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UPDATE 1-China lashes Fed easing as risk to global recovery
Post Date: 2010-11-11 12:59:11 by Happy Quanzaa
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(Adds comments by officials) SEOUL Nov 11 (Reuters) - China said on Thursday that the U.S. Federal Reserve's move to ease monetary policy risked undermining the global economic recovery, adding that Washington "should not force others to take medicine for its own disease". A senior Chinese central bank official told reporters at the G20 summit in Seoul that the Fed's move had caused "strong concern" around the globe, and major reserve countries ought to factor in the global impact of their policies. <^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ (For full G20 coverage, click on [nN09105095]) ...
Students In London Storm Conservative Party Headquarters During Rally To Protest Tuition Hikes
Post Date: 2010-11-10 19:22:29 by Brian S
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Tens of thousands of people joined forces in England Wednesday to protest a proposed plan to boost university tuition fees. Hundreds of protesters attending a London rally to oppose the plan later turned riotous and stormed the headquarters of Britain's Conservative Party, smashing windows, clashing with police and bringing chaos to what began as a peaceful demonstration. Nearly 50,000 people gathered for a march organized by Britain's main student and academic unions, the NUS and UCU, to protest the government's plans to allow universities to charge between $9,600 and $14,400 per year in tuition fees. Tuitions are currently capped at $5,264, according to The New York Times. ...
In Curt Exchange, U.S. Faults Israel on Housing
Post Date: 2010-11-10 14:26:06 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON — President Obama’s criticism of new Israeli housing plans for East Jerusalem, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s even sharper retort, have thrown the Middle East peace talks into jeopardy, with the dispute over Jewish settlements looming as a seemingly insuperable hurdle. The Obama administration is struggling to restart direct negotiations between the Israelis and Palestinians, which stalled last month after the expiration of a partial freeze on settlement construction in the West Bank. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton plans to meet Mr. Netanyahu in New York on Thursday, while Egypt sent two top officials to Washington to discuss ways to salvage ...
Chinese Father Punished For Food Safety Activism
Post Date: 2010-11-10 10:19:49 by Murron
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Chinese Father Punished For Food Safety Activism Christopher Bodeen, AP BEIJING (AP) -- A father who organized a support group for other parents whose children were sickened in one of China's worst food safety scandals was convicted and sentenced Wednesday to 2 1/2 years in prison for inciting social disorder, his lawyer said. Zhao Lianhai, center, the father of a girl sickened after she drank tainted milk formula, speaks to journalists outside the Intermediate People's Court in Shijiazhuang, in China's Hebei province. Zhao, the Chinese man who organized a support group for parents of children sickened in one of the country's worst food safety scandals was found guilty ...
Netanyahu Confronts Anti-Israel Propaganda in U.S.
Post Date: 2010-11-09 19:41:00 by Brian S
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JERUSALEM, Israel - Why would Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu travel to the U.S. while President Obama was out of the country? His latest U.S. visit appears to be part of a broad effort to stem the rising tide of anti-Israel sentiment, which is increasingly embedding itself in America, traditionally Israel's staunchest ally. During several scheduled stops on his U.S. trip, Netanyahu countered the rising anti-Israel propaganda by restating the facts on the ground. His visit began with an hour-long meeting with Vice President Joe Biden Sunday evening in New Orleans, followed on Monday by an address to the Jewish Federations of America's General Assembly. The prime ...
Incoming small town Mexico mayor kidnapped, killed
Post Date: 2010-11-09 17:39:54 by WhiteSands
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A mayor-elect from the Mexican state of Veracruz was kidnapped and killed along with two companions on Monday, local media reported. The reports did not link the killings to the violence sweeping Mexico as the government fights powerful drug cartels. Several mayors and other elected officials have been targeted by drug gangs in recent months. Gregorio Barradas Miravete, the mayor-elect from the municipality of Juan Rodriguez Clara, was a member of President Felipe Calderon's National Action Party. The three men were forced into a Hummer truck in the afternoon in the south of Veracruz and were then taken to the neighboring state of Oaxaca, local prosecutors said, according to several ...
EU threatens to block Chinese bids for public contracts
Post Date: 2010-11-09 17:29:01 by WhiteSands
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The European Union will block access for Chinese companies bidding for publicly funded contracts unless businesses from Europe get the same access in China, under new proposals tabled in Brussels as David Cameron held trade talks in Beijing. Over the last eight years, China's public procurement market has tripled reaching a value of over £54 billion, according to The China Business Review magazine. Karel de Gucht, the European trade commissioner, proposed "a tool whereby we can impose reciprocity" to ensure that China did not discriminate against foreign businesses while awarding government funded contracts. "Imagine a Chinese company that participates in a bid, ...
Haiti Reports First Cholera Case in Port-au-Prince
Post Date: 2010-11-09 16:11:16 by WhiteSands
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Health officials in Haiti are reporting the first confirmed case of cholera in the capital, Port-au-Prince. Authorities have feared the disease, which has already killed at least 544 people in Haiti, could spread into the capital, where hundreds of thousands of people have been living in tent cities since January's earthquake. Residents in the crowded, squalid camps are especially vulnerable to cholera, which is caused by ingestion of contaminated food or water. The outbreak was first reported late last month in the Artibonite region north of the capital, and the disease has spread to half of the Caribbean nation's 10 administrative regions. The health ministry says more than 8,000 ...
After GOP victory, emboldened Israel declares new building in East Jerusalem
Post Date: 2010-11-08 19:47:04 by Brian S
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Tel Aviv Israel has published plans to build about 1,300 new housing units in East Jerusalem neighborhoods, a move that highlights US-Israeli differences just as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in the United States to huddle with Obama administration officials. The Friday publication of the building plans, discovered today, was a surprise redux of Israel's approval of 1,600 new homes that torpedoed Vice President Joe Biden's March visit to Israel, angering the White House. Then, as now, Israel played down its significance. But coupled with Mr. Netanyahu's public call on Sunday for the US to create a "credible'' threat of military force against Iran, ...
World Bank Chief: Time to Consider a New Gold Standard
Post Date: 2010-11-08 19:35:51 by Brian S
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China's undervalued renminbi continues to be a problem. The Chinese are displeased with the U.S.'s own recent currency manipulations. Is the solution to move back toward the gold standard? Buried in a broader op-ed on the coming G20 and international currency issues, World Bank president Robert Zoellick dropped this two-sentence bomb:The system should also consider employing gold as an international reference point of market expectations about inflation, deflation and future currency values. Although textbooks may view gold as the old money, markets are using gold as an alternative monetary asset today.This suggestion was only one of Zoellick's many ideas. It is, however, pretty ...
US Rejects Israel Call For Military Threat Against Iran
Post Date: 2010-11-08 12:38:18 by Brian S
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Secretary Robert Gates on Monday rejected comments by Israel's prime minister calling for a "credible" military threat against Iran to ensure it does not obtain nuclear weapons. "We know that they are concerned about the impact of the sanctions. The sanctions are biting more deeply than they anticipated and we are working very hard at this," Gates told reporters on a visit to Australia for security talks. "So I would disagree that only a credible military threat can get Iran to take the actions it needs to to end its nuclear weapons programme. "We are prepared to do what is necessary but at this point we continue to believe that the political-economic ...
War Crimes: Israeli Government Documents Show Deliberate Policy To Keep Gazans At Near-Starvation Levels
Post Date: 2010-11-07 21:33:54 by Brian S
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Documents whose existence were denied by the Israeli government for over a year have been released after a legal battle led by Israeli human rights group Gisha. The documents reveal a deliberate policy by the Israeli government in which the dietary needs for the population of Gaza are chillingly calculated, and the amounts of food let in by the Israeli government measured to remain just enough to keep the population alive at a near-starvation level. This documents the statement made by a number of Israeli officials that they are "putting the people of Gaza on a diet". Calculation sheet from newly-released documents (image from Gisha)In 2007, when Israel began its full siege on ...
GOP's Graham Urges ‘Confrontation’ With Iran, China
Post Date: 2010-11-07 13:47:06 by Brian S
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The United States faces a possible war with Iran to curb its nuclear ambitions and a "period of confrontation" with China over its currency, a top US lawmaker warned Saturday. Republican Senator Lindsey Graham said his fellow conservative, fresh from their historic elections romp this week, support "bold" action to deal with Iran. If President Barack Obama "decides to be tough with Iran beyond sanctions, I think he is going to feel a lot of Republican support for the idea that we cannot let Iran develop a nuclear weapon," he told the Halifax International Security Forum. "The last thing America wants is another military conflict, but the last thing the ...
Bomb-proof tunnel with air conditioning: Obama's security go to extraordinary measures for his tour of the Gandhi museum
Post Date: 2010-11-06 16:31:57 by WhiteSands
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* American warships to patrol off Mumbai during visit * Coconuts removed from trees as a precaution * 250 U.S. business executives with Obama on 'biggest ever trade mission' * $200million Asia trip cost denied but the President will have huge entourage President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle arrived in India's commercial hub of Mumbai on Saturday, days after voters punished his Democrats in mid-term elections. Probably not since the days of the Pharaohs or the more ludicrous Roman Emperors has a head of state travelled in such pomp and expensive grandeur as the President of the United States of America. While lesser mortals – the Pope, Queen Elizabeth and so on ...
Obama calls India creator, not poacher, of US jobs
Post Date: 2010-11-06 16:19:48 by WhiteSands
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MUMBAI, India – Searching for help half a world away, President Barack Obama on Saturday embraced India as the next jobs-creating giant for hurting Americans, not a cheap-labor rival that outsources opportunity from the United States. Fresh off a political trouncing at home, Obama was determined to show tangible, economic results on his long Asia trip, and that was apparent from almost the moment he set foot on a steamy afternoon in the world's largest democracy. By the end of the first of his three days in India, he was promoting $10 billion in trade deals — completed in time for his visit — that the White House says will create about 54,000 jobs at home. That's a ...
China, India, Brazil Become 'Major Players' At IMF
Post Date: 2010-11-06 13:50:56 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON (AP) — China and India received long-sought recognition Friday as global economic heavyweights as the International Monetary Fund gave them and other emerging powers a significantly larger role in stabilizing the world economy. IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn announced planned reforms to the fund's voting power after a meeting of the organization's board, declaring that no longer would emerging economies feel that they are "invited to the table, but minor players." Brazil, China, India and Russia are now "major players," Strauss-Kahn affirmed at a news conference. He called on these nations to assume greater responsibility in guiding the global ...
Israel Braces For The Iranian Rain Of Fire
Post Date: 2010-11-06 12:44:31 by Brian S
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The head of Israeli military intelligence warned his political superiors that the next major war Israel encountered would likely result in much higher Israeli casualties, especially to civilians. There is also growing concern about Russia selling advanced anti-aircraft systems to Syria, which could pass them on to Iran. All this could be traced back to preparations Iran has been making for over a decade. Using their oil wealth, and weapons smuggling network, Iran has armed Syria, Hezbollah (the Shia militia in southern Lebanon) and Hamas (the Palestinian terrorist group that runs Gaza) with over 50,000 rockets, plus numerous other weapons. Most of the rockets are short range (about 10 ...
Obama, drubbed at polls, now dropped from top spot in global power ranking
Post Date: 2010-11-05 22:51:50 by WhiteSands
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While Forbes magazine still terms President Obama the 'Leader of the Free World,’ the title of most powerful now goes to China's Hu Jintao. Washington Just in case President Obama wasn’t feeling deflated enough by the drubbing he got in Tuesday’s midterm elections, now there’s this: Forbes magazine has decided he’s no longer the world’s most powerful person. That would be Hu Jintao, president of China, the American business magazine declares in its annual “most powerful” global ranking this week. Mr. Obama, whom Forbes grants still holds the unofficial title of “Leader of the Free World,” fell to No. 2 in the power rankings – ...
Ex-WikiLeaks Staffers To Launch Rival Whistleblower Site: Report
Post Date: 2010-11-05 12:46:09 by Brian S
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A group of former WikiLeaks staffers are planning on launching their own site for leaked documents, according to a published report. Daniel Domscheit-Berg, an important member of WikiLeaks who quit in September after disagreements with the site's founder Julian Assange, is reportedly planning to create his own whistleblower site along with other former members of WikiLeaks, Wall Street Journal reports. "There is some indication that Daniel and some others are setting up a similar venue, and we wish them luck," said Kristinn Hrafnsson, a WikiLeaks spokesman. "It would be good to have more organizations like WikiLeaks." WikiLeaks staffers claim the site has been ...
Backlash against Fed’s $600bn easing
Post Date: 2010-11-04 20:54:15 by jwpegler
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The US Federal Reserve’s decision to pump an extra $600bn into the economy has galvanized emerging market central banks into preparing defensive measures and sparked criticism from leading global economies. The Fed’s initiative, in response to rising concern about the weakness of the US economy, has fuelled fears of a sharp drop in the dollar and a fresh flood of capital inflows into emerging markets. China, Brazil and Germany on Thursday criticised the Fed’s action a day earlier, and a string of east Asian central banks said they were preparing measures to defend their economies against large capital inflows. Guido Mantega, the Brazilian finance minister who was the first ...
Chinese President Hu Overtakes President Obama As World's 'Most Powerful'
Post Date: 2010-11-04 11:40:40 by Brian S
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MANILA, Philippines — Hu Jintao, the President of the People’s Republic of China, is this year’s most powerful person, Forbes. com said in its latest power list released last Nov. 3, 2010. Hu Jintao, 67, has overtaken US President Barack Obama, 49, who now ranks No. 2 in the power list. In an article titled “The Most Powerful People on Earth 2010’’ writ ten by Nicole Perlroth and Michael Noer, it said that “the people on this list were chosen because, in various ways, they bend the world to their will. They are heads of state, major religious figures, entrepreneurs, and outlaws.’’ “Paramount political leader of more people than anyone ...
Strange: Bush Claims He Was A 'Dissenting Voice' On Iraq
Post Date: 2010-11-03 17:24:58 by Brian S
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Former President George W. Bush says he was a "dissenting voice" on the decision to invade Iraq because he "didn't want to use force" but ran out of options. "I was a dissenting voice. I didn't want to use force," Bush told NBC's Matt Lauer in his first interview promoting his new memoir, "Decision Points." "I mean force is the last option for a President," he continued, according to an NBC News transcript e-mailed to Raw Story. "And I think it's clear in the book that I gave diplomacy every chance to work. And I will also tell you the world's better off without somehow in power. And so are 25 million Iraqis." ...
Around The World, Concern Over The Global Impact Of U.S. Elections
Post Date: 2010-11-03 14:26:47 by Brian S
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BEIJING - World capitals on Wednesday braced for a new political order in Washington, as policymakers and analysts tried to assess the impact on foreign policy of a new Republican-led U.S. House, a diminished Democratic majority in the Senate and an American president many fear has been left weakened. The midterm elections were watched particularly closely here in China, which emerged as a villain in campaign ads by candidates railing against American jobs being shipped overseas. Some feared congressional Republicans, more mistrustful of China's intentions, would pressure the Obama administration to take a tougher line with Beijing on such issues as technology exports, cooperation on ...
Israel Delays Strategic Dialogue With Britain, Demands Immunity From Arrest For Leaders
Post Date: 2010-11-03 12:05:34 by Brian S
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JERUSALEM (AP) - Officials say Israel has suspended a special strategic dialogue with London as long as Israeli officials visiting Britain face possible arrest for suspected war crimes against Palestinians. The two countries announced the dialogue two years ago to boost relations. But Israel put them on hold at the beginning of the year after former Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni canceled a trip to London for fear of arrest. A number of Israeli officials have been threatened with possible prosecution in Britain under the law of "universal jurisdiction," which contends that crimes against humanity are so egregious that they can be prosecuted even if they were not committed in the ...
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