LIBYA, Egypt, Syria, Bahrain, Yemen News, Jun 04, 2011

Arab Spring: Four Leaders Struggling to Stay in Power
PBS NewsHour
The leaders of Bahrain, Libya, Syria and Yemen are facing challenges to
their authority from within -- from flash protests in Bahrain to a
large-scale rebellion in Libya -- and their governments are cracking down
on the opposition in different ways. ...
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The Determination of the Arab Revolutions
CounterPunch
Like Tunisia and Egypt before them, in each of the cases in Yemen, Libya,
Syria, or Bahrain, the initial brutal response of the security forces had
an adverse effect and did not stop the protests. In fact, the increasing
casualties in the streets ...
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Factbox: Protests in Middle East and North Africa
Reuters
On April 21 Assad lifted Syria's 48-year state of emergency and abolished a
hated state security court. A day later however, security forces and gunmen
loyal to Assad killed at least 100 people when they fired at protesters. *
LIBYA: -- A meeting in ...
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Latest developments in Arab world's unrest
The Associated Press
Iman el-Obeidi was deported Thursday from Qatar where she had sought refuge
and was flown against her will to Benghazi, the Libyan rebels' de facto
capital. ___ BAHRAIN Bahraini police fire tear gas and rubber bullets at
protesters marching toward the ...
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Time to rein in the Mideast arms trade
The Hill (blog)
From Libya to Syria, and Bahrain to Yemen, imported weaponry has been used
to put down nascent pro-democracy movements. Tracing how those weapons got
there and figuring out how best to prevent irresponsible exports to the
region going forward should be ...
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Green Light for Bahrain's Formula One Is Setback for Democracy Activists
The Atlantic
Since protests began in the Arab world, though the US has pushed for regime
change in Egypt, Yemen, Libya, and to a lesser degree Syria, it has not
only declined to do so in Bahrain, but has continued to anchor the
strategically crucial Fifth Fleet in ...
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Ideas Bank (Wired UK)
Over the last few months, it's been hard to read news stories about
Tunisia, Egypt -- and later Libya, Syria, Bahrain and Yemen -- without
finding ...
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Yemen, Bahrain, Syria and Middle East - One News Page [UK] World
Syria Yemen Libya and Middle East unrest (news article) ... by BBC News 2
days ago - Middle East. Round up Today in Bahrain Egypt Libya Syria (news
article) ...
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“Syria, Yemen, Libya, Bahrain, Egypt, etc.... Aren't all these our good
buddies and allies ... AOL Travel News: Girl Falls from Wildwood Ferris
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FINANCIAL News, Money, Banks, Stock, Economic and Financial Crisis, Jun 04, 2011

Springtime at the IMF
CounterPunch
A photograph from South Korea during the 1997 Asian financial crisis captured the prevailing mood about the International Monetary Fund: a white collar worker held up a sign that read, “I'M Fired.” The habits of “sound money” and “austerity” had become ...
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EUROZONE Debt Crisis News, Jun 04, 2011 (1)

FACTBOX-Coming events in euro zone debt crisis
Reuters
June 7 - Debt agency sets amount of 6-month T-bills to be auctioned June 14. -- June 24 - Summit ofEU heads of state and government in Brussels. -- Ireland has drawn down a third of the 67.5 billioneuros in loans from the EU and the IMF. ...
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EUROZONE Debt Crisis News, Jun 04, 2011 (2)

FACTBOX-Key political risks to watch in Greece
Reuters
By Renee Maltezou ATHENS, June 4 (Reuters) - A year after it turned to the EU and the IMF for a bailout, Greece is struggling to meet targets and convince its lenders it deserves extra funding to buy it more time to resolve its debt crisis. ...
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DISCOVERIES, Inventions News, Jun04, 2011

Idiocracy, Re-Visited
CounterPunch
Why are sports players and pop singers worshiped, while scientists are simply treated as employees, their discoveries and inventions taken and owned by their corporate masters? Who are the "rock star" biochemists, curing diseases? ...
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Non-school going children can participate in NIF contest
IBNLive.com
The NIF organises contests among children every year for new ideas, inventions and innovations with the help of Honey Bee Network volunteers. Gupta, who along with his associates of the NIF, visited several villages in Jharkhand from May 27 till today, ...
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Challenge Bibendum debuts several green sports cars
Bigmouthmedia News
"Speed has always pushed the automotive world to new discoveries, and it's exciting to be on the cutting edge," he said. "Developing electric cars for racing brings racing back to what it used to be - when innovation was happening by the seat of our ...
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Newsvine - Useful Inventions and Discoveries for the Couch Potato ...
In our last article, Potato Chips and Popcorn were Native-American discoveries leading to the invention or creation of the ''Couch Potato'' AKA ''Davenport ...
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Images Of New Discoveries Inventions Related To Biology ...
Scientific Achievements: New Inventions And Discoveries In the world of science and ... NewInventions & Discoveries in the 19th Century | eHow.com ...
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Ancient egypt scientific inventions
Then the Egypt Science; Environmental News; Technology; Lifestyle. ... Groundbreaking Scientific Experiments, Inventions, and Discoveries the Ancient World ...
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Do Creationists deny all of these inventions/discoveries, as they ...
Do Creationists deny all of these inventions/discoveries, as they came before the beginning of their universe? 5th millennium BC ...
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A Greek Default is Bad – But a Greek Bailout Much Worse - Money Morning

BY KERRI SHANNON, Associate Editor, Money Morning
Many investors continue to favor a Greek bailout to prevent the Eurozone's first sovereign default - but they are rooting for the wrong solution.

Greece has requested another loan from its European neighbors to cover next year's $43 billion (30 billion euros) shortfall as yields on 10-year Greek bonds have climbed over 16%."

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Is Twitter Becoming the Real Facebook Alternative?

Let me preface this by saying that in the end, this is not just about Facebook and Twitter. Both companies provide services and features that overlap with plenty of other players out there – companies like Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, and others. We tend to think about Facebook and Twitter, however, as the frontrunners when it comes to social networking.

Can Twitter give Facebook a run for its money? Tell us what you think.

It would appear that Twitter is getting more serious about competing with Facebook. Obviously there has been a lot of overlap between the two social networks (though neither actually likes to be called “social network”), but Twitter is getting a lot more aggressive in its strategy.

Facebook has certainly become a lot more Twitter-like over the years, particularly with its news feed feature, but Twitter has done little to become more Facebook-like. However, this week alone, Twitter has launched the new “follow” button which can already be seen right alongside the Facebook “like” button on many sites. It has also announced a new photo upload feature and search revamp to make results more relevant – both things Facebook offers.

There are way more people using Facebook than Twitter, but Twitter use is growing. A new report from Pew Internet finds that 13% of adult Internet users have used Twitter (up from 8% in November 2010), and that Twitter use is spreading to a wider range of ages. Those between the ages of 25 and 44 have experienced notable adoption growth since late 2010, though the younger the generation, it appears, the 

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