Tag: un
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a new financial world order
gordon brown calls for ‘a new global financial order’from un news: The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom today called for a new global financial system to bring an end to the current economic turmoil, laying out five principles on which the order should be based as he addressed the General Assembly’s annual high-level debate.…
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international gangsters puff their chests at the un
iran leader says ‘american empire’ near collapse from ap: Iran’s president accused “a few bullying powers” of trying to thwart his country’s peaceful nuclear program and declared in a speech Tuesday before the U.N. General Assembly that “the American empire” is nearing collapse. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sharply attacked the United States and NATO, accusing…
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sim nuke accident to be staged in mexico
from scoop: The United Nations nuclear watchdog agency is to stage a simulated accident at a nuclear power plant in Mexico tomorrow to test emergency response systems. Some 74 member States of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), as well as 10 international organizations will be participating in the 48-hour drill which starts tomorrow at…
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bolton to face citizen’s arrest in wales?
from thinkprogress: Former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton is scheduled to speak at the Hay-on-Wye literary festival in Wales today. The Telegraph reports that after his speech, Bolton may face a citizen’s arrest: Mr Monbiot, a columnist for The Guardian newspaper, plans to detain him as he steps off stage at the…
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un peacekeepers & aid workers abusing kids
from ap: U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed “deep concern” Tuesday after a leading children’s charity said it uncovered evidence of widespread sexual abuse of children at the hands of U.N. peacekeepers and international aid workers. The report (448kb PDF) by Save the Children UK, based on field research in southern Sudan, Ivory Coast and Haiti,…
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choose one: prison, family detention center or xenu u
US to build vast prison in afghanistanfrom afp: The United States plans to build a vast, new detention camp at its main military base in Afghanistan… “I can confirm there are indeed plans to build a new detention facilty at Bagram airfield,” spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Mark Wright told AFP. “And the overall size is expected…
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pnac, un, nra, ocp, at&t, apra & bg
pnac site goes downfrom thinkprogress: Eleven years ago, the neoconservative Project for a New American Century (PNAC) set out its statement of principles advocating the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, putting the country on the road to a preventative invasion of Iraq. Signatories included future Iraq war architects Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, and Elliott…
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Palestine Celebrates 60 Years of Exiled Abuse
from afp: Hundreds of Palestinian refugees headed to Lebanon’s southern border with Israel on Wednesday marking 60 years since the creation of the Jewish state and exile from what was once Palestine. “We want to return to our country. We desperately miss our country’s soil,” said Mahmud Mahmud, aged in his 70s, who was wearing…
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former hitler youth performs ritual at 9/11 crime scene
from voa: Pope Benedict XVI began his last day in the United States at Ground Zero, the site of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on New York… Pope Benedict knelt in silent prayer on a pew placed in front of a large candle, which he then lit… The pope then met individually with two-dozen…
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haiti’s government falls after food riots
from reuters: Haiti’s government fell on Saturday when senators fired the prime minister after more than a week of riots over food prices, ignoring a plan presented by the president to slash the cost of rice… Stone-throwing crowds began battling U.N. peacekeepers and Haitian police in the south on April 2, enraged at the soaring…
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un human rights official wants new 9/11 investigation
john bolton: “this is exactly why we voted against the new human rights council.”from steve watson: An official in the newly formed UN Human Rights Council has called for a fresh investigation into the events of 9/11 in order to examine the possible role that neoconservatives may have played in the attacks. The New York…
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US embassy in belgrade overrun
from washington post: A rampaging crowd of several hundred Serb demonstrators, incensed by the U.S. recognition of Kosovo’s independence, overran and burned part of the American Embassy in the Serbian capital of Belgrade on Thursday. The assault drew fierce protests from Washington and illustrated the rage in Serbia over the loss of its historic province.…
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wikileaks plugged, cia fronts, UN plunge & US runs drugs
wikileaks.org taken offline in USfrom bbc: A controversial website that allows whistle-blowers to anonymously post government and corporate documents has been taken offline in the US. Wikileaks.org, as it is known, was cut off from the internet following a California court ruling, the site says. The case was brought by a Swiss bank after “several…
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globalists want a tax on television & video games
from truthnews: David Rockefeller, Maurice Strong, and the Earth Summit folks, including the United Nations Environmental Program, want to tax your television and video games. “The Sierra Club is proposing a tax on video games and televisions with the proceeds going to programs that encourage families to get kids off of the couch and into…
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ex-lawmaker charged in terror conspiracy
from ap: A former congressman and delegate to the United Nations was indicted Wednesday as part of a terrorist fundraising ring that allegedly sent more than $130,000 to an al-Qaida and Taliban supporter who has threatened U.S. and international troops in Afghanistan. The former Republican congressman from Michigan, Mark Deli Siljander, was charged with money…