"“We have lent a huge amount of money to the U.S. Of course we are concerned about the safety of our assets. To be honest, I am definitely a little worried.” "


Chinese premier Wen Jiabao 12th March 2009


""We have a financial system that is run by private shareholders, managed by private institutions, and we'd like to do our best to preserve that system."


Timothy Geithner US Secretary of the Treasury, previously President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.1/3/2009

Sunday, May 08, 2005

IRAQ - years of terror.

"Every gun that is fired, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its labourers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children."

General Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th President of the United States

A black marketeer ready to peddle petrol.


Iraq now pumps less than 50% less oil than before the invasion, and cannot refine enough oil for it's domestic market. Meanwhile the US forces fly in petrol for their forces and are seeking to boost their transport hub for fuel at Incirlik in Turkey.


This is progress?

Pic (c) AFP May 8th 2005

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