Showing posts with label Yemen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Yemen. Show all posts

Friday, April 29, 2011

Generation 2.0: List of Demands by March 15 in Dar'a, Syria

This statement was originally issued in Arabic by Dir'a's Youth of March 15. The English translation was made available by The Angry Arab News Service.]

Leadership of the Glorious Revolution of the Youth of 15 March, Diraa – Syria

To the Syrian people; to the descendants of Salih al-Ali, Sultan Pasha al-Atrash, Ibrahim Hananou; to all the free people of Syria in all the provinces of Syria; to all the sons of the proud Arab tribes; to the Kurdish brothers; and to all the sects and nationalities with whom we share life on the land of this nation.

We promise you to continue our revolution until this criminal regime which kills its sons in cold blood is brought down. We hope all the brothers will come out tomorrow God willing in million-person demonstrations and announce civil disobedience and refusal to go to work centers and to join your brethren in this glorious revolution and to support your brethren in the province of Diraa, Latakia, Homs, az-Zabdani, Douma, Daria, al-Kiswa, Damascus, at-Tal, and the rest of the provinces revolting until the regime is brought down and the goals of the revolution are achieved which are:

Thursday, March 24, 2011

In the name of Feedom! please, don't say it again (part 2)

Sarkozy’s humanitarian war had already begun in early March. The onset of hostilities can be dated with the arrival in a cargo of 105 mm guns and anti-aircraft batteries in Benghazi, disguised as humanitarian aid to civilians. The sender was the French government, which accompanied the consignment with its military instructors, whom started training the rebels as soon as they touched the ground
Everybody knows it in Paris. French weekly Le Canard enchaîné gave the news on 16 March, hidden between its insider pages.
The reporter Claude Angeli wrote on the delivery of weapons by a DGSE’s action, (French intelligence).
Therefore, any deployment of weapons and military personnel took place before the resolution 1973, adopted by the UN Security Council on 17 March that called for "an immediate cease-fire" and authorized the international community to establish a no -fly zone in Libya and to use all necessary means to protect civilians.

Thursday, February 24, 2011

On Libya, "Free countries" should shut the fuck up

After Bush's preemptive war, in 2010 "free countries" made a joke of our laws again. In fact, Libya was voted to join U.N. Human Right Council. Despite appeals by numerous human rights advocacy groups for a clear rejection of Libya’s candidacy for the world body’s top human rights body, only 33 countries did so in a secret ballot election. Muammar Gaddafi’s regime garnered 155 votes out of 188 cast, far more than the minimum 97 required. Five countries abstained. 

Friday, February 4, 2011

Behind World's inflation

U.S. consumption increased by 3.2 % over the fourth quater of 2010. Although Somebody has hailed it as a sign of economic growth, this is nothing more than pure inflation determenated by deficit and monetary stimulus of the Federal Reserve.
Monetary expansion created by the FED has again shown its destructive effects: inflation has begun to be exported overseas. U.S. dollar is enjoying an enviable position of reserve currency that doesn't follow the rules of other currencies and allows the U.S. to borrow, spend and consume with money that the FED simply creates "out of thin air". In this way the U.S. can expropriate resources from the world by buying other's goods and services abroad like a counterfeiter who spends his fake money at a shop. Unfortunately, the excess of dollars return back home to be converted into Treasury bonds whereas U.S.  partners with this same amount of dollars finance their deficits and encourage an irresponsible consumption of resources. In fact they haven't any incentive to use their dollar surplus to buy goods and services as in recent decades American industry completely lost its competitiveness. 
So, What does it happen to U.S. partners currencies? 
The dollars obtained by exchanging for exported goods must be converted to be spent in these countries. 
If markets did freely, the excess of dollars would raise the price of currencies with which U.S. dollar was exchanged. But, actually it doesn't work like that and to prevent worsening of their exporting, U.S. partners have no other choice but to keep their currencies competitive with a new monetary expansion. 
In fact, to maintain a stable exchange rate, they must buy the dollar surplus by resorting to a quantitative easing. Therefore, when the Federal Reserve prints fresh money "out of thin air", other central banks make the same thing. In this way, the amount of dollars sold is parked as Treasury bonds, allowing the U.S. to keep their interest rates low and to continue selling its debt. This whole process is an untold damage to economies in terms of inflation. 
In summary, the  G-20 central banks have flooded the economy with liquidity without any relation to the real global production. All this is the cause of rising food price, speculative investment and ephemeral illusion of prosperity. 
In North Africa, this economic system based on fraud now starts to kill people too.

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

What's behind the World's growing food-price crisis?

Year by year Humanity has reached Peak oil. So rising oil prices make many people think of bio-ethanol as a possible solution. But ethanol fuels are produced by fermentaion of sugars derived from wheat, corn, sugar beets, sugar cane, molasses etc. Here comes trouble. In fact, data show that developed countries already spend a very high percetage of their domestic cereals supply for livestock production, especially pigs. The European Union e the USA use between 70% and 90% domestic ceral supply for feeding animals and with 470 million of hogs, China has more pigs than the rest of the planet stacked together!!!


Yet from 2007 to 2008 the share of ethanol in global gasoline type fuel use increased from 3.7 % to 5.4 %. In 2009 worldwide ethanol fuel production reached 19.5 billion gallons (73.9 billion liters). Soon very large-scale farming will be necessary to produce agricultural alcohol with substantial amounts of cultivated land. University of Minnesota researchers report that if all corn grown in the USA were used to make ethanol it would displace 12 % of current US gasoline consumption only.
In summary, the growing demand for the energy sector and the most traditional use for feeding animals make millions of people starve. 
Prices on such food as corn and wheat have risen over 180%. Rising food prices that have already caused rebellion in several developing countries will likely push more than 100 millions of people into deep poverty.