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John Williams of Shadow Stats “This is end of the world type stuff”

Posted by seumasach on February 12, 2012

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PHONY DATA: America’s “January Jobs” are Statistical Artifacts

Posted by seumasach on February 7, 2012

 Paul Craig Roberts
7th February, 2012
Last Friday the US Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that in the first month of this new year 243,000  jobs were created and the unemployment rate (U.3) fell to 8.3 percent.  This good news is a mirage. It is due to faulty seasonal adjustments and to the BLS birth/death model. In a prolonged downturn, seasonal adjustments and the birth/death model produce nonexistent employment. 

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Beijing finds vulnerable ally in Berlin

Posted by seumasach on February 7, 2012

Jian Junbo

Asia Times

8th February, 2012

German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s two-day visit to China last week came amid significant advances in cooperation, despite differences on issues such as Iran.

As Chinese President Hu Jintao said during his meeting with Merkel last Friday, her visit strengthens “trust and understanding” between the two countries.

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A lesson from the class of ’68

Posted by seumasach on January 21, 2012

Cailean Bochanan

21st January, 2012

Reports, if confirmed, that the captain of the Concordia remained indifferent as his ship hit the rocks should not surprise us. A whole number of recent reports from disaster survivors point to a similar and strange phenomena: even when life itself is at stake people remain unable to respond. Can it be that denial is now so deeply rooted in our psyche that it robs us of our most primal instincts? Can our denial over malfeasance, coming economic catastrophe, dangerous brinkmanship in the Persian Gulf, Fukushima etc.etc. have extended itself like a blanket over our response to each and every danger we face even the most obvious and immediate? We now exist it would appear within a delusional fantasy bubble which protects us from awareness of terrible realities and, unfortunately, does so without exception.

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Portugal victim of war on Euro

Posted by seumasach on January 15, 2012

The Portuguese government considers the decision of S&P to downgrade its debt two notches to be “unfounded”, without reflecting either the economic or political reality of Portugal’s counter-crisis measures. Specifically it fails to reflect the consensus within Portuguese society around these measures. A   study by MEP Diogo Feio calls for the end to the North American oligopoly of the rating agencies and, like Merkel, the end of legal obligation by investment institutions to take into account their ratings.

Portugal vítima da guerra ao euro

Correo da Manha

15th January, 2012

É “infundada” a decisão da Standard & Poor’s em baixar o rating nacional em dois níveis, para ‘BB’, uma posição já considerada lixo, diz o Governo português, em reacção à avaliação da agência de notação norte-americana.

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Westerwelle:S&P announcement an “artificially produced” setback

Posted by seumasach on January 14, 2012

German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle called the S&P announcement an “artificially produced” setback that emerged just as leaders’ efforts were beginning to bear fruit. In an e- mailed statement, he said he’ll step up efforts with euro-member states to create a European rating company.

Michael Fuchs, the CDU’s ranking floor member for economic issues, said the downgrades were “arbitrary Anglo-Saxon politics that don’t square with the efforts of countries including France” to take aim at state spending.

Merkel: Euro Leaders Must Redouble Efforts

Bloomberg

14th January, 2012

Chancellor Angela Merkel said euro- area downgrades by Standard & Poor’s reinforce Germany’s stance that European leaders must redouble their efforts to resolve the debt crisis as governments prepare to sell more debt next week.

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EU considers delaying oil embargo against Iran

Posted by seumasach on January 6, 2012

There is a growing tendency to prioritise economic well-being over war-making- this is promising. The EU supports the sanctions but not just now.

Deutsche Welle

6th January, 2012

A European Union ban on Iranian crude oil imports was to be formally decided by EU foreign ministers during a meeting at the end of January. However, diplomats in Brussels said on Friday that some EU capitals were pushing for a delay of the embargo to shield their debt-stricken countries from rising oil prices.

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A mistaken case for Syrian regime change

Posted by seumasach on January 4, 2012

Aisling Byrne

Asia Times

5th January, 2011

 

“War with Iran is already here,” wrote a leading Israeli commentator recently, describing “the combination of covert warfare and international pressure” being applied to Iran.

Although not mentioned, the “strategic prize” of the first stage of this war on Iran is Syria; the first campaign in a much wider sectarian power-bid. “Other than the collapse of the Islamic Republic itself,” Saudi King Abdullah was reported to have said last summer, “nothing would weaken Iran more than losing Syria.” [1]

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Thunderbolts of the Gods

Posted by seumasach on December 27, 2011

This work is of the highest interest and builds on the work of Velikovsky, Birkeland, Alfven and others. Here we have the promise of a holistic, multi-disciplinary rediscovery of our world and the cosmos. Most of all, from my own point of view, we have the possibility of gaining a deeper understanding of the roots of the most recent phase of human civilization.

Thunderbolts.info

A radical reinterpretation of human history and the evolving solar system

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Electric Universe 2012—The Human Story

Posted by seumasach on December 27, 2011

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Imran Khan draws more than 100,000 to rally in Karachi

Posted by seumasach on December 26, 2011

Guardian

25th December, 2011

More than 100,000 people have rallied in support of the Pakistani cricket legend and opposition politician Imran Khan in the country’s biggest city, Karachi, further cementing his status as a rising force in politics.

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