How to create a video about your Learning Activity for the SA and Lesotho Global Forum

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The SA Global Forum entries close on Monday 3rd June at midnight and this is just a last minute help on making the required 2 minute video that needs to accompany your application. There are three ways that you can make this video.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><strong><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">a) Record yourself speaking using your cell phone</span></strong></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is by far the simplest way. Record yourself talking about your project on your cell phone and download the movie on to your computer. Upload the file with your Learning Activity and application.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></strong><strong><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">b) Use Photostory 3 and save it as a movie</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></strong></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photostory 3 is a free programme that comes with Windows. If you have just photos and you want to add narration to the photos this is the programme for you to use. You can also add text to the photos</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here is a tutorial for using Photostory 3 from the Partners in Learning UK YouTube channel</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ETP_JuN3zEg" width="420"></iframe></span><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">c) Use Windows Live Windows Movie Maker</span></strong></div></div></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you have a PowerPoint you would like to use you can easily create this into a Windows Movie Maker video. In addition to the PowerPoint you can use extra photos, video clips, music and narration if you want to. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />This is a typical Windows Live Movie Maker interface. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" dir="ltr" style="clear: both; text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="302" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaUdoXT91XMkOjroKfINRf1G1_ojNCNrL-VpDazYtEq-BdKEu1tsLCf-f3pWBMGLRpc4pQi_DMEL7B4s6WnhGYJGRqnJ3TwYCjykqMG77U-tnxNI7ergy739Tw7aqPOXvn6kuZlyiay34/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="400" /></span></div><div class="separator" dir="ltr" style="clear: both; text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="" dir="ltr" style="clear: both; text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you look at the image above you’ll see that there is a place that says ‘<i>Add videos and photos</i>’. After you do this the media clips appear on the timeline on the right hand side. Then after that you add as many effects as you like. You can even add titles and credits to your movie.  This video from Microsoft gives the overall perspective</span></div><div class="separator" dir="ltr" style="clear: both; text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" dir="ltr" style="clear: both; text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" class="b-hbp-video b-uploaded" frameborder="0" height="266" id="BLOGGER-video-74114758ada0031b-16997" mozallowfullscreen="mozallowfullscreen" src="https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dyWUhsFntboDEzBcP88Z1ZhpkhoRUeJEMYIzPPKn6rrdpdu_gdDC4qLje5LKyvddP0Qb3ztwy1ql754Ys5WYjIWHKNFNGuixSQXRE68BjWx5r4--SpQI7pM2nwzOgqM3XsMZW1V" webkitallowfullscreen="webkitallowfullscreen" width="320"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="" dir="ltr" style="clear: both; text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><u>Let's do this step by step</u></b></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">a)</span></b> Create a PowerPoint about your project.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">b)</span></b> Save each slide on your PowerPoint as a separate JPEG or PNG file.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you are not sure how to turn each slide into a picture here is a PDF that someone created showing you the steps to saving each slide as an image <a href="http://www.rcs.k12.va.us/glms/ppt2video.pdf">http://www.rcs.k12.va.us/glms/ppt2video.pdf</a></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">c) </span></b>These slides are now separate images so save them to Windows Live Movie maker in the normal way.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>d)</b></span> If you have any movie clips you want to add do this now and place the clips exactly where you want them to be. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">e) </span></b>Now add sound to your search bar on your computer. Just ask for Sound Recorder - it is part of Windows. It will appear immediately. as shown below.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLbps0baATZbWk7IMnlpFVE5Vzn0wkNFgGy3FwDmicQEN8BvSBV1KE4offdacux4Qt4BZv7GFLYIEN7WewPz-ReCPsmCP2_D9Qd8boOjZPegZARZ5UGxiiWiPvmt-W69yRDqFgC5EaJf0/s1600/Sound+narrator.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLbps0baATZbWk7IMnlpFVE5Vzn0wkNFgGy3FwDmicQEN8BvSBV1KE4offdacux4Qt4BZv7GFLYIEN7WewPz-ReCPsmCP2_D9Qd8boOjZPegZARZ5UGxiiWiPvmt-W69yRDqFgC5EaJf0/s400/Sound+narrator.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This video from YouTube will show you the steps for adding Sound Recorder.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /><b><br /></b></span></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/9q8Yw7VaJBw" width="420"></iframe></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(Another way to do this would be to download a free programme called Audacity and save you words as MP3 files. Add them to Windows Live Movie maker where it says 'Add music'.)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">f)</span></b> Once you have added the sound to all the parts where you want sound, save the completed file as a movie on your computer. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">g)</span></b> Watch the webinar from last Wednesday on how to upload a Windows Live Movie Maker File <a href="http://e-blogschool.blogspot.com/2013/05/webinar-recording-from-29052013.html">http://e-blogschool.blogspot.com/2013/05/webinar-recording-from-29052013.html</a> and remember to click the little checkbox which says 'I have been invited to submit this for the competition (I can't remember the exact wording). Add the movie and anything else to this. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That's it. Good luck with your application</span></div>

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="MsoNormal">Holaaaaaaaa jokesters, funsters, yuk-yukers and other funny people! So, a few days ago I was chatting with the uber-lovely and wonderful <a href="https://twitter.com/willbyjanet" target="_blank">Jamie</a>, our favorite Canadian, over on the Twitter Machine when she pointed out that it was about time for another Joke Show. I checked the archives, and just as you would expect form a Canadian, she was right! It’s been a full year and it IS time for our annual Joke Show on IWS! <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">The first two joke shows were a blast and the third one is sure to be just as much fun, but Matt-Man and I were thinking that it could be better. How? I’m glad you asked. What would make Joke Show the Third really awesome would be if YOU GUYS would join in on the joke telling! <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiORs2wUM09CCVefjoBPKu2cumsRz-Alo1z5ArLrDTkvCSDxPugPsxnqgpXMCTw1EsI4Kk45lJ71kckg9bArFyIJWO0DUT8h_yL9JXqNV5ryo9H0PXeIEt5K8BcAhNXYwu2r-ecFEwhXrI/s1600/Matt+Man+Stand+Up.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiORs2wUM09CCVefjoBPKu2cumsRz-Alo1z5ArLrDTkvCSDxPugPsxnqgpXMCTw1EsI4Kk45lJ71kckg9bArFyIJWO0DUT8h_yL9JXqNV5ryo9H0PXeIEt5K8BcAhNXYwu2r-ecFEwhXrI/s400/Matt+Man+Stand+Up.jpg" width="261" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p><br /></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">Right? Wouldn’t that be a hoot? Here’s what we were thinking: You guys either record yourself telling your favorite joke and email the audio file to Matt or me and we’ll play it on the air, or call in and tell it live. If you want, you could just email the joke to us and we’ll tell it on the air for ya, but that wouldn’t be quite as much fun. It doesn’t have to be an original joke that you came up with either it can be a classic or a “street joke.” Hell, we don’t require originality of ourselves! Hey-OOOOO<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">If you are a stand-up comic or are working on a comedy routine and want to call up or record yourself doing three to five minutes of the funny that would be awesome too! If you have a “bit” you’ve been working on, give us a holla! Are you part of a comedy team or an improve team? AWESOME! Got just a funny story about yourself, someone else or a life experience that you love to tell people at parties and shit? That works too! As you know, we’re easy. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">You’re probably saying “I don’t have any audio recording software!” Not true. If you have a Windows computer you can just go into “Accessories” and you will see “sound recorder” right there. It’s very simple, just click “start recording” and use your mic or headset that I know you have and tell your joke. When you’re finished just click “stop recording” and it will save your joke to your desktop. Then, just email the file to either Matt or me and we will convert it to mp3 for the show and add the rimshot or hey-ooooo as necessary.  (If you have a Mac you have probably told everyone how superior you are so many times that this should all be super simple for you. HeeHee” Also, if you have a smart phone you can probably record an audio file and email it us that way. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1vBAvyCZR-TY7vB1AW90xBmia0rgraX8_7BDGbLyDcT0XwEFjbJSnbBqKQ1WsJcj5J5iKbfIDt2W3J4G9NYvCaZ6aUoubEL3Eq9hk7e2llhx208RL9BjAPftyuCeSPIpdb4sSBmrf-zk/s1600/Jay+Stand+Up.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1vBAvyCZR-TY7vB1AW90xBmia0rgraX8_7BDGbLyDcT0XwEFjbJSnbBqKQ1WsJcj5J5iKbfIDt2W3J4G9NYvCaZ6aUoubEL3Eq9hk7e2llhx208RL9BjAPftyuCeSPIpdb4sSBmrf-zk/s400/Jay+Stand+Up.jpg" width="312" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p><br /></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">I know your other excuse that you’re thinking right now too and my answer to that is STAGE FRIGHT SMAGE FRIGHT!  Hell, if I can go on the show and say stupid stuff in front of our vast and diverse worldwide audience every Sunday than you can tell one little old joke. It’s no big deal. It’s just your voice. Nobody is gonna make fun of you or ridicule you. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Come on y’all! I’ve given you five or six days advance notice so you have plenty of time. And, if you need any help at all recording something let me know cause I'm willing to help. Let’s have some fun here! Don’t be an enemy of fun! If you don’t do it, I’ll probably take it very personally. You don’t want that on your conscience do you???<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:Jayman3768@gmail.com">Jayman3768@gmail.com</a><br /><a href="http://facebook.com/Jayman68" target="_blank">Facebook.com/Jayman68</a><br /><a href="http://www.twitter.com/jayman_iws" target="_blank">@Jayman_IWS</a><o:p></o:p></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div></div>

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mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} </style><![endif]--><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #134f5c;"><b> </b></span></span></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRErjWIm7wAf4AjRDVqKvpeNINbmU8fLJavTXLTe2ZNtG9OWPTJZY3pL8YT0dOGVrzCf6rBuP_9Kbv0PW_rVQOmmdmCCAd9EV0XoF3O_Gwue3M8PRym4TC5FkOvEV-x2f2f6CXaUiZntdD/s1600/IMG-20130208-00777.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRErjWIm7wAf4AjRDVqKvpeNINbmU8fLJavTXLTe2ZNtG9OWPTJZY3pL8YT0dOGVrzCf6rBuP_9Kbv0PW_rVQOmmdmCCAd9EV0XoF3O_Gwue3M8PRym4TC5FkOvEV-x2f2f6CXaUiZntdD/s320/IMG-20130208-00777.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="266" mozallowfullscreen="mozallowfullscreen" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/yVOG0PIs9HE?feature=player_embedded" webkitallowfullscreen="webkitallowfullscreen" width="320"></iframe></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>ARGENTINIANS CONSUMES VAST AMOUNTS OF GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOOD PRODUCTS WITHOUT BEING AWARE OF THE FACT, NOT TO MENTION THE  SUBSEQUENT HEALTH RISKS </b></span></span></div><br />Unlike in EUROPE, ARGENTINE food suppliers and supermarkets are not required to specify genetically modified food products on its packaging. Thus consumers have no way of knowing if the food products they buy are GMO products or not. It was the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) prize pupil, ARGENTINA'S President Carlos Menem, who signed the contracts with the agribusiness giants MONSANTO and CARGILL to go the “soya way” at the beginning of the 1990s. The contracts were entered into without the participation of Congress and without a public debate. Since then, ARGENTINA has become the second largest GM soya producer in the world, after the UNITED STATES.<br /><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">LACK OF PUBLIC AWARENESS REGARDING THE DANGERS SURROUNDING GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOOD PRODUCTS</b></span><br /><br />A vast majority of food products on ARGENTINIANS supermarket shelves are in most likelihood linked to Monsanto and thus genetically modified food products without the consumer being aware of this fact. ARGENTINE public in general are not fully aware of the controversy surrounding genetically modified food products and subsequent health risks.( ARGENTINA has a soaring cancer statistic ) ARGENTINIANS, besides their high percentage of meat consumption, also consume large amount of pasta and bread, all of which contain, or could contain genetically modified, corn, wheat, soy etc.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="266" mozallowfullscreen="mozallowfullscreen" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/94y78ff2r04?feature=player_embedded" webkitallowfullscreen="webkitallowfullscreen" width="320"></iframe></div><br /><br />Read also:<br /><br /><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Monsanto: Global – Monster – Corporation? </b></span></span><br /><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/02/monsanto-global-monster-corporation.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/02/monsanto-global-monster-corporation.html</a></b><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 20.4pt; margin-bottom: 10.5pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 10.5pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/02/monsanto-part-2.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/02/monsanto-part-2.html</a></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 20.4pt; margin-bottom: 10.5pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 10.5pt;"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2013/03/argentina-and-monsanto.html"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2013/03/argentina-and-monsanto.html</span></b></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="266" mozallowfullscreen="mozallowfullscreen" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/3vJP5-wq3_g?feature=player_embedded" webkitallowfullscreen="webkitallowfullscreen" width="320"></iframe></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 20.4pt; margin-bottom: 10.5pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 10.5pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">ARGENTINE ACTIVISTS RALLY AGAINST US MONSANTO EXPANSION IN LATIN AMERICA</span></b></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 20.4pt; margin-bottom: 10.5pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 10.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">ARGENTINEANS have said no to what they call Monsanto´s “deathly” business in LATIN AMERICA.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 20.4pt; margin-bottom: 10.5pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 10.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In Buenos Aires, the action group “Millions against Monsanto” has led a protest at the House of Cordoba, a province located in the center of ARGENTINA where the US multinational company is developing its biggest regional factory. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 20.4pt; margin-bottom: 10.5pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 10.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">According to activists, the construction of the facility has been approved by provincial authorities but no official report on environmental damages has yet been conducted. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 20.4pt; margin-bottom: 10.5pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 10.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Political complicity, leaders of the protest said, is fostering the expansion of Monsanto´s “chain of profit and death”: Monsanto sells seeds that are resistant to its own glyphosate-based Roundup, a key herbicide used in ARGENTINA´S “green gold” soybean industry. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 20.4pt; margin-bottom: 10.5pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 10.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In the meantime, thousands of farmers are exposed to serious health risks -cancer, birth defects, intestinal, heart and neuronal conditions- as a recent investigation by the University of Buenos Aires shows. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 20.4pt; margin-bottom: 10.5pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 10.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But ARGENTINA is only one link of Monsanto´s billionaire expansion in LATIN AMERICA. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 20.4pt; margin-bottom: 10.5pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 10.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In PARAGUAY, for instance, demonstrators denounced that the biotech company has managed to introduce its transgenic soy thanks to economic lobbies linked to the impeachment of President Fernando Lugo last year. They called it the “agribusiness coup”. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 20.4pt; margin-bottom: 10.5pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 10.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Monsanto has reported to have nearly tripled its profits in the first fiscal quarter of 2013 as its regional sales boom and governments allow the US-based firm to spread. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 20.4pt; margin-bottom: 10.5pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 10.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Meanwhile, on the margins of the anti-Monsanto demonstration, ARGENTINE left-wing opposition lawmakers held a political meeting to condemn the corporate power of agribusiness and the increasing control of food sovereignty by transnational companies. </span></div>

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Chasing the final storm: Twister kills 3 storm chasers in OK

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJZlaCTqoYOZ8faiY7r8ye0ltpP8eUlXDawlYcRPtROOa1IQKQB2l0CLQIWKgLLN8o0uSY4IZhRx4po4wx_rZADr9DK784whyphenhyphenvq7VriYg73s5ZZFU4PmdGR3FEJvFsoDlrfLLFuauq6SkM/s1600/Storm+chasers+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="253" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJZlaCTqoYOZ8faiY7r8ye0ltpP8eUlXDawlYcRPtROOa1IQKQB2l0CLQIWKgLLN8o0uSY4IZhRx4po4wx_rZADr9DK784whyphenhyphenvq7VriYg73s5ZZFU4PmdGR3FEJvFsoDlrfLLFuauq6SkM/s400/Storm+chasers+1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>This is the vehicle that three storm chasers were in when they died during a tornado outbreak Friday night in Oklahoma. Photo courtesy of Ed Lavandera (CNN).</i></div><br />Tragically, it was learned on Sunday that three storm chasers were killed in Friday night's tornado outbreak in Oklahoma. One was well-known Tim Samaras, 55, of Colorado, who had been a part of the Discovery Channel's <i>Storm Chasers</i> for three seasons. With him were his 24-year-old son Paul, and 45-year-old friend Carl Young -- all killed chasing the tornado.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/02/us/midwest-weather/index.html">CNN reported</a>:<br /><blockquote>Tim Samaras founded TWISTEX, the Tactical Weather Instrumented Sampling in Tornadoes Experiment, to help learn more about tornadoes and increase lead time for warnings, according to the official website.<br /><br />In 2004, he told CNN that being near storms was part of the job.<br /><br />"In order to get directly in the path, you have to be close," he said.<br /><br />"Actually I'm pretty focused on our safety, certainly, and I'm focused on getting the data and getting the right spot," he said. "You only have one chance to do it." </blockquote><a href="http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/06/02/18696369-at-least-16-dead-after-rain-twisters-lash-mid-us-storms-head-east?lite">Thirteen people died Friday night in Oklahoma and three in Missouri.</a><br /><br />Described as a scientist and researcher, Samaras has long been a part of the weather scene collecting data for use to develop a better understanding of the destructive storms that plague the mid-west.<br /><br />Weather Channel meteorologist Mike Bettes and two others were in a <a href="http://vapolitics.us/2013/06/twister-picks-up-weather-channel-storm-chasers/">vehicle that was sucked up inside a tornado</a> during Friday's outbreak and thrown through the air. All survived with minor injuries.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiECybD2fjqmjYuxJO_mmuQ2XF51xGQBpiySOfTTPE8ZOCTQxTrgYvlo5j52zpi3R49ezDYjEeu8rK6JPynFEt57ouibp7nfT-LEb_Ff7Ww4orDhP7EB4ggmpq_bv9fLYJh4F-wfSedlaYS/s1600/Storm+chasers+tribute+June+2013.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiECybD2fjqmjYuxJO_mmuQ2XF51xGQBpiySOfTTPE8ZOCTQxTrgYvlo5j52zpi3R49ezDYjEeu8rK6JPynFEt57ouibp7nfT-LEb_Ff7Ww4orDhP7EB4ggmpq_bv9fLYJh4F-wfSedlaYS/s400/Storm+chasers+tribute+June+2013.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />My meteorologist son-in-law passed along this graphic of the weather spotter/chaser network tribute to the three storm chasers. Each in the network drove to these locations so the map would spell the initials of the three men who died. Prayers to the families of all who lost their lives in this latest weather tragedy.</div>

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This is the vehicle that three storm chasers were in when they died during a tornado outbreak Friday night in Oklahoma. Photo courtesy of Ed...

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The Hopsack

<span style="font-size: large;">This is <a href="http://www.thehopsack.ie/">The Hopsack</a> in the Swan Centre in Rathmines (in Dublin).  It's a really great health store that sells a full range of health food, organic food, natural cosmetics and even chemical free cleaning products. </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">We browsed around for a few minutes but only bought some refreshing Chi Coconut Water (this was the first time I saw this brand) - but I think they also sold Vita Coconut Water and maybe also Zico Coconut Water.  Pineapple Vita Coconut Water is my facourite. </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">I will go back later during the week to get some natural laundry washing powder and maybe a bar of organic chocolate!</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhckI0pbhCFCuCdSbrxyMPw-dpmkMg2H0toUEjBBc9C6v0s4sVDM9XFExhkzUNJIi6Q04giNZXL0JSujFbiLwEnGnomwdpcfg-AUqYx17gkjouREu8WDcld4K5btALSggmy1QOeV4gyBk6l/s640/blogger-image--784592793.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhckI0pbhCFCuCdSbrxyMPw-dpmkMg2H0toUEjBBc9C6v0s4sVDM9XFExhkzUNJIi6Q04giNZXL0JSujFbiLwEnGnomwdpcfg-AUqYx17gkjouREu8WDcld4K5btALSggmy1QOeV4gyBk6l/s640/blogger-image--784592793.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOIn0tZIjcjrTI6oji0Y9qF5WO6KgouKsamahcng9q0t_jVDRFHVi8nUP0BZkEIpBef3l6-9BMmjzqVM6JsSZH6xizFTbwjKLnhoqtGiB3ZycrZty_sqziYPTwz7CmdQyYqZ1pEdDvk6aG/s640/blogger-image--837103173.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOIn0tZIjcjrTI6oji0Y9qF5WO6KgouKsamahcng9q0t_jVDRFHVi8nUP0BZkEIpBef3l6-9BMmjzqVM6JsSZH6xizFTbwjKLnhoqtGiB3ZycrZty_sqziYPTwz7CmdQyYqZ1pEdDvk6aG/s640/blogger-image--837103173.jpg" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">There is so much to see in this store, they have a huge range of products.  You could easily lose yourself for an hour or so.  </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUFqhJ9KcacDO3ghmstivI_LXpHjErjzno8JEUkMeH2Yn9e9ieGCX-9dCYPs0HgJJtYHJdnuMoBvXwTlkms8zQ99quVEjC35BSPiscOKeX-FrVk1bsCbStYvlxw1xgiurZ3WjYeusoxLgA/s640/blogger-image-1972707153.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUFqhJ9KcacDO3ghmstivI_LXpHjErjzno8JEUkMeH2Yn9e9ieGCX-9dCYPs0HgJJtYHJdnuMoBvXwTlkms8zQ99quVEjC35BSPiscOKeX-FrVk1bsCbStYvlxw1xgiurZ3WjYeusoxLgA/s640/blogger-image-1972707153.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeDdy8PZy17EVkWsMZQAzqyNw1DqY60rAZoB22sN6YFs9vVmfK1qsiyGDMCyziZJrn0Q32FuBXT0sd8JdvFxLsM951y2opgneTr8AuUPc9PeKuEyPo3vYVT2NXcr8KrBCdCtpz7aTxm9mA/s640/blogger-image--1817910939.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeDdy8PZy17EVkWsMZQAzqyNw1DqY60rAZoB22sN6YFs9vVmfK1qsiyGDMCyziZJrn0Q32FuBXT0sd8JdvFxLsM951y2opgneTr8AuUPc9PeKuEyPo3vYVT2NXcr8KrBCdCtpz7aTxm9mA/s640/blogger-image--1817910939.jpg" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: large;">I like the concept of Meat Free Monday!  What a great start to the working week - I may try it.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTctaeyIQYeJp-i_z01a7CJV17EbpzrWCWiTxvCprsfaIiubMDyo9_NhuBmpeeFNV2hABGnrxDUaj7qy0CeVRHUnTGG9ZMF5hRNnFZZr9AvqCWzRqW-C-MO24ZvA7IuZfweowwb224eq-j/s640/blogger-image-1387734501.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTctaeyIQYeJp-i_z01a7CJV17EbpzrWCWiTxvCprsfaIiubMDyo9_NhuBmpeeFNV2hABGnrxDUaj7qy0CeVRHUnTGG9ZMF5hRNnFZZr9AvqCWzRqW-C-MO24ZvA7IuZfweowwb224eq-j/s640/blogger-image-1387734501.jpg" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">If you regularly take energy gels you can make your own by adding a spoonful of Chia Seeds to a shot of Coconut Water.  Leave for 10 minutes then knock it back!</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTAUicX3AYDS-4DNUX74_V2A15jm9-vzC_3C8sDzWmzFOq7Gz30vZRHmRa9C1xmyKwr3qS2JzqXdj3dpOCf75MfIwqJoBuH3qVLtYglYp6UCvWWOlK-IL0vgHkZpJXlxuO_DBOInqLRn4Q/s640/blogger-image-291067147.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTAUicX3AYDS-4DNUX74_V2A15jm9-vzC_3C8sDzWmzFOq7Gz30vZRHmRa9C1xmyKwr3qS2JzqXdj3dpOCf75MfIwqJoBuH3qVLtYglYp6UCvWWOlK-IL0vgHkZpJXlxuO_DBOInqLRn4Q/s640/blogger-image-291067147.jpg" /></a></div>

The Hopsack

This is The Hopsack in the Swan Centre in Rathmines (in Dublin).  It's a really great health store that sells a full range of health fo...

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BRITAIN'S SEARCH FOR A POST-HEGEMONIC IDENTITY

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Roman";"><br /></span></u></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Executive Summary</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">:</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">BRITAIN’S political strategies have imploded</span></b></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">BRITAIN, junior partner of the UNITED STATES</span></b></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">EUROPEAN coal and steel community: first step towards the EUROPEAN unions </span></b></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">BRITAIN committed to continuing being the continents main financial hub </span></b></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Withdrawal rhetoric’s from the EU rings alarm bells among the financial community of the city of London</span></b></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Looming threat of independence movements might reduce BRITAIN to ENGLAND</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></li></ul><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Once upon a time, the sun never set on the BRITISH EMPIRE. No more! In 1945, Winston Churchill famously said: "I have not become the King's First Minister to preside over the liquidation of the BRITISH EMPIRE." But in fact that is exactly what he did. Churchill knew the difference between bombast and power.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #cc0000;">BRITAIN’S POLITICAL STRATEGIES HAVE IMPLODED</span><br /></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />Ever since 1945, GREAT BRITAIN has been trying, with considerable difficulty, to adjust to the role of erstwhile hegemonic power. One has to appreciate how difficult this is, both psychologically and politically. It seems today as if the dilemmas of its political strategy have finally imploded, and it is faced with choices that are all bad.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">JUNIOR PARTNER OF THE UNITED STATES</span></b></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /><br />GREAT BRITAIN emerged from the Second World War as one of the Big Three -- the UNITED STATES, the SOVIET UNION, and GREAT BRITAIN. It was however the weakest of the Big Three. The strategy it chose was to become the junior partner of the UNITED STATES, the new hegemonic power. This was called, in GREAT BRITAIN at least, the "special relationship" it claimed it had with the UNITED STATES.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWrl_WCqFneMXeoAD19sXbhVT2mEu7X3Qeo6mp2GsPJwHIgTaHEJK1eS0I3Nggbrl2Rohj5l8VHtw7ADreyKePakQlE8CzKkFDuuHgUmKhHeFHD4lOQXPpAwjTJVnx_tKfrT6pdVBwZsrF/s1600/The_British_Empire.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="202" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWrl_WCqFneMXeoAD19sXbhVT2mEu7X3Qeo6mp2GsPJwHIgTaHEJK1eS0I3Nggbrl2Rohj5l8VHtw7ADreyKePakQlE8CzKkFDuuHgUmKhHeFHD4lOQXPpAwjTJVnx_tKfrT6pdVBwZsrF/s400/The_British_Empire.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Former British Empire</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />The most important benefit GREAT BRITAIN obtained from this special relationship was the immediate transfer of nuclear technology, permitting GREAT BRITAIN to be, from that point on, a nuclear power. The UNITED STATES did not by any means make a similar gesture to the SOVIET UNION, much less to FRANCE. The UNITED STATES was seeking a global nuclear monopoly shared only by its junior partner. Of course, as we know, this global monopoly was undone first by the SOVIET UNION, then by FRANCE and CHINA, and then later by a number of other states.<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">EUROPEAN COAL AND STEEL COMMUNITY: FIRST STEP TOWARDS THE EUROPEAN UNIONS </span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />In continental WESTERN EUROPE, the first steps toward FRANCO-GERMAN reconciliation began as the EUROPEAN Coal and Steel Community. It included six nations -- FRANCE, GERMANY, ITALY, and the Benelux trio of BELGIUM, the NETHERLANDS, and LUXEMBURG. It did not include GREAT BRITAIN. These first steps towards the EUROPEAN UNION of today were at the time encouraged by the UNITED STATES, as a mode of making possible the incorporation of the western parts of GERMANY into what would become the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).<br /><br />It is not sure that BRITISH leaders appreciated this new continental EUROPEAN structure. One of the ways GREAT BRITAIN seemed to react was to attempt a geopolitical stance independent of the UNITED STATES. It joined forces with FRANCE and ISRAEL to attack Nasser's EGYPT. The UNITED STATES was pursuing at the time another strategy in the MIDDLE EAST, and therefore lost no time to rap the knuckles of GREAT BRITAIN and insist that it withdraw its troops. This was humiliating for GREAT BRITAIN, but it also reminded them of the limits of their ability to be independent of the UNITED STATES.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">BRITAIN COMMITTED TO CONTINUING BEING THE CONTINENTS MAIN FINANCIAL HUB </span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">After this, however, the UNITED STATES began to encourage GREAT BRITAIN to join the continental structures. In part, this was because the UNITED STATES was beginning to worry about a FRENCH-inspired relative independent position of these structures. From the U.S. point of view, GREAT BRITAIN could help prevent this. Such an entry had a particular advantage from a BRITISH point of view. GREAT BRITAIN'S last remaining vestige of its erstwhile hegemony was the continuing major role of the City of London in world finance. GREAT BRITAIN needed access to the EUROPEAN markets to guarantee this role.<br /><br />So, GREAT BRITAIN did enter the structures, to the great displeasure of Charles De Gaulle, who understood quite clearly U.S. motivations on this issue. By the 1970s, it was U.S. hegemony that began to be contested. Both FRANCE and GERMANY tendered diplomatic openings to the SOVIET UNION, which would culminate much later in 2003 with the FRANCO-GERMAN-RUSSIAN successful resistance to the U.S. desire to have the Security Council endorse U.S. military invasion of IRAQ.<br /><br />In this onset of geopolitical chaos, the BRITISH government sided totally with the UNITED STATES. Tony Blair's complete subordination to U.S. politics began to embarrass even BRITISH public opinion, which began to value much less a special relationship that was so one-sided. More and more people in GREAT BRITAIN sought to withdraw both from the U.S. link and the EUROPEAN links. The rising strength of the UNITED KINGDOM Independence Party (UKIP) is a major expression of the change in sentiment.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">WITHDRAWAL RHETORIC’S FROM THE EU RINGS ALARM BELLS AMONG THE FINANCIAL COMMUNITY OF THE CITY OF LONDON</span></b></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #cc0000;"> </span><br /><br />GREAT BRITAIN had refused to enter the EUROZONE. In the economic turmoil that became so evident after 2008, the desire to withdraw from the EUROPEAN UNION itself grew steadily, especially within the Conservative Party. This of course alarmed the financial groups of the City of London, who saw correctly that one consequence might be the effective overshadowing of London by Frankfurt as a EUROPEAN financial center.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">LOOMING THREAT OF INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENTS MIGHT REDUCE BRITAIN TO ENGLAND</span></b></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"> </span><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZsUO1cocOYsIVCT_fMridehPlBdvIUs73eOfqCbMA9196GJJeSn8cltaUP26S4worf9WYfOuhHYt2Nd0s8Tuqpn57S87wuqsrX8-ed3js3wzCxX2p6pIypaeIyeuYPkYuLq6ylbrROgIG/s1600/images.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZsUO1cocOYsIVCT_fMridehPlBdvIUs73eOfqCbMA9196GJJeSn8cltaUP26S4worf9WYfOuhHYt2Nd0s8Tuqpn57S87wuqsrX8-ed3js3wzCxX2p6pIypaeIyeuYPkYuLq6ylbrROgIG/s1600/images.jpg" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br />GREAT BRITAIN has other problems -- the ever-increasing force of regionalism (and even prospective independence) of WALES, SCOTLAND, and NORTHERN IRELAND. GREAT BRITAIN is resisting, as best it can, its reduction to ENGLAND. And it is doing this at a time when the UNITED STATES no longer seems to be significantly committed to even a semblance of special relationship.<br /><br />The problem for GREAT BRITAIN today is that all the choices before it are bad. GREAT BRITAIN wishes to insist that it is still a major military power. But the very same government that is asserting this is also reducing expenditure upon and the size of its armed forces, as part of its austerity program. <br /><br />The biggest problem for GREAT BRITAIN today is that the rest of the world will simply not consider it to be a very important geopolitical and financial actor anymore. Being ignored is not the happiest fate for an erstwhile hegemonic power.</span>

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Three reasons means lumia 520,620 and 720</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><u>Nokia lumia 520</u></span> - Enjoy your full life in less time with efficient cost<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwndRFQxd8iXu7-HVehNGS6mqOJrYhx5vFs39bf7U6KcEhgVeMI6IdXLOpCA8_y02BeC1azNicos3PrF9Np3RGZqFY_tXmJl26ZPC1gQgEqKC0hkjvvhsSctD0kqmnyW-MDVY5-Klk8Dk/s1600/lumia+520.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwndRFQxd8iXu7-HVehNGS6mqOJrYhx5vFs39bf7U6KcEhgVeMI6IdXLOpCA8_y02BeC1azNicos3PrF9Np3RGZqFY_tXmJl26ZPC1gQgEqKC0hkjvvhsSctD0kqmnyW-MDVY5-Klk8Dk/s400/lumia+520.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: nokia-pure-text, 'Segoe UI', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.171875px;"><a href="http://www.pc-gadgetworld.blogspot.in/2013/05/nokia-lumia-925-full-review.html">Nokia</a> lumia 520 operate at 1GHz dual-core processor ,Enjoy your life with 4'' super-sensitive touchscreen ,Xbox gaming phone. <a href="http://www.pc-gadgetworld.blogspot.in/2013/05/nokia-has-announced-launch-of-lumia-925.html">lumia</a> 520 comes with windows 8 operating system and exclusive digital lenses.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: nokia-pure-text, 'Segoe UI', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.171875px;">The superfast 1GHz processor allow multi-tasking so you to switch from chatting to booking movie tickets.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: nokia-pure-text, 'Segoe UI', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.171875px;">Lumia 520 comes high quality lenses ,adding magic to your pictures,take multiple photos in a single click.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: nokia-pure-text, 'Segoe UI', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.171875px;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: nokia-pure-text, 'Segoe UI', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.171875px;">Some Technical specification are:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>10.16cm display size</li><li>Super sensitive touch screen</li><li>5mp main camera</li><li>119.9mm height X 64 mm width  X 9.9 mm Thickness </li><li>124 g weight</li></ul><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://gan.doubleclick.net/gan_click?lid=41000000030515477&pubid=21000000000636820&lsrc=17"><img alt="Coveroo custom phone covers and cases" border="0" src="http://gan.doubleclick.net/gan_impression?lid=41000000030515477&pubid=21000000000636820&lsrc=17" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: nokia-pure-text, 'Segoe UI', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.171875px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Best buying from</span> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: nokia-pure-text, 'Segoe UI', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.171875px;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: nokia-pure-text, 'Segoe UI', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.171875px;"><a href="http://www.nokia.com/in-en/phones/phone/lumia520/">http://www.nokia.com/in-en/phones/phone/lumia520/</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><u>Nokia lumia 620</u>- make double impact</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYY-6WWEOyFZOQO9YKRVvoxHIQUMJ3ktG3xWJGsfy5KZhtbdjBYsAhYVuxf76GKhBiPEliv46D6bI6P360GLkeJD8hz91Ie_YwDfaJI69dq1II0etrl3zGgjY7SZT2onDagRwy6buj7Do/s1600/lumia620.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYY-6WWEOyFZOQO9YKRVvoxHIQUMJ3ktG3xWJGsfy5KZhtbdjBYsAhYVuxf76GKhBiPEliv46D6bI6P360GLkeJD8hz91Ie_YwDfaJI69dq1II0etrl3zGgjY7SZT2onDagRwy6buj7Do/s400/lumia620.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Nokia lumia 620 operate at 1GHz dual core S4 processor . <a href="http://www.pc-gadgetworld.blogspot.in/2013/05/nokia-has-announced-launch-of-lumia-925.html">lumia</a> 620 comes with windows 8 operating system and exclusive digital lenses.Nokia lumia 620 allow smart shoot .take the perfect shot of your family or friend (one click of the camera takes series of snap).Bright and beautiful .get colorful with dual shot-shells.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Nokia lumia 620 allow you to sync your phone and computer(you can work in microsoft office tools such as ms-word,outlook etc).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Some Technical specification are:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>5mp main camera with auto focus</li><li>9.65cm display size</li><li>1GHz Dual core S4 Processor</li></ul><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><a href="http://gan.doubleclick.net/gan_click?lid=41000613802498230&pubid=21000000000636820&lsrc=17"><img alt="291912_Save Up to 50 Percent" border="0" src="http://gan.doubleclick.net/gan_impression?lid=41000613802498230&pubid=21000000000636820&lsrc=17" /></a><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Best Buy from :</b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.nokia.com/in-en/phones/phone/lumia620/offers/">http://www.nokia.com/in-en/phones/phone/lumia620/offers/</a></b></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"><u>Nokia lumia 720</u>-stunningly brilliant</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbaYKcdQ0TLN6nCGIwATSS6Z-RCEBa28ZEJ7JcHnjz1dW09DYDuqBtOhXXWwcptWZ42E9PC9zL6R4CyWh2CtlOT-7xoYkgVoRyjLWm91BxXt1NaWRg9pvqsiojqDE3w2Ega0EhIBeowM8/s1600/lumia720.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbaYKcdQ0TLN6nCGIwATSS6Z-RCEBa28ZEJ7JcHnjz1dW09DYDuqBtOhXXWwcptWZ42E9PC9zL6R4CyWh2CtlOT-7xoYkgVoRyjLWm91BxXt1NaWRg9pvqsiojqDE3w2Ega0EhIBeowM8/s400/lumia720.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><b>Eye-catching design</b><br />Slimline unibody design as well as a range of colourful and wireless charging covers. Turn heads with the beautiful Nokia Lumia 720, powered by Windows Phone 8.<br /><br /><b>Power full features</b><br />Front and back wide-angle cameras, extra long battery life and a touch screen that works even with gloves or long nails.<br /><br /><b><span style="font-size: large;">Best Buy from</span></b><br /><b><br /></b><b><a href="http://www.nokia.com/in-en/phones/phone/lumia720/">http://www.nokia.com/in-en/phones/phone/lumia720/</a></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><a href="http://gan.doubleclick.net/gan_click?lid=41000613802451910&pubid=21000000000636820&lsrc=17"><img alt="575540_468 × 60" border="0" src="http://gan.doubleclick.net/gan_impression?lid=41000613802451910&pubid=21000000000636820&lsrc=17" /></a><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /></div>Published by <br /><a href="https://plus.google.com/109838201058606610638" rel="author">Jacob lefore</a>

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