*And so we have a Japanese restaurant with robot waiters. Net unemployment? The human value of contact with a real person? Probably quite high. *Reading last night on why science and democracy go together. This theme is important because science at its best contains an ethic of honesty and openness that is wonderful for …
Many are those I interact with who accept the logic that globalization has spread income throughout the poor of the world. Having spent time in developing (sic) counries, I have my own strong impressions of decay, Guatemala being the last, and Costa Rica before that. here is some evidence Tearing Apart the Land: Islam and …
Bad news. Across Vietnam, high temperatures and parched rivers are setting off alarm bells as the nation grapples with what’s shaping up to be its worst drought in more than 100 years. At 0.68 meters high, the Red River is at its lowest level since records started being kept in 1902. With virtually no rainfall …
How do we get humanity from being expansive and exploitative and successful to some form of creativity, development without growth, still successful but more stress on gardening the environment and relationships and art, and contained by something like what farmers called “husbandry” (which comes from “house boundary” in the 1200′s?) (now to manage, esp. with …
The more understanding the better. The heart-wrenching and horrible daily accounts of suicide bombings rarely reveal the underlying cause of the bombers’ motivations. But a comprehensive database at Australia’s Flinders University that has compiled information on these types of attacks from as early as 1981 can shed light on such motivations. And the conclusions are …
If security is the leverage, it will strengthen the security mindset. Such climate-induced crises could topple governments, feed terrorist movements or destabilize entire regions, say the analysts, experts at the Pentagon and intelligence agencies who for the first time are taking a serious look at the national security implications of climate change. Pasted from <http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/09/science/earth/09climate.html?hp> …
I consider this very important. Americans have consistently been critical of Japan as a model bad economy, but what they have failed to notice is that Japan kept a positive balance of payments and in fact was growing rich in ownership, of treasuries, stocks and south asian manufacturing. The result is that with a slowing …
I find this very sad, but then I am a Chalmers Johnson advocate. The United States is forging ahead with a US$1 billion upgrade of its embassy in Pakistan’s capital city of Islamabad. Washington dismisses charges the expanded facility will house hundreds of marines, but there is no disputing it will serve as a hub …
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How key is this to the future? Asia reflation moves to the wild sideAsian reflation is poised to take on a wild life of its own, forcing policymakers at some point to accept that dollar flows are destabilizing and unmanageable. China, in particular, faces an intensifying predicament, with a rejuvenated boom that will prove impervious …
Obaa aces this Simply put, Svanidze added, Russia has not learned how to make anything that would enjoy demand in the global market: “As in the 10th century, we still cannot offer the world anything that is not gifted to us by Mother Nature: no electronics, no clothes, no food, or cars, or medications, not …