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Bank of England warns QE could hit sterling

Posted by seumasach on March 20, 2013

Telegraph

20th March, 2013

Bank of England policymakers have warned that more quantitative easing could lead to “an unwarranted depreciation of sterling” if markets interpreted the move as evidence that the central bank was abandoning its commitment to low inflation.

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South Africa and BRICS nations support Geneva agreement

Posted by seumasach on March 20, 2013

Uprooted Palestinians

17th March, 2013

JOHANNESBURG, (SANA) – President of South Africa Jacob Zuma stressed that his country will spare no effort to support the BRIC S countries in their efforts to implement the Geneva statement and put an end to violence in Syria as soon as possible as to launch political dialogue.

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Obama urges “practical solution” with Iran

Posted by seumasach on March 20, 2013

M.K.Bhadrakumar

Indian Punchline

20th March, 2013

President Barack Obama’s Nauroz message addressed to Iran is of special interest for three reasons. First, he is leaving for Israel, which is first as US president. Second, following from the above, Obama’s message is overtly conciliatory.

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Precautionary principle applied to microwaves finally embodied in law

Posted by seumasach on March 19, 2013

Le principe de précaution appliqué aux ondes électromagnétiques enfin inscrit dans la loi

COMMUNIQUE DE PRESSE
– lundi 18 mars 2013 –

Isabelle Atard

Le principe de précaution appliqué aux ondes électromagnétiques est enfin inscrit dans la loi.

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Egypt’s Morsy pitches for ‘E-BRICS’

Posted by seumasach on March 19, 2013

Hindu

18th March, 2013

Confident of navigating his country’ s post-revolution transition, Egypt’s first elected President Mohamed Morsy arrived in India on Monday to anchor a special relationship and flag his country’s ambition of joining the ranks of the world’s “emerging countries.”

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When truth is suppressed countries die

Posted by seumasach on March 18, 2013

Paul Craig Roberts

Institute for Political Economy

14th March, 2013

Over a decade during which the US economy was decimated by jobs offshoring, economists and other PR shills for offshoring corporations said that the US did not need the millions of lost manufacturing jobs and should be glad that the “dirty fingernail” jobs were gone.

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Eternity and the Truth of Nuclear Energy

Posted by seumasach on March 17, 2013

Alison Katz

Mieux Prevenir

Source: Independent WHO, published in the Tribune de Genève, 16-17 March 2013 (translated from French)

17th March, 2013

In nuclear energy and its catastrophes, two themes constantly return: eternity and truth.

I went to see the exhibition of photographs of Chernobyl by Pierpaolo Mittica at the Saint-Gervais Theatre [Geneva]. “It is estimated,” he writes, “that the most contaminated areas, which cover 260,000 square kilometers (nearly the size of Italy) will return to normal radioactivity levels in 100,000 years.”

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Assad asks BRICS ‘to intervene’ in Syria crisis

Posted by seumasach on March 17, 2013

RT

16th March, 2013

Syria’s President Bashar Assad has pleaded for BRICS countries to mediate the on-going conflict in the country, according to a close adviser.

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Reopening of Cairo’s Libyan embassy contingent on security

Posted by seumasach on March 17, 2013

“The presidency and government moved urgently and sent a high-level delegation to the United Arab Emirates to demand the release of detainees accused of belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood weeks ago, but has neglected to address the situation of Egyptians who have been assaulted in Libya,” the opposition group said.

Al Ahram

16th March, 2013

Source tells Ahram Online that the embassy repeatedly requested protection from Egyptian authorities against recurrent attacks, in the face of a controversy about the death of a Christian Egyptian in Libya

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BRICS to announce development bank

Posted by seumasach on March 16, 2013

A Durban, les Brics se doteront d’une Banque pour changer la donne

Maghreb Emergent

4th March, 2013

La banque de développement du BRICS devrait être officiellement annoncée lors du cinquième sommet des BRICS, qui se tiendra  à Durban, Afrique du Sud, à la fin du mois de mars. L’Algérie et le Venezuela pourraient être conviés à participer au capital de la banque.
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US and Anglo-French policy on Syria divergent

Posted by seumasach on March 16, 2013

France, Britain flout US objections on arms to Syrian rebels

Debka

16th March, 2013

Working through Jordan, Britain and France are determined to get arms shipments to the Syrian rebels fighting Bashar Assad –  parting ways for the first time with the Obama administration’s objections to this course throughout Syria’s two-year civil war

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