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Financial Coup D’Etat in Europe: Government by the Banks, for the Banks

Monday, 02 July 2012 07:22

'The ESM is now a permanent bailout fund for private banks, a sort of permanent “welfare for the rich.” There is no ceiling set on the obligations to be underwritten by the taxpayers, no room to negotiate, and no recourse in court.'

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Turkey Rushes F-16 Warplanes to Syrian Border

Monday, 02 July 2012 06:15

'Turkey’s military released a statement on Sunday, saying six jets were sent to the area on Saturday, The Associated Press reported.

The move came after Syria said a Turkish fighter jet had been downed in Syrian territorial waters west of the village of Om al-Tuyour in the Latakia province, which is located in western Syria, last month.

At a press conference in Damascus on June 24, Syrian Foreign Ministry spokesman Jihad Makdissi said that the warplane had “violated Syrian airspace, and in turn Syrian air defenses fired back and the plane crashed inside Syrian territorial waters.”'

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BBC Interrupts Lavrov’s Speech With Weather Forecast

Monday, 02 July 2012 05:07

'Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov’s criticisms about the Western media's news coverage of the situation in Syria, led the British state-run broadcaster BBC to interrupt his speech by a weather forecast item.

Lavrov’s press conference at the Geneva meeting on Saturday June 30 provided another chance for the BBC to show its bias against the Syrian government.

Different Arabic and Western news channels were deployed in order to give the minute coverage of the meeting’s news and sidelines, but after UN-Arab League envoy to Syria Kofi Annan, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and UK Foreign Minister William Hague when it was the turn of the Russian Foreign Minister to speak, the channels cut their live broadcast and showed other programs instead.'

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Excuse Number One: Britain Must Wait for Europe Referendum, Says William Hague

Sunday, 01 July 2012 11:36

'Britain will not be able to have a referendum on Europe until the debt crisis has been sorted out, William Hague has said.'

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