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September 22, 2007 |
Collecting of Details on Travelers Documented
Washington Post
The U.S. government is collecting electronic records on the travel habits of millions of Americans who fly, drive or take cruises abroad, retaining data on the persons with whom they travel or plan to stay, the personal items they carry during their journeys, and even the books that travelers have carried, according to documents obtained by a group of civil liberties advocates and statements by government officials. |
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September 21, 2007 |
Mexican official urges North American Union
Worldnet Daily
At a Denver conference on intercontinental trade corridors, a Mexican mayor called for a swift move toward a European Union-style merger of the U.S., Canada and Mexico. |
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September 21, 2007 |
Carlyle sells stake to Abu Dhabi
Guardian
The American private equity firm Carlyle Group has sold a 7.5% stake in itself to an investment arm of the Abu Dhabi government for $1.35bn (£670m) in a step widely seen as a move towards a flotation. |
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September 20, 2007 |
Dubai buys 20% of Nasdaq Exchange
Worldnet Daily
In a complex set of transactions, Dubai is moving to acquire 19.9 percent of the Nasdaq in New York, placing the Arab government in an ownership position of the key U.S. stock exchange and raising concerns in Congress. |
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September 20, 2007 |
Dubai bourse buys stake in Nasdaq and London exchange
Int'l Herald Tribune
While American and European companies have been shelving acquisitions after jitters in the credit market dried up potential financing, oil-producing countries in the Middle East showed Thursday that they do not share the same limitations.
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September 14, 2007 |
Hoffa: Bush creating North American Union
Worldnet Daily
Saying he is convinced "the Bush administration has a master plan to erase all borders and to have a super-government in North America," James P. Hoffa, general president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, celebrated the Senate's 75-23 vote Tuesday night to block the Department of Transportation's Mexican truck demonstration project. |
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September 11, 2007 |
Canada preparing ports for NAFTA Superhighway
Worldnet Daily
Canada is developing Pacific ports to compete with the U.S. ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles, as well as with the Mexican ports of Manzanillo and Lazaro Cardenas, in an attempt to draw a substantial market share of the millions of containers expected to flow into North America in the coming decades from China and the Far East. |
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September 10, 2007 |
World stock markets braced for further credit woes
The Scotsman
MARKETS around the world are bracing themselves for another tough week, with new evidence that the global credit crisis is expected to continue for some time. |
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September 09, 2007 |
Worst crisis for 20 years, say banks
TimesOnline (UK)
LEADING bankers are warning of the worst crisis in the money markets for 20 years, which will come to a head this week when $113 billion (£57 billion) of commercial paper – market IOUs – comes up for refinancing. |
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September 06, 2007 |
North American Union driver's license created
Worldnet Daily
The first "North American Union" driver's license, complete with a hologram of the continent on the reverse, has been created in North Carolina. |
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