23 Aug 2012
"Subversives": How the FBI Fought the 1960s Student Movement & Aided Reagan's Rise to Power
Greece may sell off islands amid privatization scheme: report + Bankrupt political class: 'Austerity = poverty, adjustment = exploitation, growth = private profit' + ZH take
The prime minister was quoted that Greece would still retain national sovereignty over any islands sold to private investors, “on condition that it doesn’t pose a national security problem.”
“It would not be a case of getting rid of the isles, but of transforming unused terrain into capital that can generate revenue, for a fair price,” Samaras reportedly said.
The country possesses about 6,000 tiny islands in the Mediterranean Sea, but only about 227 are actually inhabited. Samaras reportedly said that the Greece is finally willing to let some of the uninhabited islands be used for commercial purposes, which Greek lawmakers have long resisted.
Venezuela Ramps up China Oil Exports Unsettling Washington
By John Daly: The biggest geostrategic change of the past decade overlooked by
Washington policy wonks in their fixation on their self-proclaimed “war
on terror” is that Latin America has been throwing off the shackles of
the Monroe Doctrine.
These ignored developments may well soon refocus Washington’s
attention on the Southern Hemisphere, as Venezuela’s President Hugo
Chavez reorients his country’s to China.
It is not an inconsiderable element of concern for the Obama
administration. According to the U.S. Energy Administration, the United
States total crude oil imports now average 9.033 million barrels per
day, with the top five exporting countries being Canada (2.666 mbpd),
Mexico (1.319 mbpd), Saudi Arabia (1.107 mbpd), with Venezuela in fourth
place at 930 thousand barrels per day. Note that two of America’s top
four energy importers are south of the Rio Grande.
Furthermore, Venezuela’s reserves according to OPEC
now top those of Saudi Arabia, with Venezuela now estimated to have the
largest conventional oil reserves and the second-largest natural gas
reserves in the Western Hemisphere. Two years ago OPEC reported that of
the organization’s 81.33 percent of the globe’s known oil reserves
Venezuela had 24.8 percent, exceeding Saudi Arabia with 22.2
So, why is Chavez in Washington’s bad books?
Well, among other
reasons, for the company he keeps, as the Russian Federation, Iran and
Cuba are all allies. Note that the first two are also major oil
exporters.
Worse however are the social programs that Chavez has implemented to
benefit his people, which not only smack of socialism but offer an
alternative to Washington’s proscriptions. Case in point - Venezuela’s
health care system. A joint Cuban-Venezuelan medical program, “Barrio
Adentro,” has made health care free and accessible to all Venezuelans.
Founded in 2003, Barrio Adentro expanded Venezuela’s national health
care system by employing more than 30,000 Cuban medical professionals as
the government equipped clinics and hospitals with advanced high
technology diagnostic and surgical equipment.
Something that Americans might consider as the presidential race
heats up, with Medicare on the table. Such alternatives hardly please
the powers that be in Washington, but are increasingly considered in
Latin America.
Liquidity Drought "Candy for cows?"- Max Keiser with Dmitry Orlov
Obama's Al-CIA-da: Unwilling Suicide Bomber Video by New York Times Gets Pulled!
Marc Faber On Keynesian Folly, The 'Missing' Inflation, And Bubble-Blowing
82-year-old nun and two others breach ‘Fort Knox of Uranium,’ stay undetected for two hours
By Madison Ruppert: In yet another case demonstrating just how farcical and laughable so-called “homeland security” really is, three anti-nuclear activists, including an 82-year-old nun, breached the highly secure Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee with nothing other than bolt cutters.
To make matters even more unbelievable, the group announced their arrival from a distance of a half mile and then remained on the grounds of the nuclear complex for some two hours without being discovered.
This is no minor security breach we’re talking about, here. The Y-12 National Security Complex, which some liken to the highly secure Fort Knox, likening it to the “Fort Knox of Uranium,” is where some nuclear weapons components are manufactured.
In a somewhat hilarious side note, the official website for Y-12 highlights their “Alarm Response Training which, “prepares and trains personnel responding to civilian nuclear and radiological security alarms.”
Personally, I don’t think that a complex such as this should be consulting individuals on responding to any security alarms seeing as they can’t manage to keep out an 82-year-old nun with bolt cutters or even detect her presence (along with two others) for a whopping two hours.
South Africa boycotts ‘Made in Israel’ labeled products
The South African government has put the final seal on a measure boycotting goods produced in the illegal Israeli settlements across the occupied Palestinian territories.
The government on Wednesday confirmed that it will not import the goods produced in the occupied West Bank and East al-Quds (Jerusalem) with “Made in Israel” labeling.
The measure, which has been under consideration by the South African government since May, is aimed at preventing consumers from being misled into thinking that such goods come from Israel, Manyi said.
Separately, Canada’s largest Protestant church has also approved a similar measure to boycott goods produced in the occupied West Bank.
The government on Wednesday confirmed that it will not import the goods produced in the occupied West Bank and East al-Quds (Jerusalem) with “Made in Israel” labeling.
Government spokesperson Jimmy Manyi said the goods produced would now be labeled as originating from the “Israeli Occupied Territories.”
The measure, which has been under consideration by the South African government since May, is aimed at preventing consumers from being misled into thinking that such goods come from Israel, Manyi said.
Separately, Canada’s largest Protestant church has also approved a similar measure to boycott goods produced in the occupied West Bank.
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