1901. Hands up if you made billions of dollars out of the credit crisis

Hedge fund 'masters of the universe' face Congressional grilling over their role in the global credit crunch The five best-paid hedge fund managers – who between them made $12.6bn last year, even as the financial world began to crumble...

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1902. GM and the Titanic Syndrome

Europeans and Japanese should applaud the democrat representatives favouring a GM bail-out, as it will largely benefit their auto companies with US tax payer money General Motors (GM) is a disaster story. For more than two years now, I have...

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1903. EU-Russia tensions ease?

The conflict in South Ossetia may have driven a wedge between Russia and the EU, but now the two sides are talking to each other again. At the Russia-EU summit in Nice, Dmitry Medvedev, the French President and the EU Commission President agreed...

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1904. Iranian diplomat kidnapped in Peshawar

Yet another foreign diplomat has been targeted in Pakistan's Taliban-infested Northwest Frontier Province. "Unknown gunmen" kidnapped Hashmatullah Atharzadeh, the commercial attaché for the Iranian consulate in Peshawar, the...

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1905. Every school to get Holocaust specialist under anti-racism initiativ

Every secondary school is to get a Holocaust specialist to ensure that the subject is taught comprehensively and sensitively. One teacher from every school will be offered a place on a Holocaust education training course to combat racism and...

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1906. Austrian Government Study Confirms OGM Crops Threaten Human Fertility and Health Safety

Gli OGM danneggiano la fertilità umana Advocates Call for Immediate Ban of All GM Foods and GM Crops (Los Angeles, CA.) - A long-term feeding study commissioned by the Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety, managed by the...

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1907. Battle for Holocaust Assets Roils Israel

RAMAT GAN, Israel -- The global quest to ferret out money and property left behind by Jews killed in the Holocaust is now targeting Israel, and investigators say it's proving at least as difficult in the Jewish state as it did in Europe. Many...

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1908. Israel prevents UN from Gaza food distribution

Israel fails to allow emergency supplies into besieged Palestinian territory after promising to ease blockade GAZA CITY - The United Nations will suspend its food distribution to half of Gaza's 1.5 million people on Thursday after Israel...

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1909. Islanda : la prima vittima della crisi (parte II)

In questa crisi, la forza del bilancio di una banca conta poco o nulla, quello che conta è la garanzia, implicita od esplicita, fornita dallo stato alle banche, che lo stato stesso si faccia carico delle loro posizioni ed immetta...

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1910. Islanda : la prima vittima della crisi (parte I)

Il sistema bancario dell'Islanda è disintegrato. Valutato in euro, il Prodotto Interno Lordo è sceso del 65%. Molte aziende sono alla bancarotta; altre stanno pensando di spostarsi all'estero. I governi britannico ed olandese...

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1911. It's an emergency. Long-term cures must wait

The world economy is suffering from two quite separate problems. Unfortunately they need contradictory solutions Unemployment is soaring. Property and share prices are collapsing. Gordon Brown's borrowing plans are accused of driving Britain...

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1912. Syria blames Israeli bombs for uranium traces

DAMASCUS, Syria: Syria's foreign minister suggested Wednesday that Israeli bombs may be the source of uranium traces that diplomats at the U.N. nuclear agency said were found at a suspected nuclear site. Walid al-Moallem said the diplomatic...

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1913. "Goldman big winner in government's revised bailout of AIG"

Note that the headline above was on a Wall Street Journal story about the new taxpayer-raping improved version of the AIG bailout. The current headline is anodyne: "New AIG Rescue Is Bank Blessing." Just as one wonders why the...

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1914. Central Bank Allows the Ruble to Weaken

The Central Bank spent an estimated $7 billion on Tuesday on establishing a new limit for the ruble after allowing it to weaken beyond a key level it had defended in recent months. After breaking through its former 30.41 limit against a...

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1915. Fed refuses to disclose who got loans

In the U.S. the Federal Reserve is refusing to disclose who has received almost $2 Trillion worth of taxpayer funded loans, or what collateral it is taking, according to Bloomberg. However, under the U.S. Freedom of Information Act the details of...

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1916. La Fed viene meno alla trasparenza rifiutando di dare chiarimenti (parte II)

Il giorno successivo, in un'audizione congiunta delle due camere, anche Bernanke ha sottolineato l'importanza della visibilità del programma. "La trasparenza è un tema importante," ha detto. La Fed presta alle banche...

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1917. La Fed viene meno alla trasparenza rifiutando di dare chiarimenti (parte I)

10 Novembre (Bloomberg) -- La Federal Reserve si è rifiutata di rendere noti i beneficiari di quasi 2 trilioni di dollari di prestiti di emergenza, finanziati con i soldi dei contribuenti americani o con posizioni pericolanti accettate dalla...

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1918. General Motors: Il Prezzo del Titolo è Zero

Il target price di GM portato a $0.00 da Deutsche Bank, che ovviamente consiglia ai clienti un "sell". Non era mai successo nella storia di Wall Street. Per evitare il fallimento... L'ufficio studi di Deutsche Bank ha annunciato un...

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1919. EU says ‘yes’ to dialogue with Russia

The EU will restart talks on a new Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (PCA) with Russia. Foreign ministers meeting in Brussels agreed that it's in the objective interests of the bloc to continue dialogue with Moscow, though no date has been set....

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1920. La dette américaine envers la Russie atteint 74,4 milliards de dollars

La dette des États-Unis envers la Russie atteint 74,4 milliards de dollars, a annoncé James Ludes, directeur exécutif du Projet pour la sécurité américaine, dans un article publié samedi par le...

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1921. Gaza Strip: Israel continues to stop fuel shipments

Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak decided not to resume fuel shipments to the Gaza Strip today because of continued rocket fire, Israeli defense officials said Monday, and Gaza officials threatened to shut down the coastal territory’s only...

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1922. Beijing gambles on £375bn rescue as Golden Years come to an endEver since he was allowed to return t

Ever since he was allowed to return to work on a Beijing building site after the Olympics, Zhou Shouheng has been nervous. He is still employed but some of his fellow migrant workers from the villages of Henan have been less fortunate, and he...

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1923. Brown dice che è tempo di costruire una società globale

LONDRA - La crisi finanziaria internazionale ha dato ai leader mondiali un'opportunità unica per creare una società davvero globale, questo è quello che dirà Lunedì il primo ministro Gordon Brown in un intervento...

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1924. Forgotten slaves

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1925. Il petrolio? Non è «bio»

L'origine del petrolio e del gas naturale non è biologica: risale alla formazione del mantello e della crosta terrestre. I giacimenti a profondità di alcuni chilometri, si formarono da petrolio e da gas che da masse profonde filtrarono...

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1926. Israel's Livini blasts Obama's Iran plan

La Livni dà già ordini ad Obama: “Trattare viene visto come segno di debolezza” dai musulmani, razza inferiore. JERUSALEM - Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni attacked U.S. president-elect Barack Obama on Thursday...

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1927. Israeli soldiers film themselves humiliating a bound Palestinian man

Israeli Television, Chanel 10, showed on Thursday a video footage taken by Israeli soldiers filming themselves humiliating a bound and blindfolded Palestinian man at a military roadblock in the occupied West Bank, Israeli online daily, Haaretz,...

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1928. L'economia crolla: la DTCC tiene nascosta la gravità della crisi

Oggi sono stati comunicati i numeri, da tempo attesi, raccolti dalla DTCC, Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation, istituzione controllata da banche fra le quali troviamo JP Morgan e Goldman Sachs. Dal loro articolo... "Le stime...

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1929. Georgia Claims on Russia War Called Into Question

TBILISI, Georgia: Newly available accounts by independent military observers of the beginning of the war between Georgia and Russia this summer call into question the longstanding Georgian assertion that it was acting defensively against separatist...

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1930. Israeli FM: no real differences between Bush, Obama over Iran

There are no real differences between viewpoints of U.S. President George W. Bush and his new successor Barak Obama over the Iranian issue, Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said Thursday. "There is a slightly different attitude between...

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1931. CDS: i più negoziati sono quelli di Italia e Spagna

I negoziatori di CDS * [CDS o credit-default swap, ndt], secondo una relazione che fornisce la più ampia gamma di dati attualmente disponibili sul mercato non regolamentato ed è stata messa a punto dalla Depository Trust & Clearing...

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1932. Israel’s ‘enormous web of unlawful practices’ devastating Palestinian society

Fourth Committee debates situation in territory Chairman of Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Underlines Interlocking, Reinforcing Relationship between Human Rights, Potential for Peace Through an "enormous web of...

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1933. Lined Up -- But Not to Vote

There was plenty of media commentary yesterday about the long lines that formed at polling stations around the country. However, there have also been lots of other queues springing up in far-flung corners of the U.S. in recent months that have...

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1934. Barack Obama will bring step-change to US economic policy

The paralysing wait between the election of Franklin Roosevelt in 1932 and his inauguration four months later was the most dangerous point of the Great Depression. It saw policy drift in Washington and the era's last disastrous wave of bank...

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1935. Iran Warns U.S. Forces To Steer Clear of Borders

TEHRAN - Tehran's military on Nov. 5 urged U.S. forces to steer clear of Iran's borders with neighboring Iraq and warned it would respond "to any invasion," the official IRNA news agency reported. "Recently U.S. Army helicopters...

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1936. Alitalia: let it die

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1937. Credit-Default Swaps on Italy, Spain Are Most Traded

Credit-default swap traders wagered the most on debt of Italy, Spain and Deutsche Bank AG, according to a Depository Trust & Clearing Corp. report that gives the broadest data yet on the unregulated market. A total $33.6 trillion of...

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1938. India, Poland Discuss Strategic Ties

NEW DELHI - India and Poland will attempt to set the foundation of a long-term strategic relationship during the Nov. 3-5 visit here of Polish Defense Minister Bogdan Klich, say officials in the Indian External Affairs Ministry. Areas to be...

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1939. Goldman Sachs ready to hand out £7bn salary and bonus package...

... after its £6bn bail-out Goldman Sachs is on course to pay its top City bankers multimillion-pound bonuses - despite asking the U.S. government for an emergency bail-out. The struggling Wall Street bank has set aside £7...

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1940. Barroso is plotting... for OGM

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1941. Is Obama the secret son of Malcolm X?

If Barack Hussein Obama II is Malcolm X's biological son, it would explain the mystery of why he was so generously helped by so many Arab and communist "friends in high places" long before he was a "somebody." Just as Malcolm X...

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1942. China and Russia Moving Away from the US Dollar?

The headline of this news piece greatly overstates the extent of any deal between Russia and China to stop using dollars. It seems to be a bilateral trading agreement. But it is credible since Russia and China have mutual trading interests that do...

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1943. L'attuale volatilità suggerisce quale sarà il prossimo crollo (parte III)

Questo periodo di volatilità e di mercati in discesa, insieme alla drastica discesa dei prezzi delle merci - che permette all'elite di portare avanti il proprio programma passando dall'insider trading alle merci a prezzi di saldo - non...

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1944. Berlusconi scommette sui 120 anni «Un politico deve vivere a lungo»

«I progressi della scienza ci fanno sperare in una nuova era: una vita più lunga è un obiettivo raggiungibile» MILANO - Fosse nato prima del Diluvio universale, Silvio Berlusconi avrebbe rinvenuto con assoluto agio...

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1945. L'attuale volatilità suggerisce quale sarà il prossimo crollo (parte II)

Gli Illuminati considerano le persone nel mondo, eccetto quelle che fanno parte della loro elite, come poco più di animali stupidi e bestie da soma da sfruttare all'osso per il divertimento ed il profitto degli Illuminati stessi, che poi...

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1946. La crisi e il socialismo per ricchi

Man mano che la crisi finanziaria globale diventa sempre più profonda, diventa chiaro che il collasso della Borsa ha colpito non solo i ricchi - il cui tenore di vita probabilmente non ne verrà affetto - ma anche milioni di persone...

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1947. L'attuale volatilità suggerisce quale sarà il prossimo crollo (parte I)

Crisi dei mercati tutte pianificate, Ammutolimento dell'informazione con mancata comprensione di quanto avviene sui mercati, Siate pronti a disfarvi di tutti quei candidati, Recenti aumenti nella volatilità tutti manipolati da dietro le...

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1948. CDS Pricing in Increasing Treasury Default Risk

We have noted that Treasuries (and the dollar) are the remaining bubbles, although some doubts are starting to surface on the Treasury front. Paul Amery at Prudent Bear gives a good recap: The tectonic plates underlying the whole superstructure...

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1949. Call This a Crisis? Just Wait

Actually, don't wait, because we've got to stop a bigger economic disaster in the making: 78 million baby-boomers eligible for Social Security and Medicare Staring into the abyss always focuses the mind, which can help you avoid falling in. So...

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1950. Holocaust is over, leading Israeli tells Likud

Benjamin Netanyahu, a front-runner for the Israeli premiership, has been severely criticised by a former Speaker of the Knesset and head of the Jewish Agency for comparing the threat posed by Iran to that of pre-war Nazi Germany. Mr Netanyahu,...

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