Showing posts with label economy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label economy. Show all posts

Sunday, 31 July 2016

ARGENTINA, AT THE EDGE OF AN ABYSS




ARGENTINA HAS NOT LEARNT FROM HISTORY

In December 2015 vassal “managers” seized power in ARGENTINA where millionaire MAURICIO MACRI ruled by decree, by-passing constitutional legality. MACRI fired scores of thousands of public service workers, closed social agencies and appointed judges and prosecutors without Congressional vote. He arbitrarily arrested social movement leaders - violating democratic procedures.

MACRI’S Economic and Finance Ministers gained millions of dollars by ‘buying into’ multinational oil companies just prior to handing over private options on public enterprises. (Now ARGENTINA is importing gas from “SHELL” at higher rates then when it used to buy from BOLIVIA!)

CURRENT ADMINISTRATIONS ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE IS DISASTROUS

The all-encompassing swindles and fraud carried out by the ‘new managers’ were covered up by the US media, who praised MACRI’S professional team.

Moreover, MACRI’S economic performance was a disaster. Exorbitant user fees on utilities and transport for consumers and business enterprises, increased three to ten-fold, forcing bankruptcy rates to soar and households to suffer light and gas closures.
Wall Street vulture funds received seven billion dollar payment from MACRI’S managers, for defaulted loans purchased for pennies over a dollar, twenty-fold greater than the original lenders.

Data based on standard economic indicators, highlights the worst economic performance in a decade and a half.
Price inflation exceeds 40%; public debt increased by twenty percent in six months.

Living standards and employment sharply declined. Growth and investment data was negative. Mismanagement, official corruption and arbitrary governance, did not induce confidence among local small and medium size businesses.

CALCULATED MOVE BY THE INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS: BANKERS TURNED INTO CABINET MINISTERS

The “respectable media”, led by the NEW YORK TIMES, the FINANCIAL TIMES, the WALL STREET JOURNAL, WASHINGTON POST, as well as ARGENTINE newspapers such as CLARIN and LA NACION falsified every aspect of MACRI’S regime. The current regime, together with the CLARIN conglomerate are currently conducting large scale “Social Engineering” in ARGENTINA.



Failed economic policies implemented by bankers turned cabinet ministers were dubbed long-term successes; crude ideologically driven policies promoting foreign investor profiteering were re-invented as business incentives.

Political thugs dismantled and replaced civil service agencies were labelled ‘a new management team’ by the vulgar propaganda scribes of the financial press.




Definition of “Social Engineering” in ARGENTINA

 Social engineering is a discipline in social science that refers to efforts to influence particular attitudes and social behaviors on a large scale, whether by governments, media such as the CLARIN conglomerate or private groups in order to produce desired characteristics in a target population.

Social engineering can also be understood philosophically as a deterministic phenomenon where the intentions and goals of the architects of the new social construct are realized.

Social engineers use the scientific method to analyze and understand social systems in order to design the appropriate methods to achieve the desired results in the human subjects.

Social engineering can be carried out by any organization, without regard to scale, or sponsorship in the public or private sector. Some of the most comprehensive, and most pervasive campaigns of social engineering are those initiated by powerful central governments with the systems of authority to widely affect the individuals and cultures within their purview.

Extremely intensive social engineering campaigns occurred in countries with authoritarian governments. In ARGENTINA’S case the pro government media, which accounts for almost 90%, has done so by simply feeding the public carefully selected information that in most cases does not concur to reality.  

Discussion of the possibilities for manipulation became especially active following the close win of the presidential elections by Macri. With the advent of mass television, social networks and continuing discussion of techniques of social engineering, particularly in advertising, and bias-based journalism, such approaches remain quite pertinent in the western model of consumer capitalism. Journalism, when the intent is not to report objectively, but to report with an intent to sway popular attitudes and social behaviors or to "shape public opinion", comes under the scope of social engineering, which is clearly the case in ARGENTINA under the rule of Macri. 

This also applies when information that would bring into question the viewpoints and social goals of a journalistic establishment is withheld in favor of other information.




Saturday, 12 December 2015

YEMEN, SAUDI ARABIA AND EGYPT

Hanish Island Photo: Debka files 


SAUDI AND EGYPTIAN MARINES CAPTURE IRAN-HELD ISLAND AT RED SEA CHOKE - POINT

Via DEBKAfile’s

In a pivotal breakthrough in the YEMEN civil war, the naval forces of SAUDI ARABIA, EGYPT and the UAR took by storm from YEMEN’S IRAN-backed HOUTHI rebels the Greater HANISH ISLAND, which is part of the strategic archipelago commanding the STRAIT OF BAB AL MANDEB. This is reported exclusively by DEBKAfile’s MIDDLE EAST sources.

This highly strategic strait links the INDIAN OCEAN with the GULF OF ADEN and the RED SEA – i.e. AFRICA and ASIA – and is the world’s fourth busiest chokepoint for international oil traffic.

Captured by YEMENI rebels last May, the island was converted by IRANIAN officers into an armed base and one of TEHRAN’S largest depots for the supply of arms to its forces and proxies in the region. A fleet of small boats and fishing vessels kept the YEMENI HOUTHIS amply armed for fending off the SAUDI-led ARAB coalition fighting to restore the exiled YEMENI government.

Background Information: YEMEN

BAB AL-MANDAB - STRATEGIC LINK

YEMEN CONFLICT

STRATEGIC HOTSPOT – NOT EASY TO BE CONQUERED IT SEEMS

The HANISH island base also provided IRAN with a commanding position for spreading its influence in ETHIOPIA and ERITREA on the eastern AFRICAN seaboard.


Taking the island was a major breakthrough for the coalition, after long months of combat that was crowned by their capture of the southern YEMENI seaport of ADEN in the past three months. With the occupation of Greater HANISH, SAUDI-led forces are now in position not just to cut off IRAN’S weapons supplies to the YEMENI rebels, but also to break its grip on the vital strait that connects the PERSIAN GULF to the MEDITERRANEAN via the SUEZ CANAL.

IRAN maintained on GREATER HANISH ISLAND advanced radar and electronic tracking stations for keeping an eye on military movements on the southern SAUDI border with northern YEMEN. They could also shadow oil tanker and other shipping passing through the RED SEA, and stake out ISRAEL’S south- and east-bound sea traffic as it passed through the GULF OF AQABA.

Background Information:

IRAN, SAUDI ARABIA IN TENSE BUILDUP OPPOSITE YEMEN’S GULF OF ADEN SHORE

YEMEN AND SAUDI ARABIA


DEBKAfile’s military and intelligence sources reveal that SAUDI ARABIA and EGYPT finally decided that the seizure of the strategic island could not be delayed when last month, IRAN won a permit to establish an air and sea base in DJIBOUTI, the HORN OF AFRICA nation opposite the GULF OF ADEN’S entrance to the RED SEA.

STRATEGY GAME 

DJIBOUTI derives much of its revenue from renting out tracts of land to foreign nations seeking bases of operation in the HORN OF AFRICA and the RED SEA. AMERICAN and FRENCH bases are situated no more than 214 km from GREATER HANISH ISLAND.

RIYADH, CAIRO and the UAE agreed that they could not afford to let IRANIAN air and naval forces gain control of the BAB EL-MANDEB STRAIT from its twin footholds on the island and in DJIBOUTI.


They were not the only interested parties. It may be taken for granted that their operation to take over GREATER HANISH was quietly assisted by WESTERN and MIDDLE EAST interests that had been watching IRAN’S takeover of these vital ocean pathways with grave concern.