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Union Army

{ June 25, 2009 @ 10:04 pm } · { Amazon, Chevron, McCain, Personal Property, goal, hurdles, losses, prices }
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The Union Army was the army that fought for the Union during the American Civil War. It was also known as the Federal Army, the U.S. Army, the Northern Army and the National Army.[1] It consisted of the small United States Army (the regular army), augmented by massive numbers of units supplied by the Northern states, composed of volunteers as well as draftees. The Union Army fought and defeated the Confederate States Army during the war, from 1861 to 1865. Of the 2.5 million men who served in the Union Army during the war, approximately 9.5% were African American, about 360,000 died—in combat, from injuries sustained in combat, disease or other causes — and 280,000 were wounded.

Noncommissioned officers of

The 21st Michigan Infantry, a company of William Tecumseh Sherman’s veterans.

Analysts: Thailand’s rice cartel goal will face hurdles

{ May 4, 2008 @ 9:51 pm } · { Blackberry, Chevron, goal, hurdles }
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Thailand, the world’s biggest rice exporter, wants to form a rice cartel with four other Southeast Asian countries — Laos, Burma, Cambodia, and Vietnam — to acquire more influence over international rice prices, according to media reports Friday.
In the same way that the Organization for Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) sets oil prices, members of the proposed rice cartel would cooperate on prices, thereby wielding their influence.
“Firstly and most importantly, this is not the right time to suggest a cartel,” said Arpitha Bykere, an analyst at RGE Monitor
“With the food prices going so high, the World Bank and the United Nations have suggested it’s becoming such a big crisis,” Bykere said. “The international organizations will oppose this [a rice cartel].”
World Bank President Robert Zoellick has warned that high food prices are threatening recent hard-won gains in overcoming global poverty and malnutrition. The United Nations World Food Program has said that high food prices are creating “a silent tsunami” threatening to plunge more than 100 million people on every continent into hunger. … continue reading this entry.