Trump new business

To finish this 42 last blogs, i choose an article which relates, of course, United Kingdom with North America.

Donald Trump had a plan to build a £1bn golf course, but Scottish councillors reject it.

As we continuing reading, councillors have thrown out the US tycoon Donald Trump's plan for a £1bn golf resort and complex in north-east Scotland. Aberdeenshire council's infrastructure services committee rejected a planning application for the Trump International Golf Links Scotland in a close vote today, but members of the more powerful infrastructure committee voted against the proposal.

Less water that will be spend in a project which is no needed to a country's development, apart from leisure time and sport!

Winner for independent

As the article shows, Control won five awards at the British Independent Film Awards last night, including best film, best director and best debut director.

I want to watch it!

Why?

This issue about Brown's boycott to African minister presence in Lisbon is not new, yet, the African president will travel to Lisbon in Brown's place.

President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe announced yesterday that he will travel to Europe next week to attend a summit of EU and African leaders in Lisbon, confounding EU hopes he would stay away, and triggering frantic plans by his Portuguese hosts to try to keep him from stealing the summit limelight.
African leaders had threatened to cancel the Lisbon meeting if Mugabe was not invited, while the prime minister, Gordon Brown, confirmed yesterday that he would boycott the summit because of the presence of the Zimbabwe leader.

As a Portuguese citizen I have to share my disappointment on my country's decision on accepting this dictator and murder to go in just because it is "politically correct" to accept him. Well done for Gordon Brown!

No Woody for Spain

I read an article yesterday in El Pais saying that Woody Allen quits Spain in film funds row. Well today this news came to the newspapers in the UK.

When Woody Allen arrived in Barcelona in July to start making his latest film, he was greeted with open arms, but yesterday the president of Mediapro, the Catalan production company behind Allen's new film Vicky Cristina Barcelona, has announced that two future projects will be made "neither in Catalonia nor in Spain", as had been previously planned.

Jaume Roures blamed what he said was the "small-minded attitude" of local politicians and press, who complained Allen received special treatment in Barcelona.

Youtuberians

Talking in YouTube.com is what everyone seems to be doing.

As this article states, Republicans debate God, guns, gays and especially immigration in a live blog. The form may have been different, but the content was familiar. In the second debate of the presidential nomination campaign sponsored by the website YouTube, Republican front-runners Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney frequently tangled on issues ranging from immigration to taxation.

Creationism

When we start studying subjects like biology, the name of Darwin and his theories about Evolution come along.

This article maintains that a growing numbers of pupils believe in creationism, and science teachers should be prepared to cover the topic in their classes.

Creationism - the belief that life came into existence thousands of years ago as described in the Bible or the Qur'an, rather than millions of years ago, which scientists believe - is on the rise in the UK. This makes the teaching of the scientific theory of evolution a problem in some schools.

I am very happy that creationism is being take into account to the reason of our existence... at least scientist are given it a chance!

Blasphemy

Accordingly with this article, Christians seek right to sue BBC for blasphemy.

A Christian group is trying to prosecute the producer and broadcaster of Jerry Springer - The Opera under blasphemy laws will take its case to the high court in London today.
Christian Voice wants to bring a case against Mark Thompson, the director general of the BBC, and Jonathan Thoday, producer of the award-winning musical, for blasphemous libel, but was refused permission by City of Westminster magistrates court.

Veggies

After few Jamie Oliver's intents of having schools with better and healthier meals, this article claims that there is a Hindu school which is the first to make vegetarianism a condition of entry.

A row has broken out after the UK's first Hindu state school announced a strict admissions code, which critics say favours followers of the Hare Krishna tradition over mainstream Hinduism. The Krishna-Avanti school in north-west London will be the first school in Britain to make vegetarianism a condition of entry. To get their child a place at the primary school, parents of pupils will also be expected to abstain from alcohol to prove they are followers of the faith.

Bye Israel?

As this article states, the State of Israel could disappear.

The Prime minister Ehud Olmert today raised the spectre of the disintegration of the state of Israel unless a two-state solution with the Palestinians could be reached.

Really? Could this happen?

Is it really that exit to made a state disappear?

Could Jose Saramago be right when he claimed that Portugal should also disappear as a country and be part of Spain as another province?

What is wrong with people? with politicians? with artists? with BRAINS!?

The most powerful men

The Spanish newspaper El Pais displays the ten most important business men in the world.

It depends not on only on the money which they might have because of their business, but also depends on the significance and relevance which their product/s have in the industry, technology and advances in society.

The list is:

1. Steve Jobs. Apple.

2. Rupert Murdoch. News Corp.

3. Lloyd Blankfein. Goldman Sachs.

4. Eric Schmidt, Larry Page, Sergei Brin. Google.

5. Warren Buffet. Berkshire Hathaway.

6. Rex Tillerson. Exxon Mobil.

7. Bill Gates. Microsoft.

8. Jeff Immelt. General Electric.

9. Katsuaki Watanabe. Toyota.

10. A. G. Lafley. Procter & Gamble

Winehouse

After days waiting for her concert, at the news is claimed that Amy Winehouse cancels the rest of tour dates for 2007.
She did had one concert last week in Brixton Academy, but she cannot continue anymore because her husband, Blake Fielder-Civil, is currently in prison awaiting trial on charges of assault and perverting the course of justice and she cannot sing without him!

Eggs and money.

A rare pink and gold Faberge egg, adorned with a diamond-studded cockerel and embedded clock, has broken auction records by selling for £9m at Christie's today, this article says.

The translucent egg, which had never before been seen in public, set a record for the creations of the Tsarist jeweller and became the most expensive Russian art object and timepiece ever sold at auction.

I want this money!!!! So much money ...for an egg???

Don Quixote

Who wants to read this book? Two big and extend volumes... to read about a crazy and old Sir sitting in a horse looking for his Dulcinea...but it is actually a nice book!

Well, accordingly with the article, the plot of Don Quixote de la Mancha, a Miguel Cervantes' 17th-century epic, is the first animated version of the novel to make it into the cinema opens across Spain next week.

It had a cost of €15m (£11m), it is Spain's most ambitious animated film yet, and hopes to challenge Hollywood's domination of the Christmas market.

Nazis off!!!!!

This foollowing article claims that there is still a final effort to search for Nazis and to prosecute Nazi war criminals who fled to South America after the second world war was launched in Argentina. It will take the form of a media campaign in Chile, Uruguay, Argentina and Brazil and offer financial rewards for information that leads to convictions.

About football

Apparently in football business some interesting things do happen!

Accordingly with a new today, Portsmouth have confirmed that their manager, Harry Redknapp, was one of the five people arrested today as part of the City of London's investigation into football corruption. Redknapp was held at Chichester Police Station on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud and false accounting.

Over the sky.

In this article from today news we read that an US air strikes kill civilian road workers in Afghanistan.

US forces mistakenly killed at least a dozen road construction workers in air strikes in eastern Afghanistan. The workers, who had been contracted by the US military to build a road in the mountainous province, were sleeping in their tents when they were killed, according to Sayed Noorullah Jalili, director of the road construction company Amerifa.

Refugees back home

One convoy leaves Damascus with refugees, accordingly with this article.

Around 800 Iraqi refugees boarded a fleet of buses yesterday for the first official convoy back to Baghdad since the daily carnage of sectarian violence and car bombs sent them here a year or more ago.
People claimed that "I'm not nervous about going back. I feel comfortable because our neighbours told us on the phone the situation is really good now," said Kadhim Mohammed, who was returning with her husband and five children to the western Baghdad district of Abu Ghraib. A Shia, she said her neighbours were Sunnis who had looked after the family's home during the 18 months they have spent in Syria.

Peace talks

As the article claims, George Bush will preside today over the formal relaunch of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, inviting Ehud Olmert and Mahmoud Abbas to the White House to begin the first negotiations in seven years.

The Palestinian president and Israeli prime minister both pledged "good faith, bilateral negotiations," to secure a peace treaty by the end of 2008.

Giuliani

Accordingly to this article, the New York's mayor Rudy Giuliani had said that he was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2000 and goes on to say: "My chance of surviving cancer - and thank God I was cured of it - in the United States: 82%. My chances of surviving prostate cancer in England: only 44% under socialised medicine." But these numbers are false. The actual five-year survival rate in Britain is 74%, which is still lower than America's, but obviously high enough for the figure not to have constituted fodder for a campaign commercial.

This is not the most relevant issue said in the article, but it asked for my attention...

Chavez

It was not enough to Hugo Chavez after what happen with the King of Spain, Juan Carlos, that now he is saying that Colombia-Venezuela relations head towards a deep freeze.

The article says that a growing diplomatic crisis between Venezuela and Colombia intensified today after Hugo Chávez said reconciliation was impossible with his Colombian counterpart, Alvaro Uribe.

Diplomatic channels might remain open, he said, but "not reconciliation because it's impossible now. When it reaches these levels between two heads of state, it's impossible."

Does he wants to be enemy with everyone?

New York Times

The New York Times Building is new again, as this article claims.

Isn't just a striking new home for the paper - it's the city's best skyscraper in 40 years.

The decline of the New York skyscraper - caused by a leaking away of creative steam from the 1960s and a planning system that increasingly stifled fresh architectural ideas - seemed signed and sealed on 9/11.

Officially opened last week, the New York Times Building is the first truly impressive office tower raised in Manhattan in more than 40 years

Fish in Japan

As we read in this article, Japan in culinary offensive wants to stop spread of US fish.

The keepers of Japan's biggest lake have called on the public to join in one final push to eat the bluegill fish - possibly the most reviled creature in Japan - into extinction before it does the same to threatened native species

Now authorities in Lake Biwa in Shiga prefecture want anglers to stop releasing the fish and instead eat them. Biwa, the world's third-oldest lake, is home to about 1,250 tonnes of bluegill.

Bear's fault.

After Sesame street news, this article is also about a concern involving children toys and offences.

A British primary school teacher has been arrested in Sudan accused of blasphemy for allowing her pupils to name a teddy bear Muhammad

been charged with blasphemy, an offence he said was punishable with up to three months in prison and a fine.

Serious...very serious

Accordingly with this article US obtains Swiss records and flies in British witness in a BAE investigation.

Apparently, US corruption investigators have gone behind the back of Downing Street to fly a British witness to Washington to testify about Saudi arms deals with the UK arms firm BAE Systems. The US is seeking - but has so far been refused - more than a million pages of documents seized from BAE, its bankers, Lloyds TSB, and the Ministry of Defence during an investigation by the Serious Fraud Office.

Putin and elections

As this article maintains, Putin claimed that US are meddling in Russian elections.

The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, today accused the US of deliberately seeking to destabilise the country's forthcoming elections.

The OSCE monitoring office announced it would not be sending representatives to observe Russia's parliamentary elections.

The OSCE - which includes the US, Canada, European countries and ex-Soviet republics - is widely regarded in the west as the most authoritative assessor of whether elections are conducted in line with democratic principles. When the OSCE announced its refusal to send observers, the US state department immediately criticised Russia's restrictions on foreign monitoring. But in turn Russian officials claimed the OSCE's monitoring was biased and tacitly supported pro-western opposition forces.

Is it really US fault?

Oprah again!

After few more months, Obama picked Oprah to be his candidate club.

As the article claims, she can sell books, and now the question is whether Oprah Winfrey can sell a politician.
Barack Obama confirmed today that Winfrey is to join him during his campaigning in three key states next month for the Democratic party's nomination for the US presidential election.

But again??? Were is the originality of politicians? when will they stop repeating themselves?

NO NO NO!

No way! What is it happening to all of us? How is it possible to say that Cookie monster is the number one problem, not because he is a monster, but because he eats cookies (encourages obesity), and when his addiction takes a special stranglehold, the plate (might hurt)???

This is what this article claimed. It said that Sesame Street: not suitable for children

the early episodes of Sesame Street have just been released on DVD, but be warned - those shows are dangerous! Slapped across the front of the case is the message, "These early Sesame Street episodes are intended for grown-ups, and may not suit the needs of today's preschool child."

What happened to those free from everything children? like me!! free from fears, free from obesity and free from society over protection?!

Really?

With the advance on time we many times ear US government saying that they will quit from Iraq FOR SURE, and the sooner the best!

This article shows what was not expected as Iraq proposes long-term US troop presence.

Iraq's government is preparing to grant the US a long-term troop presence in the country and preferential treatment for American investors in return for a guarantee on long-term security, it emerged today.

The proposals foresee a long-term presence of about 50,000 US troops, down from the current figure of more than 160,000.

The Iraqi target date for a bilateral agreement on the new relationship would be July, when the US intends to finish withdrawing the five combat brigades ordered to the country by the US president, George Bush, as part of the so-called "surge".

Dolars, oil and thanksgiving

Apparently it is very important to have the Oil hovers just below $100 especially for Thanksgiving!

World oil prices hit a new high yesterday above $99 a barrel, but just failed to break through the key $100 level. In another frantic day of trading, dealers pushed US light crude futures to a fresh peak of $99.29 a barrel, less than $2 below their record high, in inflation-adjusted terms, reached in 1980 after the Iranian revolution.
Trading was nervous ahead of weekly oil stock data in the US, which consumes a quarter of the world's oil.

Motorists in the UK have suffered as the average petrol price at the pump has moved beyond the £1 a litre mark. But the pain has not been as bad as in the US because the dollar, in which oil is priced, has been weakening against the pound.
The rise and rise of oil prices this year has led to growing speculation that supplies are starting to run out.

New on News

It was the other day in class when found out that The Guardian newspaper is dedicating for the first time in British newspapers a place to America.

Maybe because America has a lack of good information and perspective of what is actually happening internationally ... or maybe just because Europeans are good in their journalistic jobs and they appreciated over there. Either way, this a big event to newspaper and communication business!

gUSns

After such a high number of guns attacks in US, supreme court looks NOW to the law to check who should possess a gun at home or not.

As the article claims, the US supreme court is to rule next year on Americans' right to possess guns, the first time the country's highest judges have reviewed the law in almost 70 years. The nine judges are being asked to choose between Washington, which has had a handgun ban in place since 1976, and a courthouse security guard who claims the right to have a handgun in his home, in a high-crime area, to protect his family.

Warhol's painting in London

Art seen is an expensive business, even thou some might say that it is not a business because if you buy a piece of art with a perspective to sell it..well..things may don't work out as you wish! But this is not Hugh Grant's case.

Accordingly with the article, Hugh Grant made a well done business with Andy Warhol's Liz Taylor famous painting.

Reluctant actor, master of self-deprecation, tousle-haired English fop. Tonight a new description must be added to the list of Hugh Grant's qualities: modern art collector who has struck the jackpot.
An Andy Warhol work owned by the Four Weddings and a Funeral star will go on sale in New York as a centrepiece of Christie's auction of post-war and contemporary art. The portrait of Elizabeth Taylor, called Liz, from 1963, is expected to fetch up to $35m (£17m), 10 times the sum that Grant paid for it at a Sotheby's auction in 2001. Or to look at it another way, a profit of about $5m for every year he has owned the painting. Not bad work if you can get it.
How well the Warhol performs at auction tonight has ramifications that go far beyond the state of Grant's already healthy finances.

Extinction

Environmental perspective has been changing with the years, and people are now more concerned (or at least they should be) with species, pollution, fresh air or lack of it, and everything else related to a prevent the global warming increasement.

As we read in this article, there are more bear species threatened with extinction.

Six of the world's eight species of bear are threatened with extinction, according to a report from the World Conservation Union (IUCN). The smallest species of bear, the sun bear, has been included on the list for the first time, while the giant panda remains endangered, despite comprehensive conservation efforts in China.
The IUCN, which has updated the status of the seven species of terrestrial bear on its Red List of Threatened Species, said despite claims that panda populations were on the rise due to a ban on logging, the creation of panda reserves and reforestation programmes, it still considered the bear to be endangered.

Bhutto&Bans

Pakistani government will ban Benazir Bhutto rally, which will take part in a planned procession between Lahore and Islamabad, the Pakistani government said.

"All processions, rallies, political gatherings at present are outlawed," the deputy information minister, Tariq Azim, told the Associated Press. "So if she breaks the law, then obviously she will not be allowed to do it."
The opposition leader was due to set off for the capital from the eastern city of Lahor tomorrow morning. The journey was expected to take around three days, and thousands of supporters were thought likely to join her en route.

London's real smoke

If we thought that London was a city were the sun couldn't come out because of a dark and permanent cloud of pollution...now that actually happened, as a huge blaze breaks out in east London, accordingly with the newspapers.

A huge plume of smoke rose over London today as firefighters battled to control a major blaze on the capital's 2012 Olympics site.
Fifteen fire engines and 75 firefighters were sent to tackle the fire, which appeared to have broken out at Waterden Road, an industrial area close to the Stratford channel tunnel railway station.

Stars and strikes

Hollywood stars had started a strike. The costs mount and sets stand empty in a dispute that has paralysed Hollywood.

Behind one knot of pickets at the massive Paramount lot on Melrose, beneath palms wreathed in Los Angeles mist, is the gate Gloria Swanson drove through in Sunset Boulevard. Swanson played a silent movie star stranded by the talkies. And, of course, she shoots the writer. Last week, the Writers Guild of America posted at least 60 picketers, many wearing red T-shirts with a "United We Stand" logo, outside Paramount on day one of the first walkout by Hollywood screenwriters since 1988. By Thursday, as hundreds of writers picketed 14 studios in Los Angeles, the Paramount protesters included the Reverend Jesse Jackson and a board member from the Screen Actors Guild. This time the revolution is digital and the writers are the ones who feel stranded.

Britain and America

The prime minister Gordon Brown reassured that US remains Britain's closest ally!
Gordon Brown will seek to reassure the United States tonight that the special relationship still lies at the heart of British foreign policy, following concerns that transatlantic ties have been weakened since his predecessor departed.
In a television interview yesterday, Brown said: "I want to send a message more generally about the foreign policy of our country. I think it's important to remember that Britain is part of a network of relationships around the world - we're part of the European Union, we're part of Nato, we're part of the Commonwealth, and the Commonwealth heads of government meeting will be held in Uganda very soon - and the strength of our relationship with America is incredibly important to the future of the world. If we're going to rebuild the international institutions as I think we should be doing, to meet the challenges of the next stage, then we want to work with America to enable us to do so."

Reactors and Bombs

Accordingly with the article, North Korea began disabling its nuclear facilities yesterday, marking the biggest step it has ever taken to scale back its atomic programme. The communist North shut down its sole functioning nuclear reactor at Yongbyon in July, and promised to disable it by the year's end in exchange for energy aid and political concessions from other members of talks on its nuclear programme: the US, China, Japan, South Korea and Russia.
A team of American experts has arrived at the Yongbyon reactor and begun the disabling work.

Shouldn't we protest against this nuclear reactor? instead of just protest against Paris Hilton going to jail or not?

To Linda SteinRock

Linda SteinRock who brought the Ramones to Britain and ignited the punk music era has died!

The career of Linda Stein as a rock manager was brief, and, in purely commercial terms, unsuccessful: she singularly failed to turn the Ramones, the punk band she co-managed between 1976 and 1980, into stars in their native United States. But shortly after the release of the band's debut album, Stein, who has been found dead in her Manhattan apartment, aged 62, made one decision that was to have vast repercussions in rock history: she convinced her co-manager, Danny Fields, that the Ramones should play in England. Their shows at London's Roundhouse and Dingwalls in July 1976 were to have a galvanising effect on the British punk scene, offering irrefutable proof to would-be musicians that energy and originality were more important than technical ability. In the audience were members of the Sex Pistols, the Clash and the Damned.

Thanks to her we have the influence of these bands who made history and original music to the bands of today!

Deadlines

Accordingly with the newspaper article, the Pentagon today reported five US troops and a sailor killed in Iraq on Monday, making this year the deadliest since the 2003 invasion.
The five troops were killed in two incidents in Kirkuk province, and the sailor in Saluddin province, bringing the US death toll for this year to 854. The figure, with two months still to go, outstrips the previous worst, 849 in 2004, when the US took heavy casualties in an attack on Falluja.

The Pentagon attributes the high toll to an initial increase in combat operations, and higher visibility of US troops on the streets earlier this year as part of President George Bush's "surge" strategy, which saw an extra 30,000 troops sent to Iraq.
So how many more deaths do we want to see in order to take those sailors out of there?