Posted by seumasach on April 11, 2013
Bill Mundell
10th April, 2013
See also: Let’s build a strategic partnership with China!
Californian Governor Jerry Brown had the engagement rules straight for his followers: offer your business card with two hands; clap along if others clap; do not present clocks or knives; arrival gifts for your friends and clients are welcome.
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Posted by seumasach on April 9, 2013
Cailean Bochanan
9th April, 2013
The amazing thing about all the discussions about Margaret Thatcher’s legacy is the insistence of so many that Thatcher revived Britain. Yet we are living through the Thatcher legacy now and it looks very much like a nation falling apart: to the spectacle of de-industrialization, which she pioneered, we now have the dismal and depressing sight of the collapse of the high street and the return of begging as a livelihood. What can explain this contradiction?
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Posted by seumasach on April 8, 2013
Paul Craig Roberts
Institute for Political Economy
4th April, 2013
For Americans, financial and economic Armageddon might be close at hand. The evidence for this conclusion is the concerted effort by the Federal Reserve and its dependent financial institutions to scare people away from gold and silver by driving down their prices.
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Posted by seumasach on April 3, 2013
M.K.Bhadrakumar
2nd April, 2013
The Russian-American dalliance is one of the most enchanting moments for any longtime observer of the tumultuous relationship. Things can be very misleading unless one goes real slow in making judgments. To be sure, our pundits who see the spectre that is haunting India to be a Sino-Russian alliance and the antidote being anIndian alliance with the US and Japan had better take out their abacus for a quick recount. Great-power politics never runs along straight lines. In fact, the curves are what really matter.
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Posted by seumasach on April 2, 2013
Time bomb to the next crash is ticking as debt sales surge
1st April, 2013
When dotcoms crashed, sub-prime imploded and banks collapsed it was not hard to find the markets’ Cassandras who had spotted the problem and either made millions betting against the bubble or written a book explaining how it was all going to go wrong.
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Posted by seumasach on March 28, 2013
The peace dividend promised at the end of the Cold War has not materialised- it is imperative for humanity that it should do so
Global Day of Action on Military Spending
In 2011, global military spending surged to US $1.74 trillion. Given the numerous crises facing the planet — economic, environmental, health, diplomatic — it is imperative that we create a global movement to shift this money to human needs. We know that there are thousands of organizations and millions of individuals who support this point of view – what is needed is to begin a serious mobilizing effort to make it visible.
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Posted by seumasach on March 24, 2013
“For the Government, these sorts of figures are terrifying, implying some form of additional taxpayer support for either Lloyds Banking Group, or more particularly, the Royal Bank of Scotland, in which it has major stakes.”
23rd March, 2013
Britain’s banks are under-capitalised. Not just by a little bit, but a lot. Under the Bank of England’s worst-case estimate, lenders need to raise something in the order of £60bn, more than three times the amount required to bail out Cyprus, which gives some idea of the scale of the problems officials think the industry faces.
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Posted by seumasach on March 22, 2013
Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON – Ten years after reaching the height of their influence with the invasion of Iraq, the neo-conservatives and other right-wing hawks are fighting hard to retain their control of the Republican Party.
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Posted by seumasach on March 16, 2013
16th March, 2013
The United Stated is abandoning a key part of its Eastern European missile defense plan due to development problems and funding, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel has announced. The focus, he said, will be shifted to perceived threats from North Korea.
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Posted by seumasach on March 13, 2013
“The deputy prime minister in charge of the reform, Ma Kai, has explained that the purpose of restructuring is to give power to the markets and society, to reduce government intervention in small matters, and instead to improve the government’s ability to manage macro-economic matters and provide supervision.”
This is the complete opposite of the British system where the state renounces control of the commanding heights of the economy in favour micro-managing human behaviour
Francesco Sisci
13th March, 2013
BEIJING – There are two deep and long-term aspects to the administrative reforms announced at the end the plenary session of China’s parliament, the National People’s Congress (NPC). One appears to be fully in the imperial tradition of concentrating power to the center and stemming the centripetal forces that have brought domestic and foreign policy out of control. We pointed out this major problem earlier this year Too many cooks spoil foreign-policy stew (Asia Times Online, January 7, 2011).
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Posted by seumasach on March 12, 2013
The first Bio-initiative report was handed into 10 Downing Street back in 2007. The response of the British government has been precisely zero. It appears that the Indian government is more interested in protecting its citizens than the British government.
4th March, 2013
NEW DELHI: Exposure to radiation from mobile towers and phones has been found to lead to DNA damage, carcinogenicity and impacted development of sperms and foetuses along with other harmful effects, according to a recent report of 1,800 new studies.
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