CURRENT AFFAIRS

Current affairs, sometimes called current events, are the cultural, political, and social events of importance and interest in the present time. Current affairs can be found offline in declining print media, on various online news and opinion publications, on television news or opinion shows, and on the radio.

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• The Innovation Economy

  
  Clive Crook's blog — Authority: 537
  I spent the day at the Innovation Economy conference, organised by the indefatigable Aspen Institute and Intel. An interesting programme. You can watch videos at the website. I especially recommend the interview with Education Secretary Arne Duncan from Monday, and today’s panel on the same subject featuring ...
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• Consumer Staples ETF Will Continue To Produce in 2010

  
  ETF Expert — Authority: 425
  For kicks… and for ideas… I often work my way through highly publicized stories. And right now, I’ve noticed a prevailing theme in most offline and online features.For instance, Barron’s says that Pepsico (PEP) is a big-time bargain trading at 15 times next year’s...
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• Free eBook: The Great Trade Collapse

  
  Simoleon Sense — Authority: 531
  Here’s a pretty interesting collection of essays prepared for trade ministers. Click Here To Download The Full Book For Free Introduction (Via Vox.EU) World trade experienced a sudden, severe and synchronised collapse in late 2008 – the sharpest in recorded history and deepest since WWII. VoxEU today ...
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• Offal Disposal Arrangements by CDGK in Karachi

  
  Chowrangi — Authority: 420
  Despite of ongoing sugar crisis, inflation and unaffordable sacrificial animals, Eid-ul-Azha was ...
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• Charlie Gibson to step down Dec. 18

  
  News Briefs — Authority: 720
  ABC confirms that Charlie Gibson will be stepping down from his post at World News Dec. 18. Executive producer Jon Banner wrote the following on his “World Newser” blog: “We’ve known this day was coming. Charlie first told us of his desire to retire in early September. As he said then, it’s the right time
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• Its all about the boobs

  
  Right Truth — Authority: 110
  Howie at The Jawa Report says " First rule of blogging is and always will be: Tits = Hits baby....   Lets see did I get the words boobies, tits, hot, nekkid . ..."  (Glad we would never stoop to that level here at Right Truth, ha)  He is of course correct, but this article is not just about those kinds of ...
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• Fun facts about welfare

  
  ByronCrawford.com — Authority: 430
  Five things I learned about welfare, from an article in the New York Times the other day: 1) Bush was to the left of Clinton on welfare. Bush Mengele cleared the path to this current state of welfare uber alles by reclassifying food stamps as "nutritional aid" and making it easier to apply for them. Bill Clinton, ...
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• Emerging Market ETFs: How They Could Stay Hot

  
  ETF Trends — Authority: 560
  The S&P 500 is up 21.3% year-to-date, while the Vanguard FTSE All-World ex-US (NYSEArca: VEU) exchange traded fund (ETF) is up 35.7%. It’s no wonder, then, that investors are increasingly looking internationally in search of higher returns. (Six benefits of global investing).Rising...
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• Taking the media to task

  
  Behind the Plug — Authority: 123
  In a story today, the Financial Times reported that ACCCE opposes federal legislation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. That is incorrect. The fact is, ACCCE supports the adoption of a mandatory program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions so long as...
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• Video: Ted Talk Gordon Brown on global ethic vs. national interest

  
  Simoleon Sense — Authority: 531
  About this talk (Via Ted) Can the interests of an individual nation be reconciled with humanity’s greater good? Can a patriotic, nationally elected politician really give people in other countries equal consideration? Following his TEDTalk calling for a global ethic, UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown fields ...
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• It’s That Time Again: Capital Gains and ETFs

  
  ETF Trends — Authority: 560
  We’re in the homestretch of 2009. That means it’s time to start thinking about holiday celebrations, updating your gift wish list, decorations…and taxes. Many exchange traded fund (ETF) providers are making their capital gains distributions announcements, but how does it affect...
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• Alive in Egypt

  
  NO QUARTER — Authority: 569
  Sorry to have dropped off the circuit, but at least the blog has been in the able and creative hands of Susan, Ani, Amy, Pat, Linda, and others. I am humbled to have so many talented folks willing to pitch in and vent a spleen. Thanks to all. I have had the privilege of traveling the last nine days in Rome and ...
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• PIMCO Puts Its Own Twist on New Muni ETF

  
  ETF Trends — Authority: 560
  PIMCO is putting its formidable municipal bond and credit expertise behind its newest exchange traded fund (ETF), and actively managed intermediate municipal bond fund.The PIMCO Intermediate Municipal Bond Strategy Fund (NYSEArca: MUNI) is an actively managed ETF that will hold a portfolio of...
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• If you want to discuss how your life has been ruined by the Media, isnt somewhat hypocritical to talk about it on Today?

  
  Where Are My Keys? — Authority: 141
  Just sayin . The most infamous party crashers in the worldsaid Tuesday that they hate that label, denied they finagled their wayinto a White House state dinner and insisted that they were invited tothe bash by a Washington law firm with ties to a senior Pentagonofficial. “Thishas been the most devastating ...
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• Doing the job(s) right

  
  Matters of Opinion — Authority: 127
  OK. Its easy for us editorial writers to sit here and say someone else should do a better job. Its also necessary. - Fix the jails Erie Countys two jails have seen three suicides, 13 attempted suicides, more than 70 incidents of inmate-on-inmate violence (including assaults encouraged by authorities), beatings, shoddy ...
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• How good a speaker is Jack Welch?

  
  Public Speaking Advice and Commentary — Authority: 121
  Jack Welch is probably the most famous CEO in the world –still, despite having been retired from GE since 2001.   His reign there was controversial –some called him Neutron Jack for reducing GE’s head count from over 400,00 toless than 300,000 in his first five years as CEO.   In 2000, he was named ...
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• Gay Catholics group DignityUSA critical of Pope’s position against condoms in war on AIDS

  
  Steve Rothaus Gay South Florida — Authority: 147
  From DignityUSA , the organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Catholics: DignityUSA Statement on World AIDS Day 2009 DignityUSA once again joins with individuals and organizations across the globe to mark World AIDS Day. Today, we recall the 24 million individuals ...
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• New York Lawyer Ordered to Pay $500 Fine for Disorderly Conduct

  
  The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times — Authority: 620
  Prosecutors in Washington today abandoned two felony assault charges against a lawyer in exchange for a guilty plea to misdemeanor disorderly conduct, an agreement that ends a case that the presiding judge did not want to see go to trial....
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• Indian nuclear weapons in danger

  
  Chowrangi — Authority: 420
  The news that someone deliberately caused a leak in an Indian nuclear plant and diverted tritium ...
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• What Should Electric Cars Sound Like?

  
  The Green Life — Authority: 525
  After years of trying make cars silent, the auto industry has the opposite problem – how to make whisper-quiet electric and hybrid vehicles noisier. Some are concerned that if pedestrians can’t hear the cars coming, more accidents will result. There’s some truth to this. A government study suggests that ...
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