Feb
06
2010

FBI Tries To Track, Jobs Coming Back

The FBI wants to keep track of everything you do online and is putting pressure on ISPs to comply.

A revealing graph from Talking Points Memo shows a clear correlation between the recent slowdown in jobs lost and Obama’s presidency.

NYU is building a sister school in Abu Dhabi, but is [...]

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Feb
01
2010

Rocket Science Is Grounded; Male Breasts Compounded

US President Barack Obama has cancelled the American project designed to take humans back to the Moon. Mr Obama said the project was too costly, “behind schedule, and lacking in innovation”.

Federal regulators are proposing a penalty of nearly $2.5 million against a sister carrier of American Airlines for not making sure crews had accurate information [...]

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Jan
11
2010

Facebook Wants To Reveal All; Illegal Immigration Windfall

Immigration reform that legalizes undocumented immigrants would help improve the economy, according to a controversial study by UCLA.

ESPN will launch a 3D channel this summer. The channel’s first broadcast will be the inaugural 2010 World Cup match between host country South Africa and México.

Officials in Nye County, Nevada have voted to legalize male prostitution. Bobbi [...]

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Jan
08
2010

Egypt Delays Palestinian Aid Convoy As Israel Continues To Destroy

An arm of the Federal Reserve, then led by now-Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, told bailed-out insurance giant AIG to withhold key details from the public about overpayments that put billions of extra tax dollars in the coffers of major Wall Street firms, most notably Goldman Sachs.

Three people, including a 14-year-old-boy, have been [...]

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Dec
23
2009

Saving The Planet Still An Issue; Indian Tourist Restrictions Go Through

About 45,000 travelled to the UN climate summit in Copenhagen - the vast majority convinced of the need for a new global agreement on climate change. Many have placed much of the blame on China for wrecking the talks, intentionally humiliating US President Barack Obama, and insisting on an awful “deal” so western leaders [...]

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Nov
22
2009

Indians On Chemicals and In The White House

India’s prime minister, Manmohan Singh, has arrived in Washington for a visit to be highlighted by an official welcoming ceremony and a state dinner at the White House with President Barack Obama.

Neither the courts, nor the lawyers, nor even the Liberian parliament have a physical copy of the country’s legal code. That’s because one man [...]

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Nov
17
2009

The Right To Exist & The Sight Of Persistence

Far from taking over as the engine of growth from an exhausted West, China is making matters worse. Its “beggar-thy-neighbor” policies continue to play havoc with global trade and risk tipping the world into a second leg of the Great Recession.

The European Union has said proposals by the Palestinians to try to [...]

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