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POPS Conflict of Interest, Connect The Dots! Consulting Firm Tied to White House Given Millions in Health Care Ad Campaign Axelrod left the firm on Dec. 31, 2008, with the agreement that it owed him $2 million -- and some Republican critics now question whether the firm was hired to indirectly fund his severance package. The House Republican Conference issued a one-page memo Tuesday, questioning the sincerity of the administration's calls for change and transparency. "As the pharmaceutical industry spends hundreds of millions supporting a government takeover of health care, some may wonder whether White House senior advisors earning millions of dollars paid for in part by the pharmaceutical industry represents the kind of change American can believe in?" Axelrod, a veteran journalist and former columnist with the Chicago Tribune, founded AKPD Message and Media in 1984 following his work managing Paul Simon's victorious U.S. Senate campaign.
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POPSCould we be Getting a Yes in Negotiation and Resolution of Conflict? A classic American playbook: the win-win conflict management strategies developed at the Harvard Negotiation Project and popularized by the book “Getting to yes”. This book has been a best seller for decades, and the strategies acknowledged as essential for business, law, and diplomacy professionals worldwide. Now a groundbreaking initiative is taking these strategies to the strife-ridden corners of Baghdad, Basrah and Kirkuk.
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POPSCrucial foreign policy and security issues facing the Obama Some of the most notable of the day's speakers were General David Petraeus, World Bank President Robert Zoellick, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Michael Mullen, USAID Administrator Henrietta Fore, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, former Secretary of Defense William Perry, General Tony Zinni, former National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, Former Special Advisor to the United Nations Secretary-General Lakhdar Brahimi, and Chairman of the Institute for State Effectiveness Ashraf Ghani.
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POPSGas Prices Shoot Up, Thanks to Another Israeli Middle East War Oil prices are still low yet gas has gone up 20-cents per gallon in the last 2 days. Middle east wars directly effect gas prices at the pump. You can thank Israel's new middle east war for the latest hike as this article mentions. New York Times: Oil prices are up about 25 percent in the last week alone, in part because of the escalating conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza Now gas prices fell despite OPEC's last cut, and demand has not changed much, so that leaves the market fears of the impact of another Israeli war (as with Lebanon couple years ago), and war-mongering talk, all supported by AIPAC-controlled U.S. Congress and both incoming and going U.S. Presidents. This is not what the U.S. economy needs, and is the fruits of another unjust war! Just when we were beginning to economically breathe on "main street" more wars come to change all of that. Demand Cha
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POPSSocial Competence Skills Having emotional intelligence doesnt guarantee the competencies will be demonstrated,different jobs make make differing competance demands.Psychologist David Goleman offers his insights and book "Working with Emotional Intelligence"
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POPSInternational law should govern release of GM mosquitoes This brings up an interesting point - what is the role of the nation state as the world "internationalizes"? What good are EPA regulations when we breath polluted air from China? What good are European regulations on CO2 when the U.S. wont regulate? How does the U.S. compete in stem cell research when it has restrictions on funding? The nation state is no longer the venue for prevention of things like cloning, bacterial engineering, genetic selection, GM foods, etc. We may restrict cloning in the States, but then cloning moves to Mexico or China.
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POPSWho's Planning to Vote for Whom Fifty percent of independent voters, a closely watched segment of the electorate in such polarized times, said they intended to vote for the Democratic candidate, versus 23 who said they would vote for a Republican.
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