A history of the world, BRIC by BRIC Al Jazeera | Goldman Sachs - via economist Jim O'Neill in 2001 - invented the concept of a rising new bloc: BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and, later, South Africa). Some cynics couldn't help calling it the "Bloody Ridiculous Investment Concept". | Now that doesn't really apply. Goldman now the BRICS...
Common ingredient in soft drinks causes damage to brain function Pakalert Press Share | D Holt | NaturalNews | The use of high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) has been long associated with fatty liver disease, diabetes and increases in obesity, but a new study has investigated its effects on the brain. HFCS is an inexpensive ingredie...
InterviewAPIC ’12: Lotte puts Pakistan PTA expansion plan on hold ICIS | | By Tahir Ikram | KUALA LUMPUR (ICIS)--Lotte Pakistan PTA (Lotte PPTA) has put on hold its plan to build a $500m (€395m) world-scale purified terephthalic acid (PTA) after failing to secure government’s support in terms of higher ...
What’s NATO Ever Done? Pakalert Press Share by JOHN LaFORGE Counter Punch | Wondering why anyone would confront NATO’s summit in Chicago this month? A look at some of its more well-known crimes might spark some indignation. | Desecration of corpses, indiscriminate attacks, bombing of a...
Voter ID Laws: Silencing the American People Huffington Post "There has never been in my lifetime, since we got rid of the poll tax and all the Jim Crow burdens on voting, the determined effort to limit the franchise that we see today. Why should we disenfranchise people forever once they've paid their price?"...
Pak completes formalities for Interpol notice against Musharraf The Siasat Daily May 14: | Pakistani authorities have completed all legal formalities for issuance of a Red Corner Notice by Interpol for the arrest of former military ruler Pervez Musharraf in connection with the probe into former premier Benazir Bhutto's assassinat...
$100 Million NATO Mission to Invade Chicago Pakalert Press Share | Stephen Lendman | AP | A $100 million NATO invasion is coming. Low intensity conflict may follow. The “City of Broad Shoulders” may get more than it bargained for. | Nelson Algren once called Chicago the “City on the Make.&#...
Home secretary reviews cross-LOC trade at Poonch Newstrack India | Jammu, May 17 (IANS) Union Home Secretary R.K. Singh Thursday visited Jammu and Kashmir's frontier Poonch district and discussed with local people issues concerning trade across the Line of Control (LOC) between Indian and Pakistani-administered Kashmir. | Meeting a delegation of traders in Poonch, 240 km northwest of Jammu, on the second d...
Expert warns world needs to move ‘rapidly’ toward ‘population shrinkage’ Pakalert Press Share | Raw Story | The world’s most renowned population analyst has called for a massive reduction in the number of humans and for natural resources to be redistributed from the rich to the poor. | Paul Ehrlich, Bing professor of population studies at Stanford University in California and author of the best-selling Population Bomb book in 1968, ...
