GenevaLunch » New York Times http://genevalunch.com Community Newspaper Online Sun, 27 May 2012 09:11:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Copyright © GenevaLunch 2010 editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) http://genevalunch.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpgGenevaLunchhttp://genevalunch.com 144 144 Community Newspaper Online GenevaLunch GenevaLunch editor@genevalunch.com no no Strauss-Kahn case “floundering” according to NY Timeshttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/07/01/strauss-kahn-case-floundering-according-to-ny-times/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/07/01/strauss-kahn-case-floundering-according-to-ny-times/#comments Fri, 01 Jul 2011 10:16:15 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=59378 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The groundwork is being laid in the media by the New York Times for the sexual assault charges against Dominique Strauss-Kahn to be dropped, with the newspaper reporting 30 June that the prosecuting attorney no longer believes the victim’s story. DSK, as he is widely known in France, will appear in a [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/07/01/strauss-kahn-case-floundering-according-to-ny-times/feed/ 0 Swiss ministry confirms holding “informal” tax, bank accounts talks with UShttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/06/10/swiss-ministry-confirms-holding-informal-tax-bank-accounts-talks-with-us/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/06/10/swiss-ministry-confirms-holding-informal-tax-bank-accounts-talks-with-us/#comments Fri, 10 Jun 2011 17:05:19 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=58731 GenevaLunch.com BERN, SWITZERLAND – A Swiss spokesman for the new State Secretariat for International Financial Matters (SIF), Mario Tuor, has confirmed that Switzerland and the US have been holding “informal talks” to explore solutions to the problem of undeclared assets held by Americans in Swiss bank accounts, but he told Reuters Friday 10 June that many [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/06/10/swiss-ministry-confirms-holding-informal-tax-bank-accounts-talks-with-us/feed/ 2 Guantánamo’s 759 leaked profiles give face to detaineeshttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/04/26/guantanamos-759-leaked-profiles-give-face-to-detainees/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/04/26/guantanamos-759-leaked-profiles-give-face-to-detainees/#comments Tue, 26 Apr 2011 04:38:11 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=56908 GenevaLunch.com The New York Times in the US and the Guardian in the UK have put on the table an extraordinary set of leaked Guantánamo bay military prison documents they say are not from Wikileaks. The publication of the files on the prisoners have prompted a stiff criticism from the US government, which appears to believe [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/04/26/guantanamos-759-leaked-profiles-give-face-to-detainees/feed/ 0 Wikileaks gets Swiss domain namehttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/12/04/wikileaks-gets-swiss-domain-name/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/12/04/wikileaks-gets-swiss-domain-name/#comments Sat, 04 Dec 2010 21:22:45 +0000 Nicholas Bates http://genevalunch.com/?p=50707 GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland, (GenevaLunch) - Wikileaks, the controversial whistleblowing site that has been embarrassing and annoying governments around the world, has a series of new web addresses, including wikileaks.ch and other international ones. Its earlier domain name providers withdrew its name following massive hacker attacks on their sites. The Swiss Pirate Party, which campaigns for internet [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/12/04/wikileaks-gets-swiss-domain-name/feed/ 0 US military faces worst leak in history, with Afghanistan “war logs”http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/07/26/us-military-faces-worst-leak-in-history-with-afghanistan-war-logs/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/07/26/us-military-faces-worst-leak-in-history-with-afghanistan-war-logs/#comments Mon, 26 Jul 2010 06:24:00 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=45195 GenevaLunch.com “A huge cache of secret US military documents” is how the Guardian describes the “war logs” released to it, the New York Times and Der Spiegel by WikiLeaks. The British newspaper details much of the material in the 90,000 documents obtained by the whistleblowers’ web site, six years of unpublished archives, citing previously unreported civilian [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/07/26/us-military-faces-worst-leak-in-history-with-afghanistan-war-logs/feed/ 2 Huge lithium, other mineral reserves found in Afghanistanhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/06/14/huge-lithium-other-mineral-reserves-found-in-afghanistan/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/06/14/huge-lithium-other-mineral-reserves-found-in-afghanistan/#comments Mon, 14 Jun 2010 11:43:03 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=43486 GenevaLunch.com US officials have told the New York Times that Afghanistan contains huge reserves of several minerals, including iron, copper, cobalt, gold and “critical industrial metals like lithium”. The US Geological Survey began carrying out studies in 2006, working with the US military and using old Russian maps and have found evidence of enough veins to [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/06/14/huge-lithium-other-mineral-reserves-found-in-afghanistan/feed/ 0 NY Times lashes out at Goldman Sachshttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/11/23/ny-times-lashes-out-at-goldman-sachs/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/11/23/ny-times-lashes-out-at-goldman-sachs/#comments Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:36:31 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=32101 GenevaLunch.com The New York Times in a hard-hitting weekend article lashed out at Goldman Sachs and suggested that the bank should forget about employee bonuses and make a major donation to the US government. It points out that while the bank has repaid $10 billion, it owes taxpayers far more than that, and it calls the [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/11/23/ny-times-lashes-out-at-goldman-sachs/feed/ 0 Nobel economist Krugman calls Obama health plan like Swiss systemhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/08/17/nobel-economist-krugman-calls-obama-health-plan-like-swiss-system/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/08/17/nobel-economist-krugman-calls-obama-health-plan-like-swiss-system/#comments Mon, 17 Aug 2009 09:16:26 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=25153 GenevaLunch.com New York, USA (GenevaLunch) – Economist and Nobel laureate Paul Krugman, writing in the New York Times (registration required) 17 August says of President Barack Obama’s proposed health plan that “it most resembles the system in Switzerland.” More pointedly, he says that unlike what many, including Fox News, would like the public to believe, the [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/08/17/nobel-economist-krugman-calls-obama-health-plan-like-swiss-system/feed/ 1 US agency withheld data showing negative impact of driving, cell phoneshttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/07/21/us-agency-withheld-data-showing-negative-impact-of-driving-cell-phones/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/07/21/us-agency-withheld-data-showing-negative-impact-of-driving-cell-phones/#comments Tue, 21 Jul 2009 09:55:24 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=22664 GenevaLunch.com US research on the dangers of driving while using a cell phone are finally coming to light, six years after a federal agency in the US decided not to publish them, in 2003, and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration opted not to do further research, reports the New York Times, which is making the [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/07/21/us-agency-withheld-data-showing-negative-impact-of-driving-cell-phones/feed/ 0 US Justice Dept says NY Times article on UBS charges dropped “simply untrue”http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/06/23/us-justice-dept-says-ny-times-article-on-ubs-charges-dropped-simply-untrue/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/06/23/us-justice-dept-says-ny-times-article-on-ubs-charges-dropped-simply-untrue/#comments Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:39:36 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=20951 GenevaLunch.com Washington, DC (GenevaLunch) - The US Justice Department has e-mailed major US media to deny a story that appeared 23 June in the New York Times, calling the report that the government plans to drop a lawsuit again Swiss bank UBS “simply untrue.” The newspaper had quoted a US official who, the reporter says, has [...]

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