energyxxi.org - 12/1/2008
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6/12/07 Good morning and welcome to the inaugural event of the U.S. Chamber's Institute for 21st Century Energy. Thank you for coming. Your attendance is testament that you believe, as we do, that energy is the single most important physical resource underpinning our economic competitiveness, ...
energyxxi.org - 12/1/2008
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energyxxi.org —
Institute on the Issues Energy underpins America's economic
prosperity, national security, and global competitiveness. Yet our nation...
lacks a comprehensive energy strategy. Policies are often based on short-sighted objectives, complacency, or ...
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Institute For 21st Century Energy
change.gov - 12/2/2008
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change.gov —
President-elect Obama has championed the creation of a
more open, transparent, and participatory government. To that end,...
Change.gov adopted a new copyright policy this weekend. In an effort to create a vibrant and open public conversation about the ...
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Toward a 21st century government
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Jim Jones’ Chamber Of Commerce Organization Promotes Catastrophic Energy Future
Wonk Room —
... The Institute for 21st Century Energy’s vision of America’s energy future is blind to the realities of climate change, inexcusable for an organization founded in June 2007. All of its recommendations are based on the presumpsition that “ ...
Sean McManus: Is Gen. Jim Jones in the Pocket of Big Oil?
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... In a speech Jones gave in June 2007, launching the Chamber's new energy initiative, he said he first became aware of the importance of energy in 1973, "while sitting in a Volkswagen in Springfield, Virginia at 4 o'clock in the morning." He was waiting in a gas line on his way to Quantico, Virginia. "Thirty-three years later," he recalled, "as Commander of NATO, I worried early in the mornings about how to protect energy facilities and supply chain routes as far away as Africa, the Persian Gulf, and Caspian Sea." ...
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E. J. Dionne Jr. - Welcome to the 21st Century
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21st Century Right to Know: Transition Recommendations
fas.org 11/14/2008 — Ideally, the change of presidential administrations would be the occasion for a transformation in the relationship between government and the public, in which government information becomes easily and rapidly accessible to all interested parties.
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Editorial - How to Pay for a 21st-Century Military
nytimes.com 12/22/2008 — In recent weeks, this page has called for major changes in America’s armed forces: more ground forces, less reliance on the Reserves, new equipment and training to replace cold-war weapons systems and doctrines. Money will have to be found to pay for ...
Col. John W. Ripley, USMC (Ret.) (video)
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