Faisal Islam‏@faisalislam12 min
Pissarides: have to think of the whole economy… Looks like we get a compromise tonight or tomorrow morning. Not going to be a good one
Faisal Islam‏@faisalislam13 min
Pissarides: 2 biggest banks lost money in Greek debt. Caused to a large extent by haircut. so capitalise from ESM
Faisal Islam‏@faisalislam14 min
Pissarides: decision has to be reached today or tomorrow. Accept haircut,
hedge‏@zerohedge2 min
Comic interlude time from Buffett’s rating agency: MOODY’S DOWNGRADES CYPRIOT [...]
At least 15 people have died in Uganda from the deadly Ebola virus with the toll likely to rise further, the health ministry said Wednesday.
Ebola broke out in early July in Uganda’s western Kibale district, some 200 kilometres (120 miles) from Kampala, and around 50 kilometres from the border with Democratic Republic of Congo.
“Two more deaths were last evening recorded at Kagadi Government Hospital in Kibale district… The first death [...]
Brian Wheeler
BBC News
June 23, 2012
COMMENT: Peter Sutherland is a consummate Bilderberg insider with a long pedigree filled with top globalist positions. Not only Chairman and Managing Director of Goldman Sachs International and former CEO of BP oil, but former director general for GATT and the WTO, and member of the Commission of the European Communities, theActionCommittee for Europe and chairman designate for the Allied Irish Banks.
The EU should “do its best to undermine” the “homogeneity” of its member states, the UN’s special representative for [...]
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For several years I have been touting silver’s Unique Anti-Microbial Properties. Out of the nearly infinite list of technological/industrial applications for silver, it always seemed inevitable to me that this one use would ultimately become our single greatest need for the Metal Of The Moon.
That suspicion/fear could, in turn, be traced back to a single threat which has loomed in an ever larger, ever more-menacing manner: Super-Bugs. This is [...]
Leaked emails report that ambulance drivers are having fuel rationed – as an industry leader described the crisis as “self-inflicted insanity”.
One email, seen by Sky News, suggested that ambulances were being forced to join lenghty queues at petrol stations and restricted to a maximum of £50 of petrol.
Another email suggested that police and ambulance drivers were turning up to designated petrol stations to demand that fuel be held back for [...]
Despite heavy discounting and pre-Christmas sales to lure spenders, UK November sales fall:
Widespread discounting on the High Street failed to stop retail sales falling by 0.4% in November from the month before.
Excluding spending on fuel, retail sales fell 0.7% on the month, according the Office for National Statistics.
The data revealed that consumers had cut back spending on computers, mobile phones, watches and jewellery, but that clothes sales had [...]
A plan unveiled today for a “smaller” BBC will see the corporation lose thousands of jobs, sell off offices and show more repeats.
The proposals include “a small reduction” in new programmes on BBC One, which will be replaced by repeats, fewer chat shows and panel shows on BBC Two and digital channels BBC Three and Four will become feeder channels for BBC One and Two [...]
Telegraph.co.uk
Employees in their fifties and sixties are wasting £11 billion a year paying national insurance contributions when they have already racked up enough years of payment to get a full state pension.
430,000 pay £11bn too much NICs Photo: BLOOMBERG NEWS
By Rosie Murray-West
A reply to a parliamentary question from Steve Webb, pensions minister, showed that the number of people reaching their qualifying [...]
Shop prices rose at their highest rate for two and a half years in June, pushed up by soaring food prices, the British Retail Consortium (BRC) says.
Prices in shops were 2.9% higher in June compared with a year earlier, the biggest increase since October 2008. In May, the annual increase had been 2.3%.
Food prices were up 5.7% from a year ago, compared with May’s rate [...]
The number of children in hazardous work has gradually reduced globally, but experts warned that multi-pronged efforts remained needed to eliminate the health-risk-prone and inhumane form of employment for the under-aged population, particularly in Asia-Pacific and sub-Saharan Africa where the number and the incidence rate remained high, according to a new report released globally this afternoon to mark the World Day against Child Labour [...]
SINGAPORE (AP) — Eye scanners and futuristic security tunnels may be standard in airports soon as the airline industry seeks to maintain safety while reducing the hassles of boarding a plane that deter some people from flying.
The International Air Transport Association unveiled a mock-up Tuesday in Singapore of what it dubbed the “Checkpoint of the Future,” where passengers separated by security risk would walk [...]
An Israeli missile is launched from the Iron Dome missile system near Ashke…
Israel plans to invest $1 billion in the development and production of batteries for its Iron Dome rocket interception system, a top Israeli defence official said in an interview published Monday.
Defence Ministry director-general Major General Udi Shani told the daily Haaretz newspaper that five countries have already expressed interest in the system, which was successfully deployed [...]
This should probably come as no surprise. Per a recently “declassified” cable leaked by Wikileaks:
Ref ID: 08TELAVIV1984
Date: 8/29/2008 14:23
Origin: Embassy Tel Aviv
Classification: SECRET
Destination:
Header: VZCZCXYZ0000OO RUEHWEBDE RUEHTV #1984/01 2421423ZNY SSSSS ZZHO 291423Z AUG 08FM AMEMBASSY TEL AVIVTO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 8244INFO RUEHAM/AMEMBASSY AMMAN PRIORITY 4676RUEHLB/AMEMBASSY BEIRUT PRIORITY 4329RUEHEG/AMEMBASSY CAIRO PRIORITY 2683RUEHDM/AMEMBASSY DAMASCUS PRIORITY 5091RUEHLO/AMEMBASSY LONDON PRIORITY 1952RUEHFR/AMEMBASSY PARIS PRIORITY 0171RUEHRH/AMEMBASSY RIYADH PRIORITY 1335RUEHJM/AMCONSUL JERUSALEM [...]
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