Uploaded by RussiaToday on 23 Sep 2011
If only UN walls could talk, center stage drama would be their story. Once a year, for about ten days, the United Nations becomes mecca for world leaders. From the confrontational, to the surprising, to the outright wacky -- the UN GA pilgrimage never fails to impress. What happens in the Big Apple becomes a mirror image of the engaging game politics can be. Over 190 members make up the General Assembly. To get attention, leaders have to get creative.
How a man from Canada - a 'human rights lawyer' - has tried to stop David Icke and so many others having the right to express their freedom of speech.Does anyone know anything that we should know about Richard Warman? If so contact ... PR@davidicke.comHere is a documentary on David Icke and featuring Warman in 2001 (not all that is said in the reporter's commentary about David Icke is correct).
Police swooped on a series of homes in Plymouth after officers uncovered a cache of weapons, suspicious devices and suspected extremist material during a search.The three men and two women were held under the Terrorism Act over the last three days, Devon and Cornwall Police said.
They are being questioned over claims they planned to target the meeting of the world's most powerful political leaders in London later this week.
Scotland Yard officers are liaising with investigators in south west England over the suspected plot.
The demonstrators, who were enraged by their government's handling of the financial crisis, pelted Geir Haarde's car with eggs and drink cans.
The protests have become a regular feature of life in the country's capital, Reykjavik, since the reopening of parliament after the Christmas break.
Full Telegraph report here Or scoll down the right side for the news feed
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
UK Telegraph
Events are moving fast in Europe. The worst riots since the fall of Communism have swept the Baltics and the south Balkans. An incipient crisis is taking shape in the Club Med bond markets. S&P has cut Greek debt to near junk. Spanish, Portuguese, and Irish bonds are on negative watch.
Dublin has nationalised Anglo Irish Bank with its half-built folly on North Wall Quay and €73bn (£65bn) of liabilities, moving a step nearer the line where markets probe the solvency of the Irish state.
A great ring of EU states stretching from Eastern Europe down across Mare Nostrum to the Celtic fringe are either in a 1930s depression already or soon will be. Greece’s social fabric is unravelling before the pain begins, which bodes ill.
Each is a victim of ill-judged economic policies foisted upon them by elites in thrall to Europe’s monetary project – either in EMU or preparing to join – and each is trapped.
As UKIP leader Nigel Farage put it in a rare voice of dissent at the euro’s 10th birthday triumph in Strasbourg, EMU-land has become a Völker-Kerker – a “prison of nations”, to borrow from the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
This week, Riga’s cobbled streets became a war zone. Protesters armed with blocks of ice smashed up Latvia’s finance ministry. Hundreds tried to force their way into the legislature, enraged by austerity cuts.
