Mozilla to remove Firefox EULA

Ubuntu users who couldn’t stand the idea of a EULA (End User License Agreement) for the popular Firefox Web browser are going to get their way. The Mozilla Foundation’s chairperson, Mitchell Baker, has agreed to entirely remove the Firefox EULA.

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Taking Stock

A friend of mine just informed me that they let him go at Lucent Technologies in Naperville, Illinois.

That brought back sad memories, it was more than seven years ago that I went through a similar experience.

My friend is a good worker, a good father, and a good friend.

What did he do wrong? What did I do wrong?

We could have been more entrepreneurial I guess, and started our own company, or something. Somehow I feel the problem is deeper.

These are trying times.

Benoit Mandelbrot

This mathematician did write a book some years ago about the stock market. I did not read it because I thought the markets were too complicated to be understood, even by the creator of the Fractal that bears his name.

I guess I was wrong, I should have read it. Now I would be more prepared to make sense of the gyrations at Wall Street.

You can read above a note from Scientific American about what Mathematics can teach us in daily life.

Kids?

Today I read La Jornada, with very strange news. A young man, 26, with a teenager were captured in Zacatecas after a car accident.

Supposedly they threw the grenades that killed seven people. This somehow reminds me of the kids in Babel that without thinking, shoot a tourist bus.

Is the world so unpredictable?

I guess I was right in leaving that celebration in Chilpancingo the other day (below). Of course nothing happened there. I can't escape the thought though, that maybe I confused those kids, that might have been planning something. I'll never know.

Is the Financial Collapse in the US Related to Oil Prices?

Oil prices went down. Refineries are not producing much more, maybe the explanation is that rich countries don't have money to pay for oil. The money was wasted in Iraq, and now that country is not producing enough oil to offset the losses elsewhere, and the US does not have money.

To me it sounds like George W. Bush, acted like the drunk he used to be and wasted the wealth of the U.S. of A.

Impeach him!

MARKET WATCH: Energy prices continue to fall

HOUSTON, Sept. 17 -- Energy prices continued to drop Sept. 16 with crude reaching a new 7-month low close to $90/bbl in the New York market, having lost $10/bbl through the first two trading sessions of this week, down 38% from record highs in July.

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Central Banks Pump Cash Into Market

The Federal Reserve and other central banks massively escalated the aid offered to global money markets on Thursday, with the Fed authorized $180 billion in new lending.

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Wall Street Braces for HUGE, Devastating Job Losses

Tens of thousands of jobs expected to be lost.

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Breaking: First Android Phone to be sold Sept. 23

How many days are you willing to wait in front of a T-Mobile store to be the first own a gPhone? You might have to decide soon. According to the Reuters news agency, T-Mobile is set to announce availability of its mobile phone based on Google's Android operating system as soon as September 23.

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Infopackets' Guide to the Web's Top Browsers

The world's most popular Internet browser, its nearest challenger, and the 'new kid on the block' have all launched recently, or are in the process of launching new editions. Here's our guide to the latest offerings from Microsoft, Mozilla, and Google.

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Google software: Linux repositories for all distros

Google's Linux software repositories make it easier to download and stay up-to-date with current releases of Google Linux applications. Please choose one of the guides below to help configure your system to use these repositories.

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LHC: First subatomic particle collision to happen next week

The first collisions between subatomic particles will take place in the giant Large Hadron Collider next week, which will mark another milestone for the biggest experiment in history.

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T-Mobile sets stage for Android, iPhone showd

An invitation sent out on Tuesday by T-Mobile asks the media to gather next week to see the first phone built on the Android mobile platform, but will also pit Apple and Google against each other -- if reluctantly

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2008 Morelia bombings

The 2008 Morelia bombings took place on 15 September 2008 on the occasion of the independence day anniversary when thousands of people where reunited in the Plaza Melchor Ocampo, the main square of the Mexican city of Morelia, Michoacán. Shortly after the Grito in that city, led by Governor Leonel Godoy, two blasts were reported, killing at least 7

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Russia halts stock trading amid emerging-markets rout

Bad as things are on Wall Street today -- and they’re very bad -- "be glad you’re not in Russia," as my grandmother used to say.

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17 years of Linux

On 17 September 1991 Linus was announcing the first version of the Linux kernel. (And yes in Romania it's 17 September already :D)

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Linux and the Stock Market

Today we celebrate seventeen years since Linus Torvalds put his work online. It was September 17, 1991. I am writing this in a Toshiba Satellite Pro 43000 series, running Mandriva Linux 2008.

Today also, as you can read in the note below, the Stock Market is going down. It may get below 10 000 points. That is bad.

I hope that things will even-out.

Dow industrials tumbling more than 300 points (Again)

Government bailout of AIG adds to fears about the stability of the financial markets. WaMu, Goldman and Morgan Stanley all tumble.

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Big Storms Are Taking Heavy Toll on Midwest

Communities across the Midwest were reeling after storms left at least 17 people dead, homes and businesses without power and roadways flooded.

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McCain’s Radical Agenda

John McCain’s health plan is a monumental change in the way coverage would be provided to millions of people. Why aren’t we paying more attention?

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A Day in the Life of Chilpancingo

Last night I went like more than a thousand people to the Anahuac Congress Plaza, to clebrate the beginning of the Mexican Independence Day on September 15, 1810.
It was fun and games, even free food. I was having a good time. Then these three kids started to bother young girls. I didn't think it was serious but I told them nicely to stop. They humored me and the party went on. Then a little later I asked one of them what school did he go to. He said none, I'm in a gang. I just smiled, but was thinking to myself, that it was better if I left, I did not want any surprises.

I leisurely walked home. At eleven at nigh I heard our State Governor, Zeferino Torreblanca Galindo, give his Independence Cry on TV.

I felt a little awkward about my behavior this morning, until I heard that in the similar celebration in the state next door, Michoacan, governed by the same party, PRD. Two grenades went off in the very same Independence Day Celebration, and at least eight people are dead.

I felt like forty years ago, I chickened out and didn't go to the October 2, 1968, demonstration. Then more than five hundred people died, and to this day, I am glad I was not there.

Better safe than sorry.

Rescues Continue in Texas; Millions Without Power

Thousands of people were rescued from flood-ravaged towns in the largest rescue operation in Texas history following Hurricane Ike.

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Premiumize or Perish

In today’s world, your identity is defined less by what you think than by what you buy, even in a recession.

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Paul Krugman: Financial Russian Roulette

If institutions need to be rescued like banks, they should be regulated like banks — why were we so unprepared for this latest shock?

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Cota 1061 » Blog Archive » Is Mexico the new China?

Mexico City - Just as Mexico was becoming the rising star of global manufacturing in the 1990s, China’s even cheaper wages turned that country into the world’s factory.

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Millions in Texas Lose Power in Storm

After losing strength, Ike was downgraded to a tropical storm, as Houston continued to huddle from the lashing wind and rain.

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She’s Not Ready

With Gov. Sarah Palin, it’s not about agreeing or disagreeing with her on the issues. It is that she doesn’t appear to understand the important issues.

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Mexico Oil and Gas Report Q3 2008 -

The latest Mexico Oil & Gas Report from BMI forecasts that the country will account for 26.21% of Latin America regional oil demand by 2012, while providing 28.34% of supply. Latin America regional oil use of 6.84mn barrels per day (b/d) in 2001 reached an estimated 7.28mn b/d in 2007. It should rise to ...

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Ike

Millions of people getting out of their homes. I am sure monetary losses are huge. Can the US fight a war in Iraq, one in Afghanistan, and a war on Global Warming?

I am afraid not. This may be the Chinese Century or something, it does not look like another American Century.

So it goes. Ike is wreaking havoc.

Colossal Hurricane Ike lashes Texas coast

HOUSTON (AP) -- A monster-sized Hurricane Ike bore down on the Texas coast late Friday, threatening to rattle the sparkling skyscrapers of America's fourth-largest city, shut down the heart of the U.S oil industry for days and obliterate waterfront towns already flooded with waist-high water.

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My Life

I just found out that my Master's Thesis advisor is a descendant of Carl Friedrich Gauss. I feel that I am not living up to what I can do.

I may not have much time to catch up.

Here I go.

A Million Flee as Storm Hits Texas Coast

Hurricane Ike churned toward Galveston and Houston, raising fears that a 20-foot-high wall of water could devastate Galveston.

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End of the World?

It is funny, sometimes I sound apocalyptic in these pages. Now I am asked to give a talk in Chilpancingo on the LHC milestone on September 10, 2008.

I do not think that was dangerous at all. But some people here were more scared than curious, about our knowledge on the origin of the Universe.

I am now in the awkward position to sound reasonable and reassuring when I am worried, but not about black holes coming from Switzerland. The only thing that comes from there are chocolates, maybe in the past, clocks. Now the Asians dominate the watch business.

Anyway, I'll do my best.

Lenovo’s prepping its first MID?

We’re expecting to see MIDs aplenty (Mobile Internet Devices, a smaller cousin of the UMPC) at this year’s CES, but we didn’t know Lenovo would be getting in on the action. The Chinese company is most closely identified with the business-friendly ThinkPad line it bought from IBM, at least in the States, so the shiny device spotted in this video ...

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From Eduard's page

From my parents:

If you do not find a job, then make it.

If you need a skill that you do not have, then develop it.

If you have a job, then work hard everyday.

If you believe you are going to fall down in your live, we are always here in what is going to be always your home.

From the life:

Make plans, but be prepared for a plan B, C, etc., or to re-plan everything.

If you have problems, work hard to solve them, and only after working hard for many days and in desperate cases ask to God for help, ask for a hint, not for a solution.

Enjoy your life since it is only one chance.

Do not complicate your life, it is enough complicate by itself.

100 trillion particle collisions to find 18 events

Those are the odds these days to find Glory and Fame.

One needs good and fast computers to do that.

Prof. De la Cruz and his colleagues pulled out that needle from the haystack.

Ω_b

Eduard de la Cruz Burelo

Dr. Burelo went to school in Mexico City, to the same school I got my master's degree from.

Now he shares the glory of discovering a new particle in this Universe of ours.

Ω_b

Fermilab upstages CERN - Discovers new exotic particle

On the day that CERN is dominating the news, Fermilab announces the discovery of the Omega b baryon, which is an exotic relative of the proton. I doubt they will get a lot of media attention though. "Fermi-who?"

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Lehman plunges as investors doubt survival

NEW YORK (AP) -- Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.'s rescue plan got a dismal reception from Wall Street on Thursday, with shares of the battered bank plunging about 40 percent.

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In the Seventh Year

In the seventh year after the fall, it seemed that one nation had become two; and loss, far from unifying the people, had sundered America.

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Birthday

Now I am 59 years old.

We had a little celebration at school. Given that I just got here, I find this touching.

I feel that I have studied enough, and thought enough, to leave a few interesting results before I die.

Right now I am reading Professor Lipatov extension of complex numbers to three dimensions:

On the ternary complex analysis and its applications.

I met Professor Lipatov at Fermilab briefly, but since 1975 I have been impressed with his work.

This paper is impressive.

I guess this is a good birthday present; together with the LHC start up earlier this morning.

And life goes on.

Transfer Operator of the Gauss Map

I found out that a Professor of mine, Jean Pestieau, is an academic descendant of Carl Friedrich Gauss. Of course Gauss had 8 students and 43374 descendants. But nevertheless I am proud of Professor Jean Pestieau. He works at the Université Catholique de Louvain.

Professor Gauss invented a map:

h(x) = 1/x - [1/x]

Where [ ] represents the integer part.

It happens that the Transfer Operator of this map, called the Gauss-Kuzmin-Wirsing (GKW) operator, is so difficult, that it has not been fully solved. The theory of the GKW dates back to a hypothesis by Gauss on continued fractions and is closely related to the Riemann zeta function.

Deep mysteries of number theory.

HiVision Shows Off Sub-$100 Linux Mini Laptop

For $98, you get a MIPS-based processor, 1GB flash storage, 3 USB ports, Ethernet, an SDHC card reader, WiFi, audio in and out, voice-chat and Firefox browser support on a Linux user interface.

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NYT - CERN Launches Particle Collider

Science rode a beam of subatomic particles and a river of champagne into the future on Wednesday. After 14 years and $8 billion, scientists turned on the most powerful microscope ever built for investigating the elemental particles and forces of nature.

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UPDATE 1-Mexico economy close to rebounding -Carstens

(Adds minister's comments on gasoline, background) MEXICO CITY, Sept 9 (Reuters) - Mexican Finance Minister Agustin Carstens said on Tuesday Mexico's economic slowdown has almost bottomed out, and growth should pick up during the first quarter of...

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From the Gut

Whoever slipped that Valium into Barack Obama’s coffee needs to be found and arrested by the Democrats because Obama has gone from cool to cold.

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Bob Herbert: Hold Your Heads Up

Without the contribution of liberals, the United States would be a much, much worse place than it is today.

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Apple Event Coverage As It Happens

Keep checking for all the happenings throughout the day.... who needs to be there when you get the front seat at your home ;-)

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Live-Blogging the LHC Startup!

9:20 am Pacific Time: Let’s be clear. Tonight’s start-up is a symbolic event, not a physics event; as I understand it, the beam will only be circulating in one direction, so there won’t even be any collisions. Still, it’s a very important symbolic event! So, just for fun, here will be a running commentary throughout the day, with links and musings

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Korn Shell Scripting Tutorial Done Like Never Before

Korn shell scripting is something all UNIX users should learn how to use. Shell scripting provides you with the ability to automate many tasks and can save you a great deal of time. It may seem daunting at first, but with the right instruction you can become highly skilled in it. This article will teach you to write your own Korn shells scripts.

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Oh Baby You're Amazing

Zoologist Desmond Morris admits that his latest study has left him in awe of the power and potential of the human infant.

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Global computer network ready for the Big Bang

"This is the next step after the Web," says David Colling, a scientist at Britain's Imperial College, which is contributing to the Grid. "Except that unlike the Web, you're sharing computing power and not files."

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Tom Friedman's New Book Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Scientific A

Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist Tom Friedman discusses his new book, Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green RevolutionAnd How it Can Renew America. Plus, we'll test your knowledge about some recent science in the news. Web sites mentioned in this episode include www.thomaslfriedman.com

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Apple confirms September 9 Special Event: Let's Rock

Apple has sent out invites to a Special Event taking place on September 9, which is exactly one week for today. The invite features the iconic iPod silouette along with the tagline "Let's Rock." It will be taking place at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco—just down the street from the Moscone Center— at 10am next Tuesday.

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AMD issues dramatic price cuts for triple-core CPUs

AMD’s triple-core Phenom X3 processor was designed as the firm’s answer to Intel’s 45 nm Core 2 Duo CPUs and as a buffer to protect the tray prices of its quad-core Phenom X4 models.

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Google To Bring 30 Years Of Newspaper Journalism Online

Google has announced a new mammoth undertaking that will bring the past 30 years of print journalism online - through a partnership with around 100 newspaper publishers. The new feature which ties in with the company's book-scanning operation will make fully searchable newspaper pages available online that will appear just as they did when they wer

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The coming day for all of us

Pero como sabemos la vida un día empieza y otro acaba.
"But as we know life starts one day and ends another."
A friend of mine reacted like that to the end of his father's life.
I remember mine, gone more than twenty years ago. Ramiro Humberto; I remember you!

Mexico Government Will Set Oil Price in Budget Plan: Week Ah

Sept. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Mexico, the second-biggest oil producer in the Western Hemisphere, will probably assume its crude exports will sell for $80 a barrel next year in a budget proposal the government plans to submit to Congress today.

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Fingers Crossed, Physicists Are Ready for Collider to Roll

The world will probably not end on Wednesday, but a lot of people will be holding their breath anyway.

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Video from now to Lift Off at CERN

Wednesday the 10th of September at 3:30 AM Eastern Time you can see the webcast of  the "Machine Starting to Look for the Mysteries of Matter". Tune in early:

http://webcast.cern.ch/

That'll be fun. Run your own pajama party. That can count as my birthday party, I guess.

Canada Now, Japan Earlier, What is Going On?

You can read below about the change of government up north in Canada.

Japan's Prime Minister, resigned a few days ago. Here in Mexico, Felipe Calderón, does not have the highest approval ratings either.

Is the political world crumbling; does this mean a black man will be president of the US soon?

As I wrote a few notes down, Economics is not my forte, well politics; is even more complicated, but I can see a duck, as they say, if it walks like a duck, and it quacks like a duck, then it is a duck.

We are going down politically.

Sarcozy is not faring that well either, with that French kid killed in Afghanistan by the Taliban recently; beheaded and all.

I hope I am wrong, and politicians know what they are doing. I am sorry though, I don't trust them, sometimes they seem to know less about politics than I do, at least the soon to be Canadian ex Prime Minister.

By the way, my cousin is Mayor of Huitzuco City, in Guerrero, Mexico. I am eager to talk to her, to know what she knows.

Canada's Parliament is Dissolved

Canada's prime minister dissolved Parliament on Sunday and called an early election next month in hopes of strengthening his Conservative minority government's hold on power.

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On My Birthday!

LHC starts on my birthday, this coming Wednesday, a human replica of the Big-Bang. What a birthday gift!

Of course they don't know. Does it matter?

CERN fires up new atom smasher to near Big Bang

It has been called an Alice in Wonderland investigation into the makeup of the universe — or dangerous tampering with nature that could spell doomsday. Whatever the case, the most powerful atom-smasher ever built comes online Wednesday, eagerly anticipated by scientists worldwide who have awaited this moment for two decades

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Economics

As you might've noticed already, Economics is not my forte. Sure, I read Paul Krugman, he seems to make sense, and politically he leans the way I do. I'll rather live in a place where economics' resources were in the hands of more actors, than they are today here where I am.

I do not know, why it ends up like it is. I do not know of Economics Laws, like Newton's in Physics, that tell us almost everything there is to know about the future of the Solar System, for instance. This complex money movement problems, are very mysterious for me.

In my deep Economic ignorance, I am at awe with the economic prowess of the US compared to the little economy of my country. I am living right now, in one of the poorest economies inside Mexico, that of Guerrero. The place is gorgeous, but we just don't seem to get a handle on this thing called "The Economy". We have the sometimes richest man on Earth, Carlos Slim, living around here in Mexico yes, but somehow that is not enough.

As my knowledge stand right now, I rather invest in the US, than in Mexico, but, really I do not know. It is good that I do not have a lot of money to bet an economic predictions.

By the way, "Friday is Pay Day" around here. I am thrilled!

U.S. Takeover of Mortgage Giants Lifts Stock Markets

Following rallies in Asia and Europe, the Dow Jones average jumped more than 340 points within two minutes of opening, before falling back.

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Real Wars and the U.S. Culture War

The surge in the culture wars of U.S. politics has come at the expense of debate of two real wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

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Paul Krugman: The Power of De

The attempt to contain the fallout from the financial crisis is a fight the feds seem to be losing.

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Relevant Mathematics

I created today in Google Sites a place to write on Mathematics and Education.Relevant Mathematics. You can visit to read on my current interests in this area.

I started by uploading the paper Professor Fritz Schweiger presented at "The History and Pedagogy of Mathematics" this summer in Mexico City. The title is, "JACOBI'S LAST THEOREM
The history of Jacobi-Perron algorithm".

Enjoy.

Playing With Light? Awesome Lego LED Lamps!

The illuminated LED blocks takes the ’smart toy’ concept to the next level by imbuing their building blocks with LED lights: creating a combination toy / lamp that is as useful as a room illumination as it is fun to play with

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Running From Reality

From the speakers’ faux populist gibberish, you would never have known that the Republicans have used their titanic power to lead the country to its present sorry state.

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Open Source Textbooks Challenge a Paradigm

A small, digital book startup thinks it has a solution to the age-old student lament: overpriced textbooks that have little value when the course is over. The answer? Make them open source -- and give them away.

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Omega and why maths has no TOEs

Over the millennia, many mathematicians have hoped that mathematics would one day produce a Theory of Everything (TOE); a finite set of axioms and rules from which every mathematical truth could be derived. But in 1931 this hope received a serious blow: Kurt Gödel published his famous Incompleteness Theorem, which states that in every ...

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Closest Look Yet at Milky Way's Black Hole

For a while now scientists have thought a dense, massive object lurking at the center of our galaxy is likely a giant black hole, but they haven't been able to prove it. New observations offering the closest view yet of the heart of the Milky Way present strong evidence for the black hole theory, and even hope of finally settling the question soon.

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Powerful Xbox 360 Now Cheaper than Nintendo's Wii

Hoping to end Nintendo's reign atop the console rankings, Microsoft has announced it will be slashing the price of its Xbox 360 console in North America. As of Friday, September 5th, the system famous for Halo 3, Gears of War, and Project Gotham Racing will slide as low as $199.

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Mexican Peso Falls to Three-Month Low on Slumping Oil Prices

Sept. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Mexico's peso declined to a three- month low as oil, the country's biggest export, sank to near its lowest in five months.

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Mexican Peso Falls to Three-Month Low on Slumping Oil Prices

Sept. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Mexico's peso declined to a three- month low as oil, the country's biggest export, sank to near its lowest in five months.

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Inequalities

Any Calculus or Analysis class worth its salt, should have some inequalities exercises.

Amazon to sell OLPC's XO laptop

The so-called $100 laptop from the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative will be available via Amazon.com in the US from November.

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Video: Official Google Chrome Press Presentation

If yesterday's comic strip explanation of Google's Chrome browser wasn't enough for you, here is a video of the official press presentation (52 mins) from their headquarters in Mountain View, California.

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And Then There Was One

With his choice of Sarah Palin, John McCain has completed his makeover from the greenest Republican to run for president to just another representative of big oil.

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Sergey Brin on Why Google's Launching a Browser

A couple of questions Businessweek.com had a chance to ask Sergey Brin, Google’s cofounder and president of technology, after the demo at the Googleplex today. I had trouble with editing software, so there’s a piece of a question before my two questions, then a couple more from other reporters.

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Gauss Method for 16

Now the cubic root is for 16. It looks worse, doesn't it?

Gauss Method for a Cubic Root

Now instead of 2^1/2, I repeated the exercise with 4^1/3. Now all hell brakes loose, almost from the beginning,

Gauss Algorithm for Square Root of 2

I did this all in Chrome.

First with Google Docs I made a spreadsheet with the formulae:

1/x -[1/x]

0< x <1

  x = 2^1/2 - 1

I generated thirty values using the previous row to calculate the present row.

I plotted in each row (x + 1)².

Initially rounding errors give 2, then it deteriorates as you can see.

BREAKING: Google Chrome Just Launched

Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier.

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Google Chrome is Here!

Google Chrome is due out tomorrow, and if the comic book about it tells the truth, it's cool! Could Google Chrome be the next shot fired in the browser wars?

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Inside Chrome

I did this inside Chrome. It is a completely new Browser Experience!

I Have Chrome!

It was fast an easy, I'm in Chrome.

Does the Bush Administration help Microsoft?

In Europe Microsoft had to play like a civilized institution. It was fined and competition increased. In the US the Bush Administration refused to follow suit. Now we have a non-competitive company attacked by Google. It will help the American people if this Administration gets out of the way.

The recent Chrome new browser announcement by Google; maybe is an indication that W. is a lame duck.

Good riddens.

Mexico: the next emerging-market trouble spot? | Money

Tracking the market and economic trends that shape your finances.

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Google Chrome

What is going on?

If you had read some of my pieces here, you know I tend towards the apocalyptic side of things; maybe 68 generation I don't know. In any case I followed the Netscape Explorer war several years ago. I was convinced Gates fortune was over. Wiser now, I know that the man is well, and wealthy. So I do not expect the kids at Google to take over, as we say in Spanish, the Devil knows more because he is old, than because he is wise.

I am installing Chrome as soon as I can, but I do not expect the demise of Explorer, then again, if it happens, I won't complain.

Mexico to spend $25 bln on fuel subsidies in '08

MEXICO CITY, Sept 1 (Reuters) - Mexico's government will spend about $25 billion (260 billion pesos) this year on gasoline subsidies to blunt the effect of inflation on consumers, President Felipe Calderon said on Monday. The figure was higher...

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Microsoft Faces New Browser Foe in Google

Google will release a free Web browser called Chrome that the company said would challenge Internet Explorer.

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Japan’s Prime Minister Resigns

Yasuo Fukuda’s departure appeared to plunge the country into further political confusion.

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ABC News: Japan's Prime Minister Resigns

At a surprise news conference Monday night in Tokyo, Japan's widely unpopular prime minister, Yasuo Fukuda, announced his resignation after less than a year in office.

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Are We at War?

Here in Mexico we are always out of it. No Mexican soldier died in Iraq, and I am proud of that. But there is a war going on internationally. Roger Cohen's piece below attests to that much.

In Mexico it has the face of new people that did not have money that now do. In Europe, Russia has Oil and that is that.

Obviously there is more to that. Nevertheless this is a good place to start this analysis.

Japan's prime minister resigned. As you can read above.

In my humble opinion, global warming, resource scarcity, water included, are a witch's brew for War.

Beware, you read it here first.

NATO’s Disastrous Georgian Fudge

The West should not overplay its hand with Moscow over Georgia. Resolve tempered by engagement won the cold war. It can help now.

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John, Don’t Go

Let’s hope that John McCain doesn’t jet into the disaster area in Gustav’s aftermath. We don’t need a photo op. We need an effective public response to disaster.

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Don't Worry About Dependence on Foreign Oil

Politicians regularly turn public fear into votes. President Bush proved a master at this in his 2004 reelection success. Most presidents who don't win the popular vote the first time don't get a second term, but fear pushed Bush over the top in 2004.

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