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November 06, 2007 |
Security and prosperity?
Globe and Mail (UK)
U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez seemed almost embarrassed as he paused during a speech last week to set the record straight about his country's Security and Prosperity Partnership with Canada and Mexico. |
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November 01, 2007 |
Law of the Sea Treaty sails ahead
Worldnet Daily
The United Nations' Law of the Sea Treaty, a wide-ranging measure critics say will grant the U.N. control of the 70 percent of the planet under its oceans, is now headed to the full Senate for ratification -- The measure passed the Senate Foreign Relations committee today by a 17-4 vote. |
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October 29, 2007 |
Trilateral Commissioners hear of Kosovo independence
Worldnet Daily
Kosovo's mostly Albanian, mostly Muslim activists will declare independence for the Serbian province before Christmas, a leader told the super-secret internationalists at the Trilateral Commission over the weekend.
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October 26, 2007 |
Europeans Clueless About New EU Treaty
Angus Reid Global Monitor
he majority of people in five European countries are completely oblivious as to what a new European Union (EU) treaty entails, according to a poll by Harris Interactive published in the Financial Times. Over 60 per cent of respondents in Britain, Italy and Germany are not at all familiar with the newly proposed document, and more than half of those in Spain and France are also totally uninformed about it.
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October 23, 2007 |
Chinese Firm To Buy Big Stake In Bear Stearns
Washington Post
China's Citic Securities would acquire up to a 9.9 percent stake in Bear Stearns under a joint venture that marks the first time an entity controlled by the Beijing government has obtained a significant stake in a major Wall Street investment bank.
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October 22, 2007 |
Feds outsource Mexican truck safety
Worldnet Daily
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has delegated key inspection requirements for Mexican trucks to a non-governmental trilateral trade association, whose goal is to impose North American standards on all commercial motor vehicles operating in Mexico, Canada, and the United States. |
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October 21, 2007 |
World Bank chief calls for new direction for lender
Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - World Bank President Robert Zoellick on Sunday called on the bank's 185 member nations to back a new direction for the poverty-fighting institution and give the private sector a bigger role in helping poor nations. |
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October 19, 2007 |
George Bush's deference to international law
Worldnet Daily
A case now before the U.S. Supreme Court proves why the Senate must defeat the United Nations' Law of the Sea Treaty. The oral arguments heard this month by the justices didn't mention the treaty, but the parallels are powerful. |
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October 18, 2007 |
Hillary's Mystery Money Men
The Nation
In the Clintons' pursuit of power, there is no such thing as a strange bedfellow. One recently exposed inamorata was Norman Hsu, the mysterious businessman from Hong Kong who brought in $850,000 to Hillary Clinton's campaign before being unmasked as a fugitive. |
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October 17, 2007 |
Scandal Rocks U.N. Sea Treaty Organization
Acuracy In Media
The dramatic case, Sam-Thambiah against the Secretary-General of the International Seabed Authority, involves allegations of sexual harassment and pornography. One side charges “distortions and fabrications.” The other side alleges “mismanagement and irregularities.” What makes this case unique is that it involves the shadowy world of a U.N.-affiliated agency that the U.S. Senate is poised to provide with millions of dollars through ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). |
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