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Lack of Political Accord Stalling UN Reform, says Former Deputy Chief Louise Fréchette
By Lee Berthiaume
January 17th, 2007
Former UN deputy chief Louise Fréchette has some advice for Ban Ki-Moon, the United States, and Canada’s role in the organization.
New United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon took office on the first day of the [...]
Globalisation and the rise of inequality - Rich man, poor man
Jan 18th 2007
From The Economist
A poisonous mix of inequality and sluggish wages threatens globalisation
GLUERS and sawyers from the furniture factories in Galax near the mountains of Virginia lost their jobs last year when American retailers decided they could find a better supplier in China. At [...]
Charlie Rose often interviews some high profile people in the area of international relations. Best of all, its all available free on Google Video!
This was an interview Charlie Rose had with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad… there’s an interesting section where the President spoke about the holocast.
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Here is Henry Kissenger…
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Here is Muhammad Yunus, winner of the [...]
In my last job, we used social network analysis as a tool to find relationships between CEOs and other business support entities (such as venture capital, trade orgs, university licencing offices, etc)… Find out more here. Ever since, I have been interested social networks… i even began to notice the weird social networks that exist [...]
Dear delegates,
Below, please note information regarding this weekend’s Model United Nations (MUN) training session, particularly regarding the topic. It has been changed to something very interesting and pertinent. This event is open to all, so if you have any friends or anyone who you think would like to come, please invite them.
The topic is now: [...]
There appears to be a series of violent clashes have erupted in several neighborhoods in Beirut between supporters of the Future movement and Amal/Hezbollah supporters. The clashes started on the Beirut Arab University campus and spread to the adjacent areas. There seems to be 4 people killed so far today… With the rise of Hezbollah [...]
Check out this off the hook trend map! A collabo between Nowandnext.com and Future Exploration Network have collaborated in producing a map of major trends for 2007, across ten segments: society & culture, government & politics, work & business, media & communications, science & technology, food & drink, medicine & well-being, financial services, retail & [...]
New York Times
January 24, 2007
Memo From Caracas: In Venezuela, Chavismo Is Dissected by Fans and Foes
By SIMON ROMERO
CARACAS, Venezuela — “You and I know that, as some people say, I’m only a lieutenant colonel, I’m not a summa cum laude doctor,” President Hugo Chávez casually told a few million viewers of his Sunday talk show, [...]
“The European cow receives $2.50 per day in government subsidies and the average Japanese cow receives $7.50 in subsidies, while 75 percent of people in Africa live on less than $2 per day.” - Nicholas Stern, former Chief Economist at the World Bank; Dynamic Development: Innovation and Inclusion (World Bank)
Davos began today, and accroding to [...]
So Victor’s been bugging me to post on this thing, and I finally had a good idea about what to write. I decided that I would look up the Billboard top 20 from 1967, the height of the Vietnam War, and compare that list of songs to the 2006 top 20 list. My [...]