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No wars or conditions abroad (& no domestic or global economic pretexts) justify government policy facilitating the invasion of ancestral European homelands, the rape of European women, the destruction of European societies, & the genocide of Europeans.
U.S. RULING OLIGARCHY WAGES HYBRID WAR TO SALVAGE HEGEMONY
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*U.S. OLIGARCHY WAGES HYBRID WAR* | U.S. Empire's Casino Unsustainable | Destabilised U.S. Monetary & Financial System | U.S. Defaults Twice A Year | Causes for Global Financial Crisis of 2008 Remain | Financial Pyramids Composed of Derivatives & National Debt Are Growing | *U.S. OLIGARCHY WAGES HYBRID WAR* | U.S. Empire's Casino Unsustainable | Destabilised U.S. Monetary & Financial System | U.S. Defaults Twice A Year | Causes for Global Financial Crisis of 2008 Remain | Financial Pyramids Composed of Derivatives & National Debt Are Growing | *U.S. OLIGARCHY WAGES HYBRID WAR*

Who's preaching world democracy, democracy, democracy? —Who wants to make free people free?
[info from Craig Murray video appearance, follows]  US-Anglo Alliance DELIBERATELY STOKING ANTI-RUSSIAN FEELING & RAMPING UP TENSION BETWEEN EASTERN EUROPE & RUSSIA.  British military/government feeding media PROPAGANDA.  Media choosing to PUBLISH government PROPAGANDA.  US naval aggression against Russia:  Baltic Sea — US naval aggression against China:  South China Sea.  Continued NATO pressure on Russia:  US missile systems moving into Eastern Europe.     [info from John Pilger interview follows]  War Hawk:  Hillary Clinton — embodiment of seamless aggressive American imperialist post-WWII system.  USA in frenzy of preparation for a conflict.  Greatest US-led build-up of forces since WWII gathered in Eastern Europe and in Baltic states.  US expansion & military preparation HAS NOT BEEN REPORTED IN THE WEST.  Since US paid for & controlled US coup, UKRAINE has become an American preserve and CIA Theme Park, on Russia's borderland, through which Germans invaded in the 1940s, costing 27 million Russian lives.  Imagine equivalent occurring on US borders in Canada or Mexico.  US military preparations against RUSSIA and against CHINA have NOT been reported by MEDIA.  US has sent guided missile ships to diputed zone in South China Sea.  DANGER OF US PRE-EMPTIVE NUCLEAR STRIKES.  China is on HIGH NUCLEAR ALERT.  US spy plane intercepted by Chinese fighter jets.  Public is primed to accept so-called 'aggressive' moves by China, when these are in fact defensive moves:  US 400 major bases encircling China; Okinawa has 32 American military installations; Japan has 130 American military bases in all.  WARNING PENTAGON MILITARY THINKING DOMINATES WASHINGTON. ⟴  
Showing posts with label WTO. Show all posts
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August 01, 2014

Turkish PM - Social media hit

Emma Watson joins protest against Turkish politician's claim women should not laugh out loud

Actress Emma Watson tweets a photo of herself laughing, in protest against comments made by Turkey's vice prime minister that women should not laugh out loud

By Raziye Akkoc

1:03PM BST 01 Aug 2014

When Turkey's deputy prime minister gave a speech about what he saw as Turkey’s poor moral state, he was wanting to deliver a message to his people.

Bulent Arinc, speaking at a ceremony to mark Eid - celebrating the end of Ramadan- urged Turkish women to abide by a rigorous code - and know what is "haram," or forbidden.

"A woman will know what is haram and not haram," he said. "She will not laugh out loud in public. She will not be inviting in her attitudes and will protect her chasteness."

His comments were widely ridiculed, with Instagram, Facebook and Twitter ablaze with pictures of women laughing and the hashtag, #direnkahkaha (ignore him - laugh) was born.

On Friday Emma Watson joined in, tweeting a photo of herself laughing in public.

Rest of article at source:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/turkey/11005428/Emma-Watson-joins-protest-against-Turkish-politicians-claim-women-should-not-laugh-out-loud.html


Clash of cultures Turkish Vice PM story still kicking around, but nobody notices the food security for the poor being blocked by the US, in favour of profits.

Any chance that this celebrity could draw attention to that?

Er, maybe not.  She's with the UN mob who are just an extension of the US.

US AID TO PAKISTAN - PAKISTAN STAND ON FOOD SECURITY - WTO TRADE FACILITATION AGREEMENT


US ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE and MILITARY AID TO PAKISTAN

  • Commenced shortly after the country’s creation in 1947
  • US obligated nearly $67 billion (in constant 2011 dollars) to Pakistan between 1951 and 2011
  • 2009 US renewed commitment to Pakistan
  • US approved the Enhanced Partnership for Pakistan Act 
(commonly known as the Kerry-Lugar-Berman bill, or KLB)
Act authorized a tripling of US economic and development-related assistance to Pakistan, or $7.5 billion over five years (FY2010 to FY2014).

Between FY2002 and FY2009, only 30 percent of US foreign assistance to Pakistan was appropriated for economic-related needs; the remaining 70 percent was allocated to security-related assistance.

Since the KLB authorization (FY2010 through the FY2014 budget request), 41 percent of assistance has been allocated for economic-related assistance. [So that would mean military assistance exceeds economic]

US aid pledged to Pakistan remains significant compared to funding for other development initiatives. 

US $1.16 billion request for foreign assistance to Pakistan exceeds requests for:
  • Global Hunger and Food Security initiative ($1.06 billion);
  • Millennium Challenge Corporation ($0.90 billion);
  • Global Climate Change initiative ($0.48 billion). 
  • US $1.6 billion request for foreign assistance to Pakistan:
  • not far behind the requested $1.36 billion for the World Bank’s International Development Association (IDA)
which makes loans and grants to the world’s 81 poorest countries and is the single largest source of development finance in these locations.
Source:  Greenbook - obtained from site:  CGDEV.ORG

Pakistan is the fourth largest recipient of US assistance, trailing Israel, Afghanistan, and Egypt. 

US has pledged seven times more aid to Pakistan than to Bangladesh, a neighboring country with a comparable population size and similar development needs.

US largest contributor, nearly a third of total Official Development Assistance (ODA) to Pakistan (30 projects total commitment $5 billion), followed by:
  • World Bank’s International Development Association (21 percent of total ODA);
  • Japan (14 percent);
  • United Kingdom (8 percent); and
  • EU Institutions (4 percent).
Asian Development Bank (ADB) is Pakistan’s biggest multilateral partner, providing assistance of $4.4 billion from 2009 through 2012.

IMF disbursed credit worth $5.2 billion to Pakistan from FY2008 to FY2010 following the 2008 economic crises. 

In 2011 the Government of Pakistan decided to end the IMF program, but following the country’s civilian election in May 2013 the new government, led by the Pakistani Muslim League (Nawaz), has entered into a new provisional agreement with the Fund worth $6.6 billion for a bailout package for FY2013-2016. 

Although the IMF and Pakistan have an ‘unhappy history’, the new government is said to have little choice due to its balance of payments crisis and sharply declining foreign exchange reserves.

Extracts Only -  Source -   http://www.cgdev.org/page/aid-pakistan-numbers



In an earlier post - here - it was noted that a World Trade Organisation (WTO) 'Trade Facilitation Agreement', freeing up trade to bring TRILLIONS into the world economy, is being negotiated.

India, Cuba, Bolivia and Venezuela are seeking to increase public stockholding for food security.

WTO stipulates no more than 10%' value of food/grains production to be allocated to 'public stockholdings'.

However, this is based on calculations dating back to 1986-1988 and therefore not in step with inflation figures.

While India is staying strong in the negotiations, asking for a permanent solution on food security, US Secretary of State, John Kerry is unsympathetic and playing games with peoples lives:

Secretary of state John Kerry, before starting for India on Wednesday morning, had expressed the hope that India’s opposition to TFA would wither away, adding that this was a test case for the country’s commitment to advance liberalisation of global trade and investment.  [source - here]

Hmmmm ... let's see, 'test case' for 'liberalisation of global trade' VERSUS 'food security' ... and John Kerry's hoping these countries' food needs are just going to 'wither away'?

Never mind food.  Let's make PROFIT and let's sell WEAPONS.

China and Pakistan, also parties to the proposed agreement, are ready to sign the WTO trade agreement set before them.

China, I figured, is cashed up.  Oddly, it's not very community minded for a communist nation (or are they no longer communists?).

What's Pakistan's story?

Pakistan looks like it's 'owned' by 'US and company', judging by the amount of US financial support it has received and continues to receive, as well as financial support from US allies and the IMF.


What I found shocking is that the amount of US support Pakistan has received is almost as much as the US contribution request for World Bank's allocation to 81 of the world's poorest countries!

Apparently, large portions of the US aid in Pakistan go on military spending.

The guess is that the US supplies Pakistan with arms, so the money would go from the US public purse back to back to US private military manufacturing companies.

What I'm unclear about is what is a freebie and what is repayable by Pakistan.

It looks like there may be non-reimbursable portions of US aid, which is what?  Is that non-repayable?

Well if 'reimbursable' is repayable, non-reimbursable must be non-repayable


Until 1990, the United States provided military aid to Pakistan to modernize its conventional defensive capability. The United States allocated about 40% of its assistance package to non-reimbursable credits for military purchases, the third-largest program behind Israel and Egypt.

The remainder of the aid program was devoted to economic assistance.

Sanctions put in place in 1990 denied Pakistan further military assistance due to the discovery of its program to develop nuclear weapons. Sanctions were tightened following Pakistan's nuclear tests in response to India's May 1998 tests and the military coup of 1999. The events of September 11, 2001 and Pakistan's quick agreement to support the United States led to a waiving of the sanctions, and military assistance resumed to provide spare parts and equipment to enhance Pakistan's capacity to police its western border. In 2003, President Bush announced that the United States would provide Pakistan with $3 billion in economic and military aid over 5 years. This assistance package commenced during FY 2005. [source - US Dept of State - http://www.state.gov/outofdate/bgn/pakistan/47936.htm]

Receipt of non-repayable money sounds pretty good.  Send some my way.  LOL.
 
As for the Nuclear weapons?  We're all doomed! 

Anyway, that's a bit of a fill-in on Pakistan, which might be handy if you're anything like me and clueless about what's going on.  LOL.