Flag of Cyprus* The Cypriot population will receive the necessary funds to live - Handelsblatt - Leading German Business Publication. If there’s unrest in Cyprus – it’s not Portugal. It’s not Spain, it’s not Greece – it’s not a massive country. So what Germany was actually able to do was to enforce its might on a small [...]
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Note: Highlighting an interesting article, by Canadian author Linda Mcquaig, on Hugo Chavez and his legacy, not just for Latin America, but wider afield, particularly in relation to oil and gas resources: Linda McQuaig: Had Hugo Chavez followed the pattern of many Third World leaders and concentrated on siphoning off his nation’s wealth for personal [...]
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Note: An interesting article by the Awaken Ireland movement, on Minister Shatter’s deployment of troops to Mali in contravention of the Irish Constitution. The announcement was made in the presence of the Secretary-General of NATO and was made before been voted on by the Oireachtas. The deployment is another example of deepening integration into NATO. Of particular interest, and [...]
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R.I.P. Hugo Chavez, 28th July 1954 – 5th March 2013 Photo: (Wikipedia) – Português do Brasil: Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva e Hugo Chávez, 27 June 2008, Author: Marcello Casal Jr./Abr -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hugo_Ch%C3%A1vez_crop.jpg Video Feed: (Live), Russia Television – Venezuela: Chavez body departure – http://rt.com/on-air/venezuela-chavez-body-departure/
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Last week’s debt “deal” could slash €1 billion from tax hikes and spending cuts in upcoming budgets, the Government has asserted. In the Dail, (parliament) the Taoiseach Enda Kenny declared that the IBRC/NAMA merger would reduce state borrowing by €20 billion over the next decade. Also, the agreement has reduced Ireland’s vulnerability from the huge [...]
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Newshighlight from NamaWineLake – a blog concerning itself with NAMA – the National Asset Management Agency – “This week, 99.8% state-owned Allied Irish Banks sold €400m of assets – loans secured on property in Spain – and there wasn’t even a mention of it in the Irish media or at least an online search in [...]
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NAMA group structure.jpg From Wikipedia: “The National Asset Management Agency (NAMA; Irish: Gníomhaireacht Náisiúnta um Bhainistíocht Sócmhainní) is a body created by the Government of Ireland in late 2009, in response to the Irish financial crisis and the deflation of the Irish property bubble. NAMA functions as a bad bank, acquiring property development loans from [...]
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The Taoiseach today stated thatthe European Central Bank has cleared a deal to liquidate the former Anglo Irish Bank, the IBRC. Emergency legislation was introduced last night to transfer the loans to Ireland’s “bad bank,” NAMA. The Minister for Social Protection Joan Burton stated that the Irish people can be “optimistic” the agreement reached with [...]
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Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez has successfully completed surgery in Cuba and has started a period of recovery after being diagnosed with cancer again recently. “The [recovery] state will last several days, and we will provide information daily on the progress of our president,” Vice-president Nicolas Maduro stated. (Venezuela Analysis). “It was a complicated operation, and [...]
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Photo: The Parthenon,Athens – Photo, (Wikipedia), Author: Onkel Tuca! – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Parthenon.JPG Greek police torture anti-fascist protesters reporting from the World Socialist Website – “Demonstrators protesting against the fascist Chrysi Avgi (Golden Dawn) party were beaten and tortured after their arrest by Greek police at a demonstration on September 30. According to the victims, the [...]
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