, but it’s been rolling back uphill ever since.
Near Lava Hot Springs, Idaho, 07 September 2012.
In India, rising costs of Diesel and Kerosene are being blamed on inflation (usually caused by increased demand) and the increased costs of fuel production. Most refiners in India are government owned, and they claim production costs have gone up 28%, and they want to pass it on to consumers. There’s no detailed explanation as to why production costs are up, the most obvious reason is that crude oil prices have gone up (it accounts for 60% of refining costs in the United States).
New Zealanders are complaining, even though their fuel prices have come down since they hit record levels in May (for gasoline) and July (for Diesel). The problem is New Zealand imports its fuel.
More people, outside the U.S., use Diesel because it is more efficient than gasoline (petrol), thus part of the reason for the increased demand globally. But in the United States, emission laws, and a bad stigma, has Diesel relegated mainly to the transportation industry, with relatively few personal vehicles running on Diesel. Just think what would happen if tens of thousands more people in the U.S. started driving clean burning Diesel powered cars that get 50 miles per gallon?
But what about supply and demand here in the United States?
According to a report by Institute for Supply Management Non-Manufacturing Business Survey Committee, August commodity prices, and supply levels, are not consistent with supply and demand.
The report says fuel prices are up, but supply is not down! It stated that Diesel 1 & 2, and gasoline up in price, yet “….no commodities reported in short supply.”
However, at the end of August 2012, California reported a 15% drop in CARB (California blend) Diesel inventories. The result was that prices for CARB Diesel commodities traded in San Francisco hit highs not seen since 2007! But that should affect only California, with their narcissistic environmental policies.
The main reason for the drop in California fuel supplies is blamed on refineries shutting down for maintenance. However, the Golden Eagle refinery was shut down due to a failed compressor on a hydrodesulfurization unit. Then there’s the Richmond refinery which has been closed for a month due to a fire.
The U.S. Energy Information Agency (USEIA) is reporting some interesting, and at first glance, conflicting data for the whole country, such as bio-Diesel production is way up.
From January to June 2012, 523 million gallons of bio-Diesel (From vegetation, by the way that’s what Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel intended his original Diesel engine to run on.) were produced. That’s 158 million more than the same time in 2011.
However, the USEIA shows a drop in petroleum based Diesel fuel (No thanks to Rockefeller and Standard Oil, Rudolph Diesel was sued and lost the right of the use of his name for the peanut oil based fuel for his engine. Rockefeller & Standard Oil created a petroleum based fuel they called Diesel.) for the month of August. Petroleum based Diesel fuel is now officially called Distillate Fuel Oil.
According to USEIA data released on 06 September 2012, for the week ending 31 August distillate fuel oil (DSO) production was at 4,341,000 bpd (barrels per day). That’s down 326,000 bpd from the week prior, and down 287,000 bpd from the last week of July.
Also, in the “Product Supplied” category, DSO actually supplied at the end of August was down from the week prior, by 342,000 bpd. It was down by 525,000 bpd compared to the last week of July.
So production, and product supplied, dropped at the end of August. So at first we could say prices are up because supply is down. But wait, there’s more!
While production is down, stock piles are up! Stocks of DSO jumped from 124,265,000 barrels at the end of July to 127,076,000 barrels at the end of August, an increase of 2,811,000 barrels!
How can stocks go up if production went down? Imports!
Imported DSO has been going up. At the end of July imported DSO was at 62,000 bpd. By the end of August it jumped to 135,000 bpd!
What this means is that despite a glut of oil available for refining into fuels, petroleum Diesel production within the United States is going down (for various reasons, most known only to the oil/refining companies), resulting in an increase reliance on more imported Diesel, and driving fuel speculators to bid higher on future deliveries of domestic Diesel fuels.
Keep your fingers crossed for the new Diesel refinery to be built near Williston, North Dakota!
02 September 2012
“The training of the ALP [Afghan Local Police] recruits has been paused while we go through this re-vetting process, to take a look at this process to see if there’s anything that we can improve. It may take a month, it may take two months, we don’t know.”-Lieutenant Colonel John Harrell
Reports that the United States has halted training of new Afghan soldiers, until every one can be investigated for ties to Mujahideen. Of course this means that the United States can not meet its troop pullout goal, because that is based on Afghan government troops taking over most of the work, and if they are not going to be trained anymore, well then so much for the 2014 U.S. withdrawal date.
The Afghan Chamber of Commerce and Industry revealed that the United States has been bullying them to end all trade deals with Iran. Iran is now the biggest supplier of fuel to Afghanistan, and Iran is now buying $1.3 billion USD worth of products from Afghanistan. What has the United States done for Afghanistan’s economy?
ISAF said: “An International Security Assistance Force service member died as a result of a non-battle related injury in eastern Afghanistan today.”
Just four days after firing his intelligence chief, President Hamid Karzai now says the guy can stay until the end of his term in office. Apparently it’s because the man intended to replace the current intelligence boss is being accused of running private prisons for torture!
In Kunduz Province, deputy provincial governor, Hamidullah Danishi, confirmed a report which said police massacred a village, killing at least 15 people. Some cops said they did it in retaliation for a policeman being killed by one of the villagers! The result is an ongoing war between villagers and police, so far 10 cops have been killed in explosions and gun battles since the 15 civilians had been killed.
Australian Foreign Minister, Bob Carr, says Australia will not withdraw their Diggers early as planned. A few months ago they said they would leave by early 2013, now they will stay until the end of 2014.
In Herat Province, a spokesman for the governor said a battle between local forces and Mujahideen left three Mujahideen dead.
01 September 2012
ISAF said: “Two U.S. Forces-Afghanistan service members died following an insurgent attack in Ghazni province, Afghanistan today.”
In Maidan Wardak Province, suicide bombers killed as many as 12 people. Local government officials say two cops and ten civilians were killed, but the Mujahideen say the ten were all U.S. led occupying forces. “There were two heavy blasts which damaged some parts of the district chief’s office and the police headquarters, and ISAF forces are also there.”-Shahidullah Shahid, provincial government spokesman
The Hezbe-e-Wafaq Millie (National Unity Party) of Afghanistan has made the first national call to launch Jihad against Pakistan. The holy war was declared in Kabul. The political party claims they have more than 1,000 signatures from Afghans wanting war with Pakistan: “Crossborder shelling from Pakistan is a clear invasion into Afghanistan and this cannot be ignored. We will go to eastern Kunar province with our volunteer brothers and will defend Afghanistan.”-Bismillah Sher, National Unity Party
President Hamid Karzai has condemned yet another night raid by U.S. troops. Government officials from Uruzgan Province said not only were people killed, but U.S. led forces kidnapped nine people!
31 August 2012
In Uruzgan Province, U.S. led occupying forces conducted an illegal night raid, which killed a 70 year old man and his son.
In Ghazni Province, local government officials claim Mujahideen assassinated five people for being anti-Mujahideen. The problem is that the so called ‘Mujahideen’ also burned Qurans, it sounds more like a U.S. led occupying force tactic.
Boys and girls are being found beheaded. In Kandahar Province, two boys, one 12 years old, and one 14 years old, were found beheaded in separate cases. In Kapisa Province, a seven years old girl was found beheaded and her legs cut off. Strangely no one has claimed they are missing a daughter! Local government officials are blaming it on Mujahideen, of course.
30 August 2012
In Farah Province a fuel convoy headed for U.S. occupying NATO troops was ambushed. Four security guards were killed, two people wounded, two fuelers burned.
In Logar Province, five people were killed, 10 wounded, after a rocket hit the bus stop they were waiting at. Local government officials speculate that Mujahideen were targeting a military base, and the rocket missed the intended target.
ISAF said: “Two International Security Assistance Force service members died following a helicopter crash in southern Afghanistan today.”
In Herat Province, Mujahideen attacked a security checkpoint, killing three Afghan government troops.
In Ghor Province, locals say a U.S. airstrike killed 12 civilians. U.S./ISAF/NATO claim the targets were Mujahideen.
In Helmand Province, Australian officials revealed that five of their Diggers were killed. Three were killed by an Afghan government soldier, and two were killed when their helicopter went down. “This is a very big toll… This is our single worst day in Afghanistan. Indeed this is the most lost in combat [for Australia] since the days of the Vietnam War.”-Julia Gillard, Prime Minister of Australia
04 September 2012, the central bank is injecting massive amounts of cash into the markets, trying to preemptively hold off a market crash! This after the central government said it can no longer make tax grant payments to local governments!
The government of Japan announced early this morning that it can not make scheduled tax grant payments to local governments. The payments amount to $52 billion USD.
The Bank of Japan responded by injecting $23 billion USD of cash into Japanese financial institutions. This is to try and offset the loss of the central government’s tax grants.
Local governments normally transfer the tax grants into those financial institutions, but officials with the central government of Japan said that until a bill is passed to allow the issuing of more government bonds, they can not make the tax grant payments to local governments.
The bond bill is needed to raise at least 2/5-ths of the money required to run the central government for the next year.
29 August 2012
ISAF said: “An individual wearing an Afghan National Army uniform turned his weapon against International Security Assistance Force service members in southern Afghanistan yesterday, killing three…”
In Kunar Province at least five Afghan government soldiers were killed when a bomb exploded.
In Ghazni Province, the provincial council chief was assassinated. He was gunned down. He had survived several prior attempts to end his life.
Also in Ghazni, four people were killed, one wounded, when they drove over a mine.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has fired his intelligence chief. In response to criticisms, Karzai claims the guy was at the end of his two year contract anyway.
It was also revealed that two former officials, forced to quit over border disputes with Pakistan, will be nominated for the positions of interior and defense ministers (the very jobs they were forced to quit!).
28 August 2012
In Kandahar Province, four people were killed, 20 wounded including a police chief, when a bomb attached to a fueler exploded.
In Ghazni Province, a suicide bomber attacked a funeral. However, local government officials say only the bomber was killed, and no one was hurt. They also say a gun battle took place following the blast, but the gunmen ran away.
ISAF says: “An International Security Assistance Force helicopter made a forced landing in eastern Afghanistan today. There were no reported fatalities and the site of the incident is secure. Initial reporting indicates that there was no enemy activity in the area at the time.”
A total of nine U.S. Marines and U.S. Army soldiers got slaps on the wrists, “non-judicial punishment”, for directly violating the U.S. Uniform Code of Military Justice regarding desecration of bodies and religious books!
ISAF claims they captured a bomb expert in Paktiya Province.
27 August 2012
In Laghman Province, two U.S. led occupying troops were killed by an Afghan government soldier: “Two International Security Assistance Force service members died when a member of the Afghan National Army turned his weapon against ISAF service members in eastern Afghanistan today. ISAF troops returned fire, killing the ANA soldier who committed the attack.”
USMC (United States Marine Corps) General John Allen is contradicting Pentagon estimates of Green (Afghan government forces) on Blue (United States/ISAF/NATO coalition) attacks. The Pentagon claims only 10% of insider attacks are by Mujahideen who infiltrate Afghan government forces. General Allen saying the Mujahideen are involved in at least 25% of Green on Blue attacks. To make things more confusing, recently the Afghan government claimed the Green on Blue attackers were spies for Pakistan and Iran!
The Afghan Defense Ministry says more than 600 Afghan soldiers died in the past two months, helping the United States led occupation forces! Afghan officials say it’s a big jump in deaths, fighting for the U.S. empire, from the same time last year!
Despite all the anti-Pakistan rhetoric in the U.S. media, the U.S. Army (USA) has been working with Pakistan’s Inter Service Intelligence (ISI). An unnamed Afghan government official revealed that the USA and ISI recently worked together to assassinate a “leader” in Pakistan. The leader was killed by U.S. drone strike a week prior.
In Ghor Province, Mujahideen publicly executed, by hanging, one of their own. They say the man had committed murder during an argument with other Mujahideen.
In Helmand Province, Afghan government forces attacked each other. At least ten were killed, four wounded. A local government official says the battle was the result of Mujahideen who had infiltrated the Afghan Army!
In Uruzgan Province, a suicide bomber exploded too soon. Local government officials claim the bomber was just being handed a suicide bomb vest when it went off. They believe he was to target local police. Several people were wounded and, of course, the bomber was killed.
26 August 2012
In Helmand Province, local government officials say Mujahideen beheaded 15 men and three women. The reason is not known. Mujahideen groups have not commented on the local government’s claim.
In Ghor Province, local government leaders claim that Mujahideen have switched sides and are now helping villagers fight the Mujahideen.
In Baghlan Province, a convoy of fuelers for U.S./ISAF/NATO occupying forces was attacked. Local government officials say one tanker was destroyed, but an opposition political party (who claim they launched the attack) says six fuelers were destroyed.
The Afghan Defense Ministry says they’ve killed 33 Mujahideen in battles in Kunar, Ghazni, Logar, Helamnd, Kunar and Farah provinces. The defense ministry claims only three Afghan National Army troops were killed, three wounded.
In Logar Province, the Hajj and Islamic Affairs chief was assassinated by Afghan National Army troops! Local officials suspect it was a family feud, as the Islamic Affairs boss was known to have problems with his cousins.
25 August 2012
U.S. led ISAF/NATO claims two airstrikes killed 12 militants from Pakistan in Kunar Province. However provincial official, Aslam Gul Mujahid, said at least 20 people were killed, including Afghan civilians.
In Uruzgan Province, four occupying Australian Diggers were wounded after a bomb exploded.
Afghan Interior Ministry claims 17 Mujahideen killed, two wounded and 30 captured in battles in the following provinces: Kabul, Logar, Ghazni and Paktika.
Afghan president Hamid Karzai, and a delegation of 70 Afghan officials, left to attend the anti-U.S. Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit in Iran.
Mitt Romney claims he’ll create “12 million” jobs as president of the United States, but his own creation, Bain Capital, is still hard at work destroying jobs.
This time it’s Alcoa (Aluminum Company of America) Incorporated, the number three aluminum producer in the world!
Today, 01 September 2012, Alcoa began shutting down its Italian operation on the island of Sardinia, despite weeks of protests by their employees, including on camera suicide attempts.
In the U.S. state of Texas, Alcoa sold land and assets from its Rockdale operation. Smelting has been reduced, and two production lines closed. Alcoa has reduced the number of Rockdale employees to about 70.
Why is Alcoa shutting down operations around the world, laying off thousands of employees, when back in July 2012 it claimed it’s sales were up more than expected due to increased demand for aluminum?
But that’ just it, demand is up, but prices are down, that’s right industrial metal prices are crashing! So how does Alcoa deal with that? “I want to make one thing crystal clear here, the market is working…..people are moving forward with curtailing [production] and responding by slower build as we see in China and that’s clearly a function of the low LME [London Metal Exchange] pricing that we currently have in the market.”-Klaus Kleinfeld, CEO Alcoa
So the wise corporate leaders, in their greed, increased production so much that there is now too much metal on the market causing prices to crash, killing their hopes for high profits. But who gets hurt? Why the lowly employees, of course.
(The number one aluminum company Rusal, and the number two, Rio Tinto, are also cutting back on production. Small companies are in trouble, credit wise, with the Too Big to Fail Banks, so expect hundreds of thousands of aluminum industry employees around the world to become unemployed!)
Reuters has just reported that Swiss investment giant (the biggest in the world), Glencore, wants to buy Alcoa’s Sardinia mining operation. Here’s the Bain Capital connection. Bain Capital is considered a ‘cornerstone investor’ in the world’s biggest investment company, Glencore!
The reason why the general public is only now hearing about the world’s largest investment company, Glencore, is that it finally went public with an IPO (Initial Public Offering) in May 2011. Other investment companies bought into Glencore, such as Aabar, BlackRock Fund, Credit Suisse, Fidelity Investment Fund, UBS, Zijin Mining and others. The IPO was handled by Too Big to Fail Citigroup, Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse.
Here’s another trivial Romney connection to Alcoa; George Romney, Mitt’s father, worked for Alcoa as a lobbyist in the 1940s.
Alcoa is too big to be totally destroyed by vulture, I mean venture, capitalists (like Bain Capital), but it is being forced to sell off little bits of itself here and there. And investors love it when people lose their jobs, stock prices for Alcoa Inc have been going up! And Mitt Romney says he’ll do for America what he did with Bain Capital.
“….every American can be proud that the United States is safer, the United States is stronger, and the United States is more respected in the world!”-Barack Obama, President of the United States, 31 August 2012 Fort Bragg speech
“…two third of the world countries at the highest level in Tehran and their consensus over Iran’s responsibility for coordinating the international policies of 120 world countries is a clear indication of the United States’ strategic isolation on the scene of world relations.”-Saeed Jalili, Supreme National Security Council of Iran, 31 August 2012, 16th Non Aligned Movement summit
“…Iran and Sri Lanka’s experiences show that resistance against colonialists and hegemons is possible!”-Mahinda Percy Rajapaksa, President of Sri Lanka, 16th Non Aligned Movement summit
“The Algerian government, along with the Islamic Republic of Iran, will use all its power to materialize NAM’s goals.”-Abdelaziz Ziari, Speaker of Algeria’s National Assembly, 16th Non Aligned Movement summit
“I am confident this is a solid foundation for building a modern system of international relations, which respects the right of every country for its own path of development, cultural and historical identity.” also “We are ready to further expand interaction with the Non Aligned Movement in the interests of peace and prosperity. I wish you every success and fruitful work.” -Vladimir Putin, President of Russia, printed greeting sent to 16th Non Aligned Movement summit
“The United States and the Western powers are accompanied by devilishness, corruption and insecurity wherever they arrive….All of us are required to feel responsible vis-à-vis the bullying and imposition of the big powers and stand against them!”-Seyed Ali Khamenei, current Ayatollah of the Islamic Revolution, 16th Non Aligned Movement summit
“Your wise ideas about unity and resistance are completely palatable to us.”-Asif Ali Zardari, President of Pakistan, 16th Non Aligned Movement summit
“Iran enjoys an ancient human civilization and a long historical antecedent and as one of the founders of the UN is famous for pursuing its key role in its initiative, specially creating a Middle East region free from any type of nuclear weapons and the dialogue among civilizations.”-Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary General, 16th Non Aligned Movement summit
“Viet Nam shares the view of other NAM member countries, as contained in the Draft Final Document, that the present global scenario largely derives from the continuing unequal terms of trade, lack of cooperation from developed countries, coercive and unilateral measures imposed by some of them and the use of force or threat of use of force.”-Pham Binh Minh, Foreign Minister of Viet Nam, 31 August 2012, 16th Non Aligned Movement summit
“….the construction of a multipolar and multicentric world, for which it’s necessary to unite forces and break political ties that have trapped us in neocolonial systems for years.”-Nicolas Maduro, Foreign Minister of Venezuela, 16th Non Aligned Movement summit
“…to make sure America is still a place where tomorrow is always better than yesterday, that is what our politics should be about. And that is what we are deciding this election.”-Marco Rubio, U.S. Senator from Florida, 30 August 2012, Republican National Convention
“I believe in an America where millions of Americans believe in an America that’s the America millions of Americans believe in. That’s the America I love.” –Mitt Romney, U.S. republican presidential candidate, January 2012