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Some foreign media reported that Rahm Emanuel would resign from the position of White House Chief of Staff because he was tired with the idealism of the people inside the circle of the government of President Barack Obama.

Rahm EmanuelUK newspaper, Telegraph, citing unnamed sources from Washington, launched that Emanuel will withdraw in six to eight months. A number of media such as New York Times, the Daily Telegraph; Israeli newspaper Haartez; and New York Magazine, then follow the preaching of the Telegraph. They called Emanuel would resign out of frustration will officials stubbornly difficult to unite opinion in order to pass the government’s policies the United States (U.S.).

However, so far no official statement from the White House about it. Emanuel, 55 years old, really enjoyed working relationship with Obama. However, as media reported that, Emanuel and Obama are equally understand that the difference in style between them will result in Emanuel – are known to talk frankly and this aggressive – only to be served during the half period of a four-year tenure .

Emanuel friends also says that followers of the Jewish and fluent in Hebrew is worried that he would be “annihilated” if still maintaining his position. He also felt it would be farther away from his family because of the pressures of work to be received as a holder of one of the key positions in U.S. government.

It has become an old story in Washington that the arguments and differences of opinion occurred between Emanuel minded pragmatist and a very senior member of Congress who are known to compromise.

A U.S. government official from the era of Bill Clinton’s claim would not be surprised if Emanuel will be back around November when the Democratic Party is struggling to maintain its majority in the House and Senate. If I were to resign from the White House, Emanuel is rumored to be running for mayor of Chicago, his birthplace.

The U.S. military discovered “the untapped mineral reserves worth U.S. $ 1 billion” or more than Rp 9 trillion in Afghanistan. This report placed New York Times on the main page edition Monday.These findings, according to Yahoo! News, Tuesday, June 15, 2010, almost like an adventure in the Indiana Jones films: Geologist, Geological Survey geologist Afghan guard who had made the Soviet Union showed reserves of copper, lithium, iron and gold worth billions of dollars.According to the New York Times, this survey was collected in 2007. In 2009, the Pentagon and then learn the “translation of technical data to measure the potential economic value of mineral reserves that.” And was found number of Rp 9 trillion.

And these findings fit with that quoted by the Associated Press last month, Afghan President Hamid Karzai launched the mineral wealth of his country to reach three times that amount, U.S. $ 3 billion.John Cook, a writer for Yahoo!, Questioned why the data was out at the same time. According to him, this is an effort to Karzai to extend the United States intervention in his country.

“It is easier to imagine an end to a democratic and stable Afghanistan when you will get billions of dollars of minerals to be played,” said Cook.Mineral reserves has become the last way to get American aid Afghanistan due before U.S. President George W Bush, said no mining would develop oil in Afghanistan for fear of huge cost. Now the question is, who will benefit from copper and gold mineral reserves of this?

Arizona's Immigration Law surveyA survey from Pew finds broad public approval for Arizona’s new immigration-enforcement policy on numerous fronts–not just up-or-down approval of the new law itself, but on numerous fronts. Politically, the law is supported broadly by Republicans and independents; Democrats are the only partisan group to opppose it.

The survey corroborates a CBS/New York Times poll that found approval for the law last week.Pew questioned 994 U.S. adults May 6-9.73% support requiring people to show documents proving citizenship. Even on the most controversial question asked by Pew–whether police should be able to question anyone they think may be an illegal immigrant (note: the law’s anti-racial-profiling language was not mentioned here)–a full 62% supported it, with 35% opposing.

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Like santosamaru quotation from New York Times, March 31 2010, Google has took Intel and Sony to do project called Google TV. What is it?

Google TV is TV tissue walked with operating system Android and browsers Google Chrome. This TV displays ads from Google ads, and offers tens thousand applications third parties embedded on app-store supplied.

Interestingly, specially from sides users is they could perform personalization and enhance experiences watching with applications third parties, like on Smartphone. LANGUAGE simplicity, Google TV represents set TV appended with chip processor and software intelligent. More precisely, Google and partner planning to make aircraft television who use processor Atom, could connected into network, uses Android and application third party. To explores shop existing applications therein, users could wear browsers Chrome.

Due believe with open standards, Google plans opened platform their television on party developer third. They also will provide variants Android opensource who strengthen TV free. Estimated This will fishing creativity developer applications and consumers will enjoy televisi like smart phone.

As supplementary triumvirate also been assigning Logitech for make device supplementary like remote intelligent and keyboard. Seeing step taken, Google seems trying wherever possible presenting their ad in family room and sell as possible viewers on advertisers.