Posted in Uncategorized on May 31, 2007 | No Comments »
We’re fast approaching the time when the time required to organize an orderly departure from Iraq is longer than the time left in the Bush presidency.
Source: Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall
Posted in Uncategorized on May 30, 2007 | No Comments »
I remember at the World Bank in the 70’s a team of anthropologists wanted to understand how decisions were made. So they arranged to attend and take notes at meetings called “decision meetings.” But in fact the meeting’s real purpose was just to ratify a “decision” made deeper down in the bureaucracy over a long [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 30, 2007 | No Comments »
The Cold War: Fears of an unfinished victoryBy W Joseph Stroupe “The Cold War is dead!” read the newspaper headlines of 1991, and ever since, confidence has been absolute that the victory of the West over the former bloc of the East was a complete one - until lately. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s Cold War-style [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 30, 2007 | No Comments »
The bank is going so serve capital, or development? that they are not the same is the emerging issue. The place of the US in this struggle is crucial for the US, which may be becoming a bit player.
US officials hope that by proposing a nominee of Mr Zoellick’s standing and international reputation they will [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 29, 2007 | No Comments »
The following editorial and linked aticles are very important.
The city as stage for social upheaval
For the sociology of the early twentieth century, the city, which in the course of industrialization had undergone rapid expansion and whose development was concurrent with that of sociology itself, was the “laboratory of the modern”. Sociologists of the city focused [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 29, 2007 | No Comments »
This cycle of images is an exploration of the visual logic of neo-capitalism. It represents a vision of the possible future of the urban environment and visual interface of one neo-capitalist city, the city of Sofia, Bulgaria. Neo-capitalist societies originated from the late totalitarian version of socialism to be found in the eastern European countries [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 29, 2007 | No Comments »
graphs on income ineqiality sine globalization.
Link to WSJ.com
Posted in Uncategorized on May 29, 2007 | No Comments »
What most analysts, including this writer, foresaw as a medium-term problem seems to have confronted Iran much sooner than expected. The present inflation rate of about 20%, driven by a 40% rate of monetary expansion, suggests that government resources are already exhausted. Governments resort to the printing press when they no longer can raise sufficient [...]
Posted in bad signs on May 27, 2007 | No Comments »
NASA satellite overflights of the northern states of Zacatecas, San Luis Potosi, Nuevo Leon, Durango, Coahuila, Chihuahua, Sonora and the Baja California peninsula now show spreading swatches of bone-white, waterless desert, inhospitable bad lands that can no longer support human communities.
Source: San Francisco Bay Guardian : Article : An American Sahara
Posted in Uncategorized on May 27, 2007 | No Comments »
Old folks’ homes may be built next to children’s shelters in futurePosted: 26 May 2007 1735 hrs
Old folks’ homes may be built next to children’s shelters in future
SINGAPORE: In future, old folks’ homes may be built next to children’s orphanages. The Community Development, Youth and Sports Ministry believes such [...]
