The Council was about to vote on a report that affirmed and praised Libya and Colonel Ghaddafi for THEIR HUMAN RIGHTS RECORD. The report said that the Ghaddafi government protected "not only political rights, but also economic, educational, social and cultural rights," and praised it for the nation's treatment of religious minorities, and the "human rights training" received by security forces.
Glencore is to float as a public company by selling up to a 20 per cent stake in London and Hong Kong, in a deal that could be worth up to $11bn. It has already begun to announce a new board, to include Tony Hayward, former BP chief.
"Across the world, all eyes are on California," was stated several times during North America's largest annual carbon conference this week in Los Angeles. It referred to the big timely news of the week, Governor Jerry Brown signing the AB 32 legislation requiring...
Although Paris Hilton will be back with a new reality series that Paris says will be different and show the real Paris Hilton behind the current image she maintains as a Hollywood socialite. WHO CARES!?! The slaves I guess.....
Tens of thousands of anti-government protesters have massed in Belgrade to call for early elections amid growing anger over the economy and corruption. Opposition leader Tomislav Nikolic told the crowd he was going on hunger strike until an election was called. The rally comes...
Tunisia and Egypt, both seeking to rebuild after overthrowing strongmen who held power while letting their economies run down for decades, will be the focus of a coordinated effort by the World Bank, International Monetary Fund and regional development banks
Brazilian police will be issued with hi-tech glasses that uses facial recognition technology to compare what officers are seeing against a database of 13 million mugshots. The equipment is able to recognise a face as far away as 12 miles... Yeah BS!
"This is a complete disenfranchisement of an entire community, an entire city in my state. The voters are now denied the ability to be governed by the people they elected in a democratic election.This is nothing short of an abridgment of democracy in raw form."
A Morgan Stanley property fund failed to make $3.3 billion in debt payments by a deadline on Friday, handing over the keys to a central Tokyo office building to Blackstone (BX.N) and other investors, the largest repayment failure of its kind in Japan.
President Obama may have never met a "czar" he didn't like and he's not about to bid farewell to any of them now, despite a budget deal he struck with Republican leaders last week that eliminated four of these positions.
A company known as Medical Justice is using the DMCA to silence critics of doctors. The idea is that doctors make their patience sign a contract that hands over the copyright of any potential review the patient might post online. If that patient decides to post a bad review...
Inside the DHS, which is slated to begin filming shortly for a premiere in the fourth quarter, will chronicle the behind-the-scenes workings of the Department of Homeland Security and its personnel, including Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano.
Former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is going where few political players have gone before - to 30 Rock. The 56-year-old, who served as America's top diplomat for four years under President George W. Bush, will turn in a brief cameo on the NBC comedy.
More than half the samples contained Staphylococcus aureus, a bacteria that can make people sick. Worse, half of those contaminated samples had a form of staph that's resistant to at least three kinds of antibiotics.
The project would double the capacity of an existing pipeline from Canada, and supporters say it could significantly reduce U.S. dependence on Middle Eastern oil.
A Canadian company has again threatened U.S. landowners with court action if they don't sell the property rights it needs to build an oil pipeline to the Gulf of Mexico. TransCanada Corp. (TSX:TRP) was criticized last summer for mentioning eminent domain in letters to...
Uganda is calling for bids from international companies to build a 140-mile oil pipeline to the shores of Lake Alberta to Kampala, the energy minister said.
One Uganda protester was killed and dozens injured in Kampala Thursday when soldiers and police fired live rounds and tear gas to break up protests against the rising cost of food. Opposition leader Kizza Besigye was shot in the hand.
Carl Levin, chair of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, will recommend that Goldman executives who testified before his panel, including chairman and chief executive Lloyd Blankfein, be referred to the Justice Department for possible criminal prosecution, the...
SANAA/AMMAN (Reuters) - Mass protests spread to the capital of Syria for the first time on Friday and looked closer than ever to driving out the leader of Yemen, nearly four months since unrest erupted across the Arab world.
George Clooney and Grant Heslov's production shingle is onboard to produce a Wall Street bailout pic based on 2009 Washington Post article "The $700 Billion Man."
The French defence minister suggests a new UN Security Council resolution may be needed for Nato allies to achieve their goals in Libya, as Nato members meet in Berlin.
First the "rebels" create a central bank. Then they create a cell-phone network. Now they want a $2 billion loan from the U.S.? Who the crap are these people?
Libya might soon turn into a goldmine for private security firms. Reports say that the UK is already hiring mercenaries to protect the interests of the big corporations there, once Colonel Gaddafi goes.
European regulators have recommended changes to the product label for GlaxoSmithKline PLC's (GSK) pandemic flu vaccine Pandemrix to reflect a potential higher risk of the sleeping disorder narcolepsy in children or adolescents.
Artists and consumer groups are up in arms as the EU comes closer to agreeing a 20-year extension of copyright on music recorded before the 1960s. Critics argue that while record companies keep their profits high, artists will lose out.
David Cameron, Barack Obama and Nicolas Sarkozy upped the stakes in the Libya conflict last night as they vowed to fight on until Colonel Gaddafi is ousted. In a joint article, the British, American and French leaders warned it would be an 'unconscionable betrayal'...
Rhetoric on Syria starts as they accuse Syria's security forces of arresting hundreds of people arbitrarily since pro-democracy protests erupted a month ago. Of course, the same thing is happening in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia....
Japanese retail giant Aeon Co. (8267.TO) on Thursday said it expects a 33% decline in its net profit for the current fiscal year due to the impact of last month's earthquake and tsunami.Net profit of Y40 billion in the fiscal year ending February 2012, down 33%
Approximately 33 million Americans will celebrate Easter Sunday this year at their favorite restaurant this year, and more than half will hop on over to an abundant buffet, according to new market research from the National Restaurant Association.
MTD Marketing Services of Oshkosh said today that 230 building permits for one-and-two-family homes were issued last month in the Milwaukee, down 33-percent from the 341 building permits issued in March of last year.
Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
The Polish administration has hired PR firm Burson-Marsteller to help it run its EU presidency later this year in a contract worth €1 million...The Brussels and Warsaw branches of the US-based PR company will help to train Polish press spokespeople, set up the...
The Earth Hour campaign was developed by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) to raise awareness of climate change, encourage energy efficiency and make a significant contribution toward reducing carbon footprints. It began in 2007, with a symbolic gesture encouraging people to switch off their lights for an hour. In 2009, India joined the Earth Hour campaign by committing the support of two cities, Delhi and Mumbai.
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CFR members, including Brian Williams, Fareed Zakaria, Angelina Jolie, Chuck Hagel, and Erin Burnett, explain why the Council on Foreign Relations is an indispensable resource in a complex world.
While in Chicago for a fundraiser, President Obama was caught on tape making comments after reporters had left the room. The president is heard here discussing the Emir of Qatar advocating democracy everywhere but in his own country.
In a study written for Small Wars Journal, Thiel performs a statistical analysis that correlates the arrival of the surge reinforcements into Iraq in 2006 and 2007 with subsequent levels of combat incidents in 2007 and 2008. Thiel concluded that there was no significant...
Vast overuse, highly subsidized, of antibiotics has now resulted in bacteria in grocery store meat that is resistant. Just how resistant, we will have to see. Writes Gary North: "This story is scary. When a Federal agency has a problem that it cannot solve, it clams up. No...
The University of Texas Investment Management Co., the second-largest U.S. academic endowment, took delivery of almost $1 billion in gold bullion and is storing the bars in a New York vault, according to the fund's board, reports Bloomberg.
Today all parents must do to opt out is sign an exemption. The new bill requires a signed form from a health care practitioner showing parents received information about vaccine risks and benefits.
"What is driving these bears into populated places is hunger, and that hunger derives from the ripple effects of the warming of the last 10 years and the significant but more gradual warming of the last 30 years in the American Northwest."
Goldman Sachs is said to be furious at being left out of the lucrative flotation of Glencore, the giant commodities trader which will make history when it becomes the biggest company to list on the London Stock Exchange for $60bn to be immediately propelled into the FTSE 100...
The FBI has raided the apartment of two University of Michigan students to investigate what it has called "potentially fraudulent sales or purchases of virtual currency that people use to advance in the popular online role-playing game World of Warcraft." The story...
Barack Obama has complained that the White House is "30 years behind" in its technology, and has disappointed him with its lack of "really cool phones and stuff".
Law enforcement officials in Janesville, Wisconsin, locked down two middle schools and brought in drug-sniffing dogs to search students' lockers. The dogs "hit" 14 times at one school and 13 times at the other. But none of the dog alerts turned up any actual drugs.
One of the beneficiaries of Ben's largess was a bank with branches in New York named the Arab Banking Corp. The Arab Banking Corp is 59% owned by that Middle Eastern Messiah-in-his-own-mind, Colonel Murammar Gaddafi's Central Bank of Libya. In fact, Benny and the Feds...
The U.S. resumed deportations to Haiti on Jan. 20. They sent back 26 Haitians convicted of a crime and one acquitted in a 2007 terror plot but still deemed a national security threat. One of the men deported in January died after suffering cholera-like symptoms in a Haitian jail.
The situation grows more desperate in the Libyan city with increasing evidence of the use of cluster bombs against civilians. (The new meme is "Cluster bombs")
Three South African executives are likely to become paper billionaires when commodities producer and trader Glencore, headquartered in Switzerland, lists towards the end of May in London and Hong Kong.
These are 10 films that I believe if watched by the majority of US citizens there would be demands of impeachment, a push to pull out of Iraq and a complete shift in thought or at the very least some questioning of the government.
"The state owns a vast portfolio of real estate assets that today is underdeveloped or is exploited by uncontrolled, private vested interests," the Finance Ministry wrote in the presentation, adding that the development and management of the assets is an...
Carl Levin, chair of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, will recommend that Goldman executives who testified before his panel, including chairman and chief executive Lloyd Blankfein, be referred to the Justice Department for possible criminal prosecution, the...
The report, conducted by the Coalition for Homeless, holds that close to 115,000 residents of America's largest city, including some 40,000 children, have fallen victim to homelessness.
Republican senators John Ensign and Kay Bailey Hutchison drafted a measure on Thursday which states that President Barack Obama "should obtain authorization from Congress before providing further military and financial support to operations in Libya,"
"The fact that we don't have victims yet is sheer luck," said Konstantinos Priftis, a local farmer and basketball coach. "Keratea is protecting its dignity, its history. ... We're not going to back down."
Tyler Durden | "Failure by Congress to raise the U.S. debt limit "could plunge the world economy back into recession," President Barack Obama declared Friday
A bizarre BB gun spree damaged 33 vehicles and caused more than $4,000 in damages. The Stauton, VA man, Dylan F. Crook, was sent to jail for a year on three destruction of property counts on Wednesday.
India's edible oil import dipped for the fifth-consecutive month by 33% to 4,12,088 tonnes in March, the edible oil industry body SEA said today. I guess they are getting off foreign (edible) oil!
France has rejected a European Commission proposal to create an EU-wide value added tax (VAT), but insists it is still open to the EU having some form of 'own resources'.
In an interview that aired Thursday Roger Vangheluwe, the former bishop of Bruges, spoke of his sexual abuse as "a little game," that involved fondling, but no "rough sex."
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City President Thomas Hoenig said that an increase in interest rates could trigger a 33 percent decline in the price of agricultural land.
The TeloVac jab is part of a new generation of drugs that use the body's own defences to fight the disease, stopping tumours in their tracks. TeloVac has already been given to hundreds of Britons with pancreatic cancer, one of the deadliest forms of the disease.
A new report from the drug company GlaxoSmithKline concludes that its antidepressant Paxil might make adults with major depression more likely to become suicidal.
Not only is the original claim bogus, the attempts to disappear it are hilariously inept. Apparently, they've never heard of Google Cache at the UN. Rather than simply say
One only has to read the strategic briefings in U.S. AFRICOM documents to realise the true endgame in Libya: the control of valuable resources and the eviction of China from North Africa.
The outraged pair had vented their frustration on Facebook and Twitter which sparked a protest that could saw around 600 people flock to the pub to for a gay kiss protest.
According to a press release, Gaga is the first performer to be announced for the 10th annual MTV Video Music Awards Japan, which is being dubbed the Video Music Aid Japan this year in order to raise awareness about the recent natural disasters that hit the country and benefit...
"..It is easy to help at Downloadtodonate.org and as an added bonus those who donate will have access to several dozen special tracks available for download from top artists. Stay tuned for a new video for the Linkin Park song "Not Alone," which is included in the...
"I didn't expect that in three weeks, suddenly as a consequence of an air campaign, that Gaddafi would necessarily be gone," Obama said in an interview with the Associated Press.
Author Sir Ken Robinson challenges the way we're educating our children. He champions a radical rethink of our school systems. "If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original."
Amid speculation over the country's ability to avoid default, a wave of civil disobedience is causing many to wonder if Greece is becoming ungovernable.
San Francisco's Entertainment Commission has proposed that all bars, clubs, and venues should be required to photograph and collect ID from everyone who comes in for a drink or a show.
SEATTLE (AP) - Gov. Chris Gregoire says she won't sign legislation to create licensed medical marijuana dispensaries in Washington state after the Justice Department warned it could result in a federal crackdown.
The two U.S. attorneys in the state told Gregoire in a letter Thursday that bills passed by the Washington House and Senate would permit large-scale marijuana growing and distribution systems in violation of federal law.
The U.S. attorneys warned that growers, sellers, landlords and even state employees who license such operations could face prosecution.
Faced with a shortage of men, Russia has an ongoing and open debate about legalizing polygamy. As Pravda reports, Muslim dating websites in the country include "Married, looking for another wife" as a category.
California's greenhouse gas initiative, spelled out in AB 32, contained a renewable portfolio standard that is now affirmed by the Legislature as 33 percent by 2020. The initiative is leading to significant investments, new jobs and more clean energy generation in...
"The negotiations are finished. The framework was agreed," an aide to Mexico's ambassador Juan Jose Gomez Camacho, co-chairman of the closed-door talks, told Reuters.
Countries would share virus samples with the WHO's network of laboratories in return for affordable vaccines derived from them.
- The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
"The number of Wharton graduates from Africa is growing, reflecting the heightened interest in management education among Africans. Wharton received 107 MBA applications from Africans for the Class of 2009. There are more than 172 alumni who reside on the continent and about 63 in South Africa."
That's only a fraction of the list.Ê It's huge.Ê Especially the "Finance" section:Ê http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wharton_School_alumni#Finance .Ê Tons of CEO's and governors of foreign central banks are graduates of Wharton.
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Officials contacted 439 people and found that 123 had fevers and at least one other symptom with 69 falling ill on the same day. Epidemiologists used social media to contact the conference attendees.
The first is called Inside The DHS. Somehow producer Craig Piligian has convinced Secretary Janet Napolitano to let cameras inside the Department Of Homeland Security to let viewers get an inside look at how the governmental arm runs its day-to-day operations. In exchange for that access, the government is retaining the ability to censor anything that might be considered too inside. I'm actually all for that. There's no reason I need to know what suspects they're monitoring, but even without final editing say, Inside The DHS should be riveting television.
He said the mission had succeeded in stopping large-scale civilian casualties, especially in the rebel-held city of Benghazi, and would eventually succeed in ousting Gaddafi.
"You now have a stalemate on the ground militarily, but Gaddafi is still getting squeezed in all kinds of other ways. He is running out of money, he is running out of supplies. The noose is tightening and he is becoming more and more isolated.
After the inauguration of Barack Obama in January 2009, the anticipated March 2009 negotiations were postponed. However, in his first trip to Asia in November 2009, President Obama reaffirmed the United States' commitment to the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and on December 14, 2009, new U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk notified Congress that President Obama planned to enter TPP negotiations "with the objective of shaping a high-standard, broad-based regional pact".[14]
Since that time, four formal rounds of TPP negotiations have been held. The first round took place March 15-19, 2010, in Melbourne, Australia, the second round occurred in San Francisco, June 14-18, 2010, a third round took place October 5-8, 2010, in Brunei, and a fourth round was held December 6-10, 2010, in Auckland, New Zealand.[15][16]
The text is marked to be "protected from unauthorized disclosure," and the USTR is seeking to classify the document until four years from entry into force or the close of the negotiations. The document has been distributed to all member states particpating in the TPP negotiations, so it is not secret from any of the parties in the negotiations. The document may also be subject to review by the hundreds of corporate insiders who serve on USTR advisory boards. It is, however, secret from the taxpayers and voters who live in the United States
[VIDEO] - Copyright (Infringing File Sharing) Amendment Bill - Second Reading - Part 2
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"What, You Thought The U.S. Was Done Bombing Libya?" Wired's Spencer Ackerman asks. Turns out we're not--we've hit Libyan air defenses three times in the last week. Ackerman quotes a DoD spokesman:
Cooper has had enough. Last night he took a moment on his show to rail on everyone who has ever paid Snooki "to be Snooki" â€" but only after he called the Jersey Shore star "one impossibly lucky, unusually spunky, freakishly tan, beer-guzzling, juice-head hugging, muscle-loving, botero-bodied, pint-sized, money-making machine."
Why has NPR stopped saying "dot org" and is now saying "dot oh-are-gee'??
Goldman said this week the risks of investing in commodities outweigh potential gains, dropping its recommendation to buy a basket of raw materials including crude oil, copper, cotton and platinum. Three companies have shelved plans for a London IPO this month as Europe's debt woes and a nuclear crisis in Japan sap investor demand.
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's fragile post-disaster political truce unraveled on Thursday as the head of the main opposition party called on unpopular Prime Minister Naoto Kan to quit over his handling of the country's natural calamities and a nuclear crisis.
Just when many parents thought their kids were done with shots, the state issues a new mandate. There is a booster shot that students in 7th through 12th grades need to have.
Czech television aired a video showing the Czech Republic President Vaclav Klaus slipping a ceremonial pen into his pocket during an official visit to Chile. The incident happened on April 4, 2011 when Klaus was addressing a press conference with Chile's President Sebastian...
The cross-examination of a Mafia turncoat started quietly and predictably enough on Thursday. Joseph C. Massino, the former boss of the Bonanno crime family, spoke matter-of-factly about having to kill one of his closest associates, simply because he had disobeyed protocol.
A group in Washington sued the C.I.A. on Thursday over its failure to release its history of the Bay of Pigs invasion, the Gitmo Nation West-sponsored effort to topple Fidel Castro in 1961. The group, the National Security Archive, filed a Freedom of Information Act request for...
Michael Jackson's doctor was so distracted by his own complicated love live that he failed to pay proper attention to Jackson's treatment in the hours before the pop star died, according to court documents filed Thursday.
The number of Dayton-area properties involved in some stage of the foreclosure process fell nearly 33 percent during the first quarter as foreclosure activity fell to a three-year low nationwide.
Glencore's dream team, which ... comprises around ten heads and co-heads of departments, stands to be worth billions following the IPO of a 20% stake which values the company at up to $60 billion.