Monthly Archive for February, 2008
Wednesday 13 Feb 2008
The Grass Energy Collaborative [GEC] working paper was first shared in Dec. 2005 in Montpelier. Then it was shared at a meeting at Shelburne Farms in early January 2006 — just two years ago. Unexpectedly, President Bush mentioned “switchgrass” in this 2006 State of the Union speech. This really set up […]
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Monday 11 Feb 2008
BY: Dr. Farooq Hassan
Last Monday I had the privilege of addressing Harvard Law School’s International Law intelligentsia with scholars composed of countries from Brazil to Kenya and Australia to India to analyse the current ‘constitutional’ situation in Pakistan. My view is that the ethos of the current state of political crisis in Pakistan emanates from […]
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Sunday 10 Feb 2008
Back on January 17, 2001, The Onion published this ’spoof’. Their crystal ball was all too accurate.
WASHINGTON, DC–Mere days from assuming the presidency and closing the door on eight years of Bill Clinton, president-elect George W. Bush assured the nation in a televised address Tuesday that “our long national nightmare of peace and prosperity […]
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Saturday 09 Feb 2008
An important key for a more successful future is a more realistic and more honest economics. Not the fantasy economics we have today that assumes that economics is both mechanistic and divorced from the laws of the natural world.
Why we have not developed a new economics that includes the laws of physics, and […]
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Friday 08 Feb 2008
Transpartisanship Defined
Transpartisanship represents an emerging field in political thought distinct from bipartisanship, which aims to negotiate between “right” and “left,” resulting in a dualistic perspective, and nonpartisanship, which tends to avoid political affiliation altogether. Rather, transpartisanship acknowledges the validity of truths across a range of political perspectives and seeks to synthesize them into an […]
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Sunday 03 Feb 2008
By: DR FAROOQ HASSAN
It was a great honour for me to address the National Press Club ‘Newsmakers Event’ on January 24, 2008 in Washington DC. In my Keynote address on the current political crisis in Pakistan, I emphasised that Musharraf’s rule in Pakistan and supremacy of law are two contradictory concepts. His rule is backed […]
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Sunday 03 Feb 2008
I suspect this is the company that made the VERY polished and professional pro Obama video at DipDive.com
The Black Eyed Peas, former Kerry supporters, get credit for the music and the idea. See Will.i.am’s blog entry here.
It is VERY well done. And seemingly not covered by campaign finance laws as it was apparently […]
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