Oct 27, 2010
Small Business Confidence Improves In October
ICI Meeting, Tel Aviv, Israel, 5-7 December, 2010
ICI 2010 will focus on innovative technology and therapies. The program will include presentations of new therapies, thematic live cases and emerging technology sessions.
Chile's president apologises to Germany for slogan - Telegraph
The phrase Sebastian Pinera wrote was "Deutschland uber alles," or "Germany above all." It became infamous under the Third Reich and after World War II was excised from Germany's national anthem as too nationalistic.
Former Nelson Mandela charity boss in court for taking diamonds from Naomi Campbell - Telegraph
Jeremy Ractliffe and Naomi Campbell
Israel's right wing starts their own Tea Party - Telegraph
The new movement, which has taken inspiration from the US conservative group, is being spearheaded by disaffected former and present members of Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party,
The Hobbit dispute resolved
Vatican calls for clemency for Tariq Aziz
French parliament passes pension reform
Shell slashes $18bn from Kashagan costs
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Barack Obama and Asif Ali Zardari urge more action against terror groups
"Both President Obama and President Zardari acknowledged that more work needed to be done to address the direct threat to our countries posed by terrorist groups in Pakistan," the statement said.
Video: Protesters clash at Kentucky debate
Mikhail Gorbachev: victory in Afghanistan is 'impossible'
BBC News - The Hobbit will be made in New Zealand, PM confirms
Two movies based on The Hobbit will be filmed in New Zealand as planned, the country's prime minister has confirmed.
The announcement follows two days of talks with Hollywood executives over whether the Lord of the Rings prequels should be shot in the country.
Virgin Media races to offer fastest UK network
Virgin Media is set to turn up the dial on its cable network, offering users speeds of up to 100Mbps (megabits per second).
It aims to provide the service to over 50% of the UK by mid-2012, beginning in December with 200,000 homes in London, the Home Counties and West Yorkshire.
It is the latest move in the race to bring super-fast broadband services to the UK.
More species slide to extinction
Some 13% of birds qualify for inclusion on the Red List
Testicular cancer risk 'greater' for tall men
The risk goes up the taller the man
US new home sales pick up speed
Sales of new homes in the US rose 6.6% in September to a seasonally-adjusted annualised rate of 307,000.
The figure beat market expectations of a rise to just 300,000.
However, the rate is still 21.5% below the level of a year ago and near historic lows.
Mexico's Calderon: US not doing enough in drugs war
Mexican President Felipe Calderon has told the BBC the US should do more to reduce the demand for drugs that is fuelling violence in Mexico.
Building collapse kills Afghan wedding guests
At least 60 people have been killed after part of a building collapsed on guests at a wedding in northern Afghanistan, officials say.
Clashes as nationalists march in Israeli Arab town
Israeli police have clashed with Arab demonstrators in the northern town of Umm al-Fahm, where Israeli right-wing activists staged a protest march.
French MPs adopt pension reform
Students protested in Paris on Tuesday but numbers were down
Indonesia tsunami: Death toll soars to 272
Cape Town opera snubs Tutu plea to cancel Israel tour
South Africa's Cape Town Opera has turned down an appeal from Nobel peace prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu to call off a tour of Israel.
UK airlines back call for airport security changes
The UK airline industry has backed British Airways chairman Martin Broughton's call for changes to airport security checks.
Mexico's Calderon: US not doing enough in drugs war
Mexican President Felipe Calderon has told the BBC the US should do more to reduce the demand for drugs that is fuelling violence in Mexico.
Damage, 'miracle' survival as US storm rolls east
China reaches out to tiny, resource-rich East Timor
DILI (AFP) – A jade elephant rears majestically in the corner as patrons tuck into their burgers and fries at one of only three US-style fast-food joints in East Timor, all of which are Chinese owned and operated.
The currency might be the same -- the greenback is the unit used in East Timor -- and the food is generic, but Brothers Burger restaurant in the dusty capital Dili is not just a slavish copy of its US progenitors.
Liberal Toronto elects conservative mayor
TORONTO (Reuters) – Toronto voters on Monday elected conservative Rob Ford as mayor of Canada's biggest city, tilting away from their recent liberal leanings and opting for his platform of small government, fewer taxes and big spending cuts.
Toll passes 270 in Indonesia tsunami disaster
by Bayu Ismoyo Bayu Ismoyo – 4 mins ago
PADANG, Indonesia (AFP) – The toll from a tsunami which smashed into Indonesia rose sharply past 270 on Wednesday as rescuers reached the remote islands hit hardest by the disaster and found scenes of devastation.
Kenya foreign minister quits over embassy scandal
By TOM MALITI, Associated Press Tom Maliti, Associated Press – 5 mins ago
NAIROBI, Kenya – Kenya's foreign minister said Wednesday he is resigning to allow investigations into allegations of a multimillion dollar scandal involving five Kenyan embassies in Africa, Europe and Asia.
Bin Laden warns France over Afghan war, veil ban
By MAAMOUN YOUSSEF, Associated Press Maamoun Youssef, Associated Press – 1 hr 10 mins ago
CAIRO – Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden threatens in a new audio tape to kill French citizens to avenge their country's support for th
Former Argentine President Nestor Kirchner dies
By MICHAEL WARREN, Associated Press Writer Michael Warren, Associated Press Writer –
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina – Former Argentine President Nestor Kirchner — the husband of current leader Cristina Fernandez — died suddenly Wednesday after suffering from severe heart trouble, the presidency said.
Monoclonal Antibody News, Research, Oct 27, 2010
Compugen 2010 third quarter net loss decreases to $1.6 million from $1.9 million
Genmab begins Phase III head to head study of ofatumumab vs. rituximab in follicular NHLMorphotek receives DOD contract to support mAb therapies against pathogenic strains
Celtic Pharma receives US patent for methods to treat breast, colon cancerResearchers discover link between hereditary and sporadic ALS
Agensys and Seattle Genetics initiate ASG-5ME phase I clinical trial for castration-resistant prostate cancer
DMC concludes Protege Phase 3 clinical trial for type 1 diabetes lacks efficacy
Oct 26, 2010
Greece: Press; Papandreou, Stability Or Early Elections
Tariq Aziz sentenced to death, Wikipedia
Mikhail Yuhanna (Arabic: ميخائيل يوحنا; Mīḫāʾīl Yūḥannā), later and more popularly known as Tariq Aziz or Tareq Aziz (Arabic: طارق عزيز; Ṭāriq ʿAzīz; Syriac: ܜܪܩ ܥܙܝܙ born April 28, 1936) was the Foreign Minister (1983 – 1991) and Deputy Prime Minister (1979 – 2003) of Iraq and a close advisor of former President Saddam Hussein. Their association began in the 1950s when both were activists for the then-banned Ba'ath Arab Socialist Party.
Singapore Moves to Restructure Asia's Stock Exchange Model With Australia Merger
Saddam aide Tariq Aziz sentenced to hang
By HAMID AHMED and BARBARA SURK, Associated Press Hamid Ahmed And Barbara Surk, Associated Press – 54 mins ago
BAGHDAD – Saddam Hussein's foreign minister Tariq Aziz was sentenced to death by hanging Tuesday for persecuting members of Shiite religious parties under the former regime.
Iraq's high criminal court spokesman
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- Iran injects fuel into first nuclear reactor (AP)
- Obama appoints record number of gay officials (AP)
- Saddam confidant sentenced to death by hanging (AP)
- NY-born man arrested in Hawaii in terror case (AP)
- Senate race in Alaska is bitter and unpredictable (AP)
- Jury selection to start in DeLay corruption trial (AP)
Lindsay Lohan Profile - Facts, Pictures, Birthday, Lindsay Lohan Biography
Halle Berry steps out with a new man
Afghan president got cash from Iran; U.S. questions motives
Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan acknowledged Monday he has received cash from Iran and said the United States knows about it and does the same thing in doling out cash.
Iraq's Tareq Aziz sentenced to death
Mexican officials ID 13 people killed in Tijuana drug rehab center
Mexico City, Mexico (CNN) -- Mexican officials have identified 13 people killed Sunday night in a Tijuana drug rehabilitation center, the state-run news agency said Monday.
Supermodel Christy Turlington's directorial debut with maternal mortality film
But more recently Christy has turned her attention to a cause close to her heart, releasing her debut documentary film, 'No Woman, No Cry'. The film tackles the sensitive subject of childbirth mortality and tells the personal stories of pregnant women in four different countries.
Canadian militant pleads guilty at Guantanamo tribunal
BBC News - New polio vaccine more effective in reducing disease
A new vaccine against the polio virus has helped reduce the number of cases by more than 90%.
Research published online in the journal The Lancet, shows that the new vaccine is significantly better at protecting children against polio than the current popular vaccine.
BBC News - Iran loads fuel into the Bushehr nuclear reactor
Iran has begun loading fuel into the core of its first nuclear power plant, state television has reported.It marks a key stage in the firing up of the Bushehr plant, which is set to produce electricity from 2011.
BBC News - Haiti: Cholera slows but fears of spread remain
Tens of thousands of people in Haiti are still threatened by an outbreak of cholera despite some signs that the epidemic is stabilising, the UN says. UN humanitarian co-ordinator in Haiti Nigel Fisher said the UN was preparing for a wider outbreak although there were no new signs of it spreading.
BBC News - Students aim to bolster French protests
French students will stage protests on Tuesday to try to bolster opposition to the government's pension reforms amid some signs of cracks in the movement.The numbers could be a litmus test, correspondents say, after three of 12 national oil refineries voted to end their action and a rubbish collectors' strike in
Nigeria fraud blacklist issued by police
The alleged frauds involve billions of naira
Ex-staff tell of war within WikiLeaks
The documents published on WikiLeaks give an insight into some of the most chilling events of the war in Iraq. Photo / AP
The documents published on WikiLeaks give an insight into some of the most chilling events of the war in Iraq. Photo / AP Shrink
The documents published on WikiLeaks give an insight into some of the most chilling events of the war in Iraq. Photo / AP
WikiLeaks renews question of secrets worth keeping
WASHINGTON - When WikiLeaks readied the largest-ever release of secret war files, US officials warned the whistleblower site it was irresponsible. After the 400,000 documents came out, the Pentagon said they revealed little new.
Thirteen retirees killed in Mexico
Thousands ordered to evacuate as Indonesia on volcano alert
Haitians see hope despite cholera outbreak
Serbia moves closer to join EU as failure to arrest Mladic looms
The Peoples Voice News
Hungary is a Failed State. Over. Extinct
Hungary’s been abused for centuries and survived. Never before have the abusers gone after the most defenseless – the unborn and babies with hammer and tongs. Hungary is a failed state, pushed to extinction; the men’s sperm killed off and the women’s germ cells fried as the next generation, as yet unborn, is killed in the womb. They never even had a chance.
GADAHN CALL TO ATTACK AMERICANS COMES FROM ISRAEL
“Israeli terrorist “clones” are responsible for most hard line rhetoric, threats and, if we investigated closely, have actually recruited terrorists and directly inspired, if not planned and executed, attacks on Americans…Gadahn is part of it, so is Wikileaks”
ISRAELI SMART MISSILES IN GAZA
"One night Emad was walking in the neighborhood of Shejayia in Gaza City. While he was speaking on his cell phone a missile was fired at him. His brothers explained me that inside such kind of missile there are some sort of turning knives which cut everything."
US mortgage crisis: The case for public ownership
In the face of mounting evidence of systematic fraud by leading US banks in the foreclosure and eviction of millions of families from their homes, the Obama administration continues to oppose a moratorium on foreclosures. It is instead running political interference for the Wall Street firms implicated in the scandal.
French Senate votes pension cuts over mass opposition
The French Senate voted 177-153 yesterday to approve President Nicolas Sarkozy's pension cuts in the face of overwhelming popular opposition and continuing strikes. The government at the same time stepped up the use of the police to smash strikes in the oil sector, which have caused severe fuel shortages, carrying out a massive police raid on an occupied refinery at Grandpuits, near Paris.
Torture, killing, children shot – and how the US tried to keep it all quiet
So now we begin to know the full extent of what Tony Blair called the blood price. A detainee tortured with live electrical wires here, children shot by US troops at a checkpoint there...As many as 30 children died at the hands of US forces at military checkpoints, the Iraq war logs have revealed. Violent "escalation of force" (EOF) incidents as vehicles were slowed down and searched "often" resulted in the deaths of innocent civilians, according to the classified documents. One entry described how a six-year-old Iraqi was hit as troops fired several rounds with light machine guns. It read: "While crossing the street, patrol had an EOF where patrol fired 3 rounds of M249. One round ricocheted off the concrete hitting a 6yr old LN [local national] 250m down the road. Medical Facility reported that the 6yr old LN died of wounds upon arrival."...
American Corporate-Owned Monopoly Media: YOUR ENEMY!
But - it is obvious that the problem remains. Scoundrels and tools run the information apparatus that feeds the mushrooms (formerly citizens) known as "Americans." This has-been population of fools, true-believers, and self-absorbed suck-ups are busy paying bills, stabbing their "friends"/neighbors in the back (for the crumbs that fall off the corporate-owned table issuing their paycheck) or otherwise feathering their own nest - taking a moment or two to glance at a telescreen to get the pre-chewed information they need to push a computer button in the next phony election so as to lend some semblance of legitimacy to the charade we call our government. You know - the one "of the people, by the people, and for the people." Hogwash.
Wikileaks Release Puts Spotlight Back on Continuing War Crime in Iraq
Many, many years ago, I noted in the Moscow Times that shortly after the 2003 invasion, the United States had begun hiring some of Saddam's old torturers as the invaders sought to quell the then-nascent "insurgency" -- i.e., the opposition to foreign occupation that when carried out by white men, such as the French during World War II, goes by the more ringing name of "resistance." Here's part of that report, from August 29, 2003:
Echoes of El Salvador in Tales of US-Approved Death Squads
The Iraqi documents released by Wikileaks produce significantly more detail on US actions in the war in Iraq , but do they produce anything that we did not know already? The Pentagon will huff and puff with rage as it did over the Wikileaks release of US military documents about Afghanistan, when it took the contradictory position that there was little new in what has been leaked, but important sources of intelligence had somehow still been compromised.
'Even if the Israelis confess, I don't expect any justice from them'
Survivor of the air strike has little faith in outcome of the inquiry. Maysa Samouni, whose husband Tawfiq, 21, was killed and baby daughter Jumana, now two, was injured in the building struck by missiles on 5 January, 2009, was unmoved yesterday by the progress of the investigation into the attack.
2010 Is Just Deck Chair Politics on the USS Titanic
"Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods." ~ H.L. Mencken. The political consensus is following the 2010 election, the Tea Partiers and the GOP establishment will breathe a sigh of relief and celebrate their victory and our two-party monopoly system of government will continue as before. A GOP House majority will checkmate Obama and the Democrats in the Senate and political stalemate will result. Many conservatives and a few Washington pseudo-libertarians will claim stalemate is better than a Democrat landslide but they will be wrong.
Iraq files reveal checkpoint deaths - Video
Almost 700 civilians, including pregnant women and the mentally ill, killed for coming too close to checkpoints. In September 2007, an Iraqi in a car ventured too close to a US patrol in Baghdad. The soldiers honked their horns; when that didn't cause the car to turn away, one of the gunners fired a warning shot. The bullet - intended to harmlessly hit the pavement - instead hits one local national (9 year old girl).
Iraq War Logs: Military Privatization Run Amok
Shortly after 10am on 14 May 2004, a convoy of private security guards from Blackwater riding down "Route Irish" - the Baghdad airport road - shot up a civilian Iraqi vehicle. While they were at it, the Blackwater men fired shots over the heads of a group of soldiers from the 69th Regiment of the US Army before they sped away heading west in their white armored truck. When the dust cleared, the Iraqi driver was dead and his wife and daughter were injured.