The Bank of the Vatican has been accused of laundering USD 200 million by proxy through an Italian creditor, a report indicates.
The allegation of the Vatican bank’s financial corruption has been made by an Italian magazine that pointed to the financial institute’s purported involvement in stealth fiscal transactions —via several accounts – – with Italy’s UniCredit Bank, Russia Today television network quoted the Panorama.
Wu’s wife Nan Man Chi told the Vancouver Sun newspaper: “The (police) chief apologised, but the officer who did that should be the one apologising. ...
Fighting in Somalia displaces 63,000
01/19/10 09:54 PM, EST
In just the past 19 days, an estimated 63,000 people have been displaced from their homes in Somalia by fighting involving government forces and militias, combined with "general insecurity", the United Nations’ refugee agency said Tuesday.
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Check out the wall street journal or MSNBC and the drop in the stock market is because Obama's getting tough on banks or the senate may not confirm Ben Bernanke, but I have a different take:
Stocks Crash Following Scott Brown Win
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The cost of car insurance has soared in the last 12 months and is set to rise again this year, new research revealed today.
Car insurance premiums have risen by an average of 20 per cent in the last year are expected to go up another 15 per cent during 2010.
Grayson: Fight now or ‘kiss your country goodbye’ to Exxon, Wal-Mart
How To End Corporate Domination Of Government - And Our Lives
The Supreme Court yesterday allowed corporate executives to tap into their company’s resources and use that money to directly influence elections instead of for the profitable operation of the company. This use of company funds isn't considered bribery because the company executives can claim they are only engaged is "speech" to promote good government, not influence public officials to bring a return to the company »
Shoc Doctrine in Reverse: A Week of Setbacks, A Window of Opportunity
What a week. Call it the Shock Doctrine in reverse: The Massachusetts election and yesterday’s Supreme Court ruling may force the Democrats to move to the left to ensure their political survival. They’re now faced with a choice they clearly didn’t want: forcefully reject the corporate agenda, or risk losing to opponents who can attract an unlimited flow of corporate dollars.
Cerberus Capital: Literally Blood-Sucking the Poor to Make Their Billions
By Mark Ames, AlterNet
How one company made $1.8 billion by paying peanuts to human plasma donors and then manipulated the market by restricting supply to the desperately ill.
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Autism rates have gone up tenfold in recent decades and some leading researchers think the causes are environmental.
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A drug used in common painkillers has been linked to an increased risk of fatal car crashes.
Research shows motorists killed in accidents were more likely to have been driving dangerously after taking codeine, a morphine-like medicine used in well-known brands such as Solpadeine and Nurofen Plus.
The study suggests the painkiller can make drivers sleepy, slower to react to danger and more likely to make mistakes.
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Desperate to unload, the ship's crew lied about their cargo, hoping to catch a government unawares. Sometimes they identified the ash as "construction material"; other times they said it was "road fill," and still others "muddy waste." But environmental experts were generally one step ahead in notifying the recipients; no one would take it. That is, until it got to Haiti. There, U.S.-backed dictator Baby Doc Duvalier issued a permit for the garbage, which was by now being called "fertilizer," and four thousand tons of the ash was dumped onto the beach in the town of Gonaives.
Haiti: Bonanza for Foreign Mining Companies
."With the Coup D'etat now, though the people know where these resources are because this book exists, they don’t know who these foreign companies are. What their profit margins are. What the environmental protection rules and regulations to protect them are. Many folks, for instance, in the North talk about losing their property, having people come in with guns and taking over their property.
So that’s where we are".
But this month has brought even more dramatic and dangerous news. The Pentagon has authorized the completion of a $6.5 billion arms deal with Taiwan with an agreement to deliver 200 Patriot Advanced Capability anti-ballistic missiles. The People’s Republic of China is infuriated, as Washington would be if the situation were reversed and Beijing provided a comparable arsenal of weapons to, for example, an independent Puerto Rico.
NO OIL, NO RECOVERY: Oil has Crushed the Suburban Homeowner Dream – How $75 a Barrel Oil no longer Supports New Home Construction in
Distant Areas. Case study of Riverside and San Bernardino Foreclosures and Housing.
From Gun Boat Diplomacy to Smart Power in Honduras
The Preventive Coup ~ By SAUL LANDAU and NELSON P. VALDÉS: – What provoked a dozen families last June to conspire to overthrow Honduran President Manuel (Mel) Zelaya? He did not apparently harbor a secret revolutionary agenda, nor try to impose non–legal changes to bridge the immense gap between the handful of super rich and millions of poor. The oligarchy bogusly accused Zelaya of seeking constitutional changes so he could run again. Zelaya
USGS claims Venezuela sits on Earth’s largest oil reserves
The Orinoco Belt, situated squarely underneath the South American nation, may hold some 513 billion barrels of crude oil, according to a new report by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).
That's twice the size of Saudi Arabia's oil reserves, placing Venezuela firmly atop the list of oil-rich nations.
Webmaster's Commentary: Interesting that the US and Columbia signed a deal late last year to allow many more US troops to operate from at least 7 bases in Columbia.
Coincidence? Understanding that the US already gets about half of its oil from South America,I think not.
North Korea on Sunday accused the South of declaring war by warning earlier this month that it would launch a preemptive strike if it thought its impoverished neighbor was preparing a nuclear attack.
The angry retort from Pyongyang is the latest in what have become increasingly brittle relations between the two Koreas just as the international community tries to lure the North back to nuclear disarmament talks.
Webmaster’s Commentary: What North Korea really wants here is a peace treaty to formally end the Korean war, which the US has rejected out of hand a couple of weeks ago.
Iraq littered with high levels of nuclear and dioxin contamination, study finds ~ Martin Chulov
January 22, 2010 - More than 40 sites across Iraq are contaminated with high levels or radiation and dioxins, with three decades of war and neglect having left environmental ruin in large parts of the country, an official Iraqi study has found. Areas in and near Iraq’s largest towns and cities, including Najaf, Basra and – – Falluja, account for around 25% of the contaminated sites, which appear to coincide with communities that hav…
C.I.A. Deaths Prompt Surge in U.S. Drone Attacks: Beginning the day after the attack on a C.I.A. base in Khost, Afghanistan, the agency has carried out 11 strikes that have killed about 90people suspected of being militants, according to Pakistani news reports.
Afghans protest occupation force killing of civilians for second day: "These people,these foreigners who attacked this house, showed how wild and cruel they are," said Hashim Nasiri, another protester.
The Court’s Blow to DemocracyWith a single, disastrous 5-to-4 ruling, the Supreme Court has thrust politics back to the robber-baron era of the 19th century. The court’s conservative majority has paved the way for corporations to use their vast treasuries to overwhelm elections and intimidate elected officials into doing their bidding.
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I'm sure most of you heard the shity news about how the USSC is gleefully allowing corporate cronies to open the lobbyist flood gates to buy-off our politicians. Well, Roberts, Scalia, Scalito, Thomas, and the flopper, Kennedy, are all Catholic and will take away individual rights as fast as they can. Next on the list is Roe v. Wade.
In the spirit of "faith" for which the mallet will fall, I offer this lovely
sing-along music video to honor things to come ~ Vince
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Primitive green ~ John Zerzan first shot into celebrity philosopher status in 1995 after the New York Times featured him in 1995 as a supporter of the Unabomber’s anti-technology doctrine. He has since become a leading light of the primitivist movement in the US. In an exclusive interview with DNA, he explains why modern civilization is fundamentally anti-human, ‘green’ technology is ‘psycho’ and Stone Age is the way to go.
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This is not a pitch :) but for anyone interested, there is an online Bible and here, you can access just about any verse or chapter or ‘book’ …Thought you might be interested. It certainly took a lot of work to do this, and it really takes the headache away for those who search for certain passages. – Luc Majno |
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