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Dealing Wisely with Technical Issues
A wave of oil and gas leasing was sparked by the discovery of oil stretching from southern Colorado into Wyoming. To get at the oil requires the use hydrofracturing, or fracking, in which millions of gallons of water, sand and chemicals are pumped into the well under pressure. County meetings and town halls have drawn hundreds of residents, citizen groups have formed, and three Colorado counties are preparing to adopt oil and gas development rules.
Climate change is quickly affecting the quality of water of the Great Lakes, says the International Joint Commission. This commission, made up of US and Canadian governments, discusses the growth of Eutrophication as a threat to the waters.
Rather than admit the error of their ways, those who helped cause the financial crisis are engaged in an active campaign to rewrite history. They muddy the waters when it comes to holding guilty parties responsible. They prevent measures from being put into place to prevent another crisis.
A United Nations fact-finding mission investigating the three-week war in Gaza last winter issued a highly critical report detailing what it called extensive evidence that both Israel and Palestinian militant groups took actions amounting to war crimes, and possibly crimes against humanity.
This article offers a guideline to avoid a second collapse of the international financial system. National public policies can no longer be independent, but rather legitimate international governance of the financial system must be developed.
The author identifies fourteen propaganda techniques that news sources use to misrepresent facts in order to sway viewers to a particular political ideology. Although this article focuses on Fox News, the techniques have been used by the media on both sides of the political spectrum.
This report critically examines the relevance of the U.S. intelligence community to the counterinsurgency strategy in Afghanistan. Because the United States has focused the majority of analytical brainpower on insurgent groups, the intelligence apparatus still finds itself unable to answer fundamental questions about the environment in which U.S. and allied forces operate. The authors suggest changes that need to be made to overcome these shortcomings and provide more valuable and usable intelligence to coalition forces.
Children at a school in San Diego are learning to troubleshoot their own computer problems within the classroom to eliminate the need of an outside tech support team at every turn.
The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) set an agenda to build partnerships, promote cooperation, and strengthen the economy in the Asia-Pacific region. A major APEC goal is to focus on "next-generation trade and investment issues such as supply chain, performance, innovation, and trade and technology, and what the 21st century trade agreements in the region might look like."
