Belgian authorities on Sunday called in the army to assist with emergency evacuations after severe flooding killed two people in the southwestern Hainot province.
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CieL- FreYa Ceastle : http://www.english.rfi.fr/france/20101114-flood-warning-north-france-two-dead-belgium
CieL- FreYa Ceastle : I feel uncomfortable every time I think about it. We live in nature that every time threaten our life with its disaster...
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Weather forecasters warned of worse to come in the north of France, after the centre of one town was flooded on Sunday. In neighbouring Belgium three people have died.
Cisca Zarmansyah : Me, too. But I think we must accustom ourselves to receive two opposite sides of each case.
Almira Izzati : 5 months ago : http://www.reuters.com/news/pictures/slideshow?articleId=USRTR2E1AK#a=1
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Sunday he was hopeful of working out a deal with Republicans over tax cuts and of winning ratification of a new nuclear weapons treaty with Russia.
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Adriaan Zef : Most likely he won't revoke the policy of health insurance reform, Medicare.
Adriaan Zef : Democrats' agenda will be complicated, considering that Republic has the opposite agenda. Earlier, he said he'd be open to compromise with Republicans, especially in possibility of continuing the Bush era tax policy which will expire on January 1, 2011, including tax policies that apply to middle-class society.
Valentino Vie : Naahh.... and if Congress takes no action, individual income tax rate will increase to 15,.. 28,.. 31,.. 36, and 39.6%, from 10,.. 15,.. 25,.. 33,.. and 36% now! Whew...are you ready to be a frog?
Cisca Zarmansyah : He'll fight for numbers of government agendas before new Congress inauguration on January 3, 2011. It's known, he needs to fight while Democrats still have dominate in Congress, cause although they manage to retain dominance in Senate, but the result of yesterday's elections gave Republics more than 230 seats of 435 total seats in Parliament. So, how do you think? Can he fight for this agenda?
TAX of BUSH ERA
He wants to boost their tax income of USD 250 thousand. Republic refuses and wants to make all applicable taxes. Compromise is needed before the tax cuts will expire December 31st.
AFGHANISTAN
Commander of US forces in Afghanistan (General David Petraeus) says there's progress there, whereas the onslaught of Taliban casualties on US forces still in large numbers. He promises to review the American war strategy in December.
DEFICIT REDUCTION
Bipartisan panel is held on 1 December to block the budget deficit. It reaches USD 1.3 trillion in fiscal year 2010. Will it reach a deal? It's not clear.
CHINESE CURRENCY
Value of Chinese currency threatens the relation between two countries. Ministry of Finance will decide whether China manipulates currency. That decision will be made after 10 November 2010.
Homosexual IN MILITARY
He plans to revoke the DADT policy. It restricts homosexuals served openly in military. Republic opposes it, as well as a number of top military brass.
KOREA TRADE PACT
He and Lee Myung-bak discuss a number of import restrictions since 2007.
UNEMPLOYMENT
The stimulus package to reduce unemployment rate to 9.6%. The package is accompanied infrastructure development program for six years. Development investment funds needs USD 50 billion. Republic openly opposes it.
START THE TREATY
He wants to accelerate the implementation of a new treaty reducing nuclear weapons and improves the US-Russian relations. Republic tries to postpone this issue discussion until they grow up in parliament.
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Valentino Vie : Whoop de do! I miss you, baby. I really want us to make it tonight. NOW!.....
Adriaan Zef : what NOW? NOW is democracy NOW!
Cisca Zarmansyah : ......
The world's leftists dream of the day when they might erect an international taxation system.
A June 7 report from Amnesty International offers photographs of US-made cluster bombs that it says were used in a December attack against suspected Al Qaeda members.
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Pranay Suresh: so visible! you're highlighting the Arabian Peninsula, aren't you?
Cisca Zarmansyah : Yups!
DUBAI (Reuters) - Yemen-based al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula denied on Sunday it would stage any action to coincide with the Muslim haj pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia after a Saudi minister said such an operation could not be ruled out.
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Pranay Suresh : your assumptions always strict and investigative!I like it.
Cisca Zarmansyah : ...... No prejudice, Nay.
Valentino Vie : That's you!...always walking backwards while sweeping. haha
YANGON (Reuters) - Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi called on Sunday for freedom of speech in army-ruled Myanmar, urged thousands of supporters to stand up for their rights, and indicated she may urge the West to end sanctions.
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Freed Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi tells the BBC she is ready for talks with all groups to achieve national reconciliation.
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Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is freed after seven years of house arrest.
Cisca Zarmansyah : Dank U, Iz. She's a hero. She's a woman. I admire her
More Recent News about Suu Kyi
(Added by me on Sunday, August 14, 2011)
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The Burmese pro-democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, is making her first political trip outside Rangoon since her release from house arrest last November.
Margaret Thatcher once said that being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't. At the Group of 20 summit in Seoul, President Obama asserted that the results of the midterm elections have not diminished his power internationally and that in some ways, he is even stronger, thanks to the friendships he allegedly has developed with world leaders.
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Valentino Vie : Main proposal of G-20 Summit simply continues the policies in crisis resolving with neoliberal prescriptions, such as deregulation of financial sector, trade liberalization, investment, colonial model, as well as foreign debt,... heh!
Speaking from his boyhood home of Jakarta, Indonesia, yesterday, President Obama said, "America is not, and never will be, at war with Islam." His talking point misses the point because Islam is at war with America.
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Cisca Zarmansyah : "America is not, and never will be, at war with Islam. All of us must work together to defeat al Qaeda and its affiliates, who have no claim to be leaders of any religion, certainly not a great world religion like Islam." (BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA - Speaking from his boyhood home of Jakarta, Indonesia)
CieL- FreYa Ceastle: It's a political motive economical. If Obama's visit to China and India will benefit the economy in near future, the existence of economic cooperation - so that it can reduce unemployment in America - then Obama's visit to Indonesia could be seen as a U.S. investment for long term interests.
Cisca Zarmansyah: I've told to Nino that I liked his lips, Jan... ehehhe...
SEOUL (Reuters) - The Group of 20 labored to agree how to put the world economy on a sounder footing on Thursday as fears about Ireland's ability to pay its debts underscored lingering fallout from the global financial crisis.
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Cisca Zarmansyah : G20 Korea Will There Be A Storm?
Lakshmi Lavanya The strengthening U.S. economy, that's the key to global recovery!
CieL- FreYa Ceastle : An international financial think-tank has warned world leaders attending the G20 summit of top economies to concentrate on improving global banking regulations @ http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,6216004,00.html
Cisca Zarmansyah : Jan, South Korea is worried about the US mad cow
www.dw-world.de An international financial think-tank has warned world leaders attending the G20 summit of top economies to concentrate on improving global banking regulations.
Adriaan Zef : World leaders stated that they would work together to overcome "the tensions and vulnerabilities" in the global economy that generated fear in the emergence of war exchange rates and trade protectionism, after they held a meeting of the G20 group in Seoul, Friday.(Nov 12, 2010)
Here's a summary of things that have been decided in the summit.
GLOBAL IMBALANCES
Eliminate the gap between rich countries and debtor countries have been the cornerstone G20. G20 leaders agree on a framework for balanced growth, handed over the medium term economic plan to IMF in order to ensure they don't clash, while the final summit communique doesn't move any further.
In Seoul, Washington should give up because they can't force the other parties agree on quantitative targets for deficit and current account surplus.
Instead, the leaders instruct the G20 finance ministers to map out a series of "indicative guidelines" in order to assess their current account imbalances under consultation with the IMF, but let the details discussed in the first half of next year.
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CURRENCIES
Currency exchange rate is the focus of the debate about global imbalances. United States and some countries have to persuade China to let its currency to strengthen more quickly and accuse Beijing of deliberately making its currency low so that the gain trade advantage.
But Washington faces a more difficult time in realizing that desire when its allies looked cheap money policy pursued by the Federal Reserve aimed to weaken the U.S. dollar.
G20 leaders promised to refer the matter to foreign exchange market mechanism, and avoid competitive devaluations (the deliberate devaluation in order to improve the competitiveness of exports). This pledge is a repetition of the commitments made at the meeting of finance ministers G20 countries last month.
However, given the growing influence of state-wide economic developing countries like Brazil, G20 states that countries with condition of "Emerging Economies", and their exchanges rate becomes more expensive (overvalued) and face an undue burden, are entitled to adopt "macroeconomic policies-prudential designed carefully" to control the capital for coping with capital inflows.
In the previous G20 meeting, leaders bargain with each other about whether the final summit statement would offend China for letting its currency weak, but this doesn't happen again.
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FINANCIAL SYSTEM SETTING
World leaders signed an agreement "Basel III" to improve the quality and quantity of bank capital, which became the central financial system reforms proposed financial crisis.
They also support the proposed establishment of the Financial Stability Council to tighten supervision to deal with the derivatives market and reduce reliance on debt-rating agencies. Nevertheless, the leaders of the G20 don't fully agree on the agenda of other regulations.
G20 support a series of general recommendations by the Financial Stability Council to determine how the banks considered "too big to be left bankrupt" (too big to fail) ", but there is disagreement on issues such as whether the institutions should be subject to the imposition of fees further capital, given the many things that need to be done again on a number of specific steps that are planned.
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TRADE
All slow-growing developed countries want to export his own way for the health of the economy and this is the base of the tension surrounding the currency and global imbalances.
G20 leaders have promised not to pursue protectionist policies and continues to work for the Doha round of trade liberalization talks.
Meanwhile, South Korea and the United States failed to agree a free trade agreement which had long they were talking about, especially given that the provision of access for U.S. automakers to the South Korean automotive market was favorable.
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IMF
The leaders support reform package offered by their finance ministers last month to reform the International Monetary Fund to reflect a shift in the balance of global economic power.
Under this agreement, more than 6 percent share of votes in the Fund will be transferred to developing countries like China that will become members of the third largest country of an organization with 187 members based in Washington.
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