Sunday, March 21, 2010

Margot B Newsletter: March

TOP STORIES



The banking industry is a classic case of the tail wagging the dog. The real problem happens when the tail has no regard for the welfare of the dog. We passed that point in the 1980s and only now we are seeing the effects of making that decision.







Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (L) and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov


The most dependable car probably is not what you think.

WORLD



INTERVIEW-US graft report angers Haiti amid quake recovery


Tens of thousands of Italians have been taking part in a protest in Rome's main square against the government of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.

EU facing biggest crisis in history - Czech president Klaus


U S


 



By Rick Rozoff


CANADA



Cpl. Dan Moskaluk: ‘We can confirm that one person is dead and that 12 people have been injured’
 

AMERICAS




MIDDLE EAST/ASIA


 

As PM, the party’s leader enacts policies that halve poverty. The established elites fight back, eventually staging a military coop. ‘We had to stop democracy to save democracy’, they say.

AFRICA



In case anyone needed further evidence that President Paul Kagame’s Rwanda is the Pentagon’s proxy, 140 Rwandan police are about to undertake special training before heading to Haiti, as reported in the Rwanda New Times.

HEALTH


 

MARKETS/BUSINESS



 
 

 

SCIENCE/ENVIRONMENT



from Carolyn Baker

 



 
The use of antibiotics in agribusiness is a hot topic at present, as are safety concerns over the preparation of beef in school lunch programs, some treated with ammonia to kill E.coli bacteria and reduced to ‘pink slime’.

OP ED


 


 

By Madelyn Hoffman


 
Questions about U.S. military presence in Haiti. Is it what the Haitians really need?

VIDEOS



My comment: Bear with the opening which is Hugo Chavez speaking in Spanish. It quickly moves to Cindy speaking in English.
 


TECH


Hackers have flooded the Internet with virus–tainted spam that targets Facebook’s estimated 400 million users in an effort to steal banking passwords and gather other sensitive information.
 

 

FEATURES


So, let’s see… When we (all) talk about Hitler, why is it that there  is no excusing him or anything he has ever done to others, but with the  governments of north and south america, we, as citizens, are told that  we must simply ‘turn the page’ and ‘move on’…

Luc Majno

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