Archive for October 14th, 2005
Venezuela seeks to eject the New Tribes Mission, claiming it harbours CIA agents.
BBC - President Hugo Chavez said on Wednesday that the New Tribes Mission would have to leave because it had been sharing sensitive information with the CIA.
The missionaries said they respected Venezuela’s laws and their only goal was to help its indigenous peoples.
The [...]
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October 14th, 2005
Björn Hallberg
A borderline dorky new metaorganization that will oversee all human espionage operations. Does that sound like a bad idea after the experiences of DHS? Most likely aimed at controlling dissent and molding so called intelligence, the by far likeliest outcome is that, like with DHS, the US will actually come out weakened. Which is nominally [...]
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October 14th, 2005
Björn Hallberg
At least the reformed entity will still contain safe guards. But the prospect of free flowing capital, especially at non fixed exchange rates abroad may spell trouble.
BBC - The final hurdle had been the upper house of parliament. It was this house which voted down an earlier reform bill in August, prompting Mr Koizumi to [...]
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October 14th, 2005
Björn Hallberg