Posted by smeddum on June 8, 2009
Obama is Morphing Into Dick Cheney
THURSDAY, 04 JUNE 2009 14:08 BY PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS
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America has lost her soul, and so has her president.
A despairing country elected a president who promised change. Americans arrived from every state to witness in bitter cold Obama’s swearing in ceremony. The mall was packed in a way that it has never been for any other president. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on June 8, 2009
June 6, 2009
Worries are intensifying that Latvia’s financial crisis will spread to its Baltic Sea neighbors and to Eastern Europe, economists say. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on June 7, 2009
Hutton renews here the traditional preoccupation of the British oligarchy with chopping off the heads of monarchs. However, I find it quite bizarre to see Gordon Brown presented as a monarch. A puppet might be more apt- he is so obviously subordinate to the City, bestowing unlimited largess on them at unimaginable cost to ourselves. That the extreme concentration of wealth is incompatible with democracy and, ultimately, any viable body politic, seems to have been lost on us. However as I have argued here the oligarchy, on a high after pulling off the bailout heist, now wish to institutionalise the impotence of the executive and the political class in general.
If we are to stand up to these people we need a strong executive So, by all means, reform the legislative, introducing a written constitution with PR. etc.; but recognise that the logical consequence of this is to create a seperate, elected executive. In other words, a presidential system. The piecemeal reforms on offer will not extend democracy but restrict it and subordinate it to oligarchy: a return to what Disraeli dubbed the Venetian System
Confirming this is the fact that in all this debate supposedly about democracy nothing is said about the encroachments of oligarchy, the privatization of every aspect of political life, even the legal system, and such extraordinary abusesas the substitution of unelected, anonymous, unconstitutional bodies such as COBRA for
the cabinet.
Will Hutton
7th June, 2009
I remember Tony Blair early in his premiership discussing cabinet government with Roy Jenkins. Or, rather, not discussing cabinet government. For, as Blair explained, he did not intend cabinet ever to last longer than an hour; the best cabinet was 30 minutes. He planned to drive government from Number 10, using all the powers at his discretion to get his way as fast and efficiently as possible. Jenkins gently reproached his young charge; it would lead to great political mischief, as it did. Think Iraq.
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Posted by seumasach on June 6, 2009
This is Obama’s Cairo speech in full, with my commentaries in italics.
Cailean Bochanan
6th June, 2009
I am honored to be in the timeless city of Cairo, and to be hosted by two remarkable institutions. For over a thousand years, Al-Azhar has stood as a beacon of Islamic learning, and for over a century, Cairo University has been a source of Egypt’s advancement. Together, you represent the harmony between tradition and progress. I am grateful for your hospitality, and the hospitality of the people of Egypt. I am also proud to carry with me the goodwill of the American people, and a greeting of peace from Muslim communities in my country: assalaamu alaykum.
We meet at a time of tension between the United States and Muslims around the world – tension rooted in historical forces that go beyond any current policy debate. The relationship between Islam and the West includes centuries of co-existence and cooperation, but also conflict and religious wars. More recently, tension has been fed by colonialism that denied rights and opportunities to many Muslims, and a Cold War in which Muslim-majority countries were too often treated as proxies without regard to their own aspirations. Moreover, the sweeping change brought by modernity and globalization led many Muslims to view the West as hostile to the traditions of Islam.
No, tension rooted in the continued bombing of Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan- it is very much rooted in the present , not in history. “Modernity and globalization” are used here as cheeky little euphemisms for Anglo-American imperialism.
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Posted by seumasach on June 5, 2009
Domenico Losurdo
3rd June, 2009
Il y a 20 ans, Zhao Ziyang tentait de prendre le pouvoir en Chine avec l’appui de la CIA. Ce qui devait être la première « révolution colorée » de l’Histoire échoua. Dans une présentation totalement tronquée, la propagande atlantiste a imposé l’image d’un soulèvement populaire écrasé dans le sang par la cruelle dictature communiste. La presse occidentale en célèbre aujourd’hui l’anniversaire en grande pompe pour mieux dénigrer la Chine populaire, devenue seconde puissance économique du monde. Domenico Losurdo revient sur cette grande manipulation.
Ces jours-ci la grande presse d’ « information » s’emploie à rappeler le vingtième anniversaire du « massacre » de la place Tienanmen. Les évocations « émues » des événements, les interviews des « dissidents » et les éditoriaux « indignés », les multiples articles qui se succèdent et se préparent visent à recouvrir d’infamie perpétuelle la République Populaire de Chine, et à rendre un hommage solennel à la civilisation supérieure de l’Occident libéral. Mais qu’est-il réellement advenu il y a vingt ans ?
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Posted by smeddum on June 5, 2009
By Jeremy McDermott, Latin America Correspondent
03 Jun 2009
The Venezuelan president said on state television that he had eluded an assassination attempt in El Salvador where he was due to attend the swearing in of its new leader, a Left-wing ally. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on June 4, 2009
The rising long-term USTreasury Bond yield has captured attention. The breakout chart for the 10-year Treasury was pointed out here when it rose over 3.1%, hardly a high level. In the first week of May, a target of 3.5% was cited, one easily surpassed. It zoomed to 3.75%, enough to create some waves in the stock market distracted and preoccupied by nonsensical Green Shoots talk on the psychological side and by falsified bank balance sheets on the accounting side. Bigtime stress has come to the USTreasury complex, a story difficult to mask and conceal, since it is at the epicenter of the credit markets. Only on Wall Street can we hear lunacy of less bad economic statistics (framed in sophisticated second derivative arguments) amidst an absolute cavalcade of miserable news on the jobs front, home foreclosure front, and home price front. So the unemployed workers, dispossessed homeowners, and insolvent households will lead the nation on a recovery, while credit approval is much more strictly applied even to the creditworthy among us? Doubtful! Only on Wall Street can we hear of the banks undergoing a healing process when huge credit asset writedowns are replaced instead by convenient ‘Credit Value Adjustments’ as booked profits on their books.
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Posted by seumasach on June 3, 2009
Responding to Mr Rigby’s concerns, ESCC spokeswoman Hannah Russell said: “The safety, health and welfare of young people is our top priority and the county council would not install a system that it was not completely satisfied was safe.
What is the basis for this satisfaction?
“This technology meets or exceeds all UK, European and international regulations and health and safety standards.”
This informs us simply that the level of radiation is insufficient to heat body tissue.
“We have taken advice from the Health Protection Agency which has also carried out specific tests on our behalf.”
So the HPA are only just checking it now despite spending years of telling us there is no problem. Perhaps they just want to be extra-specially sure?
And yet, he Chairman of the HPA Sir William Stewart, has noted that, due to exposure, “there may be changes, for example in cognitive function… there were some indications that there may be cancer inductions… there were some molecular biology changes within the cell and these were issues that we had to bear in mind.”
Yes indeed! Certainly worth “bearing in mind” as you commence intensive irradiation of children.
Why is Wi-Fi being switched in France if there is no problem. Why has the German government warned against use of Wi-Fi. Is this just one more reason for leaving the EU, so we can contaminate children without interference from European burocrats?
See also:
Clusters of Illness. Clusters of Distress- By Products of a Wirreless Age All Predicted
29th May, 2009
FEARS that telecommunication masts being built at schools across the county may pose a health hazard to pupils and local residents are unfounded say East Sussex County Council.
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