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Saudi women given right to vote
Post Date: 2011-09-25 12:40:03 by lucysmom
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Saudi Arabia will allow women to stand for election and vote, the king announced on Sunday, in a significant policy shift in the conservative Islamic kingdom. In a five-minute speech, King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al-Saud said women will also take part in the next session of the unelected, advisory Shura Council, which vets legislation but has no binding powers. "Because we refuse to marginalize women in society in all roles that comply with sharia, we have decided, after deliberation with our senior ulama (clerics) and others... to involve women in the Shura Council as members, starting from the next term," he said in a speech delivered to the advisory body. "Women will be ...
"Microsoft's exports pass" - China's export enterprises and foreign trade bridge
Post Date: 2011-09-25 00:21:19 by A K A Stone
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When you can not introduce you to overseas enterprises, overseas companies can not find you. Then the market will force the need for a mode of communication to effectively meet these market needs. Microsoft's market-sensitive sense of smell will quickly do this. It is understood that Microsoft's MSN (China) has officially launched will be based on Microsoft's purchase of search keywords in overseas markets "exit pass" (adCenter) to solve this problem. Exports through Microsoft technology based on Microsoft's powerful development platform for global and extensive online resource dedicated to helping Chinese enterprises to expand overseas market, with an effective ...
The future of yacht "Utopia" mini-state called the exposure of large size
Post Date: 2011-09-24 23:55:47 by A K A Stone
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September 22 News, this amazing man-made island is actually the future of the yacht, which can sail anywhere. Design concept known as Utopia, which describes the future could look like the yacht that has been out of the boat's shape. Yacht design company BMT Nigel Gee and business partners Yacht Island Design to design the ship. Made the creation bold and avant-garde of the future depicted, breaking the traditional model of the way, without any traditional design constraints. By measuring the length and width are 100 m yacht, the volume is equivalent to the ship's deck now 11, has enough space to be creative and design company described it as a complete mini-state. Source: CFP ...
Xia wing mounted a successful day through openings in Zhangjiajie
Post Date: 2011-09-24 23:44:48 by A K A Stone
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September 24, Zhangjiajie, Hunan, American adventurer Chris dressed in wing loading Jeb day openings from about one kilometer away from an altitude of about 2,000 meters off the helicopter emerged from the capsule, the success continued through the day, after flying about 40 openings seconds, parachute landing in the winding mountain road. Feng child photo Source: CFP Vision China
Parents may apply for a green card faster than the brothers (Advice On How To Come To America)
Post Date: 2011-09-24 23:35:42 by A K A Stone
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One reader asked:
My brother is a U.S. citizen (10 years). My mother 72 years old this year, has held a green card for two years. I am 40 years old, divorced. I ask you:
First, I applied to American identity who is better?
Second, the family status in the United States to help me during the application, I can not come to the United States to visit relatives in China can only wait? If waiting, then at least a few years?
Third, I can switch to student status in the U.S. before school, waiting for family to help me apply for American identity?
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First, the brothers and sisters of citizens apply for immigration to the United States, is now scheduled in April 2000. Green card ...
No one falls help China become "strangers"
Post Date: 2011-09-24 23:29:07 by A K A Stone
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Rapid development of Chinese society, but a sense of trust between people is not to the previous. Daily analysis of 22 to monographs, distrust increases the cost of the operation of society, but also people's emotions become negative; that white thing, this must beware of daily life everywhere, showing China China has become a "society of strangers . " What are the characteristics community of strangers? On the one hand highly wary of others, on the other hand complaining about "human indifference"; the one hand, blame others, "insensitive", on the other hand to remind friends and family, something happens "less succeed." Blame reason, it is ...
Six weeks to save the euro: Chancellor's warning after another day of financial turmoil
Post Date: 2011-09-24 08:55:21 by Capitalist Eric
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On another day of gathering economic gloom, George Osborne savaged eurozone leaders for failing to get a grip on their towering debts.The Chancellor set a deadline of six weeks - when leaders of the G20 group of leading countries will meet for crunch talks in France - for action.Outrage: Protests spark in Thessaloniki over cuts imposed on GreeceHe said: 'Patience is running out in the international community. There is a sense from across the leading lights of the eurozone that time is running out for them. 'The eurozone has six weeks to resolve this political crisis.'Mr Osborne also signalled dramatic plans to prop up Britain's faltering economy, opening the door for a ...
Global markets buckle on fears of new financial meltdown
Post Date: 2011-09-23 19:06:21 by Capitalist Eric
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Asian and European stocks spiral downward. The Dow Jones industrial average plunges almost 400 points toward its worst week since the depths of Wall Street's collapse in 2008. Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Stocks plunged Thursday, extending losses for a fourth straight session as the Federal Reserve's weak outlook for the U.S. economy and disappointing data from China heightened fears about a global recession. (Brendan McDermid, Reuters / September 23, 2011) The strain of deteriorating economic conditions and the failure of governments to contain the damage are raising fears that a new financial market meltdown may be unavoidable. The grim mood was ...
Denninger: “I Hope You’ve Taken the Last Couple of Years to Become Prepared”
Post Date: 2011-09-23 18:39:53 by Capitalist Eric
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Karl Denninger, who forecasted the breakdown in stock markets a couple of weeks before the crash of 2008, says that all hell is now breaking loose: You’ve once again had your 401k and IRA whacked by the incessant lies and scams promulgated by your government and the “financial wizards” who seduced you back into the markets with half-truths and siren songs. The market opened this morning down 300+ DOW points and the VIX slammed through the 40 level. There will clearly be bounces along the line but as things stand right now the underlying financial conditions have not changed one iota from where they were in 2007. Instead of allowing those who were overlevered to go bust and ...
Monetary System In Ruin, Signals Of Systemic Collapse [Bernanke "Twist" Solves NOTHING]
Post Date: 2011-09-22 17:47:59 by Capitalist Eric
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Wow!! The billboard signals of extreme crisis are overwhelming. Three years of near 0% with no recovery. A full year of ample USTreasury and mortgage bond monetization with no recovery. Tons of cash aid deliveries to the big US banks with no recovery. Some key corporate nationalizations with no recovery. Oodles of errant stimulus programs with no recovery. Some important misdirection in home loan aid initiatives with no recovery. The US Federal Reserve admits it can do nothing more as a recovery remains elusive. The USGovt is paralyzed by disguised fascist warmongers opposed by disguised marxist collectivists, but intent on maintaining the status quo among bank fraud. An approved accounting ...
Deflation Here.
Post Date: 2011-09-22 09:47:31 by mcgowanjm
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From Peter Tchir of TF Market Advisors CDS - Hoarding and Downgrades and Collateral "Hedge funds will unwind or assign profitable trades, which will force the bank to return collateral to the hedge fund. It is a subtle, but painful, way for a bank to experience a run. It happened with Bear and with Lehman.".....;}
Palestinians: we are already recognised as a state by two-thirds of the globe
Post Date: 2011-09-20 22:11:27 by nolu chan
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Palestinians: we are already recognised as a state by two-thirds of the globe UN delegation claims member countries comprising 75% of the world's population are in favour of its bid for full statehood Interactive: which countries already recognise Palestinian? James Ball guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 20 September 2011 09.12 EDT Almost two-thirds of the UN's member states – representing more than 75% of the world's population – already formally recognise the Palestinian state in some form, according to analysis by the Guardian. The Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, is pressing forward with plans to formally request UN membership this Friday, despite attempts at a ...
Robots' first conversation descends into argument
Post Date: 2011-09-20 15:54:16 by Mad Dog
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Two chatbots forget the etiquette of avoiding religion, sex or politics in conversation when two PhD students at Cornell University introduced the pair to eachother. Cornell University researchers Jason Yosinski and Igor Labutov rigged up a chatbot system to allow online avatars to talk to each other. Chatbots are designed to emulate the conversational abilities of humans, usually in an attempt to pass the Turing Test for intelligence. Alan Turing in his 1950 paper proposed that if a computer could fool a sufficiently adept human while conversing with them into thinking that the machine is another human, that computer could be then called intelligent. However, the conversation rapidly ...
GOP Candidates Assail Obama On Israel
Post Date: 2011-09-20 13:28:33 by Brian S
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(09-20) 10:01 PDT NEW YORK, (AP) -- Republican presidential hopeful Rick Perry on Tuesday criticized the Palestinian Authority's effort to seek formal recognition by the U.N. General Assembly and assailed the Obama administration's broader policies in the Middle East. In a speech in New York, Perry pledged strong support for Israel and criticized President Barack Obama for demanding concessions from the Jewish state the Texas governor says emboldened the Palestinians to appeal for U.N. recognition. "We would not be here today at this very precipice of such a dangerous move if the Obama policy in the Middle East wasn't naive and arrogant, misguided and dangerous," ...
Turkey Predicts Alliance With Egypt as Regional Anchors
Post Date: 2011-09-19 19:08:43 by Brian S
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ANKARA, Turkey — A newly assertive Turkey offered on Sunday a vision of a starkly realigned Middle East, where the country’s former allies in Syria and Israel fall into deeper isolation, and a burgeoning alliance with Egypt underpins a new order in a region roiled by revolt and revolution. The portrait was described by Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu of Turkey in an hourlong interview before he was to leave for the United Nations, where a contentious debate was expected this week over a Palestinian bid for recognition as a state. Viewed by many as the architect of a foreign policy that has made Turkey one of the most relevant players in the Muslim world, Mr. Davutoglu pointed to ...
Argentina’s Turnaround Tango
Post Date: 2011-09-19 08:57:24 by lucysmom
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ARGENTINA may seem like one of the last countries on earth to offer lessons for dealing with economic malaise. Once the eighth-largest economy in the world, it steadily slid through the 20th century, thanks to decades of repressive dictatorships and inconsistent market experiments. This ended ignominiously in 2001, when it defaulted on $100 billion in sovereign debt, plunging over half its 35 million people into poverty. snip Why have Argentines embraced bigger government? In part because the preceding era showed how poorly austerity measures — the sort now being pushed by conservatives in the United States — promote growth. In the late 1990s, Argentina cut government spending ...
Boehner: U.S. Must Have Strong, Reliable Commitment to Israel
Post Date: 2011-09-18 18:18:46 by Brian S
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House Speaker John Boehner says the U.S. commitment to Israel should be stronger now as the American ally faces challenges to its existence in the volatile Middle East. In an address Sunday to the Jewish National Fund conference in Cincinnati, the Ohio Republican dismissed suggestions that Israel has isolated itself and he argued that the Jewish state stands above others as the "one true beacon of freedom and opportunity" in the region. The U.S., he said, must stand by Israel's side "not just as a broker or observer -- but as a strong partner and reliable ally." A text of Boehner's address was made available in advance. Boehner's remarks come on the eve ...
Blackface Obama billboard sparks outrage
Post Date: 2011-09-17 13:01:19 by Hondo68
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German comedian Martin Sonneborn is well-known for jokes bordering on the tasteless. But a satirical political billboard of him posing in blackface makeup as US President Barack Obama is sparking outrage.US ambassador laments ‘racist jerks’ in Germany - Society (8 Sep 11) “Ick bin ein Obama (I am an Obama),” reads the poster at Berlin’s central Ernst Reuter Platz square, in an apparent play on John F. Kennedy’s famous “Ich bin ein Berliner” speech. On the poster, a "black" Sonneborn smiles as he raises his arm in the air. The billboard is the latest in Sonneborn’s campaign for his satirical political party Die Partei ahead of ...
Turkey’S Anti-Zionist Stance Is A Positive Move
Post Date: 2011-09-16 19:29:13 by Brian S
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Israel is living in a region whose people believe that the Zionist regime is their archenemy. But with the backing of the United States and other allies, Israel was able to obtain the support of the Arab dictators of the region, who suppressed anyone opposed to the cancerous Zionist entity. For many years, the people of the Middle East have been lamenting the plight of oppressed Palestinians expelled from their homeland. The people of Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria directly witnessed this barbaric act, in which hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were ethnically cleansed and forced to live in refugee camps in their countries. However, since the fall of some of the dictatorships in ...
Clash of Civilizations: Chinese condoms too small for South Africans
Post Date: 2011-09-16 19:20:13 by jwpegler
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A South African court has blocked the government from buying 11 million Chinese condoms, saying they are too small, a newspaper reported on Friday. The finance ministry had awarded a contract to a firm called Siqamba Medical, which planned to buy the Phoenurse condoms from China, the Beeld newspaper said. A rival firm, Sekunjalo Investments Corporation, turned to the High Court in Pretoria after losing the bid, arguing that their condoms were 20 per cent larger than the Chinese ones. Judge Sulet Potterill blocked the deal with Siqamba, ruling that the condoms were too small, made from the wrong material, and were not approved by the World Health Organisation, the paper said.
France moves Muslim faithful off streets after prayer ban
Post Date: 2011-09-16 19:17:39 by jwpegler
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A ban on praying in French streets came into effect on Friday, with thousands of the nation's Muslim faithful being moved to temporary alternative spaces for their day of prayer. From Paris to Marseille, Friday's midday prayers will be led from disused barracks or other temporary buildings, after the question of Islam's visibility became a political issue under right-wing President Nicolas Sarkozy. France, home to Europe's largest Muslim population, this year banned the face- covering burqa and earlier this week Interior Minister Claude Gueant warned that 'from Sept 16 there will be no more prayers in the street'. 'If anyone happens to be recalcitrant we will ...
U.S. Tax-Evasion Probe Leads To Israeli Banks
Post Date: 2011-09-16 18:58:35 by Brian S
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(Reuters) - The U.S. pursuit of offshore tax evaders is widening to include Israel, where U.S. authorities are scrutinizing three of Israel's largest banks over suspicions their Swiss outposts helped American clients evade taxes, people briefed on the matter said. The banks under scrutiny by the U.S. Justice Department's criminal tax division are Bank Hapoalim, Bank Leumi le-Israel BM and Mizrahi-Tefahot, the sources said. The shift to Israel from Switzerland, for years the main focus of the Justice Department's campaign against offshore private banking secrecy, signals the broadening of a landmark probe by the agency that began in 2007 with UBS AG, Switzerland's largest ...
New Study Quantifies Use of Social Media in Arab Spring
Post Date: 2011-09-16 18:47:55 by jwpegler
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In the 21st century, the revolution may not be televised -- but it likely will be tweeted, blogged, texted and organized on Facebook, recent experience suggests. After analyzing more than 3 million tweets, gigabytes of YouTube content and thousands of blog posts, a new study finds that social media played a central role in shaping political debates in the Arab Spring. Conversations about revolution often preceded major events, and social media has carried inspiring stories of protest across international borders. "Our evidence suggests that social media carried a cascade of messages about freedom and democracy across North Africa and the Middle East, and helped raise expectations for ...
China Looks to Liquidate US Treasuries, Diversify Into Physical Assets
Post Date: 2011-09-16 16:38:23 by Capitalist Eric
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The sheer size of US debt and the realities of our ability to pay this money back has come under fire by individual Americans and foreign governments alike. Anyone who has been paying attention understands that there are really only two options left for the US government when it comes to our debt – and paying it off is not one of them. Either we will default on our loans, a situation made plausible by none other than Tim Geithner at the beginning of the year, or we inflate the debt away. Any astute investor knows this. And the Chinese government certainly qualifies as astute. They know what’s coming. That being said, it’s no surprise, then, to see high level Chinese ...
Egyptian PM: Peace Deal With Israel Not Sacred
Post Date: 2011-09-15 19:14:05 by Brian S
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CAIRO - Egypt's Prime Minister Essam Sharaf said a peace deal with Israel was not "sacred" and could be changed for the benefit of peace or the region. His comments, made in an interview with a Turkish television channel and broadcast on state television, were the strongest yet by the new government which took over after president Hosni Mubarak was overthrown in February. "The Camp David agreement is not a sacred thing and is always open to discussion with what would benefit the region and the case of fair peace ... and we could make a change if needed," he said in the interview. Politics professor Mustapha al-Sayyid said Sharaf's comments appeared to be aimed ...
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