At the State Department, euphemism alert! – In the Loop – The Washington Post – If you’re thrilled to learn Qaboos Anecdote; “Brigadier Tim Landon Obaid Karki” is pleasant neighborhood to Google before you hit this.

At the State Department, euphemism alert! – In the Loop – The Washington Post.

If you’re thrilled to learn Qaboos Anecdote; “Brigadier Tim Landon Obaid Karki” is pleasant neighborhood to Google before you hit this. It took Qaboos 2 decades to bring USA Trade Balance from $257.4M [1995] to $1,747M [2012]. Now I see Kerry in Muscat yesterday is pushing the Trade Balance further $2.1B in Raytheon Junk deal to $3,847M that’s triple what Qaboos can afford. Kerry and Oman oh! no. can’t be. Cheney and Oman more likely to dump some Toxic Waste in Empty Quarter and host Drone Terrorism from Heaven. That’s more like it. Here’s a loose change.. There’re two apostate Iranian Americans who’re busted by Khamenei for spying for CIA. Happy Hanukah Ayatollah Khanum. US Marine Amir Mirza Hekmati and Iranian-American Christian pastor Saeed Abedini. Kerry needs Qaboos to contact Iran to release them before US/Israel Iran in year 3033. Qaboos gets Oman unleashed for while and Kerry gets the hostages before Democrats lose the Senate to Teeebaagerzz in 2014. Raytheon is Redherring. Where yesterday’s drone which hit al-Qaida in Yemen flew from? Oman. So long! America. This is your argument – I am going to bed. The rest of the evening is yours. My treat – Theorize it.

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bifurcated kleptocratic autocratic Thugocracies. Shoshana sees to dumb King Abdulla to peace with Palestinians. I agree. Great idea. Where you like me to sign? He neither bites nor barks.

U.S.: Israel’s Prosperity a Problem.

U.S.: Israel’s Prosperity a Problem.

I envy Shoshana Bryen’s ability to pick power world as bifurcated between kleptocratic, autocratic describing bifurcated kleptocratic autocratic Thugocracies. Shoshana sees to dumb King Abdulla to peace with Palestinians. I agree. Great idea. Where you like me to sign? He neither bites nor barks. Kerry is amateur and Shimon Peres is over-wise. Bibi his ain’t breaking his vow to his late father Benzion Mileikowsky at his deathbed. “Don’t trust Palestinians my son”. “Yes dad. I won’t”. Israel wasted golden opportunities when traitors used to run Arab world. Arabspringers ain’t peace with Israel. Israelis turned Peace to a mirage for Academia like the Bimini Road in Atlantis. Ain’t pleasant unless paid, like any junk science boring but it is means of living. I am afraid that Peace ain’t happen in my life time. Qatar donated $1B not to abolish Judaica but escrow token. In Metropolis standards – Jerusalem is slum and badly needs minimum $6B to build the Temple, the Mosque, the Church & the mega structures to accommodate Pilgrimers. The rest will be paid by UAE, Saudi, Kuwait and others.

Ramsamy is bluffing. “BBC stated that man wearing Help the Hero’s T Shirt was hit by car, then attacked and killed with machete or sword by car’s occupants.” They attempted to copy Boston Bombing but somehow did not get it right?” Blood on signpost was “Tomato Ketchup!!” They want public support. Stoking anti-Muslim rage solicits it. I have a confession to make. I dare you take it as an apology of my part. Hell no. It’s a moment of truth. It’s foolish. I don’t have to. Here it is.. I am no terrorist ain’t Michael Adebowale and Michael Adebolajo either. In King’s English a TERRORIST ain’t a Muslim but a person who commits an act of TERRORISM. Its Civilizer of British authorities If Michael Adebowale and Michael Adebolajo was convicted as lonewolf who killed Lee Rigby for personal reasons. Michael Adebowale and Michael Adebolajo were gun-down for being Muslims no terrorists to let British Beer Louts ransack mosque and devastate Muslims around the world. Let me bore you with a metaphor how many Japanese eaten white women and went unnoted? Yes he’s Japanese ain’t terrorist simply because he ain’t Muslim. So how many white women were eaten by Muslims? One million! Another boring one how many Registered Terrorist Groups in India [sorry]? 182. Oh Yeh they ain’t terrorists simply because they Hindus ain’t Muslims. I need a Laxative now. Can I go on! Read Phuket Gazette about daily Britons hacked to death repeatedly chopped by hatchet or meat cleaver in Thai brothels and their corpse fed to hogs by Thai panders. Oh no. they’re Thai Panders ain’t Muslims. So how many Muslims murdered by Thai Panders? I protest. That’s Dishonest. I didn’t want Lee’s school Mugshot that he looks as an innocent teenager beefeater drummer. I needed Lee Mugshot [the skinhead] urinating on Muslims corpse in Afghanistan and showing Dead Taliban fingers in his keychain. OK. I got it. The Name of British Soldier is Lee Rigby. Thank you. You made my day. Anjem Choudary is Adeboloja mentor. Wow. He’s dead. Nigerians! Welcome to BOKO HARAM LONDON. She needed them badly dead but they didn’t. Hard-Luck. Hardrock Café! Here’s Some Poetic Justice. 2 FBI Agents Involved in Dzhokar Tsarnaev’s Arrest “FALL” Out of Helicopter and Die. Boya Dee’s narrative was so accurate. 2 bredas were gun-down by female Robocop. Michael Adeboloja calmly chatted with bystanders, encouraged photos & video recordings planned to send message. “There is nothing in Islam that justifies this truly dreadful act.” Oh really. Apologetic Anglosexual Muslim leaders in London denounced the attack. What bunch of hypocrites?  British mosques ransacked by Beer Louts in response to the murder. That’s what they’re good at. Here’s the deal. 2 bredas watching on their IPOD William Hague talking to The BORED Sleeping British Parliament that he’s ain’t sure if Assad is used Chemical weapons to commit genocide to Syrian elders, women & Children as ‘Ibragim Todashev gun-down was by FBI officer for crime of being Muslim and crime of having late Tamerlan Tsarnaev number. Who hasn’t? Now here’s a White Officer a Gemini of the FBI one in Orlando screeching his daily ritual: ‘GO BACK TO AFRICA’ that’s another word for ‘SUP N[I]GGA in Woolwich. The rest is storied history and amazing Shakespearean play except that how the hell they got Kigali Machete so quickly? How the hell FOXNEWS zombies ain’t taking the streets to gun-down anything moving hoping he’s a Muslim?

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Here’s the good news Potus. You got 2 options: either Invade Hydrocarbon-Rich Dagestan & Starve Russia or let FOXNEWS zombies impeach you. My advice! You’re too smart for America. Stop insulting yourself. Quit the White House – they don’t deserve you. They need some genius as Sarah Palin or Michele Bachmann or Ann Coulter to turn America to Bangladesh. Here’s Some Poetic Justice. 2 FBI Agents Involved in Dzhokar Tsarnaev’s Arrest “FALL” Out of Helicopter and Die. ‘Ibragim Todashev was just a Muslim – that was his mistake, I guess,’ Taramiv. Oh no. don’t be fooooolish. I don’t think so. Don’t worthy the worthless. The poor little kid was gun-down by unnamed FBI thug while he’s about to confess. Sign written confession. Who’re you kidding? Loooosers. I advise the assailant to hang himself before his shrink does. That’s Bollywood. You don’t need to get Robert Oppenheimer to nuke Japan – just get Hitler’s blueprints that he got and build your own bomb. Idiots never learn. FBI is targeting Tamerlan Tsarnaev Friends through forged third party database to indict ‘em or kill ‘em if they ain’t responding to Flunitrazepam. BMB sponsors won’t let their investment go down the drain. They needed something big as 911. That’s what they’re. They sent David Cameron to Watertown to revive the tragedy. So long! America. This is your argument – I am going to bed. The rest of the evening is yours. My treat – Theorize it.

It took Qaboos 2 decades to bring USA Trade Balance from $257.4M [1995] to $1,747M [2012]. Now I see Kerry in Muscat yesterday is pushing the Trade Balance further $2.1B in Raytheon Junk deal to $3,847M that’s triple what Qaboos can afford. Kerry and Oman oh! no. can’t be. Cheney and Oman more likely to dump some Toxic Waste in Empty Quarter and host Drone Terrorism from Heaven. That’s more like it. Here’s a loose change.. There’re two apostate Iranian Americans who’re busted by Khamenei for spying for CIA. Happy Hanukah Ayatollah Khanum. US Marine Amir Mirza Hekmati and Iranian-American Christian pastor Saeed Abedini. Kerry needs Qaboos to contact Iran to release them before US/Israel Iran in year 3033. Qaboos gets Oman unleashed for while and Kerry gets the hostages before Democrats lose the Senate to Teeebaagerzz in 2014. Raytheon is Redherring. Where yesterday’s drone which hit al-Qaida in Yemen flew from? Oman. So long! America. This is your argument – I am going to bed. The rest of the evening is yours. My treat – Theorize it.

Sheikh delivers jurisprudence ain’t based either Quran or Hadeeth but based on a secret decree issued by his employer (the autocrat). When an Astronomist unable to see stars at daylight he looks into the well? This is your argument – the rest of the evening is yours. Theorize it.

It’s another boring Review of Criteria Used by IRS to Identify 501(c)(4) Applications for Greater Scrutiny. The 207.9 minutes Dog and Pony show conduct by Max Baucus [pony], Orrin G. Hatch [dog], Mr. Steven Miller [the venom], J. Russell George [the clown] and Douglas Schulman [the Israeli who bonked IRS]. I need you to watch the goatee bearded Amish Teeebaager sitting right-behind Sen. Ornin Hatch from 33:46 minute and left-behind Sen. Chuck Grassley from 45.01 minutes. It’s a scam and daylight theft of minds. IRS is $3 trillion economy run by 90,000 prodigal grafts to extort $2.4T and evaporates $600B in over-approached corruption. Schulman is an Ashkenazi Jew. So are the rest of orangutans who control US economy and Seigniorage Banksters culture. Republican Frugals strictly told not subpoena  Schulman to the House Ways and Means IRS-Holocaust Committee Chaired by Dave Camp lest the goood ol’ “DD” David Duke the Grand Wizard of Knights of Ku Klux Klan skew Schulman USDA-Subsidized-Fat- Kibbutz-Rear on Kerosene Flame; lynch Schulman from his Hasidic Magein David Reeky Rectum on Fiery Cross. The goood ol! “DD” loves to Barbeque Schulman for the heck of it. Yeah! Its “DD” wish to relief USA from All-Time-Liability called the State of Israel and the CHOSEN ONES who murdered JESUS. Issa to Lois Lerner:  Here Is Your Subpoena. Obama kept another Ashkenazi Jew Daniel Werfel to run IRS. So long! America. This is your argument – I am going to bed. The rest of the evening is yours. My treat – Theorize it.

 

Americans glued as zombies to FOXNEWS watching Assad committing genocide against elders, women and children and religiously polling to impeach Obama before he sends US Arm-Forces to save 23 million devastated Syrians. One hour Power of Moore tornado dwarfs Hiroshima bomb devastated Oklahoma is equivalent to stalemate in Syria that China, Russia, UK & USA masterminded. Is my condolence in order and to whom? Probably to myself. Let insurance handle it.

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Assad & his father are Israel’s lapdogs for the past 50 years. Last week Assad enjoyed watching IAF jetfighters bomb his arms & chemical weapon depot and kill 50 of his best Alawites officers. Delhi is beasty desperate for Cheap Syrian, Iraqi & Iranian Hydrocarbons. Delhi is Pro-Assad as China & Russians from the beginning. Quarter of planet earth will never forget nor forgive Delhi stance in devastating 23 million Syrians. That’s UNINDIAN. I didn’t mean to lionize. I would worthy the worthless if I did. This ain’t new. Louis Mountbatten and Jawaharlal Nehru killed millions of Punjabis during rotten partition. I ain’t expecting an honest Indian precedent or commentary to this premise. To buy time for themselves and for Assad. Iran & Thugocracies around burn billions in media dark out, distortion. As a matter of fact they’re engaged in systematic propaganda to crow about Assad’s petty wins to demoralize McCain Germs supporters aboard. That’s ain’t working no mo. Rebels from around the world are traveling to Syria to share the ditches with FSA. They are ten times the Iranians, Hezbollah & Alawites warlords who’re defending Assad. They’re butchered as boars & their corpse are fed to dogs as we speak by McCain Germs. Back to Hezbollah reinforcements. If 40 Hezbollah militants yesterday killed then thousands must be killed of Assad’s Alawites & Iranian mercenaries in Qusaira. Assad stands no chance to conquer McCain germs that have nothing to lose but their lives. My advice for Assad to stay until all Iranians, Hezbollah & Alawites nuked. The countdown is if an unprivileged Sunni martyred 40 privileged Shiite killed. Shiite are majority then An-eye-for-twenty. Since al-Nusra Front vowed to liberate Iraq from Iran last month. It’s a Friday Ritual Showdown to kill Sunni praying crowds by Iraqi Police & Shiite Militiamen. Shiite-led Iraqi Government tag Sunni killings to al-Qaeda inspired groups who target Sunni Defectors. That’s too good to be true since Iraq is an Iranian-Bitch-State. Putin doled Assad missiles to finish him. Putin wanted him to devastate Israel. Putin wanted to settle old accounts with Jewish oligarchies that looted Russia treasuries and fled to Israel during Boris Yeltsin. Putin stoooopidly wanted to shake up the Zionist lobby at the Donuthole to push USA into Serious Syrian war not Facebook & Twitter. War always boost US economy and unify zombies. Putin knows that Assad’s days are numbered either by shot in the head or democratization. Putin is a loser; he lost Kaddafi 2 years ago.

 

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We’re talking about slain Buddhist monk. If you like to switch to Mohammed I have millions who love to use your IP to devastate your life and throw you and your love ones in the street penniless. Please let me know.

Cop-out am straight! I am neither King’s English Anglosexual nor JunkScience Philosoraptor as you do. English ain’t my mother tongue to cherish. Do you? Its mocking tool to foo fools. I am a Picassoic Wordsmith Provocateur who has sufficient English and Knowledge about this premise enough to crush your skull, nuke your mindset and turn petty spamming unemployable like you to a Laughingstock. In case you don’t know: JunkScience Philosoraptor. It’s a dinosaur who grapples with big questions of metaphysics, ethics, and meaning of it all? I don’t think you got it. Gorm, lummy, flummox, gonoph Richard Cranium. Can I call Dr. Otto Hasslein for you?

Politics is sport ain’t religion. You don’t need my permission to become a terrorist. Go ahead. Your call. ‘Urinating on Muslims corpse’ ain’t ranting [astaghferullah] its news. Just google it if you know how to click on mouse right-button. My fault. I overpriced you. I should ignored you from the beginning. I usually don’t respond to your type. You’re wrong. I am neither sick nor dirty. Hospitals And Bathrooms are free. Be my guest. Please don’t bother to write back

I agree it’s hard. Looks as if your tailgate is larger than your hollow skull to understand clever conversation.

I dare you take it as an apology of my part. Hell no. It’s a moment of truth. It’s foolish. I don’t have to. Here it is.. I am no terrorist ain’t Michael Adeboloja either. In King’s English a TERRORIST ain’t a Muslim but a person who commits an act of TERRORISM. Its Civilizer of British authorities If Michael Adeboloja was convicted as lonewolf who killed Lee Rigby for personal reasons. Michael Adeboloja is gun-down for being a Muslim no terrorist to let British Beer Louts ransack mosque and devastate Muslims around the world. Let me bore you with a metaphor how many Japanese eaten white women and went unnoted? Yes he’s Japanese ain’t terrorist another boring one how many Registered Terrorist Groups in India [sorry]? 182. I need a Laxative now. can I go on! Read Phuket Gazette about daily Britons hacked to death repeatedly chopped by hatchet or meat cleaver in Thai brothels and their corpse fed to hogs by Thai Pimps.

 

 

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No Cheese Country Coup d’état

 

China’s Power Struggle
Is a Dangerous Divide Opening Between Beijing Leaders?
By Wieland Wagner AFP
For weeks, China’s communist leaders have been embroiled in a bitter power struggle that could jeopardize a carefully planned transition in the national leadership and the course charted by more moderate reformers. Although the state has tried to keep the feuding under wraps, the Internet is awash with rumors — including those of a possible coup.
The 7 p.m. news isn’t one of the best parts of Chinese state television. Two newscasters, a man and a woman, stiffly rattle off the achievements of the nine members of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China, including stories about the model companies they have visited and the mines they have toured. They read off the names of the workers who have received awards from the party leaders, and of the state guests being received by leaders in Beijing.
Still, last week, many Chinese paid close attention to the evening propaganda ritual, searching for signs indicating which of China’s leaders are still in power in Beijing.
There had been rumors and speculation about a possible coup, prompting many to wonder whether President and party leader Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao would even appear on the screen. Or would the newscast suddenly show other top officials?
The rest of the world, alarmed by reports from bloggers, also looked to China with concern. The country has enjoyed enviable successes for the last three decades. It has become the world’s second-largest economy, it now has the largest foreign currency reserves (about $3.2 trillion, or €2.4 trillion) and it controls the most dynamic growth market in the world — and one that German industries are increasingly dependent on.
Some Western businesspeople have even come to believe that the Chinese economic miracle is proof of the superiority of its authoritarian system. They have raved that the Chinese — unlike their counterparts in the West — don’t waste time in endless debates but, instead, make quick and clear decisions, thereby enabling them to govern more efficiently. And hasn’t it been true, they have argued, that the top political players are selected much more carefully and are not brought into senior government positions until they have proven their worth in the provinces?
It certainly seemed that way. But, in reality, China’s communist leaders have been embroiled in bitter power struggles for weeks, the details of which are only gradually reaching the outside world.
It is also becoming clear that the supposed competitive advantages of the Chinese one-party dictatorship — with no freely elected parliament, no independent judiciary, no meddlesome press — could become the biggest threat to the stability of this country of 1.3 billion people.
Rumors of a Coup
Last week’s uncertainty was triggered by rumors of a coup, which appeared online on the night of Monday, March 19, via the migroblogging website Sina Weibo, the Chinese version of Twitter. Although government censors quickly deleted the messages, they had already been rapidly disseminated.
Bloggers reported that gunshots had been heard on the edge of Zhongnanhai, the downtown Beijing neighborhood surrounded by high walls in which Chinese leaders live and work. They also described sightings of military vehicles on Changan Avenue, the long parade route along the Forbidden City and the Great Hall of the People.
Life seemed to be proceeding normally in Beijing, and many of the photos posted online of allegedly sighted tanks subsequently turned out to be old. Nevertheless, a state of emergency prevailed on the Internet in China. For instance, anyone searching for key words or phrases, such as “gunfire” or “Changan Avenue,” got the following message: “These terms are not being displayed in accordance with the applicable laws, regulations and political guidelines.”
Still, in posting these statements, the censors merely fueled additional speculation over what was happening in the government district. According to websites run by Chinese exiles, Zhou Yongkang, 69, a leading Poliburo official in charge of the police and judiciary, had been neutralized by his rival, party leader Hu, who enjoys the support of the military.
The security chief was mentioned in the TV news on Thursday, but it was unusually brief and without a photo. Like so many things in Beijing, his future has seemed uncertain.
A Leadership Shake-Up
The Chinese capital hasn’t experienced a power struggle like the one now underway since the bloody suppression of the democracy movement in Tiananmen Square in 1989. At the time, there were also deep divisions within the country’s communist leadership.
The current showdown threatens to jeopardize the carefully planned change in the party and national leadership. Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping, 58, is expected to succeed Hu as party leader in the fall and replace him as president in March 2013.
The shake-up had been prepared for so long that it didn’t seem to be in jeopardy. On the other hand, China’s communists have only managed to achieve a smooth transition of power once since the death of Chairman Mao Zedong in 1976. That was in 2002, when the current Communist Party leader took office.
This fall, however, seven of the nine positions on the Politburo Standing Committee are to be filled with new people. This is almost more important than the presidential succession because it is this committee that ultimately sets the agenda in China. Even the president and party leader has to negotiate compromises within the committee.
Seeking to Avoid a ‘Historical Tragedy’
The tussle over the replacement of the seven members has been going on for months. On March 15, one of the most promising candidates for a top post withdrew, albeit involuntarily. The Beijing leadership deposed Bo Xilai, 62, the popular party chairman in Chongqing, a city of 32 million on the Yangtze River in central China.
The ambitious and charismatic Bo’s fall from grace came as a surprise because he is considered a “princeling.” His father became one of China’s “immortal” revolutionaries after making a name for himself fighting the Japanese. His son Bo encouraged the citizens of Chongqing to revive the custom of singing revolutionary songs in the city’s parks. He had thousands of corrupt officials and underworld figures arrested. And he helped the poor by forgiving their school fees and providing them with inexpensive apartments.
Conservatives in the Communist Party applauded Bo, believing that he could resolve the contradictions of communist state capitalism, especially widespread corruption and the growing chasm between the rich and the poor.
But moderate reformers, such as Premier Wen Jiabao, saw the Chongqing-based populist as a new Mao, a dictator who could threaten them and their families’ business interests. Speaking on the day before Bo was deposed, Wen said that China had reached a “critical stage.” “Without a successful political structural reform, it is impossible for us to fully institute economic structural reform, and the gains we have made in this area may be lost,” Wen said. In fact, he added that, if China could not get to the root of its problems, it might experience another “historical tragedy like the Cultural Revolution.”
The assessment by a Chinese academic in a US diplomatic cable that was disclosed by WikiLeaks in 2010 shows how deeply Bo had alarmed the party bosses in Beijing. According to the academic, in an effort to make himself politically unassailable, Bo had even denounced his own father during the Cultural Revolution. As the professor stated in his assessment, since the Chinese value family ties above all else, many viewed Bo as a “base traitor.”
The Wang Lijun Affair
In addition to quarreling over positions, Beijing’s leaders are also at odds over the future positioning of the superpower. Should China be more “revolutionary” again — that is, more directed from above — as Bo demonstrated in Chongqing? Or should the party embark on reforms leading in the direction of a constitutional state, as the southern province of Guangdong, a key center of the country’s export industries, is currently practicing with the support of party leader Hu and Premier Wen?
Although personal and political issues are difficult to separate in this power struggle, a public contest to determine the best arguments has so far been avoided. Instead, Hu, Wen and their supporters employed a tried-and-true method for eliminating the upstart from Chongqing: corruption charges.
An incident in early February provided the necessary excuse. At the time, Wang Lijun, Bo’s recently demoted vice-mayor and police chief, had fled to the US Consulate in Chengdu because he allegedly wanted to seek asylum. But the effort fizzled, and he only stayed in the consulate for a single day. The former official is now being questioned in Beijing, where he has reportedly provided authorities with incriminating material about Bo and his family.
Whether the ousted “princeling” will be put on trial or relegated to a more minor position within the party was still unclear last Friday. Bo has powerful allies in Beijing, including Zhou Yongkang, the chief of security in the Politburo who, according to rumors among Chinese bloggers, has now been deposed. To fool the Internet censors, net activists have made a code name out of the last character in his name. They refer to him as “Kang Shifu,” the name of a Chinese brand of instant noodles.
Trusting the Internet More than the State
And what is Xi Jinping saying, the man who — at least at the moment — is in line to become the next party leader and president? He has remained tight-lipped on where he intends to take China. Such is consistent with the approach he has used to climb to the top of the party: not attracting attention and not making enemies.
Granted, this is a recipe that has proven effective in the past, as was also the case with censorship. But how effective is this approach today, when an alternative to the government’s propaganda — and one accessible to millions of Chinese — has taken shape on the Internet? And when there are two versions of the truth?
The most recent events must even give a man like Xi pause. The Communist Party is beginning to have trouble maintaining secrecy on issues of personnel and power. Too much information is leaked, and it rapidly spreads online.
Meanwhile, the party remains silent, which only fuels additional speculation. Even when Zhou was shown on television on Friday, many bloggers were unimpressed: “It’s all an illusion, full of twists and turns,” one blogger wrote.
Indeed, many Chinese have become so cynical that they don’t even trust the party media, such as state-run television, when they actually are telling the truth. But they do believe every rumor on the Internet.
Perhaps that was why they still didn’t know, at the end of last week, what was actually happening in their country.