Archive for December, 2011
Posted by seumasach on December 6, 2011
This puts Cameron in a very interesting situation. If he tries to continue Britain’s wrecking game he’ll find that the EU simply ceases to have a real existence and is replaced by the Eurozone; if he goes along with this plan he will face the wrath of his party’s lunatic eurosceptics.
Spiegel
5th December, 2011
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy gave a crucial show of unity in the euro crisis on Monday, announcing after a meeting in Paris that they will push for a new treaty, either among all 27 EU members or just the 17 countries in the euro zone, to force member states to adhere to tighter budget discipline in the future.
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Posted by seumasach on December 6, 2011
Hans Michelbach, a member of parliament for the conservative Christian Social Union party, the Bavarian sister party to Merkel’s Christian Democrats, called the S&P warning “an arbitrary decision with no relation to reality.” The aim of the announcement, he said, had evidently been to create additional nervousness ahead of the EU summit. He called on the EU to crack down on the “uncontrolled games” being played by the ratings agencies.
As the UK and US economies disintegrate they continue their campaign to undermine the euro and despite overwhelming, irremedial indebtedness continue to benefit from the indulgence of the rating agencies which are controlled by Wall Street/City of London interests
Spiegel
6th December, 2011
Ratings agency Standard & Poor’s has piled pressure on EU leaders to come up with a deal to save the euro at their summit on Thursday, warning that it may downgrade 15 of 17 euro-zone countries — including powerhouse Germany. EU politicians have criticized the agency’s statement, and are particularly unhappy about its timing.
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Posted by seumasach on December 6, 2011
Global Research
5th December, 2011
ISLAMABAD: Defence Minister Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar said here on Sunday that Pakistan has the capability to defend and protect the sovereignty of the country.
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Posted by seumasach on December 6, 2011
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Posted by seumasach on December 6, 2011
Voltairenet
4th December, 2011
Thirty-three Latin American leaders have come together and formed a new regional bloc, pledging closer economic and political ties. The Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) pointedly excludes the US and Canada.
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Posted by seumasach on December 6, 2011
Surely reason hasn’t prevailed- or has it? Are the Brits chickening out of WW3? Let’s hope so!
LONDON – The most senior security policy adviser to British Prime Minister David Camerontold a committee of the Houses of Parliament on Monday that it was highly unlikely that there would be any British military intervention in Syria.
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Posted by seumasach on December 5, 2011
RT
2nd December, 2011
Fulfilling a contract signed in 2007, Russia has supplied Bastion coastal missile systems with Yakhont cruise missiles to Syria under a contract signed in 2007, a diplomatic source in Moscow has told Russian media.
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Posted by seumasach on December 4, 2011
PressTV
4th December
A professor from the Chinese National Defense University says if Iran is attacked, China will not hesitate to protect the Islamic Republic even by launching the Third World War.
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Posted by seumasach on December 3, 2011
RT
2nd December, 2011
Sanctions against Syria and looming prospects of an intervention into the country are drawing ever more parallels with the war in Libya. But as it turned out, the “facts” used to wage a “humanitarian war” on Tripoli, underwent almost no verification.
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Posted by seumasach on December 3, 2011
PressTV
3rd December, 2011
It is the responsibility of European countries to hold talks with the Islamic Republic of Iran on key issues of divergence, Fischer wrote in an article published in the Swiss Le Temps daily, IRNA reported Saturday.
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Posted by seumasach on December 3, 2011
Pinheiro Report against Syria is as truthful as the tale of ‘weapons of mass destruction in Iraq’
by Nathaniel Braia
Pravda
3rd December, 2011
The recent “report” of the Commission of inquiry on Syria by the UN Human Rights Council stands for its bombastic accusations against the Syrian government, but entirely omitted to present material evidence, or evidence corroborating the charges. It is based upon testimony from unidentified, unqualified people. The “investigative” method used is no different than the “cover” provided by the western corporate media wtih “information” that is without confirmation as to its truthfulness, yet repeated to exhaustion nevertheless.
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