Archive for October, 2008
NM - 23/10 - Ouf, ça y’est la crise est sous contrôle grâce à Nicolas Sarkozy. D’ailleurs le président français est tellement compétent qu’il vient lui même de s’auto-désigner ‘meilleur futur empereur’ potentiel de l’Eurogroupe. Excusez-du peu!? - NM - 23/10
October 23rd, 2008
NM - 23/10 - Before next summer 2009, the US government will default and be prevented to pay back its creditors (holders of US Treasury Bonds, of Fanny May and Freddy Mac shares, etc.). Of course such a bankruptcy will provoke some very negative outcome for all USD-denominated asset holders. The period that will then begin should be conducive to the setting up of a « new Dollar » to remedy the problem of default and of induced massive capital drain from the US. The process will result from the following five factors studied in detail further in this GEAB… NM - 23/10
October 23rd, 2008
TAZ - 23/10 - Prothesen, Brüste, Hoden - die von der EU-Kommission zugelassenen Nacktscanner machen bei Kontrollen am Flughafen alles sichtbar. Die deutsche Polizei testet die Geräte schon - TAZ - 23/10
October 23rd, 2008
LIBERATION - 23/10 - L’Inde a entamé hier son voyage lunaire en lançant avec succès son premier vaisseau inhabité au-delà de l’orbite terrestre. Chandrayaan-1 devrait atteindre son orbite lunaire, à 385 000 km de la Terre, le 8 novembre. Cette réussite consacre les efforts de New Delhi pour intégrer le club des nations spatiales. - LIBERATION - 23/10
October 23rd, 2008
SPIEGEL - 21/10 - The largest airports in the Netherlands and France — Amsterdam’s Schipol and Paris’ Charles de Gaulle, Orly and Le Bourget — on Tuesday announced a cooperation plan that will see ties further deepen between them following the merger of Air France and KLM. The new deal would create the world’s largest airport group. - SPIEGEL - 21/10
October 23rd, 2008
SPIEGEL - 21/10 - In a SPIEGEL interview, sociologist and Georgetown University professor Michael Eric Dyson explains why Barack Obama can’t be emotional, his similarities with Martin Luther King, black self-hatred and the shades of black success. - SPIEGEL - 21/10
October 23rd, 2008
CNN - 21/10 - A new national poll suggests that only a quarter of Americans think things are going well in the country today, while the rest of those questioned are angry, scared and stressed out. - CNN - 21/10
October 23rd, 2008
TELEGRAPH - 19/10 - World leaders will meet in the United Sates next month to find a fix for the international financial crisis after President George W. Bush bowed to European calls for a global economic summit. - TELEGRAPH - 19/10
October 23rd, 2008
LE MONDE - 22/10 - D’une pierre deux coups. Nicolas Sarkozy veut profiter de la crise financière pour imposer sa vision économique de l’Europe et continuer à présider l’Union européenne (UE) au niveau de la zone euro, au moins pour une année supplémentaire. Le président français a amorcé cette offensive au Parlement européen, mardi 21 octobre. Elle a été confirmée au Monde par plusieurs conseillers de l’Elysée. - LE MONDE - 22/10
October 23rd, 2008
TELEGRAPH - 21/10 - The divide in earnings widened by 20 per cent between 1985 and 2005, leaving the gap between the top and the bottom greater in the UK than in three-quarters of other developed nations. - TELEGRAPH - 21/10
October 23rd, 2008
NOVETHIC - 22/10 - Les déclarations politiques sur la disparition des paradis fiscaux comme condition indispensable à la sortie de crise se sont multipliées ces derniers jours. Véritables « trous noirs » de la finance mondiale, ils abriteraient aujourd’hui 11 000 milliards de dollars d’actifs et 2,5 millions de sociétés écrans sur des territoires de non-droit. La plateforme d’ONG françaises « Paradis fiscaux et judiciaires » explique qu’il est pourtant possible de prendre des mesures d’urgence - NOVETHIC - 22/10
October 23rd, 2008
EUOBSERVER - 15/10 - Global financial markets are in turmoil, with record volatility on stock markets, unprecedented losses in financial institutions and even whole banking systems being bailed-out. But there is one crisis we have managed to avoid within the euro zone - a currency crisis on top of the credit crunch. - EUOBSERVER - 15/10
October 23rd, 2008
NM - 16/10 - Already nine years ago, on occasion of the Austrian landmark election on 3 October 1999, since 3 February 2000, when for the first time a government coalition between the Christian Democrats (ÖVP – People’s Party) and the Freedom Party (FPÖ) took office, and now again, on 10 October 2008, against the tragic death of charismatic Jörg Haider, the undisputed leader of the Austrian extreme populist and xenophobic right, Austrians with international contacts and foreigners living in Austria have a new duty:… NM - 16/10
October 20th, 2008
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