Posted by seumasach on December 6, 2014
Orban is a neocon who has “gone native” much to the chagrin of McCain. But this is one of the prime symptoms of imperial decline: the empire can no longer control its vassals.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has blasted Brussels for undermining the Russia-led South Stream gas pipeline project.
5th December, 2014
MOSCOW, December 5 (Sputnik), Ekaterina Blinova — Viktor Orban, Hungary’s Prime Minister blasted Brussels for ruining the Russia-led South Stream gas pipeline project.
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Posted by seumasach on December 6, 2014
1st December, 2014
The world is awash in oil, I’m hearing. The problem is, it’s fairly expensive oil.
Take for example Canada. The country that has managed to increase its production of oil by a million barrels a day over the last decade. But almost all of that increase has come from oil sands. If you consider only conventional crude oil, Canadian production today would be a third of a million barrels a day lower than at its peak in 1973.
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Posted by seumasach on December 6, 2014
5th December, 2014
(Reuters) – Global oil and gas exploration projects worth more than $150 billion (£95.9 billion) are likely to be put on hold next year as plunging oil prices render them uneconomic, data shows, potentially curbing supplies by the end of the decade.
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Posted by seumasach on December 6, 2014
– Big Win For Russia – Historic Loss for EU
Pepe Escobar
5th December, 2014
So the EU “defeated” Putin by forcing him to cancel the South Stream pipeline. Thus ruled Western corporate media.
Nonsense.
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Posted by seumasach on December 4, 2014
30th November, 2014
When 28 civilians were killed in Athens, it wasn’t the Nazis who were to blame, it was the British. Ed Vulliamy and Helena Smith reveal how Churchill’s shameful decision to turn on the partisans who had fought on our side in the war sowed the seeds for the rise of the far right in Greece today
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Posted by seumasach on December 4, 2014
Institute for Science in Society
3rd December, 2014
Homeopathy is very popular in Asia, especially in India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. In India today, there are 162 degree colleges teaching homeopathy and over 200 000 practitioners, the largest pool of homeopaths in the world. A conservative estimate is that 100 million people use homeopathy [3]. The true number is much larger as many school teachers and scholars have educated themselves in this affordable and easy to administer treatment and 70 % of population in India live in villages and rural areas with limited access to expensive conventional medical facilities.
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Posted by seumasach on December 3, 2014
Europe May Face ‘Disaster’ Due to South Stream Cancellation: Czech Company
2nd December, 2014
MOSCOW, December 2 (Sputnik) – The consequences of scrapping the South Stream gas project could be disastrous for some European states, the marketing director of Czech gas company Vemex told Sputnik Tuesday.
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Posted by seumasach on December 3, 2014
Since the neo-cons are being marginalised in Washington and London, it is logical that they should seek a new centre of operations, a base for the neocon international from which they can spread their mischief.
Saakashvili, US Citizen Reportedly to Take Positions in Ukraine Government
1st December, 2014
MOSCOW, December 1 (Sputnik) — The Ukrainian authorities will hire foreign qualified civil service professionals; US citizen Natalie Jaresko and Mikhail Saakashvili, the notorious former president of Georgia, are reportedly among potential candidates.
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Posted by seumasach on December 2, 2014
As this article correctly points out Magna Carta “was, for the large part, an agreement between the State and rich and powerful stakeholders. It was never intended to be a charter that protected individual rights. The “free man” in Clause 39 did not refer to the majority populace who were serfs and were always oppressed by the rich and powerful feudal lords.” How then did it become “…the greatest constitutional document of all times – the foundation of the freedom of the individual against the arbitrary authority of the despot”? It didn’t. Nothing in Magna Carta protects the individual against the arbitrary authority of the rich and powerful. Only the sovereign state, independent of oligarchical control, can do that and it was precisely this power that Magna Carta was directed against. It is appropriate that Magna Carta should be coming back into fashion as devolution of powers away from central government creates a weak state or an ensemble of weak administrative entities easily subject to corporate control. Furthermore, if Magna Carta was such a significant and historic document why did the Great Bard himself make no reference to it in his play “King John”. Instead, he recounts a treasonous plot by the barons against the legitimate sovereign- precisely the point!
Magna Carta: The Rule of Law’s foundation
1st December, 2014
THE United Kingdom, unlike Malaysia, does not have a written constitution. What this means is that there is not a single document, like our own Federal Constitution, which is the highest law of the country. That is not to say that the United Kingdom has no constitution; the constitution of the United Kingdom can be found in several different sources.
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Posted by seumasach on December 2, 2014
2nd December, 2014
The State Department has cut its funding to the Syria Justice and Accountability Center (SJAC) that it set up in the Hague in 2013 with a view to prosecuting Syrian President Bashar Assad for crimes against humanity.
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Posted by seumasach on December 1, 2014
Putin: Russia forced to withdraw from S. Stream project due to EU stance
1st December, 2014
Russia is forced to withdraw from the South Stream project due to the EU’s unwillingness to support the pipeline, and gas flows will be redirected to other customers, Vladimir Putin said after talks with his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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