VIDEO: Annan 'optimistic' on Syria talks

VIDEO: Annan 'optimistic' on Syria talks

VIDEO: Annan 'optimistic' on Syria talks

Posted: 11 Mar 2012 11:41 PM PDT

UN-Arab League peace envoy Kofi Annan has said he is optimistic following two days of talks with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.


VIDEO: S Africa private schools on rise

Posted: 11 Mar 2012 11:49 PM PDT

In South Africa some 5,000 children - most of them black - are being moved to privately-run schools each year as the state education system declines.


Jewish settlers agree to evacuate West Bank outpost

Posted: 11 Mar 2012 11:12 PM PDT

To match Insight ISRAEL-PALESTINIAN/SETTLEMENTS-MIGRONJERUSALEM (Reuters) - Jewish settlers signed an agreement with the Israeli government on Sunday to leave the biggest illegal outpost in the occupied West Bank and move to a nearby site after months of negotiations to avoid their forced removal. The 50 families from the Migron settlement welcomed the deal with coalition government, comprised mainly of pro-settler parties, saying it would avoid the unpleasant scenes seen in past evictions. ...

Greek finance minister Venizelos set to be Socialist leader

Posted: 11 Mar 2012 11:16 PM PDT

Greece's Prime Minister Lucas Papademos talks with Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos before a cabinet meeting at the parliament in AthensATHENS (Reuters) - Greek Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos will run unopposed for the leadership of the Socialists, party officials said on Sunday, as the political focus shifts towards a parliamentary election now that Athens has secured a bond swap deal. Venizelos, 55, won the backing of all the Socialist PASOK party's heavy hitters and looks a certainty to become leader in an internal ballot on March 18. ...

Obama, Apple, 9/11, IBM Smarter Cities, WikiLeaks and Our Secret War Against Information

Posted: 12 Mar 2012 12:06 AM PDT

I've been having some interesting meetings of late. I met with McAfee and HP at the recent RSA conference. McAfee as an Intel subsidiary has become the most powerful security software player, and under Meg Whitman HP's Security Group has become the fastest growing HP division. Both companies told a troubling story. I then met ...


Greek finance minister Venizelos set to be Socialist leader

Posted: 11 Mar 2012 11:16 PM PDT

ATHENS (Reuters) - Greek Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos will run unopposed for the leadership of the Socialists, party officials said on Sunday, as the political focus shifts towards a parliamentary election now that Athens has secured a bond swap deal.

Workers killed in Istanbul blaze

Posted: 11 Mar 2012 10:47 PM PDT

Authorities suspect electric heater started fire among tents housing construction staff in Turkish city.


Shine A Light On China's Underground Banks, Shady Bankers

Posted: 11 Mar 2012 11:28 PM PDT

Delegates to China?s just-concluded annual meetings have called for legal oversight of shadow banks that make unsecured loans to business owners. Their recommendation, reported Monday in the South China Morning Post (paywall), comes as China?s economy begins to cool after a massive lending spree. Shadow banking operations range from informal neighbourhood lenders to loosely-regulated trusts, ...


Responding To The Empire's PR Men About Its Leadership Failures

Posted: 11 Mar 2012 11:21 PM PDT

The Death Star's public relations team responds to my criticisms of the Emperor's leadership style.


Jewish settlers agree to evacuate West Bank outpost

Posted: 11 Mar 2012 11:41 PM PDT

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Jewish settlers signed an agreement with the Israeli government on Sunday to leave the biggest illegal outpost in the occupied West Bank and move to a nearby site after months of negotiations to avoid their forced removal.

US vows to investigate Afghanistan rampage

Posted: 11 Mar 2012 11:53 PM PDT

Obama expresses condolences over killing of 16 civilians by American soldier that has added extra strain to tense ties.


VIDEO: Istanbul tent fire kills workers

Posted: 11 Mar 2012 09:53 PM PDT

At least 11 workers have died after a fire swept through a tent on a construction site in the Turkish city of Istanbul.


VIDEO: China politicians at annual session

Posted: 11 Mar 2012 10:00 PM PDT

China's politicians have begun campaigning at the national annual parliamentary session, ahead of the political reshuffle that will see a change in its top figures later this year.


VIDEO: Challenges facing India food bill

Posted: 11 Mar 2012 10:07 PM PDT

India's Food Security Bill aims to provide cheap grain rations for all who need them, but funding the programme is not the only challenge the government faces.


VIDEO: Istanbul tent fire kills workers

Posted: 11 Mar 2012 09:53 PM PDT

At least 11 workers have died after a fire swept through a tent on a construction site in the Turkish city of Istanbul.


VIDEO: China politicians at annual session

Posted: 11 Mar 2012 10:00 PM PDT

China's politicians have begun campaigning at the national annual parliamentary session, ahead of the political reshuffle that will see a change in its top figures later this year.


VIDEO: Challenges facing India food bill

Posted: 11 Mar 2012 10:07 PM PDT

India's Food Security Bill aims to provide cheap grain rations for all who need them, but funding the programme is not the only challenge the government faces.


Oracle: SAP Draws Blood; Jefferies Downgrades To Hold

Posted: 11 Mar 2012 10:43 PM PDT

Jefferies analyst Ross MacMillan late Sunday cut his rating on Oracle to Hold from Buy, with a new price target of $32, from $35. Among other things, he thinks the company is feeling the pinch on its core relational database business from SAP?s HANA in-memory computing approach. ?Tactically, our recent work suggests the engineered systems ...


Beyond Efficiency - The Case for the 'Virtual' Negawatt

Posted: 11 Mar 2012 10:20 PM PDT

In 1989, Amory Lovins coined the term ?negawatt? at the Green Conference in Montreal. Lovins, a life-long environmentalist and the chief scientist of the Rocky Mountain Institute, gave the keynote address at the conference, which was aptly titled ?The Negawatt Revolution.? ?It is much cheaper [and cleaner] to save electricity than to make it,? said ...


NASA May Need to Use Russian Flights Longer

Posted: 11 Mar 2012 07:53 PM PDT

NASA is drafting backup plans to prolong the use of Russian spacecraft for ferrying astronauts to the International Space Station, even as agency officials play down those options.


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