Posted in 9500 on January 27, 2008 | No Comments »
Most important article. United States - International Diplomacy - Economic Trends - World Economy - Politics - New York
Waving Goodbye to Hegemony
By PARAG KHANNA
Turn on the TV today, and you could be forgiven for thinking it’s 1999. Democrats and Republicans are bickering about where and how to intervene, whether to do it alone [...]
Posted in 9500 on January 26, 2008 | No Comments »
Freedom of Information Think Progress
On New Years Eve, facing “congressional pushback against the Bush administration’s movement to greater secrecy,” President Bush signed the OPEN Government Act, toughening the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). The legislation — unanimously passed by the House and Senate — would push agencies to respond more quickly to records requests. [...]
Posted in 9500 on January 24, 2008 | No Comments »
On Giuliani
Richard Reeves by Richard Reeves — (11-30-2007) GIULIANI FOR KING I DON’T THINK SO
Giuliani has grown in this campaign. He is more restrained than he used to be. But I would never vote for him because of Sept. 26, 2001.
On that day, two weeks after 9/11, Giuliani, who could not run [...]
Posted in 9500 on January 21, 2008 | No Comments »
Juan Cole has a long article on King and American history.
Informed Comment
And Scott Horton on King an Civil Rights.
Will the Rhetoric Be Matched By Action by Scott Horton (Harper’s Magazine)
And lots of thoughts about agriculture, and the turning of southern hemisphere lands to ethanol production, an the re-plantation economizing of the south (Africa, Latin [...]
Posted in 9500 on January 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Two article to follow up on.
Ben Bernanke - Federal Reserve Bank - Interest Rates - United States Economy - Recessions - Bank
Weak on what the Fed IS, able tt create money that earns interest - form -instead of the US government printing the money, which the Constitution allows.
and Analog VLSI Systems Lab, ISL, Stanford [...]
Posted in 9500 on January 19, 2008 | No Comments »
From Informed Comment
Tom Engelhardt examines the rhetoric of “progress” and “hope” that are now being deploying against the Iraqis by the Washington press corps.
What can we do about the fact that when government officials repeat the same wrong idea, and the press merely reports it, add up to an uneducated public?
We know this but it [...]
Posted in 9500 on January 18, 2008 | No Comments »
Not only was torture morally terrible, it was also stupid in that it creates more enemies than just about anything else one can do, and it shows the ignorance of history and the lack of imagination about public perception. But the worst might be that it didn’t even yield much in the way of results. [...]
Posted in 9500 on January 17, 2008 | No Comments »
Spent the last few day at Stanford.
Itaq
Patrick Cockburn reports that poppy cultivation for opium production is spreading rapidly in Diyala Province, and that the profits are fueling narco-terrorism because the fields are controlled by the Salafi Jihadis. American rule of Iraq is like the four horses of the apocalypse.The US military dropped five times [...]
Posted in 9500 on January 14, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I wonder who the new customers are that are driving this? Military? Business and Financial News - New York Times
IBM results spur rebound on Wall Street
By Kristina Cooke
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks rebounded on Monday from last week’s losses after IBM (IBM) reported higher-than-expected preliminary quarterly earnings, spurring a broader rally in technology [...]
Posted in 9500 on January 13, 2008 | No Comments »
So the press is catching up. There might be a recession. The question is, where were all the economic reporters when this was building and many of us saw it coming - long ago
I am thinking of “barometers”, or scales of 1-10 on how we are doing
children 3
arms sales 2
pollution [...]
