Article 1 and Focus Article: "Warning Euro Fix Could Take Years, Merkel Urges Action" by Nicholas Kulish: found on the NYTimes
Chancellor Angela Merkel held a meeting today that was intended to amend the European treaties and to address the debt crisis. At the meeting Merkel addressed the German Parliament about how indebted countries have roiled global markets and brought down governments. She said that she wanted some quick changes to happen by the end of the year that would help to debt crisis, but she said that to fix the whole problem would take several years. She has now called for a new treaty and since the release of that the market rose slightly. I chose this article as my focus article because in class this past week we have been talking about economics.
Article 2: " Pakistan Refuses to Help as U.S. Sorts Out a Fatal Attack" by Matthew Rosenburg: found on The NYTimes.
Pakistanis are refusing to help sort out the confusion about the airstrike that happened last week that killed two dozen people. Both sides are in dispute about almost every aspect of the event. Both sides said they were fired on first. Also the chief of the Pakistan Army has now declared that he gave permission to the whole army to return any fire without any permissions required.
Article 3: " Go Online, Beat a Puzzle and Become a British Spy" by John F Burns: posted on NYTimes
This article is basically about how the British Spy Agency has posted a puzzle on the internet located here (http://www.canyoucrackit.co.uk/) where if you beat the puzzle you will be able to get interview by the British Government about becoming an internet spy for them, stopping terrorism and organized crime. Apparently about 50 people have already beaten this almost impossible puzzle since its release last month. A normal person would have lots of trouble beating this puzzle because all it is is decrypting 160 codes- so basically only a hacker would be able to beat it.
Article 4: " Camp Victory, emptied of U.S. troops, is handed to Iraqi government by Liz Sly: on Washington Post.
The U.S. headquarters outside of Baghdad was handed over to the Iraqi government on Friday which the U.S. has owed for almost a decade. This large base used to hold 68,000 soldiers and they all got to go
home. There is currently only 12,000 troops left in Iraq now down from a peak of 170,000 in 2007. Col. Barry Johnson said that by the end of the year all the troops will be gone.
Article 5: This picture is about the 24th annual world aids day held in Taipei Taiwan. Dozens of volunteers made a human ribbon to help aids sufferers everywhere. The color red is supposed to symbolize "love and care". Learning Reflection : This week in class we talked about economic geography and about resources.
We learned about 4 types of resources , Natural, Nonrenewable, Capital, and Human Resources. We also talked about how technology is effecting the way we get our energy, we went "from wood to wind". We also talked about how different countries can be more valuable than others depending on resource access and level of education.
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