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New York's ardour for Michael Bloomberg cools

Paul Harris The Guardian 11/26/2011
New York's ardour for Michael Bloomberg cools

Mayor has turned police on Occupy protesters, opposes a $10 an hour minimum wage and says bankers are patriotic

Secret panel can put Americans on "kill list'

Mark Hosenball Reuters 10/06/2011
Secret panel can put Americans on "kill list'

American militants like Anwar al-Awlaki are placed on a kill or capture list by a secretive panel of senior government officials, which then informs the president of its decisions, according to officials.

Bring Out Your Dead - UBS Quantifies Costs Of Euro Break Up, Warns Of Collapse Of Banking System And Civil War

Any time a major bank releases a report saying a given course of action is too costly, too prohibitive, too blonde, or simply too impossible, it is nearly guaranteed that that is precisely the course of action about to be undertaken. Which is why all non-euro skeptics are advised to shield their eyes and look away from the just released report by UBS (of surging 3 Month USD Libor rate fame) titled "Euro Break Up - The Consequences." UBS conveniently sets up the straw man as follows: "Under the current structure and with the current membership, the Euro does not work. Either the current structure will have to change, or the current membership will have to change."

Decline and fall of the American empire

Larry Elliott The Guardian 06/06/2011
Analysis: Is Britain more corrupt than it thinks?

Britons love to lecture the world about integrity and the rule of law, but the News of the World phone hacking scandal has laid bare a web of collusion between money, power, media and the police.

Dust-bowl refugees walk towards Los Angeles during the Great Depression. House prices have now fallen further than in the 1930s.

The economic powerhouse of the 20th century emerged stronger from the Depression. But faced with cultural decay, structural weaknesses and reliance on finance, can the US do it again?

Was Bin Laden's Killing Legal?

Thomas Darnstädt Spiegel 05/03/2011
A victory celebration on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington on Sunday night.

Is this what justice looks like? Al-Qaida boss Osama bin Laden was killed on Sunday in a secret military operation in Pakistan. Americans are celebrating, but there are serious doubts about whether the targeted killing was legal under international law and the laws of war.

Obama - 1, Osama - 0.

While funny candidates such as Donald Tramp eating their hat on that Obama was able to show in public his birth certificate proving he born in USA, Obama has managed to deliver in the same week certificate that guarantees the continuation of his tenure in the White House much more: a death certificate. Of Osama bin Laden. While you reading all the PR about this operation, we decided to provide few pictures and facts from behind the scenes.

3 ways Japanese nuclear crisis may end

Peter Eisler and Dan Vergano USA Today 03/17/2011
In Britain, Prince William threatens to eclipse his father, Prince Charles

Prince William and Kate Middleton will exchange vows Friday in a ceremony expected to be watched by almost a third of the planet. But if the story that day will be of a prince and his bride, another will also be playing out behind the scenes: a tale of two kings.

3 ways Japanese nuclear crisis may end

Someday, the crisis at Japan's Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant will end. But when? And how?


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