Global summit should look at currencies: France
U.S. willing to discuss financial governance: EU
Sarkozy Calls for Revamping of Capitalist System
Bush to Host World Economic Summit
US to host crisis summit
Bush Will Host World Leaders at Economic Summit
UNASUR decides to establish South American Parliament in Bolivia
EU plans to force second Lisbon vote
From global imbalances to effective Global Governance
Calls grow for global banking regulator
Suddenly, Europe Looks Pretty Smart
Good morning and welcome to Summit Up, the world’s only daily column wishing that the world would adopt a global monetary system that crosses all boundaries, ethnicities and religion.
Planetary President Obama
The big picture: Loss of a republic?
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Guns and butter: the deepening US economic crisis
Lebanon PM denounces Israel to UN
Algeria, Syria sign economic pacts
Lebanon's Bank Audi sees benefit from global crisis
Russians, Syrians discuss missile shield – initially for Tartus port
Vast new mosque opens in Chechnya
Javier Solana visits Syria, UAE, S. Arabia and Qatar
Romanian President to visit Syria Monday
Security & Defense: 'We're in the midst of preparing the home front for war'
Why does the world not join the economic campaign against Iran?
Everyone thinks the threat is not against them. They also think in the short term, and look at the profits they are making from deals with Iran, and they think what is happening there will not affect them.
How much time is there?
I believe that 2009 and 2010 will be the critical years. There may be more time, but I think there is less. Two years is a short time for what we are dealing with.
US to equip Pakistan military
15,000 peacekeeping soldiers to back up peace efforts in northern Africa’s regions
Iraqis Remain Top Asylum Seekers; Russians Are Second
Pakistani army 'kills 60 Taleban'
Austrian leaders join 30,000 at Haider funeral
[There's everything I hate about Europe in a nutshell: thousands mourn drunken gay Nazi. Arrgh! ]
U.S. Warship Visits Georgian Port
Caribbean: Remaining Israeli captives freed by Chinese laborers
Four Israeli nationals held hostage on West Caicos island by disgruntled Chinese laborers freed after company agrees to pay ransom; several of those freed decide to stay on to oversee construction
[My question, now that I hear about the ransom: Are these 'Chinese laborers' Uighurs? Hostage-taking is part of jihad. ]
China to help build 2 Pakistan nuclear plants
Convert or we will kill you, Hindu lynch mobs tell fleeing Christians
Iraqis stage mass anti-US rally
Gun crime 60% higher than official figures
Human tissue could be taken from the infirm without their consent and used for research
Israel encouraged by UN call for Hizbullah to be dismantled
Pakistan and Taliban battle for key tunnel
Russian troops attacked, report claims 50 killed
Russia ready to expand nuclear ties
Soldier beaten, rifle snatched as IDF base is infiltrated
Explosive device goes off at checkpoint north of Baghdad
An explosive device went off Saturday after a female suicide bomber was challenged at a checkpoint north of Baghdad, but no one was injured, the U.S. military said.
Vladimir Putin’s deputy rules out attacks on Russia’s neighbours
Sergei Ivanov, deputy to Vladimir Putin, the prime minister, promised that Russia’s intentions were entirely peaceful despite its invasion of Georgia. Moscow officials insist that its military operations in August were provoked by Georgian aggression.
“We are not aggressive,” Ivanov said in an interview. “We have recognised the territorial integrity of all former Soviet republics. That was in 1991. Russia, of course, has no territorial ambitions regarding any former Soviet countries.
[Yeah, I find that dreadfully truthful and reassuring, don't you? ]
What's really wrong with the price of oil
The Arab Shipbuilding and Repair Yard Company (Asry) general assembly has approved a $188 million (BD71m) expansion plan.
Libya to raise UniCredit stake to 5 pct-cbank chief
Russia to use state funds to aid economy
RPT-Russia's Gazprom sees 2008 net profit at $30 bln
EU lets Gazprom into distribute network
Palin unaware of Russian energy meeting in Alaska
Financial crisis: Alistair Darling will spend his way out of recession
Alistair Darling, the Chancellor, has declared that the government will boost its spending in an attempt to help the economy weather the recession about to grip Britain.
[Yeah, great idea. I'm sure it'll work.]
IMF to investigate its director
Flu Pandemic May Cost World Economy Up to $3 Trillion
Has market crash solved food crisis?
Corn, Soybeans Rise as Export Demand Climbs After Price Slump
Solarworld, Solon Start U.S. Factories to Tap 'Massive' Demand
200,000 jobs to go as businesses hit wall
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Joe the Plumber vs. Joe the Hair-Plugger
Put that in your pipe and solder it.
By Mark Steyn
Give a man enough rope line and he’ll hang himself. There was His Serene Majesty President-designate Barack the Healer working the crowd at some or other hick burg, and halfway down the rope up pops a plumber to express misgivings about the incoming regime’s tax plans.
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Joe the Plumber expressed his misgivings about the President-in-waiting’s tax inclinations, and the O-Man smoothly reassured him: “It’s not that I want to punish your success,” he told the bloated plutocrat corporate toilet executive. “I just want to make sure that everybody who is behind you, that they’ve got a chance for success too. I think when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.”
In that sentence about you spreading the wealth around, there’s another typing error: that “you” should read “I, Barack.” “You” will have no say in it. Joe the Plumber might think he himself can spread it around just fine, but everyone knows “trickle-down economics” don’t work. So President-presumptive Obama kindly explained the new exquisitely condescending “talking-down economics:” Put that in your pipe and solder it.
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And it still took me two hours to get done!
Magnitude 5.0 - SUNDA STRAIT, INDONESIA
2008 October 18 18:41:30 UTC
BTW, quakes are still way too quiet for comfort.
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