Nepal’s Energy Corruption
Good in-depth article on the subject.
The Unipolarity Never Happened
Something I’ve been thinking about for a while. I argued in February of last year that:
The Unipolar Moment never happened, instead white globalization and black globalization began facing off. We did not catch it because we were too busy looking for legacy (nation-state) problems. What had been placed on the back burner in the utterly nation-state moment known as the Cold War came roaring to the top of the threat list.
John connected the dots. I missed the forest for the trees. Turns out what I was calling “globalization” was the marketplace.
FYI: Participant Productions
The team behind these flicks was one and the same:
- Syriana
- An Inconvenient Truth
- Good Night and Good Luck
- Charlie Wilson’s War
- The Kite Runner
- Fast Food Nation
Ex-Ebay President Jeff Skoll’s Participant Productions.
Nepal: Power Shortages Cripple Life
And in the Himalayan kingdom of Nepal, political protests in the south have caused fuel shortages in the capital, Kathmandu. Nepal’s supply of petrol, diesel and kerosene is usually imported from neighbouring India, but the roads are being blocked by protesters. The power crisis has closed schools, stopped much of Kathmandu’s public transport system and even affected hospitals.
Spam + Language Skills
These hacker help-wanted ads are appearing on underground Internet channels as malicious code designers increasingly want programmers with foreign-language skills to help launch country-specific attacks, security vendor McAfee Inc. said in a report released today.
Hackers want to craft compelling and grammatically correct Web pages and spam e-mails – which are crucial in fooling people to download viruses or reveal personal information like credit card numbers, according to the report.