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25 Aug 2011 15:04

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Culture: Angela Merkel is Forbes’ most powerful woman in 2011

  • germany German Chancellor Angela Merkel received the top spot on the Forbes list of the 100 most powerful women in 2011. Merkel’s position as a leader in the EU has grown amidst the dire economic crises facing some other member states.
  • america The second-place spot was given to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, though she’s not the only politically minded American woman on the list — GOP candidate Michele Bachmann clocks in at #22, and Sarah Palin at #34. source
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23 Aug 2011 16:32

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World: Video shows rebels storming Gaddafi compound

  • Breaching the walls: Scenes from Tripoli earlier today, as rebel forces successfully breached the compound of Muammar Gaddafi. source
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23 Aug 2011 15:56

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U.S.: Unlikely dual earthquakes strike Colorado, Virginia

  • west A 5.3 quake struck the state of Colorado late Monday, the southern part of the state hit by the rumbling. This is unusual, as Colorado generally doesn’t see high levels of seismic activity.
  • east Today, a 5.9 earthquake struck in Virginia, and sent shock-waves through the northeast — clear to New England, New York, and DC. The USGS says they can’t trace this quake to a specific fault. source
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23 Aug 2011 15:26

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World: As New York DSK charges fall apart, Tristane Banon presses on

  • over The rape charges against former IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn were dismissed in New York today, when the prosecution admitted their case couldn’t hold up due to “credibility issues” surrounding his accuser, Nafissatou Diallo.
  • not over Strauss-Kahn is not without legal concerns, however. French writer Tristane Banon has said she’ll continue pressing her charges (in French courts) that Strauss-Kahn attempted to rape her during an interview in 2003. source
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22 Aug 2011 18:44

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Politics: Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein hires a criminal defense lawyer

  • Lloyd lawyers up: The Goldman Sachs CEO has hired the services of Reid Weingarten, an accomplished defense attorney who’s worked for former executives from WorldCom Inc. and Enron — this news caused a predictable dip in the value of Goldman’s shares, which closed down 4.7% on Monday. The obvious market concern is that Blankfein will be dealing with inquiries from the Senate subcommittee charged with investigating wrongdoings of the 2008 financial crisis, and whether his hiring a top-flight attorney suggests looming legal trouble. source
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22 Aug 2011 18:22

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Politics: PETA to launch porn site, mingling sex and mistreated animals

  • We live in a 24 hour news cycle world, and we learn the racy things we do are sometimes the most effective way that we can reach particular individuals.
  • PETA Spokesperson Linsay Rijt • Speaking on the intentions of PETA’s upcoming porn venture, to come with the advent of the new .xxx web addresses. The idea, it seems, is to mix together porn with pictures and information about mistreated and abused animals, the porn being the means to grab attention in the most basic way possible. We’re animal lovers, to be sure, but this sounds like an unpleasant and deeply silly idea, and isn’t something we can’t imagine would have any sort of broad appeal. source
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22 Aug 2011 17:58

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World: Canadian NDP leader Jack Layton dies of cancer

  • Jack Layton, dead at 61: The leader of Canada’s New Democratic Party, Layton had temporarily stepped down in July for cancer treatment. He was widely credited with steering the NDP towards a less leftist platform than the party had typically stood for, its origins being heavily infused with labor interests. This strategy, arguments about ideology aside, gave the NDP a massive boost to its prominence and mainstream, middle-class appeal, and reaped major electoral gains. Best wishes to Jack Layton’s friends and family in such painful times — he will be well missed and well mourned. source
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22 Aug 2011 17:08

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World: Kim Jong-Il meets with Russian President Medvedev

  • Kim Jong-Il’s Russian rendezvous: The North Korean dictator is traveling through Russia by means of an armored train, on a route expected to keep him abroad for the next week or so (North Korea is generally much tighter-lipped about his schedule than they seem to have been this time). He’s reportedly scheduled for a meeting with Russian President Dimitry Medvedev, which analysts believe may be about a gas pipeline Russia would like to run into South Korea, through Northern territory. The deal could bring North Korea nearly $500 million a year, a very considerable chunk of change. source
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16 Aug 2011 15:23

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World: Violence, further displacement strikes Palestinian refugees in Syria

  • 10,000 refugees flee Syrian camp under fire source
  • » So says the U.N. Relief and Works Agency: There was for a time a big camp full of Palestinian refugees established in Latakia, a Syrian port city. Now, there isn’t. Over the course of the last three days, the U.N. agency has asserted, Syrian security forces began firing on the refugee camp and threatening those within that they’d better move out. U.N. spokesman Christopher Gunness says that while they’ve been denied access to the camp, reliable sources suggest that after three days of this treatment, the camp has been left relatively deserted — about 10,000 refugees unaccounted for. “A forgotten population has now become a disappeared population,” he said.
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16 Aug 2011 14:13

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Politics: Rick Perry describes Federal Reserve policies as almost “treasonous”

  • Printing more money to play politics at this particular time in American history is almost treacherous — or treasonous in my opinion.
  • GOP Presidential hopeful Rick Perry • Laying into the Federal Reserve during an event in Cedar Rapids. Perry also said, of Fed chairman Ben Bernanke, “I don’t know what y’all would do to him in Iowa, but we would treat him pretty ugly down in Texas.” This demonstrates an interesting sea change in GOP politics in recent years, and one that Ron Paul himself commented on during last week’s Iowa debate — anti-Federal Reserve rhetoric has flourished with the rise of the Tea Party, and thus the GOP is now trying to catch up to Paul on one of his signature punching bags over his long congressional career. source
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