North America is currently experiencing a particularly severe and protracted cold snap resulting in major car accidents, a state of emergency, sharks freezing to death and even now Niagara Falls is experiencing the Arctic blast. The water of the majestic falls themselves has yet to succumb to the polar winds, but the surrounding area […]
Posts Tagged ‘freezes’
"It’s Unprecedented": Bank Of New York Freezes $23 Billion In Kazakh Assets
Overnight, Bank of New York Mellon said it had frozen $22.6 billion in assets held by Kazakhstan’s National Oil Fund in a rare move that escalates a legal battle between the government and a Moldovan investor. According to Reuters, Moldova’s Anatolie Stati and his companies had earlier won damages against the Kazakh government, and his […]
EU Explores Account Freezes To Prevent Runs At Failing Banks
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Union states are considering measures which would allow them to temporarily stop people withdrawing money from their accounts to prevent bank runs, an EU document reviewed by Reuters revealed. The move is aimed at helping rescue lenders that are deemed failing or likely to fail, but critics say it could hit […]
US Sanctions 271 Syrians, Freezes Their US Assets
Two weeks after launching missile strikes on Syria, the U.S. Treasury announced it has sanctioned 271 employees of Syria’s Scientific Studies and Research Center in response to the alleged sarin attack conducted by the Assad regime on Kahn Sheikhoun. It’s one of the largest sanction actions in U.S. history. The action was […]
Geo-Politics: Indian Ocean conundrum
Over the past decade, the Indian Ocean Region (IOR), has emerged as the new focus of attention in the ever shifting geo-political and strategic struggle for dominance. With the growing clout of India and China in the global arena, the world superpowers, particularly the US, have had their attention drawn to the trade and […]
Colombian Ex-President Uribe Made Involuntary Appearance In Wiretap
Christof Lehmann (nsnbc) : Former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe made an involuntary appearance in an audio from a wiretap ordered by the Supreme Court. he court is currently investigating Uribe’s alleged involvement in a massacre committed by paramilitaries in 1997. During his presidency Uribe was notorious for wiretapping anyone who deemed a threat, including the […]
US Weapons Fuel Colombia’s Neo-Paramilitaries
nsnbc : Colombia’s National Police announced that it had intercepted a shipment of 20 M-4 assault rifles that had been legally purchased in the United States and shipped to Colombia. While the Colombian government and left-wing guerrilla FARC and ELN are engaged in ending 51 years of civil war, the greatest security threat is currently posed […]
Blowing in the wind: how to stop cow burps warming Earth
Ruminant animals emit methane, a gas that is more than 20 times more efficient than carbon dioxide in trapping the sun’s heat At her farm nestled in the green hills of northwestern France, Marie-Francoise Brizard is helping to curb a planet-wide menace: farting and belching cows implicated in global warming. So far this year, Brizard […]
US Congress freezes $200 million in aid to Palestinians
AFP October 2, 2011 WASHINGTON (AFP) – Key US lawmakers are blocking about $200 million in Palestinian aid in response to the territories’ UN statehood bid, congressional aides said Saturday. Members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee have frozen the funding “until the Palestinian statehood issue is sorted […]
As Turkey Freezes Israel Ties, Critics Decry “Whitewashed” U.N. Report on Gaza Flotilla, Blockade
Guests:Huwaida Arraf, chairperson of the Free Gaza Movement and co-founder of the International Solidarity Movement. She was on one of six ships that were in the Gaza flotilla when the Mavi Marmara was attacked. Norman Finkelstein, author of several books on the Israel-Palestine conflict, including “This Time We Went Too Far”: Truth Consequences of the […]