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OREO For 02 28 09
` ` OREO For 02 28 09 ` ` Newsstories of interest: many are dated February 27th ` ** = Important [in this edition: 1 ] ` MH = Misleading Headline [in this edition: ] ` ` ` 1 DISORDER ` ` ` ONE BRAVE IRAQI ` __MUNTAZER AL-ZAIDI__ ` HAS PUT TO INDELIBLE SHAME ` ALL 500+ MEMBERS OF THE COWARD CONGRESS ` AND EXPOSED THEM ALL AS VICIOUS ACCESSORIES ` OF THE BU$H-GANG WAR CRIMINALS ` ` ` ` ` ____________________________________________________________ ` _________________MISSILE POLAND'S AUSCHWITZ_________________ ` ____________________________________________________________ ` Poland seeks foreign donations to preserve Auschwitz camp ` Fri Feb 27, 2009 8:03am EST ` "Polish Prime Minister...Tusk said" "in his letter, dated February 10 but not previously made public" "[t]he museum ...lacks the resources to check the progressive decay and deterioration of its facilities and objects" ` S-U-D-D-E-N-LY ` ____________________________________________________________ ` http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE51Q1PV20090227 ` Click ` ` ` ` 2 AFRICA ` ` _____________________________________________________________ ` ` ___________________THE EU'S FOOT PROBLEM_____________________ ` ` _____________________________________________________________ ` ` NIGERIA ` EU to boost Nigeria aid, assist in security ` Fri Feb 27, 2009 3:13pm GMT ` "As part of its aid package, the EU could for the first time [?] provide funding for training and technical assis- tance for Nigeria's police and military deployed both within the country and abroad on peacekeeping [= warmaking] missions [>] in Africa." ` Technical assistance? ` KILL'EM GEAR ` _____________________________________________________________ ` http://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFJOE51Q0LO20090227?sp=true ` Click ` ` AND ` ` NIGERIA AGAIN ` Nigerian army raids militant camp in oil delta ` Fri Feb 27, 2009 9:45am GMT ` "Such military assaults on camps [= villages] have in the past provoked retaliatory attacks on army installations and oil facilities by militant groups" ` Retaliatory attacks? ` PAYBACK ` ____________________________________________________________ ` http://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFJOE51Q09P20090227 ` Click ` ` ` ` ____________________________________________________________ ` Mugabe dismisses foreign demands on press [= lie] freedom ` Fri Feb 27, 2009 11:45am GMT ` "Mugabe expressed surprise at this week's announcement by former colonial power Britain that it would offer help to hundreds of its elderly nationals in Zimbabwe to return home. ` He said they were safe in Zimbabwe, ` where more than 300 British companies were still freely operating." ` ____________________________________________________________ ` http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKTRE51Q1GF20090227?sp=true ` Click ` ` ` ` 3 ASIA ` ` THE BU$H PLAN (IRAQ) ` ` ____________________________________________________________ ` Feb 27, 3:31 AM EST ` US soldier dies on combat patrol in Baghdad ` OUR COUNTRY, NOT YOURS ` ____________________________________________________________ ` http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/ML_IRAQ_US_CASUALTIES?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2009-02-27-03-31-03 ` Click ` ` ` ____________________________________________________________ ` Feb 27, 10:44 AM EST ` Army: Enemy fire caused copter collision in Iraq ` "military [>] now says enemy fire caused two U.S. Army heli- copters to collide in Iraq last month, killing four American pilots." ` REST OF THE WORLD ALREADY KNEW ` ___________________________________________________________ ` http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/S/SOLDIERS_KILLED_HELICOPTERS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2009-02-27-10-44-59 ` Click ` ` ` ____________________________________________________________ ` Exxon says no impact from shut Tex FCC boiler ` Fri Feb 27, 2009 10:25am EST ` "A malfunction of the boiler feedwater pump" ` ____________________________________________________________ ` http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSN2733967120090227 ` Click ` ` ` ____________________________________________________________ ` FACTBOX: Security developments in Iraq ` Fri Feb 27, 2009 10:04am EST ` ____________________________________________________________ ` http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE51Q1RB20090227 ` Click ` ` ` ` THE BU$H PLAN (AFGHANISTAN) ` ` ____________________________________________________________ ` FACTBOX: Security developments in Afghanistan ` Fri Feb 27, 2009 4:33am EST ` "[puppet] Afghan police fired on demonstrators" ` ____________________________________________________________ ` http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE51Q1KR20090227 ` Click ` ` ` ____________________________________________________________ ` Afghans protest against foreign troops ` Fri Feb 27, 2009 7:29am GMT ` "foreign troops...raided the mosque, rounded up worshippers and tore apart copies of the Koran Thursday night." ` HITLER SMILES ` ____________________________________________________________ ` http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKTRE51Q17M20090227 ` Click ` ` ` ` THE BU$H PLAN (PAKISTAN) ` ` ____________________________________________________________ ` ` ______________________THE PUPPET PERIL______________________ ` ` ____________________________________________________________ ` ` Q+A - Crisis in Pakistan; What's happening this time? ` Fri Feb 27, 2009 3:22pm IST ` HOW DID THIS CRISIS ERUPT? WHAT'S AT STAKE? ANY CHANCE OF RECONCILIATION? WHY DOES SHARIF THINK ZARDARI FIXED THE COURT RULING? WHAT'S THE HISTORY BETWEEN ZARDARI AND SHARIF? ` Git edge'kated. ` ____________________________________________________________ ` http://in.reuters.com/article/southAsiaNews/idINIndia-38248820090227?sp=true ` Click ` ` AND ` ` ____________________________________________________________ ` Pakistan party, lawyers to challenge government ` Fri Feb 27, 2009 8:07pm IST ` "nti-government lawyers, backed by the Sharifs, are campaign- ing for the reinstatement of the country's former top judge, Iftikhar Chaudhry, who was dismissed by Musharraf in 2007." ` ____________________________________________________________ ` http://in.reuters.com/article/southAsiaNews/idINIndia-38253420090227?sp=true ` Click ` ` AND ` ` ____________________________________________________________ ` ** No let-up in PML-N’s countrywide protest ` Saturday, February 28, 2009 ` "Angry PML-N workers in the twin-cities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad set police posts on fire and damaged vehicles escorting Defence Minister Ahmad Mukhtar and Islamabad IGP Syed Kalb-e-Abbas." ` ____________________________________________________________ ` http://www.thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=20631 ` Click ` ` ____________________________________________________________ ` Inspector-General of Police | Pakistan: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inspector_General_of_Police#Pakistan ` Click ` ____________________________________________________________ ` ` ` ` ____________________________________________________________ ` INDIA ` India's Reliance Ind[ustries] plans to absorb refinery unit ` Fri Feb 27, 2009 9:07am EST ` "combined firm would have refining capacity of 1.24 million barrels per day, the largest in the world." ` ____________________________________________________________ ` http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSBOM42311520090227 ` Click ` ` ` ` ________________________MAJOR REVIEW________________________ ` JAPAN ` Japan factory output slides, new jobs dry up ` Fri Feb 27, 2009 4:19am EST ` ____________________________________________________________ ` http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUST23844520090227?sp=true ` Click ` ` ` ` ____________________________________________________________ ` KAZAKHSTAN ` Kazakhstan oil exports unaffected by [key] pipeline leak [?] ` Fri Feb 27, 2009 5:55am EST ` "thanks to the use of reservoir facilities" ` ____________________________________________________________ ` http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSLR36995520090227 ` Click ` ` ` ` ____________________________________________________________ ` PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF CHINA ` FACTBOX - Facts on China's South-to-North Water Transfer Project ` Fri Feb 27, 2009 8:24am GMT ` "to draw water from southern rivers for its dry north by 2013-2014." ` ____________________________________________________________ ` http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKTRE51Q1F020090227?sp=true ` Click ` ` ` ` ____________________________________________________________ ` REPUBLIC OF KOREA ` S.Korea won hits 11-yr low on dollar shortage fears ` Fri Feb 27, 2009 5:29am EST ` "Investors are worried that the heightened risk aversion [= defaults and balance of payments crises in eastern Europe] would make it extremely difficult for South Korea to tap into the global market to secure sufficient dollar funding to pay back maturing foreign debt." ` ____________________________________________________________ ` http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSSEO21063120090227?sp=true ` Click ` ` ` ` 4 EUROPE ` ` ____________________________________________________________ ` ` ___________________THE EU'S HEAD PROBLEM____________________ ` ` ____________________________________________________________ ` ` Q+A: What can the EU do to help E.Europe? ` Fri Feb 27, 2009 10:01am EST ` WHAT CAN THE EU DO TO HELP STATES IN EU BUT NOT EURO ZONE ` WHAT OTHER EU CASH COULD BE USED? ` EBRD, EIB, WORLD BANK [?] ` WHAT OTHER POSSIBILITIES ARE THERE? ` WHAT IF A SUBSIDIARY OF A WESTERN EUROPEAN BANK WAS THREAT- ENED WITH COLLAPSE IN ONE OF THE NON-EURO ZONE EU MEMBERS? ` Forward answer immediately! ` ___________________________________________________________ http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSLR52682120090227?sp=true ` Click ` ` AND ` ` ___________________________________________________________ ` Ambrose Evans-Pritchard | Debt markets take fright at 'EU bond' | The capital markets have become increasingly uneasy over proposals to use the European Investment Bank as an all-purpose fireman to prop up weaker regions of the euro- zone [>] or come to the rescue of Eastern Europe ` 7:45PM GMT 26 Feb 2009 ` ___________________________________________________________ ` http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/4840371/Debt-markets-take-fright-at-EU-bond.html ` Click ` ` AND ` ` ___________________________________________________________ ` Lenders say 25 billion euro package to aid Eastern Europe ` Fri Feb 27, 2009 10:44am GMT ` "The amount of cash is small in the whole scheme of things --25 billion euros sounds like a lot of money, but when the banks have lent Eastern Europe about 1.7 trillion dollars, 25 billion is peanuts." ` ___________________________________________________________ ` http://uk.reuters.com/article/businessNews/idUKTRE51Q1R220090227?sp=true ` Click ` ` AND ` ` ___________________________________________________________ ` EU sees no talks [for now] on increasing fund for eastern members ` Fri Feb 27, 2009 12:01pm GMT ` ___________________________________________________________ ` http://uk.reuters.com/article/businessNews/idUKTRE51Q23C20090227?sp=true` ` Click ` ` ` ` ____________________________________________________________ ` French banks bid to advise Serbia on drug co sale ` Fri Feb 27, 2009 6:22am EST ` "part of a wider plan to privatise major state-held assets through IPOs and by distributing free shares to about 4 mil- lion people." ` ENRICH THE RICH, CON THE POOR ` ____________________________________________________________ ` http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssFinancialServicesAndRealEstateNews/idUSLR10876320090227 ` Click ` ` ` ` ____________________________________________________________ FACTBOX-Aid packages for Europe's auto industry ` Fri Feb 27, 2009 8:57am EST ` "European Commission is scrutinising car aid plans from France, Spain and Italy and holding talks with Britain, Sweden and Germany over their schemes." ` ____________________________________________________________ ` http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSLR88932220090227 ` Click ` ` ` ` 5 LATAM ` ` ____________________________________________________________ ` Chile Codelco 2008 copper output down 7.4 percent ` Fri Feb 27, 2009 9:44am EST ` "biggest copper miner in the world" ` Miner? ` COME OFF IT! CORPORATION ` One with "labor disruptions" ` ____________________________________________________________ ` http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSN2733537320090227 ` Click ` ` ` ` ____________________________________________________________ ` GUADELOUPE ` Feb 27, 3:04 AM EST ` Guadeloupe unions win raises but strike goes on ` "The union leaders quickly turned their attention to unset- tled issues of raises for thousands more workers and lower- ing food and energy prices many times higher than those on the French mainland." ` ____________________________________________________________ ` http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CB_FRENCH_CARIBBEAN_UNREST?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2009-02-27-03-04-07 ` Click ` ` ` ` 6 SUPERPOWER et al ` ` ____________________________________________________________ ` Feb 27, 8:25 AM EST ` Violence between repo men, car owners on the rise ` "Since [car owner Jimmy] Tanks' death last June, two...repo men from the same [repo] company...were shot, one fatally." ` MY CAR, NOT YOURS ` ____________________________________________________________ ` http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/R/REPO_VIOLENCE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2009-02-27-08-25-46 ` Click ` ` ` ____________________________________________________________ ` Feb 27, 9:08 PM EST ` Neb. court upholds firing of trooper for Klan link [Knights Party] ` "[Robert] Henderson, a trooper for 18 years, was dismissed in 2006 after the patrol discovered he had joined a racist group." ` "An arbitrator said Henderson's firing violated his First Amendment rights..., but [a] Lancaster County District Judge ...overturned that decision." ` ____________________________________________________________ ` http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/N/NEBRASKA_TROOPER_RACISM?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2009-02-27-11-22-42 ` Click ` ` ` ____________________________________________________________ ` US feedyards suffer as hamburgers replace steaks ` Fri Feb 27, 2009 8:03am EST ` "The United States is somewhat unique amid global beef producers in that most of its cattle are fattened in feed- yards on grain and other nutrients, as opposed to grazing on lush pastures." ` ____________________________________________________________ ` http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSN2338909420090227?sp=true ` Click ` ` ` ____________________________________________________________ ` Canada current account swings into deficit ` Fri Feb 27, 2009 8:54am EST ` "for the first time in nearly a decade as the...crisis crippled demand for oil and other natural resources ex- ported by the country." ` ____________________________________________________________ ` http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSN2725769620090227 ` Click ` ` ` ` 7 $$$$ ` ` ____________________________________________________________ ` U.S. Treasury release on Citigroup [arrangement] ` Fri Feb 27, 2009 8:54am EST ` ____________________________________________________________ ` http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE51Q2AU20090227 ` Click ` ` ` ____________________________________________________________ ` Yahoo CEO reorganizes company ` Fri Feb 27, 2009 1:17am GMT ` "It posted a fourth-quarter net loss of $303 million, while sales fell 1 percent from a year earlier to $1.8 billion." ` ____________________________________________________________ ` http://uk.reuters.com/article/businessNews/idUKTRE51O83V20090227?sp=true ` Click ` ` ` ____________________________________________________________ ` GE Cuts Dividend [68 percent] as [CEO] Immelt Seeks to Safe- guard AAA [credit rating] ` Feb. 27 ` "cut its annual dividend for the first time since 1938" ` THE GREAT TRUMPET IS ANNOUNCING THE END ` ____________________________________________________________ ` http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=agPCpFyUboRs&refer=home ` Click ` ` ` ` ==== ` ` Oreo Archive: ` http://groups.yahoo.com/group/O-r-e-o ` Click ` `
