By Mike Whitney
09/18/06 "Information Clearing House" The U.S. dollar is the very heart of the empire. The military, the media and the political establishment are merely the tributaries which flow away from the center. Any plan to restore America's democratic values and end our foreign wars must focus on the dollars' dominant role in the global economy and its adverse affects on the people at home.
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By MARTIN CRUTSINGER
AP Economics Writer Mon Sep 18, 2006 WASHINGTON - America's trade deficit increased in the spring to the second-highest level in history, reflecting a big jump in payments for foreign oil and a deterioration in the country's investment position.
The deficit in the U.S. current account rose to $218.4 billion in the April-June quarter, an increase of 2.4 percent over the first three months of the year, the Commerce Department reported Monday. |
David N. Goodman
Associated Press September 18, 2006 |
AP
14/09/2006 The Federal Communications Commission ordered its staff to destroy all copies of a draft study that suggested greater concentration of media ownership would hurt local TV news coverage, a former lawyer at the agency says.
The report, written in 2004, came to light during the Senate confirmation hearing for FCC Chairman Kevin Martin. Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif. received a copy of the report "indirectly from someone within the FCC who believed the information should be made public," according to Boxer spokeswoman Natalie Ravitz. 'Every last piece' destroyed Adam Candeub, now a law professor at Michigan State University, said senior managers at the agency ordered that "every last piece" of the report be destroyed. "The whole project was just stopped - end of discussion," he said. Candeub was a lawyer in the FCC's Media Bureau at the time the report was written and communicated frequently with its authors, he said. |
Breitbart.com
18/09/2006 A Brussels court has ordered internet giant Google to pay 1 million euro a day if it does not remove all news articles and pictures from French and German language newspapers on its news site, Belgian media reported on Monday.
"The judgment, dating back to September 5, made public only yesterday (Sunday), says that Google provides texts after the publishers have taken them off their own websites," Flemish newspaper De Morgen reported. The court considered this a breach of authors' rights, as well as Belgian law on databanks, the daily said. If the ruling is not published on Google's Belgian website, the company will have to pay another half a million euro per day. The suit against Google was filed by Belgian publishing group Copiepresse which represents various French and German language newspapers in the country. Comment: Sounds like google's cache of web pages is set to become even more useless than it already is.
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www.chinaview.cn 2006-09-19 10:04:06
SINGPAPRORE, Sept. 19 (Xinhua) -- The plenary meeting of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank annual meetings opened in Singapore on Tuesday.
More than 20,000 participants from 184 members attended the two-day meetings. Issues to be addressed at the meetings are the voting rights reform of the IMF and the governance and anti-corruption strategy. |
Tehran Times Economic Desk September 18, 2006
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Terry Macalister and Michael Mainville in Moscow
Tuesday September 19, 2006 The Guardian Shell and BP were facing legal wrangles and upheaval in Russia last night, raising doubts about the involvement of foreign companies in the country's oil and gas sector. Government approval for Shell's $20bn Sakhalin project was withdrawn and state-owned Gazprom was reported to be trying to buy half of the TNK-BP joint venture.
Russia's Natural Resources ministry said it had revoked the environmental approval for the major Sakhalin-2 scheme in the far east of Russia to "satisfy the arguments of the prosecutor's office" leaving the future of the scheme in doubt. |
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