Week of June 7 - Hiatus

[Julle1]

Interesting video from when "thousands of Israelis rally in Tel Aviv in support of the IDF raid against the Gaza Freedom Flotilla that left nine passengers dead. The rally was organized through Israeli Facebook forums. In addition to supporting the IDF commando unit that attacked the Mavi Marmara ship, demonstrators expressed anger at Turkey and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who they accused of supporting terrorism".

One of interviewee claims that this event united Israel, another one says says "Death to Arabs". Maybe the past week has been a regenercy event for Israel.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWha0aMGIlQ

[burt]

I've been out of touch most of this week is because I've been in Orlando receiving an award for the paper I submitted last year to the Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) Leading Edge Forum Papers competition.

John

Congratulations! You have every right to be proud of your accomplishments.

Congratulations too
Burt

[burt]

A report from STRATFOR:
Russian President Dmitri Medvedev (L) meets with head of the Federal Security Service Alexander Bortnikov in Moscow on June 9
Russia: Expanding the FSB's Powers
June 11, 2010 2005 GMT
Legislation passed by the Russian Duma on June 11 could allow the Federal Security Service to target anyone without a legal reason..

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And now?
Burt

[burt]

Bloomberg today: (http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid= ... rng8&pos=9)
Korean Military Denies Top General Drunk as Ship Sank (Update1)
By Bomi Lim

June 11 (Bloomberg) -- South Korea’s military denied news reports that the nation’s most senior commander was sleeping off a drinking session in his office as one of the nation’s warships sank, killing 46 sailors.

General Lee Sang Eui, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, may have falsified a document to make it appear that he was in the Defense Ministry’s command-and-control center on the night of March 26 when the Cheonan was sunk, Yonhap News and the Hankyoreh newspaper reported today. The news organizations cited unidentified officials at the Board of Audit and Inspection and military personnel.
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It seems this story becomes more complicated and It could very well stop now, as usual (for the relation within Koreas) in a confusing situation, as long as South Korea is concerned, BUT what is North Korea going to do about the succession of "Kim the mad"???

Burt

[burt]

Do you want some trillions Euros? No problem? No limit?

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid= ... q6tc&pos=6

EU to Expand Rescue If Package Fails, Van Rompuy Says (Update4)

By James G. Neuger

June 10 (Bloomberg) -- European Union President Herman Van Rompuy said the 750 billion-euro ($905 billion) rescue package would be expanded if it doesn’t quell the debt crisis, becoming the first EU leader to float the idea of a larger fund.

“Currently there isn’t even the hint of a request to put this rescue plan into practice,” Van Rompuy told Belgium’s Trends magazine. “And if the plan were to prove insufficient, my answer is simple: in this case, we’ll do more.”

[ItsMe]

Congratulations on the award John, you deserve it.

Saw your remark about not seeing many pictures of oiled animals from the Gulf, there are quite a few reports of confiscated cameras and news crews being turned back from the damaged areas.

http://news.google.com/news/search?aq=f ... strictions

The robots are all online though, since a congressman demanded it.

http://realitycheck.no-ip.info/BP-Wall.htm

Takes good video to see that.

Apparently I'm not logged in this morning. Oh well.

[John]

Thanks to everyone for your contributions during the last week. It
would nice to figure out a way to continue that on a regular basis.

John