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UK ’using personal loans to cover tax bills’ 09/01/2007
Personal loans may be used to help cover tax bills that are higher than they were originally expected to be, it has been suggested.
Those who are looking to fund their tax bills in this way should shop around for the best possible rate, according to Sainsbury’s Bank, a company that provides the product.
Sainsbury’s Bank draws attention to HM Revenue & Customs findings which show that 900,000 people missed last year’s tax (…)

’Blair a war criminal’ 09 January, 2007
Putra Jaya: Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad said British Prime Minister Tony Blair is as much a war criminal as he (Blair) accused hanged former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein of being one.
The former Prime Minister MALAYSIA said the number of people Blair caused to be killed was "very many more" than the number Saddam caused to be killed.
"Mr Blair has not said a word (on the hanging). Whether he says a word or not, he is a culprit. He is as much (…)

The New Bush Plan
By Peter Fredson
January 10, 2007
Ever since the elections of November 2006, George Bush has struggled against reality by immersing himself in a “listening” frenzy with his ears turned only toward advice coinciding with his own flawed judgment. Now, it seems he has come up with a plan to ensure victory and success in Iraq.
From all indications he is going to let the Iraqis take the blame. That is, provided the Iraqis are grateful to Bush and his neocons for (…)

Why America Needs a Good Smacking Around: Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? "Half the Truth is often a great Lie." Ben Franklin
Friends, Romans & Betrodden Countrypeople: Now that the "Decider in Chief" has crashed our "superpower" into the ancient culture of Babylon, he appears prepared to smash our entire country even deeper into the Bear Trap of Iraq. I tell you, country of wealth and stupidity, if this had been a Roman emperor— wait a minute, it basically is! As Mark Twain said: (…)

“Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization.” - Eugene V. Debs
Washington, D.C. - On Jan. 4, 2007, at the National Press Club, the World Can’t Wait organization put on a first rate program, entitled, “Voices for Impeachment.” (1) It featured speakers, like: “Peace Mom” Cindy Sheehan, pundit John Nichols of “The Nation,” activist Sunsara Taylor from World Can’t Wait, Michael Ratner, Esq., of the Center for Constitutional Rights, and the man who released the “Pentagon (…)

Defiant activists in march to shut down Guantanamo Havana January 8, 2007
ANTI-WAR activist Cindy Sheehan has defied a US ban on travel to Cuba, flying to Havana to join protesters demanding the closure of the Guantanamo Bay prison camp for terrorism suspects.
Ms Sheehan will join a march to the US naval base in eastern Cuba where about 395 suspected al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters are being held.
The march is part of planned international protests against the prison camp on Thursday, (…)

By Nicola Nasser*
Revealing both the double standards of U.S. policies and the propaganda-oriented Israeli advocacy of “minority rights” in the Arab world, the U.S.-allied Iraqi Kurdish and sectarian leaders reacted angrily to James Baker-Lee Hamilton report because it recommended what they perceived as a possible American retract from federalism in Iraq and the Israeli Jews condemned as a catastrophic declaration of war an Israeli Arabs’ “future visions” because those visions could lead (…)

A position statement by Francis Wurtz, Member of the European Parliament (MEP) and president of the Confederal Group of the United European Left/Nordic Green Left (GUE/NGL)
"The year 2007, especially during its first half, weighed heavily in the struggle to determine the direction of a future European treaty. I recall that the European Council of Heads of State and Government assigned to the German EU presidency (which covers the first half of 2007) the task of opening a process of talks (…)

by teresa simon-noble
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The image of Cindy Sheehan’s arrival in Cuba, followed by Medea Benjamin, Tiffany Burns, Adele Welty and Ann Wright, these good, honest Americans who happen to believe in integrity and who happen to get it right, evokes for me so many memories of my own mother, an American woman, tall of stature and of humble heart who lived in Eastern Cuba, the Cuba I left through those very gates of that very Jose Martí International Airport some 49 years ago.
This (…)

U.S. Marines Accused of Rape
A Filipino protester wears a mask of U.S. President George W. Bush as he sits in front of a pictures of Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo in a dogs body during a rally at the University of the Philippines in suburban Quezon City, north of Manila, on Sunday Jan. 7, 2007. Philippine official, Zozimo Paredes, Visiting Forces Agreement executive director, said he has decided to resign his post after disagreeing with a government decision to abruptly (…)