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Seorang wanita kelihatan
sambil duduk di kalangan pada orang-orang pelarian dari minoriti mazhab Yazidi,
yang melarikan diri keganasan di bandar Iraq Sinjar, yang tidur di atas tanah
pada Bajed Kadal kem pelarian, barat daya wilayah Dohuk 23 Ogos 2014 (A woman
looks on as she sits amongst displaced people from the minority Yazidi sect,
who fled violence in the Iraqi town of Sinjar, who are sleeping on the ground
at Bajed Kadal refugee camp, southwest of Dohuk province August 23, 2014 (Reuters/Youssef
Boudlal)
pEOPLeVoice- Negara Islam telah diterima masuk dan cuba untuk
mewajarkan pembudakan dan menjual wanita dan kanak-kanak Yazidi, ditangkap
dalam satu serangan kilat terlebih dahulu di Iraq & Syria. Human Rights Watch yang baru mengesahkan laporan "penyalahgunaan" terhadap komuniti bangsa
ataupun agama Kurdish.
Dalam artikel yang disiarkan dalam terbitan terbaru
majalah Dabiq itu jihad, instrumen PR utama ISIS, kumpulan yang diterangkan
nasib yang dihadapi oleh minoriti Yazidi selepas melancarkan serangan jihad
mereka di rantau Sinjar di Kurdistan Iraq pada bulan Ogos.
Berikutan serangan itu, tuntutan artikel,
"wanita & kanak2 Yazidi kemudiannya dibahagikan mengikut Syariah di
kalangan pejuang Negara Islam yang mengambil bahagian dalam operasi Sinjar."
"Diperhambakan keluarga Yazidi kini dijual oleh
tentera Negara Islam," penulis menambah, menyatakan bahawa undang-undang
syariah sedang diperhatikan dan pejuang tidak kanak-kanak kecil yang berasingan
daripada ibu mereka.
Majalah Dabiq pergi ke hujung yang luas utk
membenarkan perhambaan meng-gunakan hujah-2 teologi manakala dalam satu lagi
daripada 70-halaman penulis majalah propagandis memetik Shaykh Abu Mahamed
al-Adnani sebagai berkata: "Kami akan menakluk Rom anda, mematahkan salib,
dan menghambakan wanita anda, dengan izin Allah yang Maha Kuasa."
Pada hari Ahad, Human Rights Watch (HRW)
mengeluarkan satu laporan ‘report’
di mana ia mendakwa, berdasarkan satu siri temu bual bahawa ISIS telah
"siste-matik" pisahkan wanita muda Yazidi & remaja perempuan dari
keluarga mereka memaksa mereka untuk berkahwin pejuang2nya.
HRW berjaya mengesan 16 Yazidis yang melarikan diri jagaan Negara Islam,
dan ditemubual 2 wanita ditahan ketika telefon.
Tiada wanita mengaku telah dirogol, tetapi 4
daripada mereka berkata mereka telah bertempur serangan seksual manakala yang
mengesahkan bahawa wanita yang ditahan lain memberitahu mereka bahawa pejuang IS
telah merogol mereka. Satu ditemu duga katanya menyaksikan seorang gadis remaja
yang sedang dilelong kepada pejuang untuk $ 1,000. Wanita juga dibuktikan
kanak2 lelaki dipaksa untuk memeluk agama Islam.
Seve, yang berusia 19 tahun yang melarikan diri ISIS
kurungan pada akhir bulan Ogos, memberitahu Human Rights Watch bahawa dia
menonton jihadis membunuh suaminya sebelum menangkap beliau berhampiran Sinjar.
Dia mengatakan bahawa dia tlh dibawa ke Mosul, di mana ISIS memaksanya &
orang lain utk berkahwin dengan mereka dalam kumpulan "majlis perkahwinan."
Layla, bekas tawanan berkata dia dan kakaknya telah
disimpan di dalam dewan yang besar di Mosul, bersama 200 wanita dan gadis muda.
Setiap malam, beliau berkata pejuang-pejuang datang dan memilih seorang wanita untuk
membawa pulang dengan mereka.
Isu terkini majalah
Dabiq (Latest issue of Dabiq magazine)
ISLAMIC State Admits, JUSTIFIES Enslaving Yazidi
WOMEN and CHIDREN . . .
The Islamic State has admitted and tried to justify
enslaving and selling Yazidi women and children, captured during a blitz
advance in Iraq and Syria. A new Human Rights Watch report confirms “abuses”
against Kurdish ethno-religious community.
In an article published in the latest issue of the
jihadist Dabiq magazine, a major PR instrument of ISIS, the group described the
fate faced by the Yazidi minority after jihadists launched their onslaught on
Sinjar region in Iraqi Kurdistan in August.
Following the attack, the article claims, “the
Yazidi women and children were then divided according to the Shariah amongst
the fighters of the Islamic State who participated in the Sinjar operations.”
“The enslaved Yazidi families are now sold by the
Islamic State soldiers,” the author adds, noting that Sharia law saw is being
observed and fighters did separate small children from their mothers.
Dabiq magazine goes to extensive ends to justify
slavery using theological arguments while in another of the 70-page
propagandist magazine authors quote Shaykh Abu Mahamed al-Adnani as saying: “We
will conquer your Rome, break your crosses, and enslave your women, by the
permission of Allah, the Exalted.”
On Sunday, Human Rights Watch (HRW) released areportwhere it claims, based on a series of interviews that ISIS has “systematically”
separated Yazidi young women and teenage girls from their families forcing them
to marry its fighters.
HRW managed to track down 16 Yazidis who escaped Islamic State custody,
and interviewed two detained women by phone.
None of the women admitted to have been raped, but
four of them said they had fought off sexual assaults while confirming that
other detained women told them that IS fighters had raped them. One interviewee
said she witnessed a teenage girl being auctioned off to a fighter for $1,000.
The women also attested to boys being forced to convert to Islam.
Seve, a 19-year-old who escaped ISIS captivity in
late August, told Human Rights Watch that she watched the jihadis kill her
husband before capturing her near Sinjar. She says that she was taken to Mosul,
where ISIS forced her and others to marry them in group “weddings.”
Layla, another former captive said she and her
sister were kept in a large hall in Mosul, alongside some 200 young women and
girls. Each night, she said fighters came and chose a woman to take home with
them.
Wanita dari minoriti mazhab
Yazidi, yang melarikan diri keganasan di bandar Iraq Sinjar, duduk di atas
tanah di sebuah gudang ditinggalkan di wilayah Dohuk 22 Ogos 2014 (Women from
the minority Yazidi sect, who fled violence in the Iraqi town of Sinjar, sit on
the ground in an abandoned warehouse in Dohuk province August 22, 2014 (Reuters/Youssef
Boudlal)
"Setiap malam pengawal bersenjata akan berkata,
'Mujahidin telah tiba!' Mereka akan memasuki dewan dan mengambil
orang2 yang mereka mahu, kadang2 dgn kekerasan, masa yg lain
hanya dengan menghala ke arah mereka. Apabila kita bertanya kpd pengawal apa
yang berlaku, mereka akan berkata, 'Mereka mengam-bil mereka untuk membantu
mujahidin di rumah2 mereka, "katanya kepada HRW.
Penculikan sistematik dan penyalahgunaan orang awam Yazidi "boleh
terjumlah" jenayah terhadap kemanusiaan, kata Human Rights Watch.
"Sesetengah penyalahgunaan khusus terhadap
orang awam yang dilakukan oleh ahli-ahli Negara Islam, sebagai kumpulan
bersenjata di konflik, boleh terjumlah kpd jenayah perang jika dilakukan
dengan niat jenayah seperti keganasan utk hidup & orang, termasuk rawatan
kejam, & kemarahan terhadap maruah peribadi."
Sejak kilat ISIS yang memajukan tahun ini, Yazidi
minoriti Iraq telah jatuh mangsa kepada pelampau dengan kes-kes yang dilaporkan
hukuman besar-besaran oleh militan Negara Islam dan penculikan wanita. Lebih
daripada 500,000 Yazidis dan agama minoriti lain telah melarikan diri serangan
Negara Islam di Iraq utara sejak Jun, paling2 ke rantau ini separa autonomi
Kurdistan Iraq, menurut Pertubuhan Bangsa-Bangsa Bersatu dan pegawai serantau.
“Every night the armed guards would say, ‘The
mujahidin have arrived!’ They would enter the hall and pick those they desired,
sometimes with force, other times just by pointing at them. When we asked the
guards what was happening, they would say, ‘They are taking them to help the
mujahidin at their houses’,” she told HRW.
The systematic abduction and abuse of Yazidi civilians “may amount” to
crimes against humanity, Human Rights Watch said.
“Some specific abuses against civilians committed by
members of Islamic State, as an armed group in a conflict, may amount to war
crimes if committed with criminal intent, such as violence to life and person,
including cruel treatment, and outrages against personal dignity.”
Since the ISIS lightning advance this year, Iraq's
Yazidi minority have fallen victims to the extremists with reported cases of
mass executions by Islamic State militants and kidnapping of women. More than
500,000 Yazidis and other religious minorities have fled Islamic State attacks
in northern Iraq since June, most to the semi-autonomous region of Iraqi
Kurdistan, according to the United Nations and regional officials.
pEOPLeVoice- Denmark merancang utk mengusir kebinatangan,
berikut contoh2 baru-baru ini Jerman dan Norway, berkata makanan dan
pertanian menteri negara. Rang undang-undang telah lama ditunggu-tunggu
kedua-dua di dalam dan luar negara.
"Saya telah membuat keputusan bahawa kita harus
mengharamkan hubungan seks dengan haiwan. Yang berlaku utk banyak sebab2.
Yang paling penting adalah bahawa dlm kebanyakan kes ia adalah satu serangan
terhadap haiwan, "makanan & kementerian pertanian, Dan Jorgensen,
memberitahu ‘told’ Ekstra Bladet, akhbar tabloid Denmark.
Menurut Jorgensen, salah satu faktor yg mendorong
keputusannya ialah kerosakan yang dilakukan kepada reputasi negara itu yang
masih undang2 membenarkan seks antara manusia dan haiwan. "Dan dalam
segala keadaan, apa-apa keraguan tentang hal itu perlu pergi ke manfaat
haiwan," katanya. "Mereka secara semula jadi tidak boleh mengatakan
tidak untuk pergi bersama-sama dengan ianya. Oleh itu, ia perlu diharamkan."
76 % peratus daripada sokongan penduduk Denmark
mengharamkan hubungan seks dengan haiwan, menurut pungutan suara baru-baru ini,
yang dijalankan oleh Gallup. Rang undang2, yg juga memerlukan perubahan
dlm undang2 kebajikan haiwan di negara ini, akan diperkenalkan oleh
kerajaan Denmark pada 2015.
Ketiadaan undang-undang pada kebinatangan membawa
kepada pertumbuhan dalam industri pelancongan seks haiwan di negara ini. Pada
tahun2 kebelakangan ini masyarakat antarabangsa rapat memberi tumpuan
kpd kekurangan undang-undang kebinatangan dalam sistem kebajikan haiwan di
negara ini.
"Saya tdk fikir kerajaan Denmark adalah
melakukan secukupnya utk melindungi haiwan. Mereka perlu melakukan sesuatu
untuk melindungi zoophilia di Denmark," Karoline Lundström, seorang
aktivis hak asasi Denmark haiwan berkata dalam dokumentari ditembak oleh NAIB
pada bulan April.
Kebinatangan adalah menyalahi undang-undang di banyak negara, termasuk
Belgium, Kanada, Australia dan India.
Sweden mengharamkan zoophilia pada April 2014 di
satu langkah yang disokong oleh Menteri Hal Ehwal Luar Bandar di negara ini,
Eskil Erlandsson. "Tidak boleh tidak syak lagi apa kebinatangan yg tidak
boleh diterima,"Local dinamakan beliau sebagai berkata.
Pada tahun 2012 larangan yang sama telah diluluskan
di Jerman. Kerajaan Can-selor Angela Merkel diperkenalkan ‘introduced’
undang-undang baru terhadap amalan itu dengan berkata haiwan tidak boleh
digunakan "untuk aktiviti seksual peribadi atau disediakan kepada pihak yang
ke-3 untuk aktiviti seks . . . dengan itu memaksa mereka utk berkelakuan
dlm cara yg tidak sesuai untuk spesies mereka."
DENMARK to Ban SEX with ANIMALS . . .
Denmark is planning to banish bestiality, following
the recent examples of Germany and Norway, said the country’s food and
agriculture minister. The bill was long-awaited both inside the country and
abroad.
“I have decided that we should ban sex with animals.
That is happening for numerous reasons. The most important is that in the vast
majority of cases it is an attack against the animals,” the food and agriculture
minister, Dan Jørgensen,toldEkstra Bladet, a Danish tabloid.
According to Jørgensen, one of the factors that
prompted his decision was the damage done to his country’s reputation which
laws still allow sex between humans and animals. “And under all circumstances,
any doubts about it should go to the animals’ benefit,” he said. “They
naturally cannot say no to going along with it. Therefore, it should be
banned.”
Seventy-six percent of the Danish population support
banning sex with animals, according to a recent poll, carried out by Gallup.
The bill, which also requires changes in the country’s welfare animal laws,
will be introduced by the Danish government in 2015.
The absence of a law on bestiality led to a growth
in animal sex tourism industry in the country. In the recent years the
international community closely focused on the lack of bestiality law in the
animal welfare system of the country.
"I don't think the Danish government is doing
enough to protect the animals. They need to do something to protect zoophilia
in Denmark," Karoline Lundstrom, a Danish animal rights activist says in a
documentary shot by VICE in April.
Bestiality is illegal in many countries, including Belgium, Canada,
Australia and India.
Sweden banned zoophilia in April 2014 in a move
backed by the country’s Rural Affairs Minister, Eskil Erlandsson. "There
should be no doubt whatsoever that bestiality is unacceptable," The Local
cited him as saying.
In 2012 the same ban was passed in Germany.
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s governmentintroducedthe new law against the practice, saying animals should not be used "for
personal sexual activities or made available to third parties for sexual
activities … thereby forcing them to behave in ways that are inappropriate to
their species."
pEOPLeVoice- Berpuluh-puluh ribu orang membanjiri jalan2 di bandar-bandar di seluruh Eropah pd hari Sabtu dlm perhimpunan besar-besaran terhadap perjan-jian perdagangan kontroversi antara Amerika Syarikat dan Kesatuan Eropah.
Khutbah pakatan itu, yang dipanggil transatlantik Perdagangan dan Pelaburan Perkongsian (TTIP), bermula Februari lalu dan, dengan kebanyakannya diadakan secara tertutup, telah menimbulkan kebimbangan meluas di Kesatuan Eropah dan seterusnya.
Rangkaian sosial telah dikerahkan untuk kempen besar-besaran yg telah menyeru orang Eropah & Amerika utk mengambil tindakan terhadap "yang merebut kuasa korporat terbesar dalam tempoh sedekad."
#NoTTIP: Mass PROTESTS Slam US-EU trade deal as 'CORPORATE power GRAB' . . .
Tens of thousands of people are flooding the streets of cities all over Europe on Saturday in mass rallies against a controversial trade agreement between the US and the EU.
Talks on the pact, called the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), started last February and, having been mostly held behind closed doors, have raised widespread concerns in the European Union and beyond.
Social networks have been mobilized for a mass campaign that has been calling on Europeans and Americans to take action against “the biggest corporate power grab in a decade.”
Salah satu penganjur demonstrasi di Berlin, Michael Efler, memberitahu RT Peter Oliver: "Kami membantah sini terhadap perjanjian perdagangan bebas sepenuh-nya dirundingkan secara rahsia, kerana mereka memberikan syarikat lebih banyak hak mereka yang pernah ada dalam sejarah."
Protes telah dirancang di 22 buah negara di seluruh Eropah - perarakan, perhim-punan dan acara awam lain - di lebih 1,000 lokasi di UK, Perancis, Jerman, Itali, Sepanyol, Greece, Belanda, Poland, Republik Czech & negara-negara Scandinavia.
One of the organizers of Berlin’s demonstration, Michael Efler, told RT’s Peter Oliver: “We are protesting here against the free trade deal completely negotiated in secret, because they give corporations more rights they’ve ever had in history.”
Protests were planned in 22 countries across Europe – marches, rallies and other public events – in over 1,000 locations in UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Greece, Netherlands, Poland, the Czech Republic and Scandinavian countries.
Menurut organisasi antarabangsa ATTAC, Hari tidak bertumpu Tindakan menya-tukan bilangan yg belum pernah berlaku kumpulan masyarakat awam & individu, pergerakan sosial, kesatuan sekerja dan pembela hak asasi.
Tujuan utama gelombang bantahan adalah "untuk menuntut demokrasi," yg dalam kes ini bermaksud meletakkan menamatkan rundingan mengenai 3 perjan-jian per-dagangan utama: perjanjian EU-AS (TTIP), perjanjian EU-Kanada (CETA) & perda-gangan dalam perkhidmatan perjanjian (Tisa).
According to the international organization ATTAC, the decentralized Day of Actions unites an unprecedented number of civil society groups and individuals, social movements, trade unions and rights defenders.
The main aim of the wave of protests is “to reclaim democracy,” which in this case stands for putting an end to the negotiations on three major trade agreements: the EU-US deal (TTIP), the EU-Canada deal (CETA) and the trade in services deal (TiSA).
Perjanjian perdagangan bebas kontroversi, TTIP ditakdirkan untuk menjatuhkan halangan kawal selia. Penyokongnya menjanjikan pertumbuhan € 100 billion euro KDNK Kesatuan Eropah, & hampir $ 90 juta untuk pertumbuhan Amerika Syarikat, & juga kewujudan lebih dpd 700,000 pekerjaan tambahan di Amerika Syarikat.
Penentang TTIP memberi amaran bahawa angka-angka ini terlalu optimis, namun. Walaupun barang-barang dan perkhidmatan akan lebih murah banjir Kesatuan Eropah, perjanjian itu akan mewujudkan masalah alam sekitar, kehilangan kedau-latan ekonomi, dan membawa torrents makanan yg diubahsuai secara genetik dan pengangguran, kata mereka.
Di UK, di mana lebih sedozen protes sedang berlaku, orang takut untuk masa depan perkhidmatan awam di negara ini - sistem penjagaan kesihatan, sistem pendidikan dan juga BBC boleh mendapat gangguan daripada syarikat2 Amerika Syarikat yang besar.
A controversial free trade agreement, TTIP is destined to bring down regulatory barriers. Its supporters promise a 100 billion euro GDP growth for the EU, and almost $90 billion growth for the US, as well as the creation of over 700,000 extra jobs in the US.
Opponents of TTIP warn that these figures are too optimistic, however. While cheaper goods and services would deluge the EU, the deal would create environ-mental problems, a loss of economic sovereignty, and bring torrents of genetically modified food and unemployment, they say.
In the UK, where over a dozen protests are taking place, people fear for the future of the country’s public services – the healthcare system, the education system and even the BBC may be susceptible to interference from large US companies.
#noTTIP: keadilan sosial, alam sekitar, kempen digital percaya perjanjian akan menjadi 'pengambilalihan korporat (#noTTIP: Social justice, environmental, digital campaigners believe agreement would constitute ‘corporate takeover)’. 9:56 PM - 11 Oct 2014
Di London, ahli sejarah British dan wartawan penyiasatan Andy Worthington mem-beritahu RT Harry Takut bahawa orang mempunyai alasan utk tdk percaya kepada ahli politik yang telah meyakinkan mereka sejak tahun 1980-an, namun "penye-rahan lebih banyak kuasa kepada syarikat-syarikat."
Perjanjian perdagangan antara Kesatuan Eropah dan Amerika Syarikat dapat dimuktamadkan menjelang akhir tahun ini.
In London, British historian and investigative journalist Andy Worthington told RT’s Harry Fear that people have reasons not to trust politicians who have been reassu-ring them since 1980s, yet “handing over more and more power to corporations.”
The trade agreement between the EU and the US could be finalized by the end of this year.
Para pemimpin Kanada dan Kesatuan Eropah menandatangani Perjanjian Ekonomi dan Perdagangan Komprehensif (CETA) September ini, yg masih belum dimukta-madkan. Ia akan mengeluarkan lebih 99 % peratus daripada tarif antara kedua-dua negara pada 2016.
Perjanjian Perdagangan Perkhidmatan (Tisa) dirancang untuk meliberalisasikan perdagangan perkhidmatan seperti perbankan dan pengangkutan di antara 23 pihak, yang dimulakan oleh Amerika Syarikat. Versi draf dikeluarkan Jun ini oleh WikiLeaks, yang diikuti dengan kritikan yang semakin meningkat.
Selain daripada tindakan untuk menghentikan TTIP, orang-orang dari seluruh DUNIA mengambil bahagian dalam protes lain pada hari Sabtu - Hari Frackdown Global, yang bertujuan untuk membantah terhadap minyak dan gas kontroversi teknik fracking.
Dimulakan oleh ‘Food & Water Watch’ kumpulan hak pengguna, Hari Frackdown Global menyatukan semua benua dlm perjuangan mereka utk melindungi udara, air, iklim dan komuniti dari fracking.
The leaders of Canada and the EU signed the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) this September, which is yet to be finalized. It will remove over 99 percent of tariffs between the two economies by 2016.
The Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA) is planned to liberalize the trade of services such as banking and transport between 23 parties, initiated by the US. Its draft version was released this June by WikiLeaks, which was followed by rising criticism.
Apart from the actions to stop TTIP, people from all over the globe are participating in another protest on Saturday – Global Frackdown Day, aimed at protesting against controversial oil and gas technique of fracking.
Initiated by Food & Water Watch consumer right group, Global Frackdown Day unites all continents in their struggle to protect air, water, climate and communities from fracking.
Tebus semula Kuasa mensasarkan fracking pembiayaHSBCUKBusiness di Strand, London. Sebahagian daripada #GlobalFrackdown (Reclaim the Power targeting fracking financiers @HSBCUKBusiness on the Strand, London. Part of the #GlobalFrackdown) 7:33 PM - 11 Oct 2014
pEOPLeVoice- Keuntungan telah menurun bagi syarikat-syarikat tenaga Jerman Angela Merkel sejak memutuskan utk menggoncang industri tenaga dgn mengu-rangkan tenaga nuklear memihak kepada tenaga boleh diperbaharui. Kesan ke atas sektor tenaga adalah teruk, & boleh mempunyai kesan domino di seluruh Eropah.
Henri Prolio, Ketua Eksekutif milik EDF Perancis, telah secara terbuka mengkritik dua pembekal tenaga terbesar Jerman, RWE dan E.ON.
"Apabila ia datang kepada tenaga mereka berada dalam bencana. 2 syarikat utama mereka - E.ON dan RWE - berada di bawah tekanan yang besar. Satu adalah lebih kurang mati, yang lain adalah dalam keadaan yang sangat sukar, "Henri Prolio mendakwa, sambil menambah bahawa syarikatnya telah melakukan" dengan baik."
"Mati" komen merujuk kepada syarikat utiliti yang ke-2 terbesar Jerman RWE, yang mencatatkan penurunan 62 % peratus dlm keuntungan adalah dlm proses menutup stesen kuasa untuk menjimatkan wang.
Yang berpangkalan di Dusseldorf RWE tlh berjuang utk meningkatkan kewangan. April lepas syarikat melaporkan kerugian bersih pertama sejak 1949 Selain itu, hutang syarikat telah meningkat kepada € 30 bilion.
E.ON, pemimpin tenaga Jerman, iaitu "dalam keadaan yang sangat sukar" menurut Henri, mengumumkan penurunan sebanyak 20 % peratus dalam keuntungan bagi suku yang ke-2.
2 syarikat kuasa Jerman telah merosot tajam sejak larangan tenaga nuklear. Dalam bangun dari Fukushima, Angela Merkel berkata Jerman akan menghentikan tenaga nuklear menjelang 2022 dan subsidi tenaga boleh diperbaharui.
Dalam 27 tahun akan datang, Jerman akan menghabiskan €550 billion teknologi boleh diperbaharui seperti angin & solar, dengan harapan mencapai 80 % peratus tenaga boleh diperbaharui oleh 2050 Ini menjadikan teknologi seperti angin dan solar lebih mahal.
Berlin mempunyai
seminggu terutamanya seksa yang besar dari segi data ekonomi yang sukar, tanpa
berita positif. Berlainan KDNK negara telah diturunkan oleh ahli ekonomi,
eksport menjunam rendah krisis pra-krisis kewangan ke atas Ukraine, dan petunjuk ekonomi yang lain spt keyakinan perniagaan ‘business confidence’ & industry yang mabuk.
GERMANY’s Energy Industry a ‘DISASTER’ - France’s
EDF CHIRF . . .
Profits have declined for German energy companies since Angela Merkel decided to shake up the power industry by cutting nuclear energy in favor of renewables. The impact on the energy sector is severe, and may be having a domino effect across Europe.
Henri Prolio, the Chief Executive of France’s state-owned EDF, has openly criticized Germany’s two biggest energy suppliers, RWE and E.ON.
“When it comes to energy they are in a disaster. Their two major companies – E.ON and RWE – are under huge pressure. One is more or less dead, the other one is in a very difficult situation," Henri Prolio claimed, adding that his company was doing “quite well.”
The “dead” comment refers to Germany’s second biggest utility company RWE, which posted a 62 percent drop in profit is in the process of shutting down power stations to save money.
Dusseldorf-based RWE has been struggling to improve financially. Last April the company reported its first net loss since 1949. On top of that, company debt has risen to €30 billion.
E.ON, Germany’s energy leader, which is “in a very difficult situation” according to Henri, announced a drop of 20 percent in profits for the second quarter.
Germany’s top two power companies have been in sharp decline since a ban on nuclear energy. In the wake of Fukushima, Angela Merkel said Germany would phase out nuclear power by 2022 and subsidize renewable energy.
In the next 27 years, Germany will spend €550 billion on renewable technologies like wind and solar, in the hope of attaining 80 percent renewable energy by 2050. This makes technologies like wind and solar more expensive.
Berlin has had a particularly awful week in terms of hard economic data, with no positive news. The country’s GDP outlook has been lowered by economists, exports dived to pre-financial crisis lows over the Ukraine crisis, and other economic indicators such asbusiness confidenceandindustrytanked.
Keyakinan perniagaan di Jerman, yang telah membawa kebangkitan ekonomi EU sejak tahun lepas, merosot untuk bulan yang ke-4 pada bulan Ogos, yang prospek dahan lagi pemulihan yang lebih luas di seluruh EU.
Indeks Jerman Ifo Perniagaan Iklim dlm pembuatan, yg kelihatan pd keyakinan 7,000 firma di negara ini, turun kepada 106.3 pada Ogos daripada 108 pada bulan Julai.
Ia angka terendah sejak Julai lalu, menandakan penurunan terpanjang berturut-turut bulanan sejak 2012, kata laporan itu.
Angka Isnin datang selepas data ekonomi yang mengecewakan bagi suku yang ke-2. Ia menunjukkan ekonomi terbesar di Eropah menguncup 0.2 % peratus dlm tempoh itu, selepas ia berkembang 0.7 % peratus pada suku pertama.
Banyak penurunan yang tidak dijangka adalah disebabkan ‘attributed’ oleh kesan krisis di Ukraine yang membawa kepada yang sukar 'sekatan perang.' Walaupun selepas suku yang ke-2 yang mengecewakan, Jerman percaya ia akan mencapai pertumbuhan 1.8 % peratus tahun ini. Sebaliknya, di UK, yang bukan sebahagian daripada zon mata wang euro, menunjukkan pertumbuhan ekonomi suku paling kukuh dalam 6 tahun, dengan 0.8 % peratus ‘0.8 percent’ pada suku yang ke-2.
Pada bulan Julai perniagaan Jerman mula menghantar tanda-tanda yang jelas mereka sedang menderita ‘suffering’ dari kebuntuan politik dengan Rusia - salah satu daripada rakan kongsi ekonomi utamanya.
Canselor Jerman Angela Merkel telah mengesahkan bahawa pertumbuhan ekonomi negara telah dilanda krisis di Ukraine.
"Terdapat, bagaimanapun, beberapa ketidakpastian - Saya tidak mahu menyem-bunyikan itu - seluruh Ukraine-Rusia keadaan menunjukkan bahawa kita sudah tentu mempunyai kepentingan besar dalam hubungan antarabangsa yang lagi membina," Merkel dipetik oleh Reuters.
Tetapi Canselor menegaskan bahawa dia masih fikir kadar pertumbuhan tahunan ekonomi secara keseluruhan akan menjadi "baik, jika apa2 dramatik yang berlaku."
Jerman peruncit sukan Adidas berkata ia akan mempercepatkan usaha untuk menutup kedai-kedai dalam pasaran Rusia dan CIS pada tahun 2014 dan 2015 pembuat kereta Volkswagen, yang juga pengeluar terbesar di Eropah, berkata ia dijual 8 % peratus kurang kenderaan di Rusia pd 2 suku pertama berbanding lepas tahun.
Rusia adalah rakan perdagangan Eropah ketiga terbesar, pada tahun 2013 perdagangan antara Jerman dan Rusia adalah €76.5 billion.
Eksport Jerman ke Rusia mungkin turun sebanyak 25 % peratus tahun ini, kesatuan persatuan terkemuka yg mewakili perniagaan Jerman berkata dlm satu kenyataan.
"Ada kemungkinan bahawa pd akhir tahun ini eksport kita ke Rusia akan merosot sebanyak 20-25 % peratus. Ia akan memberi kesan kepada kira-kira 50,000 tempat kerja di Jerman," Eckhard Cordes, pengerusi Jawatankuasa Jerman di Timur Per-hubungan Ekonomi Eropah, tertekan.
GERMAN Business Confidence Shattered,
lowest in 13 MONTHS . . .
Business confidence in Germany, which has led the EU economic revival over the last year, declined for a fourth month in August, which further clouded prospects of a broader recovery across the EU.
Germany’s Ifo Business Climate Index in manufacturing, which looks at the confidence of the country’s 7,000 firms, fell to 106.3 in August from 108 in July.
It’s the lowest figure since last July, marking the longest successive monthly decline since 2012, the report said.
Monday’s figures come after frustrating economic data for the second quarter. It showed Europe’s biggest economy contracted 0.2 percent during the period, after it grew 0.7 percent in the first quarter.
Much of the unexpected drop isattributedto the effects of the crisis in Ukraine that has led to a tough 'sanctions war.' Even after the disappointing second quarter, Germany believes it will achieve 1.8 percent growth this year. By contrast, the UK, which is not part of the euro currency zone, showed its strongest quarterly economic growth in 6 years, with0.8 percentin the second quarter.
In July German businesses began to send clear signs they aresufferingfrom the political standoff with Russia – one of its key economic partners.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has confirmed that the growth of the country’s economy has been hit by the crisis in Ukraine.
"There are, however, some uncertainties - I don't want to conceal that - the whole Ukraine-Russia situation shows that we of course have a big interest in our international relations being constructive again," Merkel is cited by Reuters.
But the Chancellors stressed that she still thought the overall annual growth rate of the economy would be “good, if nothing dramatic happens."
German sports retailer Adidas said it would speed up efforts to close stores in the Russian and CIS markets in 2014 and 2015. Carmaker Volkswagen, that’s also Europe’s biggest manufacturer, said it sold eight percent fewer vehicles in Russia in the first two quarters compared to last year.
Russia is Europe’s third-largest trading partner, in 2013 trade between Germany and Russia was €76.5 billion.
Germany’s exports to Russia may go down by 25 per cent this year, the union of leading associations representing German businesses said in a statement.
"It is possible that by the end of the year our exports to Russia will decline by 20-25 per cent. It will affect some 50,000 workplaces in Germany,” Eckhard Cordes, the chairman of Germany’s Committee on Eastern European Economic Relations, stressed.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel (AFP Photo/Odd Andersen)
Sebab utama pertumbuhan KDNK poor (miskin) zon Euro adalah sanksi yg dike-nakan oleh Kesatuan Eropah terhadap Rusia, Michael Mross, ketua editor laman web MMNews.de, memberitahu RT.
"Apabila anda mengambil, sebagai contoh, syarikat-syarikat besar Jerman - hampir setiap syarikat Jerman besar telah hubungan perniagaan rapat dengan Rusia . . . Semua orang mengalami lebih kurang. Pada akhir hari, ini bukan sahaja kesan psikologi, tetapi kesan perniagaan, "katanya.
Rusia adalah pasaran yang besar untuk bukan sahaja Jerman, tetapi untuk semua pasaran Eropah, itulah sebabnya ia adalah penting untuk mengekalkan hubungan yang berfungsi.
"Kami mempunyai masalah yang cukup di sini di zon Euro. Dan ini adalah sesuatu yang kita tidak perlukan. Dan jika anda bercakap dengan pemimpin perniagaan secara tertutup - mereka semua terhadap sekatan ini, "tambah Mross.
'Menarik disetiapnya merosakkan' dasar penjimatan
Ramai yang telah menyuarakan kebimbangan push Jerman ke arah penjimatan ekonomi, usaha-Spartan perbelanjaan untuk mengimbangi semula zon euro. Pada musim bunga, banyak yang dipanggil 'Euro-skeptis' menang ‘won’ dalam pilihan raya Parlimen Eropah.
Pada hari Isnin, kerajaan Perancis meletak jawatan ‘resigned’ hanya 4 bulan selepas ia ditubuhkan selepas Mei elections. Mereka berhenti selepas diserang menteri rancangan Presiden Francois Hollande kerana cukai dan luka, dan lebih percanggahan pendapat utama dengan program penjimatan Jerman.
Perancis, yang selama berdiri dengan Jerman dari segi politik, memutuskan ‘decided’ untuk meletakkan satu pengakhiran kepada dasar-dasar penjimatan tidak popular kembali pada bulan Mei.
Bukan sahaja ahli-ahli politik meragui arah yang lebih kesatuan mata wang 18-negara. Eropah masih berjabat pd kemelesetan 7 tahun, yang telah membawa kepada pertumbuhan ekonomi terhenti dan pengangguran ke paras tertinggi. Pemulihan telah digambarkan ‘described’ oleh Hadiah Nobel yang memenangi ekonomi kerana kedua-dua "menarik disetiap yang merosakkan" dan "kegagalan yang muram".
The main reason for the Eurozone’s poor GDP growth are the sanction imposed by the EU against Russia, Michael Mross, chief editor of MMNews.de website, told RT.
“When you take, for example, the big German companies – almost every big German company has close business ties with Russia . . . Everybody is suffering more or less. In the end of the day, this has not only psychological effect, but a business effect,” he said.
Russia is a large market for not only Germany, but for all European markets, which is why it is important to keep relations functional.
“We have a enough problems here in the Eurozone. And this is something we don’t need. And if you speak to business leaders behind closed doors – they’re all against these sanctions,” Mross added.
‘Stunningly destructive’ austerity policies
Many have voiced concerns over Germany’s push towards economic austerity, a Spartan-spending effort to re-balance the eurozone. In the spring, many of the so-called ‘Euro-skeptics’wonin the European parliamentary elections.
On Monday, the French governmentresignedjust four months after it was formed after the May elections.They quit after ministers attacked President Francois Hollande's plans for taxation and cuts, and over a major disagreement with Germany’s austerity program.
France, which as long stood with Germany politically,decidedto put an end to unpopular austerity policies back in May.
Not only politicians doubt the direction over the 18-nation currency union. Europe is still shaking off its seven year recession, which has brought economic growth to a standstill and unemployment to record levels. Recovery has beendescribedby Nobel Prize winning economists as both “stunningly destructive” and a “dismal failure.”
Industri Jerman berasa tekanan yg paling sejak kemuncak krisis kewangan global pada tahun 2009, meletakkan Berlin dlm kedudukan yg sukar kerana ia mengajar langkah penjimatan yg sukar utk jiran-jirannya. Sekatan Rusia hanya memburuk-kan lagi kesengsaraan ekonomi.
Pesanan industri jatuh 5.7 % peratus pada bulan Ogos dari Julai, yang paling pesat sejak Januari 2009 apabila mereka jatuh 7.7 % peratus, Kementerian Ekonomi Jerman di Berlin, Isnin. Penurunan itu jauh lebih tinggi daripada ekonomi di Bloomberg (1.5 % peratus) dan Reuters (2.5 % peratus) ramalan.
Pesanan kilang Jerman, diselaraskan bagi perubahan bermusim adalah 4 % peratus kurang pada bulan Ogos berbanding Julai, penurunan terbesar sejak 2009.
POWERhouse GERMANY gets Own Spoonful
Of AUSTERITY . . .
German industry is feeling the most pressure since the peak of the global financial crisis in 2009, putting Berlin in a difficult position as it preaches tough austerity to its neighbors. Russian sanctions are only exacerbating the economic misery.
Industry orders tumbled 5.7 percent in August from July, the fastest since January 2009 when they dropped 7.7 percent, the Germany Economy Ministry in Berlin said Monday. The drop was much higher than economists at Bloomberg (1.5 percent) and Reuters (2.5 percent) forecast.
Germany factory orders, adjusted for seasonal swings, were 4 percent less in August than in July, the biggest drop since 2009.
Pesanan asing jatuh 8.4 % peratus, perintah pelaburan dan barang-barang yang jatuh 8.5 % peratus &, dan barang-barang asas jatuh 3 % peratus dan perintah domestik 2 % peratus.
Foreign orders dropped 8.4 percent, investment and goods orders tumbled 8.5 percent, and basic goods fell 3 percent and domestic orders 2 percent.
Percubaan Jerman untuk membangkitkan ekonomi EU selepas krisis kewangan 2008 telah ditandai dengan pemotongan dan cukai. Pelan penjimatan terbukti tidak popular teruk di zon euro, masih bergelut dengan kelemahan ekonomi.
Jerman menyediakan sebahagian besar daripada kewangan, hampir 48 % peratus atau €210 billion pembiayaan Eropah. Walau bagaimanapun, Bank Pusat Eropah (ECB) mahu ia meningkatkan perbelanjaan bagi merangsang pelaburan, dan IMF bersetuju ‘agrees’ ia adalah ukuran yang diperlukan untuk memulihkan zon euro. Setakat ini, Jerman telah menentang perbelanjaan rangsangan, dan walaupun ia dipanggil ‘called’ haram.
Germany’s attempts to resurrect the EU’s economy after the 2008 financial crisis have been marked by cutbacks and taxation. The austerity plan has proven to be severely unpopular in the eurozone, still struggling with economic weakness.
Germany provides the bulk of the finance, nearly 48 percent or €210 billion of European financing. However, the European Central Bank (ECB) wants it to boost spending to spur investment, and the IMFagreesit is a measure needed to revive the eurozone. So far, Germany has resisted stimulus spending, and has evencalledit illegal.
Pada mesyuarat ECB lepas, kepala Mario Draghi mengakui bahwa 18 anggota yg menggunakan euro itu "kehilangan momentum (losing momentum)" berlepas tajam dari penyata Mac lepas bahawa euro adalah "sebuah pulau kestabilan (an island of stability)"
Faktor Rusia
Standoff dengan Rusia ke atas Ukraine boleh menjadi faktor besar dalam kejatuhan, kerana Rusia adalah pasaran eksport terbesar di Jerman. Kesatuan Jerman mera-malkan bahawa eksport ke Rusia dapat turun sebanyak 25 % peratus tahun ini.
"Ia amat jelas bahawa Eropah tidak mempunyai apa yang diperlukan untuk berdiri dengan sendiri. Ini adalah pada satu masa apabila ekonomi Eropah dan sebahagian besar ekonomi global trend ke bawah yang teruk," Gerald Celente, penerbit Trend Journal, memberitahu RT.
ZON Gergasi EURO menuju kemelesetan?
€9.5 trillion ekonomi Eropah masih belum ditarik sendiri utk pemulihan ekonomi, tetapi Jerman telah lama dipuji sebagai kuasa besar itu. Walau bagaimanapun, penunjuk ekonomi baru-baru ini memberitahu cerita lain.
Ekonomi Jerman menyusut sebanyak 0.2 % peratus pada suku kedua 2014 selepas ia menunjukkan pertumbuhan 0.7 % peratus dalam tempoh 3 bulan pertama tahun ini.
Pada $ 1.5 trilion, Jerman menyumbang hampir 30 % peratus daripada keluaran dalam negara kasar keseluruhan zon euro 18 anggota itu.
Keyakinan pengguna juga merosot ‘decline’ seperti pengangguran terus mendaki untuk bulan kedua berturut-turut.
Kemudian pd hari Selasa, Tabung Kewangan Antarabangsa dijangka mengurang-kan unjuran pertumbuhan Jerman 2014 kepada 1.5 % peratus, turun daripada anggaran sebelumnya sebanyak 1.9 % peratus. Pertumbuhan pd tahun 2015 boleh dikurangkan kepada 1.7 % peratus, menurut majalah Der Spiegel.
At the last ECB meeting, head Mario Draghi admitted that the 18 members who use the euro was “losing momentum” a sharp departure from last March's statement that the euro was “an island of stability”
The Russia factor
The standoff with Russia over Ukraine may be a big factor in the downfall, since Russia is Germany’s largest export market. German unions have predicted that exports to Russia could drop by as much as 25 percent this year.
"It’s very clear that Europe doesn’t have what it takes to stand on its own. This is at a time when the European economy and much of the global economy is on a severe down trend,” Gerald Celente, publisher of Trends Journal, told RT.
Eurozone’s giant headed for recession?
Europe’s €9.5 trillion economy still hasn’t clawed itself to economic recovery, but Germany has long been praised as the powerhouse. However, recent economic indicators tell another story.
The German economy shrank by 0.2 percent in the second quarter of 2014 after it demonstrated a 0.7 percent growth in the first three months of the year.
At $1.5 trillion, Germany accounts for nearly 30 percent of the gross domestic product of the entire 18-member eurozone.
Consumer confidence also is on thedeclineas unemployment continues to climb for the second consecutive month.
Later on Tuesday, the International Monetary Fund is expected to cut Germany’s growth forecast for 2014 to 1.5 percent, down from previous estimate of 1.9 percent. Growth in 2015 may be slashed to 1.7 percent, according to Der Spiegel magazine.
