15th February, 2011
Bahrain is undergoing a silent revolt by pro-democracy protesters despite a violent crackdown backed by the US and Saudi Arabia, a political analyst says.
Archive for February, 2011
‘Silent revolt underway in Bahrain’
Posted by seumasach on February 15, 2011
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What’s next for Egypt?
Posted by seumasach on February 15, 2011
10th-16th February, 2011
After four military communiqu…s issued by the now ruling Higher Military Council (HMC) in the wake of the stepping down of President Hosni Mubarak, Egypt’s future seems open to many questions.
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Is the revolution being co-opted?
Posted by seumasach on February 15, 2011
Pepe Escobar
16th February, 2011
I take my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
- The Who, Won’t Get Fooled Again
Were this an ad, the catchphrase would be “the sound of a new generation”. A group of seven young January 25 revolutionaries, including Wael “Google Gandhi” Ghonim, met two members of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, in what The Arabist blog identified as “the Facebook kids meets the generals”, or Generation Y meets the Ancien Regime (which happens to be the new regime as well …)
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Mythology & official nonsense
Posted by seumasach on February 15, 2011
Jim Willie
9th February, 2011
With the advent, then the continuation of the Quantitative Easing exercise in hyper-inflation and capital destruction, the US Federal Reserve has perhaps taken its deeply damaged reputation as a central banker and decimated it into shreds. They have lost the respect of the world, more so outside the nation’s borders than inside. The financial sector and politicians seem unable to stop showing deep reverence for the post, even licking the Chairman’s boots whenever he appears before the USCongress. Recent hints of contempt in WashingtonDC are encouraging. He has not made a single correct forecast on major items. The USFed in short has lost control. See the rising bond yields, which torpedo the housing ship, badly listing as a derelict vessel. The USFed seems thoroughly content to rescue the big US banks, whose wretched condition cannot possibly be rectified, even if such a rescue results in global price inflation and revolts. The decision made after recognition that a recent QE chapter has failed is clearly to repeat it. When QE2 is exhausted or deemed a failure, expect QE3 at the doorstep. This behavior exhibits insanity. The February package of Hat Trick Letter reports includes a special report entitled “USFed as Agent of Destruction”that elaborates on the deep damage.
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Save the Great British bee!
Posted by seumasach on February 15, 2011
It is also believed the chemicals in pesticides interfere with the bees’ personal electrical and chemical signals, causing problems for their navigation systems.
What else is a rather more obvious candidate for interfering with their navigation systems?
12th February, 2011
Just four years. That’s how long Albert Einstein reportedly said the human race would last in a world without bees. For the master of relativity, the equation was relatively simple: no more bees = no more people. And while there is debate over whether the great physicist made the claim, no one disputes that we would be in serious trouble were bees to disappear.
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US and Pakistan square off
Posted by seumasach on February 14, 2011
M.K.Bhadrakumar
15th February, 2011
The United States State Department has announced that the trilateral United States-Pakistan-Afghanistan meeting at foreign minister level, scheduled to take place in Washington on February 23-24, has been indefinitely postponed. Washington ascribes the postponement due to a cabinet reshuffle in Islamabad on Friday in which foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi was replaced.
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Fears for UK growth as inflation sabotages austerity
Posted by seumasach on February 14, 2011
The UK economy is a chamber of horrors with scary encounters with the spectres of inflation, unemployment, bankruptcy and, horror of horrors, the unmentionable run on the pound.
14th February, 2011
Traders have warned that inflation is undermining the work done by the Coalition’s austerity measures to keep interest rates under control. The yield on 10-year gilts has jumped half a percentage point since the start of the year and a whole percentage point since September to 3.87pc, escalating the cost of raising new Government debt.
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Rights organisations still search for missing and detained
Posted by seumasach on February 14, 2011
14th February, 2011
There are currently 32 human rights institutions, working with the Front To Defend Egyptian Protestors, who are searching for the detainees and trying to get them released. These include the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) and the Hisham Mubarak Law Center, where the front is located.
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Investigation into Mubarak family fortune begins tomorrow
Posted by seumasach on February 14, 2011
We look forward to a similar investigation in Britain into where all the bank bailout money went
14th February, 2011
Egypt’s prosecution will begin an investigation tomorrow into the fortune of the Mubarak family, says the Freedom Committee at the Lawyers Syndicate.
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Sign “war on want” petition to end Afghan war
Posted by seumasach on February 14, 2011
Click here to sign petition
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Egypt fed up with foreign bullying
Posted by seumasach on February 13, 2011
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