Category: East Asia & Pacific

  • European Poll: Israel Biggest Threat To World Peace

    European Poll: Israel Biggest Threat To World Peace

    Kurdish Jewish Star of DavidResults of a new poll commissioned by the European Commission show that Israel is believed by Europeans in 15 countries to be the greatest threat to world peace, greater than North Korea, Iran or Afghanistan.

    While the European Commission will release the full results of the poll on Monday, the International Herald Tribune reported that the 7,500 people polled living in the European Union (500 in each of the 15 E.U. member states) were presented with a list of 15 countries and asked if these countries present a threat to world peace. Shockingly, Israel was rated first.

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    www.jewishfederations.org

  • Journalist Accuses Israel of Fukushima Sabotage

    Journalist Accuses Israel of Fukushima Sabotage

    FukushimaBy Richard Walker

    A leading Japanese journalist recently made two incredible claims about the Fukushima power plant that suffered a nuclear meltdown in March 2011, sending shockwaves around the world. First, the former editor of a national newspaper in Japan says the U.S. and Israel knew Fukushima had weapons-grade uranium and plutonium that were exposed to the atmosphere after a massive tsunami wave hit the reactor. Second, he  contends that Israeli intelligence sabotaged the reactor in retaliation for Japan’s support of an independent Palestinian state.

    According to Yoishi Shimatsu, a former editor of Japan Times Weekly, these nuclear materials were shipped to the plant in 2007 on the orders of Dick Cheney and George W. Bush, with the connivance of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. The shipment was in the form of warhead cores secretly removed from the U.S. nuclear warheads facility BWXT Plantex near Amarillo, Texas. While acting as the middleman, Israel transported warheads from the port of Houston, and in the process kept the best ones while giving the Japanese older warhead cores that had to be further enriched at Fukushima.

    Shimatsu credits retired CIA agent and mercenary Roland Vincent Carnaby with learning the warheads were being transported from Houston. In a strange twist, Carnaby was mysteriously shot dead less than a year later by Houston police at a traffic stop. He was shot once in the back and once in the chest. He did not have a weapon in his hands. Intelligence sources said he had been tracking a Mossad unit that was smuggling U.S. plutonium out of Houston docks for an Israeli nuclear reactor.

    In an even more explosive charge, the journalist says that 20 minutes before the Fukushima plant’s nuclear meltdown, Israel was so upset with Japanese support for a Palestinian declaration of statehood that it double-crossed Japan by unleashing the Stuxnet virus on the plant’s  computers. The virus hampered the shutdown, leading to fallout from a section of the plant housing uranium and plutonium retrieved from the warheads supplied in 2007.

    While it is impossible to verify some of Shimatsu’s claims, there was a massive cover-up at the time of the Fukushima disaster in March.  Explosions at the site were immediately downplayed. While it was subsequently reported that three reactors suffered meltdowns, Japanese authorities tried to rate the disaster as a Level 4 on the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale, although outside experts declared it a 7, which is the highest level.

    Something worth noting is how in 2009, two years after Shimatsu says the warheads were secretly moved to Japan, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) issued a veiled warning to Japan not to abandon its anti-nuclear weapons policy.

    The IAEA had to know, however, that Japan has long retained the potential to build nuclear weapons. That was made clear as far back as 1996 when a leaked Ministry of Foreign Affairs document exposed how Japan had been promoting a dual strategy in respect to nuclear weapons since the mid-1960s. It would often publicly profess a non-nuclear policy while maintaining the ability to build a nuclear arsenal. The Liberal Democratic Party, which has dominated Japanese politics, has always said there is no constitutional impediment to nukes.

    A factor that undoubtedly would have encouraged the Bush-Cheney White House to provide Japan with the means to secretly build nukes was the growing power of China. Cheney and Bush sought to arm Japan and India with nuclear weapons as a means of curbing China.

    americanfreepress.net, October 14, 2011

  • Iran Khodro to design D8 joint car

    Iran Khodro to design D8 joint car

    Iran Khodro Co. (IKCO) has announced that the Group of Eight Developing Countries (D8) has chosen the company to design the platform for their joint car.

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    The D8 industry ministers attended a summit in Istanbul from October 4-6, 2011 and appointed IKCO to design the D8 joint car with the cooperation of Turkey and Indonesia, read a statement released by IKCO on Sunday.

    D8 members include Iran, Turkey, Malaysia, Pakistan, Nigeria, Egypt, Bangladesh and Indonesia.

    D8 members also agreed to promote research and development activities in the fields of Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) technology, hybrid technology, plug-in cars, new materials and nano-technology.

    “Improving the quality, level of technology and also the capacity if supply chain was another issue settled by the D8 vehicle working group,” the statement continued.

    IKCO was founded in 1962 and is currently regarded as the biggest automaker in the Middle East.

    The company won an award from Tehran’s Third International Nanotechnology Festival in 2010, as the leading company in nano-related auto industry.

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    via PressTV – Iran Khodro to design D8 joint car.

  • IMPERIAL  NATIONALISM  &  TURKISH  UNION

    IMPERIAL NATIONALISM & TURKISH UNION

    Republic of Turkey , born from the ashes of a 600-year Empire and having the character of independence , has pioneered many freedom movements which resulted with the establishment of new free countries within the first half of 20th century . The founders of the Republic under the leadership of Ataturk set up this new state by giving the whole nation  , desolated and impoverished , the spirit of resistance and by getting their rights with force against the Western Allies at that time ; therefore , they deserve our feelings of gratitude and respect .

    Today , at this point , we , as Turkey , need to follow much more active government policies . Personally , I strongly believe that the nationalism concept taking place among the founding principles of the Republic  should be considered as Imperial Nationalism . In other words , Turkey , will exert its power and authority in every piece of land which it already exists or existed before and which it strongly wishes to exist in the future . No need to say , this is not an enlargement basing on the military power , but on the contrary , an enlargement policy by using all the historical and cultural close relations and by creating a land of attraction for other states and people . Military power must always be respected and must create hesitation among the possible enemies .

     First of all , I want to start wit a basic fact of creation : every entity in the universe has an energy and the power of this energy is directly proportional to its mass .

     If we apply this fact to politics , the way to gain power in world politics goes through creating unity , as our ancestors wisely said “union makes us strong” . Examples are many : USA today , Ottoman & Roman Empires in the past … Of course , the age of empires ended long time ago , but there is always a future for the unions . Even the United States , despite its present power and influence , continuously brainstorms about establishing a One-World-Government under the authority of the United Nations controlled & directed by the USA .

     Under the light of the basic reality above , Turkey , in order to be effective in world politics , needs to unite . The candidates for setting up a union stand next to us : Azerbaijan , Kazakhstan , Turkmenistan , Uzbekistan , Kyrgyzstan and , due to geographical and historical ties , Georgia and Tajikistan . Except the last two , all Turkish origin states … This unification process can first start with the establishment of confederation and may end up with a federation .

     Due to its historical experience and the effectiveness in state establishment , Turkey must perform a leadership for establishing “Eurasia Federation” consisting of the eight states above . This new Federation will represent  a union covering approximaely 5 million square kilometers and a population of 150+ million , which is hard to ignore .

     It is obvious that many of the other actors in the world politics will try every way in order to prevent such a powerful union . Moreover , the present administrators in these eight countries will be reluctant in giving up the power they currently use . However , nobody can claim that it will be easy . I personally do believe that the people forming the nations of those states will look at this unification idea with sympathy .

    Finally , the last but not least , this new “Eurasia Federation” will need a technology-creating reliable partner in order to set up a confederation . That partner is JAPAN . Imagine Japan and Turkey with their own distinctive and leading characteristics and , right beside them , all other participating countries with their natural and social wealth . The future lies in the united political and social entities .

    Even the idea itself is exciting !… Don’t you think this is worth trying ???

  • Phl Ambassador to Turkey Discusses Trade and Investment Promotion with Officials of the Association for Social and Economic Solidarity with Pacific Counties

    Phl Ambassador to Turkey Discusses Trade and Investment Promotion with Officials of the Association for Social and Economic Solidarity with Pacific Counties

    20 September 2011-The Philippine Embassy in Ankara reported that officials of the Istanbul-based Association for Social and Economic Solidarity with Pacific Countries called on Ambassador-designate Marilyn J. Alarilla on September 15 at the Embassy to discuss economic and cultural cooperation activities implemented in the Philippines.

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    The Association officials present during the meeting were General Secretary Ersin Karaoglan, Board Member Ferhan Merter, Philippine-based Fountain International School Director-General Malik Gencer, and Turkish news magazine “Aksiyon” correspondent Mesut Cevikalp.

    Also present during the meeting was Second Secretary Leilani S. Feliciano.

    The Association for Social and Economic Solidarity with Pacific Countries is a partner organization of the Confederation of Businessmen and Industrialists in Turkey, which is organizing the 2011 Trade Bridge Fair to be held on October 24 to 30 in the Istanbul Congress Center.

    The Association officials discussed the expected participation of ten Philippine companies in the forthcoming Trade Bridge Fair, which will focus on food, agricultural products, consumer goods and home appliances.

    During the meeting, Ambassador-designate Alarilla encouraged the Turkish representatives to explore cooperation between Philippine and Turkish companies in construction and infrastructure projects, food industry including tropical and marine products, jewelry including pearl-based items, and business process outsourcing and other IT-related services.

    Embassy and Forum officials agreed to continue their cooperation particularly on exchange information on future programs and projects.

    via Phl Ambassador to Turkey Discusses Trade and Investment Promotion with Officials of the Association for Social and Economic Solidarity with Pacific Counties.

  • Yahoo Apologizes for Accidentally Blocking Emails Containing Links to OccupyWallSt.org

    Yahoo Apologizes for Accidentally Blocking Emails Containing Links to OccupyWallSt.org

    YahooYahoo email users hoping to spread the word of the Occupy Wall Street protests ran into an unforseen obstacle on Tuesday when their messages containing links to the website occupywallst.org were blocked from being sent because an online filter deemed them “suspicious activity.”

    Although several Yahoo users and media outlets jumped to the conclusion that Yahoo was deliberately censoring the emails due on the basis of the anti-establishment content, the company quickly responded via Twitter, saying that “It was not intentional & caught by our spam filters. It is resolved, but may be a residual delay.”

    The company also thanked the blog Think Progress for bringing the matter to their attention via a post on the subject.

    The anti-corporate protests organized by progressive magazine Adbusters and endorsed and heavily promoted by the hacktivist collective Anonymous have been raging in New York’s financial district since Saturday. So far, seven protesters have been arrested, five of them for wearing masks, a violation of an antique anti-mask law on the city’s books.

    But supporters of the demonstration, who have relied on social media to get their messages across and rally others to their cause, hardly expected that their email service would fail them at such a critical time.

    At the same time, Yahoo has raised the ire of free speech advocates before for its cooperation with the Chinese government in censoring search results on the Chinese mainland. Yahoo has also blocked links to file-sharing search engines such as FilesTube through its Yahoo Messenger service.

    See the errant filter in action in the YouTube video below, as demonstrated by a Yahoo user.


    Late update: Yahoo responds to Idea Lab via email, asserting that the problem was actually first observed and reported yesterday and has since been corrected. “Unfortunately, the domain ‘occupywallst.org’ was being caught by one of our spam filters when some users tried to send messages containing it. This was a false positive which we corrected yesterday. However, there may still be residual delay (up to 24 hours) for users trying to send emails with that phrase. Thank you to the Yahoo! Mail users who notified us about this.”

    idealab.talkingpointsmemo.com, September 20, 201