According to the World Health Organization (WHO), and is confirmed by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), tobacco could kill one billion people this century. These results were reported in the January-February 2014 issue of THE FUTURIST Magazine. Now that’s scary! Since total population is projected to reach about 10 billion by 2100, that’s […]
Climate Change Advocate Goes Rogue!
Dr. James Hansen, a leading world expert on climate change has been my hero for more than a decade. But he now has brought me great disappointment. On November 3, 2013, Dr. Hansen decided to support the construction of large numbers of nuclear plants as way to save the day for climate change [http://edition.cnn.com/2013/11/03/world/nuclear-energy-climate-change-scientists/]. Dr. […]
The Similarities Between Hilter And Putin.
There are uncomfortable parallels between Hitler’s actions in Czechoslovakia and Putin’s moves in the Crimea and Ukraine. In 1938, brandishing the threat of war, Hitler pressured UK Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and French Prime Minister Édouard Daladier to coerce then president of Czechoslovakia Edvard Beneš, to allow Germany to annex a significant part of its […]
Enemies Collaborate To Destroy Iran’s Nuclear Facilities!?
Could Israel and Saudi Arabia, two perennial adversaries, be scheming to destroy Iran’s nuclear facilities? Events over the past several months say yes, at least that’s the conclusion of analysts reporting in a recent issue of the Oil & Investment Report. I believe the arguments are quite credible. U. S. President Obama dispatched Secretary of […]
What Did We Learn From The Economic Crisis?
I recently attended a conference at the Aspen Institute in Prague entitled, “What Did We Learn from the Economic Crisis?” There were three highly reputable speakers; Lord Meghnad Desai, Professor at the London School of Economics; Jacek Rostowski, former Minister of Finance in Poland; and William White, Chairman of the Economic Development and Review Committee […]