Posted in 9500 on February 25, 2008 | No Comments »
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BBC - The rising price of cereals such as wheat and maize is a “major global concern”, the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) says.
Poor countries could see their cereal import bill rise by more than a third. Africa as a whole is expected to see an estimated 49% increase this year.
International [...]
Posted in 9500 on February 24, 2008 | No Comments »
House of credit
A growing dependence on credit cards is leaving the American consumer mired in debt
http://www1.pressdemocrat.com/article/20080224/NEWS/802240307
By GUY KOVNERTHE PRESS DEMOCRAT
With America’s total credit card debt approaching $1 trillion, she had plenty of company, according to figures from the government and a credit-tracking firm.Consumers charged $68 billion worth of purchases last year, boosting [...]
Posted in 9500 on February 23, 2008 | No Comments »
Some interesting ideas fro Keith Hart
A body of Marxist and feminist scholarship in the 1960s and 70s extended this analysis to the conflict between African males of different age, with polygamous elders commanding young men’s labour through control of access to marriageable women and the latter condemned to doing most of the work without effective [...]
Posted in 9500 on February 20, 2008 | No Comments »
If the country were being run by professionals, Bush, Obama, Clinton and Mccain would get together to work out a plan for what to do in case the country is attacked before the election. The following from a friend
If one studies and observes the “tactical history” of Al-Qaeda and the Taliban, then it becomes obvious [...]
Posted in 9500 on February 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The reasons we need change..
CIA’s ambitious post-9/11 spy plan crumbles
‘Fox News Sunday’
ADAPTATION: Rep. Peter Hoekstra, R-Mich., says: “I don’t believe the intelligence community has made the fundamental shift in how it operates to adapt to the different targets that are out there.”
The agency spent millions setting up front companies overseas to snag terrorists. [...]
Posted in 9500 on February 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Hard time. A friend beaten to death in Australia, the continuation of the Bush presidency and
As of now I would vote democratic, but the spectacle of charisma and attack politics and the inability of the democrats to be clear about national security, the economy, the environment, and the need to manage decline, makes me wish [...]
Posted in 9500 on February 14, 2008 | No Comments »
Love is still a miracle, not that it violates physics, but that it uses it well. the way chess pieces use wood.
and
Ben S. Bernanke said that he expects the economy to regain speed after a few months of “sluggish” growth. how can that e? Only with deflated dollars methinks. if we all paddle our canoe, [...]
Posted in 9500 on February 13, 2008 | No Comments »
Aesop’ fables, return traditional wisdom of the human and animals.No Children’s Tale - ChronicleReview.com
Little in literature seems smaller or simpler than Aesop. People assume that everyone has read the fables, or had the fables read to them. Thanks to Aesop, we have a common understanding of a wolf in sheep’s clothing, the lion’s share, the [...]
Posted in 9500 on February 12, 2008 | No Comments »
The turn against Clinton is impressive as a psychological judgement by the voters. My view is that i reflects concern over Bill’s potential position in anew administration (too present), and against Mainstream politics. mainstream politics means too tied to financial and military interests, and to not getting that “the economy can be doing well but [...]
Posted in 9500 on February 10, 2008 | No Comments »
This was not the country we signed on to. Born here, acquiesced and unhappy. This is the tone of many friends in the last week.
The budget is shrill, the legal system is not delivering justice, incomes are down, and leadership is absent on the substantive issues.
Fascinated by the web-pages of several musicians. One is PostClassic [...]
