BBC News: Reports that ex Labour Minister Elliot Morley has been jailed for sixteen months for fiddling his expenses. One word folks, GOOD, you expect better from MPs and Ministers, when they turn out to be common criminals they should get a real hard time from the Courts. Democracy fails when you cant trust your elected representatives.
Saturday, May 21, 2011
No Chance Gordon! = Brown and the IMF
Daily Mail: Reports that friends of former Labour PM Gordon Brown are angry that the PM Cameron wont support Mr Brown to be the new Managing Director of the IMF. Does Gordon Brown have any friends? So far from the numerous books on New Labour failed to find any context that is NICE about the former Labour PM. At the end of the day Labour LOST the election, elections have consequences, Gordon Brown must NOW understand why former PMs don’t hang around the House of Commons, one minute you’re the centre of world attention, the next in many respects you’re a yesterday man, that can be very hard to take, Mr Brown should have tried harder to make friends beyond Labour, he should have started with David Cameron.
Time of Pain for the UK = Business Secretary Cable
Guardian: Reports on its interview with the Business Secretary Vince Cable, Mr Cable has stated that the UK will have to go through pain to reform its economy. On this issue Mr Cable is correct, the cuts that the Coalition Government has bought in is due to the reckless spending under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, the public sector is not a business, it cant make a profit, after the near banking collapse of 2008 the UK is broke, it cant afford the drunken spending of Labour. The Labour Party under “ Red ” Ed Miliband is still in denial about its own responsibility for the failure of the UK economy, thus its failure in the Council Elections in Southern England, the UK voter is not thick, he or she knows the goods days are over, its hard and painful times, just look at Greece, Portugal and Ireland, that is a route the UK does not want to go down again, we have done that and got the t -shirt in the 1970s. On this Mr Cable is right, its hard time ahead folks.
Friday, May 20, 2011
The Fall of Greece
Telegraph: Reports that the Fitch Credit Agency has further downgraded the credit worthiness of Greece. Lets gets honest here folks, Portugal, Ireland and Greece don’t have any CREDIT, they are broke, without bailouts from the EU/IMF they would have gone over a cliff months ago. The problem is you have the political elite in EU want to keep the Euro at any cost, eve if that takes the EU over the cliff in the near future. These countries are in the toilet, they are floating in the basing but no has had the courage to flush them out of the system. The above is graphic because that is the truth, Greece, Portugal and Ireland should get out of the Euro, return to their native currencies, redraw their economic structure so its in the real world. At some point the system will break folks, good money or clean paper is being thrown in to the toilet, and its getting dirty folks. There is not enough money to clear the present debt problems folks, thus either the PIGS go or the Euro goes, that is the stark choice folks.
Truth to Power = Israel vs. President Obama
Some interesting remarks by POTUS in his meeting with Israeli PM Netanyahu:
POTUS on Syria: “ We also discussed the situation in Syria, which is obviously of acute concern to Israel, given its shared border. And I gave more details to the Prime Minister about the significant steps that we are taking to try to pressure Syria and the Assad regime to reform, including the sanctions that we placed directly on President Assad. ”. The Syrian Regime has got Obama’s number, they are still repressing their own people, they know that Obama wont do d-m thing, he rolls his friends not his enemies.
POTUS on Iran: “ We continue to share our deep concerns about Iran, not only the threat that it poses to Israel but also the threat that it poses to the region and the world if it were to develop a nuclear weapon. We updated our strategy to continue to apply pressure, both through sanctions and our other diplomatic work. And I reiterated my belief that it is unacceptable for Iran to possess a nuclear weapon. We also discussed the hypocrisy of Iran suggesting that it somehow supports democratization in the Middle East when, in fact, they first showed the repressive nature of that regime when they responded to the own peaceful protests that took place inside Iran almost two years ago. ”. As with Syria, Iran knows that Obama throws his friends under the bus while he bows to his enemies, just ask Poland and the Czech Republic. The only country in the end that will stop Iran is Israel, and that might come sooner than later, depends how good Mossad the Israeli Intelligence network is at preventing a Iran going nuclear.
POTUS on Israel: “ And I reiterated and we discussed in depth the principles that I laid out yesterday -- the belief that our ultimate goal has to be a secure Israeli state, a Jewish state, living side by side in peace and security with a contiguous, functioning and effective Palestinian state. ”. Israel would not be a Jewish states if the old Palestinian refugees had the right of return. That’s Obama rhetoric not seeing the real world, the Israel PM stated the following on the speech yesterday by POTUS, “ I think for there to be peace, the Palestinians will have to accept some basic realities. The first is that while Israel is prepared to make generous compromises for peace, it cannot go back to the 1967 lines -- because these lines are indefensible; because they don’t take into account certain changes that have taken place on the ground, demographic changes that have taken place over the last 44 years….So we can't go back to those indefensible lines, and we're going to have to have a long-term military presence along the Jordan. I discussed this with the President and I think that we understand that Israel has certain security requirements that will have to come into place in any deal that we make….the Palestinian refugee problem will have to be resolved in the context of a Palestinian state, but certainly not in the borders of Israel….So it’s not going to happen. Everybody knows it’s not going to happen. And I think it’s time to tell the Palestinians forthrightly it’s not going to happen. The Palestinian refugee problem has to be resolved. It can be resolved, and it will be resolved if the Palestinians choose to do so in a Palestinian state. So that's a real possibility. But it’s not going to be resolved within the Jewish state. ”. In other words POTUS get your head out of the clouds or your own ego!
At the end of the day the US Congress will support Israel, they will back Israel over any Obama policy, and they have the purse strings. The Israeli Lobby is political terms is not feared for nothing, both Carter and Reagan asked about the Israeli lobby when they come to power.
POTUS on Syria: “ We also discussed the situation in Syria, which is obviously of acute concern to Israel, given its shared border. And I gave more details to the Prime Minister about the significant steps that we are taking to try to pressure Syria and the Assad regime to reform, including the sanctions that we placed directly on President Assad. ”. The Syrian Regime has got Obama’s number, they are still repressing their own people, they know that Obama wont do d-m thing, he rolls his friends not his enemies.
POTUS on Iran: “ We continue to share our deep concerns about Iran, not only the threat that it poses to Israel but also the threat that it poses to the region and the world if it were to develop a nuclear weapon. We updated our strategy to continue to apply pressure, both through sanctions and our other diplomatic work. And I reiterated my belief that it is unacceptable for Iran to possess a nuclear weapon. We also discussed the hypocrisy of Iran suggesting that it somehow supports democratization in the Middle East when, in fact, they first showed the repressive nature of that regime when they responded to the own peaceful protests that took place inside Iran almost two years ago. ”. As with Syria, Iran knows that Obama throws his friends under the bus while he bows to his enemies, just ask Poland and the Czech Republic. The only country in the end that will stop Iran is Israel, and that might come sooner than later, depends how good Mossad the Israeli Intelligence network is at preventing a Iran going nuclear.
POTUS on Israel: “ And I reiterated and we discussed in depth the principles that I laid out yesterday -- the belief that our ultimate goal has to be a secure Israeli state, a Jewish state, living side by side in peace and security with a contiguous, functioning and effective Palestinian state. ”. Israel would not be a Jewish states if the old Palestinian refugees had the right of return. That’s Obama rhetoric not seeing the real world, the Israel PM stated the following on the speech yesterday by POTUS, “ I think for there to be peace, the Palestinians will have to accept some basic realities. The first is that while Israel is prepared to make generous compromises for peace, it cannot go back to the 1967 lines -- because these lines are indefensible; because they don’t take into account certain changes that have taken place on the ground, demographic changes that have taken place over the last 44 years….So we can't go back to those indefensible lines, and we're going to have to have a long-term military presence along the Jordan. I discussed this with the President and I think that we understand that Israel has certain security requirements that will have to come into place in any deal that we make….the Palestinian refugee problem will have to be resolved in the context of a Palestinian state, but certainly not in the borders of Israel….So it’s not going to happen. Everybody knows it’s not going to happen. And I think it’s time to tell the Palestinians forthrightly it’s not going to happen. The Palestinian refugee problem has to be resolved. It can be resolved, and it will be resolved if the Palestinians choose to do so in a Palestinian state. So that's a real possibility. But it’s not going to be resolved within the Jewish state. ”. In other words POTUS get your head out of the clouds or your own ego!
At the end of the day the US Congress will support Israel, they will back Israel over any Obama policy, and they have the purse strings. The Israeli Lobby is political terms is not feared for nothing, both Carter and Reagan asked about the Israeli lobby when they come to power.
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Dominique Strauss-Kahn on Bail
BBC News: Reports that DSK has been granted a one million dollar bail. Thus this case can be expected to last months folks, once the case starts this blog will not cover the case in till there is a verdict, this blog is rather old fashioned in that context.
Huhne on the Chopping Block ?
Guy Fawkes’ Blog: Reports that Lib Dems are moving to distance themselves from the Energy Secretary Chris Huhne over the allegation that he transferred his driving penalty points to his separated Wife. This blog would be surprised to see Mr Huhne survive this political scandal, if this allegation is true and there is evidence, then Mr Huhne will have to go, perverting the course of justice is jail time, what is it with Lib Dems, the Laws Case, this now, and two Lib Dems in the Welsh Assembly could face police investigation that they could not by law run for the Assembly due to their jobs. I guess if you out of power for over sixty years you don’t look that closely at your members, your grateful to have them.
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