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Archive for August, 2011

Venezuela “bringing home” gold reserves

Posted by seumasach on August 20, 2011

Venezuela “Bringing Home” Gold Reserves, Plans to Nationalize All Gold Mining

Juan Reardon

Venezuela Analysis

 

18th August, 2011

San Francisco, August 18th 2011 (Venezuelanalysis.com) – On Wednesday Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez confirmed reports that his government is “bringing home” 211 tons of gold currently stored in international banks and that plans are underway to nationalize the entire gold mining industry in the Caribbean nation. In a move aimed at protecting the Venezuelan economy from the global economic crisis, the president also said his government plans to transfer the country’s international cash reserves out of the U.S. and Europe and into Brazilian, Chinese, and Russian banks.

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Fake Messages Led to Libya war

Posted by seumasach on August 20, 2011

Marinella Correggia

Pravda

 

20th August, 2011

ARIS TWITTER, LIBYA WAR. HOW A FATAL TWITTER MESSAGE OPENS THE DOORS TO A MUCH WANTED WAR AGAINST LIBYA, THROUGH THE GATE OF UNSC RESOLUTIONS 1970 AND 1973.

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Calling for a Ceasefire in Libya

Posted by seumasach on August 19, 2011

FPIF

19th August, 2011

The undersigned organizations and individuals call on Congress to support peace, not war, in Libya. The four-month NATO military intervention in Libya, in which the U.S. Africa Command plays a vital role, has reached a stalemate, and is killing civilians rather than protecting them. The best way in the short term to save civilian lives and in the longer term to achieve the stability in which the Libyan people can develop democratic institutions is to promote an internationally-led cease-fire and negotiations between the warring parties, provide generous humanitarian assistance, and maintain a strict arms embargo. To encourage this, we urge Congress to bar funding for any military or intelligence operations against Libya.

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Libye – Et Kadhafi cassa la doxa occidentale !

Posted by seumasach on August 19, 2011

 

The destruction of the cultural and civilizational patrimony of humanity is characteristic of NATO and their acolytes. Remember the destruction of Orthodox churches in Serbia. When someone mentions culture they reach for their cruise missiles. In the incubus of imperial Britain, in Elizabethan times, a new hero emerged representing a complete break from the hang-ups of Christianity past and new, ruthless, expansionist impetus. This hero’s life was played out on the stage to popular aclaim in Marlowe’s “Tamberlaine”. NATO is the new Tamberlaine, “the scourge and wrath of God, The only fear and terror of the world’

Those walled garrisons will I subdue,
And write myself great lord of Africa:
So from the East unto the furthest West
Shall Tamburlaine extend his puissant arm.
The galleys and those pilling brigandines,
That yearly sail to the Venetian gulf,
And hover in the Straits for Christians’ wreck,
Shall lie at anchor in the Isle Asant,
Until the Persian fleet and men-of-war,
Sailing along the oriental sea,
Have fetch’d about the Indian continent,
Even from Persepolis to Mexico,
And thence unto the Straits of Jubalter;
Where they shall meet and join their force in one.
Keeping in awe the Bay of Portingale,
And all the ocean by the British shore;
And by this means I’ll win the world at last.

Allain Jules

18th August, 2011

« Les insurgés libyens ont pris jeudi le contrôle de la raffinerie de Zaouïah, l’une des dernières sources d’approvisionnement en carburant des forces de Mouammar Kadhafi, et occupé la ville de Gariane, isolant de plus en plus Tripoli », annonce fièrement, l’agence Reuters. Il a fallu des bombardements intensifs des forces de l’OTAN semble-t-il mais, attendons de voir comment ils vont tenir nos chers amis islamistes.

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D-Day for Damascus?

Posted by seumasach on August 19, 2011

Justin Raimondo

Antiwar.com

19th August, 2011

Amid the outcry over the Syrian government’s crackdown on protesters, and now President Obama’s demand that dictator Bashar al-Assad step down, the “world community” is not in the mood for nuance. Yet nuance is precisely what is needed in what has to be one of the most delicate – and complex – socio-political landscapes in the Middle East.

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Angolan president calls on NATO to end raids on Libya

Posted by seumasach on August 19, 2011

Mathaba

19th August, 2011

(Xinhua) — Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, who just took over the presidency of the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC), on Thursday called on the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to cease the military intervention in Libya.

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Washington tried to snatch 1.5 billion to pat its TNC employees

Posted by seumasach on August 18, 2011

Washington tried to snatch 1.5 billion to pat its TNC employees

Thierry Meyssan

Voltairenet

18th August, 2011

The United States tried to seize on Monday 1 500 000 000 dollars owned by the Libyan state, but at the last minute South Africa got in its way. The documents emanating from this episode, and unveiled by Voltaire Network, reveal that members of the CNT and their staff are the direct employees of a US entity.

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Chernobyl-like radiation found in Tokyo

Posted by seumasach on August 18, 2011

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USA loses its base in Kyrgyzstan

Posted by seumasach on August 18, 2011

RT

12th Augiust, 2011

Kyrgyzstan is not going to prolong its agreement with Washington, which entitles the US to use Manas Transit Center to supply its forces in Afghanistan, after it expires in 2014, the republic’s Prime Minister Almazbek Atambayev has said.

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Japan: rice trading halted due to radiation contamination

Posted by seumasach on August 18, 2011

Alexander Higgins

8th August, 2011

Food riot fears strike Japan after rice trading halted due to radiation contamination

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US government considered evacuation of 90,000 US citizens in Tokyo

Posted by seumasach on August 18, 2011

EX-SKF

17th August, 2011

According to Kevin Maher, a US diplomat and the former director of the Japan Desk at the US State Department in Japan, the US government considered evacuating all 90,000 US citizens in Tokyo right after the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant accident.

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