U.S. EPA proposing temporary pesticide-free zones for honeybees
Bees are critical to food production and have been dying off at alarming rates.
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FIFA corruption: Vladimir Putin accuses U.S. of meddling
Putin called the U.S. involvement in the FIFA investigation “strange” and said the country was overstepping its power.
FIFA corruption: Vladimir Putin accuses U.S. of meddling
Putin called the U.S. involvement in the FIFA investigation “strange” and said the country was overstepping its power.
FIFA corruption: Vladimir Putin accuses U.S. of meddling
Putin called the U.S. involvement in the FIFA investigation “strange” and said the country was overstepping its power.
It Is in Europe’s Interest To Join New Silk Road
Raffaello Pantucci, Research Director at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) in London, has come out with a strong endorsement of Europe’s seizing the chance for grand economic cooperation with China along the New Silk Road in the European Observer journal.
Pantucci writes that China will be a good and reliable partner for Europe, because the Silk Road project is a priority on the agenda of the Chinese foreign policy now. Pantucci says:
“For Europe, China offers the opportunity to magnify effect — Europe’s economic and political force is substantial, but when bolstered by Chinese capacity and means, becomes an even more substantial force…As well as the $40 billion Silk Road Fund, there is the nascent Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), and the slowly developing BRICS [New Development] Bank, and the sometimes talked-of Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Development Bank. And China has continued to sign massive bilateral deals in countries along the route, with a particular focus in Central Asia. Admittedly, some of this money is hyperbole around official high-level visits, but go on the ground across the region and it is impossible to deny the presence of the Chinese funding — tangible as it is in roads, pipelines, railway projects, energy infrastructure, and construction across the region.”
“There is also a larger political point to be made here about China’s relationship with the European Union…The EU has long sought to find ways to engage with China in a productive manner — Central Asia and the larger Silk Road Economic Belt offers an opportunity to work with China on something that is of direct interest to Europe, but also is clearly a strong strategic priority from the very top of Xi Jinping’s administration. For Beijing, Europe is the other end of the Silk Road — Europe needs to seize this opportunity to help advance its own interests.”
BRICS Momentum Builds, Spread to Northeast Asia
On Monday and Tuesday of this week, foreign ministers and then national security advisors from the five BRICS countries met in Moscow, to update plans for the July 8-10 heads- of-state summit in Ufa, Russia. The Tuesday meeting of the security advisors broadened the BRICS collaboration to subsume common security issues, including the fight against terrorism, drugs, organized crime, separatism, and ethnic conflicts. One major topic of discussion was the use of speculative capital to target vulnerable nations for destabilization.
At the same time that the preparations for the July summit were advancing, a leading Chinese specialist in China-Russia cooperation, Dr. Li Xin, was pressing in an interview with dialogi.su for inclusion of Russia’s Trans-Siberian Railroad in the overall New Silk Road development plans. Dr. Li emphasized that the development of Northeast China and adjacent areas of Korea and Russia will mean that the modernization of the Trans-Siberian Railroad will be an instrumental part of the Eurasian development and transportation corridors.
Dr. Li described a letter he wrote last December to Vladimir Yakunin, head of the Russian Rail Corporation, emphasizing that
“for us, the Trans-Siberian Railway is a participant in the ‘Great Silk Road’ project with the added possibility of developing the Northeast of China… I wrote that the Chinese strategic directive for the revival of the North-Eastern territories can equally be considered part of the ‘Silk Road,’ but that this revival is impossible without access to the Trans-Siberian Railway. And more than that, the regeneration of Northeast China dovetails with the task of the broader Russian project to develop their Far East and create the Trans-Eurasian zone of development or TEBD.
Therefore it is possible to cojoin these projects….[the concept is a]…Belt of Development for this huge geographical territory, based on the most modern infrastructure, creating new industrial centres, new employment prospects, even new cities.”
The drive for the New Silk Road was also the front-page theme of Chinawatch, the monthly supplement to the Washington Post, produced by China Daily. Under the banner headline “President Xi turning a new leaf for China,” the full front page was taken up with a report on Xi Jinping’s book Xi Jinping: The Governance of China, a collection of 79 essays, interviews, and directives by the Chinese President. The coverage focused on his New Silk Road initiative. The book, which was released last October at the Frankfurt Book Fair, has already sold 4 million copies, including 400,000 outside of China. The book has been already translated into English, German, French, Russian, Arabic, Spanish, Portugese, and Japanese.
All Financial Hell Is About To Break Loose
Collapse of U.S. dollar accelerating.
All Financial Hell Is About To Break Loose
Collapse of U.S. dollar accelerating.
All Financial Hell Is About To Break Loose
Collapse of U.S. dollar accelerating.
More on Donetsk: A Middle Class Social Revolution Which Has Checkmated NATO for More than a Year
Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. INN World Report with Tom Kiely May 28, 2015 [download audio]
Kenyan lawyer offers 50 cows, 70 sheep and 30 goats to wed Obama’s daughter
“I got interested in her in 2008.”
Kenyan lawyer offers 50 cows, 70 sheep and 30 goats to wed Obama’s daughter
“I got interested in her in 2008.”
Kenyan lawyer offers 50 cows, 70 sheep and 30 goats to wed Obama’s daughter
“I got interested in her in 2008.”
Bill Nye, The ‘Everything Is Climate Change’ Guy, Blames Texas Floods On Climate Change
Last year Texas droughts were blamed on warming.
German city of Cologne evacuates 20,000 people to defuse WWII bomb
World War II bomb unearthed during construction work.