BBC
Issues Retraction Over Misleading Iran Photos
The crisis over the Iranian election has been our lead story for most
of the week. As with all our coverage, we have been careful to report
what both Ahmadinejad and Mousavi supporters are saying. Similarly,
we have taken care to label the pictures we use, explaining what they
are of.
Ireland
to hold second referendum on Lisbon Treaty Brian Cowen, the Irish prime minister, said that his country
would hold a second referendum on the Lisbon Treaty in October after
he secured assurances from EU leaders likely to boost a Yes vote.
‘Insane’
file-sharing verdict could challenge law’s constitutionality
In the first file-sharing case to go to trial in the United States,
a Minnesota jury has ruled that a 32 year old woman must pay the music
industry $1.92 million dollars for illegally making 24 songs available
for sharing from her hard drive.
Nasa
aims to crash into the Moon at 6,000mph Two robotic probes were speeding towards the Moon at 8,000mph
last night on a mission that will help to earmark future human camp
sites, as hearings got under way in Washington that could shake up Nasa’s
plans for returning Man to the lunar surface.
Financial
Dictatorship Spreads To Europe The European Union is set to mirror moves in the US to overhaul
the economic regulatory oversight system, in a move that will see national
regulators superceded by European supervisors.
World’s
hungry top one billion: UN food agency
A record one billion people are undernourished around the world, the
UN food agency said Friday, blaming the global financial crisis for
a surge of more than 100 million hungry since last year.
Next
Major Move In Stock Market Will Be Down
The next major move in the stock market will be down. We are seeing
the last vestiges of a rally similar to what we saw in 1931. The rally
we expected at 6600 up to 8500 will end as soon as all the financial
institutions that need to sell what stock is necessary to bolster their
balance sheets.
More
Powerful Fed? Many In Congress Don’t Seem to Like It The old Wall Street axiom isn’t playing well in Washington
as Congress takes its first shots at the Obama administration’s
package of sweeping reform proposals for the financial sector.
Cashless
Control Grid Inches Closer to Reality
Central bankers in Japan are mulling the abolition of cash. Richard
Jerram, a senior economist with Macquarie bank, told investors that
“the proposal has become practical with the broad penetration
of electronic money and credit cards in Japan,” reports the
Times Online. Bankers claim the scheme will rescue the economy from
another deflationary spiral.
Are
the Iranian Protests Another US Orchestrated “Color Revolution?”
A number of commentators have expressed their idealistic belief
in the purity of Mousavi, Montazeri, and the westernized youth of
Terhan. The CIA destabilization plan, announced two years ago (see
below) has somehow not contaminated unfolding events.
9/11
Truther Found Not Guilty Of Assaulting Disabled Girl At the time of this staged incident, neo-con media outlets
like Sean Hannity and Fox News, as well as 9/11 debunking groups,
claimed that a 9/11 truther had beaten up a disabled girl as a means
of trying to discredit the 9/11 truth movement. Now that Talis has
been aquitted and proven completely innocent of all charges, as
we maintained all along, will those same groups now come forward
and apologize for promulgating this hoax?
CIA
seeks laid-off bankers in N.Y. recruitment drive Laid off from Wall Street? The CIA wants you — as long
as you can pass a lie detector test and show that you are motivated
by service to your country rather than your wallet.
Who
Will Control Iraq’s Oil?
Furious protests are threatening to undermine the Iraqi government’s
plan to give international oil companies a stake in its giant oilfields
in a desperate effort to increase its declining oil production and
oil revenues.
Showdown
on Pacific: U.S. tracking North ship
As the Obama administration tries to ensure that the latest United
Nations Security Council resolution is enforced, the U.S. Navy yesterday
was tracking a North Korean vessel suspected of carrying weapons
materials, U.S. government officials said.
Khamenei
warns protesters to stay off streets
Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, issued a stern
warning to opponents today to stay off the streets as he denied
claims that last week’s elections had been rigged.
Minn.
lawmaker vows not to complete Census
Outspoken Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann says she’s so worried
that information from next year’s national census will be
abused that she will refuse to fill out anything more than the number
of people in her household.
Obama
lawyers try to protect Cheney from Daily Show
Tired of waving the national security flag, Obama administration
lawyers are apparently trying another tactic to get the courts to
back Bush administration arguments which never worked to prevent
the release of critical documents. Forget Qaeda or North Korea,
late night hosts who tell jokes are why the government should retain
its secrets.
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