Archive for October, 2011
Posted by seumasach on October 9, 2011
Resiste Libia el genocidio de la OTAN…Paremos la bestialización de la especie humana!
Stella Calloni
8th October, 2011
La indiferencia de la comunidad internacional permite a la Organización del Atlántico Norte (OTAN) y sus mercenarias fuerzas terrestres continuar masacrando en Libia a las poblaciones que resisten la humanitaria invasión a su país, lo que se convierte en una despiadada complicidad de los gobiernos con los crímenes de lesa humanidad que cometen los invasores.
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Posted by seumasach on October 9, 2011
Qiao made several suggestions about China’s assistance to the euro zone.
First, China should buy more bonds from multilateral institutions, including euro bonds and the bonds issued by the European Financial Stability Facility, because they are less risky.
Second, China should encourage domestic enterprises to expand in Europe, carry out business cooperation with European companies or purchase those companies’ preference shares that do not carry voting rights to avoid political obstacles.
Third, China should increase the weight of the euro in the RMB’s currency basket.
China knows that the battle for Europe is a crucial one. The fall of the Euro would mean the reimposition of the dollar as the global reserve currency, the monopoly money of global trade. As a result China and other countries would be obliged to go on accepting devalued dollars and effectively subsidise the USA indefinitely. They are obviously pulling out all the stops to make sure that doesn’t happen.
What part should China play in European debt crisis?
People’s Daily
9th October, 2011
It is difficult for China not to get involved in the European debt crisis. China’s Foreign Ministry and Ministry of Commerce both recently expressed support for the beleaguered euro zone. However, that raises the question of how to help European countries without sacrificing China’s own national interests.
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Posted by seumasach on October 8, 2011
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Posted by seumasach on October 8, 2011
Cailean Bochanan
This last week £75 billion of so-called quantitative easing was announced as well as the continuation of the bombing of Libya by NATO in a campaign ” to protect civilians” which would be laughable were it not so deadly destructive and boundlessly criminal.
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Posted by seumasach on October 8, 2011
Shamus Cooke
Counterpunch
7th October, 2011
It should be no surprise that a city dubbed “Little Beirut” by President Bush Senior — due to the large protests against him — began its “occupation” on a level on par with Wall Street.
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Posted by seumasach on October 8, 2011
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey
Pravda
7th October, 2011
The conduct of international relations involves the necessary prerequisites of maturity, integrity, balanced and rational policy-making and respect for the law. Judging from what we have seen in the last decade, we can draw the most shocking conclusions: none of these precepts underlie the conduct of policy today, at least by NATO.
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Posted by seumasach on October 8, 2011
“Terrified men crouched close to the complex wall, trapped and in constant prayer as they watched comrades fall to the ground and their offensive fall to pieces.”
This is the reality of NATO’s desperate attempt to capture Sirte and declare victory, again, They could then officially end their campaign, without actually ending it, and lead the world’s attention to some other futile conflict. Desperate days, the end times for the empire, the twilight of the gods of war.
Libya’s rebels launch the final push for Sirte and their crowning victory
Telegraph
8th October, 2011
“Today this is finished. We are going to end this now. Sirte is ours!” shouted Commander Amin El Turki to his men, their rows of heavy machine guns pointed to the city.
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Posted by seumasach on October 8, 2011
Craig Murray
5th October, 2011
Here is something you won’t find in any western media. Part of the actual Russian speech or “Explanation of Vote” for their veto of the UN Resolution on Syria. It is worth reading. It is my own translation from the website of the Russian mission to the UN. There will be an official UN translation circulated in New York, but there will not be major differences:
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Posted by seumasach on October 6, 2011
The TUC’s general secretary, Brendan Barber, said the decision to expand QE was the right one, but added: “While it is better than not doing anything, quantitative easing is no economic magic wand.
“We worry that it does more to help the finance sector than the rest of the economy and could fuel further inflation at a time when living standards are already being squeezed.”
That’s very perceptive of Barber to spot that QE aims to bail out the City whilst continuing the impoverishment of everyone else- yet he supports it!
Britain in grip of worst ever financial crisis, Bank of England governor fears
Guardian
6th October, 2011
Sir Mervyn King expressed fears that Britain is in the grip of the world’s worst ever financial crisis after the Bank of England announced it was injecting £75bn into the ailing economy.
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Posted by seumasach on October 6, 2011
Poor NATO are in an awful mess and we probably don’t know the half of it. To bomb or not to bomb- that is the dilemma, but they are damned both ways. A military problem requires a military solution: the “pacification”of Libya requires massive armed force on the ground a possibility which certainly is not being openly considered and is politically and financially risky in the extreme if not simply impossible. The truth is that the new formula of terrorists and mercenaries on the ground backed by massive air power has not worked: the legitimate government of Libya, it’s armed forces and the armed people, to say nothing of the volunteers from throughout North Africa and the Arab world are resisting effectively and are gaining ground. It is politically, morally and financially very difficult to continue bombing of this intensity indefinitely. What can NATO do without being exposed before the whole world, along with their massive entourage of apologists, as the liars, warmongers and war criminals they really are? Oh dear! Oh dear! Oh dear!
NATO divided on end to Libya air war
6th October, 2011
Reporting from Brussels and Beirut—
Members of the NATOmilitary alliance parted company Wednesday over how quickly to halt the six-month bombing campaign in Libya, and the dangers of doing so if fighters loyal to Moammar Kadafi, the country’s deposed strongman, are still engaged in armed resistance.
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Posted by seumasach on October 5, 2011
Paul Zimmerman
27th September, 2011
Fukushima’s nuclear disaster is a nightmare. Ghostly releases of radioactivity haunt the Japanese countryside. Lives, once safe, are now beset by an ineffable scourge promising vile illness and death.
Large sectors of the population are accumulating significant levels of internal contamination, setting the stage for a public health tragedy.
A subtle increase in the number of miscarriages and fetal deaths will be the first manifestation that something is amiss. An elevated incidence of birth defects will begin in the Fall and continue into the indefinite future. Thyroid diseases, cardiac diseases and elevated rates of infant and childhood leukemia will follow. Over the next decade and beyond, cancer rates will soar.
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