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The little known US agency as a useful tool in the new Cold War “ Compiled and introduced by Archive senior fellow Dr. Jeffrey T. Richelson, the DEFSMAC documents describe the origins and functions of this important intelligence entity 'little known to the public' that provided alerts on missile launches ranging from Chinese ICBMs to Iraqi short-range ballistic missiles during the first Gulf War.” “ In contrast to the other missile and space intelligence centers, DEFSMAC's mission was more oriented toward alerting and reporting rather than producing detailed finished intelligence reports on foreign missile and space activities. Among recent launches that would have attracted DEFSMAC's attention were two Chinese ICBM tests conducted in late July 2014, as well as the Russian test of a Bulava submarine-launched ballistic missile in September. ” “ The April 27, 1964, directive specified that DEFSMAC would be responsible for '(a) twenty-four-hour sur...

According to the revised Eurostat data globinfo freexchange Another official source, Eurostat this time, confirms that the banks in Greece received billions in bailout packages, leading to the unprecedented enlargement of the national deficit. Of the total 12.2% of GDP revised deficit, 10.4% is due to recapitalization of the banks! “ Greece had a smaller than previously reported budget deficit last year, the European Union's statistics office said on Tuesday, as it recalculated data under a new accounting system.” “ Eurostat said that Greece had an overall budget deficit of 12.2 percent of gross domestic product in 2013 rather than the 12.7 percent under the old accounting system.” “ Of that number, 10.4 percent of GDP is accounted for by money set aside to recapitalise the Greek banking sector, Eurostat said, so the actual government deficit was revised down to 1.8 percent from 2.3 percent under the old accounting system.” http://www.r...

Σύμφωνα με τα αναθεωρημένα στοιχεία της Eurostat για το 2013 globinfo freexchange “ Σύμφωνα με την επανεκτίμηση των στοιχείων για το δημόσιο χρέος σε απόλυτα νούμερα για το 2013 εμφανίζεται ελαφρώς αυξημένο σε σχέση με τις εκτιμήσεις του Απριλίου 2014 από 318,7 εκατ ευρώ σε 319,1 εκατ ευρώ ή 174,9% του ΑΕΠ. Η αύξηση αυτή σύμφωνα με εκπρόσωπο της Eurostat οφείλεται στην ενσωμάτωση στο δημόσιο χρέος των χρεών των αμυντικών βιομηχανιών, ΕΑΒ και ΕΛΒΟ.” “ Σχετικά τώρα με το έλλειμμα της γενικής κυβέρνησης για το 2013 αυτό ανέρχεται με την καινούργια μεθοδολογία σε 12,2% του ΑΕΠ από το οποίο το 10,4% αναφέρεται στο εφάπαξ κόστος από την ανακεφαλαιοποίηση των τραπεζών ύψους 19 περίπου δισ. αφήνοντας το στατιστικό έλλειμμα στο 1,8% του ΑΕΠ.” http://stokokkino.gr/article/13085/Eurostat-Sto-1749-tou-AEP-to-xreos-tis-Elladas Υπενθυμίζεται ότι σύμφωνα με την ΕΛΣΤΑΤ “Το έλλειμμα της Γενικής Κυβέρνησης για το έτος 2013, όπως υπολογίζεται στα πλαίσια της ΔΥΕ,...

Washington's dirty games as history repeated in a slightly different way globinfo freexchange The creation of a Warsaw "anti-pact" initiated by NATO, gives some interesting historical conclusions. Although no one can say that the former Soviet Union or Russia today are geopolitical "angels", in both cases, it seems that their role was mostly to defend themselves against the US aggression. Warsaw Pact, being the military completion of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (Comecon), was created in 1955 as an answer to the US decision to include West Germany to NATO. Soviet Union had initially proposed to join NATO, while subsequently, made a series of other proposals for the creation of a pan-European defence coalition without taking account the social system in each country. However, all the plans of the Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Vyacheslav Molotov, repelled by the United States because they were promoting the rearmament of...

Ben Norton describes how U.S. news outlets have selectively reported only the aspects of Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai they want you to see. “ Malala's Nobel victory can be appropriated by the U.S. political establishment to 'prove' that its invasion, occupation and destruction of Afghanistan has 'helped' its people. (As for the hundreds of thousands killed and injured in the process, well, those inconvenient exceptions aren't part of this narrative.)” “ As Michael Parenti points out, while most people who win the Nobel 'Peace' Prize do so for war-mongering and crimes against humanity (Henry Kissinger boasts one, for example, along with Barack Obomba himself), Malala actually deserves hers. This makes the exploitation even more grotesque.” “ Interestingly, many of the same people lauding the Nobel Peace Prize laureate for her advocacy of nonviolence also happily cheered on the violence of the U.S. invasion and o...

Regular reports on the growing Poverty, Unemployment, Debt and Inequality of the neo-capitalist world UK: “ 1.6 million older people live in poverty, of whom 900,000 are living in severe poverty.” “ The latest estimates of take up found that in 2009–10 around a third (up to 1.6 million) of older people who were entitled to Pension Credit were not claiming it. On average they were missing out on over £1700 a year (£33 a week).” “ Up to 2.2 million older people were missing out on help with their council tax bill which, on average would have reduced their annual bill by £728.” “ Up to 390,000 more older people could have claimed Housing Benefit to reduce their rent by an average of £48 a week.” “ ... with their incomes being stretched by costs, many older people who are struggling to get by are worried about their money running out. Frequent worries are: The cost of care they need now or may need in the near future. The rising prices fo...

About 1.3 billion tons of food lost or wasted every year, which amounts to roughly one-third of all the food produced for human consumption “ China wastes at least 35 million metric tons of grain every year due to poor storage and transportation methods and excessive processing, ...” "The losses can feed 200 million people for a year, which is shameful and needs urgent measures to prevent such waste and loss," “ According to the State Administration of Grain, in major grain production regions including Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Henan, Hebei and Shandong provinces, there are no storage buildings for about 35 million tons of grain. Of the 210 million farming households across the country, only 3 percent can store grain in a scientific way, according to the Ministry of Agriculture.” “ Wang Lirong, chief engineer of the standards and quality center under the State Administration of Grain, said that besides saving food, grain-processing companies should...

Various scenarios by the US mechanisms on how should be treated included a preventive military action with Moscow's cooperation, up to let China deploy "modest nuclear forces" as a threat to Soviet Union! Similarities with today's escalating Cold War 2.0 “ Fifty years ago today, on 16 October 1964, the People's Republic of China (PRC) joined the nuclear club when it tested a nuclear device at its Lop Nur test site in Inner Mongolia. U.S. intelligence had been monitoring Chinese developments for some years, but the lack of adequate sources made reliable estimates difficult. As prospects for a nuclear test began to appear imminent in the early 1960s, a lively debate commenced within the U.S. government over how soon it would happen and what its implications would be. Amid questions over whether Beijing would be 'truculent' or 'cautious' were proposals for taking preventive military action, possibly with Moscow's cooperation , or fo...

Regular reports on the growing Poverty, Unemployment, Debt and Inequality of the neo-capitalist world Global: "The most striking feature is the contrast in experience before and after the financial crisis. In the period from 2000 to 2007, 12 countries saw a rise in inequality while 34 recorded a reduction. Between 2007 and 2014, the overall pattern reversed: wealth inequality rose in 35 countries and fell in only 11." “ Taken together, the bottom half of the global population own less than 1% of total wealth. In sharp contrast, the richest decile hold 87% of the world’s wealth, and the top percentile alone account for 48.2% of global assets,” “ These figures give more evidence that inequality is extreme and growing, and that economic recovery following the financial crisis has been skewed in favour of the wealthiest. In poor countries, rising inequality means the difference between children getting the chance to go to school and sick people getting life ...

Ο Ντάισελμπλουμ δίνει το σύνθημα του system failure Ο Ολλανδός υπουργός και επικεφαλής του Eurogroup, Γερούν Νταισελμπλούμ, δήλωσε πρόσφατα ότι και η Γερμανία πρέπει να προχωρήσει σε "μεταρρυθμίσεις", φέρνοντας ως παράδειγμα την Ισπανία, Πορτογαλία και Ιρλανδία (!) και απηύθυνε χαρακτηριστική προειδοποίηση στο Βερολίνο “να μην επαναπαύεται στις δάφνες του”. ( http://www.imerisia.gr/article.asp?catid=26517&subid=2&pubid=113366795 ) Οι δηλώσεις έρχονται τη στιγμή που η Γερμανική οικονομία εκπέμπει σήμα κινδύνου και νέοι τριγμοί ταλανίζουν την, ούτως ή άλλως, εύθραυστη ευρωζώνη. Η Ευρωπαϊκή νεοφιλελεύθερη οικονομική αυτοκρατορία έστειλε σήμα, στο Βερολίνο αυτή τη φορά και είναι έτοιμη να επιταχύνει τις διαδικασίες για την καθολική επιβολή των καταστροφικών πολιτικών που δοκιμάστηκαν στην Ελλάδα, ώστε να εξασφαλίσει τα συμφέροντα του μεγάλου κεφαλαίου. Φυσικά, αυτός ήταν ο αρχικός στόχος: " Ομοσπονδιοποίηση όμως σημαίνει, ότι οι ίδιες πολιτικές θα ...