Roberto Abraham Scaruffi: The Castros are only interested in their offshore bank accounts... Cuba is devastated from underdevelopment and corruption...

Wednesday, 28 January 2015

The Castros are only interested in their offshore bank accounts... Cuba is devastated from underdevelopment and corruption...

The European Union Times


Posted: 27 Jan 2015 06:58 AM PST


“I don’t trust the policy of the United States… but this does not mean I reject a pacific solution to the conflicts,” iconic former Cuban leader Fidel Castro commented on the push for a restoration of Cuban-American ties.
This is the first time the ex-revolutionary president has spoken publicly since the December 17 US push for a historic reconciliation between the two nations. The comments also come on the heels of Obama’s Congressional push to lift the five-decade Cuban embargo and his granting the State Department six months to review Cuba’s status on the terror list.
In another historic rapprochement, Cuba celebrated when Obama agreed to the release of 53 of its prisoners earlier in January, with only a few remaining behind bars.
The 88-year-old Castro does not “trust the US, nor have I exchanged any words with them,” he wrote in a letter addressed to the student federation at the University of Havana and printed in the Communist Party newspaper Granma.
However, “it does not mean I reject a pacific resolution to the conflicts,” Castro continues. “We will always defend cooperation and friendship with all the people of the world, including our political adversaries.”
Not everyone in Washington was happy about Obama’s “hand of friendship to the Cuban people.” Republicans John McCain, Lindsay Graham and Jeb Bush had harsh words – especially when it came to the prospect of opening an embassy in Havana. A joint statement from McCain and Graham called the new initiative an “appeasement of autocratic dictators, thugs and adversaries, which is dimi nishing America’s influence in the world.” They also believe “America and the values it stands for is in retreat and decline.”
Castro’s statement on the United States also comes two weeks after the former communist leader penned one to football icon Diego Maradona. That move ended almost three months of suspicions that the former leader had passed away. Castro had been missing from the public eye the whole time, fueling the rumors.
The revolutionary was forced to step down from his duties as president and hand the reins over to his brother Raul when he became seriously ill in 2006.
Although Castro had reconciliatory words on the relationship with the US, the former president has still not voiced his opinion on his younger brother’s decision to reconcile with Cuba’s age-old enemy – the same country that tried numerous times to assassinate Fidel, which is a world record.
“Cuba’s president has taken steps within his range of authority and the powers granted him by the National Assembly, and the Communist Party of Cuba,” Fidel’s measured words read.
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Posted: 27 Jan 2015 06:07 AM PST

S&P on Monday downgraded Russia’s credit grade to junk status.
Rating agency Standard & Poor’s downgraded Russia’s credit rating to the speculative BB+ grade from BBB-. Analysts say that the decision of the rating agency was politically motivated.
The speculative level means that securities that a BB+ state issues can only be good for short-term transactions to earn on their fall. The BB+ level of the credit rating is known as the “junk” rating.
In fact, ratings of international rating agencies fix the ability of this or that country to pay their debts. A credit rating is also important in assessing whether it is possible and expedient to lend money to a country. Such international rating agencies as Moody’s, S&P and Fitch work in this area. The agencies are known for giving their assessments on political grounds.
The decision of Standard & Poor’s to downgrade Russia’s credit rating struck another blow on the weak Russian ruble. Following the decision, the dollar rate climbed to the level of 69 rubles per one dollar. The euro was traded on more than 78 rubles per euro. However, the ruble subsequently improved its position by bouncing back to 67 rubles per one US dollar.
American economist James Rickards, the head of global strategy firm West Shore Funds, considers the downgrade of the Russian rating by Standard & Poor’s “meaningless” and “inaccurate.”
“Russia has ample reserves to pay off its sovereign debt. Russia’s external dollar-denominated debt is quite low, relative to GDP and relative to its reserve position. It’s hard to see the basis for the downgrade, which is inaccurate and meaningless,” Rickards, the author of “Currency Wars,” told Sputnik.
“The idea that Russia is going broke is nonsense, because they have a strong reserve position and access to hard currency reserves in China. China has $4 trillion in dollar-denominated assets, they could easily lend Russia everything it needs,” Rickards added.
According to Politonline.ru, to create a negative psychological environment among the Russian population and sow panic in economic circles inside and outside the country is one of the goals of customer of such rating predictions.
Take, for example, the authoritative and “completely objective in its assessments,” Standard & Poor’s. First and foremost, S&P is a subsidiary of the US-based media holding McGraw-Hill that provides financial and analytical services.
In a nutshell, S&P is very interested in the development of the sanctions pressure on Russia in line with the policies of the US authorities. The same can be said about other rating agencies, so expecting completely objective and truthful assessment from them is hardly possible.
According to the forecast from S&P, the Russian economy will grow annually by 0.5% in 2015-2018, which is significantly lower than the rate of previous years. Inflation, according to S&P, will be higher than ten percent. “We expect that the quality of assets in the financial system, taking into account the weakening of the ruble, the limited access of key areas of the economy to international capital markets on account of sanctions, as well as the economic downturn will continue to deteriorate,” Standard & Poor’s analysts said.
The next revision of Russia’s credit rating is scheduled for April 17, 2015, with a negative outlook. In the first minutes after the announcement of the news from S&P, the dollar rose by 5.06 rubles as compared to the closing of the previous trading session and reached 69.29 rubles. The euro rose by 5.8 rubles – up to 77.89 rubles. In the morning of January 27, the ruble regained its positions at auction.
Russia’s credit rating downgraded to junk for the first time since 2005
As a result of the decision from Standard & Poor’s, Russia’s rating has been downgraded to the “junk” level for the first time since 2005. The loss of the investment rating may finally close foreign debt markets for Russian companies for a long time, the Kommersant newspaper said.
Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov believes that Standard & Poor’s decision does not take into account the strong sides of the Russian economy. According to him, these are large reserves and low public debt, reports TASS.
Some experts say that the downgrade of the credit rating below the investment level marks only the beginning of serious problems for the Russian economy.
First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov, while at the Davos forum, said: “The situation with ratings is not quite adequate, as ratings are often based on political grounds.”
To stabilize the rating, Russia will need to restore financial stability (primarily reopen access to foreign loans for Russian borrowers) and improve basic macroeconomic indicators, S&P analysts said.
Meanwhile, President Vladimir Putin said at the recent meeting with the government that preserving “social stability” while maintaining “acceptable economic indicators” would be the prime goal for the Russian government.
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Posted: 27 Jan 2015 05:44 AM PST


The middle class has shrunk consistently over the past half-century.
The middle class has shrunk consistently over the past half-century. Until 2000, the reason was primarily because more Americans moved up the income ladder. But since then, the reason has shifted: There is a greater share of households on the lower rungs of the economic ladder.
– From yesterday’s New York Times article: Middle Class Shrinks Further as More Fall Out Instead of Climbing Up
At a packed session in Davos, former hedge fund director Robert Johnson revealed that worried hedge fund managers were already planning their escapes. “I know hedge fund managers all over the world who are buying airstrips and farms in places like New Zealand because they think they need a getaway,” he said.
– From the Guardian’s article: As Inequality Soars, the Nervous Super Rich are Already Planning Their Escapes
So the other day, President Barack Obama once again demonstrated his contempt for the American public by using his State of the Union address to pejoratively blurt out meaningless phrases such as“but tonight, we turn the page” and: “The verdict is clear. Middle-class economics works. Expanding opportunity works. And these policies will continue to work, as long as politics don’t get in the way.”
Sorry, but why are “we turning the page” tonight? Weren’t you elected over six years ago? Why didn’t you turn the page in 2009?
Meanwhile, I’m astounded by the phrase “middle-class economics works.” Perhaps it does, but how would anyone know? The only thing I’ve seen from his administration is a laser focused determination to consolidate all American wealth and power into the hands of a tiny group of oligarchs and their lapdogs.
Indeed, the following articles published in the last two days by the New York Times and the Guardian show the true results of Obama’s oligarch-coddling legacy. The Obama years have been nothing short of an oligarch crime scene.
First, from the New York Times:
The middle class that President Obama identified in his State of the Union speech last week as the foundation of the American economy has been shrinking for almost half a century.
In the late 1960s, more than half of the households in the United States were squarely in the middle, earning, in today’s dollars, $35,000 to $100,000 a year. Few people noticed or cared as the size of that group began to fall, because the shift was primarily caused by more Americans climbing the economic ladder into upper-income brackets.
But since 2000, the middle-class share of households has continued to narrow, the main reason being that more people have fallen to the bottom. At the same time, fewer of those in this group fit the traditional image of a married couple with children at home, a gap increasingly filled by the elderly.
Remember, middle-class economics works. If the goal is its total destruction.
These charts from the New York Times do not tell the tale of a thriving economy:


Even as the American middle class has shrunk, it has gone through a transformation. The 53 million households that remain in the middle class — about 43 percent of all households — look considerably different from their middle-class predecessors of a previous generation, according to a New York Times analysis of census data.
In recent years, the fastest-growing component of the new middle class has been households headed by people 65 and older. Today’s seniors have better retirement benefits than previous generations. Also, older Americans are increasingly working past traditional retirement age. More than eight million, or 19 percent, were in the labor force in 2013, nearly twice as many as in 2000.
According to a New York Times poll in December, 60 percent of people who call themselves middle class think that if they work hard they will get rich. But the evidence suggests that goal is increasingly out of reach. When middle class people look up, they see the rich getting richer while they spin their wheels.
One of the main reasons we have seen such a low level of resistance to this historic oligarch theft, is due to the successful brainwashing of the American public. Despite clear evidence to the contrary, 60% of what is left of the middle-class still think they are going to get rich. They have no idea that they are really just a bunch of deluded plebs unable to see how systematically and catastrophically they are being played.
Meanwhile, the Guardian describes how many global oligarchs are already planning their escape. These people know full well they are being enriched criminally. Their response is to take as much money as possible and flee before the pitchforks emerge (see: The Pitchforks are Coming…– A Dire Warning from a Member of the 0.01%).
With growing inequality and the civil unrest from Ferguson and the Occupy protests fresh in people’s mind, the world’s super rich are already preparing for the consequences. At a packed session in Davos, former hedge fund director Robert Johnson revealed that worried hedge fund managers were already planning their escapes. “I know hedge fund managers all over the world who are buying airstrips and farms in places like New Zealand because they think they need a getaway,” he said.
But as former New Zealand prime minister and now UN development head Helen Clark explained, rather than being a game changer, recent examples suggest the Ferguson movement may soon be forgotten. “We saw Occupy flare up and then fade like many others like it,” Clark said. “The problem movements like these have is stickability. The challenge is for them to build structures that are ongoing; to sustain these new voices.”
Clarke said: “Solutions are there. What’s been lacking is political will. Politicians do not respond to those who don’t have a voice In the end this is all about redistributing income and power.”
She added: “Seventy five percent of people in developing countries live in places that are less equal than they were in 1990.”
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Posted: 27 Jan 2015 05:16 AM PST


A group of British lawmakers is demanding a ban on hydraulic fracturing or fracking for oil in the country despite government defiance.
The MPs say fracking must end as it is “incompatible” with climate change targets and could increase the risk of environmental damage to public health.
This is while a cross-party Environmental Audit Committee report has coincided with the revelation of a secret letter from Finance Minister George Osborne asking members of the committee to press ahead with fracking plans “as a personal priority.”
The committee also proposed further changes to the Infrastructure Bill, including removal of the trespass law which gives companies the automatic right to access land for drilling, and a fracking ban in any biologically important areas such as national parks and ancient woodland.
The report says if the UK is to meet the global temperature cap of 2 degrees, only a “small fraction” of the available shale resources could be harnessed.
Now London-based author and environmentalist Lesley Docksey says: “I personally think they are insisting on this purely from money terms. They have too many connections to big energy firms. And they only see the money aspect.”
She told Press TV that fracking has already caused immense damage in the US where the oil excavation method is practised.
There will be a vote on fracking in the House of Commons on Monday, during which a Greenpeace demonstration will take place outside Westminster Palace.
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Posted: 27 Jan 2015 05:08 AM PST


Coffee contains a protein that has an effect similar to morphine, specialists at the University of Brasilia and Brazilian agriculture research company Embrapa have discovered. Moreover, the new substance’s effect lasts longer.
The research was conducted by Felipe Vinecky of the Molecular Biology Department at the University of Brasilia (UnB) in cooperation with the Genetics and Biotechnology Division of state owned agriculture and livestock research company Embrapa. The research involved searching for and combining coffee genes to affect quality. In the course of study, the scientists managed to find new substances in the product.
While analyzing the coffee genome sequence and corresponding proteins, Vinecky and his research adviser Carlos Bloch Junior found some proteins similar to those typical for humans. So they decided to synthesize their structural analogues and test their properties.
The researchers “identified previously unknown fragments of protein, peptides, in coffee that have an effect similar to morphine, in other words they have an analgesic and sedative activity,” the Embrapa company press release said.
Both the University and Embrapa applied for patents to the Brazilian government for seven proteins they called “opioid peptides.”
Those peptides “have a positive differential: their effects last longer in experiments with laboratory mice,” the press release said. According to the scientists, it lasted up to four hours and no side effects were recorded.
Embrapa believes their discovery has great “biotechnological potential” for the health food industry, and could also help to minimize stress in animals at slaughterhouses.
In 2004, Embrapa succeeded in determining the sequence of coffee’s functional genome and the discovery made it possible to combine coffee genes with a view to improving the quality of coffee grains. Thanks to this achievement, the researchers managed to discover the new peptides.
Embrapa is a state-owned company affiliated with the Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture. Embrapa conducts agricultural research in many areas including livestock and crops.
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Posted: 26 Jan 2015 02:14 PM PST


An asteroid the size of five football fields is approaching Earth and is expected to pass by on Monday. It will be visible through strong binoculars, definitely worth a look. The next time such an asteroid comes this close again will be in 2027.
At the closest point to the Earth, asteroid 2004 BL86 will be at a distance of 1.2 million kilometers which – approximately three times the distance from the Earth to the moon. Estimated to be 0.5 km in diameter, it is classified by scientists as potentially dangerous.
A space object is considered “potentially dangerous” if it crosses the Earth’s orbit at a distance of less than 0.05 AU (approximately 19.5 distances from the Earth to the Moon), and if its diameter exceeds 100-150 meters. Objects of this size are large enough to cause unprecedented destruction, or generate a tsunami in case they fall into the ocean.

This graphic depicts the passage of asteroid 2004 BL86.
However, according to astronomers, there is no threat of the object colliding with our planet this time.
“While it poses no threat to Earth for the foreseeable future, it’s a relatively close approach by a relatively large asteroid, so it provides us a unique opportunity to observe and learn more,” Don Yeomans from NASA’s Near Earth Object Program at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory said in a statement.
It is very rare that such a huge space body comes this close to Earth. The next time an asteroid might be passing by will be in 2027, when 1999 AN10 flies past Earth. As for 2004 BL86 itself, it can be monitored from Earth for another 200 years.
Astronomers strongly recommend trying to catch this unique opportunity to spot an asteroid in the sky. It will be possible on January 26 between 11:07 pm and 11:52 pm ET (04:07 and 04:52 GMT).
It will be best seen in the Americas, Europe, and Africa. Amateur astronomers will be able to observe it with small telescopes and even strong binoculars.
“I may grab my favorite binoculars and give it a shot myself,” Yeomans said in the statement. “Asteroids are something special. Not only did asteroids provide Earth with the building blocks of life and much of its water, but in the future, they will become valuable resources for mineral ores and other vital natural resources.”
Numerous observatories all over the world will use this opportunity to learn something new about 2004 BL86. NASA’s Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, California, and the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico will try to procure scientific data and radar-generated images of the asteroid while it is in its closest position to the Earth.
“When we get our radar data back the day after the flyby, we will have the first detailed images,” radar astronomer Lance Benne said. “At present, we know almost nothing about the asteroid, so there are bound to be surprises.”
2004 BL86 was discovered on January 30, 2004, by the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR), responsible for the majority of asteroid discoveries from 1998 until 2005, when it was overtaken by the Catalina Sky Survey (CSS). The asteroid orbits the Sun every 1.84 years.
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Posted: 26 Jan 2015 01:51 PM PST


Tens of people have been killed in clashes between police forces and a the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) in the troubled southern Philippines.
Security sources said at least six members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front and 37 police officers were killed during a gun battle in the town of Mamasapano on the southern island of Mindanao, on Sunday.
Several police forces and MILF members were also wounded in the fierce fighting.
Senior government officials said the violence erupted after security forces attempted to capture two MILF commanders in the troubled town in Maguindanao Province, located 960 kilometers south of the capital city of Manila.
The security forces launched the operation to arrest MILF leaders Zulkifli bin Hir and Basit Usman. Authorities have offered a reward of 5 million dollars for the arrest of Malaysian Zulkifli, and 1 million dollars for the capture of Usman, a Filipino. The Sunday operation, however, did not result in the apprehension of the two.
The Philippines’ government and the MILF signed a landmark peace deal after 17 years of negotiations last year. However, the deal has been marred by sporadic violence and clashes.
Many foreign governments warn their citizens against traveling to the southern areas of the Philippines, which are regarded as strongholds for groups such as Abu Sayyaf, and the MILF.
The groups have been blamed for the worst acts of violence in the Philippines’ recent history, including the 2004 bombing of a ferry that left more than 100 dead, the abduction of foreign missionaries and tourists, and the beheading of local people.
The groups seek to establish an independent homeland in the troubled south of the Philippines.
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Posted: 26 Jan 2015 01:27 PM PST


Following a disputed shelling in the strategic Ukrainian city of Mariupol last week, Obama said the United States will impose new sanctions on Russia.
“We will continue to take the approach that we have taken in the past, which is to ratchet up the pressure on Russia,”Obama said during a news conference in New Delhi. “And I will look at all additional options that are available to us, short of military confrontation, and try to address this issue.”
Although the source of the shelling is in dispute, the U.S. government and the corporate media uniformly blame Russia and militias opposed to the coup government in Kiev.
“We are deeply concerned about the latest break in the ceasefire and the aggression that these separatists – with Russian backing, Russian equipment, Russian financing, Russian training and Russian troops – are conducting,” Obama added.
In April, Infowars.com ran a story on a fabrication published by The New York Times claiming to show Russian Special Forces operating in Eastern Ukraine.
Infowars.com reported at the time:
The establishment media in the United States claims the photographs show Russian Federation troops. The State Department pawned the photos off as evidence despite the fact the authenticity of the photographs could not be independently verified. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said on Monday the images prove Russian troops are in Ukraine. “So these are just further evidence of the connection between Russia and the armed militants,” she said.
“Two days after the New York Times led its editions with a one-sided article about photos supposedly proving that Russian special forces were behind the popular uprisings in eastern Ukraine, the Times published what you might call a modified, limited retraction.” Robert Parry wrote on April 23.
NATO also produced satellite photos it said proved Russian troops were in eastern Ukraine. In response to the allegation, the General Staff of the Russian Army said the photos were taken in August 2013 during military drills on the border.
Video Shows American Soldiers in Mariupol
While the U.S. and the establishment media insist Russia is behind the militias opposing Ukrainian military action in eastern Ukraine, they are ignoring evidence U.S. troops or American contractors are on the ground assisting the Ukrainian military.
The Poroshenko government has been thus far unable to eliminate militias fighting against the coup occupation and the United States has signaled it will help them in the effort.
A video posted on Youtube following the shelling shows an uniformed man confronted by a Ukrainian journalist.
“Out my face, out my face!” the man says in American English.

The head of U.S. Army Europe Lt. Gen Ben Hodges said during a visit to Kiev on Wednesday U.S. soldiers will deploy to Ukraine as part of a training effort of four companies of the Ukrainian National Guard.
Pentagon spokeswoman Lt. Col. Vanessa Hillman told Defense News the training is part of a U.S. State Department initiative “to assist Ukraine in strengthening its law enforcement capabilities, conduct internal defense, and maintain rule of law.”
“By ‘rule of law,’ they mean getting the Ukrainian military, which is ratcheting up its conscription, ready to crush eastern rebels, who have been demanding reforms after the new government imposed a series of harsh restrictions on the ethnic Russian east,” Jason Ditz wrote on Tuesday.
“So far, the plans are to put the troops in Lviv, in the far west, which should keep the US forces from getting too directly into the nation’s civil war, though officials are saying this is just the ‘first step in further training,’ which means more operations could happen, putting troops closer to the frontlines.”
In July, Air Force Gen. Philip M. Breedlove, the Supreme Allied Commander of NATO’s Allied Command Operations, announced the United States will send troops “to help respond to Russian aggression in Ukraine.”
In April, a former U.S. diplomat and member of the Council on Foreign Relations, James Jeffrey, called for U.S. ground troops to be sent to Ukraine.
“The best way to send Putin a tough message and possibly deflect a Russian campaign against more vulnerable NATO states is to back up our commitment to the sanctity of NATO territory with ground troops, the only military deployment that can make such commitments unequivocal,” Jeffrey wrote for The Washington Post.
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Posted: 26 Jan 2015 12:48 PM PST

Emergency vehicles surround the southeast corner of the White House complex after a drone was found on the lawn early Monday.
A small drone flying at low altitude crashed into the White House complex on early on Monday, prompting officials to declare a security lockdown.
The US Secret Service said in a statement that President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle were not at the White House at the time of the incident; they are in India.
“An investigation is under way to determine the origin of this commercially available device, motive, and to identify suspects,” said Secret Service spokesman Brian Leary.
He said the drone was spotted shortly after 3:00 a.m. (0800 GMT) by a Secret Service agent on the south grounds of the White House complex.
The officer “heard and observed a ‘quad copter’ device, approximately two feet in diameter, flying at a very low altitude and ultimately crashing on the southeast side of the complex,” the Secret Service statement said.
“There was an immediate alert and lockdown of the complex until the device was examined and cleared,” it added.
According to the New York Times, the device, a small, unmanned aircraft that is lifted by four propellers, was operated by a government employee who told the Secret Service he did not mean to fly it over the White House grounds.
The man does not work for the White House, the paper added.
The employee, who was being questioned, said he lost control of the drone before it crashed on the grounds of the White House.
Republican lawmaker John Mica said the Secret Service isn’t making any efforts to prevent a drone disaster.
“You have this capability. You could put light explosives on a drone and they could do an incredible amount of damage not only to the White House but to the Capitol and other government facilities,” Mica said.
The drone crash comes as the Secret Service is recovering from a series of embarrassing security breaches.
According to a report by the Washington Post, it took the Secret Service five days to discover that a man had shot seven bullets at the White House in 2011.
Another security lapse occurred in September, when a US war veteran was able to reach deep into the White House with a knife, an unprecedented security breach in recent decades.
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Posted: 26 Jan 2015 12:34 PM PST


The victory of Greece’s anti-austerity Syriza party is a monstrous democratic slap to the European Union, believes Marine Le Pen, leader of France’s far-right National Front party, adding that for her this success means “the trial of the euro-austerity.”
“I welcome the monstrous Democratic slap the Greek people has given to the European Union,” Le Pen told France’s RTL radio.
According to Le Pen, Syriza’s triumph is “the first result of the unprecedented suffering undergone by the Greek people under the influence of the EU in recent years.”
The Greek election debate is one of freedom, she believes.
“Do we want to be free? With the European Union, we are not… Neither our immigration policy, nor our monetary policy or agriculture.”
Sunday’s elections in Greece are “opening the trial of the ‘euro-austerity’,” according to Le Pen.
“When we try to avoid democracy, the boomerang always returns with increased speed.”
Le Pen earlier said that though her party “doesn’t not agree with all of [Syriza’s] program,” France’s National Front “will celebrate their victory.”
“There is a fracturing in Europe, which is seeing the people taking power against the totalitarianism of the European Union and their accomplices, the financial markets,” she added.
Le Pen’s father, Jean-Marie Le Pen, who led the National Front party from its foundation in 1972 until 2011, welcomed “the defeat of the European Union in Athens.”
Syriza’s win was welcomed by France’s Socialist party, several MPs from which protested France’s President Francois Hollande anti-austerity policies last year.
“The victory of a party on the left is always good news for the Socialist party in France,” said First Secretary Jean-Christophe Cambadélis.
Jean-Luc Melenchon, France’s most prominent far-left politician described Syriza’s success as “pure happiness.”
“This is a new page for Europe. Maybe we can take the opportunity to rebuild Europe, which has become the federal Europe of the liberals,” Mélenchon told France’s BFM TV.
On Sunday, Syriza won 149 seats in the 300-seat Greek parliamentary election. Party leader Alexis Tsipras said Greece leaves behind five years of humiliation and suffering, fear and authoritarianism while addressing thousands of cheering supporters at a rally in Athens.
Tsipras is moving to build a stable government and plans to get rid of Athens’ three main creditors, the European Union, the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank.
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