Posted by seumasach on September 12, 2008
By Sean Farrell, Financial Editor and Stephen Foley in New York
Independent
Friday, 12 September 2008
A desperate attempt by Lehman Brothers to retain its independence looked doomed last night as the US investment bank’s shares plunged yet again and the company began soliciting takeover bids.
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Posted by seumasach on September 12, 2008
12th September, 2008
The Pakistani Army has been given orders to retaliate against any unilateral strike by the Afghanistan-based US troops inside the country.
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Posted by seumasach on September 12, 2008
“The complete failure of Cheney’s mission to Baku would appear to have come as a rude awakening to Washington that Moscow has effectively blunted the Bush administration’s gunboat diplomacy in the Black Sea. As the New York Times newspaper grimly assessed on Tuesday,”“The Bush administration, after considerable internal debate, has decided not to take direct punitive action [against Russia] … concluding it has little leverage if it acts unilaterally and that it would be better off pressing for a chorus of international criticism to be led by Europe.”
M K Bhadrakumar
12th September, 2008
Amid the flurry of diplomatic activity in Moscow last week over the Caucasus, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov took time off for an exceptionally important mission to Turkey, which might prove a turning point in the security and stability of the vast region that the two powers historically shared.
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Posted by alfied on September 12, 2008
MEXICO, September 12 (RIA Novosti) – Venezuela’s president has demanded the U.S. ambassador leave his country within 72 hours, escalating a diplomatic dispute between the United States and Bolivia. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by alfied on September 12, 2008
www.chinaview.cn 2008-09-11
LIMA, Sept. 10 (Xinhua) — Bolivian President Evo Morales on Wednesday requested U.S. ambassador to Bolivia Philip Goldberg to leave the country immediately, accusing him of “heading the division” inside Bolivia by encouraging, together with the opposition, the protests against his government. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on September 11, 2008
MADRID, September 8 (RIA Novosti) – Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has said that calls from the U.S. and other Western powers to bring Ukraine and Georgia into NATO are purely aimed at isolating Russia.
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Posted by seumasach on September 11, 2008
Lisa Adams
8th September, 2008
IT’S called an allergy to modern life and half of Scots in the next 10 years could be at risk from this crippling illness, according to scientific research.
Victims of the condition, which is triggered by electromagnetic waves from mobile phones, power lines, microwaves and computers, suffer headaches, crushing chest pains, nose bleeds and a loss of feeling in arms and legs.
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Posted by seumasach on September 10, 2008
We continue our series of posts on the theme of the abandonment of the neo-cons by their own allies. We’ve had Timoshenko, Havel and now Berlusconi
Guy Dinmore in Rome
Once a favoured ally rewarded for his support of the US invasion of Iraq, Silvio Berlusconi, Italy’s centre-right prime minister, has evolved into a serious irritant for the Bush administration in handling Russia’s invasion of Georgia.
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Posted by seumasach on September 10, 2008
“The host for the debate stressed that this landmark telecast did not imply that the Kremlin administration of President Medvedev and Prime Minister Putin was officially espousing any particular point of view concerning 9/11, but rather reflected a commitment to free and open debate.”
How I love that Russian sense of humour!
Webster G. Tarpley
9th September, 2008
WASHINGTON, DC — Thierry Meyssan reports from Moscow that he and other leading international 9/11 truth experts have completed taping a television debate which will be telecast on the first national program of Russian state television this coming Friday, September 12. This no-holds barred, free-wheeling debate, featuring strongly divergent opinions about what really happened on and about September 11, 2001, will be shown in conjunction with the documentary film Zero, produced and directed by Chiesa and Franco Fracassi of Telemaco Productions in Rome. Russians are thus about to receive an unprecedented evening of 9/11 truth.
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Posted by seumasach on September 10, 2008
In an interview with German news agency dpa, Chiesa, a European parliamentary deputy, said Russian television is to give prime time airing to his film on the eve of this week’s seventh anniversary of the attacks in New York and Washington.
Russian diplomacy is clearly widening its scope to exposing the underbelly of US foreign policy including 9/11.
8th September, 2008
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Posted by seumasach on September 9, 2008
The end is approaching for the empire
TOKYO, September 8 (Itar-Tass) – President of the Czech Republic Vaclav Klaus has put the blame on Georgia for the military conflict in the Caucasus. He made this statement in an interview published by the Yomiuri newspaper on Monday.
“Georgia was the first to attack South Ossetia,” stressed the Czech leader. He also called against presenting Russia negatively. “It would be a tragic mistake to picture Russia as a villain and again divide the world in two,” the Czech president stated. “Russia is not the former Soviet Union,” he added.
Touching upon the recognition by Russia of South Ossetia and Abkhazia as independents states Klaus noted that such Russia’s step was caused by the recognition of Kosovo by the West. “If there had been no Kosovo, not independence recognition would have taken place,” he noted.
Vaclav Klaus is in the Japanese capital as a scientist-economist to participate in an international scientific forum conducted by the Yomiuri newspaper.
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