Posted by seumasach on November 15, 2014
The US-backed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is now dead in the water. The same fate can be expected for the TTIP, the corresponding US-backed free trade deal with Europe.
11th November, 2014
Beijing: APEC leaders agreed to work towards possible adoption of a “historic” free-trade deal proposed by China, in a victory for the Communist giant as it strives for a bigger role in formulating global trade policy.
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Posted by seumasach on October 29, 2014
“Anyone looking to Putin to lead some great crusade against the US is on the evidence of this speech going to be disappointed. As some have noticed, what he actually wants from the US is not conflict but cooperation.”
The West Should Listen More Closely
Alexander Mercouris
29th October, 2014
Last Friday, Vladimir Putin delivered the single most important speech on foreign policy since he became President of Russia in 2000. Mikhail Gorbachev said he thought it was the best, and most significant speech Putin has ever made.
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Posted by seumasach on October 28, 2014
27th October, 2014
China could plough more than £100bn into Britain’s ageing infrastructure by 2025, according to economic forecasters, as questions are raised over the costs of a third high speed rail link across the Pennines in the North of England, connecting Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds and Hull.
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Posted by seumasach on October 27, 2014
26th October, 2014
Today, the chief principals of the Thunderbolts Project, Wal Thornhill and David Talbott, take a closer look at the latest information from the Rosetta mission to Comet 67P.
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged: catastrophism v. uniformitarianism, catastrophismm, electric universe, rosetta mission | Leave a Comment »
Posted by seumasach on October 27, 2014
Now that Britain is a strategic partner of China they have gone rather quiet on the Dalai Lama and so-called democracy protests. Now they are going a step further: the BBC report referred to below is as deadly as it is understated. Linking the Hong Kong protests as well as Pussy Riot and so much else to the Oslo Freedom Forum leaves little doubt as to who is really behind such movements: a brief google search into the family tree of that body suffices.
M.K.Bhadrakumar
27th October, 2014
The sensational report by the BBC that the protests in Hong Kong known as Occupy Central were in reality not spontaneous or indigenous, but were choreographed carefully two years ago and executed by foreign forces and that around 1000 Chinese activists could be “trained demonstrators” would corroborate the reports from Moscow to this effect a few weeks ago — expect that the Russian reports unwaveringly pointed finger at the US as mentoring the entire enterprise.
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged: China-UK comprehensive strategic partnership, hong kong protests, oslo freedom forum, retreat from empire | Leave a Comment »
Posted by seumasach on October 23, 2014
-how America and Britain crushed the government of their ‘ally’, Australia
23rd October, 2014
Across the political and media elite in Australia, a silence has descended on the memory of the great, reforming prime minister Gough Whitlam, who has died. His achievements are recognised, if grudgingly, his mistakes noted in false sorrow. But a critical reason for his extraordinary political demise will, they hope, be buried with him.
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Posted by seumasach on October 2, 2014
It’s more a joint Cameron/Salmond trap and Brown has correctly noted its two key elements: firstly, to weaken the Labour Party and secondly, to devolve spending and tax-raising powers in such a way as to undermine central government, or Big Government as the Republican right call it. But Labour have well and truly fallen into the trap and it’s too late now to extricate itself.
30th Septemebr, 2014
Gordon Brown has accused David Cameron of setting a trap for Scottish voters by trying to dupe them into accepting significant cuts in voting powers for Scottish MPs at Westminster.
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged: devo-max, end of Big Government, Scottish devolution, uk constitutional reform | 1 Comment »
Posted by seumasach on October 1, 2014
Tony Cartalucci
30th September, 2014
The “Occupy Central” protests in Hong Kong continue on – destabilizing the small southern Chinese island famous as an international hub for corporate-financier interests, and before that, the colonial ambitions of the British Empire. Those interests have been conspiring for years to peel the island away from Beijing after it was begrudgingly returned to China in the late 1990s, and use it as a springboard to further destabilize mainland China .
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged: hong kong protests, National Endowment for Democracy (NED), state department | Leave a Comment »
Posted by seumasach on September 27, 2014
The anti-IS campaign is enabling the West to bury old rivalries and completely transform its foreign policy effectively embracing multipolarity
M.K.Bhadrakumar
26th September, 2014
The overwhelming majority with which the House of Commons in London passed a few hours earlier the resolution endorsing the government’s proposal to join the US-led military strikes against the Islamic State in Iraq catapults Prime Minister David Cameron to a pivotal role in President Barack Obama’s strategy. With Britain by its side, US doesn’t need the ramshackle “coalition of the willing”, while without Britain, even six Saudi Arabias within that coalition wouldn’t have meant much.
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Posted by seumasach on September 23, 2014
China set to win Asia gold pricing race with new exchange
18th September, 2014
SINGAPORE/SHANGHAI: China launched a gold exchange open to foreign players for the first time on Thursday, putting the world’s top bullion buyer on track to win a race to set the benchmark price in Asia.
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Posted by seumasach on September 14, 2014
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In These New Times 