Jim Yong Kim and Obama In a stunning move, the newly-elected President of the World Bank has launched one of the most significant steps in human history to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Supported by President Obama, Jim Yong Kim has persuaded the World Bank to move away from funding one
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CuriosityCat: Turkish Spring: Another take on events of May 31
Claire Belinski Claire Berlinski, writing in the City Journal in the wee hours of the morning of May 31, captured her thoughts about the beginnings of the Turkish unrest: But as news of the injuries and deaths spread by word of mouth, and particularly as photos and videos of the
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Fortune 500 Nightmare: Revolutionary WikiBuycott will put power in our hands
The Revolution starts here! There is a nightmare hovering over large and small corporations. It is the shifting of the power balance, away from the companies that produce goods and services, into the hands of millions of consumers. The nightmare for company CEOs is a new product that will soon
Continue readingCuriosityCat: The Harper Government lacks a strategic vision for Canada’s oil industry
400 parts per million … Those Albertans who have voted for Harper’s Conservatives in election after election must be starting to wonder whether Stephen Harper and his Cabinet are the best choice for their main industry: oil. They should start to worry, because the Harper Tories are displaying yet again
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