Tag Archives : Georgia

The holiday shopping season each year witnesses loads and loads of people immersing themselves in the joy of Christmas and the anticipation of a new year to come. The entire holiday season represents out faith and believe in good and therefore our wish to celebrate this pious and utterly joyful occasion with as much fanfare as possible. However, we [...]

One of the leading web security companies in the world, McAfee has warned the international community that, the established powers of the world are fast heading towards the development of cyber warfare weapons. In a report released by the security specialist, it has stated that, countries like China, France, Israel, Russia and the United States are [...]

Last year, at the same time in that Georgia was under a military attack from Russia, also was attacked by hackers that dropped many of their sites suffered also. American researchers published a report recently affirming that those attacks came from internet users and from Russian gangs, all civil and without any involvement with the government. According [...]

The recent DDoS (Denial of Service) attack that almost crippled, Twitter and Facebook turned out to be a systematic targeted attack on a single user, known as “Cyxymu“ in the online realm. Cyxymu, is the user name of a Georgian blogger, who has now stated that, the attacks were initiated by Russian authorities. The cyber attack took place on the [...]

After months of tension, military and political cooperation between Russia and the NATO resumed. “This is a new start for relations between Russia and NATO,” said German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Stein Meier. He hoped that the new cooperation will also cover the issues in the Middle East and the disarmament of nuclear and conventional weapons. “We [...]

Russia and the United States might just battle once more, not over ideology and governance style this time but over the ‘massive mineral wealth hidden deep under the Arctic seabed – much of it made more accessible as the ice cap retreats.’ There just might be the possibility of war on the top of the world. This tension harks back to those [...]

The UN Security Council urges Member States to act vigorously to end impunity for those who violate children’s rights by recruiting them to become child soldiers. The agency also reiterated its condemnation of the employment of children in war by combatant sides, as well as violence and sexual abuse of children who are victims in armed conflicts. Recruitment [...]

On January 30, 2009, the United States FDA officials began a criminal investigation on the Georgia processing plant for peanut butter and peanut paste that proved to be contaminated and led to the salmonella food poisoning of hundreds of people. The manufacturing process and the plant itself were found to be unsanitary. The Peanut Corporation of America [...]

As is widely known, the peanut butter salmonella poisoning came not too long after another salmonella outbreak, that of the contaminated peppers produce. After a false alarm over suspected tomato salmonella poisoning, the FDA cleared tomatoes for consumption in early July of 2008 (PrietzkerLaw, 2008, July 17). Like the peanut butter case and the tomatoes [...]

Public health crises such as salmonella poisoning outbreaks need prompt management by stakeholders involved, for basically three reasons: to stem the spread of the outbreak, to facilitate product recall, and to avoid general public health panic. To meet the three imperative objectives, three major groups of stakeholders should act quickly, judiciously, [...]