Anglo-saxon press dump
Goings on in the english speaking world
Both the Times and the Guardian have worrying articles on the stock markets' performance this week :
Ten days that shook the world's markets
US interest rate fears sparked a torrid fortnight, with £45bn wiped off London share prices. What will happen next, asks Heather Stewart
From Stockholm to Tokyo, New York to Istanbul, market mayhem swept across the world last week, unleashing violent movements on stock markets and foreign exchanges everywhere, and hammering down the price of commodities such as copper and gold.
In London, the FTSE 100 suffered its worst day for more than three years on Wednesday, before ending the week at 5,672, more than 4 per cent down in five days' trading.
After a febrile fortnight, analysts are asking themselves if the turmoil is over - or whether the sell-off marked the end of the three-year bull market and the dawn of a much more volatile era... More
Markets ‘are like 1987 crash’
CONDITIONS in the financial markets are eerily similar to those that precipitated the “Black Monday” stock market crash of October 1987, according to leading City analysts.
A report by Barclays Capital says the run-up to the 1987 crash was characterised by a widening US current-account deficit, weak dollar, fears of rising inflation, a fading boom in American house prices, and the appointment of a new chairman of the Federal Reserve Board.
All have been happening in recent months, with market nerves on edge last week over fears of higher inflation and a tumbling dollar, and the perception of mixed messages on interest rates from Ben Bernanke, the new Fed chairman.
“We are very uncomfortable about predicting financial crises, but we cannot help but see a certain similarity between the current economic and market conditions and the environment that led to the stock-market crash of October 1987,” said David Woo, head of global foreign-exchange strategy at Barclays Capital... More
A quick whizz over to the Ü.S ...
Soooo ... if you can't speak english, you're not allowed to work in the Ü.S, right ? On that point alone, i think that gives solid enough grounds for the current resident of 2800 Pensylvania avenue to vacate his office toute-de-suite ... go straight to jail without passing GO and collecting £200 :P :
Press One for English
The immigration debate in Congress has hit several low points of mean-spirited dimness, and could go lower still, but on Thursday it came pretty close to rock bottom.
By a vote of 63 to 34, the Senate tacked onto its immigration bill an amendment from Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma that declares English to be "the national language of the United States."
If you thought otherwise, or weren't sure, well, now you know: We speak English here. None of that "Oprima número dos."
If the amendment merely stated the achingly obvious, it might be nothing to get upset about. Senator Ken Salazar, Democrat of Colorado, offered an amendment asserting, nonbindingly, that English is the language that unites us all.
That one was passed, too.
But Mr. Inhofe and his allies weren't looking to make a statement about our shared heritage.
They made another point — one that is exclusionary, potentially discriminatory and embarrassingly hostile to the rest of the world.
"Unless otherwise authorized or provided by law," the Inhofe amendment says, "no person has a right, entitlement or claim to have the government of the United States or any of its officials or representatives act, communicate, perform or provide services, or provide materials in any language other than English."
It goes on to insist that new citizens be tested for knowledge of English and of certain pillars of American civics, like the Federalist Papers and "The Star-Spangled Banner." ... (More)
But have no fear; we have ways of making you speak intongues english :
New Face, Old Evasion
Is 'waterboarding' still practiced by the CIA?
AT THE SENATE intelligence committee hearing Thursday on Gen. Michael V. Hayden's nomination to head the CIA, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) asked the nominee a simple question:
Is "waterboarding" an acceptable interrogation technique? Gen. Hayden responded: "Let me defer that to closed session, and I would be happy to discuss it in some detail."
That was the wrong answer.
The right one would have been simple: No. Last year Congress banned cruel, degrading and inhumane treatment of detainees; one of its explicit aims was to stop the CIA's use of waterboarding, which induces an excruciating sensation of drowning and is considered by most human rights organizations to constitute torture.
So why couldn't Gen. Hayden say clearly that the technique is now off-limits?... (More)
The brits are well known for creating havoc in Falriki whilst on their holidays, perhaps now Rummy will finally see sense and close down his own favorite little seaside resort in Cuba; it's obviously attracting the wrong kind of people :
Breaking point: Inside story of the Guantanamo uprising
The camp commander's claims of a co-ordinated revolt are challenged by new details of the violence. By Severin Carrell
The prison camps at Guantanamo Bay were gripped by a series of uprisings and disturbances last week which suggest a state of near revolt, it emerged yesterday.
Reports from within the controversial detention centre in Cuba claim the base's military commanders believe there were links between a series of suicide attempts, medical emergencies and the violent clashes between 20 inmates and guards on Thursday.
It was "probably the most violent outbreak" in the camp's four-year history, claimed Rear Admiral Harry Harris, the detention and interrogation centre's commander. "These are dangerous men and determined jihadists," he said... (More)
What's that smell ?? Horse ? Nope ... must be camel ? Nope ... i know what it's : Bull shit
Fugitive pleads with US to 'liberate' Iran
FOR almost eight months, Amir Abbas Fakhravar was held in solitary confinement in a soundproof cell in Iran.
His bare, constantly lit surroundings were all a creamy white — the walls, the floor, his clothes and the door, with a slit through which white rice would be delivered in a white bowl by guards wearing slippers to muffle their footfall.
Amnesty International calls his case the first known example of “white torture” in Iran and it nearly drove Fakhravar mad.
He was stuck in a terrifying, real-life version of the George Lucas film, THX 1138, about a dystopia where dissidents are imprisoned in a white room.
“I was living with my childhood memories, but I couldn’t remember my mother’s face,” Fakhravar said. “I’d see the deformed faces of my family in my nightmares.”
Fakhravar, a 30-year-old writer and leader of the dissident Iranian student movement, who has been repeatedly jailed, emerged in Washington last week after spending 10 months on the run inside Iran.
His sister was told by Revolutionary Guards that there were orders to shoot him on sight.
He surfaced at the end of last month in Dubai, where 24 hours later he was met by the leading American neoconservative, Richard Perle.
Fakhravar was whisked to America last weekend and has already met congressmen and Bush officials.
He said he was in Washington to spread one message only: “Regime change,” he said, breaking from Farsi into English to deliver it... (More)
Both the Times and the Guardian have worrying articles on the stock markets' performance this week :
Ten days that shook the world's markets
US interest rate fears sparked a torrid fortnight, with £45bn wiped off London share prices. What will happen next, asks Heather Stewart
From Stockholm to Tokyo, New York to Istanbul, market mayhem swept across the world last week, unleashing violent movements on stock markets and foreign exchanges everywhere, and hammering down the price of commodities such as copper and gold.
In London, the FTSE 100 suffered its worst day for more than three years on Wednesday, before ending the week at 5,672, more than 4 per cent down in five days' trading.
After a febrile fortnight, analysts are asking themselves if the turmoil is over - or whether the sell-off marked the end of the three-year bull market and the dawn of a much more volatile era... More
Markets ‘are like 1987 crash’
CONDITIONS in the financial markets are eerily similar to those that precipitated the “Black Monday” stock market crash of October 1987, according to leading City analysts.
A report by Barclays Capital says the run-up to the 1987 crash was characterised by a widening US current-account deficit, weak dollar, fears of rising inflation, a fading boom in American house prices, and the appointment of a new chairman of the Federal Reserve Board.
All have been happening in recent months, with market nerves on edge last week over fears of higher inflation and a tumbling dollar, and the perception of mixed messages on interest rates from Ben Bernanke, the new Fed chairman.
“We are very uncomfortable about predicting financial crises, but we cannot help but see a certain similarity between the current economic and market conditions and the environment that led to the stock-market crash of October 1987,” said David Woo, head of global foreign-exchange strategy at Barclays Capital... More
A quick whizz over to the Ü.S ...
Soooo ... if you can't speak english, you're not allowed to work in the Ü.S, right ? On that point alone, i think that gives solid enough grounds for the current resident of 2800 Pensylvania avenue to vacate his office toute-de-suite ... go straight to jail without passing GO and collecting £200 :P :
Press One for English
The immigration debate in Congress has hit several low points of mean-spirited dimness, and could go lower still, but on Thursday it came pretty close to rock bottom.
By a vote of 63 to 34, the Senate tacked onto its immigration bill an amendment from Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma that declares English to be "the national language of the United States."
If you thought otherwise, or weren't sure, well, now you know: We speak English here. None of that "Oprima número dos."
If the amendment merely stated the achingly obvious, it might be nothing to get upset about. Senator Ken Salazar, Democrat of Colorado, offered an amendment asserting, nonbindingly, that English is the language that unites us all.
That one was passed, too.
But Mr. Inhofe and his allies weren't looking to make a statement about our shared heritage.
They made another point — one that is exclusionary, potentially discriminatory and embarrassingly hostile to the rest of the world.
"Unless otherwise authorized or provided by law," the Inhofe amendment says, "no person has a right, entitlement or claim to have the government of the United States or any of its officials or representatives act, communicate, perform or provide services, or provide materials in any language other than English."
It goes on to insist that new citizens be tested for knowledge of English and of certain pillars of American civics, like the Federalist Papers and "The Star-Spangled Banner." ... (More)
But have no fear; we have ways of making you speak in
New Face, Old Evasion
Is 'waterboarding' still practiced by the CIA?
AT THE SENATE intelligence committee hearing Thursday on Gen. Michael V. Hayden's nomination to head the CIA, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) asked the nominee a simple question:
Is "waterboarding" an acceptable interrogation technique? Gen. Hayden responded: "Let me defer that to closed session, and I would be happy to discuss it in some detail."
That was the wrong answer.
The right one would have been simple: No. Last year Congress banned cruel, degrading and inhumane treatment of detainees; one of its explicit aims was to stop the CIA's use of waterboarding, which induces an excruciating sensation of drowning and is considered by most human rights organizations to constitute torture.
So why couldn't Gen. Hayden say clearly that the technique is now off-limits?... (More)
The brits are well known for creating havoc in Falriki whilst on their holidays, perhaps now Rummy will finally see sense and close down his own favorite little seaside resort in Cuba; it's obviously attracting the wrong kind of people :
Breaking point: Inside story of the Guantanamo uprising
The camp commander's claims of a co-ordinated revolt are challenged by new details of the violence. By Severin Carrell
The prison camps at Guantanamo Bay were gripped by a series of uprisings and disturbances last week which suggest a state of near revolt, it emerged yesterday.
Reports from within the controversial detention centre in Cuba claim the base's military commanders believe there were links between a series of suicide attempts, medical emergencies and the violent clashes between 20 inmates and guards on Thursday.
It was "probably the most violent outbreak" in the camp's four-year history, claimed Rear Admiral Harry Harris, the detention and interrogation centre's commander. "These are dangerous men and determined jihadists," he said... (More)
What's that smell ?? Horse ? Nope ... must be camel ? Nope ... i know what it's : Bull shit
Fugitive pleads with US to 'liberate' Iran
FOR almost eight months, Amir Abbas Fakhravar was held in solitary confinement in a soundproof cell in Iran.
His bare, constantly lit surroundings were all a creamy white — the walls, the floor, his clothes and the door, with a slit through which white rice would be delivered in a white bowl by guards wearing slippers to muffle their footfall.
Amnesty International calls his case the first known example of “white torture” in Iran and it nearly drove Fakhravar mad.
He was stuck in a terrifying, real-life version of the George Lucas film, THX 1138, about a dystopia where dissidents are imprisoned in a white room.
“I was living with my childhood memories, but I couldn’t remember my mother’s face,” Fakhravar said. “I’d see the deformed faces of my family in my nightmares.”
Fakhravar, a 30-year-old writer and leader of the dissident Iranian student movement, who has been repeatedly jailed, emerged in Washington last week after spending 10 months on the run inside Iran.
His sister was told by Revolutionary Guards that there were orders to shoot him on sight.
He surfaced at the end of last month in Dubai, where 24 hours later he was met by the leading American neoconservative, Richard Perle.
Fakhravar was whisked to America last weekend and has already met congressmen and Bush officials.
He said he was in Washington to spread one message only: “Regime change,” he said, breaking from Farsi into English to deliver it... (More)
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