Posted in Financial news, Spain on June 21, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Read at La Razón:
The Council has 14 members -one of them is Aznar now- does not have executive powers and meets in any city of the world, although the central site is in New York. Its functions are mainly strategic, taking decisions on future perspectives.
Aznar is the first non-Anglo-saxon member and was proposed personally by [...]
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In a communiqué (PDF) sent by ETA, after yesterday’s detentions, ETA has also asked Spanish Government that “no legislation, Law order, or Consitution should be an obstacle for what the Basque country demands”. “ETA’s will and desire to reach, using dialogue and negotiation, a durable and just peace with Spanish State is total”, and “warns [...]
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Posted in Asia, China, MSM on June 21, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
China plans to land on Moon… with a Japanese flag.
Coutesy of CBS (and LGF).
HT: Barcepundit.
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Posted in Asia, Human Rights on June 21, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Yesterday was the birthday of this women, the opposition leader to Burma’s military Junta.
Now 61, she is still on house arrest because she won the elections back in 1990 over the Burma’s military Junta. Lately she was let an interview with UN official. As I said there, US is right in their intention of referring [...]
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From ABC News:
President Bush won solid European support Wednesday for his handling of escalating nuclear crises with North Korea and Iran but was challenged over the Iraq war, the U.S. prison camp in Cuba and rising anti-American sentiment.
“That’s absurd,” Bush snapped at a news conference in response to an assertion that the United States was [...]
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Posted in MSM, Spain, USA on June 21, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
BBC NEWS | Middle East |
One of the main lawyers defending former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein at his trial has been shot dead. Khamis al-Obeidi’s body was found dumped in the capital, Baghdad, hours after he was abducted from his home.
Defence lawyers have frequently complained that they have not been given enough protection, calling [...]
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