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• Commonwealth summit opens with climate change as top agenda

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  By Manish ChandPort of Spain, Nov 27 (IANS) The 53-nation Commonwealth Summit opened here Friday with a renewed push towards achieving “political consensus” on climate change, weeks ahead of the United Nations convention in Copenhagen. “Amidst the wreckage created by a series of global crises, the looming ...
  19 hours ago

• Indian stocks tumbles due to Dubai debt problems

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  Mumbai, Nov 27 (ANI): Country’s stocks tumbled on Friday with the rupee weakened and bond yields fell as Dubai’s debt problems sparked concerns about corporate exposure.Country’s share market is now facing the risk of foreign investors repatriating funds.Speaking to ANI a stock market expert Sunil Shah ...
  22 hours ago

• China executes 2 people for milk contamination

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  Beijing, Nov 26 (THAINDIAN NEWS) In a bizarre turn of justice, China has executed a dairy farmer and a milk salesman on Tuesday for their roles in the sale of contaminated baby formula. China has given such severe punishments so that it would be like balm to the public anger, reassure importers and put to [...]
  1 day ago

• Security challenges are rising risks from the global financial crisis

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 174
  WASHINGTON, D.C. (March 29, 2009) — As I have examined the economic crisis and the legislative solutions to it, I have paid particular attention to its effect on U.S. national security. According to recent Congressional testimony delivered by the Director of National Intelligence, Admiral Dennis Blair, the global ...
  2 days ago

• NRO, Independent Judiciary and The Nation

  
  Pro-Pakistan — Authority: 131
  The failure of government on National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) and publishing the list of beneficiaries of NRO; a new Pandora box has been opened in the Pakistani politics. Many observers and analysts are of the view that the incumbent ministers having their names in the NRO list should resign from their ...
  3 days ago

• Shilpa Shetty drags sick Adnan Sami out of hospital bed

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  By Subhash K. JhaMumbai, Nov 24 (IANS) Adnan Sami, who was in hospital last week due to gall bladder problems had a surprise visitor. It was none other than actress Shilpa Shetty who had come to invite him for her wedding reception Tuesday. “I don’t care how many stones you have inside you. Just [...]
  4 days ago

• 15 Signs American Society Is Coming Apart at the Seams

  
  truthalyzer.com — Authority: 115
  AlterNet sees “15 Signs American Society Is Coming Apart at the Seams”: “1) The inequality of wealth in the United States is soaring to an unprecedented level. . . . 2) As the stock market went over the 10,000 mark . . . the three big banks that . . . benefited the most from the government bailout have just ...
  4 days ago

• Important News - Nov. 23

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 156
  1) Gold gains as investors lose faith in US dollar “”Many nations in the West are already bankrupt (the US, the UK, Spain, Iceland and Ireland). For example, America’s total debt is over $60 trillion (and rising) and there is no way the US can ever hope of repaying it in today’s money,” says Puru Saxena, ...
  4 days ago

• Indian Students Develop Bio-Cell to Clean Sewage Water and Generate Electricity

  
  The Green Optimistic — Authority: 433
  A group of students at the Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpur have developed a bio cell(battery) that can be used to treat sewage water and generate electric energy, being a perfect solution to combat the water and energy crisis.
  1 week ago

• Nearly 50 percent of Indian women marry before 18: Unicef

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  New Delhi, Nov 20 (IANS) India has a legislation prohibiting child marriage, but latest household surveys indicate that 47 percent of women, who are now aged 20-24 years, were married before the legal age of 18, a Unicef report released Friday said.The survey also found that nearly 16 percent of men, who are now aged ...
  1 week ago

• Profile: Herman Van Rompuy: EUs new president

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 174
  Herman Van Rompuy, Belgiums reluctant prime minister, is an unexpected first President of the European Union. Balding, short in stature, slight of build and self-effacing, the 62-year Flemish Christian Democrat economist is no European George Washington. Kristen Hemmerechts, a well known Flemish essayist, has compared ...
  1 week ago

• Home Mortgage Refinance – Problems while Applying

  
  All Home Loan Info — Authority: 131
  With Home Mortgage Refinance, You can make your financial life more manageable and better. Home Mortgage Refinance is a simple process like getting new home loan. Follow the process of the new loan to pay off existing mortgage. Many people refinance their mortgage because their needs and circumstances have changed ...
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• Controlling the fiscal cost of banking crises

  
  Irish Mortgage Brokers Blog — Authority: 132
  this is an extract taken from Patrick Honohan and Daniela Klingebiels paper on banking crises which was written in 2000, its evidence is based upon the study of c. 40 banking crises throughout the world in both developed and developing economies. Banking crises hit the budget with outlays that must be absorbed by ...
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• The Nation of Futurity

  
  Innovation Toronto — Authority: 435
  Image via Wikipedia The point made here by David Brooks of the New York Times is SO important in terms of the capacity to innovate for any society . . . When European settlers first came to North America, they saw flocks of geese so big that it took them 30 minutes to all take flight and forests that seemed ...
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• Air India to fix incentive cut quantum Tuesday

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  New Delhi/Mumbai, Nov 17 (IANS) The Air India management is expected to take a call Tuesday on the quantum of reduction of performance linked incentives (PLI), which constitutes a major chunk of the salaries of its 31,500 employees.“We are looking at adjusting cuts in PLI that is acceptable to all. I think it should ...
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• A Wind Generator School Project Teaching Energy Efficiency With an Energy Crises Warning

  
  EbioAnt — Authority: 143
  By Paul P Fletcher Science projects should be related to important issues that affect everyone as much as possible. The energy crisis is one such issue that can be used to teach youngsters how they, too, can be of help in tomorrow’s future. And a homemade wind generator can be just the thing to use for an ...
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• The comfort of tea

  
  T Ching — Authority: 128
  A couple of weeks ago, I got one of those calls that no one wants to get - my mother had fallen and broken her hip.  Thanks to an understanding boss and a nice airline, I was able to get from Texas to New Jersey the next day to be with her.  She was glad to see me, and although she looked pretty frail, she ...
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• Warning of Humanitarian crisis coming due to gas depletion – Gaza Strip

  
  Qwaider Planet — Authority: 170
  By Ayman T. QuaderGaza City, November 15, 2009, (Pal Telegraph) The ongoing Israeli siege has been gravely suffocating the life of people of the Gaza Strip. The fuel companies in the Gaza Strip have been Read More......( read more )
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• Things Done At 45

  
  The Grey Chronicles — Authority: 124
  Today is a special day for me, thus I am taking a breather from Travian, playing the game online or blogging about it. It is my birthday today. Exactly a year ago, I posted Things To Do Before 40 [edit: 45] . Here’s an annotated version of that post and some new additions.
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• Ayn Rand: Atlas Shrugged Prophetic?

  
  GreenLightAdvisor Views — Authority: 143
  A new book byAnne Heller about Ayn Rand, and her philosophy of objectivism is making rounds these days, re-igniting the relevance and debates about Rand’s 1957 bestseller “Atlas Shrugged.” Like many others before, the first time I read Atlas Shrugged it changed my life. It clarified my understanding of the ...
  2 weeks ago

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