Olympics Won’t Bring the Gold to Vancouver’s Economy
Temple University sport management professor Emily Sparvero says three major challenges – a struggling economy, decreased interest in the Olympics and disputes among social welfare groups – could hinder the Canadian host city from recouping its investment.
It is time for Asia to use its stronger voice to take a more prominent role in this new world order. The progression from the Western-dominated G8 to a more inclusive G20, with meaningful positions for leading Asian economies, rightly reflects the shift to a new equilibrium in which Asia has much greater weight.
Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi fails to extend his one-year term as AU president as Malawi’s president takes over.
Russia is to supply Libya with weapons to the value of $1.8bn, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin announces.
Attempts to extend Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's chairmanship of the African Union cause a diplomatic spat.
Central Africa's diamond miners lose their sparkle
Government Financial Support of News Media Continues Steep Decline
Government financial support that has bolstered this country's commercial news business since its colonial days is in sharp decline and is likely to fall further, according to a report released today by the University of Southern California’s Center on Communication Leadership & Policy. Because these cutbacks are occurring at the height of the digital revolution, they will have an especially powerful impact on a weakened news industry.
Asia hit hardest by global move from risk
Worries about the impact of monetary tightening in China on a fragile global economy has been a central theme for investors from New York to Tokyo, and Asian markets finished the last trading day of January in miserable form
US Debt Clock
Swiss warn UBS bank could collapse...
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp (FDIC) said First Regional Bank in Los Angeles, Florida Community Bank, First National Bank of Georgia, American Marine Bank in Washington, Marshall Bank in Minnesota and Community Bank and Trust in Georgia had failed -- pushing the tally to 15 banks that have failed this year.
My comment: If you were having trouble determining where government ends and corporations begin and vice-versa, this ruling by the
supremes means that it will be impossible to make that distinction ever again.
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The US has suspended evacuations of critically injured victims of the Haiti earthquake in a row over who will pay for their care, the military says. "Apparently, some states were unwilling to accept the entry of Haitian patients for follow-on critical care ... without a destination to fly to, we can’t move anybody," Captain Kevin Aandahl, a US transportation command spokesman, said. ‘We’ve temporarily suspended the flights, but that capability exists to…’.
Haitian police have arrested 10 U.S. citizens caught trying to take 33 children out of the earthquake-stricken country in a suspected illicit adoption scheme, authorities said on Saturday. The five men and five women were in custody in the capital, Port-au-Prince after their arrests on Friday night. There are fears that traffickers could try to exploit the chaos and turmoil following Haiti's January 12 earthquake quake to engage in illegal adoption What the TV doesn’t tell us about Haiti
by Claudio Testa
January 30, 2010 - The world’’s TV is showing, as we might expect, a false picture of reality. In the case of Haiti, this is all the more outrageous given the circumstances. With barely disguised racism they paint the picture of a people who are suffering but "ignorant" and "barbarous", incapable of "keeping order" by themselves after the earthquake, necessitating a renewed colonial occupation, with a fresh US invasion. Of course, no-one mentions the two-hundred-year war…
The Disaster Within The Disaster: It’s Time To Investigate The Aid Fiasco
Incarceration Nation - Prisons: America's growth industry
Inside the borders of the United States resides a separate nation of 2.3 million people. I speak, of course, of America's prison population. Incarceration may be the only U.S. industry that enjoys unlimited growth potential. We lead the world, by a wide margin, in the number of citizens in prison. The per capita rate is six times higher than Canada, eight times that of France, and even surpasses China and Russia. According to Georgetown law professor David Cole, a new prison opens every week somewhere in America, a truly insane statistic that …
More than 60,000 jobs disappear in a single day
Caterpillar Inc., Pfizer Inc., Sprint Nextel Corp. and Home Depot Inc. led companies announcing plans yesterday to cut more than 60,000 jobs as sales withered and construction slowed amid the global economic decline. The biggest layoffs were at Peoria, Ill.-based Caterpillar. The world's largest maker of construction equipment said it is cutting 20,000 jobs after its fourth-quarter profit fell by almost one-third. Most of those cuts already have been made. They include 5,000 new layoffs of white-collar workers, which will occur globally by th…
from Jason Miller
Water Heist: Corporations Are Targeting Cash-Strapped Cities for Control of Their Public Water
Big business is looking to cash in on public water systems and they've got a new tactic: They're using desperate economic times to convince city officials that they should place a corporation between families and their ability to eat, drink, and clean. Recent decades have been an active period for water corporations. In the 1990s the corporate push to privatize was buffeted by a tax law change under the Clinton administration that encouraged multinationals to enter the U.S. market. However, when privatization of water systems in large cities p…
Howard Zinn: A Radical Treasure
He was an unbelievably decent man who felt obliged to challenge injustice and unfairness wherever he found it. What was so radical about believing that workers should get a fair shake on the job, that corporations have too much power over our lives and much too much influence with the government, that wars are so murderously destructive that alternatives to warfare should be found, that blacks and other racial and ethnic minorities should have the same rights as whites, that the interests of powerful political leaders and corporate elites are …
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from Carolyn Baker
Solar Ecology & Energy Efficiency Institute: New Exciting Training Course designed by Dr. Abe Abrahami Renewable-Sustainable Energy Consultant, Eco-Psychologist, Educator Introduction Our current demise is 2-fold: moral-economic and eco-psychological / mental blockage; The moral-economic recession..
The revelation will cause fresh embarrassment for the The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which had to issue a humiliating apology earlier this month over inaccurate statements about global warming.
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