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Moving to Haiti… Because It’s Better Than The States
20 hours ago ago from Daily Markets
The U.S. is terrible now I have more opportunity in Haiti. Now that's a sentence I never thought I'd hear. But the guy who said it backed it up. He was my cabdriver in Miami over the weekend. I started a grocery store back home in Haiti a couple years ago. My wife already moved back to Haiti to run it. But what about the crime and the government there? I asked. Aren't you worried? Where I grew up it's quiet, he told me. It ...
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11 hours ago ago from Grenada
NEW YORK, Nov 10 (IPS) - Since his appointment last spring as United Nations special envoy to Haiti, former U.S. President Bill Clinton has been called, half-seriously, "president of Haiti" and "viceroy".
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3 hours ago ago from President Barack Obama
COPENHAGEN — President Obama arrived here on Friday morning bent on applying a combination of muscle and personal charm to secure a climate change agreement involving nearly 200 countries. He injects himself into a multilayered negotiation that has been far more chaotic and contentious than anticipated — frozen by longstanding divisions between rich and poor nations and a legacy of mistrust of the United States, which has long refused to ...
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1 day ago ago from Electronics Emergency
The United States has not had his money when it comes to health care, according to recent statistics. The Commonwealth Fund has released a report earlier this month on the ranking American in the health system in the world and it was not good. According to the report, residents of the United States receive poorer quality care, having to pay more for it, best among six industrialized nations, including Germany, Great Britain, Australia, ...
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7 hours ago ago from Repeating Islands
Here’s an odd piece of news . . . according to Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, the Dutch government is allowing the United States to use their territories in the Caribbean to prepare a possible military attack against his country. The Dutch are saying it is absolutely not true, but the conspiracy theorist in me finds it hard to dismiss it completely. Being Puerto Rican, of course, I am always waiting for the next Marine invasion. I think ...
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Calling on Congress to stop the debt tsunami
16 hours ago ago from Washington Post - Business
The 34 names are familiar to anyone who has followed economic policy in Washington for the past generation, one-third of them former chairmen or members of key committees of Congress, seven of them former directors of the White House Office of Management and Budget, two of them former comptroller generals of the United States, seven of them former directors of the Congressional Budget Office, and one of them -- Paul Volcker -- a former ...
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15 hours ago ago from Washington Post - Business
COPENHAGEN -- With an offer of significant new aid to help poor nations cope with the effects of global warming, the Obama administration began a major diplomatic effort Thursday aimed at saving the troubled climate talks before the president's expected arrival Friday morning. This Story This Story The United States is pressuring developing countries to agree ...
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8 hours ago ago from Politics Daily
COPENHAGEN -- As the Copenhagen climate summit approached its finish, geo-politics trumped geo-science. Throughout the day Thursday -- supposedly, the second-to-last-day -- multiple plenary sessions and working groups toiled frenetically, trying to resolve a host of controversies over procedure and substance, as heads of states delivered largely irrelevant speeches in the main hallway. At different press conferences, European officials ...
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10 hours ago ago from Washington Post - U.S.
COPENHAGEN -- President Obama met privately with 17 other heads of government, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso and a representative from the Chinese government early Friday, trying to hammer out a climate-change agreement on the final day of the U.N.-sponsored global summit. This Story Obama touched down in Copenhagen in sub-zero weather Friday morning as the United States scrambled to ...
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4 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
COPENHAGEN - The Copenhagen game of tag-in-the-dark enters its eleventh hour. With over 100 heads of states arriving in the next few hours, negotiators of some 200 countries are gearing up for the last remaining miles of this two week marathon. The Copenhagen wish list has shrunken slightly, down from a legally binding treaty to a comprehensive operational agreement that will lay the groundwork for said legally binding treaty. Despite ...
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