Posted by seumasach on October 25, 2010
M.K.Bhadrakumar
26th October, 2010
The big news over the weekend is that the United States and Pakistan have kissed and made up. What was played up in the recent weeks as a nasty showdown between the two partners, with each side growling dangerously and scratching the other almost to bleeding, turned out to be deceptive feline foreplay.
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Posted by seumasach on October 25, 2010
It’s so desperate for the axis powers as their closest allies turn against them. The BBC is trying to counterattack with this story. Oh dear, oh dear! It’s all so hopeless.
25th October, 2010
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has said US private security firms, including Xe Services LLC, formerly known as Blackwater, are being behind terrorism in the country.
At a press conference in Kabul, Karzai said that US security companies have been behind explosions that have claimed the lives of women and children.
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Posted by seumasach on October 25, 2010
F.William Engdahl
23rd October, 2010
With almost flawless political timing, the Nobel Peace Prize Committee of the Norwegian Parliament announced the giving of the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize to Chinese critic, political activist Liu Xiaobo. The announcement came just as US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geither was upping the pressure on the government of China to agree to a substantial revaluation of the Yuan, a move that would do little for the embattled dollar but cause great harm to China’s economy. The Nobel Prize theater is part of an escalating long-term pressure strategy of Washington against China.
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Posted by seumasach on October 24, 2010
European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet said that the G-20 made “no particular conclusion” after some members expressed concern about proposals for further quantitative easing in the U.S.
I think the conclusion is that the US plan has been quietly but firmly rejected. What will their next step be? Nice to see a bit of straight speaking from the Germans – they’re becoming increasingly uppety.
23rd October, 2010
The Federal Reserve’s push toward easier monetary policy is the “wrong way” to stimulate growth and may amount to a manipulation of the dollar, German Economy Minister Rainer Bruederle said.
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Posted by seumasach on October 24, 2010
24th October, 2010
Ministers were accused last night of deliberately driving poor people out of wealthy inner cities as London councils revealed they were preparing a mass exodus of low-income families from the capital because of coalition benefit cuts.
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Posted by seumasach on October 24, 2010
21st October, 2010
Demonstrators in Glasgow have occupied a branch of the Lloyds TSB bank in a protest against spending cuts
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Posted by seumasach on October 24, 2010
The British oligarchy and their corrupt medical-industrial complex love nothing so much as the double whammy: killing two birds with one stone. Or rather killing a lot of pensioners and getting rid of last year’s unused toxic vaccine with one dictatorial decree. Unused because people didn’t want to subject themselves to it, a wise decision since it contains toxic mercury amongst other things. Let’s hope they show the same wisdom this year and reject the whole package.
‘The consequences of flu are a greater risk than any risk posed by the vaccine itself.’
So the vaccine is in his view a lesser risk. He’s welcome to his “expert” opinion, but anyway good to see the existence of risk conceded
24th October, 2010
Patients’ groups have expressed anger over this year’s seasonal flu jab programme because people are unable to opt out of having the swine flu vaccine.
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Posted by smeddum on October 23, 2010
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Posted by smeddum on October 23, 2010
Given the shameful role of the EU in the bombing of Serbia they are not in a great position to sort out the mess they helped to create in the Balkans: Russia and Turkey, however, are. Turkey and their foreign minister Davutoglu are new stars of the international community.
Mark Leonard
European Council on Foreign Relations
On Monday, Sarkozy, Merkel and Medvedev will sit down to discuss a new European conception of global security. With the current order dysfunctional and inadequate, it is not before time that Russia is included in the discussion, writes Mark Leonard.
The French seaside resort of Deauville came to prominence in the late 19th century – a time of grand hotels and swanky casinos. It was also a time when Europe was divided up between great powers who each jealously guarded their own little patch of Europe, with individual spheres of influence scratching up against each other. It is therefore a fitting location for a summit meeting involving three of the continents’ perennial great powers – Germany, Russia and France (Monday 18th October) – at a time when Europe is once again becoming a multipolar continent. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on October 23, 2010
Simon Tisdall
19th October, 2010
The Obama administration’s drive to persuade Nato countries to back its revamped missile defence plans is bringing longstanding tensions over European security into the open, to the potential advantage of Russia and Turkey, the maverick guardians of the EU’s eastern flank.
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Posted by smeddum on October 23, 2010
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In These New Times 