Putin - A "miracle of God"?
It is sad to see the head of the Russian Orthodox church and other religious leaders praise Russia´s ruler, former second rate KGB agent Vladimir Putin as a "miracle of God":The head of the Russian Orthodox church on Wednesday called the 1...
Syria: The Abyss in Sight
WASHINGTON – When it began last March, the Syrian revolution appeared to be a textbook example for a peaceful uprising by a people united against state brutality. For weeks, videos documented the determination of the mostly youthful protesters...
VIDEO: Singapore warns US against anti-China rhetoric
With a presidential election approaching, China-bashing season is well underway in US politics. Singapore, however, is warning against it, as our Chief Correspondent Simon Marks reports from Washington.
4 pillars of Consumer Agenda
Commissioner Dalli introduced current Consumer Agenda to members of IMCO today. In his speech he focused on four pillars: safety, information, rights and enforcement (see also our earlier post: "Roadmap for the European Consumer Agenda"). S...
Further further reading
For the commute home,- The labour market in swing states has improved faster than in other states.- Barry Ritholz on why @GSElevator is a fake.- How to talk about the economy:...
Anthropologists talk about ” REVOLUTION AND COUNTER-REVOLUTION IN EGYPT “; Open Access debates continue… an anthropology roundup
HOT SPOTS: REVOLUTION AND COUNTER-REVOLUTION IN EGYPT Submitted by Cultural Anthro… on Tue, 2012-01-31 11:54 Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Egypt a Year after January 25th Guest Editors: Julia Elyachar (University of California, Irvine)...
Incremental housing help
The details of the foreclosure settlement this morning mostly reflected what had been reported late last night, and here was the final take from the FT’s Shahien Nasiripour and Kara Scannell:...
Is business getting serious on risks of ecosystems collapse?
"Companies depend on and impact the services that healthy ecosystems provide such as freshwater, wood, water purification, carbon sequestration, pollination and natural hazard protection. Degradation of these “ecosystem services,” therefore,...
The polls are not very kind to Ed Miliband
Doing well or badly? 67 % think Ed is doing badly. Questions: 1. Is it possible to be a leader of the party, which has the ambitions to rule, when the public support for him is pretty limited? 2. Will somebody challenge Ed Miliband (and who) or do...
The polls are not very kind to Ed Miliband
Doing well or badly? 67 % think Ed is doing badly. Questions: 1. Is it possible to be a leader of the party, which has the ambitions to rule, when the public support for him is pretty limited? 2. Will somebody challenge Ed Miliband (and who) or do...
Dossier défense européenne (3) : propositions à l’attention des candidats à l’élection présidentielle française de 2012
Cliquez respectivement ici et là pour accéder aux premier et deuxième articles du dossier. Un bilan sévère a été dressé (ici et là) de l’action conduite par le président de la République, Nicolas Sarkozy, ces cinq dernières années en m...
On the Road Back to Rio, Green Direction Has Been Lost
“Twenty years ago, an historic environmental summit in Rio de Janeiro produced groundbreaking treaties and high hopes that pressing issues would be addressed. But as organizers prepare for the Rio+20 conference in June, there is little on the agend...
Another Lembit video
Earlier this week we brought you the internet sensation that is “Pop Lembit”. But as we all know Lembit has always been an extrovert, and it turns out he has something in his back catalogue that is almost as spectacular as his most recent...
Quote of the day: Miliband wants PMQs reform
According to the Guardian: “I find the Westminster village gets much more excited about it than the population, I believe. I don’t know how to change it so I’m not going to make false promises about changing it but I would love to...
A religious populist sues @allah (cc) at Twitter and its 200 thousand followers. News in ENG and TR from Turkish cybersphere…
Yandex.Turkey Reaches 100K Daily User Audience Benchmark from Yahoo news ISTANBUL — Yandex’s user audience in Turkey has been growing steadily since launch and recently exceeded 100,000 unique visitors per day, according to the company...
Activist András Istvánffy on ‘Hungary's permanent protest culture since 2006’
While the Hungarian government has been closing popular venues, the 4K! or fourth republic! movement has been attempting to reclaim public places through flash mobs and other actions. We meet the platform's coordinator...
How's that global climate change conspiracy going, again?
Himalayan glaciers are not melting as much as previously thought! Take that, Warmists! This is some pretty damning stuff. Over the last 10 years, we learn, the amount of melting in the Himalayas has been "negligible". We are told that sea level rises...
No self incrimination privilege for phone hacking
This Kat finds that, as a patent attorney, just as in his previous life as a chemist, there is little about his day job that overlaps with anything that his non-IP friends have ever heard of. So while he was reading a racy report of another epi...
Harriet Harman is on the warpath for women again
In the Commons today, Harriet Harman laid into… well, there didn't actually seem to be a precise target, as her harangue featured such disparate topics as Ofcom, Sports Personality of the Year 2011, that BBC Women of the Year list a couple of m...
Improve Photography With This Excellent Guidance
Improve Photography With This Excellent Guidance from Article DirectoryTaking gorgeous photographs is a thing that a lot of some individuals wish they could do. Humorous event is, that its not necessary to be a certified photographer to make which ha...
IMF Sees Malev’s Downfall Hitting Hungary’s Budget
The collapse of Hungary's national airline, Malev, will likely make such a big hole in the country’s budget it has attracted the inquiring eye of the International Monetary Fund.
Mobile Roaming: the EU must finally end the rip-off now!
Over the last weeks, the debate in Brussels has heated up concerning the new EU roaming regulation. Sadly, many of the arguments brought forward by lobbyists and many of the proposed changes are just utterly wrong. The European Commission proposed st...
