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Business/Economics, International, U.S.

World War 3: Argentina sanctions Britain, U.K. demands explanation, Pink Floyd says give Falklands back to Argentina

“Falklands should be Argentinian.”-Roger Waters, Pink Floyd alumni

Argentina’s Industry Minister, Debora Giorgi, has asked Argentine businesses to voluntarily sanction U.K. businesses. At least 20 major companies in Argentina, have been asked to stop buying products from the United Kingdom.

Giorgi reportedly said Argentina no longer wants to do business with “colonial” powers.

The move is significant, because Argentina now accounts for U.S. $642 million worth of exports from Britain. The U.K. is also the sixth largest investor in Argentina. In other words, Argentina is hitting the British in their money belt.

Of course, the U.K.’s Foreign Office summoned Argentina’s charge d’affaires for “an explanation”.   And yes, this has everything to do with the Falklands/Malvinas Islands, where a potentially huge oil deposit was discovered (and U.S. oil companies want a piece of the action).

Business/Economics, International, U.S.

Conspiracy to Privatize: Too Big to Fail European Banks get huge cheap loans as Greece is hung out to dry

While European and IMF officials continue to string Greece along, regarding bailout loans, Europe’s too big to fail banks get billions in easy money!

The European Central Bank (ECB) has just issued the equivalent of U.S. $712.4 billion in cheap loans!  ECB officials said it is to help improve liquidity in the markets.  But the same would happen if Greece was given bailout loans!

This is the second time the ECB has issued cheap loans to too big to fail banks!  In December 2011, the ECB issued U.S. $657.9 billion at 1% interest.  Again, this while the ECB and the U.S. based IMF strung Greece along.

Many Greeks now believe what’s happening to their country is a conspiracy to force total privatization upon them.

Fukushima

Corporate Incompetence: Hokkaido Nuclear Plant fails to pass new safety tests!

On 29 February 2012, Japan’s Nuclear Industrial and Safety Agency said Hokkaido Electric Power Company (HEPCo) failed to comply with new nuclear plant stress test rules.

Japan’s government officials have even more reason to get tough on nuclear safety, as an investigation into the Fukushima disaster revealed gross government incompetence.

The new stress tests are designed to force nuclear power plant operators to take into consideration major natural disasters regarding the reactor’s safety.  The  Nuclear Industrial and Safety Agency said HEPCo failed to consider fault lines running under and around their Tomari nuclear power plant.

HEPCo only considered fault lines that were 40km (24.8 miles) away!  Government officials also say the new stress tests require consideration of fault lines as far out as 150km (93 miles).

 

Business/Economics, International, Technology, U.S.

World War 3: Japan threatens to cancel U.S. F-35 deal!

The controversial U.S. F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is once again causing problems.  This time Japan’s Defense Minister, Naoki Tanaka, said no deal if there were anymore cost overruns, or delays in the F-35 project.

Japan had tentatively agreed to purchase four of the multi-million dollar aircraft.  Currently each F-35 cost $123 million!

But, recently the Obama administration suggested that, in order to cut the Defense budget, development and production of the F-35 should be delayed.  The F-35 has already see numerous delays over the past decade, and seen costs skyrocket.

Japan has yet to sign a contract to buy the F-35, but officials said if the price of the F-35 goes up, or it’s delivery date is delayed, they will not sign any deal to buy it.

Business/Economics, International, Technology, U.S.

World War 3: USAF cancels deal with Brazil, over new trainer/COIN aircraft. Will award contract to company that didn’t even take part in the competition!

The U.S. Air Force has canceled a contract with the winner of a competition for the USAF’s new trainer aircraft.

Brazil’s Embraer Defense and Security, along with U.S. company Sierra Nevada, won the contract for the counter insurgency (COIN) aircraft deal in December 2011, for the A-29 Super Tucano.

There are rumors that a company that did not take part in the bidding could get the contract.  Hawker Beechcraft has filed a lawsuit over the whole issue.

The decision to cancel the contract with Brazil could be more about the growing power of the South American country, and its membership in CELAC.

Don’t think awarding the contract to Hawker Beechcraft would create more U.S. jobs. Officials with Sierra Nevada said the contract would have allowed them to hire 1,200 people in Florida, compared to 1,400 with Hawker Beechcraft.

 

 

International, U.S.

World War 3: People of Yemen demand the U.S. get out! Proof of U.S. hypocrisy!

February 29, 2012, several thousand Yemenis have taken to the streets in the southern city of Taizz, demanding the U.S. ambassador leave.

Since 2011 Yemenis have been protesting against their authoritarian government.  Have you heard anything from the U.S. government about forcing regime change, as they did in Libya, and as they are in Syria?  Of course not, that’s because the criminal Yemen government is pro-U.S.

Recently the president of 20 years stepped down, to be replaced by the only candidate in an almost instantly held election!  The people of Yemen say the United States and Saudi Arabia were behind the farce of an election.

However, the former president, and his sons, still hold onto key government positions.

 

 

 

Business/Economics, International

Government Evil: Britain allows 65 people per day to freeze to death! Number is three times what government officially reported!

“These figures are horrifying. You can’t call yourself a developed country and allow this many people to die from living in cold homes….These deaths are totally preventable. This is perhaps the greatest test of whether this government has an ounce of true compassion and moral fiber.”-Ed Matthew, Transform UK

An investigation revealed that the U.K. government lies about how many people die from freezing to death in their own homes!  Officially they said 2,700 people died in the winter of 2010/2011.  The actual number is more than 7,800!

More than 7,800 people allowed to freeze to death because they did not have the money to pay for home heating fuel!!!  That’s about 65 people per day!

The independent investigation used the UN’s World Heath Organization’s (WHO) Fuel Poverty death data. According to the U.K.’s Office of National Statistics 25,700 people died during the 2010/2011 winter.  The data from WHO says 30%-40% of those are directly attributed to people not being able to heat their homes.  That’s far more than the 10% estimate used by the lying and uncaring right wing warmongering monarchy loving British government.

“It is completely outrageous that the Big Six energy firms are able to rake in eye watering profits as people up and down the country are forced to choose between heating their homes and feeding their families! Through over charging customers, including the most vulnerable in society, the energy companies are driving people into fuel poverty!”-Caroline Lucas, Member of Parliament

Home heating fuel poverty is when a person has to spend 10% or more on their home heating.  Under that standard I think many people in the United States are suffering from Home Heating Fuel Poverty.

 

 

 

International, U.S.

Report says Evil Christian Canada created hundreds of thousands of “lost souls”! Sex Crimes & Torture in the name of Christianity!

“In order to educate the children properly, we must separate them from their families. Some people may say that this is hard, but if we want to civilize them we must do that.”-Hector Langevin, Public Works Minister of Canada, 1883

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) of Canada has determined that the government, and Christians, of Canada are evil.  This is based on at least 150,000 cases of native American children who were forcibly separated from their parents!

The TRC issued two reports, one called They Came for the Children: Canada, Aboriginal Peoples, and Residential Schools.  The other is called Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada: Interim Report.

“The truth about the Residential School system will cause many Canadians to see their country differently.”-Murray Sinclair, TRC

From the late 19th Century up until the 1970s, the Canadian government forced native American children to live in boarding schools, many never to see their parents again.  This was part of a plan to make native Americans (indigenous people of North and South American continents) more like “Canadians”!

The program was run mainly by the Catholic Church, the Anglican Church of Canada, the United Church of Canada, but included the Presbyterian, Congregationalist and Methodist churches!!!

Instead of making natives civilized Christian Canadians, the program actually made the children victims of torture and sex crimes!!!

To top that, the investigation revealed that very little “education” took place!  Native Americans in Canada are suffering from intense poverty because of Canada’s so called “Christian” policies towards them!

You can download PDF copies of the They Came for the Children: Canada, Aboriginal Peoples, and Residential Schools, and the TRC Interim report here.

 

 

International, U.S.

Return of the Cold War: Russia’s Putin says it must be so, in order to stop the insane paranoid United States!

“It seems that NATO members, especially the United States, have developed a peculiar interpretation of security that is different from ours. The Americans have become obsessed with the idea of becoming absolutely invulnerable…..absolute invulnerability for one country would in theory require absolute vulnerability for all others. This is something that cannot be accepted.”-Vladimir Putin

On February 27, 2012, Vladimir Putin published a 6,060 page statement.  In it he basically said that Russia will return to a Cold War with the United States!

Even analysts in Russia say Putin’s latest statement is worrying.  It has a lot of the usual anti-U.S. language, but it’s the first time Putin has actually indicated that a return to the Cold War is necessary.

“This is deeply concerning, since it creates the impression that chances for improvement in U.S.-Russian relations will diminish….in his view America is to blame for everything that’s going wrong in the world today, even terrorism, and Russia must prepare itself to act as a counterbalance to the U.S.”-Dmitry Suslov, Council on Foreign and Defense Policies

Putin does blame the U.S. for terrorism, even implies that the U.S. is terrorism: “Russia will always call things as it sees them…”

Putin says the difference between Russia and the U.S. is that Russia wants to be part of the New World Order, but the United States wants to control the New World Order!

He also warned of war with Iran: “…Russia is worried about the growing threat of a military strike against Iran. If this happens, the consequences will be disastrous. It is impossible to imagine the true scope of this turn of events.”

Putin’s 6,060 page statement was published in RIANovosti (in English), and on his website.

 

 

Business/Economics, International

World War 3: 26% of English support Scottish Independence! Spain supports Scotland! Argentina will back Scotland’s fight for Independence!

A survey by NatCen Social Research British Social Attitudes, shows that 26% of the English support the separation of Scotland from the United Kingdom!

But that doesn’t mean the English like Scotts, no, it shows there is growing hatred of them!

31% say Scotland should no longer be allowed to vote on English policies.  44% say Scotland gets too much taxpayer money.

Scotland’s Humza Yousaf, a SNP (Scottish national Party) MSP (Member Scottish Parliament) for Glasgow, says the English are Incompetent: “The idea that Scotland gets more than its fair share of U.K. Government spending is…factually wrong…”

However, Yousaf says: “Independence for Scotland makes sense for all the people of Scotland and England.”

Over to mainland Europe: Spanish Foreign Minister, Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo, has confirmed that his country will vote for an independent Scotland to become a member of the European Union!

Then way down South America way, Argentina has voiced support for Scotland’s independence. President Cristina Kirchner might send an official delegation to help Scotland celebrate the 700th anniversary of the Battle of Bannockburn, marking the victory of Robert the Bruce over the English in 1314.

Some analysts say the move is a way for Argentina to cause trouble in England’s backyard, if war were to break out over the Falklands/Malvinas Islands.