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World water scarcity will be the cause of
future water wars
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By
Gioietta Kuo Ph.D.
"Just as world oil scarcity is already causing international
conflicts, so will the scarcity of water come to the point
where wars will break out".
Heparin Contamination – Another
Case Study for Corporate Social Responsibility
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By
Susie L. Hoeller, J.D.
"Nineteen deaths and nearly 800 life-threatening
allergic reactions may be linked to contaminated heparin"
The Energy Budget Associated
With Alternative Energy Supplies
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by
Prof. Prof J Hugill, Abingdon, U.K.
"When planning a new source of energy, it is conventional, as for
any other project, to calculate the capital cost and the likely
return on capital over its lifetime".
Letter to the Washington Post
submitted by
Gioietta Kuo
"Where
Is The Money?"
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"Patrick Moore sparked a long overdue
debate on nuclear energy -
Washington Post 4/17/06. The sad reality is, there are NO options
open to
us except nuclear energy".
Nuclear
Energy, Long Term Requirements (Acrobat Reader
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by
Prof. Vladimir Knapp, University of Zagreb, Croatia
"Should developed countries be called to replace CO2
emitting energy sources as soon as possible, and the time available
may not be longer then few decades, can nuclear energy answer the
call and what are the requirements"?
Comments on the book by Lester R. Brown: PLAN B 2.0, Rescuing a
Planet Under Stress and Civilization in Trouble
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by
Prof. Vladimir Knapp, University of Zagreb, Croatia
"Without any doubt Mr. Brown has done
a great survey of the environmental problems of our time, serious
enough already but with much larger looming in future".
Limits on Wind Power and Global Warming
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by
Gioietta Kuo
“Renewable energy sources like wind
and solar energy cannot
solve completely the world's energy problems. Nuclear
power is the only alternative especially since there is
urgency in reducing CO2 emission as fast as we can"
"Winter's Musings - Civilization"
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by
Gioietta Kuo
“We may think our society is
civilized, but in fact I see all around me many more instances of
uncivilized actions rather than civilized ones”.
"Comments on Collapse"
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by
Gioietta Kuo
““Why do some civilizations collapse
like that of Easter Island, the Maya and Greenland Norse while
others like Iceland and Japan survive for thousands of years?" This
time, the answers to this question may have bearing on our modern
civilization.
Humanism, World Peace and Globalization:
Nuclear Proliferation, Threats and Solutions
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by Vladimir Knapp
Nuclear war would, no doubt, endanger the very existence of
mankind. Nuclear arms race during the cold war era was one the most
inhumane aberration of human mind. However, almost twenty years
later we are still far from being safe from the danger of nuclear
war.
The IADC and Venezuela
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by Colin Forbes
On April 14, 2004, the Colombian Senate, under the initiative of
Senator Enrique Gómez Hurtado, passed a resolution calling for the
Organization of American States (OAS) to sanction Venezuela under the
Inter-American Democratic Charter (IADC) for serious violations of the
country’s constitutional regime. The gesture, although merely
symbolic,1 nevertheless provoked the wrath of Chávez’s government.
An Illness Without Cure? Sweden’s Rampant Sick-Leave: Estimating the
Effect of Unemployment on Sick-Rate.
by Caroline Alvebrink Calais
Have the Swedes turned into a nation of cheaters? Well it seems
like it, in Swedish polling firm Temo’s latest survey 62 percent
answered that they used their government provided sickness benefit
even if they were not sick, and Åsa, a 25 year old working mom,
recently told Sweden’s largest newspaper, Aftonbladet, that she on a
regularly basis used her parental benefit (care of a sick child), to
go to the bank, doing laundry or just spend time with her children.
Hydrogen Economy, Nuclear Energy and Nuclear Proliferation
by
Prof. Vladimir Knapp, one of the leading physicists of Croatia
(ex-Yugoslavia)
There
is little optimism about fulfilling Kyoto commitments in controlling
CO2
emissions and avoiding unwanted
climate consequences. Whilst the problem of radioactive waste has
a prominence in public, in spite of already adequate technical
solutions of safe storage for the future hundreds and thousands of
years, ,there is generally much less concern with influence of
fossil fuels on global climate...
On the Verge of Civil War?
-- Venezuela’s Path
by Caroline
Alvebrink Calais, Freelance Writer and Doctoral Student in
Political Economy at University of Texas at Dallas
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required.)
Venezuela, the worlds fifth largest oil exporter and the fourth largest
supplier of the U.S. market (Cornwell), has strained relations with
Washington, president Hugo Chavez accusing the Bush administration of
masterminding a coup against him in 2002, and constantly condemning Bush’s
trade- and foreign policies as being imperialistic (Fletcher)
Telecom Deregulation
in Europe and the United States – a Comparison of Post- och Telestyrelsen
(PTS) and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
by
Caroline Alvebrink Calais, Freelance
Writer and Doctoral Student in Political Economy at University of Texas at
Dallas
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required.)
Privatization and deregulation have been among the most important
public policy innovations in recent history. Started by the Adenauer
government in Germany 1961, and refined by the Thatcher government in the
1980s, it has spread over the globe reaching countries like China, India,
Japan, Chile, Mexico and Venezuela.
Business and The UNITED
NATIONS
by Paul O. Pederson
Did you know that parts of this vast UN organization help business in
many rather obscure and sometimes technical matters? In addition to the
World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the World Trade
Organization, there are twelve specialized agencies that help to maintain
the commercial order and openness that business depends upon.
AC students hear some
views on globalization
by Joyce Godwin
(as it appeared in the
HERALD DEMOCRAT)
Students of the Posey Leadership Institute at Austin College spent a
couple of hours with Dr. John Carrier Monday listening to his views on
globalization and the study of worldwide mortality of children. Carrier is
Director of Policy Studies at the American Center for International Policy
Studies who sponsored the free seminar. He has a special interest in the
area of developing methods and programs to alleviate world poverty and
hunger.
A Just War Critique
by Susie Hoeller
An ethical examination, using the just-war criteria, of the international
community’s intervention in Bosnia-Herzegovina (“Bosnia”) between
1992-1995.
Strengthening
Saddam: Economic Sanctions and the Empowering of a Dictator
by Nimah Mazaheri
The ineffectiveness of sanctions to achieve their desired intentions
has received much criticism, for not only were they unable to influence
the Iraqi political process but simultaneously generated one of the
largest humanitarian tragedies ever witnessed.
The Russian Mail-Order Bride
Industry: From Russia For Love, To America In Danger
By
Lisa Schwamkrug, J.D.
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