RESURRECCIÓN DE UN CONTINENTE

Spanish version of article posted on 05 Dec 2011

 

América Latina se une en bloque nuevo, no es EE.UU. invitado

Treinta y tres líderes de América Latina se han unido y formado un bloque regional nuevo, prometiendo estrechar lazos económicos y políticos. La Comunidad de Estados Latinoamericanos y Caribeños (CELAC) deliberadamente excluye los EE.UU. y Canadá.
En el segundo día de una cumbre en la capital venezolana, Caracas, todos los líderes de América Latina, tanto de  derecha y de izquierda, firmaron oficialmente la formación del bloque CELAC. La fundación del bloque ha sido elogiada como la realización de la idea de dos siglos de edad de América Latina "independencia"  prevista por Simón Bolívar.

Analistas consideran a la CELAC como una alternativa a la Organización DE LOS ESTADOS AMERICANOS (OEA) con sede en Washington y como un intento de los países de América Latina para  reducir la influencia de EE.UU. en la región.
Sin embargo Washington no ve a CELAC como un reemplazo de la OEA. El Departamento de Estado de los Estados Unidos dijo Mark Toner portavoz de los EE.UU. seguirá "trabajando a través de la OEA como organismo multilateral por excelencia, en representación del hemisferio".

Los analistas políticos opinan que los EE.UU. ven  CELAC como una amenaza potencial a su hegemonía en la región.


Los 33 líderes se comprometieron a resistir la crisis financiera que ha golpeado a Europa y otros países desarrollados.
Dilma Rousseff BRASIL hizo hincapié en que los países latinoamericanos tendrían que depender más de sus vecinos en medio de la turbulencia económica mundial.
"La crisis económica, financiera debe estar en el centro de nuestras preocupaciones", dijo Rousseff. Ella dijo que América Latina debe "darse cuenta de que para garantizar su actual ciclo de desarrollo a pesar de la turbulencia económica internacional, esto significa que todos los políticos deben ser conscientes de que cada uno necesita de los demás."

Presidente chileno Sebastián Piñera, quien asumió la presidencia rotatoria inicial en CELAC, expresó la esperanza de que el bloque podría ayudar a fomentar la cooperación regional a pesar de las diferencias entre algunos de los 33 Estados miembros.

Los líderes también discutieron la cooperación en el ámbito del tráfico de drogas y el cambio climático.
CELAC debe ser una "unión política para construir un centro de gran potencia del siglo 21", dijo el presidente de Venezuela, haciendo hincapié en el crecimiento regional fuerte como muchos países de la región de estrechar los lazos con Asia o Europa y reducir su tradicional dependencia de los EE.UU..

La formación de la CELAC fue recibido calurosamente por el creciente poder global, China. Hu se comprometió a profundizar la cooperación con la CELAC, y subrayó que en el siglo 21 las relaciones entre China y América Latina han experimentado un desarrollo integral y rápida con la expansión de la cooperación de beneficio mutuo, de acuerdo con la agencia de noticias Xinhua.

Los países de la CELAC tienen una población combinada de casi 600 millones de personas y un PBI combinado de alrededor de 6 billones de dólares EE.UU. - aproximadamente un tercio de la producción combinada de los EE.UU. y Canadá.

Gold, the savior of Europe?

17 Euro Countries are sitting on 10 000 tons of GOLD reserves 

Is Gold the savior of Europe?

Gold Shares Rise, IAG Hikes Dividend 25%

Friday, December 9, 2011, 12:19pm EST Written by GoldAlert Staff.

 http://www.goldalert.com/2011/12/gold-shares-rise-iag-hikes-dividend-25/

Form your own opinion about this interview.

genuine or propaganda?

FARFETCHED HYPOTHESIS OR LEGITIMATE CERTAINTY

Engineering the Eurozone Collapse

......Food for Thought.......... 

 

 

 

RESURRECTION OF A CONTINENT

Latin America unites in new bloc, US not invited

Thirty-three LATIN AMERICAN leaders have come together and formed a new regional bloc, pledging closer economic and political ties. The Community of LATIN AMERICAN and CARIBBEAN STATES (CELAC) pointedly excludes the USA and CANADA.

­On the second day of a summit in the VENEZUELAN capital, Caracas, all LATIN AMERICAN leaders, both right and left, officially signed into effect the formation of the CELAC bloc. The foundation of the bloc has been praised as the realization of the two-centuries-old idea of LATIN AMERICAN “independence” envisioned by Simon Bolivar.

Analysts view CELAC as an alternative to the Washington-based ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES (OAS) and as an attempt by LATIN AMERICAN countries to reduce US influence in the region.

However Washington does not see CELAC as a replacement to OAS. US Department of State spokesman Mark Toner said the US will continue “to work through the OAS as the pre-eminent multilateral organization, speaking for the hemisphere.”

Political analysts are of the opinion that the US views CELAC as a potential threat to its hegemony in the region.

The 33 leaders pledged to withstand the financial crisis that has struck EUROPE and other developed countries.

BRAZIL’S Dilma Rousseff stressed that the LATIN AMERICAN countries would need to rely more on their neighbors amid the global economic turmoil.

“The economic, financial crisis should be at the center of our concerns,” Rousseff said. She said LATIN AMERICA should “realize that to guarantee its current cycle of development despite the international economic turbulence, it means that every politician must be aware that each one needs the others.”  

CHILEAN President Sebastian Pinera, who assumed the initial rotating presidency at CELAC, expressed hopes that the bloc would help build regional cooperation despite the differences between some of the 33 member states.

The leaders also discussed cooperation in the field of drug trafficking and climate change.

CELAC should be a “political union to build a large power center of the 21st century,” the VENEZUELAN president said, stressing strong regional growth as many countries in the region develop closer ties with ASIA or EUROPE and reduce their traditional reliance on the US.

The formation of CELAC was warmly welcomed by rising global power, CHINA. Hu pledged to deepen cooperation with the CELAC and underlined that in the 21st century the relations between CHINA and LATIN AMERICA have seen all-round and fast development with expansion of mutually beneficial cooperation, according to Xinhua news agency. 

The countries of CELAC have a combined population of nearly 600 MILLION PEOPLE, and a COMBINED GDP OF ABOUT US$6 TRILLION – about a third of the combined output of the US and Canada.

Global Warfare

Where will Obama’s Strike Next? "Preplanned Wars" will lead to "Preplanned "Results" by Richard Skaff While promoting his book on October 3, 2007 at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco California, former four star general, NATO Supreme commander, politician, hawk, and 2004 presidential candidate Wesley Clark stated in a surprisingly significant speech that the neocons had committed a “policy coup” and took over the direction of American policy but forgot to notify the rest of the country.    Clark went on to say that he met with Donald Rumsfeld in the Pentagon ten days after 9/11. He added that on that same day he also met with an officer from the joints staffs who discussed with him and attempted to show him a classified memo issued by the secretary of defense’s office that called for invasion and destruction of governments in seven countries (besides Afghanistan) in the near East and Africa in a five year period. According to Clark, these countries listed in the memo were Sudan , Syria , Libya , Lebanon , Iraq , Somalia , and Iran .[1].  In addition, Clark connected this classified memo to another meeting he had with Paul Wolfowitz in the Pentagon in 1991, when Mr. Wolfowitz was the undersecretary of defense for policy (number 3 position in pentagon) and after the first invasion of Iraq by the US in Desert Storm. Clark edified that Mr. Wolfowitz wasn’t satisfied with keeping Saddam in power at that time. However, he allegedly told General Clark that the US learned an important lesson during Desert Storm. The moral of the lesson was that the US can use their military power in the Middle East and the Russians won’t intervene or stop them.  In addition, Wolfowitz allegedly pontificated to Clark that they had about 10 years to clean up those old soviet client regimes like in Syria , Iraq , Iran , etc, before another great super power emerges and challenges them. [1]. Clark’s 2007 speech was eerie in a sense that it clearly illustrated the plan to reshape the Middle East has been at work for many years. The vision of Oded Yinon is unraveling, and the Arab Spring is far from being a spring where life is rejuvenated, but instead it is a path to the underworld and to the total destruction of the entire region. One of the nagging questions would be why has Russia never interfered or objected to the US military interventions in that region as claimed by Wolfowitz?  A possible answer would be is that post Soviet Russia became the ill and feeble patient of Eurasia who always was dependent on capitalist money, and has become satisfied with being a spectator who is rewarded with any bones or carcasses that the West will throw their way. Ironically, The alleged Arab Spring widened beyond the seven countries mentioned in the Pentagon’s 2001 classified memo, and apparently became more comprehensive to ensure that new boundaries for every country in the region are remolded. President Obama, Nobel peace prize winner seems committed to complete his predecessor’s job, and to the cause of restructuring the Middle East and North Africa . Subsequently, Mubarak of Egypt had to go just like the Shah of Iran did after years of loyalty to his Anglo-America bosses. The time is right for the old CIA allies “the Muslim Brothers” to be finally appointed as rulers of Egypt .  I am certain that Mr. Obama’s administration and the intelligence agencies will eventually facilitate a bogus election in Egypt where the Muslim Brotherhood will win in a landslide making Egypt the new extremist Sunni state that will empower the Sunnis all over the region. Backed by American-Saudi money Egypt will take a stand against the extremist Shiite state of Iran . Meanwhile, the Saudis will applaud once again the destruction of another secular Arab State that was the cradle of Arab Nationalism during the reign of the late Gamal Abdel Nasser who was also opposed by the Saudis as their competitor to the leadership of the region.  Pan Arabism is a thing of the past while Islamism will be the future for the region. Fundamentalism is essential for globalization and balkanization of nations. That is clearly why the US and their allies have worked hard for years to finance fundamentalism in the US and abroad, while providing opposite rhetoric against it in the media. Meanwhile, the Saudi hyenas will howl in celebration of the Muslim brothers’ victory, which will strongly renew their old pact with the US as their corrupt monarchs maintain their wealth and power. Ironically, on an official visit to Paris on May 18-20, 1998, the late Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak declared the following in the Paris-Match: “You should be aware that, under the current conditions for international terrorism, the attack that took place at Luxor (referring to the November 17, 1997 Luxor attack in Upper Egypt ) could happen anywhere in the world. And we already know who fomented it: The residues of the war between the Afghans and the USSR , the alleged Mujaheddin that are financed by the CIA and the inexhaustible source of drug money.” It is the first time that the leader so specifically pointed a finger at the America “Big Brother,” who gives more than $2 billion in direct assistance to Egypt every year. [2]. Brief history:  The old pact between the US and the Saudis was sealed on board of the “Quincy” (Quincy was a 60 year-old pact 1945-2005, that granted the U.S. a monopoly on the exploitation of all the oil-bearing layered discovered in Saudi Arabia, and in return a protection of the kingdom’s integrity and a long term economic, financial, and commercial partnership, non-interference in Saudi domestic politics) between president Roosevelt and King Ibn Saud was already an exchange of oil for security and political protection.  From that point forward, the Americans and Saudis would play Islamism and all other forms of religious fanaticism against secular and progressivist forms of Arab nationalism. The end result would be the establishment of a pax Americana that feeds on a “Lebanization” of the world. This order has produced a mafia-like links between organized crime and the great business networks of global capitalism, where the unifying thread of Islamic terror is not religion but money. [2].  Absurdly, Islamists and Zionists are complementary enemies, who work toward the same ends. Per example, with Hamas always upping the ante, the Likud is all the freer to pursue its broad scale policy of establishing colonies using immigrants from The Soviet Union and other nations, and completing the encirclement and Judeification of Eastern Jerusalem. [2]. Conclusion:  Finally, don’t be surprised and be ready to finance new and expensive sham wars that are actually military exercises due to the weakness and the insignificance of the alleged enemies. These new preplanned conflicts will only lead to their preplanned results. The current regime in Iran will definitely be changed in the near future, and British Petroleum with their global oil cohorts will be eagerly waiting to re-renter Iran and take over their oil resources, which will be privatized by a new puppet government possibly led by an American stooge like the oldest son of the late Shah of Iran Reza Pahlavi. As a conclusion, the fulfillment of the Yinon’s covenant in the near east by the Obama administration will definitely guarantee Mr. Obama a second term as president of the United States . Notes 1. www.disclose.tv/action/viewvideo/80552/Libya_D   2. Richard Labeviere, (2000). Dollars for terror. Us and Islamism. Algora publishing, New York

SYRIA - PSY OPS WAR?

SYRIA….WHY?

The ongoing conflict in Syria has become a complex situation in which no one can verify what actually is occurring in the country and what intentions are behind the uproar. If adhering to main stream media information the Free Syrian Army and the Syrian opposition council in the UK are waging a war for freedom and democracy.

If one looks at the situation from an alternative angle the situation is more complex and one could come to the conclusion that indeed foreign entities are waging a PSY OPS war which is supported by foreign entities in which TURKEY was chosen to play the proxy for the USA in order to topple the SYRIAN Regime. 

THE ALTERNATIVE TO LIBYAN STYLE INTERVENTION SYRIA – PSY OPS AND INFILTRATION THROUGH PROXY’S

The big question is the why? In recent past it was assumed that though ASSAD is a brutal dictator, it was the better evil then to have an unstable fundamentalist Islamic Regime governing Syria which in most likelihood would end in civil war, something ISRAEL and the USA would dearly try to avoid. Now it seems that this theory is one of the past. There are entities that sincerely wish to tumble the ASSAD regime, no matter the cost.

A LIBYAN style NATO intervention in SYRIA had been ruled out from the beginning since RUSSIAS and CHINAS have vetoed such move right from the start. Furthermore it is and was difficult to sell such expensive intervention to potential voters among western “coalition countries” in times of a major financial crisis where the same governments demand from citizens as well as industries to curb in spending, thus it would have been hard to sell such expensive military style intervention to the public.

This still leaves us with the question why suddenly so much emphasize is put on the tumbling of the ASSAD regime. Regardless of the outcome of the SYRIAN sage, life for the common people will not turn for the better and democracy will continue to be just a dream in the region.

See also: http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/ML02Ak01.html

A far fetched point of view? 

Arms build up in the Middle East

Russia Sent Syria
Super-Advanced S-300 Missiles

Russian warships that have reached waters off Syria in recent days were carrying, among other things, Russian technical advisors who will help the Syrians set up an array of S-300 missiles Damascus has received in recent weeks, a report in the London-based Arabic language Al Quds-Al Arabi said Thursday. Citing sources in Syria and Russia, the paper said that Moscow sees a Western attack on Syria as a “red line” that it will not tolerate.


Despite the mounting opposition in the West and even in the Arab world against Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad for his assaults on protesters seeking to unseat him as leader of the country, Russia maintains its support for Assad, the report said. Russian and Syria military officials are working together to maintain Assad's rule, and to deflect a possible attack by NATO or the US and EU.


Along with the missiles, the report says that Russia has installed advanced radar systems in all key Syrian military and industrial installations. The radar system also covers areas north and south of Syria, where it will be able to detect movement of troops or aircraft towards the Syrian border. The radar targets include much of Israel, as well as the Incirlik military base in Turkey, which is used by NATO.


The S-300 system is regarded as one of the most potent anti-aircraft missile systems available. The system's radar is able to simultaneously track up to 100 targets while engaging up to 12. Deployment time for the S-300 is five minutes, and they have a very long life span, with no maintenance needed.


Russia had attempted to sell the system to Iran, but that sale was cancelled due to pressure by the US and Israel, with Russia returning Iran's deposit. According to the report, the Iranians paid for Syria's S-300 missile system. It is not known if some of the missiles have reached Iran as well.

Article obtained from NewMediaJournal.

SYRIA: INTERNATIONAL WAR MONGERING, OR REAL THREAT?

INTERESTING GEO – STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT

In recent past TURKEY has permitted NATO to erect missile defense radar that will detect Iranian Missile launches and thus indirectly supports ISRAEL with whom in recent past, diplomatic ties have somewhat suffered, officially because of the GAZA Flotilla incident, unofficially because of the gas findings in the Easter Mediterranean Sea and ISRAELS “flirting” with TURKEYS arch enemy, GREECE and CYPRUS.

In a remarkable turn of events RUSSIA suddenly announced it has activated a radar warning system in the western region of KALININGRAD in response to a planned US missile shield in EUROPE. That is the official statement. In reality it is a response to NATO radar in TURKEY and the looming threat of NATO or other foreign intervention in SYRIA. 

Furthermore MOSCOW is deploying warships to its base in the SYRIAN port of TARTUS. The long-planned mission comes, providentially, at the very moment when it could help prevent a potential conflict in the strategically important MIDDLE EASTERN country.

The RUSSIAN battle group will consist of three vessels led by the heavy aircraft-carrying missile cruiser.
This move was planned a year ago and has nothing to do with the ongoing crisis in the region; according to a RUSSIAN military official who was quoted by Izvestia newspaper. Apart from SYRIA, the aircraft carrier and its escort ships are set to visit the LEBANESE capital, BEIRUT, GENOA in ITALY and CYPRUS.

Nevertheless, the RUSSIAN Military official stated that the presence of a military force other than NATO’s is very useful for this region, as it will apparently prevent the outbreak of an armed conflict in the region.
Russia allegedly created a special naval squadron to deter Western military forces in the Mediterranean Sea. To repair and supply its ships, Moscow needed its own maintenance base in the region, and that was how the base in Tartus came into being. At present, the base is mostly used to support vessels of Russia’s Black Sea fleet. Some 600 military and civilian personnel of the Defense Ministry serve there.

News of Russia’s naval deployment in TARTUS came shortly after the US nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS George HW Bush anchored off Syria, along with additional naval vessels. The US battle group is to remain in the Mediterranean, allegedly to conduct maritime security operations and support missions as part of Operations Enduring Freedom and New Dawn. 

RUSSIAN UAV DEPLOYMENT IN THE MIDDLE EAST

Allegedly RUSSIA has increased its research and development program into UAV (Unman Aerial Vehicles, also known as (UAS) unmanned aircraft system, or (RPA) remotely piloted aircraft) operations and is rumored to deploy them in the region in due course.