Posted by seumasach on March 12, 2009
Is this the beginning of the end of the end of world history?
“He says we musn’t lose sight of the need to tackle global warming just because our economies are suffering.”
We mustn’t lose sight of the need to tackle global warming just because it’s freezing.
‘Climate Crisis Worse Than Recession’
12th March, 2009
“We are, I fear, at a defining moment in the world’s history,” the royal told a meeting of Brazilian business leaders ahead of a planned visit to the Amazon rainforest.
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Posted by alfied on March 12, 2009
UNITED: Serbian president Boris Tadic, left, and Spanish prime minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero March 9 2009Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged: NATO expansion | Leave a Comment »
Posted by seumasach on March 12, 2009
Here, former Blair adviser Anthony Giddens shows what a flexible tool global warming…, sorry, “climate change” theory is for the elite. As we have seen elsewhere it provides a handy cover to explain away the disappearance of bees and pollinators and to divert our attention from this ecological catastrophe. Is it coincidental that Brown’s global new deal, an attempt to recreate our financier oligarchy globally, is now directly linked to a new “post-industrial era” resulting from the “climate crunch”, with all its possible neo-Malthusian or neo-feudal possibilities?
We are on the brink of a revolution: the demise of the fossil-fuel economy. A new deal must jolt us out of orthodox thinking
Anthony Giddens
11th March, 2009
Every crisis, Sigmund Freud said, is potentially a stimulus to the positive side of the personality and an opportunity to start afresh. Today we are facing two global crises in tandem – the economic recession and climate change. Both are deeply worrying, but what is their relationship likely to be?
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Posted by seumasach on March 12, 2009
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Posted by seumasach on March 12, 2009
Click on above link to view photo gallery.
Remains of a City
On their website, the photographers write, “Ruins are the visible symbols and landmarks of our societies and their changes…the volatile result of the change of eras and the fall of empires. This fragility leads us to watch them one very last time: to be dismayed, or to admire, it makes us wonder about the permanence of things.”
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Posted by seumasach on March 12, 2009
Humans are not the only ones affected by cell towers. This tree in front of Kaslo’s downtown tower is not taking it very well. (Photo: Mi Kai Lee)
A court in France has ordered the dismantling of a cell phone mast based on the ‘precautionary principle’ because there is insufficient proof that cell phones are harmless. The suit was initiated by residents in the vicinity of the tower against cell phone company Bouygues Telecom. Following the judgements of the Nanterre TGI (District Court) and the Versailles Appeal Court Bouygues Telecom began dismantling its phone mast in the early morning of March 6, 2009.
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Posted by seumasach on March 11, 2009
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says the world monetary system serves the interests of global economic powers in an “unfair” way.
“The international economic order is unfair, inefficient and harmful to many countries,” Ahmadinejad said as he delivered a speech at the 10th Economic Cooperation Organization Summit in Tehran on Wednesday.
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Posted by seumasach on March 11, 2009
Brown’s agenda is obviously floundering and its defeat should be clear at the G20
David Gow
11th March. 2009
The European commission president has hit back at US criticism that the EU is providing an inadequate economic stimulus for global recovery and accused the Obama administration of being averse to greater regulation of the financial sector.
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Posted by alfied on March 11, 2009
Was Omagh bomb car bugged by security services?
Belfast Telegraph – March 10, 2009
A listening bug could have been placed inside the Vauxhall car that carried the Omagh bomb, according to a High Court document. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on March 10, 2009
It looks like the New Cold War is already over as, not only have US/UK efforts to put a wedge between Iran and Russia have clearly failed, but NATO dependence on Russia with regard to Afghan supllies is confirmed. We can now expect Russian diplomacy to become more forceful with their brokering of a comprehensive peace settlement in the Middle East back on the agenda:
Also, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said last week, “[The] American side should join the position of the ‘[Iran] Six’ [the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council plus Germany] not only on paper, but also the talks with Iran as proposed by the six … At issue is also involving Iran on an equal, worthy basis in efforts to resolve the Iraqi and Afghan conflicts, as well as in all aspects of the Middle East settlement.”
By M K Bhadrakumar
Asia Times
11th March, 2009
With the likelihood of the United States engaging Iran in the near future and with Washington “resetting the button” in relations with Moscow, the air is thick with rumors of trade-offs. This is almost inevitable, given the interlocking cross-currents swirling around the three-way US-Iran-Russia equations.
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Posted by seumasach on March 10, 2009
David Gordian
9th March, 2009
In recent days we have seen even mainstream Democratic figures as Joe Stiglitz and Paul Krugman sound the alarm on what seems to be uncertainty in the Obama administration. Stiglitz, Krugman et al. are following in their essential critique a path well worn over the past few weeks by a range of commentators to be found as much among the Austrians as those on the liberal-to-left part of the spectrum. The fundamental point is, of course, that it is now clear to all but the militantly unreflective that Obama can – perhaps – save the Real economy or – perhaps – save Finance (i.e. Bank bond- and shareholders), but certainly not both. The increasing, but still relatively gentle, criticism of Stiglitz, Krugman and their ilk is owing to the fact that it is becoming all too clear that Obama is still unwilling to engage Finance in what might turn out to be the greatest intramural fight capitalism has ever seen.
Posted in Financial crisis | Tagged: bailout real economy, Destruction of real economy, economic collapse, financial collapse, Obama agenda, stop the bailout | 1 Comment »
In These New Times 