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The Party Of No Has A Plan

The Party Of No Has A Plan

One of the big gripes from the Left about the Republican party is that they snipe from the sidelines but offer no plans of their own for addressing the problems faced by our nation. This meme hit a crescendo during the fight over (...)

9 Feb. | | Rob Port

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Monroe Anderson

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A French Valentine’s Day Kiss-in against homophobia

A French Valentine's Day Kiss-in against homophobia

The title pretty much says it all as once again the group Kiss-in contre l’homophobie readies itself for action - this time on Valentine’s Day. February 14 is the date set for the next Kiss-in, an event which since it was first held in (...)

9 Feb. 2010 | | Johnny Summerton

Endless Oil

Endless Oil

”Endless Oil” is the title of a piece in Business Week (Jan, 18, 2010). Its author is Stanley Reed, and it was interesting for me because I remember when Business Week would not have published a tissue of nonsense like that article, and (...)

9 Feb. 2010 | | Staffjam

Cloud: Hype, opportunity, or disintermediation

Cloud: Hype, opportunity, or disintermediation

An under pressure telecoms industry will be meet to discuss the pros and cons of the cloud. Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 (...)

9 Feb. 2010 | | Emma Naylor

Senseless Savagery: A U.S. Connection to the Juarez Student Massacre

Senseless Savagery: A U.S. Connection to the Juarez Student Massacre

Sixteen Mexicans, most of them teens, were gunned down at a high school party by multiple, heavily armed killers, who reportedly filed away in silence last weekend. A horrified world viewed photos of Sunday morning streets running red with innocent blood. (...)

8 Feb. 2010 | | Billie Greenwood

A Disney disappointment for Parisian family

A Disney disappointment for Parisian family

It was supposed to have been a family treat as a group that included six adults and nine children made their way to a cinema in Paris to see a matinée performance of the latest Disney film "The Princess and the Frog". But it ended up with the (...)

8 Feb. 2010 | | Johnny Summerton

Caspian Makan for Agoravox on Neda thinking

Caspian Makan for Agoravox on Neda thinking

Caspian was Neda’s boyfriend until 20 of june 2009. In this date Neda was killed during fights against Ahmadinejad’s regime. Caspian was a witness to the revolutionary movement in Iran in the past months. Last 25 of January he answered for (...)

8 Feb. 2010 | | paolo praolini

Oil Prices Fall Sharply as General Market Sells Off

Oil Prices Fall Sharply as General Market Sells Off

After starting the week on a firmer note, oil prices fell sharply toward the end of the week in a general market sell-off as investors sought the dollar as a safe haven amid worries about European Union economies. After starting the week on a firmer note, (...)

8 Feb. 2010 | | Staffjam

Rosarno and Mob within Italian culture

Rosarno and Mob within Italian culture

About 300 African migrant workers have been bussed out of Rosarno in Calabria, Italy, after a shooting which sparked two days of rioting that left at least 37 injured. The clashes with local residents and the police began after two Africans were wounded (...)

8 Feb. 2010 | | Massimo Famularo

The Problem With Price Forecasting - Is There a Better Way?

People watching commodities markets love to make predictions. On where prices will be a year, two years or ten years from now. Every brokerage house turns out a slate of forecast prices for oil, copper, sugar and every other hard asset. David Threlkeld (...)

8 Feb. 2010 | | Staffjam

Europe’s role in losing Ukraine

Europe's role in losing Ukraine

On the eve of the crucial run-off in Ukraine’s presidential election, Fabrizio Tassinari argues that enlargement fatigue in the EU has meant that since the Orange Revolution Ukraine has been offered no real prospect of joining Europe. By Fabrizio (...)

5 Feb. 2010 | | openDemocracy

DSK for French president 2012 - part...are you still counting?

DSK for French president 2012 - part...are you still counting?

An update on the French media’s fascination with a potential presidential bid by Dominique Strauss-Kahn in 2012. The next presidential election here in France might be a little more than over two years away, but that doesn’t stop pollsters (...)

5 Feb. 2010 | | Johnny Summerton

Is China’s Success Coming at the Expense of it’s Neighbours

During the decade after the 1997 Asian financial crisis, China was generally seen throughout East Asia as a friendly alternative power-center to the American-led Washington-consensus that told countries in trouble they had to force their banks to declare (...)

5 Feb. 2010 | | Staffjam

In Search of Intelligence in the Multiverse—Not in the minds of the GOP

Teabaggers are out

Whether it’s Sarah Palin, Mitch McConnell, Jon Kyl, John Boehner, Eric Cantor, Mike Pence, Michael Steele or Rush Limbaugh, you can almost always count on Republican leadership to say something stupid. In some cases—take Palin for (...)

4 Feb. 2010 | | Monroe Anderson

Is Social Media Making Journalists Lazy?

Is Social Media Making Journalists Lazy?

When I was a newspaper reporter, a key part of the job was finding and interviewing sources who could offer information, perspective, insight and, of course, some good quotes. It required legwork and the ability to build relationships and trust with (...)

4 Feb. 2010 | | Mark Evans

Ridding French of its Anglicisms

Ridding French of its Anglicisms

The French are at it again - or so it would seem. Someone appears to "have the hump" with the number of English words creeping into everyday use in France and wants to try to put a stop to it. This time around it’s the junior (...)

4 Feb. 2010 | | Johnny Summerton

Wind Power and Renewables Under Fire over Corruption and Shortcuts

Wind Power and Renewables Under Fire over Corruption and Shortcuts

Wind energy business comes under fire over subsidies and corruption. We also look at the Obama administration’s geothermal program, climategate and renewable energy issues. In a global economic scene dominated by continuing uncertainty, one of the (...)

4 Feb. 2010 | | Staffjam

Carla Bruni-Sarkozy pulls out of San Remo festival

San Remo "sans" Carla. It’s the news that’s rocking (forgive the weak musical pun) Italy at the moment. France’s first lady, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy has pulled out of the country’s San Remo music festival due to take place in a (...)

4 Feb. 2010 | | Johnny Summerton

The Party Of No: Cluelessly Do They Go

The Party Of No: Cluelessly Do They Go

How richly ironic that Barack Obama has prompted something of a rebirth in the Republican Party but this diminished group of hacks hasn’t been able to figure out how to use it beyond throwing sand and screaming NO! This seems to be lost on the (...)

3 Feb. 2010 | | Shaun Mullen

We have been at our best when at our boldest – so AV?

We have been at our best when at our boldest – so AV?

Two striking phrases appear in Tony Blair’s 2002 Labour Conference speech – the famous “We have been at our best when at our boldest” and a lesser known line “Thanks to the brilliance and vision of Gordon Brown we (...)

3 Feb. 2010 | | Jon Worth

Late Night: Valentine’ Day Warm Up: Pork, not Palin

Late Night: Valentine' Day Warm Up: Pork, not Palin

Pork is more than meat or a verb; it’s an aphrodisiac, according to Argentina’s President Cristina Fernandez. I’ve just been told something I didn’t know; that eating pork improves your sex life … I’d say it’s (...)

3 Feb. 2010 | | Lisa Derrick

How the Wilders Hysteria is Linked to Holland. Who exploits it. And how it can be ended.

How the Wilders Hysteria is Linked to Holland. Who exploits it. And how it can be ended.

How will it be overcome, the Wilders agitation and its sisters in many European countries? My friends say: By understanding the fears of men and women who live in marginalized urban neighborhoods. Elder people, who lost their references, when their (...)

2 Feb. 2010 | | Huib Riethof

Mediflights Transporting Critical Haitian Patients to the US have been Suspended for Questionable Reasons

Mediflights Transporting Critical Haitian Patients to the US have been Suspended for Questionable Reasons

MediVacFLights have been suspended from Haiti Since Wednesday, this was not made public until Late Friday Night.And the Whitehouse Spokesperson and the Governor of Florida are giving very different accounts of the situation. More Importantly this (...)

1 Feb. 2010 | | Enigma4ever

I Spy? Not Anymore...

I Spy? Not Anymore...

Counterespionage The National Security Council has ordered that the intelligence community downgrade China from a first to a second priority. It’s another victory for an American adversary. The Obama National Security Council has ordered the (...)

1 Feb. 2010 | | J.D. LeaSure

China bugs and burgles Britain

China bugs and burgles Britain

Counterespionage THE security service MI5 has accused China of bugging and burgling UK business executives and setting up “honeytraps” in a bid to blackmail them into betraying sensitive commercial secrets. A leaked MI5 document says (...)

1 Feb. 2010 | | J.D. LeaSure

10 Geopolitical & Economic Predictions for 2010

10 Geopolitical & Economic Predictions for 2010

A look at the current worldwide political and Economic climate and 10 strategic predictions covering Oil & Gas, Health, Afghanistan, Asset Values, Iran & Israel & others. A great - and still growing - divergence appeared in 2009 between public (...)

1 Feb. 2010 | | Staffjam

Despite strong GDP Growth Energy Prices Sink Lower

Despite strong GDP Growth Energy Prices Sink Lower

Crude oil futures slipped below $73 a barrel for West Texas Intermediate late Friday as a temporary boost from strong GDP figures failed to last and let prices sink to a one-month low. Crude oil futures slipped below $73 a barrel for West Texas (...)

1 Feb. 2010 | | Staffjam

Locking yourself behind your own subscription wall

Locking yourself behind your own subscription wall

The Internet has revolutionized the way that we look at media - and the way that it interacts with us. That’s undeniable, although some may disagree as to the extent. And in this new environment, the modern publication can’t afford to alienate (...)

1 Feb. 2010 | | Walker Morrow

Despite the Biased rhetoric I got I was right as without a doubt, Iran has both civilian, military nuke programs!

Despite the Biased rhetoric I got I was right as without a doubt, Iran has both civilian, military nuke programs!

’Without a doubt, Iran has both civilian, military nuke programs’ I have been saying for years that they are stalling us until they achieve their goal of attaining nuclear weapons. I knew their civilian program was a cover for their long term (...)

29 Jan. 2010 | 1 comment | James Joiner

The Snub of Pakistani Cricketers by the Indian Premier League Should Come As No Surprise

Pakistani Cricket Players

New Delhi, India- Events at an auction held earlier this month by India’s wildly popular Indian Premier League (IPL), consisting of professional cricket teams and franchises, has caused outrage amongst the cricket crazed Pakistani population. Up to (...)

29 Jan. 2010 | | Manzer Munir

France - bride requests annulment minutes after marriage

France - bride requests annulment minutes after marriage

"I do" and then "I don’t" barely 10 minutes later was very much the pattern of events for a newly-wed bride in France last weekend. The wedding and almost immediate request for an annulment happened in the city of Tours in (...)

29 Jan. 2010 | | Johnny Summerton

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