Posted by seumasach on January 21, 2009
20th January, 2009
The United States is too great a nation to continue cleave to a disastrous president’s manipulative and immoral terminology. George W. Bush’s words, and the damage they have inflicted upon the people of the United States and the world, should be buried along with his failed presidency, says Christiane Brown.
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Posted by seumasach on January 21, 2009
20th Janaury, 2009
An Iranian diplomat says the Israeli crimes committed against Gazans should alarm the world about the threat of Israel’s nuclear arsenal.
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Posted by seumasach on January 20, 2009
M.K. Bhadrakumar
21st January, 2009
The Barack Obama era is commencing on a combative note in Afghanistan. The Afghan bazaar is buzzing with rumors that the equations between Washington and Kabul have become uncertain. Senior Afghan figures have been quoted as concluding that “the new US administration and the current Afghan administration will not be speaking the same language”.
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Posted by seumasach on January 20, 2009
19th January, 2009
Mobile phones are a modern day convenience in our society. But, does this advance in technology come at a price to human health? Humanity engages various forms of radiation in our everyday life. From microwaves to X-rays, we are surrounded by EMF waves (electromagnetic radiation).
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Posted by seumasach on January 20, 2009
20th January, 2009
BERLIN (Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives called on Tuesday for the establishment of a “contact group” of nations, including Iran, that would develop a new political strategy for stabilizing Afghanistan.
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Posted by seumasach on January 20, 2009
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By Andrew Grice, Political Editor
Independent
20th January, 2009
The Government does not know whether the second bank rescue package it launched yesterday will work, senior ministers admitted last night.
“The truth is that we can’t be sure whether it will be effective,” one told The Independent. “We have to look calm to try to instil some confidence in the system. But we don’t know what will happen next. No one can be sure that this is the end of it.”
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Posted by seumasach on January 20, 2009
20th January, 2009
After hitting Royal Bank of Scotland hard yesterday, the market has now picked a new target in Lloyds Banking Group.
It shares have slumped 30.5p to 34.5p – a 47% decline – as investors bailed out amid concerns that Lloyds could be another bank that ends up being nationalised by the UK government. Mark McCutcheon, head of broking at IAF Securities said: “There is genuine selling here, mixed with some shorting.”
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Posted by seumasach on January 20, 2009
PM DINES WITH fellow WAR CRIMINALS
The demo’ this Saturday 24 January will march to
Downing Street, calling for the lifting of the Gaza blockade,
an end to all arms sales to Israel and for Israel to be made
to pay for its war crimes.
We will also be registering our disgust over Gordon Brown’s
support for Israel following its barbaric attack. The day
after the massacre was ended – so as not to spoil Barack
Obama’s inauguration with pictures of phosphorous bombs
dropping on UN schools in Gaza – Brown rushed off to join five
other heads of government for a celebratory gala dinner at the
Jerusalem home of Israel’s prime minister Ehud Olmert,
alongside Olmert’s compatriots in mass murder, defence
minister Ehud Barak and foreign minister Tzipi Livni.
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Posted by seumasach on January 20, 2009
This article explains why the current nationalization fad is no answer in itself, merely transfering bankruptcy from company to national level. A national credit system would only make sense as part of a comprehensive programme of rebuilding of a real economy, focused on manufacturing and agriculture, combined with a conprehensive retreat from empire and militarism. There will, of course, be a run on the pound.
20th January, 2009
Britain came off the gold standard in 1931 and sterling devalued by 28 per cent. The economic crisis that followed marked the end of the UK as a global power. It also led to an effective default on almost half the national debt, which was restructured into bonds still outstanding. Parallels with today are eerie. Since the middle of 2007, the trade-weighted pound has fallen by 27 per cent. Furthermore, as the government shoulders contingent liabilities for ever greater amounts of delinquent bank debt, worries are growing about the state’s finances.
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Posted by alfied on January 20, 2009
Our readers abroad must imagine that Britain must be in a state of near panic. Nothing could be further from the truth: there is nothing, not so much as a whimper as we go silently to our doom. In our heart of hearts we know the simple truth that our time has been and gone.
By Paul Gordon and Candice Zachariahs
Jan. 20 (Bloomberg) — The pound dropped to a record low versus the yen and the weakest level since 2002 against the dollar on concern the government will have to rescue more banks as the economy slips into its worst recession since World War II. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on January 19, 2009
18th January, 2009
Alabama was colder than Alaska, water fountains froze into ice sculptures in South Carolina, and Florida shivered through an Arctic air blast as the coldest week of the winter continued to grip large parts of the US.
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In These New Times 