Peter continues his ongoing rant against stimulus packages, bailouts and increased government debt. Peter goes on to say, once again, that saving is the prudent action at this time, continued spending will result in the propping up of these failing companies.
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http://www.weforum.org 31.10.2008
Central Asia: Everybody’s Ally?
On a number of economic and security fronts, many Central Asian countries are making concerted efforts to diversify relations with the Middle East, Asia and Europe.
1) What are the opportunities and limitations of this strategy?
2) How can the business community capitalize on this shift in priorities?
3) Is there an ASEAN-like model for Central Asian countries that would allow it to speak with a stronger collective voice?
Ali Babacan, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Chief Negotiator of Turkey
Pierre Morel, EU Special Representative for Central Asia, Council of the European Union, Brussels
Rajat M. Nag, Managing Director-General, Asian Development Bank, Manila
Yerbol Orynbayev, Deputy Prime Minister of Kazakhstan
S. Frederick Starr, Chairman of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Chaired by
Nik Gowing, Main Presenter, BBC World News, United Kingdom
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From http://troykelly.com/2006/09/25/bne-stickers/
The stickers that I thought were only in Tokyo seem to be in many places around the entire world, I have no idea what they are. Maybe graffiti, street art, stickers warning of impending doom? I just don’t know. When I first got here - they kept reminding me of home (BNE being the Airport Code for Brisbane, Australia).
I have put some photos online here if you want to see the stickers in action.
There was an interesting segment on ABC (USA) “World News” PodCast that attempted to shed some light on it - but unfortunatly in what seems to be a common “narrow” view of the world only suggested that the stickers might have somethign to do with Japan, because they have Japanese characters on them - they made no mention of the fact that they are all over Tokyo. The news report is on You-Tube (link below).
I would love to know more about where these things have come from, feel free to email me if you have anything.
There is a little more about info at this San Francisco site called Metroblogging. It includes a very interesting comment that this could possible be a reference to a modern Iranian religion’s base text - Baha’u'llah and the New Era. The Baha’i faith, established in Iran in the mid-19th century is now spread around the world and gathering momentum as a rapidly growing religion. In context and including the Japanese characers that generally appear below the letters “BNE” it could read “Bahá’u'lláh and the New Era has arrived” or “Bahá’u'lláh and the New Era is coming”.
Not being at all religious, I think to read anything into this beyond somebody using it as either their tag around the world, or some sort of advertisment is dangerous. Another blogger has commented on the “12 Monkies” approach that some people are taking towards these stickers, which I find ammusing.
Randy Pausch, a 46-year-old computer-science professor at Carnegie Mellon University, has terminal cancer and expects to live for just a few more months.