Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

Latest News Jul 25, 2013 US House Votes Down Attempt to Halt NSA Surveillance Program The U.S. House of Representatives has narrowly defeated an amendment that would have ended a National Security Agency surveillance program that collects hundreds of millions of Americans' phone records. ... Read more... Pentagon Delays F-16 Deliveries to Egypt U.S. Defense officials are delaying the delivery of four F-16 fighter jets to Egypt following this month's military ouster of President Mohamed Morsi. ... Read more... China starts 5-year ban on new govt buildings China's central authorities on Tuesday introduced a five-year ban on the construction of new government buildings as part of an ongoing frugality campaign. ... Read more... Featured Free Resource Opening Up Government: How to Unleash the Power of Information for New Economic Growth Unleash the power of information for new economic growth. Dempsey: Military Must Be Part of Larger Strategy for Syria Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey called Syria "a human tragedy," and said any military effort there must be tied together with diplomatic and economic instruments of power. ... Read more... Egyptian Army Chief Urges Protests Egypt's Defense Minister Abdel Fattah el-Sissi has urged Egyptians to turn out Friday to denounce what he called 'violence and terrorism,' and to authorize the army and police to deal with it. He also insisted there is 'no going back' on Egypt's political 'road map' which he vowed would end in free and fair elections. ... Read more... Lawyer: Snowden Not Allowed To Leave Moscow Airport The lawyer advising Edward Snowden says the former U.S. intelligence contractor does not have a document that would allow him to leave the transit area of a Moscow airport where he has been holed up for a month. ... Read more... Featured Free Resource Defining a Blueprint for a Smarter Data Center for Flexibility and Cost-Effectiveness Analytic insights for better IT investment. Pakistan Says it Cannot Verify Drone Strike Casualty Figures Pakistani officials say they cannot verify new casualty figures from drone strikes in a Pakistani government report that was leaked to a British media outlet this week. The report says as many as one fifth of those killed in CIA-directed drone attacks in the country's northwest were civilians. ... Read more... Lebanon Unhappy With Hezbollah Blacklisting The European Union now considers much of Lebanon's Hezbollah movement a terrorist organization and that is complicating efforts to form a new government in Beirut, according to Lebanese officials. ... Read more...