Norwegian Bourse Director Wants Oil Bourse — Priced in Euros

Laila Bakken and Petter Halvorsen

Bourse Director Sven Arild Andersen is fed up with Norwegian oil having to be traded in London and wants to have a commodities and energy bourse in Norway.

The Bourse Director believes that Norway already has the prerequisites for building up a Norwegian or Scandinavian energy bourse.

Students Expel US Ambassador from Middle East University Campus!

Sendika.Org

US’s ambassador to Turkey, Ross Wilson went to Middle East Technical
University to deliver a speech Thursday.

The rector, Ural Akbulut greeted the ambassador, who was supposed to
address the students at the International Relationship Department at the
METU. The visit was not publicized and the press and other departments of
the university were not notified of the ambassador’s planned speech. Yet,
the Communist Party member students learned about the event and staged a
protest in front of the hall the US ambassador was supposed to make his
presentation.

The students in their chants, reminded the US ambassador of the January 6,
1969 event where the then US ambassador to Turkey Robert Kommer’s
limousine was torched by the students in the same university. Robert
Kommer had been a key player in the “pacification” program conducted by
the US in Viet Nam prior to his assignment to Turkey. US ambassador Robert
Kommer was responsible for the murders of hundreds of thousands of
Vietnamese before he became ambassador to Turkey.

The students reminded the fate of the previous US ambassador to the
present one, Wilson, by chanting, “Hey Yankee! Do you remember Kommer?”
They also chanted and carried banners reading, “Iraq’s resistance will
win!”, “Murderer Occupier, Get out!”

When the embassy officials warned the ambassador, walking towards the steps
of the building, he said, “Then we should leave right away!” and
immediately made his escape out of the campus.

Tension Prevails in Filipinas

Prensa Latina

A great tension still prevails in this
capital Saturday after the implementation of national emergency state
24 hours ago despite the military commanders considered everything is
under control in Filipinas.

President Gloria Macapal Arroyo adopted the measure Friday after the
anti-governmental forces allegedly make an attempt of a coup d´etat.

The action would take place in occasion of the 20 anniversary of the
popular uprising against Dictator Ferdinand Marcos on February 25,
1986.

According to the army the political opposition had foreseen using the
date to demand, through demonstrations, the resignation of Macapal
accused of fraud during the presidential elections in 2004.

Because of that threat Macapal declared the national emergency state,
suspended all of that anniversary's celebration, ordered the arrest
of top rank military and legislators allegedly implicated in the
closure of several daily news.

Supreme Court Okays Hallucinogenic Tea

Gina Holland, Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Tuesday that a small congregation in New Mexico may use hallucinogenic tea as part of a four-hour ritual intended to connect with God.

Justices, in their first religious freedom decision under Chief Justice John Roberts, moved decisively to keep the government out of a church's religious practice. Federal drug agents should have been barred from confiscating the hoasca tea of the Brazil-based church, Roberts wrote in the decision.

The tea, which contains an illegal drug known as DMT, is considered sacred to members of O Centro Espirita Beneficiente Uniao do Vegetal, which has a blend of Christian beliefs and South American traditions. Members believe they can understand God only by drinking the tea, which is consumed twice a month at four-hour ceremonies.

New Justice Samuel Alito did not take part in the case, which was argued last fall before Justice Sandra Day O'Connor before her retirement. Alito was on the bench for the first time on Tuesday