Monday, 14 February 2011 10:02
'Marches were held in 200 towns and cities throughout the country as Italians voiced their anger and frustration at the 74-year-old Italian prime minister, who is facing charges of having under age sex with a prostitute and abuse of power.
The aim of the rally was for women to protest at how their dignity and the image of the country had been offended by the media tycoon’s obsession with young girls.'
Read more: Silvio Berlusconi Faces Nation's Women as a Million Protesters Take to Streets
Monday, 14 February 2011 09:38
'In the same year, a secret British-American conference was held in London. In the chilling words of official jargon, the islands “were closed” and, in an exchange of letters never shown to either Parliament or the US Congress, a defence agreement was signed leasing the Chagos Islands to the US for 50 years with the option of an extra 20-year extension. The deal was struck on the understanding that the entire island chain was “fully sanitised” and “cleansed” of life. In exchange, Britain would receive an $11million subsidy on the US’s Polaris submarine nuclear deterrent.
But there was a problem: the UK had overlooked the existence of the native population of about 1,800 Chagosian people, mainly descendents of slaves, living on the islands. And, as members of an overseas territory, they were British nationals. Yet it was vital for the British government, in its own words, “to maintain the pretence there were no permanent inhabitants” on the islands. This was because permanent residents would need to be recognised as people with democratic rights. So the islanders effectively became non-people.'
Read more: US, UK Disgraceful Treatment Of Diego Garcia Islanders
Monday, 14 February 2011 08:35
'Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou accused the EU and the IMF of practicing “unacceptable behavior,” on Saturday. On Friday EU and IMF inspectors, along with European Central Bank experts had been monitoring Greece's implementation of a bailout plan which saved Athens from bankruptcy, AFP reported.
After finding revenue shortfall and reform processes being at risk in a quarterly audit, the three bodies demanded that Athens should act towards reforms at a faster pace and sell more public assets, a 50-billion-euro asset sale being among the demands.'
Read more: Greece Slams IMF-EU Interference
Monday, 14 February 2011 08:04
'By the end of 2012, I predict significant food supply disruptions in North America, brought about either by radical weather affecting crop yields or perhaps the invasion of disease indirectly caused by the over-use of pesticides or GMOs.
The number of people in America struggling to feed themselves and their families will rise along with food prices. ...Expect to see food prices climb with alarming speed over the next two years. While food won't disappear, it will become significantly more expensive, causing more people to shift to subsidized foods (corn, sugar, etc.) which also happen to be some of the worst foods for your health.
Now there's news from Mexico that the fresh produce normally shipped to U.S. grocery stores has been largely destroyed by the freak cold weather snap that struck the continental United States over the past 10 days. As a result, prices on cucumbers, zucchini, peppers, tomatoes and asparagus are set to double or triple starting right now.'
Read more: Fresh Produce Prices to Double or T
Monday, 14 February 2011 07:34
"We're aware of some urgent conversations within the Mubarak family about how to save these assets," a senior intelligence official told the daily Telegraph.
"We think their financial advisers have moved some of the money around," he went on to say. "If he had real money in Zurich, it may be gone by now," he further explained. The former Egyptian president allegedly transferred a fortune to friendly Arab states, including the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia.
Mubarak has been accused of amassing huge sums of money -- between 40 to 70 billion dollars -- during his three decades rule.'
Monday, 14 February 2011 07:29
'Swiss voters have thrown out an initiative to prohibit the possession of firearms at homes in a nationwide referendum that sought to curb gun violence in the country.
Final results showed that 20 out of 26 cantons were against while 56.3 percent of the population rejected the initiative, AFP reported on Sunday. The proposal was introduced by an alliance of non-governmental groups and center-left parties in order to have rifles stored in armories instead of keeping them at residential areas.'
Monday, 14 February 2011 07:25
'The casualties were caused on Sunday in the capital, after a military Royal Guard bus tried to disperse demonstrators.
“Two demonstrators were slightly injured," deputy Musa Zawahrah was quoted by AFP as saying. Thousands of Jordanians took to the streets in Amman over a land dispute. King Abdullah II "immediately dispatched his adviser on tribal affairs, Sharif Fawwaz Zabn, who told members of the two tribes that a royal decree will be issued returning the land to the people," Zawahrah said.'
Monday, 14 February 2011 07:20
'The developments come two days after Mubarak handed over power to Egypt's Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, which is headed by Defense Minister Gen. Mohammed Tantawi. Meanwhile, protesters want all their demands met, including the transition of power from the military to a civilian, democratic government.
Clashes have erupted between the army and the protesters as troops tried to disperse thousands of demonstrators out in Cairo's Liberation Square, a Press TV correspondent reported.'
Monday, 14 February 2011 06:58
'Yemeni police have clashed with thousands of protesters calling for the resignation of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who has been in power for 32 years. At least one woman was injured during the clashes which took place on Sunday in the capital, Sana'a, AFP reported. At least 10 demonstrators have also been arrested.'
riple Following Freak Freezes - is Earth in a Magnetic Pole Shift?
Sunday, 13 February 2011 12:17
'Al Hallor, the assistant port director and an officer with Customs and Border Protection has openly admitted that an unnamed government agency has found a nuclear weapon or weapon of mass effect at a U.S. port in the last year!
That’s right, an assistant port director has spilled the beans on a possible major government cover up. During the conversation the port authority press agent continually interrupted the officer in an attempt to get him to shut up.'
Read more: San Diego Port Officer Says Nukes Have Been Found In An American Port
Sunday, 13 February 2011 11:39
'The move toward a North American Union received another big boost last week as President Barack Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper met in Washington, D.C. to hammer out a deal on creating a common “perimeter” around the two countries while diminishing the role of the nations’ shared border and developing a biometric system to track North Americans.'
Sunday, 13 February 2011 10:57
Sunday, 13 February 2011 09:08
'Al Masri Al Yawm also referred to a recent report published in Israel's Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper in which Israel Defence Forces officers have called for the re-occupation of the Philadelphia corridor located between Egypt and the Gaza Strip in the event of the total collapse of the Mubarak regime.'
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