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- Travel Advisory for Visitors to the U.S. - AfterDowningStreet.org These are some snippets from a posting at AfterDowningStreet.org, that is a translation of a letter sent to the Italian press regarding the signing into law of the Military Commissions Act of 2006. Be sure to go read the whole letter! Stephanie Westbrook U.S. Citizens for Peace & Justice -...
- Azinger Rules Out Possibility of Returning as U.S. Ryder Cup Captain Paul Azinger who was responsible for leading the United States Ryder cup team into victory this year has announced that he does not plan on returning as captain for the U.S. Ryder cup team for the 2010 matches, which are to be held in Wales. His victory was a great...
EarthTalk: The State Of Wind Power In The U.S. EarthTalk is a weekly installment from E/The Environmental Magazine. Dear EarthTalk: How is wind power faring in the U.S. now? Is more of it coming on line and becoming a larger percent of the grid? And what about some of the highly publicized efforts to build wind farms, such as...
I.O.U.S.A. The Movie is Free and Now Available on YouTube In late summer, I wrote about the first non-snoozefest documentary on economics ever produced -- I.O.U.S.A. The Movie. It has now been released in a 30 minute condensed version and placed on YouTube.com (see video below) for all to see. If you haven't watched it yet, it is probably the...
Reverse Brain Drain: Foreign Headhunters Taking Full Advantage of U.S. Recession The New York Times just released one of the more disturbing videos on global business trends that I've seen in some time. With the U.S. recession trickle down effects being fully evident, foreign nationals on a Work Visa or American citizens who speak a country's national language are being recruited to...
Terror Attack on U.S. Soil - Obama Silent - Media Complicit WedNEWSday - June 3rd, 2009 While GE's family of NBC networks and their hardcore America-haters were busy celebrating the life of late-term abortionist George Tiller, a real terror attack took place. A convert to Islam accused of having "political and religious motives" in a deadly Arkansas military center shooting pleaded...- Gas in the U.S. is Cheap If you ask the average American what they think of current gas prices, they would probably tell you that they think $3 per gallon is too high. If you ask me, I think that Americans are spoiled and they don't realize how much cheaper gas is here compared to the...
- Improving the economic health of the U.S. middle class -- what might be done? As part of a synchroblog project where several bloggers give their opinion on the same topic, I'm attempting to answer this question: "What is the single most important initiative that the next administration should undertake to improve the economic health of the U.S. middle class?" (Please following the links at...
- What is the single most important initiative that the next administration should undertake to improve the economic health of the U.S. middle class? Synchroblog #1 I am participating in the first ever (well at least to my knowledge) Synchroblog associated with the personal finance realm. I couldn't find a good definition of a Synchroblog so I am going to make one up,  A Synchroblog is joint writing/blogging where a common question or theme is...
- Liquidity Conflict in the U.S. Economy – Spenders vs. Savers The Credit System is on Life Support There was another round of dire warnings issued from Washington yesterday, capped off by a somber speech from President Bush. The fundamental message is consistent: The credit markets are clogged. There is not enough flow of money from lenders to borrowers to support...
- Which smartphone is more smart and popular- BlackBerry Curve or iPhone? Research in Motion Ltd's BlackBerry Curve moved past Apple Inc's iPhone in the first quarter to become the best-selling consumer smartphone in the U.S., research group NPD said on Monday. RIM, which already dominates the corporate smartphone market in the United States, also had three of the top five best-selling...
- The insurance that you need Insurance is one of those topics that no one's usually all that thrilled to talk about. But I want to mention it here because I think that insurance is important. Here are the types that I feel are necessary (and that I either have or will be getting): Car insurance....
- How about Wolverine ? Movie critics took sharp claws to "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" on Wednesday, carving it up in several poor reviews, but box office watchers said it still should bring blockbuster ticket sales at this weekend's debut. The movie is the first major release of Hollywood's lucrative summer season, which can account for...
How to tap into the mommy market: Moms Rule! Guest Post by Anissa Wardell Did you know that moms are the buying power in the U.S. market? The buying power of mothers tops $2.1 trillion a year, and they control 85% of household income. (Jack personally believes they control even more, but moms want dads to feel like they...- Twitter Updates for 2009-04-07 RT @TPEntrepreneur 115 Marketing Tips For Your Business. http://tinyurl.com/c6o9uw # Blog Post: #ftr New Rule: Call it what you want, but don’t call blogging a phase.: Yep. It is h.. http://bit.ly/7Y88k # I just added myself to http://twitr.org Twitter Directory under #blogging #marketing #link-building # Study Finds Paint Aisle...
- All eyes on Stress Tests of US Banks !! U.S. banks will be briefed by regulators by Friday on how they performed in government "stress tests," before the results are made public later. Some estimates of likely losses that were used in the stress tests were tougher than expected, the WSJ says. "Under a more adverse scenario, which assumes...
- Taxes taxes and more taxes First: Yay! I can do my taxes! Yes, I know that's not the type of thing people typically get excited about, but you see, it's only MARCH and I'm already able to do my taxes. Normally I have to sweat it out until April 15th, wondering if I'll get the...
- Pay Off Debt v1.1 Just a quick announcement that Pay Off Debt v1.1 went live yesterday. (Pay Off Debt is an application for the iPhone and iPod Touch that helps people to get out of debt using a debt snowball.) The app is available via iTunes in the U.S., Canada, U.K., and Australia. The...
- Speaking of insurance... According to its web page, the MIB Group is "a membership corporation owned by approximately 470 member insurance companies in the US and Canada. Organized in 1902, MIB's core fraud protection services protect insurers, policyholders and applicants from attempts to conceal or omit information material to the sound and equitable...
Social Marketing Central Woman Stands to Lose Her Home Her name is Trina L.C. Sonnenberg, and she's in danger of becoming part of a growing group of people in the U.S. who are in danger of losing, or have already lost their homes. But she isn't sitting around waiting for a bailout. She's being proactive and using her web...
- Halloween We had some really cute costumes here. Even at lunch the wait staff was dressed up, from pirates to speak easy. It made it fun to eat out. At night, the little boys especially were adorable. One little fellow said he was Jack Sparrow. He was just the cutest thing....
Alta Sierra Ski Resort, Wofford Heights, CA Alta Sierra Ski Resort is located in Wofford Heights, CA Phone: (760) 376-4186 Website: http://www.shirleymeadows.com/ About the Resort: This is a great family ski resort that has become very popular. The runs are lined with sequoias and this is definitely one of the most scenic ski runs in the area....- Paying for your free tickets, and other new airline charges Airlines are hurting pretty badly because of rising fuel costs. Each $1 rise in the cost of oil causes an annual rise of tens of millions of dollars for fuel for a typical airline. And we've seen a whole bunch of $1 rises lately. Northwest Airlines recently planned to cut...
- Carnivals this past week For some weekend reading if you haven't already, check out some of this week's carnivals: Carnival of Personal Finance #52 at Financial Fruition, with my post on doom and gloom going mainstream. Carnival of Debt Reduction #39 at Aridni, with my post on paying your mortgage down or INGing it....
Festive Link Love Carnivality #15 School is out for the summer! My daughter is done, my wife has a day or so left, and my son completed his first year of day care. I, on the other hand, still have to wake up and go to work. I look forward to phone conversations that...
Scripting News: 12/11/2008 Image via Wikipedia Nice post wish Mr Weiner would do an article on the benefits of using a netbook ! I like my Macbook but it is getting heavy for this old man to carry around ! Coffee, Naomi and I went to a Mac Donalds the other day...
Should I Have Sex With My Ex? Dear Aunt Sue, I just got home for the holidays and I know there's going to be drama with my ex over the break. Everyone always says DO NOT hook up with your ex, so I figure it's probably a stupid idea, but I've been thinking about him. We broke...- Outsourcing in a period of economic slowdown The current economic turmoil is driving companies towards accelerated productivity savings by either outsourcing or re-negotiating their current outsourcing contracts. IT outsourcing has reached a certain level of maturity, whereas business process outsourcing for e.g. finance, HR, procurement, customer care, etc. is far from common practice. Outsource providers are faced...
- The Archimedes Codex unpeeled This is fascinating stuff! It's amazing to me that the book survived, much less is readable (after 9 years!) This is about an ancient book called The Archimedes Codex, bought for $2.2 million in October, 1998, at an auction in New York City by an anonymous collector who sent it...
- A great high gas price indicator My mother-in-law has a friend who works at a gas station, and her friend has an indicator on when gas prices are truly getting high: She doesn't think gas prices are high yet, because people are still buying lottery tickets and soda pop after filling up their tank. When they...
