Archive for the ‘Geopolitics’ Category
Thursday, October 29th, 2009
Adult Americans
Between 1989 and 2007 Americans knowledge of current events dropped by 8.3%
93% know Arnold Schwarzenegger while 36% know Vladimir Putin
32% know Sunni and Shia as two branches of Islam
41% know the name Muslims use to refer to God and the name of Islam's sacred text
33% believe that Iraq carried ...
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Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
Americans don’t get out much.
That should come as no surprise considering that, according to the U.S. State Department, only 27 percent of Americans hold a valid passport. That means that 73 percent of Americans couldn’t get out to see the rest of the world even if they wanted to; even ...
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Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
When you're inside the United States, it is nearly impossible to realize how insular it is, especially related to information and perspective.
Since we're going to be here for a while, I'm providing a semi-regular injection of outside perspectives and information gleaned from other cultures, counties and regions in an effort ...
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Monday, July 13th, 2009
Steph and I completed our “Big Summer Drive Across America” trip yesterday with an eight hour run from Arkansas to Texas. Along the way we listened to C-SPAN, the BBC and XMPR. One show on XMPR, Let’s Consider The Source, really jumped out at us, unfortunately for all the wrong ...
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Monday, July 6th, 2009
This post is available as a PDF document here: http://www.hackneys.com/docs/lessonsfromsaddam.pdf
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For the 23 people in the United States who have not been wholly consumed by the All Michael, All The Time media onslaught, it’s been an interesting week.
For instance, California, the world’s 8th largest economy, went officially, publicly broke and started ...
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Friday, June 5th, 2009
After 9/11, and especially after visiting ground zero, I had some strong personal reactions.
I wrote some magazine columns and also wrote quite a bit about the issues and challenges surrounding the event in non-commercial venues.
In addition to doing what I could within my sphere of influence and expertise, I also ...
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Friday, January 16th, 2009
The United States of America imports 13,468,000 barrels—565,656,000 gallons—of petroleum products. Every day.
America imports 2,163,000 barrels of oil and petroleum products from Persian Gulf countries. Every day.
America imports 5,980,000 barrels of oil and petroleum products from OPEC countries.
Every day.
America sends $150,256,400 to the Persian Gulf countries ...
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Saturday, January 10th, 2009
Is what you know true?
Is what you believe to be true actually, in fact true?
Click here to find out some of the answer: www.hackneys.com/docs/trueorfalse.pdf
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Friday, October 31st, 2008
I was forwarded a copy of "The Endorsement from Hell," a recent editorial by Nicholas Kristoff of the New York Times.
My comments on the editorial follow the "Read more" link. Mr. Kristoff's editorial follows my comments.
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Friday, March 28th, 2008
In the early 1900s Argentina was the second richest country in the world. In subsequent decades its middle class enjoyed a very high standard of living. The country was rich in seemingly infinite natural resources, copious crop producing areas whose soils were as rich as any on the planet short ...
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