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  • India: The Pasha Tour

    11/04/2010 9:14:58 AM PDT · by IbJensen · 39 replies
    Investors Business Daily ^ | November 3, 2010
    Diplomacy: Yes, a traveling president deserves security. But the 3,000-person entourage accompanying Barack Obama to Mumbai, India, this week reeks of pashalike decadence. With an electoral repudiation still ringing in his ears, we can't blame President Obama for wanting to get away from Washington as a new Congress prepares to roll in. He's hardly the first chief executive to do it. But there are problems with this "strategic" visit, with a stated interest in celebrating Diwali, the Hindu Festival of Lights, that suggest this won't be time well spent. In a time of trillion-dollar stimulus packages and $600 billion Fed...
  • UAE beats Americans' environmental harm

    01/15/2007 6:18:41 PM PST · by NormsRevenge · 15 replies · 495+ views
    AP on Yahoo ^ | 1/15/07 | Jim Krane - ap
    DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - When it comes to squandering the earth's natural resources, residents of this desert land of chilled swimming pools, monster 4x4s and air-conditioned malls are on a par with even the ravenous consumption of Americans, according to the World Wildlife Fund. The average person in the Emirates puts more demand on the global ecosystem than any other, giving the country the world's largest per-capita "ecological footprint," WWF data shows. The United States runs second. But the oil-rich Emirates is considered a developing country, and even as a signatory to the United Nations' Kyoto protocol on global...