http://www.politonomist.com ƒ(supply, demand) Mon, 19 Apr 2010 06:09:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Republic of Nauru, a small 21 square kilometre pacific island nation comprising of approximately 11,000 people has thrown its support behind the independence of the autonomous republic of Abkhazia, officially recognizing the regions independence from Georgia on Tuesday December 15th, 2009. This follows reports by Russian newspapers on December 14th, 2009 that Nauru ... http://www.politonomist.com/nauru-to-support-abkhazian-independence-002423/ The Republic of Chile has been invited to join the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) as its 31st member-state and as the organizations first member from South America. Chile's membership into the OECD will be formalized in January of 2010 with a signing between the current President of Chile; Michelle ... http://www.politonomist.com/chile-to-join-the-oecd-002421/ The Irish Republic has now ratified the Treaty of Lisbon after voting in its second referendum on the matter in under two years. The treaty will not take effect until all 27 EU member nations agree to the terms, however, and both Poland and the Czech Republic have yet to do ... http://www.politonomist.com/ireland-passes-the-treaty-of-lisbon-002413/ The Canadian Conservative government's proposed legislation to extend employment insurance by up to 20 weeks for so-called "long-tenured workers" is raising questions as to whether it will be broad enough to gather further NDP support and prevent an impending election. Member of Parliament, Paul Dewar (NDP) commented simply that the proposed ... http://www.politonomist.com/ndp-to-study-ei-benefit-extension-002409/ The economic downturn has transformed the Internet to a place of financial risk: from "businesspeople" promising methods to make money to people preying on those who can least afford it with unfavorable debt consolidation offers. This week the FTC announced a number of movements to attack the rebilling industry with ... http://www.politonomist.com/ftc-cracks-down-on-rebills-002401/ In a 550 - 49 vote on May 5th, 2009 the Parliament of the European Union has passed a law which will ban the import of all seal products only a day before Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper is set to arrive in the Czech city of Prague for the ... http://www.politonomist.com/the-european-union-bans-the-sale-of-seal-products-002381/ It was a little over one year ago on May 2nd, 2008, when the devastating Cyclone Nargis struck the fertile farmlands of the Irrawaddy Delta in Burma (legally named Myanmar by the ruling military government) killing an estimated 140,000 people and leaving over two million homeless. Neither the state-run journal The ... http://www.politonomist.com/burmas-irrawaddy-delta-one-year-after-002374/ Fulfilling the campaign promise that probably won Barack Obama the state of Florida, the White House announced on April 13th that the United States would be relaxing the economic restraints on interaction with Cuba. While Obama has only been president for three months, the embargo that he is ending has ... http://www.politonomist.com/barack-obama-to-end-el-bloqueo-002368/ The idea of pirates today is generally nothing more than the whim of a child. In Somalia, however, the past four years have seen a revival of this once illustrious lifestyle. As conditions in the country worsen due to civil war and all out chaos, more people seem to be ... http://www.politonomist.com/somalian-pirates-of-the-gulf-002364/ In a letter released by the White House to the Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi, President Barack Obama has asked Congress to approve an additional $83.4 billion to help fund the U.S. operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. The sum of this request can be broken down to $75.8 ... http://www.politonomist.com/barack-obama-seeks-extra-war-funding-002358/ While California may have reversed its decision to allow same-sex marriage in November, a victory has been won for sexual equality in the state of Vermont on April 7, 2009. A vote in the Legislature overturned the veto of a same-sex marriage bill by Governor Jim Douglas by 100 to ... http://www.politonomist.com/vermont-legalizes-same-sex-marriage-002349/ Citizens of the Republic of Macedonia are set to elect a new president this Sunday, April 5th 2009 in a second run-off election between Gjorgje Ivanov of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization - Democratic Party for Macedonian National Unity (WMRO-DPMNE) and Ljubomir Frckoski of the Social Democratic Union of Macedonia (SDSM). Current ... http://www.politonomist.com/macedonia-set-to-elect-new-president-002341/ On April 5th, 2009 voters in the former Soviet Republic of Moldova will head to the polls to elect their new Parliament marking the end of Vladimir Voronin's presidency who has served two terms since taking office on April 7th, 2001. Upon its formation, the new Moldovan parliament will elect the country's ... http://www.politonomist.com/communists-likely-to-win-re-election-in-moldova-002338/ Chief Justice John Roberts on Friday granted a request of U.S. President Barack Obama to block the release of up to 77 sex offenders; some of the 77 offenders in question were set to be released as early as next week without this intervention by the U.S. Supreme Court. The ... http://www.politonomist.com/obama-delays-release-of-sex-offenders-002334/ The foremost concern addressed at Thursday's G20 summit was the role that the International Monetary Fund will play on the road to global economic recovery. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown had in recent months called for an increase of $250 billion to the previous lending capacity of the same amount, ... http://www.politonomist.com/imf-revision-surpasses-expectations-002322/