From Afghanistan: New Policy Recommendations

Last week, The Asia Foundation released State Building, Security, and Social Change in Afghanistan: Reflections on a Survey of the Afghan People, a collection of six essays that analyze in-depth the findings of the largest public opinion survey ever conducted in Afghanistan. The survey, Afghanistan in 2008: A Survey of the Afghan People [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 02:37:15

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Debt Fraud is Real: What you Should Know

Recent statistics have shown that millions of consumers are affected by debt fraud each year, ... the identity of the debt collection agency. They do not consider the possibility that the whole thing ... even deeper in debt. Credit elimination experts indicate to consumers potential ways they could [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 00:24:21

Social Media Marketing: Video Examples Of Corporate Uses And Applications

If you want to get some ideas and inspiration about how you could use online video to significantly increase your company social media marketing ... _b.jpg Photo credit: Elizabeth Engle Video marketing on the web is positively one of the most ... has grouped on his own web site a terrific collection of social media marketing examples, providing [more...]

Date: 2008-12-23 11:44:00

The impact on the market of options expiration

The impact on the market of options expiration If you are wondering why contracts on options are becoming more expensive, ... carries higher interest rate. Financial Success Isn’t Difficult Posted By : rateempire Financial ... : Is this possible? In light of the recession, the agency is cutting taxpayers some slack by delaying [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 08:19:11

Gates of Vienna News Feed 10/23/2008

I just got home. This is actually Dymphna’s October 22 news feed material, being posted early on October 24. So truth in advertising is not exactly operative right now…I’ll collect all the additional material — there’s a lot of it — and try to get it ready for Friday’s edition.Thanks to BEP, C. Cantoni, E.R.R [more...]

Date: 2008-10-24 03:57:00

Obama Voted To Cut Regulatory Agency Budgets & Staffs In 2003!

Welcome to Illinois in 2003:In 2003, Democrats took the reigns of Illinois government with control of both houses of the legislative branch and the ... platform that brought Democrats to power in Illinois. Obama has taken the financial crisis head ... fees collected by it's two financial regulatory agencies. Increased fees collected by the Department [more...]

Date: 2008-10-02 10:10:00

ChexSystems: Who They Are and How it Affects You

ChexSystems is a company that maintains a subscriber membership service used in the banking industry ... to the same laws as the Credit Bureaus that we are all familiar with: Experian, Equifax, and Trans Union ... . The members consist mainly of Banks, and Credit Unions, but can include other types of Financial [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 09:00:05

Stem Cell Action Newsletter

Stem Cell Action News Powered by Genetics Policy Institute Forward this newsletter to a Colleague by visiting this link January 16, 2009 Welcome to issue number 4 of Stem Cell Action News, dedicated to informing the stem cell community on the latest and most important developments impacting the Pro-Cures [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 22:18:00

Is Your Library Fine Affecting Your Credit Rating

We all know how important having credit is, but more important than having credit is keep a good credit rating ... dollars, and the library decided to hand over the collection process to a collection agency without ... and services on credit cards which are offered by various financial institutes. These financial [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 02:29:16

An Interview with LendingClub’s Rob Garcia

LendingClub brings individual borrowers and lenders together to fund loans up to $25,000 ... , a leading interactive agency. With the introduction of LendingClub’s new Note Trading Platform ... ’s community is made up of borrower and lender members. Borrowers are good credit folks who need [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 11:40:39

How many good causes will suffer for the failures of the SEC?

By now you have surely read about Bernard Madoff and his $50 billion Ponzi scheme. For background, here's a collection of New York Times articles on the scandal. The Securities ... business, which managed billions of dollars for wealthy investors and philanthropies. Financial analysts [more...]

Date: 2008-12-23 00:33:20

Tips for Dealing with Debt Collection Agencies

dealing-with-collection-agencies.jpg Dealing with debt collection agencies can bring stress to the most savvy of bill paying financial gurus ... by a collection agency it is important to obtain valuable information including the proof and full ... . Standing your ground with collection agents can come from knowing your rights as a consumer [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 00:14:27

Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/12/2009

The most entertaining story of the evening is the Turkish Carnival Association media hoax.The most sobering news alleges that the leaders of Hamas have holed up in a bunker in the basement of an Israeli-built hospital in Gaza.Thanks to Barry Rubin, C. Cantoni, Diana West, Fjordman, Henrik, Insubria, JD, RRW, ScottSA, Steen, VH, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 04:51:00

Assessing Your Debt Situation

If your debt problems are behind you and you’re only concerned with cleaning up your credit report, skip ahead to Chapter 4, Cleaning Up Your Credit File. Also read Chapter 2, Avoiding Overspending. Before you jump into rebuilding your credit, take care of any financial emergencies. Then you should tally up your debt [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 04:45:55

Gates of Vienna News Feed 11/11/2008

Notice all the news stories tonight about the flood of immigrants crossing the Mediterranean to land on Lampedusa or in Spain. It’s like launching a Mariel boatlift every day.Thanks to Abu Elvis, Amil Imani, C. Cantoni, Diana West, DS, Insubria, JD, Nilk, TB, Zenster, ZZMike, and all the other tipsters who sent these in [more...]

Date: 2008-11-12 04:56:00

The Register: UK.gov ‘to create anti-net piracy agency’

UK.gov ‘to create anti-net piracy agency’ ‘Rights Agency’ and new regulations to hit P2P infringement By Chris Williams • Get more from this ... a voluntary solution between ISPs and rights holders, the government will create a new agency ... . A proposal for a body called the Rights Agency will be at the centre of anti-internet piracy measures [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 11:34:59

Friday Digest - Vol. 09 No. 02

Friday Digest — Vol. 09 No. 0216 January 2009THE FOUNDATION"We should never despair, our Situation before has been unpromising and has changed for the better, so I trust, it will again. If new difficulties arise, we must only put forth new Exertions and proportion our Efforts to the exigency of the times [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 17:15:00

Art House Convergence Closing Keynote Address

I had the honor of being asked to give a closing key note at the Art House Convergence today in Salt Lake City.  I have to admit, it was really inspiring and informative to hear it from the exhibitors' perspective.  And they really wanted to hear from us too, and where we thought that it was all headed [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 17:15:00

Office of Thrift Supervision: Asshat Central

I am trying to figure out who is the biggest jerk in this story. It is a challenge, given the collection of utter clowns and ne’er-do-wells that run that office ... . How this idiot ever ended up in a position of responsibility in any regulatory agency again [more...]

Date: 2008-12-24 08:30:57

Are You In Financial Trouble? Money Tips To Cope With Hard Times

How do we cope with hard times? Even if you are in financial trouble, there’s always hope. Maybe these money tips may help! Hard Times Thank you to Jacques Sprenger for contributing this thoughtful post. Almost 20 years ago, I lost my job and had no immediate prospect to find another one [more...]

Date: 2008-12-02 23:30:39

BehindTheMedspeak: Google Flu Tracker is nothing to sniff[le] at

Just unveiled yesterday, Google's latest offering — google.org/flutrends — takes the results of millions of searches with phrases like "flu symptoms," mixes them with Google's special proprietary algorithm sauce and produces a real-time map (above) showing where in the U.S. it's hitting [more...]

Date: 2008-11-12 19:01:00

Taking Action Against the new Ex Parte Appeal Rules

On October 8, 2008, the PTO invited public comments on the potential paperwork burden caused by the new Ex parte Appeal Rules (73 Fed. Reg ... that they will be unduly burdensome. Any comments that come in response to this Information Collection Request ... to assume that what the agency provided is valid [more...]

Date: 2008-10-08 19:10:05

Happy New Year

Now that we have had about a week to emerge from the holidaze, the pharmaceutical industry blogs are starting to pick up again. Unfortunately, one of those blogs is no more: Ed Silverman has shut down Pharmalot, taking a buyout from the newspaper that owns the site, The Newark Star-Ledger [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 16:20:40

Prevent Identity Theft From Happening to You

What is Identity Theft? It is the theft of your personal information, such as social security number, driver’s license number, credit card and bank account numbers, mother’s maiden name, and more, with the intent to obtain credit and credit cards from banks and retailers, steal money from the victim’s existing accounts [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 13:42:35

Surgery is not for two

For women wanting to get pregnant, the soundest medical information is vitally important for their health and safety, and that of their babies. The riskiest thing a woman of childbearing age can do is to trust any medical information from reporters or a news story [more...]

Date: 2008-12-01 02:24:00

Financial Success Isn’t Difficult Posted By : rateempire

Financial Success Isn’t Difficult Posted By : rateempire Financial success isn’t a hard task to master ... IRS: Is this possible? In light of the recession, the agency is cutting taxpayers some slack by delaying collection efforts and allowing more flexibility on tax liens, home equity and other issues [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 12:19:02

Authorized Users, Debt Settlement and Negotiating When You’re Unemployed

One of our readers, Jaclyn, had this question for us: If I removed an authorized user from an account, how long does it normally take to show up on the credit report as removed? Jaclyn, If you removed an authorized user from your account it will eventually show up on the other person’s credit [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 15:16:56

2008 Terrorism

As 2008 comes to a close we must look back at America's security and terrorism in general around the world ... ) agent, I found the HS ???threat picture??? report inadequate and misleading. In fact, I found the report itself to be a national security threat for America ??? more importantly for the children [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 01:13:07

Environmental Federal Register, Vol. 74, No. 10, January 15, 2009

Readers & Subscribers: Please see the Readers Note in the right column ... or company contribution by credit card (click here). Fill out the form (optional); insert "REGTrak ... and Commodity Credit Corporation. Environmental Quality Incentives Program    6. WATER - FRI. USDA [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 12:35:00

Globalisation..Who…Where…And When…

“One World or None” “Time is Running Out” Globalization Index - Peter Myers, Canberra, Australia, ph.                +61 2 62475187        . August 31, 2001; update January 16, 2006. My comments in quoted text are shown {thus}. Write to me (Peter Myers) at myers@cyberone.com.au [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 11:47:46

Environmental Federal Register, Vol. 74, No. 11, January 16, 2009

Readers & Subscribers: Please see the Readers Note in the right column ... or company contribution by credit card (click here). Fill out the form (optional); insert "REGTrak ... . Multi-Agency Radiation Survey and Assessment of Materials and Equipment Manual    5. WATER - NM [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 15:18:00

thoughts on what the collapse of the Transformational Satellite program would mean for the Army's gajillion-dollar modernization project, Future Combat Systems. The Army's vision hinges on the ability to move shedloads of data at light speed. The reasoning is simple: [more...]

Date: 2008-10-22 13:09:32

Obama’s Global Poverty Bill

BARACK OBAMA AND THE UN’S DRIVE FOR GLOBAL GOVERNANCE Tom Deweese Wednesday, July 16, 2008 Senator Barack Obama has introduced the ‘Global Poverty’ bill and it’s on the fast track to Senate passage, probably because of his high profile position as the expected Democrat presidential nominee [more...]

Date: 2008-12-01 14:55:54

Bailing Out American’s Credit Card Debt

We have been hearing a lot of talk lately about bail outs.  We bailed out Wall St ... .  Let’s start with a couple of facts: The average American with a credit file is responsible for $16,635 in debt, excluding mortgages, according to Experian.  The average credit card interest rate [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 08:20:46

Posts about Home Sales as of January 16, 2009

Roger Waters (b. 1943) - Pink Floyd - markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com 01/16/2009 Roger Waters (September 6, 1943, Great Bookham, Surrey near Leatherhead, UK) is an English rock musician; singer, bassist, guitarist, songwriter, and composer [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 14:21:18

The Jim Treacher Porn Debt Crisis:

America's $15 trillion ticking financial timebomb - and what you can do to defuse it An Iowahawk Special Investigative Report by David Burge ... in considering Mr. Treacher's loan request. Perhaps he didn't have the most spotless credit history [more...]

Date: 2008-10-10 20:49:23

A second call to help hurting taxpayers

The IRS train heading out to help Jim and Jane Taxpayer is getting quite crowded. The latest to board is National Taxpayer Advocate Nina Olson ... . With the recession expected to worsen in 2009, Olson said the tax agency must consider whether filers [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 23:30:32

John Thackara gives us all new reasons to live

(((There's a reason this guy is called "the design guru's design guru ... REPORT OCTOBER 2008 By John Thackara TRIBAL CURRENCIES Reading blogs about the financial crisis feels ... - or in this case, the global financial system - to crash. It's hard not to be mesmerised by reports [more...]

Date: 2008-10-02 16:29:10

Week in Preview: Turkey Week!

Week in Preview: Turkey Week! The highlight of this holiday-shortened week comes today at noon when President-elect Barack Obama unveils his economic team in Chicago. The key players are already in place and word was out on Friday about the two biggest names: [more...]

Date: 2008-11-24 11:00:04

Streamlining Regulatory Publishing with Submission-Ready PDF Files

Streamlining Regulatory Publishing with Submission-Ready PDF Files Streamlining Regulatory Publishing with Submission-Ready PDF Files By: Scott Mackey As the business world turns its attention from back office automation to front office efficiency the need to streamline document and information management is starting to play an increasingly [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 09:54:28

Forrester Wave Report: The Leaders in Community Platforms for Marketer

Clients can access the full report The Forrester Wave™: Community Platforms, Q1 2009 on the Forrester site, however the high level findings are available below, as with all of our reports, we stand by our products. Communities are a powerful way for businesses to grow Used correctly, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 13:34:27

Michael Winship: Inauguration Day Is Time to Move On

(Photo by Robin Holland) Below is an article by JOURNAL senior writer Michael Winship. We welcome your comments below ... collection of squabbling states that couldn’t even pay the soldiers who had won the Revolution. Treasury [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 22:38:57

Gates of Vienna News Feed 11/20/2008

The most interesting news story of the day concerns the actual mechanism used by the Chinese authorities to censor the internet. It’s not what you’d expect — rather than a direct filter on content, it’s a 21st-century variant of the “Panopticon”.Thanks to Andy Bostom, C [more...]

Date: 2008-11-21 04:34:00

Debt Consolidation - Can You Negotiate with Your Credit Card Company

The average American household has nearly $10,000 in credit card debt, ... to savvy debtors to try to negotiate a better deal with their credit card company in order to make ... on time, is to simply call your credit card company and ask if they will lower your interest rate [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 17:23:15

MOCA Update: Merger, $$$ Talk

Two developments on the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) ... collection and programs would be exhibited at MOCA's Geffen Contemporary Space in Little Tokyo ... that would allocate $2.8 million in Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) funds to the museum, provided [more...]

Date: 2008-12-17 01:13:07

Gates of Vienna News Feed 12/5/2008

It looks like the Mumbai attacks are shaping up to be the Gavrilo Princip and Franz Ferdinand of the 21st century — only this time with nukes ... to Ensure Public Services Delivery Middle EastIran’s Judiciary Chief Lauds U.S.-Iraqi PactJordan-NATO [more...]

Date: 2008-12-06 04:14:00

Resources of the Week: Quality Business RSS Feeds

Resources of the Week: Quality Business RSS Feeds By Shirl Kennedy, ... even before the dog days of the global financial crisis. We use RSS to monitor high-value sources ... registration is usually required. 3. USA.gov aggregates a nice collection of business/economics feeds [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 08:54:51

United Way comes up short

The United Way of Thurston County is only 60 percent towards its goal of raising $1 ... .  In order to make up the shortfall, the agency is extending its campaign until March 31. But United Way isn’t the only agency in financial trouble.  Lacey Councilmember Virgil Clarkson said [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 16:10:51

'Welfare insurance plan won’t cost OFWs a peso'

Philippines - A group of manpower agencies have expressed support for a bill seeking to provide welfare insurance for overseas Filipino workers (OFW) ... , it is the recruitment agency and not the OFW who is required to pay a premium of US$3 or about P140 [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 02:35:00

Why Shorting Treasury Bonds Might Just Be Too Obvious

US Treasuries are in a bubble, making them ripe for shorting. But that trade is too obvious, says Justice Litle ... nailed it in a recent Financial Times piece. Known for their “risk-free return” in more normal times [more...]

Date: 2008-12-23 18:49:37

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