Ikea fed up with Russia's bureaucracy - Pravda.Ru
Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:45:19 -0700
“All of a sudden it turned out that our complex was not resistant to hurricanes”
Web pages that have caught our eye...
Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:45:19 -0700
“All of a sudden it turned out that our complex was not resistant to hurricanes”
Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:40:44 -0700
DFID's aid programme is India to be cancelled - not
Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:38:27 -0700
Frito-Lay CEO: "Here's some shit that's made from beets. I hope you're all happy now that you have your precious beet chips with the recommended daily serving of fruit, or vegetables, or whatever the hell a 'beet' is."
Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:35:17 -0700
China says carbon tariffs in Waxman-Markey would violate WTO rules as well as the spirit of the U.N.'s Kyoto Protocol
Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:23:20 -0700
Whitehall’s response to the squeeze is predictable. First, ignore pressure. Second,“bleeding stumps”— where civil servants offer to cut programmes precious to ministers...
Fri, 03 Jul 2009 07:35:39 -0700
Will the European Union show some backbone? No signs of it yet, it seems...
Fri, 26 Jun 2009 02:42:31 -0700
Oxfam's head of research, Duncan Green, notes that China's Yu Yongding and India's Surjit Bhalla are in cheerful mood
Fri, 26 Jun 2009 02:39:49 -0700
Extreme Tech article on going solar. NB incentive provided by tiered pricing.
Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:48:37 -0700
If you think proximity is everything, then this is for you: interactive floor plan of the West Wing showing exactly who sits where
Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:57:32 -0700
Superb guide covers email, SMS, VOIP, mobiles etc etc
Thu, 25 Jun 2009 06:34:37 -0700
Six in 10 Americans want an international convention saying that "governments should never use physical torture", but 39 percent say this is too restrictive
Wed, 24 Jun 2009 09:28:43 -0700
"In five months on the job, Mr. Obama has rarely experienced as combative and contentious of an hour on live television as he did on Tuesday afternoon"
Wed, 24 Jun 2009 08:15:24 -0700
PR car crash of the year: furniture store Habitat apologises for using #Mousavi and #Iran tags on twitter to, er, promote chance to win a £1,000 gift card. #fail...
Wed, 24 Jun 2009 06:21:31 -0700
- less because of poor harvests than because of lower income and employment levels as a result of the economic crisis
Wed, 24 Jun 2009 05:42:20 -0700
"Some commentators had wondered whether Mexico would take umbrage at the naming of a U.S. ambassador known for expertise on failed states."
Wed, 24 Jun 2009 05:32:15 -0700
How earlier disruptive technologies shaped protest in Hungary in 56, the US in the 60s, E Timor in the 70s-80s, Iran in 79, and China and Eastern Europe in 89
Wed, 24 Jun 2009 05:20:43 -0700
New massively multiplayer online game designed to combat flu pandemic - from the Hawaii Research Centre for Future Studies
Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:28:06 -0700
Vicious review of the performance of the UN Secretary General: "Even Ban seems aware of what a nonentity he is: 'I tried to lead by example. Nobody followed.'"
Tue, 23 Jun 2009 07:22:48 -0700
And Sir David Omand reveals how the nuclear command bunker was used to manage the 2000 fuel protests
Tue, 23 Jun 2009 01:40:00 -0700
As usual, "regular people did the hardest work in the most important moments" - and "survivors report fear, confusion and kindness -but not panic"
Sat, 20 Jun 2009 08:16:48 -0700
The police strategy is a media strategy: to avoid the photograph or video that shows the magnitude of the protest.
Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:49:43 -0700
UN Under-Secretary-General Sir John Holmes on the new urban vulnerability to climate change
Fri, 19 Jun 2009 10:51:56 -0700
"We were never paid in the FDLR, we got nothing, only money from car-jacking. To get money and food we would approach civilians, take their crops, rob their villages. We would attack the civilians too, it’s true. But the rape, that was not policy"
Fri, 19 Jun 2009 10:46:14 -0700
The latest front in climate activism - visitors are invited to submit that "I pledge, if asked, to perform non-violent civil disobedience and risk arrest..."
Fri, 19 Jun 2009 06:56:03 -0700
"You cannot have Rwanda again. This week's events in Iran are a reminder of the way that people are using new technology to come together in new ways to make their views known."
Fri, 19 Jun 2009 06:54:30 -0700
On differences between today and 1979: The young people "use SMS; they use the Internet. And they are not being actually led by anyone, but they are connected to each other."
Fri, 19 Jun 2009 05:34:40 -0700
Ahmadinejad's website makes no website whatsoever of anything untoward happening in Tehran. No siree, nothing to see here...
Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:35:02 -0700
Bill Easterly thinks that the US army's belief in development is killing people.
Thu, 18 Jun 2009 04:46:49 -0700
Ban gets 8/10 on 'the bigger picture' (climate, food etc), 6/10 on peacekeeping, 3/10 on telling truth to power, 2/10 on management
Thu, 18 Jun 2009 03:14:03 -0700
"...the history of the J.P. Morgan credit derivatives team shows that banking can be technically innovative while remaining responsible"
Thu, 18 Jun 2009 01:44:23 -0700
Tax incentives have accelerated the plantings of green roofs, particularly in Chicago, which has encouraged green roofs for almost a decade.
Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:43:53 -0700
India frets that "some of the closeness in relations enjoyed under the Bush administration is dissipating under Obama "
Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:40:58 -0700
"Strong economic growth won't follow the current stock market surge. This is a bear market rally. People who jump in now will lose big."
Tue, 16 Jun 2009 06:59:56 -0700
Dan's been in DC: "a picture emerged and while it is by no means horrible it is not very encouraging"
Tue, 16 Jun 2009 02:04:26 -0700
Russia wants to accept Iran & Pakistan's ask for full membership. China's not so sure
Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:15:42 -0700
Medvedev to meet leaders of China, India and Brazil on Tuesday for talks on how the four should seek to increase their clout in IFIs particularly the IMF
Mon, 15 Jun 2009 08:56:56 -0700
New head of policy planning level gathering to launch in July and look at climate, energy and global issues
Mon, 15 Jun 2009 06:30:16 -0700
Transparency, benchmarking and independent evaluation rather than regulation and coordination, according to DFID Perm Sec Minouche Shafik
Mon, 15 Jun 2009 03:38:32 -0700
"It’s much too soon to give up on policies that have, at most, pulled us a few inches back from the edge of the abyss."
Sun, 14 Jun 2009 12:46:34 -0700
Mostly sites linked to national security, but also including the US Capitol...
Thu, 11 Jun 2009 01:07:25 -0700
That's "monitoring, reporting and verification" - one of the least glamorous but most important dimensions of global climate governance
Thu, 11 Jun 2009 01:02:21 -0700
Presentation made at a side event at UNFCCC talks in Bonn this week (video + separate slides)
Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:46:32 -0700
China builds up stockpiles of more or less everything
Sun, 07 Jun 2009 09:28:41 -0700
"We’re concerned that nothing has really been fixed. We’re doubly concerned that people appear to feel the worst of the storm is over."
Sat, 06 Jun 2009 11:05:45 -0700
Andrew Exum, Nathaniel Fick, Ahmed Humayun, and David Kilcullen on what should come next on either side of the Durand Line.
Sat, 06 Jun 2009 10:30:25 -0700
"Benjamin Netanyahu’s problem is that it’s difficult to distinguish between President Obama and Tzipi Livni."
Sat, 06 Jun 2009 10:27:22 -0700
"If I were an American policymaker, that's the Israeli coalition I would hope for: Netanyahu-Barak-Livni, rather than Netanyahu-Barak-Lieberman. You watch: It's coming."
Sat, 06 Jun 2009 10:11:14 -0700
Microsoft Vine: a highly visual, local/social networking service that adds to your Twitter-like updates access to 20,000 local media sources, local-gov and emergency-management notification feeds.
Sat, 06 Jun 2009 05:37:02 -0700
Barry Eichengreen and Kevin O’Rourke still reckon we're in the early stages of a pronounced global depression.
Sat, 06 Jun 2009 03:57:00 -0700
Said: "There never really has been a special relationship, or at least not one we've noticed." Now arrested for spying for Cuba for thirty years.
Fri, 05 Jun 2009 11:14:56 -0700
"Africans face a massive land-grabbing scramble, as European companies – some with foreign aid money support – rapidly establish enormous carbon monoculture fields in tropical countries."
Fri, 05 Jun 2009 07:01:28 -0700
Frontline bloggers provides a window into UK operations in Afghanistan through the experiences of the UK forces.
Fri, 05 Jun 2009 03:29:42 -0700
Torture works. The US should do more of it. Or something like that.
Fri, 05 Jun 2009 01:23:13 -0700
"We are a bit unsure about how to deal with the problem of receiving hoax emails. You know, how do we check the email is real?" complains an unnamed Labour rebel.
Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:41:05 -0700
Le Monde is sceptical of Sarko's peacemaking credentials
Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:37:21 -0700
"The Wall Street Journal calls the result "Eight Ways to Radically Remake the World," and that's not far from the truth"
Thu, 04 Jun 2009 06:58:31 -0700
London's mayor exhibits the statesmanlike qualities for which he was elected
Mon, 01 Jun 2009 08:49:37 -0700
The edgiest article from the Onion in a long time - but takes the point about pro-life violence by "Christians" to its logical conclusion
Fri, 29 May 2009 14:07:30 -0700
"Netanyahu should listen to Obama because Obama is telling him, in essence, that resolving the conflict is an American interest.," Once in decade chance for peace in the Middle East...
Fri, 29 May 2009 06:09:53 -0700
New Indian Minister of State for External Affairs on India's soft power.
Fri, 29 May 2009 05:02:42 -0700
Jordan Michael Smith is an Anne-Marie Slaughter fan, but thinks that State's policy planning staff "is not what it used to be"
Fri, 29 May 2009 03:53:26 -0700
Canadian think tank has a black eye after being forced to withdraw three reports on intellectual property because they plagiarized a study by a U.S. lobby group for the entertainment industry.
Wed, 27 May 2009 08:15:13 -0700
Twitter, Adderall, lifehacking, mindful jogging, power browsing, Obama’s BlackBerry, and the benefits of overstimulation
Wed, 27 May 2009 05:59:00 -0700
India has hinted at abolition of the “line of control”, while accepting division of Kashmir, withdrawal of Indian soldiers and autonomy for the two parts of Kashmir
Tue, 26 May 2009 04:09:18 -0700
Ahmed Rashid: "Pakistan desperately needs international aid, but its leaders must first define a strategy"
Tue, 26 May 2009 04:04:28 -0700
Alex de Waal's obituary of "the most irrepressible Pan Africanist of his generation"
Tue, 26 May 2009 01:53:51 -0700
Easterly hits back: "Sachs' desperation shows when he peddles what he knew were falsehoods. Besides, the sight of two middle-aged white men mud-wrestling on African aid may entertain the audience."
Tue, 26 May 2009 01:52:14 -0700
Sachs duffs up the aid critics - Moyo is 'cruel and mistaken, Easterly 'peddling...a simplistic concoction of free markets and self help'.
Mon, 25 May 2009 07:30:08 -0700
@Boston_Police: “INJURED OFFICER: human bite to arm, suspect in custody." @willcady "@Boston_Police if that was a zombie bite, would you tell us?” @Boston_Police: "@willcady Yes, absolutely."
Sun, 24 May 2009 08:19:49 -0700
Richard Posner and Alan Greenspan spar on the failure of capitalism. Shorter Greenspan: "not my fault, guv."
Thu, 21 May 2009 07:38:25 -0700
Foreign Policy's pick of the key power brokers in Obama's administration.
Thu, 21 May 2009 02:30:34 -0700
Oxfam's YouTube trainwreck (best comment: "I have no idea what happened here. Did a sniper shoot me in the eye through the camera lens?")
Thu, 21 May 2009 01:00:06 -0700
Taliban talking to intermediaries about peace agreement:, initial demands focused on timetable for withdrawal of US troops
Thu, 21 May 2009 00:35:20 -0700
Presentation made to UK Prime Minister's Strategy Unit earlier this month. Worth a look
Wed, 20 May 2009 13:47:50 -0700
Developing countries should let contract out the running of Hong Kong-like city states within their territory - and gradually take them over when they've created wealth.
Wed, 20 May 2009 11:51:27 -0700
WHO’s performance has been far from stellar, argues Rajaje Batniji
Wed, 20 May 2009 11:40:00 -0700
New MIT model shows a median probability of surface warming of 5.2 degrees Celsius by 2100, with a 90% probability range of 3.5 to 7.4 degrees
Tue, 19 May 2009 01:25:12 -0700
59% of Israelis call the US President trustworthy while only 31% say this of Bibi, according to polling commissioned by Avaaz
Tue, 19 May 2009 00:58:39 -0700
Lester Brown is more worried than ever. First class analysis from one of the senior thinkers of the environmental world
Mon, 18 May 2009 09:08:57 -0700
Indispensable directory of profiles of senior officials in Obama's Administration
Mon, 18 May 2009 07:36:07 -0700
Sniping against Obama's NSA reportedly coming mostly from State Department officials and some staffers at the White House
Mon, 18 May 2009 06:37:49 -0700
"We’ve got what amounts to a reverse Nuremberg defense, where Bush administration officials are let off the hook because they were only giving orders."
Sat, 16 May 2009 05:45:20 -0700
Considered a bit of a surprise that Obama thought it important to appoint a Mandarin speaker. Takes a potential 2012 Republican presidential candidate out of play as well.
Sat, 16 May 2009 05:38:55 -0700
Germany's economy has shrunk twice as fast as the UK's. Failure to apply quick stimulus is blamed.
Sat, 16 May 2009 01:22:34 -0700
Astronaut Mike Massimino is now using Twitter from the space shuttle Atlantis ("Launch was awesome!!")
Fri, 15 May 2009 09:38:40 -0700
Bits and pieces emerge about John William Yettaw, whose swim to see Aung San Suu Kyi could get her a 5 year jail term
Fri, 15 May 2009 09:35:07 -0700
The 2,600 people who live on the Carteret Islands are being evacuated
Fri, 15 May 2009 05:55:49 -0700
What it takes for an underdog to win.
Fri, 15 May 2009 01:58:33 -0700
(i) Make your experiments cheaper. (ii) Test strategic assumptions before logistical ones. (iii) Make decisions faster.
Thu, 14 May 2009 10:35:29 -0700
George Will - Conrad Black lackey and Pulitzer prize winner - accuses Obama's administration of acquiring "a tincture of lawlessness." Expect the calls for impeachment to start coming in 9 months or so.
Thu, 14 May 2009 10:18:16 -0700
According to former State Dept .Chief of Staff, Cheney's "priority for intelligence was not pre-empting another terrorist attack on the U.S. but discovering a smoking gun linking Iraq and al-Qa'ida."
Thu, 14 May 2009 06:19:41 -0700
Also: illegal immigrants, drugs etc. “It fits right in with the honor and bravery of the Boy Scouts.” Baden Powell would be proud.
Thu, 14 May 2009 05:49:35 -0700
John B. Judis expects Obama's poll numbers to plummet soon
Thu, 14 May 2009 03:38:42 -0700
What makes a disease more or less lethal?
Wed, 13 May 2009 04:20:55 -0700
"The enviros are getting their message out, but they are being outspent by 10 to one."
Wed, 13 May 2009 02:17:05 -0700
Cutting-edge training and breeding program to turn lab rats into successful futures traders. Hilarious
Wed, 13 May 2009 02:06:21 -0700
Max Gladwell's latest list