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A Creeping Concern

31 January 2010

As I have watched the first year of the current administration unfold, I have increasingly wondered if all of this, at a thirty thousand foot level, is a result of a simple GOP plan first outed long ago, and spoken of frequently during the Bush Era.  Called “starve the beast,” it is a much-discussed strategy [...]

Urban Planning from the Ruins

24 January 2010

In the latest issue of Newsweek, President Barack Obama explains  “Why Haiti Matters,” offering reasons — from moral to pragmatic — for Americans to care about that unlucky nation. Indeed, were it possible to wave a wand and transform that hellish place into an upward-rising land of hope, health, education, enterprise and opportunity, while re-planting [...]

Thank you, and please continue

15 January 2010

I want to thank all of our posters on “What is China?” for their postings.  I will note that our servers were attacked and brought down for a few minutes today, Friday, and that our tech team had the servers back up and running within minutes.  Why do I mention this?  Yesterday, an LA law [...]

What Is China?

13 January 2010

The following post is a reprint of last week’s January 4 issue of the Strategic News Service Technology Letter.   At the request of our members, we are hereby authorizing distribution of that issue to the general public.  If you find this blog useful, please point to it in your own blogs and writings.
This issue is retroactively [...]

Class Warfare American Style

5 January 2010

Jesse (aka Arthur Cutten) on learning of the recent GSE bailouts from Matt Taibbi on the criminal nature of the US financial services community.  Hilarious rant, close to the truth or has Arthur spent too much time in a less class divided Europe?
Extract:
For me the basic dynamic of the mortgage bubble is some Ivy League [...]

The Betrayal of the Smart Sons

23 December 2009

Having recently read a dyspeptic and grouchy, but eye-opening, look at the fix we’re in – 15 Signs American Society Is Coming Apart at the Seams, by David DeGraw – it occurred to me that there are all sorts of possible theories to explain what’s happened to American Civilization… its astonishing plummet from the richest, [...]

Waving Goodbye to 2009

22 December 2009

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A Christmas present worth $1bn a year

22 December 2009

Despite the fact that President Obama did not accept my offer to pay for his Aunt Zeituni’s transportation out of crummy Massachusetts taxpayer-funded housing to a beautiful spacious vacant and already-secured Obama family house in Chicago, I would like to make an offer of a Christmas present: unlimited helicopter transportation for him and his family, [...]

Health Care. Again… Insure the kids first!

17 December 2009

What does it take to see the obvious?
First, in today’s weirdly reshaped political process we should not be wringing our hands over details in the Senate’s version of Health Care legislation.  The current bill is warped by the need for perfect unanimity among members of the Democratic Party coalition.  The Republicans’ strangely awe-worthy trait of [...]

Tim Coldwell (guest post)

5 December 2009

A sorry story. Not much hope?
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Friday Movie Night -Manufacturing a Better Future for America

via The Economic Populist – Speak Your Mind 2 Cents at a Time by Robert Oak on 12/4/09
It’s Friday Night! Party Time! Time to relax, put your feet up on the couch, lay back, and [...]

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