Posted by seumasach on February 22, 2009
José Miguel Alonso Trabanco
21st February
The financial and economic turmoil the world is currently experiencing will certainly have many serious consequences beyond those fields. Indeed, its geopolitical fallout could be far more serious than commonly acknowledged and it is an element that cannot be neglected by neither statesmen nor analysts.
Posted in Multipolar world | Tagged: Geopolitics | 1 Comment »
Posted by seumasach on February 22, 2009
This video is not to be missed. The collapse of the commercial real estate guarantees the next phase of the financial implosion. The upside is plenty of downtown living space for homeless Americans.
19th February, 2009
About 220,000 stores may close this year in America, says our guest, retail consultant Howard Davidowitz of Davidowitz & Associates. As more Americans save and spend less, it’s clear there’s too much retail space. Just visit Web site deadmalls.com and track retail’s growing body count. And luxury retailers? They’re on “life support,” Davidowitz says.
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Posted by seumasach on February 22, 2009
Reports of the death of neo-conservatism are not exagerated!
Washington Post
20th February, 2009
Listening to neoconservative mastermind Richard Perle at the Nixon Center yesterday, there was a sense of falling down the rabbit hole.
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Posted by seumasach on February 22, 2009
19th February, 2009
The Versailles Court of Appeal has upheld a decision by the Crown Court of Nanterre to force mobile telephony company Bouygues Telecom to remove a mobile phone base station as it constitutes an “exceptional nuisance”. The initial ruling sentenced Bouygues Telecom to pay the sum of 3000 EUR to each of the three couples submitting their case, 100 EUR per day the installation remained erected and to pay all legal costs. After the appeal, a further 6000 EUR fine was imposed on the telecoms company, the per day cost was increased to 500 EUR (but not retroactively) and all further legal costs were also to be paid.
Posted in Ecological and Public Health Crisis | Tagged: EM radiation health hazard, no more masts | Leave a Comment »
Posted by seumasach on February 22, 2009
Luke Manzarpour
20th February, 2009
David Miliband has taken it upon himself to undermine the best of British politics and law in the name of the British people.
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged: "War on Terror", Boy Milliband, Carl Schmitt, New Labour against democracy | Leave a Comment »
Posted by seumasach on February 22, 2009
20th February, 2009
Hezbollah has condemned an Israeli TV channel for airing a blasphemous show that offends Christianity, Jesus Christ and Virgin Mary (PBUT).
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged: "War on Terror", Clash of civilizations, Hezbollah | Leave a Comment »
Posted by seumasach on February 22, 2009
The Taliban are getting ” increasingly violent”although, obviously, they have a lomg way to go before reaching American standards.
“An expert on civilian casualties said she was “cautiously optimistic” the U.S. is taking a new approach in dealing with civilian casualties. Sarah Holewinski, the executive director of The Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict, said more high-ranking military officials are visiting gravesites and apologizing”
These little courtesies go a long way.
“Instead of immediately denying civilian deaths, which deeply angers Afghans and with good reason, he said the U.S. will instead immediately investigate, make apologies and provide amends where appropriate,”
Well, Obama did promise change!
KABUL – An operation the American military at first described as a “precision strike” instead killed 13 Afghan civilians and only three militants, the U.S. said Saturday, three days after sending a general to the site to investigate.
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Posted by seumasach on February 21, 2009
Cailean Bochanan
22nd February, 2009
The latest GEAB report poses in the sharpest possible terms the crisis of global leadership. Indeed, it concludes that the chances of effective global counter-crisis action are now negligible and that we are near to entering a phase of “global dislocation” at the end of which “the world will look more like Europe in 1913 rather than our world in 2007.”
Posted in Multipolar world | Tagged: End of empire, Multipolar world, new global leadership | 1 Comment »
Posted by seumasach on February 21, 2009
No doubt the low carbon “industrial revolution” offers ‘huge economic opportunities” to friends of New Labour. Apart from that, it’s simply madness to describe this as a solution to Britain’s devastated economy. Coming from Mandelson this can also be taken as a veiled threat to “”doomsters” who talked down the British economy”.
Posted in Financial crisis | Tagged: bankrupt Britain, economic collapse | Leave a Comment »
Posted by seumasach on February 21, 2009
20th February, 2009
Iran’s defense minister says he achieved the objectives of his official visit to Russia amid reports that Tehran sought the S-300 system.
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Posted by seumasach on February 21, 2009
Steven Gowans
20th February, 2009
Obamamania was on full display Thursday in Canada’s capital, as the new US president made his first foreign visit – a six hour stop to wintry Ottawa, to exchange bromides with Canada’s prime minister, Stephen Harper.
Posted in Drive to Global War | Tagged: Afghanistan, End of empire, Obama, Obama agenda, The evil empire | Leave a Comment »
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