Multicultural Blogs – periodic roundup

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International Haplif & Haplifnet NEWS -- WordPress [introduction]

EU Lisbon Treaty in force as of December 1, 2009

Obama’s allocation of more troops to Afghanistan [VIDEO]

Globale Vernetzung – Umgangspraxis mit ’Social Media' by Frank Kalder

HuffPost’s U.S. Health Care Reform Sifting by Arianna Huffington + comment

Evolutionärer Humanismus in Abgrenzung zu Religionen by Bernd Ehlert

Evolutionary Humanism and the Copenhagen Climate Summit (B, Ehlert essay)

Obama urged unity at Copenhagen climate summit
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Multicultural Blogs – periodic roundup

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International Haplif & Haplifnet NEWS -- WordPress [introduction]

Results and Prospects of State Elections in Germany

Montessorian and Ecological Concepts ▪ Angie Cordeiro [HuffPost Blogging]

The US bailout -- and the consolidation isn’t yet over ▪ Arianna Huffington

Top Bankers' Bonuses to be curbed ▪ EU (Brussels) preparing for G20 (Pittsburgh)

US Economy facing long-term economic growth (Prof. Joseph Stiglitz)
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US Healthcare and Education Issues at HuffPost

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So We Can't Have Single Payer for Health Care, But How About Single Payer for Education? By Arianna Huffington

Health care is rightly dominating the national debate, but with children all across the country heading back to school, education, currently seated in the back row of the national classroom, is raising its hand and asking to be called on.

On Tuesday (Sep 8), President Obama will be giving a nationally televised speech on education to America's students, broadcast on C-SPAN and the White House website. On the same day, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is sponsoring a major conference in Los Angeles that will serve as the kick off of Get Schooled, a far-reaching initiative geared to developing solutions to the problems facing America's education system. (I'll be one of the speakers)… Read more

Addendum, Sep 7: Obama Back To School Speech: FULL TEXT
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Multicultural Blogs – periodic roundup

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International Haplif & Haplifnet NEWS -- WordPress [introduction]

Arianna’s Interactive Technology Progress at Huffington Post

Becoming globally successful on Twitter requires personal efforts

Barack Obama’s Leadership Style & Healthcare Reform [HuffPost]

Potential of global Twitter usage till 2013

Ted Kennedy’s enduring image: “a man on a boat"´[Barack Obama’s eulogy]
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Multicultural Blogs – weekly roundup

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Arianna Huffington on Chirac’s “Bush Iraq” Revelation (HuffPost) ▪ Secular Humanism

Paris’s Future - Electric Car Sharing Plan (Spiegel)

US Health Care Reform and its negotiation requirements (HuffPost)

EU Sanctions - Reaction to Burma’s SUU KYI Verdict

New York City - Laura Knapp’s BIG APPLE "Gossip Street"

Protests - Heated US Health Care Reform Debate (HuffPost)

New Media - Changing the Game - Vision & Leadership

Slideshows ▪ Exceptional Nature, Botswana, Ant (PowerPoint)
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Multicultural Blogs – weekly roundup

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International Haplif & Haplifnet NEWS -- WordPress [introduction]

Prof. Dr. Noreena Hertz – a World Expert on Globalization & Sustainability

Ethics Debate (Book) ▪ Dr. Michael Schmidt-Salomon (GBS), Philosopher & Publicist

Enisa Emily “Enni” Sander – a German Twitter success story

Bill Maher – The NEW RULE and the Emmys (HuffPost)
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Status of Fixing the US Financial System

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Excerpt - Talking to George Stephanopoulos last week, Tim Geithner bragged about the success of the bailout: "We've already earned about $6 billion for the taxpayer on those investments." Sounds great -- unless you consider the fact that we've we actually "invested" $4.7 trillion in our bank bailout. Shouldn't we demand to know what happened to the remaining $4.694 trillion?

Reforming the credit-rating agencies, to avoid ratings shopping by financial institutions and the fundamental conflict of having rating agencies be paid by the companies they are rating -- no wonder so much junk got AAA ratings -- got a hearing in the Senate yesterday, but we may not see action on this until next year.

Legislation to reform executive pay passed the House last week. The need for this reform was highlighted … Read more (by Arianna Huffington, Huffington Post, Aug. 6, 2009)

FK Comment

While the reform window closes, unfortunately, another collapse appears to be inevitable. Yes, the AAA rating system is still junk. I agree, we should demand what happened to the remaining (yet roughly) $4.7 trillion which US taxpayers spent on the bailout. (HuffPost profile/comments)

Multicultural Blogs – weekly roundup

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International Haplif & Haplifnet NEWS -- WordPress [introduction]

Dr. Michael Schmidt-Salomon’s new ETHICS assessment (GBS)

Francine Espinoza – new ESMT professor in marketing

The US and global recession is not yet over (HuffPost)

Validated competence – Value of human capital ▪ World International Competence

Amel Karboul’s report on the 2nd ESMT Annual Forum
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Multicultural Blogs – weekly roundup

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International Haplif & Haplifnet NEWS -- WordPress [introduction]

Editor-in-chief’s ‘foursome’ Crete vacation ▪ Arianna Huffington’s family

Michael Jackson’s Memorial Service ▪ Staples Center in Los Angeles

Chicken Lit – A Philadelphia Story ▪ by e-glob, Washington (DC)

Barack Obama’s and other G8 Group leaders’ Climate Emphasis

ECONOMIC HARD TIMES & Lobbying Outrages ▪ Reply to Arianna Huffington
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