The G 20 s Empty Promises

The Hard Right Goes Soft

Some forecasters predict a soft landing, but differ on the growth rate.

But doing so requires more than shallow promises.

At that summit, we committed ourselves to act, not simply to mouth empty words.

Second, the emptiness of G 8 leaders words puts the world at risk.

Does the pied piper of Venezuela offer a fairer and better way to grow?

and you shall beat some of it very small, and put some of it before the testimony in the Tent of Meeting, where I will meet with you. It shall be to you most holy.

And thou shalt beat some of it very small, and put of it before the testimony in the tabernacle of the congregation, where I will meet with thee it shall be unto you most holy.

Visceral sparring matches are continuing, with the Dalai Lama recently describing Tibetans lives under China as a hell on earth.

Such tactics, in which banks are nudged, not coerced, into investing in government debt, constitute soft financial repression.

He took the calf which they had made, and burnt it with fire, ground it to powder, and scattered it on the water, and made the children of Israel drink of it.

He broke down the altars, and beat the Asherim and the engraved images into powder, and cut down all the incense altars throughout all the land of Israel, and returned to Jerusalem.

And he took the calf which they had made, and burnt it in the fire, and ground it to powder, and strawed it upon the water, and made the children of Israel drink of it.

And when he had broken down the altars and the groves, and had beaten the graven images into powder, and cut down all the idols throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.

Ptolemy ruled over Egypt, southern Syria (known as Coele Syria), and various territories on the southern coast of Asia Minor.

We should leave the creationists to their hollow convictions and happily embrace the uncertainties inherent in a truly empirical approach to understanding the world.

For too many years empty promises and hollow exhortations have filled the diplomatic and political airways while the pathways to a better world remain a difficult road to traverse.

With each approach, Palestinian leaders, believing Arab states hollow proclamations of solidarity with their cause, have failed to measure accurately their own powers vis à vis the Israelis.

For two years, I searched for a fiber that could survive ultraviolet rays, salt, air, pollution, and at the same time remain soft enough to move fluidly in the wind.

There is certainly good reason to be concerned about Maliki s temperament, his small group of advisers, his tendency to exercise personal control in the use of state power, and his reputation, partly merited, of making empty promises.

Attempts to revive the Oslo peace process the Road Map and the Annapolis process have similarly failed to achieve more than vacuous declarations and hollow photo opportunities.

Indeed, these governments promote constitutional reforms that seek to authorize perpetual re election and supposedly new forms of participation that, in fact, hollow out representative democracy from within.

The Shia are the majority in Iraq, and the Sunnis need to become reconciled with that fact. There is certainly good reason to be concerned about Maliki s temperament, his small group of advisers, his tendency to exercise personal control in the use of state power, and his reputation, partly merited, of making empty promises.