Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) A World in Crisis What the thirties tell us about today. Matthew Continetti January 3 – January 10, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 16 On December 13, 1931, there was a traffic accident in New York City. A man exited a cab on the Upper East Side and was crossing […]
JANUARY 13, 2011 U.S. Cuts Global Grain Supply Outlook; Higher Prices Expected at Grocery Stores By SCOTT KILMAN And LIAM PLEVEN Evidence of tightening global food supplies grew as the U.S. Agriculture Department cut its estimates for global harvests of key crops and raised some demand forecasts, adding to worries about rising food prices. Prices
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U.S. business mustn’t fall behind as the world moves forward By Gary Burnison The Washington Times December 23, 2010 Imagine, for a moment, that the United States is a company. Without a doubt, it is an industry leader with a great global (albeit sometimes controversial) brand, ample resources and vast real estate holdings from mountains
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Published on National Legal and Policy Center (http://www.nlpc.org) Corporations Push President on Global Climate Fund By Paul Chesser Created 12/15/2010 – 11:44 After the failure in Copenhagen last year for countries who hoped for a successor agreement to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol on global warming, lower expectations surrounded this year’s version of the UN Framework
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New Zeal Blog Who Benefits? The Food Safety Bill Will Centralize and Regulate Food Production Posted: 24 Nov 2010 10:06 PM PST “If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) As Simple as One, Two, Three A legislative strategy for the House Republicans. Jeff Bergner November 15, 2010, Vol. 16, No. 09 Republicans have won control of the House and have gained several seats in the Senate. What will the Republicans do? Will they simply nibble at the edge
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11/18/2010 Does The FDA Really Need More Power? Our long national nightmare is over. Phusion Projects, the makers of Four Loko brand caffeinated malt beverages, announced yesterday that it will remove the caffeine from its products. Phusion’s decisions came just one day after Senator Chuck Schumer (D–NY) pushed the Food and Drug Administration to ban “these
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TECHNOLOGY NOVEMBER 5, 2010 Security Fears Kill Chinese Bid in U.S. By JOANN S. LUBLIN and SHAYNDI RAICE Sprint Nextel Corp. is excluding Chinese telecommunications-equipment makers Huawei Technologies Ltd. and ZTE Corp. from a contract worth billions of dollars largely because of national security concerns in Washington, according to people familiar with the matter. A
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Beijing spying feared in telecom proposal Chinese firm would make parts Washington Times November 5, 2010 by Eli Lake EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: John Tkacik, who was the chief intelligence analyst on China for the State Department during the Clinton administration, said the employee ownership of Huawei does not diminish the company’s close ties to
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