Sunday, February 22, 2009

Hillary Clinton visited China - "Rights" (?)

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Amnesty International and a pro-Tibet group voiced shock Friday (Feb 20) after US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton vowed not to let human rights concerns hinder cooperation with China.

Paying her first visit to Asia as the top US diplomat, Clinton said the United States would continue to press China on long-standing US concerns over human rights such as its rule over Tibet.

"But our pressing on those issues can't interfere on the global economic crisis, the global climate change crisis and the security crisis," Clinton told reporters in Seoul just before leaving for Beijing… Read more at AFP, Washington
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Sunday, February 15, 2009

Restructuring US Banks & Slaying Zombie Institutions

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Why is Obama Reluctant to Kill the Zombie Banks Threatening Our Economy?

The battle lines over how to deal with the banking crisis have been drawn. On the one side are those who know what needs to be done. On the other are those who know what needs to be done -- but won't admit it. Because it is against their self-interest.

Unlike the conflict over the stimulus package, this is not an ideological fight. This is a battle between the status quo and the future, between the interests of the financial/lobbying establishment and the public interest.

What needs to be done is hard but straightforward. As
Martin Wolf of the Financial Times sums it up: "Admit reality, restructure banks and, above all, slay zombie institutions at once." … Arianna – Huffington Post, New York, + FrankKalder’s Huffpost comment
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Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Summary of Arianna Huffington’s WEF Davos Blogs

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The most recent Huffpost blogs by Arianna Huffington, who had participated in the WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM in Davos (Switzerland) [~video, 7 min.], were thoroughly evaluated and commented on.

A comprehensive summary of the pertinent FK comments [~
FK Profile] at THE HUFFINGTON POST as well as in the GLOBAL HAPLIFNET was furnished at the blog Haplif Governance.
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