5th March, 2013
Britain will have to withdraw from the United Nations as well as the European court of human rights if it wants to deport terrorist suspects to states that carry out torture, the country’s most senior judge has warned.
Senior judge warns over deportation of terror suspects to torture states
Posted by seumasach on March 5, 2013
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Europe gains momentum against corporate greed
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Olaf Cramme, director of Policy Network, a think tank sympathetic to his center-left Labour Party. Labour’s leader Ed Miliband is a “Continental European Social Democrat” with fundamental sympathies for bonus caps and the redistribution of wealth
First hint of a move in Britain’s sclerotic political class?
Excess Under Siege: Europe Gains Momentum against Corporate Greed
4th March, 2013
Moves to contain salary excesses in big business by the EU and Switzerland have emboldened social democrats across Europe, who are calling for battle against greed in a financial world “gone wild.”
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Will Bibi and Obama make history?
Posted by seumasach on March 5, 2013
28th February, 2013
During his next term as prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu will have to do what he avoided doing in his previous terms: Draw boundaries and begin establishing two states for two peoples. This painful process, certainly from Netanyahu’s perspective, will commence soon.
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Negative interest rates – a ruse to ease QE fears?
Posted by seumasach on March 4, 2013
“While American QE has so far amounted to 14pc of annual GDP, with the eurozone’s at 4pc, the Bank of England has made asset purchases (overwhelmingly gilts) out of money created ex nihilo to the tune of 26pc of our national income”.
Liam Halligan
2nd March, 2013
‘I’m sorry Liam, we’re losing you,” said John Humphrys on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme last week. “Oh what a shame, we can’t hear him,” the grand inquisitor continued. “It’s a very bad line.”
Explaining the implications of “negative interest rates” on the UK’s most influential news bulletin is tough at the best of times. Doing so when the communication link between you and the studio drops out, making you incommunicado 15 seconds after you’ve started speaking, makes the task more difficult still
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Obama demands a timetable for Israeli withdrawal
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4th March, 2013
By Saed Bannoura (IMEMC).- American President, Barack Obama, demanded Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to present a timetable for the Israeli withdrawal from the occupied West Bank, the World Tribune has reported.
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Gunmen attack Egyptian Coptic church in Libya’s Benghazi
Posted by seumasach on March 4, 2013
4th March, 2013
Gunmen have attacked an Egyptian Coptic church in Libya’s eastern city of Benghazi, assaulting two priests, the foreign ministry said Sunday, days after dozens of Egyptian Christians suspected of proselytising were arrested.
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Egypt army denies exchanging fire with police
Posted by seumasach on March 4, 2013
3rd March, 2013
Sound of gunfire continued to ring around the security directorate area in central Port Said into the early hours of Sunday night as several media outlets reported that police and army soldiers have been exchanging fire at the end of a tense day in the Suez Canal city.
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Obama, Putin keep the pot simmering
Posted by seumasach on March 3, 2013
M.K.Bhadrakumar
2nd March, 2013
The Kremlin statement on the telecon between Presidents Vladimir Putin and Barack Obama on Friday is not exactly euphoric; it was a ‘detailed’ conversation and ‘constructive’ Obama initiated the phone call.
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Speaking truth to declining power
Posted by seumasach on March 3, 2013
Cailean Bochanan
2nd March, 2013
President Assad of Syria’s comments in an interview to the Sunday Times are unusually forthright from a diplomatic point of view. Is that because he is , as foreign secretary William Hague claims, “delusional” or is he speaking from a position of strength?
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William Hague hits backs at ‘delusional’ Assad as Syrian leader calls Britain ‘an arsonist’
Posted by seumasach on March 3, 2013
Yes, as President Assad put it, “shallow and immature”
2nd March, 2013
Foreign Secretary William Hague today said Britain cannot afford to “sit on the sidelines” and watch the slaughter continue in Syria.
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President Assad: shallow, immature UK supporting terrorism
Posted by seumasach on March 3, 2013
2nd March, 2013
Syrian President Bashar al Assad lashed out at the British government, describing it as “shallow and immature” for wanting to arm terrorists fighting against the country.
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