Missing Persons ~ Words
Hezballah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah will soon meet with Saad Hariri On May 21, 2008, Lebanon's western-backed government, under increasing military pressure from the militant group Hezbollah, made concessions to end a 19-month political stalemate and form a new unity government, which will give Hezbollah veto control over its decisions. Saad Hariri's Future Movement, the nation's largest Sunni political party, will hold a majority of 16 posts in the Lebanese Cabinet. “We were always ready to give concessions for the sake of co-existence, and open a new page for reconciliation," Hariri told reporters.
Uncivil War Brewing
Syria Signals It Will Stop UN Nuclear InspectorsFor One Eye Only
Muslim brotherhood leader to speak at UC Irvine
US appeals NJ Muslim cleric immigration case
Guns, dirty money and French elite on trial
15 Turkish soldiers killed in clashes with PKK
The U.N. declared the Pakistani capital unsafe for the children of its international staff Thursday and ordered them out
The Muslim holiday Id Al-Fitr is heightening political and ethnic tensions in Egypt and Iran over the allocation of prayer areas and festival customsIslamists slap Sharia law on Somalia town
EU leaders head divided into emergency summit
Prospect Fades for Joint EU Bank Bailout
On the eve of a Paris summit to discuss the European financial crisis, the idea of establishing an EU-wide rescue fund looks stillbornEU welcomes U.S. adoption of financial bailout plan
IMF wants coordinated EU approach to crisis
Russian stock market trade halted after diveGazprom clinches deal with German utility
Bulgaria Gained $16 Bln From the Contract with “Gazprom”
Russias Gazprom lines up $4.2 bln loan-source
Gazprom Leads Ukraine to Market
Russia to spend extra $3.1 billion on defense in 2009 - Vladimir Putin
Russia wants to work with EU, US, against piracyPirates holding a hijacked arms ship off Somalia for 20 million ransom warned yesterday they will fight off any commando- style rescue attempts
4 more failed pirate attacks in last 24 hours
Russia and the Norks in Joint Railroad / Port Deal
Kim Jong Il Reappears
Blast near Russian base in S.Ossetia reportedly kills six
US to sell $6.4B in arms to Taiwan Chevron Loses Major Lobbying Battle In Congress
DJ Q-Burn called it: More severe recession now forecast by Goldman Sachs
Wells bids $20 billion for Wachovia
They Seek to Run $700 Billion U.S. Pool
BlackRock Inc., Pacific Investment Management Co. and Legg Mason Inc. informally advised the U.S. Treasury prior to passage of its $700 billion financial-rescue plan and will seek contracts to manage some of the assets, according to people familiar with the matter. The Treasury will choose five to 10 investment firms to help it acquire troubled securities from financial companies, officials said today.
OJ finally goin' to the hooskow, where he damn well belongs The word "grandmother" now banned from The Guardian (UK)
Rod Liddle analyses the extraordinary list of mostly harmless words and phrases that are now considered inappropriate by one of our leading national newspapers
Stark Reality ~ Comrades
