Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
Archive for the Business Category
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
Haiti A History Of Intervention Occupation And Resistance
February 2nd, 2010
Andrew Flood- As predictions for the death toll from the Haitian earthquakes rise over 200,000, ABC News have reported that planes carrying medical equipment and relief supplies are having to compete with soldiers for the valuable slots at Port-au-Prince airport which was taken over by the US military after the quake. Since the [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
UN- Drug money billions saved Banks during recession
December 14, 2009
The Observer- Drugs money worth billions of dollars kept the financial system afloat at the height of the global crisis, the United Nations’ drugs and crime tsar has told the Observer.
Antonio Maria Costa, head of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, said he has seen evidence that the proceeds of organised crime [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
EU ‘grants’ Nigeria $1Bn; Nigeria rejects new ‘unfair’ trade deal with EU
November 20, 2009
Related: NewsRescue- How The IMF-World Bank and Structural Adjustment Program(SAP) Destroyed Africa
NewsRescue-
According to the BBC, the European Union will give Nigeria the sum of 1 billion US dollars as a ‘peace and anti corruption’ initiative and trade and resource deal. Story(BBC) This not surprising at a time of increasing battle with the Russians [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
Shell promises it will fight Nigeria if it hands fields to Chinese
October 29, 2009
NewsRescue- According to a new release on Reuters, Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSa.L) has promised to fight any possible efforts by the Nigerian Government to reallocate fields currently in its control to Chinese oil companies.
Related: NewsRescue- Shell settles Nigeria killings suit; $15.5 Million
“One thing you probably will have seen, and can be sure [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
Dollar Reaches Breaking Point as Banks Shift Reserves
Oct. 12 2009 (Bloomberg) — Central banks flush with record reserves are increasingly snubbing dollars in favor of euros and yen, further pressuring the greenback after its biggest two- quarter rout in almost two decades.
Policy makers boosted foreign currency holdings by $413 billion last quarter, the most since at least 2003, to $7.3 trillion, according [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
Demise of the dollar. Oil producers, consumers in ’secret’ talks to replace $
October 6, 2009
See Oct. 12 Update!: NewsRescue-Dollar Reaches Breaking Point as Banks Shift Reserves
The Persian Gulf Arab states have recently started secret talks with Russia, China, Japan and France “to end dollar dealings for oil”, a new report reveals.
According to the report written by Independent’s Middle East correspondent Robert Fisk, the proposal was to replace [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
Trafigura oil company to compensate Ivory Coast’s 31,000 plus toxic poisoned
September, 17, 2009
Earlier: NewsRescue- Largest class action ever brought before the British courts- Toxic waste dumping in Abidjan
Aljazeera- Trafigura, an international oil company, could be close to offering compensation to 31,000 people who said they became ill from toxic waste dumped in the west African nation Ivory Coast, the company’s officials have said.
Trafigura, along with Leigh Day [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
‘Elites’ meet in Nigeria to commence Obama era; Clinton, Rove, Bush, Mundell, Al Gore and others
Jan 22nd, 2009
NewsRescue- A very strange meeting officially called ‘festival of ideas’, took place in Nigeria on the invite of Nduka Obaigbena and his ‘ThisDay’ Nigeria newspaper, just as Obama was being prepared for swearing-in (Jan 20th 2009). This very strange, higher echelons meeting was largely unreported by main stream news media, but NewsRescue picked [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
Mandelson met Gaddafi’s son before Lockerbie release announcement
August 21, 2009; NewsRescue
Business secretary and Saif al-Islam Gaddafi discussed Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi at Rothschild villa in Corfu
Guardian.co.uk- Lord Mandelson met Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s son at a Corfu villa only a week before the announcement that the perpetrator of the Lockerbie bombing could be released from prison, it was revealed today.
It also emerged that the [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
One World Media For ‘Global Citizens’- 2009 World Economic Forum; Are You Ready?
NewsRescue; July 22nd, 2009
Excerpt from the World Economic Forum elite meeting in Switzerland, Jan 30, 2009 (W.E.Forum global agenda 2009, pdf file):
The Global Agenda Council on the Future of Media proposes the following:
A new value proposition for journalism and its mission in society. The Council is championing a new global, independent news and information service [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
Pope Issues encyclical for New World Economic Order
NewsRescue July 7th 2009
NYTimes, July 7, 2009- Pope Benedict XVI on Tuesday called for a radical rethinking of the global economy, criticizing a growing divide between rich and poor and urging the establishment of a “true world political authority” to oversee the economy and work for the “common good.”
Related: Commentary- Does Pope Benedict XVI Forget [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
How Rice and USA in 2006 invested in potentially bringing about the current election chaos in Iran
Just Rescued! (NewsRescue) Now popularly referred to in Iran as- ‘The Gucci bag revolution‘, this article by the Boston Globe in 2006 gives a full and detailed report on a plan and program that very well brought on the current series of turbulent events in Iran. Story also in- NYTimes; CBSNews; CFR.org
*Related: Riots in Iran; [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
Iran elected chairman OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID) ministerial council for second consecutive year
Iran has been elected as the chairman of the OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID) ministerial council for the second consecutive year.
IRIB quoted Iran’s Finance and Economic Affairs Minister Seyyed Shamseddin Hosseini as saying that, “During OFID’s 30th meeting which was held in Vienna on Tuesday Iran has been elected as the fund’s [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
America Now A ‘Developing Nation’?
Why America is a bank-owned state
Samah El-Shahat, Al Jazeera
In my last column I introduced the idea that America’s handling of the financial crisis, and in particular the way it has refused to deal with the banks, is more in keeping with how an “emerging” economy might behave and act.
So this week, I will say [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
Shell court case for human rights abuse and terror sponsorship against Nigeria’s Ogoni
The Video Shell Oil Desperately Doesn’t Want You to See
By Han Shan, Huffington Post. Posted May 26, 2009.
Business as usual: Shell is trying to suppress the truth.
For over thirteen years, multinational oil giant Royal Dutch Shell has done everything in its power to stop a trial from taking place at which the company [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
Watch the businesses! World business in radical consolidation
Business is no longer- business as usual. If you have paid any attention to trends in world business and finance sectors, one thing can never escape your notice- consolidation. It is major, it is radical, it is not systematic or discrete, but rapid and glaring. The world business is rapidly becoming ONE!.
It’s no secret that [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
How The IMF-World Bank and Structural Adjustment Program(SAP) Destroyed Africa
Update July 10 2009-
NewsRescue: This should be Obama’s focus in Africa on his Ghana, second African visit
Article-
Herbert Jauch , Labour Resource and Research Institute
Structural adjustment programmes (SAPs) have been implemented in many ‘developing’ countries since the 1980s. They were designed by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank and imposed as a condition for
further [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
ID not required for credit card purchases
Truth About Credit Cards:
Credit card rules are often gray, what with the fact that multiple companies are operating in the same space.
Then you’ve got the merchants’ own rules, which sometimes don’t coincide with the terms of Visa, MasterCard, or American Express, whether they are contractually acceptable or not.
That brings us to a common question regarding [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
Summary of Nigeria IMF-SAP debt progression
Related: How The IMF-World Bank and Structural Adjustment Program(SAP) Destroyed Africa
1 In Nigeria, the Shagari civilian regime fell into the debt trap by 1983
2A military coup was launched.The newly established Buhari-Idiabon regime was clearly unwilling to do business with the IMF. Buhari envisaged barter, direct counter trade with Brazil and other Third World economies and [...]
