Verlede week is 88 lede van ’n onbekende stam ontdek in die suide van die Brasiliaanse staat Para. Hulle het nog nooit kontak met Westerlinge gehad nie.
Verlede week is 88 lede van ’n onbekende stam ontdek in die suide van die Brasiliaanse staat Para. Hulle het nog nooit kontak met Westerlinge gehad nie.
Verlede week is 88 lede van ’n onbekende stam ontdek in die suide van die Brasiliaanse staat Para. Hulle het nog nooit kontak met Westerlinge gehad nie.
Bush het later wel by die groep aangesluit, maar het nog nie wel gevoel nie. Withuis-woordvoerder, Dan Bartlett, het bevestig dat die president met opstaantyd "nie lekker gevoel" het nie en dat medici nie weet of die oorsaak ‘n maagvirus is of nie.
Bush het later wel by die groep aangesluit, maar het nog nie wel gevoel nie. Withuis-woordvoerder, Dan Bartlett, het bevestig dat die president met opstaantyd "nie lekker gevoel" het nie en dat medici nie weet of die oorsaak ‘n maagvirus is of nie.
By 1988, Ronald Reagan, who had famously branded the Soviet Union "an evil empire," was striding through Red Square arm-in-arm with Mikhail Gorbachev. Russians were pounding both men on the back. They had just signed the greatest arms-reduction agree- ment in history – eliminating all Soviet SS-20s targeted on Europe, in return for removal of
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BAE Systems paid more than £100m a year to Saudi Arabia’s former ambassador to Washington over more than a decade in connection with Britain’s biggest ever defence contract, according to British media reports on Thursday night.
The reports, from the BBC Panorama programme and the Guardian website, say that the sums were paid to Prince Bandar bin Sultan. Prince Bandar, who is now a national security adviser to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, is the son of the Saudi defence minister, Prince Sultan.
Sums equivalent to £30m a quarter were allegedly paid – with the knowledge of the Ministry of Defence – into Saudi accounts at Riggs Bank in Washington to which Prince Bandar had access, the Guardian reported.
The BBC reported the funds were used to finance flights for Prince Bandar’s own jet.
BAE has consistently denied allegations that there was anything illegal in payments it made in association with the £43bn Al Yamamah contract under which it supplied Tornado warplanes, Hawk training aircraft and other defence equipment to Saudi Arabia. BAE acted in accordance with relevant contracts, with Saudi government approval and where appropriate that of the UK, a spokesman said.
A corruption investigation by the Serious Fraud Office was halted in December after the attorney-general, Lord Goldsmith, reviewed the case. The head of the SFO, Robert Wardle, halted the case because of what he said had been representations that continuing the investigations would have jeopardised Britain’s national security.
Officials had said that pressure from the Saudi government, including from Prince Bandar, had been a key factor in the decision, which was backed by Tony Blair.
Prince Bandar did not respond to requests for comment, the Guardian reported.
Tony Blair faced opposition calls on Thursday night for a full parliamentary enquiry into the allegations against BAE Systems.
The Liberal Democrats said the allegations were “shocking”.
“If it is indeed true that the British government has been complicit in enormous under-the-counter payments to Prince Bandar, there must be a full investigation by parliament,” said Vincent Cable, the Liberal Democrat deputy leader.
Mr Cable demanded that the Commons public accounts committee be reconvened to look into the Al Yamamah investigation.
“I have been able to obtain through parliamentary questions supporting evidence which helps to underpin the Guardian’s story,” added Mr Cable.
BAE Systems paid more than £100m a year to Saudi Arabia’s former ambassador to Washington over more than a decade in connection with Britain’s biggest ever defence contract, according to British media reports on Thursday night.
The reports, from the BBC Panorama programme and the Guardian website, say that the sums were paid to Prince Bandar bin Sultan. Prince Bandar, who is now a national security adviser to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, is the son of the Saudi defence minister, Prince Sultan.
Sums equivalent to £30m a quarter were allegedly paid – with the knowledge of the Ministry of Defence – into Saudi accounts at Riggs Bank in Washington to which Prince Bandar had access, the Guardian reported.
The BBC reported the funds were used to finance flights for Prince Bandar’s own jet.
BAE has consistently denied allegations that there was anything illegal in payments it made in association with the £43bn Al Yamamah contract under which it supplied Tornado warplanes, Hawk training aircraft and other defence equipment to Saudi Arabia. BAE acted in accordance with relevant contracts, with Saudi government approval and where appropriate that of the UK, a spokesman said.
A corruption investigation by the Serious Fraud Office was halted in December after the attorney-general, Lord Goldsmith, reviewed the case. The head of the SFO, Robert Wardle, halted the case because of what he said had been representations that continuing the investigations would have jeopardised Britain’s national security.
Officials had said that pressure from the Saudi government, including from Prince Bandar, had been a key factor in the decision, which was backed by Tony Blair.
Prince Bandar did not respond to requests for comment, the Guardian reported.
Tony Blair faced opposition calls on Thursday night for a full parliamentary enquiry into the allegations against BAE Systems.
The Liberal Democrats said the allegations were “shocking”.
“If it is indeed true that the British government has been complicit in enormous under-the-counter payments to Prince Bandar, there must be a full investigation by parliament,” said Vincent Cable, the Liberal Democrat deputy leader.
Mr Cable demanded that the Commons public accounts committee be reconvened to look into the Al Yamamah investigation.
“I have been able to obtain through parliamentary questions supporting evidence which helps to underpin the Guardian’s story,” added Mr Cable.
Die nuus dat die Afrikaanse tydskrif, Insig, sluit, het ’n rimpeling onder Afrikaners veroorsaak. Die rimpeling was so beduidend dat daar selfs lykskouing gehou is. Die debat, soos ek dit waargeneem het, het veral gehandel oor of die versepie-proses van Insig die oorsaak of die gevolg van sy sluiting was.
Die nuus dat die Afrikaanse tydskrif, Insig, sluit, het ’n rimpeling onder Afrikaners veroorsaak. Die rimpeling was so beduidend dat daar selfs lykskouing gehou is. Die debat, soos ek dit waargeneem het, het veral gehandel oor of die versepie-proses van Insig die oorsaak of die gevolg van sy sluiting was.
The federal appeals court in New York on Monday tossed out a key FCC indecency ruling that said a slip of the tongue gets broadcasters a fine for indecency, telling the commission that it failed to give a good reason for its decision and couldn’t likely find a good reason if it had to. "We
Charles Taylor, voormalige staatshoof van Liberië, het gister die openingsdag van sy verhoor by die Internasionale Hof in Den Haag geboikot. Dit sou die eerste keer wees dat ’n gewese Afrika-staatshoof voor die internasionale gereg verskyn. Taylor het egter verkies om die dag in sy tronksel in Den Haag deur te bring.
Charles Taylor, voormalige staatshoof van Liberië, het gister die openingsdag van sy verhoor by die Internasionale Hof in Den Haag geboikot. Dit sou die eerste keer wees dat ’n gewese Afrika-staatshoof voor die internasionale gereg verskyn. Taylor het egter verkies om die dag in sy tronksel in Den Haag deur te bring.
Soos Helen Zille, is daar menige blanke mense wat glo dat Suid-Afrika waarlik ’n vreedsame, nie-rassige land van melk en heuning kan word. Dit hoor en sien ons ook by elkeen wat nie glo dat die swart kultuur ligjare verwyderd staan van die blanke ras s’n nie; wat nie verstaan dat wit nie swart durf vertrou nie en daarom nooit suksesvol sal kan saamwerk of -woon nie. Dit bewys maar net dat die meeste wit mense nie hulle geskiedenis ken nie. Vir hulle sal die verrassingselement net so groot en net so fataal wees soos vir die talle goedvertrouendes in ons geskiedenis.
Onthou u die wreedheid by Derdepoort in 1899 toe die ‘goeie verhouding’ wat die boere met die Bagatlastam gehad het, blitsvinnig omgeswaai het na onmenslike moorde op die blanke inwoners daar? Dit het die Britte nie veel moeite gekos om die Bagatlas om te haal om die boere en polisie uit te moor nie. Kom ons leer weer uit daardie stukkie geskiedenis:
Soos Helen Zille, is daar menige blanke mense wat glo dat Suid-Afrika waarlik ’n vreedsame, nie-rassige land van melk en heuning kan word. Dit hoor en sien ons ook by elkeen wat nie glo dat die swart kultuur ligjare verwyderd staan van die blanke ras s’n nie; wat nie verstaan dat wit nie swart durf vertrou nie en daarom nooit suksesvol sal kan saamwerk of -woon nie. Dit bewys maar net dat die meeste wit mense nie hulle geskiedenis ken nie. Vir hulle sal die verrassingselement net so groot en net so fataal wees soos vir die talle goedvertrouendes in ons geskiedenis.
Onthou u die wreedheid by Derdepoort in 1899 toe die ‘goeie verhouding’ wat die boere met die Bagatlastam gehad het, blitsvinnig omgeswaai het na onmenslike moorde op die blanke inwoners daar? Dit het die Britte nie veel moeite gekos om die Bagatlas om te haal om die boere en polisie uit te moor nie. Kom ons leer weer uit daardie stukkie geskiedenis: