Archive for May, 2010
Posted by seumasach on May 31, 2010
In Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan, recent developments have upset the scaffolding set up by the U.S. through its colour revolutions to gain control over former USSR states. It is now Washington’s staunchest ally Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, propelled into power by the 2003 “revolution of the roses”, who is rocking the boat through his recent “real politik” rapprochement with Iran, causing a further shift in the configuration of alliances in the region.
Giorgi Lomsadze
Voltairenet
31st May, 2010
After years of jostling among the regional giants, the United States and Russia, officials in Georgia seem intent on recruiting a new player for the regional geopolitical game — Iran.
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Yitzhak Laor
Haaretz
30th May, 2010
Since the end of the 1960s, the alliance between Israel and the United States has been an open one. Israel learned to reject any solution to the conflict with the Palestinians with the aid of the “Soviet interest” demon and turned itself into a stick. Its withdrawal from the territories was the Americans’ carrot to the Arabs. The peace with Egypt was made possible only when that country abandoned its alliance with the Soviet Union. But that world has disappeared.
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Posted by seumasach on May 31, 2010
The British Government damns itself with faint condemnation
Hague “deplores” Gaza aid ship deaths
Independent
31st May, 2010
The Foreign Secretary today “deplored” the loss of life during the interception of a flotilla of ships carrying aid to Gaza.
Up to 15 people were killed after Israeli commandoes boarded ships carrying 10,000 tonnes of aid en route from Cyprus.
William Hague said the British embassy was in “urgent contact” with the Israeli government, asking for more information.
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Posted by seumasach on May 31, 2010
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Posted by seumasach on May 31, 2010
PressTV
31st May, 2010
Hours after the Israeli military attacked a Gaza-bound aid convoy, the European Union Foreign Policy chief calls for a full inquiry into the deaths of those on board the flotilla.
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Posted by seumasach on May 30, 2010
Germany, Europe and the Eurovision conspiracy
Gideon Rachman
FT
30th May, 2010
From a diplomatic point of view, last night’s German victory in the Eurovision song contestcould not have been better timed. How fitting therefore that the nineteen-year-old chanteuse who carried off the title, Lena Meyer-Landrut, is from an old German diplomatic family. Her grandfather used to be German ambassador to the USSR. And I am sure that she must be related to Nikolaus Meyer-Landrut, who is one of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s closest diplomatic advisers.
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Posted by seumasach on May 30, 2010
People’s Daily
28th May, 2010
Europe “was, is and will remain” a key investment market for China’s foreign exchange reserves, the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE) said on Thursday.
The euro and European capital markets rallied after China made the announcement.
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Posted by seumasach on May 30, 2010
Regardless of whether we are actually bombing another country at a given moment, we are permanently at war in other ways such as this outrageous attack on our own population. Permanent militarisation is a threat to us all.
Anthony Barnett
Observer
21st April, 2002
The Ministry of Defence turned large parts of the country into a giant laboratory to conduct a series of secret germ warfare tests on the public.
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Posted by seumasach on May 29, 2010
As was to be expected, Anglo-america is not giving in. Here, they employ, once again, their dodgy rating agencies to downgrade Spain’s debt. It is almost beyond belief that this kind of ploy could result in anything other than laughter, let alone another run on the Euro. These are the same rating agencies which made the subprime scam possible: rather than determining the fate of nations they should be under arrest.
Irish Independent
29th May, 2010
THE euro plunged and US stock markets fell last night after Spain was stripped of its top-level credit rating by a leading rating agency over concerns about its economic growth.
In the latest blow to the eurozone, which is struggling to cope with the fallout from the Greek fiscal crisis, Fitch Ratings downgraded Spain’s sovereign credit rating — a measure of how easily it can meet the interest payment on its debt — by a notch from the top AAA rating to AA+.
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Posted by seumasach on May 29, 2010
Telegraph of India
27th May, 2010
New Delhi, May 26: Concerns that cellphones pose a threat to honeybees, articulated by Shah Rukh Khan’s character in My Name Is Khan, have now been bolstered by Panjab University zoologist Neelima Kumar’s experiments.
Electromagnetic radiation from cellphones appears to alter the behaviour of bees, her experiments suggest and add fresh evidence to observations reported by a team of German researchers seven years ago.
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