8:33 AM Tuesday Nov 30, 2010 Share Email Print Expand Shrink Three days before the vote on the 2018 and 2022 World Cup hosts, FIFA was hit by further corruption allegations Monday when three senior officials were accused by European media of having received secret payments. Executive committee members Ricardo Teixeira of Brazil, Nicolas Leoz of Paraguay and Issa Hayatou of Cameroon were named as having allegedly received payoffs from world football’s former marketing agency. The three long-standing members of FIFA’s ruling panel received kickbacks from marketing agency ISL from 1989-99, the BBC and Swiss newspaper Tages-Anzeiger and Germany’s Sueddeutsche Zeitung reported. The three media…
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Photo: EPA 37 MPG in Gasoline Mode, 60 MPG Composite Last week it was the Nissan LEAF’s turn to get its EPA sticker , and now it’s the Chevrolet Volt. GM’s plug-in hybrid is officially rated at 93 MPG-equivalent in electric mode and 37 MPG in gasoline mode, for a composite number of 60 MPG. But that number doesn’t mean much, since so much will depend on usage (short trips or long trips, how often you recharge, etc)…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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The United States, along with allies and adversaries around the world, reacted with disapproval on Monday to the first batch of disclosures from over 250,000 American cables, alternately discrediting the cables, brushing off revelations of problematic, embarrassing and impolitic comments and lashing out at Wikileaks, the Web site responsible for the release. In Washington, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said at a news conference that the United States “deeply regrets” the “alleged leaks” of State Department cables, calling the release of any government information meant to be confidential an attack on both the United States and the entire international community. At the same time,…
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On Monday's Today show, NBC's Matt Lauer downplayed the criminal factor in the release of hundreds of thousands of classified diplomatic communiques by WikiLeaks, twice labeling the website as only a ” messenger ” for the documents. Both Lauer and NBC correspondent Andrea Mitchell insisted the State Department “crossed a line” by ordering diplomats to spy on foreign diplomats at the United Nations. The NBC anchor interviewed Republican Congressman Peter King seven minutes into the 7 am Eastern hour on this latest release of confidential documents by WikiLeaks. Midway through the segment, Lauer raised the espionage issue: “Were you surprised to hear that Secretary of State Clinton and her predecessor, Secretary of State Rice, asked their diplomats to, in effect, spy on diplomats at the United Nations, asking for things like credit card numbers, computer passwords, DNA, fingerprints? This does cross a line, doesn't it? ” read more
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“If the Pentagon wants something, the logic goes, then it must be necessary,” writes Gregg Easterbrook, in a recent examination of military waste. As a result,
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Excited for Tegra 2 to finally take the Android smartphone world by storm? Recent leaks out of LG and Motorola certainly suggest that NVIDIA’s finally going to make some inroads with its silicon somewhere around the Gingerbread or Honeycomb time frame — and that might happen sooner rather than later if a posting on Facebook is to be believed. Remember that shiny black Olympus (pictured above) that leaked last week? Someone in the captain’s chair of one of AT&T’s official Facebook accounts responded to a question about availability of the phone earlier today, matter-of-factly reporting that “the Motorola Olympus should be available in December or January.” We would’ve been willing to chalk it up to confusion on an employee’s part, but the post was later removed without a trace, and a follow-up with AT&T elicited a standard “we don’t have any information to share about upcoming devices” response. The company claims the posting was made “erroneously,” and we’ll agree with them on at least one level: neither AT&T nor Motorola intended for that information to slip out today. Motorola Olympus hitting AT&T in ‘December or January,’ says now-deleted Facebook post originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 29 Nov 2010 16:20:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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A retired French electrician and his wife have come forward with 271 undocumented, never-before-seen works by Pablo Picasso estimated to be worth at least $79 million, an administrator of the artist’s estate said Monday. (Nov. 29)
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Images: Story of Coal, Story of Electronics, Brief History of Fossil Fuels, What Happens When the Oil Runs Out And the Oscar for Best Green Short Goes to… One of the great things about the web is how inexpensive it now is to reach a lot of people. Not so long ago you would have needed to have access to either a printing press, a movie or television studio, or a radio station. Now, anybody can create a website and publish text, or use digital tools to create videos that can then be hosted on a variety of free sites (youtube, Vimeo, etc). Here’s a compilation of some great short animated films about … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Start your weekend off right with this short, snappy data-driven video about the astonishing growth of health and wealth in the world in the last 200 years. Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Reason Magazine – Hit & Run Discovery Date : 29/11/2010 21:17 Number of articles : 123
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