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OT: China and India will be calling the shots when the US is no longer top dollar |
China and India will be calling the shots when the US is no longer top
dollar
Larry Elliott, economics editor
Monday October 2, 2006
The Guardian
It's 2056. After a coup in Saudi Arabia, the new government announces
it is cutting off supplies of its dwindling stock of oil to the United
States. The White House responds by sending in the troops, but is
forced to withdraw after Beijing says it will only continue shoring up
the dollar if the military action is called off.
Marking the 100th anniversary of Suez, the Americans have no choice but
to comply. Fanciful? Ludicrous? Certainly, that would have been the
reaction of the traders on Wall Street who last week sent the Dow Jones
industrial average to within a whisker of its all-time high. But even
if the US can avoid a hard landing in the short term, as equity dealers
believe it can, the medium and long-term risks to the economy remain.
Playing catch-up on corruption
Friedrich Wu
September 30, 2006 10:30 AM
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/friedrich_wu/2006/09/wu.html
China's rulers rarely wash their dirty linen in public. So the arrest
of politburo member and Shanghai Communist party boss Chen Liangyu on
corruption charges has sent shock waves across the country. Some
speculate that the arrest is really part of a power struggle, with
President Hu Jingtao demonstrating his authority against a local power
broker who had thwarted national policy.
Whatever the truth behind Chen's fall, and despite the widening
corruption probe of other senior government officials, data and
evidence recently released by the government and multilateral
institutions suggest that the authorities are fighting a rearguard
battle against a rising tide of graft.
Searching on dry ground
Alan Johnson
September 30, 2006 01:16 PM
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/alan_johnson/2006/09/the_chelmite_left_and_terroris.html
In their response to the terrorist threat many on the left are
reminiscent of the Chelmite villager of Sholom Aleichem's parable, The
Right Spot. When they made the world the angels sprinkled souls in
equal proportions. A handful of wise, another of the foolish. But over
Chelm an angel's sack was caught on the top of a mountain and out
spilled all the foolish souls. Here is the parable.
Let's have an open and honest discussion about white people
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1885226,00.html
The tolerant, secular, liberal society into which British Muslims are
being asked to integrate is still a work in progress
Gary Younge
Monday October 2, 2006
The Guardian
On Wednesday September 20 Corporal Donald Payne became the first Briton
to admit to a war crime. Payne, 35, is accused of repeatedly banging
the head of Baha Mousa, a 26-year-old Iraqi hotel worker, against a
wall and floor until Mousa died - an accusation he denies. Payne called
his Iraqi prisoners in the jail in Basra "the choir", because he liked
to invite friends to hear them shriek with the pain he inflicted.
"Corporal Payne enjoyed conducting what he called the choir," Julian
Bevan QC told the court martial, which is taking place at Bulford Camp,
in Wiltshire, and is expected to last for 16 weeks. "It was all done
very openly."
Canterbury's miracle
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1885227,00.html
Even atheists should celebrate the creation of great cathedrals, and
not allow them to decay
Roy Hattersley
Monday October 2, 2006
The Guardian
Tomorrow I speak at the launch of the Canterbury Cathedral Restoration
Appeal. A more superstitious man would fear that, before the
performance was finished, he would be struck down by a thunderbolt -
punishment for the presumption that emboldens an atheist to answer the
call to rescue a place of worship. But it is the rejection of
superstition that stands between me and belief. Nothing would give me
greater pleasure than to join my father one day, on a big white cloud.
But I cannot accept the idea of the resurrection, or any of the other
mysteries and miracles of faith. So I have to make do with earthly
pleasures. One of them is visiting Canterbury Cathedral.
America is living beyond its means
http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,1885259,00.html
Inside Burma's rebel army: the struggle against a regime propped up by
foreign oil
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article1780547.ece
By Grace Lincoln and Evan Williams
Published: 02 October 2006
When Zoya Phan was 13, she was happy. Every day on her way home from
school, deep in the thick forest of Karen state in eastern Burma, she
would scramble on her hands and knees up hillsides to pick mushrooms
for her mother. Before the rains came that summer she chased scarlet
butterflies through lush banana gardens and mango trees, the sweet
smell of ripening rice heavy in the air.
But her life would soon change beyond all recognition. In 1995, just
days after the Karen people celebrated New Year, Phan watched the
Burmese army open fire on her village. The massacre claimed the lives
of most of the village and forced Phan and her family to flee and live
from hand to mouth in the jungle. Months later Phan made it to a camp
for internally displaced ethnic minority groups on the Thai-Burmese
border. She was one of the lucky ones.
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02 Oct 2006 08:59:49 AM |
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maff wrote:
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Canterbury's miracle
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1885227,00.html
Even atheists should celebrate the creation of great cathedrals, and
not allow them to decay
Roy Hattersley
Monday October 2, 2006
The Guardian
Hmm. I wonder if I'm in the minority on this one...I see nothing wrong
with restoring the place, even with government money (which I assume is
much less controversial in the UK). I've often heard (and agreed) that
for medival technology to build something so massive was easily the
equal of modern man's project to land on the moon. I guess that means I
have to support the restoration of the California Missions as well, as
long as they remain more museum than church. When your country's only
200yr old, you gotta take what you can get..
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EAC Martian Commander
Plonked by Kadaitcha Man Sept 06
"..the prayer cloth of one aeon is the doormat of the next."
-Mark Twain
Religious societies are *less* moral than secular ones:
http://moses.creighton.edu/JRS/2005/2005-11.html
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