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Divided Bolivia expected to approve Morales constitution

Posted by seumasach on January 22, 2009

 

Mercopress

22nd January, 2009

Bolivians are expected to approve a new constitution on Sunday that the first indigenous president of the country Evo Morales hopes will transform the life of millions of his fellow citizens by giving them more power.

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A decisive loss for Israel

Posted by seumasach on January 22, 2009

 

Mousa Abu Marzook

What’s Left

22nd January

Israel’s objectives from the war on Gaza were set long before its launch: to remove the Hamas movement and government, achieve the reinstallation of the Fatah leader, Mahmoud Abbas, in Gaza, and end the armed resistance. Two other objectives were not announced. First, restore the Israeli public’s wavering confidence in its armed forces after its defeat by Hezbollah in 2006. Second, boost the coalition government in the coming elections.

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Police Officers Injured after Clash with Protestors

Posted by seumasach on January 22, 2009

 

Iceland Review

22nd January, 2009

Two police officers are seriously injured after being hit with flagstones during a struggle with protestors on Austurvöllur parliament square in Reykjavík last night. Police resorted to the use of tear gas bombs—the first time such a tactic has been used since the protests in 1949.

From the protests on Tuesday. Photo by Páll Stefánsson.

Protestors fled the scene and one protestor was taken to the emergency room because of the gas. After the smoke cleared, people returned to the square, some stoning police, who again resorted to tear gas, Morgunbladid reports.

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Gov stumps £4.3m bee health funding

Posted by smeddum on January 22, 2009

 

Steps up campaign to save UK’s hives


The environment secretary Hilary Benn today announced an extra £4.3m “to safeguard and undertake more research into the health of bees”. Read the rest of this entry »

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Gordon Brown brings Britain to the edge of bankruptcy

Posted by smeddum on January 22, 2009

 

Iain Martin says the Prime Minister hasn’t ‘saved the world’ and now faces disgrace in the history books

 
Gordon Brown 

When will the Gordon Brown nightmare end? Photo: Jane Mingay

They don’t know what they’re doing, do they? With every step taken by the Government as it tries frantically to prop up the British banking system, this central truth becomes ever more obvious. Read the rest of this entry »

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Obama: Afshin Rattansi talks to Cindy Sheehan

Posted by smeddum on January 22, 2009

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Can the UK government stop the UK banking system going down the snyrting without risking a sovereign debt crisis?

Posted by seumasach on January 21, 2009

 

Mavrecon

20th January, 2009

Late last night I returned from a four-day visit to Iceland with Professor Anne Sibert, co-author of a reportanticipating the collapse of the Icelandic banking system and joint carer for our cats and children.

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Iceland’s Parliament under siege

Posted by smeddum on January 21, 2009

 

Iceland’s Parliament under Siege
21/01/09

Thousands of people protested outside the Althingi parliament yesterday on the occasion of parliament reconvening. Protestors demanded that the government step down and early elections be held. The demonstration began at noon and lasted until after midnight. Read the rest of this entry »

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Obama: False Dawn

Posted by smeddum on January 21, 2009

 

January 21, 2009     Justin Raimondo  Antiwar.com

False Dawn   

 

Obama’s election doesn’t mean peace is breaking out all over – far from it

 

As a new administration takes power in Washington and the promise of “change” is in the air, we have to ask ourselves: when-oh-when is it coming? When will the dam break on the sclerotic foreign policy thinking of the past eight – heck, the past 50 – years? Read the rest of this entry »

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Will the UK lose its AAA credit rating?

Posted by smeddum on January 21, 2009

 

 

Will the UK Lose its AAA Credit Rating?

GeorgeWashington Blog

TUESDAY, JANUARY 20, 2009

First Iceland, Greece and Spain lost their AAA sovereign credit rating.

Now, Bloomberg notes:

 

The U.K. government may lose its top AAA credit rating after taking a 70 percent stake in Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc, credit-default swaps show.” Read the rest of this entry »

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US economy: Lightning, Earthquakes & Hurricanes

Posted by smeddum on January 21, 2009

Lightning, Earthquakes & Hurricanes

Jim Willie CB
Jim Willie CB is the editor of the “Hat Trick Letter”
Jan 20, 2009

Goldenjackass

The earth itself provides many valuable analogies for massive dislocation in the relief of grand energy differentials. In the air, vast differentials between cloud structures in their electrical charge result in sudden lightning bursts as the release. In the air also, vast differentials between high cool masses and low rising warm masses result in powerful ongoing storms in hurricanes. In the ground, more accurately the earth plates, vast pressure builds from the movement of such plates, often with one plate flowing underneath another, leading to massive earthquakes and tremors. We had yet another earthquake in Costa Rica last week, enough to register a 6.2 at epicenter and sufficient to cause my ceiling light fixtures to swing several inches to and fro. In the ground, subsidence from natural gravitation forces or mine activity or water aquifer flow can produce a vacuum of pressure, leading to vast sinkholes like often seen in Florida. Tsunamis are extremely powerful waves that deliver sudden floods, but they are just earthquakes with much of the vast energy transferred into ocean waves. Read the rest of this entry »

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