NPR: Obama’s Fat Lip Could Improve Image With Jong Il, Ahmadinejad and Putin
November 27, 2010 No CommentIt appears that at NPR, even a fat lip for the President is to be heralded as a crowning achievement furthering his prestige and street cred when dealing with despots like Kim Jong Il and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. According to Scott Simon, a president with a “gnarly, vivid scar” might even be able to intimidate China's rulers into halting their currency manipulation (audio follows with partial transcript and commentary): read more
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Soldiers and police crouching behind armored vehicles trained their rifles on dozens of entrances to a sprawling slum Saturday, preparing to invade and try to push drug gangs out an area long considered the most dangerous in Rio de Janeiro, a city set to
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Disagreement over several clauses in US guarantees document brings negotiations to standstill, state officials say
Continue reading …Intel’s Sandy Bridge CPUs start to seep out, 2GHz quad-core i7-2630QM coming to HP dv7
November 27, 2010 No Comment
Intel’s Core i7-2630QM chip has made the leap from the company’s roadmap onto its first spec sheet, courtesy of HP’s dv7. We’ve come across a provisional component list for an update to HP’s gaming laptop, which includes the 2GHz quad-core CPU as the star of its show. Now, of course, neither HP nor Intel has said anything official on the matter, but Laptoping has also been snooping around and found listings at online retailers for laptops from Gateway and Lenovo also offering the still unannounced part. It’s not exactly a secret that Intel intends to blow the bloody doors off CES 2011 with its Sandy Bridge processor line, but it’s reassuring to see vendors looking eager and ready so far in advance of the launch date — it should mean no shortage of choice when Paul Otellini finally steps to the stage and makes things officially official. Intel’s Sandy Bridge CPUs start to seep out, 2GHz quad-core i7-2630QM coming to HP dv7 originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 27 Nov 2010 15:35:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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ABOUT 50,000 Irish people took to the streets to oppose savage cutbacks needed to secure an international bailout, police said, piling pressure on the debt-laden…
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South Korean protesters clashed with police on Saturday outside the Defence Ministry in Seoul. (Nov 27)
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Hamas politburo chief slams Palestinian Authority blaming it of selling off Palestinian people’s rights. ‘Peace talks became a process of daily humiliation,’ he says. Meanwhile, Palestinian negotiator Erekat blames Israel of writing off agreements
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The village mosque in Büyükeceli is now powered by solar panels. Photo: Alper Tunga Çatal for Greenpeace . When residents of the Turkish village of Büyükeceli decided to install a set of solar panels to demonstrate how renewable energy could be a viable alternative to the proposed nuclear power plant they are fighting, they first thought to use t… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Some records are made to be broken, from the 100-meter dash to Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest. But who would encharge themselves to break the nine years, fifty days Soviet record for “most time occupying Afghanistan?” And the winner is… the United States of America. —JCL The LA Times: As wartime days go, Friday was a fairly quiet one in Afghanistan. Helicopters skittered across the sky; convoys rumbled along desert roads; soldiers in mountain outposts scanned the jagged peaks around them. But one thing set the day apart: With its passing, the length of the U.S. military’s campaign in Afghanistan matched that of the Soviet Union’s long and demoralizing sojourn in the nation. The last Red Army troops left Feb. 15, 1989, driven out after nine years and 50 days by the U.S.-backed Afghan fighters known as mujahedin, or holy warriors. Ragtag yet ferocious, they were so spectrally elusive that the Soviet forces called them dukhi, or ghosts. A fitting term, perhaps, for a country that has been called “the graveyard of empires.” Read more Related Entries November 26, 2010 ‘Left, Right & Center’: Korean Clash, Taliban Scam November 24, 2010 More News, Less Turkey
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Italy is facing fines from the EU for failing to take out the trash. No, we’re not talking about Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. We’re talking about the tons of garbage that has choked the streets of Naples for years. —JCL The Guardian: Italy has failed to comply with a European court ruling on the chronic Naples waste crisis and could face fines if it does not solve the problem, a top EU official said today. Thousands of tonnes of rubbish still lie uncollected in the streets of Italy’s third-largest city despite weeks of protests by local residents and repeated claims by prime minister Silvio Berlusconi to have fixed the problem. The problem of poor waste management in Italy’s most densely populated region has persisted for years, compounded by disputes between competing local authorities and made worse by organised crime. Read more Related Entries November 26, 2010 ‘Left, Right & Center’: Korean Clash, Taliban Scam November 24, 2010 More News, Less Turkey
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