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April 2010China Offers Largest Credit to VenezuelaPosted: Monday, April 19, 2010 Yesterday government representatives from Venezuela and China signed seven agreements in Caracas, six energy based ones and one around petroleum. China also offered US$20 billion in financing, the largest offer it has made in the last fifty years. Chinese president Hu Jintao's planned visit to Venezuela was cancelled due to the recent tragic earthquake in China, but Jintao and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez talked by telephone and Chavez also met for two hours with a delegation from China. The two governments agreed to exploit the Junin 4 section of the Orinoco Oil Belt together and as part of this they established a joint company between state owned Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) and state owned China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), to carry out the initiative. They also established some economic and tax conditions. Full Article : venezuelanalysis.com America and the Dictators Posted: Sunday, April 18, 2010 ¤ Eyjafjallajökull (no that's not misspelled) ¤ pronunciation - ¤ reporters struggle with it ¤ Animation of the ash plume from Icelandic eruption ¤ Volcano illustrates world's interconnectedness ¤ One million Britons stranded by ash and food shortages expected ¤ Geologic Setting of Icelandic Volcanoes ¤ Understanding the split personality of Iceland's volcanoes ¤ Volcano Costs Rise as Plume Spreads ¤ Icelandic Eruptions May Disrupt European Air Traffic for Months ¤ Icelandic volcano still spewing huge ash plume ¤ Russia suspends all adoptions to US families ¤ Obama Speech Signals a U.S. Shift on Middle East ¤ Russia Says Iran Reactor On Track For August Launch ¤ Iran complains to UN over Obama 'nuclear blackmail' ¤ Glacier triggers Andes tsunami (YouTube) ¤ Hundreds killed as quake hits Western China ¤ US missile strike in Pakistani tribal agency kills 5 ¤ 71 civilians killed in weekend strike by Pakistani jets ¤ War Crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan ¤ Polish plane crash: investigators rule out technical fault ¤ This Will be Obama's Legacy ¤ China Will Do What It Wants The United States and China seem to have reached an agreement with regard to the exchange rate between their two currencies. The agreement is that the U.S. government will stop yelling about it, and China will do whatever it wants to do, which will probably include some modest rise in the renminbi some time in the near future. ¤ Big Coal; BigLies The worship of money is the will of God according to Don Blankenship, CEO of Massey Energy Company that owns and operates the Upper Big Branch mine in West Virginia where 29 miners were killed on April 5 in a mining explosion. Blankenship is a member of the US Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors and a rabid, right-wing Republican. Blankenship calls public officials concerned about climate change "greeniacs", says “greeniacs are taking over the world,” and that Al Gore, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi are “crazy”. He accuses his critics of communism and atheism. ¤ Convincing Cubans ¤ The Bank Loan That Could Break South Africa's Back ¤ Will WaMu Pay for Its Crimes? ¤ America and the Dictators ¤ Little Baghdad ¤ Israeli military commander acts as a dictator towards Palestinians ¤ The Cover-Ups That Exploded The Pentagon is reeling after two lethal episodes uncovered by diligent journalism show trigger-happy U.S. Army helicopter pilots and U.S. Special Forces slaughtering civilians, then seeking to cover up their crimes. The worldwide web was transfixed on Monday when Wikileaks put up on YouTube a 38-minute video, along with a 17-minute edited version, taken from a U.S. Army Apache helicopter, one of two firing on a group of Iraqis in Baghdad at a street corner in July of 2007. Twelve civilians died, including a Reuters photographer Namir Noor-Eldeen, 22, and a Reuters driver, Saeed Chmagh, 40. ¤ Why They Call It King Coal ¤ Is Iran Producing Medical Isotopes? ¤ Havana Homegrown: Inside Cuba's Urban Agriculture Revolution Video Unlike with most people in the US and other wealthy countries, growing their own and doing it organically were not really choices for Cubans: they did it to survive. Or to put it more flippantly, when life gave the Cubans limes (mint and rum), they decided to make mojitos. ¤ The Vast Potential of City Agriculture ¤ Global Warming Monitoring Needs to Find 'Missing Heat', say Scientists ¤ The Untold Story of Psychotropic Drugging Video ¤ There's A World of Pain Ahead A nation in mourning Posted: Sunday, April 11, 2010 ¤ A nation in mourning: Poland's president and wife among at least 88 dead as their plane crashes in Russia ¤ Russian leaders express condolences over tragic death of Polish president ¤ Polish leader among 132 dead in Russia jet crash ¤ ...Polish President Killed In Plane Crash ¤ The Fabulous Life of the Ravenous Vultures ¤ Netanyahu ducks U.S. nuclear summit, fearing censure ¤ US Developing New Non-Nuclear Missiles ¤ UK: Petrol hits £6 a gallon ¤ Netanyahu cancels trip to Obama's nuclear summit He made the decision after learning that Egypt and Turkey intended to raise the issue of Israel's presumed nuclear arsenal at the conference, a senior government official said on Friday. ¤ South African fossils could be new hominid species ¤ Obama, Medvedev sign treaty to cut nuclear arms ¤ Obama Aims to Use Russia Nuclear Deal to Build Pressure on Iran ¤ New mudslide hits slum as Rio toll rises to 147 ¤ Uruguay's new leader strengthens ties with Chavez ¤ Rio floods: Why did more than 100 people die? ¤ Rio rescuers dig for victims of landslides ¤ Video Shows US Killing Unarmed Iraqi Civilians Footage of July 2007 attack made public as Pentagon identifies website as threat to national security ¤ Transcript of Cindy Sheehan's Interview with Hugo Chavez Eight Colombians Arrested on Suspicion of Spying in Venezuela Posted: Thursday, April 8, 2010 Eight Colombian citizens have been arrested in Venezuela on suspicion of carrying out espionage against the country's national electricity system Venezuelan Interior Minister Tarek El Aissaimi announced on Tuesday. Among the equipment seized from the suspects was a camera with images of various electricity substations around the country, transmission lines and national transport infrastructure, as well as satellite communications equipment, documents in English and Spanish, a vehicle, a number of cell phones and "other items of interest," El Assaimi said. Full Article : venezuelanalysis.com Uruguay's new leader strengthens ties with Chavez Posted: Thursday, April 8, 2010 Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez offered Wednesday to help Uruguay expand a refinery and supply it with crude oil. Chavez and visiting Uruguayan President Jose Mujica, popularly known as "Pepe," signed accords pledging to deepen trade and energy ties between the two South American nations. Venezuela's president expressed admiration for the 74-year-old Mujica, a former leftist guerrilla leader who took office last month. Chavez embraced Mujica when he arrived at the presidential palace, affectionately calling him "a mentor." Full Article : news.yahoo.com Cuba, ALBA send aid directly to Haiti Posted: Wednesday, April 7, 2010 By W. T. Whitney Jr. At a recent 136-nation UN conference, focused on reconstruction in Haiti, pledges from 59 nations and organizations came to $5.3 billion due within two years and $9.9 billion in ten years. The United States promised $1.15 billion, the European Union, $1.6 billion. The eight ALBA nations (Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America) pledged aid worth $2.42 billion over six years, most of it from Venezuela. Full Article : peoplesworld.org USA Seeks to Destabilize Nicaragua Posted: Saturday, April 3, 2010 ¤ Putin deepens ties with Chavez on Venezuela visit Russia has offered to help Venezuela set up its own space industry, including a satellite launch site, as Prime Minister Vladimir Putin made his first visit to the South American country on Friday. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced the offer by Russia hours before Putin arrived, saying officials would discuss the possibility of setting up a "satellite launcher and a factory." ¤ Putin Signs Accords With Chavez in Venezuela Trip ¤ Venezuela, ALBA Countries Pledge $2.42 billion in Aid to Haiti ¤ Cuba and US hold rare talks at UN ¤ “Our President Is Deceiving the American Public” ¤ Fmr. President Clinton Apologizes for Trade Policies that Destroyed Haitian Rice Farming ¤ Iran, Israel and an Obama miscalculation in the works? ¤ Israel lobby presses Congress to soften Obama's tough stance on Netanyahu ¤ US cannot rule the world alone, says Nicolas Sarkozy FRENCH President Nicolas Sarkozy has called for US economic reforms and, in comments echoing Franco-American spats of the past, said Washington cannot "run the world" alone. The French leader used a visit to New York today, where he met with students at Columbia University, to deliver what he called "home truths" to his hosts. ¤ New suicide blasts kill 12 in southern Russia ¤ Moscow Bombings: A New Cycle of Chechen Retaliation? As the death toll from the terrorist attacks on the Moscow subway system climbed to 39 on Tuesday, public outrage turned away from the suicide bombers and toward the Russian government. Judging by history, the Kremlin may find it hard to show restraint when accused of cowardice and impotence by its own people, and it will likely react as it often has in cases like this: by renewing its crackdown on insurgents in the North Caucasus, a predominantly Muslim hub for domestic terrorism. ¤ Moscow Metro hit by deadly suicide bombings ¤ Female suicide bombers blamed in Moscow subway attacks ¤ Gulf sheikh Ahmed bin Zayed al-Nahyan missing after plane crash ¤ Cuba Beating the Hurricane Cuba has become expert in protecting its citizens against the impact of tropical storms. The secret to their success: education and a system that relies on clear communication between the Met Office, Civil Defence and the media. Despite being one of the poorest countries in the Caribbean, the people of Cuba are among the best prepared against Hurricanes. Every year the whole country takes part in a two-day training session in risk reduction for hurricanes, complete with full simulation exercises and dramatic rescue operations, which allow the evacuation of people in a record time. ¤ Jordan king says Israel is playing with fire ¤ Binyamin Netanyahu humiliated after Barack Obama 'dumped him for dinner' ¤ USA Seeks to Destabilize Nicaragua Nicaragua is under a destabilizing strategy similar to that aimed at other member countries of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA), said an article published in Managua on Monday. In a column entitled "The United States and its Tangle of NGOs in Nicaragua," Uruguayan journalist based in Sweden Jorge Capelan explains that the destabilizing strategy the United States has pursued in Venezuela through non governmental organizations and "contractor" firms is also being applied in Nicaragua against the Sandinista government. ¤ The return of Nicaragua's old aquaintance, DynCorp ¤ Academic Paper in China Sets Off Alarms in U.S. ¤ The Doomsday Weapon ¤ Colombia's Elections: Under the Gun |
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