By Gabriela Baczynska and Patryk Wasilewski

WARSAW | Mon Jul 5, 2010 3:53pm EDT

WARSAW (Reuters) - Prime Minister Donald Tusk's candidate won Poland's presidential poll but the narrowness of the victory cast doubt on the government's ability to carry out unpopular reforms ahead of a 2011 parliamentary election.

Bronislaw Komorowski, a moderate conservative from Tusk's Civic Platform party (PO), won 53.0 percent of votes in Sunday's poll, final official results showed, after a cliff-hang...

Peter R. Orszag, the White House budget director, plans to resign this summer, the first member of President Barack Obama's Cabinet to do so. He leaves behind an indelible mark on two of the President's signature issues: the $862 billion economic stimulus plan and the $940 billion health-care reform law, both of which he had a major hand in drafting.

In another, less visible arena, Orszag's imprint could be just as big. He was one of the Administration's most prominent devotees of behavioral ...

Power-to-the-People is a group that wants to better Latvia’s economy and political
system, for the long term. We believe that we can no longer be quiet about the
situation in Latvia and therefore we offer a detailed correction and growth plan.

We are unhappy about:

· 23% unemployment rate
· Government representatives that at the same time have private businesses
... to steal from the people rather than to represent the interests of the people
· 33 billion E...

By ALISSA J. RUBIN
Published: November 6, 2009

CHARIKAR, Afghanistan — As Americans, including President Obama’s top advisers, tensely debate whether to send more American troops to Afghanistan, Afghans themselves are having a similar discussion and voicing serious doubts.
In bazaars and university corridors across the country, eight years of war have left people exhausted and impatient. They are increasingly skeptical that the Taliban can be defeated. Nearly everyone agrees that the Af...

By CHOE SANG-HUN
Published: November 3, 2009
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea put further pressure on the United States to start bilateral talks by declaring on Tuesday that it had completed reprocessing its spent nuclear fuel for use in a bomb.

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In early September, North Korea had told the United Nations Security Council that it was in the “final phase” of re...

Tunisian president re-elected

http://www.topnews.in
Monday October 26 2009
Tunisia's president has been re-elected for a fifth five-year term with 89.62% of the vote, the country's interior ministry announced today.

It was the lowest percentage of the vote by President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali since he took power in a bloodless coup in 1987.

Mr Ben Ali was last re-elected i...

Power of Money against Power of Spirit






The last turning point similar to the current one happened approximately 400 years ago. The Western European society discovered a new hierarchy of values. Feudalism that valued service and chivalry was replaced with capitalism. Wealth became the measure of success, and everyone was to care about his own pocket only. The cult of money ...