Oct 6, 2010
Wyclef Jean to become university lecturer
London, October 06: Rapper Wyclef Jean is swapping Haitian politics for an academic career in the US. The hip-hop star is set to become a regular lecturer at Brown University. The singer, who was... (photo: WN / Aruna Gilbert)
British Airways announce extra Caribbean flights
Quote startBritish Airways’ decision to step-up the number of flights to the Caribbean will make the area much more accessible for anyone who’s thinking about indulging in some winter sun... (photo: Creative Commons / Kyteto)
"O Tahiti Nui freedom" file sur Palau
Éole, le dieu de tous les vents, pousse doucement, mais sûrement "O Tahiti Nui freedom" vers Palau, l'archipel aux 200 îlots. Située à moins de 1000 km, il faudra trois à quatre jours à l'équipage pour rejoindre la terre ferme. En attendant, Hiria Ottino confie quelques pages de son journal de bord qui révèlent l'état d'esprit qui règne à bord de l'expédition.
Deux conventions pour "un nouveau décollage" d'Air Tahiti
Deux conventions ont été signées mardi matin entre le Pays et la compagnie Inter îles Air Tahiti. La première concerne le renouvellement des obligations de desserte des archipels par la compagnie. La deuxième est relative à l'exploitation de l'avion du Pays pour les vols inter-îles des Marquises.
Alexandre Rochatte, nouveau secrétaire général du haut commissariat
Alexandre Rochatte, nouveau secrétaire général du haut commissariat. Crédit photo : Christian DUROCHER - Tahitipresse
En Polynésie française depuis deux semaines, Alexandre Rochatte est le nouveau secrétaire général du haut-commissariat remplaçant ainsi Éric Spitz. Auparavant, il servait à la délégation générale à l'Outre-mer (ministère de l'Outre-mer) en tant que sous-directeur en charge du service de l'évaluation, de la prospective et de la dépense de l'État. Portait.
En Polynésie française depuis deux semaines, Alexandre Rochatte est le nouveau secrétaire général du haut-commissariat remplaçant ainsi Éric Spitz. Auparavant, il servait à la délégation générale à l'Outre-mer (ministère de l'Outre-mer) en tant que sous-directeur en charge du service de l'évaluation, de la prospective et de la dépense de l'État. Portait.
Téléphonie mobile : Tahoeraa et UPLD adoptent la loi Drollet
La proposition de loi, relative aux autorisations d’établir et d’exploiter un réseau ouvert au public, ou de fourniture au public d’un service de télécommunication", a bien évidemment relancé le débat entre l'ancien ministre de tutelle de l'OPT, Jacqui Drollet, et le ministre actuel, Teva Rohfritsch. Mais le Tahoeraa et l'UPLD sont restés soudés sur ce dossier et l'ont adopté avec 32 voix.
IMF Survey: Global Economy Remains Fragile, Says IMF
The world economy, led by emerging market and developing countries, is forecast to grow by 4.8 percent in 2010 before falling back to 4.2 percent next year, but a sharper global slowdown is unlikely, the IMF says in its latest forecast.
The Technology That Will Replace 148 Billion Barrels of Oil
Not many investors noticed in September 2008 when Warren Buffet took a 10% stake in Hong Kong-based battery maker BYD Co. Ltd. for $230 million.
Costa Rica will pay the price for cheap fruit
While making our film about the pineapple industry in Costa Rica, I interviewed the buyer of one of the major European supermarket chains, who wanted to remain anonymous(they usually do).
Oct 5, 2010
Yahoo News
- Times Sq. bomber sentenced, warns of more attacks (AP)
- Bank bailout supporters struggling for re-election (AP)
- Conn. jury convicts man in deadly home invasion (AP)
- Nevada Tea Party chairman quits after tape flap (AP)
- Hungary sludge flood called 'ecological disaster' (AP)
- Ex-French trader must pay $6.7 billion for fraud (AP)
French police arrest 11 Islamic terrorist suspects
Saudi prince beat servant to death in London hotel, court hears
Israel expels Nobel peace laureate over Gaza protest
Low blow Morales: Bolivian president knees football opponent in groin
Owner of Claridges in Dublin court battle over Ireland's 'toxic bank
Hungary declares a state of emergency after sludge disaster
US midterms set to become most expensive elections in country's history
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10/04/10
DOJ Urges Citizens to Report “Extremists” Handing Out Literature
If you posted an Obama Joker poster or Tea Party literature on a public bulletin board, the Justice Department is warning you are a possible terrorist. According to a hand-out distributed by the Bureau of Justice Assistance, a component of the Justice Department, “extremist literature distributed at the mall or posted on public bulletin boards” is suspicious and a potential indicator of terrorist activities.
Germans killed in Pakistan strike
Officials say five Germans among eight fighters killed in drone strike in North Waziristan. A suspected US drone strike has killed eight fighters in northwest Pakistan, with Pakistani intelligence officials saying that at least five of the the men were Germans. They also said that the eight men, killed in the raid on a mosque in Mir Ali in North Waziristan on Monday, were members of a group called Jihad Islami. But independently confirmed details of the incident were unavailable, and both the US and German governments have yet to comment on the strike.
Losing our religion
A survey by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life reveals some alarming results about religious knowledge in the US.Say Amen! Well, maybe not so much. This week the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life released a poll showing that Americans arguably know less about various world religions than they do about who won the disco ball on the last season of Dancing With the Stars. This shouldn’t be hugely surprising.
Birth of the National Security State
It is not far fetched to speculate that the United States has, over the past ten years, been sliding into a form of authoritarianism that retains only some aspects of the constitution and a limited rule of law. America’s president can, for example, commit soldiers to combat overseas without a constitutionally mandated declaration of war by congress while it is quite possible to be detained by the authorities and locked up without any prospect of trial or opportunity to defend oneself. The government even believes it can kill American citizens based only on suspicion. I prefer to think of this transformation as the National Security State because it rests on a popular consensus that liberties must be sacrificed in exchange for greater public safety from various threats, international terrorism being the most prominent. It might just as well be called the National Warfare State as it also requires constant conflict to justify its existence.
10/03/10
Gilad Atzmon Talking to Jumoke Fashola BBC Radio London - Music
I was talking this morning to Jumoke Fashola, BBC Radio London. We discussed music, Gaza, Jazza, OHE's new album, Robert Wyatt, Israel, Palestine and life in general. You may find it interesting.
Killing each Taliban soldier costs $50 Million
"Killing 20 Taliban costs $1 Billion / Killing all the Taliban would cost $1.7 Trillion" The Pentagon will not tell the public what it costs to locate, target and kill a single Taliban soldier because the price-tag is so scandalously high that it makes the Taliban appear to be Super-Soldiers. As set out in this article, the estimated cost to kill each Taliban is as high as $100 million, with a conservative estimate being $50 million. A public discussion should be taking place in the United States regarding whether the Taliban have become too expensive an enemy to defeat.
We've Got to Stamp Out Modern Slavery
Workers are powerless against the contractors used by multinationals who relocate to wherever production is cheapest. The re-emergence of slavery on ships off West Africa is profoundly shocking but it is not a surprise. Last week slavery its modern form came to light in cases of forced labour uncovered on trawlers fishing for the European market. In a haunting echo of the 18th century triangular trade, west African workers were found off the coast of Sierra Leone on board boats where they lived and worked in ships' holds with less than a metre of head height, sometimes for 18 hours a day for no pay, packed like sardines to sleep in spaces too small to stand up, with their documents taken from them and no means of escape.
$5,000,000,000,000: The Cost Each Year of Vanishing Rainforest
British scientific experts have made a major breakthrough in the fight to save the natural world from destruction, leading to an international effort to safeguard a global system worth at least $5 trillion a year to mankind. 80 per cent of the world's remaining terrestrial biodiversity live in forests. Groundbreaking new research by a former banker, Pavan Sukhdev, to place a price tag on the worldwide network of environmental assets has triggered an international race to halt the destruction of rainforests, wetlands and coral reefs.
Court overturns US tycoon's will that left fortune to Panama's poor
It was going to be the largest single charitable donation in Panama's history: more than $50m (£32m) for poor children. Wilson Lucom, a US tycoon, left most of his estate to a foundation to help the neediest people in the country where he lived until his death in 2006, aged 88. Now, four years later, after a bitter legal battle, the fortune is going to one of Panama's most powerful dynasties – including the ambassador to Britain – and the children have been left without a cent.
Deficit Fraud Rand Paul On Extending Bush's Tax Cuts: "I'm Not Seeing It As A Cost"
Last month, a spokesman for Kentucky Republican Senate nominee Rand Paul said that, if elected, Paul "will vote against and filibuster any unbalanced budget proposal in the Senate." Not only can the budget not be filibustered, but Paul is going to make balancing the budget exceedingly difficult, as he is willing to extend all of the Bush tax cuts - including those for the richest two percent of Americans - without offsetting them with spending cuts or tax increases elsewhere, for a total cost of nearly $4 trillion.
15-year-old raped in court: Rapist gets probation, teen gets 12 months
In 2005, 15-year-old Ashley was facing trial in Manhattan Family Court for lying to police after she told officers she didn't know who had assaulted her on the way to school. As she waited in the court's holding area for her court appearance, juvenile counselor Tony "Tyson" Simmons came up to the handcuffed girl, took her in an elevator to the building's basement, and raped her. Moments later, Ashley -- who's withholding her last name for fear of reprisal -- was in the courtroom being sentenced to 12 months in prison...
Exodus of Jewish Advisors from Obama White House Likely Not an Omen of Good Things to Come
While many–understandably sick to death of watching as powerful Jewish interests voraciously chew their way into the highest centers of power both in America and throughout the world–are no doubt cheering at the announced departure of Rahm Israel Emmanuel as White House Chief of Staff, there is more reason to look at this latest development with a certain amount of apprehension than relief.
Iran ready to help nab 9/11 perpetrators
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has once again renewed a call for a probe into the 9/11 US terror attacks, insisting that facts about the event must be clearly established. The US and its allies used the September 11 incident as a pretext to come to the Middle East region and carried out whatever they wanted, President Ahmadinejad said on Sunday.
Coming Soon to You - Massive DNA Destruction
Dr. Popp, founder of the International Institute of Biophysics, at Neuss, Germany, and Dr. Lipton, of the University of Wisconsin, both confirm that modern science now realizes and recognizes that our DNA structures directly reflect our consciousness. This makes it possible for us to willfully activate what science formerly called "junk" DNA, by increasing our individual consciousnesses. By activating dormant DNA, one would likely be able to perceive life beyond the five physical senses of sight, hearing, taste, touch, and smell; and one's world of spiritual intuition, discernment, judgment, and wisdom begin to develop.
Who Pays to Deny Climate Change
European organisations dedicated to challenging scientific warnings about the gravity of climate change have refused to reveal who finances their work.
China offers to buy Greek debt - Video
Prime minister Wen Jiabao says his country will support Greece and rest of euro zone to overcome financial crisis. China has offered to buy Greek government bonds, in a show of support for the country whose debt burden pushed the euro zone into a crisis. Wen Jiabao, the Chinese prime minister, made the offer on Saturday at the start of a two-day visit to Greece, his first stop in a European tour.
HOMOPHOBIA, RELIGION, AND THE COLLAPSE OF INDUSTRIAL CIVILIZATION
His face is everywhere-on the internet, on TV, and throughout print media-that gentle, timid, barely-smiling young man with red hair, glasses, and a prodigious talent for playing the classical violin. I'm talking about Tyler Clementi, the freshman student at Rutgers who suicided last week after his roommate video taped him having sex with another man then uploaded the video to You Tube for all the world to see. Four other young people killed themselves in the last three weeks because of wrenching internal conflicts regarding their sexual orientation. Their faces were not as widely seen as Tyler's, but they remain casualties of a culture in which meanness-whether related to homophobia, bullying, or demented religiosity is epidemic.
Palestinians 'will not resume talks without new freeze on settlements'
The Palestinian leadership confirmed yesterday that it would not return to direct peace negotiations with the Israelis without an extension to the now-expired freeze on settlement construction, amid determined but increasingly frustrated efforts by the Americans to keep the talks alive.
Oct 4, 2010
Yahoo News
- Japan warns about Europe terror; tourists are calm (AP)
- In vitro UK pioneer Edwards wins medicine Nobel (AP)
- New Supreme Court term opens with Kagan aboard (AP)
- Taliban attacks NATO supply trucks in Pakistan (AP)
- No laps for warm laptops; skin damage is possible (AP)
- Pending home sales rise 4.3 percent in August (AP)
China looks for EU concessions
Emanuel chases mayoralty
Emanuel made the announcement in a video posted on his website, ChicagoforRahm.com.
Aborigines take priority over republic, say polls
SYDNEY - Australians believe it is more important to have a referendum on recognising Aborigines in the constitution than one on becoming a republic, a study shows.
The Social Network finds friends at box offices
LOS ANGELES | Mon Oct 4, 2010 3:11am BST
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Facebook movie "The Social Network" found millions of friends in theaters during the weekend, taking in $23 million and earning the No. 1 spot at box offices, according to studio estimates on Sunday.
Court decides who owes Nash money to Don Johnson
Credit: Reuters/Mario Anzuoni
By Paul Bond
Mon Oct 4, 2010 4:26am BST
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Among those who must pay Don Johnson his $51.7 million in "Nash Bridges" money are billionaires Mark Cuban and Todd ..
Warner, MGM near approving Hobbit film - report | Reuters
(Reuters) - After years of delays, Hollywood is finally close to producing a movie based on J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit," the Los Angeles Times reported on Saturday, citing people familiar with the matter.
Winston Churchill enters British pop charts | Reuters
(Reuters) - Wartime leader Winston Churchill became the first British prime minister ever to enter the pop charts when an album featuring some of his most famous speeches set to music debuted in fourth place on Sunday.
George Michael denies special treatment in jail
LONDON | Mon Oct 4, 2010 10:44am BST
LONDON (Reuters) - Jailed singer George Michael has denied newspaper reports that he is receiving special treatment while in prison for driving under the influence of drugs.
LONDON (Reuters) - Jailed singer George Michael has denied newspaper reports that he is receiving special treatment while in prison for driving under the influence of drugs.
Yell appoints Tony Bates as new finance chief
(Reuters) - Yellow-pages publisher Yell (YELL.L) appointed Tony Bates, a former executive at telecoms provider Colt (COLT.L) and music label EMI, as its new finance chief.
Carrie Underwood earnest, uneven at Hollywood Bowl
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - A public suggestion to Carrie Underwood: Fireworks at the end of a Hollywood Bowl show are pretty much a tradition, but next time, try it after you're done singing so they don't drown you out, OK?
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U.S. views sought in Iraqi contractor torture case | Reuters
(Reuters) - The Supreme Court on Monday asked the U.S. government for its views about a lawsuit claiming that employees of two defence contractors took part in the torture and abuse of Iraqis at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
REUTERS - Rousseff has upper hand in Brazil's October 31 runoff, Oct 04, 2010
By Brian Winter
SAO PAULO | Mon Oct 4, 2010 2:57pm BST
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Ruling party candidate Dilma Rousseff must win over voters concerned about her abortion views and corruption in her inner circle but she remains the clear favourite to win an October 31 runoff election and become Brazil's next president.
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Korans burnt in West Bank mosque attack | Reuters
A partially burnt Koran is laid against the wall of a mosque that was vandalized in the West Bank village of Beit Fajjar near Bethlehem October 4, 2010. Palestinians accused Jewish settlers of setting fire to the West Bank mosque on Monday, an incident that coincided with U.S. efforts to rescue peace talks halted by a dispute over settlement building.
Credit: Reuters/Ammar Awad
By Douglas Hamilton
BEIT FAJJAR, West Bank | Mon Oct 4, 2010 3:52pm BST
BEIT FAJJAR, West Bank (Reuters) - Jewish settlers opposed to a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians were accused of setting fire to a mosque in the West Bank on Monday, burning the Koran and scrawling threats in Hebrew on its walls.
Credit: Reuters/Ammar Awad
By Douglas Hamilton
BEIT FAJJAR, West Bank | Mon Oct 4, 2010 3:52pm BST
BEIT FAJJAR, West Bank (Reuters) - Jewish settlers opposed to a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians were accused of setting fire to a mosque in the West Bank on Monday, burning the Koran and scrawling threats in Hebrew on its walls.
NATO chief apologises, Pakistani Taliban vow revenge | Reuters
By Kamran Haider and David Brunnstrom
ISLAMABAD/BRUSSELS | Mon Oct 4, 2010 4:01pm BST
ISLAMABAD/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - NATO's chief expressed regret on Monday for the deaths of Pakistani soldiers last week and said he hoped Pakistan's border would reopen for NATO supplies to Afghanistan as soon as possible.
ISLAMABAD/BRUSSELS | Mon Oct 4, 2010 4:01pm BST
ISLAMABAD/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - NATO's chief expressed regret on Monday for the deaths of Pakistani soldiers last week and said he hoped Pakistan's border would reopen for NATO supplies to Afghanistan as soon as possible.
'Other woman' in Brazil election holds key to deciding Lula successor
Marina Silva Photo: AFP
Ms Silva, a female former environment minister who resigned from the centre-left government of outgoing Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to run for office, won 19 per cent of the vote in the poll - far higher than the 14 per cent surveys had predicted for her.
Ms Silva, a female former environment minister who resigned from the centre-left government of outgoing Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to run for office, won 19 per cent of the vote in the poll - far higher than the 14 per cent surveys had predicted for her.
North Korea plans heir apparent Kim Jong-un military parade
Kim Jong-un: North Korea plans heir apparent Kim Jong-un military parade
Kim Jong-un Photo: AFP
In the first comments from Seoul about the transfer of power under way in North Korea, Kim Tae-young, the defence ...
Anti-Islam MP Geert Wilders on trial for inciting racial hatred
Highlining in the Swiss mountains
Stephen Siegrist Photo: CATERS
Stephen Siegrist, a 38-year-old father-of-one, who started highlining eight years ago, was photographed carefully inching across the tightrope that is no more than one inch wide.
Stephen Siegrist, a 38-year-old father-of-one, who started highlining eight years ago, was photographed carefully inching across the tightrope that is no more than one inch wide.
Boom time about to take off with Airbus in Bangalore
Airbus look to India to bridge skills gap. The company's technical expertise is tied up with getting the A380 superjumbo ready for full production and developing the new A350.The company's technical expertise is tied up with getting the A380 superjumbo ready for full production and ..
Wen Jiabao promises political reform for China
In a rare interview, aired on CNN on Sunday, Mr Wen said: "I believe I and all the Chinese people have such conviction that China will make continuous progress and the people's wishes and need for democracy and freedom are irresistible. I hope you will be able to gradually see the continuous progress of China."
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