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Deaths from diabetes and sugary drinks.
Deaths from diabetes and sugary drinks.
Twenty-six British Members of Parliament and several Trade Union Confederation General Secretaries and others issued a public letter to Prime Minister David Cameron, demanding his support for a Debt Conference modeled on the 1953 German Debt Conference, to arrange for the cancellation of the Greek debt.
Leaders in the effort included senior MPs Jeremy Corbyn, who is vying for the leadership of the Labour Party, and MP Michael Meacher, a senior MP who battled Tony Blair’s destruction of the party, and challenged Gordon Brown for the party leadership in 2007. Corbyn opposed the Iraq War and was instrumental in the historic Parliament vote against war on Syria in 2013.
Both Corbyn and Meacher have called for Glass-Steagall, while Meacher signed the Schiller Institute petition calling for the United States and Europe to join the BRICS. Both sent video statements of support to the LaRouche-aligned Citizen’s Electoral Council conference in Australia in March 2015.
In addition to 19 Labour and 6 Green MPs, signers of the letter to Cameron included the General Secretaries of the Trade Union Council, Unite the Union, GMB (general workers), and TSSA (transport workers), as well as several other economic associations.
The letter reads:
Corbyn told the Guardian: “There is no sane solution to the situation in Greece that involves repaying this debt. The only sensible way forward is to cancel the Greek debt—or at least substantial swaths of it—and for the international community to support Greece’s democratically elected government to rebuild its society and its economy.”[/quoite]
Green MP Caroline Lucas told the Guardian: “Austerity in Greece has been a profound failure, in both human and economic terms…. It’s time that European governments think again about how to tackle the crisis in Greece. A first step, which I’m urging David Cameron to support, is to bring together a European debt conference based on what happened in 1953 to help Germany’s economy recover after the war.”
Both Corbyn and Lucas joined a rally in Trafalgar Square yesterday to show solidarity with Greece.
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For all those financial institutions which had “discounted” the euro crisis of unpayable “Greek debt,” June 29 started with stock market plunges in Asia and got steadily worse, ending with a dramatic nighttime rally of 25,000 in Athens’ Syntagma Square in support of the Syriza government’s stand.
Although massive interventions all day by the Swiss Central Bank stopped an incipient collapse of the euro, the London and Wall Street sighs of relief were premature. Stock and bond markets resumed their slide, with European stock markets down nearly 4% and most big bank stocks down 8-10% or not trading at all. Some big banks, like Goldman Sachs, and many hedge funds headed by the likes of Wilbur Ross and John Paulson, had recently gone into long bets on Greek debt, confidently expecting Greek capitulation to the “European institutions” and another bailout. These, too, lost big. Ross, in an angry interview on CNBC-TV, threatened, “Greece faces social chaos. I don’t see how Mr. Tsipras and the Syriza party survive this.”
At the same time, Puerto Rico Gov. Alejandro Garcia Padilla said June 28 its $72 billion “debts are not payable,” indicating defaults and cross-defaults to come during July. Thus the municipal bond markets, on which Puerto Rico debt is widely held, were also hit.
Late in the afternoon in Europe, Greece’s government announced that it would default on payment to the IMF June 30. IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde has recently said that in this event, she will officially notify the IMF board “immediately” that Greece is in default, though Lagarde is not famous for consistency and truth-telling.
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, whose Twitter feeds emphasized that he was quoting President Franklin Roosevelt when announcing the bank holiday Sunday night, gave another interview yesterday afternoon, telling Greeks that backing the “Oxi” (“No”) to the institutions’ ultimatum will “put another weapon in our hands.” He said that Greek policy was not to exit from the Eurozone, that the government was ready for new negotiations for a reasonable plan including debt relief, and that the Greek banks will reopen once the European Central Bank restores the liquidity which it has cut off to them.
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The author who sold the encyclical Laudato Si’ to Pope Francis is a Satanist working for the British Royal Family, Hans Joachim “John” Schellnhuber of Oxford. Schellnhuber is the German head of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research—knighted by the Queen in 2004 for his efforts on population control—who was brought in by the Vatican to lead in drafting the document. Another voice spoke out against the Satanic personage views of Schellnhuber, last Friday. First appearing on the “Voice of the Family” blog—”an initiative of Catholic laity formed in support of the synod on the family 2014-2015″—on June 26, it was re-posted on the Canadian, inter-denominational, and pro-family “Lifesite,” Monday morning.
After quoting Schellnhuber bragging to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of all the “hard work” it took to make sure the document would “present clearly the current state of research concerning climate issues” — meaning, to come down firmly in support of the anti-population-growth program of the Queen’s environmentalists — they dig into the shadowy background of this view, and unearth Satanhuber’s writings on, the “Gaia principle.”
Schellnhuber, they write, “is also associated with the controversial ‘Gaia principle.’ The ‘Gaia principle’ proposes that both living and non-living beings on Earth interact to form a self-regulating system that contributes to maintaining the conditions for life on the planet. This system is considered to be a living being in its own right, with even some degree of consciousness.” In 1999, Schellnhuber spoke of, “unravelling the mysteries of the Earth’s physique,” or “Gaia’s body,” in a article in Nature, titled “`Earth System’ Analysis and the Second Copernican Revolution.”
“Gaia theory is often associated with a hostile attitude towards human activity, which is considered a perpetual threat to the earth’s ecosystem.” Quoting from another article in Nature, this one co-authored by Schellnhuber in 2004, titled, “Climbing the Co-evolution Ladder,” they say he, “seems to extend this hostile attitude even to ‘the first organisms’ which ‘would have drained the environment of energetically and structurally useful compounds and replaced them with degraded waste products,’ and eventually even to human beings.” This concept of entwined evolution, they say, “leads the authors to adopt a depressing view of the future.”
Schellnhuber’s told the 2009 Copenhagen Conference on the Environment that Earth’s “carrying capacity” for the human species was scientifically agreed to be “below 1 billion.” In a recorded speech from 2008, the Satanist said, (translating from the German), “The Earth likely will be populated by at least 9 billion people by 2050. You have to imagine that these people will reach an average level of consumption that Portugal has, one of the poorer countries in Europe. When you imagine that if all these 9 billion people claim all these resources, then the Earth will explode.” The short clip, from Germany’s Phoenix TV, then targets the nations with the largest population growth: China and India.
The “Lifesite” posting closes by noting that, “Given Schellnhuber’s views on the ‘population problem’ and his membership of the Club of Rome, many Catholics are understandably seriously concerned by his appointment to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and his participation in the preparation and launch of the encyclical letter Laudato Si’.”
“The military may actually get involved.”
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