By Jawed Naqvi
28 Jan 06 NEW DELHI - India on Friday distanced
itself from US-led calls to isolate Iran at next week’s
meeting of the IAEA after controversial remarks on the issue by
Washington’s envoy to Delhi enraged the nation as seldom seen
before.
The Indian foreign ministry, facing a barrage of criticism for apparent obsequiousness towards Washington that ranged from allies in the Left Front to former prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee, appeared to have rowed back from its recent bonhomie with the United States. |
Gerald Baker
27 Jan 06 THE UNIMAGINABLE but ultimately
inescapable truth is that we are going to have to get ready for war
with Iran. Being of a free-speaking, free-thinking disposition, we
generally find in the West that hand-wringing, finger-pointing and
second-guessing come more easily to us than cold, strategic
thinking. Confronted with nightmarish perils we instinctively
choose to seize the opportunity to blame each other, cursing our
domestic opponents for the situation they’ve put us in.
Comment: What an
idiot... more drum beating for war when it is clear that Iran is
NOT the problem.
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28 January 2006
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AFP
Sunday January 29, 12:06 AM Gunmen have fired volleys from the roof
of the Palestinian parliament in Ramallah as thousands of Fatah
supporters called for party leaders to resign after their defeat in
this week's election.
And in Gaza City, hundreds more Fatah party supporters, including security officers, barged into the Gaza Strip's parliamentary compound, firing into the air, an AFP reporter said. |
By Perry Wu
26 Jan 06 |
AFP
Jan 26, 2006 BRUSSELS - The European Union executive
arm considers new French rules to shield French firms from foreign
takeovers to be "protectionist" and "discriminatory", a spokesman
said Thursday.
The European Commission sent a letter to French authorities at the beginning of the week to voice its concerns about the legislation, the spokesman for internal market commissioner Charlie McCreevy told AFP. Comment: The attempt to
protect private security firms, the production of antidotes,
eavesdropping equipment, computer security systems, and cryptology
activities is particularly interesting - and hardly surprising.
Given the state of today's world, France's actions could simply be
the result of some good old fashioned common sense.
|
AP
January 28, 2006 WARSAW, Poland - The snow-covered roof of
a trade hall in southern Poland collapsed Saturday, and police said
as many as 500 people were inside at the time for a carrier pigeon
exhibition.
Katowice police spokesman Janusz Jonczyk said the roof likely collapsed from the weight of the snow, and rescue efforts in the Bytkow district were ongoing. |
By Andrew Pierce
The Sunday Times January 27, 2006 THE Prince of Wales warned the British
people last night that they were in danger of becoming as obese as
many Americans because they did not walk or cycle enough.
The Prince, who has a fleet of chauffeur-driven cars and has rarely if ever been seen in public on the saddle of a bike, said: “We are perhaps not very far behind our American cousins in the ‘super-sizing epidemic’.” |
By Teresa Küchler
EU Observer 2 Feb 06 Several European newspapers have
published caricatures of Islamic holy man Mohammed in an act of
solidarity with Danish colleagues, while protests against the
Danish caricatures continue to spread like wildfire.
French daily newspaper France Soir on Wednesday (1 February) published a front page picture showing the Buddhist, Jewish, and Christian gods plus Mohammed floating on a cloud, with the Christian god saying "Don’t complain, Mohammed, we’ve all been caricatured here." France Soir, a Parisian daily tabloid struggling with declining readership, said it published the cartoons to show that "religious dogma" had no place in a secular society. Comment: While we agree
that "religious dogma" has no place in a secular society, we are
appalled at the implications of these cartoons. Cartoons about Jews
and their rapacious Yahweh were common during the time that Jews
were being exterminated in Nazi Germany. "Polack" jokes became
popular at the same time due to the fact that the Nazis had also
targeted the Polish population. Irish jokes were popular during the
famine in Ireland when many starving Irish families emigrated to
the US and could only find jobs as menial laborers. It seems that
human beings need to denigrate and poke fun at whoever is suffering
at the moment so as to dehumanize them and thus justify the
unwillingness to stand up for the rights of all. Such jokes are an
appalling display of psychopathic lack of conscience and
empathy.
|
Barbara McMahon in Rome
Thursday February 2, 2006 The Guardian Deep-rooted resentment over the identity
of the northern Italian province of Alto Adige has flared after
local politicians made a symbolic move closer to Austria. Some 113
of the 116 German-speaking mayors in the mountainous community
signed a petition requesting the "protection and guardianship" of
their near neighbour, it was revealed yesterday.
They asked Austria, which is in the process of drawing up a new constitution, to include clauses undertaking to defend Alto Adige's right to autonomous status and to keep its German language, culture and traditions. The move is part of a territorial dispute that has been simmering since the area was ceded to Italy at the end of the first world war, having previously been part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. |
Associated Press in Katowice
Thursday February 2, 2006 The Guardian A designer of the Polish exhibition hall
whose roof collapsed and killed 63 people attempted suicide two
days after the accident. The unidentified man "certainly has
information that could help determine the cause" of the
catastrophe, said Tomasz Tadla, a spokesman for prosecutors in
Katowice.
About 500 people were in the hall for a pigeon racing show when the snow-covered roof gave way on Saturday. About 160 others were injured. An investigation has found that the hall had some defects before the roof collapsed but it is too soon to determine the cause of the accident. |
Nick Paton Walsh in Moscow
Thursday February 2, 2006 The Guardian Mikhail Khodorkovsky, formerly Russia's
richest man and fiercest critic of Vladimir Putin, may have a few
million lying around and degrees in engineering and economics. But,
in the icy Siberian prison where he has been sent to serve seven
years for tax evasion and fraud, such airs and graces can't save
anyone from the drudgery of life as a budget tailor.
Yesterday colony 14/10 near the far-eastern town of Krasnokamensk became the great leveller for the one-time oil billionaire, when the prison authorities informed Khodorkovsky he would have to sit a sewing exam. Comment: We here at SOTT
admit that reading this story gave us dreams of the same thing
happening to the Neocons... imagine Dick Cheney having to sit for a
sewing exam?
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Associated Press in Richmond, USA
Thursday February 2, 2006 The Guardian The company that has exclusive salvage
rights to the wreckage of the Titanic does not own the site or the
artefacts recovered from it, a US federal appeals court has ruled.
The ruling by the 4th US circuit court of appeals affirmed a
decision by the district court in Norfolk, Virginia.
RMS Titanic Inc had sought full ownership of the nearly 6,000 artefacts it has recovered from the shipwreck, claiming that they are worth some $71m (£40m). |
SOTT
February 2, 2006 |
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