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Friday, May 4, 2007 |
McClatchy: "Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez took a dramatic step toward severing his ties with the world multilateral financial system by announcing late Monday that Venezuela would quit the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund."
That is a very wise decision. The dictates of the IMF and World Bank have kept developing countries poor. Their policy is to keep the population poor, in order to have a cheap labour force.
It may be difficult for a country to do without the World Bank loans at first, but in the end it will pay off. The IMF is for cuts anyway, so why not suffer one short period of economizing and then be free from interest payment and spend the money for the benefit of the whole population. Economize on loans and this will save you an enormous packet.
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Guardian: "A retired British army general says Iraq's insurgents are justified in opposing the occupation, arguing that the US and its allies should 'admit defeat' and leave Iraq before more soldiers are killed." BBC
Well, I'm not particularly concerned about the safety of Prince Harry. He himself isn't either. He'll get more protection in Iraq than any other soldier, of course, and as the cock of the walk he could be a greater danger to the Iraqi population.
ThisIsLondon: "Iraq has descended into anarchy because Tony Blair and George Bush failed to work out a post-war plan, former Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon has said."
The theatrical performance 'CALLED TO ACCOUNT: The indictment of Anthony Charles Lynton Blair for the crime of aggression against Iraq - a Hearing' has been extended to June 9.
A war can be ended, but there is more going wrong, much more. We have been fooled about 9/11
UPI: "Former U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld may be in legal trouble in Spain.
Together with Spanish colleagues, the German lawyer Wolfgang Kaleck wants to press charges against Rumsfeld and 13 other high-ranking U.S. officials in Spain because of alleged human and civil rights violations, the German news magazine Der Spiegel said in its latest issue. The officials are to be made responsible for alleged mistreatment, abuse and torture at the U.S. military prisons in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and Abu Ghraib in Iraq."
LiveMint: "You'd expect someone whom the famously dour Dick Cheney entrusts with millions of his dollars might have a gloomy view of the world. Jeremy Grantham does indeed.
'From Indian antiquities to modern Chinese art; from land in Panama to Mayfair; from forestry, infrastructure and the junkiest bonds to mundane blue chips - it's bubble time,' he writes in Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo Co.'s latest quarterly letter titled 'The First Truly Global Bubble'.
Grantham, 68, is chairman of the Boston-based company that, according to financial disclosure reports, in 2005 managed as much as $6.1 million for US Vice-President Cheney. And if his own recent actions are any guide, he's quite the multitasker.
The money manager is a critic of the US energy policies for which Cheney bears considerable responsibility. In February, Grantham donated $23.6 million to Imperial College London to establish an institute on climate change."
And what is happening to our bees? Is it cell-phones, DU pollution, GM crops, pollution in general, mites?
CultureKitchen: "I have been warning about this for over a year now, warning that the loss of the honeybee is a major threat to our food supply."
CommonDreams: "Honeybees don't just make honey; they pollinate more than 90 of the tastiest flowering crops we have. Among them: apples, nuts, avocados, soybeans, asparagus, broccoli, celery, squash and cucumbers. And lots of the really sweet and tart stuff, too, including citrus fruit, peaches, kiwi, cherries, blueberries, cranberries, strawberries, cantaloupe and other melons."
My grandpa kept bees and for us children he was a hero.
Aren't we ruining our precious earth now? It's time to start thinking, it's time to start doing something. No more wars. Concentrate on the real dangers that threaten us. If those in power won't do anything about this, they'll have to go. The bubble is bursting.
10:52:09 AM
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