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Global
economy
Next
week's summit is make or break time for the European Union.
Calling
London a haven of regulatory loopholes that spawns financial trading
disasters could make it harder to align new transatlantic rules,
figures in London’s financial and legal circles said on
Wednesday.
If
you want to be scared, truly terrified, listen to Mark J. Grant.
He might be right
The global banking system is 'dead' and people need to push out from what he called "banking terrorists" and stand up for themselves, according to Max Keiser, the host of RT's Keiser Report.
“People have to stand up and realize that no one’s going to help them"
Military/intelligence
War
crimes warning on American air strikes
The
United States' use of drone strikes to carry out targeted
killings presents a challenge to the system of international law
that has endured since World War II, a United Nations
investigator has said.
A
DEFIANT Moscow has announced that a cargo ship would
deliver weapons to Syria under the Russian national flag despite
being forced to abandon its voyage when Britain
withdrew insurance cover.
AT
least 26 regime supporters were killed in an ambush in the northern
province of Aleppo on Friday, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory
for Human Rights said.
An
online video showed more than a dozen bloodied corpses, some of them
piled atop each other and in military uniforms, dumped beside a
road in northern Syria in what the government Friday called a
mass killing by rebel forces.
Turkey's
government has called an emergency security meeting amid reports that
one of its fighter jets was shot down by Syrian security forces.
After
reports that the US designed the greatest cyber viruses in history
with Flame and Stuxnet, Washington faces a predicament in justifying
the duality in its cyber policy and defending its anti-piracy
rhetoric.
r
Raja
Pervez Ashraf secures premiership in national assembly after a court
issues arrest warrant for the first candidate.
Environmental/disasters
Five
genetic tweaks made a deadly strain of bird flu that can infect
humans spread more easily, according to a study that the U.S.
government had first sought to censor on concerns it could be used by
bioterrorists.
An
Asian century, an urban century — the rise of the East and the role
of such expansive urban giants as Shanghai are emblematic of popular
assessments of where the world's economy is heading
Not
too many signs of this in the headlines - the world doesn't care
---RW
Civil
unrest/revolution
Rising
anger at measures designed to tackle Sudan's economic crisis as
demonstrations gather pace in capital.
Energy/resources
Government
receives $1.7bn in winning bids to drill in new areas of Gulf of
Mexico, scene of BP's 2010 oil disaster.
Middle
East/North Africa
Rebels
who took the generals at their word have played into their
hands, writes Paul McGeough.
Cairo's
iconic square once again seething with anger as Egyptians anxiously
await delayed results of presidential poll.
TOO
contaminated to drink and never in continuous supply because of
daily power shortages, the water in Gaza is causing chronic
health problems and contributing to high rates of child mortality
Europe
The
global banking system is 'dead' and people need to push out from what
he called "banking terrorists" and stand up for themselves,
according to Max Keiser, the host of RT's Keiser Report.
“People
have to stand up and realize that no one’s going to help them"
Home
owners and businesses face having to pay higher interest rates
following a downgrade in the credit ratings of Britain’s
biggest banks, analysts warned on Thursday.
Japan
Japan
passed a new amendment to its copyright laws on Friday, making
illegal downloads punishable with serious jail terms for the first
time. The new law comes into effect in October.
USA
NSA
won't say how many Americans they've spied on; cite "privacy"
concerns
Want
to know if the US government has gone through your emails and
listened in on your phone calls?
Australia/NZ
AN
INCREASING number of people in NSW are being shut out of the
justice system because they are refused legal aid and are too poor
to pay for a lawyer.
Fury
over state job cuts (Victoria)
Geoscience
Australia says the minor earthquake which struck the central-west of
New South Wales last night is unlikely to have caused damage.
Media/internet
Australia's
two biggest media groups, Fairfax and News Ltd, this week announced
huge changes to the way they will operate
Kim
Dotcom Gets Last Laugh
--RW
Whistleblower
Julian Assange has accused the UK and Sweden of conspiring to trap
him in England while US authorities make a legal case against him. He
said the Australian government has abandoned him by refusing to
intervene in his extradition.
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