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2011/02/212011/02/21

Review: How to Run the World–Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance

Parag Khanna Extraordinary Personal Effort, Constrained by Publisher February 21, 2011 I received a copy of this book at my request from the author himself (I am unemployed, and globally available). I gave the author’s first book, The Second World: How Emerging Powers Are Redefining Global Competition in the Twenty-first Century, a five star leaning …

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2011/01/25

Where Does the Money Go?

The Top Ten Foreign Holders of U.s. Debt in November 2009: Country Amount China, Mainland $789.6 billion Japan …

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2011/01/182011/01/18

NIGHTWATCH Extract: Tunesia & USA Politics

Phi Beta Iota: If one reads the Winner Take All Politics book review by Retired Reader first, and then the analytic comments here, one is struck by the raw nearly identical nature of the corrupt politicians and the dysfunctional political system. Third World America, indeed. Tunisia: Politics. The Speaker of the Parliament is the new …

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2010/12/22

NIGHTWATCH Extracts: Koreas, Iran, Sudan

South Korea: For the first time in seven years, South Korea has lit a 100-foot tower in the shape of a Christmas triee with 100,000 Christmas lights and topped it with a cross, along the Demilitarized Zone. A choir sang Christmas carols. The tower and carols could be seen and heard in North Korea. . …

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2010/10/202010/10/20

Journal: India Strike on Pakistan Grows More Likely

India-Pakistan: According to a 109 page Indian interrogation report of the Pakistani-American jihadist, David Headley, officers through senior field grade ranks in Pakistan’s intelligence services were involved directly in the 2008 Mumbai militant attacks and intended to control a further split in Kashmir-based militant groups by providing them with a victory, The Guardian reported yesterday, …

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2010/08/232010/08/27

South America #1, Africa #2, Asia #3 Safest Continents for Web

Africa: The 2nd Safest Continent to Surf the Web by HASH on August 23, 2010 Here’s an interesting study by AVG on internet security, asking “Where in the World are you most likely to be hit by a malicious computer attack or virus?”. Apparently, and surprisingly to me, the answer is “not Africa” or South …

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2010/08/192010/08/19

Banking with “Enemies”

According to court documents, from as early as the mid-1990s until September 2006, Barclays knowingly and willfully moved or permitted to be moved hundreds of millions of dollars through the U.S. financial system on behalf of banks from Cuba, Iran, Libya, Sudan and Burma, and persons listed as parties or jurisdictions sanctioned by OFAC in …

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