Daily Archives: 01/19/2012

(Community Matters) Eight of our favorite startups are competing in the first Austin Startup Olympics this weekend, partying at Club DeVille after.

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(Community Matters) A must read – fodder for reflections on American exceptionalism – “Strategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Global Power,” by Zbigniew Brzezinski

Politico Playbook: THE BIG IDEA –  “The United States is still preeminent [among global powers] but the legitimacy, effectiveness, and durability of its leadership is increasingly questioned worldwide because of the complexity of its internal and external challenges. Nevertheless, in every significant and tangible dimension of traditional power – military, technological, economic, and financial – America is still peerless. It has by far the largest single national economy, the greatest financial influence, the most advanced technology, a military budget larger than that of all other states combined, and armed forces both capable of rapid deployment abroad and actually deployed around the world. This reality may not endure for very long but it is still the current fact of international life.

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