Excuse my French, but it’s about Damn Time! The CBC is reporting that Canada has asked the WTO for the authority to impose $4.1 billion in duties against US imports. (which happens to be how much Canadian companies have lost due to the unfair and illegal duties imposed by the US) Why? Because the US …
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Interim Oil For Food Report: Part 3
The UN Administrative accounts. When the OFF program was setup 2.2% of the total revenue from the sale of Iraqi oil was allocated towards Administration of the program itself. The Commission has the following findings on the use of those funds (about $1.6 billion) The Committee finds that the ESD Account was not treated by …
Iraqi PM says not all of Iraq will have elections
Well, it’s official. Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said today (BBC) that “some pockets” of Iraq will not participate in the elections on January 30th. Presumably it would be because of the security situation. He said the pockets “are not large”… but until we learn exactly who will and will not be voting we can’t …
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