Posted by seumasach on January 25, 2012
24th January, 2012
“Il n’y a plus, en Libye, des pro-Kadhafi”, si l’ont en croit les dernières déclarations tarabiscotées des responsables du CNT qui ne savent plus à quels saints se vouer. A n’en pas douter, tout se passe mal, très mal même. Pourtant, le même CNT incriminait les pro-Kadhafi après les graves évènements survenus ces derniers temps à Benghazi. Bref, une navigation à vue qui en dit long sur ces renégats. Ambiance.
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Posted by seumasach on January 22, 2012
Here are the main themes of the UK media’s coverage of our economic collapse: the recession is a “technicality”; it’s all Europe’s fault; things will get better with more QE just like they didn’t last time.
It’s hard to know what to say to this. Britain is a consumer economy or it is nothing. The recession is plain for all to see: all three of my favourite coffee shops in the West End of Glasgow have closed since Christmas. The streets and roads are emptying. This is a downward spiral, a reverse multiplier.
Since our exports to Europe never amounted to much, even with the pound approaching parity with the euro, Europe can hardly be to blame. Of course, hedge funds may be losing bullions speculating against the euro but that is a different matter.
QE did nothing to help last time: it merely generated inflation and gave the financiers a number of ingenuous options such as carry trades to make a quick buck.
As I say we’re a consumer economy or we’re nothing. It looks like nothing. Mired in debt, stuck in homes which can’t sold, overwhelmed by rising prices of food and fuel, facing unemployment and frozen wages, facing cuts in benefits, overburdened by unfair taxation such as the notorious council tax, a virtual poll tax which hasn’t been introduced elsewhere, facing endless fines for trivial driving or parking offences, unable to afford the exorbitant cost of public transport, watching our business fail as disposable income dries up, wandering around half-empty supermarkets looking for bargains and finding everyone gathering round the reductions shelf, unable to get simple house repairs done and paying through the nose for the failed attempt, buried under a cruel and corrupt benefits system, fighting failing health as the government blasts us with dangerous and carcinogenic radiation. All this only to be told by the media and politicians that everything is fine apart from the Eurozone, to be lied to incessantly by an army of irremediably corrupted experts, to have our intelligence insulted and our pockets emptied. This is Britain before the abyss, blind and befuddled, threatening or hectoring our international partners, hubristic and delusional, smug and stupid, rejoicing in the woes of others whilst seemingly unaware of where we are going. We are going to hell.
22nd January, 2012
This week official growth numbers are expected to show that the economy shrunk by 0.1% in the final three months of last year.
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Posted by seumasach on January 22, 2012
Libye – Le CNT prend l’eau à Benghazi, son équipe de foot coule en Guinée
22nd January, 2012
BENGHAZI -Les médias mainstream ne peuvent plus se taire. L’incident a été gravissime. Pire, tout s’est passé à Benghazi. Hier, une foule en furie, a pris d’assaut samedi le siège du Conseil national de transition libyen à Benghazi (est), une attaque en règle. Ceci est bien la preuve que ces gens n’ont aucune légitimité et ne pourront jamais asseoir une quelconque autorité.
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Posted by seumasach on January 21, 2012
Cailean Bochanan
21st January, 2012
Reports, if confirmed, that the captain of the Concordia remained indifferent as his ship hit the rocks should not surprise us. A whole number of recent reports from disaster survivors point to a similar and strange phenomena: even when life itself is at stake people remain unable to respond. Can it be that denial is now so deeply rooted in our psyche that it robs us of our most primal instincts? Can our denial over malfeasance, coming economic catastrophe, dangerous brinkmanship in the Persian Gulf, Fukushima etc.etc. have extended itself like a blanket over our response to each and every danger we face even the most obvious and immediate? We now exist it would appear within a delusional fantasy bubble which protects us from awareness of terrible realities and, unfortunately, does so without exception.
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Posted by seumasach on January 20, 2012
20th January, 2012
France has suspended all military training and joint operations in Afghanistan after four French troops were shot dead by an Afghan army soldier in the country’s east.
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Posted by seumasach on January 20, 2012
20th January, 2012
Una gran concentración popular ha tenido lugar en El Cairo para exigir al gobierno que cierre inmediatamente la embajada de la tiranía feudal de Qatar y su expulsión de la Liga Árabe.
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Posted by seumasach on January 19, 2012
The Doomsday Project and deep events: JFK, Watergate, Iran-Contra and 9/11
Peter Dale Scott
In the second part of his study of the US “Deep State,” Peter Dale Scott revisits the assassination of Robert Kennedy, the Watergate and Iran-Contra affairs. By exploiting these events, the military-industrial complex gradually seized power in a country which is now under a permanent state of emergency. According to this Canadian historian, the first demand of a movement like Occupy Wall Street should be the repeal of the Patriot Act, which legitimizes the resolution of political crisis in the United States through military means.
The first part can be accessed here
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Posted by seumasach on January 19, 2012
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Posted by seumasach on January 19, 2012
Samer Soliman
13th January, 2012
The criticism I will make about the positions and ideas of some revolutionary comrades is well-intentioned and not born of malice. It aims to improve the performance of reformist and revolutionary trends to overcome unnecessary divisions, in order to reach the common goal of establishing a state rooted in freedom, social justice, dignity and humanity.
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Posted by seumasach on January 19, 2012
Pepe Escobar
20th January, 2012
There’s no way to understand the larger-than-life United States-Iran psychodrama, the Western push for regime change in both Syria and Iran, and the trials and tribulations of the Arab Spring(s) – now mired in perpetual winter – without a close look at the fatal attraction between Washington and the GCC. [1]
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In These New Times 