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Posted by seumasach on January 25, 2009
I have somewhat belatedly come across this article which should be read alongside the latest Saudi remarks condemnng the USA for its role in the Gaza massacre .
CAIRO, Dec 31 (KUNA) — Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal called upon the Arab foreign ministers during their urgent meeting in Cairo on Wednesday to focus on action rather than rhetoric to halt the Israeli aggression in Gaza.
Head of the Arab Foreign Ministers’ Council in its current session, Prince Saud Al-Faisal said, “The situation in Gaza is a massacre, and a crime against humanity, additional violence and extremism are expected in absence of any peace plans, which Israel claims it is working towards.” Questioning, he said, “What peace could be achieved from a mad military machine that only destoys and kills? which reflects the true Israeli identity.
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Posted by seumasach on January 24, 2009
Ministers were accused last night of profiteering from the soaring numbers of people facing bankruptcy after they announced huge increases in fees at debtors’ courts.
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Posted by seumasach on January 24, 2009
Russia Today
24th January, 2009
A political row has broken out in Latvia over the commemoration in a Riga war cemetery of Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini.
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Posted by seumasach on January 24, 2009
PressTV
24th January, 2009
Thousands of people are expected to hold a protest in London, decrying BBC’s refusal to broadcast a charity appeal for war-hit Gazans.
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Posted by seumasach on January 24, 2009
PressTV
24th January, 2009
The case for Israeli war crimes in Gaza gathers momentum as a prominent UN official calls for legal action against the assault architects.
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Posted by seumasach on January 24, 2009
Iceland Weather Report
24th January, 2009
TUESDAY – major protests begin. People gather in front of the parliament buildings at 1.30 pm and bang pots and pans and drums and generally make as much noise as possible in order to disrupt parliament and get MPs to listen to the people. Rather than dissipating after an hour or two, protester numbers increase as the day wears on. There are clashes with police and people are incensed, particularly as parliament’s agenda has nothing to do with the economic situation but rather includes such relative trivia as selling liquor in supermarkets and what to do about smoking areas in restaurants. By eveningthere are around 3,000 people in front of the building. Protesters light a fire on the street in front and throw anything they can find to burn onto it. The riot police is out. Some protesters go out of their way to provoke a reaction from the cops, throwing eggs at them, banging wooden spoons on their helmets, spitting, etc. The building, too, is pelted with food and windows are broken.
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Posted by seumasach on January 23, 2009
Mathaba
MOSCOW, Jan. 22 (Xinhua) — “No official documents were submitted to Russia’s permanent mission in NATO certifying that Russia had authorized the United States and NATO to transport military supplies across the country,” Alexei Maslov was quoted commenting on some media reports, which cited Commander of the U.S. Central Command Gen. David Petraeus assaying that an agreement on alternative transit routes had been reached with Russia.
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Posted by seumasach on January 23, 2009
Tony Eley
WSWS
23rd January, 2009
On Thursday, President Barack Obama issued executive orders mandating the closure of the Guantánamo Bay prison camp in a year’s time, requiring that Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and military personnel follow the Army Field Manual’s prohibitions on torture, and closing secret CIA prisons overseas.
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Posted by seumasach on January 23, 2009
Eirikur Bergmann
Guardian
21st, January, 2009
While Barack Obama was being sworn in to office on Capitol Hill yesterday, the people of Iceland were starting the first revolution in the history of the republic. The word “revolution” might sound a bit of an overstatement, but given the calm temperament that usually prevails in Icelandic politics, the unfolding events represent, at the very least, a revolution in political activism.
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Posted by seumasach on January 23, 2009
January 21, 2009 (LPAC)–Yesterday, American statesman Lyndon LaRouche denounced the City of London’s continuing insistence on cooking up desperate bail-out schemes for the bankrupt international financial system, which they are trying to impose on the United States as well, such as the absurd idea of creating a “bad bank” loaded down with toxic assets. “This is a bunch of hyperinflationary nonsense,” LaRouche said. “We should put these things through bankruptcy reorganization.”
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Posted by seumasach on January 23, 2009
January 22, 2009 (LPAC) –-On orders from President Fernando Lugo, combined forces of Paraguay’s National Police, Army, and other law-enforcement agencies are doing a sweep of the northern states of San Pedro and Concepcion, severely hindering normally extensive drug cartel operations, while tracking down the murky drug cartel-linked “Popular People’s Army” (EPP). On Dec. 31, the EPP appeared out of nowhere to attack a military outpost in the region, fraudulently claiming to defend the local peasantry.
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