The collapse of the 71 year old Soviet empire in 1989 stemmed mainly from the collapse of the Soviet economy, due to an unwinnable war in Afghanistan and a blown out military budget. The parallels with current US economic and geopolitical problems are obvious. Other similarities include the fact that the citizens of the [...]
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The findings underscore why Americans say the most important problem facing the nation today is jobs and unemployment. D.C., are you listening? There are a few hopeful signs. Oceanic shipping is strongly up. Recent reports show that IT is definitely coming back, something I’m seeing too. I’m self-employed and do database programming, website development, [...] A new type of nuclear reactor that could permanently “destroy” atomic waste is being developed by French scientists, according to the chief executive of Areva, the world’s largest nuclear energy company. The new technology works in a lab, now they’re working on making it scale. If they can, then it could be a huge [...] Film website Andy Carling writing at New Europe When veiled women are asked their reasons for donning the burqa they often describe it as liberating, simply because they don’t have men leering at them, sizing them up, making judgments. We can easily see a burqa-clad lady as unfree; she can look at western women, who put [...] Need to generate some extra income or thinking about how to use the net to build your business? Google Adwords can help. I’ve used it for years to generate leads for one of computer programming specialties, converting Clipper database programs from DOS to Windows. (Yes, there are zillions of Clipper programs still out there that [...] Wachovia pays $160 million fine for money-laundering $420 billion in drug money. Avoids criminal prosecutions. Western Union pays $94 million fine over money-laundering assumed drug and human smuggling money. Avoids criminal prosecutions. Apparently none of the executives in either company had any inkling of such nefarious goings-on. Else they would have been on it [...] While I have doubts about the plan, Obama did get it done, and this is something no other president has been able to do. And this It looks like Prime Minister Netanyahu is capitulating to US demands over Jerusalem. The battle is not over. But with health care passing, Obama’s Presidency is rejuvenated [...] DJ reads the health care bills (there are three of them), grinds the numbers, finds it all unduly complicated, deliberately evasive, and agrees with his House representative who is voting against it because it does little to cut costs or stop premiums from rising. [...] This isn’t quite accurate. Bernanke only scatters money to Wall Street, not the rest of us Then stop giving them money, Ben, and also stop protecting them, running interference for them, and refusing to release emails and documentation about them. Then people might think you actually mean what you say. Sheesh. He sounds like [...] |
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