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Responses From The South To The Global Economic Crisis

Posted by seumasach on October 22, 2008

 

Caracas, October 11, 2008

Global Research

21st October, 2008

Academics and researchers from Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Chile, China, Cuba, Ecuador, France, Mexico, Peru, Phillipines, South Korea, Spain, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay and Venezuela participated in The International Political Economy Conference: Responses from the South to the Global Economic Crisis, held in Caracas from the 8 to 11 October 2008. The conference stimulated a wide ranging debate on the current economic and financial health of the global economy, the new perspectives and the challenges to the governments and peoples of the South posed by the international financial crisis.

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Bolivia`s ruling party, opposition agree to referendum on constitution

Posted by seumasach on October 22, 2008

 

The legislators said they had reached an important agreement to answer the Bolivian people, who had been assembling at the Murillo Square in La Paz since Monday morning
Mathaba
22nd October, 2008
LIMA, Oct. 20 (Xinhua) — Bolivia’s ruling party and opposition reached an agreement Monday to call a referendum on a new constitution after several days of dialogue, according to news reports reaching here from La Paz, administrative capital of Bolivia.
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Bolivia:Nueva Constitución: Los movimientos sociales, una vez más, escriben historia

Posted by seumasach on October 22, 2008

El viejo reloj del Palacio Legislativo de La Paz marca las 12h55 horas de hoy. El Presidente de la República, Evo Morales Ayma, no puede contener la emoción y llora, los dirigentes de los movimientos sociales se confunden en un abrazo, los miles de marchistas gritan de júbilo y hacen flamear sus banderas y wiphalas, los mineros hacen detonar sus dinamitas y los campesinos hacen escuchar sus pututus. Es un día histórico para Bolivia porque el Congreso Nacional aprobó por dos tercios la convocatoria a referéndum sobre la Nueva Constitución Política del Estado para el 25 de enero de 2009.

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Shock Horror: Some early voters are claiming that some voting machines are switching their votes

Posted by alfied on October 22, 2008

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La voix de la France dans le monde

Posted by seumasach on October 22, 2008

 

Tribune de Jean-Pierre Chevènement parue dans Le Monde, édition du 23 octobre 2008.
Le blog de J-P. Chevenement
Le président de la République,dans son discours de Toulon, n’a pas sous-estimé la gravité de la crise. Mais il l’a réduite à la logique du capitalisme financier. Certes, il a eu raison de flétrir les excès de la titrisation qui a déresponsabilisé les banques, mais il n’a pas dit qui a encouragé cette “titrisation”. Il a surtout fait l’impasse sur la dimension géopolitique de la crise. 
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Banks ADMIT They’ll Keep on Hoarding Cash

Posted by seumasach on October 22, 2008

George Washington’s Blog

Many people (including me) have been warning that the banks will keep hoarding cash no matter how much money the feds give them.

Now, even the banks themselves are admitting it.

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Another Global Warming Hoax exposed

Posted by smeddum on October 22, 2008

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Stratfor gloomy on US foreign policy options

Posted by smeddum on October 22, 2008

The Medvedev Doctrine and American Strategy
OCTOBER 21, 2008
September 2, 2008
By George Friedman GeorgianDaily

The United States has been fighting a war in the Islamic world since 2001. Its main theaters of operation are in Afghanistan and Iraq, but its politico-military focus spreads throughout the Islamic world, from Mindanao to Morocco. Read the rest of this entry »

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Britain’s hidden debt

Posted by seumasach on October 21, 2008

Brooks Newmark

Guardian

21st October, 2008

The British government often congratulates itself on its efforts to keep public finances on a stable and sustainable level. Yesterday Gordon Brown even claimed: “Debt is considerably lower than a decade ago”. However, Britain’s public debt is actually £1,866 billion, equivalent to 125.5% of GDP, nearly three times larger than the government’s published figure of £645 billion and 43.4% of GDP. This measures out as a debt of £76,475 per British household.

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France: €360 billion to bail out the banks

Posted by seumasach on October 21, 2008

Antoine Lerougetel

Global Research

21st OCtober, 2008

With minimal debate, the French National Assembly endorsed the government’s €360 billion rescue plan for the banks, a massive transfer of public funds to the financial elite, by a majority of 224 to 23. It is part of a coordinated €2.7 trillion action by the governments of the euro zone (15 countries whose currency is the euro) and Britain. The governing UMP (Union for a Popular Movement) was supported by the New Centre and the MoDem (Democratic Movement of François Bayrou). The Socialist Party (PS) and the Greens abstained and the Communist Party (PCF) voted against.

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Sarkozy calls for halt to foreign ownership

Posted by seumasach on October 21, 2008

David Charter in Strasbourg
Times
21st October, 2008

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Nicolas Sarkozy risked blowing apart the European consensus over how to deal with the financial crisis by proposing today that each country launch sovereign wealth funds to take stakes in key industries to stop them falling into foreign hands.

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