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July 24-2009:

The US Economy's Decline Is Almost Stabilized:

The Obama administration seem to believe that the national economy has reached Rock Bottom, and the rate of un-employment is decreasing steadily. So how are we going to know for sure, when employers will re-hire fired employees, start hiring again, or even resort to giving back their employees the normal forty hour per week work schedule?

The current data indicates that un-employment is at 12 %. And that figure will increase, but not greatly as the National Economy Stimulus Package starts taking effect. Any yet I saw in the news that New York State governor is complaining that as yet, he has not received his state's Stimulus Package monies as yet.

So I am wondering about California's economy on the verge of bankruptcy, with layoffs in the thousands, Federal spending cuts in the millions, shorter working hours across the board for almost every industry or enterprise. An I ask myself if the American people could continue to hold on much longer, hoping that things will improve in their respective areas anytime soon.

Furthermore, only 3% of the Initial Stimulus Package was invested in the economy, so those who are thinking about another stimulus package, should acquaint themselves with the facts, before anticipating catastrophe just yet!

Derryck.
NYC.

Publisher Problems and POD Benefits
http://www.bhavishgraphics.com/print-on-demand.html
Returns :
Publisher Problem
High bookstore returns and low sell-through as a result of the books’ lack of perceived value by the reader.
Print-on-Demand Benefit:
Database-driven on-demand printing coupled with the use of variable data technologies will customize and personalize the book’s content to the reader. Additionally, digital printing technologies offer attractive short-run economies, which may enable the book publisher to operate with a more conservative production forecast.

Demand :
Demand for a given book is often unpredictable due to the nature of the content or lack of solid market data. In the case of course packs and customized textbooks, late student enrollments in colleges means going back to press in September and holding extra offset printed books for another 6 to 10 months.
Print-on-Demand Benefit:
Whether the book is a first printing of a niche trade book or a backlist title being sold by online booksellers, demand may be impossible to forecast. On demand book production ensures that there will not be lost sales due to stock out situations or excess and obsolete inventory, from the perspective of the cost to produce as well as reduced time in the production cycle http://www.bhavishgraphics.com/print-on-demand.html

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July 21-2009:a

Copyright Laws & Current 21St Century Internet Technology!

It is generally understood that the current International Copyright Laws MUST be updated to allow for the Freedom to Access, Share materials of all sorts on the Internet, without the infringement of governments, commercial interests, and imposed Legislation.

The point I am making are the following:

* Any individual male or female, adult or child MUST be allowed access to the Internet.

* Internet access MUST be FREE.

* Internet use must be based on need, affordable provider, variety, Fiber Optic technology, and without Commercial Coercion.

* No Internet user should be denied access to the Internet if he/she downloaded music, or movies from another Internet user.

* No Internet user should be judicially penalized because he/she shared files (music, movies or videos), with friends or contacts on the Internet for FREE.

* And no Internet user should be penalized by any Judge, the State, or Private Enterprise, because he/she downloaded some copyrighted material from another Internet user online, for FREE. To view, or listen to, regardless of who legally owns it.

So long as those Internet users did not personally sell those materials that they accessed freely.

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July 17-2009:

Some Ideas For Community Service!

I have listened to Senator Barack Obama speak about Community Service initiatives by the Federal Government, that encourages High Schoolers, College kids, Seniors, Juniors, Retirees, and anyone with special skills that they would like to share with the community.

* To get involved in providing voluntary contributions in schools, churches, community organizations, overseas, and any place they feel they would like to serve.

* This ideal could also be facilitated to HIV patients who have lived or survived this pandemic:

* Have been taking the prescribed medications, and have personally known and experienced all the side effects of these medications. Which makes them eligible to advocate for Federal, State, and City funding for improved prevention, and to facilitate where necessary, with some "per-diem" emoluments.

* For their willingness to make themselves available to train, impart, and facilitate HIV Infected People's Groups, Gender Identity issues, and Stigma relating to HIV infection, Family issues, Sexual and Gender identity issues.

*And helping them to access the services for people living with HIV, as it relates to language differences, gender identity, and sexual preferences.

All of these areas are ready to provide qualified personnel to assist the Federal, State, and City government's commissions and committees that would organize, facilitate, and provide such personnel, training, and advocacy, whenever and wherever the need arise.

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July 17-2009:

The Political Problems In Africa Today!

I watched a discussion on your france24.com television today. And there was a discussion that one of your anchors had with two African women about Africa's plight currently. Unfortunately, these two women tried in their own fashion to explain some of the problems there. But was unable to CLEARLY do so, in any coherent and logical manner.

And I was very disappointed by this lame and inept participation from these two women.

I would have imagined that anyone attending such a interview on TV would have at least prepare some written pointers, so that they would be able to have it at hand when that question arises, to aid an intelligent response.

But I guess some of us are not so inclined to prepare beforehand.

However, I believe that most of the African states, especially where there is a dictatorship, or military governance, the commonweal have little or no choice, but to go along with what the state espouses.

Mainly because the state controls the national media/radio, the press, and the Internet (where that medium is available).

When it comes to national elections, the commonweal does not have viable and credible political representatives to identify with.

Much less trust to represent them with clear and identifiable policies that the people want. Read more »

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July 15-2009:

The Federal Government In Baghdad & It's Relations With The Kurds!

Since the military overthrow of Saddam Hussein, and the subsequent Democratically elected Shia controlled government and Parliament. There has been some worrying and concerns with how the National Oil Revenues will be distributed.

Legislation was enacted since 2003 in the Iraqi Parliament, ratified and passed into law, but have not been implemented as of yet.

It pertains to the entering and approving of all Oil Contracts with foreign companies, and how the revenues will be distributed.

However, at the present time, the Kurdish government in the Kurdish controlled region has already entered into Oil Contracts with foreign companies. But under the current Iraqi Legislation, those contracts MUST be approved by the Central Government in Baghdad.

Therefore, if any oil contract is entered into without the prior approval of The Central Government in Baghdad, those contracts have no legal bearing, and would be null and void under the current laws.

Meanwhile, the potential for Iraq to produce huge quantities of oil, and export increased amounts of oil is tremendous. And there are still many oil fields that have yet to be explored and developed in several regions of Iraq.

The US military was protecting all of Iraq's Oil fields since the invasion started. But that will soon come to an end, with the handing over of such responsibility to the National Security Forces of Iraq very soon.

Derryck.
NYC.

July 13-2009:

Could Nuclear Missiles Be Eradicated From This Planet?

Firstly, let us acquaint ourselves with those states that possess nuclear armaments.

* Russia. * The USA. * Israel. * India. * Pakistan. * China. * France. * The UK.

All of the above countries have nuclear and inter-continental ballistic missiles in various quantities, (known and un-known). And are telling the rest of those other states that are pursuing this technology, or is actively developing such technologies, to CEASE, or ELSE!

Why Pursue Nuclear Missiles?

The USA was the first and only state that have used nuclear bombs on another country. Two Atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during the war with Japan and the US. Millions were killed, enormous property damages and total obliteration of all human, animal, and plant life ensued.

Today in those areas in Japan and surrounding cities that experienced the fallout, thousands die annually from cancerous ailments. inherited from their parents who were exposed to the Radiation and Acid Rain contamination.

And despite all of this evidence that provides graphically the consequences of a nuclear disaster or war. States are still pursuing nuclear arms or nuclear technology, with the intent to build or develop nuclear armaments.

Could A Cessation of nuclear arms be possible anytime soon? Read more »

On 6 August 1945 the world was ushered into a new era. However, if the development and use of atomic weapons appeared to open up new horizons of physical destruction towards the end of World War Two, then in the years that followed, and with the attendant constraints on military conflict becoming steadily more evident, US foreign policy-makers, their advisors and non-governmental individuals and institutions began to explore other ways of prosecuting the Cold War and advancing US interests. Students are confident that custom research papers are plagiarized; nevertheless, we deliver only authentic papers. Custom papers are written in accordance to instruction. One of those, the broad and (by its very nature) loosely defined field of ‘political warfare’, is the subject of Scott Lucas' contribution. Read more »

According to Gardner, a series of discussions involving Truman and his advisors between Roosevelt's death in April 1945 and the Potsdam Conference in July show the new President facing difficult decisions concerning the forthcoming meeting with Stalin, military usage of the bomb and its subsequent control, all of which were liable to impinge on or be influenced by the terms of the Japanese surrender. If the desire to know the results of the Alamogordo bomb test, scheduled for mid-July, had prompted Truman to delay the Potsdam meeting in order to improve his negotiating position, the surrender terms added a further complication. On the one hand Truman was publicly committed to the call for Unconditional Surrender inherited from his predecessor, a stance popular with a still-vengeful Congress and American public and one around which he therefore felt compelled to build his foreign policy. If you are looking for someone to "write my essay", you should try our professional essay writing service! We are able to help you with essays! On the other, particularly from May onwards Truman recognized that Unconditional Surrender, insofar as it stiffened Tokyo's determination to resist and thereby prolong the conflict, threatened to leave post-war Japan in chaos. Read more »

Articles on US foreign relations from world war to Cold war are distinguished neither by obvious nor powerful disagreements among its authors nor by explicit common cause in terms of methodology or conclusions. Less homogeneously, certainly less discordantly, they offer instead a variety of revisions of existing knowledge and interpretations: from refinements and qualifications to corrections and additions. Some contributors address well-known subjects – the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Cuban Missile Crisis – from less-familiar angles. Others draw on more-recently developed or revised analytical concepts, notably culture and ideology, to deepen our understanding of a few of the Cold war's less-tangible features. Many make use of newly researched materials stemming from archives and other primary sources in numerous lands (not only the United States and Great Britain, but also the former Soviet Union, China, North Korea and Cuba), at once building on and adding to such initiatives as the Washington-based Cold war International History Project. This aspect of the collection is in keeping with the nature of its authors: American and non-American, based within and beyond the United States, and well-versed in various aspects of international history (not always with the United States as their focal point), they not surprisingly offer a multiplicity of perspectives and readings. Read more »