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Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Jan 23, 2012

  French Senate Outlaws Genocide Denial

  PARIS, January 24 (RIA Novosti):     France’s upper house of parliament, the Senate, passed a bill late on Monday making the denial of genocide a crime punishable by a 45,000-euro fine and a year in jail. The bill that sets the country...... [view]

Posted By:  salvation
Posted On:  Jan 10, 2010

  US Senate Invites Mutallab Senior

The on-going trial of Umar Farouk Abdul-Mutallab, the 23-year old Nigerian accused of plotting to blow up a US airliner on Christmas day took a new twist at the weekend as the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations invited his father, 70-year-old banker, Alhaji Umar Mutallab to...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Oct 15, 2009

  Travolta Extortion Trial Bahamas: Pleasant Bridgewater Professed Her Innocence and Claimed She was the Victim of a Set-up by People She Trusted, Including the Official Opposition (PLP) Senate Leader Allyson Maynard-Gibson

By JUAN MCCARTNEY ~ Guardian Senior Reporter ~ juan@nasguard.com: An emotional Pleasant Bridgewater yesterday held back tears as she professed her innocence and claimed she was the victim of a set-up by people she trusted, including PLP Senate leader Allyson Maynard-Gibson, who she said told...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Feb 26, 2009

  House votes to ease limits on Cuba trade, travel

By Susan Cornwell: WASHINGTON, USA (Reuters): US restrictions on trade with Cuba and family travel to the island would be eased under legislation passed by the House of Representatives on Wednesday but the changes could encounter trouble in the Senate. Supporters hope congressional...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Feb 23, 2009

  Time to rethink US sanctions on Cuba, says top Republican senator

WASHINGTON, USA (AFP): The time is right for reevaluating US sanctions on Cuba, the top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee says in a new report, calling for allowing Cuba to buy US goods on credit, US media reported Sunday. Republican Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana's...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Jan 26, 2009

  BEWARE OBAMA’S TROJAN HORSE

By Dick Morris And Eileen McGann: Now that Obama is the president, fasten your seat belts. During his first year in office, and particularly during his first hundred days, we are about to witness the most prodigious output of legislation since 1981-2 (under Reagan), 1964-5 (under Johnson),...... [view]

Posted By:  ighih
Posted On:  Oct 3, 2008

  “I have always supported clean coal”

That Joe Biden felt the need to state and re-state that he has always been a supporter of clean coal in last night’s VP debate is almost as disturbing as the fact itself. There is a tremendous opportunity for change with next month’s election, but it won’t come overnight...... [view]

Posted By:  CWBloggers
Posted On:  Jul 29, 2008

  One Senator’s Call to Arms

Senator Elaine McCoy wrote an op-ed in ‘The Hill Times’ today that is well worth a read. In it, she calls for political unity and an end to partisan bickering in the face of the tremendous challenge of tackling climate change and (as she calls it) “decarbonizing our...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Jun 2, 2008

  The Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) With The European Union: "... holds no benefits for The Bahamas"

Union boss weighs in on EPA proposal: By KEVA LIGHTBOURNE, NG Senior Reporter - Nassau, Bahamas: Less than a week after scores of Bahamians participated in a peaceful demonstration in the city's center in protest of the government's proposed signing of the Economic Partnership Agreement...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  May 14, 2008

  USAID replaces corrupt Franco with ex-CANF capo

BY JEAN-GUY ALLARD—Granma International staff writer— • IN order to "solve" the systematic fraud uncovered in its accounts by a General Accountability Office (GAO) investigation a few months back, the USAID has replaced the corrupt official Adolfo Franco with none other than José...... [view]

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