Globalism

Silver Spoon Socialists Flex Muscles In Brazil

Eric Ehrmann | Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Bolivia, Corruption, Hugo Chavez, Socialist International, Venezuela, Dilma Rousseff, Argentina, Leon Trotsky, Brazil, Globalism, Odebrecht, World Social Forum, World Economic Forum, Luis Favre, Sean Penn, World News

The Communist Party of Brazil was given the political plum of running the ministry of sports by president Dilma as a reward for staying inside her Worker's Party coalition government during her dramatic move to the political center.

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Newt Gingrich, Pseudo-Intellectual Free-Trade Kool-Aid Drinker

Ian Fletcher | Posted 01.25.2012

Read More: Free Trade, Republican Candidates, Newt Gingrich, Globalism, Gingrich Economy, Gingrich Trade, Gingrich Capitalism, Gingrich Trade Policy, Gingrich Free Trade, Politics News

How did Gingrich end up with such appalling ideas? I can't plumb his personality, but one of his worst liabilities, on a personal and political level, is his astonishing pseudo-intellectualism.

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Brazil Doubles Down on China Trade

Eric Ehrmann | Posted 06.20.2011

Read More: Taiwan, Foxconn, Currency Wars, Lula, Imf, Cybersecurity, World Economic Forum Bill Clinton, Dilma, China, Brazil, Bell Labs, Ipad, Barack Obama, Globalism, Apple, National Security Agency, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Nican Republic, South Africa, Davos, Russia, India, World News

While American consumer culture drives Brazil's young, wired and affluent, the China deals are reminders of why Beijing has pulled ahead of Washington as Brazil's top trade partner.

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The Dragon, the Elephant, and Regulated Capitalism: Sober Reflections on the Awakening of the East in the New Millennium

Lama Surya Das | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Globalism, Communism, Far East, Capitalism, Imperialism, World News

President Obama was in the Far East not long ago, which reminded me of my decades there and how much things have changed in what we used to call the Third World and developing countries. And yet, change is the rule.

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October Surprises Bring Drama to Brazil's Presidential Race

Eric Ehrmann | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Petrobras, Davos, Privatization, Lula, Marina Silva, Financial TImes, Jose Serra, Dilma Rousseff, Globalism, Green Party, Barack Obama, World Economic Forum, Ibope, Datafolha, Sap, Microsoft, Linux, Oracle, China, Russia, Brazil, Margaret Thatcher, World News

Brazil's economy has been outperforming the United States and all the Euro zone nations, which is why it is attracting investment from so many globalist companies and speculators.

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Newsmax Jesus Cover: Conservative Magazine Asks 'Will He Ever Return?'

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Care Reform Bill, Bible, Prophesy, The Right, Theology, Second Coming, Obama, Newsmax Magazine, Globalism, Jesus, Biblical History, Christianity, Conservative Christians, Faith, Republicans, Magazines, Home News

Correction: Newsmax's cover story "The Jesus Question" is from April 2009. The editors of Newsmax might be getting a little impatient for the second...

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Slave Reparations -- The Globalist Connection

Eric Ehrmann | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New Orleans, Industrial Revolution, Confederacy, Branson, Taiping Rebellion, Delta Kappa Epsilon, Teabaggers, Holocaust, Civil War, Henry Kissinger, Bobby Jindal, Davos, Cotton, Opium Wars, Judah P. Benjamin, Barack Obama, Yale, Globalism, Louisiana State Archives, Jeff Foxworthy, Alabama, Slave Trade, Deke, John Slidell, Jefferson Davis, Slavery, Abraham Lincoln, Freemasonry, China, World Economic Forum, Lord Palmerston, Politics News

As the debate over slave reparations continues, an exhibit on Senator Judah P. Benjamin at the Louisiana State Archives sheds light on a statesman who helped build America's slave economy.

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Will the Critics of Sean Penn's Haiti Relief Please Stand Up?

Eric Ehrmann | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Haiti Earthquake, John Travolta, Haiti, Colorectal Cancer, Celebrity Relief, Hollywood Celebrity Relief, Sean Penn, Cultural Imperialism, Globalism, World News

Just hours before the Oscars on Sunday Sean Penn went on CBS TV and put a curse on alleged critics of his charitable work in Haiti, wishing that they ...

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Memo to Starbucks Fans: Global Warming Is Driving Up Coffee Prices

Eric Ehrmann | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Globalism, Colombia, Brazil, Value Propositions, Caffeine, Starbucks, Sustainability, International Coffee Organization, Global Warming, Robusta, Arabica, Espresso, Business News

Arabica espresso lovers will definitely wake up and smell the coffee now that the International Coffee Organization has blamed global warming for lower production and higher prices.

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Brazil's Bloggers Follow The Money: Madonna's 'Favela Fund' Linked to Kabbalah Centre

Eric Ehrmann | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Karen Berg, Madonna, Bbc, Rav Berg, Globalism, Demi Moore, Ashton Kutscher, Monica Bergamo, Ngo, Brazil, Favelas, Success for Kids, Raising Malawi, David Beckham, Michael Berg, Kabbalah Centre, Folha, Entertainment News

Stonewalled by Madonna's posse, local media outlets are taking a closer look at the Material Girl's charity work ostensibly directed at helping kids in Brazil's favelas.

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Countdown to Carnaval... Madonna Does the Supersize Samba

Eric Ehrmann | Posted 05.25.2011

Tall and tan and young and lovely is getting harder to find because Brazil is adopting American-style bad eating habits that are driving teletubby statistics off the charts.

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'The Empathic Civilization': The Young Pioneers Of The Empathic Generation

Jeffrey Jensen Arnett | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Peace Corps, Empathic Generation, Young Adults, Arianna's Reading, Globalism, Americorps, First Globals, Books, Teach for America, Volunteering, Vanderbilt, Empathic Civilization, Books News

Today's emerging adults see themselves as international citizens to an extent rarely experienced before.

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Economic Recovery Will Fail Without Our Trust

Jeremy Rifkin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Homo Empathicus, Globalism, Social Exchange, Empathy, Unemployment, Civil Society, Biosphere, Trobriand Islands, Economic Recovery, Books, Economic Turnaround, Adam Smith, Arianna's Reading, Empathic Civilization, Third Industrial Revolution, Books News

Only recently, in the wake of the disastrous downturn of the global economy have some economists begun to turn their attention to the role social trust plays in providing the foundation for commerce and trade.

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Last Tango in Davos ... Globalism and Social Media Hook Up

Eric Ehrmann | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Davos, Carlos Ghosn, Social Media, Twitter, Bill Gates, Edelman, Ratan Tata, Globalism, World Economic Forum, Silicon Valley, Hilary Clinton, Lawrence Lessig, Henry Luce, Jery Rubin, Barack Obama, Media News

Social media needs to grow up before living out its half-life like most other social experiments do or it will get co-opted by the globalist whale.

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Time To Get Tough With China

Arthur Rosenfeld | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: China Human Rights Violations, Protectionism, China, China Trade, China Pollution, China Economy, Antiglobalization, Globalism, World News

Chinese people see our standard of living and are willing to work for less to get what we have. Long term this process can't continue, because cheap manufacturing requires simple living.

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The Sun and the Wind: Two Faces of Globalism

James Block | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: 9/11, Obama, Globalism, Jews, Leviathan, Hobbes, China, Barack Obama, Thomas Hobbes, Healthy Living News

Obama is a global son. He is the child of a white middle-American and a Kenyan villager who named him Hussein. He connects to Asian-Americans as a product of Hawaii and Indonesia.

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Global Retailers Battle for Big Box Brazil

Eric Ehrmann | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wal Mart, Planned Economy, Obama, Brazil, Roberto Unger, Globalism, France, Brazil Credit Rates, Harvard, Megastores, Banco Itau, Branding, Marketing, Carrefour, Bric, Casino, Pao De Azucar, Davos 2009, World News

In tropical Brazil, millions of citizens are shucking the pathology of underdevelopment. Big box giants trust Brazil's economy and are spending billions to woo new customers.

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Do Globalist GOP Traitors Intend to Flat Out Kill the USA's Auto Industry?

Rob Kall | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Auto Bailout, Automaker Bailout, World Trade Organization, Wto, Nafta, Starbucks Globaliztion, Traitor, Cafta, GOP Senators, Globalism, Politics News

What do you call someone who unnecessarily puts one of America's biggest industries at serious risk and sells out millions of his country's workers abilities to make an honest living?

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Director Danny Boyle Creates a Slumdog Millionaire and Serious Oscar Buzz

Brad Balfour | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Globalism, British, India, Gangsters, Danny Boyle, Mumbai, Slumdog Millionaire, Poverty, Movies, Entertainment News

Now with Slumdog Millionaire, 52-year-old director Danny Boyle has applied his signature visual and storytelling attack to this classic rags-to-riches teen tale.

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Obama's Herculean Challenge

Rob Kall | Posted 05.25.2011

Obama will fail if he tries anything "inside the box." The only way he's going to pull us out of this multifaceted manure pile is by being open to big bold ideas and then taking Herculean steps.

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"Globality" and the U.S. Car Business Go Down for the Count

Matthew DeBord | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chrysler, Suv, General Motors, Ford, Globalism, Nardelli, Green News

Back in March, Chrysler Chairman and CEO Robert Nardelli delivered the keynote address at the New York Auto Show (I was there). At the time, Chrysler...

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The Trouble Today with the Economy

Sen. Fritz Hollings | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Economy, Fritz Hollings, Financial Crisis, Commerce, Trade, Globalism, Politics News

In the globalized world, commercial success is created by government policies, and the U.S. government refuses to compete. Our high standard of living has become a "comparative disadvantage."

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The Shift to Global Identity Economies

Henry Miller | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Global Identity Economies, Global Economy, Globalism, Media News

Global identity economies are built around a worldwide recognition of excellence that fuels regional growth no matter what the nation's international standing may be.

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Spooking Ourselves Out of Prosperity

Kathryn Wylde | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: U.S. Investment, Budweiser, Investment, Globalization, Foreign Investment, Globalism, One World Trade Center, Business News

With U.S. investors taking advantage of every opportunity to buy up property and businesses overseas, resistance to foreign investment here is seen around the world as the height of hypocrisy.

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