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| They did it again: U.S. President Barack Obama and Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner once more called on other countries to do more to stimulate their economies. The answer by most European countries is equally predictable: Ah, no. Just a few days ago, the Eurozone nations rather resolutely rejected demands by the U.S. that European countries increase their own stimulus packages to combat the financial crisis. It wasn't the first time that European governments gave Washington the cold shoulder. In February, Germany's outspoken Finance Minister warned that the U.S. stimulus efforts could lead to a new global bubble. The continuing transatlantic spat intensifies just weeks before the crucial G-20 meeting in London in April, and one day before Geithner travels to Britain for a finance minister meeting in preparation for the summit. The expectations and the stakes for the G-20 meeting are high. It is the first major global meeting with Obama and Geithner representing the U.S., and it comes at a time when the fallout of the financial crisis can be felt across the world. At the important G-20 meeting in Washington late last year, Obama was not sworn in yet. At the second major international economic event of the last months, the Global Economic Forum in Davos in late January, Obama and his team had just taken office and were not present. At the G-20 meeting in London, Obama and Geithner need, and are expected, to produce something. |
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| "Hi guys! This Conference sounds to be great! They have very interesting panels on identity and a featured panel on Barak Obama and you can also make a real African Safari...." The Institute of Identity Research (IDmap) announces an international conference on Identity Politics on the Internet to be held in Kenya on the 27th to 29th of August 2009. The aim of the Conference is to create discourse in the area of Identity politics on the Internet and other related topics. The Conference will be graced by several leading scholars who have written and researched extensively on issues of Identity. We hope that this conference will result in solutions and better understanding of the problems facing issues of identity in the contemporary context. AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE IDENTITY POLITICS ON THE INTERNET August 27-29, 2009 Organized by Institute of Identity Research (IDmap) http://www.idmap-conferences.net/site/detail/detail/detailDetail.asp?pageNameTXT=Conference-2009&depart_id=106967 Will be held in Amboseli Wildlife National Park, Kenya Featured panel: Barack Obama' Election and Kenyan politics of Identity: Will he identify himself with the World or with his People? • The Dead line for submission of the Abstracts is 01.05.2009 (200-500 words) in Word or PDF formats • The Dead line for submission of full-text papers is 01.07.2009 Preliminary program of the Conference includes the following panels: • Kenyan 2007 Presidential elections and the Internet • Traditions and Identity in Kenyan politics: Barak Obama as a Luo representative of Kenyan identity politics • Facebook and Identity: do old ethnicity definitions still matter? • World Identity politics: Case-studies and Comparative Analysis • Parties and recruitment in the digital world • Gender, ethnicity and empowerment: what is better to be a white man or a black woman? • When religion comes to the Internet: the new ways to build and reinforce religious identity • Government on the Internet: new ways to preserve Nation-state and its identity on the Net • New English and E-Linguistic: jargon and vocabulary of Internet campaigns Participants are welcomed to join the following working groups: • Computers and identity • Culture and identity • Mathematical expressions of identity • Internet and Politics • Internet Vocabulary Best Identity MA/PhD Thesis work award: During the conference the Institute will award the best MA/PhD work submitted for the evaluation. The work should reveal an original and innovative approach in the field of Identity with its expression on the Internet. Information regarding submission procedure can be found on our site or through direct contact of the Administrators. |
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| Ms Achy | Homepage | E-Mail | 13.03.2009, 08:10 | ||
| Fine, if you guys like global depression, then feel free to rest on your laurels and hold the US responsible for what will happen if you don't participate in restoring the world economy. A lot of US progressives have been willing to give Europe credit for smarter government than we have here in the States. Not this time. Don't expect us to bail you out in another few years. |
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| Ben Lurkin | 13.03.2009, 00:20 | ||