Beijing describes 2013 figures as 'a landmark milestone' as annual trade in good passes the $4tn mark for the first time. ● China became the world's largest trading nation in 2013, overtaking the US in what Beijing described as "a landmark milestone" for the country. China's annual trade in goods passed the $4tn (£2.4tn) mark for the first time last year according to official data, after exports from the world's second largest economy rose 7.9% to $2.21tn and imports rose 7.3% to $1.95tn. As a result total trade rose 7.6% over the year to $4.16tn. The US is yet to publish its 2013 trade figures, but with trade totalling $3.5tn in the first 11 months of the year, it is unlikely to beat China. The shift in the trading pecking order reflected China's rising global dominance, despite a slowdown in economic growth last year.

Sky News: China 'Overtakes US' As World's Top Trader

US troops in Afghanistan have shot and killed a young child in Helmand province, leading to a fresh rebuke from President Karzai just as America is trying to persuade him to allow Western forces to stay in the country after the end of this year. As the stand-off over a long-term security pact continues, The Times has learnt that the boy, aged about 4, was killed in an incident involving US Marines in Nad-e Ali district on Tuesday.

Manuel Valls – shabbos goy and current Minister of the Interior in the French government (see photo, in the middle) is a regular of the CRIF meetings and intervened during one of the Congress of the friends of Israel and was against the Palestinian adhesion in the UN in September 2011 claiming that ” it could antagonize Israel”. During an interview for Radio Judaica, he declared: “Through my wife i am eternally linked to the Jewish community and Israel…”

■ A man would normally be linked to his wife for the length of his life ("Until Death Does Us Part"). Too, one would think that at such an elevated age his poor wife will have had enough of him anyway...Well, this may not be so in the case of Manuel Valls and his dear Israel. The operative concept here is 'eternally'. Nothing less. It would seem that Mr. Valls holds the rabid, land grabbing, child molesting, organ thieving settler state of so-called "Israel" above his very own wife. - Does this hierarchy of loyalties strike anyone else as somewhat peculiar, or is it just this editor? ;-) La quenelle! (AWIP)

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Tom Mills, Hilary Aked, Tom Griffin & David Miller ■ The pro-Israel lobby is not only important in the US, but is a transnational phenomenon, fostered by transnational organisations – many headquartered in Israel – and funded in large part by transnational corporate actors. | While the taboo on discussing the Israel lobby was broken decisively by Mearsheimer and Walt in their ground-breaking 2007 study,[1] there has been relatively little discussion of the lobby in the UK and the rest of Europe.[2] In this article, we examine the history and current organisation of the UK’s pro-Israel lobby. This is important for a number of reasons. Not least because the lobby is a significant player in UK politics, helping to blunt campaigns for Palestinian human rights, shore up support for Israel, attack and marginalise critics (including Jewish critics) of Israel and insulate political elites from pressure to act against Israel’s misdeeds.

Indian deputy consul general is charged in New York with fraud regarding her maid but is free to leave without facing Court. ● A serious row between Washington and India appeared to move towards conclusion on Thursday after a high-tension drama resulted in the effective expulsion of a diplomat from the US hours after she was granted immunity from charges of visa fraud and underpaying her maid. The arrest of Khobragade, who was India's deputy consul general in New York, caused outrage in her home country and prompted a range of retaliatory measures in Delhi against US diplomats in the Indian capital.

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The ongoing takfiri terrorist besieging of the Syrian city of Yarmouk, the Jewish-Zionist war on French comedic genius Dieudonne and why the silence of the “solidarity activist” community on both hot-button issues is destructive not only to the Palestinian cause but the world as we know it. Yet another master-class lesson from the one and only Jonathan Azaziah.

● We have a situation where all the markets are rigged. All the markets are manipulated. We have a stock market at all-time highs, and where is the economy? There’s not one. There’s no recovery. 53% of Americans earn less than $30,000 per year. Well, the poverty rate for a family of four is something like $24,000...If there is no income to drive the economy and there is no credit expansion to drive the economy, then how does it go anywhere? You can’t possibly have a recovery. ● How long can they fool people? Foreigners are getting nervous because they see the Fed creating all this new money. [The] appearance of cutting back the money printing is a way to protect the dollar. Obama Care is another headwind for the economy as monthly premiums for many double. The whole thing is constructed to produce massive income for the insurance companies, and that drains the economy. [So, what does Dr. Roberts see for 2014?] ● I would expect, this year, the economy will drop again, and they won’t be able to hide it. So, the deficit will widen...and the widening deficit will again cause dollar worries. Who’s going to finance it? It means the Fed will have to print more dollars. The Fed won’t be able to cut back $10 billion a year. It will have to increase it $30 billion a year, $40 billion a year, whatever. ● The West is draining itself of physical bullion...If there is a currency collapses and you try to flee into gold, there won’t be any there. The Chinese will have it. It’s gone on longer than I thought it could go on. I didn’t realize all the deceptive and crooked methods they would use to rig the markets. The notion that a democratic capitalist country having its markets rigged by its own authorities–it blows the mind. This is not normal. What will they do next? I don’t know.

David Duke ■ The article by former CIA agent Dennis Lamb once again shows the naked evil of the Israeli state and the policy of the Zio-controlled American position in regard to Syria. The most radical Muslims, such as Al Qaeda, which is constantly portrayed by both the government and the media as the biggest threat to the world and to America, is on the side of the rebels. They have committed massacres, beheadings and horrific crimes against Christian clergy and Muslim clerics. While the whole world calls for an end to the horrific bloodshed, the New York Times gives an insight into the Zionist position. Here is a quote from the New York Times from September 5, 2013. The article’s title is “Israel Backs Limited Strike Against Syria.” “This is a playoff situation in which you need both teams to lose, but at least you don’t want one to win — we’ll settle for a tie,” said Alon Pinkas, a former Israeli consul general in New York. “Let them both bleed, hemorrhage to death: that’s the strategic thinking here. As long as this lingers, there’s no real threat from Syria.” This high up Israeli Zionist criminal says it all.

Keith Jones ■ Syria conference, Iranian deal hang in balance as US steps up bullying | Washington is intensifying efforts to use the forthcoming international conference on Syria as a mechanism to remove Bashar al-Assad’s Baathist regime. Over the objections of Russia, the Arab League, Turkey and other of its allies, Washington is blocking Iran’s participation in the so-called Geneva II conference. Set to begin in Montreux, Switzerland on January 22, the UN sponsored, Russia-US co-chaired conference is charged with reaching a “political settlement” to the nearly three-year-old Syrian conflict. Tehran, the US insists, will only be permitted to attend if it effectively throws its Syrian allies to the wolves, agreeing that the conference should be to organize a transfer of power in Damascus to a “transitional government” in which US-backed Islamist insurgents would have half the seats. Washington is simultaneously seeking to reorganize the Syrian opposition.