Embargo

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• God of War 3 Embargo is Withholding Awesomeness

  
  PlayStation LifeStyle — Authority: 610
  The God of War series has been one of the most successful gaming series in the past decade, and the upcoming sequel God of War 3 looks to carry the trend. The recent demo and E3 information have provided fans with enough information to know that this upcoming hack-and-slash action game shouldn’t be taken lightly. ...
  17 hours ago

• Youth get in bed together on Lennon anniversary

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  It was 29 years ago today that a lone gunman assassinated John Lennon and the anniversary was the spur behind a youth "bed in" at the COP15 conference center. Socres of young folks from around the world used the day to remember Lennons famous bed-in protest of the Vietnam War and to put their own spin on it. They ...
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• Cuba for ’special priority’ to Japan

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  Tokyo, Dec 8 (EFE) Cuba’s Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez has said that his country accords “special priority” to its ties with Japan and solicited the Asian country’s support regarding Havana’s relations with the US.He made the statement Monday at a meeting with his Japanese counterpart Kastuya Okada on ...
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• Thank you, EPA: U.S. solar companies

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Many businesses chafed on Monday at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s declaration that greenhouse gas emissions endanger human health. But executives at the two largest U.S. solar power companies took a shine to the statement, which clears the way for federal regulation and came as a global climate ...
  2 days ago

• Fossil of the Day Award: And the winner is…

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  The UN Conference on Climate Change is a weighty gathering of serious folks looking for a way to cut carbon emissions. Its also a great place to bring some much-needed humor and along the way hammer a few perceived laggers in the fight against global warming. Enter the Fossil of the Day Awards, a tongue-in-cheek ...
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• Icebergs, Copenhagen hot topics in Southern Ocean

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  The Southern Ocean is toying with us, like some killer whale tossing its prey before devouring it. The small French research ship l’Astrolabe is being battered by 55 kmh (35 mph) winds and tossed like a cork in icy, three metre (9 feet) waves. Many onboard have retreated to the safety of their bunks where, ...
  3 days ago

• Will Netflix’s Thirty Day Embargo on New Movies Fuel Piracy?

  
  CyberTheater — Authority: 518
  If you believe the crew out at the Washington Post–and frankly, there’s not much of a reason to NOT believe them!–if Netflix actually goes through with its planned thirty day embargo on new release titles (in which no title will be available on Netflix until thirty days after its original release date), movie ...
  3 days ago

• Guinea: on the verge of a civil war

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 580
  According to BBC breaking news, ‘Guinea’s vice-president has returned from business abroad to take charge of the country after an attempted assassination on the president. President Moussa Dadis Camara was flown to Morocco, where a spokesman said he underwent a “minor operation” after being shot on Thursday. ...
  3 days ago

• Taking the Tesla for a spin

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  We took a short spin in a Tesla to see what an all-electric sports car was like. The Roadster Sport wasn’t totally silent, but it wasn’t loud — and it was fast (zero to 60 miles per hour in under 4 seconds). We got lots of looks, too. Tesla calls it “performance with a clean conscience” but building the ...
  5 days ago

• U.S. says no to Arctic fishing

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  (Reporting by Yereth Rosen in Alaska) There is currently no commercial fishing conducted in U.S. Arctic waters, and now there won’t be: a formal ban on commercial seafood harvests in U.S. waters north of the Bering Strait went into effect on Thursday. Environmentalists and fishery managers applauded the move as a ...
  5 days ago

• U.S., Cuba spar over embargos impact

  
  Home & living - home-living.marc8.com — Authority: 148
  Cuba recently took a dozen children with heart defects to the U.N. to complain about the U.S. embargo, but the rhetoric around the embargo is often not the same as the more complicated reality. read more
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• Forest carbon schemes – new hope for the Amazon?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  By Stuart Grudgings In the tiny settlement of Boa Frente on the banks of a tributary to the Amazon river, bright blue butterflies flitting through trees and the constant squawks of parrots add to the feeling of a paradise on earth. The poverty endured by most of its residents quickly shatters that illusion, but ...
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• What to do while the world burns

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  A firefighter puts out a fire at a village near Bangkok March 31, 2008. REUTERS/Sukree Sukplang This opinion piece by Mort Rosenblum originally appeared in GlobalPost . The views expressed are his own. For the full article, click here . PARIS, France — Back when primal-scream therapy was the rage in ...
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• Embargo as genocide? US disputes Cuban claim

  
  The Washington Post — Authority: 959
  HAVANA -- It was a story meant to captivate the United Nations: A dozen Cuban children with heart defects were forced to endure unnecessary surgery because the U.S. embargo blocked them from receiving American-made catheters.
  5 days ago

• Darkmatters highly anticipating AVATAR

  
  [CinemaRatty] Latest Articles — Authority: 170
  AVATAR hits world wide in two weeks and counting... Update by: Matt Adcock Prepare yourself... The potential film of the year James Camerons AVATAR has us (well at least me) tingling with anticipation. Will check the review embargo on review with the good people at Fox... Check back to read it soon. This ...
  6 days ago

• ‘Google disabling applications for Cuban users’

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  Havana, Dec 4 (EFE) Cuba’s official Juventud Rebelde newspaper has criticised Google for blocking access to certain applications, including the Zeitgeist search trends tool, for users on the island.“Even though Google has a domain for Cuba (.cu), Zeitgeist appears to bypass the Caribbean archipelago in offering ...
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• Sailing into an icy cauldron

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Reuters employee Pauline Askin has sailed for the Antarctic  for a six -week expedition on the icy continent where she will help restore Mawson’s huts named after Australia’s most celebrated Antarctic explorer on Commonwealth Bay, the windiest place on earth. During the expedition, Pauline will report on ...
  6 days ago

• Former U.N. investigator accuses U.S. of failing to enforce Darfur arms embargo

  
  The Washington Post — Authority: 959
  A former top U.N. investigator on Thursday accused the Obama administration of failing to enforce a five-year-old arms embargo in Darfur, Sudan, and said weapons continue to flow into the region.
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• What is Treasury telling Google?

  
  The Cuban Triangle — Authority: 425
  A Juventud Rebelde article by Amaury del Valle complains today that in Google’s 2009 Zeitgeist survey , statistics for Cuba aren’t broken out. But Cuba is not the only country for which separate data aren’t provided, and plenty of the countries not listed in the survey are not subject to U.S. ...
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• Driver who killed teens loses appeal

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  A motorist who killed six teenage pedestrians in a crash near Mildura in north-west Victoria in 2006 has lost his application for leave to appeal against his jail term. Thomas Graham Towle was sentenced to 10 years jail with a minimum of seven over the crash at Cardross in which six teenagers died and four others ...
  1 week ago

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