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March 28, 2008 |
Bohemian Club tries new tactic to log grove
Miscellaneous
The Bohemian Club's ambitious plan to log its famed Bohemian Grove on the Russian River hit a snag last year when opponents argued that the ritzy club's redwood holdings were too large to qualify for a streamlined permit from the state. |
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March 13, 2008 |
Zuckerman Says U.S. Economy May Face `Perfect Storm'
Bloomberg
Mortimer Zuckerman, co-founder of Boston Properties Inc., the largest U.S. office real estate investment trust, said the U.S. economy is in a recession and there's no sign of a recovery. |
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March 12, 2008 |
'Magic is over' for U.S., says French foreign minister
Int'l Herald Tribune
Bernard Kouchner, the foreign minister of France and a longtime humanitarian, diplomatic and political activist on the international scene, says that whoever succeeds President George W. Bush may restore something of the United States' battered image and standing overseas, but that "the magic is over." |
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February 12, 2008 |
Budget deficit more than doubles
CNNMoney
- The federal budget deficit is running at a pace that is more than double last year's imbalance through the first four months of the budget year. |
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February 07, 2008 |
Adoption of Islamic Sharia Law in Britain is 'unavoidable', says Archbishop of Canterbury
Miscellaneous
The Archbishop of Canterbury has today said that the adoption of Islamic Sharia law in the UK is "unavoidable" and that it would help maintain social cohesion |
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January 27, 2008 |
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting closes with call for a new kind of collaborative leadership
Miscellaneous
The World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2008 closed today with a call by business, government and civil society leaders for a new brand of collaborative and innovative leadership to address the challenges of globalization, particularly the pressing problems of conflict – especially in the Middle East, terrorism, climate change and water conservation. “Globalization is forcing changes in how people collaborate in a fundamental way,” said former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, a Member of the Foundation Board of the World Economic Forum and one of the Co-Chairs of the Annual Meeting 2008, at the closing plenary session. “You need stronger and stronger collaborative political leadership.” Concluded Blair: “If we are interconnected and the world is interconnected, the only way for the world to work is to have a set of common values. We have no option but to work together.” |
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January 23, 2008 |
Merrill Lynch: Housing prices to free fall in 2008
CNNMoney
The worst housing financial crisis in decades is only going to get worse, a Merrill Lynch report said Wednesday. |
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January 23, 2008 |
Davos's gloomy Americans
Fortune Magazine
There's a lot of snow in Davos for this year's World Economic Forum, but a noticeable lack of the usual sunny American optimism about economic prospects.
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December 30, 2007 |
Individual privacy under threat in Europe and U.S., report says
Int'l Herald Tribune
Individual privacy is under threat in the United States and across the European Union as governments introduce sweeping surveillance and information-gathering measures in the name of security and controlling borders, an international rights group has said in a report. |
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December 28, 2007 |
French climate scientist calls Gore
Bloomberg
Climate-change skeptics are taking a beating these days even in France, where people long resisted the green creed. |
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