Posts Tagged ‘United States’
Obama Calls for New Curbs on Offshore Tax Havens
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While most Americans paid their fair share of taxes, President Obama said, “there are others who are shirking theirs, and many are aided and abetted by a broken tax system.” |
| Obama Calls for New Curbs on Offshore Tax Havens |
| New York Times | May 04, 2009 | By JEFF ZELENY and BRIAN KNOWLTON |
| WASHINGTON — President Obama presented a far-reaching set of proposals on Monday that are aimed at the tax benefits enjoyed by companies and wealthy individuals harboring cash in offshore accounts.
While most Americans paid their fair share of taxes, President Obama said, “there are others who are shirking theirs, and many are aided and abetted by a broken tax system.” |
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Mexico Senate OKs bill to legalize drug possesion
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| Mexican Flag – Credit: Esparta/Flickr
According to senior Harvard economics professor Jeffrey A. Miron, the only way to end the present drug violence in Mexico is to legalize drugs. What do you think? Please leave a comment… |
| Mexico Senate OKs bill to legalize drug possesion |
| Reuters | Apr 28, 2009 | |
| MEXICO CITY, April 28 (Reuters) – Mexico’s Senate approved a bill on Tuesday decriminalizing possession of small amounts of narcotics for personal use, in order to free resources to fight violent drug cartels.
The bill, proposed by conservative President Felipe Calderon, would make it legal to carry up to 5 grams (0.18 ounces) of marijuana, 500 milligrams (0.018 ounces) of cocaine and tiny quantities of other drugs such as heroin and methamphetamines. |
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Russia criticizes NATO Georgia war games, urges boycott
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| Russian tanks move through Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia, soon after Russia’s August (2008) war with Georgia. |
| Russia criticizes NATO Georgia war games, urges boycott |
| Reuters | Apr 27, 2009 | |
| MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Monday criticized NATO exercises in Georgia next month as harmful and said other countries should join Russia in boycotting them.
NATO had invited Russia to send observers to the near month-long exercises that will involve 1,300 troops from NATO members and other countries. |
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Mexico flu scare empties streets, churches, bars
| Mexico flu scare empties streets, churches, bars |
| AlertNet — Reuters | Apr 26, 2009 | By Helen Popper and Mica Rosenberg |
| * Top soccer matches played in empty stadiums * Mayor says may have to shut down mass transport system * Empty streets in normally vibrant city MEXICO CITY, April 26 (Reuters) – One of the world’s biggest cities slowed to a snail’s pace on Sunday as millions in the Mexican capital hid indoors to avoid infection from a flu virus that has killed up to 81 people. The Roman Catholic faithful listened to mass on the radio rather than go to church, a professional soccer game was played in an emp |
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Deadly new flu breaks out in Mexico, U.S.
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| A police woman wears a mask in Mexico City April 24, 2009. A strain of flu never seen before has killed up to 60 people in Mexico and also appeared in the United States, where eight people were infected but recovered, health officials said on Friday. REUTERS/Jorge Dan Lopez (MEXICO SOCIETY HEALTH ENVIRONMENT IMAGES OF THE DAY) REUTERS/Str |
| Deadly new flu breaks out in Mexico, U.S. |
| AlertNet dot org — Reuters | Apr 25, 2009 | By Alistair Bell and Noel Randewich |
| MEXICO CITY, April 24 (Reuters) – A strain of flu never seen before has killed as many as 61 people in Mexico and has spread into the United States, where eight people have been infected but recovered, health officials said on friday.
Mexico’s government said at least 16 people have died of the disease in central Mexico and that it may also have been responsible for 45 other deaths. The World Health Organization said tests showed the virus in 12 of the Mexican patients had the same genetic |
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| People wear masks inside a bus in Mexico City April 24, 2009. A strain of flu never seen before has killed up to 60 people in Mexico and also appeared in the United States, where eight people were infected but recovered, health officials said on Friday. REUTERS/Felipe Leon (MEXICO DISASTER HEALTH ENVIRONMENT) REUTERS/Stringer/Mexico |
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Heirs to Fortuyn?
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| A small plaque marks the spot where Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn was gunned down.
Photo courtesy WateenZooi dot nl |
| Heirs to Fortuyn? |
| City Journal | Apr 24, 2009 | Bruce Bawer |
| When the New Left emerged in the 1960s, something else was born that would mark American elites for decades thereafter: the notion that social-democratic Western Europe was far superior to the capitalist United States. Pity the poor American professor whose every junket to a European academic conference was marred by his continental colleagues’ sneering over cocktails about his nation’s shame du jour—Vietnam, Watergate, Iraq—or about American racism, capital punishment, or health care. For much read more |
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COLUMN-Killer robots and a revolution in warfare:Bernd Debusmann
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| COLUMN-Killer robots and a revolution in warfare:Bernd Debusmann |
| AlertNet — Reuters | Apr 22, 2009 | By Bernd Debusmann |
| WASHINGTON, April 22 (Reuters) – They have no fear, they never tire, they are not upset when the soldier next to them gets blown to pieces. Their morale doesn’t suffer by having to do, again and again, the jobs known in the military as the Three Ds – dull, dirty and dangerous.
They are military robots and their rapidly increasing numbers and growing sophistication may herald the end of thousands of years of human monopoly on fighting war. “Science fiction is moving to the battlefield. The fut |
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Fertility expert: ‘I can clone a human being’
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| Cady, died aged 10 in a car crash in the US. Her blood cells were frozen and sent to Dr Zavos, who fused them with cow eggs to create cloned human animal hybrid embryos.
Photo The Independent UK archive. |
| Fertility expert: ‘I can clone a human being’ |
| The Independent (UK) | Apr 22, 2009 | By Steve Connor, Science Editor |
| A controversial fertility doctor claimed yesterday to have cloned 14 human embryos and transferred 11 of them into the wombs of four women who had been prepared to give birth to cloned babies. read more |
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| Dr Panayiotis Zavos
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Hugo Chavez says Venezuela-U.S. relations will improve
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez (R) gives U.S. President Barack Obama a copy of “Las Venas Abiertas de America Latina” during a meeting at the Summit of the Americas in Port of Spain, Trinidad April 18, 2009. Chavez presented the U.S. president with a book, “The Open Veins of Latin America,” by left-wing Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano. Obama accepted the gift with a smile. |
| Hugo Chavez says Venezuela-U.S. relations will improve |
| Miami Herald | Apr 18, 2009 | BY FRANCES ROBLES |
| PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad — Closer relations between Venezuela and the United States are no doubt coming soon, President Hugo Chávez said Saturday, adding that the two countries may soon return each other’s ambassadors to their posts. read more |
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Europeans Offer Few New Troops for Afghanistan
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| The protests on Saturday became more violent, with the police trying to prevent demonstrators on the German side of the Rhine River from joining the more aggressive ones on the French side.
Photo: Axel Schmidt/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images |
| Europeans Offer Few New Troops for Afghanistan |
| NY Times | Apr 05, 2009 | By STEVEN ERLANGER and HELENE COOPER |
| STRASBOURG, France — With protesters raging outside, NATO leaders on Saturday gave a tepid troop commitment to President Obama’s escalating campaign in Afghanistan, mostly committing soldiers only to a temporary security duty. read more |
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| A French border station was set ablaze by protesters on Friday.
Photo: Carsten Koall/Getty Images |
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| This year’s summit meeting has been fractious both inside the hall and outside with President Obama’s request for more troops in Afghanistan and the search for a new secretary general.
Photo: Yoan Valat/European Pressphoto Agency |
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