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Category Archives: serious stuff
Copper is scary
Monday, April 20, 2009
A ‘Copper Standard’ for the world’s currency system? “China has woken up. The West is a black hole with all this money being printed. The Chinese are buying raw materials because it is a much better way to use their $1.9 trillion of reserves. They get ten times the impact, and can cover their infrastructure […]
J.G. Ballard 1930-2009
Monday, April 20, 2009
But technology in terms of video-tape machines and so on may make it possible to have a continuous alternative to direct experience, and I mean any alternative. You can have this played back in a slow motion, or do you want it in infra-red, or do you want it this or that. Take your pick, […]
Dun-dun-duhhhhh!
Friday, February 13, 2009
America’s economic and political system came within hours of collapsing in September 2008 On Thursday, at about 11 o’clock in the morning, the Federal Reserve noticed a tremendous draw down of money market accounts in the United States to a tune of $550 billion being drawn out in a matter of an hour or two.
This gonna happen again, i wonder?
Friday, February 13, 2009
THE BUSINESS PLOT TO OVERTHROW ROOSEVELT In the summer of 1933, shortly after Roosevelt’s “First 100 Days,” America’s richest businessmen were in a panic. It was clear that Roosevelt intended to conduct a massive redistribution of wealth from the rich to the poor. Roosevelt had to be stopped at all costs. The answer was a […]
This guy is not PM material
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
“My difficulty in taking Ukraine seriously goes deeper than just my cosmopolitan suspicion of nationalists everywhere. Somewhere inside I’m also what Ukrainians would call a great Russian and there is just a trace of old Russian disdain for these little Russians. ” “From my childhood, I remember expatriate Ukrainians nationalists demonstrating in the snow outside […]
“Pirates”
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Johann Hari: You are being lied to about pirates – The Independent Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah, the UN envoy to Somalia, tells me: “Somebody is dumping nuclear material here. There is also lead, and heavy metals such as cadmium and mercury – you name it.” Much of it can be traced back to European hospitals and factories, […]
Post-professionalism
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Design Altruism Project: POSTprofessional A number of years ago, long after I’d left the Scouts, I penned a self-righteous screed criticizing the inherent myths of expertism. I must confess, at the time I was not armed with the most credible objections, and at least one of my grad-school mentors had trouble accepting the apparent irrationality […]
The political ratchet effect
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
From Stop Me Before I Vote Again: The electoral ratchet permits movement only in the rightward direction. The Republican role is fairly clear; the Republicans apply the torque that rotates the thing rightward. The Democrats’ role is a little less obvious. The Democrats are the pawl. They don’t resist the rightward movement — they let […]
More auto stuff
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
It was a dead heat. General Motors sold 9.37 million vehicles worldwide in 2007 and lost $38.7 billion. Toyota sold 9.37 million vehicles in 2007 and made $17.1 billion.
