Financialization

How significant is the heightened pressure on the dollar? Someone better versed in global finance will have to answer that one but China's central bank chief says it wants to "diversify it's trillion dollar currency reserves" by either trimming their dollar holdings or just accumulating fewer. You know Wall Streeters are exchanging nervous glances as they nurse their martinis. Japan holds a record amount of those tainted dollars as well and is ready to start calling some shots.

Meanwhile, Columbia's Supreme Court ordered three legislators arrested for ties to right-wing para-militaries. I don't know what game Uribe and his US handlers are playing, but if it means less harrassment to the social movements and union leaders, it's a good thing.

In Oaxaca, Governor Ruiz has proposed a "six point plan" to help settle the conflict with striking teachers and APPO. Sounds like John Kerry or some shit. Hopefully the protests can stay unified and achieve both local and broader goals.

The UN General Assembly voted for the fifteenth straight year to "urge" the US to end the 45 year old trade embargo on Cuba. The vote was a telling 183 to 4. Our allies were the Marianas Islands, a virtual protectorate and corporate client state ( think sweatshops, Conrad Burns, forced abortion, etc) and Palau. Who knows what Palau wants.

After the elections, so Im reading here, "both paries want to salvage political and military success in Iraq." Bastards all just worry about THEMselves, what they want to salvage for THEMselves. Think of how many troops and other humans died while the Paris "peace" talks were going on. Is Henry Kissinger directing this show?