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Saturday, 30 August 2014
U.S. High-Altitude Missile System For S. Korea Upsets China, N. Korea, Russia, Poses Problems For South
"The specter of Chinese warplanes buzzing U.S. and Japanese planes adds urgency to U.S. pressure for high-altitude defense in Asia against a still more formidable threat: that of missiles fired by North Korea and maybe even China.
Both the Pentagon and Japan's defense ministry have protested the close calls with Chinese planes while China threatens still more of them and complains about U.S. dreams of installing a "Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense" system in South Korea."
Russia and China and North Korea play a very dangerous game... Spurring on America is rather short sighted. Can have unexpected consequences from unexpected places internal to these countries.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/donaldkirk/2014/08/29/u-s-high-altitude-missile-system-for-s-korea-upsets-china-russia-n-korea-poses-problem-for-south/Prince Charles curries new tastes..
"Now, I hear the heir to the throne is making a determined effort to broaden his tastes with the help of the Michelin-starred chef Atul Kochhar, who has been preparing Indian cuisine for him at his residences.
"I have cooked Indian food for him many times," the presenter of Curry On With Atul Kochhar tells me. "I help with the Prince's Trust and also the British Asian Trust and I often get asked by him and his trustees to cook for the events, which is fantastic." While the 44-year-old Jamshedpur-born chef declines to reveal the prince's favourite dish, he let slip the meat that he loves the most. "Whenever I am cooking dinner for him, I always put mutton on the menu," he says. "He is a big promoter of British mutton and I have always loved it as it lends itself well to Indian cooking."
I am indeed envious. Perhaps, Prince Charles could invite a loyal subject for moral support?
The Science of Acupuncture: History, Principles, and Uses
"Meridian-based energy therapies like acupuncture are quite useful for treating a number of health problems; pain in particular. In China, acupuncture may even be used in lieu of anesthetic drugs during surgery, as demonstrated in the BBC documentary above."
Divisions Grow as a Downturn Rocks Europe - NYTimes.com
"PARIS — Six years after being struck by economic crisis, Europe is facing a fresh downturn, with few new ideas on the table for reigniting growth and deepening political divisions over the austerity policies that many blame for worsening the malaise."
Seems Krugman may be correct after all!
How Obama’s Shallow Worldview Failed Us - The Daily Beast
"Thursday, August 28th, 2014, will go down as one of those rare moments when a President of the United States admitted publicly that the United States didn't know how to deal with a major foreign policy crisis. When President Obama declared, "we don't have a strategy yet" to confront ISIS, he was merely admitting what his Administration's actions, or lack thereof, had made obvious."
Kelly McParland: Putin’s czarist fantasies put Europe on brink of the unthinkable | National Post
"Mr. Putin's response has been cynical in the extreme. He continues to deny the obvious, against all evidence. The Russian troops in Ukraine are merely "volunteers" who elected to assist Russian-speaking rebels demonstrate their discontent with the government in Kiev. Ten Russian paratroopers captured in Ukraine were there by "accident" – they got lost during a routine border patrol and somehow ended up in the wrong country. Russians seeking information on images of sons captured in Ukraine are told they've been photoshopped. Russian casualties are buried in clandestine funerals ignored by state media while independent reporters are chased away."
China’s Environmental Crisis - Council on Foreign Relations
"China's environmental crisis is one of the most pressing challenges to emerge from the country's rapid industrialization. Its economic rise, which has averaged around 10 percent annual GDP growth for the past decade, has come at the expense of its environment and public health. "
Bill Gates & Jigar Shah on Powering World’s Poorest Economies
"However, neither Gates (and the Bjorn Lomborg clips which Gates cites) nor Shah provide meaningful, supporting data analysis for their divergent solutions."
California Bans Plastic Bags » EcoWatch
"The California Senate voted 22-15 late last night to pass a statewide ban on single-use plastic bags. The bill, SB 270, will phase out single-use plastic bags in grocery stores and pharmacies beginning July 2015, and in convenience stores one year later, and create a mandatory minimum ten-cent fee for recycled paper, reusable plastic and compostable bag"
Inside Putinworld, where few risk speaking truth to power | World news | The Guardian
Putin does remind one of a mini me?
"Revered, even feared, to the point where no one will contradict him; aloof, isolated, a digital hermit who is never out of touch; broadly supported, but very narrowly advised by an ever-tighter group of confidantes. This is the picture of Vladimir Putin and his leadership style painted by a number of people with knowledge of the inner workings of the Kremlin, at a time when such things matter more than at any time since the collapse of communism."
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/29/putin-world-kremlin-moscow-power-circle
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/29/putin-world-kremlin-moscow-power-circle
Ukraine crisis: Barroso warns Putin not to push EU to 'point of no return' | World news | theguardian.com
"Vladimir Putin has been warned that the crisis in Ukraine could be reaching the "point of no return" as European leaders said the EU was ready to defend its principles.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/30/ukraine-russia-crisis-barroso-warns-putin-point-no-return
As the Ukrainian president, Petro Poroshenko, claimed there were hundreds of Russian troops and thousands of Russian tanks operating inside his country, the outgoing European commission president, José Manuel Barroso, said: "We are in a very serious, I would say, dramatic situation … where we can reach the point of no return."
Europeans are confused by Russian leader's insanity.
France thrown into political turmoil after government dissolved | World news | theguardian.com
"France has entered uncharted political waters after the prime minister, Manuel Valls, presented his government's resignation amid a political crisis triggered by his maverick economy minister who called for an end to austerity policies imposed by Germany.
The prime minister, a social democrat who has been compared to Tony Blair, acted with characteristic swiftness in a bid to reassert his authority. His aides had let it be known on Sunday that the economy minister, Arnaud Montebourg, had crossed a "yellow line" for his dual crime of criticising both the president of France and a valued ally."
You have to ask why all the austerity to save a few French banks that copy catted American banks.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/25/french-government-resigns-francois-hollande-manuel-vallsIslamic State kills 150 captured troops in Syria, say activists | World news | The Guardian
"Islamic State militants killed more than 150 of the troops captured in recent fighting in north-eastern Syria. It is the latest mass killing attributed to the extremists, activists said, with the violence coming during a 24-hour period. The troops were either shot or slashed with knives."
Russian nationalism and the logic of the Kremlin's actions on Ukraine | World news | theguardian.com
"One type defines "Russian" very broadly to include all of the peoples and religious groups that have traditionally lived in the territory of the former USSR or before that, the Russian Empire. The key call of these nationalists is to reintegrate the territory of the former Soviet states.
A second type of nationalism is a much more exclusive and even racist ethnic Russian nationalism, one committed to a pure Russia free of "polluting" peoples of other ethnicities, or at least those who are not Slavic. The key call of these nationalists is to prevent immigration of unwanted groups and, for some, to bring Russians or Slavs "stranded" abroad back into the Russian state's domain."
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/29/russian-nationalism-kremlin-actions-ukrainePutin likens Ukraine's forces to Nazis and threatens standoff in the Arctic | World news | The Guardian
While the rest of the world had dreamed of peace Putin contemplated war, biding his time like an old Czar waiting for the opportunity.
He is wrong on several counts about Western intentions, but a individual who has only one tune playing in his mind.
"The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has hit back at accusations that he has effectively invaded Ukraine, accusing Kiev's forces of behaving like Nazis in the conflict in the east and ominously threatening to take his standoff with the west into the disputed Arctic."
Who is being helped by the modern state?
Comely called cronyism?
"It's socialism for the rich and capitalism for the rest of us in Britain
Who are the real scroungers? Free-marketeers decry 'big government' yet the City and big business benefit hugely from the state – from bailouts to the billions made from privatisation. Socialism does exist in Britain – but only for the rich"
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