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Posted by seumasach on March 21, 2015
Wazars
12th December, 2014
I paint the things that appeal to me, that capture my imagination as I fly above the world in my vessel, I paint the things I love, as though I were writing my autobiography. Painting allows me to pursue dreams, to give life to the people and places I would like to touch, interact with. It is a simple and primary need for expression; a need to tell, to tell about myself. The series on historic centres and rural landscapes presents another trait: the presence-absence of people in the various canvasses. This is partly due to the fact that human stories are told exclusively through the use of colour, and partly due to the hope that in future man will truly deserve a place on this earth and will create a world which is happier, more industrious, honest, clean, respectful and colourful.
Matteo Boato, Land and Water
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Posted by seumasach on March 11, 2015
GEAB
10th March, 2015
Every day, two quality-control supervisors monitor four robots tirelessly assembling remote-control devices for home appliances at a Midea Group factory in Foshan, in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong.
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Posted by seumasach on March 11, 2015
F.William Engdahl
New Eastern Outlook
9th March, 2015
Something remarkable is taking place in Russia, and it’s quite different from what we might expect. Rather than feel humiliated and depressed Russia is undergoing what I would call a kind of renaissance, a rebirth as a nation. This despite or in fact because the West, led by the so-called neo-conservatives in Washington, is trying everything including war on her doorstep in Ukraine, to collapse the Russian economy, humiliate Putin and paint Russians generally as bad. In the process, Russia is discovering positive attributes about her culture, her people, her land that had long been forgotten or suppressed.
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Posted by seumasach on March 11, 2015
Russia Insider
10th March, 2015
One of the most obvious aims of the US in orchestrating their coup in Ukraine last February was to create a permanent and lasting rift between the EU and Russia. It seems to me that a statement made back in 2010 by the Russian President (then Prime Minister) in the German newspaper, Süddeutsche Zeitung, set the alarm bells ringing in Washington, and paved the way for much of what is happening right now. This is what he said:
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Posted by seumasach on March 9, 2015
M.K.Bhadrakumar
Indian Punchline
4th March, 2015
We will never get to know what painful thoughts raced through the soldierly mind of Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, when he testified before the US senators in Washington on Tuesday, but it certainly wouldn’t have been easy for him to bring himself to compliment Iran’s “most overt conduct… in the form of artillery and other things” in the military operation currently going on to retake the northern Iraqi city of Tikrit from the control of the Islamic State.
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Posted by seumasach on March 2, 2015
as he invites Queen to visit Beijing
The meeting, by far the most heavyweight diplomatic mission the Duke has ever attempted, not only heralded a new beginning for relations between China and the Royal family, but also symbolised the extent to which Britain is desperate to court what will soon be the world’s biggest economy.
Telegraph
2nd March, 2015
His father the Prince of Wales famously referred to China’s leaders as “appalling old waxworks”, and has never been back to the country since.
But his son the Duke of Cambridge pulled off something of a diplomatic coup, and a major thawing of relations between Beijing and the Royal family, by gaining an unexpected audience with President Xi Jinping.
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Posted by seumasach on February 28, 2015
Ukraine crisis: Top Chinese diplomat backs Putin, says West should ‘abandon zero-sum mentality’
Independent
28th February, 2015
China has voiced its support for Russia’s handling of the Ukraine crisis, with prominent diplomat Qu Xing calling on the West to “abandon its zero-sum mentality”.
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Posted by seumasach on February 26, 2015
I think Neil Clark is spot on in identifying Trident as a key motive behind the current wave of lunatic, anti-Russian hysteria. All the more reason to campaign for its termination!
Neil Clark
RT
24th February, 2015
The gap between the rich and the poor continues to grow. Train and bus fares continue to rise. Twice as many people are living in poverty than 30 years ago. And our National Health Service is being privatized before our very eyes.
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Posted by seumasach on February 22, 2015
Voltairenet
22nd February, 2015
General Wesley Clark, former Supreme Commander of NATO, told CNN that the Islamic Emirate (“Daesh”) had been “created by our friends and allies to defeat Hezbollah.”
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Posted by seumasach on January 31, 2015
RT
31st January, 2015
Greece hasn’t outright asked Russia for a loan, but Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said Moscow wouldn’t rule it out. His statement comes days after Greece openly opposed further economic sanctions against Russia.
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Posted by seumasach on January 31, 2015
Neurope
30th January, 2015
One of the very first decisions taken by the new Greek government, was to stop the privatization of 15 airports. If you think that this provision was of Socialist inspiration you are wrong. The new government simply stopped the looting of the country, as it happened before with the construction and management of the Athens airport. If this means to be Socialist, then I am Communist. But I am neither.
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In These New Times 