Posted by smeddum on October 15, 2008
A mad scramble over Afghanistan
By M K Bhadrakumar
An impression is being created that there is a “rift” between the United States and Britain regarding the reconciliation track involving the Taliban. The plain truth is that the US, Britain, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan are in this murky game together. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on October 15, 2008
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Posted by seumasach on October 15, 2008
France 13/10/2008 : The official publication on the 8th of October 2008 – mostly in catimini- of the first
intermediate results of the International Interphone Study from the International Research Centre on
cancer dependent on WHO confirms the increased tumors and cancer cases due to the use of mobile
phone.
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Posted by seumasach on October 14, 2008
Cailean Bochanan
14th October, 2008
Optimism returned to the markets today as Gordon Brown, the rock on which the new doctrine of “part-nationalisations” is built, set the master plan in motion. But will it work, will it, as they say, “do the trick”?
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Posted by smeddum on October 14, 2008
West Takes Aim at Belarus’ Pro-Social Policies
Belarus is one of the few remaining genuine alternatives to the neo-liberal economic order. A US nurtured and bankrolled fifth column is working with Washington to topple it from within.
By Stephen Gowans gowanswordpress.com
The US government has nurtured a fifth column in Belarus to help overthrow the Lukashenko government to replace its socialist-oriented policies with a made-in-the-USA neo-liberal regime that favours US investors and corporations. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on October 13, 2008
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Posted by seumasach on October 13, 2008
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Posted by smeddum on October 13, 2008
Iceland minister: Must look at all options, including EU
Mon Oct 13, 2008
REYKJAVIK (Reuters) – A key Icelandic minister long opposed to joining the European Union said on Monday that given the current financial turmoil, the country had to consider every option, including a shift in that stance. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on October 13, 2008
Alistair Darling pledged that RBS and the merged Lloyds-HBOS would be run at arm’s length from the government and ministers would not be involved in day to day decisions.
”The reason we are doing this is not because we want to run banks,” the chancellor told the BBC Today programme. ”The reason we are doing it is because this is the only way, when markets are not open to certain banks, they can get the capitalisation they need, this is the government’s only intervention here.”
Whilst the guardian lefties and the the BBC’s Robert Peston hail this “nationalisation”, the FT can be relied on to give the city’s brutal verdict. The only surprise for us is that the government is taking some preference shares, but this, along with the dividend restrictions, only really serves to guarantee that the share issue, which the Treasury is underwriting fails completely. The government therefore ends up paying billions for a whole load of shares which it could have simply taken for nothing.
The government has done enough to start a run on the pound and bankrupt the taxpayer, but this is a drop in the ocean of banking debt.
Peter Hall Larsen
FT
13th October, 2008
Some of Britain’s largest banks are to scrap dividends as part of a government plan to inject £37bn into three of the country’s biggest lenders.
Under the terms of the bailout, Royal Bank of Scotland, Lloyds TSB and HBOS will be prevented from paying dividends on ordinary shares until they have repaid in full a total of £9bn in preference shares they are issuing to the government. Barclays, which is hoping to avoid government support by raising around £6.6bn from private investors, has scrapped its final dividend for 2008 in a move designed to save £2bn.
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Posted by smeddum on October 13, 2008
While this article tries to muddy the waters, in its closing remarks, there is enough evidence to show that Georgia began this war. The shift in western opinion is significant.
09/15/2008
DID SAAKASHVILI LIE?
The West Begins to Doubt Georgian Leader
By SPIEGEL Staff
Five weeks after the war in the Caucasus the mood is shifting against Georgian President Saakashvili. Some Western intelligence reports have undermined Tbilisi’s version of events, and there are now calls on both sides of the Atlantic for an independent investigation. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on October 12, 2008
Oct 12, 5:43 PM EDT
Key points of euro nations’ financial crisis plan
European leaders agreed to several measures (AP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel called them a “tool kit” – that governments will be able to use to shore up financial institutions and stop banks’ financing problems from contaminating the wider economy. A few highlights: Read the rest of this entry »
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