<blockquote>"Exactly what happened in South Ossetia last week is unclear. Each side will argue its own version. But we know, without doubt, that Georgia was responding to repeated provocative attacks by South Ossetian separatists controlled and funded by the Kremlin. This is a not a war Georgia wanted; it believed that it was slowly gaining ground in South Ossetia through a strategy ofby ProjectC - Project C
<blockquote>"Mr. Medvedev flatly asserted that Russia had not violated the cease-fire deal he signed two weeks ago. But that agreement contains a provision calling for international talks about the status of South Ossetia and Abkhazia -- and those talks had not begun when Mr. Medvedev abruptly issued the decree recognizing the provinces' independence..."</blockquote>by ProjectC - Project C
By Chen Nan Yang December 23, 2005 Source China's Guangdong Linux Center (GDLC) and 27 universities last month set up the Guangdong Leadership of Open Source University Promotion Alliance (GDLUPA) to promote Linux in China's universities. The GDLUPA founded several Linux Practical Bases, which are learning centers for the university students. "The students will proliferateby ProjectC - Project C
<blockquote>'He underlines that this story must never stop being recounted. As The Diary of Anne Frank – the biggest- selling book in the world after The Bible – has proved, the tale of one person's suffering can have more impact than an account of the slaughter of millions. "The story has more effect when it's about an individual," Springer says. "When you sayby ProjectC - Project C
<blockquote>"Roubini didn't waver, and he took considerable flack for it."</blockquote> Here's to Hoping Nouriel Roubini Is Proven Wrong Commentary by William Pesek August 21, 2008 Source (First read) (Dr. Marc Faber: ‘Let us just assume the financial system blows up…’) Aug. 22 (Bloomberg) -- It's hard to forget your first Nouriel Roubini experienby ProjectC - Project C
<blockquote>"But, for now, fundamentals are not driving market prices. As I wrote last week, markets are about Greed and Fear – and right now Fear Dominates. Those that crowded into the crowded energy and commodities trade are having their heads handed to them. It is also my sense that the scores of long/short funds are likely struggling as well, as many popular longs are performingby ProjectC - Project C
'Though the past 25 years have brought a happier world, there is no certainty that the next 25 will continue to do so. Many low and middle-income countries have experienced exceptionally high rates of growth, ranging from 4 to 11 per cent, while richer countries have undergone falling work hours and social liberation. There is no guarantee that either will persist indefinitely. Meanwhileby ProjectC - Project C
<blockquote>"The article is a very friendly and sympathetic portrait of my views. I would take issue only with the characterization of myself as being a “perma-bear” or “perpetual pessimist”. For one thing I ended up a realist rather than a pessimist about the current economic and financial crisis; things are turning out even worse than I initially predicted." -- Nouriel Roubini,by ProjectC - Project C
<blockquote>"Thucydides long ago concluded that people go to war out of "honor, fear and interest." Putin seems to have chosen conflict largely out of honor, or, put another way, out of perceived humiliation — one of the most prevalent, least explored factors behind global violence. ... Diplomats and intelligence professionals must acknowledge that honor and humiliatiby ProjectC - Project C
Dans une tribune au « Figaro» , le chef de l'Etat affirme qu'il convoquera un Conseil européen extraordinaire si l'accord de cessez-le-feu n'est pas appliqué rapidement. Par Nicolas Sarkozy 18/08/2008 | Updated: 16:22 Source Le moment viendra où l'enchaînement des faits et des responsabilités pourra être établi de façon incontestable et impartiale : les semaines dby ProjectC - Project C
<blockquote>"Given a daily reality in which "over-the-top parodies come to fruition," Stewart said, satire like "Dr. Strangelove" becomes "very difficult to make." "The absurdity of what you imagine to be the dark heart of conspiracy theorists' wet dreams far too frequently turns out to be true," he observed. "You go: I know what I'by ProjectC - Project C
<blockquote>"Yet if the key dynamic is instead a Bursting Leveraged Speculating Community Bubble, entirely different dynamics are now in play. Enormous short positions have built up, the vast majority as part of “market neutral,” “quant” and myriad risk hedging strategies. If today’s dislocation develops into a significant unwind of these positions, the market immediately then becomeby ProjectC - Project C
By Ross Turk August 14th, 2008 Source Many of you have already read the news: Yesterday, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled that, yes, a software company has infringed upon an open source project’s copyright by failing to adhere to the terms of its license. Specifically, the Artistic License. If you keep up with what’s been going on, you can skip this paragraph. KAM Industby ProjectC - Project C
CNN August 14, 2008 Source WASHINGTON (AP) -- Like a chronic disease spreading through the body, "dead zones" with too little oxygen for life are expanding in the world's oceans. "We have to realize that hypoxia is not a local problem," said Robert J. Diaz of the Virginia Institute of Marine Science. "It is a global problem, and it has severe consequences forby ProjectC - Project C
<blockquote>"Historians will come to view Aug. 8, 2008, as a turning point no less significant than Nov. 9, 1989, when the Berlin Wall fell. Russia’s attack on sovereign Georgian territory marked the official return of history, indeed to an almost 19th-century style of great-power competition, complete with virulent nationalisms, battles for resources, struggles over spheres of influenby ProjectC - Project C
<blockquote>"...Today, America is the leader in only five product areas: computer hardware, software, biotechnology, aerospace and entertainment. That is not enough to provide job opportunities for a country of 300m people."</blockquote> America's decline will not be easily reversed By Byron Wien Sunday aug 10 2008 Source Having grown up in an America whereby ProjectC - Project C
<blockquote>"In order to destroy the rise of nationalism and as well the opposition of farmers to collectivization, Stalin had engineered a famine during the 1932-33 harvest season. Arable land and peasant households were confiscated while rich farmers were deported to the Urals. ... As a matter of fact, Mr. Putin commented that if Ukraine joins NATO, Russia will target Ukraineby ProjectC - Project C
<blockquote>"Still, Georgia bears some of the blame for the fighting over South Ossetia, the official said. Recently, the United States has had "very blunt exchanges with" Georgia, telling its leaders that they have no chance of winning a war with Russia and that they should stick to a path of diplomacy. The official said European allies have told the United States thatby ProjectC - Project C
<blockquote>"Nixey sees in Saakashvili a man of contradictions. With his fluent English, he appears remarkably Western and cautious, but in his native 'Georgian speaking to other Georgians', Nixey observes, he sounds like a hardline nationalist. 'Even his friends,' he adds, 'see him as something of a loose cannon.' But if Saakashvili - perhaps prodded by aby ProjectC - Project C
<blockquote>'A senior U.S. official, speaking to reporters on the traditional diplomatic condition of anonymity, was more blunt, saying that Russia was attacking Georgian territory with ballistic missiles and large strategic bombers that can carry 54,000 pounds of bombs. "I, for the life of me, can't imagine how that could be a proportional response to allegations that Gby ProjectC - Project C
The credit crunch one year on Mission creep at the Fed From The Economist print edition Aug 7th 2008 | WASHINGTON, DC Source In a special section marking the anniversary of the credit crunch, we start with the Federal Reserve. Its creative response to the crisis may have staved off catastrophe, but may also have put its independence at risk WHEN he was still in academia, Ben Bernankby ProjectC - Project C
<blockquote>"But the events of the last few hours suggest that Aushev’s more general comments deserve far more attention. “No one wants to understand,” he told “Novaya gazeta,” “that the situation in the Caucasus has changed. This is a new wave of radicalization,” one involving young people who “no longer believe anyone.” The young people, he continued, “see no justice around themby ProjectC - Project C
<blockquote>"Deflation challenges many of the assumptions that work in an inflationary context: “Property is a safe investment.” and “You’ll be fine in equities in the long term.” and “Governments don’t default.” When people are forced to reconsider these cherished touchstones of their financial beliefs, they will also reconsider the cherished notions of their political beliefs. It wasby ProjectC - Project C
<blockquote>"The EU and Nato should make clear to Russia that unrest in South Ossetia is not an excuse for invading Georgia. One possible approach is to seize on Moscow's desire for a new collective security treaty for Europe, which president Dmitry Medvedev proposed in July. Europe should tell Moscow that if it wants the treaty to be taken seriously, Moscow must show that it, tooby ProjectC - Project C
<blockquote>"...Studies suggest that nearly a third of workers feel they do not have time to reflect on, or process, the work they do, with more than half juggling too many tasks simultaneously that they find it difficult to get jobs done. Distraction is part of the human condition. But now every force conspires to magnify that inattentiveness: technology means that distraction isby ProjectC - Project C
<blockquote>"A few other striking elements of this spectacle deserve attention. One is the grandiosity that saturates the story elements, and the remarkable impotence of it all. The Batman possesses every high-tech weapon and survival implement ever dreamed up, yet they avail him nothing..."</blockquote> Dark (K)night By Jim Kunstler August 01, 2008 Source Tby ProjectC - Project C
<blockquote>'Peters tells Linux.com that her vision is not to manage people but to empower them. "When I first started working, I had a boss who said, 'Stormy, what can I do for you,' and I've stuck with that every since. A manager's role is to help people by working for them or with them to get things done. These people are working on GNOME because they'rby ProjectC - Project C
<blockquote>"...Nevertheless, believing in the myth of market equilibrium, the regulators confidently abdicated their responsibility to investigate these instruments. All too casually, as we now know, they assumed the market would automatically correct any excesses. ... As a science of human relations, economics proves its worth by identifying generalizable patterns of human beby ProjectC - Project C
<blockquote>"I tend to view subprime as chiefly a “lower end” issue with respect to the real economy. And it is my view that the greatest – as well as least appreciated – Bubble Economy Excesses were at The “Upper-middle” to “Upper-end.” It is in The Upper-ends where years of Credit excess had the most pronounced effects on incomes, household net-worth, spending, and government revenby ProjectC - Project C
<blockquote>"...Maria Benedita Sousa used a small loan five years ago to buy two sewing machines and start her own business making women’s underwear. Today Ms. Sousa, a mother of three who started out working in a jeans factory making minimum wage, employs 25 people in a modest two-room factory that produces 55,000 pairs of cotton underwear a month. ... Despite investor fears aby ProjectC - Project C