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Nicolas Sarkozy spends £157m on keeping up with the presidential jet set
Adam Sage in Paris
The ignominy is evidently too much to bear. When he flies to international summits President Sarkozy is confronted by a number of private jets that dwarf his French Airbus A319.
Even the Spanish and German leaders arrive in bigger aircraft, let alone Barack Obama’s mighty Air Force One.
Next month work will begin on a project to give Mr Sarkozy wings in keeping with his ambitions when French (…)

The Unexpected Views of Four Key Diplomats on WW2
The origins of World War 2 - the views of four diplomats close to events
Joseph P. Kennedy, U.S. Ambassador to Britain during the years immediately preceding WW2 was the father of the famous American Kennedy dynasty. James Forrestal the first US Secretary of Defense (1947-1949) quotes him as saying "Chamberlain (the British Prime Minister) stated that America and the world Jews had forced England into the war". (The Forrestal Diaries ed. (…)

Yuan trade move ’far reaching’ By Olivia Chung
HONG KONG - The Chinese government’s decision this month to let exporters in a small number of cities settle their overseas trade in yuan rather than in US dollars has far-reaching implications, according to economists, even though the immediate impact is minimal.
The trading hubs of Shanghai at the mouth of the Yangtze River and Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Zhuhai and Dongguan in the Pearl River Delta further south can use the yuan in overseas (…)

Crisis as a Means to Building a Global Totalitarian State
by Olga Chetverikova
Global Research, April 23, 2009 Strategic Cultural Foundation
As the world financial and economic crisis comes into its own, the Western political leaders and elites are seeking to impress on mankind the idea that this upheaval will end up ‘turning the world into something different’. Even though the picture of the ’new world order’ remains vague and fuzzy, the main idea is quite clear: A single global (…)

by Habib Siddiqui
"When a nation is complacent about its own crimes that are committed by top ranking government officials, it shows its moral bankruptcy and cannot demand respect or trust from the civilized world."
The subject of an old report by the International Committee of Red Cross and a newly released memo from the Department of Justice has recently become a hot political topic across America. These reports showed how the Bush-Cheney Administration had authorized brutal torture (…)

A Meditation on Our Monetary System: State of Permanent Siege
by Richard Cook
Global Research, April 22, 2009 showcase.bestcyrano.org/
THE LEVEL OF PUBLIC IGNORANCE on the topic of the U.S. and world monetary system is astonishing. This is part of the plan, of course, because the monetary elite control not only the financial system but also the news media, the publishing industry, and the educational system. The blueprint for control was put together over a century ago by Cecil Rhodes (…)

Are US-backed, racist Zionist (RZ)-run Apartheid Israel and the US responsible for 9-11? The US and Israel did 9-11? This is clearly indicated by the recent, peer-reviewed published, scientific research finding by Professor Niels Harrit (Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, Denmark) and 8 other scientists of unignited nano-thermite high explosive particles in all samples of the World Trade Center (WTC) dust tested i.e. the perpetrators must have had the requisite security (…)

by Eric Walberg
Conferences and suggestions about what to do in Afghanistan are chock-a-block, but the reality speaks for itself,
The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation’s Special Conference on Afghanistan, held in Moscow on 27 March, marks a new stage in the international community’s relations with this beleaguered country. It reflected the growing clout of Russia and China, the founders of the SCO, which includes Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan and four observers — (…)

The "New Great Game" in Eurasia is being fought in its "Buffer Zones" Moldova: Caught between NATO and Russia?
by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
Global Research, April 21, 2009
On April 7, 2009 in Moldova’s capital Chisinau, supporters of the Liberal Party of Moldova, the Liberal-Democratic Party of Moldova, and the Our Moldova Alliance ignited violent protests in response to the results of Moldova’s parliamentary elections. They respectively won 13.14%, 12.43%, and 9.77% of the total vote, (…)

By Michel Chossudovsky
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