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20081010
 US
-  Global
-  Economic
-  History
- Belgium
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"Ex-president
Carter slams Bush on market crisis." ... "Former
[Democratic] President Jimmy Carter said on Friday the "atrocious economic
policies" of the Bush administration had caused the worst global financial
crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s." ... "Carter told reporters
on a stopover in Brussels [Belgium and EU's capital] that "profligate spending,"
massive borrowing and dramatic tax cuts since President George W. Bush
took office in 2001 were behind the market turmoil and economic crisis."
... "Eight years ago, the United States had a budget surplus, low inflation
and a stable, strong economy, he said." ... "Carter said he was astonished
that the United States now owed China "in the neighborhood of $1 trillion.""
... "Deregulation and what he called a withdrawal of supervision of Wall
Street had encouraged irresponsible elements in the U.S. financial system,
enabling banks to borrow 30 times their value." -By
Paul Taylor with contributions by Sami Aboudi
-Reuters
20080813
 Georgia
-  Russia
- EU
- Belgium
-  France
-  Military
- History
"Georgia
Says Russian Troops Move Beyond Conflict Zone (Update2)."
... "Georgia accused Russia of sending troops beyond the South Ossetia
[Republic of Georgia region] conflict zone in violation of a cease-fire.
A Russian official denied the claim, saying the troops are eliminating
Georgia's ability to renew attacks." ... "Georgian Security Council chief
Kakha Lomaia said a column of Russian troops may be moving from the city
of Gori [Republic of Georgia] toward the Uplistsikhe military base, which
Georgian forces abandoned earlier in the conflict. The Russians are advancing
``well beyond the conflict zone,'' he said today." ... "The Russian troop
movements come one day after Georgia and Russia agreed to a European Union-brokered
peace plan to end five days of fighting. EU foreign ministers are meeting
in Brussels [the capital of Belgium and the European Union] to push the
peace deal forward. The 27-nation bloc may send military personnel to monitor
the cease-fire, said French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, whose country
brokered the accord." ... "Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili said
Russian tanks continue to operate within Georgia, destroying ``infrastructure,''
as Russia said it was responding to sporadic attacks by Georgian snipers
while observing the terms of a cease-fire declared by [Russian] President
Dmitry Medvedev." ... "Medvedev ordered a halt to the military campaign,
which was sparked by fighting between Georgia and South Ossetia on Aug.
7. Saakashvili said Russia launched a ``well-planned invasion'' of Georgia
the next day. Nogovitsyn said Georgia planned its incursion into South
Ossetia in advance and expected to meet resistance only from Ossetian forces
and the 588 Russian peacekeepers deployed in the region." ... "South Ossetia
and Abkhazia broke away from Georgian control in wars in the early 1990s
and Russian forces have been stationed as peacekeepers in the regions under
a Commonwealth of Independent States mandate. Most people living in both
regions have Russian passports. Saakashvili yesterday said Georgia is quitting
the CIS, a loose association of all former Soviet republics except the
three Baltic states. " -By Henry Meyer and Lucian
Kim -Bloomberg
20080630
 John
McCain -  Bud
Day -  Politics
-  2004
Election - Ads
-Military
- History
-  Vietnam
- Belgium
- US
-  Massachusetts
-  Texas
-  Missouri
- 2008
Election
"Price
of Power: McCain accepts ex-Swift Boaters' donations."
... "Republican [2008 Election Presidential Candidate] John McCain, who
four years ago condemned independent ads challenging Democrat[ic Senator
from Massachusetts and 2004 Election Presidential Candidate] John Kerry's
military record, has accepted nearly $70,000 for his presidential campaign
from the top donors of the group behind the attack ads and their relatives,
a USA TODAY analysis shows." ... "In 2004, the Swift Boat Veterans for
Truth (later called SwiftVets and POWS for Truth) bankrolled ads charging
that Kerry had lied about the incidents in Vietnam that led to his military
decorations. The group included former members of the Navy who served in
the same kind of river patrol boats as Kerry. McCain, a former Vietnam
prisoner of war, called the group's advertising "dishonest and dishonorable.""
... "Bob Perry, a Texas builder who gave nearly $4.5 million to Swift Boat
Vets, and his wife, Doylene, each have given $4,400 to McCain's presidential
campaign, some of which went to an account for legal and accounting expenses,
records show." ... "Other donors include Sam Fox, a St. Louis [Missouri]
businessman who was named [United States] U.S. ambassador to Belgium last
year by President Bush." ... "On Monday, Kerry and national Democratic
Party officials sharply criticized McCain for including retired Air Force
colonel Bud Day in a conference call with reporters to defend McCain's
military service. Day had appeared in Swift Boat ads." -By
Fredreka Schouten -USATODAY
20060626
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- Secret
- US
- Belgium
- International
- Financial
- Consumer
- Civil
Liberties - Free
Speech -  Media
-  Government
-  Terrorism
-  Law
Enforcement -  Intelligence
- Politics
- "What
the Government Knows: While an overseas program to
track bank records has unleashed a political storm, the domestic Patriot
Act has already made a wealth of financial data available to U.S. law enforcement
agencies." ... "Over the last four years, U.S. law enforcement agencies
have gained access to over 28,000 financial records inside the United States
under a little known provision of the USA Patriot Act that parallels the
secret international bank data program disclosed by news organizations
last week, Treasury Department records show." ... "The disclosure of the
overseas program-under which Treasury Department officials have tapped
into the records of a vast Belgian-based international financial database
called Swift (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications)-has
kicked up a storm of controversy. Some critics have decried the program
as another example of the administration's invasion of privacy in the name
of the war on terror. At the same time, President Bush today condemned
as "disgraceful" the disclosure of the operation, which intended to help
the government track overseas money movements of suspected terrorists.
"For people to leak that program, and for a newspaper to publish it, does
great harm to the United States of America," Bush told reporters in Washington."
... "But the international program is only one part of a much broader,
if little publicized, Treasury Department effort to probe suspect financial
records-including thousands of bank accounts, wire transfers and other
transactions involving individuals, companies and nonprofit organizations
inside the United States." ... "Although it has received little attention,
the Patriot Act program has produced a wealth of previously unavailable
financial data that has been shared with U.S. law enforcement agencies-without
any notice to the account holders who are being investigated. Since the
fall of 2002, when the program began, U.S. Financial Crimes Enforcement
Network (FINCEN)-an arm of the Treasury Department-has directed searches
of 4,397 "subjects of interest" and received reports back on 28,463 accounts
and financial transactions, according to recent Treasury records." (1,
2)
-By Michael Isikoff -MSNBC/Newsweek
20051107
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France
- Belgium
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 Germany
- "Rioting
in France Spreads to 300 Towns." ... "Rioting by
French youths spread to 300 towns overnight and a 61-year-old man hurt
in the violence died of his wounds, the first fatality in 11 days of unrest
that has shocked the country, police said Monday." ... "As urban unrest
was reported in neighboring Belgium and Germany, the French government
faced growing criticism for its inability to stop the violence, despite
massive police deployment and continued calls for calm. One riot-hit town
in suburban Paris said it was preparing to enforce a curfew." ... "Meanwhile,
governments worldwide urged their citizens to be careful in France." -By
Angela Doland with contributions by Emmanuel Georges-Picot, Thierry Boinet
and Jan Sliva -AP
via -Guardian.co.uk
20040401
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- "Three
countries arrest 53 militants in coordinated crackdown."
... "Turkey, Italy, and Belgium arrested 53 militants in a coordinated
crackdown Thursday on a Turkish Marxist group considered a terrorist organization
by Washington, Turkey's Interior Ministry said." ... "Police in Istanbul
arrested 37 suspects of the Marxist Revolutionary People's Liberation Army-Front,
or DHKP-C, while security forces Italy and Belgium detained 16, an Interior
Ministry official said, speaking on condition of anonymity."
-AP via -USATODAY
20040106
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- "EU
on Alert for More Letter Bombs; Suspect Letter at
Italy Mission Turns Out to Be False Alarm." ... "EU officials and members
of the European Parliament were warned to be extra vigilant after two bombs
ignited Monday, one in the Brussels office of a leading German conservative
member of the EU legislature and another in the office of a British socialist
member in Manchester, England." ... "A third booby-trapped letter was intercepted
in the Brussels office of a Spanish conservative in the Parliament."
-AP via -ABCNEWS.com
20030211
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- "3
NATO Members and Russia Resist U.S. on Iraq Plans."
... "France and Germany closed ranks against the United States today [20030210],
blocking attempts by NATO to begin military planning for a conflict with
Iraq and issuing a joint declaration with Russia calling for intensified
weapons inspections as an alternative to war." ... "In a statement issued
here, Russia, Germany and France called for a "substantial strengthening"
of the "human and technical capabilites" of the weapons inspectors in Iraq,
arguing that the inspections should continue in more vigorous form before
war is contemplated." ... "At the same time, in Brussels, France, Germany
and Belgium blocked an effort by other NATO members led by the United States
to begin military planning for the defense of Turkey in the event of war
with Iraq." (1, 2) -By
Craig S. Smith with Richard Berstein -NYTimes
via -Google-News
20030210
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- "Bush
Lays Bare Split with France Over Iraq." ... "On Monday
France, Germany and Belgium blocked NATO from preparing for fellow-member
Turkey's defense for a possible war with neighboring Iraq. They argued
that making preparations for a possible conflict could suggest they had
given up on diplomatic efforts at the United Nations to avert war." ...
"The move has sparked one of the worst disputes in the history of the transatlantic
alliance." ... "It also foreshadows a possible split in the U.N. Security
Council, where France has a veto, as Bush prepares to push for a decision
on possible war following a report on Friday by the chief U.N. weapons
inspector in Iraq." -Reuters
20021103
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- Microsoft
News - "Microsoft
focus on Brussels after U.S. decision." ... "After
a court victory for Microsoft in the United States, the battle now shifts
to Europe where Competition Commissioner Mario Monti may soon impose his
own set of sanctions against the software giant." ... "Monti will make
a preliminary decision by the end of the year whether to act against Microsoft
Corp ... for allegedly abusing dominance in its Windows operating
system." -By David Lawsky
-Reuters via -Forbes
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