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Jun 29, 2011

FINANCIAL News, Money, Banks, Economic and Financial Crisis, Jun 29, 2011

Unsteady as she goes
International Socialism Journal
4 So companies are flush with money. According to the Financial Times, “less than three years on from the dark days of the financial crisis, companies are sitting on a bulging war chest of several thousand billion dollars of cash”. ...
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Railway Revenue Earnings up by 11.38 Per Cent During the Period 11th – 20th ...
Press Information Bureau (press release)
He said that though the global financial crisis of 2008 lowered the GDP growth rate in India to 6.8 per cent in 2008-09 yet the Indian economy rallied back with an 8 per cent growth in 2009-10. TheUnion Finance Minister Shri Pranab Mukherjee said that ...
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United States of Denial
Gold Seek
Debts assumed by local governments have become a key risk factor for China's financial system following the country's post-financial crisis stimulus package, which was fueled by bank lending and infrastructure spending. According to Credit Suisse, ...
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Tax break on mortgage debt an incentive for risk?
Inman.com
While Kocherlakota thinks changes to the tax code would limit behavior that helped bring about the global financial crisis, the mortgage interest deduction has also been called into question by analysts studying ways for the US to get a handle on the ...
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Does Lower Risk Actually Mean Higher Returns?
Seeking Alpha
Does it really make sense to own a fund tracking an index of business-development companies, which fell further than junk-bond indexes during the financial crisis, let alone to lever it? In their collective scramble for higher yields, investors may ...
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The 3-D Hurricane and the New Normal
FXstreet.com
The great deleveraging, which has been proposed as the only responsible course of action for thedeveloped countries after the global financial crisis, never materialized and calls for fiscal austerity have largely fallen on deaf ears. ...
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G-10 Currencies In Q3 - One Ugly Horse Race
Action Forex
For at least a short while, perhaps the entirety of Q3, it will do nothing, but it may still hint at possible solutions to the next crisis, should it arise, in speeches, white papers, and perhaps even at the Jackson Hole conference sponsored by the ...
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EUROZONE Debt Crisis News, Jun 29, 2011


China promises EU "helping hand" with debt crisis
Reuters
By James Pomfret and Stephen Brown BERLIN (Reuters) - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao offeredEurope a "helping hand" with its debt crisis during a visit to Germany on Tuesday and said his country could buy the sovereign debt of some troubled euro zone ...
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LIBYA, Egypt, Syria, Bahrain, Yemen news, Jun 29, 2011

CNN's Arwa Damon On Libya War Opponents: 'Do They Really Want All That Blood ...
Huffington Post
Syria is the latest stop on Damon's Arab Spring tour. Since uprisings broke out across the region in January, she has been in Egypt, Bahrain, Libya and now Syria, reporting on the historic tumult and change sweeping the Middle East. ...
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Assad deserves a swift trip to The Hague
Financial Times
Egypt is not Syria; Yemen is not Tunisia; Libya is not Bahrain – and so on. Each country is unique and what makes sense in one may or may not make sense in the next. At the same time, it is fair for the international community to lay down a marker that ...
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Arabs Divided on Prospects for Change
The Media Line
One of the key signs is that in the reality of the situation there is a huge disparity between Yemen, Libya and Syria on the one hand and Egypt and Tunisia on the other,” David Pollock, who is principal adviser to Pechter Middle East Polls. ...
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What's really at stake in Libya
Asia Times Online
Civilians have been bombed by both the Libyan army and by NATO. Yet there's no evidence the Libyan Air Force bombed "rebel" towns wholesale; and no proof of mass killing of civilians on the scale of Syria or Yemen. In a nutshell; the Gaddafi regime may...
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Dubai bonds posting best rally in Mideast as Bahrain trails
ArabianBusiness.com
Amid uprisings that ousted long-time leaders in Tunisia and Egypt and threaten others in Libya, Yemen and Syria, Dubai on June 15 sold $500m in 10-year bonds at the lowest interest rate since it required a $20 billion bailout from neighbouring Abu ...
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Dictator dossier: As exile options dwindle, deposed leaders fight to hold on
Yahoo! News Blogs (blog)
Regional tyrants, from Syria's Assad to Bahrain's Sunni monarchy, have been moved to use all measures necessary to put down unrest and cling to power. So then what? There may be no easy answers, experts who study democracy movements acknowledge. ...
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Networks and an Arab Summer
Globla Brief (blog)
In quick succession, the governments of Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Bahrain,Yemen, Iraq, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Syria have faced public demonstrations of varying magnitude and intensity. They have responded to this largely democratic impulse with a range ...
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Best Job in Town: Pimping for Gaddafi
Salem-News.Com
Problem is, the conspiracy theorists, the paid phonies, began long beforeSyria happened or Bahrain or even Yemen. While Gaddafi's diplomats were jumping ship, leaving only his stalwarts, the torturers and thugs that kept him in power for decades at ...
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Economic fallout from 'Arab Spring'
Manila Bulletin
But economic turbulence in the region has persisted, particularly as the uprisings inBahrain, Libya, Syria, and Yemen have been violently repressed. Tens of thousand of young Tunisians have also fled the country in the wake of the revolution in the ...
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SYRIA: Russian envoy suggests wavering support for Assad.
Denver Post
An adviser to Bahrain's king says there are no plans for a full withdrawal. EGYPT: Court orders end of local councils linked to Mubarak. A court ordered the dissolution of more than 1750 municipal councils, seen as one of the last vestiges of deposed ...
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Sunday Night Summary of Libya, Tunisia, Bahrain, Syria, Yemen and ...
Sunday Night Summary of Libya, Tunisia, Bahrain, Syria, Yemen and Egypt ...YEMEN: Voice of America News reports today that clashes in south Yemen kill 12 ...
my.firedoglake.com/.../sunday-night-summary-of-libya-tunisi...
If Liz were Queen | News from Egypt, Bahrain, Yemen, Syria ...
News from Egypt, Bahrain, Yemen, Syria, Tunisia and Libya ... Good! the UN condemns Bahrain for its political persecutation ...
iflizwerequeen.com/?p=9276
Tunisia Daily » Sunday Night Summary of Libya, Tunisia, Bahrain ...
Sunday Night Summary of Libya, Tunisia, Bahrain, Syria, Yemen and Egypt – Firedoglake. June 19th, 2011 tunisia - Google News ...
www.tunisiadaily.com/.../sunday-night-summary-of-libya-tuni...
News on: TGIF In Syria, Libya, Yemen, Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan ...
News. North America Europe Africa Middle East Asia South America SW Pacific ...TGIF In Syria, Libya, Yemen, Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Pakistan, Afghanistan, ...
www.liquida.com/.../egypt-pakistan-libya-osama-bin-laden/
Libya, Syria and Middle East unrest - live updates | World news ...
Discussing #Syria & #Libya this afternoon with my Turkish counterpart ..... for not mentioning Syria / Libya / Bahrain / Yemen / Egypt and all the other ...
www.guardian.co.uk/.../libya-syria-middle-east-unrest-live
مدن إيران قبل تصفية أهل السنة #egypt #syria #bahrain #ksa #kuwait ...
مدن إيران قبل تصفية أهل السنة http://t.co/LHcHi9N #egypt #syria #bahrain #ksa # kuwait #jordan #turkey #sudan #yemen #libya #morocco #gcc : kuchikkhan.
inagist.com/.../مدن_إيران_قبل_تصفية_أهل_السنة_egypt_syri...
Arab Spring exposes Nasrallah's hypocrisy
And then Tunisia happened, and Egypt, and Libya, and Bahrain, and Yemen - and then, Hassan Nasrallah and Ali Khamenei's nightmare, Syria happened. ...
english.aljazeera.net/indepth/.../2011618103354910596.html
Sierra Leone News-Global Time Online- At Large: Difficult To Finish
Breaking News. All boxes in the middle and right columns can vary colors for titles and backgrounds. ... The desire of the citizens of Libya, Yemen, Syria, Bahrain, ... Egyptand Tunisia fell early and that could be the reason for the ...
www.globaltimes-sl.org/at%20large136.html
Arab Spring exposes Nasrallah's hypocrisy | Ya Libnan | World News ...
And then Tunisia happened, and Egypt, and Libya, and Bahrain, and Yemen – and then, Hassan Nasrallah and Ali Khamenei's nightmare, Syria happened. ...
www.yalibnan.com/.../arab-spring-exposes-nasrallahs-hypocris...
On the 14th of June this year, the UNSC only spoke about Israel ...
More Breaking News >. 0 0. On the 14th of June this year, the UNSC only spoke about Israel, and did not mention Lybia, Egypt, Syria, Bahrain, Yemen and the ...
www.haaretz.com/.../on-the-14th-of-june-this-year-the-unsc-o...
Will there be an Arab Summer?
You are here: Home; › News. Mon Jun 27 16:04:30 PDT 2011 ... between what is happening in Libya and Syria, from what is happening in eg Bahrain or Yemen? ...
ukun.fco.gov.uk/en/news/?view=News&id=622202182
Exiled Thaksin seeks December return to Thailand - Yahoo! News
News Photos Video/Audio. News Search. Yahoo! News Beta Unveiled ... Libya, Egypt, Bahrain, Yemen and Syria taking to the streets against their governments. ...
news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110616/wl.../us_thailand_thaksin_1
Six months of Arab Spring | Jordan Times
... what followed in Egypt, Libya, Bahrain, Yemen and Syria was totally different. ... inEgypt, crumbled, under the heavy pressure of the unarmed Egyptian ...
www.jordantimes.com/?news=38718
Exiled Thaksin seeks December return to Thailand | Top News | Reuters
You are here: Home > News > Top News > Article ... Libya, Egypt, Bahrain, Yemenand Syria taking to the streets against their governments. ...
ca.reuters.com/article/topNews/idCATRE75F4AS20110616
Arab dominoes not falling to pattern | The Australian
Compared to what has occurred since in Yemen, Libya, Syria and Bahrain, the speed of ... Then came Egypt. It looked just as straightforward, though violent. ...
www.theaustralian.com.au/.../story-e6frg6so-1226077357415
Slow recovery from Mena unrest for region's carriers
Gulf News. Dubai The unstable geo-political situation in Middle East and North ... But it's not just the unrest in Bahrain, Libya, Syria, Egypt and Yemen ...
https://www.zawya.com/mobile/default.cfm/sidGN.../actstory
Hezbollah preparing for war with Israel
ynetnews.com ^ | Israel News. Posted on 06/27/2011 11:44:40 PM PDT by Iam1ru1-2 ...The radical Shi'ite group is watching the unrest in neighboring Syria with alarm ... Libya,Egypt, Bahrain, and Yemen has been pointed out by many as a ...
www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2740904/posts
UN deeply concerned over lengthy sentences on Bahraini activists ...
UNITED NATIONS (BNO NEWS) -- United Nations Secretary-General Ban ... The unrest followed similar movements in Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Syria and Yemen. ...
wireupdate.com/.../un-deeply-concerned-over-lengthy-sentenc...
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DISCOVERIES, Inventions News, Jun 29, 2011

Welcome to the US Hall of Wonders
Inventors Digest
It explores this belief through works of art, mechanical inventions and scientificdiscoveries. The exhibit will feature more than 150 paintings, drawings sculptures, prints, survey photographs, zoological and botanical illustrations, patent models and ...
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Math, science education vital
The Herald Journal
Our society is surely on a downward spiral if we don't invest our best minds in math and science — these kinds of people propel societal advancement more than any others through their discoveriesand inventions. Therefore, I suggest the board and The ...
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New Energy Bolsters Patent Protection for SolarWindow(TM) Capable of ...
MarketWatch (press release)
An important precursor to commercial launch of these first-of-their-kind technologies is the protection of valuable intellectual property related to our underlying inventions," explained Mr. John A. Conklin, President and CEO of New Energy Technologies ...
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Quench your thirst with reads, recipes
Kansas City Star
“This is the violet hour, the hour of hush and wonder, when the affections grow and valor is reborn,” DeVoto writes of that most civilized of inventions, the cocktail hour. If DeVoto sounds as if he comes from a different era, he does. ...
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CULTURE & MAKING OF A NATION
Frontline
The interest of commercial capital drew adventurers out of their countries, which led togeographical “discoveries”. Scientific inventions and the interest of commercial capital coalesced to enable the “discovery” of Asia and Africa by Europe. ...
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BioPontis Alliance Enters Translational-Technology Development Agreement with ...
NCTechNews (press release)
Founded in May 2009, BioPontis is a first-in-kind hybrid investment-fund and scientific-development company, which selects promising scientific inventions from academic laboratories and invests in and develops a portfolio of technologies that address ...
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House Version of Patent Reform Poses Challenges for Biotech Inventors
Genetic Engineering News
John Conyers (D-MI) and Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) sought an amendment to delay first-to-invent unless a presidential finding held that the rest of the world had adopted grace periods to protect intellectual property between the time inventions occur and ...
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The Arctic's Monitor in Space, Jun 29, 2011

The extent of sea ice in the Arctic this spring was the third lowest recorded by satellites, according to the European Space Agency, whose new CryoSat mission has just released its first map of sea-ice thickness.

CryoSat's sophisticated imaging technologies enable researchers to measure the height of ice above the water line and to calculate its thickness. The objective of measuring changes at the points where ice meets the ocean is to monitor the effects of climate change.

The satellite's highly detailed data enable scientists also to see the effects of wind stress on the ice sheet. And CryoSat's wide range of view even includes parts ofAntarctica, allowing nearly pole-to-pole coverage.

Source: European Space Agency [Editor's note: Arctic specialist Lawson Brigham will be discussing the implications of such issues in his Saturday keynote luncheon on "The New Maritime Arctic" during WorldFuture 2011 in Vancouver. Details here.