Posted by seumasach on September 17, 2014
16th September, 2014
Kerry spoke after Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said the U.S. had in fact requested that Tehran join the fight against the Islamic State group but it rejected the overture because of Washington’s “unclean intentions.” Kerry did not respond directly to questions about that claim. He said there are often discussions on the sidelines of nuclear talks.
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Posted by seumasach on September 17, 2014
16th September, 2014
A rally outside the Ukrainian Parliament building has turned violent as activists set tires on fire. Meanwhile, MPs have adopted a law that bans the closest allies of Ukraine’s deposed President Yanukovich from politics.
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Posted by seumasach on September 17, 2014
To Issue Chinese Yuan-Denominated Bond
15th September, 2014
Yuanification continues around the world. As The USA attempts to corral its allies in a ‘broad coalition’, an increasing number of people – including domestic economic policy advisors – are shifting away from the USD as primary reserve currency. However, the move by British Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne, announced Friday, is likely the most notable yet in the world’s de-dollarization. As Xinhua reports, the British government intend to be the first nation (ex-China) to issue Renminbi denominated bond and to use the proceeds to finance the government’s reserves of foreign currency. Osborne described this dialogue outcome as “a historic moment” and a statement of British confidence in the potential of the RMB to become “the main global reserves currency”.
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Posted by seumasach on September 16, 2014
KIEV: Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Tuesday formally submitted to parliament a bill offering limited self-rule for the country’s separatist east.
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Posted by seumasach on September 16, 2014
As is now clear Obama won this one, wisely opting for strong words rather than strong action NATO has been left hanging out to dry
11th April, 2014
The commander of NATO is insisting that the West do more to protect Ukraine from a possible Russian invasion. But the Obama administration has other plans.
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Posted by seumasach on September 14, 2014
Rumours have been circulating in the City of London that an Asian company, possibly Chinese, may be interested in buying Balfour Beatty, the UK’s biggest contractor, since talks over a merger with Carillion broke down.
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Posted by seumasach on September 14, 2014
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Posted by seumasach on September 14, 2014
With the EU know backing off after their humiliation in Ukraine, the Eurasia project is definitely back on track
The two-day summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) kicked off on Thursday in Dushanbe, capital of Tajikistan, with the possibility of China joining the Eurasian Development Bank (EADB), anti-terrorism and expanding SCO membership expected to be high on the agenda, said analysts.
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Posted by seumasach on September 14, 2014
Osbourne expresses confidence in Reminbi as “a global reserve currency”
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Posted by seumasach on September 13, 2014
“They (Moscow) will outplay us,” Yatsenyuk warned. “Putin wants to get another frozen conflict and get his hands on our belly fat.”
I expected Yatsenyuk to settle down to a peaceful retirement in Florida but for some reason to continues to rant hysterically. Moscow or, rather, the Putin-Poroshenko combination has already outplayed him and he is the obvious, big, big loser
13th September
Yatsenyuk told a conference attended by Ukrainian and European lawmakers and business leaders on Saturday that he was convinced that Putin’s goal was “not just to take Donetsk and Lugansk.”
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Posted by seumasach on September 13, 2014
“Europeans, however, insist that they helped to broker the deal between Yanukovych and the opposition and cannot be held responsible for his sudden resignation and disappearance from the country.”
This is a very interesting line in apologetics from the Europeans, the first indication that they were caught out by the Yanukovitch gambit which left them with the embarrassment of supporting a government stuffed full of neo-nazis.
9th September, 2014
Russia’s relations with Europe have been badly strained over the Ukraine crisis. The two sides have fundamentally different perceptions of the situation, are suspicious of the other side’s intentions, and have already gone through a series of sanctions against each other’s economies.
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