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As Stocks Sink, New Cash
Cows Emerge

Alpacas, coins, comic books; a stampede to alternative investments

Wall Street Journal Wall Street Journal Oct 3, 08 12:26 PM CDT
(Newser) - With stocks tanking, 401(k)s plummeting, and the market’s usual safe haven—real estate—at the heart of the current crisis, investors are seeking refuge in unusual investments—everything from parking spaces to comic books to alpacas, the Wall Street Journal reports. A growing number of retirees are taking individual control of their IRAs as Wall Street has failed to safeguard their savings. More »

More about:  retirement • investment • comics • IRA • 401k • gold coins • alpaca

Analysis

 Does al-Qaeda
 Do the Fist-Bump? 

Forget fist-jabbing, it's hugs that give terrorists away

Slate Slate Jul 16, 08 12:36 PM CDT
(Newser) - Terrorists aren’t big on fist-jabbing or bumping—they’re all about kissing and hugging, writes Juliet Lapidos for Slate in the aftermath of the New Yorker's depiction of knuckle-knocking Obamas, a move referred to by Fox News as a “terrorist fist-jab.” Al-Qaeda members, she writes, are likely to enlist a common Middle Eastern welcome of three cheek-to-cheek embraces.   More »

More about:  Barack Obama • al-Qaeda • Osama bin Laden • FARC • Fox News • New Yorker magazine • IRA

Blair Offered to Meet Hooded IRA Militants

And Bill Clinton advised him to do it, new book reveals

Guardian (UK) Guardian (UK) Mar 17, 08 7:37 AM CDT
(Newser) - A new tell-all book by Tony Blair's chief of staff reveals that the former British prime minister offered to meet with eight leaders of the Irish Republican Army during a critical moment in Northern Irish peace talks. Jonathan Powell, one of Blair's longest-serving allies, admits in a memoir being serialized in the Guardian that the PM was ready to hold talks with terrorists wearing ski masks. More »

More about:  Bill Clinton • United Kingdom • Tony Blair • Northern Ireland • IRA • Gerry Adams • Sinn Fein

Former Blair Aide Pushes Qaeda Dialogue

Secret British talks
with IRA could
serve as example

Guardian (UK) Guardian (UK) Mar 15, 08 7:05 AM CDT
(Newser) - One of Tony Blair's former top aides has called for Western governments to talk to al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups, the Guardian reports. Jonathan Powell, the former British prime minister's chief of staff for 12 years, is thought to have played a key role in negotiating a settlement in Northern Ireland. He said classified papers made him realize that secret talks between the IRA and the British paved the way for a peace deal. More »

Major Northern Ireland Militia Renounces Violence

Paramilitary group observes Remembrance Day with gesture toward peace

Guardian (UK) Guardian (UK) Nov 12, 07 10:55 AM CST
(Newser) - The largest Protestant paramilitary group in Northern Ireland stood down yesterday but didn't commit to destroying its arms, the Guardian reports. The Ulster Defense Association, the third and last of the major militant groups in the region to renounce violence, announced its commitment to "a society where violence and weaponry are ghosts of the past," RTE reports. More »

More about:  Northern Ireland • IRA

Nobel Laureate Downplays 9/11

Lessing: IRA violence
in Ireland was worse than WTC attacks;
Americans are 'naive'

Associated Press Associated Press Oct 23, 07 9:03 AM CDT
(Newser) - Freshly minted Nobel laureate Doris Lessing said the 9/11 terrorist assault on the World Trade Center “wasn’t that terrible” in comparison to violence wreaked by the IRA in Britain. "Some Americans will think I'm crazy," she said in an interview in Spanish daily El Pais . "Many people died, two prominent buildings fell, but it was neither as terrible nor as extraordinary as they think. They're a very naive people, or they pretend to be."  More »

More about:  George W. Bush • Tony Blair • Ireland • IRA • Nobel • Doris Lessing

Britain's Longest Campaign Ends

Brit Army campaign in Northern Ireland shuts down

Times (UK) Times (UK) Jul 30, 07 5:27 AM CDT
(Newser) - The British Army's military campaign in Northern Ireland comes to an end at midnight tomorrow—after 38 years of bloodshed. It's  the longest conflict in the army's history. Some 300,000 military personnel served; casualties included 763 soldiers, and 309 civilians  and members of paramilitary groups.  More »

More about:  Great Britain • United Kingdom • Ireland • Northern Ireland • British Army • IRA

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