Posted by seumasach on June 18, 2009
W Joseph Stroupe
18th June, 2009
Decoupling on the part of the under-developed economies is defined as accelerating along the path of eliminating inordinate reliance upon the US and other developed economies as export markets. Decoupling would also tend to undermine reliance upon the dollar and boost the role of regional currencies in trade, finance and in forex reserves composition.
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Posted by seumasach on June 18, 2009
The dangerous consequences of New Labour’s massive bailout of the banks is causing some disquiet. As we have already noted King appears intent on protecting the pound, for whose value the Government seems to have a cavalier disregard. As UK PLC goes down we can expect more sparks to fly as the elite agenda starts to fragment.
18th June, 2009
Government policy on City regulation was last night thrown into deeper confusion by sharply contrasting speeches by Mervyn King and Alistair Darling.
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Posted by seumasach on June 18, 2009
Politico
Flynt Leverett and Hilary Mann Leverett
15th June, 2009
Without any evidence, many U.S.politiciansand “Iran experts” have dismissed Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s reelection Friday, with 62.6 percent of the vote, as fraud.
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Posted by seumasach on June 18, 2009
The story below, from Japan is interesting because it may indicate that large birds are being disturbed by something shocking, while they are in mid flight.
Could electro magnetic radiation from cell phone towers and other antennas be the culprit?
EMR is certainly something that needs to be considered and investigated!
Martin Weatherall
17th June, 2009
Japan is no stranger to heavy downpours during the early summer rainy season.
But in recent days the proverbial “cats and dogs” have been joined by tadpoles, fish and the occasional frog.
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Posted by seumasach on June 18, 2009
In this utter drivel Socialist Worker echoes the “bourgeois press” as it throws in its lot with the “Gucci crowd” and “popular reformer” i.e.free marketeer, Mousavi against the champion of Iran’s poor , Ahmadinejad. Following on from their shameful involvement in the attempted overthrow of Mugabe, their apolegetics for Brown’s bailout under the guise of Keynesianism and their grovelling before the Great Charlatan, the SWP confirm that they have thrown in their lot with the remake of Anglo-American imperialism under the Obama label. If the treacherous and mendacious Western intelligencia wish to do this under the guise of proletarian internationalism or whatever, that is their prerogative. We at ITNT would wish merely to advise them of this: they are backing a loser, a fact which would be more clear to them if their focus this week had been on Yakaterinburg rather than Tehran.
16th June, 2009
There is a new popular power sweeping Iran. In one of the biggest mass demonstrations since the toppling of the US-backed Shah in 1979, some one million people descended onto the streets of the capital Tehran to protest at an election widely seen as rigged.
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Posted by seumasach on June 17, 2009
M.K.Bhadrakumar
18th June, 2009
Western capitals must make a difficult choice: how long to pin hopes on the eruption of a “color” revolution in Tehran? The burden falls almost entirely on Europe, since Washington has different priorities.
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Posted by seumasach on June 17, 2009
This tirade by Rodriguez against the “petit-bourgeois” may seem a bit dated now. Yet the treacherous role of the intellectuals,” la trahison des clercs”, is the perhaps the most glaring fact of our contemporary reality.
Cancion en harapos- Song in Rags
Que fácil es agitar un pañuelo a la tropa solar
del manifiesto marxista y la historia del hambre.
Que fácil es suspirar
ante el gesto del hombre que cumple un deber
y regalarle ropitas
a la pobrecita
hija del chófer.
Que fácil de enmascarar sale la oportunidad.
[How easy it is to wave a handkerchief at the luminaries
of the Marxist manifesto and the history of hunger.
How easy to sigh before the gesture of he who completes his duty
and give a few clothes to the poor, little daughter of the chauffer.
How easy to pose given the opportunity.]
Que fácil es engañar al que no sabe leer.
Cuántos colores, cuántas facetas
tiene el pequeño burgués.
Que fácil es trascender con fama de original,
pero se sabe que entre los ciegos el tuerto suele mandar.
Que fácil de apuntalar sale la vieja moral,
que se disfraza de barricada
de los que nunca tuvieron nada.
Qué bien prepara su máscara el pequeño burgués.
[How easy to deceive he who doesn’t know how to read.
How many colours and facets the petit-bourgeois has.
How easy to overcome with the reputation of an original,
but we know that amongst the blind the one-eyed rule.
How easy to reinforce the old order,
mascarading as a barricade
of those who never had anything.
How well the petit-bourgeois prepares his disguise]
Viva el harapo, señor,
y la mesa sin mantel.
Viva el que huela
a callejuela,
a palabrota y taller. *
[Long live rags
and the table without a cloth.
Long live that which smells of
the backstreet,
the swearword and the workshop.]
Desde una mesa repleta cualquiera decide aplaudir
la caravana en harapos de todos los pobres.
Desde un mantel importado y un vino añejado
se lucha muy bien.
Desde una mesa gigante y un auto elegante
se sufre también.
En un amable festín se suele ver “combatir”.
[From a full table any can applaud
the ragged procession of the poor.
From an imported tablecloth and a vintage wine
you can fight very well.
From a gigantic table and an elegant limousine
you can suffer as well.
At a jolly little gathering you can see the “struggle”]
Si fácil es abusar, más fácil es condenar,
y hacer papeles para la historia, para que te haga un lugar.
Que fácil es protestar por la bomba que cayó
a mil kilómetros del ropero y del refrigerador.
Que fácil es escribir algo que invite a la acción
contra tiranos, contra asesinos,
contra la cruz o el poder divino,
siempre al alcance de la vidriera y el comedor.
[How easy to abuse, even more to condemn,
and make historic roles where you have your place.
How easy to protest about the bomb that fell
a thousand kilometers from your wardrobe and refrigerator.
How easy to call for action against tyrants and assasins,
against the cross or divine power
always beside the dining table and the drinks cabinet].
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Posted by seumasach on June 17, 2009
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·President Hu made a 4-point proposal for tackling the financial crisis at BRIC summit.
·BRIC countries should try to take lead in recovering from the financial crisis, Hu said.
·BRIC countries shoul push forward the reform of international financial system.
YEKATERINBURG, Russia, June 16 (Xinhua) — Chinese President Hu Jintao Tuesday presented a four-point proposal for dealing with the ongoing global financial crisis at the first summit meeting of BRIC countries which groups Brazil, Russia, India and China.
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Posted by seumasach on June 17, 2009
Charlie Brown J.D.
The FDA used to be the world’s gold standard health regulator. However, it has recently spiraled into a Byzantine phalanx of independent centers providing hasty approvals of high-risk products, without oversight, and inconsistent regulations.
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Posted by seumasach on June 16, 2009
15th June, 2009
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A poll of Iran’s electorate three weeks before its election showed President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad leading by a 2-to-1 ratio, greater than the announced results of the contested vote, the pollsters said on Monday.
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Posted by seumasach on June 16, 2009
W.Joseph Stroupe
17th June, 2009
Russia announced on June 10 that it will purchase US$10 billion of the new SDR-denominated International Monetary Fund bonds. It also announced that it will further diversify its $140 billion of US dollar holdings. Brazil will also buy $10 billion worth of the new bonds, and China will buy $50 billion of the new bonds. India will likely announce its own purchases very soon.
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