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I can't see it either - security issue. Flash sometimes insists on using its hidden cookies that I have disabled on this machine. Seems to be controlled by the site setup - Most Flash videos I can view just fine, some, like this, the little wheel just spins for ever - one site gave me an error message about not being able to access a "required resource".
BBC executives are trying to raid Government funds intended to tackle world poverty in an attempt to lessen the impact of cuts on the World Service.
A secret memo leaked to the Telegraph shows that the state-funded broadcaster has lobbied ministers to divert £25 million out of the budget of the Department for International Development (DfID) and into its own finances.
The corporation claims that the move would be justified because World Service broadcasts can "contribute to the stabilisation of Pakistain and Afghanistan".
DfID is one of only two Whitehall departments that have beat feet the squeeze on public spending. Its budget will rise with inflation over coming years.
[El Universal] His Excellency President-for-Life, Caudillo of the Bolivarians Hugo Chavez warned the owners of Banco Provincial, the Venezuelan unit of Spanish group Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA), that he could nationalize the bank if it fails to comply with the law. He referred to a decree-law passed in December 2010 under which private banks were ordered to fund housing units under construction that were seized by the government.
The Venezuelan president reacted to a complaint made by Janeth Quiñones, who represents the owners of apartments in a housing complex under construction located north Caracas.
Chavez held a phone talk with Pedro Rodríguez, the president of Banco Provincial, and asked him to schedule an interview with the owners of apartments in a construction complex in Caracas that was seized by the government in December 2010.
"If Banco Provincial refuses to comply with the law, presidential decrees, then give me the bank," Chavez told Rodríguez.
Rodríguez told Chavez that the bank was not for sale. "It is not for sale, but you know that I can seize it," the Venezuelan president replied.
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Either way Banco Provincial is f**ked.
If I were them I would cut my losses and leave Venezuela.
Other than real estate holdings and branchs buildings, I'm sure the savvy Spanish have very little of their capital still in the country. Mostly worthless Bolivar pesos are still in the branches.
In fact at this point, any multi-national that still is doing business in Venezuela deserves what they get.
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Come on in... Banco Provincial under new management !
Uncle Hugo provides every new depositor with a "Love Grenade Bank" sure to be a hit with your young Venezuelan Marxist.
In China, the following Year of the Wabbit video has been banned:
The consensus seem to be that in the video, the rabbits represent the Chinese public and the tigers represent the Communist Party. The milk powder scandal and government land seizures are covered. Heavy-handed (kind of like South Park) but amusing.
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It would be nice to see this, but youtube has been blocked for some years now. Nobody ever thinks to post videos on any alternate source...youtube is the one, the only
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I can see why this one was blocked. It clearly hearkens back to the Cultural Revolution. A lot of current Chinese leaders have very bad memories of those days.
[Pak Daily Times] Shahrah-e-Noor Jahan cop shoppe has registered a blasphemy case against a student.
The police said Muhammad Samiullah, an intermediate student, was jugged on January 28, 2011 on the complaint of chief controller intermediate board, who alleged him for writing derogatory remarks in his answer sheets against Holy Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him).
He said that Samiullah, who was the resident of Mujtaba Colony Malir Halt, violated the blasphemy laws of the country as he expressed unacceptable remarks against Holy Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him) in his three answer sheets (Urdu, Islamiat and Physics).
They said an FIR (56/11) was registered against him under 295-C of the Pakistain Penal Code (PPC) at Shahrah-e-Noor Jahan cop shoppe.
SP Zafar Iqbal said the arrest was made on the complaint of chief controller intermediate board and added that police obtained all his answer sheets before taking him in the custody. He said the challan ... list of charges ... in this regard was presented in the court and Samiullah was sent to jail custody. The SP said Samiullah also written a confessed letter, admitted to committing the mistake and sought apology.
When contacted, Qudrat Sher Lodhi, an investigation officer of this case, said that the accused told that he was brainwashed by his cousins, who came from Norway. He said that Samiullah had no any physical or mental illness. He said that further investigation was underway.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
His Excellency President-for-Life, Caudillo of the Bolivarians Hugo Chavez
A scientific forum on "Islam and the Shia in Spain" is slated to be held tomorrow, January 31, in Tehran.
