By Damian Reece
A price target of 0p has been assigned to Bradford & Bingley by brokers Pali International, highlighting the crucial question of where next for B&B. Read the rest of this entry »
Archive for July, 2008
Messrs Bradford and Bingley can hang up their hats
Posted by alfied on July 8, 2008
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The antennas are coming
Posted by seumasach on July 6, 2008
2nd July, 2008
There’s something the government, the telecommunication industry and the corporate media don’t want you to know: Invisible things can hurt you.
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Spy in a coma found ‘with blood everywhere’ by painter who used his artist colony house
Posted by seumasach on July 6, 2008
The story so far(part one here): Mr Alex Allan, head of British Intelligence, lives amidst tight security “among a handful of painters, sculptors, jewellers and print-makers in a dedicated artists’ colony in Hammersmith” where he has been found in a coma. The government denies foul-play but experts know that he was really poisoned by the Russians. However, revelations by “wildlife painter Dominique Salm, who took over the studio in his home when his artist wife of 29 years, Katie Clemson, died of cancer last year” suggest otherwise
Liz Todd
6th July, 2008
The mystery surrounding the sudden illness of Britain’s top spy deepened last night after a neighbour revealed he was found covered in blood by an artist who worked in his house.
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We’ve won the “War on Terror”!
Posted by seumasach on July 6, 2008
It was always inevitable that the defeat in Iraq would be declared a victory and that the charge would be trumpeted amidst retreat . Now the project initiated by General Fallon can be resumed with Martin McGuinness helping out with a bit of “conflict resolution”. However, constructive reengagement with Iran, Syria and Russia would be indispensable as well as a clipping of the wings of Israel.
Iraqis lead final purge of Al-Qaeda
Marie Colvin in Mosul(Sunday Times)
July 6, 2008
American and Iraqi forces are driving Al-Qaeda in Iraq out of its last redoubt in the north of the country in the culmination of one of the most spectacular victories of the war on terror.
Posted in Iraq | Tagged: retreat form Iraq | 6 Comments »
Martin Schram: Cell-phone radiation concerns remain
Posted by smeddum on July 6, 2008
The author concludes that there should be more independent studies: while that is welcome, what would be more welcome would be due attention given to independent studies already completed.
Saturday, July 5, 2008
It was the pop heard ’round the world.
Four pops, actually. Faster than a speeding kernel — YouTube viewers around the planet became eyewitnesses to something that looked like fun-time science.
Here’s what they saw: Four corn kernels on a table cloth, surrounded by four cell phones, lying flat and pointed at the kernels. Four young folks dialed their cell phones. The ringing commenced. Suddenly — pop. . . pop. . . pop. . . pop. Lo, right before our eye-witnessing eyes, the corn jumped and popped into popcorn.
The popping of the popcorn set the blogs buzzing. In English, French, Japanese. The buzzing of the blogs begat the babble of the 24/7 cable news anchors — hey, this was their kind of story. After all, hadn’t a world of cell phone users just seen, with their own eyes, evidence of a scientific truth, at last — proof of the perils of cell phone radiation?
Well, no. It was a hoax. Read the rest of this entry »
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The McCain Tour and the Manifest Destiny of the U. S. Fourth Fleet
Posted by smeddum on July 5, 2008
REFLECTIONS BY FIDEL
The McCain Tour and the Manifest Destiny of the U. S. Fourth Fleet
(Translated by ESTI) Granma
While I was preparing a reflection about McCain’s relationship with the anti-Cuban terrorist mafia in Miami and other related subjects of historical interest, fresh news was flowing about this character that is being projected by the empire’s hawks as Bush’s replacement: his visit to Colombia and Mexico which will begin tomorrow. It is not possible to avoid them since they confirm the opinions we have held. Read the rest of this entry »
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Zimbabwe and the new Cowardly Colonialism
Posted by seumasach on July 5, 2008
Western intervention against Robert Mugabe’s ‘evil regime’ put Zimbabwe into an economic straitjacket and disempowered its people
Brendan O’Neil (Spiked)
3rd July, 2008
‘We’ve beaten Mugabe’, said a frontpage headline in the London Evening Standard yesterday. Only there were no quote marks around the words ‘We’ve beaten Mugabe’, which made it difficult to tell if the paper was reporting the thoughts of Morgan Tsvangirai’s Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) upon its electoral victory over Robert Mugabe’s Zanu-PF Party, or its own back-slapping relish at the thought that its journalism may have played a part in toppling Mugabe. Indeed, ‘We’ve beaten Mugabe’ could be the slogan of political and media operators in Britain and elsewhere in the West, who like to fantasise that Mugabe is ‘Africa’s Hitler’, that his Zimbabwe was ‘more evil than, for example, China and Saudi Arabia’, and that it is up to the West to ‘put pressure on Zimbabwe to change’ (1).
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Hunkering Down in Afghanistan with Field-Marshall Obama
Posted by seumasach on July 5, 2008
Mike Whitney(ICH)
3rd July, 2008
Afghanistan was supposed to be the “good war”; a “just response” to the attacks of September 11. It was supposed to bring Bin Laden to justice “dead or alive” and quash terrorism in the places where it originated. 95 per cent of the American people supported the invasion of Afghanistan. Now less than half think the U.S. will prevail. The war was promoted as a way to replace a repressive fundamentalist regime with a democratic government based on western ideals. The Bush administration promised to rebuild war-torn Afghanistan, transform its feudal system into a free market economy, and liberate its women from the oppression of Islamic extremism.
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Experts confident they can explain away WTC7 collapse
Posted by seumasach on July 5, 2008
But can they explain away how the BBC managed to report the collapse of WTC 7 20 minutes before it actually happened!
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The final mystery of 9/11 will soon be solved, according to US experts investigating the collapse of the third tower at the World Trade Center.
The 47-storey third tower, known as Tower Seven, collapsed seven hours after the twin towers.
Investigators are expected to say ordinary fires on several different floors caused the collapse.
Conspiracy theorists have argued that the third tower was brought down in a controlled demolition.
Unlike the twin towers, Tower Seven was not hit by a plane.
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Past the tipping point
Posted by smeddum on July 5, 2008
Service workers watch gratuities shrivel during economic woes The Journal Gazette
LISA CORNWELL
Associated Press
CINCINNATI – At the Corner Pub on Cincinnati’s west side, bartender Melissa Metz can count the cost of the economic hangover in the stack of bills she has at the end of a shift.
Those tips make up the majority of her income, but they’ve been dwindling for months amid rising gas prices and other economic woes. Right now, her weekly income from tips is down about 25 percent. Read the rest of this entry »
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Justice for Iraq
Posted by seumasach on July 5, 2008
A day conference
Saturday 19 July, London
Justice for Iraq is a call to action – a campaign that demands a complete policy reversal of those countries who have invaded and occupied Iraq since 2003. Ending the military occupation remains the most urgent priority. But Iraq will remain a broken nation without urgent measures aimed at delivering lasting peace and justice for its people and healing some of the wounds caused by this disastrous war.
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In These New Times 