Archive for April, 2010
Posted by seumasach on April 16, 2010
“Is the World Bank finally waking up to the real world(s)? The BRICs met in Brazil roughly one week before the World Bank and International Monetary Fund annual love fest in Washington. The old order may resent it, but the BRIC voice is and will continue to be ever more insistent. No wonder; they are shelling more funds to the IMF, thus they should have more say on where the money is going. They want an antithesis of Wall Street: transparency. The 2008 financial crisis – which by no means is over – was unleashed by a Wall Street-biased financial casino.”
Pepe Escobar
Asia Times
17th April, 2010
The BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China) got together in the Brazilian capital, Brasilia, on Thursday with a bang. After meeting Chinese President Hu Jintao, and once again condemning an “asymmetric, dysfunctional globalization”, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was at his ebullient best: “A new global economic geography has been born.” Well, not quite. Not yet.
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Posted by seumasach on April 16, 2010
TEHRAN (ISNA)-Iran’s UN ambassador Mohammad Khazaee called for the Security Council and other UN related bodies to show serious opposition to the US President’s nuclear policies and his threat against an NPT signatory which does not hold nuclear weapons.
Following the US President Barack Obama’s remarks that America will not restrict conditions of using nuclear weapons against Iran and North Korea, Khazaee sent a letter to the presidents of the UN Security Council Yukio Takasu and General Assembly Ali Treki and the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and said threats of the US officials against Iran are inhuman and go against international rules and commitments.
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Posted by seumasach on April 16, 2010
PressTV
16th April, 2010
Two bomb explosions have ripped through Afghanistan’s southern city of Kandahar, killing several people, including seven Britons, and injuring scores of others.
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Posted by seumasach on April 16, 2010
Voltairenet
16th April, 2010
L’audition de l’Attorney General des Etats-Unis, Eric Holder, par la Commission sénatoriale de la Justice a tourné au vinaigre, le 14 avril 2010.
Interrogé sur la fermeture, toujours promise et maintes fois différée, de la prison de Guantánamo, M. Holder a été incapable non seulement de donner une date, mais d’indiquer ses intentions. Quinze mois après sa nomination, le secrétaire à la Justice n’a toujours aucune idée des détenus qui doivent être libérés et de ceux qui doivent être jugés par des tribunaux civils.
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Posted by seumasach on April 16, 2010
Voltairenet
13th April, 2010
Mr. Secretary General,
I have the pleasure to offer to Your Excellency my best wishes on the occasion of Nowruz and the beginning of the New Solar Year, 1389. I also wish to seize the moment to praise the efforts initiated by Your Excellency and members of the United Nations General Assembly for the international registration of Nowruz, a cultural event that glorifies humanitarian shared values and principles. I hope this initiative will lay a solid foundation for the spread of Nowruz culture that stands for peace, amity, dynamism, constructive cooperation and sustainable security across the world.
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Posted by seumasach on April 15, 2010
Joanna Lillis
Eurasianet
15th April, 2010
A bid by the nominal Kyrgyz president, Kurmanbek Bakiyev, to stage a comeback in Kyrgyzstan’s second largest city, Osh, ended in fiasco on April 15 after he was forced to beat an ignominious retreat amid chaotic competing demonstrations.
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Posted by seumasach on April 15, 2010
Tom Engelhart
Asia Times
15th April, 2010
The Greeks had it right. When you live on Mount Olympus, your view of humanity is qualitatively different. The Greek gods, after all, lied to, stole from, lusted for and punished humanity without mercy, while taking the planet for a spin in a manner that we mortals would consider amoral, if not immoral.
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Posted by seumasach on April 15, 2010
Pepe Escobar
Asia Times
15th April, 2010
United States President Barack Obama’s 47-nation nuclear security summit, a sort of Group of 20 meeting on steroids, may have been the biggest schmooze-in of global leaders hosted by an American president since the 1945 San Francisco conference that founded the United Nations.
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Posted by seumasach on April 14, 2010
Sarah Irving
Aletho News
13th April, 2010
“We are very angry, very afraid, very sad, very upset. My wife, she is depressed. When she sees police in the street she’s very frightened. They destroyed our life,” says Badi Tebani.
In January 2009, Tebani’s teenage son Yahia was one of tens of thousands of people who joined demonstrations in London against the Israeli bombing of Gaza. At one of those demonstrations Yahia and many others were “kettled” — surrounded by a police cordon and slowly let out in return for giving their names and addresses and for being filmed.
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Posted by seumasach on April 14, 2010
“As a result of this sleight of hand, we are heading – without any debate in the countries concerned – towards a new constitutional framework where European policies will be overseen by …. the NATO Parliamentary Assembly. In the meantime, only national parliamentary controls will be exerted, which is insufficient and may open the door to various types of power abuses.”
Voltairenet
3rd April, 2010
On 31 March 2010, without prior notice, the ten member States of the Western European Union (WEU) announced thedissolution of the structure. All the administrative organs will be shut down by the end of June 2010 at the latest. This decision was precipitated by the 13 March announcement of the United Kingdom’s imminent withdrawal from the Brussels Treaty (1948).
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Posted by seumasach on April 13, 2010
Jane Bryant
One Click Group
11th April, 2010
I’m livid! I’m banging my fists in FURY on my desk this Sunday morning in London UK at the
constant harassment of Dr Sarah Myhill, MB BS, by the wretched General Medical Council
(GMC) quango. This most excellent doctor is a lifeline support for many thousands of
patients, particularly those suffering from the much misunderstood illness of Myalgic
Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) whom she treats with respect,
compassion, kindness, understanding and consummate professionalism.
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