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411 Canada and Pivotal Payments: A Mutual Boost

Canada 411, the most popular search engine in Canada, is visited by over 2 million locals and causes local business to receive over 13 million inquiries each month. At this time, the website highlights over 1.5 million local businesses in various formats…

May 25, 20103 CommentsRead More

Prez’s Weekly Address: His Perspective of the G-20 Summit

WASHINGTON – In this week’s address, President Barack Obama recounted the progress made this past week in advancing America’s national security and economic prosperity at the United Nations and the G-20. The administration established the U.S. as a leader in the pursuit for clean energy, and agreed to reform the global financial system to prevent [...]

September 29, 2009No CommentRead More

Observations from Observatory: The Full Moon Hike

  The ground stretches wet and shallow in Florida. My homeland is a giant swamp in the shape of a peninsula – surrounded by water on three sides. The summer weather is hot and the shorelines don’t get any more beautiful.   Lion’s Head from the view of the cable-car on Table Mountain. Cape Town, [...]

July 8, 2009No CommentRead More

New Online Graphic Novel Tells the World of Iranian Protests

A new online graphic novel comic book has been circulating the web telling the story of the Iranian election protests.  Persepolis 2.0 gives a day-by-day account of the events between June 12-21.  With resounding statements like – “Today we will fight for our rights,” “Tehran is burning,” and “Where is my vote?” – the content [...]

July 8, 2009No CommentRead More

U.S. and Russia Promise to Reduce Nuclear Weapons

On Monday, President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev met at the Kremlin in Moscow and each promised to reduce nuclear arms in their respective nations. Obama expressed that the two countries must take a leadership position in the reduction of nuclear weapons.  “It is very difficult for us to exert that leadership unless [...]

July 7, 2009No CommentRead More

Two Americans Sentenced to 12 Years in North Korea

Two American reporters, Laura Ling and Euna Lee, were sentenced today to 12 years in a labor prison in North Korea.  The two young journalists were reporting on the trafficking of women when they were arrested by North Korean officials on the North Korean-Chinese border. The reporters were working for Al Gore’s California-based Current TV.  [...]

June 8, 2009No CommentRead More

Pres. to Speak in Egypt About U.S.-Muslim Relations

JUNE 2, 2009 – The president plans on travelling to Cairo, Egypt to make a speech to the Muslim world about U.S.-Muslim relations. For the record, I don’t think this is a terrible idea. In fact, I think it’s a healthy move for international and inter-religious dialogue as well as a savvy political strategy for [...]

June 2, 20092 CommentsRead More

North Korea Denounces Peace Treaty with US and South Korea

MAY 29, 2009 – The US military’s security awareness has been on full alert since Thursday when North Korea renounced the treaty keeping peace between North and South Korea since the end of the Korean Conflict in 1953. Leading up to the renouncement, North Korea displayed military prowess with recent underground nuclear testing and short-range [...]

May 29, 20091 CommentRead More

UN: Cultural Uniqueness to Combat Indigenous Poverty

The “diversity of poverty” should be recognized in efforts to meet the needs of indigenous people, whose distinctiveness should be also used as an asset to catalyse their economic development, Jean-Philippe Audinet, Director of the Policy Division at the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), told the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues today as delegates [...]

May 27, 2009No CommentRead More

Floridian Makes Large Impact in El Salvador

WASHINGTON, D.C., May 12, 2009 – Peace Corps Volunteer Patricia Hernandez of Key Biscayne, Florida, is making a difference in rural El Salvador through a vocational training initiative that teaches local women how to sew and tailor clothes. Equipped with fabric, rulers, buttons, and thread, 21 women from a town heavily impacted by El Salvador’s [...]

May 21, 2009No CommentRead More

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