http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/world/ en-us Sat, 11 Oct 2008 16:46:42 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2103177/posts For Immediate ReleaseOffice of the Press SecretaryOctober 11, 2008 President's Radio Address   President's Radio Address  Audio  En Español       In Focus: EconomyTHE PRESIDENT: Good morning. Over the past few days, we have witnessed a startling drop in the stock market -- much of it driven by uncertainty and fear. Many Americans have serious concerns about their economic well-being. Here's what the American people need to know: The United States government is acting -- and will continue to act -- to resolve this crisis and restore stability to our markets. The Federal government has a comprehensive strategy and the tools necessary to... WhiteHouse.gov http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2103177/posts#comment Sat, 11 Oct 2008 16:46:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2103139/posts World leaders are coming together to take decisive action to help a faltering world economy rocked by a credit crisis and unnerved by plunging global stock markets, accoring to President Bush. In a Rose Garden address shortly before 8 a.m., Bush pledged that the economy would emerge stronger as a result of the actions taken by G7 nations. “I'm confident the world's major economies can overcome the challenges we face,” said Bush, backed by Treasury Sectretary Henry Paulson and other G7 finance ministers. “We're in this together. We'll come through this together.” He said the G7 nations had agreed to... The Hill http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2103139/posts#comment Sat, 11 Oct 2008 15:50:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2103090/posts In this issue: Construction Lending: The Next Shoe to Drop Lehman at the Center Iceland Guarantees What? Letters of Credit: Going, Going Gone? What to Do and Where Do We Go from Here? London, Stockholm, and California I have been writing for almost a year that the next shoe to drop on US banks would be commercial construction lending. Today we look at some hard numbers. We look across the pond to sort out the problems in Europe. We look at the consequences of the losses stemming from Lehman. Then we look at one of the more serious consequences of... John Mauldin's Weekly E-Letter http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2103090/posts#comment Sat, 11 Oct 2008 14:24:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099841/posts The World in Crisis: Where are the Safe Havens? Axel Merk, October 7, 2008 Merk Insights provide the Merk Perspective on currencies, global imbalances, the trade deficit, the socio-economic impact of the U.S. administration's policies and more. We have been warning for some time that “there is no such thing as a safe asset anymore, you have to take a diversified approach to something as mundane as cash.” Unfortunately, the current crisis shows that we may be right. Physical gold is attractive to many investors because of its lack of counter party risk. The only counter party risk with gold... Merk Insights http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099841/posts#comment Tue, 7 Oct 2008 20:20:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2094748/posts What if the whole world could vote? The Economist http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2094748/posts#comment Wed, 1 Oct 2008 12:02:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2089615/posts IsraelNN.com) The man that Israeli leaders consider to be the Number One threat to the existence of the State of Israel told the United Nations General Assembly Tuesday that 'Zionists" are the cause of the current financial disaster sweeping the world. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad also told world leaders, "A few bullying powers have sought to put hurdles in the path of Iran's peaceful development of nuclear power. These are the same countries that possess stockpiles of nuclear arms that no one is monitoring." It is believed that Iran is developing a nuclear weapon of mass destruction despite Ahmadinejad's denials.... Arutz 7 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2089615/posts#comment Wed, 24 Sep 2008 21:08:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2086309/posts Coming: God's Solutions to the World's Problems Nearly everywhere we look, the world seems to be spinning out of control. Why do we see so many problems? Can we find a solution? Does the Bible offer hope for answers? by Roger Foster Everywhere we look, we see the storm clouds of global peril. Disasters of all shapes and sizes are increasingly transforming how we live. Skyrocketing oil prices and a housing/debt crisis shake the economy. A worldwide economic slowdown seems imminent. Floods and drought contribute to food shortages, riots, hunger and starvation. Even diseases once considered conquered are making a... Good News Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2086309/posts#comment Sat, 20 Sep 2008 02:27:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2083238/posts The impulse to rebuild follows any catastrophe, but homeowners and public officials are facing questions of whether parts of the hurricane-ravaged Texas coastline will even be salvageable. Hurricane Ike all but erased the communities of Gilchrist and Crystal Beach along the Bolivar Peninsula. The Gulf of Mexico swallowed some homes along Surfside Beach. Galveston's beach disappeared along the seawall, and coastal highways collapsed. "We now have a graphic example of why you should build as far away from the dunes as possible," Jerry Patterson, the state's land commissioner, said Monday while flying his Cessna Skylane 182 over the region. Where... chron http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2083238/posts#comment Tue, 16 Sep 2008 03:47:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051871/posts US presidential hopeful Barack Obama's 67-year-old step mother, Kezia Obama, believes that he will change the way the world thinks once he takes charge at the White House in Washington. As he arrived in London on Saturday, Kezia Obama, Barack Senior's first wife, said proudly: "The things Barry Junior says are the things the world needs to focus on." "I believe he's the right person at the right time. He's the one to make the changes we need. If he does win he will be a president for the whole world," The Mirror quoted her, as saying. Kezia describes herself... Web India 123 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051871/posts#comment Sat, 26 Jul 2008 23:22:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2036456/posts The Great Human Migration Why (Modern) humans left their African homeland 80,000 years ago to colonize the world By Guy Gugliotta Smithsonian magazine, July 2008 Seventy-seven thousand years ago, a craftsman sat in a cave in a limestone cliff overlooking the rocky coast of what is now the Indian Ocean. It was a beautiful spot, a workshop with a glorious natural picture window, cooled by a sea breeze in summer, warmed by a small fire in winter. The sandy cliff top above was covered with a white-flowering shrub that one distant day would be known as blombos and give this... Smithsonian Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2036456/posts#comment Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:04:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2026225/posts LONDON, June 4 -- For much of the world, Sen. Barack Obama's victory in the Democratic primaries was a moment to admire the United States, at a time when the nation's image abroad has been seriously damaged. From hundreds of supporters crowded around televisions in rural Kenya, Obama's ancestral homeland, to jubilant Britons writing "WE DID IT!" on the "Brits for Barack" site on Facebook, people celebrated what they called an important racial and generational milestone for the United States. "This is close to a miracle. I was certain that some things will not happen in my lifetime," said Sunila... Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2026225/posts#comment Thu, 5 Jun 2008 01:40:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2025529/posts How Sugar Changed the WorldBy Heather Whipps, LiveScience's History Columnist posted: 02 June 2008 09:26 am ET What's not to like about candy, ice cream and all those other sweet treats made with everybody's favorite indulgence, sugar? Plenty, as it turns out, beyond the way it expands waistlines and causes cavities. It's unlikely that many candy-lovers in the United States think about history while quaffing an estimated 100 pounds of sugar per year, but sweet stuff once played a major role in one of the sourest eras in modern times. White Gold, as British colonists called it, was the engine... Live Science http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2025529/posts#comment Tue, 3 Jun 2008 23:03:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2018975/posts Did Humans Colonize the World by Boat?Research suggests our ancestors traveled the oceans 70,000 years ago. by Heather Pringle Jon Erlandson shakes out what appears to be a miniature evergreen from a clear ziplock bag and holds it out for me to examine. As one of the world’s leading authorities on ancient seafaring, he has devoted much of his career to hunting down hard evidence of ancient human migrations, searching for something most archaeologists long thought a figment: Ice Age mariners. On this drizzly late-fall afternoon in a lab at the University of Oregon in Eugene, the 53-year-old Erlandson looks... Discover Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2018975/posts#comment Wed, 21 May 2008 01:57:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2017958/posts Prince Charles: Eighteen months to stop climate change disaster By Andrew Pierce Last Updated: 1:08PM BST 18/05/2008 The Prince of Wales has warned that the world faces a series of natural disasters within 18 months unless urgent action is taken to save the rainforests. A chameleon in a Madagascar rainforest. Prince Charles has warned of 'disaster' if urgent steps are not taken to protect the forests In one of his most out-spoken interventions in the climate change debate, he said a £15 billion annual programme was required to halt deforestation or the world would have to live with the dire... The Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2017958/posts#comment Mon, 19 May 2008 09:35:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2017900/posts World food price crisis 'here to stay' By David Blair in New York Last Updated: 1:43AM BST 19/05/2008EPA Sir John Holme said the world needed a "green revolution" High food prices are here to stay and the world needs a "green revolution" to feed its rising population, the senior humanitarian official at the United Nations has told The Telegraph. Sir John Holmes, Britain's former ambassador to Paris who now serves as the UN's under-secretary for humanitarian affairs, said structural changes in the global economy are the cause of the sudden rise in food prices. "It is possible that in the... The Telegraph (UK) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2017900/posts#comment Mon, 19 May 2008 02:47:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2012594/posts Some years ago, I received a terror threat. If I did not apologize publicly and profusely for a column that blasted the Iranian regime, I would be killed by Friday, Sept. 13 -- what an auspicious date! So I sent for the security experts, and this is what they told me: Your front and back doors are worthless; get armored ones. Order bulletproof windows. Build a safe room. Install panic buttons. Get rid of that silly chicken-wire fence and put in a steel and concrete one. Don't use the driveway; try to vary your access routes (which, I think, meant... The Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2012594/posts#comment Wed, 7 May 2008 19:39:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2011640/posts Last week I was in London attending a Global Leadership Forum, sponsored by the Royal United Services Institute, the Princeton Project on National Security, Newsweek International, and Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP. The attendees–from both the United States and Europe–included academics, scholars, journalists, diplomatic advisers and others who inhabit the foreign policy world. The event was well-organized, the conversations wide-ranging, and there was a genuine effort to hear from a diversity of voices (hence my invitation). But there is no question that the dominant outlook of most of those in attendance was left-leaning, which itself made the trip illuminating. I came... Contentions http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2011640/posts#comment Mon, 5 May 2008 22:08:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2008187/posts Non-Alignment of Standards Not Culprit for Low Scores By Matthew Ladner, Ph.D Recently I appeared on the Horizon public affairs program together with State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne, to discuss the No Child Left Behind law and our state AIMS test. During the discussion, Superintendent Horne said the main reason Arizona students perform poorly on the national NAEP test, also known as the Nation's Report Card, is due to a non-alignment of standards. If, for example, Arizona does not teach the math concepts in fourth grade that appear on the fourth grade math NAEP, one could expect lower... The Goldwater Institute http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2008187/posts#comment Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:38:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2006796/posts Time magazine recently doctored the iconic photo of the flag-raising at Iwo Jima in order to “celebrate” Earth Day. Instead of Marines valiantly struggling to lift the stars and stripes, they are depicted planting a tree. No doubt Time’s editors think they will be celebrated in poetry and song for generations to come for their high-minded cleverness. Still, if the symbolism wasn’t clear enough, Time writer Bryan Walsh spells it out: “Green is the new red, white and blue.” There are any number of problems here, starting with the fact that this is simply a lie. Green is not the... National Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2006796/posts#comment Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:53:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2005965/posts Is the world reverting to a struggle between great powers? Or is the democratising spirit of 1989 still alive? NO, democracy is not: Robert Kagan YES, democracy is winning: Robert Cooper Excerpt:The assumption that the cold war was won as an inevitable consequence of the superiority of liberalism failed to recognize the contingency of events—battles won or lost, social movements successful or crushed, economic practices implemented or discarded. The spread of democracy was not merely the unfolding of certain ineluctable processes of economic and political development. The global shift towards liberal democracy coincided with the historical shift in the balance... Prospect http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2005965/posts#comment Wed, 23 Apr 2008 21:56:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2005740/posts IF FURTHER PROOF BE needed of the terminal decline of the United Nations as a world body that purports to advance human rights, look no further than the recent appointments of Richard Falk and Jean Ziegler by the UN's Human Rights Council (HRC). Both appointments should be of major concern to U.S. leaders disturbed by the UN's increasing failure in the arena of human rights and the blatant and widespread anti-American and anti-Israeli bias among key UN human rights officials. Richard Falk, the Emeritus Milbank Professor of International Law and Practice at Princeton, is an outspoken, zealous critic of Israel... The Weekly Standard http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2005740/posts#comment Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:28:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2004922/posts Pakistan's newly elected Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani faces a host of pressing problems. Since taking office late last month, Gilani, 55, said that his priority would be trying to establish law and order in the wake of a spate of deadly suicide bombings, one of which killed the leader of his Pakistan People's Party, Benazir Bhutto, late last December. While Gilani ruled out holding talks with any armed militants along the Afghan border, foreign or Pakistani, he said that military force would be a last resort. First he wanted to concentrate on bringing economic development to the poverty-stricken... Newsweek http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2004922/posts#comment Mon, 21 Apr 2008 22:46:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2003480/posts On the eve of the 2004 U.S. presidential election, my paper, Israel's Ha'aretz, was one of 10 foreign newspapers that participated in a survey organized by Britain's Guardian. The question: Who did the world want to be the next president of the United States? The response, based on identical public opinion polls conducted in the 10 countries, was not very surprising. The world "back[ed] the Democratic challenger by a margin of two to one." In Canada, 60 percent favored John Kerry, 20 percent George W. Bush. In France, it was 72 percent to 16 percent. In Japan, 51 percent to... Slate http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2003480/posts#comment Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:13:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2003288/posts 'French take most holidays in the world' By Henry Samuel in Paris Last Updated: 3:25am BST 18/04/2008 The scale of President Nicolas Sarkozy's challenge to "get France back to work" was underlined yesterday by a poll crowning the French world champions for the amount of annual holiday they take. The average working Frenchman spends 37 days en vacances, with Italy in second place on 33 days, according to Harris Interactive, the American polling institute. Britain trails with 26 days holiday per year - a rise of two days in two years. America comes last (or first depending on one's view)... The Telegraph (UK) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2003288/posts#comment Fri, 18 Apr 2008 03:26:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2003007/posts Flu Viruses Take One-way Ticket Out Of Asia, Then Travel The WorldSeasonal influenza A (H3N2) strains constantly evolve in overlapping epidemics in East and Southeast Asia, which periodically spread to the rest of the world along the pathways shown here. (Credit: Image courtesy of NASA/University of Cambridge) ScienceDaily (Apr. 17, 2008) — Seasonal influenza strains constantly evolve in overlapping epidemics in Asia and sweep the rest of the world each year, an international research team has found. These findings suggest that by focusing surveillance efforts on East and Southeast Asia, researchers may be able to extend their forecast of the... Science Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2003007/posts#comment Thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:11:54 GMT