Posted by seumasach on January 31, 2014
“In other words, perhaps the Fed understands that a dollar crisis is a bigger crisis than a bank crisis and that its bailout of the banks is undermining the dollar. The question is: will the Fed let the banks go in order to save the dollar?”
Paul Craig Roberts
RINF
30th January, 2014
In former times, the rise in the gold price was held down by central banks selling gold or leasing gold to bullion dealers who sold the gold. The supply added in this way to the market absorbed some of the demand, thus holding down the rise in the gold price.
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Posted by seumasach on January 31, 2014
Reuters
27th January, 2014
BRUSSELS, Jan 27 (Reuters) – Germany’s finance minister said on Monday he was open to the creation of a separate European parliament for countries using the euro, a step that could deepen divisions within the European Union.
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Posted by seumasach on January 30, 2014
John Feffer
Asia Times
30th January, 2014
In a future update of The Devil’s Dictionary, the famed Ambrose Bierce dissection of the linguistic hypocrisies of modern life, a single word will accompany the entry for “Pacific pivot”: retreat.
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Posted by seumasach on January 29, 2014
Philippe Lamberts, a Belgian Green MEP, said the ruling was “excellent news for those who believe that financial markets need regulation at EU level”.
FT
22nd January, 2014
Britain suffered a serious defeat in its campaign to limit the power of EU financial watchdogs after Europe’s highest court dismissed London’s attempt to prevent Brussels from winning powers to ban short selling.
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Posted by seumasach on January 29, 2014
This raises the possibility of a new French intervention in Libya to combat the reviving nationalist movement there.
France’s top military officer warns of security ‘black hole’ in southern Libya
Canada.com
27th January, 2014
PARIS – France’s top military officer says he favours an international operation to battle a security “black hole” in southern Libya.
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Posted by seumasach on January 29, 2014
RIAN
26th January, 2014
MOSCOW, January 26 (RIA Novosti) – Official Moscow supports a proposed alliance between the Syrian regime and moderate opposition against the Islamists, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.
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Posted by seumasach on January 27, 2014
Thierry Meyssan
Voltairenet
27th January, 2013
The question of the Syrian opposition’s representation at the Geneva 2 Conference may seem incongruous now that the inaugural meeting in Montreux is already behind us. On the contrary, it remains the central issue. The National Coalition, who spoke before the cameras, has been abandoned by almost all its components and has lost its antennas in Syria. The sole purpose of its presence at the public session was to satisfy Saudi Arabia. It should now quickly give up its seat to other players.
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Posted by seumasach on January 25, 2014
“The West sees ahead a crucial juncture in post-Cold War era for countering what it perceives as Moscow’s strategm to pit Eurasian integration against European integration.
Moscow maintains that the two integration processes can co-habitate and can have overlapping geo-strategic space, but Europe rejects that notion, which it equates as acquiescence with Russian hegemony in Eurasia.”
M.K.Bhadrakumar
Indian Punchline
25th January, 2014
Ukraine is on the boil. The anti-government protests have become confrontational and have drawn blood in the past few days. President Viktor Yanukovich has been so far insisting that a change of leadership is possible only through the presidential election scheduled for March 2015, but that stance has come under growing pressure.
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Posted by seumasach on January 25, 2014
It looks like death by a thousand cuts for the cell-phone industry but that will not be enough to prevent a public health catastrophe already well under way
Mieux Prevenir
25th January, 2014
For cell phones, manufacturers will have to recommend use of hand-free kits. All advertising targeting children under 14 will be banned. Regarding children, the initial proposed bill of the ecologists aimed to ban Wi-Fi in all establishments for those under 6. But the Government voted an amendment restraining this measure to those under 3, that is, to childcare facilities. It will thus not concern nursery schools.
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Posted by seumasach on January 25, 2014
“If they want to leave, then they go and we will continue our lives . . . Our main condition is the practical start of peace process.”
“The start of a peace process would mean that no foreigners can benefit from the continuation of war”
Afghan-US deal falters as Karzai demands Taliban talks
Manila Times
25th January, 2014
KABUL: President Hamid Karzai on Saturday signaled that a deal to allow US troops to stay in Afghanistan was close to collapse as the NATO combat mission withdraws after a decade of fighting the Taliban.
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Posted by seumasach on January 25, 2014
The withdrawal of foreign forces from Syria is an elementary requirement of any peace process but it has taken the intervention of Iran to put it on the table. This peace process is in reality not between the Syrian “regime” and the “opposition” but between Syria and her foreign enemies hitherto intent on her destruction.
PressTV
25th January, 2014
Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has urged the withdrawal of all foreign-backed militants from Syria, saying the Syrian people should be allowed to determine their own destiny without foreign interference.
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