LIBYA, Egypt, Syria, Bahrain, Yemen News, Jun 02, 2011

Round-up: Bahrain, Egypt, Libya, Syria and Yemen
Businessandleadership.com
In Libya, Muammar Gaddafi's oil chief Shokri Ghanem has defected and
travelled to Italy. The head of Libya's National Oil Corp said today he was
ready to leave the regime but was not quite prepared to join the rebels
yet. He said the “unbearable” ...
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The secret life of Arabia
Asia Times Online
Tyrants - but not systems - are down in Tunisia and Egypt. The Libyan
"revolution" is a sham: North Atlantic Treaty Organization air war plus
Western spooks/special forces helping dodgy defectors/exiles on the ground.
Bahrain, Yemen and Syria have been ...
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Harper And The G8
Echo Weekly
Barely a mention of places like Yemen and Bahrain, while a threat (likely
to ring hollow) to Syria was made in order to try to push them along into a
democratic transition. And of course, Saudi Arabia, that oil-slicked
elephant in the room, ...
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From the Arab Spring to a Freedom Summer: A Pan-Democratic Movement and
Civic ...
Huffington Post (blog)
Even in the most promising revolutions (Tunisia and Egypt) let alone in
those societies still held by stubborn tyrants (Syria and Libya but also
Yemen and Bahrain not to speak of Saudi Arabia), the path to democracy is
anything but clear. ...
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Syrian 'Shabeeha' Thugs Are Assad's Tool in Protest Crackdown, Groups Say
Bloomberg
The dissent unseated the longstanding rulers of Tunisia and Egypt and
threatens the leaders of Libya and Yemen. “It is not unique to Syria, it
is a widespread practice within the Middle East in the current wave of
demonstrations,” Maha Abu Shama, ...
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Hopes fade for peaceful Arab transition to democracy
CNN International
The leaders of two key US allies, Bahrain and Yemen, are struggling to
maintain control despite slowly mounting international pressure. On
Wednesday, Bahrain lifted state of emergency laws in place since March that
had allowed the silencing of ...
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Round-up: Today in Bahrain, Egypt, Libya, Syria and Yemen ...
Round-up: Today in Bahrain, Egypt Libya, Syria and Yemen ... Oil production
in Libya is grounding to a halt, Ghanem told the news briefing, ...
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Yemen,Syria,Libya & Bahrain update news - Gateway to Heaven
Yemen,Syria,Libya & Bahrain update news. Posted by Veronica on May 31, 2011
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Round-up: Today in Bahrain, Egypt Libya, Syria and... - Silobreaker
Round-up: Today in Bahrain, Egypt Libya, Syria and Yemen. ... Yemen heeds
Egypt warning [Published Feb 02 2011 by Reuters Video: Top News]. Why Syria
...
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Syria, Yemen, Libya and Middle East unrest - One News Page [UK] World
Round up Today in Bahrain Egypt Libya Syria (news article) ... Yemen Syria
and Middle East unrest live (news article) ...
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History of Syria: Latest News, Videos, Photos | Times of India
After his Cairo speech and his support of the recent democracy movement in
the Mid East, in places like Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syria, Bahrain and
Yemen, ...
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HEALTH News, Jun 02, 2011

LePage, lawmakers find health compromise
Kennebec Journal Wed, 01 Jun 2011 21:35 PM PDT
AUGUSTA -- Gov. Paul LePage and the Legislature's Republican leaders may have found a way to avoid an embarrassing intraparty squabble over the governor's veto last week of a health insurance bill that had won unanimous approval from the Legislature.

Thompson, Marino support improved health care access for military
The Williamsport Sun-Gazette Wed, 01 Jun 2011 21:34 PM PDT
U.S. Rep. Glenn "GT" Thompson, R-Howard, sponsored an amendment to the recently passed National Defense Authorization Act, allowing military members to better access health care.

Trinity Homes Evacuated, Trinity Health undergoes preparedness planning
Minot Daily News Wed, 01 Jun 2011 21:34 PM PDT
Trinity Health began evacuating residents of Trinity Homes, North Dakota's largest long term care facility, on Tuesday. Evacuations continued into Wednesday for the 231 residents.

Malaysia issues warning over E. coli outbreak
AsiaOne Wed, 01 Jun 2011 21:31 PM PDT
PETALING JAYA: Visitors to Europe from May 1 who are down with bloody diarrhoea have been advised to undergo medical examination at nearby health centres.

Taiwan fruit and energy drinks being tested for carcinogens
AsiaOne Wed, 01 Jun 2011 21:31 PM PDT
PETALING JAYA: Three brands of a Taiwanese food product are being removed from the shelves here for containing carcinogens, while theHealth Ministry is testing various other brands from the country.

Deadly E. Coli Outbreak Cause Elusive
WITN 7 North Carolina Wed, 01 Jun 2011 21:30 PM PDT
European health officials tracking one of the worst E. coli outbreaks on record might never know where it came from. It's a sad fact of life in food poisoning cases: There often is no smoking gun.

Tainted food, drinks from Taiwan prohibited
Sin Chew Jit Poh Wed, 01 Jun 2011 21:27 PM PDT
KUALA LUMPUR, June 1 (Bernama) -- Food and drink products fromTaiwan tainted with toxic chemicals di(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate (DEHP) and di-isononyl phthalate (DINP) are prohibited in Malaysia, said HealthMinister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai.

Senate votes to overhaul UConn Health Center
New Haven Register Wed, 01 Jun 2011 21:25 PM PDT
HARTFORD â The state Senate has voted to overhaul the University of Connecticut Health Center and turn the Farmington facility into a bioscience research hub.

Medicaid drug notification bill still not on Connecticut legislature's calendar
New Haven Register Wed, 01 Jun 2011 21:23 PM PDT
HARTFORD â Every year, as the legislative session draws to a close, many bills fall through the cracks, but health advocates hope one they say will save money and keep patients on necessary medications will get a vote before next weekâs adjournment.

Tonko backs illness probe
Albany Times Union Wed, 01 Jun 2011 21:23 PM PDT
A bill introduced by Rep. Paul Tonko, D-Amsterdam, would have the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs investigate the health of soldiers who trained at Fort McClellan in Alabama to see if they were made ill by toxic substances at and around the former Army base. The proposed law would require the VA to create a database of tens of thousands of veterans who served at Fort McClellan between 1935 ...

Hundreds Flock to Petworth, Howard University Health Day
Washington Informer
It was just a small part of the Petworth Health Wellness Day in and outside ... fitness obstacle course and raffle walked away with fitness equipment and ...

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FINANCIAL News, Money, Banks, Stock, Economic and Financial Crisis, Jun 02, 2011

The Global Economy is a Very Sick Patient
Daily Reckoning - American Edition
Southeast Asian banks came out unscathed in the global financial crisis but, if property prices in Singapore, Hong Kong and China keep going up, mark my words, there will be a banking crisis. Just because Asian banks withstood the last crisis doesn't ...
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Risk asset correlation strikes again
Financial Times
The “risk-on, risk-off” pattern of market price moves following the 2008 crisis reflects the impact of near-zero official US interest rates and the pumping of liquidity into the global financial system by the Federal Reserve and other central banks. ...
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Goldman Sachs: Too big to prosecute
Salon
By Andrew Leonard The Manhattan district attorney's office has subpoenaed Goldman Sachs, reports the New York Times, seeking information relating to the investment bank's role in the financial crisis. My initial response: Today is a good day to be Matt...
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Salon

For-your-information from Lebanon and around the Middle East
Executive
At the same time, the company said it was confident that low trading activity is only a temporary symptom of the global financial crisis and will improve in light of the sound fundamentals of the UAE economy, citing improvements in April 2011 as a ...
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Global equities: expanding your horizons
Money Management
Although international equities are back in favour, it is far from 'game on' and a return to the booming pre-global financial crisis (GFC) years. Challenges remain, despite cash flows supporting markets and valuations being pretty reasonable, ...
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Hike in benchmark interest rate lures investors to fixed income securities
BusinessDay
This is supported by a base case possibility of reduced demand from Deposit Money Banks – the largest provider of liquidity in the secondary bond market.” Taking a general look at the market in the remaining quarters, analysts at FSDH said that looking ...
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BusinessDay

May ETF Roundup: Launches, Filings and Closures
Seeking Alpha
Perhaps the biggest news of the month was the re-emergence of the European debt crisis. WithGreece in yet another dire situation, many investors are concerned about the overall stability of the euro. Aside from global affairs, the ETF industry made ...
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allAfrica.com: Kenya: Global Crisis Cost Billions in Offshore Savings
Financial depression experienced in the European and American markets saw ... for 86.2 per cent of the total stock of FDI abroad in 2008," the report says. Asset and fund managers usually invest their clients' money in offshore ... Common investments include bond funds that are denominated in emerging market ...
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EUROZONE Debt Crisis News, Jun 02, 2011

ECB's Trichet: more EU economic powers next step in crisis
Reuters
AACHEN, Germany - (Reuters) - Europe should consider strengthening central control of economic policy if efforts to deal with its debt crisis do not deliver results, European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet said on Thursday. ...
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The Prague Post - News - Thursday News Briefing

Walter Novak

Václav Havel - Disagreement over demolition plans

NEWS

DEMOLITION Former President Václav Havel has written an open letter to Culture Minister Jiří Besser protesting the demolition of a protected building on Prague's Wenceslaus Square, Radio Prague reported. Havel wrote that his fear of what he called the monster that is to be built there is even greater than his regret at the destruction of the building at No. 47. Proponents of the demolition say that continuous remodeling has left nothing of the original 19th-century structure and that the building is not a cultural monument. A nine-story office and commercial building is to be constructed in its place.

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