Obama will solve the global financial crisis in a day – Amnesty

It will take Obama just one day to solve the global financial crisis and 20 days to reverse climate change, says an advert by Amnesty International released today.

Impossible? Amnesty International agrees, but it also says that Obama’s pledges on human righs are not impossible to achieve launching an online petition and checklist to this end.

 “We’re not asking for the impossible from Barack Obama, just that the USA makes a clean break with the past and begins to stand up for human rights,” Amnesty International’s UK director Kate Allen told The Guardian.

You can see the checklist and sign the petition here.

Uncle Sam says: Buy a car!

American car web site Edmunds.com is offering $10 million of its advertising space for adverts encouraging Americans to buy cars, AdAge.com reported yesterday.

The ad, which will run for 90 days, argues that this is a great time to buy a car in the US as there are huge discounts available.

Jeremy Anwyl, CEO of Edmunds.com argued that his company felt impelled to show its support to the American car industry. ‘We’ve got to shock people into the market,’ he said.

MFSA to investigate money transfer tariffs

The Malta Financial Services Authority has announced todat that it will investigate tariffs that are charged by banks and financial institutions for money transferred from Malta to other countries, timesofmalta.com reports.

Messages contained in the comment section of the same web site state state that a local bank has raised its online banking fees after it reported an increase in maintenance costs.

Takeover talks for Tomb Raider publishers

Takeover talks for English game publisher Eidos are in their early stages, BBC reveals.

Although the phblishers did not wish to disclose the name of the company involved in the talks, the news was enough to send the company’s shares flying up 23%.