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NEWNATIONS BULLETIN 2ND NOVEMBER 2009
Monthly reports on finance, business, trade,
economics, & political analysis
NEWNATIONS BULLETIN 2ND NOVEMBER 2009
POWER SHIFTS!
The economic crisis has rearranged the seats at the top table. The dollar is seriously being questioned. Along with that the easy assumptions of superiority in all things that the USA has enjoyed for most people's lifetimes. We take a look at what this signifies.
We argue that the military superiority which the US enjoys, with a military budget equivalent to the next twenty nations, is not likely to be challenged, because the key criteria now amongst nations is economic superiority and there, the US's lead can no longer be assumed. We argue for a realignment of the United Nations where the SECURITY COUNCIL would be subsumed by the far more representative G20 - and that the veto must go!
NOBEL PEACE PRIZE
We have a take on this which having read so many other opinions, appears to be unique.
PAKISTAN IN AGONY
Pity the people of Pakistan. The Islamic terrorists seem to be quite content to habitually explode their bombs amongst their own civilians,Moslems themselves.
We look a little harder at the ISI - facing both ways. As Hillary Clinton so aptly pointed out, can it be that after eight long years, that nobody in Pakistani military intelligence, or in the government, knows where Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda are holed up in their country?
We have long believed that what Musharraf tried but was unable to do - that is secularise his nation, as did his hero Kemal Attaturk in Turkey was the right, probably the only solution for this blood-spattered Islamic nation of PAKISTAN. INDIA is just such a secular nation, with far more Moslems in its population than there are in PAKISTAN and civilians including those Moslems in INDIA, enjoy something approaching normality, not to be the helpless bomb fodder of the nation to their north.
AFGHANISTAN
The tolerance of the habitual Afghan leaders corruption is fast approaching breaking-point in those nations who send their young men to fight there. Obama, although being criticised by the likes of Murdoch's Fox news for 'indecision' (well, they would, wouldn't they), is quite right to be revaluating the whole project. The re-run Presidential election scheduled for November, if it becomes anotherr farce,could be the breaking point!
BOSNIA LIMPING TOWARDS THE EDGE
A bleak picture emerges in our BOSNIA report. After the hundreds of millions spent there, the small FYR state is still dysfunctional.
KAZAKHSTAN: A POPULAR DESTINATION
President Sarkozy is the latest western leader to visit this, the most successful Central Asian State - and he didn't leave empty-handed
NORTH KOREA'S ENIGMAS MULTIPLY
We chronicle the latest twist in the manifold twists and turns of North Korea's international relations. THE DEAR LEADER has somewhat recovered his health and has slapped down his designated successor, his youngest son who it now seems has been getting above himself
IRAN: THE GAME GETS TIGHTER
We explain why.
IRAQ: THE USUAL MESS
Our November report tells how far away IRAQ is from 'Normality,' in any way that the other involved nations would use that word. But there corruption IS normal.
Just like the other headache, AFGHANISTAN, the opposition candidates are demanding that the Election Commission should be replaced - and just like AFGHANISTAN the incumbent president is refusing to do this.
TAIWAN: DEMOCRACY SLIPPING AWAY
Sadly the KMT government is hell-bent on Beijing's policy of bringing TAIWAN back under the mainland's control without consulting the people. The leader of the Opposition a doughty opponent of this, is now locked up and silenced after being railroaded in a disgraceful travesty of courtroom procedure, as we explain.
INDIA PROTESTING PAKISTANI BREACH OF KASHMIR CEASEFIRE
This is an important development, because the timing indicates that perhaps the ISI are seeking to draw attention away from the embarassing spotlight they are under, with the fight against the Pakistani Taleban heading the news in their country and the world.
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