7th January
THREE new witnesses have come forward claiming they can give disgraced former Scottish Socialist Party leader Tommy Sheridan an alibi for the night he is alleged to have been at a swingers’ club.
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Archive for January, 2011
Tommy Sheridan finds new witnesses to bolster appeal
Posted by seumasach on January 7, 2011
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Jim Rogers: Chinese Renminbi will replace US Dollar
Posted by seumasach on January 7, 2011
“I see no future for the pound sterling”
6th January, 2011
Global commodities investing legend Jim Rogers who feels that the US dollar is in a terrible shape these days has predicted that the Chinese Renminbi has the potential to replace the US dollar as global currency.
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Kim Jong-eun has Obama blinking
Posted by seumasach on January 7, 2011
Kim Myong Chol
7th January, 2011
“The captured crew members of the armed spy ship USS Pueblomust be brought to Pyongyang for a photo session. Photos of thePueblo crew members arriving with their hands raised should be sent worldwide to show for all to see that the Americans are captured red-handed violating our sovereign territorial waters.”
– Kim Jong-il, January 1968
“The South Korean puppet regime of LMB [South Korean President Lee Myung-bak] and its American wirepullers have blinked at our prompt merciless counter-strike to their reckless provocation. They are again going to play with fire despite the mounting global objections. This time only a wiser course of action is to refrain from military retaliation at their face-keeping show of force, unless our territorial integrity is in direct jeopardy. We instead use the drill to expose LMB and his American masters to the world as dangerous, trigger-happy warmongers. ”
– Kim Jong-eun, December 2010
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China’s help brings political price for the EU
Posted by seumasach on January 7, 2011
7th January, 2011
This week’s visit of Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang to Spain, Germany and the UK, accompanied by an entourage of over a hundred leading Chinese businessmen, is the latest vanguard of China’s business-based diplomacy drive.
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EU: Bondholders to share bailout costs
Posted by seumasach on January 7, 2011
7th January, 2011
The European Union is moving ahead with plans to shield taxpayers from having to bail out big banks in the future, but there are substantial obstacles to making bondholders share losses.
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Asian buyers take almost a quarter of EU bond issuance for Irish bailout
Posted by seumasach on January 7, 2011
6th January, 2011
Investors in Asia piled into bonds sold by the European Union to help finance aid for Ireland, according to EU figures. The notes rose today in their first trading day.
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Brazil moves to curb rising currency
Posted by seumasach on January 7, 2011
“We’re not going to allow our American friends to melt the dollar,”
7th January, 2011
A day after finance minister Guido Mantega pledged not to allow America to “melt the dollar”, Brazil’s central bank announced that domestic lenders would have higher reserve requirements against foreign exchange positions.
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Latin American economy
Posted by smeddum on January 7, 2011
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Exclusive: Money has no place in Scots justice
Posted by seumasach on January 6, 2011
3rd January, 2011
Former criminal practitioner and Scots law elder statesman Ian Hamilton QC warns that the reliance by the Crown of paid witnesses in the Sheridan prosecution raises troubling implications for the integrity of Scots justice.
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The Met’s News of the World phone-hacking investigation is itself a scandal
Posted by seumasach on January 6, 2011
Chris bryant
6th January, 2011
Last month, the police and the Crown Prosecution Service announcedthat they were dropping their investigation into phone hacking at the News of the World when Andy Coulson was its editor on the grounds that there was insufficient evidence to support charges. Yesterday, we learned that an assistant editor working under Coulson has been suspended following the emergence of evidence that appears to link him to the activities of Glenn Mulcaire. With new evidence added to the pile of unexplored leads on a daily basis, how can the Metropolitan police possibly argue that they have exhausted all of the evidence available?
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Tommy Sheridan to sue NoW and Met over phone hacking
Posted by seumasach on January 6, 2011
6th January, 2011
The former Scottish socialist leader Tommy Sheridan is taking legal action against News International and Scotland Yard after his personal details emerged as part of the News of the World phone-hacking scandal.
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