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David Cameron vows to reclaim EU powers amid looming Tory rebellion
Post Date: 2011-10-23 19:07:42 by A K A Stone
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The Prime Minister is to demand more British control over employment and social laws in return for supporting a new European treaty to shore up the single currency. Although British taxpayers’ money will not be used for the new multi-trillion euro bail-out, it is expected to require a rewriting of EU treaties, which needs Britain’s backing and may prompt a referendum in this country. Mr Cameron’s “repatriation of powers” offer came as the Conservative leadership was making a last-ditch attempt to stop at least 60 Tory MPs voting for a referendum on leaving the European Union in the Commons today. Dozens of MPs were expected to reject the “olive branch” ...
Nicolas Sarkozy tells David Cameron: 'We’re sick of you telling us what to do'
Post Date: 2011-10-23 19:06:05 by A K A Stone
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David Cameron clashed repeatedly with Nicolas Sarkozy today after the French President tried to exclude Britain and non-eurozone countries from a critical Brussels summit to rescue European banks. During two hours of bitter exchanges during a meeting of all 27 EU leaders before a crisis summit of the eurozone’s 17 members on Wednesday, President Sarkozy fought hard to get the Prime Minister barred from talks that would finalise a 100billion euros cash injection into banks. ”We’re sick of you criticising us and telling us what to do. You say you hate the euro, you didn’t want to join and now you want to interfere in our meetings,” the French leader told Mr Cameron, ...
EU bank failures will crash Wall Street — again
Post Date: 2011-10-23 14:32:25 by Capitalist Eric
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SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (MarketWatch) — Worst-case scenario’s closing fast: Occupy Wall Street growing. But no political power or allies yet. Feared yes, attacked by GOP proxy tea party. Soon the Occupation will explode into a new American Revolution. When? A string of European bank collapses is dead ahead. And like the Arab Spring, they will trigger an economic disaster for American banks. Yes, coming soon says Martin Weiss in his “7 Major Advance Warnings,” which is “bound to have a life-changing impact on nearly all investors in the U.S. and around the globe.” His new Weiss Ratings warnings are the “most important” in a 40-year career. The ...
Gaddafi's final hours: Nato and the SAS helped rebels drive hunted leader into endgame in a desert drain
Post Date: 2011-10-23 11:44:07 by A K A Stone
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As the sun rose over the shell of Sirte on Thursday, Ben Farmer, the only British newspaper journalist left in the city, found it was immediately apparent that something had changed. Utterly ravaged by months of bombardments, Sirte was a skeleton of a city – a place without food, water or light; a city without citizens. Its streets were turned into rivers by burst pipes, as fighters battled through waist-high swathes of mud brown water, street by bloody street. But as the sun rose over the shell of Sirte on Thursday, it was immediately apparent that something had changed. I had arrived at the rebel position in the western suburb of Zafran in anticipation of another massed assault ...
How did a 33ft whale end up in the middle of a field in East Yorkshire?
Post Date: 2011-10-23 02:13:43 by A K A Stone
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A young whale died after an exceptionally high equinox tide carried it 800 yards from the shoreline to a salt marsh where it then became stranded. The 33ft mammal, thought to be a Sei whale, was discovered in marshes on the north bank of the River Humber near the village of Skeffling. As the tide retreated the whale became stranded before rolling over onto its blowhole, causing it to suffocate. The highest tides of the year occur after the spring and autumn equinox. The Yorkshire Wildlife Trust has since carried out a post-mortem examination on the mammal with the British Zoological Society. Experts who examined the animal said they are 95 per cent certain it is a female Sei whale ...
Moderate Malaysia: Muslims hold anti-Christian rally
Post Date: 2011-10-23 01:49:02 by A K A Stone
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The peaceniks are at it again. And so is the media. Check out how they describe devout Muslims: "Right-wing Malaysian activists." Muslims on Saturday staged a rally against Christians who 'challenge the sovereignty of Islam', amid fears of growing Islamisation in the multicultural nation. -- PHOTO: AP Malaysian Muslims hold anti-conversion rally Straits Times SHAH ALAM, Malaysia (AFP) - Right-wing Malaysian activists on Saturday staged a rally against Christians who 'challenge the sovereignty of Islam', amid fears of growing Islamisation in the multicultural nation. The gathering of about 2,000 people in Selangor state follows allegations of Christian ...
Gaddafi 'Killer': I Shot Him Twice, In Head & In Chest
Post Date: 2011-10-23 01:41:32 by A K A Stone
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Security Council to Demand Yemen’s Saleh to Step Down (Obama's Next Target?)
Post Date: 2011-10-23 01:29:16 by A K A Stone
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The U.N. Security Council will vote Friday on a resolution calling on Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh to immediately stand down and condemning the killings blamed on his government. The proposed resolution, which has the backing of all five permanent members of the Security Council, "strongly condemns" government violence against demonstrators and backs a Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) peace plan under which Saleh must hand over power. Protests against Saleh erupted in January and hundreds have since been killed. With the violence worsening, this is the first resolution to be considered by the council. Diplomats said events in Libya, where ousted strongman Moammar ...
Gaddafi Refused To Join ''Sarkozy'''s ''Imperialist'' Mediterranean Union
Post Date: 2011-10-22 21:05:35 by A K A Stone
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Let me make you an offer you can't refuse. We're pleased with all the terrorist actions you carried out in the past, but now Europe's in the OWG bag, we want to move on. From hereon, it's my way or the highway. Libya is also one of only five of Africa's 54 countries that have not been integrated into, which is to say subordinated to, the new U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM). A year after assuming the post of president of the French Republic in 2007, and while his nation held the rotating European Union presidency, Nicolas Sarkozy invited the heads of state of the EU's 27 members and those of 17 non-EU Mediterranean countries to attend a conference in Paris to launch a ...
Officials: Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Dies At New York Hospital
Post Date: 2011-10-22 11:59:03 by Brian S
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(CNN) -- Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud died in New York early Saturday, officials said, raising succession questions in the key oil-producing country. Prince Sultan, the half-brother of King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud, died "outside the kingdom following an illness," the Saudi royal court said in a statement. Reports in recent years have indicated that Crown Prince Sultan was battling cancer. A burial is scheduled for Tuesday, the Interior Ministry said. Prince Sultan, thought to be in his 80s, was Saudi Arabia's minister of defense, and was one of the top figures in the Saudi kingdom. He's had various medical issues in recent years. In 20 ...
Iraqis Voice Happiness Over U.S. Withdrawal Decision
Post Date: 2011-10-22 11:55:07 by Brian S
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Iraqis voiced happiness on Saturday over President Barack Obama’s declaration that US forces will leave by year-end, but some spoke of concern the pullout could further destabilise their country. The decision to withdraw all remaining soldiers in the country after nearly nine years of war, and the deaths of more than 4,400 US troops and tens of thousands of Iraqis, came after Baghdad and Washington failed to agree to legal immunity for a training mission past 2011. “The day of their departure represents a historic moment and I will be the happiest person with the exit of the occupier from our country,” said Abdulrahman Munshid al-Assi, a leader of the al-Obeid tribe in the ...
Gaddafi's son: Libya like McDonald's for NATO - fast war as fast food
Post Date: 2011-10-22 01:41:10 by A K A Stone
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Khadafi's ironic last words broadcast to unforgiving world
Post Date: 2011-10-22 01:28:41 by A K A Stone
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Colonel Moammar Khadafi was never one to follow any moral or religious constraint wile he was alive, so it was highly ironic to learn that one of the final words he told his executioners "What you are doing is forbidden in Islamic law." Cell phone video footage of Khadafi's last moments are now circulating on the Internet, and typically show the graceless way an iron-fisted dictator leaves the mortal plain. Colonel Moammar Khadafi was never one to follow any moral or religious constraint wile he was alive, so it was highly ironic to learn that one of the final words he told his executioners 'What you are doing is forbidden in Islamic law.' Colonel Moammar Khadafi was ...
Gaddafi meets Barack Obama and Gordon Brown At G8 One Month Before Lockerbie Release
Post Date: 2011-10-22 01:20:29 by A K A Stone
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Gaddafi's Nurse
Post Date: 2011-10-22 00:58:24 by A K A Stone
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I reached Oksana earlier today by phone and she told me she had learned of Gaddafi's death from the Internet. She sounded very upset. We spoke for a few minutes before someone—possibly her husband?—told her to hang up the phone and we were cut off. Here is what she told me: "My family and I are in deep mourning for him. Even my parents, who have never met him, feel terribly sorry that he is dead. As I said he would, he did stay in Libya to his end. I consider him a brave hero. He did not escape the country, but stayed to die on his own land in his hometown of Sirte. All these months, I hoped that he would survive. My friends, Ukrainian nurses who worked for him, are all ...
NEWSMAKER-Saif al-Islam, Gaddafi's enigmatic
Post Date: 2011-10-22 00:45:45 by A K A Stone
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Oct 21 (Reuters) - Saif al-Islam Gaddafi is the most enigmatic of Muammar Gaddafi's children, apparently turning within weeks from philanthropist and liberal reformer into a fighter ready to die on his home soil rather than surrender.
Gaddafi junior, whose name means "Sword of Islam", is also the most elusive of the late Libyan leader's eight offspring, wanted on war crimes charges but evading a manhunt for months to remain the only leading family member still at large.
Educated at the London School of Economics and a fluent English speaker, Saif al-Islam was once seen by many governments as the acceptable, Western-friendly face of Libya, and a possible heir apparent.
But when a ...
Qadaffi: No Union with Europeans who walk around naked
Post Date: 2011-10-22 00:38:27 by A K A Stone
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Qadaffi: No Union with Europeans who walk around naked Libyan Leader Mu'ammar Al-Qadhafi Expalins His Objection to the Union for the Mediterranean: Libyans Cannot Form a Union with Europeans Who Walk around Naked Category:
Qaddafi’s security chief shares account of former leader’s last moments
Post Date: 2011-10-21 22:58:14 by A K A Stone
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Muammar Qaddafi was living in an apartment in Sirte before his capture and was not found in a sewage pipe as alleged by Libya’s revolutionary fighters, according to his Internal Security chief, Mansour Daw, who was interviewed by Al Arabiya shortly after he was captured on Thursday. Daw, who was living in Sirte along with other members of the top leadership of the former Libyan regime, said Qaddafi was not involved in the battles against National Transitional Council fighters. He said his son Motassim was in charge of the fighting. During the final days of the battle of Sirte, Qaddafi and his aides holed up in “area two” of the city and stayed in different apartments of ...
Somalis Under Relentless Drone Attack as U.S. Tightens Military Grip on Continent
Post Date: 2011-10-21 22:05:43 by A K A Stone
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A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford Africa, under President Obama, is an expanding theater of war for the United States. There are few points on the African map where the U.S. military does not operate, independently, through proxies, or by agreement with local governments and militaries. AFRICOM has penetrated the armed forces of the continent to a degree no single European power could have ever aspired. Indeed, “the U.S. has so thoroughly infiltrated African armies, many, if not most, would be of no use for national defense against the Americans.” Somalis Under Relentless Drone Attack as U.S. Tightens Military Grip on Continent A Black Agenda Radio commentary by ...
Gaddafi's death breached the law, says Russia
Post Date: 2011-10-21 21:01:24 by A K A Stone
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As politicians in Western capitals were taking quiet pleasure in the capture and killing of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi yesterday, opinions elsewhere were divided. In Moscow, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that the Geneva Conventions had been breached with the killing of Colonel Gaddafi. "We have to lean on facts and international laws," Mr Lavrov said. "They say that a captured participant of an armed conflict should be treated in a certain way. And in any case, a prisoner of war should not be killed." Russia has been critical of Nato military action in Libya, saying that it has gone well beyond the stated mission of saving civilian life. The main concern for Moscow ...
ROTHSCHILDS FINISH OFF GADDAFI
Post Date: 2011-10-21 20:01:18 by A K A Stone
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Do You believe Reuters Song "Libya has NO DEMOCRACY?" ELOQUENT FACTS OF THE SOCIALIST LIBYA: * GDP per capita - $ 14,192. * Unemployment benefit - $ 730. * Each family member subsidized by the state gets annually $ 1.000 * Salary for nurses - $ 1.000. * For every newborn is paid $ 7.000. * The bride and groom receive a $ 64 thousand to purchase flats. * Major taxes and levies prohibited. * To open a personal business a one-time financial assistance of $ 20.000 * Education and medicine are free. * Educ.Internships abroad - at government expense. * Stores for large families with symbolic prices for basic foodstuffs. * Part of pharmacies - with free dispensing. * ...
Total Libya Debt - external-$6.386 billion
Post Date: 2011-10-21 19:55:49 by A K A Stone
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Debt - external: $6.386 billion (31 December 2010 est.) $5.884 billion (31 December 2009 est.) Definition: This entry gives the total public and private debt owed to nonresidents repayable in foreign currency, goods, or services. These figures are calculated on an exchange rate basis, i.e., not in purchasing power parity (PPP) terms. Source: CIA World Factbook - Unless otherwise noted, information in this page is accurate as of October 14, 2011
Gaddafi's body "packed in shopping center freezer" (VIDEO) (GRAPHIC)
Post Date: 2011-10-21 19:27:01 by A K A Stone
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Former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's corpse has been stored in a shopping center freezer, the AP reports. "The body, stripped to the waist and wearing beige trousers, was laid on a bloodied mattress on the floor of an emptied-out room-sized freezer where restaurants and stores in the center normally keep perishables," the AP states. "Outside the shopping center, hundreds of civilians from Misrata jostled to get inside for a peek at the body, shouting 'God is great' and 'We want to see the dog.'" Reports of Gaddafi's capture and subsequent death circulated early Thursday with conflicting reports, there was an eye-witness account of Gadaffi ...
Mccain Calls End Of Iraq War “A Strategic Victory For Our Enemies”
Post Date: 2011-10-21 19:23:47 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s conservative critics on Friday blasted his announcement that all US troops will leave Iraq by year’s end, citing worries US archnemesis Iran will fill the vacuum. Republican Senator John McCain, Obama’s rival for the White House in 2008, described the news as a “consequential failure” for Obama as well as Iraq’s leaders after talks broke down on leaving a small US force beyond December 31. “This decision will be viewed as a strategic victory for our enemies in the Middle East, especially the Iranian regime, which has worked relentlessly to ensure a full withdrawal of US troops from Iraq,” he said. ...
BBC Caught Faking Libya Video
Post Date: 2011-10-21 19:02:59 by A K A Stone
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