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![]() A London court yesterday dropped an injunction freezing assets belonging to Petroleos de Venezuela SA, known as PDVSA,
because the dispute wasn’t connected to the U.K. Exxon said it won’t appeal the ruling…
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WORLD NEWS
Russia's firebrand envoy to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization said Thursday that US military aid to Kosovo amounted to arming "former terrorists".
Responding to news of US President George W Bush approval of military aid to Kosovo, Russia's ambassador to NATO Dmitry Rogozin warned that such a move could lead to "new terrorist clashes in the Balkans" A senior aide to Mr Cheney was forced to deny that the nine–day trip to Turkey and the Middle East was part of a strategy by the vice–president to build support for military action against Iran.
The world and thinking citizens of this country, understand when Cheney and his minions are lying: they open their mouths, and they speak.
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BUSINESS
Aloha Airlines filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Thursday, a little more than two years after emerging from bankruptcy… Lamperd, a "firearm training system" company, has patented a bracelet that delivers debilitating shocks when remotely triggered. Their killer app for this is aviation safety: they're proposing that the TSA could force everyone who flies to wear one of these and then flight-attendants could zap us into a stupor if we turn out to be Al Quaeda.
Tourism to the US is already in the trash because of the abusive practices of TSA, the fondled wives and daughters, the strip searches, the busted laptops...
And now this bozo wants to tell visitors to our nation they have to wear a portable taser which, if triggered, might kill them? Oh yeah, I can see the tourists lining up to visit us NOW! Aloha Airlines just declared bankruptcy. Who will be next? |
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SCI/TECH/ENVIRONMENT
If you have some tinfoil handy, now might be a good time to fashion a hat. At the Digital Living Room conference today, Gerard Kunkel, Comcast’s senior VP of user experience, told me the cable company is experimenting with different camera technologies built into devices so it can know who’s in your living room… A new bill aimed at combating global warming currently being considered by the Senate would, if passed, inflict a new great depression on America by reducing GDP by 6.9 percent - a figure comparable with the economic meltdown of 1929 and 1930…
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MARKETS
Stunned Bear Stearns shareholders who saw investments virtually wiped out overnight when a takeover deal with JPMorgan Chase was unveiled are demanding to know how it was put together in the first place.
Severstal, Russia’s largest steel producer, is to purchase a steel mill in the U.S. for $810 million, the company announced on Friday.
This miiiiiiiiiight be a good time to re–read this article, especially those first three paragraphs. |
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HEALTH
There have been few experiments as reckless, overhyped and with as little potential upside as the rapid rollout of genetically modified crops… |
OP–ED
submitted by Luc Majno Ombudsman Richard to decide next week whether to probe province’s French immersion plan … By David Morse
Visitors to this web-site doubtless arrive with their own opinions about the relative merits of Hillary Clinton and Barak Obama as potential future presidents. Though I don’t believe in single-issue politics, I naturally think it’s important to see where the two come down on Darfur. I’m focusing on the two Democrats, because John McCain’s fixation on Iraq would effectively doom any progress on Darfur
from Luc Majno
What the whole world needs to hear
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VIDEO/AUDIO
submitted by Luc Majno World’s largest swimming pool … Luc Majno "What the whole world needs to hear… But that so few of us will be able to grasp or comprehend…" from Luc Majno
Grand Central Station, New York City, New York, USA (2:16 Minutes)
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