Posted by seumasach on March 2, 2009
The Brit authorities are clearly determined to have their “summer of discontent”. For the rest of us the response of the great British public is nothing less than catatonic. No one is even talking about the crisis let alone preparing Molotov cocktails. What does MI5 know that we don’t?
TOP secret contingency plans have been drawn up to counter the threat posed by a “summer of discontent” in Britain.
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Posted by seumasach on March 2, 2009
Richard C. Cook
3rd March, 2009
| “The Last Picture Show” was a 1971 film depicting the decay of small town America. It took place in the fictitious town of Anarene, Texas.
We hear a distant tune reminiscent of America’s high and lonely places and the sound of a dry wind blowing. It’s March 2010 in the tiny West Texas town of Anarene. Nothing much happens here any more. The last business shut down a couple of years ago. It was a cement plant that went broke after the housing bubble burst and the banks stopped lending. The kids out of high school drive their jalopies from one end of Main Street to the other past boarded-up storefronts. Read the rest of this entry » |
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Posted by seumasach on March 1, 2009
Stephen Gowans
26th February, 2009
A reporter for the Toronto Globe and Mail, Geoffrey York, says the warrant for the arrest of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, expected to be issued by the International Criminal Court next week, will be hailed as a sign that nobody is above the law and even a sitting president has no immunity from prosecution. (“ICC readies first arrest warrant against head of state,” February 26, 2009)
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Posted by seumasach on March 1, 2009
1st March, 2009
Iran and Syria vow to support the rights of Palestinian people by bringing Israeli leaders to justice for their recent war crimes in Gaza.
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Posted by seumasach on March 1, 2009
-O douleur!o douleur! Le temps mange la vie,
Et l’obscur Ennemi qui ronge nos coeur
Du sang que nous perdons croit et se fortifie
(Oh horror, oh horror! Time consumes our lives
And the obscure Enemy gnaws at our hearts
As ,on our blood that flows, he thrives)
Charles Baudelaire
The War on Humanity
Cailean Bochanan
1st March, 2009
In the ideological struggle between socialists and pro-capitalists,both held the view that capitalism was a great motor force for the development of the productive forces,but the former, especially the Marxists, seeing it as, at a certain point, becoming a barrier to these forces. Both were at great pains to stress that their systems were preemninent in this aspect, since, in their minds, human advancement was dependent on sufficiency and a democratic society would also be prosperous society. They were, I believe, both correct to stress this relationship and to realize that the credibility of their systems depended on their ability to create a plentiful supply of those things necessary for a civilized existence These progressive views of history saw freedom from want and scarcity as the key to the development of the free individual, of the citizen as opposed to the slave.
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Posted by seumasach on March 1, 2009
Here, New Labour mouthpiece, Will Hutton, gives a fairly comprehensive outline of the Brown plan, a “global new deal”. This involves using the UN. IMF, World Bank and EU to spearhead the kind of policies already put into the practice in the US/UK i.e. massive handouts to financier interests and the bankrupting of the nation state. Brown understands that reform is necessary within organisations like the IMF, UN etc. In other words, in order to maintain their credibility some other nations must be given a place in the inner circle. This not the kind of refoundation of global organisations we need for the new multipolar world.
“But now, more than ever, we need a stronger, free-trading EU with pan-EU financial regulation that speaks with one voice as a core constituent of a new order.”
This is a reference to already existing plans to create a huge trans-Atlantic free trade area. It is also in this context, and this alone , that we should understand Mandelsohn’s pro-Euro sentiment.
Will Hutton
1st March, 2009
This week, Gordon Brown becomes only the fifth British prime minister to address both American houses of Congress. He will speak against the background of the gravest economic times in living memory. Each of his listeners will know that, without massive American government support, both the US banking system and its car industry would now be bust. Instead of unemployment rising by a sickening 600,000 a month, it would be going up by more than a million.
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Posted by seumasach on March 1, 2009
1st March,
2009
The government and the courts are collaborating in slicing away freedoms and pushing Britain to the brink of becoming a “database” police state, a series of sold-out conferences in eight British cities heard yesterday.
In a day of speeches and discussions, academics, politicians, lawyers, writers, journalists and pop stars joined civil liberty campaigners yesterday to issue a call to arms for Britons to defend their democratic rights.
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Posted by smeddum on February 28, 2009
Western media completely ignores major report from Japan’s Energy Commission
Steve Watson
Infowars.net
Friday, Feb 27th, 2009
A major scientific report by leading Japanese academics concludes that global warming is not man-made and that the overall warming trend from the mid-part of the 20th Century onwards has now stopped. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on February 27, 2009
MOSCOW, February 27 (RIA Novosti) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez believes that high hopes should not be placed on the new U.S. administration or on President Barack Obama, national media said on Friday.
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Posted by seumasach on February 27, 2009
It seems quite unbelievable, as well as unconstitutional, that a foreigner should be appointed as head of Iceland’s central bank. That he is a former McKinsey partner makes it deeply worrying. According to Wikipedia, McKinsey was up to it’s kneck in Enron and was favoured, amidst controveresy, by Tony Blair to reform the cabinet office.
27th February, 2009
Svein Harald Oeygard, a Norwegian economist, has been hired as interim governor of the Central Bank of Iceland. The Althingi parliament passed a bill on changes to the bank’s senior management yesterday, making its previous governors redundant.
The Central Bank of Iceland. Copyright: Icelandic Photo Agency.
“This man has extensive experience from Norwegian administration and company consultancy, which should come in handy,” Ólafur Ísleifsson, a lecturer in economy at Reykjavík University, told mbl.is.
One of Oeygard’s first tasks will be to attend a meeting with a delegation from the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Former Central Bank governors Eiríkur Gudnason (left) and Davíd Oddsson. Copyright: Icelandic Photo Agency.
The Central Bank’s former governors, Davíd Oddsson and Eiríkur Gudnason, called their employees to a meeting yesterday and thanked them for their cooperation. The attendees applauded the governors before they left the bank for good,Morgunbladid reports.
Gudnason has worked at the Central Bank for 40 years. Oddsson, who is Iceland’s longest-serving prime minister, was appointed to the bank in the fall of 2005.
The third Central Bank governor, Ingimundur Fridriksson, stepped down shortly after receiving a letter from Prime Minister Jóhanna Sigurdardóttir requesting his resignation and has now been offered a position at the Norwegian Central Bank, according to DV.is.
After Althingi passed the Central Bank bill, it was signed by President of Iceland Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson. Then it was published in Stjórnartídindi, the law and ministerial gazette, taking legal effect, enabling a new Central Bank governor to be appointed.
Law professor Sigurdur Líndal told Fréttabladid that he doubts a foreign citizen can be hired to the position, explaining that the constitution states that no one can become a public official in Iceland without holding the Icelandic citizenship.
“I think it is absolutely certain that a governor cannot be appointed to the Central Bank unless he or she is an Icelandic citizen,” Líndal said. “But there is a question of whether a foreign citizen can become acting Central Bank governor.”
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Posted by seumasach on February 27, 2009
Chris Floyd
25th February, 2009
It would be superfluous in us to point out that a plan to “end” a war which includes the continued garrisoning of up to 50,000 troops in a hostile land is, in reality, a continuation of that war, not its cessation. To produce such a plan and claim that it “ends” a war is the precise equivalent of, say, relieving one’s bladder on the back of one’s neighbor and telling him that the liquid is actually life-giving rain.
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In These New Times 