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| Inside Story: Crouching dollar, floating yuan -How far will China go to replace U.S. as number one global power? | |
| AlJazeeraEnglish | 20 January 2011 The Chinese President Hu Jintao is enjoying the red-carpet treatment in Washington DC against a backdrop of increasing tension between his country and the US. As the two leaders meet, a number of US lawmakers are demanding again that China allow its currency to float against the dollar - arguing that a weak yuan is hurting American business. But is China really listening? Its global expansion takes in every corner of the globe. And its influence is growing. Will this be China's century? Will the US have to live in China's shadow? Inside Story, with presenter David Foster, discusses. | |
| Date: 22 January 2011 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 748 - Votes: 3 - Rating: 5 | |
| Comedian John Fugelsang: GOP Should Love the Public Option | |
| GRITtv: 20 January 2011 | Republicans in Congress, we need to talk. Congrats on your inspiring vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act. I know you hate Obamacare -- and on some levels, I agree with you. This bill is so watered down Dick Cheney could take it to Gitmo and pour it on Khalid Sheik Mohammed's face. | |
| Date: 22 January 2011 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 761 - Votes: 2 - Rating: 4.5 | |
| Hamid Karzai, Afghan President, Exclusive Interview: Russians understand us better than Americans | |
| RussiaToday | 22 January 2011 | RT's Sophie Shevardnadze caught up with the Afghan President in Moscow. Hamid Karzai how he plans to solve the problems that are plaguing his country - and spilling beyond its borders. | |
| Date: 22 January 2011 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 754 - Votes: 4 - Rating: 5 | |
| The U.S.-Backed Assassination of Congo's First Democratically-Elected Leader with King Leopold's Ghost Author, Adam Hochschid | |
| Democracy Now! 21 January 2011 DemocracyNow.org - This week marks the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Patrice Lumumba, the first democratically-elected leader of what is now known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Lumumba's pan-Africanism and his vision of a united Congo gained him many enemies. Both Belgium and the United States actively sought to have him killed. The CIA ordered his assassination but could not complete the job. Instead, the U.S. and Belgium covertly funneled cash and aid to rival politicians who seized power and arrested Lumumba. On Jan. 17th, 1961, after being beaten and tortured, Lumumba was shot and killed. | |
| Date: 22 January 2011 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 788 - Votes: 7 - Rating: 5 | |
| Sarah Palin Battle Hymn Dance Remix: Nobody Parties Like The Tea Party | |
| JimmyKimmelLive | 21 January 2011 | Jimmy Kimmel Live - Sarah Palin Battle Hymn Dance Remix | |
| Date: 22 January 2011 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 765 - Votes: 1 - Rating: 5 | |
| Poll Suggests Americans Want Health Care Reform | |
| 21 January, 2010 MSNBC | |
| Date: 22 January 2011 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 724 - Votes: 1 - Rating: 5 | |
| Naomi Klein: Addicted to risk | |
| TEDtalksDirector | 18 January 2011 | http://www.ted.com Days before this talk, journalist Naomi Klein was on a boat in the Gulf of Mexico, looking at the catastrophic results of BP's risky pursuit of oil. Our societies have become addicted to extreme risk in finding new energy, new financial instruments and more ... and too often, we're left to clean up a mess afterward. Klein's question: What's the backup plan? | |
| Date: 21 January 2011 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 765 - Votes: 7 - Rating: 4.58 | |
| Welcome to Cancer Alley: Van Jones on the Economic Injustice of Plastic | |
| TEDtalksDirector | 21 January 2011 | http://www.ted.com Van Jones lays out a case against plastic pollution from the perspective of social justice. Because plastic trash, he shows us, hits poor people and poor countries (quote)first and worst,(end quote) with consequences we all share no matter where we live and what we earn. At TEDxGPGP, he offers a few powerful ideas to help us reclaim our throwaway planet. | |
| Date: 21 January 2011 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 822 - Votes: 2 - Rating: 4 | |
| Germans warn of cancer near new nuclear dump site | |
| AlJazeeraEnglish | 19 January 2011 | Thousands of angry protesters delayed a shipment of nuclear waste arriving at a dumping site in Germany last November. Now, authorities there are considering using the site for long-term nuclear waste storage, but anti-nuclear campaigners say alarming cancer statistics at a site in the same region should serve as a warning. Al Jazeera's Nadim Baba reports. | |
| Date: 21 January 2011 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 772 - Votes: 0 - Rating: 0 | |
| Bizarro Boehner To The Repeal: Can Nancy Pelosi thwart his evil plan? | |
| zinasaundersdotcom | 21 January 2011 | Bizarro Boehner descends on Capitol Hill to repeal health care reform. Can Nancy Pelosi thwart his evil plan? Visit the animation section of my website at http://www.zinasaunders.com And on Mother Jones http://motherjones.com/authors/zina-s... | |
| Date: 21 January 2011 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 758 - Votes: 1 - Rating: 5 | |