The Swiss government said it is ready to confiscate UBS client information to prevent the bank from violating secrecy laws by handing documents over to the U.S. government. The IRS is battling in a Miami court to force UBS to provide information on the accounts of 52,000 U.S.-based taxpayers. However, UBS contends that doing so would violate Swiss banking secrecy laws. Instead, the bank has chosen... 

Obama did indeed inherit some of the mess now occurring. What seems bizarre are his solutions to the situation, i.e., to make it a humungous disaster of a mess. He’s applying 1930’s solutions to the 21st century. Good luck with that, Mr. President: this is going to bear your name in some fashion or other. An Italian boy from the Bronx, Gerald Celente, has a lot to say about the disintegration... 

Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats, CDU have rejected opposition calls to accelerate the country’s nuclear phase-out. They say Germany should extend the operational life of the nation’s reactors. One day after Environment Minister Sigmar Gabriel questioned Germany’s reliance on nuclear fuel, the CDU has made it clear that it has no plans for an energy policy turnabout. On... 

There have been clashes in the Greek capital Athens between police and left-wing protesters at a rally in support of immigrants. The Greek government wants to introduce tougher measures to tackle immigration, but opposition and left-wing groups say the move will only encourage racism. Source  Read More »

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The Conservative Party has announced it intends to dish out British taxpayers’ money with ‘vouchers’ while the Labour Party has announced that it wants to give away an additional £1 billion to selected Third World countries. The Tories want to pay for private schools in India – at the same time that the Indian government has spent nearly £2 billion buying tanks and its second aircraft... 

Riots and street battles killed at least 156 people in China’s western Xinjiang province, state media said Tuesday, and injured 828 others in the deadliest ethnic unrest to hit the region in decades. Officials said the death toll was expected to rise. Police sealed off streets in parts of the provincial capital, Urumqi, after discord between ethnic Muslim Uighur people and China’s Han majority... 

Israel has a sovereign right to decide what is in its best interest in dealing with Iran’s nuclear ambitions whether the United States agrees or not, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said in an interview on Sunday. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has signaled that he agrees with U.S. President Barack Obama’s end-of-the-year deadline for progress in efforts to engage Iran diplomatically... 

On Wednesday Sweden took over the helmet for the European Union term presidency. Sweden will face a quite difficult term. Even preparations for the decision about Turkey to be taken at the end of the year are enough to be handled in a six-month term presidency. Sweden is a country that has already grasped the importance of Turkey’s integration with the EU and uttering it by any chance. No matter... 

The Italian government has done what any sane government would do to protect itself from invasion and passed a law declaring it a criminal offence to enter Italy without permission or to aid invaders in any way. In addition, the new law has instituted a policy of immediate deportation of the invaders themselves. The law, passed yesterday in the Italian senate after earlier ratification by the lower... 

Anarchists from Hamburg’s autonomous scene battled police for six hours late Saturday and early Sunday in the trendy Schanzenviertel neighbourhood after a street fair. Over 100 rioters were arrested and 27 police officers injured. Over 10,000 visitors visited the Schanzenfest street fair, but once it turned dark, over 1,000 young, masked anarchists came out to do battle, police said. The rioters... 

Who ratted out First Lady Michelle Obama for getting VIP treatment while shopping in Paris last month with her daughters? That would be French President Nicolas Sarkozy. The issue: Getting a store usually closed on Sundays to open for her. The cautious Mrs. Obama, who carries a limited, strategically applied issues portfolio, is now caught up–unwittingly–in a domestic debate in France... 

Formula One chief Bernie Ecclestone last night provoked outrage by praising the policies of Adolf Hitler in an extraordinary interview. The 78-year-old billionaire criticised modern politicians as ‘weak’ and praised the former Nazi leader’s ability to ‘get things done’. His comments provoked furious reaction from politicians and Jewish groups. Ecclestone suggested in an... 

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Do they have a fourth of July in Italy? That’s not a trick question. This July 4th, Italians plan to gather in Vicenza to take nonviolent action aimed at freeing Italy from U.S. occupation and opposing the proposed construction of an enormous new U.S. military base in a town already swarming with U.S. troops stationed at existing bases. For years now, a major campaign organized by local residents...