http://www.agoravox.com/ en http://www.agoravox.com/IMG/2006/logo-agoravox.jpg http://www.agoravox.com/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Agoravox-TheCitizenMedia/~3/NYSveaPWoe8/article.php3 Fri, 11 Sep 2009 04:05:06 +0200 By now we all know that the global imbalances were created by excessive consumption in the US and high savings in China (and other countries). Indeed, if we recall that the current account balance is the difference between saving and investment, we will find that for the US over the past 20 (...) Antonio Fatas and Ilian Mihov http://www.agoravox.com/article.php3?id_article=10638 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Agoravox-TheCitizenMedia/~3/ZBqIWqQ1iAk/article.php3 Fri, 11 Sep 2009 03:53:44 +0200 I went to bed at 8:30 last night and so I've been up since 5. I've read a bit of the web and nothing in particular sways me. It's a big country. The first thing I thought was that I should view some 9/11 stuff. I watched the WTC attacks from three different YouTube (...) Cobb http://www.agoravox.com/article.php3?id_article=10637 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Agoravox-TheCitizenMedia/~3/3VF05-_a1XY/article.php3 Fri, 11 Sep 2009 03:46:56 +0200 Some 3,017 people died in New York, at the Pentagon and in a farm field in western Pennsylvania on September 11, 2001, and save for the hijackers all were heroes in their own way. But on this day each year I always recall the story Mychal Judge, a 68-year-old priest and New York Fire Department (...) Shaun Mullen http://www.agoravox.com/article.php3?id_article=10636 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Agoravox-TheCitizenMedia/~3/wi0xkD7SWnU/article.php3 Fri, 11 Sep 2009 03:38:54 +0200 The Emerging Axis of Iran and Venezuela Hugo Chávez deepens petroleum and military ties with Russia Once again we are talking about a story line that was front and center because of President Bush's Bullying and war mongering, He (...) James Joiner http://www.agoravox.com/article.php3?id_article=10635 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Agoravox-TheCitizenMedia/~3/nVEPHGRzcHg/article.php3 Fri, 11 Sep 2009 03:31:46 +0200 Champion Liar Obviously as demonstrated all the time there is a wide gap between what politicians say and what they do and what they do and what they and that has never been different. All these young kids who are out there being inspired by Barack Hussein Obama have no experience so this (...) Hankroth http://www.agoravox.com/article.php3?id_article=10634 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Agoravox-TheCitizenMedia/~3/h67sR938wTs/article.php3 Fri, 11 Sep 2009 03:26:02 +0200 I just tuned in to my news provider and I'm reading the 6th title or so when a new line appears higher on my computer screen. They did it I don't remember the exact title (probably "a plane hits a WTC tower in NYC"), but as soon as I read it I think "this time they did it". As I (...) Stephanemot http://www.agoravox.com/article.php3?id_article=10633 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Agoravox-TheCitizenMedia/~3/jDOR3ORMTUg/article.php3 Fri, 11 Sep 2009 03:20:33 +0200 There are a number of important events for conservatives (and all interested citizens) coming up over the weekend: Tomorrow in Williston at 11:00am at Harmon Park there will be a tea party featuring free food and a number of speakers including myself. Also, tomorrow in Fargo from 1:00pm - (...) Rob Port http://www.agoravox.com/article.php3?id_article=10632 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Agoravox-TheCitizenMedia/~3/qUoZwi-E7Cg/article.php3 Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:11:42 +0200 One of the joys of campus life is that there is just about always something going on. There are lectures I'm too busy to attend. Concerts I mostly miss. Seminars I try to get to (we had a good one today). And then there are the weird and wonderful things you pass by on the way to class. (...) Michael Froomkin http://www.agoravox.com/article.php3?id_article=10630 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Agoravox-TheCitizenMedia/~3/x7_FGCxkOaM/article.php3 Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:58:44 +0200 THE CONTROVERSIAL ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPH The traditional if sometimes shopworn rules of newspaper journalism — from making sure every story answers the classic Who, What, Where, When Why and How to more complicated considerations, sometimes have to be observed in the breach during (...) Shaun Mullen http://www.agoravox.com/article.php3?id_article=10629 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Agoravox-TheCitizenMedia/~3/ZxZRcr0daWY/article.php3 Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:54:23 +0200 Riz Khan - Nuclear double standard - Sep 7 2009 - Pt 1 We did that long ago! All right I found it. We as you know already upset the balance of power in the middle east and Bush purposely did it to go after Iran. What Gates is supposedly proposing today was already done by us. I had to go (...) James Joiner http://www.agoravox.com/article.php3?id_article=10628 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Agoravox-TheCitizenMedia/~3/TMZL1JVx4sI/article.php3 Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:44:02 +0200 In the health care debate one of the liberals' favorite statistic is the one that has 47 million Americans being uninsured.  Now, there are a number of problems with this number.  Like the fact that it counts you as an “uninsured” American even if you only went without (...) Rob Port http://www.agoravox.com/article.php3?id_article=10627 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Agoravox-TheCitizenMedia/~3/taj_iIVsUpA/article.php3 Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:34:11 +0200 Coca-Cola, Ogilvy, Unilever. Besides their massive success and brand name recognition in their respective industries, these three companies have something else in common. They are forward thinking, forward working, and have taken advantage of the digital revolution as well as anyone else, from (...) JessicaD http://www.agoravox.com/article.php3?id_article=10619 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Agoravox-TheCitizenMedia/~3/tWrU5BOi32I/article.php3 Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:31:30 +0200 Tomorrow, the Supreme Court will hear arguments on the constitutionality of the restrictions that have been placed on corporate money in politics. The ruling may be one of the Court's most critical decisions in an age which has seen one Presidential campaign accumulate almost a billion (...) PacificGatePost http://www.agoravox.com/article.php3?id_article=10626 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Agoravox-TheCitizenMedia/~3/QaClDSXoKP4/article.php3 Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:29:21 +0200 Recent studies have shown that the use of social networking sites are now being seen as an opportunity for business, online data can be shared with ease and contacts made. More than one in five users (21.7%) now use twitter for work purposes according to recent research carried out by the (...) Emma Naylor http://www.agoravox.com/article.php3?id_article=10618 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Agoravox-TheCitizenMedia/~3/AewEUOIxRTI/article.php3 Tue, 08 Sep 2009 02:08:23 +0200 US troops storm Afghan hospital in the latest effort to win hearts and minds! I hate to say it but a hospital can not be sacred ground it ca not be a safe haven for the Taliban as you know it would be. We must have the ability to check every possibility be it hospital or morgue. At any rate I (...) James Joiner http://www.agoravox.com/article.php3?id_article=10625 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Agoravox-TheCitizenMedia/~3/mNwKcNHfnzY/article.php3 Tue, 08 Sep 2009 02:01:30 +0200 Today, Dutch Minister for European Affairs Frans Timmermans granted knighthood to Russell Shorto in New York. Shorto is author of The Island at the Center Of the World (2004), a history of the early colonization of Manhattan by Dutch settlers. Russell Shorto img height="300" width="200" (...) Huib Riethof http://www.agoravox.com/article.php3?id_article=10624 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Agoravox-TheCitizenMedia/~3/YStLeuzBhuM/article.php3 Tue, 08 Sep 2009 01:39:51 +0200 'This country is like a cake. On the top it is cream. Underneath it is fire.' - Hezbollah spokesman 'We don't want the great Syrian prison.' - Kamal Jumblatt The Middle East is a rough part of the world, especially for its ethnic and religious minorities. In the (...) Michael J. Totten http://www.agoravox.com/article.php3?id_article=10623 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Agoravox-TheCitizenMedia/~3/VNuK9gGxdFU/article.php3 Tue, 08 Sep 2009 01:30:52 +0200 I'm just home after having endured one of the most unpleasant experiences I can remember in an EU institution. Really remarkable. I've had meetings in the European Parliament on two consecutive days (yesterday and today) with two different British MEPs. When signing in for the (...) Jon Worth http://www.agoravox.com/article.php3?id_article=10622 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Agoravox-TheCitizenMedia/~3/qAHnBJR4CzM/article.php3 Tue, 08 Sep 2009 01:22:44 +0200 Treasury Department officials have yet to say whether they will appeal on Ohio judge's ruling that their 2006 asset freeze against an Islamic charity violated the group's due process rights. Treasury officials accuse KindHearts for Charitable Humanitarian Development of taking over (...) The Investigative Project on Terrorism http://www.agoravox.com/article.php3?id_article=10621 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Agoravox-TheCitizenMedia/~3/d43nYmutqFc/article.php3 Tue, 08 Sep 2009 01:15:56 +0200 A recent headline in the daily French regional newspaper Le Berry républicain read something along the lines of "Bumper harvest, happy farming" ("Moisson copieuse, agriculture heureuse". Somehow it sounds better in French doesn't it?) Not surprising really perhaps that agriculture should (...) Johnny Summerton http://www.agoravox.com/article.php3?id_article=10616