Posted by seumasach on January 8, 2012
27th November, 2011
NEW YORK—The world’s bond buyers have turned on Europe’s deeply indebted governments and fled to another deeply indebted government across the Atlantic — the U.S. As a result, U.S borrowing costs have plunged to historic lows while rising rates in Europe have many worried about a catastrophic financial crisis.
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Posted by seumasach on January 8, 2012
8th January, 2012
Finland’s Finance Minister Jutta Urpilainen hopes a tax aimed at curbing currency speculation will be adopted widely across the EU. She added Finland was one of the keenest promoters of such a financial transaction tax within the union. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on January 6, 2012
There is a growing tendency to prioritise economic well-being over war-making- this is promising. The EU supports the sanctions but not just now.
6th January, 2012
A European Union ban on Iranian crude oil imports was to be formally decided by EU foreign ministers during a meeting at the end of January. However, diplomats in Brussels said on Friday that some EU capitals were pushing for a delay of the embargo to shield their debt-stricken countries from rising oil prices.
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Posted by seumasach on January 5, 2012
5th January, 2012
Iceland’s Finance Minister Oddny G. Hardardottir said she’s committed to the island nation adopting the euro as the bloc will emerge stronger from its debt crisis amid tightening fiscal ties and discipline.
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Posted by seumasach on January 4, 2012
Rogers has missed the connection: a rebounding euro means a falling dollar. The pressure on the euro is the only factor left stabilising the dollar.
Euro will Survive, Gold will Drop: Jim Rogers
3rd January,
The euro could rebound in the near-term despite the problems affecting continental Europe, as investors are overly bearish on the currency, investor Jim Rogers said on Tuesday.
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Posted by seumasach on December 30, 2011
Suddenly there is a flurry of stuff about a UK/US merger. Since we’re not about to “abandon our sovereignty” to Europe, who else could we be about to abandon it to? Will it involve the privilege of using the dollar- do we get to print them too? Perhaps we can help them with the spending cuts they can’t decide on. Do we intern EU citizens as fifth columnists? What about emergency repatriation of our sun-loving pensioners in France and Spain-can we relocate them in repossessed Californian chalets? Do we allow countless millions of Afro-Americans and Hispanics into our country to take advantage of our social security system and liberal bankruptcy laws or do all these simply disappear in an EU-style “harmonisation” process. Isn’t Homeland Security turning into an Anglo-American “superstate”. What about the FEMA camps or Guantanamo in the Scilly Isles. What about all that red-tape and bureaucracy involved in getting on a plane- isn’t it business unfriendly? Who’s the head of state, the president or the queen? If we’re merged with the USA who can we blame for all the wars? (Well, we can still blame Israel, unless…no, surely not, a merger too far!)All questions to seriously ponder before taking the plunge.
29th December, 2011
In 1952, then-U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson said that “Britain has lost an empire but has failed to find a role.” Sadly for Britain, it decided to renounce its longstanding global cultural, legal and philosophical links to North America and instead looked for that role in Europe. Despite its geographic proximity to Britain, the Continent is nevertheless home to a host of cultures, legal systems and governing philosophies very different from those of traditionally liberal Britain. The consequences from that bad choice have bedeviled Britain for decades.
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Posted by seumasach on December 30, 2011
Jean-Paul Pougala
30th December, 2011
En 1945 L’Organisation des Nations-Unies s’est créée après le choc de la deuxième Guerre Mondiale. Aujourd’hui, le nouvel ordre mondial est en train de se mettre en place après le lourd sacrifice de l’Afrique, après le choc des milliers de morts de Côte d’Ivoire dont les 1200 villageois de Duékoué et des dizaines de milliers de morts Libyens, même si l’Otan a décidé d’insulter notre intelligence en parlant de zero mort et ce, après 26.323 sorties, 9.658 raids de bombardement, 7.700 bombes et missiles tirés par l’OTAN sur la Libye, avec la complicité des Nation-Unies qui étaient censées les protéger. L’ONG britannique Stop the War Coalition a certifié l’utilisation par l’OTAN des armes de destruction massive en Libye à travers les bombes et missiles contenant le fameux DU (depleted uranium), c’est de l’uranium appauvri, pour tuer le plus de personnes possibles. Daniele Cardetta dans le journal italien Articolo3, avance le chiffre de 60.000 morts. C’est le journal italien Nibiru2012 qui conclut que 60.000 morts sur une population libyenne de 6 millions sont 1% de la population décimée par l’Otan en Libye et que cela équivaudrait en proportion à 3 millions d’américains que des puissances étrangères viendraient décimer avec des bombes non conventionnelles. Et au lieu de mener la moindre enquête, l’Onu a tourné la tête ailleurs, vers Abidjan pour le méchant désigné le Président Gbagbo. C’est contre tout cela que la Chine a décidé de prendre les devants et de mettre sur pied un nouvel ordre mondial. Voici comment :
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Posted by seumasach on December 29, 2011
This should be a bit of a dampener to recent speculation that Scotland was heading towards the Eurozone. Here we have a high-level policy statement from the SNP which is obviously grounded on the assumption of being outside Europe. The idea of a military alliance with Scandinavian countries outside or on the periphery of Europe looks, in particular, to be of Atlanticist inspiration. Of course, reasoned debate on Europe is hardly possible in the face of a sustained barrage of black propaganda being directed against it, but the SNP is doing nothing to counter it. Only with the fall of the pound on the international markets can we expect a reasonable debate on the issue to resume.
5th December, 2011
What do you think of when you hear the word Scandinavian? Is it liberalism? Or social democracy? Perhaps high standards of living? Or high tax rates? Maybe saunas and snow?
Whatever it is, could we become Scandinavians – and, if we could, would we want to?
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Posted by seumasach on December 23, 2011
Cailean Bochanan
23rd December, 2011
Here is another stick with which to beat Europe: the European project is a denial of sovereignty. Is it true?
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Posted by seumasach on December 19, 2011
Cailean Bochanan
19th December, 2011
On a day when one of Britain’s last surviving europhiles, Iain MacWhirter, referred to the eurozone as an “economic suicide pact”, I feel the need to return again to the question of Britain and Europe and , specifically, the state of opinion in this country on the issue.
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Posted by seumasach on December 18, 2011
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In These New Times 