Posted by BAHRAMERAD, at 02:05AM 10/11/08 : £2.7 trillion wiped ( $6 Trillion ) off the global value of shares as confidence collapses
Note: A frenzied day of panic selling on stock markets across the world capped a week of extraordinary financial mayhem in which £2.7 trillion was wiped off the value of shares globally.
Finance ministers and central bank chiefs from the West’s leading economies attempted last night to quell the markets’ fears with moves to shore up their banking systems and prevent a full-scale meltdown of the world financial system. Such was the level of panic, however, that officials gathered in Washington were forced to contemplate the previously unthinkable: that Britain’s enfeebled banks may face outright nationalisation if Gordon Brown’s £50 billion bailout fails.
tags: economy
· bahramerad groups: in International News, Global Breaking News, Bahramerad, Maxx News
Posted by BAHRAMERAD, at 12:41AM 10/11/08 : Tehran's Coming Disaster : The next earthquake- Fardad jamali
Note: Last week at the Beyond Persia film festival in San Francisco, Fardad Jamali and I went to the screening of a phenomenal film, "Bam 6.6" a documentary made by Jahangir Golestan-Parast. Jamali is a Safety Expert. Actually he is one the top Industrial Safety, Health, and Emergency Preparedness experts in the US today. He wanted to see the film because it contained a lot of technical footage of the Bam earthquake, footage that has not been readily available to experts like him, to examine details of the rescue procedures used to rescue and retrieve the injured and dead.
tags: tehran
· earthquake
· bahramerad groups: in Persian News , tehran, Bahramerad, Maxx News, Iranian Scientists
Posted by BAHRAMERAD, at 12:04AM 10/11/08 : Are we alone in the universe? Firouz Naderi
Note: Dr. Firouz Naderi is a proud member of PAAIA. Join PAAIA and help unite our community. Dr. Firouz Naderi has spent most of the last decade managing NASA programs in pursuit of a most fundamental question - are we alone in the universe? The contribution our civilization makes to answer this question, he says, will be the legacy for which we will be remembered even centuries from now after transient issues of today are long forgotten:
Posted by BAHRAMERAD, at 11:41PM 10/10/08 : New Evidence Shows Bush Had No Plan to Catch bin Laden After 9/11
Note: New evidence from former U.S. officials reveals that the George W. Bush administration failed to adopt any plan to block the retreat of Osama bin Laden and other al Qaeda leaders from Afghanistan to Pakistan in the first weeks after 9/11.That failure was directly related to the fact that top administration officials gave priority to planning for war with Iraq over military action against al Qaeda in Afghanistan.
As a result, the United States had far too few troops and strategic airlift capacity in the area to cover the large number of possible exit routes through the border area when bin Laden escaped in late 2001.
tags: ben laden
· bahramerad
· 9 11
· bush groups: in International News, Bahramerad, Maxx News
Posted by BAHRAMERAD, at 11:31PM 10/10/08 : BBC-TV: "Set up to steal it again."
Note: "A lot of Europeans wonder: Why are Americans so crazy, they keep reelecting this guy?” Well the answer is, we don’t! They keep stealing these elections! And they stole it in 2000, they stole it in 2004, and they’re all set up to steal it again!" - Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on BBC Television Newsnight.
On Friday at 6pm and 10pm Eastern Time, BBC America will bust open the story of the systematic attack on US voters that could easily cost Barack Obama the White House. (Watch the promo below)
tags: usa
· elections
· bahramerad groups: in All things on US.Politics, Bahramerad, Maxx News
Posted by BAHRAMERAD, at 09:42PM 10/10/08 : Nima Nourizadeh - Persian Fim Maker "Rising star" from London....
Note: Nima Nourizadeh graduated from Central St. Martins College of Art & Design with a BA Hons in Fine Art Film & Video in 1999.Nima went on to make his breakthrough video for Hot Chip's 'Over and Over' in 2005, a hilarious tongue-in-cheek deconstruction of the pop promo-making process, which caught the attention of the media and cult-like following from fans.His videos for Lily Allen (LDN & Littlest Things) established Nima as a ground breaking talent to reckon with. He went on to deliver the stunning, Roger Rabbit homaging video for Mark Ronson's hit single 'Oh My God', featuring an animated Lily Allen, designed by cult Parisian illustrator Fafi.Nima's latest promos include a hilarious promo for the stars of the HBO cult show 'Flight of the Conchords', and one for Santogold, noted in Music Week as 'a brilliant video that takes this song to another level', and nominated for an MTV European Award at the 2008 EMA's.Nima also received 5 nominations at the 2008 Music Video Awards in the UK, including Best Director. tags: bahramerad
· nima nourizadeh groups: in Video Clips, Music, Entertainment, Culture, Bahramerad, Maxx News