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Russia, China Disagree with
West over Iran Sanctions
TEHRAN (FNA)-
A Western drive to impose a new set of tougher sanctions on Iran
over its nuclear program may prove to lose momentum due to strong
opposition from Russia and China.
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The tense UN Security Council meeting began on Thursday
with a salvo of warnings from UN representatives of France, Britain,
and the US- all of whom stood united in their demands that Iran
should comply with their demands over its nuclear activities.
Mark Grant, the British envoy to the United Nations, told reporters
that if Tehran ploughs ahead with its nuclear work, it will face
another set of coordinated and punitive economic and political measures
as soon as next year, press tv reported.
French UN Ambassador Gerard Araud, meanwhile, said that "We
make a last call to Iran to respond" to Security Council demands.
"If Iran does not... France will present a new resolution of
sanctions."
US Ambassador Susan Rice added voice to her French and British
counterparts, stressing that the West is "firm in its conviction
that Iran must comply with its international obligations."
"Should Iran continue to fail to meet its obligations, the
international community will have to consider further actions,"
she noted.
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Vulture Vomit Kills
Bill
Greg
Palast
Monday, March 15, 2010
Vultures defend themselves by vomiting on their enemies. In
Britain
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last week, terrified vultures puked up a Tory MP named
Christopher Chope.
Two weeks ago, the day after the 25 February broadcast of
our investigation on BBC Television of financial vultures
preying on the world's poorest nations, the British Parliament
voted to effectively put them out of business in the UK. A
rare victory for victims.
But last Friday, MP Chope used a Parliamentary gimmick to
kill the bill.
Chope, I should say, has not confessed to the deed. The cowardly
little piece of vulture puke would not admit he'd put the
knife in the back of the law. However, vulture vomit has a
truly vile stench, impossible to wash off; so activists were
able to sniff him out.
Vulture funds buy up Third World nations' debts at pennies
on the dollar then sue these nations for ten or a hundred
times what the funds paid for the securities. The Debt Relief
(Developing Countries) Bill would have barred vultures from
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Obama
administration pushes for more war funding
wsws.com
By Bill Van Auken
27 March 2010
Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
appeared on Capitol Hill Thursday, March 25, to launch the Obama
administration’s drive to secure nearly $40 billion in supplemental
appropriations, the bulk of it to fund the escalation of the Afghanistan
war.
The push for additional off-the-books funding for the current fiscal
year comes as Congress is also debating the administration’s
proposed $159 billion to pay for the wars and occupations in Iraq
and Afghanistan in fiscal year 2011. The request for the Pentagon’s
so-called base budget, which covers military spending outside of
the war costs, amounts to $548.9 billion
In her opening remarks, Clinton was compelled to acknowledge the
implications of the massive war spending—a total of $322 billion
for the current and next fiscal years—under conditions in
which funding is being cut for vital social programs, deficits are
soaring and next to nothing has been done to create jobs for the
country’s 15 million unemployed.
“I am well aware of the economic strain we all face here at
home,” declared Clinton. Referring to Iraq, Afghanistan and
Pakistan as “front-line states,” she justified the spending,
insisting that “the challenges we face demand that we draw
on all of the tools of American leadership and American power.”
Defense Secretary Gates sounded a similar note. “These times
of economic and fiscal stress place enormous pressure on all of
us to be good stewards of taxpayers’ dollars,” he said
in his opening remarks. “However,” he continued, “even
at a time of budget pressures, I believe it is critical to sustain
an adequate, sustainable level of investment in the instruments
of national security—be it defense, diplomacy, or development—that
are so essential to America’s security and position in the
world.”
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