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EDF's role in US nuclear market is clouded
Breitbart - 3 days agoA view of EDF corporate headquarters in Paris. Time may be running out for ... Time may be running out for French energy giant EDF to gain a stronger foothold in the US nuclear sector, after it rejected a government loan deal for a new reactor and…
Read more >>Economic Outlook: Confidence first
UPI - 9 days agoIt's the darnedest thing, but some Economists say the U.S. economy is in some kind of recovery. That may be hard to believe and for anyone unemployed, the concept may be as remote as a winning lottery ticket. Unemployed at Christmas is no recovery…
Read more >>Globalisation: The redistribution of hope
The Economist - 16th Dec 2010“HOPE” is one of the most overused words in public life, up there with “change”. Yet it matters enormously. Politicians pay close attention to right-track/wrong-track indicators. Confidence determines whether consumers spen…
Read more >>Florida pardons Doors' Jim Morrison
Breitbart - 9th Dec 2010Outgoing Governor Charlie Crist and the state Clemency board voted unanimously to pardon The Doors' lead singer, who would have turned 67 on December 8. Morrison was sentenced to six months in jail for his conviction on Misdemeanor charges of Pro…
Read more >>Doors' Jim Morrison pardoned for indecent exposure...
Drudge Report - 9th Dec 2010TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Jim Morrison was posthumously pardoned Thursday for a 1969 Indecent Exposure conviction in Florida, a move a woman who said she was married to The Doors lead singer called a cheap political ploy. Morrison, a Florida nativ…
Read more >>Syria's Assad plays the security card
UPI - 2nd Dec 2010Published: Dec. 2, 2010 at 3:49 PM Cairo, Dec. 2 (UPI) -- Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has resisted U.S. efforts to pry his regime away from its Strategic Alliance with Iran, but he seems to be conducting discreet Diplomacy with Western Europe…
Read more >>Middle East
New York Daily News - 1st Dec 2010George W. Bush added a high-profile friend to his social network on Monday, trading jokes and compliments with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in a live chat watched by nearly 7,000 viewers. Q My mother, a Canadian citizen, was turned back at the…
Read more >>Sarkozy chased son's rabbit at meeting with US envoy
BBC News - 30th Nov 2010Nicolas Sarkozy was left chasing a rabbit while meeting the US ambassador before he became French president, leaked US diplomatic cables reveal. Mr Sarkozy invited Craig Stapleton to see him in 2006 to say how proud he was to meet President George…
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