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IMF provides $510m loan for Zimbabwe

Posted by seumasach on September 5, 2009

The connection between this:

“The IMF wound down its programme there 10 years ago and formally withdrew in 2002, adopting a “declaration of noncooperation” with Mugabe’s government.”

and this:

“Zimbabwe has suffered a decade of economic meltdown and record hyperinflation”

has been studiously ignored almost everywhere for the best part of…..,well, a decade.

An honourable exception has been Stephen Gowan’s blog.

IMF provides $510m loan for Zimbabwe amid worries that Mugabe party will grab funds

Guardian

4th September, 2009

Zimbabwe‘s crippled economy received a boost when the IMF sanctioned a $510m (£311m) loan, its first to the country in a decade.

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‘Afghanisation’ of Afghanistan is the key to beating Taliban and bringing troops home, says Brown

Posted by seumasach on September 5, 2009

Daily Mail

5th September, 2009

Gordon Brown yesterday issued his strongest hint that British troops will start to quit Afghanistan by the end of next year.

In a major shift of strategy, the Prime Minister said a target to train up 134,000 Afghan soldiers will be brought forward by a year to December 2010.

He announced that cutting troop numbers was now ‘the basis of our strategy’.

Mr Brown spoke as two more soldiers’ bodies were flown home for burial. So far 212 soldiers have died in the conflict.

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Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1211026/New-blow-Brown-Defence-Secretarys-aide-resigns-Afghanistan-campaign.html#ixzz0QDr4gxXh

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UK will grow sicker until it swallows the bitter pill of economic reality

Posted by smeddum on September 4, 2009

UK will grow sicker until it swallows the bitter pill of economic reality

Millions of ordinary Britons are worried sick about debt and falling incomes. Unemployment and house repossessions are soaring – glib statistics which mask a welter of human misery. Countless UK firms are struggling with cash flow as they try to balance the books. And we’re all sick of the grim economic news.
Telegraph

By Liam Halligan

29 Aug 2009

No wonder the UK’s “imminent recovery” is getting a lot of coverage. Last week, I returned from holidays abroad to find our media banging the “recession is over” drum. In truth, though, the UK remains in economic dire straits.
I write this not to “talk down the economy” – although I’ll be accused of doing so. I’m countering the prevailing consensus because of the evidence. I’m also concerned that by insisting everything is rosy, a vast panoply of political and financial vested interests can claim their counterproductive “rescue measures” are working, while avoiding the tough regulatory changes we need to prevent another “sub-prime”. Read the rest of this entry »

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Barack Obama to Cindy Sheehan: Get Lost

Posted by smeddum on September 4, 2009

Barack Obama to Cindy Sheehan: Get Lost
At Obama’s Summer Place with Cindy – “Leadership” of Peace Movement, MIA

by John V. Walsh, September 04, 2009

Antiwar.com

I spent but a short time with Cindy Sheehan as she carried her antiwar protest from an earlier time at Crawford, TX, to Martha’s Vineyard, vacation spot for Obama and many other Democrat Party elite. As Cindy remarked, the real story was not that she was protesting Obama’s wars but that the “leadership” of the peace movement did not support her protest. When the target was Bush in Crawford, she was all the rage with antiwar celebrities, but not so now that the target is Barack Obama. While there is considerable enthusiasm for her anti-Obama protest on the part of the rank and file in the anti-war movement, a refusal of its “leaders” to notify their members far and wide, high and low, crippled the action. Read the rest of this entry »

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Wayne Madsen on the Swine Flu Vaccine/The Abuse of Psychology

Posted by smeddum on September 3, 2009

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Approaching Epidemic: Brain Damage from Mobile Phone Radiation

Posted by seumasach on September 3, 2009

Dr Mercola

mercola.com

3rd September, 2009

After a break in the media about the dangers of cell phones, the issue will likely regain momentum with the release of this brand new report.

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2nd South America-Africa Summit to be held in Venezuela: Chavez

Posted by smeddum on September 3, 2009

2nd South America-Africa Summit to be held in Venezuela: Chavez

www.chinaview.cn
2009-09-02

CARACAS, Sept. 1 (Xinhua) — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced the second South America-Africa Summit (SAAS) would be held on Sept. 26 and 27 on Venezuela’s Margarita Island, the presidency reported Tuesday.

He made the announcement at the African Union (AU) Special Summit, according to information reaching here from Tripoli, Libya, where Chavez is visiting. Read the rest of this entry »

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Venezuela: Strengthening “Strategic Alliances” and a Multi-polar World

Posted by smeddum on September 3, 2009

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez at the African Union Summit in Libya (VTV)
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez at the African Union Summit in Libya (VTV)

Caracas, September 1st 2009 (Venezuelanalysis.com) – Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez said that the tour he is carrying out in various countries in Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia and Europe is aimed at strengthening Venezuela’s “strategic alliances” that have been built throughout ten years of his government.

Speaking from Tripoli, Libya, where he arrived on August 31 to participate in a special summit of the African Union and to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the revolution in the African country, Chavez also said that Venezuela had played a “modest but important” role in contributing to the construction of a multi-polar world.

In 1999, “We had a clear understanding of the international map and began to seek solid, firm and serious allies,” he said, referring to the early stages of his government.  Ten years later Venezuela has built strong alliances, not only with nations but with strategic regions, from northern Africa to the Eurasian region, the head of state pointed out in a telephone conversation broadcast on state owned VTV. Read the rest of this entry »

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Bush’s Third term ?

Posted by smeddum on September 3, 2009

September 01, 2009 3:58 pm

TomDispatch

Tomgram: David Swanson, The More Things Change

A presidential candidate opposed to the Iraq War is elected and enters the Oval Office. Yet six months later, there are still essentially the same number of troops in Iraq as were there when his predecessor left, the same number, in fact, used in the original invasion of Iraq in March 2003. Moreover, the new president remains on the “withdrawal” schedule the previous administration laid out for him with the same caveats being issued about whether it can even be met. Read the rest of this entry »

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Radio: Jim Willie China’s Stop-Loss

Posted by smeddum on September 3, 2009

http://www.contraryinvestorscafe.com/partners.php?pid=62242

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More on Outrageous Cell phone child safety news- ‘I see us facing a major problem’

Posted by smeddum on September 2, 2009

‘I see us facing a major problem’

September 02 2009

By Sean Poulter

Also See https://inthesenewtimes.com/2009/05/21/the-bioinitiative-report-biological-standards-for-wireless/

Independent online

Plans to give the green light for children to use cellphones – despite cancer fears – have angered health campaigners.

The draft of a new advisory leaflet for parents by the British Department of Health removes safety advice to impose strict limits on youngsters’ use of the handsets. Read the rest of this entry »

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