RELATIONSHIPS

from my past relationships i learned:-

Relationships are like glass.

Sometimes it’s better to leave them broken

than try to hurt yourself putting it back together.

BY- V.NAVATA . AR

LIFE TRAGEDY

THIS NEWS REALLY SHOOK MY HEART.

I DO NOT UNDERSTAND THE DESIGN OF NATURE.

ALL MY REASONS OR LOGICS SEEMS TO FAIL OR GOING TO BE A UTTER FLAP!!

The LA Times is reporting that a Los Angeles man killed his entire family and himself early Monday evening. Apparently he and his wife were recently terminated from their jobs at Kaiser Permanente after a probe into some misconduct. According to The Times, the man "faxed a bitter, rambling two-page letter to a local television station blaming his employer for his actions." Co-workers and family members were completely in shock and were unable to foresee any sign of this coming. The letter stated that a Kaiser supervisor told the man to shoot himself, which Kaiser denies, and he and his wife made a suicide pact and didn't see why they should leave their children in anyone else's hands. This is such a tragedy and just another sign of the times.

"LET US ALL PRAY FOR THESE ABOVE PEOPLE SOUL REST IN PEACE."

Source:-http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-children-killed28-2009jan28,0,240432.story

MIKE DUKE,GLOBAL ELITE

THE GLOBAL ELITE
26: Mike Duke
CEO-Designate, Wal-Mart Stores
NEWSWEEK
Published Dec 20, 2008
From the magazine issue dated Jan 5, 2009

As panicked consumers holster their credit cards, at least one company is benefiting: Wal-Mart Stores. Its sales were up 7.6 percent through November; its stock will likely be a rare one that finishes 2008 with a gain. And on Feb. 1, longtime CEO Lee Scott will step aside. His successor: Mike Duke, 58, a former department-store executive and logistics expert who's been at Wal-Mart for 13 years, most recently running its international operations.

Duke takes control of the world's largest retailer at a key moment. Wal-Mart spent the early 2000s fending off complaints over what critics see as a business built on low wages, poor benefits and antiunion activism. The company responded with an aggressive PR campaign, better marketing (its ads now emphasize how its low prices help families save money) and real innovations. It launched a program to sell prescriptions for $4, and it has devised environmental and energy initiatives that have won praise from outfits like Conservation International. "Wal-Mart has overcome [the criticism] by positioning itself as one of the solutions to the nation's problems," says Bernard Sosnick, an analyst with Gilford Securities. "Duke needs to keep the momentum going."

When it comes to sales, much of the momentum will come from overseas. With 4,249 U.S. stores, Wal-Mart has few parts of America left to conquer. Its future growth will depend on penetrating markets like China, which currently has just 215 Wal-Mart locations. Given Duke's international experience, investors will be betting that the new CEO can turn "everyday low prices" into a concept that needs no translation.

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oosh,
parthi
are u going to be enlightened by knowing if osho was enlightened or not. why do want to know? and what are u going to achieve by knowing. osho says just by listening to him no one wud get enlightened. his comparisson on others is his way making u to clear certain conditioning of ur mind. if u want u take it or leave it.

Jan 6
vivek
@parthifollowing link answers ur query :-)http://letwedo.blogspot.com/search/label/OSHO%20-WHY%20MASTERS%20CRITICISE%20EACH%20OTHER%3F

As far as his contradictions are concerned,they seem to exist on surface, because he was destroying borrowed beleifs and conditioning of his ppl....but l can say....deep down his message has never changed or become contradictory.

lakshmana
Friends
Please allow me to share with you my experience which may be relevant with the topic.I was a staunch Krishnamurti follower in late 80's. I was totally bowled over by his enormous thought and originality. I thought there was nothing else to know, read or understand. JK was height of heights.Then I chanced to read some Osho. After couple of ecstatic encounters, there was this shock. In a book I do not remember the name of,Osho abused JK, which to me, was revolting. It angered me, disturbed me, and threw me off my railings. I simply could not digest any person of depth could say such things about Jiddu Krishnamurti.My confusion and skepticism about Osho continued, but I went on reading Osho, and that was his magnetism. Subsequently in early90's I was fortunate to read a few passages from a number of Osho's books about the essence of JK. Osho was all reverence for JK and through those few passages I have understood JK much more than I have learned in years of reading and listening to JK. It was Jk unfolded specially for me by Osho. Now JK and Osho are a unified soul as I see.Osho criticized all the masters whenever there was a chance of a disciple getting stuck with a master without getting the essence, which only helps to strengthen one's ego and weaken one's religiousness. We also should remember Osho's answers were questioner-specific. Osho ridiculed Jesus, Mahavir, Buddha, Meera,Adi Sankara, Mohammed who were certailnly enlightnend masters of the greatest attainable heights. He of course, tore apart all possible popular gurus who were no where near enlightenment.Thank you Osho

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Vladimir Putin

THE GLOBAL ELITE
9: Vladimir Putin
With political opposition crushed and the media throttled, he's still in charge.
NEWSWEEK
Published Dec 20, 2008
From the magazine issue dated Jan 5, 2009

Vladimir Putin

officially stepped down from the job last May, but he remains firmly in power. He can and probably will run for president again in 2012. If he chooses to do that, his return to power will likely be no more than a formality. His handpicked successor in the Kremlin, 43-year-old lawyer Dmitry Medvedev, seems to wield little real clout, while the real decisions are still made by Putin, now prime minister, and Putin's old Kremlin staff. At a recent cabinet meeting, Medvedev put a question to a minister—only to have the answer brusquely cut off by Putin. "Why are we discussing this? That's already been decided," Putin snapped, overruling his supposed boss, according to one Kremlin insider who was present at the meeting. Russia's Constitution allows Putin to stand again at the end of Medvedev's term in 2012, and there's little doubt among Russia's political class that Putin intends a return to the throne. Asked about coming back to the top job during a recent phone-in, Putin said Medvedev will serve his full four-year term as president—but pointedly refused to comment on his own plans.

Meanwhile, Medvedev has been preparing the ground for Putin's comeback and pushing through a constitutional change to extend future presidential terms to six years— so Putin, if he stands in 2012, could be president till 2024. Still, the growing economic crisis could derail the Kremlin's carefully laid succession plans. During the good times of high oil prices, Putin enjoyed approval ratings close to 80 percent. But the holes in the Russian economy are beginning to show: the stock market has plummeted 70 percent and the ruble is down nearly 40 percent since the summer. And despite the Kremlin's stranglehold on the media and destruction of any real political opposition, both Putin and Medvedev are sagging in the polls. They may yet have to work to win.

WARREN BUFFETS

'Warren buffets advice for 2009 '

We begin this New Year with dampened enthusiasm and dented optimism. Our happiness is diluted and our peace is threatened by the financial illness that has infected our families, organizations and nations. Everyone is desperate to find a remedy that will cure their financial illness and help them recover their financial health. They expect the financial experts to provide them with remedies, forgetting the fact that it is these experts who created this financial mess.

Every new year, I adopt a couple of old maxims as my beacons to guide my future. This self-prescribed therapy has ensured that with each passing year, I grow wiser and not older. This year, I invite you to tap into the financial wisdom of our elders along with me, and become financially wiser.

* Hard work: All hard work bring a profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty.

* Laziness: A sleeping lobster is carried away by the water current.

* Earnings: Never depend on a single source of income. [ At least make your Investments get you second earning ]

* Spending: If you buy things you don't need, you'll soon sell things you need.

* Savings: Don't save what is left after spending; Spend what is left after saving.

* Borrowings: The borrower becomes the lender's slave.

* Accounting: It's no use carrying an umbrella, if your shoes are leaking.

* Auditing: Beware of little expenses; A small leak can sink a large ship.

* Risk-taking: Never test the depth of the river with both feet. [ Have an alternate plan ready ]

* Investment: Don't put all your eggs in one basket.

I'm certain that those who have already been practicing these principles remain financially healthy. I'm equally confident that
those who resolve to start practicing these principles will quickly regain their financial health.

Let us become wiser and lead a happy, healthy, prosperous and peaceful life.

Dr.MARGARET CHAN

THE GLOBAL ELITE
44: Dr. Margaret Chan
Director-General, World Health Organization



Fabrice Coffrini / AFP-Getty Images


Dr. Margaret Chan
NEWSWEEK
Published Dec 20, 2008
From the magazine issue dated Jan 5, 2009



With the global spread of diseases more of a threat than ever, Chan represents the world's first line of defense. The well-liked leader of the WHO is known for her interest in women's issues and African health, but her background is in emerging diseases. As Hong Kong's director of health, she handled the avian flu and SARS, ultimately stopping SARS by culling the city's 1.5 million poultry population. One admirer calls her "the James Brown of global health" for her work ethic. In her circles, she's certainly a rock star.

THE GLOBAL ELITE
46: The Dalai Lama
Tibetan leader

NEWSWEEK
Published Dec 20, 2008
From the magazine issue dated Jan 5, 2009


People used to say that Pope John Paul II's power increased as he aged; at 73, the Dalai Lama is the same way. The more he speaks, the more he travels, the more word of his ill health leaks out (he recently had a gallbladder operation), the more he matters. Now, thanks in part to the high visibility of Tibet-China relations during the 2008 Olympics, the religious and political head of Tibetans presides over a diplomatic situation that looks ready to combust. For decades the Dalai Lama has advocated a "middle way": he has said he wants autonomy, not independence, for his people; he would be happy for Tibet to remain part of China in exchange for protection of Tibetan education, culture and religion. In an interview with The New York Times earlier this year, he even said he would accept China's communist rule. But after eight unproductive rounds of talks with Beijing, members of the exile community are fed up; some are advocating violent resistance and a fight for independence.


Every signal the Dalai Lama sends is freighted with importance. His ill health earlier this year prompted a call of sympathy from President Bush, interpreted by the Tibetan community as support for their cause. A meeting with President Nicolas Sarkozy of France led the Chinese to cancel their talks with leaders of the European Union. Meanwhile, how the Dalai Lama chooses to handle the issue of succession is key. Will he turn back centuries of tradition to appoint his own successor? Or will he separate his roles in the next generation? Tibet's political leader could be an adult, after all, while its religious head could be, as it has always been, the Dalai Lama's reincarnation: a baby.

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HU JINTAO - THE GLOBAL ELITE#2

THE GLOBAL ELITE
2: Hu Jintao
The man behind the wheel of the world's most supercharged economy.
NEWSWEEK
Published Dec 20, 2008
From the magazine issue dated Jan 5, 2009

He may be the kind of guy you wouldn't ordinarily think twice about—cautious, colorless and corporate. In the past he has often lost the spotlight to other world leaders with bigger egos and sharper elbows. But to underestimate Hu Jintao would be a monumental error. His position as China's president makes him CEO of a financial juggernaut that's projected to post a $280 billion trade surplus this year. While the rest of the world plunges deeper into recession, Hu the Humble is emerging as the one who is holding the lifeline.

Thirty years of drastic reforms have transformed China from a vast sinkhole of poverty into the world's third-largest economy—one that's still growing. Recent projections for GDP growth in the coming year hover around 8 percent or somewhat lower. The country's decades of massive profits have enabled Beijing to become the U.S. government's biggest creditor, investing billions in American T-bills and shares of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Any retreat from that position now could doom Barack Obama's hopes of funding a stimulus package for the U.S. economy.

Hu also holds the purse strings for other countries that are vital to U.S. interests—places like Pakistan, America's frontline ally in the Afghan war. Back in October, a quest for emergency economic assistance brought President Asif Ali Zardari straight to Beijing on his first official state trip. "China is the future of the world," Zardari declared on his arrival. (He left without the multibillion-dollar loan he wanted, though.)

But Hu's influence goes far beyond his position as a global banker. His government has played a central role in efforts to dismantle North Korea's nuclear-arms program, and energy-development ventures have raised China's profile in critical places like Sudan, Iraq and Angola. More than that, Hu's cooperation is a must in any attempt to control global warming. Already one of the world's heaviest carbon-dioxide emitters, China has argued that developed nations like the United States should make the biggest sacrifices because their cars and factories have been belching smoke so much longer. Still, Hu and Prime Minister Wen Jiabao know that three decades of pell-mell growth have severely devastated their country's environment. Ambassador Wu Jianmin, one of the Foreign Ministry's most senior diplomats, says China's leaders "realize they need a new development model—one that's cleaner, greener and less polluting."

Hu is anything but a grandstander. Instead he rules by consensus of China's all-powerful nine-man standing committee of the Politburo. But in the aftermath of Wall Street's meltdown, his low-key competence is just what Beijing wants—and may be what the world needs as well.

TENNIS PLAYERS-TOP TEN WELL PAID PLAYER

10 Most Well Paid Tennis Players

I am not a very big fan of sports myself but when it comes to keeping a track of beauties like Sharapova and Kournikova, watching Tennis becomes a big necessity.

A lot of players have made history in Tennis but today what we have for you is a list of the 10 most well paid Tennis players.

Take a look and let us know about the players you adore the most.

1. Roger Federer

Is he the best tennis player of all times? Probably yes but time will tell. He is though the most well paid tennis player with 41,8 million dollars in prizes.

2. Maria Sharapova

The beautiful Russian has made some great deals and became one of the top paid with 26millions in her pocket.

3. Rafael Nadal

The top seed Spaniard is the new Olympic Gold medalist and one of the top paid with $18 million.

4. Andy Roddick

The American player has an ongoing deal with Lacoste and 15million $ in his account.

5. Venus Williams

With 5 Wimbledon titles and $15 million, she is definitely one of the best and top paid tennis players of the year.

6. Serena Williams

Like her sister she got an impressive 15million $ total in prizes this year and is ranked among the top ranked players.

7. Justine Henen

Although she shocked everyone when she retired last year being the no1, Henin is among the top paid with 10million $ in prizes.

8. Novak Djokovic

The Serb player with the killer forehand, number 3 in the world ranking is among the top paid with 9.5 millions.

9. Ana Ivanovic

Ana is the first Serb to have won a Roland Garros and one of the cutest tennis players ever. With 8million $ she is also among the top paid.

10. James Blake

Although he left Harvard in order to become a tennis player, Blake did extremely well! He is among the top paid with 7.5million $ and some great deals with Nike and Evian.

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WHEN IT IS GOING TO END?

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Israeli warplanes destroy Gaza houses

and mosque as air strikes continue
Death toll rises to 414 after week of bombing, dashing hopes of a ceasefire.

The strikes still going on(7th day)..when it is going to end.?

who is going to make a pull stop for all these 'Bloody Brutal Nonsense' ?

All are we going to be just a witness for the on going war? ...

(or) Going to take part to end this power play?

Why the goverment of United States alone supporting to israel ? when the majority of the worlds community requesting israel goverment to Ceasefire.

What is their motive behind to this ? is it not showing their Double standards/partial approach ?

The people or the country, who involved in war/terrorism/fundamentalism, may beliefs that, these killing of hundreds of thousand of people is going to give the solution for them?

At this point of time,each one among us need to think deeply to find a solution to end this tragedy.it is because, directly or indirectly we all are responsible to save our fellow human beings.Let them belong to any race,religion,nation,caste and so on,it is our prime duty to show all our love and help them to product their lives and lead them to a peaceful living...

please think and take part in it...thousands of people like us need to unite and merge our Energy to the higher realms and start our manifestation together for our "Ideal World".

Let all our enery bring out a better world community; where the human values like love,compassion and peace,empathy etc.. will be the utmost concern.

kindly feel free to share your views in support of 'Non-Violence'.

**The photo on the left side is-Nizar Rayan, center, was killed at his home in Jabaliya, along with his four wives and other family members. The Gaza professor advocated suicide attacks against Israel. (Sept. 15, 2007 photo)*

SHAHRUKH KHAN

THE GLOBAL ELITE
41: Shahrukh Khan
The king of Bollywood is opening minds in some closed-off cultures.
NEWSWEEK
Published Dec 20, 2008
From the magazine issue dated Jan 5, 2009

Who is the world's biggest movie star? Brad? Will? Nah. His name is Shahrukh Khan, and he's the king of Bollywood. It's not just that his romantic flicks make gazillions—it's where those gazillions come from. Khan is huge in the Muslim world, even in Pakistan and Afghanistan, where the mullahs ban his films. (The movies thrive on the black market.) Their main appeal is certainly the song-and-dance numbers, but Khan (a Muslim married to a Hindu) makes devoutly secular films where love trounces bigotry. Sonia Gandhi gives Khan's DVDs to visitors, especially Muslim ones. Here's hoping tolerance will leap from reel life to real life.

BARACK OBAMA

THE GLOBAL ELITE

1: Barack Obama
The new U.S. president will be judged by whether he can save capitalism.
By Fareed Zakaria NEWSWEEK
Published Dec 20, 2008
From the magazine issue dated Jan 5, 2009

The great sociologist Max Weber described the power of charisma as "a certain quality of an individual personality, by virtue of which he is set apart from ordinary men and treated as endowed with supernatural, superhuman, or at least specifically exceptional powers or qualities." Some of Barack Obama's supporters have at times sounded as if they saw "the One" in these terms. His birth, background and eloquence, they believe, give him almost magical qualities. There's no doubt that Obama is intensely charismatic and that it provides him with unusual political capital.

But very soon—say on Jan. 20, 2009—his powers will start to mutate, and they will derive less from his persona and more from his office. He will shift, in Weber's terminology, from wielding charismatic authority to legal authority.

In January, Obama will gain the authority to run the government of the United States of America, and that is why he sits atop this list. No matter how charismatic, were he the president of Kenya, he would not be in this position (or, like the real president of Kenya, not even on this list). For all its problems, for all the battering it has taken, the United States remains the single most important country in the world—able to exercise influence in every realm and on every continent in a way that no other major power can. It remains, in the words of the German writer Josef Joffe, "the default superpower." Add to this Obama's special qualities, and the relief much of the rest of the world feels at seeing the end of the Bush administration, and you have a heady combination.

But presidents cannot simply remain charismatic symbols. They are forced to tackle the problems at hand, and their influence then grows— or ebbs—based on how they handle those challenges. However impressive they were as human beings, it was not in being but in doing that George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt built their enormous reputations. Whatever Obama may have thought when he began this journey, at a time when the war in Iraq was foremost in many voters' minds, whatever his campaign promises, his presidency will be judged on how he handles the economic crisis that now envelops the United States and the world. For Obama to be remembered as a great president, he has to do nothing less than rescue capitalism.

The first task is perhaps the most difficult: to restore confidence to Americans, and indeed to the world. While there has been much elation over Obama's election, there remains a deep pessimism across the country that is having adverse effects on the economy. People and corporations are still not doing much by way of buying, borrowing or lending —the heartbeats of modern capitalism. The political system has moved on to the automobile bailouts and the fiscal stimulus, but the original problem of trust in the financial system has still not been fixed. "Credit markets are still fundamentally broken," says David Swensen, chief investment officer of Yale University.

How to restore confidence? It's not as easy as it sounds. After all, George W. Bush has pretty consistently projected an air of confidence, one that tends to get people even more worried than they need to be. Perhaps this is because Bush's calm often seems utterly disconnected from the realities around him; he appears thoroughly unaware of the facts on the ground, whether in Iraq, Louisiana or Afghanistan. Like Bush, Franklin Roosevelt also projected optimism, but he took great pains to recognize and describe the depth of the difficulties the country faced. In his first fireside chat, Roosevelt explained the basics of banking to the American people and then asked for their help in getting the system working again. "It is your problem no less than mine," he said, enlisting them in the cause at hand.

The next step is to give people a sense that the financial system is stable and predictable. Swensen, who after Warren Buffett is perhaps the most successful investor in recent decades, argues that this has been the crucial flaw in the Bush administration's actions. "Markets need certainty and predictability," he says. "And the administration's actions have actually increased uncertainty and unpredictability. Its measures have been ad hoc, its response to each institution has been different, its reasoning has been opaque—all this creates confusion, and that drives capital away." Swensen's own solution is a simple and systemic one: have the government guarantee all money-market funds, with no limits, for six months. He argues that the government has to eliminate some degree of risk in order to get people to borrow and lend again. "Right now the government is not facilitating private capital flows; it is substituting for private capital flows. That doesn't solve anything."

The final way that Obama can create confidence is to reform the system itself. His administration will inherit a government that has taken on an extraordinary set of obligations in the private sector—ownership in banks, guarantees of commercial debts, loans to the automobile industry. Carefully retreating from these obligations to restore a market economy will be as complex an exit strategy as the one from Iraq. But if Obama is able to reform government rules and regulation—and thus the American economy—it will give people around the world renewed confidence in the American system. It was only after Japan was able to put in place a new system of tough auditing, after all, that its own banking crisis abated.

Obama will find many dire challenges in his inbox, but none—not Iraq, not Russia, not Pakistan, China, Afghanistan—is as important as this one huge task: to restore confidence, certainty and reform to America. It's a lot easier said than done. But if he manages to pull it off, people might well start wondering whether Barack Obama has some supernatural powers after all.

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JIM ROGERS CEO-DUKE ENERGY

THE GLOBAL ELITE
50: Jim Rogers
The CEO of Duke Energy could make dreams of renewable power a reality.
By Sharon Begley NEWSWEEK
Published Dec 20, 2008
From the magazine issue dated Jan 5, 2009

Duke Energy Corp. is not the world's greenest utility, and CEO Jim Rogers is no green saint. The company was sued by Environmental Defense, the research and advocacy group, when it balked at installing modern air-pollution controls on old coal-fired power plants that it was renovating; the Supreme Court handed it a 9-0 loss in 2007. Duke is the country's third-largest emitter of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, and is building two new power plants that will burn coal, the worst CO2 fuel. But if Barack Obama wants to spend $15 billion a year over the next decade to develop and deploy renewable energy, and to get the country on track to cut greenhouse emissions 80 percent by 2050, Rogers, with his sooty record—but belief in renewable energy and the need to cut CO2—is just the kind of powerful ally he'll need.

The support of environmentalists and of green-tech companies for Obama's plan is a given. The support of industry is not. Dead-enders still deny that global warming is occurring, much less that it is caused by greenhouse gases. Much of the business community thinks mandatory CO2 reductions would be economically ruinous: in November, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce warned of a "devastating impact … on businesses, farmers, the fragile economy and job creation." For eight years, opposition like that (combined with White House intransigence on climate change) crippled efforts to expand renewable energy and cut greenhouse emissions. But if Rogers and other industrial titans—Alcoa, Caterpillar, General Electric, BP America, Dow Chemical, Du Pont and Shell are among those that support mandatory CO2 cuts—can flip some of their peers and provide political cover to pro-business congressmen, the next four might be different.

Rogers has aligned at least some of Duke's investments with his rhetoric. He has called for mandatory greenhouse-gas reductions from power plants and other sources, advocates a cap-and-trade system (polluters get allowances to emit CO2; if they emit less, they can sell or trade them to worse emitters) and supports a surcharge on electricity to fund R&D on low-carbon technologies. Duke is spending $50 million to install 10 megawatts of solar panels on customers' rooftops. It bought a wind-power company in June for $320 million, raising its wind capacity to 500 megawatts; it has another 5 gigawatts of wind projects in development. And Duke has begun building the nation's largest solar photo-voltaic farm—16 megawatts in North Carolina, enough for 2,600 homes.
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To jump-start renewable energy and green technology will take at least three big steps. First, wind and solar require huge upfront capital outlays, which makes them extremely sensitive to the cost of borrowing. "In the last two months we've seen capital get very tight, though there's interest in wind and solar projects among private-equity firms that have money to invest," says attorney Edward Zaelke of the Chadbourne & Parke law firm, where he handles energy deals. What would get investments flowing? Government loan guarantees for construction of wind or solar farms, to reduce the cost of capital; extending tax credits for solar and wind projects and making the credits transferable so a company that has no tax liability could sell them to one that does; perhaps even direct government loans. Though that's hardly unprecedented nowadays (AIG bailout, anyone?), Congress is losing patience with the unending federal involvement in markets. It will take the business community to argue that achieving energy security and staving off climate catastrophe is worth even more than insuring a steady supply of Pontiacs.
The second way to boost investment in renewables is for the government to send a clear signal to business: emitting CO2 will cost you. "If industry knows cap-and-trade is certain by 2011, and that they have to cut emissions 80 percent by 2050, that will be the most powerful signal you can get," says Environmental Defense president Fred Krupp.
Finally, making green energy a reality will require increasing demand for it, since the more of something buyers want, the greater the economies of scale producers can achieve. There is no more powerful buyer than the U.S. government. Federal facilities—8,600 buildings and 213,000 vehicles—are already required by law to cut their energy use 30 percent by 2015, so "going green is something we live and breathe," says Jim Williams, acting head of the General Services Administration, which buys and runs those facilities. The GSA has converted a federal building in upstate New York to all wind power and installed 110,000 square feet of solar panels on a building near Washington that houses mission control for scientific satellites. If the new administration requires even more green purchases, the cost of solar could drop by half, says Rhone Resch of the Solar Energy Industries Association, with no big technological breakthroughs. But Congress will need to hear from CEOs like Rogers who can see past next quarter's bottom line.

Source:-The News Week.com

50 - MOST POWERFUL PEOPLE IN THE WORLD

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1: Barack Obama
2: Hu Jintao
3: Nicolas Sarkozy
4-5-6: Economic Triumvirate
7: Gordon Brown
8: Angela Merkel
9: Vladimir Putin
10: Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud
11: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
12: Kim Jong Il
13-14: The Clintons
15: Timothy Geithner
16: Gen. David Petraeus
17: Sonia Gandhi
18: Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
19: Warren Buffett
20: Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani
21: Nuri al-Maliki
22-23: The Philanthropists
24: Nancy Pelosi
25: Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan
26: Mike Duke
27: Rahm Emanuel
28: Eric Schmidt
29: Jamie Dimon
30-31: Friends of Barack
32: Dominique Strauss-Kahn
33: Rex Tillerson
34: Steve Jobs
35: John Lasseter
36: Michael Bloomberg
37: Pope Benedict XVI
38: Katsuaki Watanabe
39: Rupert Murdoch
40: Jeff Bezos
41: Shahrukh Khan
42: Osama bin Laden
43: Hassan Nasrallah
44: Dr. Margaret Chan
45: Carlos Slim Helú
46: The Dalai Lama
47: Oprah Winfrey
48: Amr Khaled
49: E. A. Adeboye
50: Jim Rogers


Well,We all need to learn a lot from these people and their uniqueness or
the special quality they have or what made them to come to this stand ?
if so, ..when we got the point..it will be a turn around and soon......
MAY BE WITHIN FEW YEARS LATER /AFTERWARDS MY NAME WILL BE ONE
AMONG IN THIS LISTS OF PEOPLE,AND I HOPE YOURS TOO..!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR -2009

HAPPY NEW YEAR- 2009