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| Sometimes, Jennifer Ross feels she cannot make a move at home without inviting the scorn of her daughters, 10-year-old Grace and 7-year-old Eliza. The Acura MDX she drives? A flagrant polluter. The bath at night to help her relax? A wasteful indulgence. The reusable shopping bags she forgot, again? Tsk, tsk. |
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| Hidden in foliage next to a path in the southeast England seaside town of Hastings are digital cameras. Their target: litterbugs and dog walkers. |
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| Robotic pterodactyl spy-drones will swoop between buildings and perch on apartment balconies |
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| The International Security and Advisory Board (Isab), which reports to Condoleezza Rice, the US secretary of state, warned that “holding the US homeland hostage to missile attack is important to Chinese military goals”. |
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| Democratic candidate Barack Obama was a member of the socialist New Party during the 1990s, according to new evidence unearthed by web bloggers, receiving the party’s endorsement for his state Senate run in 1996 |
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| Analysts have predicted the Lehman settlement will trigger gross payouts of $350bn to $400bn. Meanwhile, the recent rash of Icelandic banking failures could bring further derivative payouts estimated at $200bn in the coming weeks. |
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| Nato has agreed its troops will be allowed to attack opium factories for the first time in Afghanistan |
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| Wall Street extended its devastating losses Friday, but prices swung sharply as investors scooped up shares decimated by more than a week of intense and panicked selling |
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| The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Financial Stability Forum (FSF) co-sponsored today a high-level meeting on the recent financial turmoil and policy responses to promote discussion and interaction with senior officials from central banks, finance ministries and financial supervisory and regulatory agencies from a large group of advanced and emerging market economies. |
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| General Secretary of the Organization of American States (OAS) Jose Miguel Insulza called Thursday for the creation of an international financial organ to prevent economic crises from having a global influence. |
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| The European Commission is aiming to boost the transition to the Internet of the future while at the same time preserving individual rights, seeking a greater role for itself in the governance of the Web, Information Society Commissioner Viviane Reding told EurActiv in an interview. |
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| The Stability-2008 strategic maneuvers of the Russian armed forces are gaining momentum. On Monday, Tupolev Tu-95MS Bear-H and Tupolev Tu-160 Blackjack strategic bombers began training flights with full combat payloads and the live firing of cruise missiles at practice targets. |
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| Pakistan has dispatched its top finance officials on a mission to raise billions of dollars from its closest allies in a last ditch bid to stave off bankruptcy. |
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| Iceland seized control of its biggest bank on Thursday to try to shore up its listing financial system, halted all trade on its stock market and maintained that it should cope without IMF help. |
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| Put bluntly, enough heroin to supply the world's demand for years has simply disappeared. |
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| “There is a global meltdown coming. It is global depression. And one world currency and one world financial system is the endgame.” Glen Beck Says, “China said last week they want one global currency. France said yesterday … they want one world order - a new world order at the end of this event. |
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| Wayne Madsen a Washington based investigative journalist, author, columnist and former U.S. Naval Officer reported on April 3rd, 2008 the existence of a document called the “C & R” document is being passed around among senior members of Congress and their staff |
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| US election officials believe they have uncovered massive attempted voter fraud less than a month before the country goes to the polls to choose its new president. |
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| Willpower is set to replace fast fingers in a new video game in which players move characters through a headset that monitors their brain waves. |
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| The meeting will take place in Washington this weekend, and will include finance ministers and others already in town for a scheduled meeting of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. |
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| Newly released footage, which was buried to avoid confiscation, shows riot cops arresting and abusing a giant group of people for nothing. |
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| The financial rescue plan passed by the US Congress is viewed as flawed but necessary to head off panic in financial markets and loss of confidence in the economy. It seems a holding operation, a Plan C or D that might need augmentation via a Plan A. |
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| The credit crunch deepened in Europe as government leaders pledged to bail out troubled banks and protect depositors. |
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| The US Federal Reserve on Wednesday lowered its target for a key US interest rate by half a point to 1.5 percent "in light of evidence pointing to a weakening of economic activity and a reduction in inflationary pressures". |
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| The murder-suicide of a Los Angeles financial manager who shot dead five members of his family before killing himself has highlighted the psychological toll of the economic meltdown. |
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| The Russians are coming to downtown Jerusalem, reclaiming ownership of a landmark with the approval of the Israeli government, just as Prime Minister Ehud Olmert visits Moscow to try to iron out serious policy differences between the two countries |
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| Like all wars, the dark, untold stories of the Iraqi conflict drain from its shattered landscape like the filthy waters of the Tigris. And still the revelations come. |
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| Members of Congress were told they could face martial law if they didn't pass the bailout bill. This will not be the last time. |
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| We are happy to help, because we understand that the entertainment industry plays a key role in educating the public about our mission to keep the nation safe from terrorists and criminals. And we know that the more educated people are about the Bureau, the more likely they will help us solve—and prevent—crimes and terror attacks. |
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| Darpa, the Pentagon's far-out research wing, is launching a new, classified effort to find enemies by the phone they use. It's called Gandalf. |
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| GOP presidential nominee John McCain has past connections to a private group that supplied aid to guerrillas seeking to overthrow the leftist government of Nicaragua in the Iran-Contra affair. |
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| Financial guru warns that investments could lose 20 percent of their value |
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| Americans' retirement plans have lost as much as $2 trillion in the past 15 months — about 20 percent of their value — Congress' top budget analyst estimated Tuesday as lawmakers began investigating how turmoil in the financial industry is whittling away workers' nest eggs |
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| He is not French President Nicolas Sarkozy, although he acts as the patron of the first World Policy Conference underway in Evian |
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| The KillerBee is designed to provide the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps with a UAS for their respective Small Tactical Unmanned Aircraft Systems and Tier II missions. |
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| Developed by the Institute for the Future, Superstruct, the world's first massively multiplayer forecasting game, goes live today and will last for six weeks, played on forums, blogs, videos, wikis, and other online spaces. |
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| Picture this: you're sat down for the Football World Cup final, or a long-awaited sequel to the "Sex and the City" movie and you're watching all the action unfold in 3-D on your coffee table. |
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| Knowing that greater international trade would help to prevent future wars, and determined to avoid another Great Depression, the delegates signed the Bretton Woods Agreements, creating the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank |
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| The U.S. will continue its troop presence in Kosovo until at least late next year, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday, reaffirming U.S. support for the newly declared nation in the face of stern opposition from Russia |
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| THE European Union, that great federalist project designed to unite the former warring nations and bring eternal peace to the continent, looks highly tarnished this morning as some governments break ranks to protect their own citizens from the ravages of the international banking crisis |
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| Icesave was owned by Landsbanki, Iceland's second biggest bank, which went into receivership yesterday. |
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| It is shaping up to be one of the most tumultuous times on record in the global financial markets. |
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| The House of Representatives Saturday passed a civilian nuclear pact with India that lifts a three decade-old ban on civilian nuclear trade with India. |
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| The global economy is headed for a recession next year, as U.S. gross domestic product grinds close to a halt, the International Monetary Fund said in reports ahead of a Group of Seven meeting this week. |
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| Ten months before the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld approved an updated version of the U.S. Army's secret operational Continuity of Government (COG) plans. |
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| The son of a former French president, an Israeli-Russian billionaire and a tycoon with ties to Arizona's jet set were among the headliners yesterday as 42 defendants went on trial in Paris, accused in a worldwide web of trafficked arms to Angola, money laundering and kickbacks |
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| The disgraced head of the giant investment bank whose collapse set off a panic which led to the US economic rescue package took home more than £172 million since 2000, he told the U.S. Congress. |
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| Oil, grains, and industrial metals all crumbled as the week began despite the passage of the Paulson bail-out plan in Washington and dramatic moves by European governments to shore up their banking systems, compounding the steepest commodity crash in over half a century |
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| Savers have been queuing in the street to buy gold bars and coins, as they search for a safe place to invest their money. |
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| The Federal Reserve announced a radical new plan on Tuesday to jump-start the engine of the financial system. |
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| Pakistan's foreign exchange reserves are so low that the country can only afford one month of imports and faces possible bankruptcy. |
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| The Russian stock market gave in to panic on Monday with the MICEX dropping 18.6% to 752 points and the RTS falling by 19.1% to 866.39 points - the worst losses since the 1998 crash. |
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| Pope Benedict XVI today said that the global credit crisis shows that the world's financial systems are "built on sand" and that only the works of God have "solid reality". |
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| Stocks tumbled Monday, with the Dow Jones industrial average falling below 10,000 for the first time in nearly four years, as European governments' rush to prop up failing financial firms underscored the global reach of the credit crunch |
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| It started out 16 months ago as a mortgage crisis, and then slowly evolved into a credit crisis. Now it's something entirely different and much more serious. |
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| SoCal Connected tracked down some surreal sights associated with the crisis - a company that specializes in removing whatever people leave behind in their foreclosed homes. The process is called a “trashout” - a term the company came up with because it perfectly describes what happens |
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| The number of homeless families in Massachusetts has surged -- a spike that has overwhelmed the state's shelter capacity and forced it to again place homeless families in motels. |
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| Here's a safe bet for uncertain times: A lot of banks won't survive the next year of upheaval despite the U.S. government's $700 billion plan to restore order to the financial industry. |
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| It comprises of eight member countries -- El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama, Belize and Dominica. |
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| A coded French diplomatic cable leaked to a French newspaper quotes the British ambassador in Afghanistan as predicting that the NATO-led military campaign against the Taliban will fail. That was not all. The best solution for the country, the ambassador said, would be installing an "acceptable dictator," according to the newspaper |
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| When Afghan security forces found an enormous cache of heroin hidden beneath concrete blocks in a tractor-trailer outside Kandahar in 2004, the local Afghan commander quickly impounded the truck and notified his boss |
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| Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is leading U.S. efforts to court energy-rich Kazakhstan, the former Soviet republic balancing close relations with Russia and openings to the West after Moscow's invasion of Georgia |
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| UNASUR Moves to Regional Legislation |
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| Gordon Brown and other European Union leaders called last night for a global economic summit to 'rebuild the world's financial system' as they held emergency talks on how to prevent a repeat of the current international credit crisis |
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| Hundreds of secret probes are believed to be installed on two of the country's biggest Internet and mobile phone providers - BT and Vodafone - to monitor customers live, the paper said |
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| Japan’s powerful yakuza organised crime syndicates are mounting a widespread assault on the country’s financial markets that may have left hundreds of listed companies riddled with mob connections. |
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| War has come to Pakistan, not just as terrorist bombings, but as full-scale battles, leaving Pakistanis angry and dismayed as the dead, wounded and displaced turn up right on their doorstep. |
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| The environment and interior ministries in Peru have announced plans to set up a special task force to safeguard forests and monitor the rivers in the Amazon basin. The special force will be made up of around 3,000 officers to be known as the Environment Police |
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| The State Duma adopted legal amendments on Friday paving the way for Russia's Central Bank to issue unsecured loans for up to six months to rated Russian banks. |
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| An expert with the I-M-F says the US economic crisis is posing a major threat to global growth. Charles Collyns, Deputy Director in the International Monetary Fund's Research Department, is calling for effective measures to contain the damage to the banking systems in the US and Europe |
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| There were a lot of insider investors who made millions as the markets plummeted and then rose again, including some of our multi-millionaire Senators who are deeply invested in these markets themselves and who had every reason to want a bailout for their own funds as well as for those in Wall Street--who so generously donated to their reelection campaigns |
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| The U.S. plans to hire five to 10 asset-management firms as Secretary Henry Paulson establishes the government's new office for handling the financial bailout, a Treasury official said |
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| Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s appearance at the New York City based Council of Foreign Relations (CFR) on 25 September 2007, was an official endorsement and expression of solidarity on the North American Union agenda |
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| Russian strategic bombers will conduct training flights with full combat payloads and live fire all cruise missiles on board for the first time in over two decades, an Air Force spokesman said |
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| President Bush signed legislation in July that raised the debt ceiling to $10.615 trillion. Meanwhile, the financial bailout legislation passed by the Senate last night would raise the debt ceiling further to $11.315 trillion |
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| With the economy on the brink and elections looming, Congress approved an unprecedented $700 billion government bailout of the battered financial industry on Friday and sent it to President Bush for his certain signature |
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| When Chavez coined the name, UNASUR, he said: "We are talking about union, not integration, [...]." President Chavez was referring, in somewhat derogatory terms, to many South American Integration projects based solely on trade. Examples include the South American Common Market (Mercosur) and the Community of Andean Nations (CAN). While both Mercosur and CAN tried to develop politically, they have had limited success. Integration instead meant reduced tariffs between member states for preferential exports within common markets. |
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| In February 2003, the vice-president of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, in Canadian Senate hearings, said that de facto integration of Canada with the United States was here already "whether many Canadians realize it or want to accept it" and, anyway, we don't need "duplicate systems of approval." |
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| The United States has granted permission for a U.S. non-govermental organization to open an office in Iran, the U.S. State Department said on Thursday, but said Washington's Tehran policy remained unchanged. |
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| Christian Broadcasting Network co-founder Pat Robertson, in a new update to his Web site, states that, "we have between 75 and 120 days before the Middle East starts spinning out of control." |
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| It's plain that the current financial crisis is worsening in spite of--or perhaps because of--the Treasury rescue plan. |
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| Bus companies and school districts would be allowed to record audio on school buses under legislation that would modify the state's wiretapping and surveillance law and, supporters say, help deter unruly student behavior. |
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| Middle Eastern countries should set up a new regional organisation that includes all Arab states as well as Israel, Iran and Turkey, pro-western Bahrain urged yesterday. |
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| The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) has conformed to the Russian view that the conflict in South Ossetia is tantamount to shaking, if not entirely changing, the global balance of power that has orbited around US supremacy since the end of the Cold War |
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| America is no longer up to shouldering the world’s crises. But who is going to take its place? Russia, Brazil, China and India are all rising, but they are also competing with Europe and the US for finite natural resources. Only a common future -- a "change through rapprochement" and not a "clash of futures" can carry us forward. |
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| Today, 152 members of the House of Representatives — over one-third of all members and nearly two-thirds of all Democrats — signed and submitted a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi stating their guiding principles for “comprehensive global warming legislation” to “save the planet from calamitous global warming |
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| In hopes of organizing a robust demonstration for the vice presidential debate this Thursday in St. Louis, the pro-Iraq War (and ostensibly pro-McCain) organization, Vets for Freedom, is resorting to offering local college fraternities hundreds of dollars if their members come and hold signs. |
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| The Department of Homeland Security has been given the money it needs to begin turning international spy satellites within the country's borders, despite lingering fears about the program's lack of focus and the potential for it to infringe upon Americans' civil liberties |
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| Islamabad: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani yesterday said that attacks by US drones on targets inside Pakistan's tribal region bordering Afghanistan amounted to "terrorism". |
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| The US Securities and Exchange Commission issued emergency orders two weeks ago as part of a broader government strategy to shore up confidence in the markets. |
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| France heaped pressure on Gordon Brown last night by floating an ambitious plan for a ¤300 billion (£237 billion) bailout fund to rescue crippled banks across Europe |
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