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Jul.10.2012
I like "the glass is half-FULL" -news as much as the next guy, but I do wonder a bit at the cheerfulness of the AP writer who penned the lead in the story about France today, noting that the French government just had a successful bond issue "paying" its "investors" negative interest... in...
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Oct.19.2011
The Occupy Wall Street Protest is a flash-mob that camps out. It’s as if the neighbours come round for a cup of coffee and end up sleeping over.
The Occupy demonstrations are flash-mobs inspired by fear, and fear is not short-lived, fear is stubborn.
It’s actually rather odd that, in order to...
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Oct.16.2011
Naomi Klein’s much heralded Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism argues that neoliberals are consciously provoking disasters in order to justify and impose draconian market-based “solutions” as a remedy for the problems that they created in the first place.
To place her argument into a...
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Nov.21.2010
Liberals make an excuse by saying that it takes more than two years to fix eight years worth of mess. They also claim that Obama cannot do everything on his own and that he can only do what the Congress is willing to want him to do. Of course the USA is not a dictatorship, but Obama made promised...
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May.09.2010
On the road to destruction (?)
Can a society self-destruct? Yes, it most definitely can and the way Greece is headed right now it is a very real possibility that it will.
Here we have a state and a society that allow a handful of nihilistic hooligans to torch the city and cause the deaths of...
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Feb.25.2010
In his study of the Rat Man, Freud presents his fervent wish for his treatment program. When his patient asks if talking about his problems might bring about a cure, Freud points at the grave goods decorating his consulting room. He says, “for them burial meant preservation. Pompeii had only...
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Oct.12.2009
Here is a prime example of what happens when money, greed and government mis-management are the sole administrative bodies of a country. The affects can and will be devastating as can be attested to by the small Atlantic Ocean country of Iceland.
The Republic of Iceland is a European island country...
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Jul.28.2009
Consumerism, Financial Systems and the Future
We are building towards a sustainable future that defines itself on one whole.
There are a lot of debates over the state of the economy at the moment, especially concerning the financial situation of the world at present. People are focusing a lot on...
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Mar.25.2009
The Struggle of Power and the Fight for Survival is my second book of poetry and it is about man’s desire to survive and in some cases to have power to take different directions in life and our societies. In this book, I talk about themes that affect us all from one way or the other: Financial...
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Mar.23.2009
Now that we're all incensed with the Obama economic team, is it too late to point out that we should have seen this coming? We keep lavishing rewards on a couple of inveterate bone-heads. a fiscal Laurel and Hardy team that resembles the original in every way but one: there's nothing funny about...
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