Posted by seumasach on January 28, 2009
28th January, 2009
Using intense diplomatic pressure over the past two days, Israeli officials blocked a French attempt to weaken Jerusalem’s stance with Hamas at the pre-written closing statement of the meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels last night.
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Posted by seumasach on January 28, 2009
Paul Craig Roberts
25th January, 2009
“The evidence is sitting on the table. There is no avoiding the fact that this was torture.”
These are the words of Manfred Nowak, the UN official appointed by the Commission on Human Rights to examine cases of torture. Nowak has concluded that President Obama is legally obligated to prosecute former President George W. Bush and former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. UN Rapporteur: Initiate criminal proceedings against Bush and Rumsfeld now, By Scott Horton, Harper’s Magazine, January 21, 2009
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Posted by seumasach on January 28, 2009
Andrew Hughes
27th January, 2009
Idiocy is usually described as “endlessly repeating the same process, hoping for a different result”. Lawrence Summers, Timothy Geithner, Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden et al are straining at the leash to get the Bailout Ball rolling once again. The stabilization of the financial sector, as elusive as it has been so far, has become the Holy Grail of Economic salvation. That makes $8.5 Trillion worth of trying and $0 of result. The Knights of the Oval Table are gathered to plan their mission as their beleaguered subjects are trying to batter down the castle gates. It’s no small wonder that Geithner wants to get the money out the door as soon as the end of this week.
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Posted by seumasach on January 28, 2009
Public asked for information on travel plans, whereabouts of top Israeli leaders suspected of committing ‘war crimes’ in Gaza.
27th January, 2009
LONDON – An international non-governmental organization has submitted evidence to the International Criminal Court for the arrest of top Israeli leaders for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza, and has called for information about the travel plans and whereabouts outside Israel of the suspects.
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Posted by seumasach on January 28, 2009
27th January, 2009
So Prez Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson summoned Ingibjörg Sólrún Gísladóttir, head of the SDs, and Steingrímur J. Sigfússon, head of the LGs, to a meeting this morning, in which he entrusted them with the task of forming an interim minority government with the support of the Progressive Party. According to the president there is a possibility of one or two individuals from outside parliament taking a seat in the new government.
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Posted by seumasach on January 27, 2009
27th January, 2009
MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator Andrei Fedyashin) – The entire Icelandic government has become the first victim of the crisis in Europe.
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Posted by seumasach on January 27, 2009
Will Groves
January 27, 2009
Consider these events:
1. A president who started two aggressive wars, who bears responsibility for the loss of thousands of American lives along with hundreds of thousands of Iraqi and Afghan lives, leaves office as a free man without a felony record or any negative repercussions.
2. Meanwhile, the same populace that has intimate experience with lying politicians appears utterly smitten with a smooth-talking new president promising change and demanding sacrifice.
3. The Congress, which had an approval rate of 14% and which just passed a $700 billion bailout over the objections of a majority of Americans, had a re-election rate exceeding 95%.
4. Untold millions of Americans voice support of military troops as these very people are needlessly killed, injured, and separated from their families and productive work at home.
5. A general populace believed that buying unproductive assets, like housing, could make them wealthy, forever, without any coherent explanation why.
6. Researchers who pursue alternative explanations for AIDS and cancer get their funding cut and have the results of their research squelched, while others who try to improve life by providing healthful foods find themselves under attack.
Overt criminality by leaders and passive, unclear thinking by the proles have become the norm. The two go together, creating a symbiotic ecosystem of tyranny. Fraud, theft, and murder have become widespread, just as the scale of lies told and believed have reached new heights. Irresponsibility has become socialized while people in the honest pursuit of good get thwarted.
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Posted by seumasach on January 27, 2009
26th January, 2009
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Cornered inAfghistan, the US organise a terrorist attack in Pakistan
The Jamaat-i-Islami party calls on Islamabad to close supply routes for NATO forces in Afghanistan, if US drones continue hitting Pakistan.
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Posted by seumasach on January 27, 2009
26th January, 2009
The Iranian cabinet introduces a bill to take action on individuals accused of war crimes amid a seeming ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.
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Posted by seumasach on January 27, 2009
“Our only hope now is a peaceful transition from a corrupt plutocracy to the responsible liberal democracy we had fooled ourselves into believing we already had.”
Concealed within the forms and norms of Western democracy lurk “a small group of megalomaniacs” ,”a corrupt plutocracy” who subvert its workings. The revolution in the West consists in large part of the removal of these miscreants from all proximity to the reins of power.
Iris Erlingsdottir
23rd January, 2009
Icelandic Prime Minister Geir Haarde, leader of the Independence Party, announced at a press conference today that he was stepping down for health reasons and called for parliamentary elections on May 9th. Foreign Minister Ingibjorg Solrun Gisladottir, leader of the Social Democratic Alliance, which formed the other faction in the ruling coalition government, also stated that she favored spring elections.
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Posted by seumasach on January 27, 2009
Alda Sigmundsdottir
26th January, 2009
Shortly after 1pm today, Iceland’s prime minister, Geir Haarde, announced to reporters that the coalition between the conservative Independence party and the Social Democratic Alliance (SDA) had collapsed.
The Icelandic nation had been waiting for an announcement with bated breath since last night, when the leaders of the two parties declared that today would determine the future of the government, which has been under fire since reconvening last week after its Christmas recess.
The announcement comes hot on the heels of a series of dramatic events. Last Friday the prime minister announced that the public’s increasingly violent demands for elections would be met this spring. This was a remarkable turnaround from his earlier position, as a mere few days earlier he had stated that he had no intention of calling elections. At the same press conference on Friday he announced that he had been diagnosed with a malignant tumour of the oesophagus.
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