Barack Obama Reveals Two-Year Plan to Create 2.5m Jobs (14)
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Barack Obama has outlined his plan to create 2.5m jobs in his first two years in office with an ambitious spending programme on roads, schools and and renewable energy.In his weekly internet address the United States president-elect warned that the US was "facing an economic crisis of historic proportions". But he suggested he was keen to launch a major two-year spending programme, to "jumpstart job-creation in America and lay the foundation for a strong and ...
Plans for Norman Foster's skyscraper in Russia scrapped by developers (1)
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The British architect Norman Foster became the latest high-profile victim of the global economic crisis yesterday when developers in Russia said they were scrapping plans to build his design for Europe's tallest skyscraper.Moscow's 600-metre high Russia Tower, which was supposed to dwarf Canary Wharf in London, would no longer be constructed, real estate magnate Shalva Chigirinsky said. His firm had run out of money, he admitted."Say thanks to [former US federal reserve chairman] Alan Greenspan ...
Teenager appears to take his life on video website (1)
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Police in Florida are investigating the death of an American teenager after he appeared to take an overdose and die while broadcasting on video website Justin.tv.The 19-year-old left a message on another website in which he described his mental anguish and was encouraged to end his life by a number of other web users.More than 180 people were watching online as the teenager swallowed pills before collapsing on his bed and appearing to fall unconscious. ...
Ségolène Royal leads race to become French Socialist party leader (1)
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France's Socialist party will today hold a run-off vote for its next leader, as Ségolène Royal and Martine Aubry battle to become the first woman to head the biggest party on the French left.In the initial vote yesterday, first place went to Royal, the former presidential candidate who is promising to modernise the troubled and divided party.Despite a campaign by party heavyweights and members of the old guard, who dismissed Royal as a would-be messianic ...
16th-century skeleton identified as astronomer Copernicus (2)
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The long-lost skeleton of Nicolaus Copernicus – the 16th-century astronomer who transformed our understanding of the solar system – has been found, Polish researchers have confirmed.Forensic detective work has successfully matched DNA samples recovered from remains in a cathedral grave with hairs retrieved from a book the scholar priest is known to have owned.The identification is the culmination of four years of investigation and centuries of speculation about the final resting place of the man ...
California switches on to an electric future (2)
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California's 36 million people have 5m cars between them, accounting for 40% of the state's greenhouse gas emissions. So replacing 1m of those petrol cars with electric cars will make a big difference.Under joint plans published overnight by the state government, local transport and energy companies these electric cars will hit the streets of California's major cities within the next decade. Yesterday, the mayors of San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose announced investment of around ...
California switches on to an electric future (1)
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California's 36 million people have 21m cars between them, accounting for 40% of the state's greenhouse gas emissions. So replacing 1m of those petrol cars with electric cars will make a big difference.Under joint plans published overnight by the state government, local transport and energy companies these electric cars will hit the streets of California's major cities within the next decade. Yesterday, the mayors of San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose announced investment of around ...
California officials unveil plans to turn San Francisco Bay area into electric car capital (1)
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Officials in California have unveiled ambitious plans to turn the San Francisco Bay Area into one of the leading centres of electric vehicles in the world.If it succeeds, the strategy announced yesterday will see billions of dollars poured into a new power infrastructure that will turn the region away from fossil fuel and to renewable energy – and convince millions of people to switch to green technology.The plan, which will see the Bay become the ...
No more them and us, with a farewell to American supremacy (2)
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The view of the world presented by the National Intelligence Council (NIC) lacks the black and white, us and them, good and evil clarity of the Bush years. It is a place of competing centres of power, scarce resources and countless potential shocks to the system. Most importantly, in a conclusion likely to be contested by Washington's remaining neo-conservatives, the NIC report declares the end of American supremacy. "A Less Dominant Power""By 2025 the international ...
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George Iordanou said:
Εξαιρετικό άρθρο αλλα καθολου ρεαλιστικο. Η Αμερικανικη ηγεμονια (unipolarity) έχει δρομο ακομα. Πχ, τι ενδειξεις έχουμε ότι η στρατιωτικη αναπτυξη της κινας θα φτασει τα επιπεδα της Αμερικης; Πρωτοι στο military spending ειναι οι Αμερθκάνοι με 50% του παγκοσμιου και δευτεροι οι Ρωσσοι με 5%. Αν φτάσει η Κινα στα επιπεδα της Αμερικης τότε θα υπάρξει regional ανισορροπια και η Αμερικη θα είναι το τελευταίο προβλημα της Κίνας (βλ Ιαπωνία)
US judge orders release of Guantánamo five (3)
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A US judge ruled yesterday that five Algerian prisoners held in Guantánamo Bay must be set free, in a decision with far-reaching implications for the remaining detainees at the base in Cuba.District court judge Richard Leon ruled in a Washington DC court that there was no legal basis to keep the five in prison. It is the first verdict in more than 200 habeas corpus petitions being brought before the US courts. The petitions challenge ...
FNC Tags Waxman as 'Strong Liberal,' But ABC Avoids Any Label (1)
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In short items Thursday night, ABC anchor Charles Gibson and FNC anchor Brit Hume both noted how House Democrats voted to replace Congressman John Dingell of Michigan -- as Chairman of the Committee on Energy and Commerce -- with Congressman Henry Waxman, but only Hume identified Waxman as a liberal: “Waxman is a strong liberal and environmental advocate.” Gibson left out any ideological tag as he echoed Hume's environmental “advocate” language in benignly describing the ...
From the Kremlin to Caracas, how oil collapse changes everything (1)
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RussiaRussia is lurching towards a major economic crisis, experts predicted yesterday, following news that the price of oil had slumped to under $50 (£33.72) a barrel. The collapse was likely to have catastrophic consequences including a possible devaluation of the rouble and a severe drop in living standards next year, they said. With oil prices tumbling and his credibility at stake, Russia's prime minister, Vladimir Putin, yesterday insisted that the economy was still robust. The ...
Anna Politkovskaya trial adjourned (1)
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Obama presidency faces unstable world (5)
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The United States' leading intelligence organisation has warned that the world is entering an increasingly unstable and unpredictable period in which the advance of western-style democracy is no longer assured, and some states are in danger of being "taken over and run by criminal networks".The global trends review, produced by the National Intelligence Council (NIC) every four years, represents sobering reading in Barack Obama's intray as he prepares to take office in January. The country ...
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I am happy the added a link to the actual report at the end.
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If their 20-year forecast can change this much in 4 years ...
Police officer on BNP membership list is suspended (1)
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A serving police officer included in a list of British National Party members leaked on an internet blog has tonight been suspended from duty, police said.Steve Bettley, of Merseyside Police, returned early from a holiday to help the force with an investigation into his alleged involvement with the far right party.Police officers have been banned from being members of the BNP since 2004.A force spokesman said: "Merseyside Police can confirm that the police officer subject ...
Judge: Algerian prisoners held in Guantánamo Bay must be freed (1)
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