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Tue, 10 Feb 2009 00:00:00 PST

China premier asks Cambridge to pardon shoe-tosser
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao is asking Britain's Cambridge University to pardon a student who threw a shoe at him during his speech there earlier this month.

Sun, 21 Dec 2008 00:00:00 PST

Kissinger Calls For New International System Out Of World Crises
"I think that when the new administration assess the position in which it finds itself it will see a huge crisis and terrible problems, but I can see that it could see a glimmer in which it could construct an international system out of it." Kissinger said, referring to the transition between the Bush and Obama administrations.

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 00:00:00 PST

The Corruption Capital Of America - Forbes.com
"We are the capital of corruption in the United States. The only place that comes close to our level of corruption is New Jersey and Louisiana," says Dick W. Simpson, a former Chicago alderman who is now head of the political science department at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he runs an anti-corruption project.
Can We Control What We Don’t Understand?
Today’s business managers cannot comprehend the power of a connected world without borders and a web that is open, seamless and free. The power is shifting to the individual self organized into swarms with affinities and influence. No one individual is in control rather the conversational rivers control and ignite the influence.
Will the financial crisis be the end of green, or could green be the way to end the economic crisis?
Yeah, humanity needed the IR but the problems started through manipulation of technology by the vested interest groups - while Ford and Diesel were planning to make their internal combustion vehicle with biomass fuels, DuPont and Andrew Mellon collaborated in making the 'oil' as prime source of energy least bothering about environmental and other consequences, please find the ref here(scroll down to read Neriah's):

Sun, 14 Dec 2008 00:00:00 PST

How to Argue for Social Media
Jacob Morgan writes, "The key to addressing anyone on any topic is to understand both sides of the argument. If you’re in the social media space this means understanding why an executive or an employee may have a problem with social media (or with anything else for that matter) as well as understanding the arguments for social media use. The way you convince people or win a debate/argument is to understand and present both sides of the argument and then show how one of those sides falls apart...."

Sat, 13 Dec 2008 00:00:00 PST

How to do a harmless business?
Poverty. Climate Change. HIV/AIDS. The contemporary world problems are lined up. We have a world where approximately 4 billion people live on less than $4 a day. A temperature increase in the atmosphere has led to severe climate effects with weather catastrophes, droughts, floods and polar ice meltdowns. The HIV/AIDS epidemic is on its way to make the major part of a whole continent implode, with vicious circles that makes Africa lose parents, teachers, doctors, farmers and bread-winners for families, leaving kids alone in the streets. A campaign is on-going here: http://1mcc.info
Will Israel attack Iran?
Reports from Western capitals suggest that the possibility of an Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear facilities is once again the subject of intense speculation in intelligence and diplomatic circles, as it has been at various times over the past year. The concern is that Israel might seize the opportunity of the last weeks of the Bush presidency to launch a strike, writes Patrick Seale, a commentator and author of several books on Middle East affairs

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 00:00:00 PST

Change; every change may not be welcome to most of us but a ‘Change’ comes always unannounced when it becomes due!
This short article is in response to “A New World Order”, written by Krzysztof Rybinski, a partner in Ernst & Young and assistant professor at the Warsaw School of Economics - The article is (with minor editorial changes) the text of a talk delivered on 25 November 2008 at a seminar on "Reforming International Organisations" in Warsaw, co-organised by the British embassy and the Unia & Polska Foundation . The author require readers to think about the world in 2050, some of pertinent questions he raises are:
Can a new site build a repo in market like Yahoo or google NOW
developing a website competitive with market leaders - google, yahoo
What should be Pakistan's development goals for the next 20 years?
Recommendations of LinkedIn users on What should be Pakistan's development goals for the next 20 years!

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PDT