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Russia says U.S. rights law "odious" but wants constructive ties
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David Attenborough - Humans are plague on Earth
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2013-01-23, 11:18 | Link #25864 |
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China criminalizes monks' suicides, arrests protesters' friends:
"Chinese authorities are responding to an intensified wave of Tibetan self- immolation protests against Chinese rule by clamping down even harder — criminalizing the suicides, arresting protesters' friends and even confiscating thousands of satellite TV dishes. The harsh measures provide an early indication that the country's new leadership is not easing up on Tibet despite the burning protests and international condemnation." See: http://news.msn.com/world/china-crim...esters-friends |
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LONDON — Casting a shadow on grand visions of an integrated Europe, Prime Minister David Cameron pledged Wednesday to carve a more independent path from the continent and promised a referendum within the next five years on whether Britain should exit the European Union. “It is time for the British people to have their say,” said Cameron, whose Conservative Party would need to win the 2015 elections here to carry out the referendum pledge.
In the most euro-skeptic speech of any government leader here in decades, Cameron said he hopes to reclaim powers from the E.U.’s administrative capital in Brussels even if Britain stays in the union. http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/...5ee_story.html
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2013-01-23, 13:34 | Link #25866 | |
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Big words, little action in UK's campaign against Sahara jihadists
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2013-01-23, 16:26 | Link #25867 | |
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World Population may actually start declining, not exploding It's an interesting debate. I'm not the most informed on the subject, so I can't really make any predictions myself. What I do notice is countries like Japan and Singapore where it is considered a problem, and that could foresee-ably become an issue in the United States as well. |
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2013-01-23, 16:35 | Link #25868 | |
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2013-01-23, 17:13 | Link #25871 |
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The UK was "The Empire". The largest country on the planet so to speak by having colonies everywhere up until after the Second World War. While France, the Netherlands, and some of the others had colonies as well, none were quite the British Empire. And unlike all the others, the United Kingdom did not fall during the war.
So the British keep that has their pride. Not since 1066 has anyone (successfully) invaded the Isles. They take pride in that, and in some cases look at the EU as a lose without losing. They have to give up (more) of their power to stay in the EU by handing over things to Brussels. Mind you the UK is one of the few EU members that does not use the Euro normally. The British Pound still hold its own last I checked. If I recall though, the British don't consider themselves "European" by default, but British by default. "Europeans" are those people from the continent, not the Isles. That and a long standing rivalry with France. Not a hostile one presently, but it still exists.
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2013-01-23, 17:21 | Link #25872 |
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Honestly I doubt it has anything about pride or anything, UK simply wants an european union "a la carte", ie only the good things without the bad one.
You can't be happy about UE when it's prosperity and deciding to leave it because it's crisis. but anyway, nobody is fooled we all know it's because of the futur vote, UE has recently began to be considered as the first target by politicians to get a reason for their failure. Maybe only germany didn't do it since they still have a strong economy so Merkel doesn't need to blame anybody. |
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2013-01-23, 18:03 | Link #25875 | |
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Before the war the empire had shielded the British economy from competition and without it, in the post war years, the UK couldn't compete in the international market. Joining the EU and its market helped the UK economy recover. To gain support, the EU (EEC at the time) was sold to the public as nothing more as a free-trade zone by the politicians. However in reality it had been established as a ever closer integrating Union, which over time lead to unease in the UK as people felt this wasn't what they had voted for or had been lead to believe. This unease was further fed by a rabid tabloid media culture that has presented Brussels as a corrupt, bureaucratic monstrosity for the last 40 years. From the funny perspective of "Yes, Minister": http://www.videohippy.com/video/1132...Foreign-Policy Last edited by Bri; 2013-01-23 at 18:13. |
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In military news: http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013...bat-roles?lite
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2013-01-23, 18:34 | Link #25877 |
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"Car that runs on air"
http://in.news.yahoo.com/soon-car-ru...081142843.html If you have ever grimaced at your never ending petrol bill and dreamed of a car that runs on fresh air, your prayers are about to be answered. French car giant PSA Peugeot Citroen believes that it can put an air- powered vehicle on the road by 2016, the Daily Mail reported. Certainly seems like a great advancement if they can actually get it running by the time they believe they can, although I am skeptical since a lot of said dates are never met. Also I feel like Oil companies might have something to say about the car if it is true ...
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2013-01-23, 21:11 | Link #25878 | |
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2013-01-23, 22:07 | Link #25879 |
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@Britain leaving the EU: I have a feeling that if Britain left the EU, Ireland would probably follow it.
Ireland's economy is fairly tightly associated with the British economy, far more then with the EU. If it was a choice between being integrated with the UK, and being integrated with the EU, the former would probably be a better choice. That said, Irish people have certain nationalistic sentiments, and if it came up in a referendum, the UK's non-membership would not be a persuasive argument. However, I doubt the UK public will vote to leave the EU. The tory base would like it, but only 40% of the population voted tory last election, and the tory base is considerably smaller again. |
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Union membership falls to lowest percentage in 76 years
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