殺貪官已成中國全民共識

 

     二零一零年 上半年，中國連續發 生校園學童遭屠殺的案件，這些案件被中共壓制，犯案者多被描述為「精神異常」；緊接著又發生了湖南永州市零陵區三名法官遭槍殺的案件，網民譏諷中共又要祭 出「精神病」的台詞了……我們不得不問，如果這些犯案者都是精神病患，是誰讓他們在人群中成為不定時炸彈？

任何社會都存在著矛盾，也存在著精神疾病患。正常的社會將精神病患安置在精神病院裡，施以藥物控制其狀態，同時將這些患者與社會大眾隔離，既保護了患者也 保全了社會。但在中共所控制的那個中國社會，卻將正常的民眾置入精神病院投以藥物，將正常人迫害成精神病患。

朱軍，永州法院的行兇者，在行兇後飲彈自殺。第二天，二零一零年六月二日下午，數百當地民眾與上訪者圍堵法院，有人手持「朱軍一路走好」的花圈，高喊「朱 軍是人民大英雄」，有人燃放鞭炮慶賀貪官之死，更多的民眾則趁機向媒體訴說自己的冤情。沒有人罵朱軍，沒有人同情死去的法官。沒有人相信朱軍是精神異常。 兇手沒有瘋狂，民眾也不是瘋子，那麼誰瘋了？

湖南零陵永州市不是個大地方，在出事前很多人連這個城市名都沒聽過。這樣一個永州市卻在朱軍的行動後立即跑出這麼多的冤民。這些人充滿了憤怒與悲傷，這些 無處得訴的怨恨，只是永州市民所獨有嗎？全中國的法院，只有永州市出過事嗎？

上網檢索了之後，令人震驚的訊息跳入眼簾：二零零五年湖北永州市村民黃運財自製「禮品炸彈」寄給法院，主審案件的法官曹華當場被炸死，縣法院院長李 開清被 炸眼瞎，法院辦公室主任曹興虎腳被炸斷……原來這已經是永州市有案可稽的第二起針對法院的攻擊。

然而不僅是湖南永州，二零一零年二月十六日，大年初三，陝西安康市白河縣一農民攜炸藥包至白河縣政府大門口附近引爆，造成縣政府大門門廳被炸毀並波及三名 路過者致傷；二零零九年十月十四日，貴州遵義市中級法院遭血洗；二零零六年 四月五日，四川廣元殘疾人士夏玉開在中級法院引爆炸藥，與一名法官同歸於盡；二零零六年一月六日，甘肅民樂縣殘疾人士錢文昭身綁炸藥闖入縣人民法院，導致 五死 二十二傷，死者包括該縣縣委副書記、縣工委副書記、法院院長、法院辦公室主任；二零零零年陝西省西安市中級法院院長險遭勒殺……

想到中共對網路的嚴控，我們確信這些散佈不同省市的殺法官案，不是所有的案件。筆者不禁想到福建南平「三二三」事件八名兒童被殺之後，南平市一位小學生寫 給凶兇手的那段話：「你要真忍不住仇恨，你就去殺那些貪官，你怎能殺掉這麼多可愛的孩子……」

這種民與官的對立，民與官的集體矛盾，已成了一呼百應的衝突力量。連小學生都明白的道理，已成為中國全民共識。俗諺說「羅馬不是一天造成的」，共識的形成 不易，共識的消滅更不易。這股不可逆的共識，正一記記敲響中共政權喪鐘

Carbon Trading Scam

This one is easy: stay away, stay far away. This will be  the first casualty of the failure at Copenhagen. Even as the masses assembled, Denmark was marked with a huge scandal over fraud in carbon markets. The Danish scams were in the Billions of Kroner. Australia's Cap & Trade bill failed on the eve of the confab. Now, after the confab, the scams are being found more broadly, across Europe.

Organized crime may have skimmed an astounding 5B Euros ($7.4B).

This chart from the WSJ shows how carbon allowances have plunged post Copenhagen. To make carbon-free technologies like solar competitive, these allowances need to be above E60/tonne. It has fallen in half from a recent high of E25 to below E12.50.  Quite a drag, says the Silicon Valley cleantech press.

Since Copenhagen, it has gotten worse. In March 2010, the Chicago Climate Exchange has been going through record lows of 10c per tonne. Two carbon exchanges in Europe had to suspend trading when a new scandal emerged: some certificates of emission reduction had been illegally reused.

Deutsche Bank: Oh Yeah We're Shorting Spain

 (From London )

The full extent of Deutsche Bank's short positions on the Spanish economy have been revealed, and the target is not just the country's public debt.

Deutsche Bank is shorting five different Spanish companies in addition to its €1.1 billion ($1.35 billion) sovereign debt short of Spain, according to Cotizalia. Those companies are:

    * BBVA - €370 million - or 1.14% of the firm
    * Ferrovial - €46 million - or 1.1% of the firm
    * Banco Popular - 0.69% of the firm
    * Grifols - 1.7% of the firm
    * Gamesa - 0.7% of the firm

The positions were announced by Deutsche Bank's London office, which is not subject to the same trading regulations as the German headquarters.

These short positions could explain some of the market stress BBVA has been under, which has limited their access to the commercial paper market. Other banks and corporations in Spain are also experiencing funding problems in the country's credit markets.

Santander, thus far, remains above the frey. But along with BBVA there are serious concerns about the correlation between Spain's two major bank CDS, and the CDS on sovereign debt.

KL Stock - Ekovest

Pakistan Has Always Been A 2 Face

Pakistani agents 'funding and training Afghan Taliban'

Pakistan's links with the Taliban could go much deeper than thought

Pakistani intelligence gives funding, training and sanctuary to the Afghan Taliban on a scale much larger than previously thought, a report says. 

Taliban field commanders interviewed for the report suggested that ISI intelligence agents even attend Taliban supreme council meetings.
Support for the Afghan Taliban was "official ISI policy", the London School of Economics (LSE) authors suggest. 

Pakistan's military denied the claims. 

A spokesman said the allegations were "rubbish" and part of a malicious campaign against the country's military and security agencies.
The LSE report comes at the end of one of the deadliest weeks for Nato troops in Afghanistan, with more than 30 soldiers killed. 

'Double game'

  Links between the Taliban and Pakistan's intelligence service have long been suspected, but the report's author - Harvard analyst Matt Waldman - says there is real evidence of extensive co-operation between the two.

"This goes far beyond just limited, or occasional support," he said. "This is very significant levels of support being provided by the ISI. 

"We're also saying this is official policy of that agency, and we're saying that it is very extensive. It is both at an operational level, and at a strategic level, right at the senior leadership of the Taliban movement." 

Mr Waldman spoke to nine Taliban field commanders in Afghanistan earlier this year.
Some alleged that ISI agents had even attended meetings of the Taliban's supreme council. They claim that by backing the insurgents Pakistan's security service is trying to undermine Indian influence in Afghanistan. 

  "These accounts were corroborated by former Taliban ministers, a Western analyst and a senior UN official based in Kabul, who said the Taliban largely depend on funding from the ISI and groups in Gulf countries," the report said. 

With US troops due to begin leaving next year, Pakistan and other regional players are increasingly seeking ways to assert their influence in Afghanistan, analysts say.
Pakistan has long been accused of using the Taliban to further its foreign policy interests in the country. The ISI first became involved in funding and training militants in Afghanistan after the Soviet invasion in 1979. 

Since 2001, however, it has been a key US ally, receiving billions of dollars in aid in return for helping fight al-Qaeda 

"Pakistan appears to be playing a double-game of astonishing magnitude," the report says. 

'No proof'

  But Islamabad says it is working with its international partners in hunting down the Taliban. And the Taliban's former ambassador to Pakistan, Abdul Salam Zaeef, says there is no proof of a link between the ISI and the Afghan Taliban. 


"I have no proof that Pakistan is supporting the Taliban," he told the BBC, "or that the ISI is providing money to them... or other support to provide weapons." 

Even so, Pakistan's role in Afghanistan is viewed as critical. 

Last week Afghan intelligence chief Amrullah Saleh resigned, saying he had become an obstacle to plans to talk to the Taliban. 

Mr Saleh told Reuters news agency a day after quitting that the ISI was "part of the landscape of destruction" in Afghanistan and accused Pakistan of sheltering Taliban leaders in safe houses. 

Pakistan has always denied such claims and points to arrests and military offensives against the militants on its side of the border. Nevertheless, parts of the tribal north-west of Pakistan bordering Afghanistan remain strongholds for the militants. 

The BBC's Quentin Sommerville in Kabul says there is a growing understanding that military action alone will not be enough to bring peace in Afghanistan. 

"Without a change in Pakistani behaviour it will be difficult if not impossible for international forces and the Afghan government to make progress against the insurgency," the report concludes. 

 BBC

While Malaysian Muslims trash Israel even though 99% of them has never ever met one, their Arab brothers plot and work with the "Zionists"

Saudi Arabia gives Israel clear skies to attack Iranian nuclear sites

"Riyadh would turn a blind eye to Israeli jets violating Saudi airspace during the bombing run."

Saudi Arabia has conducted tests to stand down its air defences to enable Israeli jets to make a bombing raid on Iran’s nuclear facilities, The Times can reveal.

In the week that the UN Security Council imposed a new round of sanctions on Tehran, defence sources in the Gulf say that Riyadh has agreed to allow Israel to use a narrow corridor of its airspace in the north of the country to shorten the distance for a bombing run on Iran.

To ensure the Israeli bombers pass unmolested, Riyadh has carried out tests to make certain its own jets are not scrambled and missile defence systems not activated. Once the Israelis are through, the kingdom’s air defences will return to full alert.

“The Saudis have given their permission for the Israelis to pass over and they will look the other way,” said a US defence source in the area. “They have already done tests to make sure their own jets aren’t scrambled and no one gets shot down. This has all been done with the agreement of the [US] State Department.”

Sources in Saudi Arabia say it is common knowledge within defence circles in the kingdom that an arrangement is in place if Israel decides to launch the raid. Despite the tension between the two governments, they share a mutual loathing of the regime in Tehran and a common fear of Iran’s nuclear ambitions. “We all know this. We will let them [the Israelis] through and see nothing,” said one.

The four main targets for any raid on Iran would be the uranium enrichment facilities at Natanz and Qom, the gas storage development at Isfahan and the heavy-water reactor at Arak. Secondary targets include the lightwater reactor at Bushehr, which could produce weapons-grade plutonium when complete.

The targets lie as far as 1,400 miles (2,250km) from Israel; the outer limits of their bombers’ range, even with aerial refuelling. An open corridor across northern Saudi Arabia would significantly shorten the distance. An airstrike would involve multiple waves of bombers, possibly crossing Jordan, northern Saudi Arabia and Iraq. Aircraft attacking Bushehr, on the Gulf coast, could swing beneath Kuwait to strike from the southwest.

Passing over Iraq would require at least tacit agreement to the raid from Washington. So far, the Obama Administration has refused to give its approval as it pursues a diplomatic solution to curbing Iran’s nuclear ambitions. Military analysts say Israel has held back only because of this failure to secure consensus from America and Arab states. Military analysts doubt that an airstrike alone would be sufficient to knock out the key nuclear facilities, which are heavily fortified and deep underground or within mountains. However, if the latest sanctions prove ineffective the pressure from the Israelis on Washington to approve military action will intensify. Iran vowed to continue enriching uranium after the UN Security Council imposed its toughest sanctions yet in an effort to halt the Islamic Republic’s nuclear programme, which Tehran claims is intended for civil energy purposes only. President Ahmadinejad has described the UN resolution as “a used handkerchief, which should be thrown in the dustbin”.

Israeli officials refused to comment yesterday on details for a raid on Iran, which the Prime Minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, has refused to rule out. Questioned on the option of a Saudi flight path for Israeli bombers, Aharaon Zeevi Farkash, who headed military intelligence until 2006 and has been involved in war games simulating a strike on Iran, said: “I know that Saudi Arabia is even more afraid than Israel of an Iranian nuclear capacity.”

In 2007 Israel was reported to have used Turkish air space to attack a suspected nuclear reactor being built by Iran’s main regional ally, Syria. Although Turkey publicly protested against the “violation” of its air space, it is thought to have turned a blind eye in what many saw as a dry run for a strike on Iran’s far more substantial — and better-defended — nuclear sites.

Israeli intelligence experts say that Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Jordan are at least as worried as themselves and the West about an Iranian nuclear arsenal.Israel has sent missile-class warships and at least one submarine capable of launching a nuclear warhead through the Suez Canal for deployment in the Red Sea within the past year, as both a warning to Iran and in anticipation of a possible strike. Israeli newspapers reported last year that high-ranking officials, including the former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, have met their Saudi Arabian counterparts to discuss the Iranian issue. It was also reported that Meir Dagan, the head of Mossad, met Saudi intelligence officials last year to gain assurances that Riyadh would turn a blind eye to Israeli jets violating Saudi airspace during the bombing run. Both governments have denied the reports. 


From The Times, June 12, 2010

KCPO:- Will CPO follows the USD ? -14/6/2010

During last mid week this market lost its footing and went below its recent support. I sold accordingly as this is confirmed by both the Stochastic and MACD which have crossed down. The most exciting part of all these is probably the ADX which has been flat now has begun to rise.

Since the ADX is now at 25's, I would have to respect its possible intensity. Place stop at 2424.

The weekly chart Stochastic has crossed down into its 20's  while the MACD is within striking distance of  crossing down below its zero signal line. Both of these are usually taken as a more prominent sell signal. The ADX which has been falling has now turned flat, this may be taken as a signal that a trend may emerge soon. But its lowly 14's, whatever new trend will need to do a lot of convincing.

As CPO is frequently linked to the movement of the US Dollar and I think this could  be a cross confirmation that the USD may be heading for a sell off soon. As usual just when 99% of the experts are overly bullish about something, the opposite usual happens.