Sunday, November 30, 2008

Mumbai death toll revised down

The disaster management cell of the Maharashtra state government said the lower figure - down from 195 - was due to "double-counting" of the dead at hospitals in the wake of the militant strikes...

Read more Mumbai death toll revised


Source: smh.com.au




Saturday, November 29, 2008

Jewish group recalls slain N.Y. rabbi, wife

“There are no answers to what happened,” said Rabbi Asher Bronstein of Chabad Lubavitch of Merrimack Valley, who went to the same Brooklyn day school Gavriel Holtzberg attended. “It just shows how crazy the world is and that we should go out and do good in their memory.”..

Read more Jewish group recalls slain rabbi, wife


Source: boston herald

Friday, November 28, 2008

Mourners bid farewell to attack victims

WITH her murdered husband's body covered in marigolds and draped with the Indian flag, Mansi Shinde pushed away the pallbearers, refusing to let him go...

Read more Mourners bid farewell


Source: smh.com/au

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Mumbai Massacre: 'Put your hands up if you are British,'

India's financial capital, Mumbai, was rocked by a series of gun attacks and blasts last night that targeted luxury hotels and restaurants – and especially British and American visitors. At least 80 people were reported to have been killed and up to 250 injured....

Read more Mumbai Massacre


Source: belfast telegraph

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

President-elect starts taking on burdens of the job

His press conference on Monday, to be followed by one on Tuesday and another one on Wednesday, will triple the amount of time he has spent before the cameras since winning the election three weeks ago. His advisers determined that it was time for Obama to come forward and signal that he is taking ownership of the economic crisis...

Read more President-elect starts taking on burdens of the job


Source: the international herald

Monday, November 24, 2008

Some in Arab world suspicious of Clinton

There is possibly no person President-elect Barack Obama considered for secretary of state who is more reliably pro-Israel than Senator Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., the woman to whom he appears likely to give the job sometime after Thanksgiving...

Read more Arabs distrust Clinton


Source: gulf news

Saturday, November 22, 2008

Bush Rides Free Market

US preisdent George W. Bush, faced with a fast dwindling number of days in office, has been using his final world summit to try to keep a virulent economic crisis from triggering a retreat into protectionism.....

Read more Bush rides free market


Source: nzhereald.co.nz

Friday, November 21, 2008

Citi battles rumours of sale, merger

A day after it lost more than a quarter of its value, rumours were rife on Friday that Citigroup was considering a sellout (in parts or whole) or at least a merger...

Read more Citi battles rumours of sale, merger


Source: the times of india

Thursday, November 20, 2008

Bush Shows Obama the Way

In a few weeks, Barack Obama will inherit the mantle of the capitalist system. What will he do with this responsibility? That's the question being asked everywhere...

Read moreBush Shows Obama the Way


Source:Lawrence Kudlow

Monday, November 17, 2008

With Japan in Recession, IMF Needs Money

Japan became the latest major economy to fall into recession on Monday with France close behind, and the IMF said it needed at least $100 billion to fight an economic crisis enveloping the world.

Read more Japan Now In Recession


Source: calgary herald

Autopilot: The Future if Detroit Falls


The failure of one or more of the Big Three automakers would put a huge initial dent in U.S. manufacturing, but in time, car companies from overseas would pick up the slack by stepping up production in their U.S. plants, many industry experts and economists say...

Read more No Future for Auto Workers if Detroit falls

Source: the international herald

Mexico Cartels Bring Drug Wars and Death To the U.S.

Oscar Reynoso was found by police in a home in suburban Atlanta. Authorities say cartel members had chained and tortured Reynoso over a $300,000 drug debt.

Last month federal authorities in Atlanta announced indictments against 41 people they said were trafficking drugs and laundering money for Mexican cartels. Among those netted in Operation Pay Cut were a former deputy sheriff from Texas who was stopped on a Georgia highway with nearly $1 million in cash in his pickup.

Read more Mexican Cartels Hit The Streets of The U.S.

PBS Discussion: Drug Cartels


Source: la times / pbs

The Door: Citigroup Job Cuts Will Top 100,000

We've run the numbers.

And even though Citigroup had announced 22, 000 job cuts back in October,and now another 53,000 - it is our numbers that tell us that their job losses will total more than 100,000.

Read today's headlines Another 53,000 Pink Slips for Citigroup


Source: yahoo news / cnn

Saturday, November 15, 2008

'Hot' New Gadget From Japan

Back in April of this year, Graham Webster (formerly a journalist and consultant in Beijing, he follows the effects of technology on Chinese politics, the environment, and global affairs) made this new gadget discovery. Interesting find by the way...

Read more This is a new hot gadget from our friends in Japan


Source: graham webster

The Evolution of Consoles and Games

Just as personal computers have grown into multimedia environments capable of playing video and music, video games have come to include advanced 3-D graphics, high-quality music, and rich varieties of voices and sound effects...

Read more Evolution of Consoles and Games

Source: web japan

Friday, November 14, 2008

UPDATE: Jobless Claims Hit 25-year High

The number of workers filing new claims for jobless benefits rose by an unexpectedly steep 32,000 last week to 516,000, the highest since the weeks following the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, the Labor Department said.

Read more Jobless claims hit 25-year high, imports plunge


Source: reuters

Thursday, November 13, 2008

Russian President Wants Better Relationship With Obama

Said Medvedev: "I hope... we'll be able to find a way out of these (difficult) situations, which we haven't been able to do with our current colleagues. The new president has a big reserve of good-will. He was elected during a very difficult period. I wish him success in dealing with what lies before him,"...

Read more Medvedev wants better relationship with Obama


Source: philadelphia daily news

Gloom May Deepen In Japan


Japan reported a sharp drop-off in wholesale inflation for October, with slowing demand for goods spurring fear that deflation stalks a global economy that as recently as mid-year was menaced by surging prices...

Read more Japan Prepares Funding for IMF as Gloom Deepens..


Source: cnbc

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Farrakhan Compares Obama To Robert F. Kennedy


"The only politician with my knowledge that came close to having this effect on people was Senator Robert Kennedy in his bid to become president of the United States." rev. louis farrakhan

see the video


Source: breitbart.tv

Monday, November 10, 2008

Outsourcing Crisis

Financial services companies, particularly banks, which got a fresh lease of life thanks to state intervention — direct infusion of capital or otherwise — could be pressured by their governments to bring back jobs outsourced to countries such as India.

Read more Outsourcing crisis


Source: the economic times

Obama To Use Executive Orders Immediately

President-elect Obama plans to use his executive powers to make an immediate impact when he takes office, perhaps reversing Bush administration policies on stem cell research and domestic drilling for oil and natural gas...

Read more Obama to use executive orders for immediate impact


Source: mnb news

Sunday, November 9, 2008

BLOWOUT: Berkshire Hathaway Profit Falls 77%

Buffett, 78, is finding opportunity amid the turmoil, investing in nuclear power, chewing gum and Wall Street as results slump at Berkshire's insurance units and businesses tied to housing. He committed at least $28 billion this year to acquire companies, finance buyouts and purchase securities as prices fall and competitors are hobbled by limited access to credit.

Read more Berkshire Hathaway Profit Falls 77%


Source: bloomberg

Friday, November 7, 2008

Meet Rahmbo, the anti-Obama


Less beloved than respected, he's earned the nickname Rahmbo for his work on Capitol Hill and in the White House. Colleagues say he's prone to angry, profanity-filled outbursts.....

Read more Meet Rahmbo


Source: barrie mckenna / globeandmail.com

Hot SEO Idea For 2009' - EYE TRACKING

Better ways to prepare your website for SEO......

Read more Eye tracking studies have shown that searchers scan a search..

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Florida Stops Gay Marriage


But results of more than 150 state measures across the nation showed a more complex cultural map than the easy election of Democrat Barack Obama as president might indicate, according to preliminary results.

Florida and Arizona banned same-sex marriage and Arkansas passed a measure that would stop homosexuals from adopting children, NBC projected....

Read more Abortion bans lose, Florida stops gay marriage


Source: yahoo! news

Barack Obama New U.S President


Barack Obama, the son of a father from Kenya and a white mother from Kansas, was elected the nation's 44th president Tuesday, breaking the ultimate racial barrier to become the first African American to claim the country's highest office...

Read more Obama Wins Presidential Race


Source: la times / mark z. barabak

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

UPDATE! - Exit Polls 2008: See The Full Results


The head to head exit polls just were sent to the Huffington Post by a Democratic source. These are traditionally unreliable and should be taken with a grain of salt (see: Kerry's winning margins in 2004). For what it's worth, they project a big night for Obama in several of the key swing states.....

The states looking good for Obama:

Florida: 52 percent to 44 percent
Iowa: 52 percent to 48 percent
Missouri: 52 percent to 48 percent
North Carolina: 52 percent to 48 percent
New Hampshire: 57 percent to 43 percent
Nevada: 55 percent to 45 percent
Pennsylvania: 57 percent to 42 percent
Ohio: 54 percent to 45 percent
Wisconsin: 58 percent to 42 percent
Indiana: 52 percent to 48 percent
New Mexico: 56 percent to 43 percent
Minnesota: 60 percent to 39 percent
Michigan: 60 percent to 39 percent

The states where McCain is leading in exit polls:

Georgia: 51 percent to 47 percent
West Virginia: 45 percent to 55 percent

Read more Exit Polls 2008: See The Full Results


Source: huffington post

Bush Named A Sponsor Of Global Terrorism


Iran's leader flashed a thumbs-down Tuesday as U.S. President George W. Bush denounced Tehran as a sponsor of global terrorism in his farewell address to the U.N.

Then Bush got less than 10 seconds of polite applause at the end of a speech in which he urged world leaders to take ‘'an unequivocal moral stand'' against suicide bombings, hostage taking and other terror tactics...

Read more America and Iran trade barbs at UN


Source: the moscow mews

WINNER! - Maps Predict Obama Blowout


The final Rove & Co. electoral map of the 2008 election cycle points to a 338-200Barack Obama electoral vote victory over John McCain tomorrow, the largest electoral margin since 1996...

Read more We Have Us A Winner? Maps Predict Obama Blowout


Source: huffington post

Its On: Obama Wins Dixville Notch, NH, The First Place To Vote


Democrat Obama defeated Republican John McCain by a count of 15 to 6 in Dixville Notch, where a loud whoop accompanied the announcement in Tuesday's first minutes...

Read more Obama Wins Dixville Notch


Source: huffington post

Sunday, November 2, 2008

Gallup: Obama 52%, McCain 42% Likely Among Voters


Barack Obama leads John McCain in Gallup Poll Daily tracking interviewing conducted Wednesday through Friday by an identical 52% to 42% margin among both traditional likely voters and expanded likely voters. Obama leads by a similar 52% to 41% margin among all registered voters...

Read more Obama 52% McCain 42% Likely


Source: gallup poll