September 29, the Russian navy successfully launched a new submarine based ICBM. The Inter Continental Ballistic Missile was launched from the Tula nuclear powered submarine in the Barents Sea.
Russian officials say the warheads hit their targets in Kamchatka in the Russian Far East. It has longer range than older submarine based ICBMs, and can avoid the U.S. “missile shield”.
September 30, Japan’s Mizuho Financial Group will invest big time in a major Vietnamese bank, Vietcombank, all in an effort to profit off Vietnam’s explosive economic growth.
Even officials with the U.S. bank Citigroup is amazed at how well Vietnam’s economy is doing.
Currently Vietnam’s GDP is at 6.11%. Very good, but less than their 2010 GDP, which was 7.18%. The annual GDP for the U.S. is stagnating between 1% and 2%!
The down side to Vietnam’s explosive growth, is that most Vietnamese are being left behind in the dust of poverty. Fast economic growth comes with the paradox of increased poverty, because most of the quick profits end up in the pockets of the few (and they do not trickle it down).
“Ever since it was known that DAS would close down, lots of people started doing business and looking for ways to make a few bucks. Others started pilfering information as a kind of insurance, in case one day they would face a criminal investigation or disciplinary hearing.”-A former unnamed DAS detective
In retaliation for the shutting down of Columbia’s Departamento Administrativo de Seguridad (state intelligence agency), it appears that employees sold off secret documents to the highest bidders.
According to the Colombian magazine La Semana, over the past two years tens of thousands of classified documents have been sold to militias, foreign governments and drug traffickers.
The scandal came just days after the former head of DAS, Jorge Noguera, was sentenced to 25 years in prison for colluding with U.S. backed right wing paramilitary death squads.
The bacteria Candidatus Liberibacter (aka yellow dragon) is jeopardizing more than 520,000 hectares (1,285 acres) of Mexico’s citrus trees.
Federal officials said symptoms were detected in Colima, Nayarit and Michoacán. The disease has appeared in Nuevo Leon and threatens states from Tamaulipas to San Luis Potosi.
Mexico is the fourth largest producer of citrus.
Four university professors in four days, that’s how many have been assassinated by so called ‘democracy’ demonstrators in Syria. What does killing professors have to do with achieving democracy?
The latest professor to be killed was a nuclear engineer. Mmmm, does anybody suspect Israeli Mossad?
Along with the professors a police commander was also assassinated in the past four days.
“I think that the fact that there are links that exist between the Pakistani government and the Haqqani network, the nature of those can be assessed and is complicated. But there is no question that they have safe havens in Pakistan.”– Jay Carney, White House spokesman
September 28, U.S. President Barack Obama has endorsed the claims of Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, who accused Pakistan’s intelligence agency of “exporting” violence to Afghanistan.
In 1969 President Nixon (a Republican) secretly ordered the bombing of Cambodia and Laos (Operation Menu), believing they were helping the Viet Cong in South Vietnam. The Operation Menu bombing lasted from March 1969 to May 1970, and failed to stop Viet Cong, or North Vietnam’s efforts to unite the country. The failure led to Nixon making peace with the Viet Cong and North Vietnam.
Will Obama (a Democrat) follow in Nixon’s footsteps?
But wait, we’re already bombing Pakistan with our UAVs. Oh, but the U.S. was already secretly bombing Cambodia under President Johnson (a Democrat), four years before President Nixon! It turns out that Nixon’s bombing of Cambodia and Laos were simply an escalation of Johnson’s actions.
U.S. Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, who serves on the Senate Armed Services Committee, said Obama had to consider military action against Pakistan.
“The changes that have taken place in the Middle East sent oil prices up, and that gave a shock to the world economy.”-Barack Obama, President of the United States
First off, President Obama, oil prices are no where what they were a couple of years ago. What’s been driving up the price of gas (which is just as high as when oil was more than $100.00 per barrel) is not the current price of oil, but refineries that’re purposely keeping production of gas below the demand for gas (which makes the price go up).
Secondly, it was your attack on Libya, President Obama, that caused oil prices to go up!
President Obama also blamed the Europeans: “Some of the challenges that we’ve had over the last several months actually have to do with the fact that in Europe we haven’t seen them deal with their banking system and their financial system as effectively as they needed to.”
First off, if the U.S. banking system wasn’t so involved with the European banking system the U.S. wouldn’t be as affected by their problems.
Secondly, many of the actions taken by European banks, that got them into trouble, were the same mistakes that got U.S. banks into trouble. By the way, those banking troubles started here in the United States, and have yet to be resolved!
Stop passing the buck President Obama!
For those of you who think things are the same all over the world, think again.
Until the beginning of this year China did not have property tax. Now two regions/states have instituted property tax, officially it’s to try and curb inflation, and real estate speculation.
In Chongqing and Shanghai, a property tax has been imposed on high end real estate. The lowest price at which taxes are charged is for properties that sell for 9,941 yuan ($1,554) per square meter.
In Chongqing, the tax applies to existing residential properties, while in Shanghai it falls only on properties that were purchased after its adoption date.
The new taxes are due in October, and those who fail to pay will be subject to fines, restrictions on their ability to go abroad, or exposure in the media.
“Right now there is a very serious threat to global peace: a new cycle of colonial wars, which started in Libya, with the sinister goal of refreshing the capitalist global system, within a structural crisis today, but without any limit to its consumer and destructive voracity.”-Nicolas Maduro Moros, Foreign Minister of Venezuela
Moros says the war in Libya was pushed by the mainstream media: “The logic of war having its spearhead in transnational mass media: let us bear in mind that the ‘Libyan Case’ was brought before the Security Council on the basis of intense propaganda by the western mass media, who lied about the alleged bombing of innocent civilians by the Libyan Air Force, not to mention the grotesque media setting of the Green Square of Tripoli.”
Moros points out that the so called no fly zone was anything but: “It’s worth wondering: what has the no-fly zone established by Security Council resolution become? How could NATO perform more than 20,000 missions against Libyan people if there was a no-fly zone? After the Libyan Air Force was completely annihilated, the continued ‘humanitarian’ bombing shows that the west, through NATO, intends to impose their interests in North Africa, turning Libya into a colonial protectorate.”
Moros points out that NATO violated the arms embargo they were supposed to be enforcing: “How can we say that an arms embargo was imposed on Libya, when it was NATO itself that introduced thousands of heavy weapons to support a violent upheaval against that country’s legitimate government? The embargo was, of course, meant to prevent the Libyan government from defending its sovereignty. This shows, once again, the cruel logic of international relations, where the law only applies to the weak.”
Moros warns that the United Nations is a puppet of Europe and the United States, and that will be the UN’s undoing: “If its secretary-general, along with the president of the International Criminal Court, take part in an act of war, as in the case of Libya, nothing can be expected from the current structure of this organization and there is no longer time for reforms: the UN does not accept any reform whatsoever, the illness within it is deadly.”
“The fact that British soldiers are reduced to watching what are effectively snuff movies shows the complete failure of the project in Afghanistan. It’s nothing to do with democracy, but a failure of war that is trickling down and resulting in a mental degradation among ground troops. Afghanistan is a dreadful situation and it is no better than it was a decade ago.”-Andrew Burgin, Stop the War Coalition
Burgin is talking about a documentary that’s being shown to British troops, called Kill TV nights, part of a three part series called Fighting on the Frontline. Officially it’s meant to desensitize troops, but it also justifies killing civilians.
In one scene a commander is actually warning peers not to mention any of the possible war crimes they’ve just committed: “This is not for discussion with anybody else; keep it quiet about what you see up here. It’s not because we’ve done anything wrong. But we might have done.”
In another scene an Afghan woman is targeted, and you can hear the helicopter pilots call her “snake with tits”.
A voice in the documentary sums up the attitude of the evil British Red Coat military: “I have absolutely no dramas with it. None at all. I don’t really care whether they think it’s a fair fight.”
I wounder if this will be the same attitude used against the people of the United Kingdom, when the protests really get going?