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Saturday, July 26, 2008 |
Yahoo: "More than 20 Jewish settlers attacked a Palestinian village in the West Bank on Thursday, smashing cars and windows and cutting electricity wires, Palestinian police said."
Staatscourant: In 2004 a CIA chief in the Netherlands was replaced for spying. The CIA operations were illegal in the Netherlands, but the case was kept silent.
PressTV: "The EU has warned the US of retaliatory measures if citizens of the 27-nation bloc are not granted visa-free entry within five months."
EarthTimes: "Russian military experts are recommending reactivating a radar facility on Cuba in response to US plans for a missile defence shield based in the Czech Republic and Poland, it was reported in Moscow Wednesday. Alexander Pikayev of the Institute for World Economic Sciences was quoted by the RIA Novosti news agency as saying a facility closed down in 2001 in Lourdes, Cuba, could be put back into service."
PressTV: "The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) filed lawsuit in the National Criminal Court of Spain against the Israeli officials who authorized the al-Daraj bloodshed.
The list includes former Israel's war minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer, his former military advisor Michael Herzog, former chief of staff Moshe Ya'alon, and former air force commander Dan Halutz, Ma'an News Agency reported on Tuesday. "
AfterDowningStreet: "An American lawyer has offered to represent Iran in an international lawsuit against Israel and his own government in an effort to stop Washington and Tel Aviv from initiating further sanctions against Tehran.
Francis A. Boyle says following Washington's latest ultimatum to Tehran to freeze uranium enrichment within two weeks or face further isolation, Iran needs to act quickly.
At weekend talks in Geneva, the United States delivered what it describes as a 'clear and simple message' that Iran must choose between cooperation or confrontation.
In an email interview with Press TV, Boyle urged Iran to begin drafting lawsuits for presentation to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague before the two-week ultimatum expires."
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NYTimes: "Commodity regulators in Washington on Thursday accused a Dutch trading company of manipulating the prices of crude oil, heating oil and gasoline over an 11-day period last year.
The scheme, which the defendants referred to in conversations caught on tape as a plan to 'bully the market', produced illegal profits of more than $1 million, according to regulators. On at least five occasions, global benchmark prices of those products settled at artificial levels, they said.
Though the price movements were small and the scheme was detected within days, the case is still likely to resonate in Washington. The Senate has been debating proposals to tackle high oil prices by curbing market speculation - and lawmakers, at more than 40 hearings this year, have repeatedly demanded tougher enforcement by market regulators."
NRC: "Beurskoersen schommelen heftiger dan ooit. Een van de verklaringen is de opkomst van 'naakt short selling', een vorm van marktmisbruik die nog stamt van de VOC."
Stock exchange quotations fluctuate more than ever. One of the explanations is the emergence of 'naked short selling', a form of market abuse that dates from the time of the Dutch East India Company.
Sinking stock exchange quotations are good news for some investors. Those earning their money in this way are called short sellers. They were instrumental in the fall of the Bear Stearns bank in March this year, the large fluctuations at Fortis and the bankruptcy of IndyMac this month.
Disaster capitalism at work again. There are signs that the banking system, the backbone of our economy, is on the brink of collapse.
Even the commander-in-mischief, Dubya, admits it, be it before 'turned off cameras'. The man should have gone into the comedy business. But his jokes cannot hide the hard reality that he was one of the leaders of a criminal administration, known for its crimes and misdemeanors.
The Bush administration and the neocon governments everywhere are short changing their citizens.
12:18:40 PM
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