americanthinker.com - 10/23/2009
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The two giants of the developing world signed an accord yesterday, strengthening their opposition to regulation of their so-called greenhouse gas emissions.
themoderatevoice.com - 10/22/2009
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themoderatevoice.com —
The production of a Hollywood film on the
romance between Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first prime minister, and...
Lady Edwina Mountbatten, wife of the last British viceroy of India, has been temporarily halted. The Indian government wants an assurance that the movie, Indian Summer , ...
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Hollywood Movie Interrupted: Nehru-Edwina Romance
newsweek.com - 10/19/2009
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newsweek.com —
On June 21, two Chinese military helicopters swooped
low over Demchok, a tiny Indian hamlet high in...
the Hima-layas along the northwestern border with China. The helicopters dropped canned food over a barren expanse and then returned to bases in China. ...
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India's China Obsession | Newsweek International
techcrunch.com - 10/26/2009
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techcrunch.com —
Editor’s note : This is a guest post
by Vivek Wadhwa , an entrepreneur turned academic. He...
is a Visiting Scholar at UC-Berkeley, Senior Research Associate at Harvard Law School and Executive in Residence at Duke University. Follow him on Twitter at @ ...
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Beware The Reverse Brain Drain To India And China
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China-India Accord to Scuttle UN Climate Treaty By William R. Hawkins On October 22, an accord was signed by Xie Zhenhua, China's vice minister at the National Development and Reform Commission, and Jairam Ramesh, India's environment minister, in New Delhi. The memorandum provides an alternative framework to counter pressure from America and Europe to adopt mandatory limits on greenhouse gas emissions in a new UN treaty. The two Asian powers will collaborate on the development of renewable power projects and improved energy efficiency programs, while rejecting any ...
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csmonitor.com 10/22/2009 — India and China's climate-change pact, signed Wednesday, will boost developing nations' bargaining power at the critical Copenhagen talks in December. By Peter Ford | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor from the October 22, 2009 edition ...
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commonsensewonder.blogspot.com 10/23/2009 — China-India Accord to Scuttle UN Climate Treaty By William R. Hawkins On October 22, an accord was signed by Xie Zhenhua, China's vice minister at the National Development and Reform Commission, and Jairam Ramesh, India's environment minister, in New Delhi. The memorandum provides an ...
UN Climate Summit Puts China, India In Spotlight
huffingtonpost.com 9/23/2009 — UNITED NATIONS — In the highest-level conference yet on climate change, 100 world leaders come to the United Nations on Tuesday to decide how to start an energy revolution.
While attention turns to U.S. President Barack Obama's first U.N. ...
India: We’re Not Hurting Our Economy For “Climate Change”
qando.net 10/23/2009 — T he Copenhagen summit is in December and yesterday UN climate chief Yvo de Boer said he didn’t expect an agreement to come out of the meeting, dashing the hopes of environmental extremists that the nations would agree to binding reductions of ...
A History of Algebra
jihadwatch.org 10/17/2009 — Here is the latest from the erudite European essayist Fjordman: Diophantus of Alexandria is sometimes called "the father of algebra," although the title is disputed. He worked in Roman Egypt in the third century of our era, but while he is usually ...
Another Sign of Too Much US Debt: India Trades Dollars for Gold
harrisonprice.com 11/5/2009 — With U.S. debt at an all time high and numerous Democratic proposals on the table to raise it further, is it any wonder that countries are getting rid of their dollar stockpiles for something that won’t keep dropping in value?
Gold prices yesterday surged to an all-time high after ...
The End of Unipolarity
voices.washingtonpost.com 10/14/2009 —
Some excellent thoughts on the structural forces behind the end of American unipolarity from Matt Yglesias:
Nobody has proposed a halfway plausible mechanism by which the United States can alter the fact that India and China have a larger ...
How the U.S. Could Be the Next Britain (In a Bad Way)
harrisonprice.com 10/20/2009 — From the Wall Street Journal (food for thought):
The dollar’s sharp drop over the past few weeks has led to considerable anxiety about the status of the United States as the dominant force in the global economy. Closely related to this fear is constant worry about the rise of China and ...
So can anyone actually do anything about global warming?
themoderatevoice.com 8/25/2009 — The new issue of Foreign Affairs is hot off the presses. Its cover package includes three articles about global warming that are well worth reading. The focus here is entirely on how to solve the problem. This is a discussion of the politics, not the scientific debate behind it.
First up is ...
A Brief History of Zero and Indian Numerals
brusselsjournal.com 9/29/2009 —
I heard the claim from one European reader that “The Arab
world invented the zero, and it’s been downhill ever since.” This is false, but
unfortunately not an uncommon mistake. Our numeral system dates back to India
during the post-Roman ...
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