Posts Tagged ‘End of empire’
Posted by seumasach on January 30, 2012
Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has reiterated that the European Union’s decision to impose an embargo on Iran’s oil sector will be “counterproductive.”
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Posted by seumasach on January 27, 2012
PoorRichard’s Blog
27th January, 2012
kingworldnews.com
John Williams, of Shadowstats, just issued the following warning and King World News wanted to pass it along to our global readers: “The U.S. economic and systemic-solvency crises of the last five years continue to deteriorate. Yet they remain just the precursors to the coming Great Collapse: a hyperinflationary great depression. The unfolding circumstance will encompass a complete loss in the purchasing power of the U.S. dollar; a collapse in the normal stream of U.S. commercial and economic activity; a collapse in the U.S. financial system, as we know it; and a likely realignment of the U.S. political environment.”
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Posted by seumasach on January 25, 2012
Paul Craig Roberts
Global Research
25th January, 2012
The US government is so full of self-righteousness that it has become a caricature of hypocrisy. Leon Panetta, a former congressman who Obama appointed CIA director and now head of the Pentagon, just told the sailors on the USS Enterprise, an aircraft carrier, that the US is maintaining a fleet of 11 aircraft carriers in order to project sea power against Iran and to convince Iran that “it’s better for them to try to deal with us through diplomacy.”
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Posted by seumasach on January 25, 2012
John Rubino
Dollar Collapse
22nd January, 2012
As the Greek default (and it is a default no matter what they end up calling it) is finalized this week, the consensus seems to be that failure to reach a deal would cause a global financial apocalypse.
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Posted by seumasach on January 10, 2012
F.William Engdahl
Voltairenet
9th January, 2012
Vladimir Putin is one of the few remaining world leaders with the gumption to obstruct Washington’s agenda of full spectrum dominance. The recent Russian elections provided the context for a full-scale attempt to destabilize the country. Spearheaded by the infamous National Endowment for Democracy, the script included the usual cast of western-coached characters, including a blogger, without which a “color revolution” would not be complete. Engdahl analyzes the geo-political ramifications of Washington’s rash movements.
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Posted by seumasach on December 19, 2011
Cailean Bochanan
19th December, 2011
On a day when one of Britain’s last surviving europhiles, Iain MacWhirter, referred to the eurozone as an “economic suicide pact”, I feel the need to return again to the question of Britain and Europe and , specifically, the state of opinion in this country on the issue.
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Posted by seumasach on December 14, 2011
Who are the separatists now? Take Britain out of Europe and you can take Scotland out of the UK
Iain MacWhirter
13th December, 2011
David Cameron’s decision to take the UK out of Europe will take Scotland out of the UK. The Prime Minister’s use of the veto against the EU treaty on budgetary reform looks like the game-changer that the SNP leader Alex Salmond has been waiting for. Attachment to the Union in Scotland is likely to evaporate as Scots realise that they have become an appendage to an essentially isolationist England with a sceptic media saturated with an ugly chauvinism. The hostility shown towards European nations is like a bad version of the hostility that old school Scottish nationalists used to show towards England. Only they grew out of it.
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Posted by seumasach on December 7, 2011
Les Leopold
Voltairenet
6th December, 2011
We now have concrete evidence that Wall Street and Washington are running a secret government far removed from the democratic process. Through a freedom of information request by Bloomberg News, the public now has access to over 29,000 pages of Fed documents and 21,000 additional Fed transactions that were deliberately hidden, and for good reason. [1]
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Posted by seumasach on November 26, 2011
RiaNovosti
26th November, 2011
Islamabad authorities said on Saturday they were closing one of NATO’s key supply routes to Afghanistan after the alliance’s airstrike in Pakistan, which killed 25 people, Pakistani TV channels said.
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Posted by seumasach on November 22, 2011
There is a serious issue here: the abandonment of empire as part of the bankruptcy negotiations of USA incorporated.
Jens Kastner
Asia Times 23rd November, 2011
TAIPEI – A recent New York Times op-ed article by Paul Kane, a former international security fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School, has hit a raw nerve. Kane called on United States President Barack Obama to end military support for Taiwan in exchange for China forgiving the US$1.14 trillion of American debt it currently holds.
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Posted by seumasach on November 19, 2011
Britain continues to provide sterling service to the motherland by selflessly purchasing potentially worthless US government bonds. Meanwhile China goes cold on holding more worthless paper. With the “supercommittee” certain to fail the temporary respite provided by the great euroscare looks set to end and reality will kick in for the superbankrupt US economy.
RNZ News
20th October, 2011
China has reduced its holdings of US debt to their lowest level in a year.
China sold $US36.5 billion in US Treasuries or bonds to cut its holding to $US1137 billion in August, according to data from the US Treasury department.
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