Posted by seumasach on July 13, 2011
8th July, 2011
A bold critique of the attitude of the West towards Africa and Latin America was made by former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva sparking a standing ovation at the African Union summit on Thursday. Lula criticized in particular the United Nations for not granting to any country in Africa or Latin America a permanent seat on the Security Council.
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Posted by seumasach on July 13, 2011
Patrick O’Connor
13th July, 2011
The French administration of Nicolas Sarkozy appears to be stepping up efforts to strike a deal with the Libyan government aimed at sidelining Muammar Gaddafi and bringing the NATO bombardment of the oil-rich state to a conclusion. The diplomatic manoeuvres reflect the growing crisis confronting the US, France and Britain as their illegal military campaign enters its fifth month without succeeding in its primary objective of forcing regime change in Tripoli.
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Posted by seumasach on July 13, 2011
Cynical French, a naive PM, foolish MPs. This Libyan misadventure will end in tears
Max Hastings
13th July, 2011
There was a particularly bleak moment for NATO’s mission in Libya, and especially for the British Government which has led the charge against Colonel Gaddafi, in Paris on Monday. The French defence minister declared that military action against Libya is not working, and it is time to talk.
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Posted by seumasach on July 12, 2011
“However real-time pinging requires access to the phone network’s data stream, and is generally only used in terrorist cases or serious criminal investigations.”
The abduction and killing of Milly Dowler was a serious criminal investigation: her phone was still switched on after she disappeared and the NoW was hacking it to delete E-mails for reasons yet to be explained. Why wasn’t the police investigation, or , indeed, NoW, not pinging in order to locate the missing girl or her abductor or her mobile phone?
12th July, 2011
Senior journalists at the News of the World paid police officers to find celebrities or other people they wanted to write about by tracking their mobile phone signal, it was reported on Tuesday.
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Posted by seumasach on July 12, 2011
12th July, 2011
The United States says it is prepared to support Russia’s mediation efforts in Libya, as France signals its frustration with the lack of progress in reaching a political solution to the crisis.
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Posted by seumasach on July 12, 2011
Pepe Escobar
13th July, 2011
Before the end of 2011, Pakistan will start working on its stretch of the IP (Iran-Pakistan) gas pipeline – according to Asim Hussain, Pakistan’s federal minister for petroleum and natural resources. The 1,092 kilometers of pipeline on the Iranian side are already in place.
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Posted by seumasach on July 12, 2011
9th July, 2011
Tony Farrell had been employed for twelve years as ‘Principle Intelligence Analyst’ for South Yorkshire Police, 13th largest of the 44 police forces in the UK. His job involved producing a yearly ‘Strategic Threat Assessment Matrix’ to determine how the police force had to prioritise its activities. Assessed ‘threats’ ranged from ASBOs (anti-social behaviour orders) to the terrorist threat allegedly presented by Islamic extremists. Having a statistics degree, it was his job to translate the different ‘strategic threats’ into a ‘matrix’ of relative numerical weighted probabilities
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Posted by seumasach on July 12, 2011
11th July, 2011
BEIJING (AP) — The United States is spending too much on its military in light of its recent economic troubles, China’s top general said Monday while playing down his country’s own military capabilities.
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Posted by seumasach on July 12, 2011
12th July, 2011
Paris, July 12 : Military action against embattled dictator Colonel Muammar Gaddafi is not working and Libyan tyrant must be welcomed to negotiations with pro-freedom rebels, France’s defense minister has said.
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Posted by seumasach on July 12, 2011
Le retrait italien et les déclarations du ministre français de la Défense ne sont pas surprenantes. Malgré sa puissance de feu sans équivalent dans l’Histoire, l’armada de l’OTAN a perdu cette guerre. Non pas bien sûr au plan militaire, mais parce qu’elle a oublié que « la guerre est la continuation de la politique par d’autres moyens » et qu’elle s’est trompée politiquement. Les hurlements de Washington, qui a réprimandé le ministre français et refuse de perdre la face, n’y changeront rien.
Thierry Meyssan
11th July, 2011
111 jours après le début de l’intervention de la Coalition des volontaires en Libye, aucune solution militaire n’est en vue et les experts s’accordent tous à dire que le temps joue en faveur du gouvernement libyen, sauf coup de chance et assassinat de Mouammar el-Kadhafi.
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Posted by seumasach on July 12, 2011
11th July, 2011
Pravda.Ru sources inside Libya have confirmed that the people of Tripoli are dancing in the streets in joy, celebrating a great victory, because NATO has ceased its bombing campaign. Sources in Libya state that negotiations are ongoing with France and meanwhile there has been a cessation of hostilities.
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