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Boris Johnson's cancellation of London's oil agreement with Venezuela is a piece of rightwing dogmatism that is equally costly to the people of London and Caracas. The agreement was that Londoners on income support received half-price bus travel, subsidised via cheap Venezuelan oil, in return for London providing transport, planning and other expertise to Venezuela.

The basic principle of London-Caracas agreement was simple, reasonable and indeed a rather textbook illustration of relative advantage in foreign trade. Each side provided the other with that in which they are rich, and which for them is therefore relatively cheap - oil, on one hand, and the expertise in managing a modern advanced city on the other - in return for something which was scarce, and therefore relatively expensive, for the other side.

The benefits to the poorest people in London were evident - over 130,000 have benefited to date from half-price bus travel.

The benefits to Venezuela were equally great. The accumulated expertise acquired by long developed cities and companies is one of their most valuable assets. For Venezuela to develop this purely internally would take a very long time and be extremely expensive, while to purchase it from international consulting companies would cost many times that paid to London.

London gained immediately and both parties agreed from the outset that London should focus on assisting Venezuela in developing plans to bring about long-term improvements in areas such as transport, city planning and the environment.

Short-term projects were scheduled for completion before the agreement's renewal in August such as traffic enforcement, improving traffic signals engineering to reduce congestion, and improving transport interchanges.

The longer-term projects of urban management and planning were of a structural nature - for example development of a transport strategy for Caracas, an urban development plan and the elaboration of an air quality strategy for the entire country. These longer-term projects could not be delivered in a period of months in London itself and this was still less possible in Caracas. Nevertheless, significant momentum was developed - all those involved were confident that clear progress would be achieved by the time of the renewal of the agreement.

Venezuela cannot make major progress in improving the quality of life of its people without such projects and therefore both London and Caracas we gaining.

Any suggestion that the decision to end the agreement was motivated by concern about poverty in Venezuela, as Johnson claimed, is entirely refuted by the fact that London's new Conservative administration has immediately cancelled planned delegations of transport and environment experts from London to take forward this work.

If Johnson abolishes the half-price travel for those on income support on London buses, as he appeared to state on May 25, that is an attack on the poorest Londoners. A statement to Guardian contributor Dave Hill, from City Hall, then appeared to retreat from this saying Johnson: "Has asked officials from Transport for London to consider whether there may be alternative ways of providing this support."

However "to consider" is not a pledge to continue and while Londoners must press to ensure that half-price bus travel for those on income support continues, this subsidy will then be paid by Londoners - bad value considering the alternative. Because the original deal was good for both London and Venezuela, cancelling it is bad for both. 
 
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**** Washington Planning to "Checkmate" Venezuela

So says Heinz Dieterich Steffan - German sociologist, economist, political analyst and Hugo Chavez consultant who claims he coined the phrase "21st century socialism" in the mid-1990s. He currently teaches at the Autonomous Metropolitan University in Mexico City and writes often on Latin American issues.

In a May 21, 2008 Kaosenlared.net article and follow-up Montevideo, Uruguay debate, Dieterich was blunt. He said "Washington does not want to lose (Latin America) in competition with India, China and Europe." He called the situation "life or death" and that a military attack against Venezuela from Colombia is possible. Maybe likely, and Ecuador and Bolivia are also targeted.

He laid out a "checkmate" scenario:

-- weaken and destroy FARC-EP and ELN resistance; under Clinton in 1999, Plan Colombia was launched to do it; the Uribe government's March 1 attack against the FARC-EP camp was part of it; all regional aggression has Washington's stamp on it, especially when Alvaro Uribe is involved; he's the Bush administration's closest regional ally and willing co-conspirator;

-- neutralize Evo Morales in Bolivia as well, divide the country, and create a parallel state in its resource-rich provinces;

-- use these successes to "checkmate" Chavez and Ecuador's Raphael Correa; take further measures to do it; use Uribe's military and gunboat diplomacy after the Fourth Fleet becomes active July 1 - after a 60 year hiatus and no regional threat to warrant it;

-- since taking office in 2001, the Bush administration targeted Venezuela for regime change; it extended the timeline after its April 2002 coup failed; it made destroying Colombian resistance more urgent so Washington could use the country unimpeded as a launching platform against Chavez much like Honduras in the 1980s against Nicaragua's Sandinistas; the scheme is vintage Washington; it's still unfolding; it involves waging a "widespread offensive against Chavez and the Bolivarian forces from 2008 - 2009;"

-- regime changes in Bolivia and Ecuador will follow; in Bolivia "through separatism, the Trojan Horse of the Constituent Assembly and the 2006 formation of CONFILAR" - an International Confederation for Regional Freedom and Autonomy; in Ecuador by fostering discontent in the CONAI indigenous movement and weakening the government through destabilization; also by stoking secessionist stirrings in Guayas, the country's most affluent province.

Dieterich says Washington believes that "FARC and Evo Morales (weakening) are irreversible." Time will tell if it's so. That reasoning sets the stage for "subversion and paramilitary-military (actions) from Colombia (and) Fourth Fleet (aggression) against Venezuela and Ecuador." In his judgment, an operation may be "close" with the Bush administration's tenure winding down. He calls America a "bestial enemy" and this moment a "dangerous juncture." He hopes Chavez, Correa, Morales and other Latin American leaders are up to the challenge. The threat is that Venezuelan generals will buckle under a US incursion and not sacrifice themselves "in a war against the gringos."

He envisions a scenario much like against Cuba that led to the 1962 missile crisis - a naval blockade and sees "no cohesion" in Venezuela's military as there was in Cuba. The antidote is Latin American unity. The entire region is targeted. "It's time to seek what unites us," he says, and urges a democratic alliance among regional governments and social forces. "There is no other way because the enemy is very powerful and is made up of the alliance between the oligarchies and the gringos, and backed by Europe and Japan."

Dieterich says efforts in this direction have been proposed and rejected. Nonetheless, the need is urgent because failure is unthinkable - the end of participatory democracy and resurgence of neoliberal triumphalism throughout the hemisphere.

There's hope and opportunity to head it off. He calls the Colombian March 1 incursion "a serious political mistake," and that Bogota and Washington "underestimated the cost of this action." It will strengthen calls for negotiation and "will be capitalised on by the forces that (want) a peaceful solution to Colombia's armed conflict." It will also improve chances for "South American integration aims of progressive countries like Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Venezuela." Ecuador and Bolivia as well. Uribe came out of this politically weaker. He'll "feel isolated diplomatically (and) will have to tone down his" belligerency. That remains to be seen for a hard right leader firmly in Bush's camp with "billions" in "inducements" to stay there.

The stakes for Washington and the region are huge. A rerun of the 1990s "Golden Age of Pillage" is unthinkable. So is another defeat for the Bush administration. With a scant eight months left, it may try anything to reverse its losses. It makes for very scary prospects:

-- saber rattling writ large;

-- regional gunboat diplomacy;

-- a naval blockade against Venezuela and Ecuador;

-- a ground incursion from Colombia;

-- three Latin American leaders targeted for removal;

-- Cuba also;

-- possible assassinations as well; CIA is expert at it; their agents infest the region, and Target One is Chavez; and

-- according to an unidentified retired US career diplomat and former assistant secretary of state, a planned air attack against Iran by summer; the idea is long-standing and goes back to the Clinton years; more recently, hawkish commanders replaced more hesitant ones; Congress is supportive, and, in an election year, major contenders practically preach it, at least in their rhetoric; they're also hostile to Chavez and comfortable with his removal.

He's alerted and revamping his intelligence services accordingly. The Interior and Justice Ministries will oversee a new General Intelligence Office and Counterintelligence Office in place of the current Directorate of Intelligence and Prevention Services (DISIP). Similar military intelligence and counterintelligence components will replace the Military Intelligence Division (DIM) and will be under the Defense Ministry. Interior Minister Ramon Rodriguez Chacin announced the changes on May 28, and said they're to counter US espionage and destabilization efforts. They're operative under the newly enacted Law on Intelligence and Counterintelligence. It was passed on May 28 by presidential decree under the legislatively-granted enabling law.

They'll be needed and lots more. According to Venezuelan Popular Unity (UPV) leader Lina Ron, the Chavez government is threatened. She cites a coup d'etat scheme called "Choquinaque" to oust it. It involves economic financing, psychological manipulation, and efforts to destabilize Venezuela's economy. Senior military commanders are being enlisted and bribed and opposition candidates promoted. The aim is to influence the outcome of the November 23 regional elections for mayors and governors. Pro-Chavez officials hold most posts, and Washington-backed subversion aims to unseat enough of them to change the balance of power.

Similar schemes back secessionist movements in the most affluent parts of Bolivia, Venezuela and Ecuador in its Guayas province. It has regional leaders alarmed and Chavez outraged and vocal. On his weekly radio and television program, he blamed "oligarchs" and "fascists" for targeting Bolivia after its most resource-rich state (Santa Cruz) supported more autonomy in a (largely symbolic) May 4 referendum. "The CIA and its lackeys (want regional control) but we will defeat that plan through integration, political union and ideological strength."

It's vital because Venezuela is also threatened. It's oil-rich Zulia state has similar secessionist ideas. Big Oil exploits them, and their local allies in the past supported a referendum to choose independence from Caracas. Its governor is Manuel Rosales. He ran against Chavez in 2006 and lost big. He backs the idea, is close to the Bush administration, and signed the infamous "Carmona Decree" after the April 2002 coup. It dissolved the National Assembly and Supreme Court, erased the Constitution, and ended Bolivarianism for the people. For now, more autonomy is enough for Rosales but unthinkable if Chavistas can help it. They condemn the idea and will fight it.

Stay tuned. November approaches in both countries. The Bush administration's tenure is short. But it's got plenty of time left to incinerate two continents and end the republic if that's its plan. An inert public needs arousing. Michel Chossudovsy says we're "at the crossroads of the most serious crisis in modern history." It's part of a "war and globalization" process. The stakes for humanity are incalculable, but rogue states don't weigh them. World communities better while there's time.

Stephen Lendman is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization. He lives in Chicago and can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net.

Also visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com and listen to The Global Research News Hour on RepublicBroadcasting.org Mondays from 11AM to 1PM US Central time for cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests. All programs are archived for easy listening.

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**** Dieterich afirma que la invasión del “Imperio” ya está cerca

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Russian Foreign Ministry reports are stating today the Prime Minister
Putinï¿∏s ï¿∏suddenï¿∏ diplomatic trip to France was made at the behest of Chinaï¿∏s President Hu in order to ï¿∏warnï¿∏ the European Union not to become involved with the US following what is widely expected to be a
ï¿∏retaliatory strikeï¿∏ against the United States, and who the Chinese
military has blamed for the catastrophic May 12th earthquake that has
killed nearly 90,000 human beings.

Chinese and Russian Military scientists, these reports say, are
concurring with Canadian researcher, and former Asia-Pacific Bureau
Chief of Forbes Magazine, Benjamin Fulford, who in a very disturbing
video released from his Japanese offices to the American public, details
how the United States attacked China by the firing of a 90 Million Volt
Shockwave from the Americans High Frequency Active Auroral Research
Program (HAARP) facilities in Alaska.

So powerful was this Shockwave, Britainï¿∏s Times Online News Service is
reporting that the entire atmosphere over the Chinese earthquake zone
became mysteriously changed 30 minutes prior to the 8.0 Magnitude
Trembler:

ï¿∏Can clouds predict earthquakes? YouTube has footage of strange multicoloured clouds seen just before the recent earthquake struck Sichuan province in China.

The first impression is of a rainbow smeared on to small scraps of
clouds, a phenomenon best known in a circumzenithal halo. This is
created when sunlight shines through cirrus clouds full of tiny
hexagonal ice crystals shaped like plates. The crystals behave like
glass prisms, splitting the light into a bow with the colours of the
spectrum, often brighter than a rainbow.

But one puzzle is that the colours in the Chinese clouds were upside
down from a normal circumzenithal halo ï¿∏ red pointing towards the horizon and blue towards the Sun, instead of the other way round.ï¿∏

Russian scientists are further speculating that the United States strike against China was ï¿∏exactly timedï¿∏ to coincide with the dangerous experiments ongoing at Large Hadron Collider for the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), and which we had previously
reported on in our May 13th report titled ï¿∏CERN ï¿∏Nailed Heart Of Earthï¿∏ With China Quake, Chilean Volcanoï¿∏.

Russian Military Analysts note that though Chinaï¿∏s Military has ordered is vast submarine fleet to ï¿∏disperseï¿∏ throughout the Pacific Ocean, the
Chinese ï¿∏attackï¿∏ against the United States would, most likely, take a form of economic warfare instead of an actual clashing of forces. 

More disturbing, however, in these reports is Chinaï¿∏s urging of both Syria and Turkey not to allow more water into mighty rivers of the Euphrates and Tigris, which the Iraqis are warning are running dry due to the severe drought in that war-torn Nation.

The importance of this latest move by China is the newly signed Defense Pact signed between Iran and Syria which would allow Chinese Military Forces permission to use Iranian territory to come to the aid of Syria.

It should be further noted that the Christian Bibles New Testament Book of Revelations (Chapter 16, Verse 12) prophesied that the Euphrates will dry up in preparation for the Battle of Armageddon and would be crossed by an Eastern Army of 200 million soldiers, of which in our World today only China is able to field and have the ability to reach by land alone.

As the United States and China battle for their very survival in a World becoming increasing volatile due to the rapidly growing shortages of both food and fuel, one does indeed wonder if the End Times are now upon us all. 

*** Chávez le ha obligado a anular el cobro de la señal de VTV

El enfado del Presidente Chávez por la decisión de VTV de cobrar por la retransmisión de su señal fue monumental y, al margen de la puesta a disposición de su cargo del Ministro Izarra, ordenó que VTV dejara sin efecto su decisión, cosa que hoy ha cumplido el canal según un Comunicado de su Presidente Yuri Pimentel.

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AfP París.- La mamá más anciana de la Tierra, un pez con una antigüedad estimada de 380 millones de años, fue descubierta en la costa noroeste de Australia, todavía con su embrión sujeto por el cordón umbilical. El fósil no es sólo el primer embrión fósil hallado con su cordón umbilical, sino también la criatura más antigua en dar a luz.

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Dr. Franz J. T. Lee explains the original Bourgoise Revolution from its origin in Europe to its full realization as "Globalization" and as the ideological weapon to launch Capitalism on a world scale from the Marxist Scientific and Philosophic approach.  Also Dr. Lee thoroughly analyses the quintessence of Capitalism as economic exploitation, political domination, social discrimination, genocidal militarization and human alienation and the problems to launch a Revolution in the epoch of Globalization. 

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