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Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Apr 6, 2009

  UK's Brown to call in banks on imposing G20 rules on tax havens

LONDON, England (Reuters): Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Sunday he would be calling in the heads of British banks to discuss how new international rules on supervision of tax havens agreed at the G20 will be implemented. He said this process would start on Monday with an initial meeting...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Apr 2, 2009

  OECD names and shames tax havens

PARIS, France (AFP): The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development on Thursday named those tax havens it said had not made any commitment to respecting international standards on exchanging tax information. After the agreement at the G20 summit in London earlier Thursday to act...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Mar 24, 2009

  Is London preparing for Plagues of Egypt?

MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator Andrei Fedyashin) - If one looks at London a week before the most important summit of the day, the G20 meeting in the elegant Docklands area on April 1 and 2, they would wonder what the British capital is preparing for, a summit of the world's leading...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Mar 5, 2009

  British PM calls for ban on tax havens

WASHINGTON, USA (AFP): British Prime Minister Gordon Brown Wednesday took aim at tax havens suggesting they should be outlawed just a few weeks before he hosts the G20 summit in London. "You are also restructuring your banks. So are we," Brown said in a landmark address to the US Congress...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Feb 21, 2009

  The Quakers - the unsung heroes of the Black Emancipation

By Jean H Charles: The persona of Barack Obama, a product of a white mother and a black father, as the president of the United States, is a fitting vista to recognize, acknowledge and celebrate the contribution of the Quakers to the emancipation of the black population of America. The...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Nov 19, 2008

  Washington summit: converting G8 into G20?

MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator Andrei Fedyashin) - On November 14-15, 2008, Washington, D.C. hosted the G20 Leaders Summit on Financial Strategy and the World Economy. The summit achieved general agreement on how to cooperate in key areas to strengthen economic growth, deal with the...... [view]

Posted By:  CWBloggers
Posted On:  Oct 12, 2008

  Harper/Cameron/McCain: Canada’s role in a new world order

What would Canada’s role in the world look like if two Tory parties and one  Republican party were to win enough votes to form government in Canada, in the United Kingdom and in the United States? Would Canada continue to shift its peacekeeper activities to more military ventures? ...... [view]

Posted By:  satisshroff
Posted On:  Aug 12, 2008

  Drinking Darjeeling in England (Satis Shroff, Freiburg im Breisgau)

Drinking Darjeeling Tea in England (Satis Shroff, Germany) Beware the Ides of September Manchester will be a milestone In Gordon Brown’s polit-life. Your economic ‘competence’ Has become an Achilles heel, Your weak point. The people’s party of New Labour Wants to get rid of...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Jul 16, 2008

  THE POWERLESS POWERS

Reflections of Fidel: THIS is a serious subject. The summit meeting of leaders of the eight most highly industrialized powers on the planet took place July 7-9 at a mountain retreat on the banks of the Toyako, a lake formed inside a volcanic crater located in the north of the island of...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Jun 14, 2008

  The Bahamas Christian Council Has Done, or Is Doing Very Little In The Way of Providing Moral and Spiritual Initiatives for The Uplifting of the People of The Commonwealth of The Bahamas

Is the BCC failing? By SHAVAUGHN MOSS, Lifestyles Editor - Nassau, Bahamas: The recent abrupt change in leadership, and the silence of the Bahamas Christian Council (BCC) on major social issues facing the nation is cause for grave concern to its effectiveness, according to Reverend J....... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Apr 22, 2008

  Peace and prosperity

Reflections of Fidel: POPE Benedict XVI outshone Brown, the British Prime Minister, who replaced Blair, whom I met and spoke with for a few minutes during a recess at the WTO Second Conference in Geneva 10 years ago; it was following his speech and I was expressing my disagreement on the...... [view]

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