Recent articles:
- On May 31, 2009 Fareed Zakaria had on his one hour CNN show Henry Kissinger, Niall Ferguson, Joshua Cooper Ramo, Selig Harrison and Jack Pritchard to talk about China, the Koreas, Japan, the US, Iran and Russia – or really the need of an Asia policy that is beyond what Ferguson once called Chimerica. (May 31st, 2009)
- Obamas Do Dinner, Broadway in NYC – Did He Notice That The New Show In Town Isn’t on Broadway. It is BROADWAY WITHOUT CARS! Updated with the Julie Bosman article on page 18 of The New York Times – “Politics Can Wait: The President Has a Date.” She also missed the nexus car-free-Broaday! Are we all blind? (May 31st, 2009)
- At the UN Headquarters in New York, the best reporting comes from Inner City Press – the only purely Internet site still allowed by the UN – now www.innercitypress.com reports that the UN is also pushing out old conventional press by planning to charge for space. The UN already lost CNN and is about to lose the Washington Post. Hopefully all the Arab propaganda outlets will be happy to dish out the requested fees. (May 30th, 2009)
- An evening at the Austrian Cultural Forum in New York with Oscar Bronner, Publisher of Vienna’s DER STANDARD on the past and future of print journalism? Will there be future bravura cases about investigating the economy like that of The Washington Post when it backed the Watergate investigation? (May 30th, 2009)
- A New Report Says 300 Milion People Already Affected by Climate Change resulting in 300,000 Death/Year. Koffi Annan is now President of the Global Humanitaran Forum and he spoke in London to CNN. (May 30th, 2009)
- The Financial Times advises President Obama: “Professor Chu – He Must Redouble His Efforts, Not Scale Back His Ambitions.” (May 29th, 2009)
- Nick Hodge of “Energy and Capital” tells us of Warren Buffet who made 188% on Chinese batteries while the Dow went down 30%. Further – cleantech offers ophelimity indeed. Look at his MidAmerican Energy Holdings and remember that increased solar energy capacity calls for electricity storage to avoid fossil fuel back-up capacity. (May 29th, 2009)
- Inner City Reporting from the UN thinks that Ban Ki-moon, the UNSG, is under threat of blackmail from Russia because of his interest to be reelected in 2010 – so his efforts to deal with breakaway regions in Russia, Georgia, Serbia and Sri Lanka, have been handicapped by the Russians. All we van say is that UN diplomacy covers up a can of snakes, but in the end it is a glass-house indeed. (May 29th, 2009)
- The Water’s Edge is a monthly Foreign Policy Association column examining the intersection of domestic and foreign policies, with a special focus on challenges facing the Obama administration. The first issue is about Sri Lanka and attempts to extrapolate to US wars in Asia. (May 29th, 2009)
- NOAA creates a National Climate Service that would provide longer-term forecasts and warnings related to climate change, just as the National Weather Service does for storms and other short term weather changes. (May 29th, 2009)
- Now even the New York Times Reports on the link between climate change and plain security issues. When the subject was surfaced first at the UN, their correspondent then thought of it as a diversion from his interests. (May 29th, 2009)
- Hamish McRae of The Independent sees the US dollar tanking because of excessive US govenment borrowing, and a longer term rising US interest rates that will hurt the recovery. Geithner’s next problem is thus the deficit he created. (May 29th, 2009)
- The UN system has failed the world’s 3 billion-plus women – but now some think that a new UN “super-agency” may bring welcome change. // May 28, 2009 (May 28th, 2009)
- A solid conservative, Charles Krauthammer, gives unexpected solid good reasons for “Sotomayor: Criticize, then confirm.” (May 28th, 2009)
- Canada says that what is important for the climate change negotiations is that the US is now on board – not the targets. How come? And this from a country that retracted from Kyoto anyway? The Minister hung his hopes on carbon capture and calls this green! (May 28th, 2009)
- Looking to the future – The Brazil-America Chamber of Commerce Plans for New York City a November 2009 Brazil Energy Conference and for January 2010 a Brazil and China Trade Conference. (May 28th, 2009)
- Rajendra K. Pachauri comes to New York as Chairman of the Board of IRI at the Earth Institute of Columbia University, and will thus be in proximity to the UN Headquarters in New York. (May 28th, 2009)
- UPDATED: THIS WEBSITE STANDS WITH SOTOMAYOR! Judge Sonia Sotomayor – A Hispanic Woman – is President Obama’s Pick for the Supreme Court – a Real American Revolution. If the Republicans try to oppose her it will be to their own electoral peril. (May 28th, 2009)
- Sir Nicholas Stern, Obama and his D.O.D, China and India, those are the real ingredients of the Post-Kyoto Regime. A US Congress true leadership is “not political feasible for the country” says now Nobel Laureate Steven Chu, the Obama appointed Secretary at D.O.E. (May 28th, 2009)
- Japan expected to get Joseph Nye as its new US Ambassador but got instead John Roos a “ronkokosho” – a friend and California fund raiser for President Obama – while China got Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. a man of high political caliber on his own right. They clearly see the US attention wandering from Japan that was used to prominent Ambassadors, now to China. (May 28th, 2009)
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