Posted in 9500 on December 31, 2007 | No Comments »
Krugman on differences between parties.
Aside from the logical problem here — if tax cuts increase revenue, why do they need to be offset? — even a cursory look at what Mr. McCain said at the time shows that he’s trying to rewrite history: he actually attacked the Bush tax cuts from the left, not the [...]
Posted in 9500 on December 31, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Corporations have long insisted that globalization delivers prosperity. But a report commissioned by the Financial Services Forum, an association of CEOs of 20 major financial firms, admits that most benefits have gone to a select few. International operations increasingly account for most sales and business conducted by multinational firms, writes David Wessel for the Wall [...]
Posted in 9500 on December 31, 2007 | No Comments »
Christmas
When questioned about the date of the end of the world, Jesus Christ said it was a well guarded secret that God the Father kept to Himself (Mt. 24:36).
From Scott Horton No Comment (Harper’s Magazine)
What the Jamie Leigh Jones Case Teaches Us
Prepared remarks delivered before a hearing of the House of Representatives Committee on [...]
Posted in 9500 on December 30, 2007 | No Comments »
Money. what is it? From moneta, lain rome for memosyne, memory, mother of the muses, in Greek.
Money as both managed and community memory. “Money is many things.”
Thinking of Bhutto and how hard she worked at networking.
From Kevin Drum
Posted in 9500 on December 29, 2007 | No Comments »
Participation and democracy on one side
Governance and response to issues on the other
Representation and the nation state. Sovereignty. the peoState of the World 2008ple. Money. Land.
The role of money power in holding it all together.
We are becoming conscious of this whole process, perhaps the way early humans reacted to ice age.
food stocks dwindling rapidly, UN [...]
Posted in 9500 on December 28, 2007 | No Comments »
artforum.com
My thinking
Corporations are organized for profit despite their wider impacts. they want to draw in complex sources they don’t pay for (educated workers, national infrastructure, environment, governance, and wars) and spit simplified out profit and product. Corporations are simplification machines. Corporations, instead of meeting social needs, develop products that meet needs of isolated individuals [...]
Posted in 9500 on December 26, 2007 | No Comments »
from a friend
In his context, the net consequence of a major biofuel agenda comes down to intentional genocide. In order to provide marginally more fuel to the over-consuming industrialized nations, untold millions will starve in the third world, in addition to those untold millions that are already starving. The marginal energy gain is so small [...]
Posted in 9500 on December 24, 2007 | No Comments »
BaryshnikovMikhail Baryshnikov - Samuel Beckett - Theater - New York Times
I travel a lot in Europe; there is so much interesting theater that has never been in New York,” he said. New York is “always a very desirable destination,” he added, but being a success in the city is by “no means anymore a test [...]
Posted in 9500 on December 23, 2007 | No Comments »
Another blow to people like me is the bad name lack of vision and travel and compassion is giving to people my age, blowing off he generation. A Résumé Can’t Buy You Love - New York Times
When Gallup asked voters in August to rate traits as desirable or not in the next president, the “undesirable” [...]
Posted in 9500 on December 18, 2007 | No Comments »
NYT.
Brooks supports ObamaThe Obama-Clinton Issue
Grain prices up as food goes to fuel. Who benefits? Big ag. 18food
But ethanol critics are not getting much traction with their argument. Last week, the Senate voted 86 to 8 for a new energy bill containing expanded ethanol mandates, and the House is expected to follow suit this week……Much [...]
