"There’s a point where politics intersects with your money. We crossed it last night. In case you missed it, the latest polling shows that seven days from now Jack Layton will be prime minister.
Well, almost. ..."
So says Garth Turner in a plausible prediction of an NDP triumph in the upcoming Canadian election. The economic consequences, as Turner outlines them, could be stunning. What's depressing is how dumb the NDP economic proposals are.
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Monday, April 25, 2011
Gordon Duff: WikiWeasel: Wikileaks Goes Whacky
INTELLIGENCE AGENDA SHINES THROUGH LATEST WIKI-DUMP
…disinformation campaign against the US, Pakistan and Libyan rebels
By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior EditorWikileaks is like the Hydra of Greek mythology. You cut off one head, another springs out, even more vicious than the one lying at your feet. After having waited until the scandal died down, discrediting Wikileaks for its ties to Israeli intelligence and its pattern of using censorship and ‘seeded’ information to serve a pro-war agenda, 700 new documents are released today on “Gitmo.”
At first glance, this is the usual Wikileaks “chickenfeed.” Yes, everyone knows America tortured prisoners, held innocent men for years and was utterly inept in handling intelligence. Though tales of sexual humiliation and torture sell newspapers, the information itself was old news years ago. However, as is usually the case, every Wikileak has a “Wiki-agenda” behind it and this one, as usual, is no exception. ...
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Tony Cartalucci: Tyrants Beware, What Goes Around Might Come Around
Bangkok, Thailand, April 25, 2011 - Peddling a policy that includes assassinating the leader of a sovereign nation, besieged under blatantly false pretenses, sets a dangerous precedent that may backfire in the faces of the arrogant men calling for it. Lindsey Graham and John McCain, both of the meddling International Republican Institute implicated in funding and fueling the "Arab Spring" to begin with, have called for the assassination of Libya's Qaddafi and members of his inner circle. The London Telegraph also reported that Foreign Secretary William Hague refused to rule out using US drones to assassinate Qaddafi.
No one will miss these people: The elite should think carefully
before raising the stakes. Nation-states may retaliate in kind
to threats of assassination and growing, naked aggression.
With the US now openly admitting to recruiting, training, funding, and equipping armies of "activists" to go back and subvert their nations' governments, and with China and a growing list of other nations pointing the finger for fueling subversion directly at Washington, the global scope of this operation and the meddling hands behind are exposed for the whole world to see. What comes next will be a series of proxy conflicts of increasing violence. It is quite clear that humanitarian concerns are entirely contrived excuses propelling this global campaign along. As this facade of legitimacy crumbles, the imperialist nature of the aggression becomes more overt and we now see what looks more like the opening salvos of World War III than a "wave of democracy" sweeping the world.
Should Syria fall to Western-funded and fueled subversion, Iran will undoubtedly be next. The stakes for Russia and China will be raised still higher, and Iran itself will be backed into a corner it hasn't been in since the brutal and protracted Iran-Iraq War of the 80s. Should the West succeed in assassinating Qaddafi after this regional campaign of naked aggression, they will open the door for similar calls to be made against them by a world awake to their reckless, gluttonous tyranny.
Nation-states could repay the threat in kind
When the violence escalates, do these leaders in America feel confident enough that the people they supposedly lead will come to their aid when calls are made in turn for their heads? Do they really believe the people of America will be galvanized by foreign nations surgically retaliating against these increasingly unpopular figures? Would the world miss or mourn the loss of the bankers, industrialists, geopolitical power brokers or the myriad of other jackals, rats, and cockroaches that hide in the dark of elitist power? Would the average American, many of whom have never heard their names, even make a whimper in protest? ...
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No one will miss these people: The elite should think carefullybefore raising the stakes. Nation-states may retaliate in kind
to threats of assassination and growing, naked aggression.
With the US now openly admitting to recruiting, training, funding, and equipping armies of "activists" to go back and subvert their nations' governments, and with China and a growing list of other nations pointing the finger for fueling subversion directly at Washington, the global scope of this operation and the meddling hands behind are exposed for the whole world to see. What comes next will be a series of proxy conflicts of increasing violence. It is quite clear that humanitarian concerns are entirely contrived excuses propelling this global campaign along. As this facade of legitimacy crumbles, the imperialist nature of the aggression becomes more overt and we now see what looks more like the opening salvos of World War III than a "wave of democracy" sweeping the world.
Should Syria fall to Western-funded and fueled subversion, Iran will undoubtedly be next. The stakes for Russia and China will be raised still higher, and Iran itself will be backed into a corner it hasn't been in since the brutal and protracted Iran-Iraq War of the 80s. Should the West succeed in assassinating Qaddafi after this regional campaign of naked aggression, they will open the door for similar calls to be made against them by a world awake to their reckless, gluttonous tyranny.
Nation-states could repay the threat in kind
When the violence escalates, do these leaders in America feel confident enough that the people they supposedly lead will come to their aid when calls are made in turn for their heads? Do they really believe the people of America will be galvanized by foreign nations surgically retaliating against these increasingly unpopular figures? Would the world miss or mourn the loss of the bankers, industrialists, geopolitical power brokers or the myriad of other jackals, rats, and cockroaches that hide in the dark of elitist power? Would the average American, many of whom have never heard their names, even make a whimper in protest? ...
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Saturday, April 23, 2011
Amazing But True
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Subaru Runs Ad in Israel Featuring Run-over Kids
A new advertisement in Israel, meant to show the “power and durability” of the Japanese Subaru car, caused outrage after showing a Subaru driven by a Jewish settler striking two Palestinian children in occupied East Jerusalem.
"'We Will See Who Can Stand Against You,' was written in the right corner of the horrific picture of a Palestinian child flying into the air after being rammed by the settlers’ Subaru."
Cool, hey? Attempt murder and get royalties from a Jap car company for the photo rights.
Anyone have a "Boycott Suburu" image?"
New York to Require Licensing of Geiger Counters, Chemical Detectors?
It would be OK for citizens to check their shoes for dog shit, or sniff to detect smoke when their house is on fire, but checking for W.M.D. without a license would become a misdemeanor, under the proposed legislation.
Friday, April 22, 2011
Reports from Rome
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No one knows for certain. As Yogi Berra said, “it’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.”
But the probability of a financial crisis increased this week after President Obama’s trashing of Rep. Paul Ryan’s deficit reduction plan as dragging us all back to the Dickensian days of “Oliver Twist.”
For the savagery of Obama’s attack persuaded Standard & Poor’s to begin to move to downgrade U.S. sovereign debt from the triple-A rating it has held since Pearl Harbor. ...
Paul Craig Roberts Talks With James Corbett about recent military intervention in Libya, possible military intervention in Syria, and the long-term Western goal of encirclement of China in a future engagement that will lead to a (nuclear) third world war.
Paul Craig Roberts Talks with Press TV about why US President Barack Obama needs to overthrow Qaddafi.
Paul Craig Roberts in Foreign Policy Journal writes on Libya: The DC/NATO Agenda and the Next Great War.
Brian Stewart: Is NATO prepared for a Gadhafi win in Libya? ... no one seems to have a clue how to answer the most crucial question of the moment: just how do we account for the fact Moammar Gadhafi's regime remains intact after a month of NATO bombings and pin-point attacks by cruise missiles?
Weeks ago, it was supposed to have been collapsing at any moment, right? Just a few more air raids, and it would crumble like a house of cards, opening up Gadhafi's capital, Tripoli, to the advancing rebel movement.
So, how does NATO explain that Gadhafi's military and security forces — dismissed as poorly trained and largely mercenary — have recently captured the key oil towns of Ras Lanuf and Brega while conducting a ferocious siege of Misrata? And all the while, facing the day and night aerial attacks with precision weapons that would rattle any army.
This is a bad development for Canada. This is certainly not what Prime Minister Stephen Harper had in mind when he became the first NATO leader to openly embrace "regime change" in Libya back in March as he dispatched a pocket-sized air contingent to help spearhead the first bombings of the North African country.
Harper foresaw Canada going in fast and briefly with its allies to protect Libyan demonstrators from massacre, with enough show of force to also shatter Gadhdafi's shaky regime. Neither his Conservative government nor the leaders of our other parties, it must be said, imagined we'd end up stuck on one side of what increasingly looks like a long civil war that will be hard to get free of.
There are potentially dangerous consequences for Canada at every turn here — not that you'd suspect this given the remarkable absence of this war as an issue in the current election campaign. ...
Bilderberg Insider: Kissinger Calls for US Ground Invasion of Libya: Despite the fact that the United States is embroiled in three major conflicts and can barely service its own gigantic debt, with Standard and Poor this week indicating the US will soon lose its triple-A credit rating, top globalist and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger recently told fellow elitists at three different globalist confabs that the US needs to launch a ground invasion of Libya and keep the war running for at least another year. ...
Obama OK's drones for attacks in Libya: U.S. President Barack Obama has approved the use of armed Predator drones in Libya, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday.
And this via Aangirfan:Who Did 911? - PhD Kevin Barrett Speaks Out (Russia Today RT Interview)
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Peter Hitchin on Britain's new boneless wonder
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In 1931, speaking in the House of Commons of Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald, Winston Churchill recounted how, as a child, he had been:
taken to the celebrated Barnum's Circus which contained an exhibition of freaks and monstrosities, but the exhibit on the programme which I most desired to see was the one described as "The Boneless Wonder." My parents judged that that spectacle would be too revolting and demoralizing for my youthful eyes, and I have waited fifty years to see the boneless wonder sitting on the Treasury Bench.Today, Peter Hitchin describes the new boneless wonder on the Treasury Bench:
The Prime Minister is an opportunist who doesn’t believe in anything. Don’t take my word for it.
This is what Robin Harris, David Cameron’s first boss in the Tory Research Department, said of him back in 2007.
It’s easily proved, by tracking his changing views on any subject you care to name since he first sought office. Zig, zag, and zig again where necessary.
But don’t delude yourself that a man with no principles won’t do any damage. Because his only concern is to gain and hold office, he will do all he can for that end.
And to win and keep office these days, you need to be either politically correct or courageous. Mr Cameron is not courageous. That is why one of his two big outbursts this week means something, and the other means nothing. ...
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Wednesday, April 20, 2011
News from our far-flung imperial battle line
Tony Cartalucci: Libyan War Gets Weird
Even those who have studied for years the criminal consolidation of this planet under the global corporate-financier oligarchy may be noticing that the war in Libya is turning into something new and unprecedented. The lies and propaganda have hit an all time high and no article encapsulates this better than the bizarre, grotesque piece out of the New York Times titled, "Inferior Arms Hobble Rebels in Libya War." ...
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Webster Tarpley: Prince Bandar of Saudi Arabia Gets Pakistani Military Support vs CIA Color Revolution
Listen to Alex Jones interview
Patrick Buchanan: Are We Allied to a Corpse?
Of our Libyan intervention, one thing may be safely said, and another safely predicted.
When he launched his strikes on the Libyan army and regime, Barack Obama did not think it through. And this nation is now likely to be drawn even deeper into that war.
For Moammar Gadhafi’s forces not only survived the U.S. air and missile strikes, after which we turned the air war over to NATO, his forces have since shown themselves superior to the rebels. Without NATO, the rebels would have been routed a month ago.
And, today, NATO itself stands a chance of being humiliated. ...
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Tom Engelhardt: Sleepwalking Into the Imperial Dark
This can’t end well.
But then, how often do empires end well, really? They live vampirically by feeding off others until, sooner or later, they begin to feed on themselves, to suck their own blood, to hollow themselves out. Sooner or later, they find themselves, as in our case, economically stressed and militarily extended in wars they can’t afford to win or lose. ...
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Even those who have studied for years the criminal consolidation of this planet under the global corporate-financier oligarchy may be noticing that the war in Libya is turning into something new and unprecedented. The lies and propaganda have hit an all time high and no article encapsulates this better than the bizarre, grotesque piece out of the New York Times titled, "Inferior Arms Hobble Rebels in Libya War." ...
Read more
Webster Tarpley: Prince Bandar of Saudi Arabia Gets Pakistani Military Support vs CIA Color Revolution
Listen to Alex Jones interview
Patrick Buchanan: Are We Allied to a Corpse?
Of our Libyan intervention, one thing may be safely said, and another safely predicted.
When he launched his strikes on the Libyan army and regime, Barack Obama did not think it through. And this nation is now likely to be drawn even deeper into that war.
For Moammar Gadhafi’s forces not only survived the U.S. air and missile strikes, after which we turned the air war over to NATO, his forces have since shown themselves superior to the rebels. Without NATO, the rebels would have been routed a month ago.
And, today, NATO itself stands a chance of being humiliated. ...
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Tom Engelhardt: Sleepwalking Into the Imperial Dark
This can’t end well.
But then, how often do empires end well, really? They live vampirically by feeding off others until, sooner or later, they begin to feed on themselves, to suck their own blood, to hollow themselves out. Sooner or later, they find themselves, as in our case, economically stressed and militarily extended in wars they can’t afford to win or lose. ...
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Tuesday, April 19, 2011
BAAAAA...D DOGGIES: How responsibility for despoiling the planet is transferred from rich complicit corporations to dumb citizens
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"The authors of a provocative new book have bad news for animal-lovers" reports the Guardian: "pets are bad for the planet. They consume vast amounts of precious resources, produce mountains of noxious waste – and they can be a disaster for wildlife."
O.K., so you've cooked and eaten your pet. Then what? You going to ask the boss to lower your salary so you don't spend the money you just saved on your pet in ways that may be even more destructive to the environment?
No?
Thought not. But then if you do spend the money you saved on your pet, how do you know that you've lowered your environmental impact?
Obviously, you don't. So the whole idea of getting rid of your pet is just meaningless rubbish, right?
Monday, April 18, 2011
Michael Ignatieff, having precipitated an election he is bound to lose, resorts to absurd attack ads
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It takes exceptional incompetence for an incumbent party to lose an election when the economy is strong. Stephen Harper is not incompetent, and the Canadian economy is not weak. The housing bubble is still gently inflating, the construction industry remains busy, exports are rebounding from the 2009 slump, and the Loonie's at a three cent premium over the Greenback.
So what do the Liberals do? Wait for real estate to crash? Wait for the stock market to crumble? Wait for exports to crater as the US goes into the second dip of the recession? No. They force an election on the issue of the Conservative Government's contempt of Parliament. LOL. Everyone has a contempt of Parliament.
So what could Ignatieff have been expecting?
Sunday, April 17, 2011
John Buchan, Canadian Governor General (1935 - 1940) On Conspiracies Driving World Events
By Aangirfan
Updated April 18, 2011
John Buchan was briefly the head of the UK intelligence service. (Grumpy Old Bookman: John Buchan: The Three Hostages)
He helped invent the spy novel.
In his adventure story The Three Hostages (1924), John Buchan described rather accurately the way in which the world works, and the way in which a big modern conspiracy is carried out....
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John Buchan was associated with the central figures in what was perhaps the largest world-shaping conspiracy of his time: Cecil Rhodes' Secret Society, of which the Round Table groups, including Chatham House in London, the Institutes for International Affairs in seven British Commonwealth countries (in Canada, renamed the Canadian International Council in 2007) and the independent but closely related Council on Foreign Relations in America, are the public faces and propaganda arms.
A fine example of the work of these entities is provided in this rebuttal of a Globe and Mail article in which Margaret Wente had the temerity to condemn US/UK/French imperialist intervention in Libya. A well polished piece of globalist propaganda.
Naturally, neither Margaret Wente nor the CIC tell you anything of the role of the Western powers in instigating the rebellion in Libya, arming the rebels and providing the rebels with an American-backed leader. So whichever side of the argument you read, you'll be left with the idea that the war is about NATO saving brown people from their own savagery, not about imperialists exploiting violence of their own creation, to justify self-serving violence on a greater scale.
I discussed Rhodes Secret Society, which aimed to spread the benefits of British civilization to the entire globe, here:
The Beautiful People Who Run the World
Aangirfan has drawn attention to the points about John Buchan that we added here, and added much more in another piece about Buchan and the Secret Rulers of the World.
The new piece includes several useful links including:
Deconstructing the US Military: America's Global War against Planet Earth.
In another post Aangirfan draws attention to the article Through the Looking Glass: The World's Mastermind: The Hidden Face of Globalization by Adrian Salbuchi, a pithy analysis of the genocidal war of the globalist elite on your nation state:
As we now have it, globalization can be defined as an ideology that identifies the Sovereign Nation-State as its key enemy, basically because the State's main function is (or should be) to prioritize the interests of the Many - i.e., "the People" - over the interests of the Few. Accordingly, the forces of globalization seek to weaken, dissolve and eventually destroy the very foundations of the Nation-State as a basic social institution, in order to replace it with new supra-national worldwide social, political, economic, financial and military management structures. Such structures tie in with the political objectives and economic interests of a small number of highly concentrated and very powerful groups and organizations which today drive and steer the globalization process in a very specific direction. ...
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Updated April 18, 2011
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John Buchan was briefly the head of the UK intelligence service. (Grumpy Old Bookman: John Buchan: The Three Hostages)
He helped invent the spy novel.
In his adventure story The Three Hostages (1924), John Buchan described rather accurately the way in which the world works, and the way in which a big modern conspiracy is carried out....
Read more
John Buchan was associated with the central figures in what was perhaps the largest world-shaping conspiracy of his time: Cecil Rhodes' Secret Society, of which the Round Table groups, including Chatham House in London, the Institutes for International Affairs in seven British Commonwealth countries (in Canada, renamed the Canadian International Council in 2007) and the independent but closely related Council on Foreign Relations in America, are the public faces and propaganda arms.
A fine example of the work of these entities is provided in this rebuttal of a Globe and Mail article in which Margaret Wente had the temerity to condemn US/UK/French imperialist intervention in Libya. A well polished piece of globalist propaganda.
Naturally, neither Margaret Wente nor the CIC tell you anything of the role of the Western powers in instigating the rebellion in Libya, arming the rebels and providing the rebels with an American-backed leader. So whichever side of the argument you read, you'll be left with the idea that the war is about NATO saving brown people from their own savagery, not about imperialists exploiting violence of their own creation, to justify self-serving violence on a greater scale.
I discussed Rhodes Secret Society, which aimed to spread the benefits of British civilization to the entire globe, here:
The Beautiful People Who Run the World
Aangirfan has drawn attention to the points about John Buchan that we added here, and added much more in another piece about Buchan and the Secret Rulers of the World.
The new piece includes several useful links including:
Deconstructing the US Military: America's Global War against Planet Earth.
In another post Aangirfan draws attention to the article Through the Looking Glass: The World's Mastermind: The Hidden Face of Globalization by Adrian Salbuchi, a pithy analysis of the genocidal war of the globalist elite on your nation state:
As we now have it, globalization can be defined as an ideology that identifies the Sovereign Nation-State as its key enemy, basically because the State's main function is (or should be) to prioritize the interests of the Many - i.e., "the People" - over the interests of the Few. Accordingly, the forces of globalization seek to weaken, dissolve and eventually destroy the very foundations of the Nation-State as a basic social institution, in order to replace it with new supra-national worldwide social, political, economic, financial and military management structures. Such structures tie in with the political objectives and economic interests of a small number of highly concentrated and very powerful groups and organizations which today drive and steer the globalization process in a very specific direction. ...
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Do American Jews really demand release of Jewish Traitor, Pollard?
By Haaretz
Latest update 09:22 17.04.11
The Ashkenazi chief rabbi of Israel, Yona Metzger, told congregants in a Sabbath sermon that if U.S. President Barack Obama seeks reelection, he must release Jonathan Pollard, Israel Radio reported on Sunday. ...
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Latest update 09:22 17.04.11
The Ashkenazi chief rabbi of Israel, Yona Metzger, told congregants in a Sabbath sermon that if U.S. President Barack Obama seeks reelection, he must release Jonathan Pollard, Israel Radio reported on Sunday. ...
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Saturday, April 16, 2011
Prof. Michel Chossudovsky: When war games go live
Military operations of this size and magnitude (the attack on Libya) are never improvised. The war on Libya as well as the armed insurrection were planned months prior to the Arab protest movement ...
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WSWS: The Libyan war and the deepening inter-imperialist conflict
The joint statement issued Thursday by US President Barack Obama, President Nicolas Sarkozy of France and British Prime Minister David Cameron on Libya not only escalates the war. It also intensifies the political divisions within Europe that are in the background of the neo-colonial operation in North Africa. While the war is marketed as a “humanitarian” enterprise, little if any attention is being paid—at least in public—to the increasingly bitter dispute between France, Britain and the United States on one side and Germany on the other.
The most remarkable feature of the joint statement was that it was not issued by the European Union (EU) or even the NATO military alliance. Rather, it appeared in French and English, under the byline of President Sarkozy of France, Prime Minister Cameron of Great Britain, and President Obama of the United States. The statement did not include the byline of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, whose government had earlier abstained on the United Nations resolution authorizing the initial assault on Libya. And yet, this statement vastly expands the war aims of the participating powers—from the defense of civilians to a policy of regime change in Libya. Headlined “The bombing continues until Gaddafi goes,” and published in the Washington Post, theTimes of London, Le Figaro, the International Herald Tribune and al-Hayat, the statement proclaims that “it is impossible to imagine a future for Libya with [Colonel Muammar] Gaddafi in power.” It dismisses any other outcome of the conflict as a “betrayal.”
The split between Germany and France is of great significance ...
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The most remarkable feature of the joint statement was that it was not issued by the European Union (EU) or even the NATO military alliance. Rather, it appeared in French and English, under the byline of President Sarkozy of France, Prime Minister Cameron of Great Britain, and President Obama of the United States. The statement did not include the byline of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, whose government had earlier abstained on the United Nations resolution authorizing the initial assault on Libya. And yet, this statement vastly expands the war aims of the participating powers—from the defense of civilians to a policy of regime change in Libya. Headlined “The bombing continues until Gaddafi goes,” and published in the Washington Post, theTimes of London, Le Figaro, the International Herald Tribune and al-Hayat, the statement proclaims that “it is impossible to imagine a future for Libya with [Colonel Muammar] Gaddafi in power.” It dismisses any other outcome of the conflict as a “betrayal.”
The split between Germany and France is of great significance ...
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Eric Margolis: Murbarakism still rules in Egypt
The arrest and interrogation last week of deposed president Husni Mubarak and his two sons has left Egyptians jubilant.
The armed forces threw the Mubaraks to the wolves to placate mounting public demands for retribution against former leaders of the hated old regime.
But the fact remains, in spite of Mubarak’s fall, not much has changed in Egypt. The Old Guard of generals and bureaucrats still rule Egypt. An intensifying struggle goes on behind the scenes between the military and the fragmented democratic opposition. So far, the military retains an iron grip on Egypt in spite of noisy street demonstrations.
Muabarak is gone but Mubarakism still lives.
No one yet knows what September’s planned parliamentary elections will bring, or if they will be fair and open. One uneasily recalls Algeria’s first free vote in 1991. Islamists won a landslide. Algeria’s reactionary military annulled the vote and arrested democratic leaders. Egypt’s generals may do the same. ...
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The armed forces threw the Mubaraks to the wolves to placate mounting public demands for retribution against former leaders of the hated old regime.
But the fact remains, in spite of Mubarak’s fall, not much has changed in Egypt. The Old Guard of generals and bureaucrats still rule Egypt. An intensifying struggle goes on behind the scenes between the military and the fragmented democratic opposition. So far, the military retains an iron grip on Egypt in spite of noisy street demonstrations.
Muabarak is gone but Mubarakism still lives.
No one yet knows what September’s planned parliamentary elections will bring, or if they will be fair and open. One uneasily recalls Algeria’s first free vote in 1991. Islamists won a landslide. Algeria’s reactionary military annulled the vote and arrested democratic leaders. Egypt’s generals may do the same. ...
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The West Versus China: The Reason for Regime Change in Libya
By Patrick Henningsen
The question as to why US-led NATO forces are determined to engineer a regime change in Libya is now becoming clear. While media pundits and political experts still argue over whether the Libyan rebel gangs are actually being backed and directed by US, UK and Israel intelligence agencies, broader long-range Western policy objectives for Libya are being completely ignored.
One only has to read the strategic briefings in U.S. AFRICOM documents to realise the true endgame in Libya: the control of valuable resources and the eviction of China from North Africa.
When the US formed AFRICOM in 2007, some 49 countries signed on to the US military charter for Africa but one country refused: Libya. ...
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This article includes a link to an RT interview with Regan Administration Official, Paul Craig Roberts, who provides a pithy assessment of the war in Libya.
The question as to why US-led NATO forces are determined to engineer a regime change in Libya is now becoming clear. While media pundits and political experts still argue over whether the Libyan rebel gangs are actually being backed and directed by US, UK and Israel intelligence agencies, broader long-range Western policy objectives for Libya are being completely ignored.
One only has to read the strategic briefings in U.S. AFRICOM documents to realise the true endgame in Libya: the control of valuable resources and the eviction of China from North Africa.
When the US formed AFRICOM in 2007, some 49 countries signed on to the US military charter for Africa but one country refused: Libya. ...
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This article includes a link to an RT interview with Regan Administration Official, Paul Craig Roberts, who provides a pithy assessment of the war in Libya.
Friday, April 15, 2011
Future Shock: China's Remarkable $3 Trillion in Reserves; What Will China Do With Them?
By Mish
... China right now has its US reserves parked in US treasuries. The logical spot for some of those reserves is US corporations and US assets, returning the dollars where they mathematically must return.
Now imagine the shock in Congress were China to make an offer to buy Exxon-Mobile, Boeing, Apple and a basket of technology companies, and every toll-road and bridge in the country. ..
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... China right now has its US reserves parked in US treasuries. The logical spot for some of those reserves is US corporations and US assets, returning the dollars where they mathematically must return.
Now imagine the shock in Congress were China to make an offer to buy Exxon-Mobile, Boeing, Apple and a basket of technology companies, and every toll-road and bridge in the country. ..
To read the entire post
The US Senate: Israel' Bitch?
U.S. Senate unanimously calls on U.N. to rescind Goldstone
The resolution passed by unanimous vote! Let me never hear one more God damn person even suggest that Washington is not owned lock, stock and barrel by the Israeli Lobby. Each of these Senators are now complicit in the cover-up of Israel’s war crimes during Operation Cast Lead, a massacre that murdered 1400 Palestinians, including 300 children. ...
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The resolution passed by unanimous vote! Let me never hear one more God damn person even suggest that Washington is not owned lock, stock and barrel by the Israeli Lobby. Each of these Senators are now complicit in the cover-up of Israel’s war crimes during Operation Cast Lead, a massacre that murdered 1400 Palestinians, including 300 children. ...
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Canadian Election: Clark and Dawe on Winning the Government You Deserve
True its not the Canadian election, but it applies with complete accuracy to the local situation.
The Beautiful People Who Run the World
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The Council on Foreign Relations is almost certainly the World's most influential agency for the promotion of global governance, so this self-promotional video is worth a view.
The Council on Foreign Relations is an outgrowth of Cecil Rhodes' Secret Society, which aimed to extend the British Empire to the entire globe. Carroll Quigley, Bill Clinton's admired history tutor at Georgetown University and the official historian of the the Secret Society (or the Rhodes-Milner Group as it came to be known), explained the origins of the CFR in his sweeping history of the modern era, Tragedy and Hope:
At the end of the war of 1914, it became clear that the organization of this system had to be greatly extended. . . . Lionel Curtis . . . established, in England and each dominion, a front organization to the existing local Round Table Group…This front organization, called the Royal Institute of International Affairs, had as its nucleus in each area the existing submerged Round Table Group…in New York it was known as the Council on Foreign Relations, and was a front for J. P. Morgan and Company in association with the very small American Round Table Group. The American organizers were dominated by the large number of Morgan 'experts'… The Round Table for years (until 1961) was edited from the back door of Chatham House grounds in Ormond Yard, and its telephone came through the Chatham House switchboard (Tragedy and Hope: 951-952).
Thursday, April 14, 2011
One in four British born children, born to foreign-born mothers
The Telegraph
Almost one in eight people living in the UK are now foreign born after hitting record levels in the wake of the largest wave of immigration in history. ...
Britain now had a higher proportion of foreign-born residents than European neighbours such as France and Italy.
One in four babies was now born to a foreign mother, another record. In 1998, less than 14 per cent of babies were to a mother who had been born overseas....
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