Multicultural Blogs – periodic roundup

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International Haplif & Haplifnet NEWS -- WordPress [introduction]

Fundamentally flawed theory? Psychological problem

Barack Obama proposed restricting the big U.S. banks

Barack Obama’s first State of the Union speech

WEF Davos 2010 -- far-reaching banking reforms?

Fundamental Japanese retail market shift

US Political Financial Reform Suggestions
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Multicultural Blogs – periodic roundup

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International Haplif & Haplifnet NEWS -- WordPress [introduction]

Voluntary climate efforts are not enough, in reality

Project: US Solar Roads – driving on glass?

Banking - huge, growing chasm between the fortunes …

Why people’s money should be moved (explained by Bill Maher)

U.S. record budget gap & repaying taxpayers for the bank bailout

Barack Obama to impose a ‘responsibiliy’ tax

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INTERNATIONAL TOPICS - Multicultural Roundup ▪ Vanguard Issues ▪ Images & Shows

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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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Obama urged unity at Copenhagen climate summit

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Barack Obama urged nations to accept a less-than-perfect climate agreement in the final hours of the summit in Copenhagen today. A new draft agreement called the "Copenhagen Accord" drops a previous deadline extension… Read more at Haplif & Haplifnet (Deutsche Welle)
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Multicultural Blogs – periodic roundup

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International Haplif & Haplifnet NEWS -- WordPress [introduction]

The World's Best Universities [PHOTOS & POLL]

APEC leaders committed to concluding the DOHA ROUND

Barack Obama in China - Shanghai & Beijing

U.S. & China prospected emission-reduction goals

European Executive Education at ESMT, Berlin [USW Network]

La France magnifique et sa belle langue ▪ Dialogue with Enni Sander, Toulouse

Update, Dec 6

INTERNATIONAL TOPICS - Multicultural Roundup ▪ Vanguard Issues ▪ Images & Shows
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Can Barack Obama's turnaround save Copenhagen?

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AMERICA AND THE CLIMATE SUMMIT

US President Barack Obama had been wary of attending the global climate change summit in Copenhagen next month. Many hope his decision to attend will increase the meeting's chances for success. But doubts remain about his commitment... Read more by Gregor Peter Schmitz in Washington, Spiegel
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Multicultural Blogs – periodic roundup

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International Haplif & Haplifnet NEWS -- WordPress [introduction]

Research on ARTIFICAL BRAIN & SINGULARITY

Obama’s envisaged global climate pact hindered [UN, US Senate]

Global Navigation Agreement at G20 Summit in Pittsburgh

Arianna Huffington’s new book on the US system’s failures

EU - Wüstenstrom und Klimaschutzverbesserung ▪ Desertec-Projekt

Global Investments into Solar Energy ▪ Solar Millennium, Siemens, DESERTEC-EUMENA
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Multicultural Blogs – periodic roundup

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International Haplif & Haplifnet NEWS -- WordPress [introduction]

Barack Obama has urged students to accept responsibility

Barack Obama’s Healthcare Plan & Medicare Spending

Biz Stone - New Terms of Service for Twitter

Barack Obama’s Rhetoric vs. Wall Street Reality

One EU voice on financial reform ahead of G20 summit

Russia scrapped missile deployment plans in Eastern Europe
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Shelved missile defense plan -- shattered confidence in Europe

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President Obama's decision to shelve the Bush administration's missile defense plans has created a crisis of confidence in Washington's relations with Central and Eastern Europe. The defense architecture the administration proposes may make more strategic sense in addressing the immediate Iranian threat. Nevertheless, it runs the risk of shattering the morale and standing of transatlantic leaders in the region who now feel politically undermined and exposed. The roots of this crisis lie less in missile defense than in policy failures over the past decade. Understanding and rectifying those errors is key to getting back on track with our allies.

Our first mistake was being overly optimistic about what would happen when these countries joined NATO and the European Union. We basically checked the box "mission accomplished." We assumed that Russia would finally accept that Central and Eastern Europe were gone from its sphere of influence and stop trying to interfere in their regional politics. But geopolitical competition didn't stop. Moscow simply tried to pressure and interfere in new ways, using energy and other weapons. It seeks to marginalize these countries in NATO and the European Union by going above their heads. It still wants to create a zone of special Russian interest, influence and lesser security… Read more by Ronald D. Asmus, Washington Post

Supplementary (later today):

Russia scrapped missile deployment plans in Eastern Europe

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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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