Posted by seumasach on January 21, 2009
Eric Wallberg
20th January, 2009
More tricks and hot air from across the Atlantic leave Europeans in the cold
A hurried resolution to the Ukraine-Russia gas war was reached during a visit to Moscow by Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Timoshenko to meet with her Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin this week. Ukraine finally agreed to pay higher European prices for Russian gas from 2010, after a 20 per cent discount in 2009.
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Posted by seumasach on January 21, 2009
Chuck Spinney
20th January, 2009
The last time the US restrained Israel in its never-ending wars of aggression was when President Eisenhower pulled the plug on the Anglo-French-Israeli effort to grab the Suez Canal in 1956.
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Posted by seumasach on January 21, 2009
Khyber Pass Still Not a Reliable Route
January 20, 2009
The Khyber Pass closed briefly again yesterday after a grenade attack on a Pakistani army camp, just the latest in a long string of closings which have threatened NATO’s ability to use the route, through which roughly three quarters of all supplies for the war in Afghanistan pass.
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Posted by seumasach on January 21, 2009
20th January, 2009
The United States is too great a nation to continue cleave to a disastrous president’s manipulative and immoral terminology. George W. Bush’s words, and the damage they have inflicted upon the people of the United States and the world, should be buried along with his failed presidency, says Christiane Brown.
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Posted by seumasach on January 21, 2009
20th Janaury, 2009
An Iranian diplomat says the Israeli crimes committed against Gazans should alarm the world about the threat of Israel’s nuclear arsenal.
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Posted by seumasach on January 20, 2009
M.K. Bhadrakumar
21st January, 2009
The Barack Obama era is commencing on a combative note in Afghanistan. The Afghan bazaar is buzzing with rumors that the equations between Washington and Kabul have become uncertain. Senior Afghan figures have been quoted as concluding that “the new US administration and the current Afghan administration will not be speaking the same language”.
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Posted by seumasach on January 20, 2009
19th January, 2009
Mobile phones are a modern day convenience in our society. But, does this advance in technology come at a price to human health? Humanity engages various forms of radiation in our everyday life. From microwaves to X-rays, we are surrounded by EMF waves (electromagnetic radiation).
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Posted by seumasach on January 20, 2009
20th January, 2009
BERLIN (Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives called on Tuesday for the establishment of a “contact group” of nations, including Iran, that would develop a new political strategy for stabilizing Afghanistan.
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Posted by seumasach on January 20, 2009
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By Andrew Grice, Political Editor
Independent
20th January, 2009
The Government does not know whether the second bank rescue package it launched yesterday will work, senior ministers admitted last night.
“The truth is that we can’t be sure whether it will be effective,” one told The Independent. “We have to look calm to try to instil some confidence in the system. But we don’t know what will happen next. No one can be sure that this is the end of it.”
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Posted by seumasach on January 20, 2009
20th January, 2009
After hitting Royal Bank of Scotland hard yesterday, the market has now picked a new target in Lloyds Banking Group.
It shares have slumped 30.5p to 34.5p – a 47% decline – as investors bailed out amid concerns that Lloyds could be another bank that ends up being nationalised by the UK government. Mark McCutcheon, head of broking at IAF Securities said: “There is genuine selling here, mixed with some shorting.”
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Posted by seumasach on January 20, 2009
PM DINES WITH fellow WAR CRIMINALS
The demo’ this Saturday 24 January will march to
Downing Street, calling for the lifting of the Gaza blockade,
an end to all arms sales to Israel and for Israel to be made
to pay for its war crimes.
We will also be registering our disgust over Gordon Brown’s
support for Israel following its barbaric attack. The day
after the massacre was ended – so as not to spoil Barack
Obama’s inauguration with pictures of phosphorous bombs
dropping on UN schools in Gaza – Brown rushed off to join five
other heads of government for a celebratory gala dinner at the
Jerusalem home of Israel’s prime minister Ehud Olmert,
alongside Olmert’s compatriots in mass murder, defence
minister Ehud Barak and foreign minister Tzipi Livni.
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