NOTICE: j marie is NOT the Author, and makes no claim to be. http://www.stopthecrime.net/source.html http://www.stopthecrime.net/docs/SILENT.pdf Full Reading of Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars (44 pgs) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_38tsQ4p0I&feature=youtu.be
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The fuel crisis of the 1970s threatened not only the airline industry but also the future of American prosperity itself. It also served as the genesis of technological ingenuity and innovation from a group of scientists and engineers at NASA, who initiated planning exercises to explore new fuel-saving technologies. What emerged was a series of technologically daring aeronautical programs with the potential to reduce by an astonishing 50 percent the amount of fuel used by the nation's commercial and military aircraft.
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"Is is more than 50 years since the process of European integration began, constituing an area of economic and political stability. At the end of the past century the monetary integration as the last stage of integration process has taken place and has become a natural consequence of single market establishment. The aim of the paper is to analyse and summarize the role which euro has played in the process of integration in Europe, paying special attention to the benefits flowing from introducing single currency. The first part of the paper describes changes in economic and financial environment of the euro area and presents some examples of evidence that Euro area economies are gradually becoming more interdependent. A brief literature survey, particularly focused on an impact of euro on intra- and extra-euro area trade, foreign direct investment and financial markets is being made. The second part of the paper discusses the single currency impact on completion of the single European market and as a consequence forceful contribution to more integration. The attempt is made to show challenges that lie ahead for the single currency, particularly financial crisis, economic integration and future enlargement. The article takes up and open a discussion on challenges on the road from European Union to euro area membership both for current and prospective euro area members."
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Written as a series of blog posts in 2008, this essay analyzes key political, economic and social relationships leading into the global debt crisis that began in 2007.
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Tanner Mirrlees From Katy Perry training alongside US Marines in a music video, to the global box-office mastery of the US military-supported Transformers franchise, to the explosion of war games such as Call of Duty, it's clear that the US security state is a dominant force in media culture. But is the ubiquity of cultural products that glorify the security state a new phenomenon? Or have Uncle Sam and Hollywood been friends for a long time? Hearts and Mines examines the rise and reach of the US Empire's culture industry -- a nexus between the US's security state and media firms and the source of cultural products that promote American strategic interests around the world. Although the US government and media corporations pursue different interests on the world stage (the former, national security, and the latter, profit), this book documents how structural alliances and the synergistic relationships between them support the production and flow of empire-extolling cultural goods. Building on and extending Herbert I. Schiller’s classic study of US Empire and communications, Tanner Mirrlees highlights the symbiotic geopolitical and economic relationships between the US state and media firms that drive the production of imperial culture. Table of Contents Preface: The Personal is Geopolitical Acknowledgments Introduction: The US Empire’s Culture Industry, circa 2012 1. The US Empire and the Culture Industry 2. Public Diplomacy and Selling the American Way to the World 3. The US Culture Industry: Still Number One 4. The DOD--News Media Complex 5. The DOD--Hollywood Complex 6. The DOD--Digital Games Complex Conclusion: US Empire, Cultural Imperialism, and Cultural Policy, at Large References Index Reviews "A great achievement and timely contribution to the field, Hearts and Mines will rise to the top of all reading lists on the subject of media and empire, US hegemony, and the political economy of communication." -- Richard Maxwell, co-author of Greening the Media "A fascinating, provocative book that invigorates our understanding of the relationship between the culture industries and US empire. Mirrlees detonates prevailing myths about the ‘liberal bias’ of popular culture through a meticulous excavation of how imperial political interests, values, and objectives are woven into the production of news, cinema, and digital gaming. Hearts and Mines will change how you think about the politics of culture." -- Shane Gunster, author of Capitalizing on Culture: Critical Theory for Cultural Studies
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In troubled areas, the vital work of building peace and resilient states continues to be undone by weak and distorted governance at the supranational level. Transnational flows of weapons, narcotics, people, hazardous goods and especially money decisively influence who gets what, when and how. Resulting maldistributions of power and wealth can cripple state capacities, corrupt politics, delegitimise leadership and feed destructive conflict. Yet despite the high priority they give to fragile states, Western and multilateral approaches are failing to take these issues fully into account. As a result, peacebuilding and state-building efforts lack coherence and effectiveness, and can even be counter- productive. This report discusses supranational governance and public authority in five issue areas: financial systems, security/ small arms, migration, extractive industries and obnoxious goods. Public control in all five is weak, although a few initiatives in supranational governance are showing promise. For each issue area, the report outlines existing international rule and enforcement systems or regimes; the interests steering or blocking them; and the resulting deficits in democratic supervision, coherence and compliance. In all issue areas, problems manifest themselves in complex ways and vary according to context. In addressing them, no blueprints are available; indeed, attention must be paid to specific settings and to crafting approaches to fit them. At the same time, closer comparative study can yield common denominators and rules of thumb. The report identifies some common factors in supranational governance that can worsen state fragility or improve state resilience. One meriting particular attention is today’s global financial architecture – a central factor in all five issue areas. The report concludes by suggesting ways in which supranational public authority may be better developed in order to promote state resilience and peacebuilding.
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DEVELOPMENT STUDIES (ISSUES IN DEVELOPMENT)
This is a handy synopsis of what a scholar who is interested in academic blossoming in relation to global contemporary issues should explore and add up to the already existing knowledge. This handout makes an exploration of salient socio-economic and socio-political paradigms in the setting of Uganda, Africa and the world at a wider lens. i hope you find it likable.
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