Tag: global politics
member name: Duane B.
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November 27, 2007 10:36 AM EST --
Merrill Lynch has published the 2006 World Wealth Report that provides some interesting details on the 9.5 million high net worth individuals (HNWI) in the world that have . . .
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July 11, 2007 11:53 AM EDT --
Pope Benedict XVI, reasserting the primacy of the Roman Catholic Church, has approved the release of an document that states that all other Christian denomination are either defective or not . . .
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May 26, 2008 07:08 PM EDT --
I was born in late 1940, almost a year to the day before Pearl Harbor was attacked on December 7, 1941, marking our entry into WWII. I contracted measles and chickenpox before . . .
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December 20, 2007 09:55 AM EST --
All of us have heard about the success of Brazil in developing an ethanol economy based on sugar cane. This year about 85% of the cars manufactured in Brazil will be flex-fuel . . .
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July 17, 2006 12:12 PM EDT --
As I sit down to write this article, much of the Middle East is in crisis. Rockets are falling on Israel and bombs are falling in Lebanon. Hundreds of people have been killed on injured on . . .
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May 17, 2006 10:54 AM EDT --
Americans are always encouraged to believe in the power of free markets. If someone invents a new product that is needed and fills a demand, the free market system will ensure that the inventor . . .
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May 28, 2006 02:19 PM EDT --
According to the popular press and other media sources, ethanol and ethanol-gasoline blends are going to be the solution to the current and future oil crisis. TV ads point out that corn, one of our . . .
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August 05, 2007 11:13 AM EDT --
Sometimes just reading the individual captions of articles and columns in my local newspaper can be either informative or raise troubling questions. Today’s Sunday edition of my . . .
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December 07, 2007 09:40 AM EST --
Recently the CBS program Sixty Minutes ran a segment on the plight of Iraqi Christians still living in Iraq. Since our invasion of Iraq the minority Christian . . .
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May 23, 2008 03:54 PM EDT --
In WWI they called it "shell shocked", in WWII it was called "combat fatigue. In Vietnam it was "the thousand yard stare", but it is as old as human warfare. . . .
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October 25, 2006 10:31 AM EDT --
I recently received an unsolicited email from a person I don't know that is a member of a national organization I belong too. It contained some of the most virulent anti-Semitic . . .
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January 23, 2007 10:32 AM EST --
Christine Amanpour, Chief International Correspondent for CNN, is not easily shocked. She has covered stories in many different areas of the world, some of them physically dangerous, but she admits . . .
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July 30, 2006 12:05 PM EDT --
CNN reported this morning that at least 54 Lebanese women and children were killed by Israeli air strikes in the village of Qana, near Tyre. The bombs stuck a four-story building where the . . .
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September 20, 2006 11:56 AM EDT --
An official Canadian commission has found that a Canadian computer specialist of Syrian birth, Maher Arar, had no ties to any terrorist groups or individuals. Arar claims . . .
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October 18, 2006 11:05 AM EDT --
The Census Bureau announced that the population of the US reached 300 million sometime on Tuesday. China and India are the only countries that have larger populations. The average population . . .
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January 26, 2007 09:56 AM EST --
If you are a farmer that raises corn, times are good. Corn prices are at new highs thanks to the speculation that corn will provide a way to reduce the dependence on oil and oil . . .
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May 24, 2007 07:40 AM EDT --
We are told that the current high gas price is not due to the cost of crude oil, but to the lack of refining capacity. The available refineries are working as hard as they can, but some are out of . . .
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September 04, 2007 10:05 AM EDT --
A study completed by the University of South Carolina’s Moore School of Business has developed quantitative data linking increased immigration to depressed wages in South Carolina. . . .
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May 03, 2008 11:48 AM EDT --
A pastor from South Carolina has been sentenced to three years in jail in Russia for being caught carrying in his luggage a carton of rifle cartridges for a Russian pastor he planning . . .
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September 08, 2006 10:58 AM EDT --
The Stanford Social Innovation Review's Summer 2006 issue has ten new technological innovations that promise to improve the quality of life and the environment around the world. . . .
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