Millennium Project Report Issued on the Future of the World | Reuters

Posted by Matt in August 24th, 2009 | no comment

Published in general, Adolescence, Business Reuters, Cumulative Effects, Economic Conditions, Effects Of Climate Change, Energy Supplies, Financial Crisis, Future Of The World, Future World, Global Financial Crisis, Half The World, Migrations, Millennium Project, Recession, Responsible Adulthood, Social Instability, Unemployment, United Nations, Violence, Water Food

A major report issued by the United Nations Millennium Project has just been released. It finds that half the world appears vulnerable to social instability and violence due to increasing and potentially prolonged unemployment from the recession as well as several longer-term issues: decreasing water, food, and energy supplies per person; the cumulative effects of [...]

Russia Tightens Europe’s Energy Noose

Posted by Matt in November 30th, 2008 | no comment

Published in Energy, Europe, Russia, Catalan, Cni, Construction Company, Energy Companies, Energy Supplies, Independent Oil Company, Intelligence, La Caixa, Long Time, Lukoil, moscow, Noose, Percent Stake, Repsol Ypf, Russia, Russian Energy, Sacyr Vallehermoso, Southern Europe, Spain, Spy Agency

A leaked intelligence document issued by Spain’s CNI spy agency in October warns that Russia is aggressively pursuing a plan to “monopolize access to energy supplies to Europe.” The report validates what many analysts have been saying for a long time, namely that Moscow is using Russian energy companies to gain geo-strategic control over northern, [...]

West must stand up to Russia or risk crisis-Georgia

Posted by Matt in May 3rd, 2008 | no comment

Published in Russia, West, 1990s, Black Sea, Caucasus Region, Energy Supplies, Former Soviet Union, Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili, Hardliners, International Crisis, International Peace, invasion, Moment Of Truth, moscow, NATO, Peace And Stability, Peacekeepers, President Mikhail Saakashvili, Reuters, Spread Of Democracy, Tbilisi, Transit Route

The “moment of truth” has come for Europe to resist hardliners in Russia who are bent on stopping the spread of democracy in the former Soviet Union, Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili said on Thursday.
Moscow has sparked an international crisis by ordering extra troops and equipment to Abkhazia, a Black Sea province which threw off [...]