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Republican Spin Machine ▪ Contemporary Philosophy ▪ Great Britain Stays

US Quitting HRC ▪ Impeachment Issue ▪ Cornwall’s Towns & Coasts (UK)

Bush’s Europe Trip ▪ Russian Media Shut ▪ Reading Time ▪ Cornwall

Bush, Merkel, Berlusconi, Pope ▪ Golfing ▪ Power Walks ▪ Drunk Bees

Zurich ▪ US Open (Golf) ▪ Sounds ▪ Alphorn ▪ Soccer Championships

Bush’s Schedule & Message ▪ Irish Vote (Lisbon Treaty) ▪ Tim Russert

Accomplishment ▪ Tim Russert ▪ Joe Scarborough’s Morning Show

Anniversary ▪ EU Lisbon Treaty (Ireland) ▪ Global Energy Debate
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EU Lisbon Treaty -- Changes After the Irish “No”

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French President Nicolas Sarkozy has called Ireland's "no" to the EU's Lisbon treaty a call to change the way Europe was being constructed. But he has also urged other states to continue the ratification process.

"Many Europeans do not understand how we are constructing Europe. We must therefore change the way we do it," Sarkozy told journalists in Paris after meeting US President George W. Bush.

The Irish rejection of the treaty was "an appeal to do more, to do it better," he said. But Sarkozy, whose country is taking over the rotating presidency in July, stressed that no one had the right to sabotage the European project. One of the treaty's aims is to streamline decision-making processes in the enlarged and more unwieldy 27-member bloc… Deutsche Welle
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YSL ▪ Universal Studios ▪ Zarathustra ▪ Cockers ▪ German Shepherds

US Democratic Victor ▪ German Shepherds ▪ Legal Seafood ▪ Biodiversity

Obama’s Successful Run ▪ Ukrainian Horses ▪ Weapons ▪ The Bachelor

Russia’s Medvedev (Berlin) ▪ Secret Meeting (Obama-Clinton) ▪ Books

Hillary Clinton’s Announcement ▪ N.B. Museum ▪ Tolerance ▪ Wales ▪ Jersey
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Obama's Successful Run and the Timing Aspects

Presidential candidates often prevail because they happen to arrive just as the country is ready to receive them. Sen. Barack Obama is such a candidate.

Sen. Obama, who now has secured the support needed to be the Democratic nominee, is an unconventional presidential contender, almost a revolutionary one. He also is a candidate who simply never could have been nominated before 2008. It was his luck, or his fate, to arrive just as a whole series of forces coalesced to afford him the chance to make history:

- Without the war in Iraq, there would have been no way to make his early mark - the one that first allowed him to distinguish himself from prohibitive favorite Sen. Hillary Clinton - by being the earliest and purest opponent of an increasingly unpopular conflict.

- Without the full flowering of the Internet, there would have been no way for him to marshal the financial wherewithal of almost 1.5 million citizens, who collectively made him the richest candidate in the race by far and turned the history of campaign fund raising on its head.

- Without the arrival of today's generation of new, young voters, who see a biracial candidate as nothing particularly out of the ordinary in the America they have grown up knowing, there wouldn't have been the same kind of historic outpouring of registrations and votes from newly minted Democrats under the age of 30. […] By GERALD F. SEIB, The Wall Street Journal

Multicultural Blogs - update

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Phoenix (Mars Landing) ▪ Ani Lorak (Ukraine) ▪ Liberty Bell Steamboat

Obsolescence (Metaphysics) ▪ Frank Lloyd Wright ▪ South Philly ▪ Mars

Philadelphia’s FLW Synagogue ▪ German Design ▪ Cirque ▪ Sidney Pollack

German Furniture ▪ Non-organizable Chaos ▪ EU & Russia ▪ Oil & Gas

Protecting Ecosystems (UN) ▪ Democratic Dispute ▪ Polygamist Families

Biofuel Debate ▪ N Korean Missiles ▪ Rule Book ▪ Cars ▪ Handys

Barack Obama ▪ Book ▪ Library ▪ Soapgirl ▪ Bouillabaisse ▪ Marsha Brown
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UN Biodiversity Conference -- Protecting Ecosystems

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German Environment Minister Sigmar Gabriel said the 12-day conference at Bonn (with 6,000 delegates from 191 countries) was set to be a "real success".

Hailed decisions could lead to the establishment of deep-sea nature preserves and a preliminary framework for establishing standards on biofuels and also to more funding for forest protection, the creation of new nature preserves, and a moratorium on fertilizing the ocean with chemicals to combat climate change.

Earlier in the week German Chancellor Angela Merkel pledged 500 million euros (785 million dollars) before 2013, and an equal amount annually thereafter, but other major economies have yet to follow suit.

Scientists say that species are becoming extinct at a dizzying rate -- between 100 and 1,000 times the natural pace of extinction. One in four mammals, one bird in eight, one third of all amphibians and 70 percent of plants are under threat. The lost of the benefits of biodiversity were put at 3.1 trillion dollars a year, or six percent of the planet's gross national product. AFP.GOOGLE
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transatlantic daily NEWS "International Stuff" [Introduction]

Philly Garage-Talk ▪ TV Series ▪ Cannes Film Festival ▪ US Lobbyism

Democratic Finish Line ▪ Belmont Plateau ▪ Nigeria ▪ Stock Market

Biodiversity Convention (Bonn) ▪ Rationality ▪ Art Museum ▪ Frida Kahlo

German-Mexican Cooperation ▪ Humanism ▪ Democrats ▪ Le Fin Bec

Democratic Bickering ▪ Philadelphia’s Delaware ▪ Brooklyn Bridge: 125 Years

Grand Prix Eurovision 2008 (Belgrade, Serbia) ▪ John McCain vs. Russia