Saturday, July 23, 2011

White House News: Obama-Boehner debt negotiations collapse., Posted by Menelik Zeleke

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Friday, July 22, 2011

White House News: President Obama Speaks on Deficit Negotiations, Posted by Meneliok Zeleke

July 22, 2011 | 3:02 | Public Domain

President Obama speaks to the press about negotiations on cutting the deficit and raising the debt ceiling and reminds the Congress that the time has come when a deal must be reached.

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MACTV WORLD News: Girls strip to underwear to back Putin as President, Posted by Menelik Zeleke

Part 1&2

Girls wash cars in bikinis and gather on central Moscow square to strip as part of a movement to raise support for Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's potential presidential candidacy.

TUNIS, Jul 22, 2011 - Muammar Gaddafi urged families and tribal leaders from Misrata to fight to take back Libya's third-largest city from rebels who have pushed his troops away after more than four months of bitter fighting.

Libyan TV showed footage of Gaddafi meeting at a conference center in Tripoli with dozens of notables from Misrata and residents of the capital with relatives in the town, chastising them for their inaction.

North Korea and Iran are jointly working on weapons programmes designed to build a long-range missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead, a leading British security think tank has said.

he Juche Tower, office and residential buildings in the in the capital of North Korea Pyongyang: North Korea and Iran 'jointly working on building nuclear missile', report claims

Pyongyang, North Korea Photo: GETTY

According to a study by the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), North Korea's weapons programmes are now benefiting from technology from Iran.

Pyongyang also possesses technology that would enable Iran's uranium enrichment programme to increase its output. However concrete evidence that North Korea has supplied the Iranians with its superior equipment has not been uncovered by IISS.

July 21, 2011 3:51:25 PM

KENYA-BONDS/ (ANALYSIS)

* Higher yields driven by inflation expectations

* Liquidity squeeze in money markets raises risk

* Equities could benefit from stalemate

By Duncan Miriri

NAIROBI, July 21 (Reuters) - Investors in Kenyan bonds will continue seeking high returns from the government, defying the central bank's efforts to rein in rates by rejecting expensive bids at auction.

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21 July 2011

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP ) said today it will start airlifts within days to get vital supplies into Somalia, which is bearing the brunt of the humanitarian crisis in the Horn of Africa, and is preparing to open up a number of new land and air routes to bring urgent relief to millions in need.

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UN declares famine in two regions of southern Somalia
[A Somali woman and her severely malnourished child wait for medical assistance from the African Union Mission in Somalia]

Postmedia News Jul 21, 2011 – 6:47 PM ET

By Sheldon Alberts

WASHINGTON — Before the 2010 U.S. midterm elections, Joe Walsh was a two-time political loser who almost no one — excluding maybe his family and close friends — thought would win a seat in Congress.

If It Were Hearst Instead of Murdoch, Posted by Meoah Eaton

Rupert Murdoch, who became a force to reckon with in this city when he bought The New York Post 35 years ago, is routinely compared to a news media titan of the past, William Randolph Hearst. Not that “news media” was a term in vogue in Hearst’s heyday, the early decades of the 20th century. “Press baron” was more like it.

Clyde Haberman offers his take on the news.

Deception and Invisible Weapons and Wars, Posted by Meosha Eaton

MQ-9 Reaper above Creech AFB. The General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper (originally the Predator B) is an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) developed by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI) for use by the United States Air Force, the United States Navy, the Royal Air Force, and the Italian Air Force.

Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling.

One of the greatest strategies for an army to employ in order to win a war is deception. From the use of smoke, to hide military maneuvering and movements, to unique modern-day camouflage techniques and special paints on military equipment and weaponry, so as to deflect radar and appear invisible to the enemy, deception has been utilized by many armed forces and militaries throughout the history of warfare.

Somali refugee camps not coping, Posted by Meosha Eaton

Struggling through parched bush and baking heat, Rahmo Mohammed brought her severely malnourished son Saeed to Ethiopia's Kobe refugee camp to save him. That was three weeks ago, and he is still not better, his frail body too sick to accept medicine.

“He's getting worse. I would like to get him more medicine,” his mother said sadly. “Even when they give him medicine, he will not take it.”

Cairo- The United States promised during recent talks with Libyan officials to provide embattled Libyan leader Moamer Gaddafi with a safe haven if he agreed to step down, a Libyan official said in remarks published Wednesday.

'The US delegation expressed clear readiness to go ahead and find a place or a country prepared to host Gaddafi, along with offering him guarantees that he will not be tracked down for prosecution,' the official was quoted as saying in the pan-Arab newspaper Asharq Al Awsat.

By ALAN BOSWELL - McClatchy Newspapers

JUBA, South Sudan — Barely 24 hours before South Sudan officially became the world's newest nation on July 9, Onyoti Adigo sat in his office nursing a swollen lip and bloody gums.

The opposition politician and seven of his colleagues had just been released after two hours in the hands of South Sudanese military intelligence. Adigo lost a tooth in the beatings, while others in his entourage got sent to the hospital coughing up blood.

U.N. Warns of Famine in East Africa , Posted by Meosha Eaton

The threat of famine and starvation is raising it's ugly head for the first time in this part of Africa for half a century. There were some pretty harrowing images on the BBC News last night which put the Murdoch farrago into tawdry perspective.

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UN declares Somalia famine in Bakool and Lower Shabelle
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A young boy rests on a hospital bed in a paediatric ward adjacent to the Ifo refugee camp which makes up part of the giant Dadaab refugee settlement on July 19, 2011 in Dadaab, Kenya height=261

An estimated 10 million people have been affected by the drought in east Africa. The United Nations has declared a famine in two areas of southern Somalia as it suffers the worst drought in more than half a century.

Serbia arrests Goran Hadzic, the last Yugoslav war fugitive

Former leader of Krajina enclave inside Croatia is wanted by war crimes tribunal in The Hague for 'ethnic cleansing'

Goran Hadzic, the last war crimes fugitive from the Yugoslav wars, has been arrested, according to Serb officials.

They gave no details but confirmed a report by B92 television news in Belgrade that Hadzic had been caught after spending eight years on the run. Serbia's president, Boris Tadic, has called a press conference at which he is

MACTV News: HAS BLACK ANGER ENDED?, Posted by Menelik Zeleke

Week of July 18, 2011

BUSINESS EXCHANGE

By William Reed

HAS BLACK ANGER ENDED?

The worst abuses of the Jim Crow era have been eliminated, but the moral outrage inspired by a personal encounter with bigotry remains the most powerful vehicle for conveying the injuries and indignities of racial inequality.

In the days since the great civil rights awakening, a revolution has occurred across America. Uptight suburbanites who couldn’t imagine socializing with, working for or marrying a “Negro,” have given way to a new and different generation. That process has cleared the way for a generation of “Black Believers” who fully accept that America means what it says when it promises to treat them fairly. Are these young African Americans naive about racism or basically more confident than their elders? Now, from a venerated and best-selling author on American life comes a tremendously important book about one of the most significant issues in the history of our republic – America’s race relations.

All of the mainstream press is wondering . . . where will CASEY ANYTHONY live. She was released from prison a couple of nights ago - and up until THIS MORNING - no one knows where she is.

But MediaTakeOut.com EXCLUSIVELY does. According to one of out ROCK SOLID SNITCHES, Casey is now in COLUMBUS, OHIO. And this is not rumor - this is 100% FACT!!

Hungary court frees accused Nazi war criminal , Posted by Meosha Eaton

A 97-year-old Hungarian who once topped the Simon Wiesenthal Centre's (SWC) list of most wanted Nazi criminals has walked free from a Budapest municipal court after being cleared of ordering the execution of more than 30 Jews and Serbs in 1942.

Serbian Jews on Monday urged an appeal over Sandor Kepiro acquittal, but it is unknown what action the prosecution will take.

Former News of the World journalist Sean Hoare is seen in this undated handout picture. One of the sources for early newspaper stories on the News of the World phone-hacking scandal was Hoare. British media said he was found dead at his home on Monday, but police did not believe the death was suspicious. REUTERS/The Sun/Handout (July 18, 2011)

LONDON (Reuters) - A former journalist who told the New York Times that phone hacking at Rupert Murdoch's now defunct News of the World was more extensive than the paper had acknowledged at the time, has been found dead, media reported on Monday.

Police said they were not treating the death as suspicious.

Sean Hoare, a former show business reporter at the News International paper, part ofNews Corp, had also told the BBC he was asked by former editor Andy Coulson to tap into phones.

MACTV WORLD News: WRAPUP 1-Assad under pressure from Qatar embassy closure, EU, Posted by Menelik Zeleke

July 18, 2011 3:44:44 PM

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SYRIA/ (WRAPUP 1, TV, PIX)

AMMAN, July 18 (Reuters) - - Diplomatic pressure mounted on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Monday after Qatar, previously a major supporter, shut its embassy in Damascus and the European Union said it was considering tougher sanctions.

Meanwhile, Syria saw its first outbreak of sectarian violence in four months of protests against Assad's autocratic rule when at least 30 people were killed at the weekend in clashes between rival communities in the city of Homs. Read more of this story... http://www.mactv.tv.

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July 18, 2011 3:35:39 PM

MARKETS-OIL/ (UPDATE 12)

* Brent and U.S. light crude down around $2 a barrel
    * Concerns over debt crisis in Europe, U.S. build
    * IEA to look at possible further stock release
 (Recasts, updates prices, market activity; new byline, changes
dateline, previously LONDON)
    By David Sheppard
    NEW YORK, July 18 (Reuters) - Crude oil prices fell on
Monday amid growing fears of a sovereign debt default on either
side of the Atlantic and on the possibility of another
emergency stock release from the International Energy Agency
(IEA).

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JERUSALEM, July 18 (Reuters) - Israel announced plans on Monday to build another 294 homes in two Jewish settlements in the West Bank, and the Palestinians said the move hardened their resolve to seek statehood recognition from the United Nations. Read more of this story... http://www.mactv.tv

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14 July 2011

On the occasion of celebrating Nelson Mandela day, 18 July 2011.

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UN News: Its flag hoisted at UN Headquarters, South Sudan becomes world body’s 193rd member , Posted by Menelik Zeleke

Ban Ki-moon
14 July 2011

For Nelson Mandela International Day on 18 July, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon highlights the "67 Minutes" campaign asking individuals to devote 67 minutes of their time to public service, in honour of Nelson Mandela's 67 years of service to humanity.

MACTV News: UPDATE 1-S.Africa metal workers end strike, fuel strike widens, Posted by Menelik Zeleke

July 17, 2011 2:20:21 PM

SAFRICA-STEEL/ (UPDATE 1)

* Union accepts 10 pct wage hike
* Workers return to work from Monday
* Solidarity union launches strike at Sasol, PetroSA (Adds details, Sasol strike)

By Tiisetso Motsoeneng

JOHANNESBURG, July 17 (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of workers ended a two-week pay strike in the South African steel and engineering sector on Sunday while petroleum workers plan to widen a week-long walkout that left hundreds of the nation's fuel pumps dry, union leaders said.

Steel workers accepted a 10 percent wage rise from the employers' body, the Steel and Engineering Industries Federation of South Africa. The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa had initially demanded a 13 percent increase while SEIFSA's original offer was a 7 percent rise.

"Workers will therefore return to work in the next 48 hours starting on Monday," NUMSA spokesman Castro Ngobese said in a statement.

Meanwhile, the pay strike in the domestic petroleum sector is expected to widen from Monday after trade union Solidarity said on Sunday its mostly skilled members at petrochemical group Sasol will join the industrial action that left hundreds of fuel pumps dry.

"It is expected their plants will come to a standstill as almost all of the technical and strategic posts at these plants are filled by Solidarity members," the union said in a statement.

South African unions and employers are locked in their mid-year bargaining session known as "strike season", with many labour groups seeking wage increases that far exceed inflation.

Production losses in the steel sector are expected to be substantial although top makers of metal ArcelorMittal South Africa and Evraz Highveld Steel & Vanadium were not affected as they negotiate directly with their employees.

The 10 percent increment is above the inflation rate of around 7 percent and raises worries about inflation and interest rates outlook in Africa's biggest economy.

Some 70,000 workers, led by the Chemical, Energy, Paper, Printing, Wood and Allied Workers Union (CEPPWAWU), in the fuel industry have been on strike since Monday demanding a 13 percent wage increases, above the 4 to 7 percent offered by employers.

Solidarity members at Sasol will join CEPPWAWU from Monday in a strike that has delayed fuel deliveries and sparked panic-buying at service stations.

"One of the reasons why the strike has become so drawn out is because Solidarity members are still keeping production going at plants," said Dirk Hermann, Solidarity's deputy general secretary.

"Paradoxically, the sooner Solidarity joins the strike, the sooner it will be over." (Reporting by Tiisetso Motsoeneng)

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