Home-grown beef knocking imports.
The News Review:
- Home-grown beef knocking imports.
- ABC demands extra $38m for more local productions
- Asia Times Online :: Middle East News, Iraq, Iran current affairs
- South Korea and US to start talks on free trade pact
- Cartoons seen as fuel for radical Islamists
- Pull British Troops Out of Iraq
Home-grown beef knocking imports.
Free with registration – Farmers Guardian – AccessMyLibrary.com – Feb 3, 2006
–> COPYRIGHT 2006 CMP Information Ltd. IMPORTS of both beef and lamb showed a marked drop last year as home production showed a sharp increase. In the case of beef, home production was up by 18 per cent. Figures released by the English Beef and Lamb Executive (Eblex) show that during 2005 production of UK… | Farmers Guardian (February, 2006). In the case of beef, home production was up by 18 per cent. Figures released by the English.
ABC demands extra $38m for more local productions
NEWS.com.au – Feb 3, 2006
article-tools –> By BELINDA TASKER February 03, 2006 11:30pm. content-row clearfloat –> THE ABC is demanding the Government hand over an extra $38 million in funding. The national broadcaster wants to produce more home-grown TV shows and offer a host of new hi-tech services. The ABC made the plea for more cash in its budget funding submission, which was handed to the Federal Government before Christmas but only released publicly yesterday. It comes after rising costs forced the broadcaster to slash the amount of locally made drama programs to just 20 hours last year, compared with 100 hours four years earlier. The ABC argues in its 2006-2009 triennial funding submission that it needs an extra $38. 4 million of taxpayers’ money to make more TV programs and improve its radio, internet and digital services.
Asia Times Online :: Middle East News, Iraq, Iran current affairs
Asia Times Online – Feb 3, 2006
The result was
a stalemate, contributing to the conference’s
overall stalemate. Iran’s outspoken
President Mahmud Ahmadinejad has bluntly
questioned the post-Cold War status quo dominated
by the US superpower, calling it a “fake
superpower” and urging other NAM countries to
support Iran’s bid to challenge “global
feudalism”. But Iran has managed several
self-inflicted wounds during the past few months,
as a result of which its bid against the
“unipolar” world order has been overshadowed by
its seemingly ideological zeal against Zionism,
even casting a large shadow on Iran’s national
interests, according to some of president’s
home-grown critics. Not
all hope is lost, though,
and even in Russia, which has chosen to align
itself with the US in backing moves to send Tehran
to the UN, there are powerful voices echoing
Iran’s sentiment. A case in point is former
president Boris Yeltsin, who has lashed out at
the United States’ “monopolistic policy” using a “big
stick” and threatening nations such as Iran. Without doubt, Yeltsin is not alone and expresses
the sentiment of a powerful section of Russia’s
political elite. Hence it remains to be seen
how far President Vladimir Putin will go in joining
the White House’s bandwagon on the way to the
Security Council.
South Korea and US to start talks on free trade pact
Channel News Asia – Feb 3, 2006
The protesters unfurled banners opposing free trade. “Stop the reckless push for the South Korea-US FTA!” one of them chanted as the hearing was suspended. South Korea cleared the way for FTA talks last month by halving its protectionist quota for home-grown movies, a pre-condition set by the United States. It also agreed to reopen its market to US beef, banned due to a mad cow scare. The four-decade-long screen quota system forced South Korean cinemas to show domestic movies on at least 146 days a year despite complaints from Hollywood. Seoul promised to cut the quota to 73 days from July 1. The decision was condemned by South Korean movie producers, actors and directors as an “anti-cultural coup d’etat.
Cartoons seen as fuel for radical Islamists
Independent Online – Feb 3, 2006
“It may provide inspiration for individual fanatics or small groups of fanatics that may not otherwise have popped up on the radar screen. That makes this issue so difficult for the security services, because it is an issue like this that can, for some, become the tipping point. ”
Security services across Europe received a wake-up call in 2004 when a home-grown Dutch Muslim radical murdered Theo van Gogh, a director who had made a controversial film about violence against women in Islam. Moniquet said that from a radical Islamist standpoint, the cartoon affair provided “the same logic” for violence, and served the al Qaeda-driven idea of a fundamental battle between Islam and the West. The episode “can serve to show Muslims that beyond the war on terrorism there is a war of civilisations, there’s no compatibility between democracy and Islam, between Islam and the West, and that is good for them, so indeed I think they’ll try quite quickly to seize this opportunity”, he said. Past messages by al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden have described the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States as revenge for humiliation and disgrace heaped on Muslims, and for the desecration of their religion.
Pull British Troops Out of Iraq
Arab News – Feb 3, 2006
There were no weapons; there was no threat to regional, international, nor yet British security. There was no need for military action. The humanitarian argument, always mood music rather than justification for the British deployment, was diminished as soon as the evils of Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib prison were exposed. When abused Sunni prisoners were then discovered in basements under the jurisdiction of the new Iraqi administration, the circle was complete. The occupiers had been unable – or unwilling? – to prevent the resumption of old ways. Even then, it was just about possible to defend the British troop presence with the mantra,