Daily Archives: 22. April 2013


22.04.2013 - 19:06 [ Trend ]

UK blocks Shell paying Iran oil debt in food, medicine

Britain has blocked efforts by oil major Royal Dutch Shell to settle a $2.3 billion debt it owes Iran by paying in kind with grains or pharmaceuticals, industry sources said, Reuters reported.

Shell has been trying for months to find a way to work around international sanctions that prevent it paying in currency for crude it bought from the National Iranian Oil Company before a European Union embargo on Iran that started last July.

22.04.2013 - 17:45 [ Ansa ]

‚It‘s us or them now‘ says Grillo on return of Napolitano

„It‘s us or them now; the choice is simple,“ he wrote Monday. „Those who are now appointed to the command of the nation are responsible for its destruction“. Grillo may be joined in his opposition by the PD‘s left wing, which could refuse to back this new government amid strong grass-root anger at leadership bungling and wider public disaffection with a discredited political class.

22.04.2013 - 17:42 [ Ansa ]

Napolitano wiretaps destroyed: Mafia investigators ‚went too far‘ in recording president

Mancino was charged along with 11 other people in July in relation to alleged negotiations to stop a series of Cosa Nostra bomb attacks in the early 1990s that claimed the lives of anti-Mafia judges Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino in 1992, among other people.
Mancino is accused of perjury for saying he did not know about the negotiations.

22.04.2013 - 17:24 [ Truthout ]

Will a Legal Defender of Terror Suspects Die of Cancer in Prison?

Lynne Stewart, in the vindictive and hysterical world of the war on terror, is one of its martyrs. A 73-year-old lawyer who spent her life defending the poor, the marginalized and the despised, including blind cleric Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, she fell afoul of the state apparatus because she dared to demand justice rather than acquiesce to state sponsored witch hunts.

22.04.2013 - 17:01 [ Gazetta del Sud ]

SEL ´will oppose left-right govt´

The key ally of the riven centre-left Democratic Party (PD), Left Ecology and Freedom (SEL), said Monday it would join the opposition if the PD teamed up with centre-right leader Silvio Berlusconi‘s People of Freedom (PdL) party in a left-right administration to break Italy‘s 55-day post-election stalemate.

22.04.2013 - 16:54 [ Truthout ]

TransPacific Partnership Will Undermine Democracy, Empower Transnational Corporations

Our country‘s democratic values could be under threat if President Obama fast tracks the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

On critical issues, the massive Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) being negotiated in secret by the Obama administration will undermine democracy in the United States and around the world and further empower transnational corporations.

22.04.2013 - 16:42 [ Tech Dirt ]

Somewhere Everywhere, Big Brother Is Smiling: Congress Sells Your Privacy For A Cool $84 Million

[A] new coalition of special interests, which include America‘s two largest cellular service providers AT&T, Inc. and Verizon Wireless — jointly owned by Verizon Communications Inc. and Vodafone Group Plc. — as well as two of the nation‘s largest software firms Microsoft Corp. and Intel Corp., came together to create a similar data grab bill (Microsoft has since renounced its support). Security firms like Symantec Corp. also backed the bill.

Pushing the bill through was $84M USD in funding from special interest backers.

22.04.2013 - 16:37 [ The Newspaper ]

US Supreme Court Strikes Down Warrantless DUI Blood Draw

America‘s top court does not want cops forcibly extracting blood from motorists without a warrant. The Supreme Court on Wednesday found Tyler McNeely‘s constitutional rights were violated when he was taken to a hospital for a blood draw after a Missouri state patrolman accused him of driving under the influence of alcohol (DUI) in October 2010.