Posted by seumasach on October 30, 2010
30th October, 2010
Prasarn sees the scope for such cooperation, paved by existing frameworks like the Chiang Mai Initiative, and this could lead Asia into a new landscape in the next 10-20 years. The picture includes a new trade currency and a currency to store the value of assets, aside from the greenback.
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Posted by seumasach on October 29, 2010
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Posted by smeddum on October 28, 2010
Thursday 28 October 2010
by: Peter White, t r u t h o u t | Report
(Image: Lance Page / t r u t h o u t; Adapted: Steve Hoang, Kevin Anderson, E Dina)
Scandal is spreading across Wall St. like a very bad case of poison ivy. A rash of fraudulent home foreclosures has exposed some of the nation’s biggest banks to an even worse condition … bankruptcy. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on October 28, 2010
Eva Golinger
28th October, 2010
A successful tour of 7 countries in three continents made by President Hugo Chavez has produced 69 new agreements that will strengthen national development and consolidate the most powerful defense against imperial aggression: the union of nations and peoples.
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Posted by seumasach on October 28, 2010
7th October, 2010
Wi-fi expert Barrie Trower will be hosting a meeting in Swindon on Friday to discuss the issue of wi-fi, and what he perceives are the dangers of the technology.
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Posted by smeddum on October 27, 2010
Agence France-Presse
New York, October 28, 2010
for UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on October 27, 2010
27/10/10
MOSCOW — Russia’s foreign ministry on Wednesday called for “clemency” for former Iraqi deputy premier Tareq Aziz after he was sentenced to death by hanging for murder and crimes against humanity. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on October 27, 2010
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(Note: Inside the Vatican will organize a small pilgrimage to visit the Vatican and attend the November 20 consistory and meet several of the new cardinals. For further details see the end of this newsflash.)
The Catholic at Saddam’s Side to Be Executed
Aziz has been in prison since his arrest in 2003, when Saddam’s regime was overthrown.
Before he was imprisoned, Aziz spent the last weeks of his life as Saddam’s deputy in a vain search for a negotiated peace in attempt to stave off the imminent invasion of his country.
“The position of the Catholic Church on the death penalty is known,” Father Federico Lombardi, S.J. (photo) head of the Vatican Press Office, said yesterday after hearing of the Iraqi high court decision.Posted in Iraq | Leave a Comment »
Posted by smeddum on October 27, 2010
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Posted by seumasach on October 27, 2010
By making the US dependent on her in Afghanistan, Russia is defanging the US. At the same, on its western flank, Russia pursues the greatest prize of all, prizing Europe out of the Atlanticist block- the final piece in the multipolar jigsaw.
M.K. Bhadrakumar
28th October, 2010
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) officials have revealed their proposal with Moscow regarding a vastly stepped up Russian involvement in the Afghan war is in the final stages of negotiation and they are hopeful of formal agreement being reached at the alliance’s two-day summit in Lisbon from November 19.
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Posted by seumasach on October 27, 2010
Pepe Escobar,
28th October, 2010
The neo-conservatives always contended that the United Statesinvaded Iraq to bring “democracy” (from the barrel of a gun). Seems like if not democracy, at least the greatest hits of the US judicial system are indeed being implemented in (still occupied) Iraq; torture (as WikiLeaks has amply demonstrated) and the death penalty. Talk about liberation.
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In These New Times 