05/24/2007
Nixon and Kissinger, partners in power
I will be tagged as a Republican hack with this posting. But the main reason, is that to a generation of international affairs observers, Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon, are two leaders that influenced the shape of world affairs during their political partnership. No doubt that is why,"Nixon and Kissinger, partners in power, by Robert Dallek in the words of a feature in the Iht of 19th April 2007, will be a material of reference for many generation of researchers and international affairs observers.
As the main advantage of this research work, is the use of official sources and the transcriptions of the conversations between the two officials. A visit to the review section at amazon.com shows that this work have been receiving penetrating impressions from those that have purchased the book. For instance, both men were shocked that newspaper editors were bleeding over the coup d'état in Chile and this is their consolation In the Eishenshower period, we would be heroes. Therefore for a proper understanding of that period in the history of world affairs, observers, researchers and the general public just have to consult the work of Robert Dallek.
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05/20/2007
Internet filtering tools
The chief executives of many U.S IT companies were castigated in the course of a hearing before a committee of the U.S congress. Because they sold and serviced internet filtering tools to the government of China. That was many months ago and it seems that the use of internet filtering tool by many government today, is simply part of the policies of some government according to one report in the IHT.
Source: IHT, May 18, 2007
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05/10/2007
Google - additional features
Google is a leader in the web search technology sector and these two functions reinforce the role of google as a pace setter.
Access to the google alert function is from the " à propos de google," link, through the "autres solutions page," and finally to the registration page to be able to benefit from the search engine intelligence alerts.
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05/03/2007
NYSE-Euronext index at 5,989 points
I said at the beginning of this year that I expected the stock market index to reach the threshold of 6 000 points before the end of the year 2007 and to my surprise the index is currently at 5 989 points today.
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NYSE-Euronext trading index at 5,989 points
I said at the beginning of this year that I expected the stock market index to reach the threshold of 6 000 points before the end of the year 2007 and to my surprise the index is currently at 5 989 points today.
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