Topic: War and Peace News - on March 4, 2011 at 12:30:00 PM CET
Gaddafi base Tripoli tense before Friday prayers
Embattled Libyan ruler Col Muammar Gaddafi's bastion in Tripoli is on edge amid opposition calls for protests after Friday noon prayers.
Forces loyal to Col Gaddafi have set up checkpoints in a flashpoint area of the capital, while foreign journalists were barred from leaving their hotel.
Government forces have launched new air strikes on rebel territory in the east.
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Topic: War and Peace News - on March 4, 2011 at 12:23:00 PM CET
If you can not reach people in Tripoli, this is because all communications are cut ahead of planned protests in the next hour
Tripoli: reporters are not allowed to leave hotel ahead of expected protests, all coms and net down in the city
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Topic: ART - on March 4, 2011 at 11:03:00 AM CET
Art & Agenda: Political Artbook
Alain hat auf Rebelart grade sein erstes Buch angekündigt, erscheint in ein paar Wochen im Gestaltenverlag und handelt von politischer Kunst. Sieht genauso aus wie etwas, das ich mir unbedingt ins Regal stellen muss.
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Topic: POLITIK - on March 4, 2011 at 10:59:00 AM CET
Oil prices rise again on further Libyan fighting
Oil prices rose more than a dollar this morning as fighting in Libya intensified.
Brent crude climbed as high as $116.20 a barrel, up over 1%, amid fears that the crisis could spread from North Africa to oil-rich countries in the Gulf. A Libyan warplane dropped bombs just beyond the walls of a military base held by rebels in the eastern town of Ajdabiyah but did not hit it, Reuters reported.
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Topic: War and Peace News - on March 4, 2011 at 10:27:00 AM CET
Some would think otherwise. How about cutting aid to countries who send mercs?
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Topic: War and Peace News - on March 4, 2011 at 9:49:00 AM CET
Audio: Libya Bloody Libya tells the news in a U2-way
Dedicated to the people of Libya, fighting for democracy and freedom.Spread this audio, spread the message of peace, freedom and democracy.Spread the human rights.
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Topic: POLITIK - on March 4, 2011 at 9:30:00 AM CET
Elfenbeinküste: Sorge vor neuem Bürgerkrieg
Der UNO-Sicherheitsrat hat seine Besorgnis über ein „Wiederaufflammen des Bürgerkriegs“ in der Elfenbeinküste geäußert. Das Gremium verurteilte gestern „Drohungen, Zerstörungen und sinnlose Gewalt“ und rief alle Parteien zur Zurückhaltung auf.
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Topic: POLITIK - on March 4, 2011 at 9:26:00 AM CET
Ivory Coast president cuts off power and water to north
Millions of people in rebel-controlled region left without vital supplies as country moves towards civil war
The Ivory Coast president, Laurent Gbagbo, has cut off electricity and water supplies to millions of people in the north of the country "for political reasons", the UN has said.
The national power company reported that armed men entered its buildings on Monday night and ordered the shutdown, the latest step in an increasingly violent move towards civil war.
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Topic: War and Peace News - on March 4, 2011 at 9:05:00 AM CET
there are no tribes in Libya neither a civil war, there are Anti-Gaddafi & Pro-Gaddafi. that's all.
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Topic: War and Peace News - on March 4, 2011 at 9:03:00 AM CET
LSE head quits over Gaddafi scandal
A deepening row over the London School of Economics and its dealings with the Gaddafi regime has claimed the career of the university's director. Sir Howard Davies resigned after fresh revelations that the institution had been involved in a deal worth £2.2m to train hundreds of young Libyans to become part of the country's future elite.
An independent inquiry headed by Lord Woolf, a former lord chief justice, will examine the LSE's relationship with Libya and with Muammar Gaddafi's son Saif al-Islam. It will also establish guidelines for international donations to the university.
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Topic: POLITIK - on March 3, 2011 at 3:24:00 PM CET
Hillary Clinton declares international information war
The US is losing the global information war, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton declared while appearing before a congressional committee to ask for extra funds to spread US propaganda through new media.
Clinton said existing private channels are not good enough to handle the job, naming as rivals Al Jazeera, China's CCTV and RT – which she watches, she added.
Clinton was defending her department’s budget in front of the House’s Committee on Foreign Affairs on Wednesday.
Clinton said the US should step up its propaganda effort and get back “in the game” of doing “what we do best.”
“During the Cold War we did a great job in getting America’s message out. After the Berlin Wall fell we said, ‘Okay, fine, enough of that, we are done,’ and unfortunately we are paying a big price for it,” she said. “Our private media cannot fill that gap.”
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Topic: War and Peace News - on March 3, 2011 at 10:16:00 AM CET
22 Milliarden in Österreich? - Nur kleiner Teil gesperrt
Ein Vertrauter des Clans und hochrangiger Manager soll sich vor rund eineinhalb Wochen nach Wien abgesetzt haben. Mustafa Zarti, der Vizechef des libyschen Staatsfonds Libyan Investment Authority (LIA), besitze einen österreichischen Pass, berichtete die „Presse“ (Donnerstag-Ausgabe) vorab unter Berufung auf einen ehemaligen Vertrauten Al-Gaddafis.
Nur kleiner Teil gesperrt?
Der Clan habe allein in Österreich rund 30 Milliarden Dollar (21,7 Mrd. Euro) veranlagt, schätzt der von der „Presse“ zitierte Insider. Damit beträf die am Dienstag durch die Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB) erfolgte Sperre von möglichen österreichischen Konten Al-Gaddafis, seiner Familienmitglieder und Vertrauten nur einen Bruchteil des tatsächlichen Vermögens des Al-Gaddafi-Clans hierzulande. In Österreich liege der Großteil des Al-Gaddafi-Geldes offenbar in Stiftungen, hieß es.
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