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STAR WARS   |  1 comment

The Empire Strikes Barack: Obama Cancels Europe's Star Wars Defense Shield

President Obama's just canceled a Bush-backed missile defense shield destined to protect Europe from Iranian ICBMs. It's a whole new ball game compared to the original "Star Wars" SDI program. Remember that? Let us remind you.READ»

In Today's News: Katrina, Cruise, Blu-ray...

What's worth reading: Bush Tours New Orleans, Pushes for Rebuilding Plan "President Bush bowed his head in prayer Tuesday to remember the hundreds who perished in Hurricane Katrina, a disaster that forever changed the Gulf Coast -- ...READ»

Free Trade Isn't Fair

Mike Dolan is leading a long-shot crusade against the new economy's most widely shared belief: that global economic integration -- of countries, companies, currencies, and markets -- is both virtuous and inevitable.READ»

"The Millennium Development Goals Report[s]" little development

This morning I had the somewhat special opportunity to go to the U.N. to hear the Secretary General Kofi Annan present "The Millennium Goals Report" to the media. Little did I realize that I'd end up far more in awe of the physical ...READ»

The information the CIA & US Department of State ignored that could have prevented the 9/11 terrorist attacks on NYC.

We both drove to Washington DC together to meet with Republican Senator, Tim Nicholson. Darko spent the night at his house and I in a hotel room on the Beltway. We had brought with us tons of secret information on Al Qaeda operatives with us for this visit but Darko left it all with me in my room and Senator Nicholson did not view it. Senator Nicholson took us out to breakfast early that morning and told us that "In DC, we are alla bunch of paid whores for campaign contributions." The Republika Srpska Information Agency was very generous to help America fight terrorism on many occasions. The boxes I stayed with that night had papers and photos of tons of Al Qaeda operatives.READ»

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Outsourcing Services

Outsourcing Costa Rica , a great country to do business, with 51,000 square kilometers, borders with two Oceans, the Caribbean Sea to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It can take up to 4 hours to go from one coast to the ...READ»

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AFRICA   |  Comment

World Water Day

It's been 4,500 years since the Mesopotamian cities of Lagash and Umma battled over irrigation rights. That was the world's first -- and so far only -- full-fledged water war. But UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon warned last year ...READ»

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Speedometer: Special Global Economy Edition

Going fast. Going slow. Going nowhere.READ»

Richard Nixon

Simultaneously his own harshest critic and biggest fan, Richard Nixon fulfilled his biggest dream and worst nightmare when he returned to politics in the late 1960s.READ»

Room for Improvement...

The U.S. ranks only 45th out of 146 countries in the World Economic Forum's index of environmental sustainability for 2005.READ»

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Countdown to Relaunch!

Intelsat has helped make global communications work -- while struggling to succeed as an international agency that answers to many different governments. Now it's up to Ramu Potarazu, Intelsat's privatization czar, to make the agency a real company.READ»

Successful Minority Micro-Business Incubators

The objective of a minority micro-business incubator is support and growth of successful minority micro-businesses resulting in decreased welfare, increased tax base, decreased crime, increased pride of accomplishment. It's a ...READ»

Disruptive Wireless

Vanu Bose is CEO of Vanu Inc. Michael Gallagher serves as acting assistant secretary of commerce for communications in the U.S. Department of Commerce. Tren Griffin works as a technology evangelist for Microsoft. And Rob Toor is CTO ...READ»

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DataDyne: EpiSurveyor

Founders: Rose Donna & Joel SelanikioREAD»

ENVIRONMENT   |  Comment

New targets for carbon emmissions ?

A coalition of 99 companies is asking political leaders to set targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions and to establish a global carbon market. Their blueprint for tackling climate change is being handed to Japanese Prime ...READ»

Irrefutable Proof ICTY Is Corrupt Court/Irrefutable Proof the Hague Court Cannot Legitimately Prosecute Karadzic Case

This legal technicality indicates the Hague must dismiss charges against Dr karadzic and others awaiting trials in the Hague jail; like it or not. Unfortunately for the Signatures Of the Rome Statute United Nations member states instituting the ICC & ICTY housed at the Hague, insofar as the, Radovan Karadzic, as with the other Hague cases awaiting trial there, I personally witnessed these United Nations member states openly speaking about trading judicial appointments and verdicts for financial funding when I attended the 2001 ICC Preparatory Meetings at the UN in Manhattan making the iCTY and ICC morally incapable trying Radovan Karazdic and others.READ»

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BATTERY   |  2 comments

Tech Watch: Nukes In Your Yard and Fuel Cells In Your Pocket

Two companies are doing two very different things to address the energy problem in America. How about a mini-reactor giving your neighborhood nuclear power? Or would you like thin fuel cell chips to give your gadgets juice?READ»

Kenan Samms

The Global Trade

Discussion of Global Capital Markets and Emerging Market opportunities as a result of the G20 summitREAD»

Molten Bolton

You've really got to be a bad seed to not make it through a Republican-dominated leadership process when you're a loyal Republican. But it looks like John Bolton, President Bush's handpicked choice to become U.S. ambassador to the ...READ»

Entrepreneur Billionaire Shares His Ideas for a Green Future

Sam Wyly’s path from start-up entrepreneur to billionaire business and green-energy guru has been a long and winding one. He started University Computing Co. in 1963 after working for IBM and Honeywell, and went on to develop ...READ»

Big 3 Bailout?

This Saturday as world leaders from the G20 meet in Washington, the topic du jour is stabilizing the world economy. Leaders from the United States, France, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Britain, Canada, China, Germany, India, ...READ»

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Dot Community

Communicopia Internet Inc. helps non-profits make the Web work for social change.READ»

Lee Dodge NY

Lee Dodge New York Pontiac G8 V6 Performance Both V6 and V8 versions of the 2008 Pontiac G8 have the same sporty but smooth FE2 suspension tuning — one more reason you won't feel shortchanged by the lower-priced base G8. ...READ»

ILYA BODNER   |  Comment

STRATEGIC ALLIANCES

            Strategic Alliances are a strategy for getting what you need for your small business without necessarily incurring further debt. This happens when two or ...READ»