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YES! Magazine [1] / By Lori Wallach [2]
December 5, 2012  |

While the election season seized everyone’s attention, government officials and 600 official corporate “advisors” were working behind closed doors to complete the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).

Negotiations have been cloaked in unprecedented secrecy and its proponents have mislabeled the ( Read more... )

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From The Hipcrime Vocab

“The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.”  - Richard Bach

“Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.” - J. M. Barrie

I was reminded while reading this essay that Ran posted last week about an observation I made a long time ago. I noticed that most people in Wisconsin tend to ( Read more... )

http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2011/12/links-december-11-2011.html
posted by John RobbHere's the simple version of the message ( Read more... )

From io9
By John Shirley
Nov 28, 2011

( With everything rolling towards the abyss, our only hope for a bright future seems to be the Singularity, a technological transformation of what it means to be human. But in a talk for TEDx Brussels, science fiction and horror writer John Shirley argues that there are really two Singularities - and yes, everything will be terrible in the short term. So why is he optimistic about the future of the human race? Read on... )

http://morrisberman.blogspot.com/2011/12/la-longue-duree.html
La longue durée is an expression used by the Annales School of French historians to indicate an approach that gives priority to long-term historical structures over short-term events. The phrase ( Read more... )

Farmers struggling to find workers
By Chris in Paris on 10/21/2011 09:55:00 PM
http://www.americablog.com/2011/10/farmers-struggling-to-find-workers.html

So there are actual consequences to the excessive immigration policies. Go figure " ( Read more... )

Cynthia Freeland has an excellent article called "The Rise of the New Global Elite" in the Atlantic.  It explores the yawning gulf between the interests of this global economic elite and ours and the backlash that is forming.   Here's an expansion of her drivers of the winner take most economy.  They are, in order of onset:

1. Financialization.   ( Read more... )

by Gaius Publius on 1/02/2011 06:01:00 AM



I'm not sure how to read this Paul Krugman post. The last line seems flippant, but go through the whole thing carefully. The numbers don't lie, and I think he means what he implies.
Two things are clear. First, the economy has to grow around 2 1/2 percent per year just to keep ( Read more... )