Posted by smeddum on April 29, 2009
Guardian
Tuesday 28 April 2009
By Andrew Clark
Chrysler may give union 55% stake instead of $10.6bn to provide healthcare after Obama administration piles pressure on carmaker
Men work on cars at Chrysler. The company’s largest union could own more than half of the company under a deal to save it from bankruptcy. Photograph: Bill Pugliano/Liaison
Chrysler‘s largest trade union could end up owning 55% of the ailing carmaker under a tentative deal intended to save the cash-strapped 84-year-old company from bankruptcy and possible liquidation. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on April 29, 2009
Sami Moubayed
Asia Times
29th April, 2009
DAMASCUS – Last week, one of America’s top allies in Lebanon, Druze leader Walid Jumblatt, caused a row when he made remarks – off the record – criticizing his allies in the pro-Western March 14 Coalition. Among other things, Jumblatt scoffed at his patron Saad al-Hariri, the head of the largest bloc in the Lebanese parliament, for having tried – and failed – to combat Hezbollah on the streets of Beirut last May.
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Posted by seumasach on April 28, 2009
Stephen C. Webster
Raw Story
27th April, 2009
Krystian Zimerman, one of the world’s most well-regarded concert pianists, said he will not return to the United States because of the nation’s military policies and President Barack Obama’s support for a missile shield site in Zimerman’s home country of Poland.
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Posted by smeddum on April 28, 2009
By JEREMY SCAHILL
Counterpunch
28th April 2009
Remember when Barack Obama made that big announcement at Camp Lejeune about how all US combat troops were going to be withdrawn from Iraqi cities by June 30? Liberals jumped around with joy, praising Obama for ending the war so that they could focus on their “good war” in Afghanistan.
Of course, the celebrations were and remain unwarranted. Obama’s Iraq plan is virtually identical to the one on Bush’s table on January 19, 2009. Obama has just rebranded the occupation, sold it to liberals and dropped the term “Global War on Terror” while, for all practical purposes, continuing the Bush era policy (that’s why leading Republicans praised Obama’s plan). In the real world, US military commanders have said they are preparing for an Iraq presence for another 15-20 years, the US embassy is the size of Vatican City, there is no official plan for the withdrawal of contractors and new corporate mercenary contracts are being awarded. The SoFA Agreement between the US and Iraq gives the US the right to extend the occupation indefinitely and to continue intervening militarily in Iraq ad infinitum. All it takes is for the puppets in Baghdad to ask nicely… Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on April 28, 2009
This month’s arrests of Pakistani students in the north of England sparked a diplomatic row as Pakistan’s High Commissioner to London accused London of casting blame on his government and presiding over a “hoax”.
Is the rest of the world finally catching on.
Independent
28th April, 2009
Rising political tensions between Britain and Pakistan were exposed yesterday after President Asif Ali Zardari pulled out of a joint press conference with Gordon Brown, in an apparent protest at the Prime Minister’s demand that Islamabad act more decisively against militancy and the arrests of 11 Pakistani students this month who were later released without charge.
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Posted by smeddum on April 28, 2009
CBS Exclusive: Investigators Digging Into Whether Execs Of Failed Financial Giant Misled The Public
NEW YORK, April 27, 2009 CBS News
(CBS) A $5 million Connecticut mansion. A $4 million London townhouse. A $7 million English estate. The houses are owned by three men CBS News has learned are now the subjects of a Justice Department criminal investigation into how AIG crumbled. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on April 28, 2009
By Elisa Martinuzzi
April 28 (Bloomberg) — Milan’s financial police seized 476 million euros ($620 million) of assets belonging to UBS AG, Deutsche Bank AG, JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Depfa Bank Plc as part of a probe into an alleged fraud.
The police froze the banks’ stakes in Italian companies, real estate assets and accounts, the financial police said in a statement today. The assets seized yesterday also include those of an ex-municipality official and a consultant, the police said. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on April 28, 2009
George Washington’s Blog
27th April, 2009
It is not unprecedented for viruses from several different animals to “recombine” within a single animal. For example, the 1918 flu pandemic appears to have been a combination of pig and human viruses.
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Posted by seumasach on April 28, 2009
George Washington’s Blog
12th August 2008
The chief biological inspector for the U.N. Special Commission from 1994 to 1998 – who describes himself as one of the “four or five people in the whole country” who could make the type of anthrax used in the 2001 attacks – noted in testimony to Congress:
“I have maintained from the first descriptions of the material contained in the Daschle letter that the quality appeared to be such that it could be produced only by some group that was involved with a current or former state program in recent years. The level of knowledge, expertise, and experience required and the types of special equipment required to make such quality product takes time and experimentation to develop. Further, the nature of the finished dried product is such that safety equipment and facilities must be used to protect the individuals involved and to shield their clandestine activity from discovery.”
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Posted by seumasach on April 28, 2009
The fox has been given the duty of guarding the henhouse
Steve Watson
infowars.net
27th April, 2009
A U.S. based pharmaceutical company that just weeks ago was involved in a scandal involving vaccines tainted with deadly avian flu virus has been chosen to head up efforts to produce a vaccine for the Mexican swine flu that has seemingly migrated into the U.S. and Europe.
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