Here is some cheering news: as suspected Brown’s much vaunted global stimulus amounts to practically nothing. William Buiter has done us the honour of putting his considerable expertise to debunking this particular piece of New Labour hype. As we have predicted for some time institutions like the IMF are now blocked from the point of view of the machinations of Brown’s New World Order brigade. It remains for Washington and London to desist from further, fruitless attempts to impose their hegemony and instead dismantle their empire, and for new global leadership to emerge based on the rising poles to the South and East, such as China, Iran and Bolivarist South America.
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The green shoots are weeds growing through the rubble in the ruins of the global economy
The global stimulus associated with the increase in IMF resources agreed at the G20 meeting earlier this month will be negligible unless and until these resources actually materialise. The statements, declarations and communiqués of the G20, including the most recent ones highlight the gaps between dreams and deeds.
There are two different globalisation processes going on: that represented by Gordon Brown and that represented by Hugo Chavez. One is nothing other than the Anglo-American project for global hegemony; the other is born of the struggle of sovereign nations against it. Does Andrew Marshall really believe they are the same thing, and that all attempts to create a new global financial architecture are intrinsically subordinate to Washington and London. Or perhaps he believes that all global leaders are already subordinate to Washington and London, and engaged in a conspiracy against their own peoples. That would be bad news indeed, and would mean that our fate was sealed, people’s movements notwithstanding. The consolidation of regional blocks, outlined in this article, is precisely the crystalisation of the several poles of the multipolar world order , which we at ITNT believe to be the way forward. These powerful blocks, which will seek to become self contained as far as possible, in response to the collapse of world trade, will also serve as a counterweight to global institutions. The question of how global institutions and the global monetary system can be adapted to this multipolar world order, is a fundamental question which I have cautiously begunto approach. It would appear that we are moving inexorably towards the definition of a new global leadership and that we have need of that. The question, then, is the form and nature of that leadership. But, I will concede Mr Marshall this: the construction of any new world order is premature until the definitive collapse of Anglo-American leadership and that in the meantime, the Brown-Obama initiatives must be blocked, as I expect them to be at every turn by Russia, China, Venezuela etc.
Following the 2009 G20 summit, plans were announced for implementing the creation of a new global currency to replace the US dollar’s role as the world reserve currency. Point 19 of the communiqué released by the G20 at the end of the Summit stated, “We have agreed to support a general SDR allocation which will inject $250bn (£170bn) into the world economy and increase global liquidity.” SDRs, or Special Drawing Rights, are “a synthetic paper currency issued by the International Monetary Fund.” As the Telegraph reported, “the G20 leaders have activated the IMF’s power to create money and begin global “quantitative easing”. In doing so, they are putting a de facto world currency into play. It is outside the control of any sovereign body. Conspiracy theorists will love it.”[1]
If any of you thought that the Great British sense of humour might be going the way of its economy(and its butterflies) here is some reassurance. The Independent, no less, has launched a “Great British Butterfly Hunt”, a heartwarming initiative to divert us from our economic travails, by hunting for butterflies, “inviting you, the readers, to join us, and to see how many you can observe for yourselves. As the different species emerge at different moments of the spring and summer, we will be offering extensive guidance on identification and on how to find them. Some may well be in your back garden or local park. Others, especially the rarities, may involve a journey – albeit to the most beautiful parts of Britain.”
Alors que l’Albanie et la Croatie ont adhéré à l’OTAN le 1er avril 2009 et que l’Alliance célèbrera son soixantenaire à Kehl, les 3 et 4 avril, le Réseau Voltaire a demandé au professeur Daniele Ganser son appréciation de cette organisation. Pour ce spécialiste mondialement reconnu de l’histoire de l’OTAN, l’Alliance n’a plus de vocation défensive depuis la fin de l’URSS et se résume désormais à la suzeraineté états-unienne sur l’Europe.
Perhaps another chance for the Brits to invoke anti-terror legislation and grab a bit of Iceland’s oil. Measuring the continental shelf from St. Kilda seems to be stretching it a bit. I suppose we can measure out 350 miles from the Malvinas too, and grab the oil that’s known to be there.
Britain has lodged an application for thousands of square miles of the seabed around the Atlantic outcrop of Rockall – embarking on what could be a diplomatic collision course with Iceland and the Faroes.
Caminhando e cantando
E seguindo a canção
Somos todos iguais
Braços dados ou não
Nas escolas, nas ruas
Campos, construções
Caminhando e cantando
E seguindo a canção…
Marching, singing, following the song
We are all equal, arms linked or not,
In school, in the streets,
in campuses, construction sites,
Marching, singing, following the song.
Vem, vamos embora
Que esperar não é saber
Quem sabe faz a hora
Não espera acontecer…(2x)
Come! Follow on!
He who knows doesn’t wait.
He who knows, does what must be done.
Pelos campos há fome
Em grandes plantações
Pelas ruas marchando
Indecisos cordões
Ainda fazem da flor
Seu mais forte refrão
E acreditam nas flores
Vencendo o canhão…
In the country, hunger in the great plantations,
In the cities, indecisive marchers file by.
Still, they make the flower their greatest emblem.
And believe in flowers defeating the gun
Vem, vamos embora
Que esperar não é saber
Quem sabe faz a hora
Não espera acontecer…(2x)
Come! Follow on!
He who knows doesn’t wait.
He who knows, does what must be done.
Há soldados armados
Amados ou não
Quase todos perdidos
De armas na mão
Nos quartéis lhes ensinam
Uma antiga lição:
De morrer pela pátria
E viver sem razão…
Armed soldiers, loved or not,
Almost all lost
with their guns in their hands.
In the barracks they teach an old refrain,
Die for your country, live in vain.
Vem, vamos embora
Que esperar não é saber
Quem sabe faz a hora
Não espera acontecer…(2x)
Come! Follow on!
He who knows doesn’t wait.
He who knows, does what must be done.
Nas escolas, nas ruas
Campos, construções
Somos todos soldados
Armados ou não
Caminhando e cantando
E seguindo a canção
Somos todos iguais
Braços dados ou não…
In schools, in the streets,
in campuses, construction sites,
We are all soldiers, armed or not,
marching, singing, following the song,
We are all equal, arms linked or not.
Os amores na mente
As flores no chão
A certeza na frente
A história na mão
Caminhando e cantando
E seguindo a canção
Aprendendo e ensinando
Uma nova lição…
Our loves in our thoughts,
flowers on the ground,
certainty on our brows,
history on our hands.
Marching, singing, following the song,
learning and teaching a new lesson.
Vem, vamos embora
Que esperar não é saber
Quem sabe faz a hora
Não espera acontecer…(4x)
