"Sold in Britain"

Hundreds protest at Barclays' planned return to South Africa
JOHANNEBSURG (AFX) - Several hundred people demonstrated in central Johannesburg yesterday against plans by Britain's Barclays PLC to return to retail banking in South Africa. Barclays was forced to leave the country in 1986 under pressure from anti-apartheid activists, but re-established a small investment banking presence there 10 years ago.

Cooking fires a health peril in Africa
In the highlands of Ethiopia, the temperature dips to an average 37 degrees at night. A typical family's one-room house has no chimney, and the stove consists of three stones supporting a pot over an open wood fire. The mother fixes dinner as her toddlers edge closer, trying to stay warm in the swirling smoke. And as they do, the air they breathe may be killing them.

A U.S. Faith Initiative for Africa
Escalating its courtship of a politically powerful constituency, the Bush administration is teaming up with some of the nation's best-known and most influential black clergy to craft a new role for U.S. churches in Africa. The effort was launched last week, when more than two dozen leading African American religious figures met privately with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and senior White House officials at the State Department, according to administration officials and meeting participants.

Sold in Britain, the HIV drugs for Africa
THEY wriggled and squirmed, made excuses and risked the wrath of their largest investors. But eventually, shamed by U2 rock star Bono, who banged the Oval Office desk while winning support from President George Bush, global pharmaceutical giants began supplying some of the world's poorest countries with cut-price treatments for HIV patients.
However, companies such as GlaxoSmithKline and Pfizer have discovered that huge quantities of the treatments sent to Africa are part of a highly lucrative illegal trade, with many returning to Britain to be sold for a huge profit.

Africa's dry spell likely to continue
Few places are more vulnerable to drought than Africa. From the Sahel south of the Sahara to the southern lobe of the turbulent continent, there is a simple calculus, said Dr. Richard Washington, an expert on the region's climate at Oxford: "When the rains fail, people die."

The bracelet may in fact be a ruse for installing 'Big Brother'

Venezuela rallies over Cuba exile
Tens of thousands of Venezuelans have rallied in the capital Caracas to demand the US extradites a Cuban exile accused of bombing an airliner in 1976.

Some Fear Catastrophe From Amazon Highway

Haiti gets caught up in China-Taiwan standoff
Haiti's need for United Nations peacekeepers to remain for an extended mandate suddenly took on new complexity this week, when the impoverished nation found itself entangled in the diplomatic standoff between China and Taiwan.

Infiltrating Bilderberg 2005
The annual secret meeting of the Bilderberg group determines many of the headlines and news developments you will read about in the coming months. But the Establishment media completely black it out. With the exception of half-a-dozen high ranking members of the press who are sworn to secrecy, few have ever heard of the exclusive and secretive group called The Bilderbergers.

Bull's Eye
America is in debt. The dollar is kept buoyant by China and Japan which hold huge dollar reserves invested in US securities. American jobs are outsourced. And US soldiers are bogged down in Iraq. Meanwhile, North Korea mocks President Bush. It represents a real nuclear crisis, unlike Iraq with its fake nuclear crisis manufactured by America. And America continues to pretend that North Korea is independent of Chinese control.

Bloggers are outwitting the Mainstream and Corporate Media!
These days, they are rather worried. They are of no use any longer ! They have lost their aura. The carpet is being withdrawn from underneath their feet. Worse, they might even lose their jobs. They have become a burden for their employer. You guessed whom I am talking about ! The mainstream media or their masters' voice, the corporate media.