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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Exclusive: Money has no place in Scots justice
Posted by seumasach on January 6, 2011
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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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China to help Iran in railroad projects
Posted by seumasach on January 6, 2011
2nd January, 2011
Iran and China will cooperate in the construction projects of eight railroads with a total length of about 5,000 kilometers in the Islamic Republic.
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New bailout on the way
Posted by seumasach on January 6, 2011
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China backs Spain to emerge from crisis: Beijing
Posted by seumasach on January 6, 2011
3rd January, 2011
.China is confident Spain will recover from its economic crisis and Beijing will buy Spanish public debt despite market fears of an Irish-style bailout, a top Chinese official said Monday.
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US begins troop surge in Afghanistan
Posted by seumasach on January 6, 2011
6th January, 2011
US Defense Secretary Robert Gates has decided to send an additional 1,400 marines to Afghanistan, the first series of which could begin arriving on the ground as early as mid January.
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Calif. County criminalizes smart-meter installations
Posted by seumasach on January 6, 2011
Citing alleged health effects from electromagnetic waves, a county in the North San Francisco Bay Area has criminalized the installation of “smart” electric meters.
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The real crime of Mikhail Khodorkovsky
Posted by seumasach on January 5, 2011
F.William Engdahl
5th January, 2011
The final decision in the Russian trial against former oil oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky has drawn dramatic statements of protest from the US Obama Administration and governments around the world labeling Russian justice as tyrannical and worse. What is carefully omitted from the Khodovkorsky story however is the true reason Putin arrested and imprisoned the former head of Russia’s largest private oil giant, Yukos. Khodorkovsky’s real crime was not stealing Russia’s assets for a pittance in the bandit era of Yeltsin.
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Washington’s “humanitarian” war and the KLA’s crimes
Posted by seumasach on January 5, 2011
Revelations of fascistic crimes carried out by the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) prior to, during and after NATO’s war against the former Yugoslavia should provide a salutary lesson whenever Washington again cites humanitarian concerns to justify its predatory war aims. A new report prepared by Swiss Council of Europe deputyDick Marty slams Kosovo leader Hachim Thaci for organ trafficking and other abominable crimes, deftly shaded by the U.S. in pursuit of their own self-interests.
A report by the Council of Europe describes Kosovo today as a country subject to “mafia-like structures of organised crime”. It accuses KLA commander and current prime minister, Hachim Thaci, of heading a criminal network involved in murder, prostitution and drug trafficking.
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“Experts” explain falling blackbirds
Posted by seumasach on January 5, 2011
“The blackbirds were flying at rooftop level instead of treetop level” to avoid explosions above, said Karen Rowe, an ornithologist with the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission. “Blackbirds have poor eyesight, and they started colliding with things.”
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4th January, 2011
New Year’s revelers in a small Arkansas town were enjoying midnight fireworks when they noticed something other than sparks falling from the sky: thousands of dead blackbirds.
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