Baltic Dry Index Hits All Time Low - DON'T PANIC!

The Baltic What?

The Baltic Exchange Building - London

Most of the financial newspapers, tip sheets and web sites featured this story today (10 Nov, 2015). What is The Baltic Dry Index and why should it concern us ordinary punters?" you might well ask.

Most of the financial data reported in mainstream news is bollocks. GDP only measures the amount of money churning around an economy, while the CPI (Consumer Prices Index is constantly manipulated by swapping in and out the goods or services it looks at.

DEFINITION (from official Baltic Exchange website):
"The 'Baltic Dry Index' or BDI is a shipping and trade index created by the London-based Baltic Exchange that measures changes in the cost to transport raw materials such as metals, grains and fossil fuels by sea. The Baltic Exchange directly contacts shipping brokers to assess price levels for a given route, product to transport and time to delivery (speed).

'Baltic Dry' to use the finance industry's favourite contraction, is a composite of three sub-indexes that measure different sizes of dry bulk carrier ships - Capesize, Supramax and Panamax. Multiple geographic routes are evaluated for each index to give depth to the index's composite measurement."

'Baltic Dry' is also known sometimes referred to as the "Dry Bulk Index".

History

Cities of The Hanseatic League

The Baltic Exchange of London ((official site) was formally incorporated in 1744 in London at a time when was trade was expanding rapidly and there was a growing need for regulation. The name suggests the Baltic Exchange evolved from a system of brokerage dating back to the medieval Hanseatic League. Although the league was formed of German and Baltic city states in the thirteenth century and continued until the rise of nations states three or four centuries later, London was never a part of it. The Port Of London did however have very close links with the Hanseatic Ports and the merchants of Amsterdam, Hamburg, Bremen, Danzig, Tallin and Riga has agents in London to arrange passage of goods.

The history of London's financial centre, known as 'The City' because for many centuries up to the 1980s it was mostly contained within the boundaries of the old Roman walled city, Londinium, offers a fascinating insight into how the global economy developed and also to how this cold, wet island we Anglo Saxons and Celtic Scandinavians call home came to be the dominant world economic power between the seventeenth and early twentieth centuries. The banking system we are all familiar with, for example, was created by Nathan Meyer Rothschild after he moved his goldsmith business from Amsterdam to London and invented Magic Money, the stuff bankers produce out of a magicians hat.


The modern Baltic Dry is high - tech of course and deals are made by electronic communications rather than agents on the ground recording transactions in ink made from water, gum arabic and soot, with quill pens on vellum. It is still however one of the most useful measures of trade and thus of the real health of the global economy. If merchants, or corporate conglomerates are not moving much stuff, it means they are not buying and selling much stuff. Which is the reality we must place against all those optimistic GDP forecasts, and job figures which show record numbers of people holding jobs but do not tell us how many of those jobs are really half jobs (part time) or in the case of a young woman I know who after a spell of unemployment was offered a job that provided one hour paid world a day, one seventh of a job but for the government bean counters enough to mover her from unemployed to employed in the statistics.


The Baltic Exchange publishes the Baltic Dry Index (sic), which provides up to date pricing information for the cost of shipping of categories of cargo along different trade routes. The index is also used by economists and investment analysts to calculate from the demand for shipping versus shipping capacity, the level of activity in world trade, rather than those produced by people who create wealth with mathematical models of the economy..

What The latest News Means

Forward to the past - a scene in Gamla Stan, the commercial centre of Hanseatic Stockholm

At this time of year analysts expect the index to be high, demand picking up in late summer as businesses build their inventory against seasonal demand, and mid November is about the latest time to get cargoes from the far east or South America to Europe in time for the peak season for retail. Reliable measures of global economic activity usually rise from mid-summer to Thanksgiving. This year Baltic Dry has not risen, in fact from a serious low in summer, it has sunk even further.

The reason is that as the global economic engines slow and the economic reality masked by over valued global stock markets, with record levels driven by automated algorithm trading by machines programmed to follow the market trend suggests a massive deflationary wave is on the way. We should remind ourselves every time some grinning news frontman or woman enthusiastically tells us Stock Markets in New York or London have set a new record high, the indexes they refer to are only looking at a very small bundle of shares in successful companies. The FTSE (pronounced footsie) 100 is the Financial Times 100 Share Index, covering 100 of the best performing companies traded in London. The Dow Jones Industrial is similar.

At yesterday's level of 631, Baltic Dry Freight Index was at its lowest level (inflation adjusted) in history for this particular time of year. It is also within a whisker of an all-time low.

What does this mean? The only way to interpret this downward movement in the Baltic Dry is that there is more cargo capacity available from shipping companies that there are cargoes available to make the business of moving goods across the world an economically viable proposition. In other words, far from the leading economies booming( e.g. the UK and USA where economic forecasts have gone from positive to euphoric this year as far as Joe Ordinary is concerned it feels as if we are still in recession. In fact this new slowdown on top of the ongoing depression is a far greater threat to peace and stability than ISIS.

This will not really mean much to you and me, (assuming you are not a banker or financial trader) but it does mean the only practical solution to saving the environment is being imposed on us by circumstances (I'm not a Carbon Dioxide scaremonger, there are many things damaging the environment: population growth; deforestation; dumping toxic substances in the seas and rivers or in wilderness areas and most of all our throw away culture), by cutting back on what we consume we all contribute to relieving the pressure on the ecosphere.


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Hypocritical Obama says US Foreign Policy Is Not about ‘occupying countries’ & ‘firing missiles’ Umm ....

by Xavier Connolly

And of course ordering a 747 to fly him and his wife from Washington to New York for a 'date' then lecturing us ordinary punters on the evils of burning fossil fuel (image source)

Some say Barack hussein Obama is the most evil human being ever. Not being religious I don't go in for evil, Satan, Asmodius and all that, but if we are talking about the most despicably hypocritical human being ever, Brack Obama has to be a contender. The man is so full of shit a torrent of the stuff pours out every time he opens his mouth. Take this shitstream from the warmonger in chief for example:

"America’s world supremacy is not about the number of occupied countries and fired missiles, believes the US president. Its international strength relies on diplomacy, protection of human rights and cooperation with other nations.

"The measure of strength internationally is not simply by how many countries we’re occupying, or how many missiles we’re firing, but the strength of our diplomacy and the strength of our commitment to human rights and our belief that we’ve got to cooperate with other countries together to solve massive problems like terrorism, but also like climate change,” the Washington Examiner cited Barack Obama as saying on Wednesday while addressing a 350-person fundraiser in Potomac, Maryland."

Obama made the statement on the seventh anniversary of his first-term presidential election, answering Republican critics that label his external policy as toothless. The case is of course that Obama has involved the USA in more wars and external conflicts that any other president (even that peace loving Democrat Bill Clinton), that his foreign policy has become a subject of ridicule is due to the incompetence of his administration in managing those interventions.

As recently as February 2015, the president publicly acknowledged that US foreign policy relied on military strength and economic leverage to achieve its aims. He said at that huncture that "American leadership" sometimes involves "twisting the arms” of nations which “don’t do what we need them to do."

"We occasionally have to twist the arms of countries that wouldn’t do what we need them to do if it weren’t for the various economic or diplomatic or, in some cases, military leverage that we exercised — if we didn’t have that dose of realism, we wouldn’t get anything done, either," President Obama said in an interview with Vox.

In May 2015 Obama gave a speech at West Point Military Academy’s graduation ceremony in which he said “America must always lead on the world stage.

"If we don’t, no one else will. The military that you have joined is, and always will be, the backbone of that leadership," Obama said.

He stressed that the US military potential remains at the core of America’s ability to influence changes abroad, therefore the Pentagon reserves the power to launch unilateral attacks when US interests are directly threatened.

So having stated so plainly and recently that Washington foreign policy relies on bullying, why is he backing off from that position now. Maybe it is because, having been exposed by Vladimir Putin over the Syria situation as a leader who lacks the testicular fortitude to back up his threats, Obama is trying to save face by reclaiming his peacemaker and joybringer, Obamessiah image.

Unfortunately that is not going to get him very far with the USA's standing in world politics at an all time low.

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Group of Teenage North Africans Sentenced for Gang Rape Carried Out In Central Stockholm

German and Swedish women are waking up to the dangers of uncontrolled immigration and the realities of Islamic attitudes to female freedom (picture source: barenakedislam)

A group of teenager immigrants from north Africa, living in Stockholm as refugees, have been found guilty of the horrific gang rape of a 23-year-old Swedish woman on the Södermalm island, a fashionable residential area in the Stockholm archpelago.

The attack took place two months ago (late August), but was almost unreported by mainstream media, so commonplace have such outrages become in Sweden where the politically correct idiots in government have operated an 'open doors' immigration policy that has earned their country the unenviable title of 'rape capital of Europe.'. Stockholm District Court heard that the woman had been sitting crying when two of the teenage boys came and offered her a beer and comforted her.

From the witness stand she said she had declined the alcohol but ended up sitting with the teenagers at a nearby viewpoint looking over the city. At first the atmosphere was calm and she even phoned a friend. But then one of the men gripped her neck, ripped her clothes off and raped her.

The woman said that several other boys then arrived and she was raped many more times, by at least four different people.

She managed to get away at around 3am and board a night bus in the area, she told the court.

On Thursday the court sentenced two of the thugs, who are all aged between 15 and 18 years old, to six months in a juvenile detention centre and another to nine months. A third boy who was arrested was not brought to trial, Swedish tabloid Aftonbladet reported.

The teenagers are reported to be from north Africa and had been living in a refugee camp in Stockholm.

After the verdict, the rape victim told Aftonbladet she thought it was “sick” that the young men had been given such short sentences but said she was “glad that they were all convicted”.

While her physical wounds have healed, she said: “mentally I feel bloody awful”.

Södermalm is one of Stockholm’s most heavily populated islands, situated south of the city’s Old Town. Previously an industrial area with a reputation for violence, it has transformed into a trendy neighbourhood in recent decades, popular with professionals and business people.

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The civil conflict in Ukraine has been pushed aside due to the seriousness of events in Syria and Iraq, but that's the way it goes with international news. Ukraine's problems are still as serious as ever even if they have not been at the op of news bulletins or grabbing newspaper headlines for a while. It would be great to report that the Kiev Government and pro - Russia separatists in the Donbass region had reached and agreement and the country was getting back to normal but that is not so.

European leaders however, eager as only politicians can be to aggrandize themselves, were quick to hail progress in halting the bloodshed in eastern Ukraine after talks in Berlin last Friday. German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, who hosted the meeting top foreign affairs officers from Ukraine, Russia and France, told reporters the two hours of discussions had focused on "how to further shore up the ceasefire" agreed in September between Kiev and pro-Russian forces.

"No one denied the difficulties and the obstacles to a political solution," he said.

"My impression here was that the participants are working to overcome these obstacles."

Steinmeier said the big sticking point was withdrawal of heavy weapons, including tanks, artillery and mortars, a goal he said he hoped will be reached by early December.

The chief monitor for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), Ertugrul Apakan, said this week the ceasefire was "largely holding" but that the situation remains "volatile". A broader peace deal brokered by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and France's President Francois Hollande in February, The Minsk Accord, calls for the withdrawal of heavy weapons from the front line and calls for a vote in independence to be held in the separatist regions under international auspices.

The referendum have now been pushed back to early 2016.

For Russia, Sergei Lavrov admitted that "the implementation of Minsk will be delayed until next year" but told Russian reporters that he "truly hopes that a (military) escalation can be halted".

We note that the politicians do not acknowledge that fears the worsening situation in syria and Turkey and the EU's migrat crisis might spill over into Ukraine might have exercised a restraining influence on the parties involved in the conflict.

The Self Righteous Minority That Threaten Free Speech

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Until recently Universities were places where any ideas were welcome and any economic, social, or scientific theory, no matter how extreme would be given a fair hearing and debated openly. Were that not the case, how far do you think the ideas of Isaac Newton and Robert Boyle, respectively the fathers of modern physics and chemistry would have progressed in a world still dominated by religious dogma.

In the past five decades however, and with increasing intensity, the freedom of thought and speech cherished in universities (as well as the press and regular drinkers in public bars) in democratic societies has increasingly come under attack from those who style themselves 'The Left'. This of itself is bizarre because left wing thinking ought to be about freedom of the individual, self determination and personal development. People died for the right to speak freely, just as they did for the right of every citizen to vote in democratic elections. So where did it all start to go wrong? How did the idea that there is only one set of acceptable answers to society's problems (the 'pensée unique' to use a French phrase I am fond of) and that those who challenge the orthodoxy should be silence and prevented from broadcasting their ideas in print or verbally.

Literally translated, 'pensée unique' means single thought but in modern usage it means single mindset, as in the ideal of complete conformity to the orthodoxies of a society. At a recent G20 conference (London, 2009) a proponent of globalism called on governments of the developing nations to work towards creating not just a system og global governance but a global culture . "To persuade all the peoples of the world to accept a common set of values and morals is the only way forward," he said.

"On the contrary," a delagate from one of the emerging economies replied, "it will leave those who do not accept the single mindset by the wayside. To ignore people's sense of national allegiance and the role of the nation-state and force people to accept the'single mindset ' which you embody is out-of-date and dangerous."

It is in fact as out of date and dangerous as Marxism; in his Communist Manifesto Karl Marx predicted in a communist world people would cease to exist as invididuals and be only components of a mechanistic state. Marx's sociopathic state offers a grim enough prospect to warn all thinking people off his version of communism. But not our current generation of students it seems. From being the crazy, anarchic idiots of National Lampoon's Animal House in the 1970s, students have become self righteous prigs.

In a time where college students are offended by just about everything that causes them to question their indoctrination, US magazine The Federalist Papers reports that one professor at University of North Carolina, Wilmington decided to cut through the politically correct rhetoric and let his students know that they aren’t "the special snowflake liberals" and their parents and school teachers would have them believe.

His epic class introduction has gone viral, and for good reason: this is the most common sense lecture to come out of any college in a long time. Here's a taster:

Welcome back to class, students! I am Mike Adams your criminology professor here at UNC-Wilmington. Before we get started with the course I need to address an issue that is causing problems here at UNCW and in higher education all across the country. I am talking about the growing minority of students who believe they have a right to be free from being offended. If we don’t reverse this dangerous trend in our society there will soon be a majority of young people who will need to walk around in plastic bubble suits to protect them in the event that they come into contact with a dissenting viewpoint. That mentality is unworthy of an American. It’s hardly worthy of a Frenchman.

Let’s get something straight right now. You have no right to be unoffended. You have a right to be offended with regularity. It is the price you pay for living in a free society. If you don’t understand that you are confused and dangerously so. In part, I blame your high school teachers for failing to teach you basic civics before you got your diploma. Most of you went to the public high schools, which are a disaster. Don’t tell me that offended you. I went to a public high school.

Of course, your high school might not be the problem. It is entirely possible that the main reason why so many of you are confused about free speech is that piece of paper hanging on the wall right over there. Please turn your attention to that ridiculous document that is framed and hanging by the door. In fact, take a few minutes to read it before you leave class today. It is our campus speech code. It specifically says that there is a requirement that everyone must only engage in discourse that is “respectful.” That assertion is as ludicrous as it is illegal. I plan to have that thing ripped down from every classroom on campus before I retire.

One of my grandfathers served in World War I. My step-grandfather served in World War II. My sixth great grandfather enlisted in the American Revolution when he was only thirteen. These great men did not fight so we could simply relinquish our rights to the enemy within our borders. That enemy is the Marxists who run our public universities. If you are a Marxist and I just offended you, well, that’s tough. I guess they don’t make communists like they used to.

Unbelievably, a student once complained to the Department chairwoman that my mention of God and a Creator was a violation of Separation of Church and State. Let me be as clear as I possibly can: If any of you actually think that my decision to paraphrase the Declaration of Independence in the course syllabus is unconstitutional then you suffer from severe intellectual hernia.

Indeed, it takes hard work to become stupid enough to think the Declaration of Independence is unconstitutional. If you agree with the student who made that complaint then you are probably just an anti-religious zealot. Therefore, I am going to ask you to do exactly three things and do them in the exact order that I specify.

First, get out of my class. You can fill out the drop slip over at James Hall. Just tell them you don’t believe in true diversity and you want to be surrounded by people who agree with your twisted interpretation of the Constitution simply because they are the kind of people who will protect you from having your beliefs challenged or your feelings hurt.

Second, withdraw from the university. If you find that you are actually relieved because you will no longer be in a class where your beliefs might be challenged then you aren’t ready for college. Go get a job building houses so you can work with some illegal aliens who will help you gain a better appreciation of what this country has to offer.

Finally, if this doesn’t work then I would simply ask you to get the hell out of the country. The ever-growing thinned-skinned minority you have joined is simply ruining life in this once-great nation. Please move to some place like Cuba where you can enjoy the company of communists and get excellent health care. Just hop on a leaky boat and start paddling your way towards utopia. You will not be missed.

Professor Adams hits the nail on the head, but it is not just themselves the precious little liberal luvvies believe should be protected from anything that might offend. As all Boggart related online publications have reported, they are always eager to take offence on behalf of others. There are few genuine cultural divisions in the world that cannot be overcome with a little goodwill on both sides. Most of the issues that divide people are arbitrarily created, not only by the ruling elites who, like the Roman, know that human nature changes little, and so Cicero's strategy of divide and rule is still effective two thousand years later, but also by the useful idiots of Uncle Joe Stalin's famous phrase and the mindless sycophants (sheeple) who have infiltrated our higher education systems.

It is not coincidence that cultural Marxists, "social justice warriors", Politically Correct busybodies, militant feminists and globalists tend to create artificial divisions between people and classes through their obsession with identity politics. This is what cultural Marxists and followers of The Fabian Society do.

Their chief weapons are the use of arbitrary "victim status" to various minorities, based on how "oppressed" or "marginalised" they supposedly are thus dividing them from each other and from mainstream society. The less statistically prominent a particular group is (less represented in a job field, media, education, population, etc.) in any western society based on their color, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, etc., generally the more victim group status is afforded to them by social justice gatekeepers. Fashions change as rapidly in the world of cultural Marxism, Muslims are the currently favoured religious minority (that Muslim culture is sexist, homophobic and justifies rape of infidel women hasn't penetrated the SJWs self righteousness shields yet). Whites and males (straight white males especially) are at the bottom of the list of people who can be seen as victims of society and we are repeatedly targeted by SJW organizations and left wing online hate mobs as upholders of an absurd theory they call "the patriarchy" (Again, they reveal their ignorance by favouring the most patriarchal culture on the planet, Islam.

In the end however, Cultural Marxism harms every individual in the long run it harms the concept of individualism itself. The pensée unique has no rooms available for indiviuals.

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"It is very likely that sulfur mustard caused the death of a baby," the report said. The findings provide the first official confirmation of use of mustard gas in Syria during the current hostilities.

The report did not mention Islamic State or Al Nusra as the responsible party, as the fact-finding mission was not mandated to assign blame. Diplomatic sources said the chemical had been used in the clashes between Islamic State and another rebel group taking place in the town at the time.

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Human Rights Activists Impoverish Thai Peasants To Protect Monkey's Rights.

Macaque harvesting coconuts in Thailand (Image source)

According to animal rights campaigners abused monkeys are a key ingredient in your pre - prepared curry sauces and healthy, non dairy coconut milk. While the practice of using monkeys to harvest coconuts dates back hundreds of years in Thailand and Malaya, it has only recently come to the attention of Social Justice Warriors (SJWs) whose latest thing is 'human rights for animals'.

Inevitably then, the SJWs sooner or later had to take up the monkeys' cause. It was intolerable that people in the west were willing to tolerate the abuse of Macaques for the sake of tasty curries or milk substitutes for lactose intolerant people.

A lifelong environmentalist and author of Spiritual Ecology: A Quiet Revolution, Dr Leslie Sponsel had reservations about while watching primate coconut pickers at work. Instead of calling for a nationwide boycott of coconut products as some have done, Sponsel did what every anthropologist worth his salt is trained to do: take pause and observe. He noted that neither his wife — a Thai Buddhist — nor a fellow Thai professor from a local university framed the practice in moral terms and concluded that monkeys on task are a part of peninsula living.

Early twentieth century British explorer Robert Shelford observed in his 1916 book: A Naturalist in Borneo:

"The modus operandi is as follows: — A cord is fastened round the monkey’s waist, and it is led to a coconut palm which it rapidly climbs, it then lays hold of a nut, and if the owner judges the nut to be ripe for plucking he shouts to the monkey, which then twists the nut round and round till the stalk is broken and lets it fall to the ground; if the monkey catches hold of an unripe nut, the owner tugs the cord and the monkey tries another. ... [At times] the use of the cord was dispensed with altogether, the monkey being guided by the tones and inflections of his master’s voice.

Defending the practice of using monkeys, Sponsel says, “Working macaques are the difference between a livelihood and abject poverty for many farmers in South Thailand. Snake bites, stinging ants, and life-ending falls face whoever or whatever goes up those trees.”

Considering monkeys can harvest coconuts up to and over twenty times faster than the most skilled human, the incentive to continue with the time honoured system is clear. While engaged in fieldwork, Sponsel reports having never observed or heard of monkeys being abused by their keepers. He wrote that most are treated in a similar way to a Western family pet. “For some households,” he commented, “they may even rise even to the level of being a family member.”

In a country that rounds up its stray dog population and ships the pooches to Vietnam for Tet New Year dinners, the Thai macaques have it easy. Sponsel says: "Young ones are trained and kept on a rope or chain tethered to the handler or to a shelter when not working."

It is this practice that has earned the ire of some activists who conveniently forget that in Euro / American society it is a matter of civility (and sometimes of law) to keep pets on a leash. And who hasn’t seen the mother who puts a pair of reins on her children as they walk through a busy street just has not been looking. According to Sponsel, the monkeys he observed were well-fed, groomed and cared for.

"This debate about how we treat primates is not new," Sponsel tells his readers. “Back in 1952, Jean Marcel Brulle’s novel The Murder of the Missing Link tackled our moral obligation to primates," a man impregnates a female monkey and then kills the child to force a jury to deliberate whether murder extends beyond humankind. Some people may recall that Burt Reynolds played the lead in the 1970s movie Skullduggery, based on Brulle’s story.

As happens so often, we see the left impaled by their own insatiable self righteousness. By taking up the monkey's cause (without the monkeys having asked them to) they are quite happy to turn a blind eye to the harm they are doing to third world subsistence farmers. As bored little rich kids in London and New York, L.A., Paris and Bonn turn up the moral outrage dials to eleven, there are calls for a boycott of Thai and Malay coconuts. A bandwagon is starting to roll.

The SJWs do not even pause to seriously consider ways in which their campaign for monkeys rights may negatively impact the livelihood of poor farmers and their families. But then left wing activists always manage to appear more concerned with earning the good opinion of their peers than the harm their actions may cause to poor people, even though the latter have rights too.”

In a perfect world, Thai farmers would have coconut harvesting machines and monkeys would swing from tree to tree in an unspoiled wilderness while "The Watchers" (see Book Of Enoch) benignly look down from their lofty towers. But, for the world we have, where habitat destruction wipes out entire populations, coconuts and successful harvesting of them is the only thing that keeps Macaques from progressing beyond the status of family pet to the status of family dinner.

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India Outlaws Greenpeace. Grand Gesture Ahead Of Paris Climate Change Conference

A tea plantation in Darjeeling - target of latest Greenpeace bansturbation session (Image source)

With the Paris climate change conference looming near (Slogan: I love you Flash, but we only have twenty four hours to save the Earth), governments, well governments in the developed world are falling over themselves to parade their environmentally friendly credentials before the world media. Well most governments in the developed world. Certain emerging economies do not seem so impressed as Cameron, Hollande, Merkel and Co. to embrace the loonitoons idealism of the capitalism hating left or the delusions of the wannabe God - King Obama, who on finding his administration has failed in every respect is now trying to use environmentalism to destroy the global economy.

The Indian government has just banned Greenpeace. The 'save-the-two-toed-toad activists are of course spinning this as a monstrous injustice and a blow for freedom of speech and a government / capitalist conspiracy against Mother Earth.

"This is an extension of the deep intolerance for differing viewpoints that sections of this government seem to harbour," Vinuta Gopal, the interim executive director of Greenpeace India, said in a press release. Well given their behavior in the climate debate it is hypocritical for any Greenpeace executive to complain about the suppression of free speech. How many left wing neo - Fascists have we heard demanding that 'climate deniers' should be thrown into prison.

Alternatively, you could argue, it’s the Indian government doing what not even Putin’s Russia was capable of doing when push came to shove (during the Greenpeace Arctic 30 affair): telling this richly-funded, pan-global outfit of anti - civilisation nut jobs, these lying, cheating, data falsifying malfeasant bleeding hearts, these wealthy, privileged meddlers exactly where they can stick their environmental Naziism.

The ban has been introduced on the legal grounds that Greenpeace has violated various commerce rules in the southern Indian state of Tami Nadu where it has its Indian headquarters. Allegedly it “fraudulently conducted business by falsifying balance sheets" and other code violations. Greenpeace is now contesting the charges.

But whatever the official reasons for the ban, it looks like the case is Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government are flexing their muscles to show the green QANGO India’s economic development is not going to be hamstrung by the political meddling of left wing bullying masquerading as green activism.

The Government will be supported in this by the majority of his people, one thing the people of developing nations hate is western do-gooders telling them how to live their lives.India has environmental problems – such as the pall of smog that hangs over Delhi – just like anywhere else but it also has a burgeoning middle class eager for a better standard of living. Like China, India has made it clear that industrial progress comes before fashionable, politically correct Western liberal causes like "climate change".

They are also profoundly pissed off with western (particularly American) efforts to help them which usually fail spectacularly because the people running the scheme do not, and do not want to, understand how Indian society works. The attitude is seen as, "You will all be much better off if you stop behaving like Indians and start behaving like westerners."

Greenpeace has not helped itself by deciding, with the characteristic high-handed arrogance of the left, to attack one of India’s top export industries: tea.

Last year the environmentalists published a report titled "Trouble Brewing On Indian Tea" which alleged that Indian tea was laden with hazardous pesticides and suggesting it was not fit for export to the Europe, Britain and the USA.

Given that tea is India’s second largest employer – with 3,500,000 workers employed in over 1,500 tea estates – this headline - grabbing exercise was bound to go down like a lead zepplin Indian people, especially in tea growing areas.

And then, as stated at the top of the article, it is a good way to draw a line in the sand ahead of the climate change conference, because if Indian tea is off limits for western political activists, Indian steel and Indian textiles are going to be as sacrosanct as the holiest Hindu Temple.

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Autumn Gets More Interesting As Merkel Admits She May Have Caused New Balkans War.

The autumn of 2015 has been interesting with the escalation of the war against ISIS by Russian air Force jets and Iranian ground troops in Syria and Iraq, Europe's migrant crisis pushing prosperous north European nations towards civil unrest, and the downing of a Russian airliner over Sinai by as yet unknown causes though western intelligence reports suggest a terrorist bomb was planted on board before take off.

And it is set to get more interesting.

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Merkel admits she may have just caused a second Balkans war

Hausfrau Volksfuhrer Angela Merkel admitted in a speech yesterday that reversal of her open doors immigration policy or going back on her pledge that all the world's three billion poor and disadvantaged people were welcome in Germany (she might not have used those exact words) may cause another war in the Balkans. Since not only federal German state, Bavaria but Hungary, Austria and, Croatia and Slovenia are rushing to erect razor wire barriers along their their borders before 2016 to stem the flood of illegal immigrants crossing europe's outer borders every day, Merkel's admission is an overdue acceptance of her role in causing an imminent second Balkans war. Is it now too late to avert such a disaster adding to Europes many problems?

Economic migrants housed in the UK military base in Cyprus, meanwhile, imagined they could blackmail the UK into giving them fast-track entry into Britain, were told to eff off and threw a hissy fit, burning the tents supplied by the UK authorities yesterday as the base commanders stood firm and reiterated the choices on offer: claiming asylum in Cyprus, or being returning them to the Lebanon. One even pretended to hang himself yesterday - but in a carefully non lethal way and very theatrically for news cameras.

These poor, victimised refugees and asylum seekers are suffering from a shortage of dead infants, crying babies and doe - eyed teenage beauties who can cry at will, all of which are essential to attract the attention of news crews. We hear that the annual Pusey Bear schlockfest is to carry a special appeal from the Cyprus refugees for donations of unwanted babies, dead infants or doe eyed teenage girls (cute kittens and sad looking puppies will also be acceptable.

The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) is reported to have responded to a wave of criticism over mismanagement and squandering funds by headhunting a New York PR firm to 're image' the organisation; the contract could include a multi-million pound TV ad campaign together with celebrity endorsements for the embattled Agency's senior managers.

Merkel is also beginning to realise that with France's precipitous economic decline into sick man of the Eurozone status, only Germany and the UK are rich enough to subsidise the rest of Europe - and if we leave, Germany will have to pick up the tab alone. Given the scores of billions at stake, expect a covert onslaught of secretly funded publicity from Berlin for the 'stay' campaign - and explicit support for Cameron from Merkel, for as long as she remains in power.

Winter is set to be even more interesting ...

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Merkel Hit By German Citizens Backlash As Her Anti - German, Pro - Immigration Policy Indtroduces Violence, Rape and Third World Lawlessness To Germny's Muslim Ghettos

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Russian Plane Brought Down Over Sinai By ISIS Bomb?

Experts examining the wreckage say damage indicates explosion inside the aircraft forced shrapnet to punch its way out through the fuselage (Image source: The Independent)

The latest British and U.S. intelligence on the Russian airliner downed over Sinai suggests that the crash on 30 October, 2015 was probably caused by a bomb planed on the plane by an agent of ISIS or an ISIS affiliate.

No formal conclusion has been reached by the international intelligence community and the Russia government has been very restrained in its comments despite mounting evidence throughout the week that the crash was not due to a technical fault on the aircraft.

The move to express an opinion on the cause ahead of conclusive evidence may be a response to hysterical suggestions in certain US 'liberal' news networks loyal to the warmonger Barack Obama that Russian incompetence was responsible for the crash and that Putin and The Kremlin propagandists would use it to justify a ground invasion of Syria to sped the destruction of US sponsored Islamist forces trying to overthrow the Assad regime in Syria.

It is well known that the Obama administration has been trying to provoke Russia into acts of armed aggression against western interests for several years, in the hope of being handed an excuse to launche a full scale war against Assad.

While British media are trying to spin the 'bomb theory' as disastrous for Putin's image as a strongman leader, the Russian President cannot be held responsible for security lapses in Egypt. The British government's line can be understood however when we recall that the catastrophe and its aftermath have filled news in the week Egypt's President Sisi is vistiting the UK to discuss trade and political cooperation.

Russian Plane 'May Well Have Been Brought Down By An Explosive Device'

"There is a definite feeling it was an explosive device planted in luggage or somewhere on the plane," an official, who is familiar with the latest U.S. intelligence analysis of the crash, told CNN. Other U.S. officials also told CNN that the analysis is pointing toward the cause being a bomb.

Based on the same intelligence, the U.S. belief is that ISIS or an ISIS-affiliated group is responsible for the attack, the official said.

There are currently about 15,000 British nationals in Sharm El-Sheikh and as evidence of a terrorist outrage at the local airport they may have to be evacuated by military transport planes as the airspace over Sinai is declared unsafe by commercial airline operators.


Reuters is reporting that the cause of crash was an "explosion" on board the aircraft. A source close to the Egyptian Civil Aviation regulator has said investigation of the black boxes suggests the cause of the crash is looking more like an explosion, but as yet it is unclear if it was caused by fuel or a bomb.

They also said that investigators are studying sand from the plane crash site for signs of a bomb attack

Additionally, a Egtyptian judiciary source in the investigation team told Egyptian newspaper Al Masry Alyoum,, that "the cause of the crash is an explosion at the engine. The reason of the explosion will be determined on the examination of the crash site and the test of the bodies."

He added that at the present stage investigation did indicate any terrorist involvement but it cannot be ruled out.

Flights to Sharm El-Sheikh cancelled by most European airlines which suggests their experts think the flight having been brought down by "explosive device" is a leading possibility.

A British government spokeswoman said: "While the investigation is still ongoing we cannot say categorically why the Russian jet crashed. But as more information has come to light we have become concerned that the plane may well have been brought down by an explosive device.

"In light of this, and as a precautionary measure, we have decided that flights due to leave Sharm for the UK this evening will be cancelled.

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