January 2010
172 posts
“Unemployment rose by several hundred thousand jobs in the fourth quarter, and if...”
– We Are So Screwed
“Nearly one in five Americans said they lacked the money to buy food at some...”
– National Briefing - Washington - One in Five Report Hunger - NYTimes.com
The new industrial organizational model
It’s currently sweeping the economy (an estimated 30% of the workforce are already temps), and we have copious insight into the effects of this transition: The elimination of benefits. A complete shift of risk to individuals. Costs are rising fast (often many, many times the rate of core inflation) and one slip puts you into bankruptcy.
Global Guerrillas
“Pressure is growing. The global economic and financial system is heavily...”
– Global Guerrillas
“In an economy which is disintegrating on multiple levels, it’s prudent to...”
– Is It Time to Buy a House Yet? — Seeking Alpha
“A fraudulent monetary system that engages all economic forces on the side of...”
– The Second Phase of the Global Economic Crisis Is at Our Doorstep — Seeking Alpha
“There is a tremendous change in the Taliban’s behavior,” said Haji-Khan Muhammad Khan, a tribal elder from Shawalikot, a rural district of Kandahar Province. “They don’t behead people or detain those they suspect of spying without an investigation. But sometimes they still make mistakes, people still fear them, but now generally they behave well with people. They had to change because the...
“A bitterly divided Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that the government may not...”
– How Corporate Money Will Reshape Politics - Room for Debate Blog - NYTimes.com
“Publicity is most certainly now the norm, and for the first time in history...”
– sam lessin: modest proposals - a log on information, privacy vs. publicity, communication, change, people
“The expertise for this new generation of bombs is likely to be coming from...”
– Taliban make ‘undetectable’ bombs out of wood - Asia, World - The Independent
“Taliban fighters have developed a deadly new generation of their most lethal...”
– Taliban make ‘undetectable’ bombs out of wood - Asia, World - The Independent
Disruption of Termohaline Circulation
Abrupt climate change is believed to result from disruption of the thermohaline circulation, a global ocean conveyor that moves warm, saline tropical waters northward in the Atlantic with the Gulf Stream as its northern arm, and then loops south. (“Thermohaline” comes from the Greek words for heat “thermos” and for salt “halos.”) The heat from this warmer water, when it reaches the North Atlantic,...
“Abrupt climate change has been a growing topic of concern for about a decade for...”
– The Pentagon and Climate Change - Monthly Review
“Eight people have died of anthrax infection from using suspected contaminated...”
– Anthrax in heroin kills eight in Europe | Reuters
