Reflections on Garden World Politics Douglass Carmichael

http://vimeo.com/2089382     I hope everyone is fairly well up to speed on the deeper understanding of the financial industry and its problems for us. If not, this is a good summary, but with a very strong editorial bias  hidden a  bit by a professorial tone that is slightly preacher like, and hypnotizing..   I notice …

Good summary of transition efforts. The transition of power from one administration to another is never without its complications. This one — coming at a time of great financial crisis and war — seems particularly dicey. But Bush and his aides appear committed to making everything go as smoothly as possible The American Conervative has …

Reading  Robert Harrison Forests, Read his last book, Gardens and the Human Condition. 7:00 am ; when forest people discovered the sky and its signs, the forest cover became negative. birds in the sky the firs language – vico marriage is a way to obtain security, a ritual of steadfastness. clear the forests for genealogical …

Reading  Robert Harrison Forests, Read his last book, Gardens and the Human Condition. 7:00 am ; when forest people discovered the sky and its signs, the forest cover became negative. birds in the sky the firs language – vico marriage is a way to obtain security, a ritual of steadfastness. clear the forests for genealogical …

Good articles around Bush and the movie,W. The military was ready, and the invasion looked like it was going to be easy. Congress and the public supported it. And the press, very much including myself, was not inquisitive enough to dig deeper into the allegations of weapons of mass destruction. suggests that America likes winning, …

in the FT writes about he need to move beyond protecting the banks. Can we understand his proposal? Before our political leaders get too fancy remaking capitalism next month at the Bretton Woods II summit in Washington, they should attend to urgent business. Since the closure of Lehman Brothers triggered a global banking panic, political …

Reading Poovey’s Genres of the credit economy. The key point is that literature and written money (contacts paper), diverged in the 1700′s. Which means hat for a while they were the same! economy supported not the nation as a whole but only people who benefited from Britain’s "funding system”: the directors of the Bank of …

The only real question now is,what will Obama do? One view is that he will act as centralist and keep the military more or less intact, mission more or less unchanging, and keep the banks in the center of finance. To not do this would incur lots of institutional resistance, including congress. this is a …

BillMoyers   BILL MOYERS: With his ideological blinders stripped away by reality, Alan Greenspan might well do penance by curling up this weekend not with THE FOUNTAINHEAD and ATLAS SHRUGGED but with James K. Galbraith’s new book THE PREDATOR STATE: HOW CONSERVATIVES ABANDONED THE FREE MARKET AND WHY LIBERALS SHOULD TOO. In it, the author asks: …

The JPMorgan executive who was moderating the employee conference call didn’t hesitate to answer a question that was pretty politically sensitive given the events of the previous few weeks. Given the way, that is, that Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. had decided to use the first installment of the $700 billion bailout money to …