Amid ‘turmoiling’ stock markets on Friday, CNBC’s Simon Hobbs summed up the status quo’s thinking on the new Greek leadership when he noted, somewhat angrily and shocked, “The Greeks are not even trying to reassure the markets,” seeming to have entirely forgotten (and who can blame him in this new normal the world has been […]
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The Solar Village is the first community in the world to produce 4x more energy than it uses
The Solar Village is the first community in the world to produce 4x more energy than it uses. He successfully created a retail, commercial and residential space called Sonnenschiff, translating to “Solar Ship,” that was energy net-positive in 2004. The building was a hit, and over the following years 60 more residential buildings have been […]
GOOGLE: YOUTUBE IS SO OVERLOADED STAFF CANNOT FILTER CONTENT
BRUSSELS (AP) ā Internet giant Google says that its video-sharing website YouTube is so inundated that staff cannot filter all terror related content, complicating the struggle to halt the publication of terrorist propaganda and hostage videos. Google Public Policy Manager Verity Harding said Wednesday that about 300 hours of video material is being uploaded to […]
French police question 8-year-old on suspicion of ādefending terrorismā
BFMTV says that administrators at a primary school in Nice reported the child to police on 21 January after the boy allegedly said that he āfelt he was on the side of the terrorists.ā āA police station is absolutely no place for an eight-year-old child,ā the boyās lawyer Sefen Guez Guez told BFMTV. He said […]
Putin accuses Ukraine army of being ‘NATO foreign legion’
MOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin sharply ramped up his anti-Western rhetoric on Monday, accusing the Ukrainian army of being āNATOās foreign legionā whose main purpose was to contain Russia. Shortly after his spokesman warned the West against āblackmailingā Moscow with the threat of new sanctions over an upsurge in Ukraine violence, Putin accused Kiev of being […]
Croatia’s new President called on Serbia to impose sanctions against Russia. Belgrade advised her to watch your language
No sooner had Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovi? to join the Office of the President of Croatia, began making aggressive statements against Serbia and Russia. She stated that it was risky, OC on the special relationship of the Russian and Serbian peoples, Belgrade should impose sanctions against Russia. “Serbia is obliged to impose sanctions on Russia. No, I […]
There’s A Plan Floating Around Davos To Spend $90 Trillion Redesigning All The Cities So They Don’t Need Cars
Here’s one way to solve global warming: Spend $90 trillion (Ā£59 trillion) over the next few years to redesign all the cities ā as in all the cities on Earth ā so people live in more densely packed neighbourhoods and don’t need cars. That is one of the more ambitious (and possibly outlandish) ideasĀ knocking around […]
Russiaās Modest Proposal To Greece: āExit Europe And We Will Lift The Food Import Banā
It has not been a good week for Greece: first we learned that its treasury has run dry as Greece have stop paying all taxes ahead of the elections (and likely after), making further reforms virtually impossible as the government simply does not have the cash to promote economic changes; then we found out that […]
Tel Aviv says Sweden foreign minister not welcome in Israel
Israel says the Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstroem would have been rejected by the regimeās officials if she had traveled to the occupied territories. “The Swedish foreign minister would not have been given any official meetings in Israel if she had traveled here. What Sweden did was an utterly unfriendly action,” said Emmanuel Nahshon, the […]
Obama: Parts of Europe need to better integrate Muslim communities in the wake of Paris attacks
Washington (AFP) – Europe must do more to better integrate its Muslim communities, and not “simply respond with a hammer,” US President Barack Obama said Friday in the wake of last week’s terror attacks in France. “Our biggest advantage, major, is that our Muslim populations — they feel themselves to be Americans,” Obama told a […]