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Inquiring minds note the growth slowdown in China: China’s economy stumbles in May, growth seen sliding in Q2 . China’s economy grew at its slowest pace for 13 years in 2012 and so far this year economic data has surprised on the downside, bringing warnings from some analysts that the country could miss its growth target of 7.5 percent for this year. “Growth remains unconvincing and the momentum seems to have lost pace in May,” Louis Kuijs, an economist at RBS, said in a note
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Slovenia Rules Out Bailout; Translation: "Slovenia Bailout Coming Right Up" An official denial is in: Slovenia Rules Out Bailout . Here is my interpretation: "A bailout is already in the works, only the date of the announcement is uncertain".
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More here: Western Media Celebrates Faux Progress in Myanmar
March 7, 2013 (LD) – Hundreds of heavily armed terrorists have crossed from the Philippines and landed in the eastern Malaysian state of Sabah. Dozens are already dead, and the Malaysian military has brought in aircraft and armor to confront the audacious, bizarre invasion, scattering militants into the jungles of Borneo island.
France 24’s report " Is Qatar fuelling the crisis in north Mali? " provides a useful vignette of Saudi-Qatari terror sponsorship, stating: “The MNLA [secular Tuareg separatists], al Qaeda-linked Ansar Dine and MUJAO [movement for unity and Jihad in West Africa] have all received cash from Doha.â€A month later Sadou Diallo, the mayor of the north Malian city of Gao [which had fallen to the Islamists] told RTL radio: “The French government knows perfectly well who is supporting these terrorists. Qatar, for example, continues to send so-called aid and food every day to the airports of Gao and Timbuktu.†The report also stated: “Qatar has an established a network of institutions it funds in Mali, including madrassas, schools and charities that it has been funding from the 1980s,†he wrote, adding that Qatar would be expecting a return on this investment.“Mali has huge oil and gas potential and it needs help developing its infrastructure,†he said
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The authors are to be commended for their willingness to engage in extensive publicdiscussion of their paper. As ER has remarked , this paper is an archetypal of a class of nonsense which attracts axe grinders, obsessives and the willing to be confused Eli has learned over the years that all sorts of strange people write the same paper, very long, very hard to follow and very wrong. These papers and their defenders play the Gallileo card early and often