Serbia does not want the issue of Kosovo to block its EU path, we want to provide permanent peace, says Head of the Serbian negotiating team Borko Stefanović.
He told daily Blic that Belgrade wanted to harmonize its national interest and what Brussels saw as possible solutions through direct negotiations with Priština.
Armed Basque separatist group ETA on Monday called a permanent ceasefire to its fight for independence from Spain.
ETA contacted a Basque newspaper, Gara, to announce the end of its four-decade campaign of violence.
US President Barack Obama cannot award the permanent membership of the United Nations Security Council to India, Pakistan’s Ambassador to the UN Abdullah Hussain Haroon has said. Haroon said that voting was necessary for this purpose, and India could not become a member until all the permanent members of the council approved it, the Daily [...]
NY Fed president William Dudley said today, when asked when the Fed would stop quantitative easing:This exit could be several years away.Too bad that quantitative easing won’t help Main Street or the average American. It will only help big banks, gian…
ETA is prepared to make a ceasefire its has called “permanent and verifiableâ€, the website of a Basque newspaper is reporting. The truce offer earlier this month was dismissed by the Spanish government. And there is no sign this latest declaration will make any difference.
Peter Ong Boon Kwee has been appointed director/audit committee member wef Sep 1
Work experience: Head of Civil Service; Permanent Secretary (Special Duties), Prime Minister’s Office; Permanent Secretary (National Security and Intelligence Co-ordination)
Technology contractors appear to be seeing the best growth rates in hiring. For high-demand IT architecture and project management jobs, the salary picture is promising. – If you have in-demand skills, your asking price is probably
above market rate even with the slow growth of technology jobs, say hiring
managers and recruiters polled in an August survey by online job board
Dice.com.
Fifty-one percent of 1,350 IT decision makers polled said they are having to
…
Google May 21 published a mini version of Pac-Man, the popular game featuring an insatiable yellow dot that gobbles smaller yellow dots while being chased by ghosts, as a "playable" doodle. The doodle proved so popular with users that Google made the game available at google.com/pacman. It’s not a big deal, but it’s one of those small gestures that fosters good will among Google users all over the world. That good will may come in handy as regulators continue to pressure Google for its various expanding business interests. – Google’s 30th birthday celebration of perennial arcade
favorite Pac-Man was so popular with fans of the venerable video game that the
search engine has decided to make it a permanent addition to its Web service
arsenal.
Google May 21 published a mini version of Pac-Man, the
popular game featuri…
Not only is Congress bought and paid for by the powers that be, but politicians have a built-in conflict of interest against actually solving problems. As a reader notes in the most cynical – but perhaps insightful – summary of U.S. politics I have see…
Apple wins another round in litigation with clone computer maker Psystar as a judge grants Apple a permanent injunction against the company.
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The US District Court for the
Northern District of California granted computer maker Apple a permanent
injunction against Psystar Corporation, a Florida-based firm that had been
selling clone PCs running Apples Leopard and Snow Leopard operating systems.
Judge William Aslup wrote…
According to the following Democratic and Republican congress members, economists, financial experts and journalists, the “too big to fails” (with help from bank-friendly voices in Congress) are trying to make the bailouts permanent: Congressman Brad S…
Some of the top economists say that America has suffered a permanent loss of jobs:JPMorgan Chase’s Chief Economist Bruce Kasman told Bloomberg:[We've had a] permanent destruction of hundreds of thousands of jobs in industries from housing to fina…
Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich writes today:The basic assumption that jobs will eventually return when the economy recovers is probably wrong. Some jobs will come back, of course. But the reality that no one wants to talk about is a structural cha…
On September 25th, I wrote:Paul Volcker and senior Harvard economist Jeffrey Miron both testified to Congress this week that the government is trying to make bailouts for the giant banks permanent.Writing Wednesday in The Hill, Congressman Brad Sherma…
America is suffering a permanent destruction of jobs.JPMorgan Chase’s Chief Economist Bruce Kasman told Bloomberg: [We've had a] permanent destruction of hundreds of thousands of jobs in industries from housing to finance.The chief economists for…
With an agreement between the U.S. and ICANN set to expire Sept. 30 and some ICANN members clamoring for independence from the U.S., Reps. Henry Waxman and Rick Boucher call for a permanent deal with the nonprofit organization responsible for managing the assignment of domain names and IP addresses.
– Key House leaders Aug. 4 called on Commerce Secretary Gary Locke to create a
permanent relationship between the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and
Numbers and the U.S.
government. A Joint Project Agreement between ICANN and the U.S.
government is scheduled to expire Sept. 30.
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