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

Why Nobody Cares What Britian Says

if you ask people what is the 2nd best country to the united states...within the united states chances are england will be the answer. its all we know, we have a long history with them and its simply a familiar old white face in history. there was once a time when britian held some power back with churchill. 

after ww2 and the germans were defeated and russia began heading towards europe america is practically begged for their business and to stay in europe to fight russia. america agreed but as we all know in return america became the great hegemon for decades on end. britian has pretty much been like an ox pecker on an ox ever since. its only as strong as we are, but now no matter how powerful the us may be the united kingdoms power is slowly fading

a dying population, an influx of arab immigrants that want their own way of life within the state, a weak military outing in afghanistan and iraq, weak political and national will, and now the economic crisis is pretty much the final blow. the uk is falling apart  and before the end of 2009 is will be painfully obvious. news media should stop pointing out any type of foreign policy of britian like it matters anymore. dont waste our time

Moar 1/27/09

ok, sorry for the extra day in the break. its time to get back to the daily grind. suprisingly nothing of note happened and we're still dealing with the same stories

1. US ambassador of the middle east george mitchell is on his way to israel to try and work a deal with israel and hamas. this is it, our first taste of middle east diplomacy from obama. the only problem is its subcontracted to george mitchel who may be a very capeable negotiator but he has to report back to hillary clinton, not obama. i dont see much progress being made under clinton in this subject. shes very pro israeli, and more than likely not to waiver any concessions for hamas. it would take some level of intervention from obama to really get things going
2. Sri Lankas safe zones obviously arent enough as the red cross reports a quarter of a million people trapped between the fighting between the sri lankan army and the tamil tigers
3. SADC (southern african development community) a new government in zimbabwe will take place in february. ill believe it if it still stands in april
4. Chinas prime minister wen jiabao will be going on a eurotrip to let europe know theyll be in chinas pocket soon enough 
5. Colombia and Venezuela has set up a 200m fund to increase bilateral trade. i guess things are pretty bad for cololmbia if they have to deal with a country they may be funding/aiding its biggest pain in the ass, FARC(revolutionary armed forces of colombia)
6. Bolivia voted to change the constitution. Now evo morales can run again. i didnt think theyd pass it now im kind of wondering if hugos can get through in feb
7. Iceland's government has officially fallen apart from the financial crisis. Looking forward(not happy about it, just saying its gonna happen) to seeing the same thing happen a couple former soviet states that the euro raped

i guess thats it for now. if youd like to see me get more detailed about a specific subject feel free to drop a line and ill oblige

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?