According to the Mail on Sunday, Premier Wen Jiabao made this offer at the start of his two-day visit to Greece.
Wen said that "China is holding Greek bonds and will keep buying bonds that Greece issues.
"We will undertake to support eurozone countries and Greece to overcome the crisis."
Wen is to attend an EU-China summit.
In the USA, the House of Representatives has voted for a Bill designed to protect against Chinese imports if China does not allow the yuan to rise significantly.
China has warned the USA that this could damage economic ties.
China has acquired interests in methane, zinc, lead and iron ore.
Angola
China has a $1.3 billion investment in an ofshore oil field.
Argentina
China spent $3.1 billion to gain a 50% stake in an oil and gas company.
Brazil
China has spent $7.1 billion to gain a 40% stake in the energy firm Repsol
Canada
China paid $4.7 billion for a stake in an oil sands company.
Ecuador
China is working on the development of two major oil fields.
Guinea
China paid $1.4 billion for a stake in an iron ore mine.
Iraq
China won the bid to develop the giant Rumaila oil field.
Kazakhstan
China has agreed a $2.6 billion deal with the 4th largest oil producer.
Peru
China has a $3 billion investment in copper reserves.
Russia
China has a $25 billion deal for the supply of oil.
Uganda
China bought $2.5 billion of oil assets from a UK company.
Venezuela
China has invested in a major oil field.
China also has investments in Sudan, Nigeria, Democratic Republic of Congo and Zambia.
China has been buying everything from oil and gas reserves to mining concessions to agricultural land.
China is the second-largest oil consumer in the world.
China's economic growth is seen as being vital to getting the world out of recession.
China wins friends in places like Africa by offering top prices and big infrastructure investments, including hospitals, ports, and road and rail links.
The people who run Aceh are mainly mad and bad people.
In January 2010 it was reported that three members of Aceh's Shariah Police had raped a young student.
"The kind of rape by men in authority in Aceh is not uncommon in communities that employ Shariah law.
"In Indonesia, it is not uncommon for a migrant worker to return home from working as a maid in Saudi Arabia only to give birth to an Arab-looking baby.
"If a maid is raped by her boss in Saudi Arabia the best thing she can hope for is to get home alive, because under that nation’s form of Shariah law, she could be sentenced to death for adultery."(Aceh Rape Shows Danger of Shariah Law The Jakarta Globe)
Indonesian Moslems have much to be proud of and much to be ashamed of.
Indonesian Moslems can be proud of the fact that Indonesia has on the whole resisted the fascist style of Islam that is used in Saudi Arabia to keep the rich and corrupt elite in power.
Most Indonesian Moslems have a reputation for moderation and hospitality.
Bali
Some Indonesian Moslems can be proud of the fact that they have educated themselves about how the CIA, in league with Saudi intelligence and Mossad, uses Moslems in its acts of false flag terrorism, acts which are designed to keep the rich and corrupt elite in power. (USA SEEKS CONTROL OF INDONESIA?We must not get back in bed with Kopassus - theage.com.au)
Indonesian Moslems should be ashamed of the way that, in 1965, certain Moslems helped the CIA topple President Sukarno and helped the CIA and its friends in the Indonesian military murder up to one million Indonesians.
Former President Wahid apologized for the 1965 killings on behalf of his Muslim association, Nahdlatul Ulama.
Indonesian Moslems should be ashamed of the fact that so many of Indonesia's rich Moslems do little or nothing to help the vast number of poor and undernourished Moslems.
Indonesia spends little on health education and public housing.
In Indonesia it is quite common for people to eat drink and smoke during the daylight hours of Ramadan.
Such people try to be discreet about it.
Most Indonesians just like to have fun.
But some of the inhabitants of the relatively remote and primitive province of Aceh in Sumatra are mad fundamentalists.
They seem to get a thrill from treating women in a sadistic way.
On 2 October 2010, we read that two women were publicly caned in Aceh, in Indonesia for selling rice during Ramadan
Murni Amris, 27, received three lashes and Rukiah Abdullah, 22, two.
This act of apparent sadism took place in front of a crowd of hundreds at a mosque in the city of Jantho, southeast of the provincial capital, Banda Aceh.
Murni and Rukiah were found guilty of violating sharia law by selling rice at a stall during daylight during Ramadan.
Sharia law was introduced in Aceh in 2005.
Marzuki Abdullah is the 'Nazi' head of Aceh’s sharia police.
The poor are generaly hospitable and liberal. The elite use fascism to stay in power.
It is believed that the CIA and the corrupt and decadent Saudi leadership finance various extremist Moslem groups.
It is believed that the CIA and the Saudis promote the Wahhabi version of Islam.
Wahhabis, like fundamentalist Christians and Hindus, are easy to brainwash, manipulate and control.
A Wahhabi is easily turned into a patsy.
Wahhabis keep the feudal lords in power and keep Moslem countries backward.
Not so long ago, the Islamic Defenders' Front, who are linked to the fascist elite, assaulted Christian worshippers while they held a service in the West Java town of Bakasi, on the outskirts of Jakarta. (Terrorism in Indonesia: Arrest of a smiling extremist)
Yahya Zaini, a senior Indonesian politician, resigned from his position after he was featured with an Indonesian Dangdut singer, Maria Eva, 29, in a steamy sex video that was widely circulated over the internet.
Mr. Zaini was the head of his party's religious affairs committee, which has responsibility for moral issues.
The laws include punishments for drinking alcohol and homosexuality.
Bustanul Arifin, of the Islamist Prosperous Justice Party, sat on the committee that oversaw the bill.
''We based the law on the Koran and the hadith,'' said Arifin.
Aceh has had a form of sharia since 2002.
A sharia police force has been created.
Jakartass refers to legislators trying to "foist their largely unwanted agenda on the electorate. The most notorious example has to be that of the Aceh regional government which believes that stoning adulterers will eradicate sexual 'deviants' and caning will cure homosexuals (even though sado-masochism is, for some, a form of sexual deviancy.)"
When the CIA was trying to frustrate democracy in Central America, they used Moslem money, from the Saudis. (Cached)
In Indonesia, money from Saudi Arabia and the Gulf has been financing mosques and preachers demanding a 'purer' form of Islam. (Indonesian Democracy’s Enemy Within)
Beginning in the 1970s, "activists linked to the Saudi-sponsored Islamic World League began indoctrinating small groups at the prestigious Bandung Institute of Technology with Brotherhood materials". (Indonesian Democracy’s Enemy Within)
In 1998, there was the possibility that Indonesia would change its government and become a democracy like Malaysia, where there is no miserable poverty.
Unfortunately, Indonesia's American-trained military hijacked the 1998 protest movement.
The May 1998 riots which toppled Suharto were organised by the military; certain Chinese people were made the scapegoats for all of Indonesia's problems; most of the old elite, consisting of generals, Chinese-Indonesian businessmen, religious leaders and politicians, remained in power; certain factions within the elite lost out.
Now sections of the elite are using Islam to frustrate democracy.
Indonesia's Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) 'is Indonesia's version of the Muslim Brotherhood'. (Playing with Fire in Indonesia). It supports 'Moslem values'.
"According to CIA agent Miles Copeland... the CIA began to cooperate with the Muslim Brotherhood... This signalled the beginning of an alliance between the traditional regimes and mass Islamic movements against Nasser and other secular forces." (aangirfan: The use of the Muslim Brotherhood by MI6 and the CIA in ...)
In the 2004 national elections, the PKS won 45 out of 550 seats in the Indonesian lower house (DPR). They also got 3 seats in the cabinet. (Playing with Fire in Indonesia)
In April 2008, PKS candidates won the Governorships of West Java and North Sumatra.
However, in the 9 April 2009 elections, the party came fourth with only 7.9 percent of the votes.
Why do some poor Indonesians vote for the PKS? They are fed up with "corruption, poor public services, poverty, and the perceived lack of real political choice." (Playing with Fire in Indonesia) Reportedly, the "founding manifesto" of the Justice Party that went on to become the PKS, called for the creation of an Islamic caliphate. (Indonesian Democracy’s Enemy Within)
China hopes to grab certain oil blocks from western energy groups, Shell, Chevron, Total and ExxonMobil.
Goodluck Jonathan, now Nigeria's president, shakes hands with visiting Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi in Abuja, capital of Nigeria, 8 January 2010.
The car bomb explosions killed eight people in Lagos, Nigeria's capital.
Former President, General Ibrahim Babangida, allegedly a CIA asset, was the only past Nigerian leader absent at the Independence Day ceremony.(IBB, Atiku absent at celebration)
MEND, Nigeria's Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, Nigeria's biggest rebel militia, reportedly warned it had planted bombs.
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan was quoted by AFP news agency as saying: "It has nothing to do with Mend."
MEND wants a greater share of oil revenues to go to the impoverished Niger Delta, home to Africa's biggest oil and gas industry.
Reportedly, MEND has struck at off-shore oil installations.
In 2009, an amnesty was agreed with rebels in the Delta.
MEND may have been infiltrated by a certain group.
Allegedly, in Nigeria, the CIA is "positioning Ibrahim B. Babangida to return to power." (CIA Agents & Nigeria.)
Orji Kalu, linked to a mysterious death.He may be Babangida's running mate.
The CIA may want Ibrahim Babangida standing as the presidential candidate and Orji Uzor Kalu as his running mate.
General Ibrahim Babangida ruled Nigeria from his coup against Muhammadu Buhari in 1985 until his departure in 1993.
Allegedly, Babangida is a CIA asset.
"The CIA cut a deal with Babangida, where Nigeria was used as a major drug transit and money laundering center for the proceeds of the CIA drug trade." (CIA Agents & Nigeria.)
Orji Uzor Kalu was a candidate for President of Nigeria in the April 2007 general election. [1]
"Reports say, Kalu drives into CIA Virginia Headquarters freely, with little on no clearance required of him as expected of visitors at CIA headquarters; sources told RR that only CIA agents and its operatives can have such access in that CIA Virginia facility, others pointed that Orji Uzor Kalu is in proximity to CIA Virgina headquarters, ‘he is their boy’ another commentator who spoke on condition of anonymity added." (CIA Agents & Nigeria.)
Reportedly, Abdulmutallab, the 23-year-old Nigerian 'underwear bomber', bound for Detroit, was doing the work of the CIA and Mossad.
Former dictator Ibrahim Babangida and Kalu may be CIA operatives (Moshood Abiola too) who assisted the US, with drug trafficking.
The CIA may want Ibrahim Babangida standing as the presidential candidate and Orji Uzor Kalu as his running mate.
Reportedly, the CIA did not want Chinwe Masi's mysterious death in Kalu’s Mansion to become a distraction to the “CIA Nigeria Roadmap”.
If Nigeria becomes balkanised (broken up along tribal lines) by 2015 or earlier as predicted by the CIA, the US will use its AFRICOM to protect the oil-wells.
In 1986, the Time Magazine reported that during the Reagan administration, the U.S had the elite commando unit, the SEALS, dispatched to several different countries for covert activities.
This unit was in Nigeria in August 1985, during the week that Babangida overthrew Muhammadu Buhari.
General Buhari
After the coup, the CIA cut a deal with Babangida, where Nigeria was used as a major drug transit and money laundering center for the proceeds of the CIA drug trade.
The phony or rogue bank, BCCI (Bank of Credit and Commerce International) was used to launder the proceeds of the drug business and take them out of the country.
Babangida’s loot left the country through this bank. Remember that branches of this bank were everywhere in Lagos and the North.
Journalist Dele Giwa stumbled on this information about drugs and was about to break the news when, in 1966, he was killed by a mail bomb.
Dele Giwa
Toward the end of 1986, or 1987, Babangida was given a “Strategic” award, by the Heritage Foundation.
There was an explosion of drug activities during Babangida’s regime.
It was during Babangida’s regime that most of the wealth was looted.
"Monumental kleptocrat and notorious dictator" General Sani Abacha, President of Nigeria from 1993 to 1998. He was trained at the Defence Officers cadet Training College in Aldershot, England.
Abacha and Abiola may have been killed with the assistance of the CIA.
The only leader that Nigerian people ever elected was Abiola.
Moshood Abiola (1937 – 1998) ran for the presidency in 1993, and won, but remained President-Elect till his death, as he was denied his mandate when the election results were annulled by the preceding military president Ibrahim Babangida.
Nigeria needs the likes of Nuhu Ribadus, Gani Fawhinmis, Tai Solarins, Mohammed Buharis and Babatunde Idiagbons.
Most of Nigeria's problems, especially the Niger Delta, can be traced back to LONDON AND WASHINGTON, through their multinational corporations.
Have YOU been subverted, converted, corrupted, poisoned, or ruined because you read a book? Oh, I mean because you read one of the MANY books that have been Challenged or Banned? Speak to me... Oops, let's not go there, Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson was recently called "pornographic". Even though thousands of young people have written to the author to acknowledge the positive impact, even life saving, that Speak had on their lives. It (there's another challenged book- It by Stephen King) created quite a stir in the blogging and reading community, and the publisher, Penguin, took out a full page ad in the New York Times featuring testimonials of the impact of Speak. There is a Chocolate War, I mean war because The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier is a banned book, going on between censors and readers, and we must keep our eyes open to what's going on. I am My Sister's Keeper (Ok, just had to get that in for Jodi Piccoult fans...) so I take Banned Books Week to highlight some of the books, many of which have won numerous honors in the literary community, that we may not have been able to read if the people who wanted to remove them from library & school shelves, and even bookstore shelves had their way. If Hansel and Gretel could get challenged I knew there was no hope for Snow White! And All I have to say is Where's Waldo?! (When you find him, tell him he's been Banned too!) ttyl, Suzanne
In Belgium, in 1984 a bizarre operation occurred around Vielsalm in the Ardennes region.
A squad of US Marines were parachuted into Belgium, and met by a member of the Belgian military intelligence.
They hid for a fortnight before attacking the police station of Vielsalm, in a so-called Oesling exercise, killing a Belgian officer. One marine was injured during the operation, losing an eye.
Initially the attack was passed off as terrorism, but was later proven to be the work of the American and Belgian military - as confirmed by the Senate investigations of 1991.
Other attacks occured, where, as was the case in Vielsalm, arms and ammunition were taken. Arms that found their way subsequently to extremist groups.
One central question in the Belgian Senate investigation into the stay-behind network was whether it had been involved in the so-calledBrabant Massacresof the 1980s.
These were a group of attacks that occured in the area around Brussels called Brabant over a period of two years. Jewellers, restaurants, and in a number of cases supermarkets were attacked by a gang of heavily armed and ruthless men.
In all the attacks very small amounts of money were taken, while "at the same time massive brutality and professionalism was employed" [NATO's Secret Armies pg 139].
For example, on November 9th 1985 on a busy Saturday, three armed hooded men entered a supermarket and started shooting. Eight people were killed, some while trying to escape.
The money taken from the raid amounted to a couple of thousand pounds, and was found dumped in a canal in an unopened sack...
An official report published on the Brabant Massacres in 1990, before the discovery of the secret army network, had concluded that the killers had official links:
“According to the report, the killers were members or former members of the security forces – extreme right-wingers who enjoyed high-level protection and were preparing a right-wing coup” [NATO’s Secret Armies, pg 145]
"I feel me being here and what I've done for this (team) ... (an offer) would have at least been extended, and it wasn't," Martin told The Denver Post. "I don't know who made that decision, but the decision was made. And I ain't happy. They know it. Everybody knows it.
"I'm not rushing whatsoever. The day I come back is the day I come back," Martin said. "Think about it: Ain't nobody in a hurry to give me a contract, so why would I be in a hurry to rush back and risk further injury? Makes all the sense in the world, right? Trust me, I've thought about it plenty.
"I didn't get hurt on my own. I got hurt playing basketball. I didn't get hurt doing something I wasn't supposed to be doing. I got hurt playing basketball. Overuse, is what the doctor told me. I got a tear in my patella. I didn't get that nowhere else but playing for the Nuggets last year."
Kinda reminds me of when Shaq waited all summer to have toe surgery, then did it right before the Lakers' training camp started and said: "I got hurt on company time, so I'll heal on company time." That was The Big Lazy's next-to-last season in L.A.
So yeah, I'm sure this thing with Martin will totally end well.
On San Piedro, an island of rugged, spectacular beauty in Puget Sound, a Japanese-American fisherman stands trial for murder. Set in 1954 in the shadow of World War II, Snow Falling on Cedars is a beautifully crafted courtroom drama, interracial love story, and war novel, illuminating the psychology of a community, the ambiguities of justice, the racism that persists even between neighbors, and the necessity of individual moral action despite the indifference of nature and circumstance.
In 1995 Snow Falling on Cedars was named 1995 book of the year by the American Booksellers Association. It also won the PEN/Faulkner award! What is the PEN/Faulkner award? Founded by writers in 1980, and named for William Faulkner, who used his Nobel Prize funds to create an award for young writers, and PEN, the international writers’ organization, the PEN/Faulkner Foundation brings together American writers and readers in a wide variety of programs to promote a love of literature. It's also one of the foremost prizes for literary fiction. Snow Falling on Cedars has also been challenged 4 times by parents who have objected to the books sexual content and obscene language. First challenged in 1997 by parents in the Snohomish, Wash. School District, who at the same time acknowledged the book's literary value. Next in 1999 it was pulled from the Boerne, Tex. Independent High School library and barred from the curriculum, although later it was returned to the library. In 2000 it was restricted by the South Kitsap, Wash. School District board, and then challenged, but retained, again in 2003 by the Modesto, Ca. City School Board for the advanced English classes. In this last case the school board said administrators should give parents more information about the books their children read, including annotations of each text. Parents can then opt out of any assignments they find objectionable.
What's really interesting is that David Guterson credits another frequently Banned & Challenged author as a major influence in his writing Snow Falling on Cedars... Who was that? None other than Harper Lee, whose To Kill a Mockingbird if one of the top 10 frequently challenged books...
"During his years as a teacher, Guterson discovered another major influence in To Kill a Mockingbird. "No other book had such an enormous impact [on me]" he has said of Harper Lee's splendid Southern classic. "I read it 20 times in 10 years and it never got old, only richer, deeper and more interesting." He admits freely to borrowing many of the novel's structural and thematic elements for his own 1994 tour de force, Snow Falling on Cedars. When he won the 1995 Pen/Faulkner award for Snow Falling on Cedars, Guterson quickly recognized the reclusive Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird for his success. He wrote to Lee asking her to come to the award ceremony in Washington, D.C., but being a highly private woman, she didn't attend."
Have you read Snow Falling on Cedars? I haven't yet, but now it's definitely going on my TBR list! Isn't it amazing how many Banned & Challenged books end up as "Books of the Year" and host to other literary prizes!
