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Delayed due to a medical emergency, the publisher is recovering and the digest will hopefully resume within a couple of weeks.

FEB. 15, 1989 DEFEATED RUSSIAN TROOPS OFFICIALLY ALL LEAVE AFGHANISTSAN

Let our position be absolutely clear: an attempt by any outside force to gain control of the Persian Gulf region will be regarded as an assault on the vital interests of the United States of America, and such an assault will be repelled by any means necessary, including military force.
President Jimmy Carter, State of the Union Address, 20 January 1980

"I take my daily orders from Dr. Kissinger " National Security Advisor Gen. James Jones
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/02/jones_munich_conferenc...

U.S.'s Jones In 5-Day South Asia Trip To Launch Offensive
http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/world/top-us-official-concludes-visit-to-afg\hanistan-and-pakistan-before-major-offensive_100319296.html
February 13, 2010
Top U.S. official concludes visit to Afghanistan and Pakistan before major offensive
WASHINGTON D.C. National Security Advisor General Jim Jones completed a five-day trip to Afghanistan and Pakistan to view first-hand the current status efforts to implement the President's strategy in the region, the White House said on Friday. General Jones met with Senior Afghan, U.S., and ISAF leadership and traveled to Kabul, Kandahar, Jalalabad, and Panjshir. He reviewed U.S. efforts in the critical areas of security, development, and governance.
General Jones met with Pakistani President Zardari, Prime Minister Gilani, Foreign Minister Qureshi, and Chief of Army Staff Kayani to "discuss a variety of issues of mutual concern to both countries" the White House added. General Jones reiterated the U.S. commitment to a long-term and comprehensive relationship with Pakistan. He also traveled to the Swat Valley and elsewhere in North West Frontier Province. Stop NATO http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stopnato

Moloch in Helmand: A Price Worth Paying for Imperial PR
Chris Floyd Empire Burlesque

digest commentary:
In the week preceding Iran's 31 Islamic anniversary today the US media predicted a bloody clash between the Iranian govt. and the US based/supported
'green opposition'. Several important points: [1] Iran's alleged nuclear weapons program is the pretext, not the main USraeli issue which is demolishing Iran as a regional power which refuses to accept US dominance and orders. [2] the US govt. has long supported and engineered 'regime change' operations inside Iraq via USAID / NED / George Soros NGOs and 'initiatives' [3] Iran knows it, presented evidence that US media doesn't rmention as it reports 'unconfirmed tweeter' stories from the same mainly US-Europe based and pro-imperialist Iranian 'green opposition' - 'brutally' repressed when their provocation turns violent, attacking police, charging burning cars, buildings, and when its agents are exposed, arrested, jailed or deported as agents.

Some calling themselves leftists and radicals, claiming to support a genuine Iranian 'revolution' are USraeli agents or apologists. Condemning those who expose the role of US / NGO as: 'pro - Iran's fascist theocracy' who consider Ahmadinejad 'anti-imperialist'. These slimy lies serve to cover massive soft and hard power intervention that constitutes a war. Material below won't end their dirty game, but does reveal what's really going on. It's more than notable that these same justice-lovers have nothing to say about US
injustice and terror.
Exposing and opposing USraeli tactics in the criminal world war on every continent for 'full spectrum dominance' is our responsibility here in its 'homeland'. Don't be fooled that opposing US terror wars is supporting its enemies - getting tricked at minimum into passive, silent complicity while #1 destroyer goes about its deadly business - facilitated by 'regime change' to install its own loyal surrogates.

digest note: since 2/7/10 Extreme War Measures Guarantee Further Defeat: part 1, due to server lack of response, was unable to post part 2 as planned. Many more developments, so will post it in interconnected sections to expose the agenda behind expanding US war moves which - since US gets its empire's power & profits by exploiting, oppressing and dominating 95% of humanity - always have 'unexpected outcomes' for supremely arrogant imperialists. "Unexpected outcomes" that are in the vast majority's genuine interests to politically support actively.

01 October 2009 Keynote address by President Bill Clinton, U.N. Special Envoy for Haiti, at International Business Meeting Port-au-Prince
Potential foreign investors are taking part in a two-day meeting in Haiti, organised at the suggestion of the UN's special envoy to Haiti, former US president Bill Clinton, to explore business opportunities in the poorest country in the Americas....
USAID Haitian Diaspora Marke At the initiative of USAID and the Sogebank Foundation, the investment project called ''Haitian Diaspora Market Place''was launched Friday at the Karibe Convention Center during a ceremony attended by members of the private sector, representatives of government and the international agency.
Funded to the tune of 2 million U.S. dollars by USAID and half a million by the Sogebank Foundation...
Haiti, USAID, Haitian investment, Haitian market , Diaspora,
"Haiti Investment Global can help the Diaspora community acheive their dream ... 2.5 million program, called Diaspora RISE or Diaspora Leve Kampe!, through: ..."
www.myhaitioffice.com/USAID.html

02 October 2009 - Bill Clinton - Haiti - investment - UNO Report on the IDB/Clinton Trade Conference
http://www.france24.com/en/20091002-haiti-woos-foreign-investors-bill-cl...

BREATHTAKING LIES & WARS SPELLED OUT IN U.S. IMPERIALIST MANIFESTO OF WHITE SUPREMACY:

Hillary Clinton’s Speech 1/29/10 on Future of European Security
http://www.voltairenet.org/article163782.html
...The United States, too, has also been studying ways to strengthen European security and, therefore our own security, and to extend it to foster security on a global scale. Today, I’d like to discuss the core principles that guide the United States today as we consider the future of European security and our role in shaping, strengthening, and sustaining it. But first, let me address some questions raised in recent months about the depth of the United States commitment to European security. Some wonder whether we understand the urgent need to improve security in Europe. Others have voiced concern that the Obama Administration is so focused on foreign policy challenges elsewhere in the world that Europe has receded in our list of priorities. Well, in fact, European security remains an anchor of U.S. foreign and security policy. A strong Europe is critical to our security and our prosperity...
Human rights and universal values, shared as part of our common history between Europe and the United States, must always be a cornerstone of our security efforts, because if Europe is not secure, Europe cannot lead. And we need European leadership in the 21st century.

But European security is far more than a strategic interest of my country. It is also an expression of our values. We stand with Europe today, as we have stood with Europe for decades, because enduring bonds connect our nations and our peoples. We are united by an understanding of the importance of liberty and freedom. We have fought and died for each other’s liberty and freedom. These are ties that cannot and never should be broken. And we seek both to venerate and reinforce them by helping to maintain peace and security in Europe, today and all the tomorrows to come.

U.S. UNCOVERS THE RIDDLE: ALL RESISTANCE IS 'AL-QAEDA'
Pepe Escobar
www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/JE24Ak01.html

War declared on resistance
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/11/06/1068013331454.html
The Los Angeles Times has ordered its journalists to stop describing anti-American forces in Iraq as resistance fighters, saying the term romanticises them and evokes World War II-era heroism. An email circulated this week asked staff to instead use the terms insurgents or guerillas.

ALL U.S. MILITARY 'INTERVENTIONS' ARE OFFENSIVE - NOT 'DEFENSE'
Since July 26,1947 all unjust, unprovoked U.S. imperialist wars for global domination have officially became 'national defense'
".... the right of our manifest destiny to over spread and to possess the whole of the continent which Providence has given us for the development of the great experiment of liberty and federaltive development of self government entrusted to us. It is right such as that of the tree to the space of air and the earth suitable for the full expansion of its principle and destiny of growth."
John L. O'Sullivan,1845, democratic leader and editor

United States military spending is greater that the military budgets of every other nation on the planet combined.

CNAS Releases 2010 QDR and FY 2011 Defense Budget Analysis
WASHINGTON, DC, FEBRUARY 1, 2010
The Obama Administration's 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) and the Fiscal Year (FY) 2011 budget request sent to Congress today illustrate the challenge of matching vision to reality, according to a new CNAS policy brief released today titled
Vision Meets Reality: 2010 QDR and 2011 Defense Budget.

Excerpts From Pentagon's Plan: 'Prevent the Re-Emergence of a New Rival'
NYT March 8, 1992

Haiti earthquake issues:
1/15 Haiti: How & Why this Horror is SickeninglyFamiliar http://www.burbankdigest.com/node/263
1/17 Fear of Haiti's Revolutionary Potential... a Haitian Holocaust http://www.burbankdigest.com/node/264
1/19 One Week of War: Barbarity Born of Fear and Vulnerability http://www.burbankdigest.com/node/265

IMAGE IS CAPITAL
Image is capital in wake of the storm: It's very hard to "convey a positive image" when the "general public" sees you...stacking corpses like cordwood. Business executive James Reiss helicoptered in employees of an Israeli security company to guard his house and those of his neighbors. Reiss told the Journal that New Orleans must be rebuilt with fewer poor people. "Those who want to see this city rebuilt want to see it done in a completely different way — demographically, geographically and politically … or we're out."
http://www.latimes.com/news/columnists/cl-et-rutten10sep10,1,5504126.col...

1/16/10, 4 days after the first earthquake... Israeli image 'secured'
In a joint news conference at the Pentagon with Mullen, Robert Gates, US defence secretary, said the primary goal is to distribute aid as quickly as possible "so that people don't, in their desperation, turn to violence"...
Israel opens Haiti field hospital as Bush, Clinton lead fundraising efforts
1/16/10 http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2010/01/20101167102172106.htm...

1/15 Haiti: How & Why this Horror is Sickeningly Familiar http://www.burbankdigest.com/node/263
1/17 Fear Haiti's Revolutionary Victory... History of a Haitian Holocaust http://www.burbankdigest.com/node/264

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ONE FULL WEEK OF WAR - OCCUPYING KILLERS ARRIVE TO PLAY SAVIORS

The u.s. once supported the Haitian uprising to kick out its rival French imperialists. Ever since Hait's great revolutionary victory the U.S. has tried to kill Haiti's liberation struggle ---- fearful then and now that their revolution would inspire other African descendants, north amerikan Black slaves.

Imperialist War Southern Command in Charge: Barbarity Born of Fear and Vulnerability
The United States Southern Command (SOUTHCOM), located in Miami, Florida, is one of ten unified Combatant Commands (COCOMs) in the Department of Defense. It is responsible for providing contingency planning, operations, and security cooperation for Central and South America, the Caribbean (except U.S. commonwealths, territories, and possessions), Cuba; as well as for the force protection of U.S. military resources at these locations. SOUTHCOM is also responsible for ensuring the defense of the Panama Canal and canal area.
Under the leadership of a four-star commander, SOUTHCOM staff is organized into directorates, component commands and military groups that represent SOUTHCOM in the region of Central America, South America & the Caribbean. www.southcom.mil/

[also: Haiti: How &Why this Horror is So Sickeningly Familiar http://www.burbankdigest.com/node/263]

2008 U.S. scientists warned a catastrophic Haiti Quake was coming
"The GPS data allows these type of predictions of where these large earthquakes might occur," said Paul Mann of the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics. Until detection technology improves, preparation is still the best defense.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/01/16/eveningnews/main6105412.shtml

Earlier Warning Unheeded

digest: WHY HAITI IS ALWAYS IN A STATE OF DESPAIR? scream huge Seattle Times 1/14/10 headline of a nauseating propaganda piece. The real story of horror, terror, lies and 'sympathy', Obama's pick of GWB & B. Clinton to lead the 'recovery' - after more thousands who could have been saved within the estimated 48-78 hour max. time limit - all grotesquely mirrors other recent 'natural disasters', in Haiti, Indonesia and New Orleans, all genocidal wars serving U.S. geopolitical plans

Not Everyone Surprised by Haiti Earthquake: Geologists Have Sounded Alarm for Years
By Jane Musgrave
For years, scientists have warned it was only a matter of time before another major earthquake hit Haiti... In 2006, a group of scientists, predicted it's strength: magnitude 7.2.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24407.htm

"Hurricaine Katrina" Exercise
July 2004
"Hurricane Pam" Projected by 2004 Studies and computer exercises were "anticipated" and not made public
Massively attended by all govt. levels it projected detailed results of a hurricane, especially the deadly impact on low-lying, poor, predominantly Black working class areas...both a planning workshop and a scenario-based exercise.... The 300+ workshop participants at the Hurricane Pam workshop July 2004 were provided with a catastrophic hurricane scenario, a set of consequences that would result from that scenario, and assumptions designed to stress the emergency management system and force thinking on critical planning topics...[and]a copy of Louisiana’s Emergency Operations Plan, 12 parish emergency operations plans, the City of New Orleans’ Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan, emergency plans and related documents from Louisiana Department of Transportation, Louisiana State Police, the US Army Corps of Engineers, FEMA Region VI....