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Guy Sorman, October 5, 2005

Guy Sorman (born March 10, 1944, Paris, France) is a French professor, columnist, author, and public intellectual in economics and philosophy. He has written twenty books that promote the ideals of creativity and modern capitalism. His views are close to classical liberalism. His ideas about renewable energy and environmentalism, as expressed in his book Progress and its Enemies, are particularly controversial. He is assertive in regard to human rights in China and in regard to democracy in many places including Turkey, Egypt, Iran, Chile, Poland, and Argentina. Sorman was a founder of a French NGO, Action against Hunger (ACF), in 1979 and was its President until 1990, when he became its Honorary President. He is the global advisor of the South Korean President. Sorman has held many government positions in France.

Sorman is the author of twenty books on contemporary affairs. He is a regular columnist for Le Figaro in France, the Wall Street Journal and City Journal( contributing editor ) in the United States, Dong A in Korea, Fakt in Poland , La Nacion in Argentina, and other foreign publications. Sorman taught economics at the Paris Institute of Political Sciences from 1970 to 2000 and at foreign Universities. In 1985, he was a visiting scholar at Stanford, Hoover Institution. He has also held several public offices, including advisor to the prime minister of France (1995-1997), Member of the National Commission for Human Rights and deputy mayor of Boulogne ( since 1995), near Paris.

He attended the New York Carnegie Council on April 9, 2008, where he talked about China and how it is socially developing as a nation, presenting his new book The Empire of Lies (Newly translated into English). He says "There are not 2 million Tibetans in China. There are 1 billion Tibetans in China." The idea was to show that Chinese people also suffer the same oppression as Tibetans in his view. Like the Dalai Lama, he also does not want China to be boycotted for the Olympics. Sorman's next book on Economy as a science (Economics doesn't lie, A Defense of the Free Market in a time of Crisis has been published July 2009, by Encounter New York).

Bibliography[link]

• "What is the West?". Project Syndicate. 2008-04-28. http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/sorman2/English. Retrieved 2011-12-31. 
• l'Économie ne ment pas (2008) (Economics Does Not Lie)
• l'Année du Coq (2006)
• Made in USA (2005)
• le Progrès et ses ennemis (2001) (Progress and its Enemies)
• Sortir du socialisme (1990) (Exit of Socialism)
• les Vrais Penseurs de notre temps (1989) (True Thinkers of Our Time)
• la Nouvelle Richesse des nations (1987) (The New Wealth of Nations)
• Le Capital, suite et fins (1991)
• Le Monde est ma tribu (1997)
• En attendant les barbares (1991)
• l'État minimum (1985) (The Minimal State)
• la Solution libérale (1984) (The Liberal Solution)
• la Révolution conservative américaine (1983) (The American Conservative Revolution)
• The Genius of India (2000)
• In search of Moderate Islam (2003)
• America : in Search of Happiness (2008)
• The Empire of lies, The truth about China in the 21st century (2008).
• Economics does not lie: A defense of the free market in a time of crisis (2009)

External links[link]

• Official blog
• Official Facebook page

Sorman صرمان
—  Town  —
Sorman Location in Libya
Coordinates: 32°45′24″N 12°34′18″E / 32.75667°N 12.57167°E / 32.75667; 12.57167
Country	Libya
Region	Tripolitania
District	Zawiya
Population (2008)[1]
• Total	36,707
Time zone	UTC + 2

Sorman^[2] or Surman^[3] (Arabic: صرمان‎) is a town near the Mediterranean coast, in the Zawiya District of the Tripolitania region in northwestern Libya.

Libyan civil war[link]

On 20 June, during the Libyan civil war, NATO strikes in Sorman against what appeared to be civilian homes in a compound belonging to one of Muammar Gaddafi's associates, Khaled K. El-Hamedi, reportedly killed several civilians, including two children and their mother.^[4] NATO admitted carrying out an air strike on a military target in Sorman but deined civilian deaths. NATO issued a statement that said a precision air strike was launched against a "high-level" command and control "node" in the Sorman area.^[5]

On 14 August, the National Liberation Army said it had captured the city in battle during the major coastal offensive.^[6] 10 rebel fighters were killed and at least 40 pro-Gaddafi fighters were captured during the battle for the town.^[7]

Notes[link]

See also[link]

• List of cities in Libya

Coordinates: 32°45′N 12°34′E / 32.75°N 12.567°E / 32.75; 12.567

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Jim Blasingame is an American small business expert, radio talk show host, author, syndicated columnist, keynote speaker, and president of Small Business Network, Inc., a media company dedicated to serving small business. He is the creator and award-winning host of the nationally syndicated talk radio show The Small Business Advocate® Show, which focuses on small business and entrepreneurship issues. He is the author of Small Business Is Like a Bunch of Bananas and Three Minutes to Success.

Jim Blasingame, The Small Business Advocate®.

Blasingame is an alumnus of the University of North Alabama.

Career[link]

After more than 20 years as a successful employee/manager/executive of big businesses, including multi-year tenures with Sears and Xerox, Blasingame founded his consulting firm in 1989 to focus on supporting small business CEOs. His tag line was, "I'm an executive vice president you can rent."

In 1997, Blasingame founded the media company, Small Business Network, Inc. (SBN), so he could "talk to more than one person at a time." The new company was founded for the purposed of helping small business owners have the maximum opportunity to be successful along the ownership continuum, from start-up to growing enterprise to divesting.

The company's initial medium was radio as Blasingame began broadcasting his nationally syndicated weekday radio program, The Small Business Advocate® Show, in November 1997. Two months later, in January 1998, he began simulcasting his program on the Internet. Today, Blasingame conducts over 1,000 live interviews annually with experts on topics relevant to challenges and opportunities of 21st century small businesses. These live radio interviews result in the production of 10 separate Internet podcasts every weekday and 2,600 annually.

In November 19, 1999, Blasingame added another media channel, this time for his writing, with the launch of The Small Business Advocate NEWSLETTER, a weekly e-zine, which has been distributed every Sunday since its founding. In 2002, Blasingame published his first book, Small Business is Like a Bunch of Bananas (SBN Books), and in 2006, his second book, Three Minutes to Success (SBN Books), which have sold over 90,000 copies combined.

He is a syndicated newspaper columnist, as well as a columnist for American Express OPENForum.com, NASDAQ.com and Forbes.com. Blasingame is also the founder of AskJim.biz, a small business knowledgebase and his blog at JimsBlog.biz. He has made TV appearances on FoxBusiness and MSNBC, and has been quoted in such publications as Fortune Small Business,^[1] CNN.com,^[2] New York Enterprise Report,^[3] U.S. News and World Report^[4] and the Los Angeles Times.^[5]

Part of Blasingame’s work is devoted to helping big businesses “speak small business as a second language.” In this role he has worked with a long list of organizations, including IBM, Administaff, FedEx, Aflac, American Express, Office Depot, NASCAR, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, U.S. Small Business Administration, U.S. Trade Representative’s Office, Ex-Im Bank, Sage Business Solutions, Zions Bank, Clarke American Checks, U.S. Commercial Service, Business Networking International, Bloomberg Television, Wall Street Journal, Advanced Micro Devices, American Chamber of Commerce Executives, Association of Small Business Development Centers, AmCham, and many local chambers of commerce, to name a few.

Ideology[link]

Blasingame’s 1st Law of Small Business states, “It’s easy to start a small business, but it’s not easy to run one successfully.” His professional life is dedicated to those who employ over half of all private sector employees and generate over 60% of net new jobs.^[6] Blasingame writes and speaks on how small businesses can become vendor-partners with large businesses, and he teaches large businesses how to connect with and sell to small businesses.

Blasingame believes we're entering what he calls "the Age of the Customer™,"and that small businesses will have a decided advantage in this new age.

Awards and Recognition[link]

2009 Champion of the Chamber Movement, American Chamber of Commerce Executives (ACCE)^[7]