holy shit its been forever March 3rd

i'll just hop right back into it, school got hectic and shit so um yea

israel and palestine are back at it with an exchange of fire

the assassination of guinea-bissaus former president joao bernardo vieira has not been ruled as a coup, its been linked to a conflict with the drug trade in west africa. for those who dont know, west africa is usually a stop along the way for coke heading to europe

times lied and said obama sent a letter to medvedev stating it would end its ballistic misile defense system in return for cooperation in halting irans nuclear program. medvedev denied it, once again the times is writing a bunch of bullshit, supriiiise

with no link cause im too lazy; hillary clinton took her first trip to israel as a member of the cabinet and hamas wasnt impressed at all and theyre expecting the same fucking policies. duh

venezuelas state run oil company petroleos de venezuela will try and cut 40% of production costs because the price of oil is shit and hugo is trying as hard as he can to save money for money on socialist programs

russias state gas company gazprom will now provide gas to another european nation, this one being spain. a "strategic partnership" between the two countries have always come to fruition and they should be meeting yearly to discuss issues that concern the both. i cant think of too many that do

Russia and Afghanistan

Kyzrgajhfjdhfdstan's Kurmanbek Bakiyev and Russia's Dmitri Medvedev

i considered posting part of a paper i wrote on american foreign policy with russia but i just want to stick to my guns about trying to make this as simple as possible. the paper is all academic and shit so fuck that!  ok its like this

us and russia were kind of about to lockhorns towards the end of the bush administrations run. reason being russia was treated like shit through out the 90s and forced into all types of agreements that wasnt beneficial to it. in the last couple of years or so the us has also been pushing for the entry of former soviet states into the NATO. most notable of them being ukraine and georgia.

these 2 states are waaaay to important for russia to lose to western influence and may be the biggest act of aggression by the us aside from a bullshit missile shield in poland and czech republic.

Obama and Putin

since the start of the obama presidency theres been progress already. its safe to assume obama will scrap the anti missile shield considering russias respose to it was to place short range missiles in the enclave of kaliningrad, which is sandwiched between poland and lithuania. two countries that reallyyyy dont like to see russia behave like this. its been said in the past week that russia will not be placing the missiles there, so yea i guess obama got the message. another issue seems to be the arms treaty and all signs point to this working out just the way the russians want it. 

Russia Afghaistand and America

its kind of funny how the ussr bled out in afghanistan thanks to us supporting the mujahadeen and eventually bin laden. im not saying russia is doing the same, but they arent exactly helping YET. NATO supply routes are constantly getting attacked. just today 10 trucks were hit in pakistan which is the home of our major supply route. theyre obviously needs to be an alternative because pakistan cant do shit and well russia is right there. if you want help from any of the stans above afghanistan then you have to go through putin. its his sphere of influence and you have to be prepared to pay the toll. america is slowly starting to understand this. it kind of sped up the process when kyrgyzstan decided to kick america out of a key air force base too

now i dont know much about the military of the stans. i doubt theyre very advanced but when medvedev calls for something equal to NATO i dont think they want to be too far off in the aspect of importance in the region. an alliance between these countries in afghanistan could potentially be as powerful just by being familiar with the area. there is no trade route issue, every state that a supply would need to go through is basicly at each others borders and its support from this organization/russia is what obama NEEDS to win afghanistan. do it or pack your shit because we cant win without it

karzai knows cooperation with russia is a must. he actually has to be in that shithole, there is no eventual withdrawl for him so it made sense to point fingers at americans for the death of civilians. he has to answer to the people. it also made sense for him to buddy up to russia as the power afghanistan will really need to answer to in a couple of years. now hamid karzais presidency will end may 20 with no election but because of his newfound ties with the kremlin theres no way he stays in office. some western friendly pawn will pop up, who i dont know, but it should be interesting to see if america can sell him to afghanistan and the arab world without russia

Moar IV

i kept waiting and waiting to do this waiting for something new to pop up, but its been a slow news day, so meh lets just go with what we got

1. Europe is getting it's gas from russia again
2. Ban ki Moon (the un secretary general) is done checking out the damage in gaza. he said some shit about it too...like how the conditions sucked there. politicians have come and said this shit about it BEFORE israel started blowin shit up so why should anyone care now
3. A human rights lawyer who represented a little girl who was killed by a russian soldier was gunned down in cold blood. i dont thinka  single chechnyan male has died in any other way in the last 3 years. it resulted in a protest of over a thousand people. chechnya is absolutely insane there was no way any highly esteemed human rights activist was gonna live there for long
4. New bird flu warnings in china. i saw this  yesterday and ignored it but i guess ill mention it now. im looking forward to see how china handles it this time, my guess no more than 15 die before everything is ok again. chinese new year is coming up and theyll do anthing not to fuck this up
5. i could get to five but its stupid shit, so yea theres always tommorrow

Obama Is Now the President

as far as foreign policy gos i have very small expectations for the man. keeping on robert gates and david petraeus to work the war in afghanistan shows he plans on fighting it in the same fashion bush was working with. which isnt necessarily too bad because now the have what may be a winning strategy. im not talking about the surge as much as i am talking about opening channels of communication and cutting deals with leaders of armed groups, warlords, etc.

i do think its worth noting the plan for and the eventual withdrawl of troops was something that started under bushes watch before we start giving barry the credit for something bound to happen. as far as the iran issue gos, i expect more talks , and eventuall some type of agreement on tehrans nuclear program. if this doesnt happen before 2009 is up, i can see the eventual israeli attack which obama will condemn and do nothing about. thats some hardcore speculation i may come to regret now, but its my blog so that makes it ok to be an ass. 

i do expect america to adhere and be a lot more involved with the un than they have been since ignoring them and going to war in iraq. a joint venture with the eu seems like a must to as obama has called for more cooperation with europe. as far as russia gos i think obama is going to give the kremlin damn near everything the ask for, and luckily its not much. its reasonable in fact, the relocation or scrapping of our ABM shield(anti ballistic missile) plan in the czech republic and poland would save us billions. the shit might not even work anywas, according to MITs ted postol. obama will continue to turn a blind eye to china supporting military dictatorships in africa for natural resources. its really hard to gauge chinas reaction to the obama presidency, something else for time to tell.

the million dollar question for me is what will his policies be in south america. i simply havent seen much on it, i havent exactly looked either though. mexico is a huuge narcostate with a sky high murder rate. it would be interesting to see what type of support theyre going to get under an obama administration.  brazil is another subject of interest as its on its way to becoming a regional hegemon as soon as big oil is back on track. as far as venezuela gos, it has its own problems. i dont think theres a point in mentioning it until the people vote in february on chavez proposal to let the president have an infinite number of terms. as soon as this gos down ill be sure to dig into that.

o yea, obama...please kill robert mugabe through some covert cia action shit. please

Burnin the Midnight Oil...Not Even

i wanted to write something on the gas crisis and how ukraine is the ultimate fuck up in this despite them taking the victim role. i was reading something on the asia times website and this pretty much sums it up so i dont have to do say much

To quote the editor-in-chief of Russia in Global Politics, Fedor Lukyanov, "Ukraine chose a tactic of deliberately creating a crisis through its rejection of talks and agreement, with the expectation that ultimately any major disruption of gas deliveries to Europe would hurt Gazprom's reputation as a reliable energy partner, supplier and generally speaking, as a company selling gas to Europeans. Everything that has happened after December 31 seems to me a delaying tactic ... We [Russians] are losing not a mere propaganda war but a real gas war ... It is not accidental that countries that have excellent relations with Russia such as Greece, Hungary and Bulgaria, which are among our main European partners, are experiencing the worst difficulties." 

Actually, it is the very first time that European countries are experiencing a real shortage of gas ever since Russia's supplies began three decades ago. Lukyanov underlined, "Now, each single day of the crisis will distort the European perceptions, which would blame the Russians for everything." 

so yea if you dont want to read just know ukraines gas was cut off because it stalled on renogatiating with russia. durin this time is stole some gas meant for europe to build up a reserve because they knew it would all come to a point where russia would cut off gas until ukraine really sat down and made a deal. while the gas was cut ukraine has been working hard to make russia look like some type of unreasonable bully, and refused to let gas get to europe while the bullshit gos on. ukraine and georgia, prospective NATO members, both big fuckin dumbies. i hope neither one of them get in until they can actually get their shit together. never works too.

8 minutes long may be quite the stretch to accomplish what im tryin to do here, but its worth the watch if youre interested by this so fuck it

Moar II

1. North Korea says it has enough weaponized plutonium to make up to five bombs. the comments were aimed at south korea because they are really stupid up north and love to say shit like this whenever they dont like something. put up or stfu already. for future reference about 30kg of plutonium is 4-5 bombs worth
2. Russia's putin cut a deal with ukraines yulia tymoshynko (who is hot as fuck) that will have russian owned gas monopoly gazprom resuming operations in the ukraine. its still at a discount too, the interesting thing is now yulia will have this as a victory for ukraine under her belt. thats some real ammo when dealing with victor yushchenko in what will be if not already a fight for power in ukraine. now all it takes is victor to not be a bitter bitch and not veto
3. 100s of burman and bangladeshian refugees missing at sea after being booted out thailand. no fucking duh this shit was gonna happen, were talking about no engine bullshit do it yourself boats here.  with any luck theyll end up in indonesia, and thats with luck
4. Malaysia finally chooses islam. the pan-malaysian islamic party(PAS) is will be taking over the majority of the parliament.  it was obvious since the last election that this is where malaysia will be heading. the prime minister(nabib razak) stepping up in march represents the opposition party(United Malays National Organization) that got its ass whoop so it should be interesting to see if he can get anything done. hopefully the ethnicities of malay that arent muslim wont get marginalized but thats kindaaaa unlikely
5. Tamil Tigers say they kill 51 soldiers, sri lanka military is like 'nuh uh' its 7

Moar

1. A us airway jet landed in the hudson river. i seen that shit like a million times in movies i think and i knooow before 24 has its series finally its going to happen on there(fuck a source just watch cnn for like 2 minutes)
   
2. China prolly blocked some more shit on the internets(NO NEED FOR SOURCE THIS SHIT HAPPENS EVERYDAY)
3. Citigroup posts big time loss somewhere around 8 billion and they plan on splitting into 2 different entities.  they havent promised this but im sure it would be in their best interests for both of them to be equally as shitty.
4. Bank of america is losin some more and getting some aid getting some aid get get getting some aid
5. Putin has kievs(ukraine) lips firmly wrapped around his cock with this whole gas thing, and now he says they are close to making a deal. i think massive load is going to come before the gas does but we shall see. somehow ukraine is supposed to come up with money hey say they dont have to pay. i know ukraine said this before and suddenly forked up money but something about this credit crunch tells me they really dont have it. there are...other ways to pay though ;] theres a growing number of umm smart people...that believe it isnt about the money but a case of the ol petrol politics from russia. using its resources to gain influence in its near abroad. they might be on to something especially with ukraine once desperately seekin to join the west and NATO
6. Qatar joins Bolivia in the small list of countries cutting off ties to israel due to the conflict. i have no idea why anyone would have ties to qatar and bolivia anyways.
7. There are accusations that the Thai military may have sent back boatloads of myanmar refugees back off to sea. god damn, that is so cold blooded. i can guarentee they rather die at sea than go back to myanmar. for those who dont know myanmar is a super shitty country ruled by the military and they make china look like the us as far as giving people access to information. theres also an aids epidemic on the way or there already may be one and the people dont even know it.
8. India still wants its terror suspects and pakistan still not expected to give them shit. i have a sneaking suspicion that pakistan just doesnt give a fuck anymore
9. Suprise suprise. ethiopia leave somalia and islamists take over again. haha somalia is absolutely jam packed with bad asses
10. Red cross fears the fighting between the military and the tamil seperatist group tamil tigers(the originators of the suicide vest) is causing mass internal displacement. meaning people have to move from their home to someplace else cause of the fighting. that doesnt sound to bad but when you dont have a home, or you suddenly become a minority, AND your marginalized...it sucks.
11. British foreign minister david millibrand is coming or came to pakistan to talk peace with india. in related news pakistan claims to have fucked up the lashkar e taiba group who happen to be responsible for the mumbai attacks
12. Another rate cut from the european central bank. interest rate is now 2 percent
13. MORE FUCKING NEGOTIATIONS IN ZIMBABWE. WILL ONE COUNTRY HAVE A FUCKING HEART AND JUST KILL ROBERT MUGABE? THIS IS DISGUSTING.
14. Wall Street journal says Iran has been recieving high performance metals that could contribute to the creaion of long range missiles. they dont even have weapons grade uranium to put inside of these things if thats what it was really for. leave it to wsj(the fox news of papers) to push this shit though. 

the moar shit key:

purple=middle east & africa

green=europe

left alone=NORTH AMERICA

BOLD=asia

will continue to add on to this list until some shit comes up and it deserves its own post. at that point i wont add to this addition of moar shit again and just wait til the next day? sounds good?