July 24, 2008
At this hour in the US, six of the top sixty searches on Google's search engine concern Americans' fear of more bank failures. It is apparent that the US government's Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) website is receiving a flood of hits. I noticed yesterday that FDIC had taken out a.....
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Tuesday, the United States House of Representatives voted to sanction Burma, AP reports: The unanimous vote sent back to the Senate a bill that bars rubies and jade from Myanmar from being imported into the U.S. The Senate bill, which passed in December, also sought to bar timber from Myanmar,... ...
go to article »July 23, 2008
Any difference between Bush and McCain economic policiesCross Mark Sanford off McCain's VP list...-Darryl...
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Just like the Republicans, the Democrats have done their part to help big oil companies make mega profits at the expense of working people. It is well known that Bush and co. are oil men and women, but this is not unique. Oil money has seeped into many hands in Washington, those in power have return...
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July 17, 2008
Foliofn Investments, an American firm has just introduced the first-ever screening tool to let investors build portfolios free of companies that support and profit from the genocide in Sudan. Foliofn Investments launched in May of this year help customers automatically screen out companies on the G...
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I will say that today is one of “those” days for me, I was searching for a legal document only to find out that the lady who cleans this house once a week has thrown it away. Beyond that issue I am a little disappointed in Senator Obama after his agreement to support the bill to provide ...
go to article »July 14, 2008
I asked my 10 year old daughter: "What language do they speak in Italy?" She answers: "Italian". Now if only the U.S. lame duck President Bush knew that. At the G8 summit in St. Petersburg, Russia two years ago, President Bush was caught in a candid moment on an open microphone, complaining tha...
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Michael Walzer, the American political philosopher, breaks down the dimensions of the foreign policy of a prospective Obama administration at the "Dialogues on Civilisations" conference in Istanbul. There's nothing particularly new here - more multilateralism, more engagement with int...
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