Posted by seumasach on March 3, 2013
We will fight them on the beaches, we will protect our “banking talent” and continue to bail them out, we will oppose outrageous tax impositions and FTT— we will never surrender!
2nd March, 2013
As the British are often first to point out, Europe is responsible for some pretty odd rules. Brussels has banned bendy bananas, said water can’t be promoted as a rehydration product and even outlawed marketing prunes for the “maintenance of normal bowel function”.
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Posted by seumasach on March 3, 2013
2nd March, 2013
A Lebanese news website says it has obtained a documentary movie revealing a plot hatched by French and Turkish spy agencies to assassinate Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. – See more at: http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/03/03/291672/france-turkey-plot-to-kill-assad/#sthash.yCYOSmT4.dpuf
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Posted by seumasach on March 2, 2013
The two leaders made the pledge to work closely on a “mutually beneficial relationship,” agreeing that the partnership between the two countries “has principal significance for ensuring stability in the world.”
1st March, 2013
Russia and the US agreed to avoid “negative steps” that could threaten bilateral relations as the two countries’ presidents held their first phone conversation since Barack Obama’s re-election.
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Posted by seumasach on March 2, 2013
Paul Craig Roberts
Institute for Political Economy
1st March, 2013
Officially, since June 2009 the US economy has been undergoing an economic recovery from the December 2007 recession. But where is this recovery? I cannot find it, and neither can millions of unemployed Americans.
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Posted by seumasach on March 2, 2013
28th February, 2013
With the country’s second post-revolution parliamentary polls around the corner, Egyptian opposition parties are stepping up their opposition to what they see as Egypt’s “undemocratic” electoral setting, arguing that the current legal and political environment is not conducive to free and fair elections.
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Posted by seumasach on March 1, 2013
1st March, 2013
Next-up a publié cet article le 7 février 2013. Dr. Favre donnera une conférence sur “Influence des ondes électromagnétiques sur le comportement des abeilles” lors du 9e Congrès national de l’électrosmog à Berne le 20 avril 2013. Dr. Favre est aussi membre du Comité de l’ARA (Association romande alerte aux ondes électromagnétiques), Morges, Suisse. Voici l’étude du Dr. Favre, publié en anglais en 2011 dans le journal “Apidologie”. Voir aussi ce document par Ulrich Warnke, “La destruction de la nature par l’électrosmog : des abeilles, des oiseaux et des hommes” (2007).
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Posted by seumasach on March 1, 2013
M.K.Bhadrakumar
28th february, 2013
There was a bygone era that ended a little over four years ago when it used to be said that the Kremlin used energy as a “geopolitical tool”. The threat perception propagated by cold warriors in the United States principally aimed at cautioning Europe against its rising energy dependency on Russian supplies.
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Posted by seumasach on February 28, 2013
President Vladimir Putin said Russia backed the French operation “to restore constitutional and democratic order in the country.”
Translated from diplomatic language this means: we understand your effort to create a diversion from your failed attempts to overthrow Assad – now is the time to abandon such attempts.
28th February, 2013
Presidents Putin and Hollande share the same goal of settling the conflict in Syria. But at a meeting in Moscow, talk of operating in ‘parallel’ shows there’s still a clear divide in how Russia and France want to resolve the crisis.
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Posted by seumasach on February 28, 2013
UK has been battling to stop the Basel III accord on capital requirements, fearing the impact on the City of London as the EU’s leading financial capital.
City of London interests- that’s what our anti-European stance is really about
28th February, 2013
European Union chiefs have agreed a package of financial laws that includes capping bankers’ bonuses at a maximum of one year’s basic salary.
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Posted by seumasach on February 28, 2013
Asked on ITV Daybreak if the taxpayer would ever get back its money, RBS chairman Sir Philip Hampton said: “I don’t know. We’ll do our best”.
I know. The answer is no.
RBS boss admits ‘chastening’ year as losses breach £5bn
28th February, 2013
Stephen Hester, the boss of Royal Bank of Scotland, admitted 2012 had been a “chastening” year as losses at the bailed-out bank widened to more than £5bn – and still paid out more than £600m in bonuses.
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Posted by seumasach on February 28, 2013
Conflict versus Conflict-Resolution (6/6)
Dr. Christof Lehmann
NSNBC(Other parts, see below)
27th February, 2013
This article is the final in a series of six articles, in which the dynamics of the crisis in Syria, the conflict, and perspectives for conflict resolution are being analyzed. Although the crisis, which by now has lasted for two years, undergoing several stages, by no means is about to be concluded, the crisis has now reached a critical point.
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In These New Times 