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Acting prime minister José Socrates says Portugal must slash its deficit from 9.1% to 5.9% this year under terms of deal Portugal’s caretaker government said that it had negotiated a €78bn bailout deal with the European Union and the International Monetary Fund, but was waiting for opposition parties to agree. Acting prime minister José Sócrates said that, under the terms of the deal, Portugal must slash its budget deficit from 9.1% to 5.9% this year, and then reduce it to 3% by 2013. “The government has today reached an agreement with the international institutions regarding the financial aid to our country,” Sócrates said in a televised address. “Naturally, there are no financial assistance programs that are not demanding,” he added. “The times we live in continue to imply efforts and a lot of work. Let no one doubt that.” Sócrates said that an austerity programme to bring the deficit down this year would basically imitate the plan which was thrown out by the Portuguese parliament in March, causing president Aníbal Cavaco Silva to call a snap election for 5 June. Two weeks later, Sócrates finally admitted that Portugal would join fellow eurozone countries Greece and Ireland in requesting a bail-out. He said that Portugal had “got a good deal” and that further cuts to civil service pay would not be needed. “We will beat this crisis,” he added. A government official told Associated Press that the €78bn package included aid for Portugal’s cash-strapped banks. The Público newspaper reported austerity measures would include cuts to some, higher-scale state pensions. Basic pension rates and the minimum wage would stay in place as would free schooling and health services, the newspaper reported. The retirement age would not be changed, it added. Sócrates insisted that the bailout package required the country to carry out the same austerity measures rejected in parliament by the opposition centre-right social democrats, who are currently ahead in the opinion polls. Those polls suggest that neither party can win an absolute majority. Publico reported that the social democrats would also have to approve the aid package. “With this agreement the country obtains for the second time, now in different terms, the support and the confidence of the international institutions based on the program that the government presented in March,” Sócrates said. European finance ministers have set a target date of 16 May for the approval of the agreement, and are demanding all main political parties sign off on the terms. IMF Portugal Global economy Europe Economics Giles Tremlett guardian.co.uk
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Chicago Bulls guard Derrick Rose was officially named the NBA’s Most Valuable Player Tuesday, becoming the youngest player to win the honor. Rose received the MVP trophy with his teammates, friends and family in the audience. (May 3)
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Cisco may have washed its hands of pocket camcorders, but Olympus is ready to dive into the market with gusto. The company, best known for its cameras and voice recorders, just brought those two worlds together by announcing the LS-20M, a handheld whose relatively high-end audio specs should help it go toe-to-toe with Zoom . In addition to 1080p video, the LS-20M records 24 bit / 96 mHz Linear PCM audio using a pair of condenser mics. Alas, at $300 it has a small 2-inch screen and no optical zoom, but at least Olympus borrowed four of the visual effects that make its PEN cameras so fun to use. Look for it in June, and in the meantime, hit the PR for more details. Continue reading Olympus’ LS-20M boasts dual mics and 1080p recording, split personality Olympus’ LS-20M boasts dual mics and 1080p recording, split personality originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 03 May 2011 18:55:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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In addition to occurring the same day that Hitler was announced dead, Osama bin Laden’s death offers recent historical coincidence by marking the eighth anniversary of another significant event in the war on terror. (More on TIME.com: See the Top 10 Defining Moments of the Post-9/11 Era) On May 1, 2003, President George W. Bush
Continue reading …The rocky economy and an upswing in Internet viewing contribute to a surprising new statistic: In America, 96.7% of households have a television set—down from 98.9% previously. It’s the first such drop in two decades, the New York Times notes. The Nielsen Company, which collected the data,…
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Israeli conductor voices support for non-violence and Palestinian state during performance for schoolchildren and NGO workers The orchestra arrived with the impact of a presidential motorcade, in armoured cars, with sirens wailing and flanked by dozens of armed men. It was an unusual overture to a rendition of Mozart. But then, the arrival in Gaza of Daniel Barenboim, the world-famous Israeli conductor and his Orchestra for Gaza – featuring musicians from Paris, Milan, Berlin and Vienna – to play for an audience of schoolchildren and NGO workers was itself far from usual. The orchestra set off from Berlin on Monday, stopped at Vienna and then landed at El Arish, close to the Egyptian side of the Gaza Strip, on a plane chartered by Barenboim himself. As an Israeli citizen it is illegal for Barenboim to enter Gaza without a permit, and, as if that wasn’t enough, the recent murder of an Italian peace activist and fears that pro-Osama bin Laden groups in Gaza might seek revenge on western targets meant that the UN security team was on high alert. Barenboim has previously played in Ramallah and holds an honorary Palestinian passport, and is widely praised for his attempts to reach out across the divide. In Israel, meanwhile, he has been attacked for promoting the work of Wagner. He told his audience on Tuesday that the people of Gaza “have been blockaded for many years and this blockade has affected all of your lives.” The aim of his orchestra, he said, was to bring “solace and pleasure” through music to the people of Gaza and to let them know that people all over the world care for them. Gaza is more accustomed to the sound of explosions, sonic booms and the traditional drums and pipes that accompany its nightly weddings than Mozart. Many religious leaders disapprove of music, and people in general prefer Middle Eastern-style music to Western classical or popular music. Barenboim drew a burst of applause and then a murmur of appreciation as the orchestra began when he told the audience that they might recognise the first movement of Mozart’s Symphony No 40 as it was the basis of one of the celebrated songs of Fairuz, the most famous living singer in the Arab world. The orchestra first played Mozart’s Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, which was warmly appreciated, but Barenboim’s speech at the end of the performance went down even better. “I am a Palestinian ..… and an Israeli,” he told the audience, who applauded the second statement only slightly less than the first. “So you see it is possible to be both.” He said the Israeli and Palestinian conflict was one between two peoples who believe they are entitled to live on a single piece of land rather than a conflict between two nations about borders, adding that the whole world understood that a Palestinian state should be established on the land that Israel occupied in 1967. “Everyone has to understand that the Palestinian cause is a just cause therefore it can be only given justice if it is achieved without violence. Violence can only weaken the righteousness of the Palestinian cause,” he said. Referring to the revolutions in the Arab world and the nuclear catastrophe in Japan, he said that everyone should question their past actions. “Every musician here has played these pieces many times, sometimes hundreds of times. Yesterday we looked at this music as if we had seen it for the first time. We never accept that the next note will played the same way it was played before. Thinking anew is our daily activity. I hope all the people of this region can take note of that,” he said. Diana Rustum, 12, a pupil at a local UN school said she enjoyed the discipline of the musicians and the melody of the music. “I think it was different from Fairuz but just as beautiful,” she said. Abdul Rahman Abu Hashem, 12, insisted that he did not get bored during the hour-long performance. “It was very good,” he said. Gaza Middle East Palestinian territories Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Classical music Israel Conal Urquhart guardian.co.uk
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Prince Charles spent about 35 minutes Tuesday afternoon touring Common Good City Farm in Washington DC Earlier in the day, the Prince of Wales visited the Supreme Court and met with several Justices. (May 3)
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Click here to view this media We know Republicans seem to have a deep-seated belief that only torture will keep us safe from the terrorists, even though the people who do real intelligence gathering can tell you that just wrong: It’s ineffective and counterproductive — not to mention morally depraved . Not that any of this seems to deter conservatives. So the spectacle of every right-winger on the planet rushing to claim that it was torture that provided the intelligence leading to the killing of Osama bin Laden was nothing if not predictable. And of course, it turned out to be wholly wrong. For instance, here were Rudy Giuliani and Sean Hannity last night on Fox . Most of the segment was devoted to claiming that it was “aggressive interrogation techniques” that provided the key intelligence to finding Bin Laden, though at one point Hannity actually commended President Obama — and then lied about him: HANNITY: But we needed the intelligence to confirm that right. Does this now bring this debate back to the forefront? And by the way, and I give President Obama a lot of credit here. Because I thought it was a gutsy choice. GIULIANI: It was. HANNITY: A gutsy choice, not to drop a 2,000-pound bomb but to send these guys in, so we can confirm that it’s him. GIULIANI: When you consider everything that could have gone wrong and how President Obama would look today if it did, it took a lot of courage to do that and I do admire that. And I think there’s a good day the last two days for both President Obama and President Bush. Because I think President Bush set in motion all of the things that led to this. And then President Obama picked up on it and carried it out. And I give both of them a tremendous amount of credits. HANNITY: And I do too. And this is a good day for this country and we’ll going to talk to Todd Beamer’s dad who’s going to be on the program. And — is going to be on the program tonight. And General Tommy Franks is on tonight. But as I look at this, would President Obama not now realize that without the intelligence, he wouldn’t have had the ability to make this decision, I would hope that it might change his mind. GIULIANI: Maybe it will. And the reality is he also at that very last minute when he’s made the decision had to know that intelligence had to know, 50/50. I mean, you never know. HANNITY: You’ll never know. GIULIANI: They were going in there to get Osama Bin Laden but who knows if it wasn’t somebody that just looked like him or was like him. The better your intelligence, the more accurate your decision making and the safer we are. And the reality is, and I was glad to hear the Secretary of State Hillary Clinton say this. This is not the end, we are in the middle of this, and we can’t let down our guard. We shouldn’t be leaving Afghanistan as a result of this. We shouldn’t be leaving Iraq, we should remain there to get the job done. HANNITY: I agree but this is where I find myself a little conflicted here because this is almost the opposite of what candidate Obama said he would do. And maybe for the first time he’s grown in office. Oh, yeah, it was almost the opposite: — if by “almost” you mean “the opposite of”: enlarge Now, you can argue that Hannity and Giuliani couldn’t have known that they were 100 percent wrong in their speculation, since John Brennan didn’t officially shoot it down until today. But in fact, we already knew that waterboarding had nothing to do with this intelligence. It had already been reported by the Associated Press : Mohammed did not discuss al-Kuwaiti while being subjected to the simulated drowning technique known as waterboarding, former officials said. He acknowledged knowing him many months later under standard interrogation, they said, leaving it once again up for debate as to whether the harsh technique was a valuable tool or an unnecessarily violent tactic. It took years of work before the CIA identified the courier’s real name: Sheikh Abu Ahmed, a Pakistani man born in Kuwait. When they did identify him, he was nowhere to be found. Once again, smart, lawful intelligence gathering made the difference here. I gather that this is anathema to the conservative mindset, however. No wonder they’re so incompetent.
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